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. Sir John COLQUHOUN Birth: 1 Death: 1536
  2. Walter COLQUHOUN Birth: 2
  3. Patrick COLQUHOUN Birth: 3
  4. Humphrey COLQUHOUN Birth: 4
  5. Agnes COLQUHOUN Death: After 1528
  6. Elizabeth COLQUHOUN

Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 12-1, Skelmersdale-Towton. London: St Catherine Press, 1953. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP XII/1 [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, Sir Robert Erskine and his wives. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 1/14/2010. Subject: Sir Robert Erskine (d. 1452) and his wives. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/B8szb9kuwXs/m/IfR14BFdiRwJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/14/2010-131528].
  4. 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]*].
  5. 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 VIII p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
parents:
John COLQUHOUN & ___ BOYD [Ref: Fraser COLQUHOUN p33]
Sources for death Information
date:
abt 1493 [Ref: Fraser COLQUHOUN p55]
abt 19 Aug 1493 [Ref: Fraser COLQUHOUN p65]
Sources with Information about marriage to Helen ERSKINE
date:
first marriage of Humphrey [Ref: Fraser COLQUHOUN p55],
child:
[Ref: CP XII/1 p95, Fraser COLQUHOUN p67, Fraser COLQUHOUN p69, Fraser COLQUHOUN p70, John Ravilious SGM 1/14/2010-131528, SP V p606]
Sources with Information about marriage to Marion BAILLIE
date:
second marriage of both [Ref: Fraser COLQUHOUN p55]
Research Notes:
of Luss [Ref: SP V p606]

10th Laird of Colquhoun and 12th Laird of Luss [Ref: Fraser COLQUHOUN p55]

1478: succeeded his father as Laird of Colquhoun and Luss [Ref: Fraser COLQUHOUN p55]



Pedigree of Humphrey COLQUHOUN
                                                                /-----Sir Robert De COLQUHOUN
                                                       /-----Ingelramus De COLQUHOUN
                                              /-----Sir Humphrey De COLQUHOUN
                                     /-----Sir Robert COLQUHOUN
                            /-----Sir Humphrey COLQUHOUN
                           |        |                           /-----Sir John De LUSS
                           |        |                  /-----Malcolm De LUSS
                           |        |         /-----Godfridus De LUSS
                           |         \-----(Unk) LUSS
                   /-----Sir John COLQUHOUN
          /-----Malcolm COLQUHOUN
         |        |                                             /-----Sir John ERSKINE
         |        |                                    /-----John ERSKINE
         |        |                           /-----Sir William ERSKINE
         |        |                  /-----Sir Robert ERSKINE Of That Ilk
         |        |         /-----Sir Thomas ERSKINE
         |        |        |        |                           /-----Sir David De LINDSAY
         |        |        |        |                  /-----Sir David De LINDSAY
         |        |        |        |         /-----Sir Alexander LINDSAY
         |        |        |        |        |        |         /-----Walter De LINDSAY
         |        |        |        |        |         \-----Margaret De LINDSAY
         |        |        |        |        |                  \-----Christian
         |        |        |         \-----Beatrice LINDSAY
         |        |        |                  \-----(Unk) STEWART
         |        |        |                          |         /-----Alexander STEWART, High Steward Of Scotland
         |        |        |                           \-----(Unk) STEWART
         |        |        |                                    \-----Joanna
         |         \-----Jean ERSKINE
         |                 |                                    /-----Sir John De KEITH
         |                 |                           /-----Sir William De KEITH
         |                 |                          |         \-----Margaret COMYN
         |                 |                  /-----Sir Edward De KEITH, Marischal Of Scotland
         |                 |                 |        |         /-----Adam De SETON
         |                 |                 |         \-----Barbara De SETON
         |                 |         /-----Sir Edward De KEITH
         |                 |        |        |                  /-----Andrew De SYNTON
         |                 |        |        |         /-----Alexander De SYNTON
         |                 |        |         \-----Isabel De SYNTON
         |                 |        |                  \-----Maria
         |                  \-----Janet KEITH
         |                          |                           /-----Walter STEWART, Earl Of Menteith
         |                          |                  /-----Sir John De MONTEITH
         |                          |                 |         \-----Mary Of Menteith, Countess Of Menteith
         |                          |         /-----Sir John De MONTEITH
         |                           \-----Christian MENTEITH
         |                                   |                  /-----Sir Donald Earl Of Mar
         |                                   |         /-----Gratney Earl Of Mar
         |                                   |        |         \-----Helen
         |                                    \-----Elyne Of Mar
         |                                            |         /-----Sir Robert De BRUS, Earl Of Carrick, Lord Of Annand
         |                                             \-----Christian BRUCE
         |                                                      \-----Margaret Of Carrick, Countess Of Carrick
 /-----Sir John COLQUHOUN
Humphrey COLQUHOUN
 \-----(Unk) BOYD



Descendants of Humphrey COLQUHOUN
1. Humphrey COLQUHOUN m1. Helen ERSKINE m2. Marion BAILLIE
m. Helen ERSKINE father: Thomas ERSKINE, Lord Erskine mother: Janet DOUGLAS
m. Marion BAILLIE father: Sir William BAILLIE

2nd generation

2. Sir John COLQUHOUN m1. Elizabeth STEWART m2. Margaret CUNNINGHAM
m. Elizabeth STEWART father: John STEWART, Earl Of Lennox mother: Margaret MONTGOMERIE
m. Margaret CUNNINGHAM

3rd generation

9. Humphrey COLQUHOUN m. Helen GRAHAM
m. Helen GRAHAM father: William GRAHAM, Lord Graham, Earl Of Montrose mother: Annabel DRUMMOND

4th generation

12. Sir John COLQUHOUN m1. Christian ERSKINE m2. Agnes BOYD
m. Christian ERSKINE father: Robert ERSKINE, Lord Erskine mother: Isabel CAMPBELL
m. Agnes BOYD father: Robert BOYD, Lord Boyd mother: Helen SOMERVILLE

5th generation

17. Sir Humphrey COLQUHOUN m1. Janet CUNNINGHAM m2. Jean HAMILTON
m. Janet CUNNINGHAM father: Alexander CUNNINGHAM, Earl Of Glencairn mother: Janet CUNNINGHAM
m. Jean HAMILTON father: John HAMILTON, Marquis of Hamilton
19. Alexander COLQUHOUN m. Helen BUCHANAN
m. Helen BUCHANAN father: Sir George BUCHANAN Of That Ilk