HMW's notes about WSH and HAH

Title:	HMW's notes about WSH and HAH
Identifier:	archives.org.au/HMW255
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Storage location:	H.M. Wilson Archives/Folder 3 (sort key: 008 ← Previous Next →)
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Authors:	H.M. Wilson Archives
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Format and extent:	seven small sheets and two larger ones, all blank on reverse
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Related people:	Harold Aubrey Hall · William Shakespeare Hall
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W.S.H. first went to the North West in 1861 as a member of Francis Gregory's Exploration Party, returning in 1863 to establish Andover, the first station in the district, on behalf of Mr. John Wellard. Here it was that he rendered assistance to Mr & Mrs John Withnell and family when they arrived in April 1864, giving them shelter for the first month.

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Here Aubrey Hall grew up, becoming a good rider, stockman, swimmer, boatman, with a vivid interest in the people and country around him. His schooling opportunities were very limited, but from his well educated father he received a wide general instruction & gained a love of books & learning that stayed with him all his long life. He left school at 14 and joined the firm of Batemans in Roebourne as a clerk. Later he started in business on his own as a shipping agent, ran a butchery, had other business interests which financed him into a partnership in Abydos Station * The first world war & a great long drought ^[illegible]  him & from then on he was connected with various properties in the Roebourne & Gascoyne districts.

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In 1868 W.S.H. was married to H.B. Lazenby at Cardup near Armadale. Their first two elder sons, Ernest & Aubrey, were born in Perth before Mrs Hall and young family joined Mr Hall in Cossack, in 1874. Where he was engaged in business ventures and pearling Here he had gone with business as a storekeeper and had was also engaged in the new pearling industry. Cossack was then a thriving centre point for a district extending from the Ashburton to the De Grey, and was thronged with a colourful crowd of different colours races.

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^[illegible]  Hall was the son of Wm. Shakespeare Hall who came to the Swan River Colony in February 1830 (at the age of four) with his parents Henry Edward & Sarah Theodosia Hall & five brothers & sisters in the ship "Protector."

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He entered fully into the social & civic life of Rbne & Cossack & was, for some time, Mayor of Rbne; a Justice of the Peace for the State from 1899 until his death.

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When H. Aubrey Hall — well known Nor'-West pioneer — died in 1963 in his 92nd year, his life & that of his father, had spanned all but seven months of this state's existence.

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After a short time spent in Fremantle, the Halls took up their large grant of land at Mandurah, where a house was built and an attempt at farming was made. This was not a success for various reasons, the main cause being that stock sickened & died in a mysterious manner — we now know this to be the lack of essential trace elements in the soil. From Mandurah the family moved to Wongong Farm on the Canning near Armadale, where a successful thriving farm & orchard was established. W.S. Hall worked here & on the Blackwood before going to seek his fortune on the Victorian Goldfields.

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When H Aubrey Hall — well known Nor'West pioneer — died in 1963 in his 92 year, his life, & that of his father, had spanned all but one year of this state's existence. Mr Hall was the son of Wm S. Hall who came to the Swan River Colong in Feby 1830 at the age of 4 with his parents HE & ST Hall in the ship "Protector". stet.

W.S.H. first went to the N.W. in 1861 as a member of F.G's exploration party, returning in 1863 to establish Andover the first station in the district, on behalf of Mr J Wellard. Here it was that he rendered assistance to Mr & Mrs Joh Withnell & fmaily when they arrived in Apl 1864 giving them shelter for the first month.

In 1868 W.S. Hall returned to Perth was ind. to H.B.L. at Cardup, near Perth. There it was that His first two sons, Ernest & Aubrey were born in Perth before Mis Hall & young family joined Mr Hall in Cossack in 1874 where he was now involved in pearling & business ventures. —tially^[?]  owing to the lack of a school Despite the alck of formal schooling the young Aubrey received wide general education instruction from his well educated father. This gave him a love of learning & books that never left him. Although much of his long life, revolved around the pastoral industry through force of circumstances, by

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inclination his inborn leaning towards things historical would seem to indicate a totally different career if it had been possible. He was a veritable walking encyclopaedia of the genealogy of the early families & his personal library was extensive & included Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, Fairbairne's Book of Crests and other such books of reference not now commonsly found in the average home.

His love of the north and faith in it never wavered & to him the deserted the town of Cossack was God's own acre the yarns he told of the days before the turn of the century were filled with colourful characters, warm friendships, great courage at times & not a little humour. He was given to expressing himself in verse.