I created this site to act as place for information on my branch of the Halls family from Devon to be easily available on the web. There is a great deal of information on a Halls family on the web, but that family is unrelated as it came from eastern England, mostly Essex and surroundings. If you are interested in that Halls family you may wish to try either Through the Halls of History or Halls.org.
The History page contains what I know about the movements, wives, children, and accomplishments of the Halls Family over the past 200 years in both England and North America. The Family page is actually my listing of all people in the family including birth years/places and death year/places. It also has links to biographies. The Gallery is pictures of various Halls family members I have managed to find over the years. Other Finds are items of interest that don't really fit my current site structure.
The main focus of this website is on members of the Halls family who came to Canada from Devon in the 1840's and 1850's, mostly because that is my line. If you have information about this line, or are in some way related, please feel free to contact me (James) at nettopsey@gmail.com
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Contact Service - if you are
interested I can put you in touch with Halls family members living
nearby. I am currently in contact with family members living in the
Following US states - Illinois, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Connecticut,
and Michigan, as well as Ontario in Canada. Drop me a line and I will
put you in touch with whoever is closest.I would very much like to get in touch with the Halls family of North Dakota. If you have Alva Halls as your father, grandfather or great grandfather, please contact me.Updates |
posted May 27, 2011 6:58 AM by James Halls
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In the course of my research I ordered the war records of my great uncle, Philip Ashley Patrick Halls, from Library and Archives Canada. As I was going through them I found, much to my surprise, that after he was killed in action two letters from his personal effects were removed and destroyed before the personal effects were sent back to his parents in Toronto.
So now I wonder if he had a child (or children) in England. This has become Question 13 on my Questions page. |
posted May 27, 2011 6:55 AM by James Halls
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For anyone out there who follows this site, I am now back at it. I had a rather busy semester at the College I teach at, but now that things have slowed down I can start adding again.
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posted Jan 29, 2011 4:20 PM by James Halls
posted Jan 21, 2011 4:43 AM by James Halls
Added Peel's Prairie Provinces to the links page. A good collection of newspapers, books, images and city directories for Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. |
posted Jan 18, 2011 5:19 AM by James Halls
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updated Jan 18, 2011 7:34 AM
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Added some new links to the Links page. They are The Internet Archive, Canadiana, Family Search, and the Canada Gazette. See the Blog for my comments about them. |
posted Jan 6, 2011 7:41 PM by James Halls
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I have updated the Historical Reality Videos page with two new series. They are Victorian Pharmacy, which is about late Victorian pharmacies (sometimes my grasp of the obvious is just scary!), and Edwardian Farm.
Edwardian Farm is particularly fascinating because it is set in Devon, which is where my Halls come from. Even though I have only seen the first five episodes, I find it quite compelling simply because it is as close as I am ever likely to get to how things were for the family in Devon.
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posted Dec 29, 2010 7:00 PM by James Halls
Added five pictures to The Gallery today - Henry H Halls, Frances Halls, Philip Thomas Halls, Philip Ashley Patrick Halls, and Ellen Elizabeth Halls.
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posted Dec 20, 2010 9:19 AM by James Halls
Added a Biography/Obit to the Family page for William Halls who lived in Toronto.
I have posted a picture of James Halls (1831 - 1901) and family to the Gallery page. Many thanks to J. Tait for sending me a scan of the original.
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posted Dec 15, 2010 4:13 PM by James Halls
I added a new page, Historical Reality Videos. All of the shows are from BBC, and all look at slightly different aspects of life in the late Victorian age. The 1900 House deals with life in a house at the turn of the 19th century. Victorian Farm is about farming in the 1870's and 1880's. Finally, Turn Back Time - High Street - Victorians, deals with shopkeepers in a small town in the late 1800's. If anybody out there is aware of any good documentaries of Chicago, North Dakota, or southern Wisconsin in the period of 1870 to 1910 let me know.
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posted Nov 19, 2010 7:02 PM by James Halls
Minor updates to the History page, added bits to James and Williams lines.
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