Hallam Family

Peter Hallam
Born c.1812. Peter was a time expired convict. The ‘family oral history’ says that Peter arrived in Queensland with the Leslie Brothers. The family have not found any records to prove this claim but dates and numerous circumstances point to the fact that he may have arrived with one of the early Downs settlers. Peter married Frances Willis (Frann) and they lived at One Mile and Seven Mile.  He was a farmer and carrier.  There is a Hallam Lane officially signposted outside Rosewood in the vicinity of the land that Peter Hallam owned. An advertisement for the sale of a team of bullocks in the Queensland Times on 15 January 1880 showed that Peter lived at Paradise (near Rosewood Gate), Ipswich.

Peter died on 22 May 1882. Frances Graham Hallam, widow placed a claim for the estate of her husband for transmission of Subdivision 2 of Portion 175 in the Parish of Jeebropilly.

Frances Hallam (nee Willis)
Frances (Frann) was born c.1828.  She married Peter Hallam and they lived at One Mile and Seven Mile.

Their children included:

• Peter Hallam born in 1854
• Thomas Hallam born in 1859
• David Edmund Hallam born in 1871

Frances died on 26 April 1901 in Longreach, Queensland.

George Hollingsworth Hallam
George was born on 29 December 1844 in New South Wales (later Queensland). George married Margaret Rachel Grant on 26 September 1864 in Ipswich. George lived at Seven Mile and was a carrier by profession. George and Margaret rode overland with a child each on the saddle to Eidsvold Station in 1869 where he worked for Messrs. Ivory Bros.

Their young son George Frederick died at the age of three on 15 May 1869 at the home of his uncle, James Hallam at Seven Mile Creek.

Margaret Rachel Hallam (nee Grant)
Margaret was born c.1848.  Lived at Jebropilly and she married George Hollingsworth Hallam on 26 September 1864 in Ipswich.

Margaret died on 24 January 1905.