Margaret Marshall, daughter of John Marshall and Elizabeth Markham was born about 1736 In Westmoreland, Colony of Virginia. She is mentioned in her mother's will as Margaret Snelling.
Research Notes
Digging Up Dead Relatives: Legends, Outright Lies, and Useful Facts About Our Ancestors
Who Were the Parents of Revolutionary War Lt. Robert Rankin (1753-1837)? (Part 5A of 5)
The link above takes you to an excellent article by Robin Rankin Willis who discusses Hugh Snelling and Margaret "Peggy" Marshall as the daughter of John Marshall and Elizabeth Markham
DNA Information
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group on GEDmatch who share a 9.1 cM segment on chromosome 22, consisting of Terry Hardesty, GEDmatch kit # KM5684025, and Audrey Lee Crockett, his 8th cousin, GEDmatch kit # TB1558976, and Mary Cameron, his 8th cousin, GEDmatch kit # A330762. (Audrey Lee and Mary are 8th cousins.) Their most-recent common ancestors are Thomas Marshall and Martha Sherwood, the 7x great grandparents of both Terry Hardesty and Audrey Lee Crockett and 7x great grandparents of Mary Cameron. DNA test taker Terry Hardesty is the 5x great grandson of Margret Marshall, the daughter of John Marshall, the son of the common ancestors Thomas Marshall & Martha Sherwood.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Margaret:
Marshall-9633 and Marshall-3380 appear to represent the same person because: Not sure why these were set to Unmerged Match; they are clearly the same person-- same parents, same spouse, same birth data.
Can someone provide a record linking Margaret Masena Marshall as Robert Rankin's mother? All the records I've found on Margaret "Peggy" Marshall show she was the YOUNGEST child of Thomas Marshall and Elizabeth Markham Marshall. She would have been born after 1741- which makes her too young to birth Robert Ranking in 1753. Also, all the records I've found state that Margaret Marshall married Hugh Snelling and had 4 children with him. None of them are a Robert Rankin. I've been two different Son's of the American Revolution applications that show Robert Rankin's mother & father as two different sets of parents. I'm having a hard time proving it or proving Robert Rankin is related to the Marshall family.
Margret Masena (Marshall) Snelling
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lksstarr/Rankin/NN%20Timeline1.htm
For DNA: http://digupdeadrelatives.com/2021/08/07/update-rankin-dna-project-families-august-2021/
and https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/rankin/about/results and others The Rankins in Stafford and Frederick are connected by DNA and seemingly the Robert Rankins family lived in Stafford before Frederick.
One conclusive member of Robert Rankins family is William Rankins, his brother. This is proven by Revolutionary War Records.
Which brings me to to 'Mary Rankins', born in Stafford around 1755, who married Henry Ward in 1776. Could this be a sister?
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