Mary Seward

✓ DOCUMENTED, verbatim: 'My Paternal Grandmother, Mary Ievers, was the only child of Henry Ievers, Esq., by his wife, ANNE CRAVEN, DAUGHTER OF MARY SEWARD, who was daughter of Mary Orange, and I can trace no higher in this direction.' Mother of ANNE CRAVEN (I99006, our line). Her husband, a Craven, is not named. ⚠ SIGNIFICANCE: the Seward question in this family has until now rested on a COLLATERAL link (George Ievers married a Seward of co. Cork about 1700, Burke's LGI p.342) and on an uncle's marriage - i.e. no blood descent. THIS IS A BLOOD DESCENT, from a family insider, and it changes the standing of that question. It does NOT by itself connect to the Cork Sewards or to the Dorset thread; nothing is asserted. The writer's own guess that 'the family of Seward was probably descended from Siward a Dane' is a nineteenth-century flourish and is recorded here only so that it is not mistaken for evidence. END OF LINE as entered. 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.