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: Rebecca TOWNE
  • Sex: F
  • Baptism: 21 Feb 1621 in St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk c
  • Death: 19 Jul 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • William TOWNE Birth: England Death: Before 1673
    • Mother:
  • Joan BLESSING Death: Before 1682

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. John NOURSE
  2. Francis NOURSE
  3. Samuel NOURSE
  4. Benjamin NOURSE

Bibliography
  1. Davis, Walter Goodwin, Ancestry of Lieut Amos Towne, 1737-1793, of Arundel (Kennebunkport), Maine, 1927. Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1927. Available at https://archive.org/details/ancestryoflieuta00davi. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Davis TOWNE p[0-9]*].
  2. Towne, Edwin Eugene, Descendants of William TOWNE, Newtonville, MA: author, 1901. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/26765. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
parents:
[Ref: Davis TOWNE p5, TowneEE TOWNE p21]
Sources for baptism Information
date:
[Ref: Davis TOWNE p5, TowneEE TOWNE p21],
place:
[Ref: Davis TOWNE p5]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Davis TOWNE p5],
place:
[Ref: Davis TOWNE p5]
Sources with Information about marriage to Francis NOURSE
names:
[Ref: Davis TOWNE p5, TowneEE TOWNE p21],
child:
[Ref: Davis TOWNE p6]
Research Notes:
19 Jul 1692: executed for witchcraft; acquitted on her first trial, but later rearrested and convicted [Ref: Davis TOWNE p5]



Pedigree of Rebecca TOWNE
 /-----William TOWNE
Rebecca TOWNE
 \-----Joan BLESSING



Descendants of Rebecca TOWNE
1. Rebecca TOWNE m. Francis NOURSE
m. Francis NOURSE