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Louisa White (Roe)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: October 27, 1937 (79)
Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Place of Burial: Karrakatta, Western Australia, Australia
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Reverend James Elphinstone Roe and Susannah Roe
Wife of Francis "Frank" Kirke White
Mother of Maud Ellen White; Brenda Agnes Fitzgerald and George Lionel Francis White
Sister of Georgina Alice Roe; Thomas Elphinstone Roe; Dymoke Roe; James Elphinstone Roe 2; Mary Susan Roe and 7 others

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About Louisa White

England & Wales Birth registration index record for Louisa Roe, Mother's Maiden Surname: Moore, October-December quarter 1858, Gloucester registration district, Gloustershire, Vol. 6A, p. 223.

Parish baptism record for Louisa Roe, father James, clerk in holy orders, mother Susanne, living college precincts, St Mary de Crypt, Gloucestershire, England, baptised 18 October 1858, by her father James Roe, curate.

1861 England census - Louisa Roe, 2 (born about 1859), born Gloucestershire, England. Also in the house : mother Susan Roe, 40 (born about 1821), born Waddington, Lincolnshire, England, translator foreign languages; sister Louisa F E Roe, 8 (born about 1853), born Condweeow, Cornwall, England; and sister Hellen E Roe, 5 ( born about 1856), born Combe Hay, Somerset.

Address - 23 Hatton Wall, Saffron Hill, London, Middlesex, England.

Father James was convicted of forgery in 1861 and transported to Western Australia, arriving on 31 December 1862. Louisa, her mother and her siblings arrived in WA on 17 December 1864 on the Hastings.

Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA), Wednesday 21 December 1864, page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

ARRIVED.

19 [ie 17 December]. ... — Hastings, 541 tons, Captain McQueen, from London, with general cargo. Passengers — ... Mrs Roe, Miss Roe and 8 children, ...

The family presumably lived in York (father James met his family at Fremantle when they arrived and immediately escorted them back to York, where he was privately employed as a schoolmaster) until early 1867 when father James commenced as a teacher at Greenough and mother Susannah at a teaching position at Geraldton and later at Greenough.

Western Australian Marriage registration index record for Louisa Roe marrying Francis Kirke White, at Perth, No. 21 of 1889.

m 1889 Francis Kirke White. Kojonup, postmistress & telegraph operator.

Western Australian Death registration index record for Louisa White, father James Elpinstone Roe, mother Susannah Moore, aged 79 at Subiaco, Perth registration district, No. 101887 of 1937.

West Australian (Perth, WA), Thursday 28 October 1937, page 1

WHITE. — On October 27, 1937, Louisa, dearly beloved wife of the late Francis Kirke White, beloved mother of Maud (Mrs. M. J. White), Brenda (Mrs. E. Fitzgerald) and Lionel; fond mother-in-law of Michael J. White and Edward Fitzgerald. R.I.P.

WHITE.-The Friends of the late Mrs. Louisa White, of 12 Camelia-street, North Perth, and widow of the late Francis Kirke White, are respectfully invited to follow her remains to the place of interment, the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Karrakatta. The Funeral is appointed to leave St Brigid's Church, West Perth, at 9.30 o'clock TOMORROW (Friday) MORNING. Friends wishing to attend the Funeral may proceed by the 9.35 o'clock train leaving Perth. A Requiem Mass will be celebrated in St. Brigid's Church. West Perth, at 9 o'clock tomorrow (Friday) morning. BOWRA and O'DEA. Undertakers, 195 Pier-street, Perth. TeL B4308; private, B3376. B8717.

Metropolitan Cemeteries Board record for Louisa White, died 27 October 1937, aged 79 at North Perth. Buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Roman Catholic area, section DA, grave 479.

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Louisa White's Timeline

1858
October 4, 1858
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England (United Kingdom)
1890
May 14, 1890
Albany, WA, Australia
1892
November 21, 1892
New Norcia, WA, Australia
1896
February 3, 1896
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
1937
October 27, 1937
Age 79
Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Karrakatta, Western Australia, Australia