Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 01-20-2025.

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. William CUNNINGHAM Birth: 2
  2. Sir Robert CUNNINGHAM Birth: Before 1392 Death: Before 1450/1

Bibliography
  1. Ravilious, John, Ancestry of Margaret Danielston. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 11/20/2005. Subject: SP Addition: the Ancestry of Margaret Danielston. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/G839OvGBdAU/m/_2sABnonyO8J. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/20/2005-160301].
  2. Ravilious, John, Ancestry of Margaret Danielston. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 11/5/2005. Subject: SP Addition: the Ancestry of Margaret Danielston (conjectured). Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/uPA34LynUhU/m/2vGU8cmcXtwJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/5/2005-232259].
  3. Ravilious, John, Sir Robert de Danielston, grandson of Robert II. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 12/1/2005. Subject: SP Addition: Sir Robert de Danielston, grandson of Robert II of Scots. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/gmORUVtljzg/m/1YD_SsOWt9EJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 12/1/2005-143855].
  4. Ravilious, John, Agnes of the Isles. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 12/13/2007. Subject: Agnes 'of the Isles' and Agnes Montgomery. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/2YMzwt5BD28/m/j_K65bNHsjcJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 12/13/2007-132829].
  5. Ravilious, John, Sir Robert de Danielston, grandson of Robert II. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 12/29/2005. Subject: SP Addition: Sir Robert de Danielston, grandson of Robert II of Scots. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/MTVIEnAyXkk/m/p49TtGcoYDsJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 12/29/2005-131917].
  6. Ravilious, John, American painter Mary DeNeale Morgan. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 5/16/2011. Subject: Why so many actors and actresses and so few painters?. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/nI8yXZTMD3c/m/3sDD5DmeMzEJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 5/16/2011-090935].
  7. Ravilious, John, Agnes of the Isles and her parentage, in The Scottish Genealogist, vol LXIII no 3 (Sep 2016), pp87-93. Available at https://independent.academia.edu/JohnRavilious. This article at https://www.academia.edu/39709987/Agnes_of_the_Isles_and_her_parentage_TSG_LXIII_3_87_93. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ravilious AgnesIsles p[0-9]*].
  8. Ravilious, John, Ravilious, John, Nephew of the Duke - the Danielstons, in The Scottish Genealogist, vol LIV no 3 (Sep 2004), pp134-137. Available at https://independent.academia.edu/JohnRavilious. This article at https://www.academia.edu/10520549/TSG_Nephew_of_the_Duke_LIV. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ravilious Danielston p[0-9]*].
  9. Ravilious, John, Mures of Rowallan the ancestry of Elizabeth Mure first wife of Robert II, in The Scottish Genealogist, vol LXII no 4 (Dec 2015), pp125-131. Available at https://independent.academia.edu/JohnRavilious. This article at https://www.academia.edu/38111170/The_Mures_of_Rowallan_the_ancestry_of_Elizabeth_Mure_TSG_LXII_4_125_131. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ravilious Mures p[0-9]*].
  10. 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]*].
  11. 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 birth and parent Information
date:
first daughter [Ref: SP IV p230]
say 1370-1375 [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 12/29/2005-131917],
father:
[Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/20/2005-160301, John Ravilious SGM 11/5/2005-232259, John Ravilious SGM 12/1/2005-143855, John Ravilious SGM 5/16/2011-090935, Ravilious AgnesIsles p90, Ravilious Danielston p136, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p644, SP IV p230],
sister:
Elizabeth [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 12/13/2007-132829]
Sources for death Information
date:
before Jul 1409 [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/20/2005-160301, John Ravilious SGM 11/5/2005-232259, SP IV p230]
Sources with Information about marriage to Sir William CUNNINGHAM
date:
before 18 Oct 1405 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p644]
disp 1409, first marriage of William [Ref: Ravilious Mures p127]
first marriage of William [Ref: SP IV p230],
names:
[Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/5/2005-232259, John Ravilious SGM 12/1/2005-143855],
child:
[Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/20/2005-160301, John Ravilious SGM 12/13/2007-132829, John Ravilious SGM 5/16/2011-090935, Ravilious AgnesIsles p90, Ravilious Danielston p136, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p644, SP IV p230]
Research Notes:
coheiress of Danielston or Denniston [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/20/2005-160301]

