Harold Aubrey Hall

Harold Aubrey Hall (1871—1963) was a Western Australian pastoral station manager and stockman.

He was born in 1871^[1] to Shakespeare and Sarah Hall.

Born 20 May 1871{{WA BMD|type=birth|year=1871|district=Perth|number=13090}}^[13] at his grandparents' home in Murray Street, Perth.[[Extract from birth certificate for Harold Aubrey Hall]][[Clipping re Aubrey Hall's death, The Countryman, 1963-01-24]]

Given a copy of Tennyson's works by Jay, for his 25th birthday.^[12]

Mayor of Cossack from 1898—1901.^[7]

In March 1904 (aged about 32) he was the sub-agent at Cossack for the {wdl|Q4681782|Adelaide Steamship Company}.^[6]

Married Helen Rose Lodge on 24 November 1910 in Busselton.^[3][4]

In 1912 their first daughter, Constance, was born in Roebourne (in Roe's Cottage).^[2]

In April 1912 was also agent for Henry Wills and Co. in Roebourne.^[8]

In 1915 Aubrey took a job as lighthouse keeper at Jarmen Island, the whole family moving there in part to get away from the extreme heat of Croydon.^[10] Here they shared the accommodation with Mr Langer, a German national who in 1916 was taken from his post and interned.^[10] After his departure, Aubrey's brother Ernest Hall joined Aubrey on Jarmen Island.

In 1919 their third daughter, Joan Leake Hall was born.

His entry in The Great North-West, 1904:COSSACK. (1904, December 1). The Great North-West (Perth, WA : 1904), p. 44. Retrieved August 17, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article256756597

Mr. Aubrey Hall's offices are also the local abode of the Adelaide Steamship Co., the South British Insurance Co., and the new Balla Balla Copper Mines Co. Ltd., for all of which Mr. Hall acts as agent. He has resided in Cossack for the last thirty years. He started his present business in 1894. Besides holding the previously-named agencies, Mr. Hall is a general shipping, Customs, and forwarding agent, and is port representative for many of the stations within a hundred miles radius. All the wool, embracing the clips from the east of the Yule River and west of Fortescue, and for 200 miles inland, is shipped from Cossack. The total for the past twelve months was about 7,000 bales. That which is not carted to Roebourne direct is picked up at the coastal creeks and transhipped at Cossack Roads to the Singapore steamers. The number of sheep and kangaroo skins forwarded by this firm during last year was approximately 50,000. Mr. Hall is also one of the proprietors of a small cattle station .

Engaged to Blanche Warburton in 1907.[[Joy Clifton to H A Hall, 18 May 1907]]

Married Helen Rose Lodge when he was 39, on 24 November 1910.{{WA BMD|type=marriage|year=1910|district=Sussex|number=14}}[[1910 Hall-Lodge wedding announcement]]

Margaret was born in 1915, and soon afterwards Aubrey took a job as lighthouse keeper at Jarmen Island, the whole family moving there in part to get away from the extreme heat of [[Croydon station]].[[C.B. Berryman 1983]] Here they shared the accommodation with Mr Langer, a German national who in 1916 was taken from his post and interned. After his departure, Henry Ernest Hall joined Aubrey on Jarmen Island.

In about 1916 or 1917 he took a position as manager of [[Andover Station]].[[Four photos from Andover Station]]

1929, living at Stuart Street in Carnarvon.1929-11-03 Edith Wilson

From the Northern Times, Carnarvon, December 1933:^[9]

A BUSH TRAGEDY.

Whilst travelling in from Quobba Station with a thousand sheep for shipment at Carnarvon, Mr. Aubrey Hall, drover, and two natives, Balby and one known as Teddy Edwards, were accidentally poisoned about 24 miles from Carnarvon. Hall had arranged for water to be placed at certain places along the route which is a dry one. About 9 o'clock on Sunday morning whilst travelling along in Colilie paddock on Boolathana they came across a petrol tin alongside the road which appeared to contain water. Though they apparently had water in their water bags they drank from the tin, and watered their dogs and horses. Shortly afterwards they all became sick, the dogs died and also one of the horses, while later on Edwards be came rapidly worse than the other men and died. Messages were conveyed to Carnarvon police from Quobba Station whence the news had been carried by a truck driver, and from Mr. Hall who had ridden in to Boolathana Station, following which Constable Summers, accompanied by Mr. George Munro of Dalgety & Co., left for the scene about 7.30 p.m. and brought the body of Edwards in to Carnarvon morgue. A post mortem was held by Dr. Stewart, but the result is not yet known. What the tin contained or why it was left alongside the road is at present unknown.

