See also

Family of Ferdinand Mercer Ball and Julia Attfield

Husband: Ferdinand Mercer Ball (1818-1904)
Wife: Julia Attfield (1811-1905)
Children: Emma Wilson Ball (1841-1922)
Augusta Ball (1842-1909)
Marriage 15 Sep 1840 All Souls Church, St. Marylebone

Husband: Ferdinand Mercer Ball

Name: Ferdinand Mercer Ball
Sex: Male
Father: William Ball ( - )
Mother: -
Birth 1818 Ryde, Isle of Wight
Census 1841 (age 22-23) Clerk, High St, Old Brentford, Ealing, Middlesex
Occupation 16 Nov 1842 (age 23-24) Clerk to water works company (on Augusta's birth certificate)
Residence 1850 (age 31-32) 17 Faraday Rd, Westbourne Grove, gentleman
Census 1851 (age 32-33) Rate collector & building society secretary, 17 Faraday Rd, Paddington
Occupation btw 1857 and 1859 (age 38-41) Proprietor, St. James Photographic Institution, 44 Regent Circus
Occupation 1864 (age 45-46) Accountant (on daughter Augusta's marriage cert.)
Census 1871 (age 52-53) Estate agent, Mayfield Cottage, Hampstead
Census 1881 (age 62-63) Fern Bank House, Highfields, Shanklin, Isle of Wight
Census 1891 (age 72-73) 28 Castle St, Ryde
Occupation 31 Mar 1899 (age 80-81) Ball Norris & Hadley, auctioneers land and estate agents, 5 Argyll Place, Regent St, partnership with F Ball dissolved (L.Gazette 12.5.1899)
Census 1901 (age 82-83) Rolleston, Park Road, Shanklin
Death fact 1904 (age 85-86) 1904 Mar Qtr, Isle of Wight, 2b/448 (aged 85)
Death 1904 (age 85-86) Brading, Isle of Wight

Wife: Julia Attfield

Name: Julia Attfield
Sex: Female
Father: William Poole Attfield (1779-1855)
Mother: Elizabeth Smith (1789-1866)
Birth 30 Oct 1811 Monken Hadley, Middlesex
Baptism 25 Dec 1811 (age 0) St Mary the Virgin, Monken Hadley, Middlesex
Will 8 Jan 1816 (age 4) Mentioned in will of great grandmother, Elizabeth Element
Census 1841 (age 29-30) Wife in household
Death fact 1905 (age 93-94) 1905 Sep Qtr, Isle of Wight, 2b/357 (aged 93)
Death 18 Sep 1905 (age 93) Bay View, Shanklin, Isle of Wight
Cause of death (Facts Pg) 18 Sep 1905 (age 93) Carcinoma of the breast, Exhaustion

Child 1: Emma Wilson Ball

Name: Emma Wilson Ball
Sex: Female
Spouse: William Blurton Norris (1831-1908)
Birth 26 Jul 1841 Old Brentford, Middlesex
Baptism 14 Oct 1841 (age 0) Saint George, Old Brentford
Birth fact 1841 (age 0) (possible) 1841 Sep Qtr, Brentford, 3/7 (Emma Ball)
Census 1851 (age 9-10) Living with parents
Census 1901 (age 59-60) Wife in household
Census 1911 (age 69-70) Private means, Brynia, Tyndale Park, Herne Bay, Kent (widow)
Death fact 1922 (age 80-81) 1922 Sep Q, Blean, 2a/901 (aged 81)
Death 13 Aug 1922 (age 81) Brynia, Tyndale Park, Herne Bay, Kent

Child 2: Augusta Ball

Name: Augusta Ball
Sex: Female
Spouse: Thomas Bishop (1831-1876)
Birth 16 Nov 1842 Old Brentford, Middlesex
Birth fact 1842 (age 0) 1842 Dec Qtr, Brentford, 3/9
Census 1851 (age 8-9) Living with parents
Census 1871 (age 28-29) Visiting parents in Hampstead with husband & children
Census 1881 (age 38-39) Pianoforte teacher, Rolleston, East Cliff Promenade, Shanklin (widow)
Census 1891 (age 48-49) Widow, living with housekeeper; Rolleston, East Cliff Promenade, Shanklin
Census 1901 (age 58-59) Widow; living with Ferdinand & Julia Ball, Shanklin
Residence 18 Sep 1905 (age 62) Bay View, Shanklin, Isle of Wight (in attendance at death of mother)
Residence 1909 (age 66-67) Waylands Greenway, Uxbridge, but formerly of Shanklin, I of Wight
Death fact 1909 (age 66-67) 1909 Sep Qtr, Blean, 2a/455 (aged 66)
Death 27 Jul 1909 (age 66) Rosedene, Canterbury Road, Herne Bay, Kent
Probate 19 Aug 1909 Probate, PR, to the Public Trustee (L.Gaz, 7.1.1910)

Note on Husband: Ferdinand Mercer Ball

1842: Clerk to water works company (on daughter's birth certificate)

1851: Rate collector & building society secretary, 17 Garway Rd, Paddington

1871: Estate agent, Mayfield Cottage, Hampstead

Moved back to the Isle of Wight in the 1870s

 

Proprietor of St James Photographic Institution, 44 Regent Circus, 1857-1859

See entry in PhotoLondon database:

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