Mary Ann Ballance - Genealogists' Forum

vita · #1 30-10-20, 13:35

Could anyone please help with Mary Ann's parents? I know she was born in Staffordshire but I've got two who would fit the bill, both b 1860. One is in Stafford & the other in Stone.
My Mary Ann m William Wright 1880.

vita · #2 30-10-20, 13:42

Sorry folks, keep calling her Mary Ann but it should be Mary Jane. Her eldest daughter was Mary Ann
Elizabeth & as I knew her, she keeps popping into my head.

Merry · #3 30-10-20, 14:06

Do you have her father's details from the marriage record?

vita · #4 30-10-20, 14:22

Afraid not, Merry - only just come across her.

Merry · #5 30-10-20, 14:28

Ok so from the marriage entry image on FMP, her father was Joseph Bal(l)ance a labourer. and she was aged 20.

Merry · #6 30-10-20, 14:30

From the 1861 and 1871 census she was born in Tixall which is in Stafford reg district.

Macbev · #7 30-10-20, 14:30

According to the 1891 census, Mary Jane was born in Tixall, Staffs. Familysearch has the baptism of Mary Jane Ballance at St John the Baptist, Tixall Staffs 19 Feb 1860, d/o Joseph Ballance & Mary Ann.

Is this the right one?

Macbev · #8 30-10-20, 14:33

Mary Jane Ballance mar William Wright 11 Aug 1880 at the same church, father's name again given as Joseph, William's father David Wright

Merry · #9 30-10-20, 14:33

Birth reg:

BALLANCE, MARY JANE mmn KEELING
GRO Reference: 1860 M Quarter in STAFFORD Volume 06B Page 20

which matches with:

Marriages Sep 1855 )

Ballance Joseph Stafford 6b 23
Keeling Mary Ann Stafford 6b 23

Mother was Mary A on those census records I mentioned.

vita · #10 30-10-20, 14:35

Thanks both - that looks like the one. There looks to have been a lot of them in that area.