Well thank you I am very grateful.
Your help has opened up the Fords for me. Their very locations, mainly in SE Devonshire and the edge of Dartmoor, are becoming quite vivid.
The Fords seem to be farmers and clearly from what I know connected to Ford gentry, how and how closely I don't yet know. I have three printouts of wills from clearly another branch who would have been gentry, how closely related I don't know. Was the connection as a younger branch, possibly even illegitimate relations. It's familiar ground in my tree, the Beamans and Hulmes were such. In their case as small freeholders of whom many made their livings by also being tenant farmers.
These wills may help but they may also confuse.
John b 1808 does not appear in your list of baptisms, yet the John (also bapt 1808 but in Sherford) cannot be right because parents are stated to be John and Sarah. Also the location is a bit away from Charford, South Brent.
The three Ford wills lead to the Eric Hoffgaard (via Fanny Ford) connection but without explanation except that they were "cousins" (1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th???). They are
1. William Ford of Yeo, Yealmton Devon (where there is a family vault) will proved on or after 1st Feb 1860.
2. Sarah Ford, William's wife. Of Yeo Cottage. Proved 3rd April 1882.
3. Mary Rivers Ford, William and Sarah's daughter, of Mount Vernon, Bridgetown, Berry Pomeroy. How she got Mount Vernon and why (she was blind) I don't know.
She left Mount Vernon plus other properties including some from her father in Plymouth to her 1st cousin Caroline Churchill. Caroline Churchill died circa 1910/11 leaving a lot of her property to Eric Hoffgaard.
Kind regards