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: William COTTON
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Abt 1410 b
  • Death: 22 May 1455 in St Albans d
  • Burial: Landwade Church u


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Walter COTTON Birth: Abt 1376 in Cambridge Death: 13 May 1445
    • Mother:
  • Joan REDE

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Catherine COTTON
  2. Audrey COTTON Death: Abt 1505

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. 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]*].
  3. 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 v5p[0-9]*].
  4. 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]*].
  5. 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:
1410-11 [Ref: Weis AR7 #246A],
parents:
[Ref: Roberts RD600 p560, Weis AR7 #246A]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Weis AR7 #246A],
place:
[Ref: Weis AR7 #246A]
of Landwade [Ref: Weis AR7 #7]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: Weis AR7 #246A]
Sources with Information about marriage to Alice ABBOTT
child:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p1830, Faris PA2 p350, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p126, Roberts RD600 p560, Weis AR7 #246A, Weis AR7 #7]
Research Notes:
Knt, of Landwade, Cambridgeshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p126]
Knt, of Landwade, co Cambridge [Ref: Faris PA2 p350]

London mercer; Vice Chamberlain to Henry VI [Ref: Weis AR7 #246A]

killed in Battle of St. Albans, the beginning of the War of the Roses [Ref: Weis AR7 #246A]

tomb and brass epitaph at Landwade [Ref: Weis AR7 #246A]



Pedigree of William COTTON
          /-----John COTTON
 /-----Walter COTTON
|         \-----Margaret
William COTTON
|                  /-----John REDE
|         /-----John REDE
|        |         \-----Margery
 \-----Joan REDE
         |         /-----William HARLYNGRUGGE
          \-----Cecilia HARLYNGRUGGE
                  |                                             /-----William MARMION
                  |                                    /-----Geoffrey MARMION
                  |                           /-----William MARMION
                  |                          |         \-----Rosamund
                  |                  /-----John MARMION
                  |                 |         \-----Matilda
                  |         /-----Thomas MARION
                  |        |        |         /-----Sir Henry De NOTTINGHAM
                  |        |         \-----Margery De NOTTINGHAM
                  |        |                  \-----Isabel
                   \-----Alice MARMION
                            \-----Agnes



Descendants of William COTTON
1. William COTTON m. Alice ABBOTT
m. Alice ABBOTT father: John ABBOTT mother: Agnes

2nd generation

2. Catherine COTTON m. Thomas V HEIGHAM
m. Thomas V HEIGHAM
3. Audrey COTTON m1. Thomas BARTON m2. Sir Richard GARDINER m3. Sir Gilbert TALBOT, K.G.
m. Thomas BARTON
m. Sir Richard GARDINER
m. Sir Gilbert TALBOT, K.G. father: Sir John TALBOT, K.G., Earl Of Shrewsbury mother: Elizabeth BUTLER

3rd generation

4. Clement HEIGHAM m. Matilda COOKE
m. Matilda COOKE father: Lawrence COOKE
5. Sir John TALBOT m1. Margaret TROUTBECK m2. Elizabeth WROTTESLEY
m. Margaret TROUTBECK father: Adam TROUTBECK mother: Joan MOLYNEUX
m. Elizabeth WROTTESLEY father: Walter WROTTESLEY mother: Isabella HARCOURT

4th generation

6. Sir Clement HEIGHAM m. Anne MUNNINGS
m. Anne MUNNINGS father: Thomas MUNNINGS mother: Margaret
7. Sir John TALBOT m. Frances GIFFARD
m. Frances GIFFARD father: John GIFFARD mother: Elizabeth GRESLEY
11. Anne TALBOT m. Thomas NEEDHAM
m. Thomas NEEDHAM father: Sir Robert NEEDHAM mother: Agnes MAINWARING

5th generation

18. Elizabeth HEIGHAM m1. Henry EDON m2. Robert KEMPE
m. Henry EDON father: Thomas EDON mother: Joan
m. Robert KEMPE
19. Jane TALBOT m. Sir George BOWES
m. Sir George BOWES father: Richard BOWES mother: Elizabeth ASKE
20. John TALBOT m. Catherine PETRE
m. Catherine PETRE father: Sir William PETRE mother: Anne BROWNE
26. Agnes NEEDHAM m1. Sir Richard BULKELEY m2. Laurence CRANAGE
m. Sir Richard BULKELEY
m. Laurence CRANAGE
27. Robert NEEDHAM m. Frances ASHTON
m. Frances ASHTON father: Sir Edward De ASTON mother: Jane BOWLES