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WHITEHOUSE & TUCKER Families of C18th/C20th Tipton, Staffs


Distribution of the family name in 1881
showing a clear STS origin.

Distribution of the family name based on 2000-2005 data.
In the West Midlands the name frequency is high at 1,688 per million.


The location of the original White House is not clear.
Barbandni” on Ancestry recalls that his father referred to the property on the corner of Daisy Street and Brierley Lane (exactly opposite Skidmore Road) in Tipton as being "The White House" and that he said he had always known it as that as a child from 1915.

My WHITEHOUSE & TUCKER Family – Updated November 2013

Hannah TUCKER (1786-1871), my 3xGGM, is most likely the illegitimate d/o Rebecca TUCKER of Tipton, Staffordshire. No baptism has yet been found. Rebecca TUCKER = James WHITEHOUSE in 1792 Tipton (Hannah being aged 5 or 6), which would account for records that have Hannah's maiden name as TUCKER (the birth registration of her youngest child in 1839) and her father being given as James WHITEHOUSE (upon her remarriage to George SHAW in 1855). Assuming James WHITEHOUSE is her adopted, not biological father, then Hannah's ancestry is on her mother's TUCKER side only. James & Rebecca WHITEHOUSE were in Owen Street, Tipton in 1841 with son Joseph WHITEHOUSE, both dying a few years later. Nothing is known of Joseph after 1841. James appears to be the s/o Samuel & Mary WHITEHOUSE baptised in 1762, Tipton. Hannah TUCKER married Job WHITEHOUSE around 1812 – a marriage that remains to be found. Hannah may have married as TUCKER or WHITEHOUSE, or the relationship may be common-law.

Job WHITEHOUSE may be s/o Job WHITEHOUSE & Rachel GRIFFIS (GRIFFITHS) who m. 10.7.1784, Tipton. Currently no baptisms found for any children of this marriage. This is speculation purely based on a 15 y.o. Joseph GRIFFITHS present on the 1841 census with widowed Hannah. Job=Rachel marriage is possibly to an older couple and therefore not related to Job. Origins of Job are still sought.

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Job WHITEHOUSE died of "a hurt in a Coal Pit" aged 52 on 24.12.1840 (matching dates between registering his son Thomas's birth in April 1839 and the 1841 census, where Hannah was a widow living in Wood Street). Informant on death = John WHITEHOUSE of Princes End. A John WHITEHOUSE was at Princes End (a local mine). He married Sarah MASON on 25.10.1830 at St. Martin, Tipton. Their eldest child was a Job WHITEHOUSE c. 3.4.1831 at St. Martin, of Wood St. Tipton. John may the c. 4.11.1810 at St. Martin s/o John WHITEHOUSE & Mary. If a relation, then the John may be related to James WHITEHOUSE.

Born in 1788, Job would have been of legal age in 1809 to witness the marriage of a George WHITEHOUSE & Mary. Without a baptism for Job, this is another tenuous link between this family and the many other WHITEHOUSE families in the area.



Tipton baptisms and the 1841 census reveals the following known children to Job & Hannah WHITEHOUSE, my 3xGGPs:

  • Jane WHITEHOUSE (1813-1814);

  • Susanna WHITEHOUSE (1815 = David GUEST in 1835 Dudley);

  • William WHITEHOUSE (1818-1836);

  • Jane WHITEHOUSE (c1820; m. 1837 Tipton = Richard STANFORD, Engineman - 12 children);

  • Samuel WHITEHOUSE (c1823) – no certain history, records show he is not the one who married Ann MASON;

  • James WHITEHOUSE* (c1825) - see below;

  • Nancy WHITEHOUSE (c1827; m. 1846 Sedgley = John JONES);

  • Rebecca WHITEHOUSE (c1830 and unmarried in 1851, although reportedly married in 1847 Tipton to Joseph Haslock PEARCE, with her sister Phoebe as a witness);

  • Phoebe/Phebe WHITEHOUSE (c1831 Tipton) = Patrick McDONALD (as Patsy McDONNER) on 25.10.1849 at Dudley PC xviii 396. Both were given as of Castle Street, Dudley. [My 2xGGPs]);

