Grandchildren of Robert and Sarah Ford
Robert Ford and Sarah Ann Aspinall had 37 grandchildren:
- Ernest Shutwell Holmes (1878-1955), chemist.
- William Robert Ford (1878-1944), railway clerk.
- Seymour Augustus Ford (1879-1968), fish buyer. Served in Yorkshire Regiment.
- Beatrice Elizabeth Ford (1880-1957)
- Ethel Emily Holmes (1881-), dressmaker
- Walter Thomas Holmes (1882-1883)
- Robert Ford Holmes (1884-1962), marine engineer
- Harold Holmes (1886-1918), coal merchant. Served in Prince of Wales’s Regiment. Killed in action.
- Frank Holmes (1888-)
- Sidney Harold Ford (1888-1945), civil engineer.
- Kate Hilda Holmes (1889-1969)
- Dora Ford (1890-1891)
- Eva Ford (1891-1969), telephonist, Hull City councillor
- Walter Henry Holmes (1891-1892)
- Walter Ford (1892-1962), master mariner
- John Frederick Holmes (1893-1965), fitter
- Elma Ford (1893-1982)
- Arthur Ford (1894-1896)
- Kate Vera Ford (1895-1967)
- Alice May Holmes (1895-)
- Alice Muriel Linskill (1896-1974)
- Stanley Holmes (1896-1899)
- Ernest Ford (1897-1967)
- Sydney Holmes (1898-1898)
- Walter Linskill (1899-)
- George Stephenson Hepton (1899-1996)
- Clarence William Holmes (1900-1989)
- William Stanley Hepton (1900-1993)
- Celia Hepton (1902-1997)
- Ivy Ford (1902-1982)
- Percy Linskill (1903-1993)
- Robert Ford (1904-1970)
- Noreen Ford (1907-1985)
- Doris Ford (1908-1985)
- Robert Ford (1909-1909)
- Kate “Kitty” Hepton (1913-1991)
- Robert Eric Hepton (1915-1941)
William Robert Ford was the first to be born in 1878. Robert Hepton was the youngest; he was born in 1915. The last to die (that we know about) was Celia Hepton in 1997. We know that Harold Holmes died in WWI and Robert Hepton died in WWII. The Hepton branch stands out as having the two longest-living grandchildren: Celia made it to 95 and her brother George lived to be 97 years old. Tragically, 6 of the 37 died as infants.
