Robert Hayball

   Another name for Robert was Roy Hayball.

  General Notes:

"Roy went to the first world war. He (Robert 3rd) carried on Hayball Bros. business in Bay St., after his father and uncle William's deaths. He bought his cousin (William Robinson's - Robin) Hayball's share. ................ Painter and ironmongery and building business now in other hands." - Doris Hayball c1965

"….. Later, Roy [ie Robert Hayball "the third"] was getting too old to manage the timber yard. There was no-one to hand the business to. It was sold to Monkhouse."
Doris Hayball c1965 quoting Roy's cousin Isabella McAllister who also knew Eliza Hayball, wife of "Robert the first" who arrived in Melbourne 1841


From http:\\\\deepthought.hass.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=131574
Robert HAYBALL
Regimental number 105 Religion Church of England Occupation Carpenter Address 1 Vaucluse Street, Brighton, Victoria Marital status Married Age at embarkation 27 Next of kin Wife, Mrs Mabel Hayball, 1 Vaucluse Street, Brighton, Victoria Enlistment date 5 February 1916 Date of Enlistment from Nominal Roll 22 February 1916 Rank on enlistment Private Unit name3rd Pioneer Battalion, Machine Gun Section AWM Embarkation Roll number 14/15/1 Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A62 Wandilla on 6 June 1916 Rank from Nominal Roll Private Unit from Nominal Roll 3rd Pioneer Battalion Fate Returned to Australia 31 March 1919Medals Military Medal 'At 4.45 a.m. on the morning of the 8th August, 1918, immediately east of HAMEL, No. 105 R. HAYBALL was in charge of the first party to go forward along the main HAMEL CERISY Road to make repairs necessary to enable guns and traffic to get along at as early an hour as possible, in order to successfully carry on the advance. Sergeant HAYBALL got his party onto the section of the road for which he was responsible, shortly after the Infantry had advanced, although working quite out in the open with no shelter from heavy machine gun fire and hostile shelling. He showed great coolness and courage under most trying circumstances, and so encouraged his men by his personal energy and example that he had the roads in a fit state for all traffic, well up to schedule time, and was to a large extent, responsible for the successful completion of the works.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 61 Date: 23 May 1919 Other details War service: Western Front Medals: Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal

This is most likely him. From ... http://www.stjohnsupperbeaconsfield.com.au/history2.htm
"Mr. Hayball, who lived in Salisbury and had a timber mill at Bright, was the main contractor for the building, arranging the supply of materials as required. The actual work of construction (though the minutes do not mention it) was done by one of the Committee members, Hans Glissmann, who lived almost the Church, and Bill Johnson. Returning unexpectedly from Melbourne one day, Hayball found his carpenters sitting down listening to one of the Church Wardens, who was reading to them from the daily paper. Work was hastily resumed after a few well-chosen words from Hayball, who was a forthright man; just as well that the site was still unconsecrated!"

  Chronology:

He resided in 1916 in 1 Vaucluse Street, Brighton.

Robert married Mabel Victoria Whittaker, daughter of Thomas Whittaker and Mary Anne Bowman, in 1911 in Brighton.¹ (Mabel Victoria Whittaker was born about 1890 and died in 1970 in Victoria ⁴.)