William HallAge: 721871–1943
- Name
- William Hall
- Given names
- William
- Surname
- Hall
| Birth | 1871 30 Clunes, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1872 (Age 12 months) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Birth of a sister | 1873 (Age 2) Clunes, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Elizabeth Hall
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| Australian History | 1873 (Age 2) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Birth of a sister | 1874 (Age 3) Clunes, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Letitia (Margaret) Hall
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| Birth of a brother | 1875 (Age 4)
younger brother -
Robert Henry Hall
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| Australian History | 1875 (Age 4) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
| Birth of a brother | 12 May 1877 (Age 6) Undera, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Henry Hall
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| Birth of a brother | 1878 (Age 7) Undera, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Samuel Hall
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 7) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 17 February 1879 (Age 8) Undera, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandfather -
David Hall
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| Australian History | 1879 (Age 8) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Birth of a sister | 1880 (Age 9) Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Selina Hall
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| Australian History | 1880 (Age 9) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Australian History | 1882 (Age 11) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Marriage of a sister | Mary Jane Hall - View family 1883 (Age 12) Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
John Dempster
elder sister -
Mary Jane Hall
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| Marriage of a sister | Annie Elizabeth Hall - View family 1883 (Age 12) Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
Robert Williams
elder sister -
Annie Elizabeth Hall
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| Australian History | 1883 (Age 12) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Death of a sister | 1887 (Age 16) Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia
elder sister -
Annie Elizabeth Hall
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| Australian History | 1887 (Age 16) Note: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series. First direct Inter-colonial passenger trains begin running between Adelaide and Melbourne. |
| Death of a sister | 1888 (Age 17) Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia
elder sister -
Mary Jane Hall
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| Marriage of a sister | Letitia (Margaret) Hall - View family 1889 (Age 18) Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
Robert Williams
younger sister -
Letitia (Margaret) Hall
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| Australian History | 1889 (Age 18) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
| Marriage of a sister | Elizabeth Hall - View family 1890 (Age 19) Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
John Dempster
younger sister -
Elizabeth Hall
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| Australian History | 1890 (Age 19) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 20) Note: A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution. Note: The first attempt at a federal constitution is drafted. Note: The Convention adopts the constitution, although it has no legal status Note: A severe depression hits Australia |
| Australian History | 1892 (Age 21) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 22) Note: The Corowa Conference (the 'people's convention') calls on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony. |
| Australian History | 1894 (Age 23) Note: South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office. |
| Australian History | 1895 (Age 24) Note: The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals. Note: Waltzing Matilda is first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland Note: Banjo Paterson publishes The Man from Snowy River |
| Marriage of a brother | Robert Henry Hall - View family 1896 (Age 25) Corowa, New South Wales, Australia
younger brother -
Robert Henry Hall
sister-in-law -
Emily A Lumby
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| Australian History | 1896 (Age 25) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Marriage | Wilmot Thomas - View family 1897 (Age 26) Victoria, Australia |
| Birth of a son #1 | 1897 (Age 26) Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
son -
William James Hall
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| Australian History | 1897 (Age 26) Note: In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year. Note: Catherine Helen Spence became the first female political candidate for political office, standing for election as a representative for South Australia. |
| Australian History | 1898 (Age 27) Note: The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people. Note: After much public debate, the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian referendums are successful; the New South Wales referendum narrowly fails. Later New South Wales votes 'yes' in a second referendum, and Queensland and Western Australia also vote to join. |
| Birth of a son #2 | 1899 (Age 28) Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
son -
Charles Ernest Hall
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| Australian History | 1899 (Age 28) Note: The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney. Note: The Australian Labor Party holds office for a few days in Queensland, becoming the first trade union party to do so anywhere in the world. Note: The first contingents from various Australian colonies are sent to South Africa to participate in the Second Boer War. |
| Australian History | 1900 (Age 29) Note: Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution. Note: The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent |
| Marriage of a sister | Selina Hall - View family 1901 (Age 30) Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
Charles Ernest Thomas
younger sister -
Selina Hall
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| Australian History | 1901 (Age 30) Note: (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General Note: The first parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne Note: Immigration Restriction act was introduced- The White Australian Policy Note: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time |
| Marriage of a brother | John James Hall - View family 1902 (Age 31) Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
John James Hall
sister-in-law -
Isabella Reardon
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| Australian History | 1902 (Age 31) Note: The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles. Note: King Edward VII approved the design of the Australian flag. Note: Breaker Morant is executed for having shot Boers who had surrendered |
| Australian History | 1903 (Age 32) Note: The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice. Note: The Defence Act gives the federal government full control over the Australian Army Note: Alfred Deakin elected Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1904 (Age 33) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Australian History | 1906 (Age 35) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Marriage of a brother | David Hall - View family 1907 (Age 36) Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
David Hall
sister-in-law -
Frances Catherine Dunne
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| Australian History | 1908 (Age 37) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Marriage of a brother | Henry Hall - View family 1909 (Age 38) Albury, New South Wales, Australia
younger brother -
Henry Hall
sister-in-law -
Rosie Thomas
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| Marriage of a brother | Samuel Hall - View family 1909 (Age 38) Albury, New South Wales, Australia
younger brother -
Samuel Hall
sister-in-law -
Catherine Reardon
