Descendants of Johis WHITTON
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Baptism: No.379 21 May 1865 Isabella daughter of John and Mary Whitton of Aiskew, Butcher - FHL 1849237
Marriage: GRO Dec qtr 1886 Isabel Whitton and Leonard Metcalf at Bedale Vol 9d p1036
Marriage: GRO Dec qtr 1886 Isabel Whitton and Leonard Metcalf at Bedale Vol 9d p1036
Marriage: Jackson, Robert
Spouse: GRAHAM, Emma Louisa
Quarter: December
Year: 1870
District: Guisborough
County: North Riding of Yorkshire
Volume: 9d
Page: 925
Marriage: Jackson, Robert
Spouse: GRAHAM, Emma Louisa
Quarter: December
Year: 1870
District: Guisborough
County: North Riding of Yorkshire
Volume: 9d
Page: 925
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/christening date: 09 Aug 1861
baptism/christening 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
Baptism: Jane Anderson
gender: Female
baptism/christening date: 19 Aug 1869
baptism/christening 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, 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.
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.
Marriage: NSW BDM 16303/1924 WHITTON WILLIAM E BAILEY GRACE E NORTH SYDNEY
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 he 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
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
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.
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: 149
Birth: UK GRO Apr-Jun 1891, Grace Ethel Bailey, Bury St E. 4a 800
Grace was a children’s' nurse or "Nanny" in England, and on ships between England and Australia for wealthy families.
Grace is not able to be found in the 1911 census in England.
Grace Bailey is first thought to have arrived in Australia on 27 April 1919 on the Balmoral Castle, as a nurse to the Burge family. She then entered again on 15 December 1919 travelling as the children’s' nurse to the Gibbs family. Having departed London on the Orient Orvieto on 1 November 1919. (Mr R.C.B Gibbs - 28 Director, Mrs D.E. Gibbs - 25 and Miss M.E. Gibbs - 4mth, Miss G Bailey - Nurse 29)
In the 1921 Electoral Role she was listed as living in the home of Dr and Mrs Bowker of Drumalby Rd Bellevue Hill. In 1922 Queenie Jenkins was also listed at that address and obviously became friendly with Grace. Grace then became a children’s' nurse to the Clarke family in Bellevue Hill, Sydney from September 1921. Her charge included "Nobby" Clarke the son of Sir Rupert Clarke. According to a note from Mrs Elsie Clarke, Grace Bailey was intending to visit her family in England in August 1922. It is not yet clear when she returned to Australia.
Grace E Bailey, aged 31, a nurse from Australia, was shouwn entering the UK with an intended address of 82 Northgate Bury St Edmunds on board the "Demosthenes" which arrived at London on 19 September 1922. She was most likely wanting to visit her parents in Bury St Edmuinds. Her father died in December 1923 at 82 Northgate Street of bowel cancer.
Grace then became nurse to the Richmond children at Goodooga NSW and travelled with the Richmonds back to England in about 1923. Grace Bailey is shown arriving back in Sydney as Nurse G E Bailey (to the Richmond family) in a passenger entry record on 30 March 1924. Having departed London on 9 February 1924 on the Blue Funnel Aeneas, (Maj George M Richmond - 40 sheep farmer, Mrs Grizel McL Richmond - 26, Miss Grizela L Richmond - 4, Mastr James Richmond - 2, Miss Mary C Richmond - 1, Miss Grace Bailey - 32 nurse(Richmond), Miss Janet Burnside - 25 nurse(Richmond), c/o AML & FCo - 20 Coleman St. London)
The Richmond family, that is Major George Richmond and Griselda Richmond, had four children and a property "Mogila" near Goodooga New South Wales, near the NSW-Queensland boarder. George Richmond bought Mogila in 1908, which subsequently became the home of George Richmond's son, James. One of the Richmond children that Grace Bailey looked after was Jamie Richmond, who was still on that property in 1987. It has now since been sold.
It is most likely that Grace met William Whitton in northern NSW while she was at Goodooga.
Marriage: NSW BDM 16303/1924 WHITTON WILLIAM E BAILEY GRACE E NORTH SYDNEY
On 29th December 1924 at Neutral Bay, NSW, William Edwin Whitton, bachelor born in Yorkshire, England a labourer aged 50 married Grace Ethel Bailey, spinster born in Suffolk, England a nurse aged 33. William's parents were George Whitton (a farmer) and Phyllis Woodward Milner (both deceased). Grace's parents were Frederick William Bailey (a master tailor) and Sarah Ann Crosby. Cecil B. and Charlotte Morrow witnessed the marriage of William Whitton and Grace Bailey.Charlotte was the godmother of Phyllis Whitton.
