602 PAST AND PRESENT OF Flora Stewart Townshend was united in marriage to William Norton , of Annan- dale, who had formerly been successfully en¬ gaged as a barrister at law in London, Eng¬ land, and who was a son of Ralph Norton , also a barrister of the English metropolis, and to them were born three children, Mrs. Charles Jenkins , of Little River ; Edward, of Annandale , and Mrs. Charles Townshend , of Arcadia, California . Lord Robert Townshend was a son of General Townshend , who was with Wolfe at Quebec . Robert was a captain in the Brit¬ ish navy and was one of those who drew as a reward for services to the King grants of land on Prince Edward Island , his portion being Lot 43 at Bay Fortune . He at one time engaged in bringing emigrants to lo¬ cate on his land and Captain Marryatt was aboard one of these vessels which landed at Bay Fortune and they there remained all winter, building several houses, one of which was the famous Red House , where Abel, an agent for Lord Townshend , was murdered by the tenant who was in arrears for rent. Captain Marryatt mentions Bay Fortune and their stay there in one of his novels. Lord Robert Townshend spent some time in Charlottetown , making frequent trips hack and forth to England . He married Flora Stewart , a Scottish lady, and to them were born three children, George of Amherst , Nova Scotia , a clergyman of the Church of England and under his pulpit at Amherst were buried the remains of his mother. One of his sons is Judge Townshend , of Halifax, Nova Scotia ; William Townshend was a member of the navy and after leaving the sea kept a large store at Abels Cape, Bay Fortune . He maried a daughter of Gover ¬ nor Fial; Cecil Townshend died in England and one of his daughters became the wife of the late Hon . Benjamin Davies , of Char¬ lottetown; John Townshend married Miss Agnes Bell and their daughter, Flora Stew ¬ art, is the immediate subject of this sketch; Helen Townshend married Rev. Dr. Wig ¬ gins, of Charlottetown , and one of their daughters is the wife of the Hon . Lucien Davies ; Esther Townshend became the wife of Doctor Bell , of St. Eleanor's, Prince Ed ¬ ward Island. Charles A. Ford , who successfully car¬ ries on agricultural pursuits at Rothwell, Kings county, was born on the place on which he now resides, and is a son of John and Jane (Macdonald) Ford, the latter be¬ ing, a daughter of Donald Macdonald , of West River , Kings county, who was a na¬ tive of Perthshire, Scotland , and came to Prince Edward Island in about 1810. He married Miss Margaret Forbes . John Ford was a blacksmith at all his life and his death occurred at Rothwell, at the age of seventy-six years, a son of John Ford , who came to East Point , Prince Edward Island , in 1804, having been discharged from the Forty-second Regiment , known as the Blackwatch, at Halifax, in 1802, after twenty-one years of active service. He served all through the war of the Revolu¬ tion, but subsequently bought land at East Point and lived there during the remainder of his life. He was a native of Falkirk, Scotland , and had two brothers, James and Robert, and two sisters, Jean and Marjorie. John Ford , Sr., married a Miss McDonald , of Orwell, Prince Edward Island . The subject of this sketch received an education in the district schools of his neigh¬ bourhood and has followed farming more or less throughout his life, although he has given particular attention to the blacksmith-