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Clara White

Signed family name
White
Signed given name
Clara
Given address
Caversham
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Caversham
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Clara Augusta Horne was born in 1861 in Lambeth, Surrey – daughter of William Horne and Amelia Henrietta Sprague.

She arrived in Otago with her parents and eight siblings on the Surat in 1874.

On 20 April 1889, in Dunedin, Clara married John Ormiston White, a coachbuilder. They had two daughters and John had a successful coachbuilding business.

John died in 1919 and Clara died on 5 October 1932. They are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.

Sources

Otago Nominal Index  http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

See also Caversham research databases

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.