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: Sir John COTTON
  • Sex: M
  • Death: 5 Feb 1730/1 in North Street, Red Lion's Square, Midx d
  • Burial: St George the Martyr, Lamb's Conduit, Midx u


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • John COTTON Death: 1681
    • Mother:
  • Frances DOWNING

Family:
Marriage:
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
parents:
[Ref: CB I p46]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: CB I p46],
place:
[Ref: CB I p46]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: CB I p47]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth HERBERT
date:
[Ref: CB I p46]
Research Notes:
4th Bart [Ref: CB I p46]

of Conington, co Huntingdon [Ref: CB I p46]

heir of his father [Ref: CB I p46]
heir of his grandfather [Ref: CB I p46]



Pedigree of Sir John COTTON
                                     /-----Thomas COTTON
                            /-----Robert COTTON
                           |        |         /-----Francis SHIRLEY
                           |         \-----Elizabeth SHIRLEY
                   /-----Sir Thomas COTTON
                  |        |         /-----William BROCAS
                  |         \-----Elizabeth BROCAS
          /-----Sir John COTTON
         |        |                                             /-----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
         |        |                  /-----Thomas HOWARD, Duke Of Norfolk
         |        |                 |        |                  /-----John De VERE
         |        |                 |        |         /-----John De VERE, K.G., Earl of Oxford
         |        |                 |        |        |         \-----Alice COLBROKE
         |        |                 |         \-----Frances VERE
         |        |                 |                 |         /-----Edward TRUSSELL
         |        |                 |                  \-----Elizabeth TRUSSELL
         |        |                 |                           \-----Margaret DONNE
         |        |         /-----William HOWARD
         |        |        |        |                  /-----Geoffrey AUDLEY
         |        |        |        |         /-----Sir Thomas AUDLEY, K.G., Lord Audley
         |        |        |         \-----Margaret AUDLEY
         |        |        |                 |                  /-----Thomas GREY, K.G., Marquess of Dorset
         |        |        |                 |         /-----Thomas GREY, K.G., Marquess of Dorset
         |        |        |                 |        |         \-----Cicely BONVILLE, Baroness Harrington And Bonvil
         |        |        |                  \-----Elizabeth GREY
         |        |        |                          |         /-----Sir Robert WOTTON, K.G.
         |        |        |                           \-----Margaret WOTTON
         |        |        |                                    \-----Anne BELKNAP
         |         \-----Margaret HOWARD
         |                 |                                    /-----Humphrey DACRE, Lord Dacre Of Gillesland
         |                 |                           /-----Thomas DACRE, K.G., Lord Dacre Of Gillesland
         |                 |                          |         \-----Mabel PARR
         |                 |                  /-----William DACRE, Lord Dacre of Gillesland
         |                 |                 |        |         /-----Sir Robert GREYSTOKE
         |                 |                 |         \-----Elizabeth GREYSTOKE, Baroness Greystoke
         |                 |                 |                  \-----Elizabeth GREY
         |                 |         /-----Thomas DACRE, Lord Dacre of Gillesland
         |                 |        |        |                  /-----John TALBOT, Earl Of Shrewsbury
         |                 |        |        |         /-----George TALBOT, K.G., Earl Of Shrewsbury
         |                 |        |        |        |         \-----Katherine STAFFORD
         |                 |        |         \-----Elizabeth TALBOT
         |                 |        |                 |         /-----Sir William HASTINGS, K.G., Lord Hastings
         |                 |        |                  \-----Anne HASTINGS
         |                 |        |                           \-----Katherine NEVILLE
         |                  \-----Elizabeth DACRE
         |                          |         /-----Sir James LEYBURNE
         |                           \-----Elizabeth LEYBURNE
         |                                   |         /-----Thomas PRESTON
         |                                    \-----Helen PRESTON
         |                                            |         /-----William THORNBURY
         |                                             \-----Anne THORNBURY
 /-----John COTTON
|        |         /-----Sir Thomas HONYWOOD
|         \-----Elizabeth HONYWOOD
|                 |         /-----John LAMOTTE
|                  \-----Hester LAMOTTE
Sir John COTTON
|         /-----Sir George DOWNING
 \-----Frances DOWNING



Descendants of Sir John COTTON
1. Sir John COTTON m. Elizabeth HERBERT
m. Elizabeth HERBERT father: James HERBERT mother: Catherine OSBORNE