Albert Throgmorton Ball (1841 - 1897)

Born 4 Jan 1841 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Boyle) Ball — married 29 Dec 1863 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Descendants

Died 14 Jun 1897 at age 56 in Mackay, Queensland, Australia

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Biography

Family Ancestry

Albert's second name Throgmorton is a nod to his Throckmorton family ancestry. The Throckmorton family were English gentry. His maternal grandfather, Joseph Throgmorton Haselwood also carried the name which Joseph inherited from his maternal grandmother Susanna Throckmorton. ^[1][2].

Albert received his uncle Charles Haslewood inheritance. His brother Clarence was the original heir but when he died at age 28 the inheritance passed to Albert ^[3].

Early Life

Albert Throgmorton Ball was born on 4 January 1841 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, the son of Isabella Elizabeth (Hazlewood) Ball and George Palmer Ball.^[4] His family lived at Mountford, 398 Illawarra Road, Longford, in Tasmania. Mountford is a two-storey Georgian house, built by his father George Palmer Ball around the 1830s. In addition to the house, the estate has a large brick walled courtyard, coach house, stables, and a unique four-level barn. The house is currently privately owned and on the Register of the National Estate ^[5][6].

Career

Albert was educated in England before returning to Australia in 1856. He settled in Brisbane and took work with the Union Bank. After two years with the Union Bank, he resigned and started a career in grazing. He worked on the Boondooma station at Boyne River in Central Queensland for 16 years. Then he moved to the Mackay region and settled the Haslewood station (named after his mother), Wandoo, Bolingbroke, Colston Park and Blue Mountain. In 1874, he sold his pastoral properties and became a sugar grower. Unfortunately, due to sugarcane rust Albert suffered serious losses. He then returned to finance becoming a representative of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Company ^[7][8][9].

Bushrangers!

In 1864, Albert was robbed at gunpoint by the "Rockhampton Bushrangers" who had just escaped from jail. They stole 2 saddled horses and a revolver. Daniel Webster and Peter Fagan were later charged with the crime. ^[10]

Family

He was married to Hannah Boyle on the 29 of December 1863 in Brisbane, Queensland ^[11]. Their children were:

• Clarence Haselwood Ball (1866-1933)^[12]
• George John Armatage Ball (1867–1956)^[13]
• Charles Albert Patrick (1869-1910)^[14]
• Ada Isabella Alberta Ball (1871–1928)^[15]
• Albert Henry de Satge Ball (1873–1947)^[16]
• Ethel Mary Emily Ball (1874–1945)^[17]
• Edith Mary Stuart Ball (1876–1904)^[18]
• Guy Leslie Ball (1878–1962)^[19]
• Lilian Eleanore Neil Ball (1880–1970)^[20]
• Shirley Erin Cannon Throckmorton Ball (1882–1884)^[21]
• Eileen Florinda Lawson Ball (1888–1983)^[22]

Death

Albert died on 14 June 1897, killed in a terrible accident on the railway in Mackay, Queensland. He and his wife Hannah were waiting in their horse-drawn buggy at the train-crossing when the approaching the train's whistle spooked the horse and it bolted in front of the train. Albert and Hannah were killed instantly, the horse escaped unharmed ^[9][23]

• Fact: Residence (1840) Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
• Fact: Christening (1841) Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
• Fact: Emigration (1894) Victoria, Australia
• Fact: Probate (14 Jun 1897) Queensland
• Fact: Burial (1897) Mackay, Queensland, Australia
• Fact: Emigration Melbourne
• Fact: Move To Launceston
• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch BALL, Albert

Throckmorton Born circa 1841 in Mountford, Tasmania; Married 29.12.1863, Hannah Boyle, Brisbane; Died 14.06.1897 Albert Ball, son of Captain George Palmer Ball of the East India Co Service, was educated in England before returning to Australia in 1856. He joined the Union Bank, but his interest was in pastoral pursuits, firstly on the Boyne River. In 1859, he led a party with 14 men, 500 cattle and 60 – 70 horses to stock Wandoo and Haslewood Stations. He later owned Bolingbroke, Tierawoomba, Blue Mountain and Colston Park, but after 16 years, disposed of his pastoral interests to Peri Plantation in 1874. The sugar cane rust disease struck the following year and the mill never crushed. Ball was a keen jockey and a member of the Mackay Turf Club. He and his wife Hannah were killed at Thomas’s Crossing (now Webberley Street level crossing) when their buggy and the Eton train collided. Hannah was a daughter of James Boyle, an early Fortitude Valley (Brisbane) settler.

