The Hall family has been traced back to Thomas Hall, South Prembrokeshire,Who married Alice Cradock early in the sixteenth century. The will of their grandson,Richard Hall, proved in 1607, shows the family was then settled at Begelly' nearby, and Richard's grandson, John Hall, was born at  'Hallstone,Begelly' in 1600.John Hall's great-grandson Richard who married Margaret Palmer of 'Landygwinnet in the parish of Carew,County Pembrokeshire' on October 15^th 1728, settled at Daisyback, Gumfreston, near Tenby,Where their son Benjamin Hall, the future Chancellor, was born on 3^rd July 1742. 

Thomas Hall  Of Tenby Prembroke, Early 1500. 

Robert Hall    Of  Tenby Pembroke, Abt 1532 

Richard hall    Of Begelly, Will proved 1607 

Richard Hall    Born  1575 

John Hall        Of Hallstone Begelly Born 1600 Will proved 1660 

John Hall        Of Begelly  Will proved 1700 

Richard Hall   Of Daisyback Buried 1^st June 1779. 

Benjamin Hall Dr  Born Daisyback Gumfreston 3^rd July 1742 

Benjamin Hall MP  Born Glamorgan 29^th September 1778. 

Richard Crawshay Hall esq  Born Glamorgan 28 th March 1804. 

Octavius Augustus Hall  Born Bath Somerset 31 July 1843. 

John William Hall   Born Brisbane 7^th September 1881 

Stanley Augustus John Hall  Born 13^th December 1913 

Ronald Gordon Hall   Born Brisbane 25^th November 1941 

Dennis Allan Hall  Born Mt Isa 6^th  May 1975 

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Thomas Hall 

Born Tenby Prembroke Wales. Early 1500.

 Wife's name  

Alice Cradock   

The Hall family has been traced back to the above Richard and Alice Hall

of Tenby, South Pembrokeshire, Know of one son Robert Hall.

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ROBERT HALL 

Of Tenby Prembroke Wales 

Can find no record on his marriage. Birth or death know of one son Richard Hall.

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 Richard Hall.  

Of Begelly Prembroke Wales. Will proved 1607. 

Wife's name. 

Anne. 

Richard had one brother John Hall of Lawrenny,Will proved 1600. 

Thomas and Alice's grandson Richard Hall (above) Will proved 1607 shows the family was then settled at Begelly, 

Richard Hall(above) grandson John Hall  was born at 'Hallstone, Begelly in 1600. 

I know of one son Richard Hall born 1575.

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Richard Hall.

Of  Begelly Pembroke Wales Born 1575. 

Wife's Name 

Jane 

Know of one son John Hall Born 1600.

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John hall 

Of Hallstone Begelly Pembroke Wales Born 1600 Will proved 1660. 

Wife's name  ? 

John Hall (above) Great grandson  Richard Hall who married Margaret Palmer on the 15^th October 1728 settled at Daisyback Gumfreston, Pembroke Wales. 

Know of one son John Hall Will proved 1700.

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John Hall 

Of  Hallstone Begelly

Wife's name. 

?   

Know of one son Henry Hall.

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Henry Hall  

Of Hallstone Begelly Will proved 1732.

Wife's Name 

Dorothy 

Know of only one son Richard Hall. married to Margaret Palmer.

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 Richard Hall. 

Farmer of Daisyback Gumfreston 

Married in Gumfreston church 15^th  october 1728. 

Buried 1^st June 1779 age 82 Will proved 1779. 

Wife's Name. 

Margaret Palmer 

Of Landygwinnet in the parish of Carew Prembrokeshire. 

Richard and Margaret settled in Daisyback,Gumfreston,near Tenby   where their son Benjamin Hall 1^st, the future Chancellor was born on 3-7-1742. 

Richard had one sister Elizabeth  who was his senior by twelve years. Elizabeth married a farmer – George Williams of  Popton in the Parish of Pwllcrochan, Pembrokeshire. Elizabeth was baptized 4-10-1730 at Daisyback. Died at Daisyback 24-41807. 

