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: John FRENCH
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 26 May 1622 in Assington, Suffolk, England b
  • Baptism: 26 May 1622 in Assington, Suffolk, England c
  • Death: 1 Feb 1696/7 in Northampton, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Thomas Sr FRENCH Birth: Abt 11 Oct 1584 in Assington, Suffolk, England Death: Before 5 Nov 1639 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Susan RIDDLESDALE Birth: Abt 20 Apr 1584 in Boxford, Suffolk, England Death: Aug 1658 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. John FRENCH
  2. Thomas FRENCH Birth: 25 May 1657 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  3. (Unk) FRENCH Birth: Abt 1658 Death: Abt 1658
  4. Mary FRENCH Birth: Abt 1659
  5. Samuel FRENCH Birth: Abt 1661
  6. (Unk) FRENCH Birth: 1664 Death: 1664
  7. Hannah FRENCH Birth: Abt 1664
  8. Jonathan FRENCH Birth: 1667
  9. Elizabeth FRENCH Birth: 1673

Bibliography
  1. Banks, Charles Edward, The Planters of the Commonwealth: A Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times to which are added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships which brought them; their English Homes, and the Places of their Settlement in Massachusetts. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1967. LDS Fiche #6046840. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007827816, images 193-318 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Banks Planters p[0-9]*].
  2. Banks, Charles Edward, Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England 1620-1650, Philadelphia, PA: Elijah Ellsworth Brownell, 1937. LDS Film#0874196#1. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/283805. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Banks Topo p[0-9]*].
  3. Banks, Charles E, The Winthrop Fleet of 1630: An account of the Vessels, the Voyage, the Passengers, and their English Homes from Original Authorities. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1983. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007831475?cat=132944, images 475-543. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Banks Winthrop p[0-9]*].
  4. Davis, Walter Goodwin, Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, 1759-1820, of Topsfield, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1959. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/33853 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Davis WILDES p[0-9]*].
  5. French, Mara T, The Frenchline Newsletter. San Jose, CA: 1984. LDS Fiche#605537. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v[0-9]*#[0-9]*].
  6. French, Robert L, Descendants of Thomas French of Ipswich, Massachusetts, in Five Generations. Chatham, NY: author, 1990. NEHGS CS71/F876/1990. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p[0-9]*].
  7. Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. Boston: author, 1913. G1638. Available at http://archive.org/details/historyofpeterpa00linz Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p[0-9]*].
  8. Threlfall, John B, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England, Madison, WI: author, 1990. NEHGS F3/T58/1990. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/405085. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p412]
1622 [Ref: Banks Winthrop p71, FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2]
bp 26 May 1622 [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p160],
place:
[Ref: Banks Planters p173, Banks Topo p149, Banks Winthrop p71, Davis WILDES p64, FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p412, Threlfall 50GMCol p160],
parents:
[Ref: Banks Planters p173, Banks Winthrop p71, Davis WILDES p64, FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p412, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]
Sources for baptism Information
date:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p64, FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Threlfall 50GMCol p160],
place:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p64, FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p160]
1 Feb 1697 [Ref: Davis WILDES p64, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p426]
1697 [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p3],
place:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p64, FrenchRL FRENCH p3, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p426, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]
Sources with Information about marriage to Freedom KINGSLEY
date:
abt 1654 [Ref: Davis WILDES p64, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p426, Threlfall 50GMCol p160],
names:
[Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p3],
child:
[Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p160]
Research Notes:
tailor [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p3, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]

1648: Denison subscriber [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p427]

raised a family in Ipswich, MA [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p3]

1677: sold all his property and went to Northampton, MA [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p3]



Pedigree of John FRENCH
                   /-----Stephen FRENCH
          /-----Jacob FRENCH
         |         \-----Mary (FRENCH)
 /-----Thomas Sr FRENCH
|        |         /-----William WARREN
|         \-----Susan WARREN
|                  \-----Katherine (WARREN)
John FRENCH
|                           /-----Jasper RIDDLESDALE
|                  /-----Henry RIDDLESDALE
|                 |         \-----Elizabeth (RIDDLESDALE)
|         /-----John RIDDLESDALE
|        |         \-----Joan (RIDDLESDALE)
 \-----Susan RIDDLESDALE
          \-----Dorcas (RIDDLESDALE)



Descendants of John FRENCH
1. John FRENCH m. Freedom KINGSLEY
m. Freedom KINGSLEY father: John KINGSLEY mother: Elizabeth (KINGSLEY)