Janet (Jessie) ARNOT, 18371928 (aged 90 years)

Name
Janet (Jessie) /ARNOT/
Given names
Janet (Jessie)
Surname
ARNOT
Married name
Janet (Jessie) /WHITE/
Birth April 28, 1837 42 38
Baptism June 4, 1837 42 38 (aged 1 month)
Birth of a sisterWilhelmina Miller ARNOT
March 13, 1839 (aged 1 year)
Birth of a sisterMary ARNOT
April 5, 1841 (aged 3 years)
Birth of a sisterHenrietta ARNOT
April 5, 1841 (aged 3 years)
Census June 6, 1841 (aged 4 years) Age: 3
Address: High St Inverkeithing living with parents, 3 siblings and 2 servants.
Death of a maternal grandmotherMargaret SMITH
September 29, 1848 (aged 11 years) Age: 86
Burial of a maternal grandmotherMargaret SMITH
1848 (aged 10 years)
Census March 30, 1851 (aged 13 years) Age: 13
Address: High St Inverkeithing
Immigration December 7, 1855 (aged 18 years)
Note: Jessie arrived with another female Arnot who may have been her sister Jane. If it was, she was to re…

Jessie arrived with another female Arnot who may have been her sister Jane. If it was, she was to return to Scotland at some stage returning to Melbourne in 1885 following the death of their parents.

Death of a paternal grandmotherJean CARMICHAEL
May 11, 185818:30 (aged 21 years) Age: 85
Cause: Old age
Note: Death reported by granddaughter Wilhelmina Arnot who was present at death.
Burial of a paternal grandmotherJean CARMICHAEL
May 1858 (aged 21 years)
Death of a sisterMargaret Jane ARNOT
November 21, 1861 (aged 24 years)
Religious marriageWilliam WHITEView this family
June 19, 1862 (aged 25 years)
Address: "Married in the house of W Arnot - Richmond"
Note: William was a farmer from Lower Plenty and Jessie was a spinster from Richmond. One of the witnesses…

William was a farmer from Lower Plenty and Jessie was a spinster from Richmond. One of the witnesses was Jessie's brother, James Miller Arnot. The signature of the other witness is less clear. It is that of Margaret, maybe Arnot. Married by a Baptist minster according to the rites of the Baptist Church. William had also signed that he was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

The record identifies the location as that of "the house of W Arnot - Richmond". I have never found such a person, apart from a bookseller in St Kilda. However, Jessie's brother, James Miller Arnot did reside in Richmond and he was a witness so I wonder if a mistake was made.

Birth of a daughterJessie Maria WHITE
June 23, 1864 (aged 27 years)
Birth of a daughterEdith Blanche WHITE
October 3, 1865 (aged 28 years)
Birth of a daughterJane Harvey WHITE
October 31, 1867 (aged 30 years)
Address: Hawthorn
Baptism of a daughterJane Harvey WHITE
December 29, 1867 (aged 30 years)
Birth of a sonWilliam Arnot WHITE
December 5, 1869 (aged 32 years)
Address: Yarra Bank, Hawthorn
Baptism of a sonWilliam Arnot WHITE
February 9, 1870 (aged 32 years)
Birth of a sonHarvey Alexander WHITE
February 4, 1872 (aged 34 years)
Baptism of a sonHarvey Alexander WHITE
March 14, 1872 (aged 34 years)
Death of a daughterJessie Maria WHITE
May 18, 187412:00 (aged 37 years) Age: 9
Cause: "disease of the brain of old standing" She also had TB in both lungs.
Note: Inquest was mandatory. It also recorded that she did not know family during their occasional visits.
Burial of a daughterJessie Maria WHITE
May 20, 1874 (aged 37 years)
Address: Location: MGC-COE-Comp-L-No-641
Source: findagrave
Note: It is possible that Jessie's grave within Melbourne General Cemetery was intended to become a family…

It is possible that Jessie's grave within Melbourne General Cemetery was intended to become a family plot. However, William moved his family to Brighton a few years after Jessie's death. Brighton Cemetery became the resting place for himself and family where they were nestled within an area also containing his wife's sister's family and also that of his daughter, Edith.

