Harold Aubrey Hall

Born 20 May 1871.

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

Married Helen Rose Lodge when he was 39, on 24 November 1910.

In 1912 their first daughter, Connie, was born in Roebourne (in Roe's Cottage).

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. 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.

In 1919 their third daughter, Joan was born.

By the end of the 1950s he was living in a caravan at Comer Street in Como, Perth.

He died aged 91 on 11 January 1963, in Swanbourne.

Timeline

 * 1871, May 20: Birth.
 * 1895, Feb 11: His father died.
 * 1895, Feb 28: Letter to Aubrey from Charles Harper.
 * 1896–99: Living at Cossack.
 * c.1900: operated the 70t steam lighter SS Croydon in Cossack, for the Adelaide Steamship Company. Croydon went to the north-west in 1899, and left WA in 1905.