John Ford

World War II

Ford was born John Martin Jack Feeney though he later often gave his given names as Sean Aloysius, sometimes with surname OFeeny or OFearna an Irish language equivalent of Feeney in Cape Elizabeth, Maine to John Augustine Feeney and Barbara Abbey Curran, on February 1, 1894 though he occasionally said 1895 and that date is erroneously inscribed on his tombstone. His father, John Augustine, was born in Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland in 1854. Barbara Curran had been born in the Aran Islands, in the town of Kilronan on the island of Inishmore Inis Mr. John A. Feeneys grandmother, Barbara Morris, was said to be a member of a local impoverished gentry family, the Morrises of Spiddal, headed at present by Lord Killanin.John Augustine and Barbara Curran arrived in Boston and Portland respectively in May and June 1872. They married in 1875 and became American citizens five years later on September 11, 1880. They had eleven children Mamie Mary Agnes, born 1876 Delia Edith, 18781881 Patrick Francis Ford, 18811953 Bridget, 18831884 Barbara, born and died 1888 Edward, born 1889 Josephine, born 1891 Hannah Joanna, born and died 1892 John Martin, 18941973 and Daniel, born and died 1896 or 1898. John Augustine lived in the Munjoy Hill neighborhood of Portland, Maine with his family, and would try farming, fishing, working for the gas company, running a saloon, and being an alderman. ........

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