Elizabeth's  grandson Hugh Williams was born at Daisyback 3-4-1795. 

Dr. Hall (Benjamin 1^st ) gained his D.D. In 1796 and was appointed Chancellor of the Diocese, although he was granted an exemption of Residence of St. Andrews because he was the Chancellor and his great-nephew Hugh Williams was acting as his curate.

Elizabeth and George Williams son Hugh Williams

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Hugh Williams 

Born Daisyback 3-4-1795 

M.A. Of Jesus College Oxford 1819 

Vicar of  Bassaleg,Monmouth and Chancellor of Diocese and Welsh. 

Examining Chaplain to Bishop of Llandaff 1845.

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Benjamin Hall  Dr.

Born  3^rd July 1742 Daisyback Gumfreston. 

Died 25^th February 1825. 

Buried llandaff Cathedral. 

Wife's Name. 

Elizabeth Grant. Born about 1756. Gnoll Castle, Neath Glamorganshire.  

Dr. Benjamin Hall and Wife Elizabeth Grant  - daughter of the Reverend Moses Grant – Rector of Roch and Nolton Pembrokeshire  who was the grandfather of the first Lord Milford.  Beyond the fact that she (Elizabeth Grant) was still alive in 1801 no other facts or details are known of Elizabeth Hall and it has proved impossible even to find the date of her death or  place of burial. 

Their eldest son Benjamin Hall  2^nd. Was born at  Daisyback Gumfreston Wales.            29 th October 1778. 

Second son Henry Hall born about 1780  Llandaff Wales. Died  in India  1800. 

Benjamin Hall 1^st son of Richard and Margaret  Hall of Gumfreston County Pembrokeshire Fellow's of Jesus College and matriculated 26 March1760 aged 17 years .B.A. 1764. M.A. 1776   B.D. 1774   D.D. 1796. 

Minister of Ceodgernew and Parish Curate St. Brides Wentlog County Monmouthshire.1783 Rector of Marcross County  Glamorgan (Justice of the Peace and Doctor of Literature 1820  Prebendary  of St. Andrews – Llandaff and Chancellor of the Diocese  appointed in 1796 when he gained his Doctor of Divinity. He remained Chancellor until his death 25^th  February 1825. 

Ben was very jovial and very fond of women. He was very good company and visited much among the rural gentry and they all took care to keep the servant girl as much out of his way as possible. But he was not very particular what "meat"  he got  that way. The chief desire of his heart was to get it. 

The pages of Doctor Halls Diary begin on July 15^th  1801. He refers to his wife as  'Mrs. Hall. 'Mr. Crayshaw told me in conversation that evening  he  would make his daughter's fortune 40,000 pounds but it was  not necessary she or Benjamin 2^nd.  Should know it now, but he should give them immediately of that sum and that after this assize twelve months they should be married as soon as they please. 

Two days later, Mr. Crawshaw  drove his daughter over to Llandaff  where she was to stay until after the assize. Later in the same month Dr. Hall records that the newspapers

are full of  'the enemy's preparation to invade',but on August 6^th just as they were going to bed their neighbor  Mrs. Matthew's of Ty Mawr came covered with laurel and announced Lord Nelson's victory over the French. 

On August 20^th Dr. Hall went to a Ball. During the same evening Mr. Crayshaw took an opportunity of telling Dr. B. Hall that instead of 20,000 pounds  he should make his daughters fortune 40,000 pounds, that 10,000 pounds should be in canal shares and 10,000 pounds in money and be placed in settlements upon any security Benjamin should choose and 20,000 pounds or his draft, and they should be married early in the beginning of next year. 

It was the following year after the diary had ceased, that Dr. Hall  was one of the Stewards of the West' Minster School Anniversary of 1802 . On this occasion he presumably stayed with his son and daughter-in-law in Upper Gower Street where they lived at no.14(now 114 Gower Street) from 1801-1811.

As Dr. Hall grew older his obstinacy appears to have increased, An account of grand son's wedding with Augusta Waddington in 1823 is an Illustration. 

