Ian, Your query is at the roots (clever eh?) of what Genealogists do: "With the current wide use of the Internet, can anyone now throw any light which will allow the Americans to discover the ancestry of William WHITE, one of their nation's founders? Wouldn't it be great if he was on your family tree? " FYI, the same issue interested me in another White, John WHITE, who was a founder of the FIRST Anglo settlement of the US, at Jamestown in 1587ish, where the FIRST American citizen, Virginia DARE, was born to Eleanor (DARE) WHITE, w/o Ananias Dare, d/o John WHITE, appointed by Sir Walter Raleigh to lead the founding settlement, which became known as the Lost Colony. I am a Dare. Below are some online Gen sites avail to all for such discovery searches. However, the UK is still somewhat provincial, in that many of the best records are only avail to those who show up in person - NEVERTHELESS, there are some EXcellent free online resources and some other quasi-free (locate the info free then pay small money to access/ download) databases. For example, here are a few of both the former & the latter - the first w/a few examples of 1500s Whites: http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk/ Search UK Documents, including 34 Wills John White 1550-1600 wills - Browsing Family History > Wills UK Welcome to DocumentsOnline DocumentsOnline (formerly PRO-Online) allows you online access to the Public Record Office's collection of digitised public records, including both academic and genealogical sources. Searching the index is free, and it costs £3 to download a digital image of a document. 34 documents found - 34 Wills John White 1550-1600 http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk/search-results.asp?searchtype=browserefine&query=first_name%3djohn%20%7clast_name%3dwhite&first_date=15500101&last_date=16001231&catid=6&pagenumber=1&querytype=1&mediaarray=* Description Date Catalogue ref. Details Will of John White of Spalding, Lincolnshire 11 May 1561 PROB 11/44 View Details Will of John White, Tucker of Doulting, Somerset 27 April 1582 PROB 11/64 View Details Sentence of John White, Student of Goneville and Caius College of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire 07 June 1581 PROB 11/63 View Details Will of John White or Whyte, Student of Goneville and Caius College of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire 07 June 1581 PROB 11/63 View Details Will of John White, Vicar of Wells, Somerset 24 March 1581 PROB 11/63 View Details Will of John White of Potterne, Wiltshire 05 November 1580 PROB 11/62 View Details Will of John White, one of Her Majesty's Ordinary Footmen, Gentleman 10 November 1579 PROB 11/61 View Details Will of John White of Much Clacton, Essex 03 August 1576 PROB 11/58 View Details Will of John White, Yeoman of Kingston upon Thames, Surrey 27 January 1575 PROB 11/57 View Details Will of Sir John White, Alderman of Saint Margaret Lothbury, City of London 20 August 1573 PROB 11/55 View Details 1 2 3 4 > Will of John Whiting or Whitinge, Yeoman of Moulton, Suffolk 15 May 1573 PROB 11/55 View Details Will of John White, Merchant of Bristol, Gloucestershire 01 May 1570 PROB 11/52 View Details Will of John White, Husbandman of Gwenddwr, Breconshire 17 May 1566 PROB 11/48 View Details Will of John White, Butcher of Bury Saint Mary, Suffolk 18 June 1563 PROB 11/46 View Details Will of John Whiting or Whitinge, Clothier of Boxford, Suffolk 16 December 1552 PROB 11/35 View Details Will of John Whyte or White, Parson of Stepnulton, Dorset 18 November 1550 PROB 11/33 View Details Will of John White, Yeoman of Fleet, Lincolnshire 25 October 1550 PROB 11/33 View Details Will of John White or Whyte, Draper of London 31 July 1559 PROB 11/42B View Details Will of John White of Bow Brickhill, Buckinghamshire 08 May 1559 PROB 11/42B View Details Will of John White, Gentleman of Bristol, Gloucestershire 09 December 1558 PROB 11/42A View Details Will of John White, Gentleman of Northiam, Sussex 17 November 1599 PROB 11/94 View Details Will of John White or Whytte, Husbandman of Potterne, Wiltshire 21 July 1599 PROB 11/94 View Details Will of John White, Yeoman of Woodnewton, Northamptonshire 26 January 1599 PROB 11/93 View Details Will of John White, Gentleman of London 22 October 1597 PROB 11/90 View Details Will of John White, Husbandman of Somerset 05 July 1596 PROB 11/88 View Details Will of John White of Middle Temple, Middlesex 07 May 1596 PROB 11/87 View Details Sentence of John White of Hitchin, Hertfordshire 11 May 1594 PROB 11/83 View Details Will of John White, Husbandman of Clapham, Surrey 07 September 1592 PROB 11/80 View Details Will of John White, Gentleman of Otham, Kent 10 November 1591 PROB 11/78 View Details Will of John White, Husbandman of North Hinksey, Berkshire 23 April 1591 PROB 11/77 View Details Will of John Whit of Buckland, Dorset 30 October 1590 PROB 11/76 View Details Will of John White of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire 07 November 1589 PROB 11/74 View Details Will of John White, Haberdasher of London 15 June 1585 PROB 11/68 View Details Will of John White, Merchant of