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Birth: Robert Jackson
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1843
Registration district: Bedale
Inferred County: Yorkshire North Riding
Volume: 24
Page: 364Baptism: Robert Jackson
gender: Male
baptism/Baptism date: 22 May 1843
baptism/Baptism place: Kirkby-Fleetham, York, England
father's name: Henry Jackson
mother's name: Ann
indexing project (batch) number: I07623-4
system origin: England-EASy
source film number: 1849341Marriage: Jackson, Robert
Spouse: GRAHAM, Emma Louisa
Quarter: December
Year: 1870
District: Guisborough
County: North Riding of Yorkshire
Volume: 9d
Page: 925
Henry Jackson witnessed the marriage of Robert Jackson and Emma Louisa Graham on 30 November 1870 at Congregational Chapel, Redcar, Yorkshire.Death: Robert Jackson
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1891
Age at Death: 48
Registration district: Middlesbrough
Inferred County: Yorkshire North Riding
Volume: 9d
Page: 316Probate Index: Robert Jackson
Death Date 10 Jul 1891
Death Place Yorkshire, England
Probate Date 27 Aug 1891
Probate Registry Yorkshire, England
Birth: Emma Louisa Graham
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1848
Registration district: Stokesley
Inferred County: Yorkshire North Riding
Volume: 24
Page: 559Baptism: Emma Louisa Graham
gender: Female
baptism/Baptism date: 27 Sep 1848
baptism/Baptism place: GREAT AYTON,YORK,ENGLAND
father's name: Bradshaw Graham
mother's name: Martha
indexing project (batch) number: C00902-2
system origin: England-ODM
source film number: 894234Marriage: Jackson, Robert
Spouse: GRAHAM, Emma Louisa
Quarter: December
Year: 1870
District: Guisborough
County: North Riding of Yorkshire
Volume: 9d
Page: 925Death: Emma L Jackson
Birth Date: abt 1849
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1927
Age at Death: 78
Registration district: Guisborough
Inferred County: Yorkshire North Riding
Volume: 9d
Page: 784Probate Index: Emma Louisa Jackson
Death Date 25 Mar 1927
Death Place Yorkshire, England
Probate Date 14 Apr 1927
Probate Registry London, England
Birth: Charles Herbert Jackson
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1876
Registration district: Middlesbrough
Inferred County: Yorkshire North Riding
Volume: 9d
Page: 591
Birth: Riviore Maingay Jackson
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1879
Registration district: Middlesbrough
Inferred County: Yorkshire North Riding
Volume: 9d
Page: 531
Baptism: George Jackson
gender: Male
baptism/Baptism date: 28 Mar 1845
baptism/Baptism place: Kirkby-Fleetham, York, England
father's name: Henry Jackson
mother's name: Ann
indexing project (batch) number: I07623-4
system origin: England-EASy
source film number: 1849341Marriage: George Jackson
Spouse: Alice Mary Bowman
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1871
Registration district: Bradford
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Volume Number: 9b
Page Number: 13Possible Death: George Jackson
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1845
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1915
Age at Death: 70
Registration district: North Bierley
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Volume: 9b
Page: 43
Birth: Alice Mary Bowman
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1851
Registration district: Bedale
Inferred County: Yorkshire North Riding
Volume: 24
Page: 421Death: Alice Mary Jackson
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1851
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1908
Age at Death: 57
Registration district: North Bierley
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Volume: 9b
Page: 124
Birth: Lily Jackson
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1871
Registration district: Bedale
Inferred County: Yorkshire North Riding
Volume: 9d
Page: 520Marriage: Lily Jackson
Spouse: Thomas Henry Steel
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1900
Registration district: North Bierley
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Volume Number: 9b
Page Number: 424Death: Lily Steel
Birth Date: abt 1873
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1940
Age at Death: 67
Registration district: Bradford
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Volume: 9b
Page: 343
Possible Death: Thomas H Steel
Birth Date: abt 1870
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1944
Age at Death: 74
Registration district: Durham Central
Inferred County: Durham
Volume: 10a
Page: 430
He is listed as Frederick Robert Whitton in the GRO birth index for June qtr 1861 Bedale Vol 9d 463.
