The Manor of Whitfield was granted, in the twelfth century, by William King of Scotland to the Whitfield family, who retained it until 1750 when it was sold to William Ord of Fenham.
In 1746 he married Anne Dillingham, heiress to estates at West Langton and East Langton, Leicestershire.
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His second son, Rev James Ord (1761–1836), who inherited the Langton estates, married Barbara Brandling of Gosforth.
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He was the second son of Thomas Ord of Fenham and Anne Bacon and inherited the family estates at Fenham and Newminster Abbey on the death of his elder brother John, in 1745.
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In 1750 he bought the ancient Manor and estate at Whitfield, Northumberland, from the financially pressed Whitfield family.
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His eldest son, William (1752–1789), High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1777, married Eleanor Brandling of Gosforth who on his death remarried Thomas Creevey.
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