Although Mrs. Waddington had made arrangement's for the wedding to take place in Llandover Church at eleven a.m. on the 4^th December. Dr. Hall who was to perform the ceremony announced the day before that it must take place at Ten a.m. No amount of argument or raillery or pleading would move him, Although it meant that even the Bridegrooms and a Waddington cousin had to be sent post-haste to Llanarth to tell the bridesmaids of the alteration. 

On the wedding morning itself, Dr. Hall was so impatient to begin that he would not even wait for the arrival of the bridesmaids, saying that as the bride and bridegroom were there, and he was ready to unite them 'there was no occasion to wait for bridesmaids or men'. Fortunately the bridesmaids, and those  relatives who were not staying at Llanover, arrived as the last carriage drove through the gate, and joined the procession, but the other invited guests, who arrived at the appointed time, missed the ceremony. 

In some references to Dr. Hall both his age, and the date of  his death have been given incorrectly, but  as 25^th    February,1825  aged 82  is given in the Obituary  in the Gentlemen's   Magazine, April  1825  on the memorial in Gumfreston Church and in the family letters and papers and his will was proved on 20^th June, 1825, there is no doubt that 25^th February , 1825 is the correct date.

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Benjamin Hall  M.P 

Born 29^th September 1778 Hensol Castle Glamorgan. 

Died 31^st July 1817 

Buried Llandaff Cathedral. 

Wife's Name. 

Charlotte Crawshay. of  Cyfarthfa County of Glamorgan. 

Benjamin and Charlotte had seven children as follows. 

Benjamin Hall      Born 8^th november1802.       Died 31^st July 1817.   (AGE 39)

                         Married 16^th December 1801.   Augusta Waddington. 

Richard Crawshay Hall Born 28^th march 1804   Died         1884          (AGE 80)                        

Charlotte Hall      Born about 1806                     Died         1885 

Henry  Hall          Born and Died 1809. 

Henry Grant Hall  Born 1810                              Died           1822 

Charles Rankin Hall   Born 29^th May 1812.                        Died 1890      

Rector  of Shire Newton, Chepstow, County Monmouth

Married Harriet Daughter of John Baker. esq 

William Thomas Hall  Born 23-March 1818                        Died 1890

Captain in the army Married Louisa-Ashley youngest daughter of John Alliston esq

Know of one son Arthur Crawshay Alliston Hall Matriculated 7^th June 1865. age 18

B.A 1869.  M.A. 1872. 

Benjamin Hall the second was educated at West Minster School. He was admitted as King's Scholar in  1790, at the age of 12, under the headmaster ship of Dr. William Vincent, 'who had a reputation as a flogger', although there is no evidence to show that Benjamin suffered at his hands.  Benjamin was  elected to Christ Church, Oxford, when only 16, matriculating on 11^th June, 1794.  He gained his B.A. In 1798, and his M.A. In 1801, the year in which he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, and at the end to which he was married to Charlotte Crawshay. 

'Marriage Notice: Married on 16^th instant: Benjamin Hall Esq., of Lincoln's Inn to Miss Charlotte Crawshay, second daughter of Richard Crawshay, Esq., of Cyfarthfa,Glamorganshire.     Times.Dec.21,  1801. 

After the marriage of Charlotte and Benjamin Hall, Richard Crawshay soon showed that he not only valued his son-in-law's abilities, but his tactful readiness to bow before Richard's decisions. When Richard bought the Union Ironworks in the Rhymney Valley,

for which he is said to have paid 100,000 pounds,  he planned to establish his son William and Benjamin Hall in the works, which were to be independent of Cyfarthfa,but when William upset his plan by refusing to become a partner, Richard went into partnership himself with Benjamin Hall, on 27^th September,1803. 

The young couple – the bride was only 17, and the bridegroom  23 – appear to have made their home in London in the early years of their married life, for there is no record of them having a house in Wales until Richard gave them Abercarn in 1808. 

