Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 12-10-2023.

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

    Person Info
  • Name: Robert THORNTON
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Abt 1564 b
  • Baptism: 7 Oct 1565 in Soham, Cambridgeshire c
  • Death: Abt 1 Jul 1612 d
  • Burial: 26 Aug 1613 in Hingham, Norfolk u


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • William THORNTON Birth: Abt 1535 Death: 24 Sep 1570
    • Mother:
  • Elizabeth CUSHIN Death: After 1570

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary THORNTON
  2. Ann THORNTON
  3. Elizabeth THORNTON

Bibliography
  1. Faris, David, Plantagenet ancestry of seventeenth century colonists: the descent from the later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of emigrants from England and Wales to the North American colonies before 1701, second edition. Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1999. NYPL APR (New England) 01-1513. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Faris PA2 p[0-9ivxc]*].
  2. 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 v3p[0-9]*].
  3. Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States: who were themselves notable or left descendants notable in American history, with a 2008 Addendum, Coda, and Final Additions. Baltimore, MD: Gen Pub Co, 2008. NYPL APK 08-4216. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Roberts RD600 p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
came of age in 1586 [Ref: Faris PA2 p182],
parents:
[Ref: Faris PA2 p182, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p273, Roberts RD600 p339]
Sources for baptism Information
date:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p274]
1565 [Ref: Faris PA2 p182],
place:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p274]
Sources for death Information
date:
will dated 1 Jul 1612, pro 12 Jul 1615 [Ref: Faris PA2 p182, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p274]
Sources for burial Information
date:
[Ref: Faris PA2 p182, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p274],
place:
[Ref: Faris PA2 p182, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p274]
Sources with Information about marriage to Anne SMITH
child:
[Ref: Faris PA2 p182, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p274, Roberts RD600 p339]
Research Notes:
Esq, of Hingham, Downham (in Wymondham), and Wramplingham, Norfolk [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p274]
Gent, of Hingham and of Downham in Windham, Norfolk [Ref: Faris PA2 p182]

heir of his father [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p274]

1610: legatee in will of Frances Smith, widow of Oliver Thornton, Gent [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p274]



Pedigree of Robert THORNTON
          /-----Oliver THORNTON
 /-----William THORNTON
|         \-----Parnell BUGGE
Robert THORNTON
|                  /-----John CUSHIN
|         /-----Edmund CUSHIN
|        |         \-----Alice
 \-----Elizabeth CUSHIN
         |                                    /-----John RICHERS
         |                           /-----John RICHERS
         |                          |         \-----Margaret
         |                  /-----John RICHERS
         |                 |        |                           /-----Sir Miles STAPLETON
         |                 |        |                  /-----Sir Brian STAPLETON
         |                 |        |                 |         \-----Ela UFFORD
         |                 |        |         /-----Brian STAPLETON
         |                 |        |        |        |         /-----William BARDOLF, Lord Bardolf
         |                 |        |        |         \-----Cecily BARDOLF
         |                 |        |        |                  \-----Agnes POYNINGS
         |                 |         \-----Elizabeth STAPLETON
         |                 |                  \-----Isabel
         |         /-----Henry RICHERS
         |        |        |         /-----Simon BATCHCROFT
         |        |         \-----Elizabeth BATCHCROFT
         |        |                 |         /-----Gilbert HALTOFT
         |        |                  \-----Eleanor HALTOFT
          \-----Frances RICHERS
                  |         /-----Robert TILLYS
                   \-----Cecily TILLYS
                            \-----Katherine



Descendants of Robert THORNTON
1. Robert THORNTON m. Anne SMITH
m. Anne SMITH father: Giles SMITH

2nd generation

2. Mary THORNTON m. John HAYNES
m. John HAYNES father: John HAYNES mother: Mary MITCHELL

3rd generation

5. Elizabeth HAYNES m. Joseph COOKE
m. Joseph COOKE father: Thomas COOKE

4th generation

13. Joseph COOKE m. Martha STEDMAN
m. Martha STEDMAN father: John STEDMAN mother: Alice
15. Mary COOKE m. John LtCol TALCOTT
m. John LtCol TALCOTT father: John TALCOTT mother: Dorothy MOTT

5th generation

23. Rachel TALCOTT m. Gershom BULKELEY
m. Gershom BULKELEY father: Peter BULKELEY mother: Margaret (BULKELAY)