Robertus Whyte, de Alnewyk

There is no genuine documentation for any parentage for Robertus White, nor for a connection with the Somerset White family. Nor, for that matter, with the mercantile Whites of York.

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NOTE:

---Robertus White a.k.a. Robert Whyte de Alnewyk b. 1272, Agton (the present Egton in North Riding),England d., AFT. 1350

--- Robertus was noted in the Knight's Fee of Yorkshire, England in 1303, as of Aghton, is the present Egton in North Riding; [burial] in Chapter House, Westminster.

His son Willelmus White living in Yorkshire 1339; his son Adam White, of Yorke, 1365; his son Johannis White, 1390; his son Johannis White, Jr., Alderman and "Grosiour" [Grocer?] of Yorke, living in 1394; his son Johannis White, of Cilyngham, Nottinghamshire, is named in the list of land gentry of Nottinghamshire drawn by order of Henry VI, in 1428. [This from "Colonial Families of the United States of America", pp. 397-398.]

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Alnwick is actually in Northumberland, and the genealogy noted above is probably spurious. Its source appears to be "Genesis of the White Family", by Emma Siggins White, which systematically ransacked all of English history and (then-known) genealogy for prominent Whites who could be Crazy-Glued onto her husband's family tree. This resulted in widespread and severe damage to many White family lines.