Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

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 may be downloaded here.

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. Sir John FORRESTER Birth: 1 Death: Abt 1448
  2. Thomas FORRESTER Birth: 2 Death: After 20 Aug 1406
  3. Marion FORRESTER

Bibliography
  1. 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]*].

Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: SP IV p81]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: SP IV p81]
Sources with Information about marriage to Agnes DUNDAS
date:
first marriage of Adam [Ref: SP IV p81]
Sources with Information about marriage to Margaret
date:
second marriage of Adam [Ref: SP IV p82],
child:
[Ref: SP IV p82]
Research Notes:
wealthy and influential burgess of Edinburgh [Ref: SP IV p80]

apparently had another daughter J__ whose arms impaled with those of her husband William NAPIER of Wrightshouses, and bearing the date 137_ is over the gateway of St Margaret's North Queensferry. William NAPIER acquired part of Wrightshouses from Adam Forrester in 1390 [Ref: SP IV p82 (with corr in IX p91)]



Pedigree of Sir Adam FORRESTER
Sir Adam FORRESTER



Descendants of Sir Adam FORRESTER
1. Sir Adam FORRESTER m1. Agnes DUNDAS m2. Margaret
m. Agnes DUNDAS father: John DUNDAS
m. Margaret

2nd generation

2. Sir John FORRESTER m1. Margaret m2. Jean SINCLAIR m3. Marion STEWART
m. Margaret
m. Jean SINCLAIR father: Henry SINCLAIR, Earl Of Orkney mother: Jean HALYBURTON
m. Marion STEWART father: Sir Walter STEWART

3rd generation

5. Sir John FORRESTER m.
6. Henry FORRESTER m. Helen FAIRLIE
m. Helen FAIRLIE father: John FAIRLIE
9. Janet FORRESTER m. Sir Robert MAXWELL, Lord Maxwell
m. Sir Robert MAXWELL, Lord Maxwell father: Sir Herbert MAXWELL, Lord Maxwell mother: (Unk) HERRIES

4th generation

10. Alexander FORRESTER m.
14. John MAXWELL, Master Of Maxwell m. Janet CRICHTON
m. Janet CRICHTON father: George CRICHTON, Earl Of Caithness mother: Janet BORTHWICK

5th generation

21. Archibald FORRESTER m1. Margaret HEPBURN m2. Agnes TOD
m. Margaret HEPBURN father: Sir Patrick HEPBURN, Lord Hailes mother: Ellen WALLACE
m. Agnes TOD
22. Matthew FORRESTER m. Christian BELLENDEN
m. Christian BELLENDEN
25. John MAXWELL, Lord Maxwell m. Agnes STEWART
m. Agnes STEWART father: Sir Alexander STEWART mother: Elizabeth DOUGLAS
33. Janet MAXWELL m. William CARLYLE, Lord Carlyle
m. William CARLYLE, Lord Carlyle father: John CARLYLE, Master Of Carlyle