Alfred Henry White

Alfred Henry White [Parents] was born on 11 Jul 1845 in Cochin, India. He died on 3 Sep 1917 in Auckland. He was buried on 5 Sep 1917 in Purewa Public Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand. He married Alice Isabella Willmett in 1875.

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Alice Isabella Willmett [Parents] was born on 1 Oct 1856 in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales. She was christened on 28 Oct 1856 in Christchurch, Monmouthshire, Wales. She died on 1 Apr 1944 in Auckland, New Zealand. She was buried on 3 Apr 1944 in Purewa Public Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand. She married Alfred Henry White in 1875.

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They had the following children:

  F i Ethel White. 

M ii Alfred Thomas White was born on 26 Jul 1878. He died on 6 Mar 1960.
F iii Isabel Ruth White was born in 1883. She died on 19 Jan 1961.
M iv Doy Llewellyn White was born on 26 Nov 1895 in Nelson, New Zealand. He died on 6 Aug 1919 in Auckland Military Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. He was buried on 10 Oct 1919 in Purewa Public Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand . [Notes]
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Alfred Henry White

1861 census transcription details for: School, Rectory Grove, Clapham

National Archive Reference

RG number: RG09 Piece 368 Folio: 108 Page 14

Reg. District Wandsworth Sub District: 1Clapham

Enum. District 5 Ecclesiastical District:

Parish: Clapham City/Municipal Borough:

Address: School, Rectory Grove, Clapham

County: London, Surrey

WHITE, Alfred H Pupil Unmarried M 15 Scholar Travancor Cochin India

WHITE, Clement Pupil Unmarried M 14 Scholar Travancor Cochin India

Possibly:

Name WHITE, Alfred Henry

Vessel -

Notes: In 1886 the Addresses (or acknowledgement) to Sir George Grey list this person as arriving in 1861

Source: Addresses to Sir George Grey, K.C.B. by the European and Maori residents in the province of Auckland on his seventy-fourth birthday, April 14th, 1886 (Microfiche) Addresses to Sir George Grey GNZ MSS 275, p 115

Sailed to NZ on the 'Bombay' from London arriving Port Chalmers, Sep 11, 1862, with his brothers Anthony and Clement.

Name: White, Alfred Henry

India

born c 1845

Div 3

Service start 5.11.1868

finish 2.2.1872

Served at Ngatapa

Joined at Dunedin

Former occupation Clerk

Ship of Arrival Bombay

Archives NZ Ref File AD32 1912

AD36 2430 etc.

Believed he married A.I.W. at Opotiki in 1875. They had trouble with the Maoris and a friendly Maori brought them down the river. When the Maori Wars finished he worked on the main trunk railway Auckland-Wellington living in the bush. Alice cooked maori-style on an open fire. He hurt his back on the railway.

"Granny and Grandfather White came to Auckland from Nelson. Grandfather had worked in a mental institution there but

was forced to leave as he didn't like the way patients were being treated. They settled in the Auckland suburb of

Greenlane and grandfather tuned church organs, in fact my mother used to go with him sometimes." [Source: BMW.]

Of 25, Aratonga Avenue, Epsom, Auckland.

DEATHS

WHITE.-On September 3, 1917, at his

residence, Aratonga Avenue, Epsom,

Alfred Henry, beloved husband of Alice

Isabel White, son of Thomas White,

late Inspector-General of Hospitals,

Madras Army, India, and father of Lieut.

A. T. and Corporal Doy White, at present

on active service: aged 73 years.

Deeply regretted. Private interment.

BURIAL & CREMATION DETAILS:

Surname WHITE

First Names Alfred Henry

Age 72 Years

Gender Male

Date of Death 03 Sep 1917

Religion Not Listed

Serial No 6168

Date of Service 05 Sep 1917

Funeral Director T J Mc Ivor & Sons Ltd, 434 Karangahape Road, Auckland

What Buried? Body

Casket Size

Casket Depth

Cemetery Purewa Cemetery

Location Block F 43 Plot 069

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