Saturday, November 11, 2017

Surname Saturday - BALLARD (England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am starting the 9th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #2049 who is Elizabeth BALLARD (1615-1657). 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 9th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through one generation in this BALLARD family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

32. Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)
33. Abigail Gates (1797-1869)

64. Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816)
65. Martha Whitney (1764-1832)

128.  Norman Seaver (1734-1787)
129.  Sarah Read (1736-1809)

256. Robert Seaver (1702-1752)

257.  Eunice Rayment (1707-1772)

512.  Joseph Seaver (1672-1754)

513.  Mary Read (1680-????)


1024.  Shubael Seaver (1640-1730)
1025.  Hannah Wilson (1647-1722)

2048.  Robert Seaver, born about 1608 in England; died 05 June 1683 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 10 December 1634 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
2049.  Elizabeth Ballard, born about 1615 in England; died 06 June 1657 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Robert Seaver and Elizabeth Ballard are:
Shubael Seaver (1640-1730), married 1668 Hannah Wilson (1647-1722).
*  Caleb Seaver (1641-1713), married 1671 Sarah Inglesby (1651-1708).
*  Joshua Seaver (1641-1730), married 1678 Mary May (1657-????).
*  Elizabeth Seaver (1643-1731), married 1661 Samuel Craft (1637-1691).
*  Nathaniel Seaver (1645-1676), married 1671 Sarah LNU (1647-????).
*  Hannah Seaver (1647-1648).
*  Hannah Seaver (1650-1654).

The only reputable sources that address Elizabeth Ballard's life, but not her ancestry, are:

*  William Blake Trask, The Seaver family : a genealogy of Robert Seaver of Roxbury,Massachusetts, and some of his descendants (Boston, Mass. : David Clapp & Son, 1872).

*  Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), Volume III, page 1644-1646, Robert Seaver sketch.

Many online family trees and published books have speculated that Elizabeth's parents were Hugh and Marie (Prosser) Ballard in England.  Other resources name some other set of parents, such as Henry and Elizabeth (Townsend) Ballard.  The fact is that Elizabeth Ballard's parents are unknown.


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