Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Ford, William, Jesuit Priest
Parallel form(s) of name
- William Forde
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
Born: Ireland
Entered: 1651
Ordained:
Died: post 1675
Official Catalogus Defuncti MISSING
◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent c1651 and Old/15 (1)
◆ Old/16 has : “P William Forde”; DOB Ireland; Ent c 1651; RIP post 1675
◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
FORD, WILLIAM, Father (Irish), was recommended by Father Ignatius Brown, on July 5, 1675, for a fit successor to Father Stephen Rice, as Superior of the Irish Mission. (Oliver, as above.)
◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
FORD, WILLIAM, was recommended by F. Ignatius Brown, on the 5th of July, 1675, as a fit successor to F. Stephen Rice, in the charge of his brethren employed in the Irish Mission. Further particulars I search for in vain : indeed at almost every step I have to regret the scarcity of documents, occasioned by the injury of the times, and the dispersion of the Irish Members of the Society, throughout every part of the Continent.