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

Person Info

Name: Washington SHIRLEY, Earl Ferrers
Sex: M
Birth: 22 Jun 1677 in Staunton Harold ^b
Death: 14 Apr 1729 in Clarges Str, Midx ^d
Burial: 3 May 1729 in Staunton Harold ^u

Parents:

Father:
Robert SHIRLEY, Earl Ferrers Birth: 3 in East Sheen Death: 25 Dec 1717 in Bath

Mother:

Elizabeth WASHINGTON Death: 2 Oct 1693

Family:
Marriage:

Mary LEVINGE on Abt 1704 .^m1
Mary LEVINGE Death: Jan 1739/40 in Paris

Children:

Selina SHIRLEY Birth: 12 Aug 1707 in Astwell House, Horthants Death: 17 Jun 1791 in Spa Fields, London

Bibliography

Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 09, Moels-Nugent. London: St Catherine Press, 1936. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP IX [Ap][p0-9].*].
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].*].
Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 06 Gordon-Huntley. 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 VI [Ap][p0-9].*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: [Ref: CP V p335],
place:: [Ref: CP V p335],
parents:: [Ref: CP V p335]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: CP V p336],
place:: [Ref: CP V p336]

Sources for burial Information

date:: [Ref: CP V p336],
place:: [Ref: CP V p336]

Sources with Information about marriage to Mary LEVINGE

date:: abt 1704 [Ref: CP V p335],
child:: [Ref: CP VI p661]

Research Notes:
2nd Earl Ferrers, of Earldom cr 1711 [Ref: CP V p335]
2nd Earl Ferrers [Ref: CP VI p377]

second, but first surviving son, heir-male (but not heir-general) of his father [Ref: CP V p335]

