WHITE, John Davis. History of the Family of White, of Limerick, Knockcentry, Cappaghwhite, Lisowen, Kilmoylan, &c., &c. With notices of their several connexions, and of the families who have descended from them, with copies of Wills, &c. Portrait frontispiece of the author and numerous vignettes throughout. 

Cashel: Printed at the Author’s Press, for Private Circulation only, 1887. Quarto. pp. [170]. Woodcuts throughout. Publisher’s blind-stamped mauve pebbled cloth. Title in gilt on upper cover. Cover faded. A very good copy of an extremely rare book.

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John Davis White (1820-1893), was born in Conahy, Co. Kilkenny the son of Benjamin Newport White by his wife Catherine Elizabeth White. They were both descended from the Rev. Newport White who was the second son of John White of Cappaghwhite. John moved to Cashel with his family when he was eleven years of age. For a brief period he worked in Limerick where he was not happy and in 1838 returned to Cashel where he remained for the rest of his life.

He was employed in the office of the diocesan registrar and from that time began a lifetime association with the Church of Ireland Diocese of Cashel, this gave him access to local historical records and books. His appointment as diocesan librarian was his greatest reward. In the 1850s he made his first venture into printing and in May 1864 launched a weekly newspaper The Cashel Gazette. With his own private printing press, White published a variety of items of historical and local interest including this exceedingly rare family history.

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