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Lucille Ball Early life and career
Ball was born to Henry Durrell Ball (1887–1915) and Desiree "DeDe" Eve Hunt (1892–1977) in Jamestown, New York and grew up in the adjacent small town of Celoron, a suburb of Jamestown. Her family was Baptist; her father was of Scottish descent [1] and related to George Washington. Her mother was of French, Irish and English descent.[2]
Lucille was proud of her family and heritage. Her genealogy can be
traced back to the earliest settlers in the colonies. One direct
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James Joyce In 1882, James Augustine Joyce was born into a Catholic family in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar. He was the eldest of ten surviving children; two of his siblings died of typhoid. His father's family, originally from Cork, had once owned a small salt and lime works. Joyce's father and paternal grandfather both married into wealthy families. In 1887, his father, John Stanislaus Joyce, was appointed rate collector by Dublin Corporation; the family subsequently moved to the fashionable new suburb of Complete biography |
