Michael White II

Michael White II, son and executor of Michael White of Montserrat (d. 1785) (q.v. under Michael White I) was left the Petit Bordelle estate on St Vincent under the will of Jacob Kladen (q.v), and appears in the Slave Registers for Petit Bordelle as Michael White senior. 'Michael White senior' was also specified in the 1834 registration for Mount Alexander on St Vincent. Michael White II in turn had a son also named Michael, so that there is potential room for confusion on the family, compounded by what appear to be errors in the family tree shown by Vere Langford Oliver. LBS has tentatively associated two claims in Montserrat and the claim under Antigua No. 111 with Michael White II, although Vere Langford Oliver suggests this latter was Michael White III.

1. Michael White, along with Eliza Hamilton White and her sister Lydia White, counterclaimed for compensation on Tomlinson's estate in Antigua for a legacy from Penelope Tomlinson of '£182 8s 2d and upwards'. Michael White was awarded compensation of £190 14s 4d but Eliza and Lydia were not listed as awardees. As the will of Penelope Tomlinson (d. 1806) bequeaths legacies of £100 each to Eliza and Lydia but none to Michael White, it seems likely he was their representative rather than claiming as a legatee in his own right. Michael White also counter-claimed for two connected awards on Montserrat.

Langford Vere Oliver, History of the Island of Antigua (London, Mitchell and Hughes, 1894) Vol. 3 pp. 139-140 ('Pedigree of Tomlinson') and pp. 224-227 ('Pedigree of White'). See Mary White of Baker Street for an account of the possible confusion in Oliver flowing from the great age (105) at which Mary White nee Tomlinson died.

1. T71/877 Antigua claim no. 111 (Tomlinson's).