Michael Fordney

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• Eby ID Number: 00035-3002

Notes:

Michael Fordney, "a native of France and a descendant of the old Hugenots or French Protestants, was born probably as early as 1745. In 1768 he, with others moved to America and settled in Virginia while others of his father's family settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Not finding the new settlement altogether to his wishes, besides being far removed from his co-religionists, he, in later years, moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he died a middle aged man. Not much information pertaining to his family could be obtained. We know of two children who in later years came to Canada and settled in Waterloo County, Ontario. Their names were Jacob and Elizabeth."


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

Michael — . [Group Sheet]

1. Jacob Fordney was born 18 May 1781, Virginia; died 14 May 1852, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
2. Elizabeth Fordney was born Abt 1782, Virginia; died Nov 1842, Freeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.