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| 1 | 1920 | - 7 May 1920: Birth of Thomas Joseph William Hallam
Birth of Thomas Joseph William Hallam at Hamilton Victoria to William Frank & Marguerite Hallam
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| 2 | 1922 | - 25 Jun 1922: Birth of Theresa Mary Hallam
John Joseph & Lucy Troy celebrate with the arrival of a baby girl Theresa Mary Troy (later Hallam). Theresa grew up on our farm until she was 14 years. Life on the farm unrelenting with the milking of 40 to 50 cows and it was an irrigation property. Though Theresa enjoyed the farm and had a pet cow. Mum has noted she remembers when autumn came and it was time to plant crops after a fall of rain. I would carry this with a bottle of cold tea to my father.
There were nights when irrigating a paddock of crops when Dad would have to get up in the night and walk with shovel in hand to cut the water off or divert the flow.
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| 3 | 1927 | - Feb 1927: Thomas Hallam starts Primary school
Thomas was born in Hamilton and lived in Cavendish Victoria some 20 miles out on a sheep and oat farm. Dad started school at 7 years of age at Loretto Convent boarding school for girls but they also took boys also at Junior school up to 12 years of age. Dad (Tom)says he was a good student and as a kid would talk a lot. He went as far as intermediate year 8/9. Thomas's ambition as a child was to be a solicitor.
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1858 - 1927 (69 years)