Thomas
Marshall
I
Family
Early Virginia Colonist
Thomas Marshall I
b. ? Ireland / England / Scotland
d. after 1664 ? Virginia
1m. Mary ?
1689
b. ?
d. ? Virginia
her father: unknown her mother: unknown
his father: unknown
his mother: unknown
| Children |
| Thomas Marshall |
b. 1660-64 ?Hungers Parish,Northhampton Co., VA |
d. bef 1 May 1704 Westmoreland Co., Virginia (probated will
date) |
m. Martha Sherwood (dau.
of
Phillip Sherwood) |
| there may be other children of this family but unknown to date |
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There is still a good deal
of speculation about which Thomas Marshall is cited in the records but
Russ Williams has surmised that Thomas Marshall "the carpenter" is not
the son of the Captain John Marshall who came from Ireland. --- I agree
that he would not be a carpenter as stated in his will if he had such
an illustrious ancestor. In most cases in this era this kind of
relative would have made him a land owner and a "gentleman". The
records are very scarce and cannot prove conclusively any connection to
other Marshalls. [Williams p. 347]
It does appear that
Thomas Marshall II could have been born in the colonies due to parish
baptismal records of the right region and time. The notations in the
Northhampton County Order Book for 1661-1662, pps. 389-392, birth
notations:
"A true account of such persons as have bin borne, Baptized, Married
and buried in Hungers Parish from ye 25th of March 1661to ye 25th of
March Anno 1662."
Thomas Martiall ye
sonne of Tho and Mary Martiall - April 2d (1661)
This Thomas Marshall was
probably in the colonies too early be very involved with the Covenanter
Risings that brought so many Scots to the colonies.
Paxton, a major early researcher of the line indicated that the
emigrant ancestor might be Capt. John Marshall of Ireland in 1650 but
that he also thought that any link to any aristocratic background was
very unlikely. [Paxton 6-12]
Sources:
Paxton, W. M. Marshall Family or Genealogical Chart of
the Descendants of John Marshall and Elizabeth Markham ..., Robert
Clark and Co., Cincinnati, 1885.
Williams, E. Russ, Jr. The
Kemp,
Turner
and Roberts Families on Little Silver Creek, Washington
Parish Louisiana. 1992, Williams Genealogical Pub., 514 Cole Ave,
Monroe, LA 71203
Scottish
History
1650
-1750 | Early
Marshall Speculation
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