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: Children:
  1. Elizabeth LYLE
  2. George LYLE Birth: 1
  3. Robert LYLE, Lord Lyle Birth: 2 Death: After 20 Feb 1468/9

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. 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 V p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
father:
[Ref: SP V p551]
Sources for death Information
date:
living 1444 [Ref: CP VIII p292]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth STEWART
child:
[Ref: CP VIII p292, CP VIII p293, SP V p552]
Research Notes:
of Doughale [Ref: CP VIII p292]

identification of his brother-in-law as Robert, Lord Erskine, deleted in the corections [Ref: SP V p551 (with corr in IX p132)]

1435: after the death of Alexander Steward Earl of Mar, he was younger coheir to a moiety of the Earldom of Mar, derived through the younger daughter of Sir John Menteith and Ellen of Mar [Ref: CP VIII p292, CP VIII p292(g)]



Pedigree of Sir Robert LYLE
          /-----Sir John De LYLE
 /-----Sir John De LYLE
|         \-----Margaret De VAUS
Sir Robert LYLE



Descendants of Sir Robert LYLE
1. Sir Robert LYLE m. Elizabeth STEWART
m. Elizabeth STEWART father: Sir John STEWART

2nd generation

2. Elizabeth LYLE m. Alexander LYLE
m. Alexander LYLE father: Alan LYLE
4. Robert LYLE, Lord Lyle m1. Margaret GREY m2. Margaret WALLACE
m. Margaret GREY father: Andrew GRAY, Lord Gray mother: Elizabeth WEMYSS
m. Margaret WALLACE

3rd generation

7. Robert LYLE, Lord Lyle m1. Margaret SETON m2. Margaret HOUSTON
m. Margaret SETON father: John SETON, Master Of Seton mother: Christian LINDSAY
m. Margaret HOUSTON

4th generation

10. Robert LYLE, Lord Lyle m1. Elizabeth DOUGLAS m2. Mariot LINDSAY
m. Elizabeth DOUGLAS father: Archibald DOUGLAS, Earl Of Angus mother: Elizabeth BOYD
m. Mariot LINDSAY
14. Mariota LYLE m. Sir Peter HOUSTOUN Of That Ilk
m. Sir Peter HOUSTOUN Of That Ilk father: Sir John HOUSTOUN Of That Ilk mother: Elizabeth SINCLAIR
15. Agnes LYLE m1. Alan CATHCART, Master Of Cathcart m2. John MAXWELL
m. Alan CATHCART, Master Of Cathcart father: John CATHCART, Lord Cathcart mother: Margaret KENNEDY
m. John MAXWELL

5th generation

17. John LYLE, Lord Lyle m. Grizel BEATON
m. Grizel BEATON father: David BEATON
18. Patrick HOUSTOUN Of That Ilk m. Janet CUNYNGHAM
m. Janet CUNYNGHAM father: William CUNYNGHAM mother: Elizabeth STEWART
19. Alan CATHCART, Lord Cathcart m. Helen SEMPILL
m. Helen SEMPILL father: William SEMPILL, Lord Sempill mother: Margaret MONTGOMERIE