Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

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: Alice FRENCH
  • Sex: F
  • Birth: 9 Apr 1610 in Assington, Suffolk, England b
  • Baptism: 9 Apr 1610 in Assington, Suffolk, England c
  • Death: 26 Jun 1666 in Ipswich, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Thomas Sr FRENCH Birth: Abt 11 Oct 1584 in Assington, Suffolk, England Death: Before 5 Nov 1639 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Susan RIDDLESDALE Birth: Abt 20 Apr 1584 in Boxford, Suffolk, England Death: Aug 1658 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage:
  • Thomas HOWLETT on 1634 at Boston, Massachusetts .m1
  • Thomas HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1606 in South Elmham, Suffolk, England Death: 22 Dec 1677 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Sarah HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1634 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 7 Dec 1688 in Dunstable, New Hampshire
  2. Thomas HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1637 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 22 Dec 1667 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  3. John HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1643 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 1675 in Boston, Massachusetts
  4. Mary HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1645 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 21 Oct 1718 in Boxford, Massachusetts
  5. Samuel HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1646 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 11 Mar 1720 in Topsfield, Massachusetts
  6. William HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1650 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 1718 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  7. Nathaniel HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1652 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 28 Apr 1658 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Bibliography
  1. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Boston, New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1995. Available at http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-begins-immigrants-to-ne-1620-1633-vols-i-iii/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p[0-9]*].
  2. Banks, Charles Edward, The Planters of the Commonwealth: A Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times to which are added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships which brought them; their English Homes, and the Places of their Settlement in Massachusetts. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1967. LDS Fiche #6046840. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007827816, images 193-318 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Banks Planters p[0-9]*].
  3. Banks, Charles E, The Winthrop Fleet of 1630: An account of the Vessels, the Voyage, the Passengers, and their English Homes from Original Authorities. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1983. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007831475?cat=132944, images 475-543. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Banks Winthrop p[0-9]*].
  4. Davis, Walter Goodwin, Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, 1759-1820, of Topsfield, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1959. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/33853 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Davis WILDES p[0-9]*].
  5. French, A. D. Weld, Frenches of Ipswich, NEHGR 47 (July 1893) p362. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: FrenchAD FRENCH p362].
  6. French, Mara T, French and Related Farmily Genealogy. San Jose, CA: author, 1984. LDS Film#1421648#2. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: FrenchMT FRENCH p[IVX]*-[0-9]*].
  7. French, Mara T, The Frenchline Newsletter. San Jose, CA: 1984. LDS Fiche#605537. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v[0-9]*#[0-9]*].
  8. French, Robert L, Descendants of Thomas French of Ipswich, Massachusetts, in Five Generations. Chatham, NY: author, 1990. NEHGS CS71/F876/1990. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p[0-9]*].
  9. Hammatt, Abraham, The Hammatt Papers, Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Ipswich: Antiquarian Papers, 1880. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/253245. Also available at http://archive.org/details/earlyinhabitants13hamm. Reprinted Baltimore: Gen Pub Co, 1980. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p[0-9]*].
  10. Hoyt, David W, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts. Baltimore: Gen Pub Co, 1982. Available at http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal01hoyt, http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal02hoyt, and http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal03hoyt. Volume 1 also available at http://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hoyt S&A p[0-9]*].
  11. Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Granberry Family. Hartford, CT: Edgar F Watering, 1945. G3978. Available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005694852. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Jacobus GRANBERRY p[0-9]*].
  12. Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. Boston: author, 1913. G1638. Available at http://archive.org/details/historyofpeterpa00linz Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p[0-9]*].
  13. Pope, Charles Henry, The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. Boston, MA: author, 1900. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1400537. Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Pub Co, 1986. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p[0-9][0-9a]*].
  14. Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].
  15. Threlfall, John B, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England, Madison, WI: author, 1990. NEHGS F3/T58/1990. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/405085. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p[0-9]*].
  16. Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1987. M-LH 974Tor Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Torrey NE<1700 p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025, FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Jacobus GRANBERRY p256, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p287, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425]
1610 [Ref: Banks Winthrop p71, Torrey NE<1700 p395]
bp 9 Apr 1610 [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p160],
place:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025, Banks Planters p173, Banks Winthrop p71, Davis WILDES p64, FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Jacobus GRANBERRY p256, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p287, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425, Threlfall 50GMCol p160],
parents:
[Ref: Banks Planters p173, Banks Winthrop p71, Davis WILDES p53, Davis WILDES p63, Davis WILDES p64, FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Jacobus GRANBERRY p256, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p287, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425, Threlfall 50GMCol p160],
father:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]
Sources for baptism Information
date:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p64, FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Threlfall 50GMCol p160],
place:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p64, FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p14, Hammatt Ipswich p153, Jacobus GRANBERRY p256, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p287, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]
1666 [Ref: Torrey NE<1700 p395],
place:
[Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p14, Hammatt Ipswich p153, Jacobus GRANBERRY p256, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p287, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425]
Sources with Inaccurate death Information
date:
6 Jun 1666 [Ref: Davis WILDES p53],
place:
Topsfield [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p160]
Sources with Information about marriage to Thomas HOWLETT
date:
[Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p14]
1639 [Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2]
abt 1634 [Ref: Davis WILDES p64, Jacobus GRANBERRY p256, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p287, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425]
abt 1634? [Ref: Torrey NE<1700 p395]
abt 1644 [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p244]
by about 1637 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]
in or before 1644 [Ref: Hoyt S&A p1070],
place:
[Ref: Jacobus GRANBERRY p256]
prob Boston [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p287],
names:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p705, Davis WILDES p53, FrenchAD FRENCH p362],
child:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1027, Davis WILDES p55, Davis WILDES p56, Davis WILDES p57, FrenchMT FRENCH pI-20, FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, FrenchRL FRENCH p14, Hammatt Ipswich p153, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p298, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p299, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p301, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p302, Sav-age HOWLETT Thomas, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
names:
Thomas HOWLETT & widow of Thomas FRENCH [Ref: Hoyt S&A p1070, Pope PioneersMA p244, Torrey NE<1700 p395]
Research Notes:
immigrated on Arabelle with brother and John Winthrop [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p3]

