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Chart showing the parents, children & grandchildren of

Richard John BALL & Jane Mary MACAIRE married 1806, St Luke, Middlesex

Chart revised 14 Oct 2004
Richard John Ball (1779 Lambeth) & Jane Mary Macaire (1787 St Giles) married 1806 St Luke Old St, children: Jane Ball (1807 Clerkenwell) & William Nickisson (1805 Clerkenwell) married 1832 Clerkenwell, Caroline Georgiana Ball (1809 Clerkenwell) & William Le Petit (1804 Tottenham Ct Rd) married 1834 Clerkenwell, Emily Ball (1812 Clerkenwell) & Samuel Smith (1811) married 1838 Clerkenwell, Georgiana Sophia Ball(1814 Clerkenwell), Francis Louisa Ball (1817 Clerkenwell), Clarissa Ball (1818 Clerkenwell) & William Wilson (1818 London) married 1849 London, Richard Macaire Ball (1820 Clerkenwell) & Dinah Saunders (1825 Mile End) married 1845 ?St Giles, George John Ball (1821 Clerkenwell) & ?Ann Jones married ?1845 Deptford, Ann Louisa Ball (1825 Clerkenwell) & John Phillips (1799 Clerkenwell) married 1851 Clerkenwell, Ann Louisa Ball & William Green (1822 Enfield) married c1865 ?Islington Ellen Ball (1829 Clerkenwell)











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  • UK PRO - Richard Ball's will
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  • Clerkenwell - Greenwoods map 1827
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  • List of William Le Petit engravings
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  • keyword "William Le Petit" - engravings
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  • Sam's Clerkenwell Green pages" - to be closed soon
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    Ball-Macaire marriage
    Middlesex, St Luke Old St, 1806


    Henry Smith birth
    son of Emily Ann Ball
    Clerkenwell 1839

    Clarissa Ball marriage
    London, St Mary le Bow, 1849


    Jane Emily Nickisson's death
    Clerkenwell 1861

    Jane Mary Macaire death
    25 Myddleton St, 1866

    Will of Richard John Ball
    died Clerkenwell 1857


  • National Archives Documents Online
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    Obituary of Richard Macaire Ball
    Horological Journal, March 1904

    "After a peaceful and, I trust, happy retirement of twelve or thirteen happy years at the Clock and Watchmakers' Asylum, New Southgate, Richard Macaire Ball has passed away at the age of eighty-three. He was a member of the firm Macaire & Ball, gold watch-case makers, and did a good business during a long period when the watch manufacturing of Clerkenwell was in, perhaps, its most prosperous state".

    from Carol



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    Lepetit family



    photographer unknown
    place unknown
    date unknown
    from Jean Littlemore
    courtesy of Liz
    Hamilton Lepetit (1846-1931)
    ?with wife Eliza (Brown)



    photographer unknown
    place unknown
    date unknown
    from Jean Littlemore
    courtesy of Liz
    Hamilton Lepetit (1846-1931)




    photographer unknown
    place unknown
    date unknown
    from Jean Littlemore
    courtesy of Liz
    Frederick Lepetit (1876-)
    son of Hamilton Lepetit
    with his daughter Grace Violet Lepetit


    photographer ?Wara-
    Brixton, Battersea & Chelsea
    ?c1900
    from Jean Littlemore
    courtesy of Liz

    Below from family photo album of William Garland Nickisson passed to Irene Philips (1884-1968)

    Ann Lemaitre (c1750-

    unknown artist
    from Annie (Nickisson) Berkeley
    date unknown
    Jane Mary Macaire (1787-1866)

    unknown artist
    from Annie (Nickisson) Berkeley
    date unknown
    Jane Mary Macaire (1787-1866)

    Turner & Everitt, 17 Upper St, Islington
    Carte-de-visite
    1863-67
    Jane Emily Ball (1807-1861)

    unknown artist
    from Annie (Nickisson) Berkeley
    date unknown
    Emily Ann Ball (1812-1910)

    C T Newcombe, 135 Fenchurch St, City
    Carte-de-visite
    date unknown
    Emily Ann Ball (1812-1910)

    unknown photographer
    8 x 11 ccm, cardboard frame
    date unknown
    Georgiana Sophia Ball (1814-1895)

    Turner & Everitt, 17 Upper St, Islington
    Carte-de-visite
    1863-67
    Frances Louisa Ball (1817-1889)

    C T Newcombe, 135 Fenchurch St, City
    Carte-de-visite
    date unknown
    Unknown ?Smith

    Photographer unknown
    Carte-de-visite
    date unknown
    Unknown ?Smith Family

    Photographer unknown
    Carte-de-visite
    date unknown
    Unknown ?Smith child 1

    Photographer unknown
    Carte-de-visite
    date unknown
    Unknown ?Smith child 2

    Photographer unknown
    Carte-de-visite
    date unknown
    Unknown ?Smith child 3

    Photographer unknown
    Carte-de-visite
    date unknown
    Unknown ?Smith child 4

