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The Ford surname

The Ford name in Orange County Indexed: 5 historical records, 5 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.

In the records
1755 to 1761 most named in the 1760s
  • Tax lists 1755
  • Wills 1760
  • Deeds 1761
In the chronology
1931 to 1987 5 people in 12 entries, most in the 1980s
In books and archives
1 person, born 1956
People with a page here
Gerald R. Ford, Phil Ford
Spellings to try
Foord
Search beyond these records

Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.

In the chronology 5 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

In books and archives 1 heading

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

In the historical records 5 records

1 deeds, 2 court minutes, 1 tax list entries and 1 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Search the name in every collection

1750s

1760s

Undated

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