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William DempsterAge: 701904–1974

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William Dempster
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Birth 1904 45 31
 Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Australian History 1904
 

Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital
Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government
Birth of a brother 1906 (Age 2)
 Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Alex Dempster
Australian History 1906 (Age 2)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Birth of a brother 1907 (Age 3)
 Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Archibald Dempster
Australian History 1908 (Age 4)
 

Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country
Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead
Birth of a brother 15 June 1909 (Age 5)
 Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - James Thomas Dempster
Australian History 1909 (Age 5)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (Age 6)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Birth of a brother 1911 (Age 7)
 Numurkah, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Roy Dempster
Australian History 1911 (Age 7)
 

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.
Birth of a brother 10 July 1912 (Age 8)
 Numurkah, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Cyril Dempster
Death of a maternal grandmother 1912 (Age 8)
 Holbrook, New South Wales, Australia

maternal grandmother - Elizabeth Ann Scott
Australian History 1912 (Age 8)
 

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
Death of a half-brother 1913 (Age 9)
 Corowa, New South Wales, Australia

half-brother - David Dempster
Australian History 1913 (Age 9)
 

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 9)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History 1914 (Age 10)
 

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.
Australian History 1915 (Age 11)
 

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 mother 1916 (Age 12)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

mother - Elizabeth Hall
Australian History 1916 (Age 12)
 

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 13)
 

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 14)
 

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 15)
 

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 16)
 

Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History 1921 (Age 17)
 

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History 1922 (Age 18)
 

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History 1923 (Age 19)
 

Note: Vegemite is first produced
Death of a maternal grandfather 14 September 1924 (Age 20)
 Culcairn, New South Wales, Australia

maternal grandfather - David Hall
Australian History 1926 (Age 22)
 

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History 1927 (Age 23)
 

Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History 1928 (Age 24)
 

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 25)
 

Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary
Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History 1930 (Age 26)
 

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 27)
 

Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History 1932 (Age 28)
 

Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Australian History 1933 (Age 29)
 

Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments
Australian History 1936 (Age 32)
 

Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History 1937 (Age 33)
 

Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History 1938 (Age 34)
 

Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History 1939 (Age 35)
 

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 36)
 

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 37)
 

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 38)
 

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.
Australian History 1943 (Age 39)
 

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.
Australian History 1944 (Age 40)
 

Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW.
Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians.
Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville.
Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians
Death of a brother 6 February 1945 (Age 41)
 Malaysia

younger brother - Cyril Dempster
Death of a father 1945 (Age 41)
 Numurkah, Victoria, Australia

father - John Dempster
Australian History 1945 (Age 41)
 

Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader.
Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo
Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders
Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government
Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders
Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations
Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time
Australian History 1946 (Age 42)
 

Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme
Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council.
Australian History 1948 (Age 44)
 

Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.
Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Australian History 1949 (Age 45)
 

Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins
Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections.
Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements.
Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government.
Australian History 1950 (Age 46)
 

Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea.
Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party
Australian History 1951 (Age 47)
 

Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand
Australian History 1952 (Age 48)
 

Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.
Australian History 1954 (Age 50)
 

Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party
Australian History 1955 (Age 51)
 

Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement
Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence
Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill'
Australian History 1956 (Age 52)
 

Note: Television in Australia is launched.
Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics
Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage
Australian History 1957 (Age 53)
 

Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts.
Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success.
Death of a brother 1960 (Age 56)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

elder brother - Henry Dempster
Death of a brother 1962 (Age 58)
 Victoria, Australia

elder brother - Samuel Dempster
Australian History 1962 (Age 58)
 

Note: Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT.
Note: Malayan Insurgence ends
Australian History 1964 (Age 60)
 

Note: The Beatles tour Australia;
Note: 82 sailors die when HMAS Voyager sinks after being rammed by HMAS Melbourne;
Note: The editors of Oz magazine are charged with obscenity;
Note: PM Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of compulsory military service for men aged from 18-25 years old;
Note: First troops sent to Vietnam War.
Australian History 1965 (Age 61)
 

Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland
Australian History 1966 (Age 62)
 

Note: The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted;
Note: Menzies retires as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt.
Australian History 14 February 1966 (Age 62)
 

Note: Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound.
Australian History 1967 (Age 63)
 

Note: Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people;
Note: Prime Minister Holt drowns and is succeeded by John Gorton;
Note: The constitution is changed to allow Aboriginal Australians to be included in the population count and for the federal government to legislate for them; Sydney is rocked by a series of brutal underworld killings;
Note: Talkback radio is introduced;
Note: British comedian Tony Hancock commits suicide in Sydney;
Note: Gough Whitlam becomes leader of the Labor Party;
Note: Ronald Ryan becomes the last person legally executed in Australia.
Death of a half-sister 1968 (Age 64)
 Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia

half-sister - Jane Smart Dempster
Australian History 1968 (Age 64)
 

Note: Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney;
Australian History 1969 (Age 65)
 

Note: French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney;
Note: Renowned author-artists Norman Lindsay and May Gibbs die;
Note: The Australian production of the rock musical Hair premieres in Sydney;
Note: Top pop groups The Easybeats and The Twilights break up; Tim Burstall directs2000 Weeks, the first all-Australian feature released since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1958
Death of a brother 1970 (Age 66)
 Kew, Victoria, Australia

elder brother - Robert Henry Dempster
Australian History 1970 (Age 66)
 

Note: More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War
Australian History 1971 (Age 67)
 

Note: Neville Bonner becomes the first Aborigine to become an Australian Member of Parliament;
Note: John Gorton resigns and is succeeded by William McMahon
Note: The 1971 Springbok tour sparks protest all throughout Australia. Premier of Queensland Joh Bjelke-Petersen declares a state of emergency in QLD in response to escalating protest.
Note: Daylight Saving is introduced to New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory.
Australian History 1972 (Age 68)
 

Note: The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rules that women doing the same job as men have the right to be paid the same wage.
Note: Aboriginal Tent Embassy erected in response to the Coalition government's approval of exploration licences and mining tenements on reserves
Note: The first Labor government since 1949 is elected under the leadership of Gough Whitlam
Note: Australia recognizes the People's Republic of China
Note: Queensland abandons Daylight Saving.
Death of a brother 1973 (Age 69)
 Numurkah, Victoria, Australia

elder brother - John Dempster
Australian History 1973 (Age 69)
 

Note: The Sydney Opera House is opened
Note: The White Australian Policy (established 1901) is officially dismantled
Note: Vietnam War ends
Note: The federal voting age is dropped from 21 to 18
Note: Unionists save the historic 'The Rocks' area of Sydney from demolition by introducing 'Green Bans'
Note: Patrick White becomes the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Australian History 1974 (on the date of death)
 

Note: Darwin is devastated by Cyclone Tracy
Death 1974 (Age 70)
 Victoria, Australia

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father
John Dempster

Birth 24 October 1858  Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Death 1945 (Age 86)  Numurkah, Victoria, Australia

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mother
Elizabeth Hall

Birth 1873 32  Clunes, Victoria, Australia

Death 1916 (Age 43)  Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

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Marriage: 1890 — Victoria, Australia
#1 elder brother
John Dempster

Birth 1890 31 17  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death 1973 (Age 83)  Numurkah, Victoria, Australia

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#2 elder sister
Ellen Dempster

Birth 1891 32 18  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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#3 elder brother
William Dempster

Birth 1893 34 20  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death 1894 (Age 12 months)  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

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#4 elder sister
Mary Frances Dempster

Birth 1894 35 21  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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#5 elder sister
Selena Dempster

Birth 1895 36 22  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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#6 elder brother
Robert Henry Dempster

Birth 1896 37 23  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death 1970 (Age 74)  Kew, Victoria, Australia

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#7 elder brother
George Dempster

Birth 1898 39 25  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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#8 elder brother
Samuel Dempster

