 In 1746 Ord married Anne Dillingham, heiress to estates at West Langton and East Langton, Leicestershire.His eldest son, William (1752–1789), High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1777, married Eleanor Brandling of Gosforth, daughter of the Member of Parliament Charles Brandling, and William Ord MP was their son; on her husband's death she remarried Thomas Creevey.His second son, Rev.