Pether Family

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William Thomas Pether was born in 1809 in Crowley, Oxford, England. He married Elizabeth Howse from Baldon, Oxford (born 1817). They moved to Western Australia in 1838 with their first child (3 more being born in Perth).

1. Sophia married Thomas Fruin
2. Richard William married Elizabeth Birch
3. Eliza died as a child
4. Henry married Rebecca Hall (see Hall Family) (4 children)

In 1841 William was employed as a carpenter and in March that year contracted to repair Government House. He died in April 1844 of typhus aged 34. It is believed Elizabeth then took the 2 boys (not sure about Sophia) back to England for their education. Both boys later returned (Richard to Perth and Henry to Adelaide) as printers.

Mine is the family of Henry Pether and Rebecca Hall. Henry established the first newspaper in Burra before dying at just 43 leaving Rebecca and their 4 children to move back to Norwood and the Hall family.

The Pether family of Crowley is well documentented (although all information is welcome). I have details back to John Pether, born 7 Oct 1681 who married a Mary Dickens. John's father was another John and is mother is unknown.

I would particularly like information on William's mother, Ann Russell and her parents. I would also like any information on Elizabeth Pether (nee Howse) and her parents. Where did she go when she went back to England. Where were the boys, Richard and Henry, schooled?

Hall Family

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George Hall (was born in 1818 to William Hall and Frances Durrant in Sussex, England). He married Ellen Crawford in 1841. There are some published misconceptions about George and Ellen, one being that they were Irish.  Confirmed is that they married  in Kent in 1849.  At the time she was a servant in France.  It is not clear where he was based, however 1849 finds them and some children on a boat to Adelaide.  George worked at the
Adelaide Club and made softdrink as a second income until the softdrink business blossomed into George Hall & Sons of Norwood. Both his mother and father lived with them at Marryatville.  George died in 1881 and Ellen died in 1872, both at Norwood.  All four are burried at West Tce, Adelaide.  We have a book of George & Ellen's with family addresses in the UK.

1. Mary (no children)
2. Eleanor married John Cornelius Lyons (2 children)
3. George died as an infant (in France)
4. William married Emma Maria Hearn (3 children)
5. Henry married Charlotte Howett (5 children)
6. Rebecca married Henry Pether (4 children) 
7. Thomas married
8. James married Jessie Emmeline Bleechmore (8 children)
9. Edward married Ada Catherine Chapman (10 children)
10. Fannie married Arthur Threlfall (2 children)

Mine is the family of Rebecca Hall and Henry Pether. Rebecca was born on the ship (The Florentia) on the way to Port Adelaide. After Henry died (see Pether) Rebecca lived in both Elizabeth Street and later Edward Street at Norwood. She then moved up to Lenswood to Givendale, the home of her daughter Eva and Henry Trevenen.  Eleanor's  children were also, at various times, living at Lenswood.

All information on George Hall or Ellen Crawford before they came to Australia or their forebears is most welcome.  The Crawford side is particularly lean.