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Australia / Re: Mary Ann BOON/HALL m.Charles Palmer?
« on: Sunday 13 October 19 23:37 BST (UK) »
Maribel
Thank you very much for the info on William Lawson Hall. My searches could not pin down exactly which William Hall was born at Portsmouth 1n 1833. That information is a breakthrough for me.
Interesting that William Moore Hall came from Scarborough. I was wondering what led William Lawson Hall to Bingara. Are you aware of the "Halls of Bingera Station". They were an early pioneering family who ran cattle over large areas in Northern NSW and into Queensland and who are known as 'squatters". The Halls followed the explorer Alan Cunningham who discovered the inland route to Brisbane Qld. They established a large property at Bingara called the Bingera Run which the town was named after. This booklet explains it http://www.bingara.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bingera_run_booklet.pdf
Their patriarch, George Hall brought his family to Sydney in 1801 as part of the very first free settlers on the convict ship Coromandel. The Governor, Philip Gidley King wanted some free settlers with farming experience and offered passage that was to be later repaid. George Hall hailed from Northumbria. I wonder if the Halls from Scarborough are related and that is why William Lawson Hall went to Bingara.
BTW travelling with the Hall family on the Coromandel was John Turnbull and his family who are direct ancestors of our last Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
The Coromandel group settled at Ebenezer (Portland Head) on the Hawksbury River near Windsor just north of Sydney. A number of them are buried there along with some other of my ancestors
Thank you very much for the info on William Lawson Hall. My searches could not pin down exactly which William Hall was born at Portsmouth 1n 1833. That information is a breakthrough for me.
Interesting that William Moore Hall came from Scarborough. I was wondering what led William Lawson Hall to Bingara. Are you aware of the "Halls of Bingera Station". They were an early pioneering family who ran cattle over large areas in Northern NSW and into Queensland and who are known as 'squatters". The Halls followed the explorer Alan Cunningham who discovered the inland route to Brisbane Qld. They established a large property at Bingara called the Bingera Run which the town was named after. This booklet explains it http://www.bingara.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bingera_run_booklet.pdf
Their patriarch, George Hall brought his family to Sydney in 1801 as part of the very first free settlers on the convict ship Coromandel. The Governor, Philip Gidley King wanted some free settlers with farming experience and offered passage that was to be later repaid. George Hall hailed from Northumbria. I wonder if the Halls from Scarborough are related and that is why William Lawson Hall went to Bingara.
BTW travelling with the Hall family on the Coromandel was John Turnbull and his family who are direct ancestors of our last Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
The Coromandel group settled at Ebenezer (Portland Head) on the Hawksbury River near Windsor just north of Sydney. A number of them are buried there along with some other of my ancestors