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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
25139	ANKCORN, Emma Dorothy	1922	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Feb 1934 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
12261	BARLOW, Maurice	1921	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	May 1932 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
12245	BARTLAM, Elsie Frances	1921	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	May 1932 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26270	BARTLETT, Harold Jack	1916	ENG, LND, Marylebone	Apr 1930 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
12246	BEATTIE, Jane	1922	ENG,	May 1932 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26840	BEDWELL, Walter	1923	ENG, LND, Lambeth	Feb 1934 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
12262	BERMINGHAM, William	1919	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	May 1932 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26841	BLOOM, Reginald Daniel	1921	ENG, LND, Paddington	Feb 1934 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26271	BRIGGS, Carl Frederick	1919	ENG, STS, Kings Norton	Apr 1930 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26272	BROWN, Horace	1920	ENG, SSX, Hastings	Apr 1930 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
12263	BURNETT, Albert	1918	ENG, LND, Hackney	May 1932 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes	Bernie19
12264	BURNETT, Wilson	1920	ENG, MDX, Brentford	May 1932 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes	Bernie19
26842	CAMERON, Mary Edith	1925		Feb 1934 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
12265	CHUARD, Douglas	1921	ENG, KEN, Eltham	May 1932 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
12266	CLARK, John	1925	CAN,	May 1932 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
12267	COOK, Frederick	1924	ENG,	May 1932 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26843	DAWSON, David	1927	ENG, DUR, Houghton le Spring	Feb 1934 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26844	DAWSON, Thomas Henry	1921	ENG, DUR, Houghton le Spring	Feb 1934 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26273	DEARLOVE, Kenneth	1921	ENG, BRK, Reading	Apr 1930 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
12247	DERVIN, Lily	1923	IRL,	May 1932 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
12268	DESORMES, John	1921	ENG, KEN, Tonbridge	May 1932 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26845	DRYDEN, William Thomas	1924	ENG, NBL, Tynemouth	Feb 1934 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26274	DYER, George Edward	1915	ENG, LND, Wandsworth, Putney	Apr 1930 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
12248	EARL, Margaret	1923	ENG, WAR, Aston	May 1932 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
5439	FACER, Leslie Joseph Randall	1921	ENG,	May 1932 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26846	FACER, Marjorie Irene Randall	1922	ENG, LAN, Chorlton	Feb 1934 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
12269	FOWLER, William	1920	ENG, NTH, Wellingborough	May 1932 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26275	GARRETT, Basil Farmer	1919	ENG, MDX, Brentford	Apr 1930 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26276	GODSELL, Leslie George	1916	ENG, GLS, Cheltenham	Apr 1930 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26283	HADLOW, Sidney John	1914	ENG, SSX, Uckfield	Apr 1930 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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