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Hannah Ball (1768–1789)
Hannah Reynolds (1789–1822)

1768–1822

Daughter of Joseph and Susannah Ball; her mother was a sister of Richard Reynolds. Married at Bridgewater, Somerset, her cousin, Richard Reynold’s son, William, an ironfounder at Ketley, Shropshire, in 1789. Mother of Susanna Hannah Reynolds. Moved to Broseley, Shropshire, but returned to Ketley after her husband’s death in 1803.

Sources

Bristol, England, non-conformist baptism, marriage and burial registers, 1644–1981 (Ancestry.com, accessed 28 April 2022)

Correspondence vol. 13, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 12 January 1822

ODNB s.v. Reynolds, William

Two Shropshire ironmasters

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

Two Shropshire ironmasters: Two Shropshire Ironmasters. Biographical extracts, letters and memoranda relating to Richard & William Reynolds. Compiled by Shropshire County Library, n.d.

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