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Rev Thomas Stoughton
1557 - Aft 1622 (> 65 years)-
Name Thomas Stoughton Prefix Rev Birth 1557 St Peters, Sandwich, Kent, England 
Gender Male Death Aft 20 Aug 1622 St. Bartholomewes by Sandwich, Kent, England Person ID I64898 Scudder Last Modified 13 Feb 2019
Family Katherine, b. Abt 1564, England d. 18 Apr 1603, Coggeshall, Essex, England (Age 39 years) Marriage Abt 1585 Naughton, Suffolk, England Children 1. Mary Stoughton, b. Abt 1586, of Naughton, Suffolk, England d. Yes, date unknown2. Thomas Stoughton, b. 9 Jul 1588, Naughton, Suffolk, England, d. Bef 23 Jan 1592, Naughton, Suffolk, England (Age < 3 years)3. Anne Stoughton, b. 1591, Naughton, Suffolk, England d. 1591, Naughton, Suffolk, England (Age 0 years)4. Thomas Stoughton, b. 1592, Naughton, Suffolk, England d. 25 Mar 1661, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America (Age 69 years)5. Rev John Stoughton, b. 23 Jan 1592, Naughton, Suffolk, England d. 4 May 1639, Aldermanbury, London, England (Age 47 years)6. Elizabeth Stoughton, b. Abt 1595, of Coggeshall, Essex, Kent, England d. Abt 1647, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 52 years)7. Judith Stoughton, c. 3 Jul 1599, Burstead Magna, Essex, England d. 1639, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, British Colonial America (Age ~ 39 years)8. Israel Stoughton, c. 18 Feb 1602/3, Great Coggeshall, Essex, England d. 1644, Lincolnshire, England (Age ~ 40 years)Family ID F23486 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Mar 2024
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Notes - Thomas was born the year that his father Francis made his will dated 28 July 1557 at St. Peter's, Sandwich, Kent and proved 30 September 1557. Thomas was his father's only child. A legacy was left to his wife Agnes (maiden name unknown) and also to Francis's sister Alice. Francis named his brother Thomas of St Martins, Canterbury as trustee and guardian of his son Thomas. See Canterbury Probate Registry: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Vol. 52, fol. 228. See pages 60–61 of The English Ancestry of Thomas Stoughton, 1588 [sic]–1661, by Ethel McLaughlin Turner. This latter source has some very good information for this family and some serious misinformation so must be read carefully in light of more recent scholarship and accurate primary sources. One glaring error appears in the title in which the author has confused the christening date of Rev. Thomas's first child Thomas who died young as the year of birth for Thomas the immigrant. The title would be more correct if it read 1592–1661. Also incorrect was the author's giving Thomas the immigrant the wrong wife. Those errors are corrected in The Great Migration Begins.
Turner's book, pp. 71–72, gives a clue of his whereabouts in 1622.
Rev. Thomas Stoughton died sometime after 20 Aug 1622 when he wrote a Benediction letter from St. Bartholomews by Sandwich, Kent that included a sort of "last words to his children." By then his wealth was gone, having spent much in the service of others, and having suffered religious discrimination in employment opportunities due to his Puritan views.
- Thomas was born the year that his father Francis made his will dated 28 July 1557 at St. Peter's, Sandwich, Kent and proved 30 September 1557. Thomas was his father's only child. A legacy was left to his wife Agnes (maiden name unknown) and also to Francis's sister Alice. Francis named his brother Thomas of St Martins, Canterbury as trustee and guardian of his son Thomas. See Canterbury Probate Registry: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Vol. 52, fol. 228. See pages 60–61 of The English Ancestry of Thomas Stoughton, 1588 [sic]–1661, by Ethel McLaughlin Turner. This latter source has some very good information for this family and some serious misinformation so must be read carefully in light of more recent scholarship and accurate primary sources. One glaring error appears in the title in which the author has confused the christening date of Rev. Thomas's first child Thomas who died young as the year of birth for Thomas the immigrant. The title would be more correct if it read 1592–1661. Also incorrect was the author's giving Thomas the immigrant the wrong wife. Those errors are corrected in The Great Migration Begins.