Originally settled Hokianga
shifted to Auckland 1850.
from Durham, ENG
1846 census has wife and 7 children HC1846
Murray Gittos
, First there were three: biographies an
d genealogies of the White/Gittos families
.
[Auckland], 1992, second revised edition
.
See also
Murray Gittos, ?Mana at Mangungu;? a biography of
William White
. Auckland, 1991. White?s brother Francis, together with his wife and six children had
joined him in 1835, while his sister Ann and her husb
and arrived in 1841. For William White?s wife, Eliza,
see Charlotte Macdonald, Merimeri Penfold, & Bridget Williams, editors,
The book of New Zealand
women.
Wellington, 1991, pp. 722-730
OLCHK 254 517 with G RUSSELL, 250 ac at Mangaraupo on the Mangamuka River scrip pds 250 granted to G RUSSELL; 518 470 ac no location no grant made; 519, 10,000 ac on the Orira River scrip Pds 6099 to W WHITE, grant of 1280 ac to M A BURDEKIN, scrip Pds 160 to F WHITE JLHK
OLCHK additional claims 63 / 1327 588 ac Hokianga granted 588 ac; 86/1328 55 ac at Hokianga granted 55ac JLHK
PPA New Zealand Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4742, 27 January 1877, Page 2
DEATH OF MR. FRANCIS WHITE. Another old settler has passed away, and a familiar figure will be missed from the streets of Auckland. Mr. Francis White died at his residence, Hobson-street, yesterday, at the age of 77, having been in the colony for more than forty years. Mr. White came in the very early days?some years before New Zealand was declared a British colony, and engaged in the spar trade at Hokianga, with his late brother, Mr. William White. The deceased had full experience of the vicissitudes of settlement amongst the natives, and when the Northern war broke out he had to abandon his place and come to Auckland. He carried on business as a blacksmith in Wyndham-streefr, but for some twelve or thirteen years he has been retired from business. Mr. White had three sons and four daughters. One of his son?, Mr. Joseph White, was killed by the kick of a horse, at Hokianga. Another, Mr. Angus White, interpreter, was in a vessel which was lost with all hands on a voyage from Poverty Bay." Mr. John White, formerly Resident Magistrate at Wanganri, and now in Hawke's Bay, is the only surviving son of deceased. Mr. Whitei on "Thursday last, on returning from thtf house of his daughter at Nowton, was struck by paralysis, and continued apparently insensible till yesterday afternoon, when life finally ebbed away. Œ Mr. White was a member of the Wesleyan body. The funeral will leave his late residence, Hobson-street, on Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. Francis White was a blacksmithDurham, ENG in 1826.
1 He immigrated to London via Sydney to Hokianga on the Surrey arriving nov 1835 on 22 November 1834.
1,7 He was in timber merchant, Hokianga, farmer, blacksmith, in 1838.
1,3,5 He was a settler, Hokianga in 1846.
4