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. John LEIGHTON Death: 1532

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. Wood, CE, Death date of Elizabeth Devereux, wife of Richard Corbet and ThomasLeighton, is 1516. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 8/21/2015. Subject: Death date of Elizabeth Devereux, wife of Richard Corbet and ThomasLeighton, is 1516. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/qRxI1uMOkAQ/m/gwiMSunuVsgJ. Author address: wood_ce at msn dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CE Wood SGM 8/21/2015-204544].
  3. 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]*].
  4. 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 v2p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p1198],
parents:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p1198, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p641],
name:
Thomas [Ref: Burke Peerage p1198, CE Wood SGM 8/21/2015-204544, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p294, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p577, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p641]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth DEVEREUX
date:
second marriage of Elizabeth [Ref: Burke Peerage p1198, Burke Peerage p996, CE Wood SGM 8/21/2015-204544, Faris PA2 p139, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p294, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p577],
child:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p1198, CE Wood SGM 8/21/2015-204544]
Research Notes:
Knt, of Wattlesborough, Shropshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p294, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p577]
of Watlesborough [Ref: Burke Peerage p996]

1494-5: Sheriff of Shropshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p294]

Knight Banneret, Sheriff of Shropshire [Ref: CE Wood SGM 8/21/2015-204544]

Member of Parliament for Shropshire [Ref: CE Wood SGM 8/21/2015-204544]
1495: Member of Parliament for Shropshire [Ref: Burke Peerage p1198]



Pedigree of Sir Robert LEIGHTON
                                     /-----John De LEIGHTON
                            /-----John LEIGHTON
                   /-----John LEIGHTON
                  |        |         /-----Sir John DRAKE
                  |         \-----Margaret DRAKE
          /-----Edward LEIGHTON
         |        |         /-----Watkyn CAMBRAY
         |         \-----Ellen CAMBRAY
 /-----John LEIGHTON
|        |                  /-----John STAPLETON
|        |         /-----Sir John STAPLETON
|        |        |        |         /-----Edward BURNELL
|        |        |         \-----Katherine BURNELL
|         \-----Elizabeth STAPLETON
|                 |         /-----John DEVIOCK
|                  \-----Margaret DEVIOCK
|                          |                           /-----Sir Nicholas De LONGLAND
|                          |                  /-----Sir Hugh De LONGLAND
|                          |         /-----John De LONGLAND
|                           \-----Margaret De LONGLAND
|                                   |                           /-----John De BEAUPRE
|                                   |                  /-----Sir Stephen De BEAUPRE
|                                   |         /-----Sir Ralph De BEAUPRE
|                                   |        |        |         /-----Sir William Fitz Richard
|                                   |        |         \-----Isabel Fitz William
|                                   |        |                  \-----Rose BEVYLE
|                                    \-----Isabel De BEAUPRE
|                                            |         /-----Sir Matthew De FURNEAUX
|                                             \-----Margaret De FURNEAUX
|                                                     |         /-----Sir Warin De RALEIGH
|                                                      \-----Maud De RALEIGH
Sir Robert LEIGHTON
|                  /-----Hugh BURGH
|         /-----Sir John BURGH
|        |        |         /-----John MAWDDWY, Lord of Mawddwy
|        |         \-----Elizabeth MAWDDWY
|        |                 |         /-----Sir Fulk CORBET
|        |                  \-----(Unk dau) CORBET
 \-----Ankoret BURGH
         |         /-----Sir William CLOPTON
          \-----Jane CLOPTON



Descendants of Sir Robert LEIGHTON
1. Sir Robert LEIGHTON m. Elizabeth DEVEREUX
m. Elizabeth DEVEREUX father: Sir Walter DEVEREUX, K.G., Lord Ferrers of Chartle mother: Anne FERRERS

2nd generation

2. John LEIGHTON m1. Matilda HAREWELL m2. Joyce SUTTON
m. Matilda HAREWELL father: John HAREWELL
m. Joyce SUTTON father: Edward SUTTON, K.G., Lord Dudley mother: Cecily WILLOUGHBY