Associated Line AL6 - The Hall Family 1815 - 1901

This branch line merges with the Read branch line (AL5) before joining the Main Ancestral Breach Line through Albert W Breach (b. 1872) and Helen L R Hall (b. 1873) (Generation Ten). Names in bold type continue the ancestral line down.

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Northumberland Map

The Hall family have their origins in Northumberland before migrating south to Yorkshire.

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First Branch Generation

AG1 - Andrew and Margaret Pearey 1815 – 1898

Andrew Hall was born on the 12^th of April 1819 in Eglingham, Northumberland. His parentage has been difficult to research, but it is known from census returns that his mother was named 'Ann', possibly Ann Forster (1796 - 1876). Ann Forster was married to Andrew Hall (1793 - 1837) and they had eight children altogether. As I cannot be certain that these are the correct parents for Andrew, I won't go into any further detail at this time.  

Andrew married Margaret Pearey (b. 1815) in about 1842, although the marriage register hasn't been found. Andrew appears to have taken over the family home of Percy’s Cross as he is listed on the 1851 census as head of the household, his widowed mother was living with Andrew and his new family. 

Andrew was employed as a gamekeeper throughout his life; according to the censuses from 1841 to 1901 he was described as a mole catcher, a mole killer, a mole and rabbit catcher, and an agricultural labourer.

The last record I have of Andrew is the 1891 census, when at the age of seventy one, he was a retired labourer.

Andrew died in 1891 in Alnwick, Northumberland.

Margaret Pearey 1815 - 1898

Margaret Pearey was born in 1815, in Doddington, Northumberland, the daughter of George Pearey and Jane Cryle.

Margaret married Andrew Hall (b. 1819) probably about 1842 and moved into the family home at Hedgley. She had eight children between 1843 and 1856. 

Margaret died in 1898 in Alnwick, Northumberland. 

Andrew and Margaret's children are as follows:

1. Andrew (1843 - 1905)
2. Mary Ann (1844 - 1875)
3. John (1846 - 1893)
4. George (b. 1848)
5. Margaret (1849 - 1874)
6. Eleanor (1851 - 1926)
7. Dorothy Sarah (1853 - 1935) 
8. Peary (1856 - 1929) Peary continues the ancestral line down below.

Eleanor Hall 1851 - 1926

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Second Branch Generation

AG2 - Peary Hall and Susan Read (1) and Bridget Leyden (2) 1852 - 1929

Peary was born in 1856 in Eglingham, Northumberland, the son of Andrew Hall (b. 1819) and Margaret Pearey (b. 1815). He was the youngest of eight children and was brought up in the village of Hedgley (sometimes called Beanley on the census), just north of Alnwick. 

By the 1870’s Peary was working as a gamekeeper at Cheeseburn Grange, Stamfordham,  east of Newcastle Upon Tyne. He married Susan Read (b. 15 Jun 1852) (daughter of John Read and Mary Hilton) on the 8^th of January 1876 in Ponteland Register Office, Northumberland.

On the 1881 census Peary and Susan were living in Moorsholm, between, Middlesbrough and Whitby in North Yorkshire. Peary was a Police Constable and they had three children of their own, as well as Susan’s illegitimate daughter, Helen Lavinia (b. 1873). The family must have moved around quite a lot as most of their children are registered in different places.

By 1891 the family had moved to Brompton, Northallerton, North Yorkshire. They also had another child by this time.

Susan died in 1894 at the age of forty two while the family were still in Northallerton.

Peary, whose name changed to Percy in later records, died in 1929 in Thirsk.

Susan Read 1852 - 1894

Susan Read was born on the 15th of June 1852 in Furneux Pelham, Hertfordshire, the daughter of John Read (b. 1812) and Mary Hilton (b. 1807). 

In the early 1870's Susan worked as a housemaid and schoolroom maid in the household of famous historian and novelist James Anthony Froude (1818 - 1894), at number five, Onslow Gardens Kensington, London, where there is a blue plaque displayed in his memory. She gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Helen Lavinia Read in 1873. 

She moved to Cornhill in Northumberland where she became a nurse. She later married Peary Hall in 1876. Her daughter Helen Lavinia took on the extra surname of Hall after her mother married.

Susan had a further four children with Peary, before passing away at the age of forty two in 1894.

Peary (or Percy, as he sometimes appears on records) was still a Police Constable on the 1901 census. He died in 1929 at the age of seventy three in Thirsk, North Yorkshire.

Susan's illegitimate child, Helen Lavinia Read Hall connects the Hall family to the Main Ancestral Line through her marriage to Albert Walter Breach, see - Generation Ten - Albert Walter Breach and Helen Lavinia Read Hall 1872 - 1960.

Peary and Susan had four children as follows:

Margaret A M P 

1. Margaret Ada Mary Percy 1877 -

Margaret was born in 1877 in North Ormsby, North Yorkshire.

