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Alfred Ball

1830-1883

Ancestor of
Jane Owens

Frances Jane Ball
1858-1939

Eleanor Grace Ball
1860-1934

Augustus Owens Ball
1862-1948

John Basil Ball
1864-1864

Catherine Ann Ball
1867-1946

Mary Emily Ball
1868-1927

Photograph supplied courtesy
of Paul Tritton

St Peter's, Eaton Square, photographed in 2005

Alfred was the eleventh child of John & Hannah Ball, and he was born on 12 Aug 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,  London.  Alfred was by now a schoolteacher at Lurgashall, in Sussex and Jane, a spinster, was living in Grosvenor Crescent, London.  She was the daughter of John Owens, a wheelwright, and was born in about 1828 in Wistanstow, Shropshire. Her mother may have been named Ann.  

The couple settled in Lurgashall and had 4 daughters and 2 sons, all baptised in the village.  Their second son, John Basil Ball, died, just a few weeks old, in 1864.

In the 1871 Census, Alfred and 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 was a teacher at the Village School.  In the Kelly’s directory he is listed as headmaster of the school in 1878.

Alfred died on 5 May 1883.  Jane continued to live in the School House at Elsted, where she died on 6 December 1893.