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: Ralph WHEELOCK
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 4 May 1600 in Shopshire, Co Salop, England b
  • Death: 11 Jan 1683/4 in Medfield, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • John WHEELOCK Birth: 7 Oct 1563 in Donington, Shropshire Death: 11 Sep 1639
    • Mother:
  • Elizabeth ROGERS

Family:
Marriage:
  • Rebecca CLARK on 17 May 1630 at Wramplingham, Norfolk .m1
  • Rebecca CLARK Birth: 26 Aug 1610 in Banham, Norfolk, England Death: 1 Jan 1680/1 in Medfield, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Mary (Nancy) WHEELOCK Birth: Abt 2 Sep 1631 in Banham, Norfolk, England
  2. Gershom WHEELOCK Birth: Abt 3 Jan 1632/3 in Eccles, Norfolk, England Death: 28 Nov 1684 in Medfield, Massachusetts
  3. Rebecca WHEELOCK Birth: Abt 24 Aug 1634 in Eccles, Norfolk, England Death: Nov 1667 in Medfield, Massachusetts
  4. Benjamin WHEELOCK Birth: 8 Jan 1639/40 in Dedham, Massachusetts Death: Abt 1720 in Mendon, Massachusetts
  5. Samuel WHEELOCK Birth: 22 Sep 1642 in Dedham, Massachusetts Death: 23 Oct 1698 in Medfield, Massachusetts
  6. Peregrine WHEELOCK Birth: 1644 Death: 1 Apr 1671 in Medfield, Massachusetts
  7. Record WHEELOCK Birth: 15 Dec 1644 in Dedham, Massachusetts Death: 26 Jul 1726 in Medfield, Massachusetts
  8. Experience WHEELOCK Birth: Aug 1648 in Dedham, Massachusetts Death: 27 Feb 1710 in Medfield, Massachusetts

Marriage: Children:
  1. Eleazer WHEELOCK Birth: 3 May 1654 in Medfield, Massachusetts Death: 24 Mar 1731 in Medfield, Massachusetts

