Notes:

Christening Date: 26 Nov 1839 Recorded in: Broseley,
Shropshire, England
In the 1851 Wales census Frances Hughes (neice to Maria Ball) was living with Maria Ball (head) aged 51, Benjamin Ball aged 83 (father), Henry Ball aged 28.

Other Events:

• Occupation: 1828; Teaching in Broseley, Broseley Directory, Academies and Schools
• Occupation: 1830; Teaching in Cheltenham
• Occupation: 1864; Gentleman

Notes:

The reference to the wedding is the IGI record
Batch No.: M011554 , Dates: 1813 - 1830, Source Call No.:0992079 , Type: Film, Printout Call No.:6908584 , Type: Film
It has him as William Henry Hughes and her as Mary Ann Ball.
His son's (WHCH b1836) wedding certificate has him listed as William Henry Childe Hughes, her as Mary Anne Ball and his occupation as "Gentleman".
The death certificate has him as William Henry Childe. Reg no. 127, 1938.
It states that he died of consumption and his occupation was schoolmaster.
His son WHC Hughes' death certificate gives his father's occupation as retired parole officer

William married Mary Anne Ball 1826, St Leonard, Broseley, Shropshire, England. Mary (daughter of Benjamin Ball and Sarah (Ball)) was born 31 May 1806, Madelay, Shropshire, England; died 10 Sep 1888, Cod St, Stawell, Victoria; was buried 12 Sep 1888, Stawell Cemetery, Vic.. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1851, Says from Bridgenorth, Shropshire
• Occupation: 1851; Assistant
• Residence: 1851, Upper Bar, Newport, England
• Immigration: Abt 1878, From England

Notes:

Death Reg Number: 11488
Certificate names four children plus three dead "ages unknown"
Grave at Stawell Cemetery no 2367, Presbyterian
Lived 10 years in Victoria

Notes:

Marriage Reg Number: 2730

Notes:

William the elder son of Charles Baldwyn and Catherine Childe assumed his mother's name on her death. He was a great Agriculturist and a well-known rider to hounds by which he gained the soubriquet of " the flying Childe." He married Annabella, the daughter of Sir Charlton Leighton of Loton, and died 1828 in London from an accidental fall and is buried at Kinlet. He was succeeded by his only son William Lacon Childe, M.P., who was born Jan. 3rd, 1784, and died Dec. 12th, 1880.

Charles Baldwyn was born 1729 and married in 1752 the heiress of Kinlet. He was reeklessly extravagant and with the unwilling consent of his son he sold all his own estates for which he had to obtain a special Act of Parliament, dissipated the purchase money and died and is buried at Eastbourne. Mrs. Baldwyn died of small-pox in 1770 and the Kinlet estates devolved by her father's will on her eldest son William Baldwyn, then a boy at Harrow, with a request that he should assume the name of Childe. Another son Charles Baldwyn died unmarried 1811, and a daughter Catherine Baldwyn also unmarried was buried at Kinlet 1838. William the elder son of Charles Baldwyn and Catherine Childe assumed his mother's name on her death.

William married Mary Ann Hughes 20 Apr 1818, St Sepulchre, Holborn. Mary (daughter of John Hughes and Margaret Pugh) was born 13 Jun 1779, Broseley, Shropshire, England; was christened 13 Jun 1779, St Leonards, Broseley; died May 1850; was buried 19 May 1850, St Marylebone, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

From the Slade Baker (sollicitor) collection held at the University of birmingham:
http://calmview.bham.ac.uk
Between 30th September 1826 and 24th December 1836 she wrote 40 letters to the sollicitor (mostly notifications regarding her address). Letter numbers 246 to 285.
William Lacon Childe wrote 11 letters to the same solicitor from 1817 to 183?. Numbers 286 to 296.
LAdd/1647 dated 1830
"Letter dated 3 March, on behalf of Mrs William Childe. Mrs Childe was arrested for debt, and [Ms] Waller was sent for. An advance was requested for Mrs Childe."

LAdd/1648 dated 1830
" Dated 16 March. Robert Woodman, Mrs Childe's landlord, appeals to Baker for assistance regarding Mrs Childe's situation; providing bail etc."

