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QLD Reunion 2024

5-7 July 2024

Completed

Kenilworth and Brisbane

QLD Reunion 2024

A reunion is being planned for Hassall family members from across South-East Queensland (of course all family members and friends are welcome to attend) to take place in July 2024. 


The venues include St Matthews Anglican Church, Sherwood, and the town of Kenilworth, two hours to the north of Brisbane. These are the sites associated with the first Hassall family-lines in Queensland. In the 1870s Rev. James Samual Hassall (son of Thomas Hassall, and author of In Old Australia) with his wife Frances Dixon, moved to Queensland. For almost three decades James was parish priest at St Matthews Anglican Church, Sherwood. Both James and Frances are buried in Sherwood Cemetery.


Details:  /events-list/qld-reunion-2024

Also in the 1870s, some children of James Hassall (brother of Thomas Hassall) and Catherine Lloyd moved to Queensland. Among these were James Cusack Hassall (1858-1936) and his wife Francis Percy Faris, who settled first at Dandine Station on the Darling Downs before shifting to the Mount Ubi Station at Kenilworth. Their story is told in The Hassall Family Mt Ubi Kenilworth 1896-1996) and in displays at the Kenilworth Museum http://www.kenilworthmuseum.org.au. Some family historians estimate that Rowland and Elizabeth Hassall had/have over 20,000 descendants in Australia and New Zealand. Many of them lived/live in Queensland and remain to be discovered, contacted and linked. We anticipate meeting many descendants of these two families, in a program that includes:


  • Visits to Lynne Grove House and to Kenilworth Museum

  • Talks on the contributions made by Hassall descendants to Queensland history (social, economic, educational, religious, artistic, sports etc)

  • Exhibition of Hassall heritage items (letters, photos, relics)

  • Reenactment of the triple wedding of November 1819

  • Sunday Service at St Matthews

  • Silent movie evening: The Moth of Moonbi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moth_of_Moonbi


  • Visit to Hassall family gravesites at Sherwood and elsewhere.


Cost

$20 per adult / $10 concession and children aged 3 to 15


For further details contact Andrew Hassall:   Phone/text 0417 592 206


Registration Form

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