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     Francis Kirk was christened on 25 February 1831 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. He was the son of George Kirk and Martha Wing.
     Francis Kirk appeared on the 1841 census in the household of George Kirk and Martha Wing in Morthen, Whiston, Yorkshire, England.

     George Kirk was recorded on the 1851 census. He was born circa 1793 in Yorkshire.
George Kirk married Martha Wing in December 1818 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. Marriage licence dated 15 (or 7th) Dec 1818: George Kirk aged 25 of Morthern & Martha Wing, aged 21 of Kimberworth, for an intended marriage at Rotherham.
     George Kirk and Martha Wing were recorded on the 1841 census in Morthen, Whiston, Yorkshire, England. George Kirk, 45, farmer, Martha Kirk 40, Joseph Kirk 15, Mary Kirk     15, James Kirk 12, Francis Kirk 10, Saml Kirk 7, Martha Kirk 5, all born in the county with Jane Greaves 35,Wm Osbonre 20, N. S [male servant], John .... 14, M S, Elizabeth Cutts, 15 F.S..

     George Kirk was christened on 2 August 1820 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. He was the son of George Kirk and Martha Wing.
     George Kirk were sponsored in December 1839 at Victoria by an unknown person ..
George Kirk married Ann Marshall before 1844.
George Kirk married secondly Elizabeth Wippell in 1847 in Melbourne, Victoria.
     George died on 12 February 1882 in South Yarra, Victoria, aged 61. Arrived Port Phillip Dec 1839; worked in various capacities in the bush until 1845; became one of largest butchers in Melbourne; with a partner, took over the Victoria Tannery on the Yarra 1850-1855; became a stock and station agent with firm of Row & Co., eventually George Kirk & Company until 1866; had large squatting interests outside Vic. His daughter Eliza Rowden married Walter Russell Hall and established a trust of £1,000,000 for philanthropic purposes..

     George Edward Kirk was born in 1875 in Fitzroy, Victoria. He was the son of William Kirk and Anna Maria Callanan.

     George James Kirk was born in 1851 in Melbourne, Victoria. He was the son of George Kirk and Elizabeth Wippell.
     George died in 1857 in Victoria.

     George Marshall Kirk was born in 1845 in Melbourne, Victoria. He is described as brother in law in Walter Russell Hall's will, which suggests Eliza's father had married twice.. He was the son of George Kirk and Ann Marshall.
George Marshall Kirk married Charlotte Bolton on 22 January 1883 in Queensland.
     George died on 13 October 1902 in Queensland. He was buried at Nundah cemetery. He obtained an auctioneers' licence in Sydney in 1899..

     James Kirk was christened on 2 October 1828 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. He was the son of George Kirk and Martha Wing.
     James Kirk appeared on the 1841 census in the household of George Kirk and Martha Wing in Morthen, Whiston, Yorkshire, England.