Baptism: Frederic Robert Whitton
gender: Male
baptism/Baptism date: 09 Aug 1861
baptism/Baptism place: GRINTON,YORK,ENGLAND
father's name: George Whitton
mother's name: Phillis
indexing project (batch) number: C00742-3
system origin: England-ODM
source film number: 468806, 468807Marriage: Frederic Robert Whitton
Name: Jane Anderson
Year of Registration: 1903
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
DISTRICT: Rothbury
County: Northumberland
Volume: 10b
Page: 755National Probate Office:
Frederick Robert Whitton of 72 Frenchgate Richmond Yorkshire died 5 December 1916 at Rockey View Preston Leyburn Yorkshire Administration London 4 July 1917 to Jane Whitton widow. Effects: pounds 123 2s 6dDeath: GRO Oct-Dec qtr 1916 Frederick R Whitton, aged 56, Leyburn vol 9d page 815
UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
Frederick Robert Whitton
Death Date 5 Dec 1916
Cemetery Richmond Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place Richmond, Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, EnglandThe Whitton Brothers of Low Fields Farm Bedale
Frederick Robert Whitton and William Edwin Whitton were the only two children of George Whitton and Phillis Woodward Milner. The Whitton boys were both born at the Low Fields Farm in Bedale near Kirkby Fleetham. Frederick was born in March 1861, being only 1 month old in the 1861 census, and William was born on 10 March 1864.The family of four were still on the Low Fields farm in 1871 where Frederick was a scholar, possibly at the St Gregory's local church schoolyard in Bedale.
By 1881 the family had moved apart. Frederick and William did not follow their father's farming role although William many years in the future would find himself on the land in a far away country. Frederick was a draper's apprentice and was living in the drapers shop in High Row Richmond. William was boarding at the Church Crescent Grove House School in London. Meanwhile George and Phillis Whitton continued to farm North Low Fields with up to six hired servants. It would appear that the family was reasonably well off.
It was not long before William followed his brother's trade as in 1891 he was boarding in Bold Street Liverpool with a large number of other drapers apprentices. Frederick had now become a draper and was carrying out his trade while a living with a retired draper in Pottergate Street Richmond. By 1891 George and Phillis Whitton had moved farms to Hunwick, Ripon, West Riding, Yorkshire. At that time the Low Fields farmhouse is shown as vacant.
The family obviously still kept in contact as by 1901 William had returned to live with his parents who had now acquired their own green-grocers shop in Prescot Street, Lowhill, Liverpool, West Derby. Quite an achievement for a 78 and 70 year old couple. William was a draper's assistant possibly with work in the local Liverpool area. Frederick seemed to be going well and was running his own drapers business in Markes Place, Richmond employing a number of assistants. The boys must have been focused on their business as neither had yet married with Frederick now 40 and William 37 years old.
Frederick Robert Whitton's Family
No doubt the elderly George and Phillis would have been pleased when in August 1903, Frederick, aged 42, married Jane Anderson, aged 33 at Rothbury, Northumberland. Jane was the daughter of the deceased George Anderson. Frederick had become a travelling draper or salesman and met "Jeannie" on one of his trips. William Edwin Whitton and Robert Anderson were the witnesses to the wedding. Robert is most likely Jane's brother.Within a year George and Phillis would have been again pleased to have their first grandchild, Phyllis born on 5 July 1904 in Frenchgate Richmond. It is interesting that all subsequent Phyllis' in the Whitton line are spelt with a "y", while all official records of Phillis Woodward Milner are spelt with an "i".
In December 1904 George and Phillis Whitton both passed away within two weeks of each other. George was 84 and died first of "old age" and Phillis was 78. What a nice way to go! Frederick R Whitton, the first son, was the informant for George's death and Alice Milner, Phillis' sister, was the informant for Phillis.
Frederick and his wife Jane then had identical twin boys, Frederick Milner Whitton and George Anderson Whitton on 23 September 1906. Their naming clearly reflecting their ancestors.
Not long after this the two brothers of Low Fields Farm Bedale went different ways, possibly never knowing of the families they subsequently raised, William in the outback of New South Wales Australia, and Frederick in Richmond Yorkshire. A hundred years later a pair of grandchildren of these two brothers eventually made contact.
Unfortunately Frederick died in 1916 in Richmond when his children were still young, and left an estate of 123 pounds to Jane Whitton. After his death, Jane and her three children moved to Rothbury to be close by her brother. Frederick Milner Whitton, one of the sons eventually took over Jane's brother's farm.
The 39 year old son, Frederick, married Jeannie Baxter Crockart (nee Halley) in 1946 and a year later had their only child Sally Ann Whitton. Phyllis Whitton never married and George Anderson Whitton had no children of his own leaving Sally Ann Whitton, as Frederick Robert Whitton's only grandchild.
