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Title: Corn Merchants Oswestry
Post by: ROBERTOWEN on Wednesday 14 February 07 16:35 GMT (UK)

My GGGf  John Richard Owen, who lived in Liverpool, put the address
of his business in the local Liverpool Directory of 1875 as
Balls Wood, Oswestry...
Can anybody enlighten me, to where this is, or may have been.

Title: Re: Corn Merchants Oswestry
Post by: sem73 on Wednesday 14 February 07 16:45 GMT (UK)

Hi there

There's a place called Ball about 5 miles southeast of Oswestry.....a possibility??

Sarah :)

Title: Re: Corn Merchants Oswestry
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 14 February 07 17:05 GMT (UK)

The only thing that I can come up with, besides Sarah's suggestion,  is a perhaps badly written Babbinswood which was mistranscribed. This is to the NE of Oswestry, towards Whittington.
I lived in the area for 18 years and can't recall a Balls Wood.

Gadget

Title: Re: Corn Merchants Oswestry
Post by: ROBERTOWEN on Thursday 15 February 07 09:37 GMT (UK)

Thanks
Yes, I found a place called Ball,
Thanks anyway !

Rob

Title: Re: Corn Merchants Oswestry
Post by: Baldlygo on Saturday 17 February 07 16:18 GMT (UK)

Thanks for asking the question Robert - It prompted me to dig out information I was not aware of.

Ball is very close to Maesbury which has a good web forum covering Family History (http://maesbury.proboards99.com/index.cgi?board=general) and Maesbury History (http://www.maesbury.org/history).

The history site has the following statement on the first page:-
The artificially straightened section of the River Morda, along Ball Lane, is the the earliest post-Roman hydraulic engineering in Britain.

Paul

Title: Re: Corn Merchants Oswestry
Post by: ROBERTOWEN on Saturday 17 February 07 17:33 GMT (UK)

Thanks
What a great site for this area.
But no luck with Balls Wood, It's not that important
to find, i suspect he had business with the local corn supplier.