Person:John White (334)

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Rev John Hobson White
b.20 Apr 1843 Ludborough, Lincolnshire, England
d.Aft Jul 1924
Parents and Siblings
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m. 30 Jun 1842
  1. Rev John Hobson White1843 - Aft 1924
  2. Stephen Boothby WhiteAbt 1844 - Abt 1848
  3. William Temple White1847 - Bef 1847
  4. Stephen Boothby White1848 - 1914
  5. Eliza Jane WhiteAbt 1850 - Bef 1919
  6. Joseph Temple White1851 - 1918
  7. Elizabeth Eva White1853 - Bef 1872
  8. Thomas W WhiteBet 1854 & 1855 -
  9. Matilda A WhiteBet 1856 & 1857 -
Spouse and Children
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m. 31 Jan 1865
  1. George Herbert White1867 - 1957
  2. Sydney Wales WhiteAbt 1870 - 1945
  3. Mary Lizzie White1875 - 1958
  4. James Edgar White1878 - 1880
  5. Harold Temple White1881 - 1972
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3][4][5] Rev John Hobson White
Alt Name[6] John Obson White
Gender Male
Birth[6][5] 20 Apr 1843 Ludborough, Lincolnshire, England
Marriage 31 Jan 1865 Leeds, Yorkshire, EnglandBrunswick Wesleyan Chapel
to Emma Jane Wales
Census[7] 2 Apr 1871 Laceby, Lincolnshire, England20 Old Chapel Lane. He was numerated as a draper, outfitter and grocer. His "cousin-in-law," Annie M Hoyland was enumerated with his househoild. She would marry his brother Stephen the following year. She was a shop assistant. John's son, George Herbert White later wrote that she was a cousin of his mother, Emma Wales.
Census[3] 3 Apr 1881 Laceby, Lincolnshire, England9 New Chapel Lane. He was enumerated as a grocer and a draper (master,) employing one man, an apprentice, and an errand boy. In addition to his family, his apprentice and a female servant, his housenold also included a visitor from New Zealand, Susan Paterson.
Census[5] 7 Apr 1891 Grimsby, Lincolnshire, EnglandDistrict 15, 3 Market Place. He was enumerated as a Fish Merchant's clerk and a Shipping Agent. His son, George was a photographer and gilder, music teacher and W(esleyan) local preacher. Mary was a photgrapher's assistant. His son, Sydney was a Landscape and Portrait Painter. The Ancestry.com transcription reads "Harold L" for his youngest son, but I read "Harold T"
Emigration[2][8][9] 1893 Englandto New Zealand
Occupation? New Zealanda Home Missionary - N.Z. Methodist Church
Death[1] Aft Jul 1924

From a 2001 letter from the wife of his great-grandson: John Hobson White was an Immigration Agent in England and responsible for the immigration of thousands of English farm workers to NZ & Queensland, Australia in the late 1800's. He is well documented in NZ. We have a book (The Farthest Promised LandS4) that devotes a whole chapter to him & he also features in our big new Museum of NZ in Wellington. He himself didn't come here until 1893. Several of his brothers & sisters also came to NZ before him. He lived here where we live now with Peter's grandparents in the later years of his life & is buried in the cemetery near by. It is a wonder he lived to come to NZ as he was not at all popular with the Lincolnshire farmers in encouraging the English farm workers to immigrate & better themselves. It is a miracle he wasn't lynched from what we've read.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wells nee White, Mary Lizzie. Letter from Mary Lizzie White Wells, July 21, 1924
    Page 1.

    My father's name is John Hobson White, now in his 82nd year.

    Click the link above for this source to see a full transcript of this letter

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Romola Jane McKay. Malcolm Wells' Family Tree Chart.

    John Hobson White b. 20 April 1843 md. Emma Jane (Wales) on 31 Jan 1865 d. 20 Sept 1912

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 John Hobson White household, in General Register Offfice. 1881 Census Returns of England and Wales
    Page 12, 3 Apr 1881.

