'March1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: March(e) of Ely, Marche of Haddenham

                               
Visitation identifies the arms of the following family as "Per pale or and azure, on a chief gules three talbots' heads (or water spaniels) erased or". T&G identifies them as "Or, three pales azure, on a chief gules three talbot's heads erased of the first".
John Marche
1. Robert Marche of Ely, later of Haddenham (within the Isle of Ely), Cambridgeshire (bur 22.06.1573)
  m. Agnes Castell (bur 20.05.1589, dau of Robert (or John) Castell of Somersham, aunt of Thomas Castell of Haddenham)
  A. Thomas Marche of Ely
m1. (05.09.1568) Anne Steward (dau of William Steward of Ely (by Mary Fulnetby), half-sister of Sir Thomas Stewart & aunt of Oliver Cromwell)
  i. William March of Ely & Wordwell, later also of Icklingham (Suffolk) (bpt 25.10.1570, d before 13.02.1645)
  m1. ??
  a. Thomas March of Ely & Thame (Oxfordshire) (d before 14.09.1670)
  m. Elizabeth Pigott (dau/coheir of Sir Christopher Pigott of Doddersall by Dorothy Ingoldsby (who m2. Simeon Steward))
  (1) Dorothy March
  m. (before 1670) Sir John Norton of Rotherfield, Bart (dsp 1686)
  b. daughter
  m. _ Goodricke
  (1) Daniel Goodricke (dsp 1701?)
  c. Katharine March (a 1644-5)
  m. (13.06.1642) Alexander French (d by 1645)
  d. Bridget March
  m. (after 1644) _ Burton
  (1)+ issue - William (a 1670), Catharine (a 1701)
  e. Dorothy March
  m. (after 1644) _Chaplyn
  (1) William Chaplyn of Witchford, Isle of Ely (d 1691-2?)
  m. Susan (a 01.1691-2)
  (A) Dorothy Chaplyn (a 1701)
f. Elizabeth March
  m. (03.08.1635) Robert Manning
  m2. (c1636?) Mary Reresby (d by 1641, dau of Sir Thomas Reresby of Thribergh, widow of Robert Stewart of Stuntney)
  g. Miles March (bpt 16.02.1637, d young?)
  ii.+ other issue - Andrew (bpt 25.11.1571, bur 03.01.1636), Elizabeth (bpt 12.07.11569, a 1580, bur 29.03.1602?), Barbara (bpt 29.08.1573, a 1589), Mary (bpt 22.01.1574-5, a 1589)
  m2. Katharinne (a 1589)
  vi. Thomas Marche (bpt 19.02.1588, a 1589)
  B. Robert Marche of Hadddenham (d c1620, younger son) - continued below
  m. Anne Humberstone (dau/heir of Edward Humberstone)
  C. Christopher March of Ely (bpt 31.05.1564, a 1619)
  m. Anne Pryme (dau of Benjamin Pryme or Prinne of Thriplowe)
  i.+ issue - Benjamin (bur 03.12.1608), William (b c1602, a 1619, dsp), Thomas (bpt 01.04.1610)
  D. Martha Marche
m. (before 1589) _ Waters
  E. Alice Marche
  m. (before 1589) _ Bowge
  F. Katharine Marche
  m. (before 1589) _ Thorowgood
  G. Joane Marche
  m. (before 1589) _ Grey
  H. Mary Marche
  m. (before 1589) Richard Drury of Reach in Swafham (son of Thomas of Talbot's Hall)
  I. Barbara Marche
  m. (before 1589) Edmond Hodilow of Kelvedon (son/heir of Thomas)
  J. Margaret Marche
  m. (before 1589) _ Watts
  K.+ other issue - William of Ely (dsps bur 13.11.1597), Edward (dsps), John (bur 18.09.1566), Jeremy (bpt 26.09.1566, d by 1575?)

 

 

Robert Marche of Gray Manor in Hadddenham (d c1620) - continued above
m. Anne Humberstone (dau/heir of Edward Humberstone of Wallam (Walkerne) Park & Tid St. Mary)
1. Humberstone Marche of Haddenham (b c1589, d c1658)
  m. Lettice Skipwith (dau of Edmond Skipwith of Fordham, sister/coheir of Edward of Snore Hall in Fordham)
  A. William Marche of Haddenham (b c1625, d 1700)
  m. Elizabeth Farmer (d c1635, d 28.03.0722, dau of William Farmer of Fulbourn)
  i. Thomas Marche (dvpsp)
  B. Robert Marche of Fordham, Norfolk (d c1664)
  m. Anne Thursley (dau of Thomas Thursley of Hanless)
i. Robert Marche
  ii. Ralph Marche of Haddenham (b 12.12.1660, d 31.01.1716)
  m. Sarah Rowlands (dau of David Rowlands of Hinton Hall, sister/heir of Thomas)
  a. Sarah Rowlands Marche (b c1715, d 13.10.1753)
  m1. Pell Gatward (b c1709, d 27.10.1741)
  (1) Pell Marche Gatward (b c06.1735, d 12.11.1735)
m2. Sir Isaac Wollaston of Loseley, Bart (d 21.12.1756)
  b.+ other issue - William (b 21.10.1700, d 26.03.1712), Thomas (b 23.003.1711, d 09.12.1712)
  iii. Mary Marche
  m. Thomas Barbour of Senvor
  C. Humberstone Marche 'of Roudham' (b c1640, dsp 1708, youngest son)
  m. Dionis Lovell (dau of John Lovell of Harling Hall)
  i.+ issue (dvp young) - Edmond, Humberstone
  D. Lettice Marche
  m. Robert Thursley of East Wicken
  E. Mary Marche
  m. Thomas Drury of Roudham
  F. Catharine Marche
  m. John Lovell of Roudham
  G.+ other issue - Edmond (d young), Myles (b c1634, d (unm?) 10.11.1684)
2. Mary Marche
  m. John Hurst of Bennington
3. Catharine Marche
  m. Rev. Martin Folkes of Haddenham
4. Anne Marche
  m1. Thomas Baron of Safron Walden (a 1634)
  m2. John Towlyn of Ely

Main source(s): on this page 'TOG' = 'The Topographer and Genealogist' (John Gough Nichols, vol 2, 1853)
(1) For upper section : T&G (vol 2, 1853, 'Marche of Ely, co. Cambridge', p248+) with a little support from Visitation (Cambridgeshire, 1619, 'March')
(2) For lower section : T&G (vol 2, 1853, 'Marche of Haddenham, co. Cambridge', p250+) with a little support from Visitation (Cambridgeshire, 1619, 'March')
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