When Baby Ball was born on 1 June 1776, in Princeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Daniel Ball, was 56 and his mother, Lucy Newton, was 45. He died on 1 June 1776, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
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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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