Name

James White (II)

Designation
Architect
Born
1811
Place of Birth
Manchester
Location
Manchester

  • Birth date            1811 at Manchester
  • Married                29 July 1829 to Isabella Rind, grand daughter of Captain Braybrook

Few records have been found regarding James White, architect and surveyor, of Hulme, Manchester. He was born at Manchester about 1811 and married Isabella Rind at Eccles on 29 July 1829. He was eighteen and she fifteen*. Their first known child, Emily Louisa, was christened at St George’s Hulme on 5 May 1831 and is included in the census records for 1841 and 1851. James White was styling himself architect by 1835 (baptismal records) and by 1837 occupied offices at 38 Princess Street. The redecoration of the Gentlemen’s Concert Hall in 1852 received extensive coverage in the Manchester Guardian but remains his only known work.

Isabella died on 22 January 1860 (Manchester Courier 28 January 1860, page 11). In any event the family have not been identified in the 1861 census. By 1865 James White had “disappeared,” a reward being offered for his present address.

*In 1753 the legal age for marriage was fixed at fourteen for men and twelve for women, and remained at those ages until the Age of Marriage Act in 1929, which raised the age to sixteen for both. Parental consent was required where marriage was by licence. However, this could be circumvented by the publication of banns which may explain the place of marriage being Eccles.

 Address
1837        James White architect and surveyor 38 Princess Street
1840        James White architect and surveyor 38 Princess Street
1850        James White 33 Cooper Street
1855        James White 33 Cooper Street

Residence
1835        James White, Princep Street Hulme (Baptism record)
1840        James White, St George’s Terrace, Hulme (Baqptism Record)
1841        James White Great Jackson Street (census)
1853        James White architect and surveyor 1 Elm Place Stretford New Road Hulme

 

 

 

Buildings and Designs

Building Name District Town/City County Country
Gentlemen's Concert Hall: Redecoration Central  Manchester  GMCA  England