Ann's father was Benjamin Hall (b: Bapt: 15 Feb 1779 at Bridgwater, Somerset d: 23 Dec 1844 in Whitchurch Bur: 30 Dec 1844 Whitchurch) Mar: 13 Apr 1815 in Chew Magna, Somerset to Hester Keedwell (Bapt: 02 Mar 1782 Butcombe, Somerset - her parents Anthony Keedwell and mother: Elizabeth Ponsford; she d: 07 Feb 1856 in Whitchurch, Gloucester; Bur: 15 Feb 1856 St Nicholas, Whitchurch

Glamorgan Calendar Rolls  - 1783-99 |...The name and signature of Benjamin Hall appear this year among those of the County ..... viz., from a house called Maendu House to Whitchurch Brook,

The Llandaff Act Books - Chapter Act Books, volume 2 (1722-1816 ...Benjamin Hall B.D., was appointed Senior Vicar Choral, and is, by virtue of that office, to hold the whole minute tiths of Llandaff and Whitchurch

The 1840 tithe apportionment (BRO 245372) records that ‘Fillwood House’ was then the property of Edward Gore Langton and was occupied by Benjamin Hall (tenant farmer). He was still recorded as the tenant in the census return of 1851 when the farm was listed as occupying 250 acres and employing 9 labourers.

Census 1841: Fillwood Farm, Whitchurch, Somerset: Benjamin HALL 55 Somerset farmer; Hester HALL 55 Somerset; Benjamin HALL 20 Somerset;  Ann HALL 20 Somerset; Harriet HALL 15 Somerset; Maria HALL 15 Somerset; Elizabeth HALL 15 Somerset

The tithe map of 1840 for the parish of Whitchurch shows the same fields, but the plot numbers had been altered. ‘Plot 105 ’, known as ‘Home Mead’, which covered an area of some 16 acres (6.4 hectares), ‘plot 106’, known as ‘Great Oustom’, which covered some 20 acres (8 hectares), and ‘plot 107’, known as ‘Little Oustom’, which covered some 6 acres (2.4 hectares) were all fields under pasture, owned by Edward Gore Langton and occupied (farmed) by Benjamin Hall of ‘Fillwood House’. This owner/tenant arrangement also applied to many of the neighbouring fields, all of which were also under pasture.

Landowner Occupier No. Name State of Cultivation Quantities a r p Edward Gore Langton Benjamin Hall 96 Briary Leaze Pasture 41 1 38 97 Tyning ------Do------ 12 3 6 98 Garden Garden - 2 26 99 Orchard Orchard - 3 30 100 Orchard ------Do------ - 2 27 101 Rickyard - - - 15 102 Fillwood House, Yard & Outbuildings - 1 1 - 103 Garden Garden - - 22 104 Summer Leaze Pasture 20 3 28 105 Home Mead ------Do------ 16 - 33 106 Great Oustom ------Do------ 20 - 7 107 Little Oustom ------Do------ 6 -   10 108 Two Acres ------Do------ 2 1    9

Filwood Farm, 1929, Src:

Table 3: Extract from 1840 Whitchurch Tithe Apportionment

The First Edition Ordnance Survey plan (1:2500 scale), surveyed in 1883, shows no changes to the study area, other than that Filwood Farm is shown as ‘Philwood Farm’.The study area is shown, on both the Second Edition (1903) and the Third Edition (1916) Ordnance Survey plans (1:2500), as being unaltered apart from the spelling of ‘Fillwood Farm’. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 plan edition of 1931 shows no changes to the study area. By the time of the 1946 O. S. plan edition post-war housing estates had been built to the north and west of the study area, including along the Creswicke Road frontage of the site. To the southeast were an aircraft hanger, aircraft taxi runways and ancillary buildings belonging to Bristol (Whitchurch) Airport. The map evidence suggests that Filwood Farm, south of the study area, was in the process of being demolished and it appears unnamed. The O. S. 1:2500 plan edition of 1968 shows no changes to the study are or its’ environs, other than the disappearance of Filwood Farm

The Hall family continued to live at Filwood Farm until the end of the Second World War, having bought the freehold from the Gore Langton family (Earls Temple of Stowe) in 1924. Bristol's first Airport at Whitchurch in the early 1930's was built on fields south of Filwood Farm. Airport Road was also cut through the farm's grounds and the home demolished abt 1929. In 1945 the farm was compulsory purchased by the Corporation of Bristol and the out buildings then made way for new housing. The site of Filwood Farm was finally developed after 1999 with the construction of the South Bristol Business Park.

