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


Family:
Marriage:
  • Jane on Before 8 Nov 1464 .m1
  • Jane Death: After 12 Oct 1479
Children:
  1. John WORSLEY Death: After 1473

Bibliography
  1. 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]*].
  2. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 03 Canonteigh-Cutts. London: St Catherine Press, 1913. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Vol 3 also available at http://archive.org/completepeerageo03coka Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP III [Ap][p0-9].*].
  3. Phillips, Chris, Corrections and Additions to the Complete Peerage, http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/cp/index.shtml Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP++ .*].
  4. Richardson, Douglas, Jane, wife successively of Edward Brooke, 6th Lord Cobham, Christopher Worsley, and Robert Palmer. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 4/23/2008. Subject: Still More C.P.Peerage Additions: Jane, wife successively of Edward Brooke, 6th Lord Cobham, Christopher Worsley, and Robert Palmer. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/2tYI2gl6_8c/m/cfGKy22zcigJ. Author address: celticprince at gmail dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 4/23/2008-130401].
  5. Richardson, Douglas, Jane (or Joan), 2nd wife of Sir Edward Brooke, 6th Lord Cobham. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 6/2/2013. Subject: C.P. Addition: More on Jane (or Joan), 2nd wife of Sir Edward Brooke, 6th Lord Cobham [died 1464]. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/3KRLqcPGNcw/m/4HHQCe1gvXMJ. Author address: royalancestry at msn dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 6/2/2013-170249].
  6. Faris, David, Plantagenet ancestry of seventeenth century colonists: the descent from the later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of emigrants from England and Wales to the North American colonies before 1701, second edition. Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1999. NYPL APR (New England) 01-1513. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Faris PA2 p[0-9ivxc]*].
  7. 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 v5p[0-9]*].

Sources for death Information
date:
at Battle of Barnet 14 Apr 1471 or at Battle of Tewkesbury 4 May 1471 [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 4/23/2008-130401, Douglas Richardson SGM 6/2/2013-170249, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p409]
Sources with Information about marriage to Jane
date:
before 8 Nov 1464 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p408]
pardon 8 Nov 1464 for marrying without license [Ref: CP III p346, CP++ Cobham 6/20/2004 (CP III p346), Douglas Richardson SGM 4/23/2008-130401, Faris PA2 p383],
names:
Christopher WORSLEY & widow of Edward BROOKE [Ref: CP III p346, Faris PA2 p383],
child:
[Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 4/23/2008-130401, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p408]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
date:
before 8 Nov 1464 [Ref: Burke Peerage p439],
names:
Christopher WORSLEY & Elizabeth TUCHET (#148655) [Ref: Burke Peerage p439]
Research Notes:
Esq [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 4/23/2008-130401, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p408]

King's servant [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 4/23/2008-130401, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p408]

Marshal of the Hall [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p408]

1466-7: Sheriff of Wiltshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p408]
Sheriff of Wiltshire [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 4/23/2008-130401]

1469-70: Sheriff of Somersetshire and Dorset [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p408]
Sheriff of Somersetshire and Dorset [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 4/23/2008-130401]

C 1/2/73 (nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalog/search.asp) Christopher Worsley and Jane his wife v John Bettiscombe ... Jane, according to the will of her late husband Edward Brooke, Lord Cobham [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 4/23/2008-130401, Douglas Richardson SGM 6/2/2013-170249]



Pedigree of Christopher WORSLEY
Christopher WORSLEY



Descendants of Christopher WORSLEY
1. Christopher WORSLEY m. Jane
m. Jane