Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 01-20-2025.

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:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Elizabeth STAFFORD
  2. Sir Edward STAFFORD Death: 5 Feb 1604/5
  3. William STAFFORD
  4. Sir John STAFFORD
  5. Ursula STAFFORD

Bibliography
  1. Banks, Thomas Christopher, Baronia anglica concentrata: or, A concentrated account of all the baronies commonly called baronies in fee; deriving their origin from writ of summons, and not from any specific limited creation. London: Simpkin, 1844. Available at https://archive.org/details/baroniaanglicaco01bankuoft. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Banks Baronies v[1-2]p[0-9]*].
  2. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Baronetage, 1611-1800, vol 1 English baronetcies 1611-1625 and Irish 1618-1625. Exeter, England: W Pollard, 1900. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/268971 Also available at https://archive.org/details/cu31924092524374 Also available at https://archive.org/details/completebaroneta01coka Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CB I [Ap][p0-9].*].
  3. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 05 E-Goojerat. London: St Catherine Press, 1926. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP V [Ap][p0-9].*].
  4. Clutterbuck, Robert, History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1815-27, v1-3. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/188626. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Clutterbuck Hertford v[1-3]p[0-9]*].
  5. 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]*].
  6. Hoskins, Anthony, Mary Boleyn's Carey Children - Offspring of King Henry VIII?, Genealogists Magazine, Vol 25,9 (Mar 1997) pp345-352. Reprinted in Genealogy Magazine Jun 2017. Available at https://www.genealogymagazine.com/mary-boleyns-carey-children-offspring-of-king-henry-viii/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hoskins CareyChildren p[0-9]*].
  7. Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2011. NYPL JFF 19-2494. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson MCA2 v1p[0-9]*].
  8. Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Baltimore, MD: Genelogical Publishing Co, 2004. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson PA p[0-9]*].
  9. 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]*].
  10. 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]*].
  11. 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]*].
  12. 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]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
by 1512 [Ref: Hoskins CareyChildren p3]
second son [Ref: Richardson PA p187, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p105],
parents:
[Ref: Richardson MCA2 v1p120, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p105, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p241],
father:
[Ref: Richardson PA p187]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Hoskins CareyChildren p3, Richardson PA p187, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p106]
1556 [Ref: Faris PA2 p69],
place:
[Ref: Hoskins CareyChildren p3, Richardson PA p187, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p106]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary BOLEYN
date:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p105]
before 1540 [Ref: Richardson PA p187]
by 1534 [Ref: Hoskins CareyChildren p3]
first marriage of William [Ref: Richardson MCA2 v1p121, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p242]
second marriage of Mary [Ref: Faris PA2 p69, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p57],
names:
[Ref: Clutterbuck Hertford v3p95]
Sources with Information about marriage to Dorothy STAFFORD
date:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p105]
second marriage of William [Ref: Richardson MCA2 v1p121, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p242],
names:
[Ref: Banks Baronies v1p413, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p23, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p24],
child:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p105, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p280, Roberts RD600 p49]
Research Notes:
Knt, of Chebsey, Staffordshire, and, in right of his wife, of Rochford, Essex, Colvilles, Manners, Shardelowes, and Zouches (all in Fulbourn), Cambridgeshire, etc [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p105]
Knt, of Chebsey, Staffordshire, Rochford, Essex, etc [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p242, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p24]
Knt, K.B., of Chebsey [Ref: Richardson PA p187]
Knt [Ref: Richardson MCA2 v1p120, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p241]
of Blatherwick, Northants [Ref: CB I p95, CP V p218]

K.B. [Ref: Richardson MCA2 v1p120, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p105, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p241, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p23]

1540: Gentleman Pensioner [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p105]

before 1541: Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p105]

1545: knighted in Scotland by Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p105]

1547: Member of Parliament for Hastings, Sussex [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p105]

1553: following Queen Mary's accession, he went into exile on the continent with his wife and family, and settled in Geneva by March 1554 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p106]



