Mary Ann BOON/HALL m.Charles Palmer?

[maribel]

Thank you Muss for the info aout Charles Palmer marriage. I looked up the link you sent and he did not marry Elizabeth Copeland until 1902, a year after I think my Mary Ann Hall died.

My next step is to order the transcription on the Hall/Palmer marriage in 1878 and see if it is my Mary Ann HALL.

thanks again to all

maribel

[austted]

maribel

I found your questions about Mary Ann Boon through a google search.

Mary Ann Boon and William Lawson Hall are great grandparents of mine.  Their Son Harry Hall is my grandfather.  He ran away from home (Topwater Hall's Creek) near Bingara when he was 14 and got apprenticed to the blacksmith and wheelwright in Inverell.  He did not get on with his step father.  Harry's birth certificate which I have has him born at Halls first water in 1874.  I believe Halls first water and Topwater Hall's Creek are the same place and are located about 9 mile from Bingara on the road to Barraba where Hall's Creek crosses the Barraba to Bingara road.  I believe Mary Ann Boon and William Lawson Hall ran a Cobb & Co staging Inn there called the Bellview Inn.  I visited the location last week and the Inn is still there but derelict and falling down

[judb]

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Judith

[maribel]

Hi aussted, I am excited to find some more Austrlian relations - even if rather a long way back. I visited Bingara some years back and saw the Hall staging inn on the Barraba road.  Great to have your info about its name etc. William's father William Hall (who is our 3 x great grandfather) had run a staging business from Portsmouth to London - so he had some experience of this, (although rather different travel conditions!)

I did meet Linda Hall, Harry' younger brother William's daughter, in Bingara, 6 years back and a few months before she died. She had had a tough and very isolated life I think. It is good to have some information about Harry to fill out that part of the family.

many thanks for getting in touch, maribel

My maiden surname was Lawson-Hall

[austted]

Maribel

Pleased to meet a UK relative.  How did you get the sirname Lawson Hall? I assumed that Lawson was a second first name.  My grandfather was simply called Harry Hall.

My mother told me that her grandfather (William Lawson Hall) jumped ship in Sydney to go looking for gold.  I have not found out much about William Lawson Hall before he arrived in Australia other than his father was  Edward Hall b 1801 and mother was Lucy Hall b 1806 and that they lived in Alton town Hampshire which presumably is near Portsmouth.

My mother also told me one of her greatgrandfathers ran a coach business that went broke trying to compete with the railways

Following what you posted about Mary Boon I found  more information about the Boons of Ramsey going back to possible grandparents John Boon (•   Born in 1757) and Mary King (Born in 1746).

Are you sure  his father was Phillip Boon?  I have not been able to trace Phillip Boon's wife or their children. Can you help with that?  Phillip Boon had a brother Born: 1836; Died: 1912; Married:another  Mary Ann [Plummer]. They also emigrated to Australia.

Also on your question of Gulf Creek - It is an area just south of where Bellevue Inn is located.  From what I found out in Bingara the Inn was relocated to Halls Creek presumably from the nearby goldfields.

[maribel]

Hi austted, nice to have a few more bits from your story.  However there seem to be some errors in the UK side.
Parents of William Lawson Hall of Bingara were William Moore Hall and Alice Lawson. She was born in Whitby in 1801 and he was born in Portsmouth in 1810, although his father had come from Scarborough. His father had died young and his mother married again in Portsmouth. William Moore died in 1850, which is apparently why his son William Lawson left home to find money to send back to his widowed mother with 5 young children. He never did.

I have a few marriage and death certificates, and as far as I know there is no connection with Alton - but then Hall is a very common name.

More later if you would like, and I will see if I can find any more about Mary Ann Boon's family.

best wishes, Maribel

[austted]

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