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: Richard TOWNE
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 16 Jul 1700 in Topsfield, Massachusetts b
  • Death: 21 Feb 1765 in Topsfield, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Thomas TOWNE Birth: Abt 1655 in Topsfield, Massachusetts Death: Before 7 Mar 1719/20
    • Mother:
  • Sarah FRENCH Birth: 1 Mar 1664/5 in Topsfield, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Thomas TOWNE Birth: 28 Dec 1727 in Topsfield, Massachusetts Death: 18 Jan 1731 in Topsfield, Massachusetts
  2. Mary TOWNE Birth: 21 Feb 1729 in Topsfield, Massachusetts
  3. Elizabeth TOWNE Birth: 30 Jan 1732 in Topsfield, Massachusetts
  4. Sarah TOWNE Birth: 1 Dec 1734 in Topsfield, Massachusetts Death: 1735 in Topsfield, Massachusetts
  5. Richard TOWNE Birth: 1 Jan 1737 in Topsfield, Massachusetts Death: 1739 in Topsfield, Massachusetts
  6. Hannah TOWNE Birth: 8 Dec 1739 in Topsfield, Massachusetts

Marriage:
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
date:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p23],
place:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p23],
parents:
[Ref: Davis TOWNE p7, TowneEE TOWNE p23]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p26],
place:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p26]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth BIXBY
date:
first marriage of Richard [Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p26],
child:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p26]
Sources with Information about marriage to Hannah BIXBY
date:
second marriage of Richard [Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p26]
Research Notes:
1749: town clerk of Topsfield, until his death [Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p26]

dates of marriages not found; dates of death of first wife not found; mother of the children not known [Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p26]



Pedigree of Richard TOWNE
                   /-----William TOWNE
          /-----Edmund TOWNE
         |         \-----Joan BLESSING
 /-----Thomas TOWNE
|        |         /-----Thomas BROWNING
|         \-----Mary BROWNING
|                  \-----Mary (BROWNING)
Richard TOWNE
|                                             /-----Stephen FRENCH
|                                    /-----Jacob FRENCH
|                                   |         \-----Mary (FRENCH)
|                           /-----Thomas Sr FRENCH
|                          |        |         /-----William WARREN
|                          |         \-----Susan WARREN
|                          |                  \-----Katherine (WARREN)
|                  /-----Thomas FRENCH
|                 |        |                           /-----Jasper RIDDLESDALE
|                 |        |                  /-----Henry RIDDLESDALE
|                 |        |                 |         \-----Elizabeth (RIDDLESDALE)
|                 |        |         /-----John RIDDLESDALE
|                 |        |        |         \-----Joan (RIDDLESDALE)
|                 |         \-----Susan RIDDLESDALE
|                 |                  \-----Dorcas (RIDDLESDALE)
|         /-----John FRENCH
|        |        |         /-----William SCUDAMORE
|        |         \-----Mary SCUDMORE
 \-----Sarah FRENCH
         |         /-----Robert KEYES
          \-----Phoebe KEYES
                   \-----Sarah (KEYES)



Descendants of Richard TOWNE
1. Richard TOWNE m1. Elizabeth BIXBY m2. Hannah BIXBY
m. Elizabeth BIXBY
m. Hannah BIXBY