Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 09-30-2024.

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. Walter OLIFARD, Justiciar Of Lothian Death: 1242
  2. David OLIFARD Death: After 1244

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 VI p[0-9]*].
  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 VIII p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
father:
[Ref: SP VI p525]
Sources for death Information
date:
living 1223, died soon after [Ref: SP VI p526]
Sources with Information about marriage to Christian Of Strathern
names:
[Ref: SP VIII p241],
child:
[Ref: SP VI p527]
Research Notes:
Justiciar of Lothian [Ref: SP VI p526]

styled David's son and heir in a Melrose charter [Ref: SP VI p526]

succeeded to the lands of Lilford, evidently on the failure of the senior branch [Ref: SP VI p526]

witnessed a grant by William the Lion to Dunfermline Abbey along with his father [Ref: SP VI p526]

1174: one of the hostages given to Henry II for the observance of the treaty of Falaise [Ref: SP VI p526]

1175-78: involved in a dispute with the monks of Durham, who claimed the church of Smallholm as a chapel of their church of Erchildun; the matter was settled by agreement in presence of John, Abbot of Kelso, and Laurence, Abbot of Melrose; Walter accordingly granted to the monks an annual rent out of the church [Ref: SP VI p526]

abt 1180: Justiciar of Lothian [Ref: SP VI p526]

received with Christian the lands of Strageath, which his son restored to or excambed with her brother, Earl Gilbert [Ref: SP VI p527]



Pedigree of Walter OLIFARD
          /-----William OLIFARD
 /-----David OLIFARD
Walter OLIFARD



Descendants of Walter OLIFARD
1. Walter OLIFARD m. Christian Of Strathern
m. Christian Of Strathern father: Ferteth Earl Of Strathern mother: Ethen

2nd generation

2. Walter OLIFARD, Justiciar Of Lothian m. Isabel
m. Isabel

3rd generation

4. David OLIFARD, Lord Of Bothwell m. Devergulla De ABERNETHY
m. Devergulla De ABERNETHY father: Patrick De ABERNETHY

4th generation

6. (Unk) OLIFARD m. Sir Walter De MORAVIA
m. Sir Walter De MORAVIA father: Sir William De MORAVIA mother: (Unk) Of Fife

5th generation

7. Sir Andrew De MORAVIA m1. (Unk Dau) COMYN m2. Euphemia
m. (Unk Dau) COMYN father: Sir John The Red COMYN mother: Eve
m. Euphemia father: Roger FITZ JOHN, Baron Of Whalton mother: Isabel