When Anne Eliza Snowball was born on 28 October 1837, in Fawdon, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Snowball, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Garr, was 24. She immigrated to United States in 1854 and lived in Bedlington, Durham, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 14 July 1854, in Green River, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 16, and was buried in Green River, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States.
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English (Durham and Northumberland): nickname for someone with a snow‐white patch of hair or a whitish bald spot amid dark hair, from Middle English snou, snow ‘snow’ + ball ‘white streak, bald place’. Snowbald, an early variant, may be evidence of the latter meaning, from Middle English balled ‘bald’, though the -d may be excrescent. Compare Bald , Ball 3.
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Possible Related NamesHISTORY – JOHN SNOWBALL, PIONEER OF 1854 February 21, 1840, in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, John Snowball was born. He was the eldest child of Thomas and Elizabeth Garr Snowball. He had a brother, Ral …
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