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| Australian History | 1909 (Age 38) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 39) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 40) Note: The Royal Australian Navy is founded Note: The Northern Territory comes under Commonwealth control, being split off from South Australia Note: The first national census is conducted. Note: Australian Capital Territory proclaimed. |
| Death of a sister | 1912 (Age 41) Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Letitia (Margaret) Hall
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| Death of a mother | 1912 (Age 41) Holbrook, New South Wales, Australia
mother -
Elizabeth Ann Scott
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| Australian History | 1912 (Age 41) Note: Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time Note: Walter Burley Griffin wins a design competition for the new city of Canberra |
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 42) Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'. |
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 42) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 43) Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's. |
| Death of a brother | 1915 (Age 44) Corowa, New South Wales, Australia
younger brother -
Robert Henry Hall
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| Australian History | 1915 (Age 44) Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory. Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister |
| Death of a sister | 1916 (Age 45) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Elizabeth Hall
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| Australian History | 1916 (Age 45) Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme. Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected |
| Australian History | 1917 (Age 46) Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks. |
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 47) Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'. Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead. Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth. |
| Australian History | 1919 (Age 48) Note: Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea. |
| Australian History | 1920 (Age 49) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 50) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 51) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 52) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Death of a father | 14 September 1924 (Age 53) Culcairn, New South Wales, Australia
father -
David Hall
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| Australian History | 1926 (Age 55) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 56) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Death of a wife | 1928 (Age 57) Corowa, New South Wales, Australia
wife -
Wilmot Thomas
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| Australian History | 1928 (Age 57) Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
| Australian History | 1929 (Age 58) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 59) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
| Australian History | 1931 (Age 60) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 61) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 62) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Death of a brother | 1936 (Age 65) Lockhart, New South Wales, Australia
elder brother -
John James Hall
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| Australian History | 1936 (Age 65) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 66) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 67) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 68) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires |
| Australian History | 1940 (Age 69) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean. |
| Australian History | 1941 (Age 70) Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45. |
| Australian History | 1942 (Age 71) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws. |
| Death of a brother | 1943 (on the date of death) Albury, New South Wales, Australia
younger brother -
Samuel Hall
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| Australian History | 1943 (on the date of death) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula. |
| Death | 1943 (Age 72) Albury, New South Wales, Australia |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
David Hall
Birth 1841 31 37 Death 14 September 1924 (Age 83) Culcairn, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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| mother |
Elizabeth Ann Scott
Death 1912 Holbrook, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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Marriage: 2 March 1863 — Clones, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland |
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22 months #1 elder sister |
Mary Jane Hall
Birth 1865 24 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1888 (Age 23) Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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1 year #2 elder sister |
Annie Elizabeth Hall
Birth 1866 25 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1887 (Age 21) Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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1 year #3 elder brother |
John James Hall
Birth 1867 26 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1936 (Age 69) Lockhart, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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2 years #4 elder brother |
David Hall
Birth 1869 28 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1945 (Age 76) Lockhart, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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2 years #5 himself |
William Hall
Birth 1871 30 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1943 (Age 72) Albury, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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2 years #6 younger sister |
Elizabeth Hall
Birth 1873 32 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1916 (Age 43) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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1 year #7 younger sister |
Letitia (Margaret) Hall
Birth 1874 33 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1912 (Age 38) Numurkah, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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1 year #8 younger brother |
Robert Henry Hall
Birth 1875 34 Death 1915 (Age 40) Corowa, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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2 years #9 younger brother |
Henry Hall
Birth 12 May 1877 36 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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8 months #10 younger brother |
Samuel Hall
Birth 1878 37 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 1943 (Age 65) Albury, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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2 years #11 younger sister |
Selina Hall
Birth 1880 39 Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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| Family with Wilmot Thomas - View family |
| himself |
William Hall
Birth 1871 30 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1943 (Age 72) Albury, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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6 years wife |
Wilmot Thomas
Birth 1877 Huntly, Victoria, Australia Death 1928 (Age 51) Corowa, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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Marriage: 1897 — Victoria, Australia |
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| #1 son |
William James Hall
Birth 1897 26 20 Numurkah, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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2 years #2 son |
Charles Ernest Hall
Birth 1899 28 22 Numurkah, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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William Hall has 25 first cousins recorded
Father's family (25)
Parents John Hall + Mary Corbett
Parents Matthew Madill + Mary Ann Hall
Parents Alexander Nelson + Letitia Hall
Parents William Myott + Letitia Hall
Mother's family (0)
Extra information
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