Thanks all for your help Aghadowy and Heywood, I am almost sure that the entry for Bridget and Bernard is the right one too, I will have to get some better glasses to try and read the parish registers though! I dont have the marriage certificate but have discovered that the father was James Ford who married Bridget Carney on 10.12.1860, this information has just come to me, they were farmers. They had quite a large section of land in the area which was later sold off in parcels until only a small piece remained.
There were several sons-this also has just been sent to me on another site:
John - 5.11.1861
Peter - 21.8.1863
Michael - 14.6.1865
James - 14.6.1867
Patrick - 5.3.1869
Bernard - 18.8.1872
Hugh - 11.9.1878
From this information above I still can't see John Patrick anywhere here, the date for this John is too early and the date for Patrick is also too early, so I am not sure now if this is the right family at all! It's all so confusing, so many families all give their children the same names!
Of course I know that some babies births were not registered, but seeing as most of this family were I would have thought John Patrick would have been too.
I have information that one of the descendants married a McMorrow.
I have learnt that James was into bare knuckle fighting and went by the name 'Kid Forde'
Best wishes
