The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13
A CORNER IN ANCESTORS
By FRANCES cowLEs.
THE MARSHALL FAMILY

Marshall Is one of the old English names whi, d, strangely enough, is at the present time more illustrious in this coun- try than it is in England. For although it is one of the more common patronym- ics in England and is much less frequent in this country. it has been borne by comparatively greater number of distin- guished men here than in England.
 Particularly illustrious has been the record of the Marshall family in the south for no less than 20 members of this family have, in the course of about 200 years. gained a place among the not able men of the country
 John Marshall, the progenitor of this family in America, is said to have been a captain of cavalry under King Charles I. who came to Jamestown, Va. in 16lo His grandfather was Capt. John Marshall . British officer under Queen Mary Tu- dor, who retired to Dublin, and from there the immigrant Marshall came to America. John Marshall of Jamestown, had a son Thomas born about 1655. Thomas had two sons, one William, born In 1885, who mar ried Elizabeth Williams, and another called John of the Forest who married Elizabeth Markham, daughter or Eowaro Markham. It is said that all the ability of the Marshalls came in with this union with the Markham family. This theory not only detracts from the credit or the Marshall stock, but seems untrue when the records of John Marshall, the found- CT. and his grandfather, the captain un- der Queen Mary, are taken into consid- eration But it Is quite probable that at of hn fa1 o. scendants of John Of the Forest was due to their ancestress. Elizabeth Markham
 The origin of this family outside the states is not known, but there Is reason to believe that it was of the Dutch fam ily Marschal of Amsterdam.
 The Boston Marshall family traces It's descent to John Marshall, who was born in England in 1901 and came to this coun- try in 1885 in the ship Hopewell. He is supposed to be descendant of John Mar ;, shall of Southwark, England, whose son John founded Christ church of South wark John. the pilgrim. married Sarah, whose last name Is unknown. and had eight children, John, Joseph. Samuel. Sa- rah Hannah. Thomas, Benjamin and Christopher.
 The name Marshall was first borne by the family of the Earl of Pembroke in England, but as there are countless fam- flies of the name in England at the pres
  seconded from the Pembrokes. it is be- lieved that by far the greater number of Marshalls derived their name from the word that meant simply horseshoer, or smith.
 The coat-of-arms illustrated is that of the family of Marshalls who were Earls of Pembroke. The shield is blazoned: Gules bend fusilly or.
 Answers to Correspondents
 To F. S. H., who requests the descrip- tor of the Newhouse coat-of-arms with a full explanation of the symbolism of the bearings:
 Burke "Peerage'' blazons the coat-of- arms for the Newhouse family of Lan- cashire vert, chevron argent between two garbs in chief. or, and house In base proper 0 G., natural-coloring).
 Crest, an arm erect, proper. grasping a banner azure.
 No motto is given. Another branch of the family has the same arms. but the crest Is squirrel sejant (sitting), gues.
 The heraldic significance of chevron is protection, representing. as 1t does, the roof of a house. Garbs or wheat sheaves denote plenty. and that the bearer of the