Birth of a daughterFlorence May WHITE
July 24, 1874 (aged 37 years)
Baptism of a daughterFlorence May WHITE
October 22, 1874 (aged 37 years)
Death of a fatherAlexander ARNOT
April 27, 1879 (aged 41 years)
Death of a motherJanet MILLER
November 28, 1884 (aged 47 years) Age: 84
Address: High St Inverkeithing
Cause: Bronchitis
Note: Janet's son reported her death and informed authorities that her parents were: James Miller master m…

Janet's son reported her death and informed authorities that her parents were: James Miller master mariner and Margaret Miller, nee Smith.

Burial of a motherJanet MILLER
1884 (aged 46 years)
Death of a husbandWilliam WHITE
May 4, 1885 (aged 48 years) Age: 58
Cause: "Paralysis of the brain" ie stroke
Source: Cause of death from burial register.
Burial of a husbandWilliam WHITE
May 7, 1885 (aged 48 years)
Note: Location: Presbyterian H 53
Death of a brotherJames Miller ARNOT
February 27, 1890 (aged 52 years) Age: 63
Cause: Apoplexy
Burial of a brotherJames Miller ARNOT
1890 (aged 52 years)
James and Mary Arnot's Tombstone - 2015
James and Mary Arnot's Tombstone - 2015

Note: Findagrave has a slightly clearer version.
Residence November 16, 1892 (aged 55 years)
Note: Jessie was known to live there between 1892, the time of her son's death and 1910, the period of her…

Jessie was known to live there between 1892, the time of her son's death and 1910, the period of her daughter Jean's marriage. She had moved to Lysterville St, Malvern by the time of the 1912 electoral roll.

A small ancient castle sat on a tiny island in the Firth of Firth a few miles from Inverkeithing. It had been built for Sir David Stewart who had been granted the Barony of Rosythe in 1428. it is now landlocked within a naval dockyard. It's quite possible that Jessie named her house after the castle.

Death of a sonWilliam Arnot WHITE
November 16, 1892 (aged 55 years) Age: 22
Cause: TB
Note: Cause of death noted from burial register.
Burial of a sonWilliam Arnot WHITE
November 18, 1892 (aged 55 years)
Note: Plot Pres H53 with parents and adjacent on 2 sides to relatives.
Marriage of a childEdith Blanche WHITEAlfred Herbert HOLDSWORTHView this family
July 25, 1894 (aged 57 years) Husband: 31 Wife: 28
Religion: Presbyterian
Entitled to a bequest
An advertisement in the SMH March 2 1901 required Jessie, Jane and Mary Arnot to contact an Edinburgh lawyer so as to settle the estate of James MOYES, grocer of North Berwick, Scotland. They were related through a descendant of a brother of their Arnot grandfather. I have not yet found any other direct relationship although there is another surname shared by both families.
March 2, 1901 (aged 63 years)

Death of a sisterJane ARNOT
September 18, 1909 (aged 72 years) Age: 74
Address: "late of "Rosyth" Hampton Rd, Brighton"
Cause: pneumonia
Burial of a sisterJane ARNOT
September 20, 1909 (aged 72 years)
Address: H51
Marriage of a childWilhelm Hermann Adolph (Adolf) NICHTERLEINJane Harvey WHITEView this family
June 1, 1910 (aged 73 years)
Fact
Jessie was the recipient of a bequest of 100 pounds from the estate of Sarah Ann Wragge. Sarah's husband, Thomas, and Jessie's husband William, had been cousins. William's Aunt Maria White had been Thomas' mother.
1915 (aged 77 years)

Death of a sisterHenrietta ARNOT
May 21, 1915 (aged 78 years) Age: 74
Address: 12 Highburgh Rd Partrick, Glasgow Scotland
Cause: cerebral haemorrhage
Burial of a fatherAlexander ARNOT

Will February 19, 1917 (aged 79 years)
Note: Sydney Hope Bradley and son Harvey White and were executors. Beneficiaries were Jessie's four child…

Sydney Hope Bradley and son Harvey White and were executors. Beneficiaries were Jessie's four children.

Death of a sisterWilhelmina Miller ARNOT
January 6, 192010am (aged 82 years) Age: 80
Address: 10 Lilybank Gardens Hillhead Glasgow scotland
Cause: Pleurisy & cardiac failure
Death February 4, 1928 (aged 90 years) Age: 90
Address: 118 Tooronga Rd, East Malvern.
Cause of death: Senility, cardiac failure
Burial February 6, 1928 (2 days after death)
Note: Plot: Pres H 53

Plot: Pres H 53 In front of a Holdsworth grave and beside double sized grave holding Jessie White's sister Jane Arnot, her brother-in-law John Ferguson and in their adjoining grave her Ferguson niece and nephew.

