♂Thomas Deighton

Thomas Deighton lived at Cirencester, in Gloucestershire, England, in the sixteenth century, and was the father of John Deighton, the surgeon who became sheriff of the City of Gloucester. He was the twelfth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his 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.

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Where he is known from

Thomas 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), the first of which gives the Deighton arms as “Argent a lion passant between three crosses patty fitchee gules”, and an unpublished Deighton pedigree among the Harleian manuscripts at the British Library.

Dates

Richardson gives no dates for Thomas himself. An online family tree gives his birth as 1540 and places both his birth and his death at Cirencester, without a source.