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Born: 1589, Clonmel, County Tipperary
Entered: 30 September 1612,

Left Society of Jesus: 12 November 1618

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1612

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was the son of Peter White and Margaret Grant, and he was born in 1596, and he entered the Irish College, Salamanca on October 24, 1609. Both the student’s entry book at Salamanca and the entry book of the Jesuit Novitiate state that he was born in Spain. The latter source gives his birthplace more precisely as Bayona. He must have been sent or brought as a child to Ireland to do two years study under the celebrated John Flahy. he did two further years of study in Portugal before his admission at Salamanca.

He entered the Society September 1612, but left the Society on November 12, 1618, when he was studying Theology

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
WHITE, THOMAS, Father (Irish), a native of Clonmel; entered the Society 1612; in 1617 he was in the Province of Castile; in 1634 he left the Society. (Irish Ecclesiastical Record, August, 1874.)

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Thomas White 17 of Waterford
Son of Peter White and Margaret Grant, Salamanca
23 April 1601 Entered CAST

Born: 1580, Drogheda, County Louth
Entered: 26 July 1597, Drogheda, County Louth

Left Society of Jesus: 1601

◆ Father Francis Finegan Notes
DOB 1580 Drogheda; Ent 26/07/1597 Lisbon;

Had previously studied at St Anthony’s Lisbon before Ent 26/07/1597 Lisbon

Nothing further is known after Ent, but he seems to be identical with a Matthew Talbot who was at the College of Braga, apparently studying philosophy 1600-1601. A Matthew Talbot is also mentioned in the list of past students of the Irish College, Lisbon (1615)

Born: 1601, County Waterford
Entered: 1616, Évora, Portugal (LUS)

Left Society of Jesus: 1623

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1616 and Old/15 (1)

◆ Old/15 (1) has in pencil in one copy Ent 1618/9

◆ Old/16 has : “P Paul Lombard”; DOB 1601 Waterford; Ent 1616 Portugal; RIP post 1634

◆ CATSJ I-Y has Ent Evora 1618
1617 of Waterford age 16 Soc 1 in Portugal
1618 Ent at Évora Age 18

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 1601 Waterford; Ent 1616 Portugal; RIP post 1634

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773

He was born in 1601, and entered the Society in Portugal in 1617/1618. His name occurs in the Catalogus of 1619, and he is described as a Novice at Évora, and already fifteen months there. Nothing further is known of him in the Society.

A Paul Lombard took the student’s oath at Salamanca December 18, 1623. Father Paul Sherlock, in annotating a list of Salamanca students, seems to have identified both the former Novice and the student”- “Paul Lombard, of Waterford, 1623, entered the Society, but afterwards left it”.

Born: c 1591, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 1605, Évora, Portugal - Lusitaniae Province (LUS)

Left Society of Jesus: 1614

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1605 and Old/15 (1)

◆ CATSJ A-H has “da Cruz or Cruise” also “Rupert da Cruz”; DOB c1591 Dublin; Ent 1605;
1606 At Évora age 15, in Soc 1 year
1611 At Coimbra
1614 At Irish College Lisbon in 3rd year of Theology

not in 1609 LUS CAT

Born: 27 November 1582, Dublin
Entered: 30 August 1604, Mechelen, Belgium (BELG)

Left Society of Jesus: 04 october 1808

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773

He was born in Dublin, December 27, 1582, and had been a student at the Irish College, Lisbon, before he entered the Society at Rome, October 28, 1604 and sent to Belgium.

After his Noviceship he resumed his studies, but left the Society October 4, 1628.

He was a nephew of Dr Christopher Cusack, founder of the Irish College, Douai.

Born: 1581, Clonmel, County Tipperary
Entered: 1597, Portugal

Left Society of Jesus: nothing post 1608

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1587

◆ CATSJ A-H has DOB 1582 Clonmel; Ent 1597?;
1603 has finished 3 years of Arts at Braga College (LUS) and in Society 5.5 years
1606 at Évora teaching Latin for 3 years

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
Born at Clonlel, 1581, entered the Society in Portugal, 1597.

After his Noviceship he studied Philosophy at Coimbra, 1600-1601, but finished the course at the College of Braga. He was then sent for his Regency to Coimbra, and later to Madeira, where he was teaching Latin, 1607-1608.

His name then disappears from the records.