Henry Edward Hall

**Henry Edward Hall**
(1790–1859)

Birth:	1790
Death:	1859 April 20 Wed
Parents:	Henry Edward Hall snr. 1754–1841 Anne Lumley Hall (née Bernard) 1768–1837
Siblings:
Partners:	Sarah Theodosia Hall (née Branson) 1793-01-01 – 1858-02-17
Children:	James Anderton Hall 1829–1888 Theodosia Sophia Hester (née Hall) 1827–1898 Laetitia Hester (née Hall) 1822–1877 William Shakespeare Hall 1825 – 1895 Edward Frank Hall 1832–1886 Henry Hastings Hall c1812–1879 Sarah Louisa Bracher (née Hall) b. 1819, England; d. 1910, Victoria, Australia
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Henry Edward Hall was born in 1790.

In partnership with another settler, he chartered Protector and sailed for the Swan River Colony, arriving in Fremantle on 26 February 1830.^[1]

ADB:^[1]

They safely landed many livestock, farming equipment, a 25-ton sloop and a jolly-boat, necessities and luxuries, and ten servants and apprentices. The value of this cargo entitled [Hall] to a land grant of some 16,594 acres (6716 ha) which was taken up at Mandurah. Unfortunately the land proved unsuitable. After several years of hardship in which their first house and all its contents were destroyed by fire and their sloop was wrecked on Hall's Bank, the family moved to Perth and later bought a partly-improved property at Wongong near Armadale.

Richards 1980:^[2]

Henry Edward Hall arrived aboard the Protector in February 1830 with his wife and family, plus a number of servants and a sizeable quantity of stores and equipment. The Halls first settled in Fremantle while Henry Edward carried out his own explorations and ascertained the potential of the region. He was allowed to select several acres on Rottnest Island and grazed stock there for a time. Unfortunately the animals took ill when the herbage disagreed with them. The stock he had on the mainland roamed away and he appears to have lost these as well.
Hall had been told that he could select nearly 17,000 acres - by virtue of the value of the property he had brought to Swan River. He took up 16,394 acres south of Peel Inlet near the mouth of the Harvey River, plus a block of 200 acres on the west bank opposite the barracks at Mandurah. This small farm was to be a base from which the larger grant was worked. He moved onto it with his family and servants, and immediately commenced clearing and building. Unhappily, Hall’s farming activities were not very successful here either, and government rations had to be relied upon for quite some time.

He died in 1859, the year after his wife Sarah died.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 William Shakespeare Hall (1825–1895) by H. Margaret Wilson, in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, 1972
↑ Richards, Ronald 1980, Mandurah and the Murray: A Short History of the Old Murray District of Western Australia 1829-1900, privately published.