Hi Dave
These Halls are getting more complicated. School holidays are on here and I have been busy doing my nanna duties. Ken went to the Genealogical Society yesterday and came up with these results:
Fom Leeds Intelligencer
1793 James Daniel, patent hat maker from Stockportopened a warehouse near Red Bull Inn Leeds
1794 Daniel Hall & co patent hat warehouse Briggate
1795 William Hall & co on the bridge (j Daniel was bankrupt in 1795)
Leeds Directory
1797 & 1798 Hall & co patent hat makwers bridge
1800 Hall & co patent hat warehouse, Briggate
1807 Hall & co patent hat warehouse Briggate (Hall William volunteer Amen Corner)
1809 Hall, William, hatter & woolstapler, Briggate
1814 1815 Hat Manufacturers: Hall, William, 91 Briggate;Woolstapler, Hall, Thomas, 91 Briggate
1817 Hall, William, hatter & woolstapler & agent to the LondonUnion Fire Office, 91 Briggate; Hall, Mary, straw hat maker, 91 Briggate
1818 1820 Commercial Directory: Woolstapler,Hall, William, 91 Briggate; Hatters:Hall, William, 91 Briggate
1820 Baines Woolstapler, Hall William, Queens Court, Call Lane (printer:Wm Headley, 91 Briggate) was woolstapler in Lands Lane in 1820
General & Commercial Directory of Leeds, 1826; Hall, Wm, woolstapler, 5 Queens Court, Call Lane: h..1 Blundell Place Sunny Bank, St James street
This all poses more questions...was Thomas the father or a brother. Are all the Williams the same person or is William, the son also involved. William, the father died in Leeds in 1828
To add to that list
The Leeds Intelligencer & Yorkshire General Advertiser
Vol LXXVL no 3846
Thursday March 20 th 1828
Page 1 column 3
All persons who are indebted to the estate of the late Mr Willaim Hall of Leeds wool merchant
are required immediately to pay their respected debt into the hands of Brooke & Hall of Basinghall Street,
and creditors of the same are requested to send an account of their respected claims.
date March 20 th 1828
Page 3 last column on the right.
Deaths
On Saturday, much Respected, aged 58, Mr W'm Hall Woolstaple. formally a Hatter of this Town (Leeds)
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Brooke & Hall (foreign wool) 23 Basinghall street
Hall Henry, esq. Bank lodge
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I had discounted Thomes Hall burial 14th March 1838 aged 86 (Born 1751)
buried St Mark Woodhouse Leeds after reading this Will, being William was alive
1824 and not mentioned in the Will
But two things have made me reconsider to make you aware of
Thomas Hall sr Had two sons mentioned in the Will below Thomas jr Hall & Henry Hall his sons
William Hall Woolstapler/Hatter named his last son Thomas Henry Hall in born
1824Now there is a Thomas Hall at Briggate Leeds Hatter
(1814 1815 Hat Manufacturers: Hall, William, 91 Briggate;Woolstapler, Hall, Thomas, 91 Briggate)
Maybe William Hall was set up in business by his father Thomas before Thomas Hall wrote his Will 1824 therefore did not mention William in his Will.
Thomas Hall Will probate 14th July 1840 film no 1099 Borthwick Institute York
England
value under £100
This is the last Will & Testament of me Thomas Hall of Bowling in the Parish
of Tong, in the county of YORK, Yeoman made the twenty eight day of August
in the the Year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and
twenty four, as
follows- I give and bequeath unto my dearly and well beloved son
Thomas Hall and unto my dearly and well loved beloved son Henry Hall, the
whole of all and every my real estate-if any at, the time of my decease- and
of all and every my personal estate and effects whatsoever and what ever nature
or kindsoever- after the payments of all my just debts and funeral expenses, and
the expenses of taking administration or proving this my Will- in equal
proportion, share and share alike and I hereby constitute nominate and appoint,
my aforesaid two sons Thomas Hall and Henry Hall joint executors of this my last
Will & Testament, and I do hereby revoke dis?-----?(Discount? < Can't read the full word) and make void, all former and other Wills by me at any time afore made, and I
do declare this to be my last Will & Testament continued in two pages of paper
to the first of which I have set my hand, and to this second and last my hand and
seal the (Blank space) day of (Blank space) one thousand and eight and twenty four.
THOMAS HALL (LS) signed, sealed, published and declared by the said testator as his last
Will & Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the
presence of each other, have subscribed our services as witnesses:~ Thomas Peaker
~George Smith~ Samuel Trimmingham,(or Frimmingham) ?
Probate passed 14th July 1840
