Birth: Circa 1838 Wooler, Northumberland, UK
Father: John Ord 1800-1868
Mother: Mary ? c1803-1868
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1859 Berwick, Northumberland, UK
Wife: Mary Rutherford c1833-1893
Death: October-December 1918 Berwick, Northumberland, UK
Jane Ord 1860-a1891
Mary Ann Ord [Porter] 1862-a1911
John Ord 1860-a1901
Walter Ord 1869-1896
I cannot locate an entry for his birth or chistening.
His sister was born in Wooler circa 1840.
In the 1841 census as Thos Ord aged 3, born in Northumberland,and living with John and Mary (parents?), John and Robt (brothers?) and Isabella, Jane, Margaret and Mary (sisters?) in Fenton E Side, Wooler, Northumberland.
His sister was born in Wooler circa 1845,
In the 1851 census as Thomas Ord aged 12, born in Wooler, Northumberland, and living with his parents (John and Mary), two brothers (John and Robert) and four sisters (Elizabeth, Isabella, Jane and Mary), in Fenton East Side, Wooler, Northumberland.
Marriage of Thomas Ord and Mary Rutherford in FreeBMD April-June 1859 in Berwick (10B 437).
His daughter was registered in January-March 1860 in Glendale.
In the 1861 census as Thomas Ord aged 23, born in Northumberland, an agricultural labourer, and living with his wife (Mary) and daughter (Jane) in a private house in Kilham, Northumberland.
His daughter was registered in October-December 1862 in Glendale..
His son was registered in April-June 1867 in Glendale.
His son was registered in January-March 1869 in Berwick although his birth is given as Ford and in Belford, neither of which were in the Berwick district.
I cannot locate the family in the 1871 census.
In the 1881 census as Thomas Ord aged 43, born in Ford, Northumberland, an agricutural labourer, and living with his wife (Mary), two sons (John and Walter) and two daughters (Jane and Mary A) in Agricultural Labourer's Cottage in Fawdon Clinch Hartside Reaveley, Northumberland.
In the 1891 census as Thomas Ord aged 53, born in Fenton, Northumberland, a farm servant, and living with his wife (Mary), son (John) and daughter (Mary A) in Ford Westfield, Ford, Northumberland.
His wife died in April-June 1893 in Glendale.
In the 1901 census as Thomas Ord aged 63, born in Wooler, Northumberland, single (sic - on the original) and living with his son-in-law and daughter (James and Mary A Porter), and son (John Ord) at 16 Dale Cottages, Westgate, Northumberland.
In the 1911 census as Thomas Ord aged 72, born in Fenton, Northumberland, widowed, no stated employment, and living with his son-in-law and daughter (James and Mary Ann Porter) and his grandson (John Porter) in four rooms at 16 Dale Street, Newcastle, Northumberland.
Death of Thomas Ord in FreeBMD in October-December 1918 aged 80 in Berwick (10B 949).
There are twenty eight entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Thomas Ord.
Wooler is 17 miles south of Berwick and 10 miles south of Ford, 10 miles north of Reaveley and 46 miles north of Newcastle.
Thomas Ord was the father of Walter Ord, husband of Alice Johnston, first cousin once removed of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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