Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 05-01-2023.

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: William DIGBY
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Abt 1478 b
  • Death: Before 1 Aug 1529 in Kettleby And Luffenham, Co Leicester d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Sir John DIGBY Birth: 3 Death: May 1533 in Eye Kettleby, Co Leicester
    • Mother:
  • Catherine GRIFFIN

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. John DIGBY
  2. Simon DIGBY Birth: 2 Death: 24 Mar 1570 in York, Yorkshire

Marriage: Children:
  1. William DIGBY
  2. Lebbeus DIGBY
  3. Margery DIGBY
  4. Isabel DIGBY

Bibliography
  1. Farnham, George F, Leicestershire Medieval Pedigrees. Leicester: Thornley, 1925. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007941560 images 458-633. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Farnham Pedigrees p[0-9]*].
  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]*].
  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:
age 28 in 1506 [Ref: Farnham Pedigrees p79],
parents:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p680, Roberts RD600 p463, Weis AR7 #99]
Sources for death Information
date:
before 1 Aug 1529 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p681]
living 1448 [Ref: Weis AR7 #99],
place:
of Kettleby and Luffenham [Ref: Weis AR7 #99]
Sources with Information about marriage to Rose PRESTWICH
date:
before 1506 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p681]
second marriage of Rose [Ref: Farnham Pedigrees p50],
names:
[Ref: Farnham Pedigrees p79],
child:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p681, Roberts RD600 p463, Weis AR7 #99]
Sources with Information about marriage to Ellen ROPER
date:
second marriage of William and third of Ellen [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p681],
child:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p681]
Research Notes:
Esq, of Eye Kettleby, Leicestershire, and in right of his wife, of Lubenham, Leicestershire, and Milton and Collingtree in Milton Malzor, Northamptonshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p681]

heir of his father [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p681]



Pedigree of William DIGBY
          /-----Everard DIGBY
 /-----Sir John DIGBY
|        |         /-----Sir John ELLIS
|         \-----Jacquette ELLIS
William DIGBY
|                                             /-----Richard GRIFFIN
|                                    /-----Sir Thomas GRIFFIN
|                           /-----Richard GRIFFIN
|                          |        |                           /-----Sir John De LATIMER
|                          |        |                  /-----Sir Thomas Le LATIMER, Lord Latimer Of Braybrook
|                          |        |                 |         \-----Christian LEDET
|                          |        |         /-----Sir Warin Le LATIMER, Lord Latimer Of Braybrook
|                          |        |        |        |         /-----Sir Henry De HASTINGS
|                          |        |        |         \-----Lora De HASTINGS
|                          |        |        |                  \-----Joan CANELOU
|                          |         \-----Elizabeth LATIMER
|                          |                 |                  /-----Roger La WARRE, Lord La Warre
|                          |                 |         /-----John La WARRE, Lord La Warre
|                          |                 |        |         \-----Clarice TREGOZE
|                          |                  \-----Catharine La WARRE
|                          |                          |         /-----Sir Robert De GRELLE, Baron Of Manchester
|                          |                           \-----Joan De GRELLE
|                          |                                    \-----Hawise De BURGH
|                  /-----Nicholas GRIFFIN
|                 |        |                                    /-----Sir William CHAMBERLAIN
|                 |        |                           /-----Sir Richard CHAMBERLAIN
|                 |        |                          |         \-----Joan
|                 |        |                  /-----John CHAMBERLAIN
|                 |        |                 |        |         /-----John De GATESDEN
|                 |        |                 |         \-----Joan De GATESDEN
|                 |        |                 |                  \-----Margaret
|                 |        |         /-----Sir Richard CHAMBERLAIN
|                 |        |        |        |         /-----(Unk) De MORTEYN
|                 |        |        |         \-----Joan De MORTEYN
|                 |         \-----Anna CHAMBERLAIN
|                 |                 |         /-----Sir Thomas REYNES
|                 |                  \-----Joan REYNES
|                 |                           \-----Joan
|         /-----Nicholas GRIFFIN, Lord Latimer Of Braybrook
|        |        |                                             /-----Alexander De PILKINGTON
|        |        |                                    /-----Roger De PILKINGTON
|        |        |                                   |         \-----Alice De CHETHAM
|        |        |                           /-----Roger De PILKINGTON
|        |        |                  /-----Sir Roger PILKINGTON
|        |        |                 |        |         /-----Henry De BURY
|        |        |                 |         \-----Alice De BURY
|        |        |         /-----Sir John PILKINGTON
|        |         \-----Margaret PILKINGTON
|        |                 |                                    /-----John De VERDON
|        |                 |                           /-----Sir Thomas De VERDON
|        |                 |                          |         \-----Alianore De FURNIVALLE
|        |                 |                  /-----Sir John De VERDON, Lord Verdon
|        |                 |                 |        |         /-----Bewes De KNOVILL, Lord Knovill
|        |                 |                 |         \-----Margaret De KNOVILL
|        |                 |                 |                  \-----Joan De La HYDE
|        |                 |         /-----Edmund De VERDON
|        |                 |        |         \-----Agnes
|        |                  \-----Margaret De VERDON, Baroness Verdon
|        |                           \-----Joan
 \-----Catherine GRIFFIN
         |         /-----Richard CURZON
          \-----Catharine CURZON
                   \-----Isabel



Descendants of William DIGBY
1. William DIGBY m1. Rose PRESTWICH m2. Ellen ROPER
m. Rose PRESTWICH father: William PRESTWICH mother: Goditha PULTENEY
m. Ellen ROPER father: John ROPER

2nd generation

2. John DIGBY m.
3. Simon DIGBY m. Anne GREY
m. Anne GREY father: Reginald GREY mother: Elizabeth ISAAC

3rd generation

10. Everard DIGBY m. Katherine STOCKBRIDGE
m. Katherine STOCKBRIDGE father: Magistri STOCKBRIDGE De VANDERSCHAFF THEUBER De N

4th generation

11. Elizabeth DIGBY m. Enoch LYNDE
m. Enoch LYNDE father: Hendrick Van de LINDE

5th generation

13. Simon Hon LYNDE m. Hannah NEWGATE
m. Hannah NEWGATE father: John NEWGATE mother: Anne