     Jane Kirk was also known as Jennie in records. She was born on 28 May 1857 in Kyneton, Victoria. She was the daughter of Joseph Kirk & Ellen (Argyle).. She was the daughter of Joseph Kirk and Ellen Argyle.
Jane Kirk married Thomas Skarratt Hall, son of Walter Hall and Elizabeth Carleton Skarratt, on 18 January 1887 in Kyneton, Victoria. HALL—KIRK.—The marriage of Miss Jane Kirk, daughter of Mr. Joseph Kirk, of Lake Boga and Mr. T. S, Hall, bank manager, of Rockhampton, Queensland was celebrated at the Church of England, Kyneton, by the Rev, J, E. Herring, on Wednesday, January 18th. The bride was attired In white satin, with trimmings of Eidelweiss lace, and wore a wreath of bridal flowers surmounting a tulle veil, After the ceremony the weddlng party was entertained at breakfast, at the residence of Mr. Samuel Booth. The newly-wedded left for New Zealand before taking up thelr residence at Rockhampton..
She was an owner of the Rialto..
     Jane died on 8 July 1943 in Cricket St Thomas, Somerset, aged 86. The Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser on Saturday 17 July 1943 announced: CRICKET ST. THOMAS DEATH OF MRS. T. S. HALL Lady of the Manor of Cricket St. Thomas The death occurred, on Thursday morning, of Mrs. Jane Hall. O.B.E. widow of Mr. Thomas Skarratt Hall, late of Weeting Hall. Brandon Norfolk (who predeceased her in 1903). Mrs. Hall had been ill some three weeks and was 86 years of age. She displayed lively Interest in gardening and dairy farming, her shorthorns being celebrated throughout the industry. Keenly interested in Red Cross and nursing causes she was awarded the O.B.E. for entirely equipping and running a hospital in London during the last war for Australian nurses serving in the Imperial Australian Force in this country. She was Lady of the Manor and principal land-owner of Cricket St. Thomas, the estate—which she acquired in 1920 —embracing well over TOO acres and the farms chiefly consisting of pasture lands. Very notable nave been the estate's recent developments in connection with projects for increasing food production. Mrs Hall being deeply concerned to ensure that her contribution to the war effort was thorough to a degree. The mansion is of Ham Hill stone, beautifully situated a well-wooded park 14 acres of which were up to recent years pleasure grounds and gardens. Mrs. Hall —who was a native of Victoria. Australia, and, following her marriage lived lor some years in Melbourne—leaves three sons. They are Wing-Commander Harold Wesley Hall, M.C. and Croix de Guerre. R.A.F. (late Queen’s Bays), of Downton Fields, near Lymlngton; Lieut.- Colonel Walter D'Arcy Hall M.C and bar and Croix de Guerre (late 20th Hussars), of Shipton Court. Oxford: and Captain A. A. Hall C.C. (late Royal Corps of Signals), who is prominent in public work in Somerset The funeral will take place at Finchley Cemetery on Thursdav next. A memorial service was held at Cricket St. Thomas Church on Sunday morning..
     Her will was proved on 23 October 1943 in LLandudno, Wales. Jane Hall of Cricket St Thonas near Chard, Somersetshire, widow, ded 8 July 1943. Probate granted to Harold Wesley Hall MC retired major H M Army Walter D'Arcy Hall, MC, Lieutenant Colonel H M Army and Athelstan Argyle Hall of no occupation. Effects £134090 16s 8s..
RIALTO BUILDING, Collins st, sold yesterday for £82,000 The National Mutual Life Association yesterday purchased the seven storeyed Rialto Building, 495-503 Collins st, at auction for £82,000. Four buyers competed keenly and quickly raised the bidding from £60,000 to £82,000. The Rialto has a frontage of 67ft 3m and a depth of 319ft. The rental return is £11,608 a year. Yeo, Crosthwaite, and Co, Queen st, were auctioneers for the vendor the estate of the late Jane Hall, of London. Mr F. Sampson, of G. G. Henderson Pty Ltd, acted for the buyer..

     Joseph Kirk was christened on 4 December 1822 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. He was the son of George Kirk and Martha Wing.
     Joseph Kirk appeared on the 1841 census in the household of George Kirk and Martha Wing in Morthen, Whiston, Yorkshire, England. Joseph was listed as the son of Martha Wing in the 1851 census in Whiston, Yorkshire.
Joseph Kirk married Ellen Argyle on 24 September 1853 in St Peter's Eastern Hill, Melbourne, Victoria.
     Joseph died on 8 July 1873 in Lake Boga, Victoria, aged 50.

     Martha Kirk was christened on 13 November 1835 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. She was the daughter of George Kirk and Martha Wing.

     Martha Sophia Kirk 1849 was born in Melbourne, Victoria. She was the daughter of George Kirk and Elizabeth Wippell.

     Mary Kirk was christened on 30 July 1824 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. She was the daughter of George Kirk and Martha Wing.

