This page collects information about people with surname Hall who were known or believed to have lived in East Lothian.
Notable Individuals
- See Hall baronets (below)
Notable Landmarks
Hall baronets, of Dunglass (1687)
Dunglass Castle c.1920 - rebuilt following the explosion of the Rough Wooing.
The Hall Baronetcy of Dunglass (in East Lothian formerly Haddingtonshire until 1975), was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 8 October 1687 for John Hall.
Dunglass Castle, East Lothian was built by the Pepdies of Dunglass in the 14th century. The original castle was destroyed in an explosion in 1640, and in 1687, John Hall (1650-1710) (1st Baronet) acquired and rebuilt this estate which would remain in the family for 232 years, when it was sold by Sir John Richard Hall, 9th Baronet in the year 1918.
- See also Hall in East Lothian.
- John Hall (1650-1710), twice Lord Provost of Edinburgh
- James Hall (1673-1742) - he married (as his 2nd wife) Margaret Pringle, daughter of Sir John Pringle, 2nd Bart of Stichill. They had issue.[1]
- John Hall (1711-1776)
- James Hall (1761-1832) - The fourth Baronet was a politician, geologist and geophysicist, Member of Parliament.
- Sir John Hall, 5th Baronet FRS (1787–1860)
- Sir James Hall, 6th Baronet (1824–1876)
- Sir Basil Francis Hall, 7th Baronet (1832–1909)
- Sir Henry John Hall, 8th Baronet (1835–1913)
- Sir John Richard Hall, 9th Baronet (1865–1928)
- Sir Martin Julian Hall, 10th Baronet (1874–1958) - The tenth Baronet was Director of the Food Section at the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War and subsequently Chief Reconstruction Officer for Scotland at the Ministry of Labour.
- Sir Julian Henry Hall, 11th Baronet (1907–1974)
- Sir Lionel Reid Hall, 12th Baronet (1898–1975)
- Sir Neville Reynolds Hall, 13th Baronet (1900–1978)
Other Family Members:
- Basil Hall (1788-1844), Captain in Royal Navy, noted explorer in traveloer
- Basil Sidmouth de Ros Hall (1833-1871), Captain in Royal Navy.
See Also
:Note, for the following tables, that there may be more than one county or district of this name and that some contributors may have entered a different (possibly shorter and/or ambiguous) name when this one was meant. Search for similar names to get a more complete result. Common abbreviations are "Co." and "Cty", but there may have been no word for "county" (or equivalent) included, or such a word may have been wrongly included.
Familypedia people with surname Hall in East Lothian
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Born in East Lothian
Baptised in East Lothian
Married in East Lothian
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Died in East Lothian
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| Death date | Death place | Birth place | Father | Mother | Joined with | |
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| James Hall (1673-1742) | 27 March 1742 | Dunglass Castle, East Lothian, Dunglass, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom | Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom | John Hall (1650-1710) | Catherine Loch (1651-1690) | Anne Hume (1677-1699) + Margaret Pringle (1689-1776) |
| John Hall (1711-1776) | 3 July 1776 | Dunglass Castle, Dunglass, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom | Dunglass Castle, Dunglass, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom | James Hall (1673-1742) | Margaret Pringle (1689-1776) | Magdalen Pringle (1729-1763) |
| John Hall (1650-1710) | 14 October 1710 | Dunglass Castle, Dunglass, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom | Canongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom | Catherine Loch (1651-1690) + Margaret Flemming (1657-) | ||
| John Hall (1787-1860) | 2 April 1860 | Dunglass Castle, Dunglass, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom | Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom | James Hall (1761-1832) | Helen Hamilton Douglas (1762-1837) | Julia Walker (1798-1874) |
Buried in East Lothian
- ^ [http://www.historicalportraits.com/Search/ItemDetails.asp?ItemID=963 Katherine Hall of Dunglass (died 1745) was painted by Allan Ramsay, was the youngest daughter of Sir James Hall, 2nd Bt. of Dunglass (died 1742) and by his second wife, Margaret Pringle. She married the Jacobite poet William Hamilton of Bangour (1704–54) in 1743 and had one son, James, who succeeded to the estate and later married Margaret, daughter of James Bruce of Kinniard. Hamilton belonged to a circle of Edinburgh intellectuals and writers that included Allan Ramsay Senior, who passionately supported the cause of the Stuarts.