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. Mary LYTTON Birth: Abt 1550 in Knebworth, co Hertford Death: 18 Apr 1620 in Cottered, Hertfordshire

Marriage: Children:
  1. Frances LYTTON
  2. Sir Rowland LYTTON Death: Jun 1616

Bibliography
  1. 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].*].
  2. 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]*].
  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. Reed, Paul C, English Origins of John Harleston, Immigrant to South Carolina, The Genealogist vol 9 no 2 (1991), pp163-225. NYPL APA 82-1000. Available at https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Reed HARLESTON p[0-9]*].
  5. Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Baltimore, MD: Genelogical Publishing Co, 2005. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson MCA p[0-9]*].
  6. 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]*].
  7. Bevan, Rosie, Ancestry of Ursula Cope. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 7/8/2001. Subject: Sir Anthony Cope. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/dsEfwySLjXE/m/A0r_OqYdrCgJ. Author address: rbevan at fernside dot co dot nz. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Rosie Bevan SGM 7/8/2001-163251].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
abt 1515 [Ref: Reed HARLESTON p196, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p685],
parents:
[Ref: Reed HARLESTON p196, Richardson MCA p546, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p684]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Reed HARLESTON p196, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p685]
1582 [Ref: Rosie Bevan SGM 7/8/2001-163251]
will dated 7 Apr 1582 pro 14 Nov 1582 [Ref: Reed HARLESTON p180],
place:
[Ref: Reed HARLESTON p196, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p685]
Sources with Information about marriage to Margaret TATE
date:
first marriage of Rowland [Ref: Clutterbuck Hertford v2p377, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p685],
names:
[Ref: Rosie Bevan SGM 7/8/2001-163251],
child:
[Ref: Reed HARLESTON p178, Reed HARLESTON p196, Richardson MCA p414, Richardson MCA p546, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p231, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p685]
Sources with Information about marriage to Anne CARLETON
date:
second marriage of Rowland [Ref: CB I p36, Clutterbuck Hertford v2p377, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p685],
child:
[Ref: CB I p36, Clutterbuck Hertford v2p377, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p685]
Research Notes:
Esq, of Knebworth, Hertfordshire, Lytton, Derbyshire, Foxcott, Somerset, and Langley near Hippolitz [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p685]
Esq, of Knebworth, Hertfordshire [Ref: Richardson MCA p414, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p231]
of Knebworth, co Hertford [Ref: Faris PA2 p175]
of Knebworth, Herts [Ref: CB I p36]
of Knebworth [Ref: Rosie Bevan SGM 7/8/2001-163251]

Commissioner of the Peace for Hertfordshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p685]

1551: heir-male to his brother Robert, Knt; inherited the manor of Knebworth, Hertfordshire, and other land [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p685]

1568-9: Sheriff of Hertfordshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p685]

Governor of Bullen Castle [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p685]

will dated 7 Apr 1582 pro 14 Nov 1582 [Ref: Reed HARLESTON p180]