     Samuel Kirk was christened on 19 February 1834 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. He was the son of George Kirk and Martha Wing.
     Samuel Kirk appeared on the 1841 census in the household of George Kirk and Martha Wing in Morthen, Whiston, Yorkshire, England.

     Sarah Ann Kirk married Joseph Mossman Rich, son of Charles Rich and Mary Mossman, on 17 March 1892 in St Peter, Gamston, Nottinghamshire.

     Walter Russell Kirk was born on 17 July 1887 in Queensland. He was the son of George Marshall Kirk and Charlotte Bolton.
     Walter died on 24 May 1898 in Queensland aged 10. He was buried at Nundah cemetery.

     William Kirk was christened on 23 August 1826 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. He was the son of George Kirk and Martha Wing.
William Kirk married Anna Maria Callanan in 1873 in Victoria.
     William died  on 28 August 1891 in 99 Park St, South Yarra, Victoria, aged 65. KIRK. —On the 28th inst, at 99 Park-street, South Yarra, William Kirk, late of Balaclava, aged 65 years..

     Charles Kirke was christened on 4 September 1633 in St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London. There is no proof at this stage of this parent child relationship. He was the son of George Kirke and Anne Killigrew.

     Daughter Kirke was the daughter of George Kirke and Anne Killigrew.
     Daughter died before 23 May 1640. She was buried on 23 May 1640 in Westminster Abbey, London.

     More information about George Kirke may be found at http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/kirke-george-1675. He was born before 1590 in Scotland. He was the son of George Kirke, gentleman of the Robes to James VI of Scotland by 1600.
George Kirke married Anne Killigrew, daughter of Sir Robert Killigrew and Mary Woodhouse, on 4 January 1627. She was the daughter of Sir Robert killigrew of Kempton, Mdx. They had 2 sons and 2 daughter, one of each dying in his lifetime. He married secondly Mary, daughter of Aurelian Townsend in 1646.
Kirke’s first marriage involved him in an unpopular Lincolnshire drainage project, which led to rioting on the outbreak of the Civil War, when he accompanied the Court to Oxford. Following the end of hostilities he paid £985 to compound for his delinquency.
Copy Letters patent 11 Dec. 1627 confirming an indenture of lease 1 Aug. 1627 by Walter, Fullerton and Trevor to George Kirke a Groom of the Bedchamber, of the lordship of Sheriff Hulton and lands in Offringham and Cottinghams, for 80 years on the lives of George Kirke and Anne Killigrew of Lothbury London daughter of Sir Robert Killigrew, at £24.5. -, except lands surrendered by George Kirke by indenture 17 Nov. 1627.
Certified copy. Oath as to correctness of copy and to the effect that George Kirke was alive and in the rules of the Upper Bach Prison on that day, 23 May 1653, Sworn by Thomas Rudd, cit. & haberdasher. George Kirke was widowed on 6 July 1641 on the death of his wife Anne Killigrew.
George Kirke married Mary Townsend on 26 February 1646. She was the daughte rof Aurelian Townsend, gent. of the Privy Chamber, of the Barbican, London. They had 4 sons and 2 daughters.
     George Kirke was mentioned in a deed in Yorkshire. Lease indented for 60 years by George Kirke (d 1663), Gentleman of the Robes and a Groom of His Majesty's Bedchamber, and Thomas Metcalf (d 1655), of Nappay (Nappa, North Riding) in the county of York, of a messuage with one acre, a close of 20 acres called the Lery Crofte, 2 oxgangs of land, meadow and pasture, 2 acres called Forby Land or Acres, one close called Forty Acres, 2 parcels of ground, by estimation 8 acres, called The Flats, one close called Yewland with ground containing 30 acres lying without Humberbancke in Ottringham (East Riding) now in the occupation of Francis Cobb. Rent £26 p.a. Signed 30 Nov 1639 by George Kirke. Seal. Endorsements.
     George died on 20 May 1675 in Soho, Westminster, Middlesex. He was buried on 26 May 1675 in St Margaret, Westminster.

