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 GORDON Birth: 1 Death: Before 11 Oct 1395
  2. Sir Adam GORDON Birth: 2 Death: 14 Sep 1402 in Hamildon Hill

Marriage:
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 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].*].
  3. MacEwen, Andrew B W, Some Notes on the Keith and Gordon Pedigrees, in Brook, Lindsay, Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday. Salt Lake City: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989. NYPL APB 91-4605. My copy was from https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/503782 (but it is no longer available there). Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MacEwen Keith p[0-9]*].
  4. 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]*].
  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 IV p[0-9]*].
  6. 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]*].
  7. 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 with Information about marriage to Sir John GORDON
child:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p635, SP IV p514]
Sources with Information about marriage to Sir Nicholas ERSKINE
date:
after 1402, as second marriage of both [Ref: SP V p596]
second marriage of Elizabeth [Ref: Burke Peerage p1055, CP XII/1 p92(d), MacEwen Keith p172, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p635, SP IV p517, SP VIII p9]
Research Notes:
abt Feb 1360/1: received a dispensation for marriage with Sir Robert Livingstone (afterds cancelled), he and her late husband being related in the fourth degree [Ref: SP IV p514]



Pedigree of Elizabeth
Elizabeth



Descendants of Elizabeth
1. Elizabeth m1. Sir John GORDON m2. Sir Nicholas ERSKINE
m. Sir John GORDON father: Sir Adam GORDON
m. Sir Nicholas ERSKINE father: Sir Robert ERSKINE Of That Ilk mother: Beatrice LINDSAY

2nd generation

2. Sir John GORDON m. Elizabeth CRUICKSHANKS
m. Elizabeth CRUICKSHANKS
3. Sir Adam GORDON m. Elizabeth KEITH
m. Elizabeth KEITH father: Sir John KEITH mother: Jean STEWART

3rd generation

4. John GORDON m1. Elizabeth MAITLAND m2.
m. Elizabeth MAITLAND father: Robert MAITLAND mother: (Unk) SCHIVAS
7. Elizabeth GORDON m. Sir Alexander SETON, Lord Gordon
m. Sir Alexander SETON, Lord Gordon father: Sir William SETON mother: Janet FLEMING

4th generation

8. Sir John GORDON, Laird Of Pitlurg m. Jane STEWART
m. Jane STEWART father: Sir John STEWART, Earl Of Atholl mother: Eleanor SINCLAIR
9. William GORDON m. (Unk) RUTHERFORD
m. (Unk) RUTHERFORD
10. James GORDON m. Canea HARPER
m. Canea HARPER
13. Elizabeth SETON m. Alexander MacDONALD, Lord Of The Isles, Earl Of Ro
m. Alexander MacDONALD, Lord Of The Isles, Earl Of Ro father: Sir Donald Lord Of The Isles mother: Mary LESLIE, Countess Of Ross
14. Margaret SETON m1. James DUNBAR, Earl Of Moray m2. Sir Alexander STEWART, Earl Of Mar
m. James DUNBAR, Earl Of Moray father: Thomas DUNBAR, Earl Of Moray mother: Margaret
m. Sir Alexander STEWART, Earl Of Mar father: Alexander STEWART, Earl Of Buchan
15. Alexander SETON, Lord Gordon, Earl Of Huntley m1. m2. Egidia HAY m3. Elizabeth CRICHTON
m. Egidia HAY father: Sir John HAY mother: Margaret STEWART
m. Elizabeth CRICHTON father: William CRICHTON, Lord Crichton mother: Agnes
16. William SETON m. Elizabeth MELDRUM
m. Elizabeth MELDRUM father: William MELDRUM

5th generation

18. John GORDON m. Janet OGILVIE
m. Janet OGILVIE
19. George GORDON m. Isobel INNES
m. Isobel INNES father: Beroald INNES
21. Patrick GORDON m.
22. John MacDONALD, Lord Of The Isles, Earl Of Ro m1. m2. Elizabeth LIVINGSTON
m. Elizabeth LIVINGSTON father: James LIVINGSTON, Lord Livingston mother: Marian
23. Janet DUNBAR m1. James CRICHTON, Lord Crichton m2. James SUTHERLAND
m. James CRICHTON, Lord Crichton father: William CRICHTON, Lord Crichton mother: Agnes
m. James SUTHERLAND
24. Elizabeth DUNBAR m1. Archibald DOUGLAS, Earl Of Moray m2. Sir George GORDON, Earl Of Huntley m3. Sir John COLQUHOUN
m. Archibald DOUGLAS, Earl Of Moray father: James DOUGLAS, Earl Of Douglas mother: Beatrice SINCLAIR
m. Sir George GORDON, Earl Of Huntley father: Alexander SETON, Lord Gordon, Earl Of Huntley mother: Elizabeth CRICHTON
m. Sir John COLQUHOUN father: Malcolm COLQUHOUN
25. Janet GORDON m. James INNES
m. James INNES father: Robert INNES
27. Sir Alexander SETON m. Elizabeth ERSKINE
m. Elizabeth ERSKINE father: Thomas ERSKINE, Lord Erskine mother: Janet DOUGLAS
28. Sir George GORDON, Earl Of Huntley m1. m2. Elizabeth DUNBAR m3. Annabella STEWART m4. Elizabeth HAY
m. Elizabeth DUNBAR father: James DUNBAR, Earl Of Moray mother: Margaret SETON
m. Annabella STEWART father: James I King Of Scots mother: Joan De BEAUFORT
m. Elizabeth HAY father: Sir William HAY, Earl Of Erroll mother: Beatrice DOUGLAS
30. Adam GORDON m.
33. Elizabeth GORDON, Countess Of Erroll m1. Nicholas HAY, Earl Of Erroll m2. John KENNEDY, Lord Kennedy
m. Nicholas HAY, Earl Of Erroll father: Sir William HAY, Earl Of Erroll mother: Beatrice DOUGLAS
m. John KENNEDY, Lord Kennedy father: Gilbert KENNEDY, Lord Kennedy mother: Catherine MAXWELL
34. Christian GORDON m. William FORBES, Lord Forbes
m. William FORBES, Lord Forbes father: James FORBES, Lord Forbes mother: Egidia KEITH
36. Alexander SETON m. (Unk dau) SUTHERLAND
m. (Unk dau) SUTHERLAND father: Alexander SUTHERLAND