I am looking forward to using and supporting this list which I am new to .. I thought I'd get in quick, while the list is still short, (! some hopes) .. with my list of what I'm looking for, in case any of you might see a name that rings a bell .. They are mainly FORDEs, but the spelling did keep changing!! This is what we know so far ..( you may want to go and make a cup of coffee before reading this - it's pretty long!!) A list of all the known Fordes in our tree, with the dates and places we know. (I've kept the spellings as they are in the family Bible): Gideon fforde born 1619, in either Wiltshire (Semley?) or Dorset. Emigrated to Massachusetts 1644 - no evidence as yet; BNR 1124 has been given to me as a source of this information - an American University Library in New England, supposedly. settled in Carrigaskullihy, Dunmanway, nr Bandon, Co Cork 1651. The next name (his son ?) is Samuel fford (note the change of spelling), born 1647.Carrigaskullihy, Dunmanway? Then another Samuel fford b.1672, Carrigaskullihy, Dunmanway? followed by William Ford (another change of spelling) born 1708, died 1810, Carrigaskullihy, Dunmanway? then John Ford born 1742, died 1798, Carrigaskullihy, Dunmanway? George Forde (spelling change again) born 1788, died 1865 Carrigaskullihy, Dunmanway? He had eight children who were: 1. William (see below), 2. John, 3. Elizabeth, 4. George, 5. Thomas(?), 6. Susan, 7. Mary(?) and 8. Anne(?) (Some of these names are uncertain, as the writing is difficult to read). We have no evidence for dates of birth, death, marriage etc for any of them. The only one of these we have any further information about is .. William Forde born 1816, died 1886 or 1898. We know that he married Anne Hazel (date? presumably in Dunmanway?) and that they had 13 children. They moved to Cloyne with the first three of their 13 children in 1847 from Coolkilure, Dunmanway. We believe that they are buried in St Colman's C of I Cathedral in Cloyne. The family story is that they both died on the same day 14 July 1886 or 98. This I would like to know! The children were: 1. George Augustus Forde born 10 May 1852 in Dunmanway 2. Margaret Forde born 12 May 1843 in Dunmanway 3. John Forde born 4 February 1845 in Dunmanway (again no evidence for these dates, and nothing more known of them) this family moved to the house called Lisanley, in Cloyne Co Cork about 1847 4. William Hazel Forde born 7 Feb 1847 in Castlemary, Cloyne (my husband's ggrandfather) 5. Thomas Forde born 10 Dec 1848 in Cloyne (he is the grandfather of Mrs Patricia Kingston née Forde of Cloyne, who we were able to contact through the good offices of Brendan Sisk) 6. Samuel Forde born 2 May 1850 (died aged 7) in Cloyne 7. Mary Jane Forde born 8 Oct 1852 in Cloyne 8. Susannah Forde born 19 April 1854 in Cloyne 9. Richard Forde born 21 Feb 1856 (had a hardware shop in Cloyne with his brother Henry ; later emigrated to New Zealand) 10. Henry Forde born 6 Dec 1857 in Cloyne 11. Elizabeth Anne Forde born 3 June 1859 in Cloyne 12. Robert Michael Forde born 28 July 1861 in Cloyne, died 1948/9 (We have information about his qualifications as a doctor of medicine, and addresses.) 13. Louisa Anne Forde born 12 July 1863 in Cloyne The children of William Hazel Forde were: 1. George FitzWilliam Forde born 1881 died 1932, also a doctor, and my husband's grandfather 2. John Reid Forde, born c1888, died c 1960, also a doctor 3. Katherine (always called 'Kit' or 'Dickie') born c 1890 died c 1970 (one of the first women to graduate from (we think) Trinity College, Dublin, and was 'marooned' there during the Easter Rebellion in 1918.) Married a Frank Vaugh, no children, lived in Dublin. 4. Ina (called 'Bunny') born c 1890 died, married, divorced, no children? George FitzWilliam Forde was a doctor, served in the First World War in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and, like his uncle Robert Michael, and brother John Reid, lived and worked in West Africa for the West African Medical Service. His address in the 1932 Medical Register is given as The Vicarage, Abbotsbury, Weymouth, England. He died that same year. We know that George FitzWilliam married Kathleen Victoria (called 'Dolly') Church (who had a brother Binny who emigrated to the USA); their only son was: George Robert Duncan Forde born 1918, died 1982 , married Vera O'Connell, born 1921, Born and grew up in Ballgeaney, Ballycotton, Ireland; attended Epsom College (public school) in England, graduated as a Civil Engineer from Trinity College, Dublin. Worked for the Admiralty in the second World War, and later for Taylor Woodrow in various parts of the UK. John Reid Forde was married to Ina, (always called 'Ina John') and had two daughters, Peggy (presumably Margaret) and Eileen, who died in 1998. Kathleen ('Kit/Dickie') was married to Frank Vaugh, and had no children Ina 'Bunny' is believed to have married and not to have had children. I'm sorry that this is so long - If any of you can find links to even one of the above I would be incredibly grateful! Some of the spouse names I have noticed in various Bandon Protestant documents, like Hazell and Church. Many thanks once again - you will qualify for Sainthood if you have even read this far! best wishes, Moira