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: Anne BRIGHAM
  • Sex: F
  • Birth: Abt 1606 in Holme-On-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England b
  • Death: 11 Oct 1675 in Braintree, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Thomas BRIGHAM Birth: 21 May 1575 in Holme-On-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England Death: Before 19 Mar 1632/3 in Holme-On-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England
    • Mother:
  • Isabel WATSON Birth: 21 Feb 1560/1 in Holme-On-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England Death: Abt 8 Jun 1634

Family:
Marriage:
  • Simon CROSBY on 21 Apr 1634 at Holme-On-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England .m1
  • Simon CROSBY Birth: Abt 1609 in Holme-On-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England Death: Sep 1639 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Thomas Rev CROSBY Birth: 26 Feb 1634/5 in Holme-On-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England Death: 27 Jun 1702 in Boston, Massachusetts
  2. Simon CROSBY Birth: Aug 1637 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Death: 22 Jan 1724/5 in Billerica, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts
  3. Joseph CROSBY Birth: Feb 1638/9 in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Marriage: Children:
  1. Anna THOMPSON Birth: 1 Jun 1648

Bibliography
  1. Anderson, Robert Charles, George F Sanborn Jr, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. M-LH 929.174And. Available at http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-immigrants-to-new-england-1634-1635-volume-i-a-b/image, ..volume-ii-c-f, iii-g-h, iv-i-l, v-m-p, vi-r-s, vii-t-y. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v[1-7]p[0-9]*].
  2. Blodgette, George Brainard, Early Settlers of Rowley Masachusetts, Rowley: Amos Everett Jewett, 1933. LDS Film#1321370 item#1. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/958666. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Blodgette Rowley p[0-9]*].
  3. Pulsifer, David, Early Records of Boston. NEHGR v4 (Jan 1850, April 1850), p55-6, p181-4. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: BostonMA EarlyRec p[0-9]*].
  4. Brigham, Emma Elisabeth, The History of the Brigham Family. Rutland, VT: Tuttle Co, 1927. UMI #G3444. Available at http://archive.org/details/historyofbrigham01brig and http://archive.org/details/historyofbrigham02inbrig Information from this source tagged as [Ref: BrighamEE BRIGHAM p[0-9]*].
  5. Coffman, Ralph J, Testament of Richard Mather and William Thompson, NEHGR vol 140 (Jan 1986), pp3-15. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Coffman Testament p[0-9]*].
  6. Crosby, Albert Hutchings, John Crosby of Yorkshire and some of his descendants. Hartford, CT: author, 1940. G3434. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005730144. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CrosbyAH CROSBY p[0-9]].
  7. Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, Concord, NH: Rumsford Press, 1938. NEHGS CS71/P643/1938. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/29865. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
abt 1606 [Ref: BrighamEE BRIGHAM p25, CrosbyAH CROSBY p9]
prob abt 1602 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p401],
place:
[Ref: BrighamEE BRIGHAM p25, Holman PILLSBURY p401],
parents:
[Ref: Blodgette Rowley p90, Blodgette Rowley p92, BrighamEE BRIGHAM p25, CrosbyAH CROSBY p9, Holman PILLSBURY p401]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p235, BrighamEE BRIGHAM p25, CrosbyAH CROSBY p9, Holman PILLSBURY p401],
place:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p235, BrighamEE BRIGHAM p25, CrosbyAH CROSBY p9, Holman PILLSBURY p401]
Sources with Information about marriage to Simon CROSBY
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p235, Blodgette Rowley p90, BrighamEE BRIGHAM p25, CrosbyAH CROSBY p9, Holman PILLSBURY p401]
1634 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p395],
place:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p235, Blodgette Rowley p90, BrighamEE BRIGHAM p25, CrosbyAH CROSBY p9, Holman PILLSBURY p401],
names:
[Ref: Blodgette Rowley p92]
Simon CROSBY & Annah ___ [Ref: BostonMA EarlyRec p55],
child:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p235, BostonMA EarlyRec p55, BrighamEE BRIGHAM p25, CrosbyAH CROSBY p9, Holman PILLSBURY p401]
Sources with Information about marriage to William Rev THOMPSON
date:
[Ref: BrighamEE BRIGHAM p25, CrosbyAH CROSBY p9, Holman PILLSBURY p401]
before 1646, as second marriage of William [Ref: Coffman Testament p14]
by 1645 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p235],
names:
William THOMPSON & Anna ___ widow of Simon CROSBY [Ref: Coffman Testament p14],
child:
[Ref: Coffman Testament p14]
Research Notes:
Mar 1639/40: ten acres of "Sister Crosbey's" fence was to be moved and rebuilt at her expense [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p232]

