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Hi Ian

Yes I am Amanda D White (Dawn) daughter of John V White and Jean Brisco. My information matches up with everything you have just said and the information in the letters I have confirms it all. William Henry (known as Harry) was a bookkeeper but he ended up a bit of a Jack of All Trades to survive on the Charters Towers goldfield and became a butchery expert! His son of the same name followed him into that profession. Thanks for the tip on Billion Graves as I haven’t a photo of his tombstone, I can’t place him at Aramac Cemetery, though there is a photo of his son’s gravestone on Ancestry. I’m going to order his death certificate to see if we can find out why he dies so young, but it sounds like an incredibly tough life out there.

 I’d love to know who the ne’er do well Whites are ha ha - I hope its not my branch! Many people were moved out of Liverpool to Runcorn in the 1960s to the new housing schemes during the clearance of Liverpool’s slums, but all my life I have not been aware of any other White family in the Runcorn/Widnes area so that is very interesting. In our case, when Nicholas Norman Stuart White died in an industrial accident in 1961 my father John and Jean left the UK and emigrated to New Zealand and later Australia (Perth) pursuing the building boom in those countries. Luckily Australia was more hospitable in the 1960s and they managed to return to the UK in 1977 with myself and my brother Graham John White.  Runcorn was where they purchased a house on returning to the UK to be close to different family members.

I am now Amanda Clothier and live in Hullavington Wiltshire. Can you tell me which of Stewart’s kids your line is from?

Hi Ian, how nice to hear from you. Are you a White family member yourself? I am wondering if you might be a removed cousin of my Dad’s. Stewart Fulton White is my 4th Great Grandad (I think!) via his daughter Jane White. Jane had a boy called Harry Clifford White who is my Dad’s grandad. We started searching because we discovered letters from Henry William White who emigrated to Queensland during the gold rush and are addressed to My Dear Father (Stewart Fulton White) and sister (Jane). There is an additional shorter letter from his wife Annie Lees White. The letters were very lengthy and vividly descriptive and are now housed in the National Library of Australia, so piqued our interest in the family history. There is a line or two written on the letter by Stewart Fulton White as he forwarded it to Jane, asking her to return it when read, though she clearly never managed to as they remained in Jane’s and then Harry’s estates. Let me know if any of this is of interest and I will send you a link to the archived letters.