Robert Hall, possibly a wounded WWI veteran, married Ione Minnie Varley (b. 1885) in September 1915. Ione was the daughter of Cromwell Oliver Varley and Minnie Caroline Varley (née Draper). Cromwell Varley and his stepfather, Ion Hanford Perdicaris, were kidnapped in 1904 in Tangier, Morocco, in what was referred to as the ‘Perdicaris affair’. Robert and Ione Hall settled in Kenya in 1917 and, financed largely by the Varleys, purchased farms in Gilgil and Naivasha. Their son, Peter Hall, was born in England in 1921. By the late 1920s, Robert and Ione’s marriage had started to disintegrate, and Ione increasingly spent time in England. In the early- to mid-1930s, the couple started divorce proceedings which were much complicated by the issue of ownership of the properties in Kenya and the monies loaned by the Varleys. Ione and the couple’s son, Peter, settled in England; Robert Hall remained farming in Kenya and was murdered in 1951 at his farm in Ol Kalou.