Pedigree of Washington SHIRLEY, Earl Ferrers
                                              /-----Francis SHIRLEY
                                     /-----John SHIRLEY
                            /-----George SHIRLEY
                           |        |         /-----Thomas LOVETT
                           |         \-----Jane LOVETT
                   /-----Sir Henry SHIRLEY
                  |        |                                    /-----Maurice BERKELEY, Lord Berkeley
                  |        |                           /-----Sir Thomas BERKELEY, Lord Berkeley
                  |        |                          |         \-----Isabel MEAD
                  |        |                  /-----Sir Thomas BERKELEY, Lord Berkeley
                  |        |                 |        |         /-----Sir Marmaduke CONSTABLE
                  |        |                 |         \-----Eleanor CONSTABLE
                  |        |                 |                  \-----Joyce STAFFORD
                  |        |         /-----Henry BERKELEY, Lord Berkeley
                  |        |        |        |         /-----Sir John SAVAGE
                  |        |        |         \-----Anne SAVAGE
                  |        |        |                 |         /-----Ralph BOSTOCK
                  |        |        |                  \-----Anne BOSTOCK
                  |         \-----Frances BERKELEY
                  |                 |                           /-----Sir Thomas HOWARD, K.G., Duke Of Norfolk
                  |                 |                  /-----Thomas HOWARD, K.G., Duke Of Norfolk
                  |                 |                 |         \-----Elizabeth TILNEY
                  |                 |         /-----Henry HOWARD, K.G., Earl of Surrey
                  |                 |        |        |         /-----Edward STAFFORD, K.G., Duke Of Buckingham
                  |                 |        |         \-----Elizabeth STAFFORD
                  |                 |        |                  \-----Eleanor PERCY
                  |                  \-----Catherine HOWARD
                  |                          |                  /-----John De VERE
                  |                          |         /-----John De VERE, K.G., Earl of Oxford
                  |                          |        |         \-----Alice COLBROKE
                  |                           \-----Frances VERE
                  |                                   |         /-----Edward TRUSSELL
                  |                                    \-----Elizabeth TRUSSELL
                  |                                             \-----Margaret DONNE
          /-----Sir Robert SHIRLEY
         |        |                                             /-----John DEVEREUX, Lord Ferrers Of Chartley
         |        |                                    /-----Walter DEVEREUX, K.G., Lord Ferrers of Chartle
         |        |                                   |         \-----Cecily BOURCHIER
         |        |                           /-----Sir Richard DEVEREUX
         |        |                          |        |         /-----Thomas GREY, K.G., Marquess of Dorset
         |        |                          |         \-----Mary GREY
         |        |                          |                  \-----Cicely BONVILLE, Baroness Harrington And Bonvil
         |        |                  /-----Walter DEVEREUX, Earl Of Essex
         |        |                 |        |                  /-----Edward HASTINGS, Lord Hastings Of Hungerford
         |        |                 |        |         /-----George HASTINGS, Earl Of Huntingdon
         |        |                 |        |        |         \-----Mary HUNGERFORD, Baroness Botreaux
         |        |                 |         \-----Dorothy HASTINGS
         |        |                 |                 |         /-----Henry STAFFORD, K.G., Duke Of Buckingham
         |        |                 |                  \-----Anne STAFFORD
         |        |                 |                           \-----Katherine WYDEVILLE
         |        |         /-----Robert DEVEREUX, Earl Of Essex
         |        |        |        |                  /-----Robert KNOLLYS
         |        |        |        |         /-----Sir Francis KNOLLYS, K.G.
         |        |        |        |        |        |         /-----Sir Thomas PEYNSTON
         |        |        |        |        |         \-----Lettice PEYNSTON
         |        |        |         \-----Lettice KNOLLYS
         |        |        |                 |                  /-----Henry VII TUDOR, King Of England
         |        |        |                 |         /-----Henry VIII TUDOR, King Of England
         |        |        |                 |        |         \-----Elizabeth PLANTAGENET
         |        |        |                  \-----Katherine CARY
         |        |        |                          |         /-----Sir Thomas BOLEYN, K.G., Earl of Wiltshire and Orm
         |        |        |                           \-----Mary BOLEYN
         |        |        |                                    \-----Elizabeth HOWARD
         |         \-----Dorothy DEVEREUX
         |                 |         /-----Sir Francis WALSINGHAM
         |                  \-----Frances WALSINGHAM
         |                          |         /-----John St BARBE
         |                           \-----Ursula St BARBE
/-----Robert SHIRLEY, Earl Ferrers
|        |         /-----Humphrey OKEOVER
|         \-----Catherine OKEOVER
|                 |         /-----Sir Oliver CHENEY
|                  \-----Martha CHENEY
Washington SHIRLEY, Earl Ferrers
|         /-----Lawrence WASHINGTON
\-----Elizabeth WASHINGTON
         |         /-----William GUISE
          \-----Eleanor GUISE

Descendants of Washington SHIRLEY, Earl Ferrers

1. Washington SHIRLEY, Earl Ferrers m. Mary LEVINGE

m. Mary LEVINGE father: Sir Richard LEVINGE mother: Mary CORBYN

2+ Selina SHIRLEY m. Theophilus HASTINGS, Earl Of Huntingdon

2nd generation

2. Selina SHIRLEY m. Theophilus HASTINGS, Earl Of Huntingdon

m. Theophilus HASTINGS, Earl Of Huntingdon father: Theophilus HASTINGS, Earl Of Huntingdon mother: Frances Leveson FOWLER

3 Francis HASTINGS, Earl Of Huntingdon

4+ Elizabeth HASTINGS m. John RAWDON, Earl of Moira

3rd generation

4. Elizabeth HASTINGS m. John RAWDON, Earl of Moira

m. John RAWDON, Earl of Moira father: Sir John RAWDON mother: Dorothy LEVINGE

5 Anne RAWDON m. Thomas BRUDENELL-BRUCE, Earl Of Ailesbury; Thomas BRUDENELL-BRUCE, Earl Of Ailesbury father: George BRUDENELL, Earl Of Cardigan mother: Elizabeth BRUCE