 Church Street, Brighton, Sussex, site of family shop in early nineteenth century. © Linda Hill, 2004  7 Church Street, Brighton, the family shop. © Linda Hill, 2004  Left to right: Margaret Hill, born 1872; Margaret Jessie Nyren, born 1837; and her other daughter, Jessie Nyren Hill, born 1873, my paternal great grandmother.  James Alfred Ballard and Vera Edmond, married on 12 September, 1939 at the Methodist Church, Atholl Street, Peel, Isle of Man.  James Alfred Ballard.  Robert Bannister Edmond, born 1873 and Elizabeth Killey, born 1874. They are the parents of my paternal grandmother Vera Edmond.  Vera Edmond with her Uncle George.  Saint Nicholas' Church, Brighton, place of William Ballard's baptism on 23 August, 1835 © Linda Hill, 2004 Below: Newspaper clip about my great Grandfather's death.   Eleanor Bredbury, my maternal great grandmother, born in 1899. © Tracy Fish, 2009 |
 Left to right: James Alfred Ballard, born 1912, my paternal grandfather; Jessie Nyren Hill; James Oman Ballard, born, 1887, Doris Ballard, born 1912; and Frank Nyren Ballard, born 1909. Picture taken on the Isle of Man around 1930.
 Vera Edmond, born 1910, on the Isle of Man, my paternal grandmother.  Doris Margaret Ballard, my great aunt, and Peter Shelling on their wedding day. © Murray Shelling, 2008  Another photograph of my great Aunt Doris. © Murray Shelling, 2008  Doris and Peter Shelling. © Murray Shelling, 2008  James Oman Ballard and Jessie Nyren Hill, my great granparents.  Ruth Dudley, my maternal grandmother, born in 1922. Below: Great Uncle Frank's Wedding makes the national press.  |
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