Person:Elizabeth White (258)

Disputed Lineages

There is no evidence that she was Lydia White, daughter of Richard White and Mary Plowden (if such a person even existed), as stated in some amateur trees. Nothing is known of her beyond her name.

1. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   7(1853):72.

   "February 2, 1732-3, Hannah Deane sister to Capt. James Leonard, late of Taunton deceased, gave to the subscriber the following account of her relations &c--
   Namely her Great Grandfather's name was Henry Leonard
   Her own Grandfather's name was Thomas Leonard ...
   Her Grandmother's name was _____ White"

2. ↑ Margery Leonard, in England. Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. (FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Findmypast).

   christened 13 Mar 1625 in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, England
   parents: Thoms. and Elizth. Leonard

3. ↑ Gittins, William L. The parish of Cleobury Mortimer in the county of Shropshire, England: all the monumental inscriptions from the tombstones in the Churchyard of the parish church of Cleobury Mortimer. (1945)
   p. 39.

   1628 'Nov. 30. William, s. of Thomas & Eliz. Leonard, of the Forge, "ffyner" bap. & bur.'

4. ↑ Thomas Leonarde, in Somerset, England. Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812. (Ancestry.com).

   baptized 20 Apr 1636 in Priston [s/b Publow - see TAG 53:103], Somerset, England
   parents: Thomas and Elizabeth Leonarde
   image is at findmypast.co.uk (behind a paywall)

5.   Jacobus, Donald Lines. Pre-American Ancestries: The Leonard Family of Taunton, Massachusetts, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
   p. 163.

   'In 1911 was published Annals of the Leonard Family, by Fanny Leonard Koster, an agreeably written book which made no pretense to being a formal genealogy and which obviously was based more on printed sources than an original research. A chart was included in the front pocket of this book, on which the American settlers, James and Henry Leonard, were entered as sons of Thomas and Lydia (White) Leonard, ...'
   
   This (or more likely Koster's sources) might be the origin of the belief that the mother of Henry and James Leonard was named Lydia. There is no evidence for this - her name is given as Elizabeth in baptism records for 3 of her children (and no mother's name is given in the other baptism records that have been found).

6. ↑ Birth year estimated based on birth years of her children.