John Daniel Whitehouse and Mary

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(generation 21 JW&M Mary = John)

Mary was born in Burton-on-Trent in 1862 the daughter of John Trease and Eliza Spencer and the granddaughter of John Trease and Esther Whitehouse.

Little is known of her early life. She spent her early childhood in Burton-on-Trent where her father worked as a Brewery Traveller or Agent probably for one of the brewery companies based there.

Sometime after 1871 and before her mother's death in 1876, the family moved to Ashby de la Zouch which was where her mother's family lived. She was just 13 when her mother died. After her mother's death it appears she stayed living with her father in Ashby for a further 6 years until he died in 1882.

After her father's death, nothing more is known of her until her marriage in Hackney, London in 1892 to John Daniel Whitehouse, a farmer of Erdington. At the time of her marriage, her husband's parents, John Bullivant Whitehouse and Jane Reeve were both dead, as were his grandparents John Whitehouse and Elizabeth Bullivant.

No connection has been established between the Whitehouse family of her grandmother and that of her husband who owned a considerable acreage at Erdington in Birmingham (which is now a housing estate called Moor End). Her daughter Louisa stated that 'there was never any mention ... that the name 'Whitehouse' was associated on her mother's side as well as her father's, and feels that such a fact would surely have been mentioned'.

John and Mary appear to have had two children - a son and a daughter.

It is believed that Mary pre-deceased her husband but the date of her death has not yet been established. John Daniel Whitehouse died in Erdington in 1910.

• daughter Louisa Diana Mary Whitehouse was born in 1893 in Birmingham. Nothing further is known of her childhood. It appears that she was very active in the local community in Erdington. Rather than marry and dedicate herself to bringing up a family, it seems that she chose to dedicate her life to community work. She was certainly supportive of her local church and the girl guides and brownies and became a JP.
  
  In July 1968, she contacted Professor George Trease at Nottingham University, stating that she was quite young when her mother, Mary Trease, died, had lost touch with the Trease family, and was anxious to trace relatives of her mother's family. Unfortunately it appears that insufficient information was available at that time to definitely establish the family links.
  
  She died aged 91 at St. Faith's Nursing Home Cheltenham in 1984.
  
  
  
• son John Bullivant Whitehouse was born in Birmingham in 1896. Little is known of John. It is thought that he became a surveyor, married, had four or more children, and died in Gloucestershire in the 1970s.