William of Chester   (Harper) Marshall

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    Ancestry of Thom. Lewis and his wife Elizabeth Marshall of Saco, Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis, 1947, NEHGR 101, pg 81-91:
    Marhall is not an uncommon name in England and there were Marshall families in Shrewsbury and the surrounding Shropshire parished from a very early period. In 21 Henry III, on the morror of St. Edmund, a fine was recorded between Henry Bozzard, plaintiff, and Ralph Marshall, tenant of three bovates of land and appurtenances in the parish of Bureton. In 1444 Richard Marshall was elected one of a council or board of assistants to the bailiffs of Shrewsbury. The sixteenth century finds several Marshall in local religious offices. Richard Marshall alias baker resigned as Abbott of Shrewsbury in 1529, while, when the collegiate body of St. Chad's in Shrewsbury was dissolved by the act of 1 Edward VII (1547), two of the ousted prebendaries were Richard Marshall and William Marshall. John Marshall was curate of St. Chad's from 1553 to 1558. In 1529/30 the heirs of Thomas Marshall were tenants of the Drapers Company "of serten grounde one sanct Johns hyll," then in occupancy of Thomas Donne.
    A pedigree of the Marshall family with which we are concerned appears in the great genealogical collections of Joseph Morris, the indefatigable Shrewsbury antiquary of the early nineteenth century.
    At first glance the first generation of the pedigree looked extremely traditional, but t has been possible to prove it completely by public records.
    1. William Marhsall of Chester, harper, was possibly a musician attached to the cathedral choir. He was presumably born between 1450 and 1460 and may have been a native of Shrewsbury, co. Salop, where there had been Marshals living from very early times, with strong church connections.
    
    
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    Occupation: harper
    Source 1: 1947, Anc. Thom. Lewis, NEHGR 101:81-91