Benjamin Hall  the 2^nd, nicknamed 'Slender Ben'  was, judging by the engraving of him, a very good-looking young man, of an almost feminine beauty of features, and an unassuming elegance of costume, set off by his graceful, slender figure. Benjamin Hall the second entered politics in 1806 the year his only daughter Charlotte was born. Richard Crawshay was delighted to hear of his decision, and immediately wrote his son-in-law a letter which,if it began in the formal style of the period, was all that a son-in-law could desire.

                                                                                Cyfarthfa, 18^th October., 1806.

Dear Sir,

               I congratulate you on the prospect  of  a seat in Parliament, and wishing it completed give you an order on Down and Co. for 4,200  pounds, that no impediment may arise from my neglect.

                                                                                Yours ever, R.C. 

Whether the enclosed order was necessary or not -  and in those days of almost unrestricted expenditure on elections, it was probably most helpful – Benjamin Hall was duly elected M.P. In the Whig interest, for Totnes in Devon, and held the seat until 1812. 

It has been said that Benjamin Hall was persuaded by Richard Crawshay to give up the

law on his marriage, but as he was a special Pleader of the Oxford Circuit at the Brecon              

and Gloucester Sessions in 1805, and retained his Chambers in Lincoln's Inn until his removal to Upper Brook  Street in 1812, it appears probable he gradually let his practice lapse after his election to Parliament, and abandoned it altogether after the death of Richard Crawshay. 

In 1808, the last of the Glover Family of Birmingham, who had become owners of the Ironworks at Abercarn, Monmouthshire, about 1782, agreed to sell the freehold of Abercarn estate to Richard Crawshay. In spite of many difficulties and disputes, the sale was completed and Richard Crawshay   handed the estate over to Benjamin Hall, who made his home there. 

Five months after the birth of Benjamin Halls' fourth son Henry Grant Hall (birth date 30^th January,1810) Richard Crawshay  died - 27^th June 1910. The poor farmer's son of fifty years previously was buried in Llandaff Cathedral with a splendid funeral leaving a fortune of a million and a half pounds.  If proof were needed of his affection for and his belief in his son-in-law, it is provided in the terms of his will, for he made Benjamin Hall  2^nd. Sole executor and residuary legatee.  The will was proved by Benjamin Hall on 26^th July,1810. 

In 1812 Benjamin Hall 2^nd. Lost his seat at Totnes, and was elected M.P. For Westbury. He also removed to 12, Upper Brook Street, which was to remain his home until his death. 

The following year, Joseph Bailey left Cyfarthfa to settle at Nantyglo. William Crawshay 1^st. Bought his share in June 1814 -  it is said for 32,000 pounds -  and appointed his son William 2^nd as manager of Cyfarthfa works. William 1^st  then began to bear pressure on Benjamin Hall to induce him to sell is interest in the works, but he rejected several offers. The exact date when Benjamin Hall left Cyfarthfa is  uncertain. The firm in Wales was still called Crawshay and Hall in August, 1916, but by 1817 he had accepted an offer of 90,000 pounds. 

Benjamin Hall retained his seat at Westbury until 1814 but in that year due to the death of the member for Glamorganshire, he applied for Chiltern Hundreds in order to stand for election as Member for Glamorgan. The Glamorganshire gentry who 'without personal disrespect to Mr. Hall, thought it a disgrace not to be represented by a Glamorganshire man. They apparently overlooked the fact that both  Benjamin Hall and his wife were Glamorganshire born. However  they were less enthusiastic about a Mr. Jenner who took the opportunity to set up in opposition. There were various alarming incidents against Benjamin Hall before the election. Eventually, Mr. Jenner withdrew, and on November 28^th , the day of the election 'a most respectable cavalcade of gentlemen accompanied  Benjamin Hall Esq. From Llandaff to the Town Hall, Cardiff''.

He was duly elected, and the customary election feasting and rejoicing took place. Constant references in the newspapers show that in the next year or two Benjamin Hall was active in politics and became popular with all his constituents for his kindly and assuming ways.  

It looked as though he was in a fair way to make a name for himself as a politician, but The Cambrian of August 2^nd' 1817,,recorded that the respected  member for Glamorganshire, whose health has long been declining in consequence of his anxious attention to his Parliamentary duties, now lies with little hope of being restored to his family and friends. The following week The Cambrian recorded 'with extreme regret, the death of our justly-respected County Member. He was highly esteemed by all ranks.  