Working at [[Woopenatty Station]] near Arrino from 1943 to 1955 (possibly not continuously). The electoral roll lists him as a "station-hand" in 1955, and before this as a "pastoral employee".''WA Legislative Assembly Electoral Rolls for Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs 1904-2005'' database by Jill Tilly (2008), cited at https://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/harold-aubrey-hall

By the end of the 1950s he was living in a caravan at Comer Street in Como, Perth.[[Aubrey Hall with caravan, 4]]

He was an adept horseman, and rode well into his 80s. He died aged 91 on 11 January 1963, in Swanbourne.^[11] {{WA BMD|type=death|year=1963|district=Perth|number=168}}

Timeline

• 1871, May 20: Birth.
• 1895, Feb 11: His father died.
• 1895, Feb 28: [[1895-02-28 Letter to HA Hall|Letter to Aubrey from Charles Harper]].
• 1896–99: Living at Cossack.Addresses compiled by Judith Hall from addresses on envelopes and letters. Digitized copies to be added here when possible, or at [[hmw:Harold Aubrey Hall]].
• c.1900: operated the 70t steam lighter SS ''Croydon'' in Cossack, for the Adelaide Steamship Company.[https://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/sites/default/files/no._297_cossack_ma_survey_2012.pdf First port in the Northwest: A maritime archaeological survey of Cossack], 2012. Croydon went to the north-west in 1899,[https://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/id-363 Croydon (1905) Hopetoun Harbour (Mary Ann haven)], Shipwreck Databases, Western Australian Museum and left WA in 1905.[https://www.environment.gov.au/shipwreck/public/wreck/wreck.do?key=7022 Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database]
• 1905–07: Cossack.
• 1923: Manager at [[Mount Satirist]].Roebourne News (1923, July 7). Northern Times (Carnarvon, WA : 1905 - 1952), p. 6. Retrieved May 25, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75694945
• 1926: the family moved to Carnarvon.[[Foreword to 1971 Ngarluma vocabulary]]
• 1931: at [[Wooramel Station]] as station overseer.WA electoral roll 1931, elector no. 415, Gascoyne subdivision, Kalgoorlie division
• 1937: Living at Wooramel.WA electoral roll 1937, elector no. 517, Gascoyne subdivision, Kalgoorlie division In October, found human remains 14 miles from Carnarvon. HUMAN BONES FOUND (1937, October 29). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 22. Retrieved April 23, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41443820
• 1940: Yilbadji, Marvel Loch.[[Aubrey Hall to Judith, 12 April 1940]]
• 1942: Yaringa South Station.[[1942-08-25, Bert Ross Carnarvon, to HA Hall Yaringa South]]
• 1943-44, 1946-47: [[Woopenatty Station]], Arrino.
• 1947: Block 411, Marvel Loch.
• 1945, November: at Arrino.[[1945-11 Telegrams to Margaret Wilson]]
• 1948: Woopenatty.
• 1949: at Woopenatty, Arrino. Pastoral employee.{{WA electoral roll |year=1949 |num=1399 |division=Moore |subdivision=Irwin |details=Woopenatty, Arrino, pastoral employee }}
• 1954: 59 Outram Street, West Perth.{{WA electoral roll |year=1954 |division=Perth |subdivision=West Perth |id=33266092:1207 |num=1880 |details=59 Outram Street, pastoral employee }}
• 1958: retired to Perth.
• 1916 || Croydon Station via Roebourne [also given as via Whim Creek]
• 1917/18 || Woodbrook, via Roebourne
• 1918 || Manager, Andover Station
• 1918 || Letter from Liverpool (UK) export gent to ‘Messrs Hall Bros & Co., Turner River, Pilbarra’ – re-addressed to Andover Station
• 1924 || Mt Satirist
• 1931 || Stuart Street, Carnarvon
• 1934 || droving from Mia Mia Station to Carnarvon
• 1938 || Manilya Station, Carnarvon
• 1938 || Walgan Outcamp, Lyndon
• 1938 || Wandagee
• 1938 || Lyndon Lower Camp, Manilya Station, Carnarvon
• 1939 || Wolga Camp, near Williambury Station
• 1940 || Block 411, Miners Settlement, Marvel Loch road, via Southern Cross
• 1940 || Smiths Farm, Marvel Loch
• 1941 || Wooramel Station
• 1941 || c/- H.J. Watson & Co., Roebourne
• 1941 || Passenger ‘Koolama’c/- State Shipping Service
• 20/8/41 || c/- Eva Hall, Burekup
• Dec.1941 || c/- T.J. Lodge, ‘Stratham’, Capel
• 1942 || Yaringa Sth Station, via Carnarvon [[Allan Kopke]], sometimes given as via Geraldton
• 1942 || Land Tax addressed to HAH and HEH at Marvel Loch
• 1943 || c/- Estall Esq., Wooramel Station, via Geraldton
• 1943/44 || Woopenaty, Arrino
• 1946/47 || Woopenatty, Arrino [c/- Mrs McAleer]
• 1947 || Block 411, Marvel Loch
• 1948 (June) || Woopenatty, Arrino
• 1948 (Sept/Oct) || 36 Congdon Street, Swanbourne
• 1948 (Dec) || Co-op Bulk Handling, Jennacubbine
• 1948/49 || c/- Westralian Farmers, Jennacubbine
• 1949 || 36 Congdon Street, Swanbourne
• 1950 (Aug.) || Sth Yaringa Station, Hamelin Pool P.O., via Geraldton
• 1950 || Co-op Bulk Handling, Three Springs
• 1951 || Co-op Bulk Handling, Wubin
• 1952 || Co-op Bulk Handling, Coorow
• 1952/53 || c/- Co-op Bulk Handling, Winchester, W.A.
• 1954/55 || Woopenatty, Arrino
• 1956 || c/- F.J. Thomson, Gasgoyne House, Woolonga via Cranbrook
• 1956 || Gascoyne House, Woolonga via Cranbrook
• 1958 (Aug.) || c/- J.G. Thomson,, Woodleigh Station via Geraldton
• 1958 (Sept.) || Yaringa South Station
• 1959 || 36 Congdon St, Swanbourne
• 1961 || Croydon Station, Roebourne

