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
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
1813–1895 Male
1836–1910 Female
Siblings (3)
1860–1934 Female
1863– Female
1865–1869 Female
World Events (8)
1865
Age 2
1893
Age 30
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 33
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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