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: Sir Thomas GERARD
Sex: M
Birth: 15 Jul 1431 ^b
Death: 27 Mar 1490 ^d

Parents:

Father:
Sir Peter GERARD Birth: 1407 Death: 26 Mar 1447

Mother:

Isabella STRANGEWAYS Death: After Feb 1448

Family:
Marriage:

Douce ASHTON on 1440 .^m1
Douce ASHTON

Marriage:

Cecily FOULSHURST on 2 .^m2
Cecily FOULSHURST Death: 24 Mar 1509

Children:

Peter GERARD Birth: Abt 1460 Death: 20 Jun 1494
John GERARD

Bibliography

Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Baltimore, MD: Genelogical Publishing Co, 2005. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson MCA p[0-9]*].
Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p[0-9]*].
Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weis AR7 #[0-9][0-9]*[A-Z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p83, Weis AR7 #233B]; abt 1430 [Ref: Burke Peerage p819],
parents:: [Ref: Burke Peerage p819, Richardson MCA p367, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p83, Weis AR7 #233B]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p83, Weis AR7 #233B]; before 1494 [Ref: Burke Peerage p819]

Sources with Information about marriage to Douce ASHTON

date:: 1440 as child [Ref: Weis AR7 #233B]; settlement 1440 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p83],
names:: [Ref: Burke Peerage p819]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

child:: Peter GERARD (#143567) [Ref: Burke Peerage p819]

Sources with Information about marriage to Cecily FOULSHURST

date:: second marriage of Thomas [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p83, Weis AR7 #233B],
child:: [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p83, Weis AR7 #233B]

Research Notes:
Knt, of Bryn (in Ashton-in-Makerfield), Lancashire, Kingsley, Cheshire, etc [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p83]
of Kingsley & Bryn [Ref: Weis AR7 #233B]

heir of his father [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p83]

1439: ward of Thomas Danyell [Ref: Weis AR7 #233B]

Aug 2 1452: proved age [Ref: Weis AR7 #233B]

received pension from Edward IV [Ref: Weis AR7 #233B]

Pedigree of Sir Thomas GERARD
                                                                /-----William FITZGERALD
                                                       /-----William GERRARD
                                                      |         \-----Emma KINGSLEY
                                              /-----William GERRARD
                                             |         \-----Margaret
                                     /-----William GERARD
                                    |        |         /-----Henry GLASSBOWSE
                                    |         \-----Matilda GLASSBOWSE
                            /-----Sir Peter GERARD
                           |        |         /-----Peter De BRYN
                           |         \-----Joan De BRYN
                   /-----Sir Thomas GERARD
          /-----John GERARD, Lord Of Kingsley And Bryn
         |         \-----Isabel
/-----Sir Peter GERARD
|        |                                                      /-----Amory Le BOTELER
|        |                                             /-----William Le BOTELER, Lord Boteler
|        |                                            |         \-----Aline De UPTON
|        |                                    /-----Henry Le BOTELER
|        |                           /-----William Le BOTELER
|        |                  /-----William Le BOTELER
|        |                 |         \-----Sybil
|        |         /-----Sir John BOTELER, Baron Of Warrington
|        |        |        |                           /-----Sir Richard De HAVERING
|        |        |        |                  /-----Sir John De HAVERING, Lord Havering
|        |        |        |         /-----Nicholas De HAVERING
|        |        |        |        |        |         /-----Walter De La HYDE
|        |        |        |        |         \-----Joan De La HYDE
|        |        |         \-----Elizabeth De HAVERING
|        |        |                 |         /-----Henry De GRAPENEL
|        |        |                  \-----Margaret De GRAPENEL
|         \-----Alice BOTELER
|                 |                           /-----Sir Robert De PLUMPTON
|                 |                  /-----Sir Robert De PLUMPTON
|                 |                 |        |         /-----Serlo De WESTWICK
|                 |                 |         \-----Isabel De WESTWICK
|                 |         /-----Sir William De PLUMPTON
|                 |        |        |                           /-----Robert De ROS, Magna Charta Surety
|                 |        |        |                  /-----Sir William De ROS, Baron Of Helmsley
|                 |        |        |                 |         \-----Isabel Of Scotland
|                 |        |        |         /-----Sir William De ROS
|                 |        |        |        |        |         /-----Piers FITZ HERBERT
|                 |        |        |        |         \-----Lucia FITZ PIERS
|                 |        |        |        |                  \-----Alice De WARKWORTH
|                 |        |         \-----Lucia De ROS
|                 |        |                 |                  /-----Hugh FITZ RALPH
|                 |        |                 |         /-----Ralph FITZ HUGH
|                 |        |                 |        |         \-----Agnes De GREASLEY
|                 |        |                  \-----Eustache FITZ HUGH
|                 |        |                          |         /-----Sir Ralph De La HAYE
|                 |        |                           \-----Joan De La HAYE
|                 |        |                                    \-----Eustache TRIAN
|                  \-----Alice De PLUMPTON
|                          |                                    /-----William De MOWBRAY, Magna Charta Surety
|                          |                           /-----Sir Roger MOWBRAY, Baron Of Thirsk
|                          |                          |         \-----Avice
|                          |                  /-----Roger De MOWBRAY, Lord Mowbray
|                          |                 |        |         /-----William De BEAUCHAMP, Baron Beauchamp Of Bedford
|                          |                 |         \-----Maud BEAUCHAMP
|                          |                 |                  \-----Ida LONGSPEE
|                          |         /-----Sir John De MOWBRAY, Lord Mowbray
|                          |        |        |                  /-----Sir Gilbert De CLARE, Earl Of Hertford And Glouceste
|                          |        |        |         /-----Richard De CLARE, Earl Of Gloucester And Hertfor
|                          |        |        |        |         \-----Isabel MARSHALL
|                          |        |         \-----Rohese CLARE
|                          |        |                 |         /-----John De LACY, Earl Of Lincoln, MC Surety
|                          |        |                  \-----Maud De LACY
|                          |        |                           \-----Margaret De QUINCY, Heiress Of Lincoln
|                           \-----Christiana MOWBRAY
|                                   |                           /-----John De BRAOSE, Baron Of Bramber
|                                   |                  /-----William De BREUSE, Lord Breuse
|                                   |                 |         \-----Margaret Of Wales
|                                   |         /-----William De BREWES, Lord Of Gower
|                                   |        |        |         /-----Thomas De MULTON
|                                   |        |         \-----Aline De MULTON
|                                   |        |                  \-----Maud De VAUX
|                                    \-----Aliva De BRAOS
|                                             \-----Agnes
Sir Thomas GERARD
|         /-----James STRANGEWAYS
\-----Isabella STRANGEWAYS
          \-----Joan ORELLS

