Born in Lincoln County, Upper Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of George Alexander Ball
and Catherine (Overholt) Ball
Sister of
Maria Elizabeth Ball, Margaret Ball, John William Ball, Anna Dorothea Ball, George Peter Mann Ball, Catherine Ball, Frederick Augustus Ball, Sarah Jane (Ball) Nelles, Abraham Thomas Ball and Charles Adolphus Francis Ball
Wife of
Peter Roe
— married
8 Feb 1855 in Toronto, York, Canada West
[children unknown]
Died
at age 90
in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Oct 2013
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Biography
Matilda was christened on June 3, 1821 in Grimsby, Upper Canada.[1] On February 8, 1855 Matilda married Peter Rowe (Roe) of St. Thomas, Rev. Thomas Creen, Rector of Niagara, officiating.[2][3]
Sources
- ↑ Clan Waddell, entry for Barbara Matilda Ball
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Ontario Marriage Notices [1830-1856] [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Wilson, Thomas B. Ontario Marriage Notices [1830-1856]. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997. Section: The Church, Toronto, June 1853 - June 1855; pg. 253.
- ↑ Matilda was listed as the 4th daughter of George Ball of Locust-grove, Niagara, but appears to be the 5th daughter. Perhaps one of the others (maybe Anna Dorothea) died in infancy and is not counted here.
- "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JF33-W9N : 9 March 2018), Barbara Matilda Roe, 12 Mar 1911; citing Cobourg, Ontario, yr 1911 cn 22412, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,854,736.
- Find A Grave: Memorial #136754475.
Acknowledgments
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Matilda by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Matilda:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Matilda by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Matilda:
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~0.78%
Albert McKay
:
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~0.78%
Bill Ball :
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch H541038 [compare]
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