He was buried in  Llandaff Cathedral on August 15^th, and the funeral was attended by nearly all the gentlemen residing within a circuit of 20 miles. The brass set up to his memory in Llandaff Cathedral was one of the casualties when the Cathedral was gutted during an air raid in 1944, but a copy of the epitaph has been made by one of his descendants: 

In a vault near this place are deposited the remains of Benjamin Hall of Hensol Castle, Member of Parliament for this county of Glamorganshire who died in July, 1817, aged 39 years. 

'To record the high sense they entertained of his industry, his talents, and his integrity, and as a tribute due to the man whose life was sacrificed to the zealous discharge of his public duties, this monument was erected by a considerable body of the nobility, clergy, gentry and freeholders of the County of Glamorgan.' 

Under Benjamin Hall's will his widow was left the mansion of Abercarn for life, together with 2,200 pounds annually 'clear of deduction'. Benjamin Hall's widow Charlotte re-married on May 19^th, 1821. Nothing whatever is known of her second husband, Samuel Hawkins, beyond the fact that he was described as 'Court Herbert, Co. Glam' (near Neath) , and gave his address at the time of their marriage as 'Coram Street, Russell Square, London'. In the County of Middlesex. 

Although Charlotte remained on affectionate terms with her children, and visited Benjamin and his wife frequently, both at his country house,and his town house, Samuel Hawkins never accompanied her. There are few references to him during the year 1822 in a journal kept by Benjamin Hall. Some time after 1826, Mrs. Hawkins moved to Brighton for her health and died on 8^th June,1839,aged 55.

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 Richard Crawshay Hall. esq 

Born 28^th  March 1804 Hensol Castle Glamorgan. 

Died 1884  

Wife's Name. 

Mary Henrietta Wade. Of Mortimer's Cross Herefordshire 1813. 

Richard and Mary had four children when the 1851 census was taken their address was 19 Grosvenor Place, Bath. Sub district Walcot. 

Charles Henry Hall        Born 1832. 

Mary  C   Hall                Born 1835 

Alfred Crawshay Hall    Born 1840 

Octavius Augustus Hall Born 31^st  August 1843. Bath Somerset.  

Richard was educated with his three brothers, Benjamin, Charles, and William Hall.

At West Minster school as Town Boys. 

Richard was married twice. 

First wife Mary Henrietta Wade. Daughter of Jack Wade of Mortimers Cross Herefordshire. 

Second Wife Frances Eleanor Miles daughter of John Miles of Walford, Hearts 

The Post Office records shows Richard addresses were as below. 

1851. 19 GROSVENOR PLACE BATH. 

1856.  30 GROSVENOR PLACE BATH. 

1858.  AMORIL HOUSE, BATHEASTON. 

1861.  CORSTON COTTAGE, CORSTN. 

1871.  FRESHFORD HOUSE. FRESHFORD. 

1881.  FRESHFORD HOUSE FRESHFORD.  

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Octavius Augustus Hall 

Born 31^st July 1843 Bath Somerset. 

Died 5^th  June 1926. Brisbane Qld  

Buried Toowong  Cemetery. 

Wife's Name. 

Mary Woodward Born 1853. 

Married 19^th March 1868.  Died 18^th September1904. 

Octavius and Mary had Five Sons and Two Daughters. 

Richard Arthur Augustus Hall  Born 1^st February 1869.   Died 1^st February 1940. 

Mary Amy Hall Born 5^th February 1874.  Died 10^th May 1941. 

George Henry Hall  Born  8^th  May 1876   Died 4^th September 1952. 

James Harold Hall   Born 16^th February 1879 Died 29^th March 1927. Wife Margaret

Kathleen MacKenzie Married 26^th  August 1903. 

John William Hall Born 7^th September1881. Died 20^th February1941.Wife Emily Alice Flatt Butler Married 13^th September 1911. Born 28^th August 1887. 

