Daphne Jean Ball
8 November 1917–1969 (Age 51)
Tasmania, Australia
The Life Summary of Daphne Jean
When Daphne Jean Ball was born on 8 November 1917, in Tasmania, Australia, her father, Rupert McKenzie Ball, was 37 and her mother, Priscilla Mary Margaret Bloomfield, was 28. She had at least 2 sons with Joseph Wallace WILTON. She died in 1969, at the age of 52.
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Family Time Line
Joseph Wallace WILTON
1915–1992
Daphne Jean Ball
1917–1969
Maxwell Joseph WILTON
1938–1980
Robert Geoffrey WILTON
1943–1983
Spouse and Children
1915–1992Male
1917–1969Female
Children
(2)
1938–1980Male
1943–1983Male
Parents and Siblings
1880–1946Male
1888–1952Female
Siblings
(9)
1906–1968Male
1907–1930Male
1909–1952Male
1911–Male
1915–Male
+4 More Children
World Events (8)
1918
Age 1
1918
Age 1
Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.
1918
Age 1
1918
Age 1
Battle on the Somme. Australian forces capture Mont St. Quentin.
1939
Age 22
1939
Age 22
Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.
Name Meaning
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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Baller
Bald
Balle
Balls
Sources (2)
- Daphne Jean Ball, "Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981"
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