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    Colin Rowledge
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    Default WHO WAS SUSANNA?

    A lady - known to me only as SUSANNA - had 6 children fathered by my 4X Gt-Grandfather Thomas Ball.

    The 1st was baptised as John on 22 November 1784 and the 6th was baptised as Susanna on 31 January 1797.

    She died and was buried - at age 50 - on 11 September 1810.

    All baptisms and her burial took place in St. Keverne

    I want to believe - but also acknowledge the possibity, otherwise - that she married Thomas in St. Keverne sometime between 1780 and 1784. A record of such an event I cannot find.

    Without a surname I cannot trace her baptism and as she is my 4X Gt-Grandmother, I would like to know more about her.

    When her husband died, in October 1820, also in St. Keverne, he was indicated on the burial record of 1 November 1820 as a Pauper.

    Thanks for any help that may be forthcoming.

    Colin

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    Coromandel
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    Have you ruled out the marriage of Thomas Ball and Susanna Wills at Maker on 5 Dec. 1781? See information supplied by Nankervis in post #3 of your thread on Ann Ball:

    https://www.british-genealogy.com/for...verne-Cornwall

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    Colin Rowledge
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    Quote Originally Posted by Coromandel View Post
    Have you ruled out the marriage of Thomas Ball and Susanna Wills at Maker on 5 Dec. 1781? See information supplied by Nankervis in post #3 of your thread on Ann Ball:

    https://www.british-genealogy.com/for...verne-Cornwall
    Thank you for reminding me.

    Sorry to be such a

    Colin

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    Coromandel
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    No worries . . . I had forgotten about the previous thread too. Once things slip off the 'Today's Posts' board I tend to forget all about them. I thought we had lots of spare brain capacity but mine seems to be so full that any new bit of information displaces something else.

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    Colin Rowledge
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    Default What was Susanna Ball's maiden name?

    Not sure if this has been answered before, but I am suffering a bit of "Brain-Drain" and if it has please nurture me with kindness.

    Thomas Ball was born in Gerrans and baptised there 31 January 1762.

    Thomas and his wife - Susanna - had 6 children - all born and baptised in St. Keverne between 22 November 1784 and 31 January 1797. One of thos children - Ann - is my 3X gt-grandmother.

    A Susanna Ball - wife of Thomas - died in St. Keverne and was buried 11 Sptember 1810. Her age is stated as 50. This information was obtained from the Cornwall OPC site.

    A short while later - 27 October 1811 - a Thomas Ball [a widower] married Jane Champion [a spinster] in St. Keverne. While there are no ages indicated from the marriage register from Cornwall OPC, I think Thomas was aged about 50 and Jane of a similar age as I have not found any children of that union.

    Thomas was a Pauper when he died and was a resident of Longmeadow Lane. He was aged 59 when he died and was buried 1 November 1820.

    From public trees all state Thomas married Susanna and 1 said her surname was Wills. This one stated the marriage was in Maker, Cornwall on 5 December 1781. To me, it seems inconceivable that given the place of the baptism of Thomas [Gerrans] and where the family lived, baptised their children and died [St. Keverne] is just to darned far away to be the right one.

    Assuming she wasn't the Miss Wills, who was the Susanna he married and where was she from?

    Colin

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    Jan1954
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    Quote Originally Posted by Colin Rowledge View Post
    Not sure if this has been answered before
    As the question has already been asked on a previous thread, I have merged the two together so that people can see what has been discussed before.

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    Colin Rowledge
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    Quote Originally Posted by Coromandel View Post
    Have you ruled out the marriage of Thomas Ball and Susanna Wills at Maker on 5 Dec. 1781? See information supplied by Nankervis in post #3 of your thread on Ann Ball:

    https://www.british-genealogy.com/for...verne-Cornwall
    Thank you, Jan, for linking these threads - I did say I was suffering a "Brain Drain".

    Is it possible that somehow in 1781, Thomas could either a] have been working so far away from where he was baptised, b] if not working in Maker, how could he have known Susanna and married her there and c] how did they get further away from Maker [St. Keverne where the children were baptised?

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    Colin Rowledge
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    Looking at post #7 on the linked thread, her baptism in St. Keverne in 1766 is possible if she was about 6 years old when baptised.

    The 80 or so miles [by todays roads] is not an insurmountable distance, particularly if at the time of the marriage Thomas and his family or an oppotunity for work brought him there.

    Should I consider this now as definte possibility?

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    MythicalMarian
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    My own gut feeling, Colin, is that 80 miles is too large a radius. Certainly keep a note of that marriage, but it's more likely that your Susanna was from a much nearer parish, and its registers may not have found their way onto Family Search or other online repository. I would want to search all parishes within a 10, then 20 mile radius first before venturing so far afield.

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    Colin Rowledge
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    Quote Originally Posted by MythicalMarian View Post
    My own gut feeling, Colin, is that 80 miles is too large a radius. Certainly keep a note of that marriage, but it's more likely that your Susanna was from a much nearer parish, and its registers may not have found their way onto Family Search or other online repository. I would want to search all parishes within a 10, then 20 mile radius first before venturing so far afield.
    Maybe a stupid question - and I've tons more - is how do I check this from Canada? I have no idea of the parishes 10-20 miles around St. Keverne.

    Colin

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