Edward Frank Hall

Edward Frank Hall (known as 'Frank') was farmer in the Swan River Colony, most well-known as the first white settler of the Manjimup district, and for his cattle-stealing (which earned him the 'bushranger' epithet, although this was perhaps undeserved).

He was one of the first white children born in the nacent colony in 1833, and grew up surrounded by indigenous people and could speak their language fluently. He was the youngest of the eight children of Sarah and Henry Hall, and grew up at Halls Cottage in Mandurah.

He established a cattle station at the present location of the town of Manjimup in the South West of Western Australia. He sold this to John Giblett and joined H.M. Lefroy's expedition to Coolgardi in 1863.

He was captured in 1860, and escaped shortly afterwards.

He married Annie Carpenter on 25 January 1882 and they lived in Northampton, where they had a son (Henry Frank Hall) and two daughters (Clara, who married S. Fullston; and Amy, who married R.D. Pine). Annie was 18 when they married, and lived until 1950.

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