On the 1901 census she was still living with Peary and his new wife Bridget (see below). At the age of twenty four she was working as a Lady’s Maid. 

Margaret married Italian, Carlo Tagliasacchi on the 23 December 1898 in Como, Italy. They lived in Griante, Como, Italy for a time, where their two children were born. It is thought they later lived in Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire.

Margaret and Carlo's two children were, son Andreas (born 22nd January 1910), and daughter, Elena (born 30th July 1917).  

L to R, Andreas Tagliasacchi,
Margaret AMP Tagliasacchi (Hall), 
Helen L Breach (Hall),
Elena Tagliasacchi, David P Breach in 1925

Later in life, Elena worked as an interpreter and married Italian millionaire Andrea Pini in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire on the 2nd of May 1964. They lived in Como, Lombardia, Italy.

Wedding invitation

Wedding of Elena Tagliasacchi to Andrea Pini, Aylesbury 1964.
Standing behind Elena in the white hat is Susan Phyllis Ashby (Breach), to her left is David P Breach and his wife
Nora (in the pink hat).

2. John Reed Andrew 1878 - 1939

Believed to be 
John Reed Andrew Hall
in 1902

John was born in 1878 in Burneston near Leeming, North Yorkshire. He married Emily Harriet Hutchinson (b. 1878) on the 16 of January 1904 in Thirsk, and worked as a railway clerk in a goods depot. The couple had two children, both dying young; John Edmund who died soon after birth in 1914, and Roland P who was born in 1916 and died in 1923 at the age of six. 

Later, the couple informally adopted a boy, Roland Edgar, who was born on the 3rd of  May 1924. Legal adoption wasn't introduced until 1926 so Roland's adoption was never made legal, and as such, all records of his surname at birth are a mystery. Roland spent much of his adult life in various institutions. He died in York on the 16 February 2012. 

John Reed Andrew died on the 9th of June 1939 in Stockton on Tees, Co Durham. Interestingly, he also carries the Read name like his half sister Helen, although the spelling is different. Emily died on the 29th of January 1958 in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire. 

Wedding of Katherine Hutchinson (sister of Emily)
in Thirsk in 1906.
John R A and Emily Hall are standing and seated far right.

3. Susan Henrietta 1880 - 1959

Susan was born on the 11th of July 1880 in Moorsholm, North Yorkshire. In 1901 she was working as a lady’s maid at Maunby Hall, Kirby Wiske (near Thirsk). She married George Robert Taylor (b. 10 Oct 1885, York) in 1914 in Thirsk. They had one son, George Percy, born on the 19th May 1915 in Tadcaster, Yorkshire. George Robert was a garage proprietor and they eventually moved south as in 1939 they were living in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, by 1959 they were living in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire. Susan died in 1959 and George died in 1982 in Bournemouth, Dorset. 

Wedding of Susan H Hall and George Robert Taylor. This photo shows many members of the Hall family,
for details see the labelled version below).
Photo courtesy of Gloria Blower.

4. George Peary 1883 - 1960

George was born in 1883 in Skelton, North Yorkshire. On the 1901 census he was an apprentice watchmaker still living with Percy and his step mother Bridget in Felixkirk. He married Ethel Amelia Couch (1881 - 1936) in 1907 in Beverley, Yorkshire. George and Ethel had two children:

1. Irene Lindley (1911 - 1998)  
2. George Kenneth (1912 - 1997)

Ethel died in 1936 in Thirsk, but George moved to Buckinghamshire, where he died in 1960.

L to R, George Peary Hall, James L M Hall (see below) and George Kenneth Hall, taken in the early 1920's

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Peary Hall, having lost his first wife Susan married Bridget Leyden in 1895 in Thirsk, North Yorkshire.

Bridget was born on the 5^th of December 1869 in Grange, County Sligo, Ireland, the daughter of Owen Leyden and Catherine Kivlehan. The 1891 census shows twenty two year old Bridget working as a laundry maid at the home of Sir Edmund Turton, a JP, Conservative politician and late officer in the Cavalry, in Upsall near Thirsk. She married Peary Hall just one year after his first wife Susan died. She gave birth to one child only, James Lindley Macdonald in 1901 as follows:

1. James Lindley Macdonald 1900 - 1975

James was born on the 29th of December 1900 in Felixkirk, near Thirsk the son of Peary Hall and Bridget Leyden. He became a Reverend Canon and appears in the photo above. James never married and died on the 3rd of April 1973 in Thorner, Leeds, Yorkshire.

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Wedding photo of Susan H Hall and George R Taylor in 1914.
(This photo has been relabelled from the previous version and may be more accurate.)

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Family Tree

 

Note: - Some information previously displayed pertaining to earlier generations of the Hall family, has been removed as it cannot be verified. There have also been some updates and changes to information on this page that have recently come to light.

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Click here for the Read family - Associated Line AL5 - The Read Family 1775 - 1901.

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Alison Vainlo 2022