William Edwin Whitton's Family
William's health was not coping with the cool damp winters of northern England - his pipe smoking might not have helped. On his doctor's advice, in order to survive another winter with his chronic chest condition (Pneumonia and Pleurisy), he sought a hot dry climate in country New South Wales, Australia.Departing Liverpool in 1907 he arrived in Sydney, on 9 September 1907 aboard the "Everton Grange". He obviously took his doctor's advice seriously as he is next found in the in 1909 NSW electoral role for Goodooga with an occupation of a barman. Goodooga in north western NSW would certainly conform to a hot dry climate.
William is understood to have met Grace Ethel Bailey on a country NSW property. Grace Bailey, from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was at that time the children's nurse to the wealthy Richmond family, that is Major George Richmond and Griselda Richmond, who had four children and owned a large property called "Mogila" near Goodooga, near the NSW-Queensland boarder.
William Whitton and Grace Bailey married on 29 December 1924 in Neutral Bay, Sydney. They did not stay long in Sydney and returned to country NSW, living on the Walhollow Cattle Station at Caroona near Quirindi, NSW from about 1925 to 1933. Walhollow Station covered some 1,300 square km. While at Walhollow, William and Grace had two children: Phyllis born in 1926; and Norman born in 1929. For both births Grace travelled to Sydney to have the children in a major Sydney hospital. Phyllis and Norman loved their childhood in country NSW. Their home was on the opposite side of the Mooki River to Walhollow Station. William was a station hand and Grace cooked for the station jackaroos who lived in a room at the back of their house.
It is not known why but in 1934 the family moved to Sydney in Annandale and lived above a general store that was run by William and Grace. Not long after moving into the shop Grace died at the young age of 43.
William, then aged 71, with a 9 year old daughter and a 7 year old son then married the 35 year old Queenie Jenkins who was a family friend. Queenie had previously agreed with her friend Grace that she would look after the children if anything happened to Grace. In 1937 William also died leaving Phyllis and Norman to be looked after by their stepmother. He left all his estate of 493 pounds to Queenie Whitton.
Phyllis Whitton married Douglas Spalding in 1945 and had three sons. Norman Whitton married Minnie Mason in 1952 and had two sons. Those five grandsons of William Edwin Whitton all have had children of their own.
On coming to Australia, William obviously tried to hide his age as is evidenced on his, UK departure record, his marriage certificates and on his children’s' birth certificates. His daughter, Phyllis, always thought he was an old man. He was! On all these records his recorded age was 10 to 15 years less than his actual age.
He died on 19 March 1937 when he was 73 but with his family thinking he was only 62.
Baptism: Jane Anderson
gender: Female
baptism/Baptism date: 19 Aug 1869
baptism/Baptism place: CORSENSIDE,NORTHUMBERLAND,ENGLAND
father's name: George Anderson
mother's name: Mary
indexing project (batch) number: D19790-2
system origin: England-ODMMarriage: Frederic Robert Whitton
Name: Jane Anderson
Year of Registration: 1903
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
DISTRICT: Rothbury
County: Northumberland
Volume: 10b
Page: 755Death: UK GRO Jan-Mar 1946, Jane Whitton, aged 76, Northumberland N 2nd, 10b 606
Birth: Whitton, Phyllis
Quarter: September
Year: 1904
District: Richmond Yk
Volume: 9d
Page: 719Death: Phyllis Whitton
Birth Date: 5 Jul 1904
Death Registration Month/Year: Aug 1988
Age at death (estimated): 84
Registration district: Northumberland North Second
Inferred County: Northumberland
Volume: 1
Page: 1755Phyllis did not marry.
Birth: Whitton, Frederic Milner
Record Type: Births
Quarter: December
Year: 1906
District: Richmond Yk
Volume: 9d
Page: 673Marriage: Apr-Jun 1946, Frederick M Whitton to Jeannie B Crockart, Northumberland N 2nd 10b 1173
Death: Frederic Milner Whitton
Birth Date: 23 Sep 1906
Death Registration Month/Year: Jan 1990
Age at death (estimated): 83
Registration district: Northumberland North Second
Inferred County: Northumberland
Volume: 1
Page: 2182Frederick Whitton usual residence at the time of his death was Doxford Hall Alnwick. Doxford Hall is located near the coastal villages of Craster, Embleton, Beadnell, Seahouses and Bamburgh.
