Roger Marshall

Notes for Gent. Roger Marshall: Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth Century Colonist by David Farrar, 1st Edition, 1996, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, pg 189: Roger Marshall, Gent., draper of Shrewsbury, Merchant of the Staple of England, son of Richard Marshall, shearman of Shrewsbury,co. Salop, by Joan, dau of Adam Benyon of Shrewsbury. He was b. abt 1561, and was entered in Shrewsbury School in 1571, and was apprenticed to a draper in 1575. They had five children. He was admitted to the Drapers Company on 2 Mar. 1597. Their house, still retaining the original wood frame, stood in Milk street in Shrewsbury and in 1947 was used as an auctioneer's offices. Roger Marshall, Gent. d. testate in Shrewsbury on 4 Aug 1612, and was bur at St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, with gravestone "neere the pulpit in the middle isle" inscribed: "Here lyeth the body/ of Roger Marshall/ gent. late merchant/ of the Staple of England and Al-/ derman of this town of Salop. who/ took to wife Katherine one of the daugh-/ ters of Edward Mitton of Weston under Kirwed Esq. and had yssue two sonnes Richard/ and Thomas and three daughters Judith Mary and Eli- zabeth and deceased the 4th day of August/ 1612" [the church destroyed in 1788].

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GEDCOM Note

Potential Parents:
Richard Marshall 1510-1578
Joan Benyon 1511-1580</line><line /><line>2/3/21