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H.A.Hall/Notes
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Notes made by H Aubrey Hall
The following is a transcript of sundry notes made by H.Aubrey Hall. The notes are undated, but may have been compiled between 1957 and 1961, when he was living at 35 Comer Street, Como. The notes are written in pencil, contain numerous alterations and amendments, and are not easy to read. The notes were transcribed by his daughters Constance and Margaret, and have been reproduced below, with a few minor editorial changes to make them easier to read.
Ian Berryman
10 June 1995
Uncle Jas Anderton married At Lucy Lazenby and for a time rented Wungong, later he lived at Beenyup and he lived at Mundijong dairying and dealing in cattle. During this period he lost his wife Lucy Lazenby and had his sister Aunt Letitia house keeping for his orphaned children. Clarence (died of measles in Roebourne), Kate died of typhoid in Roebourne, Willie who afterwards owned Glen Florrie Station on the Ashburton, drank himself out of it and ended his days a bachelor with Eva at Burekup, Ernest you know all about, Sam married Effie Murray. Aunt Letitia married Robt Hester, brother to Aunt Theodosia's husband Edwd Hester. He was a waster; in those early days there were I think no ... Police, only soldiers and mounted Troopers to handle the hostile abos & escaped convicts, and influence was needed to get into this force. Edwd and Robt Hester's father Capt Hester, who fought at Waterloo and was RM for the Canning District, got both E and R into this force. E left fairly soon, started a store in Bunbury and after success therin took up Blackwood Park. Robt stayed on & was promoted Inspector and stationed at Albany, all very nice for Aunt Laetitia until Robert embezzled, was sacked and had to go on the land near Blackwood Park. Issue: 3 children - Valentine married Matilda Ann Logue, Reg married Rose Medcalf from Victoria, governess to the Heppingstones at Cundenup, and a spastic girl Alice who lived many years and died in Perth Lunatic Asylum. Uncle Robert wouldn't work, his chief occupation was seducing women, and Aunt Laetitia and the children lived chiefly on Aunt Theodosia and UE's bounty.
When Aunt Lucy died her (Aunt Laetitia) boys were old enough to work and Aunt L went to UA to look after his motherless children, who only had the young nurse-maid Lilian Bruce to care for them. Things went on smoothly for some time until UA married the NM, when poor At Laetitia was out on a limb again. My father at this time was in business in Cossack, he secured At L the job of schoolmistress in Roebourne and gave Reg a job in his Cossack business. Val came overland with Clarkson. Val was, though young, an exceptional bushman, one Clarkson and Val used to go ahead to locate water and feed, and the other Clarkson used to be in command of the Party. Val contracted Sandy Blight, so the 2 Clarkson brothers went ahead, one was killed by the abos, the other perished from thirst. John Brockman eventually took charge (this happened in the Murchison) and took the party through to Roebourne, from start to finish the party was 2 years on the road.
H.A.Hall/Notes
Grandma's maiden name was Branson, and she was a cousin of Grandpapa's, her Christian name you can find in that list Grandpapa handed to the WA Govt when applying for his Land Grant.
She was a horsewoman, because my Father told me that when a groom led her mount to the mounting block she would damp her handkerchief and rub her horse's coat to see that her horse had been thoroughly groomed. Grandpa fox-hunted even when a College Undergraduate and a fellow collegiate painted him a small set of hunting pictures. The Meet. The Draw. Yoicks for all away! The Kill &c. These framed came to WA, passed to Aunt Theodosia Hester and from her to Jessica Inglis and were burnt recently when her home at Boyup Brook went up.
Eva might be able to tell you who has a scrap of one of Grandma's frocks, it is cream silk embroidered with vine leaves and in real seed pearls. I have seen it but forget the owner. They must have been well "ribbed up" because when Grandpa went back to England to raise more money by getting Uncle Henry to break the entail of Shackerstone he was away 6 years and ran into debt £6000 which U H had to pay out of the proceeds of Shackerstone lest Granpa's creditors put him in the Fleet, which was not an ordinary prison but a place where debtors were detained until they paid up. If the debtor's relations tired of paying up for their squandering liked to provide for them they lived in comfort. Some of them married and had their wives with them. The Chaplain of the Fleet (by Reid or Reed) a well known old novel, is written around this institution. You can look it up in my Century Dictionary that Joan has.