Marriage: Scotland GRO 1 1936 CROCKART NORMAN DAVID HALLEY JENNY BAXTER ST CLEMENT DUNDEE/ANGUS 282/02 0301
Marriage: Apr-Jun 1946, Frederick M Whitton to Jeannie B Crockart, Northumberland N 2nd 10b 1173
Death: UK GRO Jul-Sep 1980, Jeannie Baxter Whitton, born - 11 Oct 1909, Northumberland NF 1 2018
Birth: Whitton, George Anderson
Record Type: Births
Quarter: December
Year: 1906
District: Richmond Yk
Volume: 9d
Page: 673Marriage: UK GRO Jan-Mar 1934, George A Whitton to Dorothy Moxham or Allinson, Chester, Vol 8a page 747
George did not have any children of his own.
Death: George Anderson Whitton
Birth Date: 23 Sep 1906
Death Registration Month/Year: Jun 1984
Age at death (estimated): 77
Registration district: Northumberland North Second
Inferred County: Northumberland
Volume: 1
Page: 1969
Marriage: Dorothy Allinson
Spouse: William E Moxham
Year of Registration: 1914
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
DISTRICT: Hartlepool (1859-1938)
County: Durham
Volume: 10a
Page: 292Marriage: UK GRO Jan-Mar 1934, George A Whitton to Dorothy Moxham or Allinson, Chester, Vol 8a page 747
Possible death: Dorothy Whitton
Birth Date: 27 Feb 1893
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1981
Age at Death: 88
Registration district: Northumberland North Second
Inferred County: Northumberland
Volume: 1
Page: 2216
Birth: Year 1864, Bedale,Quarter June, Volume 9d, page 476.
His birth certificate records the birth of William Edwin Whitton on 10 March 1864 at Low Fields, Kirkby Fleetham. Father was George Whitton, a farmer and mother Phillis Woodward Whitton formerly Milner.William came to Australia, landing in Sydney on 9 September 1907 aboard the "Everton Grange". This ship sailed from Liverpool. William came on his doctor's advice that if he stayed in England he would not survive another winter due to a chronic chest condition (Pneumonia and Pleurisy). He sought a hot dry climate in country NSW. In 1909 the NSW electoral role for Goodooga he is shown as a barman. He is understood to have met Grace Ethel Bailey on a country NSW property.
Passenger lists leaving UK 1890-1960
Name: Wm WHITTON
Date of departure: 29 May 1907
Port of departure: Liverpool
Destination port: Sydney
Destination country: Australia
Age: 28
Marital Status: Single
Sex: Male
Occupation: Farmer
Ship: EVERTON GRANGE
Master's name: W E M Brown
Steamship Line: Federal-Houlder-Shire Lines
Where bound: Sydney, Australia
Square feet: 8178
Registered tonnage: 5212
Passengers on voyage: 149Marriage: NSW BDM 16303/1924 WHITTON WILLIAM E BAILEY GRACE E NORTH SYDNEY
On 29 December 1924 at St Peter's Church of England, Neutral Bay, North Sydney, William Edwin Whitton, bachelor labourer, who was born in Yorkshire, England, aged 50 married Grace Ethel Bailey, spinster Nurse, who was born in Suffolk, England, aged 33. They had both given their usual place of residence as 3 Winnie Street, Cremorne, North Sydney. William's parents were listed as George Whitton, a farmer, (deceased) and Phyllis Woodward Milner (deceased). Grace's parents were Frederick William Bailey, a Master Tailor and Sarah Ann Crosby (deceased). The witnesses were Charlotte Morrow and Cecil B Morrow.
Cecil and Charlotte Morrow witnessed the marriage of William Whitton and Grace Bailey. Charlotte was later to become the godmother to Phyllis Whitton.In the 1930 Electoral Roll for Gwyder, Quirindi, William Edwin Whitton is listed at Walhallow Station, Quirindi, labourer. Grace Ethel Whitton is shown living at 57 Barcom Avenue, Darlinghurst, home duties. She was known to have come to Sydney for the birth of Norman, her second child.
After 1933 they bought a general store business at 300 Trafalgar St. Annandale.
