GENESIS OF THE WHITE FAMILY A CONNECTED RECORD OF THE WHITE FAMILY BEGINNING IN 900 AT THE TIME OF ITS WELSH ORIGIN WHEN THE NAME WAS WYNN, AND TRACING THE FAMILY INTO IRELAND AND ENGLAND. SEVERAL OF THE NAME ENTERED ENGLAND WITH THE NORMAN CONQUEROR. REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ENGLISH BRANCH EMIG RA TED TO AMERICA IN 1638. THE SCOTTS OF SCOT'S HALL IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, ENGLAND. ONE OF THE OLDEST RECORDED FAMILIES, THEIR TRA­ DITIONARY HISTORY BEGINNING IN IRELAND ABOUT 300 B. C. THE AUTHENTICATED RECORD HEREIN GIVEN DATES BACK TO 400 A. D. EMI­ GRATION TO AMERICA WAS IN 1740. THEIR DESCENDANTS ARE TO BE FOUND IN EVERY ST ATE OF THE UNION. Supplemental Records, Biographical Sketches and Coats of Arms of nearly seventy Allied Families. COMPILED BY EMMA SIGGINS WHITE ASSISTED BY MARTHA HUMPHREYS MALTBY KANSAS 0X'l'Y, MO,: TXERNAN•DAR'l' PRXNTXNG 00, 1920 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1920, by EMMA SIGGINS WHITE In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. ABBREVIATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS. b.-born. Oo.-Oom., County. 0. W.-Oivil War. d.-died. dau.-daughter. gen.-genealogical. Hist.-Historical. ,T. B. W.-Ancestry of John Barber White. m.-married. Mdlsx.-Middlesex. ~- E.-New England. N. H;-New Hampshire. R. W.-Revolutionary War. s.-son. When * precedes a name it signifies that the name is mentioned again in the record. The various spelling of proper names is caused by following exactly the style of that of the text from which material was obtained. iv CONTENTS PART ONE. 900~1900. Pages 1-170. Tracing the White Family From its Welsh Origin to the Time of Emi- gration to America in 1638. John Barber White-Portrait and Sketch of. John Barber White-Lineage From Otho, 1042. Origin of the White Family in Wales about 900. The White Family of England. Robertus White, of Yorkshire. Robert White, of Yatley, Ancestor of John Barber White and Rev. John Wesley. White Family of Somersetshire.-Colored Cut. White Family of Southwarnbourne.-Colored Cut. The Line of John White, the Immigrant Who Went to America in 1638 and Died at Lancaster, Mass., in 1673. Johannes White-Ann Cecil. Portrait William Cecil. 1.Valbeo:ffe-Gwyn-Wing:tield-White. Arms of Various White Families. William White, the Mayflower Pilgrim. John White, Bishop of Winchester. Whites of W orplesdon. John White, Lord Mayor of London. Thomas White, Chancellor of Salisbury Cathedral. Old Dorchester- John White and John Humfrey, of Massachusetts Bay Colony. John White, the Patriarch oif Dorchester.-Coat of Arms. Harington-Nevile-White.-Coat of Arms. Harrington-Radcly:ffe-Legh.-Coat of Arms. Robert White, of Southwike. John White, of Sussex. White Family of Ireland. Whytes of Scotland. V Rev. John Wesley-Ancestry of. Portrait of John, Charles and Susanna Wesley. John White (1590-1645), called "Century White" (John White, "The Counsellor"). "Jeramy" White. Sir Thomas White (1492-1567), "of Rickeusworth," Founder of St. John's College, Oxford. Kibblewhite Family. John White, of "Hulcote," Bedfordshire, Ancestor of Bishop William White, of Pennsylvania. Robert Morris, of Philadelphia. Dr. Thomas White, Prebend of St. Paul's, London. Leigh, of Stoneleigh. Peter White, of Trewro, County Cornwall. Thomas White, Bishop of Petersborough. Francis White, D. D., d. 1636. John White, Governor of Virginia. John Whitetof Maryland. Daniel White, of Albemarle County. Robert White, of Virginia. White-Fiel<j Ancestry. George White, of McKinney, Texas. Richards.-With Colored Cut. vi PART TWO. SCOTTS OF SCOT'S HALL and Allied Families. 300--'1919. Pages 171-204. ANCESTRY OF EMMA (SIGGINS) WHITE. Colored Cuts of: De Warren-Finch - Gower - Howard-Kemp - Lewknor. Black and White Cuts of: De Beaufitz-De N ormanville-De Pashley- De Serjeaulx-Fitzalan-Woodville. Lineage From Charlemagne, 742-814. Alfred the Great. King David. William the Conqueror. Malcolm III. John Baliol, Sketch and Portrait. Sir William Scott. Emperor Louis I. of France. Baldwin of Flanders. Romanus II., Emperor of Constantinople, 956 A. D. Sir Reginald Scott. Sir Thomas Scott. Sir William Baliol. Chichley, Kemp, Crawley (Oralle), Herbert, Pepplesham. De N ormanville, Sir Richard Woodville. Lewknor-Pympe. Pashley-Pashlee. W arren-Fitzalan-Sergieux. Howard-Alleine-Stanley. \Tll PART THREE. HEMINGWAY-BOWEN. 1600~1919. Pages 205-243. Coat of Arms of Tuttle Family-Belonging to Both Hemingway and Bowen Families. Lineage of: Andrews-Bowen-:-Bradley-Brown­ Cook-Cooper-Dickenson-Goodhue-Hall­ Hooker-Johnson-Kimball-Mans:field­ Munson-Peck-Pierpont-Plum-Prichard­ Russell-Sanford-Thompson-Tuttle-Willett. PART FOUR. Supplemental to Ancestry of JOHN BARBER WHITE. 400-1919. Pages 244-346. Colored Cuts of: Baker-Baldtwin-Bohun-Brown-Butler-Curtis­ Drake-Elliott-Paine-Ward. Alvord of Somerset-Baldwin of Flanders-Barber-Bishop-Brown -Butler-Charlemagne-Constantine IL-De Bohun-Edward I., of England-Ferdinand I., King of Castile_:_Henry I., II., III.