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Alfred Ball 1830-1883 |
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Ancestors of Alfred Ball
Ancestor of
Frances Jane Ball
Eleanor Grace Ball John
Basil Ball
Catherine Ann Ball Mary
Emily Ball
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Alfred, the eleventh child of John & Hannah Ball, was born on 12 August 1830. He was christened on 18 May 1834, in St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, London. Alfred married Jane Owens on 18 July 1857 in St Peter's Church, Eaton Square. Jane was the daughter of John Owens, a wheelwright, and was born in about 1828 in Wistanstow, Shropshire. At the time of her marriage Jane was a spinster, living in Grosvenor Crescent, London. Alfred & Jane settled in Lurgashall, Sussex, where Alfred worked as a schoolteacher. The couple had four daughters – Frances Jane, Eleanor Grace, Catherine Ann and Mary Emily; and two sons – Augustus Owens, and John Basil. All the children were baptised in the village. John Basil Ball died, just a few weeks old, in 1864. In the 1871 Census, Alfred & Jane were both listed as being schoolteachers at Lurgashall, and Alfred was also the Parish Clerk. Sometime between 1871 and 1881 the family moved to Elsted, Sussex, where Alfred became a teacher at the Village School. In Kelly’s directory of 1878 he is listed as headmaster of that school. Three of Alfred & Jane's daughters – Frances, Eleanor and Mary also became schoolteachers. Frances and Mary taught at Elsted, and when we visited the school house where the family had lived we saw the assembly hall, old scullery and playground. We were told that when the property was refurbished, the canes used by the sisters were found under the floorboards! By 1901 Eleanor had become the headmistress of Tuphill School, Tidenham, Gloucestershire, and Catherine was recorded as a knitting machinist. After Alfred Ball died, on 5 May 1883, Jane continued to live in the School House at Elsted, until she died on 6 December 1893. Mary Emily died on 19 November 1927. Eleanor Grace died at ‘The Bungalow’ on 26 May 1934. 'The Bungalow' was originally a Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition kit house erected in the mid 1900s. Frances Jane died at Elsted on 4 April 1939, and Catherine Ann died at The Midhurst, Eastbourne & District Cottage Hospital on 27 April 1946. All the sisters are buried at Elsted ‑ their graves are in a line due north of the north-eastern corner of the chancel but in an area badly affected by the upheaval caused by a large tree falling over.
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