Sydney Mornig Herald - Friday 15 November 1935, page 18
"A NOTICE is hereby given that Perpetual Trustee Company Limited as Administrator of the Estate of the late Grace Ethel Whitton has sold to William Edward Whitton of 300 Trafalgar street, Annandale the Grocery Business formerly carried on by the said Grace Ethel Whitton at the same address."Marriage: NSW BDM 16980/1935 WHITTON WILLIAM E JENKINS QUEENIE E R ANNANDALE
On 2 November 1935 at St Aidan's Church of England, Annandale, NSW, William Edwin Whitton, born at Kirby Fleetham, Yorkshire, England, widower Grocer, aged 60 of 300 Trafalgar Street, Annandale, Sydney, NSW married Queenie Estella Rose Jenkins, born at Glebe, Sydney, NSW, spinster Domestic, aged 35 of 11 Carrington Avenue, Bellevue Hill, Sydney, NSW. William's parents were George Whitton, farmer (deceased) and Phyllis Woodward Milner (deceased). Queenie's parents were George Jenkins, a toolmaker (deceased) and Nellie Double. The witnesses were S Chidgey and H Chidgey.In the 1936 Electoral Roll for West Sydney, Kentville, William Edwin Whitton, grocer, is listed at 300 Trafalgar Street, with Queenie Estella Rose Whitton, home duties.
Death: NSW BDM 398/1937 WHITTON WILLIAM EDWIN GEORGE PHYLLIS SYDNEY
On 19 March 1937 William Edwin Whitton died at Sydney Hospital late of 300 Trafalgar Street, Annandale, aged 62. Parents were listed as George Whitton and Phyllis Woodward. Buried at Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood. Born at Kirkby Fleetham, Yorkshire, England. 20 years in NSW. First marriage was to Grace Bailey at North Sydney when aged 5). Children of that marriage were Phyllis G. aged 10 and Norman E. aged 7, still living, none deceased. Second marriage was to Queenie Estelle Rose Jenkins at Annandale, Sydney, NSW when aged 61 years. No issue.Gave in Rookwood Cemetery REQ 1546 Section 12.
His probate papers are held by NSW State Records (Series 4, Item 220513) which show that William died on 19 March 1937 and left all his estate of 493 pounds to Queenie Estelle Rose Whitton. A Ernest Lewis Meurer, a bootmaker from Forest Lodge, viewed his body. Mr Meurer had a shop in Trafalgar St about 3 doors down from that owned by William.
The Whitton Brothers of Low Fields Farm Bedale
Frederick Robert Whitton and William Edwin Whitton were the only children of George Whitton and Phillis Woodward Milner. The Whitton boys were both born at the Low Fields Farm in Bedale near Kirkby Fleetham. Frederick was born in March 1861, being only 1 month old in the 1861 census, and William was born on 10 March 1864.The family of four were still on the Low Fields farm in 1871 where Frederick was a scholar, possibly at the St Gregory's local church schoolyard in Bedale.
By 1881 the family had moved apart. Frederick and William did not follow their father's farming role although William many years in the future would find himself on the land in a far away country. Frederick was a draper's apprentice and was living in the drapers shop in High Row Richmond. William was boarding at the Church Crescent Grove House School in London. Meanwhile George and Phillis Whitton continued to farm North Low Fields with up to six hired servants. It would appear that the family was reasonably well off.
It was not long before William followed his brother's trade as in 1891 he was boarding in Bold Street Liverpool with a large number of other drapers apprentices. Frederick had now become a draper and was carrying out his trade while living with a retired draper in Pottergate Street Richmond. By 1891 George and Phillis Whitton had moved farms to Hunwick, Ripon, West Riding, Yorkshire. At that time the Low Fields farmhouse is shown as vacant.
The family obviously still kept in contact as by 1901 William had returned to live with his parents who had now acquired their own green-grocers shop in Prescot Street, Lowhill, Liverpool, West Derby. Quite an achievement for a 78 and 70 year old couple. William was a draper's assistant possibly with work in the local Liverpool area. Frederick seemed to be going well and was running his own drapers business in Markes Place, Richmond employing a number of assistants. The boys must have been focused on their business as neither had yet married with Frederick now 40 and William 37 years old.
Frederick Robert Whitton's Family
No doubt the elderly George and Phillis would have been pleased when in August 1903, Frederick, aged 42, married Jane Anderson, aged 33 at Rothbury, Northumberland. Jane was the daughter of the deceased George Anderson. Frederick had become a travelling draper or salesman and met "Jeannie" on one of his trips. William Edwin Whitton and Robert Anderson were the witnesses to the wedding. Robert is most likely Jane's brother.Within a year George and Phillis would have been again pleased to have their first grandchild, Phyllis born on 5 July 1904 in Frenchgate Richmond. It is interesting that all subsequent Phyllis' in the Whitton line are spelt with a "y", while all official records of Phillis Woodward Milner are spelt with an "i".
