I have an ancestor from Reepham Moor, Aylsham, Norfolk. Robert Hall settled in Holme on Spalding Moor sometime early 1860's. He was an Ag. Lab then moved on to owning his own home and land. He married Ellen St Paul of HOSM but formerly of Sandholme/Gilberdyke area.
He was the only member of his family to come to Yorkshire as far as I can glean. He never returned and no one visited but someone did write and his dau would read the letter and reply for him. He was illiterate all his life but insisted on his family learning to read, write and count
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He is my 2x Grandfather, my fathers Great Grandfather. By what I have researched about this family so far, apart from being elusive
, they remained in the Aylsham District. How he came, no one knows, he never talked about that part of his life I dare say we never will. I owe alot of my research to my fathers aunt, the granddaughter of Robert Hall nearing the latter years of 80 she still remembers her family and her grandparents, her sister is in her late 90's and still lives at HOSM, just them two left.
