♂John Bawle

John Bawle (died before 1574) was a man of Lichfield, in Staffordshire, and the father of Isabel Bawle, who married John White, a gentleman of Stanton St John, in Oxfordshire. His surname is also written Ball, the form under which his sons are known. He was the thirteenth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Isabel Bawle.

John Bawle is said to have married Alice Weston, and they had four known children: John Ball; Robert Ball, who became a clergyman at Eastington; Henry Ball; and Isabel Bawle. John had died by 1574, when, it is said, his widow, Alice Ball of Lichfield, bought the advowson^W of the parish of Bucknell, the right to name its parish priest, which in England was a piece of property that could be bought and sold. The records do not show when or where he died.

Notes

Sources

John is known from compiled sources only. The pedigree of “White of Dorchester” in W. Harry Rylands, ed., Pedigrees from the Visitations of Hampshire (Harleian Society 64, 1913), pp. 229-230, names his daughter “Isabell da. of John Bawle of Litchfeild”. His wife’s name, his sons and the year by which he had died come from Michael Russell’s compiled pages on the Ball family for the Fordington, Dorset, online parish clerks, which spell the surname Ball and state that “John died prior to 1574 when his widow Alice Ball of Lichfield purchased the advowson of the parish of Bucknell”. The pages do not say which Bucknell is meant.

Dates

Russell’s pages place John’s birth about 1510 and his son John’s about 1537; no record of either is known.