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: Ephraim FRENCH
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Abt 1643 b
  • Death: Sep 1716 in Enfield, Connecticut d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Thomas FRENCH Birth: 27 Nov 1608 in Assington, Suffolk, England Death: 8 Aug 1680 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Mary SCUDMORE Death: 8 May 1681 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Family:
Children:
  1. Richard FRENCH Birth: 1674

Bibliography
  1. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Boston, New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1995. Available at http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-begins-immigrants-to-ne-1620-1633-vols-i-iii/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p[0-9]*].
  2. Davis, Walter Goodwin, Ancestry of Lieut Amos Towne, 1737-1793, of Arundel (Kennebunkport), Maine, 1927. Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1927. Available at https://archive.org/details/ancestryoflieuta00davi. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Davis TOWNE p[0-9]*].
  3. 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]*].
  4. 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]*].
  5. 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]*].
  6. 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:
1643 [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p13]
abt 1643 [Ref: Davis TOWNE p50, Threlfall 50GMCol p158]
abt 1643, age 15 in 1658 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p705]
age 25 in 1658 [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p423],
parents:
[Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p423]
Thomas FRENCH & Mary ___ [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p705, Davis TOWNE p50]
Thomas FRENCH & Mary ___ possibly Mary MORTON [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p158]
Thomas FRENCH & Mary ___ possibly SCUDAMORE [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p13]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
date:
1633 [Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p705, FrenchRL FRENCH p13, Threlfall 50GMCol p158],
place:
[Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p13, Threlfall 50GMCol p158]
Enfield Connecticut [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p705]
Enfield Massachusetts, now Connecticut [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p2092]
Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
child:
[Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p158]
Research Notes:
1658: age 15 in court deposition [Ref: Davis TOWNE p50, Threlfall 50GMCol p158]

possibly married Susanna Stacy; widow Eliz Stacy mentioned her dau Susanna French in her nuncupative will 1669 at Ipswich. Susanna may have been wife of Samuel or Ephriam [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p158]

moved to Windsor, then to Enfield, Connecticut [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p158]

1687: admitted an inhabitant of Enfield, Connecticut [Ref: Davis TOWNE p50]

1690: entry in town book that his grant is to be forfieted "if he come not"; he came [Ref: Davis TOWNE p50]

1699: his nephew Richard French of Topsfield was induced to follow him; became his uncle's heir [Ref: Davis TOWNE p50]



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



Descendants of Ephraim FRENCH
1. Ephraim FRENCH m.