The HALLs of Jamaica – Allegonda’s Legacy
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APPENDIX 8 Unrelated HALLs and JACKSONs
Most of the information in this Appendix has come from Edward Crawford, Claire Hendricks and Richard Facey. The columns of text at the end are from Burke’s Landed Gentry.
Some Notes on the Hall Family
by Edward Crawford
The Institute of Jamaica has the manuscript papers of the Halls. This is the family of EP Wallen’s solicitor - Charles William Hall. (His will may refer to a Mrs Clarke.)
Hon Charles Hall (1729-1795) of Liquanea Jamaica, member of Leg Council, custos rotulorum of St Andrews had a son by his second wife, m.1760, Elizabeth Boone, d.1773. (From Burke’s Landed 1952 Fitzwilliam of Cilgwyn). This is the same man married to Catherine Pinnock 1779.
According to Burke’s Landed 1952 this son, Charles William Hall (1768-d.11.4.1832) Lt Col St Andrews Reg, (militia) married a daughter of Lt Col Hill, 85th Reg. (no children mentioned) secondly 26 Sept 1806 married Isabella Ford. In fact Isabella Ford was the step-daughter of Major George Hill (1758-1809) who is named as the commanding officer of the 85th Foot when it left Jamaica in 1809. The marriage to Isabella Ford is in St Andrews register, which gives CW Hall’s military title. Clearly data came from there but family tradition said she was daughter of Hill. So it was muddled and two marriages were made out of one.
CWH was a solicitor and was acting executor and sole surviving trustee for Edward Pinnock Wallen (1770-1822). He also acted for the Pinnocks (he signed the Slave Registers in their absence) and by marrying Eliza Ford’s sister Isabella was EPW’s brother-in-law.
My great-great grandmother’s sister was Isabella Ann Hall, née Ford, my g-g grandmother being Eliza Archange Wallen also née Ford.
Isabella Hall, (d.27.1.1824) had at least six children that I have been able to identify.
1) Elizabeth Ann, eldest daughter of Charles William Hall, born about 1807/8, married 8 March 1827, David Ross Clarke, at Pleasant Prospect pen St Andrews, was in England, the nearest relative of my great grandmother Caroline Wallen when she married Henry Crawford in 1841 and was a witness. Elizabeth Anne Hall is in marriage register of St Andrews but no birth/baptism has been found yet.
2) the eldest son, the Reverend Charles Henry Hall (24.4.1809-1889) and his twin Isabella Ann Hall was born in St Andrews, both bap.13.9.1809 but the latter is not mentioned in Burke’s. She must have died before 1814. (see below)
3) George James born in 17.10.1810
4) David Baillie born 20.11.1813. I assume they died young as they are not in Burke’s but neither are they in the St Andrews burials register up to 1827.
5 & 6) The twins Mary Christiana and Isabella Hall born in St Andrews on 8.12.1814 so from that I assume the first Isabella must have died. (Microfilm 1291699) p.43.
Where I have the day and month it is all from the St Andrews Register otherwise Burkes Landed Gentry 1952.
The eldest son, Reverend Charles Henry Hall, married Anne Catherine Littlejohn and had a son Caleb Littlejohn Hall (1838-1899) who was my grandfather’s second cousin and who in turn had a son
6) Duncan Hamilton Hall who was an ISO in Jamaica. (What is an ISO mentioned in Burke’s?) The last must have been a third cousin of my father though much older and born sometime in the 1860s or 70s. And they were still in Jamaica. (My father was born 1897.)
Much of the above was found in Burkes Landed 1952 under “Fitzwilliam of Cilgwyn”.
Other information on the Halls from b., m., & d, Parish Registers
William son of William & Mary Hall, bap.2.1.1783, St Anne’s
Elizabeth Hall, b.5.1788, bap 29.6.1788, St Anne’s (William & Mary Hall?)
Elizabeth Hall died 17.11.1807 aged 39 years (Monumental Inscriptions)
John Henry Hall, a slave bap.20.11.1808 St Andrews
Fanny Hall (aged 5) & Alexander Hall (aged 3) bap.24.11.1808, children of Charles William Hall and Lucy Scott “a free woman of colour”. St Andrews. Born before he was married.
George Hill, an 18 year old negro slave of Major Wallen was baptised 24.4.1815 together with 3 slaves of Charles William Hall and the latter’s own legitimate twins, Mary Christiana and Isabella Hall b.8.12.1814. (The first Isabella must have died) St Andrews (Microfilm 1291699) p.43.
11 Apr 1832 Charles William Hall died aged 64, Royal Gazette (so born 1768)
(But he is named in the Alamanck 1840 at Pleasant Prospect with 16 acres.)
14 July 1839 in Kingston, death of Mrs William Hall, aged 57, widow of WH Hall.
Cossley Hall, 300 acres of woodland in St Andrews, 1753/1754, CO137/28 (no slaves or crop)
In CO137/162, the manumission of slaves which relates to the Halls. This is a return made by the Jamaican govt on the instructions of the Colonial office in 1825 about slave manumission since about 1815. There are those freed, those freed under a will, those sold off the island for crimes and so on. There are names and the pages would be worth transcribing for genealogical researchers who have such great difficulties with black families before 1834. I have not entered the folio, page number reference every time because of my carelessness.
2 children of Margaret Pearce to be made free 18.5.1822, Will of Isabella Hall (I suspect that this has been entered incorrectly and it is 1824 as she did die till then)
Isabella Hall frees Eleanor Barrett Hall, Mary Pinnock Hall 10.9.1817 for 10/-
John Hall frees Margaret Hall 2.10.1820 for 10/-, f.118.
William Henry Hall frees Edward Neilson, 2.1.1821
Christiana Hall frees Sue al Susanah Diamond for 10/-, 12.6.1822
Frances Ann Clarke frees William McClean, 14.8.1822, for £100
Lucretia Hall frees James Dennis, Elizabeth Dennis, Christiana Dennis & son, and Edward Margret, £20, f.140
Executors of Jasper Hall free Berry & Elizabeth Williams, 9.7.1823 for £140
Executors of Jasper Hall free Mary McKie, 12.7.1823 for £100
Executors of Isabella Hall free Edward Bowen Delon & Elizabeth, 27.5.1824, £300
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