In December 1904 George and Phillis Whitton both passed away within two weeks of each other. George was 84 and died first of "old age" and Phillis was 78. What a nice way to go! Frederick R Whitton, the first son, was the informant for George's death and Alice Milner, Phillis' sister, was the informant for Phillis.
Frederick and his wife Jane then had identical twin boys, Frederick Milner Whitton and George Anderson Whitton on 23 September 1906. Their naming clearly reflecting their ancestors.
Not long after this the two brothers of Low Fields Farm Bedale went different ways, possibly never knowing of the families they subsequently raised, William in the outback of New South Wales Australia, and Frederick in Richmond, Yorkshire. A hundred years later a pair of grandchildren of these two brothers eventually made contact.
Unfortunately Frederick died in 1916 in Richmond when his children were still young, and left an estate of 123 pounds to Jane Whitton. After his death, Jane and her three children moved to Rothbury to be close by her brother. Frederick Milner Whitton, one of the sons eventually took over Jane's brother's farm.
The 39 year old son, Frederick, married Jeannie Baxter Crockart (nee Halley) in 1946 and a year later had their only child Sally Ann Whitton. Phyllis Whitton never married and George Anderson Whitton had no children of his own leaving Sally Ann Whitton, as Frederick Robert Whitton's only grandchild.
William Edwin Whitton's Family
William's health was not coping with the cool damp winters of northern England - his pipe smoking might not have helped. On his doctor's advice, in order to survive another winter with his chronic chest condition (Pneumonia and Pleurisy), he sought a hot dry climate in country New South Wales, Australia.Departing Liverpool in 1907 he arrived in Sydney, on 9 September 1907 aboard the "Everton Grange". He obviously took his doctor's advice seriously as he is next found in the in 1909 NSW electoral role for Goodooga with an occupation of a barman. Goodooga in north western NSW would certainly conform to a hot dry climate.
William is understood to have met Grace Ethel Bailey on a country NSW property. Grace Bailey, from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was at that time the children's nurse to the wealthy Richmond family, that is Major George Richmond and Griselda Richmond, who had four children and owned a large property called "Mogila" near Goodooga, near the NSW-Queensland boarder.
William Whitton and Grace Bailey married on 29 December 1924 in Neutral Bay, Sydney. They did not stay long in Sydney and returned to country NSW, living on the Walhollow Cattle Station at Caroona near Quirindi, NSW from about 1925 to 1933. Walhollow Station covered some 1,300 square km. While at Walhollow, William and Grace had two children: Phyllis born in 1926; and Norman born in 1929. For both births Grace travelled to Sydney to have the children in a major Sydney hospital. Phyllis and Norman loved their childhood in country NSW. Their home was on the opposite side of the Mooki River to Walhollow Station. William was a station hand and Grace cooked for the station jackaroos who lived in a room at the back of their house.
It is not known why but in 1934 the family moved to Sydney in Annandale and lived above a general store that was run by William and Grace. Not long after moving into the shop Grace died at the young age of 43.
William, then aged 71, with a 9 year old daughter and a 7 year old son then married the 35 year old Queenie Jenkins who was a family friend. Queenie had previously agreed with her friend Grace that she would look after the children if anything happened to Grace. In 1937 William also died leaving Phyllis and Norman to be looked after by their stepmother. He left all his estate of 493 pounds to Queenie Whitton.
Phyllis Whitton married Douglas Spalding in 1945 and had three sons. Norman Whitton married Minnie Mason in 1952 and had two sons. Those five grandsons of William Edwin Whitton all have had children of their own.
On coming to Australia, William obviously tried to hide his age as is evidenced on his, UK departure record, his marriage certificates and on his children’s' birth certificates. His daughter, Phyllis, always thought he was an old man. He was! On all these records his recorded age was 10 to 15 years less than his actual age.
He died on 19 March 1937 when he was 73 but with his family told he was only 62.
Phyllis was baptised at North Sydney and Charlotte Morrow was thought to be her godmother.
