Included is documentation starting from the time George Marshall (Marschall) brought his wife Elizabethia, and four children, George Jr., Jacob, Margaretha and Lohann from Bavaria, Germany to the U.S in 1833.  George Marshall and his family left the French port of Le Havre aboard the ship "Brig Cervantes" bound for New York City.

John, a fifth child, was born that same year, 1833.  However, John was not listed on the passenger list with the other children and later census records indicate he was born in Bavaria.  It is not clear when or how John arrived in the U.S.  However, it is possible that he was actually born in the U.S. or aboard ship.

The Marshall Family Tree is a STATIC representation of ALL family members and is not dynamically created as you view the family members. To do so, each person who is represented in this tree, has his or her own web page made and stored on our server 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is very labor intensie to build this site in this manner. So why not have have the site created dynamically? The reason is because web crawlers, such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. regularly search all web addresses and download all text that is stored statically on these web sites and put the contents in huge indexed databases. Therefore, the aim is that anyone one the web can input a specific name (in quotes) on any of these search engines will then display matches andl provide the person sending the query, a link directly the page on the Marshall Family Tree web site that contains the information and links of the person found as a result of that query.

Persently, as of April 12, 2006, I have built, posted and cross-linked all the pages for the 414 people comprising the Marshall Family Tree. These 414 people are primarily the Marshall's from Seneca County, Ohio that imigrated from Bavaria, Germany in 1833 and then moved to Barry County, Maple Grove Township aruond 1856-66. Only of few of the current Marshall descendants from the originals remain in the Barry County area of Michigan, the remainder, likely well over 1000 in number, have dispersed throughout the country, and in my case, to Australia.

KEY DOCUMENTS
The passenger list, which we located at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. in December 2003, indicated that the family was bound for Ohio after arriving in the U.S.  Indeed the family went to Seneca County, Ohio.  About 1851, George and his three sons, George, Jacob (Jake) and John setup farming in Maple Grove Township in Barry County Michigan.  However, census records from 1860 and 1870 state that additional children that were born to George Sr and Jacob were born in Seneca County, Ohio as late as 1865.  This would indicate that the men spent some 14 years commuting back and forth between Michigan and Ohio and didn't move all the families up to Michigan permanently until around 1866.

It was at this time they decided to change their surname from Marchael to Marshall.

To understand the name convention, the name George_Marshall_6_4 would mean this George Marshall, is the 6th Marshall with the name George, and is in the 4th generation of Marshall's since the original George Marshall of our family lineage arrived in the U.S.A. in 1833.

If you have information that you would like added to the Marshall Family Tree please contact:
Marvin E. Marshall
Marvin2@MarshallFamilyTree.com