Mary Ievers

||FAMILY REGISTER PAGE READ 7 Aug 2026 (J. D. White 1887, digital image ulsc:3183-182 - a page of MARRIAGES and DEATHS transcribed from the family's own record)|| HER SECOND MARRIAGE IS NOW DATED: 'Harding and White 28 Dec 1781' - she remarried Mr Harding of Dromsally on 28 DEC 1781, twenty months after Newport White's death on 13 Apr 1780, which fits the family accounts showing her as 'Mrs Harding' by May 1782. ⚠⚠ SERIOUS CONFLICT RAISED 7 Aug 2026 BY THE WHITE FAMILY BOOK - HER FATHER MAY BE THE WRONG HENRY IEVERS. ||MAYORAL LIST CHECKED 7 Aug 2026 - THE CLAIM IS HALF-CORROBORATED|| J. D. White (1887) says Mary Ievers's father Henry Ievers 'was MAYOR OF LIMERICK IN 1745'. The mayoral succession for those years runs: 1744 Henry Long, 1745 ROBERT CRIPPS, 1746 HENRY IVERS, 1747 John Ingram (List of mayors of Limerick, cross-checked against Limerick City Council's published retrospective, 7 Aug 2026). SO WHITE IS WRONG BY ONE YEAR BUT RIGHT ABOUT THE MAN: A HENRY IVERS WAS INDEED MAYOR OF LIMERICK, IN 1746. That materially strengthens his testimony - he was not inventing an office, he mis-set a date, which is exactly the error profile of a memoirist working from family talk about a public fact. ⚠ WHAT IT DOES NOT YET SETTLE: whether the Mayor of 1746 was of the CASTLE Ievers branch (as White says his great-grandfather was) or was Col. Henry Ievers of MOUNT Ievers, the man presently wired here as Mary's father, who died 26 May 1758. Mount Ievers is in co. Clare but the family were substantial in Limerick city and the mayoralty is not impossible for either. NEXT TESTS, in order: (a) the Limerick corporation records for the 1746 mayoralty, which should give the man's residence and style; (b) any newspaper or assize record of the SIXMILEBRIDGE SHOOTING by a Mr Powell that White describes, since a mayor shot dead in the street would be reported - and if the victim died of it, that death date can be set against Col. Henry Ievers's own 26 May 1758; (c) the 'see Ievers' section of White's own book, not yet read. The book, written by her own grandson, says three things that do not fit the Mount Ievers placement wired here: (1) she was the 'ONLY CHILD of Henry Ievers, Esq.', not the eldest of several daughters; (2) 'MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, HENRY IEVERS, BELONGED TO THE CASTLE IEVERS BRANCH of the family... There are two branches of the Ievers family, the Mount Ievers and the Castle Ievers. MY GRANDMOTHER BELONGED TO THE LATTER BRANCH'; and (3) that Henry Ievers 'was MAYOR OF LIMERICK IN 1745' and, 'having challenged a Mr Powell to fight a duel, Powell treacherously SHOT HIM DEAD FROM A WINDOW IN THE HOTEL IN SIX MILE BRIDGE, as he passed by in the street. Powell was arrested; but as far as I know or heard he was never brought to trial for the murder' - whereas the Col. Henry Ievers of MOUNT Ievers wired here as her father (I99005) is recorded as dying 26 May 1758. ⚠ THE STAKE IS LARGE: if the book is right, then the whole Ievers ascent presently hanging above her - Col. John Ievers, Henry Ivers the founder (I99008), and his wife Elizabeth Stephens (I100162) - does NOT belong to this family, and a documented line would have to be unpicked. If the printed pedigrees are right, the grandson was simply wrong about which branch his own grandmother came from, which is not impossible in a memoir written long after. NOTHING HAS BEEN UNWIRED. The existing Mount Ievers placement STANDS, flagged, pending a test: the Limerick mayoral lists for 1745, and any record of the Sixmilebridge shooting, would settle which Henry Ievers this was in an afternoon. DO NOT let this flag be quietly dropped - it is the most consequential open question on the maternal side. The book also records that she was left in her husband's will (11 Apr 1780) only 'my chair and chair horse, the household furniture of one of my rooms, and £5 to buy mourning'; that she remarried about two years later, appearing in the family accounts as 'my sister' before and 'Mrs Harding' after; and the story that on her widow's caps arriving from Limerick she looked in the glass and said 'they are not so unbecoming after all', on hearing which her brother-in-law John White of Lisowen said 'take my word, Mary will marry again' - and so she did, to Mr Harding of Dromsally. ⚠ A further lead: the book calls MOSES DAWSON 'my Grandmother's Grandfather', which does not obviously fit the Craven/Seward descent given elsewhere in the same book and needs reconciling. SOURCE, NOW FULLY IDENTIFIED (7 Aug 2026, from the University of Limerick Glucksman Library catalogue record, Leonard/OS/197, ulsc:3183): JOHN DAVIS WHITE, 'History of the Family of White of Limerick, Knockcentry, Cappaghwhite, Lisowen, Kilmoylan, &c., &c: