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Building a Community

This section is dedicated to the people of Greasley's past. Anyone is invited to write a short piece on their ancestors including photographs for illustration and send them to the webmaster on the recall your memories page. Together we can reconstruct past communities and enjoy the long forgotten faces and people.

Ball Family of Greasley

This picture shows Hannah Ball (nee Riley) sitting, with daughters Fanny and Lucy standing. Hannah died in April 1934

1861 Census

RG9/2433 p10

Pirate House

John Ball Head Married 20 Butcher born Greasley

Hannah Ball Wife Married 20 born Greasley

Fanny Ball Dau 6 months born Greasley

John Riley Nephew 17 Miner born Greasley

1871 Census

RG10/3478 /60/29

John Ball Jr. born abt 1839 Greasley Head

Hannah Ball born abt 1841 Greasley Wife

Fanny (Frances) Ball born abt 1861 Greasley Daughter

John Ball born abt 1863 Greasley Son

Lucy Ball born abt 1865 Greasley Daughter

Ellen Smithurst born abt 1855 Greasley Servant

1881 Census

RG11/3322/73/32

John Ball Head Married Age 40 born Greasley Farmer & Butcher 32 Acres

Hannah Ball Wife Married 40 born Greasley

Fanny Ball Dau Unmarried 20 born Greasley Farmers Daughter

John Ball Son Unmarried 18 born Greasley Butcher

Lucy Ball Dau Unmarried 16 born Greasley Farmers Daughter

William Ball Son Unm 14 born Greasley Farmers Son

Albert Ball Son 9 born Greasley Scholar

The parish registers of St John the Baptist church at Beeston began in 1563, and the first entry was the birth of a son to Nicholas Strey, a yeoman farmer from Greasley, who had been granted the manor of Beeston around 1560.