Pedigree of Sir William STAFFORD
                                                                /-----Sir William De STAFFORD
                                                       /-----Sir William De STAFFORD
                                                      |         \-----Cecily WAURE
                                              /-----Sir John De STAFFORD
                                             |        |         /-----Sir Robert De STAFFORD
                                             |         \-----Isabella De STAFFORD
                                             |                  \-----Gundrada De STAFFORD
                                     /-----Ralph De STAFFORD
                                    |        |                  /-----Edmund De STAFFORD, Lord Stafford
                                    |        |         /-----Sir Ralph De STAFFORD, K.G., Earl Of Stafford
                                    |        |        |         \-----Margaret BASSET
                                    |         \-----Margaret STAFFORD
                                    |                 |         /-----Sir John HASTING
                                    |                  \-----Katharine De HASTING
                                    |                           \-----Eve
                            /-----Sir Humphrey STAFFORD
                           |        |                           /-----Sir Thomas HASTANG
                           |        |                  /-----Sir John HASTANG
                           |        |                 |         \-----Elizabeth
                           |        |         /-----John HASTANG
                           |        |        |         \-----Blanche
                           |         \-----Maud De HASTANG
                           |                 |                  /-----Sir William TRUSSELL
                           |                 |         /-----Sir Warin TRUSSELL
                           |                 |        |         \-----Matilda MAINWARING
                           |                  \-----Maud TRUSSELL
                           |                          |         /-----Sir John De St PHILIBERT
                           |                           \-----Maud De ST PHILIBERT
                           |                                    \-----Ada De BOTETOURTE
                   /-----Sir Humphrey STAFFORD
                  |        |                           /-----Sir Robert BURDET
                  |        |                  /-----Sir Robert BURDET
                  |        |         /-----Sir John BURDET
                  |        |        |        |                  /-----Thomas GARSHILL
                  |        |        |        |         /-----Robert GARSHILL
                  |        |        |         \-----Elizabeth GARSHILL
                  |        |        |                  \-----Amice
                  |         \-----Elizabeth BURDET
                  |                 |         /-----Sir John ARDERN
                  |                  \-----Katherine ARDERN
                  |                           \-----Ellen WASTENEYS
          /-----Humphrey STAFFORD
         |        |                                             /-----Sir Walter De AYLESBURY
         |        |                                    /-----Sir Philip AYLESBURY
         |        |                                   |         \-----Isolda De PYN
         |        |                           /-----Sir Thomas De AYLESBURY
         |        |                          |        |         /-----Robert KEYNES
         |        |                          |         \-----Margaret KEYNES
         |        |                  /-----Sir John De AYLESBURY
         |        |                 |        |                  /-----Sir Richard BASSET, Lord Basset Of Weldon
         |        |                 |        |         /-----Sir Ralph BASSET
         |        |                 |        |        |         \-----Joan De HUNTINGFIELD
         |        |                 |         \-----Joan BASSET
         |        |                 |                 |         /-----William Le LATIMER, Lord Latimer
         |        |                 |                  \-----Joan Le LATIMER
         |        |                 |                           \-----Elizabeth De BOTETOURTE
         |        |         /-----Sir Thomas AYLESBURY
         |        |        |        |         /-----Ebles Le STRANGE
         |        |        |         \-----Isabel STRANGE
         |         \-----Eleanor AYLESBURY
         |                 |                           /-----Sir John De PABENHAM
         |                 |                  /-----Thomas De PABENHAM
         |                 |                 |        |         /-----(Unk) De CLIFFORD
         |                 |                 |         \-----Elizabeth De CRIOL
         |                 |                 |                  \-----Margery De CRAY
         |                 |         /-----Sir Lawrence De PABENHAM
         |                 |        |        |         /-----(Unk) De OFFARD
         |                 |        |         \-----Alice De OFFARD
         |                  \-----Katherine PABENHAM
         |                          |                           /-----Sir John ENGAINE
         |                          |                  /-----Sir Nicholas ENGAINE
         |                          |                 |         \-----Joan GREINVILLE
         |                          |         /-----Sir John ENGAINE, Lord Engaine
         |                          |        |        |         /-----Walter De FAUCOMBERGE, Lord Faucomberge
         |                          |        |         \-----Anice De FAUCOMBERGER
         |                          |        |                  \-----Isabel De ROS
         |                           \-----Elizabeth ENGAINE
         |                                   |                  /-----Simon PEVEREL
         |                                   |         /-----Sir Robert PEVEREL
         |                                   |        |         \-----Amicia
         |                                    \-----Joan PEVEREL
         |                                             \-----Alice
 /-----Sir Humphrey STAFFORD
|        |         /-----Sir John FRAY
|         \-----Catherine FRAY
|                 |         /-----Sir John DANVERS
|                  \-----Agnes DANVERS
|                          |         /-----William VERNEY
|                           \-----Alice VERNEY
Sir William STAFFORD
|         /-----Sir John FOGGE
 \-----Margaret FOGGE
         |         /-----William HAUTE
          \-----Alice HAUTE



