Nehemiah Cunningham - Spouse of Nehemiah Cunningham

Wow ! Can you upload a document ? I can go digging in the Ball tree & hook that in I think

Here's about the vicar, Richard Ball

http://maryballwashington.com/F.northtonBalls.pdf

Another reference to the vicar

http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=richard+b...

Alumni oxoniensis: the members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714: their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University, alphabetically arranged, revised and annotated, Volume 1 (Google eBook)

Page 62

David Erin Patrick I found a good and very current resource on this Ball line - D.J. French's monograph, "The English ancestry of George Washington's mother, Mary Ball - a history of the Balls of Berkshire, Northamptonshire and Virginia" (on line http://maryballwashington.com/)

The good news is that if this wedding of Rebecca Cunningham to Nehemiah Cunningham proves out, we will have an Oxford Divine as a great grandfather

The "bad" news is that he cannot have been the father of Colonel William Ball, of Millenbeck, though to have been born about 1614. Rev. Dr. Ball married in 1615 & only had the 2 daughters.

It is possible (perhaps even likely) they share a common grandfather: Mr. French explores that in this chart:

http://maryballwashington.com/XI.familyTrees.pdf

Or ... Col. Ball may have borrowed his coat of arms design and "self assumed" it. The rascal!

Tagging the profile Rev. Dr. Richard Ball of Saint Helen's, Bishopsgate

Check out www.angelfire.com/tx4/custer/ball,html

never mind that comes up as an error