    Photographer unknown
    Carte-de-visite
    date unknown
    Unknown ?Smith child 5

    Photographer unknown
    Carte-de-visite
    date unknown
    Unknown ?Smith child 6

    Photographer unknown
    Carte-de-visite
    date unknown




    Ball-Macaire family addresses in 2008


    From Neville


    32 Northampton Sq

       
    We were priveleged to view the house. I cannot explain the feeling I had walking into the house where Richard & Jane Ball had lived from 1814 to 1823. We went up stairs to the first floor to the sitting room with its tall windows, almost from floor to ceiling, which are reckoned to be original. We also went out to the back of the house & even though the house had been extended, we could see the adjacent houses in the typical brick cladding of the period. To me it was worth the visit to London alone to have been in that house - really special.
    Myddleton Street

    None of the houses, ie No's 23, 25 & 26, were there, but I took a photo of a house, part of a terrace row, which looked to be typical of the period & was most likely to have been of that type
    St John St

     
    St John Street - The two addresses, 128 & 148, appeared to be business premises, as you will see from the photos. Whether the Smith family used the whole premises or may be just the flat(s) above the ground floor shop, I'm not sure. In the census records Samuel Smith is said to have been a watchmaker/manufacturer, so it is possible that he had a shop to display & market his watches
    31 Sudeley St

     
    Sudely Street - This house (No 31) is still standing & I took two pictures of it. This is where Richard Macaire Ball & family lived for many years. We spoke to the man occupying the property & he said that the price of the houses in the street were enormous as all the buildings in it are listed.
    38 Frederick St

    No 38 was occupied by George John Ball & his family circa 1871.
    42 Frederick St

    No 42 was occupied by Emily Jane Nickisson, and her sister Jane Maria Nickisson, circa 1861, before Emily married Ernst Robert Marcus. According to the records Jane Emily Nickisson lived there up to her death in 1861.

    Gone missing


    Rosoman Street - A very small street with no houses, just businesses or institutes, that would have fitted the time & period, so I would assume the house where Richard & Jane Ball lived just after they married has been demolished. It appears that Elizabeth & Gideon Macaire also lived there.

    Northampton Terrace - This street or block of terrace houses wasn't listed in the London A-Z, so I assume it no longer exists. On the opposite side of Northampton Square was a modern building which is the City of London University. I'm wondering if this might have been where Northapton Terrace once stood. Would need to investigate why the block of houses disappeared.

    Goswell Road - 219 wasn't there but there was a large block of flats in approximately the place where it should have been.


    but still left


    King Square - This street had a park on one side & a large block of flats on the other. The only building of any age was the church of which I took three pictures. I thought may be the Nickisson family may have worshipped there as they lived in that street from 1832 to 1846.
       

    Judd Place West - We found Judd Street, no problem, but our efforts to find Judd Place West didn't lead us to it. We went to an Archives library on Theobalds Road & they produced a map which showed where the street once was. Apparently both Judd Place West & East disappeared when St Pancras Station was built in 1860. So the two streets were not on the south side of Euston Road, where we had been looking but on the north side. I've included a picture of St Pancras Station to show the area where Jane Maria Nickisson lived (also Felix Richard Nickisson) & also because it is a magnificent building.


    There is a possibility that some of the houses that no longer exist were destroyed in the 2nd World War during the Blitz. I have included a picture of Clerkenwell St James , the church where most of the Ball/Macaire children were baptised & also where Jane Ball & William Nickisson got married.

    Photo courtesy of Sam Hallas, the author of the Clerkenwell Green web site,
  • "www.samhallas.co.uk"
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    We also found the house, 37, Halliford Street, near the Angel tube station, Islington, where my grandfather Alfred Thomas Ball - the eldest son of Alfred James Ball - lived.
    He was turned down for active service during WW1, after volunteering, because he suffered from asthma, but towards the end of the war they started to accept any one for the army because they were so desperate. He served in the 1st Batallion of the London Regiment and was killed in Belgium on Aug 9th 1917, and he is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres in Belgium, as his body was never found, therefore there is no grave. I think he deserves a special mention because of the sacrifice he made.
    Incidentally, because of his asthma he adopted the outdoor life and became a golf instructor and I wondered where he could play golf in London. When he married and lived at 5, Hurdwick Place near Mornington Crescent tube station (the house where my mother was born), he didn't live that far from Regents Park, which has a golf and tennis school.

