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- His parents are not known (or not traced)
Guy Ball lived at Barbados
On 1 June 1708, he is described as of London, merchant, when he sells to Edward Lascelles of London, Merchant, the Netherlands plantation in St. Philip's Parish, Barbados, 250 acres, and the Guinea Plantation in St. John's Parish, subject to a jointure of £400 in favour of Catherine, wife of Guy Ball.
- (Research):The Balls Plantation was once a sugar plantation of about four hundred acres. The name comes from a Barbadian planter family named Ball. In 1733 Frances Ball, daughter of the Hon. Guy Ball, married Edwin Lascelles, who was collecter of Customs in Barbados. Their son, Edward, became the First Earl of Harewood and their descendants are now cousins of the Royal Family, as the sixth Earl of Harewood married the Princess Royal, daughter of King George V. Another descendant was the late William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury.
In the early 19th Century, Balls was owned by the Hon. Renn Hampden. His son, Renn Dixon Hampden, born in Barbados in 1793, was educated in England where his appointment as Professor of Theology at Oxford gave rise to a once famous controversy on account of his supposedly nonorthodox views. Nevertheless he became Bishop of Herefore '96 1848 '96 1868, sharing some of his time in the House of Lords with anouther Barbadian, Samuel Hinds, Bishom of Norwich.
A Philip Ball of St Michael, as was Guy Ball, died 25 Jan 1685. he was blind. However, there were also a James Ball and a Humphrey Ball in Barbados at about that time
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1674 - Bef 1722 (48 years)