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. Sir Thomas COTTON Birth: 1594 Death: 13 May 1662

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].*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: CB I p45],
parents:
[Ref: CB I p45]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: CB I p46],
place:
[Ref: CB I p46]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: CB I p46]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth BROCAS
date:
abt 1592 [Ref: CB I p46],
child:
[Ref: CB I p46]
Research Notes:
1st Bart [Ref: CB I p45]

Knt, of Cunington, co Huntingdon [Ref: CB I p45]

heir of his father [Ref: CB I p45]

the creation of Baronets, and the taking of a fine for each creation, appears to have had its origin from his suggestion [Ref: CB I p46]

29 Jun 1611: cr Baronet [Ref: CB I p45]



Pedigree of Robert COTTON
 /-----Thomas COTTON
Robert COTTON
|         /-----Francis SHIRLEY
 \-----Elizabeth SHIRLEY



Descendants of Robert COTTON
1. Robert COTTON m. Elizabeth BROCAS
m. Elizabeth BROCAS father: William BROCAS

2nd generation

2. Sir Thomas COTTON m1. Margaret HOWARD m2. Alice CONSTABLE
m. Margaret HOWARD father: William HOWARD mother: Elizabeth DACRE
m. Alice CONSTABLE father: Sir John CONSTABLE mother: Dorothy BARNHAM

3rd generation

3. Lucy COTTON m. Sir Philip WODEHOUSE
m. Sir Philip WODEHOUSE father: Sir Thomas WODEHOUSE mother: Blanche CAREY
4. Sir John COTTON m1. Dorothy ANDERSON m2. Elizabeth HONYWOOD
m. Dorothy ANDERSON father: Edmund ANDERSON mother: Alice CONSTABLE
m. Elizabeth HONYWOOD father: Sir Thomas HONYWOOD mother: Hester LAMOTTE

4th generation

5. Sir Thomas WODEHOUSE m. Anne ARMINE
m. Anne ARMINE father: Sir William ARMYNE mother: Anne CRANE
6. John COTTON m. Frances DOWNING
m. Frances DOWNING father: Sir George DOWNING
7. Sir Robert COTTON m1. Elizabeth WIGSTON m2. Sarah MORTON
m. Elizabeth WIGSTON
m. Sarah MORTON

5th generation

8. Sir John WODEHOUSE m1. Elizabeth BENSON m2. Mary FERMOR
m. Elizabeth BENSON father: Robert BENSON mother: Dorothy JENKINS
m. Mary FERMOR father: William FERMOR, Lord Leominster mother: Catherine POULETT
10. Sir John COTTON m. Jane BURDETT
m. Jane BURDETT father: Sir Robert BURDETT mother: Magdalene ASTON