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cAn you help please? - Briefly my ancestors came from Northumberland to South Australia.  Unlike other colonies South Australia was actually a company - enough of the history side of things.  In the custody of a family ancestor was an oil painting of George HALL said to be the Constable of the (Bamburgh) Castle. I emailed the Castle almost about 15 years ago - no such records of anyone called George HALL as the Constable. Email referred off to a research who was about the do the same response . .  two days later turned over some papers and there was George the Constable ! ! ! C 1790. The outcome was a book       Bamburgh "Ghosts' - voices from the 18th Century            mostly about how George 'managed' the castle as our modern interpretation of a Constable greatly differs from then as more of a Chief Executive Office or the like.  Things went nice till about 1790 when Eleanor BROWN turned up on the steps of the Castle and very heavily pregnant. The father turned out to be Jonathan HALL the Constable's son - they had to atone for their sins in the local St Aiden Church.  Matilda BROWN was born and that now creates an extremely complex genea family tree project because Matilda marries DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS - as ALL of her three children all name children as either Matilda Hall DOUGLAS(S) or Jonathan Hall DOUGLAS(S).  This appears to have continued in several generations up to the late 1900's. Would be happy to share further details.  Standard offer I have if there anything down under please ask - Alan VK3HV   

Sorry no direct hit on my lot...but strange thing is that my sister in law...wife's brother's wife has an Ida Park LITTLE born abt 1864 Victoria Australia whose parents were Edward Alfred LITTLE m Jane SANDERSON
My notes on Ida are "Note death registration under maiden name of LITTLE - age shown as 73 so dob about 1864"
Ida had married William Jones LANGFORD died South Africa Boar war.
Can chase more if you are interested but where Edward / SANDERSON were from would require me to ask sister in law etc etc

regards
Alan
Melbourne

I have two Gabriel's in my HALL tree

1 Gabriel b bef 1595

PEDIGREE OF HALL OF CATCLEUGH AND OTTERBURNE
Gabriel Hall esq purchased Catcleugh and Otterburne high sheriff of Northumberland in 1706.  Will dated 26th June = Elizabeth (living in 1726)1727.  Died at Otterburne Castle 24th April and buried at Elsden 28th April 1733 aged 90

BELLINGHAM.
1730, May 23. Release, between (i) John Reed of Bellingham, gent., and Mathew Robson of Woodhouses, gent., of water corn mill known as Belling-rnill, &c. (N., vm, i)   1/34, June 4- Transfer of mortgage, between (i) Martin Hall of Catcleugh, esq. (son and heir of Gabriel Hall, late of Otterburn, esq., deed.) ; (2) Reynold Hall of Newbegin, esq. (sole executor of the will of the said Gabriel Hall, his late father) ; (3) Mathew Robson of Hawkupp, yeoman ; and (4) John Anderson of Newcastle, sadler ; of Tarsett hall, &c., and High and Low Newton in Simondburn parish. (N., vm 2)

1721, Dec. 26. Release (copy), between (i) Matthew Robson of Hawkupp, yeoman ; and (2) Gabriel Hall of Catcleugh, esq. ; of Tarsett Hall and High and Low Newton in Simondburn parish. (N., vm, 3)

1734, June 3- Lease (copy), between (i) Martin Hall of Catcleugh, esq. (son and heir of Gabriel Hall of Otterburn, esq., deed.) ; Reynold Hall of Newbegin (sole executor of the will of Gabriel Hall, his late father) ; and Matthew Robson, of Hawkupp, yeoman ; and (2) John Anderson of Newcastle, sadler ; of Tarsett hall, &c. (N., vm, 4)

2 Gabriel
[children of Reynold and Ruth Hall]
[1]  Gabriel Hall living an date 1737 died unmarried
[2]  Enoch Hall, esq left his estate by will to his sister Isabel which estates 24th July 17?? were advertised to be sold under a decree of chancery and at that time were worth 422l a year but subject o an annuity of 50l a year to a person 50 years old - ?
[3] Isabell Hall in 175? sold Sto??? to Thos. Hall. The Hill to Wm Hall; Everstone and Netherbouses &c. to Henry Ellison? Of Hebburn Hall co Durham esq.

Found the source
Do a google search....make sure you select books from the top in place of a general search
I entered the words   "mad Jack"  make sure you use quote marks as this keeps it as a quote and not two seperate words
I also entered hall also as an extra word and these yield over 700 hits
tip    quote marks makes the term a quotation for searching
a + sign makes it an essential word or phrase to search for
a - sign makes the word to be excluded
so you could enter it like this                       +"mad jack"    +hall       +Otterburn
That yield 33 hits
regards
Alan Hall

No direct help but the Australian National Library has digitised a lot of old newspapers
eccellent research facility
suggest you register if you use as there is the facility to put your details against any corrections
There are sometimes the need to edit as it is optical character recognition and it may get it partially wrong
Thus if anyone sees your related correction then it may give them a link to you
try  www.nla.gov.au
regards
Alan
Melbourne