The Ball Family
Dorothy Ball
28 December 1637, in Little Horkesley, Essex, England
William Ball
Mary (_____) Ball
John Ball
Margery _____
1602
John was evidently quite
wealthy, and acquired a number of properties. In 1574, he bought
Loveney Hall in Wakes Colne, Essex, from John Sidey. In 1577 he bought
Horkesley Priory, in
Little Horkesley, Essex from Robert Ball, and this became their primary
residence. In 1580, John also bought the manor house Woodhouse in Great
Horkesley, which remained in the family until 1637.
Little Horkesley Priory was one of the small monasteries which Cardinal
Wolsey obtained leave from the Pope to suppress in 1525, in order to
appropriate the revenues to his new college at Oxford. The total
revenues only amounted to 27l. 7s. 11d.
Upon the Cardinal's fall in 1530, it escheated to the Crown, and was
granted to Thomas Cromwell, later earl of Essex, who was executed in
1540. It was apparently granted to William Shelley in 1541. By 1554 it
had been granted to Sir John Huddleston who at once sold it to Roger
Parker. In 1555 Parker conveyed it to Robert Ball of White Colne. In
1563 Robert apparently sold it to Ranulph Ball of Little Horkesley, but
in 1577 Robert Ball, or another man of the same name, sold it to John
Ball (d. 1602) and his son, another John (d. 1621).
Essex Vol 2 p236 (Philip Morant):
Sir John Huddilston had it in 1554, when he
got a license from Qu. Mary to alienate the maner of Little Horkesleigh
called le Priory, to Roger Parkes. And the latter had leave, 18 May
1555, to sell to Robert Ball, a great messuage with appertenances
called le Priory of Little Horkesleigh, and lands called Sowfield,
Pagefield, Brodfield Fycotts, Brodfield Smythfield, 6 acres of meadow
in Tunmow meadow, otherwise le common meadow, with the tithes of the
premisses. Robert obtained leave in 1577, to alienate this estate and
the Tithes to John Ball; which John dyed 4 Octob 1621, possess'd of a
capital messuage and 60 acres of meadow and pasture thereto belonging;
also of 2 acres of meadow, 80 acres of arable, called Fokes; and others
named Hubbards, Urreys, and Normans, in Great and Little Horkesley.
William was his son. From him it came to ..... Waldegrave
John Ball
17 February 1571/2 (OS/NS), in Little Horkesley, Essex, England
John Ball
Margery (_____) Ball
4 October 1621
John was of Horkesley Priory, in Little Horkesley, Essex.
John Ball
20 April 1630, in Little Horkesley, Essex, England
29 April 1630, in Little Horkesley, Essex, England
William Ball
Mary (_____) Ball
Royal Grammar School of Colchester where John was admitted on 14 January 1638/9 (OS/NS), aged 10.
Margery (_____) Ball
John Ball
- baptism records of children John and Mary
Mary (Ball) Bound
6 February 1568/9 (OS/NS), in Little Horkesley, Essex, England
John Ball
Margery (_____) Ball
John Bound on 17 January 1589/90 (OS/NS).
London marriage licences, 1521-1869 p159 (Joseph Chester, 1887)
Bound,
John (Bownde), clerk, rector of Great Horkesley, co. Essex, and Mary
Ball, of Little Horkesley, said county, spinster, daughter of John
Ball, of same, yeoman, gen. lic., 17 Jan 1589/90 . B.
John was born in 1553/4, the son of John Bounds, of Aylsham, Norfolk.
He was educated at St Johns College and later Caius College, both at
Cambridge Univeristy. He obtained a B.A. in 1572/3, and M.A. in 1576.
He was ordained deacon on 1 December 1580. John was rector of Great
Horkesley, Essex from 1580 until 1617. A History of the County of Essex: Volume 10 pp. 230-232
notes that "In 1594 the churchwardens were presented in the
archdeacon's court, probably at the instigation of the puritan John
Bound (rector, 1580-1617), for allowing three unsuitable persons to sit
in the chancel.". John was also rector of Little Thorpe, Norfolk, from
1602 until 1627.
Alumni Catabrigienses
Bond or Bounde, John: Matric. sizar
from ST JOHN'S, Michs. 1569. S. of John, of Aylsham, Norfolk. School,
Aylsham. Migrated as pens. to Caius. Oct. 26, 1571, age 17. B.A.
1572-3; M.A. 1576. Ord. deacon (London) Dec. 1, 1580. R. of Great
Horkesley, Essex., 1580-1617; and of Little Thorpe, Norfolk, 1602-27.
Mary Ball
6 March 1631/2 (OS/NS)
15 March 1631/2 (OS/NS), in Little Horkesley, Essex, England
William Ball
Mary (_____) Ball
Thamar (Ball, Lewes) Talcott
John Ball
Samuel Lewes on 12 August 1617, in Little Horkesley, Essex, England
Thomas Talcott on 6 April 1624, in Little Horkesley, Essex, England. Thomas Taylcotte, gent, married Thamar Lewis, widdow gent.
- Robert Talcott (1625 - ? )
- Thomas Talcott (1626 - 1685)
- William Talcott (1626 - 1697)
- John Talcott (1628 - 1686)
- Thamar Talcott (1630 - ? )
- Samuel Talcott (1632 - ? )
- Mary Talcott (1634 -? )
- Charles Talcott (1636 - 1637)
- Charles Talcott (1639 - 1682)
1642, of smallpox
Thamar Ball
6 March 1633/4 (OS/NS)
18 March 1633/4 (OS/NS), in Little Horkesley, Essex, England
William Ball
Mary (_____) Ball
William Ball
John Ball
Mary _____
1638Will
William inherited both Horkesley Priory, in Little Horkesley, and Woodhouse, in Great Horkesley. In 1634 the royalist William
Lynne of Westwood Park complained of sectarian preaching in Little Horkesley, and accused William Ball of
the Priory of intending to enlarge his grounds
with part of Little Horkesley churchyard. In 1637, he sold Woodhouse to Robert Sadler.
William Ball
3 July 1628 in West Bergholt, Essex, England
10 July 1628 in Little Horkesley, Essex, England
William Ball
Mary (_____) Ball
Royal Grammar School of Colchester where William was admitted on 10 September 1638, aged 11.
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