Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 09-30-2024.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Philemon WHALE
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: May 1599 in Chickney, Co Essex, England b
  • Baptism: 27 May 1599 in Chickney, Co Essex, England c
  • Death: 22 Feb 1675 in Sudbury, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Philemon WHALE Birth: Abt 1550 in Colchester, Co Essex, England Death: 23 Mar 1619 in Chickney, Essex, England
    • Mother:
  • Anne NORWOOD Death: 23 Mar 1626 in Henham, Co Essex, England

Family:
Marriage:
  • Elizabeth FROST on 24 Jan 1622 at St Mary's, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England .m1
  • Elizabeth FROST Birth: Mar 1588 in Stanstead, Co Suffolk, England Death: 20 Jun 1647 in Sudbury, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Sarah WHALE Birth: Dec 1622 in Stanstead, Co Suffolk, England Death: 17 Oct 1623 in Stanstead, Co Suffolk, England
  2. Philemon WHALE Birth: Nov 1625 in Stanstead, Co Suffolk, England Death: 23 Dec 1625 in Stanstead, Co Suffolk, England
  3. Jonas WHALE Birth: Apr 1627 in Stanstead, Co Suffolk, England Death: 18 May 1629 in Stanstead, Co Suffolk, England

Marriage:
Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Anderson, Robert Charles, The English Origins of Philmon Whale of Sudbury, Massachusetts, in The Genealogist, vol 6 no 2, Fall 1985, pp131-41. NYPL APA 82-1000. Available at https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Anderson WHALE p[0-9]*].
  2. Banks, Charles Edward, Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England 1620-1650, Philadelphia, PA: Elijah Ellsworth Brownell, 1937. LDS Film#0874196#1. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/283805. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Banks Topo p[0-9]*].
  3. Bartlett, Joseph Gardner, Genealogical Research in England, NEHGR v61 (Jul 1907) p278-80. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bartlett England1907 p27[0-9]].
  4. Ellis, Ray Lowther, A Genealogical Register of Edmund Rice Descendants, Compiled by the Edmund Rice Association, 1970. Univ Microfilm G1740. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/45311. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ellis RICE p[0-9]*].
  5. Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, Vol 1: Dawes and Allied Families. Privately printed: Charles G Dawes, 1943. LDS Film#1035529#2. NEHGS CS71/D269/1931v1. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/256356. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p[0-9]*].
  6. Holman, Winifred Lovering, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and Frances Helen Miller. Concord, NH: Rumford Press, 1953. Sutro CS71.S844 1948. Available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005763135, Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Holman STEVENS-MILLER v[12]p[0-9]*].
  7. Hunt, John G, Ancestry of Philemon WHALE, NEHGR v114 (1960) p155. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: HuntJG WHALE p155].
  8. Moore, Winifred H, Moore Genealogy, Report of the Genealogical Records Commttee District of Columbia Daughters of American Revolution, 1948-50. LDS Film#0874739#4. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007831154 images 490-625. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MooreWH MOORE p[0-9]*].
  9. Pope, Charles Henry, The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. Boston, MA: author, 1900. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1400537. Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Pub Co, 1986. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p[0-9][0-9a]*].
  10. Porter, Harold F., The Paternal Ancestry of Thomasine Frost, wife of Deacon Edmund Rice of Sudbury, Mass, in The American Genealogist, vol. 63 no. 3, July 1988, pp129-137. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Porter FROST p[0-9]*].
  11. Porter, Harold F, The Strutt Ancestry of Thomasine Frost, Wife of Edmund Rice of Sudbury, Mass, The American Genealogist, vol 61 no 3, Jan 1986, p161-166. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Porter STRUTT p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Anderson WHALE p137]
27 May 1599 [Ref: HuntJG WHALE p155],
place:
[Ref: Anderson WHALE p137, HuntJG WHALE p155],
parents:
[Ref: Anderson WHALE p137, HuntJG WHALE p155]
Sources for baptism Information
date:
[Ref: Anderson WHALE p137],
place:
[Ref: Anderson WHALE p137]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Pope PioneersMA p488]
1675-6 [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p659]
22 Feb or 24 Feb 1675 [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p661]
22 Feb or 24 Feb 1675/6 [Ref: Anderson WHALE p131],
place:
[Ref: Anderson WHALE p131, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p661, Pope PioneersMA p488]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth FROST
date:
[Ref: Anderson WHALE p138, Porter STRUTT p166]
first marriage of Philemon WHALE [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p488]
first marriage of Philemon [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p661],
place:
[Ref: Anderson WHALE p138, Porter STRUTT p166]
England [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p661],
names:
[Ref: Porter FROST p134]
Philemon WHALE & Elizabeth ___ [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p661, Pope PioneersMA p488],
child:
[Ref: Anderson WHALE p138]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
child:
Elizabeth (#4995), wife of John MOORE [Ref: Ellis RICE p2, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p445, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p447, Holman STEVENS-MILLER v2p147, MooreWH MOORE p2, MooreWH MOORE p3]
Sources with Information about marriage to Sarah (WHALE)
date:
[Ref: Anderson WHALE p131, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p661, Pope PioneersMA p488],
place:
[Ref: Anderson WHALE p131, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p661],
names:
Philemon WHALE & Sarah ___ [Ref: Anderson WHALE p131, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p661, Pope PioneersMA p488]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth (WHALE)
date:
[Ref: Anderson WHALE p131, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p662]
third marriage of Philemon WHALE [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p488],
place:
[Ref: Anderson WHALE p131, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p662],
names:
Philemon WHALE & Elizabeth ___ [Ref: Anderson WHALE p131, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p662, Pope PioneersMA p488]
Research Notes:
weaver [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p660, Pope PioneersMA p488]

emigrated from Colchester, Essex Co, England, to Sudbury, MA [Ref: Banks Topo p43]

emigrated from Canfield (Magna), Essex Co [Ref: Banks Topo p42]

1639: generally accounted as a resident of Sudbury soon after, or perhaps even during, 1639 [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p660]

bought land in 1643, may have been in Sudbury as early as 1639 but evidence is not seen [Ref: Anderson WHALE p131]

of Sudbury, Massachusetts [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p659]

1643: bought land in Sudbury [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p660, Pope PioneersMA p488]

May 10 1648: freeman [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p660, Pope PioneersMA p488]

given 66#.13s.4d by will of uncle John WHALE, at age of 21 or day of marriage [Ref: Bartlett England1907 p279]

Will dated Jan 19 1675, probated 4 (2) 1676, bequeathed to wife Elizabeth; to William, Jacob, Joseph, and Benjamin, children of his dau Elizabeth MOORES. [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p488]

will dated Jan 19 1675/6, made bequests to the "four sonnes of my loving daughter Elizabeth Moore, viz William, Jacob, Joseph, and Benjamin" [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p446]



Pedigree of Philemon WHALE
          /-----Richard WHALE
 /-----Philemon WHALE
|         \-----Thomasine NORTHEN
Philemon WHALE
 \-----Anne NORWOOD



Descendants of Philemon WHALE
1. Philemon WHALE m1. Elizabeth FROST m2. Sarah (WHALE) m3. Elizabeth (WHALE)
m. Elizabeth FROST father: Edward FROST mother: Thomasine BELGRAVE
m. Sarah (WHALE)
m. Elizabeth (WHALE)