    RG11, Piece/Folio 3275 / 80

    John Hobson WHITE: Birth Year <1844>; Birthplace Ludboro, Lincoln, England; Age 37; Occupation Grocer & Draper Master Employing 1 Man Apprentice 1 And Errand Boy ; Marital Status M <Married>; Head of Household John Hobson WHITE; Relation Head
    Emma Jane WHITE: Birth Year <1840>; Birthplace Leeds, York, England ; Age 41; Occupation  ; Marital Status M <Married> ; Head of Household John Hobson WHITE; Relation Wife;
    George Herbert WHITE; Birth Year <1868>  ; Birthplace Laceby, Lincoln, England ; Age 13; Occupation Scholar ; Marital Status U <Unmarried>; Head of Household John Hobson WHITE; Relation Son;
    Sydney Wale WHITE: Birth Year <1871> ; Birthplace Laceby, Lincoln, England ; Age 10; Occupation Scholar ; Marital Status ; Head of Household John Hobson WHITE; Relation Son;
    Mary Lizzie WHITE; Birth Year <1875>; Birthplace Laceby, Lincoln, England; Age 6; Occupation Scholar; Marital Status; Head of Household John Hobson WHITE; Relation Daur;

  4. ↑ Arnold, Rollo Davis. The farthest promised land: English villagers, New Zealand immigrants of the 1870s. (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1981)
    Pages 76 & 148.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 John White household, in General Register Office. 1891 Census Returns of England and Wales
    7 Apr 1891.

    Name: John White
    Age: 47
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1844
    Relation: Head
    Spouse's Name: Emma J
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Ludborough, Lincolnshire, England
    Civil Parish: Great Grimsby
    Ecclesiastical parish: St James
    Town: Grimsby
    County/Island: Lincolnshire
    Country: England
    Registration district: Caistor
    Sub registration district: Great Grimsby
    ED, institution, or vessel: 15
    Household Members: Name Age
    Sarah A Gibbons 29
    Emma J White 57
    George H White 23
    Harold L White 9
    John White 47
    Mary L White 16
    Sydney W White 20

  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 George P White household, in General Register Office. 1851 Census Returns of England and Wales
    30 Mar 1851.

    Name: John Obson White
    Age: 7
    Estimated birth year: abt 1844
    Relation: Son
    Father's name: George P
    Mother's name: Eliza
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Ludborough, Lincolnshire, England
    Civil parish: Ludborough
    Ecclesiastical parish: Louth and Ludborough
    County/Island: Lincolnshire
    Country: England
    Registration district: Louth
    Sub-registration district: Binbrook
    ED, institution, or vessel: 9
    Household schedule number: 34
    Household Members: Name Age
    Charlotte Sharratt 16
    Eliza White 39
    Eliza J White 12 Mo
    George P White 36
    John Obson White 7
    Stephen B White 2

  7. ↑ John H White household, in General Register Office. 1871 Census Returns of England and Wales
    2 Apr 1871.

    Name: John H White
    Age: 27
    Estimated birth year: abt 1844
    Relation: Head
    Spouse's name: Emma J
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Ludborough, Lincolnshire, England
    Civil parish: Laceby
    Ecclesiastical parish: St Margaret
    Town: Laceby
    County/Island: Lincolnshire
    Country: England
    Registration district: Caistor
    Sub-registration district: Great Grimsby
    ED, institution, or vessel: 36
    Household schedule number: 134
    Household Members: Name Age
    Annie M Hoyland 29
    Emma J White 31
    George H White 3
    John H White 27
    Sydney W White 9 months

  8. ↑ T B White's Family Record with annotations by Phyllis Sine
    Page 1.

    George Patchett (White) -- children to N.Z. -- Stephen Boothby 1880, Rev. John Hobson 1893

  9. ↑ White, George Herbert. Autobiographical sketches, and other papers.
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