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:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Marion HOUSTOUN
  2. Agnes HOUSTOUN
  3. Sir Peter HOUSTOUN Of That Ilk Death: 9 Sep 1513 in Flodden
  4. Archibald HOUSTOUN Death: Before 1491
  5. John HOUSTOUN
  6. Elizabeth HOUSTOUN
  7. Margaret HOUSTOUN

Bibliography
  1. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 08, Lindley-Moate. London: St Catherine Press, 1932. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP VIII [Ap][p0-9].*].
  2. Fraser, William, The chiefs of Colquhoun and their country, Edinburgh, Scotland: T and A Constable, 1869. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/131731. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Fraser COLQUHOUN p[0-9]*].
  3. Ravilious, John, Houstoun descent. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 1/27/2001. Subject: New MC Line: Clare-Bruce-Stewart-MacDonald- - - - Houstoun - Fleming [long]. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/CrWKS2Ix6Rc/m/mICxN_Cb-cgJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/27/2001-220328].
  4. Ravilious, John, Houstoun descent. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 1/28/2001. Subject: New MC Line: Clare-Bruce---MacDonald- - - Houstoun - Fleming [Pt II]. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/2fezBBAzhD4/m/ZJJZSks3NbEJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/28/2001-003956].
  5. Ravilious, John, Marriages of Elizabeth Sinclair. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 10/14/2005. Subject: SP Correction: Elizabeth Sinclair (d. bef 1510) and her marriages. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/BEAmwmEdPUU/m/BmvIdF3sELsJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 10/14/2005-171513].
  6. MacEwen, Andrew B W, Seven Scottish Countesses II - Marjory Sutherland, Countess of Caithness and Orkney, The Genealogist 13,1 (1999), pp84-91. NYPL APA 82-1000. Available at https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MacEwen 7Countesses Caithness p[0-9]*].
  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 v1[pc][0-9]*].
  8. Paul, Sir James Balfour, Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that Kingdom. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP II p[0-9]*].
  9. Paul, Sir James Balfour, Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that Kingdom. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP VII p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
parents:
[Ref: Fraser COLQUHOUN p24]
Sources for death Information
date:
before 17 Jul 1490 [Ref: SP VII p531]
before 6 Jun 1491 [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/27/2001-220328, John Ravilious SGM 10/14/2005-171513]
Sources with Information about marriage to Margaret SEMPHILL
date:
first marriage of Margaret [Ref: SP VII p531],
names:
[Ref: John Ravilious SGM 10/14/2005-171513]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth SINCLAIR
date:
after 1471 [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 10/14/2005-171513]
before 1472 [Ref: MacEwen 7Countesses Caithness p84(1)],
names:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p624]
___ Laird of Houston & Elizabeth SINCLAIR [Ref: SP II p334],
child:
[Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/27/2001-220328, John Ravilious SGM 1/28/2001-003956, John Ravilious SGM 10/14/2005-171513]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
names:
Sir John HOUSTOUN & Agnes CAMPBELL [Ref: Fraser COLQUHOUN p24]
Research Notes:
of Houstoun [Ref: SP VII p531]
of Houstoun, co Renfrew [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 10/14/2005-171513]

held 1/2 of Lany (Lennie) [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 10/14/2005-171513]



Pedigree of Sir John HOUSTOUN Of That Ilk
 /-----Sir Patrick HOUSTOUN Of That Ilk
Sir John HOUSTOUN Of That Ilk
|                                                      /-----Umfridus De KILPATRICK and De COLQUHOUN
|                                             /-----Sir Robert De COLQUHOUN
|                                    /-----Ingelramus De COLQUHOUN
|                           /-----Sir Humphrey De COLQUHOUN
|                  /-----Sir Robert COLQUHOUN
|         /-----Sir Humphrey COLQUHOUN
|        |        |                                             /-----Gillemore De LUSS
|        |        |                                    /-----Maurice De LUSS
|        |        |                           /-----Sir John De LUSS
|        |        |                          |         \-----Katherine COLPATRICK
|        |        |                  /-----Malcolm De LUSS
|        |        |         /-----Godfridus De LUSS
|        |         \-----(Unk) LUSS
 \-----Mary COLQUHOUN



Descendants of Sir John HOUSTOUN Of That Ilk
1. Sir John HOUSTOUN Of That Ilk m1. Margaret SEMPHILL m2. Elizabeth SINCLAIR
m. Margaret SEMPHILL father: Sir Thomas SEMPHILL mother: Elizabeth ROSS
m. Elizabeth SINCLAIR father: William SINCLAIR, Earl Of Orkney And Caithness mother: Elizabeth DOUGLAS

2nd generation

2. Marion HOUSTOUN m. William FLEMING
m. William FLEMING
3. Agnes HOUSTOUN m1. James LIVINGSTON, Lord Livingston m2. John FORRESTER
m. James LIVINGSTON, Lord Livingston father: Alexander LIVINGSTON
m. John FORRESTER
4. Sir Peter HOUSTOUN Of That Ilk m. Mariota LYLE
m. Mariota LYLE father: Robert LYLE, Lord Lyle mother: Margaret HOUSTON

3rd generation

9. James FLEMING m.
12. Patrick HOUSTOUN Of That Ilk m. Janet CUNYNGHAM
m. Janet CUNYNGHAM father: William CUNYNGHAM mother: Elizabeth STEWART

4th generation

13. William FLEMING m.
14. John HOUSTOUN Of That Ilk m. Agnes HOPRINGLE
m. Agnes HOPRINGLE

5th generation

16. Sir Patrick HOUSTOUN Of That Ilk m. Janet CUNYNGHAM
m. Janet CUNYNGHAM father: Gabriel CUNYNGHAM mother: Elizabeth LIVINGSTON