received 1/2 of inheritance of Danielston of that Ilk, divided in 1404 and on 18 Oct 1405 with her sister (wife of Robert Maxwell) [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/20/2005-160301]

her purparty included Glencairn, Finlaystoun, Redhall, etc [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/20/2005-160301]

near relation to Lady Mary (or Marjory) daughter of Robert III; understandable if Sir Robert de Danielston (father of Margaret) and Lady Mary Stewart were first cousins, and Sir Robert recognisable as 'nephew of the Duke' [Ref: Ravilious Danielston p136]

"She died some time before July 1409, when he [Sir William Cunningham] had a Papal Dispensation to marry Marjory (Mary) Stewart, widow of James Kennedy, notwithstanding Margaret his first wife was related to Marjory in the second and third degrees." (SP IV:230)
I would suggest that, probably as a result of returning to the peace of King David II subsequent to the forfeiture, that the younger daughter Margaret de Montfichet was married to the young Robert de Danielston and thereby restored to her share of her father's lands (while not depriving the loyal Danielston family of their earlier reward). If this in fact occurred, and Margaret de Danielston (one of Sir Robert's coheirs) was her daughter, the resulting relationship between Margaret de Danielston and Mary/Mariota Stewart would in fact have been in the 2nd and 3rd degrees of consanguinity. [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/5/2005-232259]

The consanguinity between Margaret Danielston and Mary Stewart, stated as being in the 2nd and 3rd degrees, is now known to be based on their mutual descent from Robert II, King of Scots: hence, Sir Robert de Danielston (d. 1397) was in fact be nephew to Robert, duke of Albany (as well as his brother King Robert III), and a grandson - and apparent namesake - of King Robert II. The relationship between Elizabeth de Danielston and Sir Robert Maxwell of Calderwood (married before 18 Oct 1405) was, one might say, "within" the fourth degree, but was actually in the 3rd and 4th degrees through common descent from Walter the Stewart (d. 1326) by his two different wives.
That the last relationship did not quite tally with that mentioned in the 1413 dispensation is not too surprising: we have seen many instances where a "4th degree relationship" was later found to have been actually 3rd and 4th (e.g., Patrick Earl of Dunbar and Agnes Randolph, 1320 dispensation corrected in 1324). According to Andrew MacEwen, Elizabeth Danielstona and Sir Robert Maxwell (or one of the two) actually took the option in 1413 or shortly afterward not to remain as husband and wife: therefore, no correction to the dispensation would have been sought (or required). [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 12/1/2005-143855]



