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Name: HALL, William 'Will'
Birth Date: 1859
Death Date: 4.11.1933 Karura Falls, Limuru
First Date: 1902
Profession: Stock Farmer, Vice Pres. Limuru Farmers' Association 1912
Area: Limuru, 1925 Karura Falls Est., Limuru
Married: Josephine Salmon
Children: William Harold (17.10.1908 Limuru -8 July 1920 Nairobi, bullet wound of head, laceration of brain, shot by fellow pupil John Delaval Kirwan at Nairobi School); Beatrice (Francis, sometime Matron Nairobi School); Gladys Violet (married Game Warden Kearney)
Book Reference: Gillett, SE, HBEA, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EAMR, Drumkey, Land, EAHB 1906, AJ, Gazette, North, Red Book 1912, Barnes
War Service: WW1 with EAMR - E Sqdn. 14/9/14 - 13/10/14
General Information:
SE - W. Hall - Limoru - April 1908
Land - 1906 - W. Hall - Agricultural, 642 acres, 15-6-04, Homestead, Registered 3-9-06
Agricultural Journal - Brands Allotted and Registered, September 1908 - W. Hall, Karura Falls, Limoru - Kiambu E9H
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Dagoretti - W. Hall
North - W. Hall - Land Grant application, Nairobi 16-1-1902; Firearms registered at Mombasa on way to Limuru 31-5-1905; Landholder's Game Licence, Seyidie Province 31-5-1905; 1906 resident at Limuru
Red Book 1912 - W. Hall - Kyambu
Red Book 1912 - Vice-President - Limuru Farmers' Association
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Kikuyu - William Hall, Settler, Limoru and Josephine Hall, Married, Limoru
Red 25 - Honorary Permit Issuer.
Red 25 - Steward, Jockey Club of Kenya
Red 22 - W. Hall, Limuru
Red 22 - Honorary Permit Issuer
Advertiser - 30/10/1908 - Mr W. Hall of Limoru - birth of a son and heir
Red Book 1912 - W. Hall - Kyambu
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - William Hall, British, age 74, died 4/11/33 and Willy, of Nairobi School, killed in shotgun accident aged 11, 9 July 1920
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for death of Willy on 8 July.
Gazette 8 Feb 1934 probate - William Hall, late of Limuru
O'Brien diary extract (via John Roycroft) We went to Karapana Falls to see the Hall family. Mr Hall has 600 acres, some under coffee, some use for grazing, fruit growing etc. Karapana is nearly 7000 feet above sea level. The land was all bush when he bought it from the government about 25 years ago. A lot of it has been cleared, planted and fenced. He uses the river water for power of her husking and washing his coffee berries and grinding posho for his boys. He is a typical old-fashioned settler of the farmer type,bluff, homely and very hospitable.