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| England Connections - Yorkshire - SURNAME LIST |
| HALL WILLIAMSON DRYDEN NEALL YOUNG WAKEFIELD |
| DRYDEN - the marriages of George Williamson HALL in 1850 to Agnes Emma DRYDEN, and of John in 1861 to Rose Anne DRYDEN, joined these two Yorkshire families. The girls were two of the eight children born to William and Jane DRYDEN, of whom two sons and three daughters survived into adulthood. (We have no details, as yet, of the rest of this family). The family was related to John DRYDEN, the poet, and had settled in Hulll in 1745, after fleeing the Jacobite rebellion in Scotland. Willian DRYDEN was solicitor and the head of a prominent legal firm in Hull. He acquired local fame as the last man in Hull to wear a swallow-tail coat and knee britches as his regular attire. William was similar in temperament to his youngest daughter,Rose, and was a loving and perceptive father to all his children. Jane DRYDEN died in 1838. The DRYDEN family and the HALL family were acquainted from childhood, and Grace was well-known to the Dryden girls. Agnes was already in New Zealand when Rose and John sailed in June 1861 for Auckland in the Royal Stuart and they were reuinited in September of that year when they arrived in Lyttleton. |
| NEALL -Grace Williamson HALL married John Sugden NEALL and they had several children; the two we have so far identified were George NEALL and John Hall NEALL (named after his uncle). (We know from a family picture that she had at least two more girls) . |