Deighton sisters speculated connection to the Fiennes Clinto

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Deighton sisters speculated connection to the Fiennes Clinto

Legg inn av Tony Hoskins » 05 nov 2006 00:13:28

Deighton of Gloucestershire/Worcestershire = Dighton of Lincolnshire?

Very little seems to be known about the family of John Deighton, Gent.
(1568-1640),of the city of Gloucester, England, husband of Jane (Basset)
Deighton, and father of the Deighton sisters who emigrated to New
England c. 1636-1640 - Jane, Frances, and Katherine.

The little that is known is that John Deighton was baptized in 1568 at
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, son of Thomas and Anne/Agnes Deighton, and
that he practiced as a surgeon in Gloucester, where his children were
baptized, and he and his wife were buried, in St Nicholas's Church.

"Here lie interred the bodies of John Deighton, of this city, gent.,
and Jane his wife, daughter to Edward Basset, of Uley, Esq., by whom he
had issue three sons and four daughters. He spent his life in the study
of chiorgery, and attained to great knowledge therein."

The 1619 will of his mother, Anne Deighton, of Gloucester, mentions
sons John, Samuel, and Nathaniel

[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/ProbateRecords/GLS1619.html#D

(Also, there is mentioned in Marshall's _Genealogist's Guide_ a
"Deighton of Worcester" folio, which I have nor seen.)

As is well known, the Massachusetts Bay Company was founded in 1630.
The "Winthrop Fleet" bringing the first settlers that year was led by
its flagship, the "Lady Arbella". The eponymous Lady Arbella herself
being one of the passengers - Lady Arbella (Fiennes Clinton) Johnson,
sister of Theophilus, 4th Earl of Lincoln. The colony could scarcely
have come to be but for the powerful influence, protection, and motive
force of one of the most aristocratic Puritan families in England, the
Fiennes Clintons, Earls of Lincoln.

I note several intermarriages in this period between the family of the
Fiennes Clinton, Earls of Lincoln and a certain Dighton family of
Stourton Parva (Little Stourton), Lincolnshire, located about 7 miles
for the Earl of Lincoln's castle at Tattershall. Suggestively (perhaps
merely coincidentally), in 1644 in Massachusetts occurred a marriage
between an intimate of the Fiennes Clinton family and a woman whose
maiden name was "Deighton".

1) Edward, 1st Earl of Lincoln (1512-1585)'s daughter (by his first
wife), Lady Bridget, married Robert Dymoke (d.1580), of Scrivelsby,
Lincolnshire. Lady Bridget's son, Sir Edward Dymoke (1558-1624), of
Scrivelsby, married Anne Monson, daughter of Sir John Monson
(1546-1593), by his wife, Jane Dighton (d. 1624), daughter of Robert
Dighton, of Little Sturton [sic], Lincolnshire.

2) Theophilus, 4th Earl of Lincoln (d.1667), and his Boston,
Massachusetts-settling sisters, Lady Arbella Johnson and Lady Susan
Humphrey, were nephew and nieces of Sir Edward Clinton (born say 1572)
[brother of Thomas, 3rd Earl of Lincoln], who married Mary Dighton,
daughter of Thomas Dighton, of Stourton Parva, Lincolnshire.

3) Theophilus, 4th Earl of Lincoln's former steward - Thomas Dudley -
was also aboard the "Lady Arbella" in 1630, and served as the second
Governor of the Massachusetts Bay. And Thomas Dudley was married on 4
April 1644 at Roxbury, Massachusetts to one of the aforementioned
Gloucestershire Deighton sisters, the widow Katherine (Deighton)
Hagborne.

Perhaps coincidental? But just possibly an angle on finally identifying
the extended agnate ancestry of the Deighton sisters.

Your thoughts are most welcome.



Anthony Hoskins
History, Genealogy and Archives Librarian
History and Genealogy Library
Sonoma County Library
3rd and E Streets
Santa Rosa, California 95404

707/545-0831, ext. 562

Gjest

Re: Deighton sisters speculated connection to the Fiennes Cl

Legg inn av Gjest » 07 nov 2006 19:58:01

Dear Tony

Tony Hoskins wrote:
Deighton of Gloucestershire/Worcestershire = Dighton of Lincolnshire?

In the archives of the Gloucestershire Record Office are the
genealogical papers of Conway Dighton of Cheltenham (1878-1922). I have
not seen these papers but I understand he completed quite an extensive
history of his own family which may be of some interest to you. I
understand it is quite comprehensive and goes back many centuries. I
hope this is of some use to you.

Regards
Vivien

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