Sunday, November 9, 2008

Angelina Elizabeth White (nee Smith)


Angelina Elizabeth White (nee Smith) died after giving birth to her eleventh child, Ben, in (?)1883 aged 35 years.

Our Grandma (Jane Eliza Harriet) White used to look at this photo of Angelina and say "Now there's a lady." Dad said Angelina's father was from a well to do English family, and was a doctor. For some reason he was sent to the colony with a 'ticket of leave' and a 'remittance'. Dad thought this could have been due to gambling or drinking. Having a ticket of leave meant that he had been convicted of some crime, and was transported to the colony, but remained free as long as he did not return to England.

This photo and other similar ones were displayed in our grandparents' home on School of Arts Road, Redland Bay. In 1988, when the old home was being emptied, Aunty Joyce gave our dad (Frank) the old photos in their large ornate frames. Frank (our brother) has the one with the 14 White brothers, and the two soldiers, Fred and Albert. There were six more, including the photos of James and Angelina, Frank (the first), William and Eliza Amelia Fielding (Grandma's parents), and Willie, Grandma's brother who died tragically when taken by a shark in Redland Bay in 1906. I am the guardian of the photo of Willie, and my five sisters have the others.

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