Re: Balls Family, and Hall in the Merchant Rows & King Street Great Yarmouth info ?
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Balls Family - Michell- Hart - Hall the Merchant Rows & King Street Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Believe that it is established that Benjamin Arthur Balls was born 1860, at Dartford, Kent, England, and that his father was Benjamin Barber Balls (1831-1971) born (Barnham, Broom, Norfolk) who was married to Martha Mitchell (1832-
?) and that this Benjamin Barber Balls was the son of Benjamin Barber Balls (1801-1871) born (Barles, Sufolk, England) who's wife was Mary Ann of Blunderston.
It was found that Martha Mitchell (Balls) was born about 1832 at Great Massingham, Norfolk to an unwed mother Sarah Mitchell born about 1811 at Middleton, Norfolk, who's parents were Robert Mitchell (1777-22 Feb. 1834) of Great Massingham or Kings Lynn area, Norfolk who was married to an Alice Jordan of approximately the same age and location (1774- died 08 Aug. 1848 at Great Massingham, Norfolk). Nothing further is known of this lineage or family history save for Sarah's older siblings John born 1809 and William born 1807.
Benjamin Arthur Balls was a fruiterer and grocer at 131 King Street in 1881, in business with wife Charlotte Matilda Balls, who's maiden name was Hall, (Great Yarmouth family bakers of bread & sweets), Charlotte Matilda Hall was baptised 15 Feb 1857 at Acle Norfolk, her parents were Samuel and Elizibeth Hall.
The 1881 Census has Charlotte Matilda (Hall) Balls, age 22, and Charlotte's younger sister Anne Hall, age 19, Anne (Mary Ann) working as a fruit grocery shopmaid, and a young domestic servant Miss Ann M. Crow age, 16. Benjamin Arthur Balls dies on 24 December 1890. Wife C.M. Balls ran the fruit grocery, moved to location at 159 King Street in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk... 1891 Census lists Alice Balls, (age
, FLORENCE MATILDA BALLS, (age 7), Reginald Balls, (age 5), and Percy Balls, (age 3). In this household also did reside domestic servants and tutors. The 1891 Census listed these folks as Lena Fox, Martha Groom, and Harriet Tubby... Charlotte Matilda`s husband, Benjamin Arthur Balls, passed away 24 Dec 1890 at Great Yarmouth.
Charlotte Balls remarried to Mr. Edwin Hart listed in the census of 1901 had moved to Civil Parish: Lambeth, St. Catherine Brixton, (Lambeth-Brixton), London, England with daughter Florence Matilda Balls, then age 19, and Charlotte's new, second husband Edwin Hart, age 54. Charlotte Matilda Hall (Balls) (Hart) was 44 years old at the time...
Re: Charlotte Matilda Hart "It looks like she moved to Prittlewell Essex to keep a confectioner's shop, she probably moved back to Norfolk eventually. Charlotte Matilda (Hall) Balls) 'Hart' died Sept qtr 1931, age 71. Norwich (4b 112)" information was provided by Suz, (thank you!)
My grandmother is FLORENCE MATILDA BALLS who married in 1903, age 20, at Gt. Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, a Mr. Edmund Stanislaus Atherton (b.1880). She then is in Alberta, Canada, Sept. 1913 crossing Sweetgrass International Border and married to My Grandfather Otto Smithman... FLORENCE died October, 1972 in Helena, Montana USA..... Additional info and photos at
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Any further information about ancestors of the Great Yarmouth Samuel Hall family of merchants row 50, or Balls of King Street families, or the Mitchells would be appreciated. Thank you, Gary
