When Sydney George Ball was born in 1907, in Derby, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Alfred Ball, was 23 and his mother, Edith Lily Belfield, was 22. He lived in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died on 6 January 1928, at the age of 21, and was buried in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom.
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’.
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