Ford
The crossing, stamped on Shakespearian country.
- Origin
- South West, England
- Register
- English family
CoreHistoric reach
The seat of Ford
Seat vacantChief
No one leads the Ford community yet. When the movement opens, you can stand for its leadership, or help elect whoever does.
Current mission
No shared goal set yet. Once Ford has leadership, it sets the public focus: a restoration, a gathering, a real-world project that helps its own.
The Ford clan is being rebuilt. Join the waiting list for the movement today, and you help decide who leads it and what it does.
Help rebuild the Ford clan →What does the Ford name mean?
Locative, the ford. Old English ford.
The history of Ford
Armies and drovers chose shallow fords; villages clustered there because hooves had to pause. Ford is the place name behind half of Warwickshire's crossroads poetry, ordinary families named after the moment the river let you through.
Champions of the Ford name
The bearers whose lives are inseparable from this surname. Each has its own page — biography, achievements, geography, connection to the family.
- Ford Madox Ford
The grandson of the painter Ford Madox Brown who founded the English Review, discovered D. H. Lawrence, collaborated with Joseph Conrad, and wrote The Good Soldier and the Parade's End tetralogy, two of the foundational modernist English novels.
- Henry Ford
The Michigan farm-boy whose June 1903 founding of the Ford Motor Company at Detroit and his October 1908 introduction of the Model T transformed the motor car from an expensive luxury into the universal vehicle of the modern world, and whose January 1914 introduction of the moving assembly line at the Highland Park plant founded the modern method of industrial mass production.
Step Into History
Walk the streets and seats the Ford name knew — a photoreal walk through time, on foot.