Descendants of Sir Thomas GERARD

1. Sir Thomas GERARD m1. Douce ASHTON m2. Cecily FOULSHURST

m. Douce ASHTON father: Sir Thomas ASHTON

m. Cecily FOULSHURST father: Robert FOULSHURST

2+ Peter GERARD m. Margaret STANLEY

2nd generation

2. Peter GERARD m. Margaret STANLEY

m. Margaret STANLEY father: Sir William STANLEY mother: Margaret BROMLEY

4 Joan GERARD m. Richard DONE

5 Isabel GERARD m. Sir Richard LANGTON

6 Jane GERARD m. Peter LEGH

7 Alice GERARD m. Thomas RADCLIFFE

8+ Sir Thomas GERARD m. Margaret TRAFFORD

3rd generation

8. Sir Thomas GERARD m. Margaret TRAFFORD

m. Margaret TRAFFORD father: Sir Edmond TRAFFORD mother: Margaret SAVAGE

9+ Sir Thomas GERARD m1. Elizabeth PORT m2. Jane LEIGH

10 Peter GERARD

11+ William GERARD m1. Constance ROWSON m2.

12+ Elizabeth GERARD m1. Richard RADCLIFFE m2. Richard BOLD

13 Henry GERARD

14 James GERARD

15 Margaret GERARD m. Sir Peter LEGH

16 Katherine GERARD m. Thomas HOUGHTON

17 Anne GERARD m. Richard ASSHETON

4th generation

9. Sir Thomas GERARD m1. Elizabeth PORT m2. Jane LEIGH

m. Elizabeth PORT father: Sir John PORT

18 Sir Thomas GERARD m1. Cecily MANNEY m2. Mary HAWES m3. Mary DORMER; Mary HAWES father: Sir James HAWES mother: Audrey COPWOOD; Mary DORMER father: Sir William DORMER mother: Dorothy CATESBY

m. Jane LEIGH father: Peter LEIGH mother: Jane GERARD

19+ Catherine GERARD m1. William TORBOCK m2. Robert CHARNOCK

20 Sir Thomas GERARD

11. William GERARD m1. Constance ROWSON m2.

m. Constance ROWSON

21+ Thomas GERARD m1. Grace m2. Jane

12. Elizabeth GERARD m1. Richard RADCLIFFE m2. Richard BOLD

m. Richard RADCLIFFE

22+ Anna RADCLIFFE m. John MOLYNEUX

m. Richard BOLD

5th generation

19. Catherine GERARD m1. William TORBOCK m2. Robert CHARNOCK

m. William TORBOCK father: Thomas TORBOCK mother: Elizabeth MOORE

23 Frances TORBOCK

24+ Margaret TORBOCK m. Oliver MAINWARING

m. Robert CHARNOCK father: Thomas CHARNOCK mother: Mary RUTHALL

21. Thomas GERARD m1. Grace m2. Jane

m. Grace

25+ John GERARD m. Isabel

m. Jane

22. Anna RADCLIFFE m. John MOLYNEUX

m. John MOLYNEUX father: Sir Richard MOLYNEUX mother: Eleanor RADCLIFFE

26+ Eleanor MOLYNEUX m. William HYDE