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Ben Hall was born on 9 May 1837, at Maitland, New South Wales, Australia [3] (though an 1865 newspaper report, possibly incorrectly, named the Clift family owned Breeza Station near Breeza as his birthplace).
Jan 1, 1972 · Ben Hall (1837-1865), bushranger, is believed to have been born on 9 May 1837 at Maitland, New South Wales, son of Benjamin Hall and his wife Elizabeth; both parents were ex-convicts. He became a stockman and with John Macguire leased a run, Sandy Creek, near Wheogo.
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Ben Hall (born May 9, 1837, Maitland or Breeza, New South Wales, Australia—died May 5, 1865, Forbes, New South Wales) was a notorious Australian bushranger (a bandit of the Outback) who led a gang that committed hundreds of robberies in New South Wales.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Ben Hall was born on 9 May 1837, at Wallis Plains, near Maitland, [2] [3] in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. His parents were Benjamin Hall (born in Bristol, England, 1802) and Eliza Somers (born in Dublin, Ireland, 1807). Both of his parents were convicts and sent to gaol in New South Wales. They married in 1834. Ben was their fourth child.
Ben Hall was born in Maitland, in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, in May 1837. He started his working life on his father’s farm on the Pages River near Murrurundi. In the 1850s his father was charged with horse-stealing but was acquitted after the principal witness did not show up for the trial.
- State Library of New South Wales
Ben Hall was born in the British penal colony of New South Wales, specifically in Maitland of the Hunter Valley, in May 1837. His parents, both originally from the United Kingdom, were convicted of theft of goods worth more than a shilling.
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Benjamin Hall is thought to have been born on May 9, 1837, in what is now Maitland, New South Wales. (According to some sources, he was born in Breeza.) His parents were former convicts. As a young man, Hall worked as a cattle rancher, developing considerable skill with horses.
