The Cambrian Index
www.swansea.gov.uk/cambrian has a lot of items on Eli
BALL including an obituary showing he was a deacon at York Place Baptist
Chapel and an Oddfellow.
It also records the deaths of two of his sons, Samuel in Varna Bay
(Bulgaria, possibly during the Crimea military adventure)in 1854 and Josiah
in 1855 in Swansea.
The only Josiah BALL entry is for a seaman bound over to keep the peace in
1846, apart from the 1855 death.
Note also the death at sea in December 1881 of Eli BALL,58, son of James
BALL, potter, Swansea, in the paper 6 January 1882. He may have been the
same man hauled before magistrates in 1875 for neglecting his aged mother.
If you ever come across a John Thomas BALL, master mariner, in your family
researches, you may be able to help with a research project I have been
working on for someone else. He married Mary Ann JAMES in York Place Chapel
on February 7th 1872.
Jeff
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From: "Jeannette Lake" <jlc_lake(a)hotmail.com>
To: <wls-swansea(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:41 PM
Subject: [WLS-SWANSEA] BALL family of potters
Hello List,
I would love to hear from anyone who is researching the family of Eli BALL
(1802-1872) of Swansea. He was a potter, working for at least part of his
career at the Cambrian Pottery, which sadly closed in 1870. He was my
2g-grandfather, and I have extensive information about his descendents,
but very little about his forebears. I know that he was the son of Josiah
BALL and Barbara ROBERTS, who married 3 Aug 1790 at St Mary's, Swansea,
and his siblings were James (bap 1790, must have died in infancy), Mary
(bap 1792), James (bap 1796), Sarah or Maria (bap 1798), and Martha (bap
1800). I have data on the descendents of James (1796)
Josiah senior may have had a brother James, also a potter, who was father
to Josiah (b. c1799, d. 1847). This younger Josiah worked for a while at
the Herculaneum Pottery in Liverpool, which closed down in 1841. He
returned(?) with his wife Mary to his native(?) Swansea where he died.
I really would like to discover the parentage of Josiah senior and to find
out what other siblings he had. And I would like to know if there was any
connection between this family and those of John BALL (b. c1785 Glamorgan,
d. 1848 Swansea; a butcher) and Abraham BALL (b. c1810 Llanrhidian, d.
1875 Swansea; an ag. lab., possibly son of the afore-mentioned John).
If anyone can help with information or just wants to chew the fat about
any of these people, please get in touch.
Jeannette
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