Born: County Waterford
Entered: Villagarcía, Galicia, Spain (CAST)

Left Society of Jesus: 1626

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1617 or 1611

◆ Old/15 (1) has “Lea” Ent 1617 or 1618 and in pencil on one RIP after 1625

◆ Old/17 has “Lea” Dimissi 24/08/1626 (CAST) (repeated 13/07/1627)

◆ CATSJ I-Y has “Lea or De Lea”; DOB 1602 or 1603 Waterford; Ent 1617 or 1618 Villagarcía;
First Vows on 18/10/1618
1622 at Compostella College
1625 In Salamanca College teaching

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
Nicholas Lea

DOB 1602 Waterford; Ent CAST;

Had previously stuied Philosophy before Ent CAST

Son of George and Ursula née Lucas

After First Vows he was sent for studies to Compostella and Salamanca where his ability for Theology was remarked upon.

LEFT 1626

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