Hord

The First Known Generation

RICHARD HORD b. ca. 1225, d. 1280, in England.

The Second Generation

JOHN HORD b. ca. 1255 in Shropshire, England.

The Third Generation

RICHARD HORD AB. ca.1295 in Shropshire, England.

The Fourth Generation

RICHARD HORD b. ca. 1330 in Shropshire, England.

The Fifth Generation

THOMAS HORD b. ca. 1365 in Shropshire, England.

The Sixth Generation

RICHARD HORD b. ca. 1395 in Shropshire, England.

The Seventh Generation

THOMAS HORD b. ca. 1425 in Shropshire, England. Thomas Hord was Attorney General during the reign of Henry VII.

The Eighth Generation

JOHN HORD b. ca. 1460 in Shropshire, England, married Alice Buckeley.

The Ninth Generation

ALAN HORD b. ca. 1490 in Shropshire, England, died Cote House, Middle Temple, Oxford, England, married Dorothy Roberts. Alan was a member of the Shropshire family, and a Bencher of the Middle Temple, London, purchased the Manor of Cote, Oxfordshire, where the family continued to reside until it became extinct in the main line in 1840.

The Tenth Generation

EDMUND HORD b. ca. 1520 Shropshire, England.

Thomas Hord

Alan Hord

The Eleventh Generation

EDWARD HORD b. ca. 1565 Richmond, Surrey, England

The Twelfth Generation

EDWARD HORD b. ca 1685 in Saint Michael Parrish, Queenhithe, London, England, married Mary Millet.

The Thirteenth Generation

EDWARD HORD b. ca. 1630 in Cote House, Oxford, England, married MARY.

The Fourteenth Generation

JOHN HORD b. 1664 Ewell, Surrey, England, immigrated to America, died Saint Ann's Parish, Essex County, Virginia, married Elizabeth Jane Redd in England in 1698. John Hord already had at least one relatives in Virginia when he arrived (Edmund or Edward Hord). He was not an indentured servant. But he did "escape" the wrath of James II in 1685 by coming to Virginia at the collapse of the Monmouth rebellion. When William and Mary came to the Throne by way of the "Glorious Revolution" in 1688 they pardoned those who participated in the Monmouth Rebellion who had not already been executed by James II. This allowed John to return to England. I don't know for sure were he lived prior to the Rebellion, but after his return he was in Ewell, Surrey (not far to the south of London). His marriage info continues to elude me, but his first son, Thomas, was born in Ewell and the family moved permanently to Virginia shortly there after where they already had a parcel of land, presumably an inheritance from the ancestor he visited in 1685. The rest is fairly well recorded.

John's English ancestry has been tentatively traced to a merchant named Richard Hord who was living in 1275. In the 1500's and early 1600's there were many records with various members of the family on them. They appear to have been quite the prominent family in Shropshire. I saw a mention of the Palmer family on this thread and this is where they come in. It seems one of the Hords married a Palmer heiress and inherited quite a lot from his father-in-law. The Victoria History of Schropshire has a very detailed account of this family and the lands they owned.

John Hord was an English gentleman.  He was b. in Ewell, England, December 29, 1664 and was baptized there the following January 19th.  He came to Virginia in 1685, and it is supposed that he was engaged in the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth against King James II, and came to America after the defeat of the former at the battle of Sedgemoor (1685).  It is a well-known fact that several other members of the family were engaged in the rebellion and a record still exists showing that Thomas Hord, Esq. of `Cote House,´ the head of the family at that time, was imprisoned in Oxford Castle for this offense.

Coming to Virginia, John Hord purchased a large tract of land in what is now Caroline county, on the Rappahannock River, which he named `Shady Grove.´  His house was brought from England in sections and its day was considered a very handsome one, but is so badly in need of repairs that it is now uninhabitable.  It is located two miles south of Port Royal.  It is a large, double mansion, with a spacious hall ten feet in width running through the center, having on each side rooms twenty feet square.  In the middle of the hall is an archway handsomely carved.  The entire building is massive and substantial, having hardwood floors, tall white mantels and handsomely paneled doors.  It is two stories high, built of massive timbers, with brick foundations and chimneys.  Here John Hord lived and died.  By will, probated in Essex county, November 21, 1749, he gave to son Ambrose Hord `the land and houses were on I now live after my son William has had the use of it for one year, also the land that my son Thomas Hord, escheated for me x x x.´  He bequeathed 1000 acres of land in King George county to sons Thomas, Peter, James, and William Hord; and made other bequests to son John Hord, grandsons Mordecai Hord and William Hord, (son of William) and to William Miller `that marry´d my daughter Jane.´

The Fifteenth Generation

JANE HORD b. after 1721 in Essex County, Virginia, married WILLIAM MILLER.