Walter Hatt

Walter Hatt born December 1873 as the son of Benjamin & Catherine Hatt

Walter Hatt did not marry.

1905 Speen Farm Executors of Mrs Evelyn Forrest, dec’d.   Tenants Messrs Frederick Hatt and Walter Hatt.   Homestead, premises and land, 134 acres, approximately.

1910 The executors of John Forrest sold Speen Farm to Hatt. Bros. (tenants)

Frederick and Walter Hatt farmed Speen Farm from 1910/1911, to June 1938.

1911 census.   Frederick Hatt, 41, & Walter Hatt 38, brothers, farmers.   Also William Rogers, 27, nephew, waggoner

They also ran a timber carting business, collecting tree trunks from Hampden Woods on a timber-bob to deliver to furniture factories.  It took 6 horses to load and pull the timber-bob

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