came to New England before her parents [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

probably arrived with her brother Thomas in the Winthrop fleet in 1630 [Ref: Davis WILDES p64]

early member of the Boston Church [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

arrived n New England by 1632, with brother Thomas; next two younger sisters Dorcas and Susan came in 1633; parents and younger siblings came after 1633 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p705]

1634: member of church at Boston [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p160]

member of the church at Boston [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p3]

among the earliest members of the Boston Church [Ref: Davis WILDES p63]

Aug 27 1630: member #142 of First Church of Boston at Charlestown [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p293]

10 Sep 1643: dismissed (from Boston church) to Ipswich [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

early member of the Church of Boston, dismissed to the Church of Ipswich Jun 16 1644 [Ref: FrenchAD FRENCH p362]

Jun 16 1644: "Our sister Alice French the wife of Thomas Howlett of Ipswich and lately dismissed from us unto the church at Ipswich at her own desire hath letters of dismission granted her unto that church with the consent of our church by their silence" [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p296]

Jun 16 1644: dismissed from the Boston church to Ipswich [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p160]

mentioned in the will of John Robinson of Ipswich in 1657 [Ref: FrenchAD FRENCH p362]

was left property by John Robinson of Ipswich. Thomas Howlett Jr was bequeathed a chest of tools in the same will [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p14]

Feb 27 1657/8: will of John Robinson, wheelwright of Ipswich, bequeathed #10 to Alice, wife of Thomas Howlett, his chest and tools to Thomas Howlett Jr, and the residue to Thomas Howlett Sr. [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1027]



Pedigree of Alice FRENCH
                   /-----Stephen FRENCH
          /-----Jacob FRENCH
         |         \-----Mary (FRENCH)
 /-----Thomas Sr FRENCH
|        |         /-----William WARREN
|         \-----Susan WARREN
|                  \-----Katherine (WARREN)
Alice FRENCH
|                           /-----Jasper RIDDLESDALE
|                  /-----Henry RIDDLESDALE
|                 |         \-----Elizabeth (RIDDLESDALE)
|         /-----John RIDDLESDALE
|        |         \-----Joan (RIDDLESDALE)
 \-----Susan RIDDLESDALE
          \-----Dorcas (RIDDLESDALE)



