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: Hopestill WARD
  • Sex: F
  • Birth: 24 Feb 1646 in Sudbury, Massachusetts b
  • Death: 23 Dec 1718 in Marlborough, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • William WARD Birth: Abt 1603 in Yorkshire, England Death: 10 Aug 1687 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Elizabeth WELLS Birth: Abt 1614 Death: 9 Dec 1700

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Bethiah WOODS Birth: 14 Sep 1679 in Marlborough, Massachusetts Death: 12 Dec 1695 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  2. Mary WOODS Birth: 29 Apr 1681 in Marlborough, Massachusetts Death: Abt 1682 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  3. Mary WOODS Birth: 5 Feb 1683 in Marlborough, Massachusetts Death: 13 Sep 1683 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  4. James WOODS Birth: 1684 in Marlborough, Massachusetts Death: Abt 1684 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  5. James WOODS Birth: 11 Oct 1685 in Marlborough, Massachusetts Death: 10 Apr 1772 in Marlborough, Massachusetts

Bibliography
  1. 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]*].
  2. 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]*].
  3. 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]*].
  4. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, New England Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1903. Available at http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Sudbury/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SudburyMA vitals p[0-9]*].
  5. Ward, Aldrew Henshaw, Ward Family; Descendants of William Ward who settled in Sudbury, Mass. in 1639, Samuel G Drake, Boston, 1851, LDS Film#0873925#2. Available at http://archive.org/details/wardfamilydescen00byuward Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WardAH WARD p[0-9-]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Sav-age WARD William, SudburyMA vitals p147, WardAH WARD p9]
24 (11) 1646 [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p478],
place:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p65, SudburyMA vitals p147],
parents:
William WARD & Elizabeth ___ [Ref: Martyn WARD p65, Sav-age WARD William, SudburyMA vitals p147]
William WARD & second wife [Ref: WardAH WARD p8],
father:
[Ref: WardAH WARD p9]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
date:
24 Jan 1647 [Ref: Martyn WARD p65]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p72],
place:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p72]
Sources with Information about marriage to Deacon James WOODS
date:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p72],
place:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p72],
names:
[Ref: WardAH WARD p9],
child:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p72]
Research Notes:
In the Middlesex County records of the births of their children she is erroneously called "Bethiah"; also in Marlborough records of their firstborn. [Ref: Martyn WARD p72]

Her Will gave 5 pounds for the relief of poor members of the church [Ref: Martyn WARD p72]



Pedigree of Hopestill WARD
 /-----William WARD
Hopestill WARD
 \-----Elizabeth WELLS



Descendants of Hopestill WARD
1. Hopestill WARD m. Deacon James WOODS
m. Deacon James WOODS father: John WOODS mother: Mary PARMINTER