Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 06-30-2022.

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

    Person Info
  • Name: Thomas GIFFARD
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 1408 in Fringford, co Oxford b
  • Baptism: 28 Dec 1408 c
  • Death: 29 May 1469 d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Roger GIFFARD Birth: Abt 1367 Death: 14 Apr 1409 in Twyford
    • Mother:
  • Isabel STRETLE

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Elizabeth GIFFARD
  2. John GIFFORD Birth: Abt 1431 Death: Before 23 Sep 1506

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. Moriarty, G Andrews, The Gifford-Sargent Ancestral Line, NEHGR v74-75 (Jul 1920-Jul 1921), v74 pp231-7, 267-83, v75 pp57-63, 129-42, 226-35. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Moriarty Gifford p[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]*].
  4. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weis AR7 #[0-9][0-9]*[A-Z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Moriarty Gifford p133]
bp 28 Dec 1408 [Ref: Weis AR7 #43],
place:
[Ref: Moriarty Gifford p133],
parents:
[Ref: Moriarty Gifford p133, Roberts RD600 p540, Weis AR7 #43]
Sources for baptism Information
date:
[Ref: Weis AR7 #42]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Moriarty Gifford p134, Weis AR7 #43]
Sources with Information about marriage to Eleanor VAUX
names:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p2033],
child:
[Ref: Moriarty Gifford p134, Roberts RD600 p540, Weis AR7 #43]
Research Notes:
of Twyford, co Buckingham [Ref: Burke Peerage p2033, Moriarty Gifford p134]

1429: holding the manor of Helydon and also the Somerton lands [Ref: Moriarty Gifford p134]

1429: inherited the manor of Fringford on death of Sybil, the widow of his grandfather [Ref: Moriarty Gifford p134]



Pedigree of Thomas GIFFARD
                                                                /-----Sir Elis II GIFFARD, Baron Of Elston
                                                       /-----Sir Ellis III GIFFARD, Baron Of Elston
                                                      |         \-----Berta
                                              /-----Sir Osbern GIFFARD
                                             |        |         /-----Maurice FITZROBERT FITZHARDING, Baron Of Berkele
                                             |         \-----Maud
                                             |                  \-----Alice De BERKELEY
                                     /-----Sir John GIFFARD Le BOEF
                                    |        |                  /-----Guy De BOCLAND
                                    |        |         /-----Sir Alan De BOCLAND
                                    |         \-----Isabel BOCLAND
                                    |                 |         /-----Ralph MURDAC
                                    |                  \-----Alice MURDAC
                                    |                           \-----Eva De GREY
                            /-----Sir John GIFFARD Le BOEF
                   /-----Sir John GIFFARD
                  |        |                  /-----William De GARDIANO
                  |        |         /-----Sir Thomas De GARDINIS
                  |        |        |        |         /-----Thomas De La HAYE
                  |        |        |         \-----Alexandra De La HAYE
                  |        |        |                 |         /-----Robert De ARSIC, Baron Of Cogges
                  |        |        |                  \-----Alexandra De ARSIC
                  |        |        |                           \-----Sibyl De CREVEQUER
                  |         \-----Alexandra De GARDINIS
          /-----Sir Thomas GIFFARD
         |        |                           /-----John De MORTEYN
         |        |                  /-----John De MORTEYN
         |        |                 |         \-----Constance De MERSTON
         |        |         /-----Sir John De MORTEYN
         |        |        |        |                           /-----Richard De GOBION
         |        |        |        |                  /-----Richard GOBION
         |        |        |        |                 |         \-----Beatrice De LUCELLES
         |        |        |        |         /-----Hugh GOBION
         |        |        |        |        |        |         /-----Roger De MERLAY, Baron Of Morpeth
         |        |        |        |        |         \-----Agnes De MERLAY
         |        |        |        |        |                  \-----Alice De STUTEVILLE
         |        |        |         \-----Joan GOBION
         |        |        |                  \-----Matilda
         |         \-----Lucy De MORTEYN
         |                 |         /-----Richard De ROTHWELL
         |                  \-----Joan De ROTHWELL
 /-----Roger GIFFARD
|         \-----Elizabeth De MISSENDEN
Thomas GIFFARD
 \-----Isabel STRETLE



Descendants of Thomas GIFFARD
1. Thomas GIFFARD m. Eleanor VAUX
m. Eleanor VAUX father: William VAUX mother: Eleanor DRAKELOWE

2nd generation

3. John GIFFORD m1. Alles m2. Agnes WYNSLOW
m. Alles
m. Agnes WYNSLOW father: Thomas WYNSLOW mother: Agnes THROCKMORTON

3rd generation

8. Thomas GIFFORD m. Joan LANGSTON
m. Joan LANGSTON father: John LANGSTON mother: Amy DANVERS
9. William GIFFORD m. (Unk) VACHELL
m. (Unk) VACHELL
13. Roger GIFFORD m. Mary NANSEGLOS
m. Mary NANSEGLOS father: William NANSEGLOS

4th generation

14. Thomas GIFFORD m. Mary STAVELEY
m. Mary STAVELEY father: William STAVELEY mother: (Unk) FRANCIS
15. Amy GIFFORD m. Richard SAMWELL
m. Richard SAMWELL father: John SAMWELL
17. Anne GIFFORD m1. Vincent CURSON m2. Edward WINDSOR
m. Vincent CURSON
m. Edward WINDSOR father: Sir Thomas WINDSOR mother: Elizabeth ANDREWS
18. John GIFFORD m. Dorothy DANNETT
m. Dorothy DANNETT father: Sir John DANNETT
19. Sir George GIFFORD m1. Constance DYKE m2. Margaret BRADFORD m3. Philippa TRAPPES
m. Constance DYKE father: Henry DYKE
m. Margaret BRADFORD
m. Philippa TRAPPES father: Robert TRAPPES
20. Ralph GIFFORD m. Mary CHAMBERLAIN
m. Mary CHAMBERLAIN father: Sir Edward CHAMBERLAIN
23. Nicholas GIFFORD m. Agnes MASTER
m. Agnes MASTER father: John MASTER mother: Elizabeth PAYNE

5th generation

29. Susanna SAMWELL m. Peter EDWARDS
m. Peter EDWARDS
30. Catherine CURSON m. Edmund TOWNELEY
m. Edmund TOWNELEY
44. Roger GIFFORD m. Amy SAMWELL
m. Amy SAMWELL father: Francis SAMWELL mother: Mary
45. Margaret GIFFORD m. Hugh SARGENT
m. Hugh SARGENT
46. Barbara GIFFORD m. Thomas COLWELL
m. Thomas COLWELL
47. George GIFFORD m. Anne PRESTLAND
m. Anne PRESTLAND father: John PRESTLAND