Meantime Grandma had to sell some of their possessions, including family plate. Yet all the Children (7) shared out a good deal of solid silver at Grandpa's death. Tilly - Mrs Val Hester - has 1 or 2 silver candlesticks, a snuffers and a shoe of silk brocade with a high red heel that some Hall woman danced in at a Court Ball
Invitation card from Lord Hastings
Arms
Peel's freeing corn from import duty halved the value of all England's land holders' estates and it was this prospective reform probably that caused the Halls, Brockmans, Hamersleys &c to accept the Home Govt's offer of large land grants in the Swan River Settlement. England at that time wanted the W side of Australia occupied lest the French should annex it.
A Lord Hastings married a daughter of Mr Stevens, formerly Hall.
If the Hall line ran out Shackerstone would have passed to the Hastings title.
Charlie Smith's daughters, Mrs Lawson Gull, Mrs Reedy, Lady Dwyer.
Roe, Brockman, Lee-Steere, Leake, Clifton, Drummond, Bunbury, Molloy, Egerton-Warburton, Lazenby, Hesters.
File: HAHO2.DOC
Notes made by H.Aubrey Hall
The following is a transcript of sundry notes made by H.Aubrey Hall. The notes are undated, but may have been compiled between 1957 and 1961, when he was living at 35 Comer Street, Como. The notes are written in pencil, contain numerous alterations and amendments, and are not easy to read. The notes were transcribed by his daughters Constance and Margaret, and have been reproduced below, with a few minor editorial changes to make them easier to read.
Uncle Jas Anderton married At Lucy Lazenby and for a time rented Wungong, later he lived at Beenyup and he lived at Mundijong dairying and dealing in cattle.
During this period he lost his wife Lucy Lazenby and had his sister Aunt Letitia house keeping for his orphaned children. Clarence (died of measles in Roebourne), Kate died of typhoid in Roebourne, Willie who afterwards owned Glen Florrie Station on the Ashburton, drank himself out of it and ended his days a bachelor with Eva at Burekup, Ernest you know all about, Sam married Effie Murray.
Aunt Letitia married Robt Hester, brother to Aunt Theodosia's husband Edwd Hester. He was a waster; in those early days there were I think no ... Police, only soldiers and mounted Troopers to handle the hostile abos & escaped convicts, and influence was needed to get into this force. Edwd and Robt Hester's father Capt Hester, who fought at Waterloo and was RM for the Canning District, got both E and R into this force. E left fairly soon, started a store in Bunbury and after success therin took up Blackwood Park. Robt stayed on & was promoted Inspector and stationed at Albany, all very nice for Aunt Laetitia until Robert embezzled, was sacked and had to go on the land near Blackwood Park. Issue: 3 children - Valentine married Matilda Ann Logue, Reg married Rose Medcalf from Victoria, governess to the Heppingstones at Cundenup, and a spastic girl Alice who lived many years and died in Perth Lunatic Asylum. Uncle Robert wouldn't work, his chief occupation was seducing women, and Aunt Laetitia and the children lived chiefly on Aunt Theodosia and UE's bounty.
When Aunt Lucy died her (Aunt Laetitia) boys were old enough to work and Aunt L went to UA to look after his motherless children, who only had the young nurse- maid Lilian Bruce to care for them. Things went on smoothly for some time until UA married the NM, when poor At Laetitia was out on a limb again. My father at this time was in business in Cossack, he secured At L the job of schoolmistress in Roebourne and gave Reg a Job iN BIS Cossack business. Val came overland with Clarkson. Val was, though young, an exceptional bushman, one Clarkson
and Val used to go ahead to locate water and feed, and the other Clarkson used to be in command of the Party. Val contracted Sandy Blight, so the 2 Clarkson brothers went ahead, one was killed by the abos, the other perished from thirst. John Brockman eventually took charge (this happened in the Murchison) and took the party through to Roebourne, from start to finish the party was 2 years on the road.
Grandma's maiden name was Branson, and she was a cousin of Grandpapa's, her Christian name vou that list Grandpapa handed to the WA Govt when applying Lor his Land Grant.
She was a horsewoman, because my Father told me that when a groom led her mount to the mounting block she would damp her handkerchief and rub her horse's coat to see that her horse had been thoroughly groomed. Grandpa fox-hunted even when a College Undergraduate and a fellow collegiate painted him a small set of hunting pictures. The Meet. The Draw. Yoicks for all away! The Kill &c. These framed came to WA, passed to Aunt Theodosia Hester and from her to Jessica Inglis and were burnt recently when her home at Boyup Brook went up.