Bibliography
  1. Anderson, Robert Charles, Clark, Hunting, and Wheelock Families of Dedham, Massachusetts: Some English Clues, NGSQ 74 (Mar 1986), p3-6. Available (with membership) at https://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/ngs_quarterly_archives. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Anderson CLARK p[0-9]*].
  2. Bond, Henry, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Second Edition, New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Boston, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bond Watertown [A-Z]*[0-9 p]*].
  3. Clark, Christopher Gleason, Mr Wheelock's Cure, NEHGR 152 (Oct 1998), pp311-2. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Clark WHEELOCK p[0-9]*].
  4. Clark, Christopher Gleason, English Ancestry of Joseph Clark (1613-1683) of Dedham and Medfield, Massachusetts, NEHGR 152 (Jan 1998), pp 3-23. Hopefully it will be available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ClarkCG CLARK p[0-9]*].
  5. Davis, William H, Colonel William CROWNE and his Family, NEHGR v57 (1903) p406-410. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Davis CROWNE p4[01][0-9]*].
  6. Farmer, John, A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England. Lancaster, MA: Carter, Andrew & Co, 1829. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=TUGHVUEbRBoC Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Farmer [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].
  7. Hull, Mary Low, Story of Ralph Wheelock, puritan, b. 1600 amd Ephraim Wheelock: officer in the Colonial Wars, 1758, and in the War of the Revolution, 1775. SLC: GeneSocUT, 1991. LDS Film#1738314#13. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hull WHEELOCK p[0-9]*].
  8. Lane, Marion Bridgman, Wheelock Family Line from Ralph Wheelock, Founder, to Jesse Wheelock, Patriot, LDS Film#0165998. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/008252089 images 182-4. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p[0-9]*].
  9. MacKenzie, George Norbury, Colonial Families of the United States of America, Grafton Press, New York, 1908 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MacKenzie ColonialFam [A-Z][A-Z]*].
  10. Martyn, Charles, The William Ward Genealogy: The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass, 1638-1925, New York, Artemus Ward, 1925, LDS Film#1035525 item#9. Available at http://archive.org/details/williamwardgenea1925mart. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001597787. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Martyn WARD p[0-9]*].
  11. Moore, Winifred H, Moore Genealogy, Report of the Genealogical Records Commttee District of Columbia Daughters of American Revolution, 1948-50. LDS Film#0874739#4. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007831154 images 490-625. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MooreWH MOORE p[0-9]*].
  12. Pope, Charles Henry, The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. Boston, MA: author, 1900. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1400537. Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Pub Co, 1986. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p[0-9][0-9a]*].
  13. Sanborn, Melinde Lutz, Third Supplement to Torreys New England Marriages, Baltimore, MD: Gene Pub Co, 2003. NEHGS REF F3/T6/Suppl/2003. MCL [NJ]929.374 San. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sanborn NE<1700-Sup3 p[0-9]*].
  14. 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]*].
  15. Wheelock, Danford E, The Name and Family of WHEELOCK, prepared for the First Family Reunion of descendants of Alvan Wheelock, Jul 20 1980. LDS Film#1312461 item#8. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007967884 images 581-682. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WheelockDE WHEELOCK p[AB][0-9]*].
  16. Wheelock, Walter T, The Wheelock Family in America 1637-1969. unpublished. Sutro CS71.W565 1970Z. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/450820. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WheelockWT WHEELOCK p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: WheelockDE WHEELOCK pA20]
1600 [Ref: MooreWH MOORE p28, WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13]
abt 1600 [Ref: ClarkCG CLARK p18, Farmer WHEELOCK Ralph, Hull WHEELOCK p2]
died 1684 age 84 [Ref: Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph],
place:
[Ref: ClarkCG CLARK p18, Hull WHEELOCK p2, WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13]
Co Salop [Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1, Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph]
Shopshire [Ref: Farmer WHEELOCK Ralph, MooreWH MOORE p28],
parents:
[Ref: WheelockDE WHEELOCK pA19, WheelockDE WHEELOCK pA20]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: ClarkCG CLARK p18]
11 Jan 1684 [Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1, Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph],
place:
[Ref: ClarkCG CLARK p18, Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph, WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13]
Sources with Inaccurate death Information
date:
11 Jan 1683 [Ref: MacKenzie ColonialFam WHEELOCK, WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13]
Nov 1688 at age 84 (and born 1600) [Ref: Farmer WHEELOCK Ralph]
Sources with Information about marriage to Rebecca CLARK
date:
[Ref: Anderson CLARK p4, ClarkCG CLARK p18, Sanborn NE<1700-Sup3 p271],
place:
[Ref: Anderson CLARK p4, ClarkCG CLARK p18, Sanborn NE<1700-Sup3 p271]
England [Ref: MacKenzie ColonialFam WHEELOCK],
names:
[Ref: Clark WHEELOCK p311]
Ralph WHEELOCK & Rebecca ___ [Ref: Hull WHEELOCK p6, Martyn WARD p72, Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph, WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13],
child:
[Ref: Hull WHEELOCK p6, MacKenzie ColonialFam WHEELOCK, Martyn WARD p72, MooreWH MOORE p29, Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph, WheelockDE WHEELOCK pB5, WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
date:
17 Jun 1636 [Ref: WheelockDE WHEELOCK pA21],
names:
Ralph WHEELOCK & Rebecca WILKINSON dau of Ralph WILKINSON [Ref: WheelockDE WHEELOCK pA21],
child:
Eleazer (#5674) [Ref: WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13]
Sources with Information about marriage to Hannah (WHEELOCK)
date:
abt 1654 [Ref: MacKenzie ColonialFam WHEELOCK]
second marriage of Ralph [Ref: MooreWH MOORE p28],
names:
Ralph WHEELOCK & Hannah ___ [Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1, MacKenzie ColonialFam WHEELOCK, MooreWH MOORE p28],
child:
[Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1, MacKenzie ColonialFam WHEELOCK]
Research Notes:
a descendant of Hugh de Wheelock, who in the reign of Henry II received, from Roger Maine Warring a title to all the claims in the village of Wheelock. [Ref: Hull WHEELOCK p2, Lane WHEELOCK p1]

likely also a relative of Abraham WHEELOCK, a native of Shropshire, who took the degree of A.M. at Cambridge University in 1618 and was admitted to Clare Hall as a fellow about the same time as Ralph Wheelock entered the same college and who later on became the first professor of Arabic and Saxon tongues in the University and became librarian [Ref: Hull WHEELOCK p2]

educated at Clare-Hall, in Cambridge, where he took his degrees 1626 and 1631 [Ref: Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph]

