Brief Life History of William
When William Ball was christened on 14 May 1786, in North Meols, Lancashire, England, his father, Robert Ball, was 54 and his mother, Anne Jump, was 46. He married Sarah Howard on 16 November 1807, in North Meols, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in North Meols, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. He died on 31 August 1873, in Southport, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 87, and was buried in Southport, Lancashire, England.
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- William Ball, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- William Ball, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Wm. Ball, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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World Events (8)
1787 · English Convicts Sail to Australia
The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
1789 · The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano." Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English bal, ball(e) ‘ball, sphere, globe, round body’ (Old French balle or Old English beall(a)), a nickname for a short, obese person.
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a knoll or rounded hill, from the same Middle English word, bal(le) as in 1 above, but applied topographically.
English: from a Middle English adjective ball (weak form balle) in the sense ‘bald’, from ball ‘white streak, bald place’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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