Michael WHITE 1789-1869 and his wife Ellen KIELY 1803-1883 appear to have arrived in the Carapook area in the 1860s. Two of their sons Patrick WHITE 1831-1895 and Edward WHITE 1841-1910 were listed as ratepayers at Carapook in 1875.

Michael WHITE and his wife Ellen were buried in the Coleraine Cemetery in 1869 and 1883 respectively.

Another son Thomas WHITE 1829-1901, a farmer with 6 school-aged children, living 1 mile S of Carapook was marked on the map and signed the 1875 petition aimed at establishing a new school at Carapook.

Patrick WHITE and Edward WHITE, sons of Michael & Ellen were listed as ratepayers on land at Carapook in 1875.

There was a Thomas George WHITE who married a Stella Marie GARDINER in 1909 and stated that he was born at Carapook which would make him around the right age to be a part of this WHITE family born in the 1870's. This Thomas now appears to be one of the children of Thomas WHITE 1827-1901 who was ready to attend a school at Carapook. The difficulty with identification appears to be caused by the births of these children not being listed in the Victorian birth indexes.

Michael WHITE and Ellen KIELY had the following known family...

1. Thomas WHITE b. 1829, Co Limerick, Ireland, m. 1861 to Margaret Ellen O'BRIEN and had the following children in the Carapook area:
1. Michael Thomas WHITE, b. 1862, d. 1925
2. Mary Elizabeth WHITE, b. c.1863, d. 1924
3. Thomas George WHITE, b. 1867 Carapook, Vic m. 1909 Stella Maria GARDINER
4. Edward James WHITE, b. 1869, Carapook, Vic, m. Lily CRISP b. 1884, Albury, NSW (Edward was a Grazier and MLC and they had a large family in the Hamilton area of Western Victoria.)
5. Catherine Agnes WHITE, b. c1872 Carapook m. John James PODGER
6. John Patrick WHITE, b. c.1875 Carapook, Vic, single in 1916, listed as a "Trapper" of Kadnook, Harrow in 1919.
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7. Margaret WHITE, b. c.1877
8. child WHITE, b. ____
9. child WHITE, b. ____
10. child WHITE, b. ____

Patrick White 1831-1895 Catherine Bridget SAMPEY 1844-1933 and Ellen Catherine WHITE 1883-1968

2. Patrick WHITE b. 1831, Co Limerick, Ireland, m. 1880, Merino, Vic to Catherine SAMPEY 1844-1933. Patrick WHITE purchased the carapook prperty which became known as "Verdant Hills", later owned by Norman SOMERVILLE. The WHITE family did not sell "Verdant Hills" until 1928. Patrick and Catherine WHITE had the following child
1. Ellen Catherine WHITE, b. 1883 "Verdant Hills" Carapook, d. 1968 m. 1904, Casterton, Vic to Thomas Wall CARROLL 1878-?
3. John WHITE b. 1833, Co Limerick, Ireland, d. 1908, Northcote, Vic.
4. Michael WHITE b. 1835, Ireland, d. ____.
5. infant WHITE b. 1837, d. 1837, Ireland.
6. Catherine WHITE b. 1839, Co Limerick, Ireland, m. 1863, Beerick Parish (Carapook-Coleraine) to David BARRY and had the following children in the Coleraine area:
1. Francis George BARRY, b. 1865, Coleraine, Vic, m. Mary Florence WEST
2. Michael BARRY, b. 1866, Coleraine, Vic
3. David BARRY, b. 1868, Co Dundas, Vic
4. Honora BARRY, b. 1870, Co Dundas, Vic, d. 1954, Adelaide, SA [Loreto Nun]
5. Catherine Ann BARRY, b. 1873, d. 1874, Co Dundas, Vic
6. Mary Ellen BARRY, b. 1877, Co Dundas, Vic, d. 1956, Kew, Vic [Loreto Teacher]
7. Edward J "Ned" WHITE b. 1841, Ireland, m. 1876 to Margaret Mary HOGAN and had the following children:
1. Michael James WHITE, b. 1878
8. James WHITE b. 1843, Co Limerick, Ireland, m. 1885 to Mary DUNNE and she died in the same year. James WHITE then married Bridget QUIGLEY in 1892 and had the following known children:
1. James Michael WHITE, b. 1893, Coleraine, Vic
2. Mary Frances WHITE, b. 1894, Coleraine, Vic
3. Winifred Catherine WHITE, b. 1895, Coleraine, Vic
9. William WHITE b. bef.1854, d. bef.1854, Ireland.
10. Johannah WHITE b. bef.1854, d. bef.1854, Ireland.
11. Ellen WHITE b. bef.1854, d. bef.1854, Ireland.