Bedford, Devon 28 November 1584 PROB 11/67 View Details ============== Catalogue Reference: PROB 11/48 Dept: Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Series: Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers Piece: Name of Register: Crymes & Morrison (Morrisson Quire Numbers: 1 - 35 (Crymes Quire Numbers 1 - 34 Date: 10 November 1565 Description: Will of Nycholas Daye, Merchant of Lyme Regis, Dorset Image contains: 1 will of many for the catalogue reference Number of image files: 1 Image Reference Format and Version Part Number Size (KB) Number of Pages Price (£) 309 / 269 PDF 1.2 1 397 2 3.00 Total Price (£) 3.00 -------------- Will of Sir John White Catalogue Reference: PROB 11/55 Dept: Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Series: Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers Piece: Name of Register: Peter Date: 20 August 1573 Description: Will of Sir John White, Alderman of Saint Margaret Lothbury, City of London Image contains: 1 will of many for the catalogue reference Number of image files: 1 Image Reference Format and Version Part Number Size (KB) Number of Pages Price (£) 511 / 415 PDF 1.2 1 484 3 3.00 Total Price (£) 3.00 http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=1046007&queryType=1&resultcount=1 ==================== Some of the free ones are: http://www.genuki.org.uk/ http://catalogue.pro.gov.uk/ http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/search_nra.htm (not that good) http://www.google.com/ (often overlooked, but one of the best if you use the correct descriptive keywords) http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/ancestorsearchresults.asp http://www.ancestry.com/ (Excellent- abt $120/yr BUT, FREE for 2 weeks) and this just gets you started. ==================== FYI, The same issue interested me in John WHITE, who was a founder of the FIRST Anglo settlement on the US, at Jamestown in 1587ish, where the FIRST American citizen, Virginia Dare, was born to Eleanor WHITE, w/o Ananias Dare, d/o John White, appointed by Sir Walter Raleigh to lead the founding settlement, which became known as the Lost Colony. Best, Barry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Wetherington" <[email protected]> To: "BarryCast" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:03 PM Subject: Fw: William WHITE who sailed to the New World on the 'Mayflower' ship | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Ian White" <[email protected]> | To: <[email protected]> | Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 11:53 AM | Subject: William WHITE who sailed to the New World on the 'Mayflower' ship | | | > William WHITE was one of the pilgrims who sailed on | > the 'Mayflower' from Plymouth, England to Plymouth | > Harbor in what is now Provincetown Harbor in Cape Cod, | > Massachusetts, USA. There have been several theories | > as to his parentage, but all seem to have been | > disproved. He is said to have been born in England in | > about 1590. He was accompanied by his wife Susanna. | > They arrived in the New World in 1620, and Susanna | > gave birth to a son Peregrine WHITE on board the | > Mayflower while it was docked in Plymouth Harbor. | > Peregrine WHITE was the first European child born in | > New England, USA. William died on February 21, 1620/1 | > | > With the current wide use of the Internet, can anyone | > now throw any light which will allow the Americans to | > discover the ancestry of William WHITE, one of their | > nation's founders? Wouldn't it be great if he was on | > your family tree? | > | > Ian WHITE in Ottawa, Canada. ===== | > | > Member: British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa, Canada.

I thought that I was descended from the Mayflower Whites so was researching Peregrine whom I was suppose to descend from. As already stated the Mayflower does not reconize this line. After reading the info posted I still maybe kin to them whether Mayflower Associa. agrees or not correct? At the time my sister and I remarked "wonder what William and Susannah resloved to name a child Resolved" (bro to Peregrine) Anyway in my journey researching the Peregrine White I came across this in a book (I have it packed some where being as I was told NO I am not of that line I packed it all down and started looking elsewhere). The story went on to say that the birth of Peregrine on board the Mayflower came about because two of the Billington boys were acting up on board the ship. The men folk were already ashore building houses ect so they could leave the ship. One of the Billington boys caused a keg of gunpowder to catch fire which threw Susannah into labor. The book also states that the Billington boy I believe his name was Luke was the first hanging in the new world. He was hung because he committed murder. Like I said I have the info here somewhere but can't get to it right now. It was a blue book kinda slender and I think it was called History of Mayflower. It also talked about before they came over. The way the ship was and a lot of interesting things. This has been about 5 years ago that I came across this book. Maybe someone else has read it? Glitz