 With William Page he co-edited three Berkshire volumes of the "Victoria County History", which were published in 1907, 1923 and 1924.Another prominent farming family, that of Ball, is erroneously said to be that of George Washington's mother, Mary Ball Washington.They lived in the parish from the late 15th to the mid-17th century, but William Ball, the man once thought to have emigrated to Virginia and become Mary's great grandfather, may have actually died in London and his family lived in the East Berkshire area for at least two more generations.