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Topic: Ballin/Bollan Middle Name Puzzle (Read 225 times)
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jillruss
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 2893
Gt Gt Grandfather Shepherd from Aberdeen 1827-1910
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I'm hoping 'fresh eyes' might be able to help solve this conundrum.
In my STEEPLE family (Hull and, before that, Rawcliffe and Snaith), I have William & Rebecca Steeple having 5 children baptised at St Marys, Hull 1784-1790 including their first:
19 Jul 1784 Mary BALLIN Steeple.
Then their youngest son George (my line) marries and has a son:
William BOLLAN Steeple baptised at Holy Trinity, Hull 19 Nov 1812.
So, the name Ballin/Bollan is obviously an important family name.
I thought it would turn out to be the maiden name of William's wife Rebecca but I found their marriage 1783 at Holy Trinity, Hull and her name was Rebecca Thompson! Neither was it the maiden name of William Steeple snr's mother - that was Rhodes.
I suppose it's possible that Rebecca Thompson was on her second marriage - the 1783 PR entry doesn't give any clues as to whether she was a spinster or not, just that she was otp, but she was very young even for this marriage. I can't find a baptism for a Rebecca Thompson in Hull around the right time (c.1766 - from age at death).
Can anyone help? I feel that Ballin/Bollan is a very big clue which is staring me in the face, but I can't work it out!! 
Jill
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See Surname Interests Table +
Major brickwalls:
John Frith mge to Fanny, Bucks? c 1798
Bathsheba Boothroyd bp W Yks c1802
John Bishop bp E Yks c1758
Joseph Symonds mg to Sarah, prob Berks c 1735-40
John Horwood mg to Martha, Berks c 1735-40
Sarah Sculler bp Berks area c 1675
Paul Phillips bp Berks/Bucks c 1720
William Newell bp Berks/Bucks/Oxon c 1765
Richard Troughton mg to Jane, Westmoreland c 1732
Mary Simon bp Shrops c.1795
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Yorkslass
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 361
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hi Jill,
No answers I'm afraid, but maybe a few more clues!!?
There's a Will which seems to have been contested, held by the Hull University Archives that mentions both Timothy Hastings and Mary Bollan, and also three children of Mary's, with rather tantalising initials, but unfortunately no full names. I don't know how easy it would be to have a look at the Will....
Here's the link -
http://www.rootschat.com/links/06ge/
Good luck,
Yorkslass
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) is that William & Rebecca Steeple also gave a middle name to another of their children: William Hastings Steeple (1789).
An early child of theirs would be just about the right age to marry and have a Rebecca Thompson in c. 1766!!!!!!!!!