Sep 6 1642: held ten parcels [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p232]

by Mar 7 1642/3: sold to Nathaniel Sparrowhawke twenty acres of land on the south side of Charles River, ten acres in the lower division and ten acres in the upper division [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p233]

1645: in the right of "Old Crosby" six acres were laid out in the granted land beyond five miles. To "the widow Crosbey's house was granted twelve acres to be multiplied as the other, and to her other house three acres & half". In the settlement of the fence against the neck, Ann Crosby's assignment was three rods wanting one foot. [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p233]

Sep 22 1645: "the elders and deacons of the church of Cambridge agree with An Crosby widow for her (then) 3 sons to have yielded them for portions of their father;'s estate as followeth, namely, to Thomas Crosby the eldest 70 pounds, to Simon 50 pounds, to Joseph 50 pounds, to be paid them at their ages of 20 years... The parents are to hold the children's maintenance receiving the profits towards the same... I Ann Crosby do hereto agree and confirm it by putting to my hand the 21 of the 7th month 1645. [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p233]

undated petition "Anne Thompson late the wife of Symojn Crosbie ... humbly craves the favor of the Court to pardon her ignorace & excuse the penalty for not proving her deceased husband's will in due season. 2ly. That the Honored Court will please to grant unto her the administration of the goods & chattels of her deceased husband Symon Crosbie. 3ly. That you will be pleased to confirm the portions of the children, according as they were agreed by the Reverend Mr Shepheard & elders & deacons of Cambridge, or so far forth as the Court shall think meet. Lastly that she may have power, or whomsoever she shall appoint, to make sale of the house & and of her late husband" The magistrates and the deputies both agreed to her requests. [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p233]



Pedigree of Anne BRIGHAM
                                     /-----Thomas BRIGHAM
                            /-----Thomas BRIGHAM
                   /-----Thomas BRIGHAM
                  |         \-----Elizabeth (BRIGHAM)
          /-----Thomas BRIGHAM
         |        |                  /-----Thomas MILLINGTON
         |        |         /-----William MILLINGTON ALIAS TOMLINSON
         |        |        |        |         /-----William SOTHERON
         |        |        |         \-----Agnes SOTHERON
         |        |        |                  \-----Agnes (SOTHERON)
         |         \-----Jennet MILLINGTON ALIAS TOMLINSON
         |                  \-----Barbara (MILLINGTON ALIAS TOMLINSON)
 /-----Thomas BRIGHAM
|         \-----Gillian (BRIGHAM)
Anne BRIGHAM
|                           /-----John WATSON
|                  /-----John WATSON
|                 |         \-----Margaret (WATSON)
|         /-----James WATSON
|        |        |                  /-----William SOTHERON
|        |        |         /-----William SOTHERON
|        |        |        |         \-----Agnes (SOTHERON)
|        |         \-----Joane SOTHERON
 \-----Isabel WATSON
          \-----Jenet (WATSON)



Descendants of Anne BRIGHAM
1. Anne BRIGHAM m1. Simon CROSBY m2. William Rev THOMPSON
m. Simon CROSBY father: Thomas CROSBY mother: Jane SOTHERON
m. William Rev THOMPSON

2nd generation

2. Thomas Rev CROSBY m. Sarah (CROSBY)
m. Sarah (CROSBY)
3. Simon CROSBY m. Rachel BRACKETT
m. Rachel BRACKETT father: Richard BRACKETT mother: Alice BLOWER

3rd generation

7. Simon CROSBY m. Mary NICKERSON
m. Mary NICKERSON
19. Rachel CROSBY m. Ephraim KIDDER
m. Ephraim KIDDER father: James KIDDER mother: Anna MOORE

4th generation

34. Daniel CROSBY m. Ruth COLE
m. Ruth COLE
39. Ephraim KIDDER m. Abigail FROST
m. Abigail FROST father: James FROST mother: Elizabeth FOSTER

5th generation

48. Jesse CROSBY m. Ruth GOODSPEED
m. Ruth GOODSPEED
57. Jeremiah KIDDER m. Sarah BARNARD
m. Sarah BARNARD father: John BARNARD mother: Sarah OSGOOD