Just starting out

[ShaunJ]

Waiting to hear back from Antoinette on the father's name and occupation so this may be a waste of time, but just logging it as a possibility from the 1881 census (just look at the age differences!):

15 Lambs Conduit Passage, Holborn

John White 69 - head - shoemaker - Woolwich
Sarah 59 - wife - Lambeth
Louisa 23 - daur - St Giles
Edward 13 - son - St Martins
Ellen 4 - daur - St Giles

There's a baptism at St Martins-in-the-Fields in June 1867 for Edwin White son of Sarah & John  White, messenger, 5 Taylors Buildings.

[Antoinette 12]

In the 1901 census Edward was living with Maud Wood and had a 1yr old boy Edward. They also had a girl Alice Maud in 1902. They then married in 1903 Edward stating he was a widower. they went on to have a further 2 children Eva and Hilda [my mother0

[ShaunJ]

They then married in 1903 Edward stating he was a widower

And what was his father's name and occupation on the marriage record?

[chempat]

Further information:

'on his marriage cert. 1903 he named his father as John White, occupation Messenger at the House of Lords [deceased] . have found a john White but he was a Shoemaker and I can remember my mother saying that his father was a white collar worker who disapproved of Edward becoming a Boxer'

[chempat]

From GRO
Edwin White  mmn Tindley  December quarter 1867 St Martin in the Fields.

Which is a rather late registration to go with that baptism.

[ShaunJ]

Louisa White's birth was registered in St Giles in 1857, mmn Tindley

[chempat]

St Giles overlaps with St Martins:
Birth from GRO
Edward George White  mmn Perrett June quarter 1867 in St Giles.

[avm228]

John (shoemaker) & Sarah White (with Louisa 14 and Edward 4) are in very crowded accommodation at 23 Great Earl St, St Giles in 1871.  RG10/342/31/55.

Also there is "son in law" (stepson) Thomas Beattie, 17 b St Giles.

Marriage: John White & Sarah Beattie, Dec qtr 1860 Strand 1b 685 (corresponds to St Mary, Soho).

[avm228]

Sarah Tindley (a minor, daur of shoemaker James Tindley) married James Beattie, a shoemaker, at St Giles in the Fields on 3 July 1839.