She and her brother Norman lived with their parents at Caroona in North Western New South Wales. Their home was on the opposite side of the Mooki River to Walhollow Station. Her father was a Walhollow station hand and her mother cooked for the station jackaroos who lived in a room at the back of their house. When Phyllis was 8 years old the family moved to 300 Trafalgar Street, Annandale, above the general store that was run by her parents. She went to North Annandale Primary school and her local church was St Aidans Church of England on the corner of Johnston and Booth Streets. Her mother died not long after they moved to the shop. Her father then married Queenie Jenkins who was a family friend. When Phyllis was 12 years old and still lived in the shop at Annandale, her father died. Queenie, her step mother, Phyllis and bother Norman then moved to Forsyth Street, Meadowbank.
When Phyllis father, William Edwin Whitton died, William (Charles) Bailey who was Phyllis' uncle wrote to Queenie Estelle Whitton saying that he could take Phyllis and Norman if Mrs Queenie Whitton would pay a boat fare and put them on a boat to England. Mrs Queenie Whitton decided that she would look after Phyllis and Norman and keep them in Australia. Although the gesture from their uncle was treated with suspicion by Queenie, Phyllis and Norman, Charles Bailey had recently lost two of his young children and no doubt may have found having Phyllis and Norman some comfort.
Phyllis used to ride her bike from Forsyth Street to Top Ryde and leave her bike at her Aunty Sylvia's home and then catch a tram to Huntley's Point and go to Riverside Domestic Girls High School. She left school after doing the Intermediate Certificate. (Third year of high school)
Phyllis was confirmed at St Anne's C of England, Ryde on Sunday 2 August 1942.
Phyllis was a dressmaker at La Belle until she married Douglas Spalding in 1945. From that time onwards she was a full time mother and grandmother. The "La Belle" girls with whom she worked with in the dressmaking business became lifelong friends.
After a short period in Forsyth Street Meadowbank, with husband Doug and young child David, Phyllis lived in the family home at 2 Murray Street, West Ryde. That became the family home for Phyllis, Doug, David as well as for the subsequent children Donald and Brian for many years. It was difficult for her to leave that home in 2002 when she moved to Alan Walker Village at Carlingford.
She was an active and committed member of St Columbs West Ryde.
She was affectionately called Grandma by her grandchildren.
On Thursday 21 September 2006 she had a stroke. After showing reasonable signs of recovery she had a second stroke on Tuesday 3 October while still in hospital. She never recovered mental or physical capability and died Saturday 28 October 2006 at Ryde Hospital.
The name Whitton dates to the earliest periods of English history. It is Anglo-Saxon and derived from several places called Whitton. The Anglo-Saxon form Hwit-tun, means white farm or hamlet. It is the place name of several locations in Lincoln, Durham, Hereford, Northumberland, Salop and Suffolk. Whittons were also found in Scotland in Morebattle Parish, Roxburyshire and throughout the British Isles. Whittons were neither nobility nor peasant, but from the Yoeman class.
Phyllis' father came from Yorkshire and the family spent more than 300 years in the Bedale area.
Phyllis and her mother Grace came from Caroona NSW to Sydney for Grace Whitton to give birth to Norman at Crown Street Hospital. Norman's father remained at Caroona working at Walhollow Station.
Marriage: NSW BDM 1554/1952 WHITTON NORMAN EDWIN MASON MINNIE MAY BURWOOD
Marriage: NSW BDM 1554/1952 WHITTON NORMAN EDWIN MASON MINNIE MAY BURWOOD
Death Notice: WHITTON,Minnie May 08SEP2002 71 Death 11SEP2002
Marriage: NSW BDM 8381/1953 HITCHCOCK KENNETH CYRIL RICE DENISE JOYCELYN HORNSBY
In the 1922 Electoral Role she was listed as living in the home of Dr and Mrs Bowker of Drumalby Rd Bellevue Hill. In 1921 Grace Bailey was also listed at that address and Queenie obviously became friendly with Grace.
It is understood that Queenie visited her friend Grace Whitton at Walhollow station in northern western NSW in about 1930. Phyllis Whitton, Grace's daughter, advised that Grace had asked Queenie to look after the children if anything happened to her.
In the 1930 Electoral Roll for Wentworth, Bellevue Hill, Queenie Jenkins was still living at Belwood, Drumalby Road, doing home duties.
Queenie also worked as a cleaner in the NSW Railways and did housework for a Mrs Walker at Beecroft in NSW. Queenie is also thought to have paid for much of her step sister, Heather's, education, school clothes as her mother Lilly(Susan) Jenkins was a widow.
