Birth: 12:30 pm 17 April 1896 Easter Ulston, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK
Father: Unknown
Mother: Catherine White 1865-1967
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 24 April 1925 Manse, Eccles, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Wife: Agnes Purves 1902-1976
Death: 1977 Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
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Entry in the Register of Births for John White in 1896 in Jedburgh (792/ 36). "1896 Page 12 Births in the District of Jedburgh in the County of Roxburgh [...] [No.] L 36 John White (Illigitimate) 1896 April Seventeenth 12h 30 m PM [at] Easter Ulston Jedburgh [mother] Catherine White Farm out worker [informant] Catherine White Mother [on] 1896 May 7th At Jedburgh." Easter Ulston is a mile NE of Jedburgh.
His brother was born in 1899 in Childknowe, Lilliesleaf, 11 miles W of Easter Ulston in 1899, father(s) unknown.
In the 1901 census as John White aged 4, born in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, and living with his grand parents (John Quarry and Margaret), mother? (Cathine), uncle (Andrew), brother? (Thomas) and sister? (Margaret) at Childknowe Cottage, Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire.
In the 1911 census as John White aged 14, born in Roxburgh Jedburgh, and a worker on farm, and living with his (grand)father (John Quarry), mother (Catherine - sister on the form), uncle (Andrew - brother on the form), brother (John), two cousins? (Agnis White Hay and Margaret) 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 John White aged 23 years 2 months, born in Jedburgh, Roxburgh, single, head, a ploughman employed by J E Hutchinson Farmer, and living with his brother (Tom J) and mother (Catherine) in three rooms at Homebank, Eccles, Berwick and Haddington. His future wife and family were living nextdoor in the previous entry.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for John White and Purves Agnes in 1925 at Eccles (737/ 1). "Page 1 1925 Marriages in the Parish of Eccles in the County of Berwick [No.] 1 1925 on the Twenty-Fourth day of April at Manse of Eccles Parish of Eccles After Banns According to the Forms of the Established Church of Scotland John White Ploughman (Bachelor) [aged] 27 [of] Westerhouse Parish of Southdean [mother] Catherine White Outworker [and] Agnes Purves Outworker (Spinster] [aged] 23 [of] Homebank Parish of Eccles [parents] John Purves Ploughman [and] Mary Purves M.S. Edgar, Thomas James-White [of] Fans, Earlston (Witness) [and] Jane Nesbit Purves [of] Homebank Coldstream (Witness) [registered] 1925 April 24th At Eccles".
His wife died in Coldstream in 1976.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for John White in 1977 aged 80 in Coldstream (787/ 7).
There are two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for John White.
John White was the 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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