Events List - All - Past and Current

The Hassall Family History Association held a reunion in May 2023 to mark 225 years since the arrival of Rowland and Elizabeth Hassall in Sydney in 1789. The Reunion provides a once in a generation opportunity to connect with relatives spread across the vast expanse of Australasia (we anticipate members from New Zealand as well as Australia), and to gain a sense of this family’s role in these two countries from the early 1800s to the present time.

See the Reunion page for full details and links to photos:

https://www.hassall.net.au/reunion-2023

Following on from the reunion, the Samuel line plan to get together over zoom in mid July.

The session will be presented by James Daniel and Melissa Blanks.

Connect via Zoom:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86539602681

Annual General Meeting 2023

Join the AGM online via Zoom using the link below. This link will be live 10 minutes before the scheduled meeting time.

Connect via Zoom:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87613447019

Transcription of the Hassall Family papers at the State Library of New South Wales.

Presented by Roslyn Vaughan

Connect via Zoom:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86999360804

Change of Date - now 30-August

Thomas and Ann Hassall Line zoom session 

(Alison Shaw)

Connect via Zoom:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83275735571

Historical Perspectives: Hassall Family and First Nations

This session is an online repeat of the one at the reunion: "Historical Perspectives session: The Hassall's and First Nations" and will be held on 24th August 6:30-8pm.

Please email Danielle Hassall for the zoom link and pre-attendance individual research required on: hassallmedaily@gmail.com

We look forward to welcoming you and continuing our conversation towards Truth Telling with First Nations.

Reading Material

Please read the following text prior to the meeting, and think about the places you have lived and the names of whose indigenous land it is.

Link to PDF excerpt from:

In Old Australia by James S Hassall

For discussion

Link to Colonial Massacres website:

https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/map.php

The Hassall Family Genealogy Project – Richard Clark & Robert Wiles

Connect via Zoom:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89359831839

On Saturday 28th October Alison Shaw and Tom Hassall attended the THAC Gala dinner to farewell Ross Whelan, retiring Principal of Thomas Hassall Anglican College (THAC).

Full details:

https://hassall.net.au/events-list/farewell-ross-whelan

A few of the James line clan get together for a BBQ / Picnic at Wattle Park at lunchtime on the second Sunday of December each year - start around 11:30 and finish up mid afternoon.

Wattle park is huge, but there are a few landmark spots.  We will get together at the BBQ area near the Rotunda.

Learn more about Wattle Park from Parks Victoria

https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/wattle-park?utm_source=google&utm_medium=maps&utm_campaign=GMB-2020

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