Bagtor

Descent

Early records

Ford

• John Ford of Ashburton purchased the estate of Bagtor. The Devonshire biographer John Prince supposes him to have been descended from the Fords of Fordmore, in Moreton Hampsted, settled there as early as the 12th century. He married three times, secondly to Joane Walrond, a daughter of William Walrond of Bovey in the parish of Beer, by whom he had issue:
• *George Forde of Bagtor, son and heir ;
• *Margaret Ford, wife of John Rolle of Stevenstone.
• George Forde of Bagtor, son and heir, who married Joan St Cleere, a daughter of Gilbert St Cleere of Budleigh.
• Thomas Ford of Bagtor, eldest son and heir, who married Elizabeth Popham of the Popham family of Huntworth in Somerset. Her monument survives in Ilsington Church. His second son was John Ford the playwright and poet.
• Henry Ford, eldest son and heir, who married Katharine Drake, daughter and sole heiress of George Drake of Spratshays in Littleham, Devon. He was buried at Littleham. His younger son Edward Ford continued the Ford line at Ilsington, and was the father of John Ford of Dartington, supposed by Lysons to have been the last in the line seated at Bagtor. Henry Ford's eldest son Sir Henry Ford moved to the estate of Nutwell.
• Sir Henry Ford, of Nutwell in Devon, eldest son of and heir, four times a MP for Tiverton, Devon, between 1664 and 1685 and twice Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1669–70 and 1672–73.

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