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Sources

1. ↑ Broadway, J. Throckmorton family (per. c. 1500–1682), gentry. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 10 May. 2022, from https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-72341.
2. ↑ Carpenter, C. Throgmorton family (per. 1409–1518), gentry. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 10 May. 2022, from https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-52798.
3. ↑ Haslewood, F. (1881). The genealogy of the family of Haslewood, Staffordshire and Warwickshire branches; also, the genealogy of Haselwood, Barbadoes branch. United Kingdom: Privately printed.
4. ↑ "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27M-DRGC : 13 March 2020), Albert Throgmorton Ball, 4 Jan 1841; citing Birth 4 Jan 1841, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, line #70217, Archives Office of Tasmania, Hobart; FHL microfilm 7,368,112.
5. ↑ E Robertson, Early Houses in Northern Tasmania. Vol 1, pp165-168, National Trust, Priceless Heritage. p.127. History provided by Mr Michael Demy-Geroe in October 2009.http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;search=state%3DTAS%3Bkeyword_PD%3Don%3Bkeyword_SS%3Don%3Bkeyword_PH%3Don%3Blatitude_1dir%3DS%3Blongitude_1dir%3DE%3Blongitude_2dir%3DE%3Blatitude_2dir%3DS%3Bin_region%3Dpart;place_id=12885
6. ↑ National Trust Tasmanian Heritage Register 8 - Other outstanding Tasmanian Houses. Sunday, October 23, 2016 [blog post] http://tasnationaltrust.blogspot.com/2016/10/national-trust-tasmanian-heritage_47.html
7. ↑ A Heritage Walk Mackay Cemetery 5th ed 2010
8. ↑ THE STORY OF FIVE STATIONS (1945, February 19). Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved May 10, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article170976864
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} "Terrible accident on the railway." 15 June 1897. Mackay Mercury, page 2. Retrieved 3 November 2021 by Clare Spring from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/168900860.
10. ↑ ROCKHAMPTON ASSIZES. (1864, October 15). The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), p. 5. Retrieved May 10, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1263226
11. ↑ Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
12. ↑ Queensland Birth registration: Clarence Haselwood Ball

    Birth date:12/02/1866
    Mother's name:Hannah Boyle
    Father/parent's name:Albert Throgmorton Ball
    Registration details:1866/C/1510

13. ↑ Queensland Birth registration: George John Armatage Ball

    Birth date:11/10/1867
    Mother's name:Hannah Boyle
    Father/parent's name:Albert Throgmorton Ball
    Registration details:1867/C/1763

14. ↑ Queensland Birth registration: Charles Albert Patrick Ball

    Birth date:02/09/1869
    Mother's name:Hannah Boyle
    Father/parent's name:Albert Throgmorton Ball
    Registration details:1869/C/1557

15. ↑ Queensland Birth registration: Ada Isabella Alberta Ball

    Birth date:28/06/1871
    Mother's name:Hannah Boyle
    Father/parent's name:Albert Throckmorton Ball
    Registration details:1871/C/1798

16. ↑ Queensland Birth registration: Albert Henry de Satge Ball

    Birth date:21/05/1873
    Mother's name:Hannah Boyle
    Father/parent's name:Albert Throckmorton Ball
    Registration details:1873/C/1894

17. ↑ Queensland Birth registration: Ethel Mary Emily Ball

    Birth date:14/10/1874
    Mother's name:Hannah Boyle
    Father/parent's name:Albert Shrockmorton Ball
    Registration details:1874/C/2168

18. ↑ Queensland Birth registration: Edith Mary Stuart Ball

    Birth date:21/09/1876
    Mother's name:Hannah Boyle
    Father/parent's name:Albert Throckmorton Ball
    Registration details:1877/C/3264

19. ↑ Queensland Birth registration: Guy Leslie Ball

    Birth date:06/06/1878
    Mother's name:Hannah Boyle
    Father/parent's name:Albert Knockmorton Ball
    Registration details:1878/C/3365

20. ↑ Queensland Birth registration: Lilian Eleanore Neil Ball

    Birth date:08/07/1880
    Mother's name:Hannah Boyle
    Father/parent's name:Albert Throckmorton Ball
    Registration details:1880/C/3839

21. ↑ Queensland Birth registration: Shirley Erin Cannon Throckmorton Ball

    Birth date:28/11/1882
    Mother's name:Hannah Boyle
    Father/parent's name:Albert Throckmorton Ball
    Registration details:1884/R/769

22. ↑ Queensland Birth registration: Eileen Florinda Lawson Ball

    Birth date:27/01/1888
    Mother's name:Hannah Boyle
    Father/parent's name:Albert Trogmorton Ball
    Registration details:1888/C/6650

23. ↑ Queensland Death registration: Albert Throckmorton Ball

    Death date:14/06/1897
    Mother's name:Isabella Elizabeth Haselwood
    Father/parent's name:George Palmer Ball
    Registration details:1897/C/2580

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 11 September 2021, 11:01), entry for Albert Thogmorton Ball (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:K8XT-PVN ); contributed by various users.

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