Thomas Ball (bef. 1777 - abt. 1869)

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Biography

Lived in England all of his life - probably in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, where he was christened on 2 April 1777. He is thought to have lived to be ninety-two years of age. He married Letitia ______ and they had at least three children:

• Thomas Wood Ball
• Letitia Ball, b. 1800 - she never married
• Timothy Ball, b. 1811 - who married a minister's daughter by the name of Lizzie. She is said to have been a great painter. They did not have any children. He was a fine looking man who accidentally shot himself, while hunting, by pulling a gun through a fence.

According to christening records, there may have been three other children:

• Sarah, b. 1802, died at 3 months
• Mary Elizabeth, b. 1805, died at 6.5 months
• Fanny, b. 1807, died neonataly

However, there is some possibility that these three might have been the children of another Thomas Ball.

Sources

• Dingwall, William Oswald. The Ball Families: Our Grandparents Thomas Ball and Mary Priest Fuller, Their Ancestors and Their Descendants. London, Ontario: 1983.