When Clara Ball was born on 27 September 1882, in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Abraham Ball, was 21 and her mother, Martha Jane Williams, was 19. She married Joseph Cullen on 11 November 1901, in Christ Church, Bradford, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Bradford, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. She died on 16 March 1956, in Wythenshawe, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 73, and was buried in Southern Cemetery, Manchester, Greater Manchester, 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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