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:
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. 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]*].
  3. 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 VI p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
parents:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p1428, SP VI p342],
father:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p1334, SP V p598]
Sources for death Information
date:
before 30 Jun 1367 [Ref: Burke Peerage p1428, SP VI p342]
Sources with Information about marriage to Reginald MORE
date:
1361 [Ref: Burke Peerage p1428]
abt 1361 [Ref: SP VI p342],
divorced:
1365 [Ref: Burke Peerage p1428]
before 1365 [Ref: SP VI p342]
Sources with Information about marriage to Sir Thomas ERSKINE
date:
abt 1365 [Ref: Burke Peerage p1334]
disp 1365 [Ref: SP VI p342]
disp 29 Nov 1365 [Ref: SP V p598(5)]
second marriage of Mary [Ref: Burke Peerage p1428]
Research Notes:
heiress of Dalkeith [Ref: SP V p597]

only child and heiress of Sir William Douglas [Ref: SP V p598]

died at the birth of her first child, and there was a difference of opinion as to whether the child was born living or not; Thomas ERSKINE claimed his wife's estates on the plea that the child lived, while James DOUGLAS, the next heir, claimed the estates on the ground that the child died; the parties resolved to decide the matter by personal combat [Ref: SP V p597]

died in childbirth, leaving no surviving issue [Ref: SP VI p342]

d.s.p.s [Ref: Burke Peerage p1428]



Pedigree of Mary DOUGLAS
                                              /-----William DOUGLAS
                                     /-----Archibald DOUGLAS
                                    |        |         /-----(Unk) Of Kerdal
                                    |         \-----(Unk) Of Kerdal
                            /-----Sir Andrew DOUGLAS
                           |        |         /-----Sir John CRAWFORD
                           |         \-----Margaret CRAWFORD
                   /-----William DOUGLAS
          /-----Sir James DOUGLAS
 /-----Sir William DOUGLAS, Earl Of Atholl
|         \-----Joan
Mary DOUGLAS
|                                             /-----Herbert De MACCUSWELL
|                                    /-----Sir Aymer De MAXWELL
|                           /-----Sir Herbert De MAXWELL
|                          |        |         /-----Roland McGEACHAN
|                          |         \-----Mary
|                  /-----Sir John De MAXWELL
|         /-----Sir John De MAXWELL
 \-----Elizabeth MAXWELL



Descendants of Mary DOUGLAS
1. Mary DOUGLAS m1. Reginald MORE m2. Sir Thomas ERSKINE
m. Reginald MORE father: Sir William MORE
m. Sir Thomas ERSKINE father: Sir Robert ERSKINE Of That Ilk mother: Beatrice LINDSAY