Soldiers Died in the Great War states he was born and lived in Longhorsley, and enlisted at Morpeth.
Bill Riccalton has supplied the following:
John George Hall was born in Longhorsley in 1883, the second son of farmer George Hall and Mary Elizabeth Hall. In the 1891 census the Hall family are recorded as farming at Earsdon East Forest, having taken over the rental of the farm in the latter 1880s
Source: Morpeth Herald Advert “Farm to Let” 1886
The 1901 and 1911 census records show that John was still at Earsdon East Forest, recorded as a farm worker with his father John as the farmer. Strangely the 1911 census postal address was given as Earsdon East Forest Longhorsley RSO Northumberland (My emphasis). I think the East Forest is nearer Ulgham than Longhorsley!
The CWGC records show Pte J G Hall's parents as living at Hartington Hall, Cambo, at the time of his death. It would be interesting to know when they moved there, as there were Halls still farming the East Forest certainly as late as the 1960s and possibly even later.
Colin McMillan has provided the following:
John George Hall was born in Longhorsley in or about 1884. He was the son of George Hall and Mary Elizabeth Hall and the family were living at Earsdon East Forest, Longhorsley in 1911. In the 30 years of their marriage George Hall and Mary Elizabeth Hall produced eight children of whom six survived and five were still living with them at the time. John George Hall was the oldest of them there and was described as “farmer’s son working on farm”. Others in the household were his siblings and a farm worker.
John's brother, Henry (16), was a shepherd and his sisters, Ursula Margaret (24), Mary Elizabeth junior (21) and Jane Ellen (16) were all involved in dairy work on the farm. The children were all born locally, either at Longhorsley or Bothal.
John George Hall is remembered in Hebron on H133.01Is he the "Pte. John Hall named in Morpeth on M17.29?
