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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
27034	ABBOTT, Franz Arnold	1918	ENG, DEV	Oct 1928 : Beltana	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27033	ABBOTT, Harry Franz	1917	ENG, MDX, Hendon	Oct 1928 : Beltana	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
5493	ACOL, John	1920	ENG, LND, Hampstead	Nov 1932 : Balranald	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
21189	ADAMS, William	1916	ENG, WAR, Aston	Jan 1927 : Ballarat	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27035	ALDER, John Harkis	1914	ENG, OXF	Oct 1928 : Beltana	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
20888	ALDERSON, Arthur	1912	ENG, DUR	Jan 1924 : Baradine	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26974	ALEXANDER, Reginald Gordon	1917	ENG, LAN, West Derby	Jan 1928 : Barrabool	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
12114	ALLEN, Clifford John	1914	GBG,	Dec 1928 : Bendigo	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26426	ALLEN, Walter Bevis	1901	ENG, SRY, Kingston	Jul 1913 : Belgic	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
5210	ALSOP, Benjamin H.	1929	ENG, DUR, Darlington	Sep 1935 : Duchess of Atholl	CAN	Fairbridge Homes
5212	ALSOP, James	1927	ENG, DUR, Darlington	Sep 1935 : Duchess of Atholl	CAN	Fairbridge Homes
5211	ALSOP, Norman Frederick	1923	ENG, DUR, Dunsdale	Sep 1935 : Duchess of Atholl	CAN	Fairbridge Homes
25270	AMOTT, James	1913	ENG, LND, Lambeth	Feb 1924 : Euripides	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
25136	ANDERSON, Muriel Helen	1921	ENG, ESS, West Ham	Oct 1930 : Barrabool	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
5494	ANDERSON, Robert	1918	ENG, LND, Lambeth	Oct 1930 : Barrabool	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
25616	ANDREWS, Gwendoline	1914		Feb 1924 : Euripides	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
25137	ANDREWS, Herbert George	1912	ENG, SSX	Feb 1924 : Euripides	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
25138	ANKCORN, Dennis George	1925	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jan 1937 : Oronsay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
25139	ANKCORN, Emma Dorothy	1922	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Feb 1934 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
8780	ANNETTS, Raymond Douglas	1917	ENG, LND, Lambeth	Mar 1928 : Benalla	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
5413	ANSELL, Maurice George	1926	ENG, OXF, Banbury	Nov 1938 : Themistocles	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
5404	ANSELL, Peter Albert John	1928	ENG, OXF, Banbury	Nov 1938 : Themistocles	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
23615	APPLEFORD, Harry	1921	ENG, BRK, Reading	May 1933 : Otranto	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27036	APPLEGATE, Sidney Thomas	1916	ENG, LND, Hackney	Oct 1928 : Beltana	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
25954	ARMSTRONG, Benjamin John Emmerson	1918	ENG, HAM, Hartley Wintney	Nov 1929 : Ballarat	AUS	Fairbridge Homes	splmum , Pinjarra1929
21149	ARMSTRONG, John Kenneth	1915	ENG,	Aug 1921 : Themistocles	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
5496	ARNOTT, Anthony Robert	1923	ENG, DUR, Darlington	May 1934 : Ballarat	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
5497	ARNOTT, Michael	1925	ENG, DUR, Darlington	May 1934 : Ballarat	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
25271	ARTHUR, Frederick	1913	ENG, SRY, Kingston	Feb 1924 : Euripides	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27391	ARTHUR, James Lafferty	1940	ENG,	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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