This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: bennett,ford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BRD.2ACEB/4420.1 Message Board Post: Looking for Peter Bennett, father of William Howard Bennett William Howard Bennett we think was born in Chicago... 1891? We believe that he got drunk and his mates put him on a ship headed for Australia as a cook... at 15 yrs.?? He did not contact his family...married Dorothy Linda Beattie in 1914...fathered 3 girls and one boy in Australia. On his marriage certificate he has recorded Peter Bennett as his father and Eva Ellen Ford as his mother. It’s possible that Peter wasn’t his real first name. We have supplied a photo of John Keith Maxwell BENNETT son of William Howard Bennett. John was born on 25 April 1923.