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: Abt 1635 in Boston, Massachusetts b
  • Death: 25 Jan 1706 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:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary FRENCH
  2. Sarah FRENCH Birth: 1 Mar 1664/5 in Topsfield, Massachusetts
  3. Phebe FRENCH Birth: 8 May 1667 in Topsfield, Massachusetts
  4. Martha FRENCH Birth: 1669 in Topsfield, Massachusetts
  5. John FRENCH Birth: 26 Aug 1671 in Topsfield, Massachusetts Death: 20 Apr 1730 in Norwich, Connecticut
  6. Lidia FRENCH Birth: 7 May 1674 in Topsfield, Massachusetts Death: 31 May 1746
  7. Richard FRENCH Birth: 18 Aug 1676 in Topsfield, Massachusetts Death: 13 May 1757
  8. Hepsibah FRENCH Birth: 2 Feb 1678/9 in Topsfield, Massachusetts
  9. Patience FRENCH Birth: 23 Aug 1681 in Topsfield, Massachusetts

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:
1637 [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p13]
abt 1635 about 48 in Mar 1682 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p705]
abt 1637 [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p423, Threlfall 50GMCol p158],
place:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p705],
parents:
[Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p423]
Thomas FRENCH & Mary ___ [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p705, Davis TOWNE p49]
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:
1642 [Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p158]
Sources with Information about marriage to Phoebe KEYES
date:
abt 1660 [Ref: Davis TOWNE p49, Threlfall 50GMCol p158],
names:
[Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p423],
child:
[Ref: Davis TOWNE p49, Threlfall 50GMCol p158]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
date:
by 1657, son Thomas b 1657 Ipswich [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p705],
child:
Thomas FRENCH b. 25 May 1657 (#33142) [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p705]
Research Notes:
tailor [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p158]

1691-4: Corporal [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p158]

1696-7: clerk, probably of a military company [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p158]

1701: deeded his homestead to his son John [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p158]



Pedigree of John 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)
John FRENCH
|         /-----William SCUDAMORE
 \-----Mary SCUDMORE



Descendants of John FRENCH
1. John FRENCH m. Phoebe KEYES
m. Phoebe KEYES father: Robert KEYES mother: Sarah (KEYES)

2nd generation

3. Sarah FRENCH m. Thomas TOWNE
m. Thomas TOWNE father: Edmund TOWNE mother: Mary BROWNING

3rd generation

16. Richard TOWNE m1. Elizabeth BIXBY m2. Hannah BIXBY
m. Elizabeth BIXBY
m. Hannah BIXBY