Birth: 2:00 pm 6 September 1865 Town Yetholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK
Father: John Quarry White 1830-1914
Mother: Margaret Borrie 1834-1901/11
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: 29 November 1967 Scenic View Hospital, Surrey, Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Buried: Christ Church, Surrey Centre Cemetery, Cloverdale, Surrey, Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Agnes Quarry White [Hay] 1886-a1911
Margaret White [Patterson] 1893-1963
John White 1896-1977
Thomas James White 1899-1987
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 for Catherine White born 6 September 1865 in Yetholm parents John Quarry White and Margaret Bowie (sic).
Entry in the Register of Births for Catherine White in 1865 in Yetholm (811/ 27). "Page 9 1865 Births in the Parish of Yetholm in the County of Roxburgh [...] [No.] 27 Catherine White 1865 Sixth September 2h0m P.M. at Town Yetholm [parents] John Quarry White Farmer [and] Margaret White M.S. Borrie [married] 13th February 1861 Logiealmond, Perthshire [informant] John Quarry White Father (present) [on] 1865 21st September at Yetholm".
Her brother was born in Yetholm in 1870.
In the 1871 census as Catherine White aged 5, born in Yetholm, Roxburghshire and living with her grandmother (Agnes), parents (John Quay and Margaret), uncle (Andrew), and two brothers (Andrew and Thomas) on East Side Of Village, Yetholm, Roxburghshire.
Her sister and brother were born in Yetholm in 1872 and 1874.
In the 1881 census as Catherine White aged 15, born in Yetholm, and living with her uncle (Andrew White), parents (John Q and Margaret) and brother (Andrew) in Eastside, Town Yetholm, Roxburghshire.
Her daughter was born in Yetholm in 1886, father unknown.
In the 1891 census as Cathrine (sic) White aged 25, born in Yetholm, Roxburghshire, a general servant domestic, and living with her uncle (Andrew White), parents (John Quarry and Margaret), brother (Andrew) and daughter (Agnes Quarry) on East Side of Public Road, Yetholm, Roxburghshire.
Her daughter was born in Yetholm in 1893, son in Easter Ulston, 2 miles NE of Jedburgh on 17 April 1896, and son in Childknowe, Lilliesleaf, 11 miles W of Easter Ulston in 1899, father(s) unknown.In the 1901 census as Cathine (sic)White aged 32, born in Yetholm, Roxburghshire, an agrieultural (sic) labourer, and living with her parents (John Quarry and Margaret), brother (Andrew), two sons (John and Thomas) and daughter (Margaret) at Childknowe Cottage, Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire.
In the 1911 census as Catherine White aged 45, born in Roxburgh Yetholm, single, a housekeeper and living with her widowed father (John Quarry), brother (Andrew), brother (John), two sons (John and Thomas - brothers on the original), two daughters (Agnis White Hay and Margaret - sisters on the original) and a visitor (John Hay, probably the husband of Agnis) in two rooms with windows at Eccles Newton, Eccles, Berwickshire (between Eccles and Birgham).
In the 1921 census as Catherine White aged 55 years 8 months, born in Yetholm, Roxburgh, single, and living with her two sons (John (head of household) and Tom J) in three rooms at Homebank, Eccles, Berwick and Haddington. Her future daughter-in-law and family were living nextdoor in the previous entry.
In the entry for the marriage of her son John White to Agnes Purves on 24 April 1925 Catherine White outworker is stated to be his mother.
Entry in Ancestry UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 for Catherine White aged 61, a housekeeper of Westerhouses, Bonnybridge, Hawick, Scotland departed from Greenock on 7 May 1927 on the Montclare, Canadian Pacific Railway third class for Quebec, Canada accompanied by Thomas White (son?), Margret and George Patterson (daughter and son-in-law?), Alexander, Catherine and Janet Paterson (grandchild?), and Catherine Hay (granddaughter - daughter of Agnes?).
Entry in Ancestry Canada, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 for Catherine White aged 61, born in Yetholm, Scotland, arrived Montreal, Quebec on 14 May 1927 on the Montclare from Greenock, Scotland under the Government Family Scheme sponsored by Mr Patterson of ? Hill Coldstream accompanied by Thomas White (son?) who was on the Empire Settlement Scheme sponsored by his brother Mr. White of Ruletownhead, B?ridge, Hawick. From the entries for the Pattersons their sponsor was the brother of George, posible William?, of Antons Hill, Coldstream.
Entry in Ancestry British Columbia, Canada, Death Index, 1872-1990 for Catherine White on 29 November 1967 aged 101 in Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry Canada, Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current for Catherine White died 29 November 1967 at 8068 188th St., Port Kells, obituary The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, British Columbia, had a son John.
Entry in FindaGrave for Catherine White born 5 (sic) September 1865 in Town Yetholm, Scottish Borders, Scotland, died 29 November 1967 in Surrey, Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and buried in Christ Church, Surrey Centre Cemetery, Cloverdale, Surrey, Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. "Patterson/1885 George 1959/1893 Margaret 1963/Catherine White/1865-1967". Margaret was her daughter. Her death certificate from Province of British Columbia is attached which gives her birth on 6 September 1865, born in Town Yetholm, Scotland, widowed, parents White John Quarry and Borrie Margaret both born in Scotland, had lived in Canada for 50 years in BC, 12 years in Surrey, last address 8068 188th Street, Port Kells, Surrey, BC, died on 29 November 1967 of bronchopneumonia and senility at Scenic View Hospital, Surrey. The informant was Catherine Knutson, granddaughter, of the same address. Buried 2 December 1967 in Christ Church, Surrey.
There are ten entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Catherine White.
Catherine White was the mother of John White, husband of Agnes Purves, first cousin of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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