Cossack clue to a family's past
| Title: | Cossack clue to a family's past |
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| Identifier: | archives.org.au/Cossack_clue_to_a_family%27s_past |
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| Related people: | William Shakespeare Hall |
| Related places: | Cossack • Leicestershire |
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Cossack clue to a family's past
WAY OUT in the "ghost town" of Cossack in North West Australia, there's a tombstone commemorating the Hall family, notably, its head, William Shakespeare Hall, of Shakespeare Manor, Leicestershire. He was one of a party exploring Australia last century and died at Cossack in 1895.
The tombstone is inscribed: "Erected as a mark of appreciation and respect of the North West Pioneers."
Buried there with him is his wife, Hannah, who died in 1911, and his sons, Henry, Harold, and William Junior.
Well may you wonder how I came to know about this. In fact, word of the tombstone and the Halls, one time of Leicestershire, reached me from Mrs. E. Lakin, who was recently over here on holiday from Australia.
She had a snapshot of the tombstone and wondered if there were any descendants of the Hall family in these parts who would like to have it.
Mrs. Lakin can be reached via 67 Granville Avenue, Northborough, near Peterborough.