Photos

Aubrey Hall oval portrait, cropped.png | c.1900. [[Aubrey Hall oval portrait|Info.]] Helen and Aubrey Hall, Roebourne 1911 (cropped).png | With Helen in Roebourne, 1911. [[Helen and Aubrey Hall, Roebourne 1911|Info.]] Aubrey and Helen Hall, two young men unknown, Ernest (Far's brother), and poss. Connie (maybe in Cossack).png|Aubrey and Helen Hall, two young men unknown, Ernest (Far's brother), and poss. Connie (maybe in Cossack). [[Aubrey and Helen Hall, two young men unknown, Ernest (Far's brother), and poss. Connie (maybe in Cossack)|Info.]] File:Aubrey Hall portrait, Cossack, black and white crop.png | [[Aubrey Hall portrait, Cossack|Cossack]] File:Aubrey Hall, Cossack (cropped).png | [[Aubrey Hall, Cossack|Cossack]] File:Aubrey Hall in profile, cropped.png | [[Aubrey Hall in profile|Info.]] File:Aubrey Hall and droving plant, Carnarvon, cropped.png | [[Aubrey Hall and droving plant, Carnarvon|Droving in Carnarvon]] File:HA Hall and droving plant, Carnarvon (cropped).png | [[HA Hall and droving plant, Carnarvon|Droving in Carnarvon]] Aubrey Hall riding.jpg|Aubrey riding 'Darky', c. 1950s. He rode until he was in his 80s. Note how they ride "long" in the stirrups. [[Aubrey Hall riding|Info.]] File:Aubrey Hall with caravan, 2, cropped.png | [[Aubrey Hall with caravan, 2|With caravan, in Como]] File:Aubrey sitting under Congdon St window (cropped 2).jpg | [[Aubrey sitting under Congdon St window|At Congdon St]] [[File:Warehouse_and_office,_Cossack,_cropped.png|thumb|Aubrey's offices in Cossack.]]

External links

• [http://museum.wa.gov.au/online-collections/h-aubrey-hall-collection H. Aubrey Collection] at the WA Museum