♀Isabel Bawle

Isabel Bawle was the twelfth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Martha White. Her husband, John White, was a gentleman of Stanton St John, in Oxfordshire.

John White married Isabel Bawle, probably a daughter of John Bawle of Lichfield, in Staffordshire; her mother is said to have been Alice Weston. The family was at Stanton St John by January 1575: their son John is said to have been baptized there on 6 January 1574/5. Six of their children are known: three sons, Josiah, John and Stephen, and three daughters, Mary, Martha and Elizabeth. That son, it is said, grew up to be John White^W, the Dorchester minister who helped to obtain the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company. John White’s will of 30 September 1616 names no wife, so Isabel had most likely died by then. The records do not show when or where she died.

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Sources

Isabel is known from the pedigree of “White of Dorchester” in W. Harry Rylands, ed., Pedigrees from the Visitations of Hampshire (Harleian Society 64, 1913), pp. 229-230, which names her “Isabell da. of John Bawle of Litchfeild” and lists her children. The pedigree is a compiled source, not a parish record. Her mother’s name, Alice Weston, and her son John’s baptism come from Michael Russell’s compiled pages on the White and Ball families for the Dorset online parish clerks, where the surname is written Ball. Her husband’s will is known from the transcription published by the Oxfordshire Family History Society.

Date of death

An online family tree gives 1601 as the year of her death; no record of it is known.