Laetitia Hester (née Hall)

**Laetitia Hester (née Hall)**
(1822–1877)
From Sarah Theodosia and the Hall family.
Birth:	1822 September 2 Mon, Lambeth, London
Death:	1877 July 1 Sun, Perth, Western Australia
Parents:	Henry Edward Hall 1790–1859 Sarah Theodosia Hall (née Branson) 1793-01-01 – 1858-02-17
Siblings:	James Anderton Hall 1829–1888 Theodosia Sophia Hester (née Hall) 1827–1898 William Shakespeare Hall 1825 – 1895 Edward Frank Hall 1832–1886 Henry Hastings Hall 1821–1879 Sarah Louisa Bracher (née Hall) b. 1819, England; d. 1910, Victoria, Australia
Partners:	Robert Henry Hester 1824-02-02 – 1875-11-11
Children:	Sophie Georgina Hester 1853-04-08 – ? Frederick Henry Valentine Hester 1854-02-18 – 1900-12-31 Robert Edward Hester 1854-02-18 – 1856 Theodosia Alice Hester 1858-01-04 – ? Herbert Reginald Hester 1860–1933
Authority control	Permalink: archives.org.au/LH2 Wikidata: Q113519361 Wikitree: Hall-4120

Laetitia Hall was born in 1822, and baptized on the same day as two of her siblings, on 6 May 1827 at St Mary's church in Lambeth.^[1]

Married Robert on 5 May 1847.^[1]

She had twins Robert Edward and Frederick Henry Valentine in 1854. In January of that year she was travelling and was taken ill at "the 47 mile tree on the Albany Road", and stayed there for some weeks until she gave birth on February 18. Afterwards, her brother Anderton took her and the infants by bullock cart to the family's farm at Wongong.^[2]

Laetitia died in 1877 and is buried at East Perth Cemeteries in the Hall grave.^[1]^[3]