Thomasine White

Thomasine Cross, daughter of Jacomine (--) Cross Robinson, died before November 10, 1591, at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

She married

1. John May
2. Edward White

Children of 1st marriage

1. Henry May, married Katherine; father of Mayflower Passenger Dorothy (May) Bradford
2. Jacomine May, married printer Jan l'Ecluse on 5 May 1609.

Children of 2nd marriage, born at Wisbech

1. Edward White b 1587 d 1621, Mayflower Passenger, married Susanna Jackson
2. Martha White b 1589 d 1608

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From Caleb Johnson at http://mayflowerhistory.com/white-william/ updated Sept 2017

The origins of William White in England were just discovered in 2017 in a collaborative research project by Caleb Johnson, Sue Allan, and Simon Neal William White was baptized on 25 January 1586/7 at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England, the son of Edward and Thomasine (Cross)(May) White His mother, Thomasine, was married to John May, and was therefore was also the grandmother to Mayflower passenger Dorothy May.
William's mother Thomasine was buried on 10 November 1591 at Wisbech His father Edward died about 1594 when he was seven, and he went to live with his maternal grandmother Jacomine and her second husband Thomas Robinson
Thomas Robinson died in 1595, so widow Jacomine raised her grandchildren William (and sister Martha) White Martha died and was buried at the age of 19 in 1608, and (turning 21 that year) William headed off with his half-siblings Henry and Jacomine May to Amsterdam (he was given permission to reside in Amsterdam in June 1608), where they joined the church congregation of Henry Ainsworth William White witnessed the marriage of his half-sister Jacomine to Amsterdam printer Jan l'Ecluse on 5 May 1609.

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From http://mayflowerhistory.com/white-susanna/ updated September 2017

William White's mother, Thomasine (Cross)(May) White, considered Margaret, wife of John Jackson of Spalding, her kinswoman, so Susanna Jackson and William White may have known each other via this distant kinship (which appears to come via the Bryan or Bendish families) even before they were married in Amsterdam

note

William White is a difficult individual to research because of the commonality of his name. Much as been mispublished about him. ....

references

• "TAG 89.2 leads off with new Mayflower origins" link

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• http://mayflowerhistory.com/bradford-dorothymay

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Dec 11 2017, 12:32:04 UTC
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Dec 11 2017, 12:45:58 UTC