Eva might be able to tell you who has a scrap of one of Grandma's frocks, it is cream silk embroidered with vine leaves and in real seed pearls. I have seen it but forget the owner. They must have been well "ribbed up" because when Grandpa went back to England to raise more money by getting Uncle Henry to break the entail of Shackerstone he was away 6 years and ran into debt £6000 which U H had to pay out of the proceeds of Shackerstone lest Granpa's creditors put him in the Fleet, which was not an ordinary prison but a place where debtors were detained until they paid up. If the debtor's relations tired of paying up for their Squandering liked to provide for them they lived in comfort. Some of them married and had their wives with them. The Chaplain of the Fleet (by Reid or Reed) a well known old novel, is written around this institution. You can look it up in my Century Dictionary that Joan has.
Meantime Grandma had to sell some of their possessions, including family plate. Yet all the Children (7) shared out a good deal of solid silver at Grandpa's death. Tilly - Mrs Val Hester - has 1 or 2 silver candlesticks, a snuffers and a shoe of silk brocade with a high red heel that some Hall woman danced 11۱ at a Court Ball
Invitation card from Lord Hastings
Arms
Peel's freeing corn from import duty halved the value of all England's land holders' estates and it was this prospective reform probably that caused the Halls, Brockmans, Hamersleys &c to accept the Home Govt's offer of large land grants in the Swan River Settlement.
England at that time wanted the W side of Australia occupied lest the French should annex it.
A Lord Hastings married a daughter of Mr Stevens, formerly Hall.
If the Hall line ran out Shackerstone would have passed to the Hastings title.
Charlie Smith's daughters, Mrs Lawson Gull, Mrs Reedy, Lady Dwyer.
Roe, Brockman, Lee-Steere, Leake, Clifton, Drummond, Bunbury, Molloy, Egerton-Warburton, Lazenby, Hesters.
large land grants in the Swan River Settlement. England at that time wanted the W side of Australia occupied lest the French should annex it.
A Lord Hastings married a daughter of Mr Stevens, formerly Hall.
If the Hall line ran out Shackerstone would have passed to the Hastings title.
Charlie Smith's daughters, Mrs Lawson Gull, Mrs Reedy, Lady Dwyer.
Roe, Brockman, Lee-Steere, Leake, Clifton, Drummond, Bunbury, Molloy, Egerton-Warburton, Lazenby, Hesters.
her handkerchief and rub her horse’s coat to see that
her horse had been thoroughly groomed. Grandpa fox-hunted even when a College Undergraduate and a fellow collegiate painted him a small set of hunting pictures. The Meet. The Draw. Yoicks for all away! The Kill &c. These framed came to WA, passed to Aunt Theodosia Hester and from her to Jessica Inglis and were burnt recently when her home at Boyup Brook went up.
Eva might be able to tell you who has a Scrap of one of Grandma’s frocks, it is cream silk embroidered with vine leaves and in real seed pearls. I have seen it but forget the owner. They must have been well "ribbed up" because when Grandpa went back to England to raise more money by getting Uncle Henry to break the entail of Shackerstone he was away 6 years and ran into debt E6000 which U H had to pay out of the proceeds of Shackerstone lest Granpa's creditors put him in the Fleet, which was not an ordinary prison but a place where debtors were detained until they paid up. If the debtor’s relations tired of paying up for their squandering liked to provide for them they lived in comfort. Some of them married and had their wives with them. The Chaplain of the Fleet (by Reid or Reed) a well known old novel, is written around this institution. You can look it up in my Century Dictionary that Joan has.
Meantime Grandma had to sell some of their possessions, including family plate. Yet all the Children (7) shared out a good deal of solid silver at Grandpa's death. Tilly - Mrs Val Hester - has 1 or 2 silver candlesticks, a snuffers and a shoe of silk brocade with a high red heel that some Hall woman danced in at a Court Ball
Invitation card from Lord Hastings
Arms
Peel's freeing corn from import duty halved the value of all England's land holders' estates and it was this prospective reform probably that caused the Halls, Brockmans, Hamersleys &c to accept the Home Govt's offer of
