| Show romance romalice of your name e ny by RUDY HASKINS ELLIS BALL this name is of saxon origin and means swift another authority gives the meaning bold it had many variations in spelling huoh PS as balle bale and bal bal is also a belgian surname the first head of 0 the bau ball family on record Is vice comes come ba who 1 Is named in the doomsday book as a landed proprietor of exon england A noted puritan divine john ball al also s 0 a member of the E english ball family fa mily lived in the century another r descendant thomas dall ball was a great warrior and defended the castle ca of salonica a year against the turks and so well did he defend it that mohammed II 11 emperor of the turks said maldof of him that he had seen many heroes in the country of but only one man thomas ball william bau bail of wiltshire england was the father of francis ball who was a settler saltier ol of springfield mass in 1640 he married M I 1 I 1 abigail burt bart and all ol of th ahr balls lot of massachusetts are their descendants edward ball ol of stanford stamford conn went to new jersey with a party of new englanders and assisted in building the town of newark the southern balls ot of this country are well known col william ball was the first ot of them to land in this country and settled in lancaster county va 1650 he was a direct descendant of william ball of england who was the great grandfather of george washington |