Birth 1899 40 26  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death 1962 (Age 63)  Victoria, Australia

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#9 elder sister
Annie Dempster

Birth 1901 42 28  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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#10 elder brother
Henry Dempster

Birth 1902 43 29  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death 1960 (Age 58)  Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

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#11 himself
William Dempster

Birth 1904 45 31  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death 1974 (Age 70)  Victoria, Australia

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#12 younger brother
Alex Dempster

Birth 1906 47 33  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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#13 younger brother
Archibald Dempster

Birth 1907 48 34  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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#14 younger brother
James Thomas Dempster

Birth 15 June 1909 50 36  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death 1983 (Age 73)  Victoria, Australia

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#15 younger brother
Roy Dempster

Birth 1911 52 38  Numurkah, Victoria, Australia

Death 1980 (Age 69)  Numurkah, Victoria, Australia

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#16 younger brother
Cyril Dempster

Birth 10 July 1912 53 39  Numurkah, Victoria, Australia

Death 6 February 1945 (Age 32)  Malaysia

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father
John Dempster

Birth 24 October 1858  Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Death 1945 (Age 86)  Numurkah, Victoria, Australia

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step-mother
Mary Jane Hall

Birth 1865 24  Clunes, Victoria, Australia

Death 1888 (Age 23)  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

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Marriage: 1883 — Victoria, Australia
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#1 half-brother
David Dempster

Birth 1884 25 19  Dunbulbalane, Victoria, Australia

Death 1913 (Age 29)  Corowa, New South Wales, Australia

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#2 half-sister
Jane Smart Dempster

Birth 1886 27 21  Victoria, Australia

Death 1968 (Age 82)  Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia

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William Dempster has 42 first cousins recorded

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Mother's family (42)

Parents John Dempster + Mary Jane Hall
1 David Dempster 1884–1913
2 Jane Smart Dempster 1886–1968
Parents Robert Williams + Annie Elizabeth Hall
1 Elizabeth May Williams 1884–?
2 David Williams 1885–?
3 Robert Henry Williams 1887–1954
Parents John James Hall + Isabella Reardon
1 Myrtle I Hall 1910–?
2 Ruby L Hall 1913–1913
3 Irene G Hall 1916–?
4 John J Hall 1918–?
Parents David Hall + Frances Catherine Dunne
1 Selina J Hall 1909–?
2 Gladys M Hall 1917–?
Parents William Hall + Wilmot Thomas
1 William James Hall 1897–?
2 Charles Ernest Hall 1899–?
Parents Robert Williams + Letitia (Margaret) Hall
1 Mary Jane Williams 1890–1974
2 William Francis Williams 1892–1958
3 Edward Williams 1894–?
4 Samuel Williams 1895–1970
5 Charles Edward Williams 1898–1954
6 John Williams 1899–1965
7 Henry Williams 1902–?
8 Margaret Anne Williams 1906–1983
9 Albert Harold Williams 1911–1978
Parents Robert Henry Hall + Emily A Lumby
1 Robert H Hall 1896–?
2 David Hall 1898–?
3 Alice J Hall 1901–1990
4 Selina Hall 1903–1984
5 Mary J A Hall 1905–?
6 Elizabeth A Hall 1907–?
7 John J Hall 1908–?
8 Gordon James Hall 1909–1973
9 Dorothy May Hall 1912–?
10 Margaret E Hall 1915–?
Parents Henry Hall + Rosie Thomas
1 Vera J Hall ?–1913
2 George H Hall 1913–?
3 Ruby J Hall 1915–?
4 Eileen J Hall 1917–?
Parents Samuel Hall + Catherine Reardon
1 Elizabeth A Hall 1910–?
2 James S Hall 1911–?
3 William E Hall 1914–?
Parents Charles Ernest Thomas + Selina Hall
1 Charles H Thomas ?–1911
2 Emily Elizabeth Thomas 1902–?
3 James Charles Thomas 1908–?

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