There seems to be a connection to Ireland
Q I am trying to find the father of Catherine Ford – all references suggest that he was born in Ireland. I found Catherine in the 1871 Census as an inmate in the Union Workhouse, Westoe, Durham, birthplace South Shields. She is with Mary Ford who I believed to be her 31-yearold unmarried aunty, a servant, and a four-year-old George who I believed to be Mary’s son.