     


    Ball-Macaire family census addresses

    Richard & Jane Ball & family

    Richard John Ball(1779-1857)
    1841Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St 60watchase maker with wife Jane, 7 ch, 1 serv
    1851Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St71headm watchcase makerwith wife Jane, 3 ch, 1 serv
    Jane Mary Ball nee Macaire(1787-1866)
    1861Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St72headwindependentwith 2 ch, 1 serv

    Jane Emily Nickisson nee Ball(1807-1861)
    1841East Finsbury21 King Square 36headmarried independent with 2 ch
    1851Marylebone20 Judd Place W 43 headwidow teacher of musicwith 3 ch, 2 lodg, 1 serv

    Georgiana Caroline Le Petit nee Ball(1809-1891)
    1851 Homerton27 Brooksby Walk 49wifem prop of houses'wifewith husband William & 8 ch
    1861 Hornsey3 Devonshire Pl 51wifem ?jobbing ? wifewith husband William & 8 ch
    1871 Hornsey46 Shakespeare Rd 61wifem with husband William & 5 ch & 1 inlaw
    1881 Hornsey46 Shakespeare Rd 71wifem gentleman's wifewith husband William & 1 ch
    1891 Hornsey46 Shakespeare Rd 82wifem ex landscape engraver's wifewith husband William & 2 ch

    Emily Ann Smith nee Ball (1812-1910)
    1841 Clerkenwell128 St John St Rd25 watchmaker's wifewith husband Samuel & 1 ch & 1 serv & 2 app
    1851 Clerkenwell148 St John St Rd38wife m watch manuf.'s wifewith husband Samuel & 1 ch & 1 serv & 1 app
    1861 Islington2 Northampton Terr48wife m merchant's wifewith husband Samuel & 2 ch & 2 serv
    1871 Lambeth134 Upper Tulse Hill58wife m diamond merchant's wifewith husband Samuel & 1 inlaw & 2 serv
    1881 Lambeth134 Upper Tulse Hill68headw independentwith 1 inlaw, 1 nep, 1 sis, 2 serv
    1891 Lambeth134 Upper Tulse Hill78headw own meanswith 1 nep & 2 serv
    1901 Lambeth134 Upper Tulse Hill88headw own meanswith 1 nce & 1 serv

    Georgiana Sophia Ball(1814-1895)
    1841 Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St25 with parents, 6 sib, 1 serv
    1851 Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St34dauugovernesswith parents, 2 sis, 1 serv
    1861 Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St40dauugovernesswith parents, 1 sis, 1 serv
    1871 Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St57headugovernesswith 1 nep, 1 serv
    1881 Clerkenwell23 Myddleton St60headugovernesswith 1 sis, 1 serv
    1881 Lambeth134 Upper Tulse Hill66sisuschool mistrwith 1 inlaw, 1 nep, 1 sis, 2 serv
    1891 Hornsey39 Marquis Rd76auntu with 1 sis, 1 nce, 1 inlaw, 1 serv

    Frances Louisa Ball(1817-1889)
    1841 Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St25 with parents, 6 sib, 1 serv
    1851 Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St32dauu governesswith parents, 2 sis, 1 serv
    1861 Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St37dauu teacherwith parents, 1 sis, 1 serv
    1881 Clerkenwell23 Myddleton St60sisteru with 1 sis, 1 serv

    Clarissa Ball(1818-1853)
    1841 Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St25 with parents, 6 sib, 1 serv
    Clarissa Wilson nee Ball
    1851 DalstonQueens Rd31wifem wholesale stationer's wifewith husband William, 3 serv
    William Wilson(1818-1882)
    1861Hackney1 Graham Cottages43headwid stationerwith mother, 2 dau, 1 bdr, 1 serv
    1871Hackney1 Graham Cottages52headwid stationerwith 3 dau, 1 serv
    1881Hackney134 Queens Rd63headwid salesmanwith 1 dau, 1 friend, 1 serv

    Richard Macaire Ball(1820-)
    1841Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St25 with parents, 6 sib, 1 serv
    1851Islington31 Sudeley St31head mgold watchase maker with wife Dinah, 3 ch, 1 inlaw, 1 serv
    1861Islington31 Sudeley St41headmwatchase makerwith wife Dinah, 6 ch, 1 inlaw, 1 app
    1871Islington31 Sudeley St51headmwatchase makerwith wife Dinah, 7 ch, 1 inlaw
    1881Islington30 Sudeley St61headmwatchase makerwith wife Dinah, 1 inlaw
    1891Islington31 Sudeley St71headmwatchase makerwith wife Dinah, 1 ch, 1 inlaw

    George John Ball(1821-?1872)
    1841Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St25 with parents, 6 sib, 1 serv
    1851St Luke5 Pitman Buildings29head m?dairyman with wife Ann, 2 ch
    1861Southwark10 New St39headmclerkwith wife Ann, 4 ch
    1871?Islington38 Frederick St49headmbuilders clerkwith wife Ann, 2 ch, 1 lodger

    Ann Louisa Ball (1825-1894)
    1841Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St15 with parents, 6 sib, 1 serv
    1851Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St25dauu governesswith parents, 2 sis, 1 serv
    Ann Louisa Phillips nee Ball
    1861not found35w
    Ann Louisa Green formerly Phillips
    1871Clerkenwell18 Granville Sq46wifemsurveying Instrument maker's wifewith husband William, 3 ch
    1881not found56m
    1891Hornsey39 Marquis Rd66mothermbrass worker's wifewith dau Alice, husband Wm,1 aunt, 1 serv


    Ellen Octavia Ball (1829-)
    1841Clerkenwell25 Myddleton St12 with parents, 6 sib, 1 serv