Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 03-27-2022.

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.


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Bibliography
  1. Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
  2. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 05 E-Goojerat. London: St Catherine Press, 1926. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP V [Ap][p0-9].*].
  3. Phillips, Chris, Proposed Corrections and Additions to the Complete Peerage, http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/cp/index.shtml Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP++(proposed) .*].
  4. Paul, Sir James Balfour, Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that Kingdom. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP IV p[0-9]*].

Sources for death Information
date:
living 12 Apr 1358, died soon afterwards [Ref: SP IV p13]
living Mar 1359/60, died soon afterwards [Ref: CP V p374]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
names:
Sir William RAMSAY & Isabel Countess of Fife (#149247) [Ref: Burke Peerage cclxxxviii, CP V p374]
Research Notes:
Earl of Fife [Ref: CP++(proposed) Fife 8/24/2003 (CP V p374)]
Earl of Fife (j.u.) [Ref: CP V p374]

of Colluthie [Ref: CP V p374]
of Colluthie in Fife [Ref: SP IV p13]

said to have married Elizabeth Countess of Fife, as her first husband [CP V p374, SP IV p13]; presumably this was invented to account for William's possession of the earldom of Fife, but there is no evidence for the marriage [CP++(proposed)] [Ref: CP V p374, CP++(proposed) Fife 8/24/2003 (CP V p374), SP IV p13]

According to Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica, William de Ramsay was made earl of Fife by King David II of Scotland (who claimed that Duncan had earlier forfeited the earldom), and this took place soon after the king's deliverance from captivity [Sir H. Maxwell's translation, pp. 125, 126 (1907)]. David's deliverance took place in Autumn 1357, and William appears as earl in a document dated 20 March 1358 [Acts of David II, no 178]. He must have been made earl within the previous two weeks, assuming he is the same William de Ramsay who appears as a knight on 6 March [J.M. Thompson, ed., Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, Appendix I, no 127 (1912)]. (The charter mentioned in the account above should be dated 12 April 1358, not 1357 [Reg. Mag. Sig., no 662].) The last reference I have found to him as earl of Fife is dated 8 April 1359 [Acts of David II, no 213]. [Ref: CP++(proposed) Fife 8/24/2003 (CP V p374)]



Pedigree of Sir William RAMSAY, Earl Of Fife
Sir William RAMSAY, Earl Of Fife



Descendants of Sir William RAMSAY, Earl Of Fife
1. Sir William RAMSAY, Earl Of Fife m.