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

    Person Info
  • Name: Thomas LEGH
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 1547 b
  • Death: 25 Jan 1601/2 d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Thomas LEGH Birth: Abt 1527 Death: 17 May 1538 in Eaton, Co Chester
    • Mother:
  • Mary GROSVENOR Death: 26 Mar 1599

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Sir Urian LEGH Birth: 1566 in Cheadle Death: 2 Jun 1627

Bibliography
  1. 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: Weis AR7 #233],
parents:
[Ref: Weis AR7 #233]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Weis AR7 #233]
Sources with Information about marriage to Sybil BRERETON
date:
[Ref: Weis AR7 #233],
place:
[Ref: Weis AR7 #233],
child:
[Ref: Weis AR7 #233]
Research Notes:
Esq of Adlington [Ref: Weis AR7 #233]

1581: rebuilt Adlington Hall [Ref: Weis AR7 #233]

1588: High Sheriff of Cheshire [Ref: Weis AR7 #233]

will Nov 20 1600 [Ref: Weis AR7 #233]



Pedigree of Thomas LEGH
                            /-----Robert De LEGH
                   /-----Thomas LEGH
                  |        |         /-----Sir Robert BOOTH
                  |         \-----Ellen BOOTH
          /-----George LEGH
         |        |                                    /-----John SAVAGE
         |        |                           /-----Sir John SAVAGE
         |        |                          |        |         /-----Sir Thomas DANIERS
         |        |                          |         \-----Margaret DANIERS
         |        |                  /-----Sir John SAVAGE
         |        |                 |        |                  /-----Sir Thomas De SWYNNERTON, Lord Swynnerton
         |        |                 |        |         /-----Sir Robert De SWYNNERTON, Lord Swynnerton
         |        |                 |        |        |         \-----Maud De HOLAND
         |        |                 |         \-----Maud De SWYNNERTON
         |        |                 |                 |         /-----Sir Nicholas BEKE
         |        |                 |                  \-----Elizabeth BEKE
         |        |                 |                           \-----Joan De STAFFORD
         |        |         /-----Sir John SAVAGE
         |        |        |        |         /-----Sir William BRERETON
         |        |        |         \-----Eleanor BRERETON
         |        |        |                  \-----Anyll De VENABLES
         |         \-----Katherine SAVAGE
         |                 |                                    /-----Sir William STANLEY
         |                 |                           /-----Sir John STANLEY, K.G.
         |                 |                          |         \-----Alice MASSEY
         |                 |                  /-----Sir John STANLEY
         |                 |                 |        |         /-----Sir Thomas De LATHOM
         |                 |                 |         \-----Isabel De LATHOM
         |                 |                 |                  \-----Joan VENABLES
         |                 |         /-----Sir Thomas STANLEY, K.G., Lord Stanley
         |                 |        |        |                  /-----Sir John HARRINGTON
         |                 |        |        |         /-----Sir Nicholas HARRINGTON
         |                 |        |        |        |         \-----Katherine BANASTRE
         |                 |        |         \-----Elizabeth HARRINGTON
         |                 |        |                 |         /-----Sir William ENGLISH
         |                 |        |                  \-----Isabella ENGLISH
         |                  \-----Katherine STANLEY
         |                          |                           /-----Sir Thomas GOUSHILL
         |                          |                  /-----Sir Nicholas GOUSHILL
         |                          |                 |         \-----Agnes
         |                          |         /-----Sir Robert GOUSHILL
         |                          |        |         \-----Joan
         |                           \-----Joan GOUSHILL
         |                                   |                  /-----Sir Richard FITZ ALAN, Earl Of Arundel And Surrey
         |                                   |         /-----Richard FITZ ALAN, K.G., Earl Of Arundel and Su
         |                                   |        |         \-----Eleanor PLANTAGENET
         |                                    \-----Elizabeth FITZ ALAN
         |                                            |         /-----Sir William De BOHUN, K.G., Earl of Northampton
         |                                             \-----Elizabeth De BOHUN
         |                                                      \-----Elizabeth De BADLESMERE
 /-----Thomas LEGH
|        |         /-----Peter LARKE
|         \-----Joan LARKE
Thomas LEGH
|         /-----Richard GROSVENOR
 \-----Mary GROSVENOR



Descendants of Thomas LEGH
1. Thomas LEGH m. Sybil BRERETON
m. Sybil BRERETON father: Sir Urian BRERETON

2nd generation

2. Sir Urian LEGH m. Margaret TRAFFORD
m. Margaret TRAFFORD father: Sir Edmund TRAFFORD

3rd generation

3. Lucy LEGH m. Alexander Col RIGBY
m. Alexander Col RIGBY father: Alexander RIGBY mother: Anne ASSHAW