LAdd/1656 dated 1832
"Letter written from Kinlet, dated 25 March stating that his attitude to Mrs Childe and her sons is unalterable, and requests Baker says this when he returns the enclosed letter."

Notes:

Benjamin was born in Broseley on April 2, 1769 and his parents were Silvanus and Eleanor Ball (?), there were 12 children in this family.

We know that Benjamin’s wife’s name was Sarah and the only record that I can find of Benjamin Ball marrying was to Sarah Cotton on October 9, 1803 at Newbold Verdon, Leicester, this town being 77 kilometres from Broseley. They must have settled in Madeley following their marriage because there are records of their 9 children being christened there

MARIA - Census indicates 1800 - although can’t find record of birth or christening.
MARY ANN BALL
Christening: 20 JUL 1807 Madeley, Shropshire, England
BENJAMIN BALL <
Christening: 22 SEP 1809 Madeley, Shropshire, England
AMELIA - Census indicates 1811
EDWIN BALL
Christening: 19 JAN 1812 Madeley, Shropshire, England
CAROLINE BALL <
Christening: 25 DEC 1812 Madeley, Shropshire, England died 1814
EBENEZER BALL
Christening: 09 JUN 1815 Madeley, Shropshire, England
ANN CLARKE BALL
Birth: 07 JUN 1820 - Christening: 07 OCT 1827 Madeley, Shropshire, England
HENRY CHARLES TALBOT BALL
Christening: 22 APR 1822 Wesleyan
Gender: Male Christening: 07 OCT 1827 Madeley, Shropshire, England
Methodist, Broseley, Shropshire, England

A Benjamin Ball leased a warehouse and land at Willey wharf in 1816 and between 1817 and 1838 he leased the Swinney iron foundry from the Willey estate. It stood beside the railway from Willey ironworks, on the site of the public house of 1790. Possibly he was the Benjamin Ball who managed the Barnett’s Leasow furnaces in Broseley. The Iron Bridge, from Benthall to Madeley Wood, opened in 1780. At first the road from the bridge to the Wenlock-Broseley turnpike ran through Benthall parish. In 1828 a new route from Ironbridge was built using the parish poor as labourers: from the bridge it ran east for 1 km. before turning south for 1.5 km., past a tollhouse, to the south end of Broseley town. Among those involved in its construction were Benjamin Ball, manager of James Foster's Barnett's Leasow ironworks from C.1821 and Silvanus Ball, a Broseley ironfounder. A private carriageway, with a lodge at its entrance, extended from the road to Willey Hall.

Maybe something untoward happened in Broseley around this time as in the 1841 Census we find Benjamin, occupation contractor, age 70 , living near Blaenavon at Llanover, Upper Monmouthsire. The household consists of Benjamin and Sarah, Amelia, Ebenezer and Frances Hughes who is the daughter of Mary Anne and her husband, William Henry Hughes. There is also a lodger, Reed William Bakes who was a Westleyan Minister. There was a large Iron Foundry at Blaenavon.

In 1841 Sarah’s death is registered at Pontypool, Monmouthsire.

The 1851 Census shows Benjamin, retired iron founder, living with his daughter, Maria, who is shown as the head of the household and curate, school keeper. As well there is Henry, brother of Maria, age 28, grocer: Frances Hughes, neice, age 25; George Pascoe 7, Henry Pascoe 5, nephews-sons of Amelia, and Mary Smith housemaid.

Benjamin’s death is listed as in the March quarter, 1852.

Dot Singe has him as a high official in the Anglican Church

Benjamin — Sarah (Ball). Sarah was born 1770. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Death: 1770, Of smallpox

Notes:

from http://www.memorial-inscriptions.org.uk/stpeters-kinlet.htm
Catherine, eldest daughter of William Lacopn CHILDE, Knight in the Shire for the county of Stafford, representative of this county in three parliaments, she died at Bath in her 48th year and interred here June 2nd MDCCLXX

Could have been Catherine Lacon Childe

Died of smallpox

Notes:

Noted to be deceased in 1822 in willl of William Hughes.."I give devise and bequeath unto my wife Marian Childe the daughter of John Hughes late of Broseley in the County of Salop"

John married Margaret Pugh 26 Dec 1780, Saint Leonard, Broseley, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet]

Sylvanus — Eleanor (Ball). [Group Sheet]