  • Job WHITEHOUSE (c1836-1839);

  • Thomas WHITEHOUSE (1839-1903), married = Ann Maria TIMMINS (c1838-1877) in Q4 1862. She was incorrectly recorded as Hannah on the 1871 census. In 1861 Thomas was with his mother Hannah SHAW. In 1881, he was with 2nd wife, widow, Margaret CARTWRIGHT (1825-1900) estimated from 1878). Thomas & Ann Maria's children:

    • Alice WHITEHOUSE (1864);

    • Job WHITEHOUSE (1864/65) = Mary Ann (c1867 Wolverhampton);;

    • Susannah WHITEHOUSE (1867) = widower George PERKINS in 1897 Birmingham, and their combined families were in Aston on the 1901 census:

      • Job WHITEHOUSE (1885, illegitimate) = Kate GODDARD in Aston 1906. Children included:

        • Alfred WHITEHOUSE (1910-76) = Emma HOPKINS. Child:

          • Albert George WHITEHOUSE (1937) = Joan HUGHES. Children:

            • Elizabeth Jayne WHITEHOUSE (1972);

            • Darren James WHITEHOUSE (1975) = Emma Jayne EVANS in 2000. Children:

              • Charlotte Mia WHITEHOUSE (2001);

              • Hannah Marie Elsie WHITEHOUSE (2003);

        • Kathleen WHITEHOUSE (1913-13);

        • Ernest WHITEHOUSE (1916-72);

        • John (Jack) WHITEHOUSE (c1919-1976);

      • Hannah WHITEHOUSE (c1889, illegitimate);

      • Ernest WHITEHOUSE (c1894, illegitimate);

    • Phebe WHITEHOUSE (1870);

    • Samuel WHITEHOUSE (c1872), possibly = Lizzie BRADEN in 1895 Tipton. Not found in 1901;

    • Thomas WHITEHOUSE (c1877);


*son of Job, James WHITEHOUSE (c1824), Labourer = Hannah THURMAN (d/o Joseph) at St. Martin's Tipton on 11.11.1844. In 1871 James was a coalminer and preacher in Tipton, with the family living next door to the THURMANs. James & Hannah WHITEHOUSE had known children living in Coppice Street in 1871 and Canal Street in 1881. Also present in 1881 were grandchildren Mary Hannah BUTLER (c1874) & Daniel BUTLER (c1876), children of daughter Hannah, a child bride married by 1874:

  • Joseph WHITEHOUSE (c1852);

  • Jonah WHITEHOUSE (c1853-1887) miner & Furnaceman = Elizabeth WHITEHOUSE aka BURTON in 1875 (d/o William WHITEHOUSE & Sarah HUNT m. 25.5.1831. Sarah remarried to Samuel BURTON in 1860). Their known children:

    • Joseph WHITEHOUSE (c1876) = Hannah Jane TOWNSEND in 1902 Tipton. Children:

      • Joseph L WHITEHOUSE (1913);

      • Derick WHITEHOUSE (1923)

    • Elizabeth WHITEHOUSE (c1878) = Thomas HASDELL;

    • Alice WHITEHOUSE (c1879 =. John DARBY in 1902 Tipton;

    • James WHITEHOUSE (c1.1881);

    • Jonah WHITEHOUSE (1883) = Eliza GIBBONS Q1 1906;

    • William WHITEHOUSE (1887);

  • Hannah WHITEHOUSE (c1858) m. 1872 (at 14 years old) = Daniel BUTLER;

  • William WHITEHOUSE (c1860) - missing from 1871 census. Deceased?;

  • Mary WHITEHOUSE (c1868);

No further WHITEHOUSE descendants are identified so far along this line.


Some interesting facts about WHITEHOUSE:

  • There are 147 WHITEHOUSE families on the Tipton 1841 census!

  • In 1853 (from registers of births, marriages & deaths) the frequency of the name ranges from 1 in 74 registrations in the Penkridge district of Wolverhampton, through 1 in 101 in Dudley (including Sedgley & Tipton) and 1 in 112 in West Bromwich.

Contact GOONS Member Keith PERCY for the WHITEHOUSE One-Name Study (ONS)
This family is no. 165 in this study.

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