The White Family

Alice Mildred (White) Henwood

Birth: 27 April 1885, at Allanvale, Chase Valley, Pietermaritzburg, Natal

Father: Harry White

Mother: Alice Donthorn (Risley, Barker) White

Married: Sidney Evelyn Henwood on 9 April 1910 in Pietermaritxburg Cathedral, Pietermaritxburg, Natal

Children:
Notes: Known as Milly.

Death: 18 April 1979

Alice Mildred White and Sidney Evelyn Henwood headstone
Headstone of Sidney Evelyn Henwood and Alice Mildfred White in Main Cemetery, Vryheid
photograph by Chris and Petra Lombard at eGGSA library
Buried: Main cemetery, Vryheid, Natal, South Africa, with her husband, Sidney. Their headstone reads:-

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
SIDNEY EVELYN
HENWOOD
★ 14 . 11 . 1883
†  17 . 1 . 1937

QUIETLY HE
HELPED SO MANY
ERECTED BY A LOVED
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
MILLY HENWOOD
(NEE ALICE MILDRED WHITE)
★ 27 . 4 . 1885
M   9 . 4 . 1910
 †  18 . 4 . 1979
GENTLY SHE LIVED
& GENTLY SHE DIED
  AND LOVING FAMILY 


Addresses:
1942: Entabeni, Vryheid, Natal, South Africa   (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)

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Harry White

Birth: February 1861, in Dalston, Hackney, Middlesex, England

Father: Cornelius Francis Hundley White

Mother: Harriet Ramsey (Jameson) White

Married: Alice Donthorn (Risley) Barker on 30 April 1883 at St Peter's Cathedral, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, by the Venerable Archdeacon Colley.
The Natal Witness 2 May 1883
MARRIAGE:- White - Barker, - On the 30th April, at St. Peter's Cathedral, PMBurg, by the Venerable Archdeacon Colley, - Harry White, eldest son of C. F. H.White Esq. of College House, Edmonton, Middlesex, to Alice Douthora, widow of the late R.D.Barker Esq. of PMBurg, and daughter of W. Risley Esq. of PMBurg.

Entry in the front of family prayer book entitled Fletchers Family Devotion
MARRIAGES.
On the 30th April 1883
at St Peters Cathedral, Maritzburg, Natal, S. A.  Harry White and Alice Donthorn Barker were united in Holy Matrimony by the Revd. Archdeacon Colley.
"Harry White Son (eldest) of Cornelius Francis Hundley White, College House, Upper Edmonton, nr London."
"Alice Donthorn Barker, second Daughter of William Risley of Pietermaritzburg, Natal and widow of the late Richard Donthorn Barker, who died in Pietermaritzburg on the 14 August 1880.
Issue from first marriage. One Son. Reginald Donthorn Barker born on the 2nd December 1879.

Children: Death: 1907

Census:
1861: 10 Cambridge Terrace, Middleton Road, Hackney, Middlesex
1871: College House, Upper Fore Street, Edmonton, Middlesex

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Harry Norman Hundley White

Birth: 8 February 1884, at Donthorn Villa, Pietermaritz Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
The Natal Witness 9 February 1884
BIRTH:- White: On February 8th, at Donthorn Villa, PMBurg, the wife of Harry White of a son.

Father: Harry White

Mother: Alice Donthorn (Risley, Barker) White

Married: Gertrude Henrietta Walden

Death: 1951

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Kenneth Vernon White

Birth: 1 October 1887, at Donthorn Villa, Longmarket Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal

Father: Harry White

Mother: Alice Donthorn (Risley, Barker) White

Married: Blanche Elizabeth Ellen Tamar Kenyon

Blanche was born in King Williams Town. She died in 1967.

Death: 1957

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Noel Montague White

Birth: 31 December 1889, at "The Ferns", Longmarket Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal

Father: Harry White

Mother: Alice Donthorn (Risley, Barker) White

Notes:
In 1919, Noel was charged with "administering posion with intent to murder". The description of the charges held at the National Archives reads:
Supreme Court Criminal Case. The King versus Noel Mantague White.
Charged with administering poison with intent to murder and attempting to administer poison with intent to murder ot otherwise  administering poisin thereby causing bodily harm and attempting to administer poison with intent to do bodily harm or  one or other of the said offences.

Noel was divorced at the time of his death.

Death: 1964

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