Elizabeth White
Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Sarah Sally Jones ← Russell Jones ← Nathan Jones ← Hannah Welles ← Mary White ← Sarah Crow ← Elizabeth Goodwin ← Elizabeth White
Family
In brief
Born Abt in England. June 22, 1632: Departed from England on the Lyon sailed by Captain Prence with her husband and the family of her brother John White (15563). She married November 7, 1616, in Shalford Parish Church, Essex, England.
Life story
Crossing on the Lyon
Elizabeth White was born around March 1591 in England and married at Shalford Parish Church, Essex, in November 1616. In June 1632 she sailed for New England aboard the Lyon with her husband and the family of her brother, John White, arriving in Boston that September after the voyage claimed a crew member who fell overboard.
Sources (6)
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