DEATH OF MRS M. WHITE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 563, 17 September 1932, Page 14

DEATH OF MRS M. WHITE.

Per Press Association. LEVIN, September 16. Mrs Margaret White, widow of the late Rev Joseph White, aged eighty, whose husband was a well-known Presbyterian minister, died to-day. Mr White was stationed at Westport, Waipawa, Christchurch, Kelso, Cromwell, Dunedin, Pleasant Point and, lastly, Levin. At Levin he was the first fully ordained minister of that charge in 1908, retiring after eighteen months. He died in 1919. Mrs White was one of the chief social workers for the late Rev Dr Stuart at Dunedin. There are two surviving sons, Mr Len White, of the Public Service at Shannon, and Miss Jess White, a musician, of Levin. LATE MRS C. LEDSIIAM. Mrs Charlotte Ledsham, who died recently, was born in Ballandong, County Antrim, Ireland, and arrived in New Zealand on February 16, 1564, with her parents in the ship Mermaid (Captain Rose). After her marriage to Mr William Ledsham in Lyttelton in 1865, she and her husband went to reside in Teddington, where they took up farming. The most notable event that occurred during their residence there was the big tidal wave (August 16, 1868). The boat used by Mr Ledsham for carrying produce to Lyttelton was deposited in one of the paddocks and the children had to be carried to the Gebbie’s Estate higher up. After residing in Teddington for some years, Mr Ledsham purchased land from the Bing Estate, then called “ Bingsland,” now Richmond. The present Richmond School was built on the deceased lady’s estate. Since the death of her husband, who predeceased her by twenty-four years, Mrs Ledsham had lived a retired life. She was a staunch supporter of the Avonside Church. She is survived by three sons, one daughter, seventeen grandchildren and fifteen great-grand-children.