All My Ancestors

Here is the information I’ve extracted on Ball and Green families living in Baltimore according to the Baltimore City Directories I’ve been able to locate online.

Year
Surname
First
Mid
Profession
Add
Street
Area

1796
Ball
William

gold & silversmith
62
Baltimore St.

1796
Ball
John

1
Cheapside

1796
Ball
Samuel

cutler
62
Duke St.
Fell’s Pt.

1796
Green
Thomas

cordwainer

Bank St. near Fell’s Pt.

1796
Green
John

nail maker
20
Market St.
Fell’s Pt.

1796
Green
William

cord wainer
38
Fells St.
Fell’s Pt.

1796
Green
Robert

sawyer

Strawbury Alley
Fell’s [...]

I found a marriage for an Ann Pamela Green to a William Ball, date 11 Feb 1797, in Baltimore, Maryland–in the First Methodist Episcopal Church.
I first found it at the LDS website. Then I found it listed at the USGenWeb site for Maryland–minus the name of the church.
Is this her, the right Ann Pamela? [...]

I am thrilled!
I’ve done genealogy for almost 20 years now, and the big finds are few and far between these days. But one came this week.
One of the first families I got interested in was my Ball line. My maternal grandmother used to tell me the story of her grandmother whose father had [...]

This is a letter written by my great-grandfather Charles Winfield Osborne, usually known as CW, to his wife Gertrude Mobley Osborne. I believe Charles was away from home, working and looking for a place to settle his young family. The year must have been 1877 because of the info in the last paragraph. Their 2 [...]