Benjamin Charles Hall Born 6^th November 1883. Died 18^th December 1941.Wife

Wilhelmine Johanna Bertha Melksham. 

Ada Catherine Hall 25^th October1885.  

Octavius second Wife Mercy Mable Pearl Hanson. Formerly Stevenson.

First married aged  24  Second Marriage aged 75.

Death notice shows occupation Laborer.

Cause of death, Senility and Cardiac Failure.

How long in Australia about  62 Years.

Married in Brisbane both occasions.

Children Living at Death. 

Richard Arthur Augustus Hall aged 57. 

George Henry Hall  aged 49 

James Harold Hall  aged 46 

John William Hall  aged 44 

Benjamin Charles Hall aged 42 

Deceased by  one male and two females. 

I have been told that Ada Migrated to the U S A in the early 1900 Hundreds. so the  Deceased record could be wrong, the Information on the Death notice was given by second Wife, who would not have known about Ada.

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John William Hall 

Born  7^th September 1881 Brisbane. 

Died 20^th February 1941. 

Buried Mt Thompson Crematorium Brisbane. 

Wife's Name  

Emily Alice Flatt Butler Born 29^th August 1887 Brisbane. 

Died 14^th September 1968.  Brisbane.   

Married 13^th September 1911 Brisbane. 

John and Emily had Two Males and Three Females 

Stanley Augustus John Hall Born 13^th December 1913,      Died 7^th February 1977

Wife Myrtle Sophia Wittman  Born 5^th February 1910,       Died 28^th August  1974

Married 24^th April 1933 Brisbane Registry Office.

Leonard Cilverson Hall  Born 28^th January 1915.         Died 31^st July 1993.

Wife  June West,  Married 9^th June 1945.

Glady Mary Hall      Born 11^th December 1916             Died   

Husband   Stanley Watson. 

Phyllis Hall    Born and Died 21^st  February 1918. 

Enid Alice Hall       Born 15^th January 1920. 

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 Stanley Augustus John Hall. 

Born 13^th December 1913 Stones Corner Brisbane. 

Died 7^th February 1977. 

Buried Mt Thompson Crematorium Brisbane. 

Wife's Name 

Myrtle Sophia Wittman. Born 5^th February 1910 Booie  Qld 

Married 24^th April 1933 Brisbane Registry Office 

Died 28^th August 1974 Brisbane  

Buried Mt Thompson Crematorium. 

Myrtle Wittman's surname should be Wittmann it was changed at the start of the  First World War, To make the word look more like an English name. 

Her Grandfather's job in W.W.1 was a translator and Interpreter for the Australian Army

  or be an intern for the duration of the War.( Surname Whittmann German)

 Stanley and Myrtle had Four Children All male. 

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George Stanley Hall     Born 25^th November 1933            Died    15^th January 1986.

Wife's Name Eileen Joy Rienke  Born 19^th May 1936.     Died

Married 2^nd March 1957. Coorparoo Methodist Church. Two Daughters,

Wendy1/11/1958 and Janet.9/1/1961 

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Mervyn John Hall         Born 4^th September 1935              Died  

Wife's Name   Barbara Mc Laren Born 6^th May 1936.       Died

Married 1^st  March Brisbane Methodist Church one Son one Daughter,

Bromwyn.30/9/1969. and John. 6/4/74. 

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Kenneth William Hall   Born 4^th January 1940                      Died

Wife's Name Janice Shirley Greer  Born 8^th February 1945  Died.

Married 14^th March 1964. Presbyterian Mitchelton One Son and Three Daughters,

Toni 5/6/1965. Kim 13/7/1966. Michael 4/2/1970. Janine 28/5/1973.

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Ronald Gordon Hall   Born 25^th November 1941                Died

Wife's Name Rita Mary Bird Born 18^th March 1942           Died

Married 11^th April 1966 St Mary's Church Ipswich  Three Son's One Daughter,

David Gordon 5/8/1968, Donna Rita 13/9/1970 Dennis Allan 6/5/1975/ Benjamin Ronald

11/7/1977.