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never seen anything indexed online, but theres a paper copy on EBay at the moment.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Genealogy-SEA-FENCIBLES-NORFOLK-COAST-1798-1810-/350427422043

also £4.50 ....

Thanks for that - I had seen it.  I thought somebody might have it already.

I have just ordered it - so when it comes I should be able to look-up for others.

Hi YH757....Are we related???  I ask because as well as Balls, I see that you are also researching Liversidge in Sheffield.  My G Grandma was a Ledger who married a Liversidge.

Cheers David

Related?  Possibly at the Sheffield end.    See my personal message.

Your  Balls family originate from Gissing, I assume that is near Diss.  Mine are all Yarmouth, back to mid 18th century. 
I thought I might have some useful info for you.    I was brought up in Yarmouth, so if you need some local knowledge, I might be able to help there.

Valda

Thanks for your swift reply

I have amassed various pieces of evidence including census, death certificates and information on the bride’s subsequent marriages.

He would have been about 72 at the time of the marriage and she about 28, but the marriage certificate merely says “of full age” for both.  He is widower and she spinster, which would be correct.

They had one daughter – I could get her birth cert.

My thought that this marriage would be of dubious legality and the couple were in London rather than Yarmouth to hide the fact, but also thought that he might indeed have been there on business.

There appear to be other family members who were living in the Newington area or who later settled there.  One of these appears to be the bride’s illegitimate son from a few years earlier, who seems to have been adopted by this husband or have taken his name.

Birth Cert: ANN "LEVERSIDGE" q4 1837, Sheffield, 22, 327

Father: John
Mother: Mary or May [VERNON]

Any takers?

I have birth cert of John Balls. 1839 Q1 Yarmouth, vol. 13, page 345

Father John Balls
Mother Rebecca.

Any takers?