Robert White

Notes:

"According to [Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library] projections, the largest family in America today is the posterity of Robert White (b. ca. 1560) & Bridget Allgar, with a Mormon posterity of 430,000 and an American posterity of 29 million. The next five families are Edward Griswold and Margaret, Joseph Loomis and Mary White (daughter of Robert and Bridget above), Gerard Spencer and Alice Whitbread, Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde, and Thomas Bliss and Margaret Hulins, each with a Mormon posterity of 270,000 and an American posterity of 18 million." [Michel L. Call and Gary Boyd Roberts, "Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library Acquired by NEHGS," 1985.]

"ROBERT WHITE of Messing, Essex, England who married Bridget Allgar and whose descendants immigrate to Connecticut. His parentage remains unknown. Best research remains: The Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd by Thomas C. Brainerd; edited by Donald Lines Jacobus (Montreal, 1948); Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, 2 vols. (n.p., 1943 and 1931); Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England by Ernest Flagg (1926, reprint 1973), and 'The Children of Robert White of Messing,' NEHGR 55 (1901):22-31." [Martin Hollick, The Slovak Yankee, "Bogus Royal Lines For Gateway Ancestors From Whom I Descend."]

Robert married Bridget Allgar on 24 Jun 1585 in Shalford, Essex, England. Bridget (daughter of William Allgar) was born on 11 Mar 1562 in Shalford, Essex, England; died after Jun 1617. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth White died before Jan 1670.
2. Mary White was born before 24 Aug 1590 in Shalford, Essex, England; was christened on 24 Aug 1590 in Shalford, Essex, England; died on 23 Aug 1652 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Loomis Homestead, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.
3. John White was born about 1597 in Messing, Essex, England; died on 23 Jan 1684 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.
4. Anna White was born before 13 Jul 1600 in Shalford, Essex, England; was christened on 13 Jul 1600 in Shalford, Essex, England; died in Jul 1647 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.