Helen W Balch

Female21 February 1863–

Brief Life History of Helen W

When Helen W Balch was born on 21 February 1863, in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, New York, United States, her father, William Skinner Balch, was 49 and her mother, Vesta Ann Child, was 26. She lived in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 20 years and Auburndale, Riverside, California, United States in 1934. She was buried in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Skinner Balch
1813–1895
Vesta Ann Child
1836–1910
Carrie Vesta Balch
1860–1934
Helen W Balch
1863–
Lillie Balch
1865–1869

Sources (7)

  • Helen Balch in household of Carrie W Harvey, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Helen W. Balch, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Miss Helen W Balch in entry for Mrs Carrie Balch Harvey, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (3)

World Events (8)

1865

Age 2

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1893

Age 30

Historical Boundaries: 1893: Riverside, California, United States

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

Age 33

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English (Somerset and Wiltshire): nickname from an unrecorded Middle English balche or belche, presumably from Old English bælce ‘belch, belching; stomach; pride, arrogance’, probably applied in the sense ‘swelling pride, arrogance’, but in some cases it may have been acquired by a man given to belching.

English (Somerset and Wiltshire): possibly a nickname from Middle English balche, a noun or adjective derived from Old English bælcan ‘to shout’, for a man who habitually shouted.

Americanized form of German Bolch .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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