Hi Tara,
Thank you so much for replying to my Ford query, and for the information regarding the Catholic births.
My 2xG.Grandfather, John Ford was a Catholic. The 1861 census for Stroud, Glos: shows his place of birth as Kinsale,.aged 27, a Tailor by trade. After the death of his wife Mary in late 1861, he remarried at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Stroud.and his daughter, Mary Ann, born Newport, Monmouth 1857, was brought up by his second wife.
At the beginning of January 1871 John died, he was interred somewhere in Trowbridge, Wilts.
A month after the 1871 census taken in April, his widow gave birth to my grandfather, Percival John Daniel Ford. The 1871 census shows that the family consisted of three daughters, and a son, who was called John Percival Daniel Ford. I have concluded that my grandfather was named after his brother, though in a roundabout way, because John's widow was still distressed over the death of her husband and it was just easier to not have to think about a name. The family returned to Stroud where John's widow brought the children up as Protestants, though I do not know what happened to Mary Ann as she does not appear on the 1881 census.
John Percival Ford became a Rector at a church in Samford Brett, Somerset, and had a son called Cyril Daryll Ford who became an Anthropologist and wrote quite a few books. For some reason after getting a University degree, he added the 'e' to the name Ford, which did not go down well with the rest of the Ford line.
According to a family story it was said that Daniel (maybe it was John Ford) was born in the same village as William, the father of Henry Ford, but that may just have been wishful thinking!. Be nice to think it was true though :-)
I have found quite a few Daniel & John Ford's, in the Griffiths Valuations for County Cork, I will have to have another look. However, the Forde you have found could be the one I am looking for.
Thank you again for your help.
Regards,
Jane