Newport White

||THE FAMILY BOOK READ 7 Aug 2026 - THIS RECORD REWRITTEN|| ✓ Rev. NEWPORT WHITE, 'SECOND AND YOUNGEST SON OF JOHN WHITE OF CAPPAGH' - which CONFIRMS the father already wired here (I81032). BORN 1693 AT DUNLECKNY, CO. CARLOW, 'which was the residence of HIS MOTHER'S PARENTS' - ⚠ A NEW LEAD ON A MISSING DIRECT ANCESTRESS: John White of Cappagh's wife came from Dunleckny, co. Carlow, and she is not in this tree at all. Dunleckny was a Bagenal seat; the Carlow registers and the Dunleckny gentry are the test. Taught by the Rev. Henry Merrifield at Cashel; ENTERED TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN 21 APRIL 1710 under Dr Hall D.D., aged 17, entered as 'son to JOHN WHITE ARMIGER' - so Alumni Dublinenses will carry him and independently confirms the father. Eight years later his father died 'leaving him only £500'; family tradition says the father was displeased at his marriage, made young and without consent. Curate of Doon or Toem, later Vicar of Fithmone, and in 1752 promoted to the parish of KILMASTULLA, on which he is quoted as saying 'They have given me bread when I have no teeth to eat it.' The writer thinks HE BUILT THE OLD ORIGINAL HOUSE OF KILMOYLAN, which still stood as an outhouse in 1826, about fifty yards from the later house. ⚠ DEATH DATE CORRECTED 7 Aug 2026 from 'ABT 1759' to BETWEEN 12 JUL 1752 AND 30 OCT 1755. His own will is dated 12 Jul 1752 and was not proved until 1759, which had been read as a death about 1759 - but the will of his daughter FRANCES WHITE of Kilmoylan, spinster, dated 30 OCT 1755, calls him 'my late Father Newport White, Clk'. He was therefore already dead by Oct 1755, and the long gap to probate is just a slow proving. HIS WILL (12 Jul 1752, pr. 1759): to his wife FRANCES an annuity of £20 for life; to his daughter Susanna five shillings; to his daughter Rebecca £200; to his sons JOHN and NEWPORT 'money due to me by my sister Rebecca White of Dublin'; £20 to his daughter Frances; EXECUTORS Henry Hunt of Cappagh and his son John - ANOTHER EARLY WHITE/HUNT LINK, two generations before Richard White married a Hunt granddaughter. His children (collateral except Newport, so note-only): JOHN, m. Catherine Hunt, ancestor of the LISOWEN branch; RICHARD, who got a merchant's post at SMYRNA in Asia Minor at a reported pound an hour, died there young and unmarried, and LEFT THE MONEY THAT BUILT THE NEW HOUSE AT KILMOYLAN; NEWPORT, m. Mary Ievers, ancestor of the KILMOYLAN branch (I81028, our line); and daughters Susanna, Rebecca (m. Benjamin White of Quinpool), Frances and Catherine. His sister REBECCA WHITE of Fishamble Street, Dublin, d. about 1756 aged about 64, is the subject of the book's DEAN SWIFT story - having told her maid to say she was not at home, she put her head out of the window and called after him 'I am at home to you Mr Dean'; he would not return, and rebuked her for teaching her servant to lie. 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. Backfilled from the family chart (Damery_Family_Tree.html), June 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.]

Marriage: Rev. Newport White (d. c.1759); his wife (mother of Newport, 1728) is not recorded in Burke's extract. Mary Ievers, formerly attached here in error, moved to @F92@ (she was the WIFE of Newport 1728, not his mother). Corrected July 2026.