Birth: 11 December 1894 Tooting, Surrey, UK
Father: Albert Edward Ford 1863-1941
Mother: Ann (Annie) Croucher 1865-1942
Christening: 30 January 1898 Christ Church, Mitcham, Surrey, UK,
Marriage: 12 April 1925 Christ Church, Mitcham, Surrey, UK, UK
Wife: Florence Annie Bradshaw 1905-1986
Death: 6 June 1965 15 Hotham Road, Wimbledon, Greater London, UK
Burial: 10 June 1965 Merton, Greater London, UK
Florence Elsie Vera Ford [Erlangsen] 1926-1994
Birth of Ernest Robert Ford in FreeBMD in January-March 1895 in Wandsworth (1D 829).
His sister was registered in October-December 1897 in Croydon.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey Baptisms for Ernest Robert Ford on 30 January 1898 at Mitcham, Christ Church, parents Albert and Annie Ford. "Page 59 Baptisms in the Parish of [blank] in the County of [blank] in the Year One thousand eight hundred and [blank] [...] 1898 Jan 30 No. 468 Ernest Robert [parents] Albert [a] Mechanic & Annie Ford [of] Spring Cottages". The blanks are completed on page 56 as Christ Church, Mitcham, Surrey, ninety seven.
His three sisters were baptised on 9 April 1899 at Christ Church, Mitcham when they were living at Spring Cottage.
In the 1901 census as Ernest Ford aged 6, born in Tooting, Surrey and living with his parents (Albert and Annie) and five sisters (Alisa, Dorris, Stella, Trena and Vera) at High Street, Colliers Wood, Mitcham, Surrey.
His brother was christened on 28 July 1901 at Christ Church, Mitcham when they were living at Spring Gardens, his brother and sister were baptised on 1 August 1906 at Christ Church, Mitcham when they were living at 19 Briscoe Road, and his sister was baptised on 8 March 1911 at Christ Church, Mitcham when they were living at 19 Briscoe Road.
In the 1911 census as Ernest Robert Ford aged 16, born in Tooting, Surrey, single, a reading boy at SpottisWoode and Co printers (was this Eyre & Spottiswoode?) and living with his parents (Albert Edward and Annie), two brothers (Harold John and William Walter), and four sisters (Ailsa Alberta, Gwendolin, Irene Verita and Sylvia Emily) in four rooms at 19 Briscoe Road, Colliers Wood, Merton SW, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Regimental Rolls and Recruitment Registers, 1908-1947 for Ernest Ford aged 19, born in Wandsworth Surrey, a clerk, height 5 ft 7 in, girth 35 in, range 2 in, weight 126 lb, sallow complexion, blue eyes, dark hair.enlisted in 1914 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey in East Surrey Regiment.
Entry in Ancestry UK, British Army World War I Service Records, 1914-1920 for Ernest Ford aged 19 years 6 months, born in Wandsworth, a clerk, height 5 ft 7 in, weight 126 lbs, sallow complexion, dark brown eyes, dark hair, mother living at 19 Nottingham Road, Wandsworth, joined 5 September 1914 in Kingston, 7th East Surrey Regiment British Expeditionary Force France 2 June 1915, in Labour Corps (222561 214 Div Employment Corps) 9 July 1917, demobilised 28 February 1919, received British War Medal 21 January 1921 at 19 Nottingham Road, Wandsworth Common, London. Much illegible.
In the 1921 census as Ernest Robert Ford born in 1895 in Surrey, and living with Albert Edward Ford (father?), Harold John and William Walter Ford (brothers?), Alisa Albert Ford (sister?), and Irene Vertice and Frederick William Arthur Alltenes (married sister and brother-in-law?) in Mitcham, Croydon, Surrey. His mother and two sisters (Gwendoline and Sylvia) were living in Hastings.
Seven entries in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Ernest Robert Ford address 19 Briscoe Road, Micham from 1919 to 1925, other occupants Albert Edward Goodrum (brother in law?) in 1919, Albert Edward and Annie Ford (parents?) from 1921, and William Walter Ford (brother?) from 1924.
He was a witness at the marriages of his sisters Irene Verita to William Arthur Alltimes on 2 August 1920 and Ailsa Alberta to Ernest Wakeling on 30 June 1923, both at Christ Church, Mitcham.
Marriage of Ernest R Ford and Florence A Bradshaw in FreeBMD in April-June 1925 in Croydon (2A 721).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 for Ernest Robert Ford aged 30, father Albert Edward Ford, and Florence Annie Bradshaw on 12 April 1925 at Mitcham, Christ Church. "Page 135 1925 Marriage solemnized at Christ Church in the Parish of Mitcham in the County of Surrey [...] [No.] 270 April 12th 1925 Ernest Robert Ford [aged] 30 [a] Bachelor [and] Printers Reader [of] 19 Briscoe Rd [father] Albert Edward Ford [a] Handyman, [and] Florence Annie Bradshow [aged] 29 [a] Spinster [of] 15 Hotham Rd Wimbledon [father] Charles Edwin Bradshaw (Deceased) [a] Bricklayer's Labourer. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Estd Ch after Banns[...] in the Presence of us Abbie Ford [and] Amelia Lilley".
His daughter was born on 11 February 1926 in South Wimbledon.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Ernest R Ford born 11 December 1894, married, a printer's reader, and living with Florence A Ford (wife?) and one other (daughter?) at 15 Hotham Road, Wimbledon, Surrey.
Death of Ernest R Ford in FreeBMD in April-June 1965 aged 70 in Merton (5D 399).
Entry in Deceased Online for Ernest Ford buried 10 June 1965 in Merton, London.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Ernest Robert Ford died 6 June 1965 in London probate 6 August 1965 in London. "Ford Ernest Robert of 15 Hotham Road Wimbledon London S.W. 19 died 6 June 1965 Administration London 6 August to Florence Annie Ford widow. £4905".
There are twenty three entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Ernest Robert Ford.
Note that Wimbledon, NE Surrey was transfered to Merton, Greater London on 1 April 1965.
Ernest Robert Ford was my first cousin once removed.
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