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: Abigail COGGAN
  • Sex: F
  • Birth: Abt 1637 in Dorchester, Massachusetts b
  • Baptism: 1637 in Dorchester, Massachusetts c
  • Death: 5 Apr 1662 in Billerica, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Henry COGGAN Birth: Abt 6 Apr 1607 in Taunton, Co Somerset Death: Abt 16 Jun 1649 in England
    • Mother:
  • Abigail BISHOP Birth: 24 Jan 1612/3 in Bridport, Co Dorset Death: 6 May 1653 in Barnstable, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage:
  • John FRENCH on 21 Jun 1659 at Barnstable, Massachusetts .m1
  • John FRENCH Birth: 1635 in England Death: Oct 1712 in Billerica, Massachusetts

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. Vital Records of Billerica, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908. M-LH PS19, 974.4-VR-Bill. Available at http://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofbi00biller Information from this source tagged as [Ref: BillericaMA vitals p[0-9]*].
  3. Cutter, William Richard, New England Families, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co, 1913. M-LH 974 Cut. NYPL APR (New England) (Cutter) (NYPL has both 1913 and 1915 editions). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/272367. Two editions of this work were published in 1913, but contents and page numbering is different; the other is available at (vol 1) http://books.google.com/?id=KvUsAAAAYAAJ, (vol 2) http://books.google.com/?id=_c4UAAAAYAAJ, (vol 3) http://books.google.com/?id=7_UsAAAAYAAJ, (vol 4) http://books.google.com/?id=NegUAAAAYAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Cutter NE p[0-9]*].
  4. French, John M, Lieut. William French and his Descendants, NEHGR v44 (Oct 1890), pp367-372. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: FrenchJM FRENCH p[0-9]*].
  5. French, Mara T, French and Related Farmily Genealogy. San Jose, CA: author, 1984. LDS Film#1421648#2. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: FrenchMT FRENCH p[IVX]*-[0-9]*].
  6. Hazen, Henry A, History of Billerica, with Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: A Williams, 1883. LDS Film#0901880#2. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=OVunB0IQ_EcC Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hazen Billerica p[0-9]*].
  7. McCracken, George E, Early Cogans English and American, NEHGR v111 (July 1957) pp168-187. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: McCracken COGAN p[0-9]*].
  8. Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
bp 1637 [Ref: McCracken COGAN p177]
d 1662 age about 24 [Ref: Hazen Billerica p56],
place:
[Ref: McCracken COGAN p177],
parents:
[Ref: McCracken COGAN p177],
father:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p591, Cutter NE p969, FrenchJM FRENCH p368, FrenchMT FRENCH pII-4, Hazen Billerica p56, Sav-age FRENCH John]
Sources for baptism Information
date:
[Ref: McCracken COGAN p177],
place:
[Ref: McCracken COGAN p177]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p592, BillericaMA vitals p361, Cutter NE p969, FrenchJM FRENCH p368, FrenchMT FRENCH pII-4, Hazen Billerica p56, McCracken COGAN p177],
place:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p592, BillericaMA vitals p361, Cutter NE p969, McCracken COGAN p177]
Sources with Information about marriage to John FRENCH
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p591, BillericaMA vitals p258, Cutter NE p969, FrenchJM FRENCH p368, FrenchMT FRENCH pII-4, Hazen Billerica p56, McCracken COGAN p177, Sav-age FRENCH John],
place:
in Barnstable, recorded in Billerica [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p591, BillericaMA vitals p258, FrenchMT FRENCH pII-4, Sav-age FRENCH John],
names:
[Ref: FrenchJM FRENCH p367]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
place:
Billerica, Massachusetts [Ref: McCracken COGAN p177]
Research Notes:
d.s.p [Ref: McCracken COGAN p177]



Pedigree of Abigail COGGAN
          /-----Henry COGAN
 /-----Henry COGGAN
|         \-----Joane BORIDGE
Abigail COGGAN
|         /-----Thomas BISHOP
 \-----Abigail BISHOP
          \-----Avis ABBOTT



Descendants of Abigail COGGAN
1. Abigail COGGAN m. John FRENCH
m. John FRENCH father: William FRENCH mother: Elizabeth GODFREY