with notices of their several connexions, and of the families who have descended from them, WITH COPIES OF WILLS, &c', printed at Cashel, 1887, 160 pages with a plate and portrait; dedicated to Harriet Lawless. Page images read 7 Aug 2026. THE AUTHOR: John Davis White (1820-1893) of Cashel, printer, antiquary and author of 'Cashel of the Kings' - a PROFESSIONAL ANTIQUARY, not a casual memoirist, which raises this book's standing appreciably. He was a GRANDSON of Newport White of Kilmoylan by Mary Ievers, through their youngest son Benjamin (b. c.1776), and therefore a NEPHEW of our Richard White. GRADING: strong where he transcribes wills, deeds and dates - he prints them at length and they check out; weaker on inherited family tradition, which he passes on without warrant. Graded accordingly throughout. HIS OWN STATEMENT OF METHOD, from the Preface (image ulsc:3183-11): 'As I shall set down nothing but what I believe to be true, these pages may supply useful evidence (BY THE WANT OF WHICH MONEY AND PROPERTY ARE OFTEN LOST TO THE RIGHTFUL OWNER) after I am gathered to my fathers' - and he adds that 'in after years it may, possibly, be of importance to prove the seniority of one branch of the family above another, or the connection which one party bore to another'. He understood exactly what a pedigree is for, and said so. Printed at the Author's Press, Cashel, FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY. ||ORIGINAL NOTE FOLLOWS|| Documented line. Eldest dau. of Col. Henry Ievers, J.P., of Mount Ievers, Co. Clare, by his 1st wife Anne Craven (m. 1724) - so b. c.1725-30. m. 1st NEWPORT WHITE of Kilmoylan (1728-1780; our line), 2nd Mr Harding of Dromsally. Sources: Burke's IFR 'White of Kilmoylan'; mountieverscourt.ie family history; Turtle Bunbury, 'The Ievers of Mount Ievers'. REPOSITIONED July 2026: formerly (wrongly) recorded as wife of Rev. Newport White (d. c.1759) and mother of Newport (1728); she was Newport (1728)'s WIFE. Parents added July 2026. [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 24 Jul 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.] ||CONFLICT RESOLVED 8 Aug 2026 - THE TREE STANDS|| Aynsley produced the Mount Ievers family's own researched page on Col. Henry Ievers (mountieverscourt.ie/colonel-henry-ievers-1696-1758, endnoted, read 8 Aug 2026), and it settles every open point AGAINST the White memoir and FOR our wiring: (1) THE MAYOR WAS OUR MAN - Col. Henry of MOUNT Ievers was High Sheriff of Limerick 1743 'and elected Mayor of Limerick two years later', i.e. elected 1745, serving 1746 - which reconciles White's '1745' with the mayoral list's 1746 in one stroke; the 'CASTLE Ievers branch' of the memoir is wrong. (2) THE SHOOTING IS FICTION - Col. Henry was not shot from a hotel window at Sixmilebridge by any Mr Powell; he was buried at St Peter's, Aungier Street, Dublin, 26 May (or Mar) 1758. (3) 'ONLY CHILD' DECODED - Mary was the only child of the FIRST marriage (Anne Craven), with six half-siblings by Elizabeth Fitzgerald; the memoirist compressed 'only child of her mother' into 'only child'. The page independently confirms: m. 1724 Anne Craven; Mary m.1 NEWPORT WHITE (built KILMOYLAN HOUSE, Doon, d. 13 Apr 1780 - matching the family register page read 7 Aug), m.2 Mr Harding of Dromsally. VERDICT ON J.D. WHITE (1887) FOR IEVERS MATTERS: unreliable - right that his great-grandmother's father was a Mayor of Limerick called Henry Ievers, wrong on branch, wrong on the death, wrong (or compressed) on 'only child'; use only where corroborated. Col. John Ievers, Henry Ivers the founder (d.1691) and Elizabeth Stephens all REMAIN in the ancestry. Airtight-if-wanted: Limerick corporation minutes for the 1745/6 mayoral election. ||CORROBORATED + NEW DETAIL 24 Aug 2026 (mountieverscourt.ie)|| The estate history confirms Mary as daughter of Col. Henry by his FIRST wife Anne Craven (m.1724), first husband Newport White of Kilmoylan (d. 13 Apr 1780); and adds that she married SECONDLY Mr. HARDING of Dromsally (note-only, after our line).

Marriage: Newport White (1728-1780) x Mary Ievers. CORRECTED July 2026: the wives of this and the next generation had been shifted up one generation. Burke's Irish Family Records ('White of Kilmoylan'): Newport White of Kilmoylan (1728 - 13 Apr 1780), builder of Kilmoylan House, Doon, m. Mary, eldest dau. of Col. Henry Ievers, J.P., of Mount Ievers, Co. Clare. Corroborated by the Mount Ievers Court family history (mountieverscourt.ie, 'Colonel Henry Ievers 1696-1758'): Mary, dau. of Henry Ievers by his 1st wife Anne Craven (m. 1724), m. 1st Newport White (d. 13 Apr 1780), 2nd Mr Harding of Dromsally. Chronology confirms: a dau. of a man b. 1696 could not be mother of a child b. 1728.