Descendants of Sir William STAFFORD
1. Sir William STAFFORD m1. Mary BOLEYN m2. Dorothy STAFFORD
m. Mary BOLEYN father: Sir Thomas BOLEYN, K.G., Earl of Wiltshire and Orm mother: Elizabeth HOWARD
m. Dorothy STAFFORD father: Henry STAFFORD, Lord Stafford mother: Ursula POLE

2nd generation

2. Elizabeth STAFFORD m1. Sir William DRURY, K.G. m2. Sir John SCOTT
m. Sir William DRURY, K.G.
m. Sir John SCOTT

3rd generation

7. Frances DRURY m1. Sir Nicholas CLIFFORD m2. Sir William WRAY
m. Sir Nicholas CLIFFORD
m. Sir William WRAY father: Sir Christopher WRAY mother: Anne GIRLINGTON
8. Elizabeth DRURY m. William CECIL, Earl Of Exeter
m. William CECIL, Earl Of Exeter father: Thomas CECIL, Earl Of Exeter mother: Dorothy NEVILLE

4th generation

9. Frances CLIFFORD m. Sir Edward AYSCOUGH
m. Sir Edward AYSCOUGH
10. Frances WRAY m. Sir Anthony IRBY
m. Sir Anthony IRBY
11. Sir Christopher WRAY m. Albinia CECIL
m. Albinia CECIL father: Edward CECIL, Viscount Wimbledon mother: Theodosia NOEL
13. Elizabeth CECIL m. Thomas HOWARD, Earl of Berkshire
m. Thomas HOWARD, Earl of Berkshire father: Thomas HOWARD, Earl Of Suffolk mother: Catherine KNEVET
14. Anne CECIL m. Henry GREY, Earl of Stamford
m. Henry GREY, Earl of Stamford father: Sir John GREY mother: Elizabeth NEVILL

5th generation

15. Anne AYSCOUGH m. Edward KING
m. Edward KING
16. Elizabeth IRBY m. George MONTAGU
m. George MONTAGU father: Henry MONTAGU, Earl Of Manchester mother: Margaret CROUCH
17. Frances WRAY m. Sir Henry VANE
m. Sir Henry VANE father: Sir Henry VANE mother: Frances DARCY
18. Theodosia WRAY m. Rowland LAUGHARNE
m. Rowland LAUGHARNE
19. Sir Drury WRAY m. Anne CASEY
m. Anne CASEY father: Thomas CASEY
20. Frances HOWARD m. Conyers DARCY, Earl Of Holderness
m. Conyers DARCY, Earl Of Holderness father: Conyers DARCY, Earl Of Holderness mother: Grace ROKESBY
21. Diana GREY m. Robert BRUCE, Earl Of Elgin
m. Robert BRUCE, Earl Of Elgin father: Thomas BRUCE, Earl Of Elgin mother: Anne CHICHESTER
22. John GREY m. Katharine WARD
m. Katharine WARD father: Edward WARD, Lord Ward mother: Frances BRERETON