Brief Life History of William John
When William John Ball was born on 18 December 1855, in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Charles Ball, was 20 and his mother, Mary Amelia Evans, was 21. He died in April 1859, in Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 3, and was buried in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom.
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- William John Ball, "Wales, Glamorganshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1912"
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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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