Pedigree of Rowland LYTTON
          /-----Sir Robert LYTTON
 /-----Sir William LYTTON
|        |         /-----Thomas REDE
|         \-----Agnes REDE
Rowland LYTTON
|                           /-----Richard BOOTH
|                  /-----William BOOTH
|         /-----Sir Philip BOOTH
|        |         \-----(Unk) NEWPORT
 \-----Audrey BOOTH
         |                                                      /-----Hugh De SWILLINGTON
         |                                             /-----Adam De SWILLINGTON, Lord Swillington
         |                                            |         \-----Helewise De PIRNHOW
         |                                    /-----Sir Robert De SWILLINGTON
         |                                   |        |         /-----John DYVE
         |                                   |         \-----Joan DYVE
         |                           /-----Thomas HOPTON
         |                  /-----Sir John HOPTON
         |                 |        |         /-----William PERT
         |                 |         \-----Margaret PERT
         |                 |                 |                  /-----Sir Geoffrey Le SCROPE
         |                 |                 |         /-----Sir Stephen Le SCROPE
         |                 |                 |        |         \-----Ivette De ROS
         |                 |                  \-----Joan Le SCROPE
         |                 |                           \-----Isabel
         |         /-----Sir William HOPTON
         |        |        |         /-----Sir Thomas SAVILLE
         |        |         \-----Margaret SAVILLE
          \-----Margaret HOPTON
                  |                                             /-----William WENTWORTH
                  |                                    /-----John WENTWORTH
                  |                                   |         \-----Isabella POLLINGTON
                  |                           /-----John WENTWORTH
                  |                          |        |         /-----Richard De TYES
                  |                          |         \-----Jane De TYES
                  |                          |                  \-----Alice De TANKERSLEY
                  |                  /-----John WENTWORTH
                  |                 |        |         /-----Roger BISSETT
                  |                 |         \-----Alice BISSETT
                  |         /-----Sir Roger WENTWORTH
                  |        |        |         /-----John DRONSFIELD
                  |        |         \-----Agnes DRONSFIELD
                  |        |                 |                  /-----John De STAINTON
                  |        |                 |         /-----John De STAINTON
                  |        |                 |        |         \-----Isabel
                  |        |                  \-----Joan De STAINTON
                  |        |                          |         /-----William CLARELL, Of Tickhill
                  |        |                           \-----Joanna CLARELL
                  |        |                                    \-----Ada MAUREWARD
                   \-----Margaret WENTWORTH
                           |                                    /-----Sir Philip Le DESPENSER
                           |                           /-----Sir Philip Le DESPENSER
                           |                          |         \-----Margaret GOUSHILL
                           |                  /-----Sir Philip Le DESPENSER, Lord Despenser
                           |                 |        |         /-----Sir John De COBHAM, Lord Cobham
                           |                 |         \-----Joan De COBHAM
                           |                 |                  \-----Joan BEAUCHAMP
                           |         /-----Sir Philip Le DESPENSER, Lord Despenser
                           |        |         \-----Elizabeth
                            \-----Margery DESPENSER, Baroness Despenser
                                    |                           /-----Sir Payne De TYBOTOT, Lord Tybotot
                                    |                  /-----Sir John TYBOTOT, Lord Tybotot
                                    |                 |         \-----Agnes De ROS
                                    |         /-----Sir Robert De TIBETOT, Lord Tibetot
                                    |        |        |         /-----Bartholomew De BADLESMERE, Lord Badlesmere
                                    |        |         \-----Margaret De BADLESMERE
                                    |        |                  \-----Margaret De CLARE
                                     \-----Elizabeth De TIBETOT
                                             |                  /-----John DEINCOURT
                                             |         /-----Sir William DEINCOURT, Lord Deincourt
                                              \-----Margaret DEINCOURT
                                                      |         /-----William La ZOUCHE, Lord Zouche
                                                       \-----Milicent La ZOUCHE
                                                                \-----Maud LOVEL



Descendants of Rowland LYTTON
1. Rowland LYTTON m1. Margaret TATE m2. Anne CARLETON
m. Margaret TATE father: John TATE
m. Anne CARLETON father: George CARLETON

2nd generation

2. Mary LYTTON m1. Thomas HARLESTON m2. Edward PULTER
m. Thomas HARLESTON father: Sir John HARLESTON mother: Mildred MUNDY
m. Edward PULTER father: Edward PULTER mother: Julian CAVE
3. Frances LYTTON m. Sir Anthony COPE
m. Sir Anthony COPE father: Edward COPE mother: Elizabeth MOHUN
4. Sir Rowland LYTTON m. Anne St JOHN
m. Anne St JOHN father: Oliver St JOHN, Lord St John of Bletso mother: Agnes FISHER

3rd generation

5. John HARLESTON m1. Elizabeth HOO m2. Jane WENTWORTH
m. Elizabeth HOO father: Thomas HOO mother: Helen PERYENT
m. Jane WENTWORTH father: Philip WENTWORTH mother: Elizabeth CORBETT
11. Elizabeth COPE m. Sir Richard CECIL
m. Sir Richard CECIL father: Thomas CECIL, Earl Of Exeter mother: Dorothy NEVILLE

4th generation

25. John HARLESTON m. Elizabeth (HARLESTON)
m. Elizabeth (HARLESTON)
35. David CECIL, Earl Of Exeter m. Elizabeth EGERTON
m. Elizabeth EGERTON father: John EGERTON, Earl Of Bridgwater mother: Frances STANLEY

5th generation

36. John HARLESTON m. Elizabeth WILLIS
m. Elizabeth WILLIS
38. Elizabeth HARLESTON m. Elias BALL
m. Elias BALL father: William BALL mother: Jane
41. John CECIL, Earl Of Exeter m1. Frances MANNERS m2. Mary FANE
m. Frances MANNERS father: John MANNERS, Earl Of Rutland mother: Frances MONTAGU
m. Mary FANE father: Mildmay FANE, Earl of Westmorland mother: Mary VERE