Fergus Hartford

Fergus Hartford (1779 - 1841) was the father of Andrew Hartford and the Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather of Katy.

Biography
Fergus Hartford was born in 1779 in Glasgow, Scotland and was raised by his mother Emilia. It's unknown who his father was, but according to him, he was a British officer who served in the American Revolutionary War and when he died at valley forge, his mother took his surname to collect his pension. In his later years, he ran a blacksmith shop, making horseshoes, tools, and other useful things. He later married Marideth in 1810 and had a son, Andrew in 1816. He later moved his family to Manchester in 1829 where he and his son watched the Rainhill Trials. In 1831, after Andrew left for America, the blacksmith shop he ran later went into hard times and Fergus was forced to become a Tosher (a sewer hunter, disgusting I know, but what do you expect? they were poor and Fergus would go to the end of the earth to support his family). In 1841, Fergus and a couple of his partners were exploring the sewers for gold coins when a humungous swarm of rats overpowered him and killed him. Some say that Fergus' father was a high ranking British naval officer, but they couldn't get any DNA samples off of him because his remains are still lost in the sewers of London.