Descendants of Alice FRENCH
1. Alice FRENCH m. Thomas HOWLETT
m. Thomas HOWLETT

2nd generation

2. Sarah HOWLETT m. John CUMMINGS
m. John CUMMINGS father: Isaac CUMMINGS
3. Thomas HOWLETT m. Lydia PAYBODY
m. Lydia PAYBODY father: Francis PAYBODY mother: Lydia (PAYBODY)
4. John HOWLETT m. Susanna HUDSON
m. Susanna HUDSON father: Francis HUDSON mother: Mary (HUDSON)
6. Samuel HOWLETT m. Sara CLARK
m. Sara CLARK father: Daniel CLARKE mother: Mary BEANE
7. William HOWLETT m. Mary PERKINS
m. Mary PERKINS father: Thomas PERKINS mother: Phebe GOULD

3rd generation

10. John CUMMINGS m. Elizabeth KINGSLEY
m. Elizabeth KINGSLEY
13. Sarah CUMMINGS m. Samuel FRENCH
m. Samuel FRENCH father: Richard FRENCH mother: Martha (FRENCH)
20. Mary HOWLETT m. Ephraim WILDE
m. Ephraim WILDE father: John WILDE mother: Sarah AVERILL
22. John HOWLETT m. Bershabah HOYTE
m. Bershabah HOYTE father: John HOYT mother: Mary BARNES
26. Samuel HOWLETT m. Martha CHAPMAN
m. Martha CHAPMAN

4th generation

28. Elizabeth CUMMINGS m. Joseph FRENCH
m. Joseph FRENCH father: Samuel FRENCH mother: Sarah CUMMINGS
31. Joseph FRENCH m. Elizabeth CUMMINGS
m. Elizabeth CUMMINGS father: John CUMMINGS mother: Elizabeth KINGSLEY
32. John FRENCH m.
36. Jonathan FRENCH m. Mary DAVIS
m. Mary DAVIS father: Joseph DAVIS
37. John WILDE m. Phebe PERKINS
m. Phebe PERKINS father: Elisha PERKINS mother: Katherine TOWNE
41. Susanna WILDES m. Benjamin TOWNE
m. Benjamin TOWNE father: Joseph TOWNE mother: Amy SMITH
44. Dorothy WILDE m. John PERKINS
m. John PERKINS father: Timothy PERKINS mother: Abigail (PERKINS)
45. Jacob WILDE m. Ruth FOSTER
m. Ruth FOSTER
48. Samuel WILDE m. Elizabeth (WILDE)
m. Elizabeth (WILDE)
57. Thomas HOWLETT m. Lydia POTTER
m. Lydia POTTER father: Samuel POTTER mother: Sarah CHILSON

5th generation

75. Ebenezer FRENCH m1. Sarah PROCTOR m2. Susannah HAMBLET
m. Sarah PROCTOR
m. Susannah HAMBLET
85. Sarah WILDE m. George START
m. George START father: William START mother: Mercy FRIGG
87. Amos WILDES m. Hannah PERKINS
m. Hannah PERKINS father: Jonathan PERKINS mother: Elizabeth PORTER
89. Benjamin TOWNE m. Edna TOWNE
m. Edna TOWNE
90. Ephraim TOWNE m. Sarah BRAGG
m. Sarah BRAGG
91. Jacob TOWNE m. Elizabeth PERKINS
m. Elizabeth PERKINS
92. Joseph TOWNE m1. Elizabeth ROGERS m2. Martha BAKER
m. Elizabeth ROGERS
m. Martha BAKER
93. Eli TOWNE m. Elizabeth GOULD
m. Elizabeth GOULD
95. Edmund TOWNE m. Susannah CUMMINGS
m. Susannah CUMMINGS
96. Ezra TOWNE m1. Elizabeth (TOWNE) m2. Elizabeth DUTTON m3. Kezia (START)
m. Elizabeth (TOWNE)
m. Elizabeth DUTTON
m. Kezia (START)
111. Alice HOWLET m. Jedediah PEABODY
m. Jedediah PEABODY father: John PEABODY mother: Mary CHADWICK