A.B. of Clare Hall, Cambridge in 1626, A.M. in 1631 [Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1, MacKenzie ColonialFam WHEELOCK]

believed, but without absolute evidence, same Ralph Wheelock who received A.B. Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1626, and A.M. in 1631 [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p490]

persecuted for his preaching in Cambridge England, and thrown into prison three times. He was released to come to America on his promise never to serve any church as a minister again. [Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1]

1637: immigrated to New England on the second voyage of the Transport, as claimed by Victor Preskett in "Wheelock: Founder of Medfield" (privately printed 1992), but passenger list not found [Ref: ClarkCG CLARK p18]

propr 14 (7) 1637 [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p490]

emigrated in 1637, with wife Rebecca and daughter Rebecca, first settled at Watertown, but moved to Dedham in 1638 [Ref: Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph]

first settled in Watertown, thence moved to Dedham [Ref: Bond Watertown WHEELOCK, Hull WHEELOCK p7]

appears here first at Watertown, thence moved to Dedham [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p490]

one of founders of church in Dedham in 1638 [Ref: Farmer WHEELOCK Ralph]

one of the most valuable founders, learned, devout, unselfish, and practical [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p490]

founded the first public school in the colonies [Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1]

freeman Mar 13 1639 [Ref: Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph]

Mar 13 1638/39: freeman [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p490]

1638: freeman [Ref: Farmer WHEELOCK Ralph]

representative 1639 and 1640 [Ref: Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph]

Representative to General Court of Massachusetts [Ref: MacKenzie ColonialFam WHEELOCK]

made 1642, clk. of the writs in place of Edward Alleyne, deceased [Ref: Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph]

lived in part of Dedham which became Medfield, and was its first representative, 1653, 1663, 1664, 1666 [Ref: Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph]

On May 7 1673 appointed by the General Court to solemnize marriages in towns of Mendon and Medfield, there being no magistrate near Medfield & Mendon [Ref: Davis CROWNE p406]

signed will 3 (3) 1681 [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p490]

will mentions sons Gershom, Benjamin, Eleazer, Samuel. sons-in-law Increase Ward and Joseph Warren [Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1]

will on file in Suffold County Probate Court (file#1339) a copy of which is in Book 6, page 454 [Ref: WheelockDE WHEELOCK pB5]

beq to eldest son Gershom and other sons Benjamin, Eliezer and Samuel; sons-in-law Increase Ward and Joseph Warren; gr. ch. Rebecca Craft; refers to deceased wife; brother George Barbour one of the overseers of the will [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p491]



Pedigree of Ralph WHEELOCK
          /-----Humphrey WHEELOCKE
 /-----John WHEELOCK
|         \-----Margaret WINTER
Ralph WHEELOCK
|         /-----Roger ROGERS
 \-----Elizabeth ROGERS



Descendants of Ralph WHEELOCK
1. Ralph WHEELOCK m1. Rebecca CLARK m2. Hannah (WHEELOCK)
m. Rebecca CLARK father: Thomas CLARK mother: Mary CANNE
m. Hannah (WHEELOCK)

2nd generation

3. Gershom WHEELOCK m. Hannah STODDER
m. Hannah STODDER father: John STODDER mother: Ann (STODDER)
4. Rebecca WHEELOCK m. John CRAFTS
m. John CRAFTS father: Griffin CRAFTS mother: Alice (CRAFTS)
5. Benjamin WHEELOCK m1. Elizabeth BULLEN m2. Elizabeth FRENCH
m. Elizabeth BULLEN father: Samuel BULLEN mother: Mary MORSE
m. Elizabeth FRENCH father: John FRENCH
6. Samuel WHEELOCK m. Sarah KENDRICK
m. Sarah KENDRICK
8. Record WHEELOCK m. Increase WARD
m. Increase WARD father: William WARD mother: Elizabeth WELLS
9. Experience WHEELOCK m. Joseph WARREN
m. Joseph WARREN father: Arthur WARREN
10. Eleazer WHEELOCK m1. Elizabeth FULLER m2. Mary CHENERZ
m. Elizabeth FULLER
m. Mary CHENERZ father: Isaac CHENERY mother: Mary GAMLIN

