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William White
Born about 1834; death not recorded
William White was born in Ireland about 1834 and married Alice Stilwell Wilson, a widow of 39, at Manhattan on 23 November 1876. A Jas. White appears on the same record and is probably his father or brother. Alice was a widow again by 1906, so he died between those dates. He is an Irishman marrying into an old Dutch New Jersey family, which is the only such crossing in this part of the archive.
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William White was born in Ireland about 1834 and married Alice Stilwell Wilson, a widow of 39, at Manhattan on 23 November 1876. A Jas. White appears on the same record and is probably his father or brother. Alice was a widow again by 1906, so he died between those dates. He is an Irishman marrying into an old Dutch New Jersey family, which is the only such crossing in this part of the archive.
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- Ireland
- New Jersey
- New York City, New York
- Manhattan, New York City, New York
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Marriage of Alice Stilwell Wilson and William White, Manhattan, 23 November 1876
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NYC marriage index, 1866-1937 — controlled sweep of twelve archive couples, 21 August 2026
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Twelve couples tested by intersecting both spouses' rows on county, certificate number and year: no matches. Controls: surname Mayer alone returns 1,025 rows for 1922-1937, and the GGG (all-records) and City (digitised-only) indexes return identical counts for every name tested.
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What we still don't know
- Where in Ireland, and when he came out. The marriage record gives only the country.
- His death, which was before January 1906, when Alice died a widow.
- Jas. White, who appears on the marriage record without a stated role and is most likely his father.
- [NEGATIVE, CONTROLLED — NOT MARRIED IN NEW YORK CITY] Tested on 21 August 2026 against the New York City marriage index by intersecting both spouses' rows on county, certificate number and year. No certificate joins them. Two controls make the zero usable: the surname alone returns hundreds of rows, so the query works; and the GGG transcription of every record and the City's index of digitised records return identical counts, so this is a real absence and not a scanning gap. Within the index's coverage — five boroughs, 1866-1937 — they married somewhere else. Finding 158.