The Venerable John Cecil Hall, Archdeacon of Isle of Man

Frances Amelia Wingfield Stratford (Fanny) was born on 9 January 1808 at Powerscourt, co Wexford, and baptised on 12 March following at Addington, Kent. On 31 July 1832, she married the Venerable John Cecil Hall, collated Archdeacon of Man in June 1839 and Rector of Kirk Andreas. He was the son of the Dean of Durham, the Very Revd Charles Henry Hall, also Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, by the Hon Anna Maria Bridget Byng, aunt to the then Viscount Torrington. Thus she must have been a sister to John Byng, who wrote Rides around Britain. John Cecil Hall was a student of Christ Church, Oxford, and was presented in 1832 by the Lord Chancellor to the Rectory of Great Cressingham with Bodney, Norfolk.8 The next daughter,

 A man of lively, engaging manners, he was an amiable and sincere Christian.  He died on 8 February 1844 at Kirk Andreas.