| Parents: Marriage: Occupation: |
William Hall Jane McDermott Ellen Foley February 13, 1872 Lumberman [Source: 1881 Canadian Census] |
| Children: | Mary (Mamie) E. | Mar. 1873 | † 1966 |
| William Edmund | Aug. 19, 1874 | † Jan. 17, 1963 | |
| John F. | July 3, 1876 | † Nov. 9, 1957 | |
| Johanna (Anna) | Oct. 19, 1878 | † Mar. 20, 1937 | |
| Ellen (Ida) | Dec. 18, 1880 | † June 30, 1956 | |
| George Allen | Feb. 27, 1883 | † Apr. 25, 1918 | |
| Katherine (Kate) Agatha | June 24, 1885 | † July 23, 1980 |
| Notes: | At the time of the 1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, William was |
| 6 years old
and living with his parents and two younger siblings in District 19 of Sherbrooke, Lanark County, Canada West (Ontario).
His father was involved in farming, and the family was of the Catholic faith.
At the time of the 1881 Canadian Census, William was 35 years old and living with his wife Ellen and their five eldest children in Darling, Lanark North, Ontario. William was working as a lumberman, and the family was of the Catholic faith [Source: NA Film No. C-13233, Dist. 112, Sub-district F, p. 22, Household no. 86]. William owned a hotel in partnership with Richard Foley (John Foley's youngest brother) in Almonte. He also owned a sawmill in the town of Hall's Mills, which was named after him and of which he was the postmaster in the 1880's. The original house which William and Ellen Hall lived in is still standing and occupied. The conveyance deed selling the property to William Hall from Timothy and Thomas Foley in 1881 included the sawmill, house of squared log construction, a bunkhouse/stable and seven acres of timberland for a price of $7,000 (equal to approximately $100,000 in current U.S. dollars). The Foley's homestead had been directly across the road from the mill. Due to the fact that the Indian River, which powered the sawmill, was so shallow, the mill was operated only in the spring when the runoff deepened the water level sufficiently to power the water wheel. During that time the mill operated around the clock, seven days a week. In the evenings they hung many lanterns to illuminate the work area. William sold the mill a scant month before he travelled to Denver and died there of smallpox at the age of 39. |
| Ancestry: | The Thomas Foley Line [through marriage] |
| The Nicholas Hall Line |
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