Probate March 22, 1928 (1 month after death)
Family with parents
father
Fordell's Lodging - Old
17941879
Birth: September 18, 1794 29 23Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
Death: April 27, 1879Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
mother
Fordell's Lodging - Old
17981884
Birth: December 16, 1798 44 33Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
Death: November 28, 1884Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
Religious marriage Religious marriageMarch 30, 1824Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
11 months
elder brother
18251829
Birth: March 8, 1825 30 26Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Mid Lothian Scotland
Death: November 1829Prestonpans
21 months
elder brother
Inverkeithing Cemetery - Tombstones against wall at top
18261890
Birth: December 7, 1826 32 27Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland
Death: February 27, 1890Viewforth, Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
4 years
elder sister
18301861
Birth: September 14, 1830 35 31Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland
Death: November 21, 1861Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, Scotland
6 years
elder sister
18361909
Birth: April 27, 1836 41 37Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland
Death: September 18, 1909Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1 year
herself
White Family Gravestone
18371928
Birth: April 28, 1837 42 38Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland
Death: February 4, 1928"private hospital" Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
23 months
younger sister
Viewforth -Marriage place - Now a Listed Property
18391920
Birth: March 13, 1839 44 40Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
Death: January 6, 1920Glasgow, Scotland
2 years
younger sister
18411931
Birth: April 5, 1841 46 42Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
Death: January 16, 193121 Melby Ave, East St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
younger sister
1885 Kerr Family
18411915
Birth: April 5, 1841 46 42Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
Death: May 21, 1915Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Family with William WHITE
husband
William White
18271885
Birth: 1827 42 41Chaddesden, Derbyshire, England
Death: May 4, 1885"Rosyth", Hampton St, North Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria
herself
White Family Gravestone
18371928
Birth: April 28, 1837 42 38Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland
Death: February 4, 1928"private hospital" Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Religious marriage Religious marriageJune 19, 1862North Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2 years
daughter
18641874
Birth: June 23, 1864 37 27West Bank, Lower Plenty, Victoria, Australia
Death: May 18, 1874Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
16 months
daughter
Edith White, perhaps in mourning clothing. Her father died when she was 20 years old.
18651943
Birth: October 3, 1865 38 28Simpson St, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Death: August 26, 194316 Merrion Pl, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2 years
daughter
18671930
Birth: October 31, 1867 40 30Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Death: January 30, 1930Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2 years
son
White Family Grave
18691892
Birth: December 5, 1869 42 32Yarra Bank, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Death: November 16, 1892Rosyth, Hampton St, North Brighton, Victoria, Australia
2 years
son
18721937
Birth: February 4, 1872 45 34Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Death: February 13, 1937Belgrave, Victoria, Australia
3 years
daughter
C1937 Florence White
18741960
Birth: July 24, 1874 47 37Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria
Death: October 15, 1960Alexandra Private Hospital, Caufield, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Immigration

Jessie arrived with another female Arnot who may have been her sister Jane. If it was, she was to return to Scotland at some stage returning to Melbourne in 1885 following the death of their parents.

Marriage

William was a farmer from Lower Plenty and Jessie was a spinster from Richmond. One of the witnesses was Jessie's brother, James Miller Arnot. The signature of the other witness is less clear. It is that of Margaret, maybe Arnot. Married by a Baptist minster according to the rites of the Baptist Church. William had also signed that he was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

The record identifies the location as that of "the house of W Arnot - Richmond". I have never found such a person, apart from a bookseller in St Kilda. However, Jessie's brother, James Miller Arnot did reside in Richmond and he was a witness so I wonder if a mistake was made.

Residence

Jessie was known to live there between 1892, the time of her son's death and 1910, the period of her daughter Jean's marriage. She had moved to Lysterville St, Malvern by the time of the 1912 electoral roll.

A small ancient castle sat on a tiny island in the Firth of Firth a few miles from Inverkeithing. It had been built for Sir David Stewart who had been granted the Barony of Rosythe in 1428. it is now landlocked within a naval dockyard. It's quite possible that Jessie named her house after the castle.

Will

Sydney Hope Bradley and son Harvey White and were executors. Beneficiaries were Jessie's four children.

Burial

Plot: Pres H 53 In front of a Holdsworth grave and beside double sized grave holding Jessie White's sister Jane Arnot, her brother-in-law John Ferguson and in their adjoining grave her Ferguson niece and nephew.