­ King John-Kenneth-McAlpine. Alfred. the Great-Clapp-Curtis-Drake-Dyer-Rev. John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians-Fairbanks-Sir Thomas Foote, of Essex, England-Ford-Fuller-Gardner-Gleason - Goodnow - Ham­ mond-Haskins-Houghton:_House - Hutchinson - Humphrey -Joslins, of Northumberland-King-Knapp-Mason - Paine - Peabody-Porter-Prescott-Rice-Shattuck-Smith - Sylvester -Ward-Wallis-Waters-White-Whitcomb-Wilder. \"ill FOREWORD. The WHITE family derives its descent from Roderick the Great whose descendant, Rhys ap Tudor, King of South Wales ( or Deheu­ barth), was slain in 1093, and from Otho, living in the time of Edward the Confessor. Nesta, daughter of Rhys ap Tudor, by her alliance with Gerald Fitz;.Walter united the two lines, and they were the ancestors of Walter White who accompanied Strong Bow into Ireland in 1168. To write a history of the early life of these ancestors would be to repeat the history of Wales. Interesting and condensed information is to be found in the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittani<m which, for want of space, cannot be inserted in this work. Perley Derby, Salem, Mass., in his genealogy of '' The Descendants of Thomas White (1642-1714) of Marblehead, and Mark Haskell of Beverly, Mass.," says, "Thomas White appears, after an extensive and careful search of the county, local and other records, to stand as the · head of this branch of the White Family of Marblehead .. Savage says he settled in Marblehead in 1668; and the tradition that he was a native of Wales is not a:s yet substantiated by any positive evidence based on history." John White, known as "Century White" (1590-1644) of Pembroke, South Wales, was probably the ancestor of thrs line. "Me­ morials of Roderick White and Hrs Wife, Lucy Blakeslee, of Paris Hill, N. Y.," by Andrew C. White, has for the, first generation Elder John White (1600-1683-4), who was admitted a freeman of Massachusetts, March 4, 1633. Elder John White was a son of Robert and Bridgette (Allger) White of Shalford, Essex, England. He was married De­ cember 26, 1622, at Messing, Essex, England, to Mary Levitt, daughter of Williarm and Margaret Levitt. His sister, Mary White, baptized August 24, 1590, at Messing, married, June 30, 1614, Joseph Loomis. (See "Ancestry of John Barber White," pp. 234-239, and "D. A. R. Lineage Book," Vol. 24, p. 149.) The Marshall family of the U.S. A., of whom Chief Justice John Marshall was a distinguished representative, trace their descent from Strong Bow (Richard of Clare, Earl of Pembrok~), through William ix Marshall, the great Earl of Pembroke, who married the daughter of Strong Bow, whose nephew, John Marshall, was made Marshal of Ireland. Robert White, twelfth in descent from Otho, purchased from Sir Foulke the manor of Southwarnborne. The name of this manor is found in the references as '' Swanborne-Southwarnborough, '' and various other forms. The names of the counties of England are frequently found ab­ breviated, as, for example, Notts being Nottinghamshire. But the almost insurmountable difficulty in the compilation of this genealogy was the frequent repetition of the name JOHN WHITE; even two brothers, John White, bishop of Winchester, and John White, may­ or of London, bearing the same name. We have been able to indentify them by the same method as did the signer of the Declaration of Inde­ pendence who wrote Charles Carroll "of Carrolton"; and so we style them, John White, "the Mayor of London"; John White, ''Bishop of Winchester"; John White, "The Patriarch of Dorchester"; John White, '' the Councillor'' or '' Century White''; John White, '' of Staunton St. John"; John White, "of Hulcote"; John White, "Governor of Vir­ ginia"; John White, "the immigrant" and our own John White, "of Kansas City, Missouri, U. S. A.," whose interest in genealogical re­ search and preservation of historical data must forever endear him to posterity. St. David, the patron saint of Wales, is supposed to have lived in the last part of the sixth century. He founded the monastery of St. David in Pembrokeshire. and became its abbot. In 1120 he was can­ onized. His festival is celebrated March 1st. He comes of the family of "Gwyn" or Wynn or WHITE, and there is to be found in this lineage the names of many who were founders of colleges, mayors of London, and men of influence. In the United States the name "John White" is found as early as 1585 in the Island of Roanoke in Virginia, and John White with his wife Joan West, who came to America in 1639 and settled in Salem, Massachusetts, and later went to Lancaster, Mass­ achusetts, where they died. The present work embraces the earliest known records of the White family, beginning with Otho, 1042, and running through the sev­ eral variations of the name Gwynne, Wynne, Whyte, etc., etc., to the present form of spelling.