William Ball1
M, b. 1445, d. 1480
William Ball was born in 1445.1
William is identified as the Lord of the Manor of Barkham. Barkham, anciently "Beorcham", was noted as the spot where William the Conqueror paused on his devastating march from the bloody field of Hastings, as the old chronicle tells us "wasting the land, burning the towns, and sleaing (sic) the people til he came to Beorcham", whose beauty nestled among the green hills of Berkshire, perhaps it was that sayed his ruthless hand.2
William died in 1480.1,3
William is identified as the Lord of the Manor of Barkham. Barkham, anciently "Beorcham", was noted as the spot where William the Conqueror paused on his devastating march from the bloody field of Hastings, as the old chronicle tells us "wasting the land, burning the towns, and sleaing (sic) the people til he came to Beorcham", whose beauty nestled among the green hills of Berkshire, perhaps it was that sayed his ruthless hand.2
William died in 1480.1,3
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Citations
- [S1263] Larson, George Arthur, Pedigree Resource File DVD #126.
- [S1270] Doris Glade Vogel, My Ball Lineage in America.
- [S1270] Doris Glade Vogel, My Ball Lineage in America, Cites an old manuscript "History of the Ball Family of Barkham, comitatis Berks, taken from the Visitation Booke of London, marked 0.24 in the College of Arms, said to be in the possession of the Downmam family of Virginia.