1 Ann Hall (Bapt: 01 Jun 1817 St Michael Church, Dundry, Somersetshire; d: 12 Aug 1895 in Karori, Wellington; Bur: 1895 Palmerston Cem) Mar: 22 Feb 1842 in St John, Bediminster, England to John Jefferis (b: 10 Oct 1804 in Whitchurch, Somerset, England - his father: James Jefferis and mother: Elizabeth nee Leonard; he d: 18 Feb 1875 in Palmerston, Otago where he was bur) Their 8 children:

i Lucy Jefferis (Bapt: 01 Jan 1843 St Nicholas, Whitchurch, Somerset, England; d: 27 Dec 1929 in Rotorua) mar: 21 Aug 1860 in Dunedin to William Alfred Young (b: 15 Jun 1831 in Kent; d: 17 Jan 1885 in Shag Valley, Palmerston, Otago0

ii Benjamin James Jefferis (Bapt: 24 Apr 1844 St Nicholas, Whitchurch, Somerset, England; d: Jun 1902 in Te Houka) Mar: 31 Dec 1868 in Dunedin to Catherine Lindsay (b: 16 Aug 1849 in Fife Scotland Bapt: 26 Aug 1849 Beath, Fife, Scotland - Father: John Lindsay Mother: Margaret Whyte; d: 1920 in Balcutha)

iii Hester Jefferis (Bapt: 21 Sep 1845 St Nicholas, Whitchurch, Somerset, England d: 09 Dec 1863 in Dunedin) Mar: 1862 to Joseph Culling (b: 24 Mar 1837 in Keinton, Somersetshire; d: 16 Feb 1891 in Hillgrove, Moeraki Burial: 20 Feb Hampden Cemetery)

iv John Jefferis (b: 19 May 1847 in Whitchurch, Somerset, England; Bapt: 11 Jul 1847 St Nicholas, Whitchurch, Somerset, England; d: 16 Sep 1925 in Buckland, Auckland) Mar: 20 Apr 1880 in St. Andrew's Manse to Elizabeth Muir (b: 05 Sep 1858 in Auckland his Father: Robert Muir and Mother: Alice McAnulty; d: 04 Jul 1933 in Buckland' Auckland)

v Ann Jefferis (b: 01 Oct 1848 in Keynsham, Somerset, England; Bapt: 29 Oct 1848 St Nicholas, Whitchurch, Somerset, England; d: 14 Feb 1910 in Timaru) Mar: 30 Jan 1873 in St John's Church of England, Waikouaiti to Arthur Alexander Webb (b: 1842 - Father: Thomas Montgomerie Webb; Mother: Annie Cranston; d: 04 Nov 1888 in Taieri)

vi Elizabeth Jefferis (Bapt: 20 Jan 1850 St Nicholas, Whitchurch, Somerset, England; d: 1876 in Palmerston; Bur: Abt. 1870 Palmerston Cem)

vii Walter Hall Jefferis (b: 1852 in Wells Keynsham, Somerset, England; d: 1930)

viii Roland Jefferis (b: 1857 in Keynsham, Somerset, England; d: 08 May 1929 in Oamaru) Mar: 30 Sep 1880 in Cherry Farm to Mary Duncan 9b: 30 Sep 1860 - her Father: John Duncan and Mother: Mary Beattie; d: 1939 in Oamaru)

2 Benjamin Hall (Bapt: 01 Jun 1817 St Michael Church, Dundry, Somersetshire; d: 08 Nov 1864 Whitchurch) mar: Elizabeth (b: Abt. 1822 Devizes; d: 19 Feb 1864 Whitchurch) (Benjamin Hall, his wife Elizabeth, and son Abraham died of diptheria in 1864, their children were brought up by a governess until they came of age...)

Their children:

i Benjamin Hall (b: 8 jul 1849; d: 19 Jan 1919 Bishopsworth) mar: 1887 to Clara Ann Wyatt (b: 8 Jan 1856 Bristol; d: 10 Jun 1938) Children: Kate Winifred; Sydney Llewellyn; Anthony; Phyllis & Dorothy Mary Hall

ii Abraham Hall (b: 1850; d: 6 Dec 1864 Whitchurch)

iii Rodney Hall (b: 21 Aug 1852; d: 19 Jan 1918) mar: 1883 Thurza Maria Davis Speck (b: Sep 1856 Bristol) Children; Marion; Katherine Rosina; Benjamin George; Thurza Margaret; Dolly Hall 

iv Hester Elizabeth Hall (b: 19 Oct 1854; d: 1949 Whitchurch) mar: Thomas Vowles Sons - Maurice and Bertram Vowles 

v Elizabeth Hall (b: 12 Jan 1857 Bishopsworth) mar Alfred Fraud  

3 Hester Hall (Bapt: 11 Jun 1820 St Michael, Dundry, Somerset d: 1827)

4 Harriet Hall (Bapt: 23 Dec 1821 St Michael Church, Dundry, Somersetshire d: 17 Jul 1893 in Harnebrook, Winterbourne, Gloucester) Mar: 31 Mar 1846 in St Nicholas, Whitchurch Keynsham (by Licence) to William Morgan (b: Abt. 1814 in Bedminster, Somerset; d: 14 Jan 1889 in Harnbrook) Their dau:  

i Mary Hall Morgan mar: + Osmond

4 Elizabeth Hall (b: 1825 in Somerset; d: 09 Sep 1903 in Puriton, Somerset) mar: Abraham Winter (b: 1829 in Bridgwater, Somerset) Their family;

i Abraham Silas Winter (b: Mar 1858 in Bridgwater, Somerset; d: Jun 1893 in Gloucestershire)

ii Elizabeth Florence Winter (b: Mar 1860 in Bridgwater, Somerset) mar: Edward Keedwell Morgan (b: Dec 1858 in Bristol)

iii Ruscomb Winter (b: 1862 in Bridgwater, Somerset)

iv Cuthbert Winter