Henry William Ford
- Born: 1 Feb 1819, Wincanton, Somerset England
- Marriage (1): Maria Sarah Jeanes on 6 Sep 1838 in Wincanton, Somerset England
- Died: 13 May 1906, Brookfield, Clarencetown, NSW Australia at age 87 344
- Buried: Glen William, near Clarence Town, NSW Australia
General Notes:
Ann Jackman notes:
Henry & Maria Ford and their family sailed for Sydney with Maria's sister and her husband, Ann and James Cross, from Plymouth on Saturday 12 May 1849 as assisted immigrants on the Victoria of 588 tons, Captain John Carphin, Master. She was built in Nova Scotia in 1846. With safe passage from the Downs, she made Sydney on 2 September, 112 days out, delivering her cargo of 288 immigrants and such commodities as salt, hats, iron anvils, coal, marble, cordage, and bricks. Maria was seven months pregnant. They travelled to the Hunter and, by 1851, Henry and Maria were employed at the Fullarton Cove Estate as house and farm servants to 'Gentleman' John Smith on a salary of £10 per annum plus rations. Because of a disagreement over wages, they departed after 18 months for Clarence Town, part of which then went under the name of Irish Town, where they settled on St Leonard's Farm, leasing land from William Lowe, builder of the William IV steamship. They later rented land at Glen William from Thomas Holmes.
On 1 February 1869, Henry Ford purchased 1,600 acres from Harris Nelson for £600 and named it Holbrook Estate.
Noted events in his life were:
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Henry married Maria Sarah Jeanes, daughter of John Jeanes and Anne Warren, on 6 Sep 1838 in Wincanton, Somerset England. (Maria Sarah Jeanes was born on 16 Mar 1819 in Wincanton, Somerset England, christened on 8 Apr 1821 in Wincanton, Somerset England and died on 16 Jan 1884 in Holbrook, Glen William, near Clarence Town, NSW Australia 344.)
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