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Re: Miranda McGregor
« Reply #54 on: Friday 28 May 21 13:48 BST (UK) »
Re Miranda who married Ernest White in 1932 in Sussex.
There is a newspaper snippet
1931 Mid Sussex Times
Miranda McGregor, a maid ...
She appears to be a witness to theft but I can’t see the article.

There are two births - 1933 and 1936, Cuckfield with the right surnames.

Chempat checked but no further information.
Doris Cooke could be a work colleague.
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Re: Miranda McGregor
« Reply #55 on: Friday 28 May 21 13:55 BST (UK) »
Ah yes - well remembered!

Miranda McGregor was a maid at Bedlam Cottage, Tyler’s Green, Cuckfield when she was a witness to events concerning the alleged theft of an umbrella on 24 August 1931.
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Miranda McGregor
« Reply #56 on: Tuesday 05 October 21 09:28 BST (UK) »
Well, the marriage certificate has arrived.

16 April 1932 at the Parish Church, Shipley, Sussex

Ernest Harold White 22 bach, omnibus conductor of Lindfield. Father: Edward Davies White, ex-policeman
Miranda McGregor 19, spinster, of Shipley. Father: —————-

Witnesses: Reginald Edward White, Doris Cooke.

I was revisiting this, so have probably forgotten what I have previously found/assumed/did not write down BUT can someone find Ernest with appropriate father in 1911 or suggest which is his birth?

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Re: Miranda McGregor
« Reply #57 on: Thursday 14 October 21 15:34 BST (UK) »

Well, the marriage certificate has arrived.

16 April 1932 at the Parish Church, Shipley, Sussex

Ernest Harold White 22 bach, omnibus conductor of Lindfield.
Father: Edward Davies White, ex-policeman
Miranda McGregor 19, spinster, of Shipley. Father: —————-

Witnesses: Reginald Edward White, Doris Cooke.


Ernest (who was born 2 July 1909) seems to have remarried in Worthing in 1945 to Irene Whitehead, though they were already together at the beginning of the war.


I was revisiting this, so have probably forgotten what I have previously found/assumed/did not write down BUT can someone find Ernest with appropriate father in 1911 or suggest which is his birth?

Could this be a possibility for Ernest Harold White with his family in 1911 as Harold White ?

Harold White born c1910 Amberley Sussex
father  Edward Daniel occupation Police Constable bn c1876 Stedham Sussex
Mother Ada siblings Reginald & Percival
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X717-3V8

Reginald Edward WHITE mmn RUSS
1904  D Quarter in LAMBETH  Volume 01D  Page 403   

Percival Leslie WHITE mmn RUSS
1907  J Quarter in HORSHAM  Volume 02B  Page 297   

Harold Ernest WHITE mmn   RUSS
1909  S Quarter in THAKEHAM  Volume 02B  Page 293   

This appears to be Edward & Ada’s marriage entry

Jun 1904 Wandsworth 1d   1042   
Beech   Francis Charles      
Rowland   Alice               
RUSS   Ada               
WHITE   Edward Daniel               

Edward Daniel White son of Thomas & Ann
Christening 6 June 1875 Stedham, Sussex

1881 census Edward with his parents and siblings 1881
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q274-8PN5

Edward Daniel WHITE, mmn MADGWICK
1875  S Quarter in MIDHURST  Volume 02B  Page 365   

Marriage
Dec 1863 Midhurst   2b   667   
Ann Madgwick         
Thomas White            

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Re: Miranda McGregor
« Reply #58 on: Thursday 14 October 21 15:50 BST (UK) »
That looks very promising, Ladyhawk, thank-you.

I think I was fixated with Edward Davies White, and wondered whether he had worked abroad because someone else with police connections had.

Just helps to tie up loose ends.

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Re: Miranda McGregor
« Reply #59 on: Thursday 14 October 21 16:07 BST (UK) »
I think I was fixated with Edward Davies White

Same here  :)
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Re: Miranda McGregor
« Reply #60 on: Thursday 30 December 21 13:28 GMT (UK) »
Have just found this site in my search for Miranda. So excited. Miranda was the daughter of Maidie Scott and John MacGregor. As she was still married to Alfred Dodd the child was given to an Aunt an Uncle (that I don’t know names) to raise. Miranda married Ernest Harold White. They had two girls , my mother Pauline Susan White born July 1936 and Janet Miranda White born Oct 1933. Miranda left the family home when Pauline was 3 months old. Ernie advertised for a nanny and Irene Whitehead applied with her son Patrick. Ernie and Irene later married and moved to Australia when Pauline was 12, so that would be about 1948. Pauline has 4 children and Janet 6 children. They both had a set of twins . Would love to hear more from everyone .

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Re: Miranda McGregor
« Reply #61 on: Thursday 30 December 21 16:29 GMT (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat  :)
I am sure everyone will be delighted to read your post.
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Re: Miranda McGregor
« Reply #62 on: Thursday 30 December 21 16:40 GMT (UK) »
Welcome to rootschat, sholland.

To start, do you know where and when Miranda was born or registered, as we could not find anything for her?