Hamersley family

Members of the Hamersley family emigrated to Western Australia from England in 1837.

Prominent members and connections of the family included: A number of places in Western Australia have been named after the Hamersley family.

John Septimus Roe named the Hamersley River in their honour in 1848–49; and Francis Thomas Gregory also named the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region in their honour.

[1] The Hamersley Ward of the City of Stirling (formerly Perth Road Board), the suburb of Hamersley, settled in the late 1960s, a golf course in North Beach, and at least ten streets in the Perth suburbs of North Beach and Watermans Bay are named after members of the family.

Their 19th-century home, Hamersley House in Beachton Street, North Beach was demolished in 1962.