Hi
I am looking for any information on the Forde family / families in County Fermanagh in the early 1800s. I am descended from a Thomas Forde (a journeyman tailor) who was born in County Fermanagh about 1811 [place not known] and was charged under the Whiteboy Act for assaulting the house of a John Baxter at Kilmore [with a group of about 50 other people] on Christmas Eve 1831, and was held at Down Prison before being sent to the colony of NSW as a convict. On his death certificate it has his father's name also as Thomas, occupation farmer.
Does this Thomas Forde sound like he might be connected to any other Fordes/Fords in County Fermanagh?
Helen