     George Kirke was christened on 27 January 1634 in Sunbury on Thames, London, Middlesex. There is no proof at this stage of this parent child relationship. He was the son of George Kirke and Anne Killigrew.

     Lucy Kirke (Hambleton Sandyes) was born in England. She was the daughter of George Kirke and Anne Killigrew. Lucy was a courtesan.
     Lucy died before 4 August 1687. She was buried on 4 August 1687 in Westminster Abbey. She was buried as Lady Lucey Hambleton Sandyes, near the font.
     The administration of her estate was granted on 15 August 1687 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

     Percy Kirke was born circa 1647. He was the son of George Kirke and Mary Townsend.
     Percy died on 31 October 1691 in Brussels, Belgium. George Kirke's son Percy achieved notoriety as the commander of ‘Kirke’s Lambs’ in the Sedgemoor campaign, but went over to William III during the Revolution, and sat for West Looe in the Convention Parliament as a Court Tory.

     Philip Kirke was the son of George Kirke and Mary Townsend.
     Philip died circa 8 September 1687.

     Catherine Eliza Kirkman was commonly known as Kitty. She was born before 1785 in Dalkey, Dublin, Ireland. She was the daughter of Thomas Kirkman of Dalkey & his wife Barbara.
Catherine Eliza Kirkman married Fleming Handy, son of Samuel Wesley Handy and Catherine Fleming, after 14 July 1802 in Monkstown, Dublin, Ireland.
She was mentioned in the will of her father dated 19 Oct 1805 who had settled in the US. She is described as the wife of Fleming Handy. See http://www.farrell-family.org/primary_sources/Kirkman/KirkmanWills/MajTKWill_transcription.html for the will and further information on the Kirkman family.. Catherine Eliza Kirkman was recorded on the 1821 census in the household of Samuel Wesley Handy and Catherine Fleming in Brackareagh, Ardnurcher or Horseleap, Westmeath.
     Catherine died before 1825. For further information on the Kirkman family see: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=359394404081.

     Vera May Kirkpatrick was also known as Veronica in records. She was born in 1906 in New South Wales, Australia.
Vera May Kirkpatrick married Horace Owen Dempster, son of Horace Hawkins Dempster and Ann Teresa Carney, in 1932 in Annandale district, New South Wales.
     Vera died in 1990 in New South Wales.

     Jonas Lyle Kirton married Mary Ashby, daughter of Samuel John Ashby and Jane Ann Riley, before 1821 in Barbados.

     William Thomas Kirton married Kitty Ashby, daughter of Robert Moore Ashby and Mary Arthur, on 9 April 1812 in Christ Church, Barbados.

     Audrey Theodora Agnes Kirwan was also known as Aubrey Kirwan in records. She was born in 1888. She was the daughter of Major J D Kirwan, Royal Artillery.
Audrey Theodora Agnes Kirwan married Lt Col Arthur Crosby Halahan OBE, son of Capt Samuel Handy Halahan and Hannah Croucher Engeham, on 25 May 1909 in St Mary Abbots, Kensington, London. Audrey Theodora Agnes Kirwan and Lt Col Arthur Crosby Halahan OBE were divorced in February 1930. The decree nisi was granted on 3 Feb 1930 on the grounds of his misconduct with a Miss Knight at Malborough, near Kingsbridge. The suit was not defended. Colonel and Mrs Halahab were married on May 25 1909 at the parish church of St Mary Abbott, Kensington, and Col Halahan left Sunny Cot, Titchfield, last year..
     Audrey died in 1950.

     Ann Kitchen married William Bickley, son of Benjamin? Bickley, on 24 December 1762 in St James, Westminster. Much confusion with the Wm & Sarah Bickleys.

     Ann Kitchin was born circa 1550 in Lincolnshire, England.
Ann Kitchin married Robert Popplewell, son of William Popplewell, on 15 May 1571 in Belton, Lincolnshire.
     Ann died before 1582.