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Record #5550

Name :: : Norman HALE (1922 - )
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 23 Sep 1922 Notes : Source: Fairbridge Kids; WWII record
Marriage (1): : 1944 Spouse/Notes : Margaret Evelyn EARL (Perth district, reg 698)
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne

Sep qtr 1922, 10b 245, mmn HALE (FreeBMD)

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialAustralia

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : May 1932
Country: : Australia
Ship: : Jervis Bay
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Fairbridge Homes

NotesIn 1932, Norman Hale, 9, arrived at Fremantle, Australia, in a group of 40 children from the Child Emigration Society, The Strand, London, England, bound for Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, Australia.

His wife Margaret EARL had arrived in the same ship, aged 8.

Norman served in WWII (NAA RecordSearch):
HALE NORMAN : Service Number - WX29472 : Date of birth - 23 Sep 1922 : Place of birth - EPSOM ENGLAND : Place of enlistment - PERTH WA : Next of Kin - HALE MARGARET

In 1993, an article was written about Norman's search and recovery of his English roots:

"Search yields a bounty of love by Jeremy Wilshire

He had to wait more than half a century but Norman Hale's private and painful family search has ended in tears of happiness.

When nine of his closest relatives arrived in Perth from England this week, the overdue reunion closed the chapter on a heart-wrenching tale which began in 1932.

That was the year in which Mr Hale arrived in Australia as a lonely nine-year-old after being sent to a boys' home in Durham when his mother fell on hard times in the tough coal-mining town of northern England.

He grew up at Pinjarra's Fairbridge Farm, where he met his childhood sweetheart, married, and had five children and 13 grandchildren, during which time his English heritage remained a mystery.

'I first started looking for my family when I was a 20-year-old in the army in 1942,' Mr Hale, 75, said.

'But I had heard absolutely nothing until about two years ago when a friend put me on to Margaret Humphries from the Child Migrant Trust.'

The search led first to cousin Jane Brown, who was very close to Mr Hale's mother and nursed her before her death in 1980.

Mrs Brown said: 'Just before my aunt died she told me she had a son called Norman who had been sent to Australia, and later, when we were clearing out her things, we found some old photos of Norman which I kept.

'I'm sure fate just kept hanging in there and wanted us to get together.'

Letters, Christmas cards and phone calls followed over the next two years before the English connection -- made up of all nine family members -- flew to Perth for a true family Christmas.

'This was such a big occasion that we felt the whole family should come along,' Mrs Brown said. 'And it really was quiet a meeting -- there were 27 people waiting for us at the airport.

'It was just awe-inspiring to think we had a whole new family just waiting there for us on the other side of the world and it has been fantastic to finally catch up after all these years.'

As for Mr Hale's feelings on his family and the new-found joy it offers: 'I'm going to puncture the plane ... they're not allowed to go home,' he said."

ContributorsCreated : 2009-03-13 20:31:46 / From original database

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Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 30 Entries

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
3061	ABDALE, John George	1873	ENG, NBL, Newcastle Upon Tyne	Mar 1891 : Norwegian	CAN	Barnardos
9729	AITCHISON, Isabella	1900	ENG, NBL, Newcastle Upon Tyne	Jul 1914 : Corinthian	CAN	Barnardos
10026	AITCHISON, Margaret	1903	ENG, NBL, Newcastle Upon Tyne	Jul 1914 : Corinthian	CAN	Barnardos
21339	ALESIA, Frances Elizabeth	1897	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jun 1913 : Corinthian	CAN	Barnardos
10160	ALEXANDER, Ernest Augustus	1892	ENG, NBL, Gosforth	Jul 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
10161	ALEXANDER, Thomas Anderson	1888	ENG, NBL, Gosforth	Jul 1902 : New England	CAN	Barnardos
10489	ATKINSON, Eliza King	1910	ENG, NBL, Tynemouth	Oct 1920 : Scandinavian	CAN	Barnardos
17133	AUCKLAND, Alexander	1882	ENG, NBL, Belford	Apr 1894 : Labrador	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
5196	AUTON, Margaret	1922	ENG, NBL, Newcastle	Sep 1935 : Duchess of Atholl	CAN	Fairbridge Homes
5213	AUTON, Ronald	1929	ENG, NBL, Newcastle	Sep 1935 : Duchess of Atholl	CAN	Fairbridge Homes
5681	BEATON, George Alexander	1897	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Apr 1911 : Hesperian	CAN	Quarriers
26950	BELL, Alice	1930	ENG, NBL, Newcastle T.	Nov 1938 : Themistocles	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26247	BELL, Doreen	1924	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jan 1937 : Oronsay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26248	BELL, Harriet	1923	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jan 1937 : Oronsay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27388	BELL, John George		ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27389	BELL, Joyce	1938	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27306	BELL, Mary Rose	1932	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jul 1939 : Orama	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27390	BELL, Rosalind Barbara	1937	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26949	BELL, Sidney	1926	ENG, NBL, Newcastle T.	Nov 1938 : Themistocles	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
3571	BLACKETT, John	1912	ENG, NBL, Newcastle Upon Tyne	May 1929 : Montroyal	CAN	British Immigration and Colonisation Association
11884	BULLER, Dinah	1867	ENG, NBL, Ulverston	May 1884 : Sarnia	CAN	Unknown
10580	BYWATER, Gladys	1908	ENG, NBL, Tynemouth	Sep 1922 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
10627	CALLAWAY, George	1915	ENG, NBL, Tynemouth	Apr 1929 : Duchess of York	CAN	Barnardos
4461	CARR, Sidney	1908	ENG, NBL, Newcastle Upon Tyne	Aug 1928 : Cedric	CAN	Harvesting Scheme
26324	CHAPMAN, Joseph	1923	ENG, NBL	Aug 1932 : Oronsay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
16132	COCHRANE, Michael	1876	ENG, NBL, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne	Mar 1892 : Carthaginian	CAN	Barnardos
12093	COLTMAN, Herbert Newton	1917	ENG, NBL, Newcastle T.	May 1928 : Ballarat	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
5147	COWEY, Patrick	1914	ENG, NBL, Newcastle	Oct 1928 : Montcalm	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
16396	CRAIG, James	1908	ENG, NBL, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne	Sep 1921 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
16395	CRAIG, Robert Sheppard Bradley	1911	ENG, NBL, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne	Sep 1921 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 30 Entries

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