Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 05-01-2023.

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: Ellen ROPER
  • Sex: F
  • Burial: 7 May 1563 in Weckley, Northamptonshire u


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • John ROPER

Family:
Marriage:
Marriage:
Marriage: Children:
  1. William DIGBY
  2. Lebbeus DIGBY
  3. Margery DIGBY
  4. Isabel DIGBY

Marriage: Children:
  1. Sir Edward MONTAGUE

Bibliography
  1. Farnham, George F, Leicestershire Medieval Pedigrees. Leicester: Thornley, 1925. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007941560 images 458-633. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Farnham Pedigrees p[0-9]*].
  2. Foss, Edward, Biographia Juridica, Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, London: John Murray, 1870. Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oBAAAAQAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Foss Judges p[0-9]*].
  3. 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]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
father:
[Ref: Farnham Pedigrees p3, Foss Judges p450, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p681]
Sources for burial Information
date:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p682],
place:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p682]
Sources with Information about marriage to John MORTON
date:
first marriage of Ellen [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p681],
names:
[Ref: Farnham Pedigrees p3]
Sources with Information about marriage to Francis SMYTH
date:
second marriage of Ellen [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p681]
Sources with Information about marriage to William DIGBY
date:
second marriage of William and third of Ellen [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p681],
child:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p681]
Sources with Information about marriage to Sir Edward MONTAGUE
date:
fourth marriage of Ellen [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p681]
third marriage of Edward [Ref: Foss Judges p450],
names:
[Ref: Farnham Pedigrees p3],
child:
[Ref: Foss Judges p450, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p682]
Research Notes:
will dated 1563, pro 21 May 1563 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p682]



Pedigree of Ellen ROPER
 /-----John ROPER
Ellen ROPER



Descendants of Ellen ROPER
1. Ellen ROPER m1. John MORTON m2. Francis SMYTH m3. William DIGBY m4. Sir Edward MONTAGUE
m. John MORTON father: Thomas MORTON mother: Margaret WOODFORD
m. Francis SMYTH
m. William DIGBY father: Sir John DIGBY mother: Catherine GRIFFIN
m. Sir Edward MONTAGUE father: Thomas MONTAGUE mother: Agnes DUDLEY