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From: "Frank Bosnich" <>
Subject: [FORT-L] Re: U.K. Forts
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 10:56:54 -0700


Hi Richard:

Many thanks for your response. I do appreciate your time. My Forts
are from Lancs., so Sir Richard Fort of Read Hall, County Lancashire,
are most likely my group. I wonder though, mine were very poor, so it
is hard to imagine having a "Sir Richard" in the family. As I said
before, the furthest back I have is a Nick - I did find a Nick Fort
listed as a pauper in the 1851 census. When I received the
information pertinent to this man (I had assumed he was a youngish
child, orphan) it turned out he was an 81 year old man, boarding with
a family with the surname Pash in Devon. He was born in Bigbury - I
need to find out where that is.

1851 Dev 10 County-Enumeration District Devon -A Exeter St Mary
Major
11 254 Preston St
John Pash Head Mar 45 Mason Dev Budleigh Salterton
Jane Pash Wife Mar 44 Dev Halberton
Louisa Pash Daughter Unmarried 17 Dev B Salterton
Henry Pash Son Unmarried 15 Scholar Dev B Salterton
Thomas Pash Son 3 Dev Exeter
Mary Ann Pash Daughter .750 Dev Exeter
Nicholas Fort Lodger Widr 81 Pauper Sawyer Dev Bigbury

I also found a big group of Fort's in Padiham, Lancs., England, but
none called Nicholas or Nick.

Thanks again for your information,

Regards,

Lisa Bosnich
California
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hayes <>
To: <>
Cc: Fort <>
Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 4:43 AM
Subject: U.K. Forts

>Hi Lisa,
>
>The following is from "Genealogy of the Fort Family in New York
State" by
>Jerome H. Fort. The book was originally published in 1923.
>Richard Fort Sheil republished it in 1993.
>
>Jerome H. Fort included a summarization of the history of the Fort
>family. The information he included about the Fort family is England
>is as follows. The Fort family is from France. The family was
Huguenot and
>many of the family members left France during the 1600's.
>
>In 1922 there were 3 Fort Families in England. All are descendants of
French
>refugees. The oldest family in England is the family that lived
>in and around South Petherton and Curry Rivall, in Sommersetshire.
>Their records go back to 1570. A Capt. Nathaniel Forte, 8 Crescent
>Road, Clifton-near-Bristol, sent material to Mr Fort which he copied
and
>returned.
>
>Mr Fort also corresponded with Sir Richard Fort of Read Hall, County
>Lancashire, in 1907. Their records dated back to 1681. In a letter
>dated 14 Jul 1907, Sir Richard tells that when he was in Australia in
>1889 that he met a George Seymour Fort. He was an Englishman who was
ADC to
>the Governor of Victoria. He further states that there
>was also a Fort family from Australia who sent a family member to
Oxford.
>This man rowed in the Varsity boat against Cambridge.
>
>The 3rd family he mentions was the family of George Monkhouse Fort
from
>Alderbury House, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
>
>A Fort family living in New Jersey is descended from a Roger Fort who
was
>from around Curry Rivall, Somersetshire.
>
>The name in France was La Forte.
>
>I hope that this helps to connect some of your Fort lines.
>
>Richard Hayes
>
>
>

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