Further information on the children of Richard White & Anne Maria Freeman
Ellen Annie Maria (“Nellie”) White married, by special licence, her cousin Adolphus William Ackermann (1841-1921) on 20 November 1897 at Capetown, South Africa. Adolphus, the son of Elizabeth Barnes Freeman and Adolphus Ackerman, was an architect and civil engineer who worked in South Africa from 1875, both in government and private service. They retired to Hawkhurst in Sussex.
Following her husband’s death in 1921, Ellen Annie Maria lived at 59 Warrior Sq, St Leonard’s on Sea. She died on 1 January 1928. Her executors were her sister Jane Elizabeth and her nephew Richard Hubert White.
Richard Wentworth White married Ethel Fitzgerald, daughter of Major W R Fitzgerald of Framlington Hall, in 1895; they had two daughters. He had been appointed honorary dental surgeon to Norfolk & Norwich hospital in 1890, and when the partnership known as Richard White and Sons was dissolved by Richard Wentworth White and Henry Freeman White on 7 January 1899, he set up own dental practice at Lymington, Hampshire. He retired in 1911, and moved to Framingham Earl, Norwich, where he died on 20 April 1924.
Ada Felicia White remained unmarried and died in 1942, aged 93 years. She was buried at Hendon Cemetery.
In census returns, for example in 1911 when she was staying with her sister Ellen Ackermann, she was described as being of “private means”.
Ernest William White was senior assistant medical officer Kent Mental Hospital (1878 – 1887) and resident physician superintendent City of London Mental Hospital at Dartford until 1905. In 1890 he was appointed professor of psychological medicine at King’s College, London. He married Harriet Bowyer in 1905. From 1906 he was chairman of Bailbrook House, Bath and of Fenstanton House, London. He was a consultant in mental diseases to the Western Command and War Office, being promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1917 and was created a CBE in 1920. He retired to Shrewsbury, where he was president of the Shropshire Chamber of Commerce and active in Conservative local association politics. He died in November 1936.
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Annie Maria White, who had married Benjamin Potter Nettleton shortly before her father’s death, lived in Batley, Yorkshire. She died in 1934.
Percy White who had joined a dental partnership in London and lived at 3 Moore Street, Cadogan Square, Chelsea, died of typhoid fever on 24 July 1893 aged 38. He was a freemason who had been the Master of the Weyside Lodge; shortly before his death he had attended the banquet following the installation of a new master at which he “appeared in excellent health, and was, as usual, exceedingly cheerful and genial” (Freemason’s Chronicle 1893). He was also buried at St James, Dover.
Henry Freeman White continued to practise in partnership with Charles Shovel Willis under the name Richard White & Sons until that business was dissolved in March 1907. He married Ethel Alexander Page on 30 April 1895 and they had two daughters (Myrtle and Rita). From 1892 to 1897 he was Dental Surgeon at the Great Yarmouth Hospital. In a letter dated 1909 he wrote “what with the worry of the practice I am also head over ears in forming a large Dental Hospital for Norwich which takes up all my time…Greenlees [his brother-in-law] has all my [genealogical] papers, he took them away some time ago and has forgotten to return them, & just now I do not want their note paper in this house as they have had fever at their house and I do not want it here”. In 1911 he was living at Heathfield House.
Henry Freeman died on 15 December 1921 and was buried at the Rosary cemetery in Norwich.
Jane Elizabeth White remained unmarried and died on 28 November 1944 at St Leonards.
Gertrude White married Henry Cooke, a solicitor, of Durham at St Patrick’s church, Hove on 15 February 1906. They retired to Scarborough, where Henry Cooke died in 1929. In 1939 she was living in St Leonards on Sea (in Warrior Place) where she died in 1944.
Edith White married Thomas Duncan Greenlees, a medical psychiatrist originally from Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, on 17 October 1894 at Dartford. From 1884 to 1887, T D Greenlees had worked at the Dartford hospital where Edith’s brother Ernest William White also worked, and then in 1890 he was appointed the Medical Superintendent at Grahamstown Asylum in South Africa. Edith and Thomas lived in South Africa until 1908, and their three children were born there. He then worked at Fenstanton House (where also his brother-in-law had been chairman); he was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1897 and served as a major in the RAMC in WWI; he was also active in Freemasonry and a deacon in the Baptist Church. They retired to St Leonards, where Thomas died in 1929. By 1939, Edith was living in Hastings with her sister Jane Elizabeth (both described as “incapacitated”) and her two daughters, Edith Maude Ernestine and Mary Victoria. Edith died on 24 February 1945 in Hastings. Her son, Duncan Greenlees (1899-1966), was a writer, educationalist and supporter of Indian independence.
Bertha Sarah White married John Warrick Burnside (1865-1907) BA (Clare College), headmaster of Wymondham Grammar School (and son of the Rev J C Burnside), on 5 September 1894 at Holy Trinity Church, Heigham. J W Burnside died aged 43 in 1907; Bertha later lived in Hastings. Her son Charles Richard Warrick Burnside, a rubber planter, died of malaria and beriberi in Sumatra in 1945 aged 48. Bertha Sarah Burnside died on 25 April 1957 at St Matthews-gardens, St Leonards-on-Sea.