Pedigree of Margaret DANIELSTOUN
                   /-----Hugh DANIELSTON
          /-----Sir John DANIELSTON
         |        |                                             /-----Sir William De MONTFICHET
         |        |                                    /-----Sir Walter De MONTFICHET
         |        |                           /-----William De MONTFICHET
         |        |                          |        |         /-----Patrick De ABERNETHY
         |        |                          |         \-----Devergulla De ABERNETHY
         |        |                  /-----William De MONTFICHET
         |        |         /-----Sir William De MONTIFICHET
         |         \-----Margaret De MONTIFICHET
 /-----Sir Robert DANIELSTON
|        |                                                      /-----Alan High Steward Of Scotland
|        |                                             /-----Walter Stewart, High Steward Of Scotland
|        |                                            |         \-----Eva
|        |                                    /-----Alexander STEWART, High Steward Of Scotland
|        |                                   |        |         /-----Gilchrist Earl Of Angus
|        |                                   |         \-----Beatrix Of Angus
|        |                           /-----James STEWART, High Steward Of Scotland
|        |                          |        |                  /-----Richard COMYN
|        |                          |        |         /-----William COMYN, Earl Of Buchan
|        |                          |        |        |         \-----Hextilde of Tynedale
|        |                          |         \-----Joanna
|        |                          |                 |         /-----Fergus Earl Of Buchan
|        |                          |                  \-----Margaret Countess Of Buchan
|        |                  /-----Walter High Steward Of Scotland
|        |                 |        |                           /-----William De BURGH, Lord of Connaught
|        |                 |        |                  /-----Richard De BURGH, Lord of Connaught
|        |                 |        |                 |         \-----(Unk Dau) O'BRIEN
|        |                 |        |         /-----Walter De BURG, Earl Of Ulster
|        |                 |        |        |        |         /-----Walter De LACY, Baron Of Weobley
|        |                 |        |        |         \-----Egidia (Jill) De LACY
|        |                 |        |        |                  \-----Margaret De BRAOISE
|        |                 |         \-----Egidia De BURGH
|        |                 |                 |                  /-----Geoffrey FITZ PIERS, Earl Of Essex
|        |                 |                 |         /-----Sir John FITZ GEOFFREY
|        |                 |                 |        |         \-----Aveline De CLARE
|        |                 |                  \-----Aveline FITZJOHN
|        |                 |                          |         /-----Hugh BIGOD, Earl Of Norfolk, MC Surety
|        |                 |                           \-----Isabel BIGOD
|        |                 |                                    \-----Maud MARSHALL
|        |         /-----Robert II STEWART, King Of Scots
|        |        |        |                                    /-----Robert De BRUS, Lord Of Annandale
|        |        |        |                           /-----Sir Robert De BRUS, Baron Of Writtle
|        |        |        |                          |         \-----Isabella Of Huntingdon
|        |        |        |                  /-----Sir Robert De BRUS, Earl Of Carrick, Lord Of Annand
|        |        |        |                 |        |         /-----Sir Gilbert De CLARE, Earl Of Hertford And Glouceste
|        |        |        |                 |         \-----Isabel De CLARE
|        |        |        |                 |                  \-----Isabel MARSHALL
|        |        |        |         /-----Robert De BRUS, King Of Scots
|        |        |        |        |        |                  /-----Nicol Of Carrick
|        |        |        |        |        |         /-----Neil Earl Of Carrick, Regent Of Scotland
|        |        |        |        |        |        |         \-----(Unk) O'NEILL
|        |        |        |        |         \-----Margaret Of Carrick, Countess Of Carrick
|        |        |        |        |                  \-----Isabella
|        |        |         \-----Marjorie De BRUCE
|        |        |                 |                           /-----Duncan Earl Of Mar
|        |        |                 |                  /-----William Earl Of Mar
|        |        |                 |         /-----Sir Donald Earl Of Mar
|        |        |                 |        |        |         /-----William COMYN, Earl Of Buchan
|        |        |                 |        |         \-----Elizabeth COMYN
|        |        |                 |        |                  \-----Margaret Countess Of Buchan
|        |        |                  \-----Isabel Of Mar
|        |        |                           \-----Helen
|         \-----Mary STEWART
Margaret DANIELSTOUN



Descendants of Margaret DANIELSTOUN
1. Margaret DANIELSTOUN m. Sir William CUNNINGHAM
m. Sir William CUNNINGHAM father: Sir William CUNNINGHAM mother: Margaret GIFFORD

2nd generation

3. Sir Robert CUNNINGHAM m. Anne MONTGOMERY
m. Anne MONTGOMERY father: Sir John MONTGOMERY mother: Agnes Of The Isles

3rd generation

4. Alexander CUNNINGHAM, Earl Of Glencairn m. Margaret HEPBURN
m. Margaret HEPBURN father: Sir Adam HEPBURN, Lord Of Hailes mother: Janet BORTHWICK

4th generation

6. Robert CUNNINGHAM, Lord Kilmaurs m. Christian LINDSAY
m. Christian LINDSAY father: Sir John LINDSAY, Lord Lindsay Of The Byres mother: (Unk Dau) STEWART
7. William CUNNINGHAM m1. Elizabeth STEWART m2. Marion AUCHINLECK
m. Elizabeth STEWART
m. Marion AUCHINLECK father: Sir John AUCHINLECK

5th generation

10. Cuthbert CUNNINGHAM, Earl Of Glencairn m. Mariot DOUGLAS
m. Mariot DOUGLAS father: Archibald DOUGLAS, Earl Of Angus mother: Elizabeth BOYD
12. William CUNNINGHAM m. Giles CAMPBELL
m. Giles CAMPBELL