Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Ball was born in 1771, in Midway, St. John Parish, Georgia, British Colonial America, her father, Sampson Ball, was 21 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Sugar Baker, was 26.
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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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