♀Anne (surname unknown)

Anne was the wife of Thomas Deighton of Cirencester, in Gloucestershire, England, and the mother of John Deighton, the surgeon who became sheriff of the City of Gloucester. She was the twelfth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son John Deighton (1568–1640).

Thomas Deighton and his wife, Anne, lived at Cirencester, where their son John is said to have been baptized on 18 November 1568. John became a surgeon in the city of Gloucester, in the parish of St Nicholas^W, was styled a gentleman, and served as sheriff of the city. He married Jane Bassett, a daughter of Edward Bassett of Uley, at St Nicholas, Gloucester, on 12 April 1605. John is the couple’s only known child. Anne’s surname is not known, and her given name is also written Agnes.

Notes

Where she is known from

Anne is known only from a single clause in Douglas Richardson’s Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edition, vol. 1, p. 635, in the account of Jane Bassett’s family, repeated in the same author’s Magna Carta Ancestry, pp. 264–265. It calls John Deighton “son of Thomas Deighton, of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, by his wife, Anne (or Agnes)”, and gives John’s baptism at Cirencester on 18 November 1568. Richardson’s sources for the Deighton family include articles in The American Genealogist (vols. 9 and 10, 1932–1934) and an unpublished Deighton pedigree among the Harleian manuscripts at the British Library.

Dates

Richardson gives no dates for Anne herself. An online family tree gives her birth as 1542 and places both her birth and her death at Cirencester, without a source.