After marrying William Whitton in December 1924 Grace then left the Richmonds in April 1925 and returned to Sydney.
In the 1925 Electoral Role, Grace and William Whitton were listed at another home in Bellevue Hill. They did not stay long in Sydney returned to country NSW living on the Walhollow Station at Caroona near Quirindi NSW from about 1925 to 1933. In the 1928 Electoral Role both Grace and William Whitton were at Walhollow station in Caroona. It is understood that Queenie Jenkins, the friend of Grace, visited Grace at Walhollow station. Phyllis understands that Grace had asked Queenie to look after the children if anything happened to her.In the 1930 Electoral Roll 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. In the supplemental section of the same roll she is also shown at Walhollow Station, housekeeper.
Walhollow Station can be found by heading out of Quirindi on the Gunnedah Road. About 9 km from Quirindi is the turnoff to Caroona and Spring Ridge. The unusually designed sandstone house with outbuildings, visible from the road, is the homestead of Walhollow Station which once covered some 1300 square km. This road passes through Caroona, which has an attractive little stone church and a 90-m bridge over the Mooki River.
The house in Caroona that Grace and William lived in with their two children, Phyllis and Norman, was on the opposite side of the river to Walhollow Station, so when the Mooki River was high it was sometimes difficult to get to the Station. Norman remembered that one day his father had to climb the railing on the bridge to get to the other side as the level part of the bridge was under water. Grace used to cook for the Station jackaroos who lived in a room at the back of their house. William worked at Walhollow station as a station hand. The house was also fairly close to the railway line as Norman said he was able to hear the trains. The McIlveen's lived next door.
Norman remembers yabbying in the water holes of the Mooki River with his sister Phyllis. One day while yabbying the river rose quickly and they had to stop.
After leaving Walhollow Station the Whitton family acquired a general store business at 300 Trafalgar St Annandale in Sydney.
Grace died on 23 August 1934, aged 43 from Influenza-Bronchitis. Her daughter Phyllis always thought she died from Pneumonia.
Death: NSW BDM 11562/1934 WHITTON GRACE E 43 YEARS ANNADALE ANN ANNANDALE
Death: 23 August 1934 at Duntroon Private Hospital, Johnston Street Annandale, aged 43. She was born in Suffolk, England and had been 15 years in NSW. She was married when aged 33 to William Edwin Whitton. Children were Phyllis aged 8 and Norman aged 4. Her husband was the informant and he did not know the father's name and stated her mother was Ann Bayley (sic).She was buried at Rookwood Cemetery, grave number REQ 1546 Section 12.
Grace Whitton's probate papers, which are held by NSW State Records (Series 4, Item 202169) show that she left her estate of 633 pounds to William Edwin Whitton of 300 Trafalgar St Annandale. At the time of her probate Phyllis Grace Whitton was aged 9 and Norman Whitton was aged 7. This business was sold after William's death in about 1937.
After Grace's death in 1934 Queenie Estelle Jenkins married the elderly William Whitton on 2 November 1935, as a step mother for Phyllis and Norman. This complied 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) wrote to Queenie and suggested that the children be put on board a ship for Portsmouth and he would look after them. They stayed in Sydney with their step-mother.
At the end of the second world war the Walhollow Station was broken up and sold (or allocated) as soldiers settlements.
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 E Ryde on Sunday 2 August 1942.
Phyllis was a dressmaker at La Belle until she married Dougas Spalding in 1945. 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.
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-Saxan and derived from several places called Whitton. The Ang.Sas. 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.
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: 612Marriage: 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: 562
Marriage: Dawes, Manfred Wylie
Spouse: Bulkeley, Dora
Quarter: September
Year: 1900
District: Chorlton
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 1284
Marriage: Dawes, Manfred Wylie
Spouse: Bulkeley, Dora
Quarter: September
Year: 1900
District: Chorlton
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 1284
Name: Bulkeley, Richard Hughes
Record Type: Births
Quarter: June
Year: 1875
District: Salford
County: Greater Manchester Lancashire
Volume: 8d
Page: 53
