Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Robert White

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Name Robert White Birth of Messing, Essex, England [1]
Gender Male Death Bef 17 Jun 1617 Messing, Essex, England [2]
Burial 17 Jun 1617 Messing, Essex, England [2]
Person ID I9083 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 13 Oct 2024
Family Bridget Allgar, b. 11 Mar 1562, Shalford, Essex, England d. Aft Jun 1617 (Age > 55 years)
Marriage 24 Jun 1585 Shalford, Essex, England [1, 2]
Children + 1. Elizabeth White d. Bef Jan 1670 + 2. Mary White, b. Bef 24 Aug 1590, Shalford, Essex, England d. 23 Aug 1652, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
(Age > 62 years)
+ 3. John White, b. Abt 1597, Messing, Essex, England d. 23 Jan 1684, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
(Age ~ 87 years)
+ 4. Anna White, b. Bef 13 Jul 1600, Shalford, Essex, England d. Jul 1647, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
(Age > 47 years)
Family ID F1619 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Feb 2019
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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 immigrated 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."]
- "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.]
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Sources - [S932] "A Descendant," "The Children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 55:22, January 1901.
- [S655] Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut by Frank Farnsworth Starr. Hartford, Connecticut, 1915.
- [S932] "A Descendant," "The Children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 55:22, January 1901.