Family of William Ball and Lydia Unknown

Husband: William Ball

  • Name:

  • William Ball

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

Wife: Lydia Unknown

  • Name:

  • Lydia Unknown

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

Child 1: Ferdinand Mercer Ball

  • Name:

  • Ferdinand Mercer Ball

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Julia Attfield (1811-1905)

  • Children:

  • Emma Wilson Ball (1841-1922)

  •  

  • Augusta Ball (1842-1909)

  • Note 1:

  • Ball, Ferdinand Mercer (adm. 15 January 1857) occ. collector, accountant and secretary to building societies; addr. i) Mortimer Road, Kilburn, ii) 44 Regent Street, Piccadilly. Mily: age at adm. thirty-eight; Fifth Coy throughout: Sgt 12 July 1860-c. 1862. Left 12 October 1865 (resigned). Applied for, but was not given, the position of Secretary to the Company 28 February 1861. Sources: CB; CM; PAMI; RR1; VB2. Source: British Army, Honourable Artillery Company, Cardew-Rendle Roll Of Members 1537-1908

  • Note 2:

  • 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:

    http://82.109.94.204/photolondon/pages/details.asp?pid=321

  • Birth:

  • 1818

  • Ryde, Isle of Wight

  • Baptism:

  • 1 Nov 1818 (age 0)

  • Newchurch, Isle of Wight

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 22-23)

  • Clerk, High St, Old Brentford, Ealing, Middlesex

  • Occupation (1):

  • 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 (2):

  • 1851 (age 32-33)

  • Rate collector & building society secretary, 17 Faraday Rd, Paddington

  • Occupation (2):

  • btw 1857 and 1859 (age 38-41)

  • Proprietor, St. James Photographic Institution, 44 Regent Circus

  • Occupation (3):

  • 15 Jan 1857 (age 38-39)

  • Admission to the Honourable Artillery Company (see notes)

  • Occupation (4):

  • 1864 (age 45-46)

  • Accountant (on daughter Augusta's marriage cert.)

  • Census (3):

  • 1871 (age 52-53)

  • Estate agent, Mayfield Cottage, Hampstead

  • Census (4):

  • 1881 (age 62-63)

  • Fern Bank House, Highfields, Shanklin, Isle of Wight

  • Census (5):

  • 1891 (age 72-73)

  • 28 Castle St, Ryde

  • Occupation (5):

  • 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 (6):

  • 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

Note on Child 1: Ferdinand Mercer Ball (1)

Ball, Ferdinand Mercer (adm. 15 January 1857) occ. collector, accountant and secretary to building societies; addr. i) Mortimer Road, Kilburn, ii) 44 Regent Street, Piccadilly. Mily: age at adm. thirty-eight; Fifth Coy throughout: Sgt 12 July 1860-c. 1862. Left 12 October 1865 (resigned). Applied for, but was not given, the position of Secretary to the Company 28 February 1861. Sources: CB; CM; PAMI; RR1; VB2. Source: British Army, Honourable Artillery Company, Cardew-Rendle Roll Of Members 1537-1908

Note on Child 1: Ferdinand Mercer Ball (2)

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:

http://82.109.94.204/photolondon/pages/details.asp?pid=321