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WHITE FAMILY OF SOUTHWARNBOURNE.

"ROBERT WHITE, merchant and maior of the staple of Calais, borne at Yatley in Hampshire, his dwelling (sic) was first at Sandwich in Kent and after at Farnham in Surrey wheare he deceased, hee purchased the mannor of SOUTHWARNBOURNE of Sr. Foulke pembridge, knt. Hee had a wiffe Alice .....by whom he had issue John. Robert White (1), living in 1461-2; m. Alice....."

Children:

i. * Robert White (2).

ii. * John White (2).

Robert White (2), living in 1498, Swanbourne Riding, Hampshire, m. ....., name and date unknown.

Among his children were:

i. Thomas White (3), living in Marriot, in 1524.

ii. John White (3), of Tuxford, Nottinghamshire.

John White (2), of Swanbourne, county Hampshire, m. Eleanor Hungerford, dau. of Robert, Lord Hungerford.

Children:

i. * Robert White (3), of Southwarnborne, m. Margaret Gaynsford.

ii. * Richard White (3), of Hutton.

Richard White (3), of Hutton, county Essex, m. Maude Terrell, dau. of Sir William Terrell, of Herron.

Children:

i. * Richard White (4), m. Margaret Sherley.

ii. Susan White (4), m. Thom Tong Clarencau, "King of Arms."

iii. Mary White (4), m., 1st, ..........Whitehead; m., 2d, .............. Spencer.

iv. Joan White (4), m. ............. Wilcocke.

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Richard White (4), of Hutton, m. Margaret Sherley, of Nottinghamshire.

Children:

i. Dorathey White (5), m. .......... Staunton.

ii. * George White (5), m. Catherine, dau. of Wm. Stroude.

iii. Humfrey White (5), was of Devon.

iv. Elizabeth (5), m. ......... Sheppard.

v. Mary White (5).

vi. Tomazine White (5).

vii. Catherine (5).

viii. Anne White (5), m. ........... Setell.

(Ref.: The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530-1634, pp. 81, 82.)

Robert White (3), son of John and Alice (Hungerford) White, of Swanbourne, als. Southwarnbourne, b. 1645, m. Margaret Gaynsford, dau. of John Gaynsford.

Children:

i. * Robert White (4), of Swanborne; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Inglefield, the elder.

ii. Margaret White (4), m. John Kirton.

iii. * Henry White (4), of Christ Church, county Southampton, m. Elizabeth, dau. and co-heir of Rob. Fenrother, alderman of London.

iv. A daughter (4), m. Peter Cowdry, of Hewett.

v. Anne White (4), m. John Tichbourne.

"In the year 1545, Nicholas Tichbourne, eldest son and heir of John Tichbourne, Esq., was High Sheriff of his county, but died soon after. His wife was Anne, dau. of Robert White, of Southwarnborough, in the same county. One of his daughters m. a John Bruen, from whom the Bruens of Farnham are descended; another m. Thomas Leigh, of Cheshire. Obediah, son of John Bruen, of Bruen, Stapleford, Cheshire, went to New England, in 1638. Tichbourne's eldest son, Nicholas, was also High Sheriff and one of the Knights of the Shire in Parliament in 1553. Constance, one of this man's daughters, m. Robert Knight of Lyford in Berkshire. His son Benjamin was created Baronet in 1620. Sir Walter, his second son, m. Mary, daughter and co-heir of Robert White, of Aldershot, in Hampshire, son of Sir Thomas White, Lord Mayor of London." (Ref.: MSS. of Rev. John Holding.)

(Mary Bruen, came with her brother Obediah to New England, and m. John Baldwin. For ancestors and descendants, see Ancestry of John Barber White, pp. 190-204.)

Children of Robert and Elizabeth (Inglefield) White:

i. *Sir Thomas White (5), of Swanborne, "Master of the Requests" to Queen Mary; m. Agneta (Agnes) White, dau. of Robert White, of Farnham, sister of John White, Bishop of Winchester, and of John White, who was Mayor of London in 1563-4.

ii. *Henry White (5).

iii. *Sibbella White (5), m. Sir John White, Knight, who was Lord Mayor of London, 1563-4; he m., 2d, Catherine Soda.

iv. White (5), m. .......... Webb, of Salisbury.

v. White (5), m. .........Younge, of Berkshire.

vi. White (5), m. ......... Normanville, of London.

Children of Sir Thomas (5) and Agneta (White) White:

i. Richard White (6), m. Hellen, dau. of Stephen Kirton, and had: Anne White (7), m. George Philpot.

ii. Thomas White (6), m. Anne, dau. of Stephen Kirton, and had: John White (7), "cheefe heire male of this line" living in 1593.

iii. Barbara White (6), m. Rob. Oxenbridge.

iv. *Henry White (6), m. Bridget, dau. and heir of Henry Bradshaw.

v. Gabriell White (6), m.......... Wilford.

vi. Mary White (6), m. 1st ........Carell; m. 2d......... Lovelace, Sergeant at Law.

vii. Elizabeth White (6), m. Lord Chideoke Pawlett.

viii. Frances White (6), m. Francis Yate, of Lyfford, Berks.

ix. Stephen White (6), "The Long," m. Lucy Wikenson.

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