3rd generation

14. Samuel WHEELOCK m. Lydia RICE
m. Lydia RICE father: Henry RICE mother: Elizabeth MOORE
16. Joseph WHEELOCK m. Abigail Elizabeth (WHEELOCK)
m. Abigail Elizabeth (WHEELOCK)
24. Abial WHEELOCK m. Joseph WARD
m. Joseph WARD father: Samuel WARD mother: Sarah HOWE
25. Benjamin WHEELOCK m. Hulda THAYER
m. Hulda THAYER father: Ferdinando THAYER
26. Obadiah WHEELOCK m. Elizabeth DARLING
m. Elizabeth DARLING
38. Tabitha WARD m. Samuel FAY
m. Samuel FAY father: John FAY mother: Mary BRIGHAM
49. Mehitable WARREN m. Gershom BRIGHAM
m. Gershom BRIGHAM father: Thomas BRIGHAM mother: Mary RICE
52. Ralph WHEELOCK m1. Ruth HUNTINGTON m2. Mercy STANDISH
m. Ruth HUNTINGTON father: Christopher HUNTINGTON
m. Mercy STANDISH father: Josiah STANDISH
56. Ephraim WHEELOCK m1. Miriam BULLEN m2. Priscilla PLIMPTON m3. Living BULLARD m4. Living PARTRIDGE m5. Living COLBURN
m. Miriam BULLEN
m. Priscilla PLIMPTON
m. Living BULLARD
m. Living PARTRIDGE
m. Living COLBURN

4th generation

59. Lydia WHEELOCK m. Richard WARD
m. Richard WARD father: Obadiah WARD mother: Joanna MIXER
60. Samuel WHEELOCK m. Huldah RICE
m. Huldah RICE father: Edmund RICE mother: Ruth PARKER
75. Able WHEELOCK m. Sarah FOSTER
m. Sarah FOSTER
79. Phineas WARD m.
81. Benjamin WHEELOCK m. Deborah TAFT
m. Deborah TAFT father: Thomas TAFT mother: Deborah (TAFT)
90. Obadiah WHEELOCK m. Martha SUMNER
m. Martha SUMNER
91. Samuel WHEELOCK m. Hannah AMMIDOWN
m. Hannah AMMIDOWN
93. Ebenezer WHEELOCK m. Mary SLOCUM
m. Mary SLOCUM
96. Josiah WHEELOCK m. Experience CLARK
m. Experience CLARK
97. Ebenezer FAY m. Thankful HYDE
m. Thankful HYDE
98. Martha BRIGHAM m. Joseph BIGELOW
m. Joseph BIGELOW
102. Eleazer Rev WHEELOCK m1. Sarah DAVENPORT m2. Mary BRINSMEAD
m. Sarah DAVENPORT
m. Mary BRINSMEAD
106. Sarah WHEELOCK m. Joseph BINGHAM
m. Joseph BINGHAM

5th generation

117. Jonas WARD m1. Abagail CHILD m2. Sarah DRAPER
m. Abagail CHILD
m. Sarah DRAPER
118. Lydia WARD m. Thomas DRYDEN
m. Thomas DRYDEN
122. David WARD m.
139. Josiah WARD m. Sarah GOODELL
m. Sarah GOODELL
141. Jesse WHEELOCK m1. Mary TAFT m2. Phebe WHITE
m. Mary TAFT
m. Phebe WHITE father: Thomas WHITE mother: Phebe (WHITE)
178. Jude FAY m. Sally FAIRBANKS
m. Sally FAIRBANKS father: Eleazer FAIRBANKS mother: Prudence CRARY
179. Mary BIGELOW m. Isaac MOORE
m. Isaac MOORE father: Isaac MOORE mother: Mary (MOORE)
188. Jerusha BINGHAM m. Samuel Rev KIRKLAND
m. Samuel Rev KIRKLAND