Individual Details
Rev Thomas Stoughton
(1557 - 12 June 1622)
Reverend Thomas Stoughton was educated at Queens College, Oxford obtaining a BA degree in 1577, became a fellow in 1579, and a master of arts in 1583. He was ordained at Lincoln in Lincolnshire on February 13, 1581/82.1 He became rector at Naughton, Suffolk,England. He became increasingly disaffected with the Church of England and aligned with the Puritan movement. As a consequence of this, he was removed from his church in Naughton. He wrote a number of religious treatises which questioned the Church of England including a 1597 paper A Treatise Against Poperie. He did serve as vicar at Coggleshell until 1606 until he was dismissed from there due to his separatist leanings. He did not receive another position.
Thomas married a woman named Katherine,whose maiden name is unknown; although two possibilities have been put forward as Katherine’s parents, both have been disproved so no one really knows. They had 12 children, seven of whom survived childhood. Katherine died in 1603 about two months after the birth of her twelfth child. Several of the adult children, including our ancestor Elizabeth Stoughton Chamberlain, settled in the New England colonies. The Reverend Stoughton died in 1622.
Source: Anderson, Robert Charles.(1995). The Great Migration begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Boston: Great Migration Study Project.
Thomas married a woman named Katherine,whose maiden name is unknown; although two possibilities have been put forward as Katherine’s parents, both have been disproved so no one really knows. They had 12 children, seven of whom survived childhood. Katherine died in 1603 about two months after the birth of her twelfth child. Several of the adult children, including our ancestor Elizabeth Stoughton Chamberlain, settled in the New England colonies. The Reverend Stoughton died in 1622.
Source: Anderson, Robert Charles.(1995). The Great Migration begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Boston: Great Migration Study Project.
Events
| Birth | 1557 | Naughton, Suffolk, England | |||
| Death | 12 June 1622 | Coggeshall, Essex, England |
Families
| Spouse | Katherine (1560 - 1603) |
| Child | Anne Stoughton (1591 - 1591) |
| Child | Elizabeth Stoughton (1591 - 1647) |
| Child | Thomas Stoughton (1592 - 1661) |
| Child | John Stoughton (1593 - 1639) |
| Child | Judith Stoughton (1599 - 1639) |
| Child | Israel Stoughton (1602 - 1644) |
| Father | Francis Stoughton (1531 - 1557) |
| Mother | Agnes Tringall (1535 - ) |