The Ball family sailed from Portsmouth, England, for America, reaching Quebec after seven weeks and three days.

The evidence

• “Gault, was born in Hampshire, Long Parish, England, May 21, 1826. Her parents, Thomas and Miriam Ball, brought her to America in 1836, sailing from Portsmouth, England, April 6 and reaching Quebec, Canada, after a voyage of seven weeks and three days. Miss Ball came to Beloit in 1841 and lived at first in the family of A.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 298 / book p. 797

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources