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The Halls from Osmington Dorset

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This is a branch of the Hall family of Greatford Hall Lincoln, who themselves were a scion of the Fitzwilliams of Clixly Lincoln.

It is of the same lineage as Earl Fitzwilliam - a Norman son of that house Arthur Fitzwilliam of the Hall was called "Arthur of the Hall" to distinguish him from his brothers - thus became Arthur Hall 

Many descendants were christened Fitzwilliam Hall - has been dropped for several generations.

My Hall family lived in Donegal in 19th C and came from Dorset England originally

I know of an Archdeacon Henry Hall - 1767 - rector of Child Ockford, Dorset - afterwards a bishop.

Here are some references to the Bishop:-

Rectors of Langton Matravers From Hutchins History of Dorset
Henry Hall B.A. rector of Child Ockford, May 1777, on the death of Combes
George Trenchard on the resignation of Hall, inst. 12 June, 1780, died May 11, 1808

 

From A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, London 1831

Spetisbury, a parish in the hundred of Loosebarrow, Shaston (East)
division of the county of Dorset, containing 546 inhabitants

Dr. Sloper, in 1728, founded and endowed with £20 per annum a school for teaching poor children.
There is also a bequest by Bishop Hall, for supplying the poor with bibles.

There was also a Mr Charles Hall who bought Osmington near Weymouth in 1866 - his son Captain Hall succeeded him.

I do not know how two sisters - born in Dorset  - are linked to Donegal:-

1. Fanny Hall who married Samuel Donaldson from Co Donegal, in 1869 and 

2 Sarah Elizabeth Hall who married Charles Joseph Boyce, said to have come from
Co Wicklow

Boyce

The Boyces from Co Wicklow
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