Marriage: NSW BDM 16980/1935 WHITTON WILLIAM E JENKINS QUEENIE E R ANNANDALE
After Grace Whitton's death in 1934 Queenie married the elderly William Whitton in order to comply with her agreement to look after the children if anything happened to Grace. William then died in 1937 leaving Queenie alone with the children (Phyllis and Norman). Phyllis recalls that after her father's death a relative from England (probably Charles William Bailey - Grace's brother) wrote to Queenie and suggested that the children be put on board a ship for Portsmouth and he would look after them. Queenie decided to look after the children herself.
Queenie looked after Phyllis and Norman Whitton as if she was their mother. She became affectionately known as Granny Whit to her grandchildren.
Queenie lived in Forsyth St Ryde NSW with Phyllis and Norman. In about 1945 Queenie's mother Lilly(Susan) Jenkins also lived with her. In her later years Queenie moved to the St Anne's Court retirement village in Ryde NSW and later to Mowll Village.
Birth: NSW BDM31309/1900 JENKINS QUEENIE E H GEORGE LILLEY GLEBE
Birth: Mary Crowther
Year of Registration: 1851
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Manchester (1837-1924)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 20
Page: 612Baptism: Mary Crowther
gender: Female
baptism/Baptism date: 06 Feb 1851
baptism/Baptism place: Collegiate, Manchester, Lancashire, England
birth date: 11 Jan 1851
birthplace: Manc'r
father's name: John Crowther
mother's name: Sarah Crowther
indexing project (batch) number: C01756-4
system origin: England-EASy
source film number: 1545619Baptism: Mary Crowther
gender: Female
baptism/Baptism date: 06 Feb 1851
baptism/Baptism place: CATHEDRAL,MANCHESTER,LANCASHIRE,ENGLAND
father's name: John Crowther
mother's name: Sarah
indexing project (batch) number: C07354-3
system origin: England-ODM
source film number: 0438177, 0438178Marriage: Richard Broadhead Bulkeley
Spouse: Mary Crowther
Year of Registration: 1872
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Manchester (1837-1924)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8d
Page: 562Death: Bulkely, Mary
Age at death: 40
Quarter: September
Year: 1891
District: Chorlton
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 482
Birth: BULKELEY, Richard Broadhead, Quarter:December, Year:1843, District:Petworth, County:Sussex, Volume:7, Page:408
Marriage: Richard Broadhead Bulkeley
Spouse: Mary Crowther
Year of Registration: 1872
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Manchester (1837-1924)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8d
Page: 562In June 1876 at Spalding, Lincolnshire Quarter session Richard Broadhead Bulkely was charged with larceny - discharged.
In the 1891 census Richard's wife Mary is shown as married (ie not widowed) but Richard is not shown living with her.
His wife Mary dies in Sept 1891.
Possible remarriage: Richard Broadhead Berkeley
event: Marriage
event date: 21 Oct 1891
event place: Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
age: 44
estimated birth year: 1847
father: Richard Bulkeley
mother: Jane Hughes
spouse: Eva Clayton
spouse's age: 25
spouse's estimated birth year: 1866
spouse's father: Orville Dingman
spouse's mother: Sarah Lee
registration number: 014961
digital folder number: 004529221
Birth: Bulkeley, Richard Hughes
Quarter: June
Year: 1875
District: Salford
County: Greater Manchester Lancashire
Volume: 8d
Page: 53Death: Richard H Bulkeley
Birth Date: abt 1876
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1961
Age at Death: 85
Registration district: Manchester
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 10e
Page: 355
Birth: GRO Mar qtr 1869 Bedale Vol 9d page 508
Marriage: Catherine Severs
Spouse: Charles Breckon
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1895
Registration district: Stockton
Inferred County: Durham
Volume Number: 10a
Page Number: 112In 1911 Catherine is living with the same family she was a servant to in 1891.
1939 Register: Wirral
Catherine Breckon
Birth: 28 Dec 1868
Female Domestic Duties Unpaid
Widowed
Schedule 228 1Death: Catherine Breckon
Birth Date: abt 1869
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1954
Age at Death: 85
Registration district: Wirral
Inferred County: Cheshire
Volume: 10a
Page: 694
Death: Charles Breckon
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1868
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1899
Age at Death: 31
Registration district: Stockton
Inferred County: Durham
Volume: 10a
Page: 32
