Edward Stoughton

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 16 Feb 1574, St. Mary's, Ash, Kent, England

Notes:

"Edward lived at Moat Farm in Ash, Kent. He was the primary beneficiary and executor of his father's will, suggesting that his older brother Peter was physically or mentally incapable of serving as head of the family." [Amelia Morrow, from Connections: Morrow, Porter, Sanders, etc.]

Birth derived from the fact that he was recorded as age 75 in May 1570.

Edward married Mary Exhurst before 4 Nov 1529 in St. Peter's, Sandwich, Kent, England. Mary (daughter of Richard Exhurst and Joan Roberts) was born between 1502 and 1511 in Kent, England; died before Feb 1548 in Ash-juxta-Sandwich, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Francis Stoughton was born about 1530 in Ash-juxta-Sandwich, Kent, England; died about 5 Aug 1557 in St. Peter's, Sandwich, Kent, England.
2. Thomas Stoughton was born in 1533 in Ash-juxta-Sandwich, Kent, England; died on 12 Jun 1591 in St. Martins, Canterbury, Kent, England.

Edward married Ellen Sherborn before 20 Oct 1550. Ellen died before 20 Jun 1575. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Susan Stoughton was born before 1555.

Notes:

"Thomas Stoughton, the eldest son and heir of Henry, seems to have forsaken the mercantile pursuits of his father and grandfather and to have lived as a country gentleman upon his estates in Dartford. One wonders if he wished to live away from the scenes of his father's unhappy fate, and preferred the peace of country life to the stresses and strains of life as a business man in the city of London." [The English Ancestry of Thomas Stoughton, citation details below.]

Thomas married Margaret about 1492. Margaret died before 28 Jun 1528 in Dartford, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 20 Dec 1508 and 9 Aug 1509

Notes:

Amelia Morrow, from Connections: Morrow, Porter, Sanders, etc.:

"Henry succeeded his father in the business in London. He was bequeathed Thomas's 'principal place in Old Fish Street and the two shops against the door of St. Nicholas...my great shops which Thomas Derham holdeth to farm, with a cellar and a shop of the yearly value of £ 4 13s 4d.' [...]

"Henry Stoughton was part owner of two ships captured by pirates in December 1491. He was also probably the fishmonger who, for reasons unknown, appears on a list of persons in prison in Cambridge who were exempted from the King's general pardon on 30 Apr 1509 (on the ascension of Henry VIII), only a few months before Henry's will was proven."

From "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings of New England", citation details below:

"[Turner and Turner, The English Ancestry of Thomas Stoughton] note that Edward Stoughton's grandfather Henry Stoughton 'appears in a list of persons beginning with Edmund de la Pole and including...a murderer...who were exempted from the King's general pardon on the accession of Henry VIII, April 30 1509,' but they say Henry Stoughton's offence is unknown. Henry's trial and death is documented in The Great Chronicle of London which shows that Henry Stoughton was imprisoned for his part in promoting the unpopular tax and debt-collecting activities carried out by Henry VII's ministers Empson and Dudley."

Footnote accompanying the above:

"A. H. Thomas and I. D. Thornley, ed., The Great Chronicle of London (London: G. W. Jones, 1938), 339. Following an entry describing a proclamation issued by Henry VIII 'upon the xviijth daye of maii' the chronicler states 'And abowth this tyme were convyct and demid to the pyllory iiij Sytyzyns as perjurid & comonly fforsworn personys, That is to say John derby bowyer othirwyse namyd John wrygth, John Sympson ffuller Rychard Smyth Carpenter & henry Stokton ffyshmonger Of the whych ffowyr personys iij were sett upon the said pyllory, and the iiijth which was henry Stokton ffor he was sore syke & In poynt of deth was sparid, But he dyed shortly afftyr In prison, These were the chevetaynys of alle the Questmongers of the Cyte, and In such ffavour wyth Empson & dudley that by theym was moche myschieff doon, The which afftyr this opyn shame to theym excecutid dyed alle shortly afftyr.' The next entry in the chronicle describes the marriage of Henry VIII 'Abowth the myddyll of the monyth of Junii.' The date of the trial is more precisely given in 'The Repertories of the Court of Aldermen, 1495–1835, from the Corporation of London Record Office,' microfilm (Brighton: Harvester Microfilm, 1986) repertory 2, fol. 68v, 8 June 1509 [FHL 1,482,846] (transcription, with modern spelling, supplied by historian Mark Horowitz of Chicago), which states 'At this court it is decreed and adjudged that Herry Stockton fishmonger and Robert Jakes sherman which as well by their own confession as otherwise been duly convict of detestable perjury shall be disfranchised [sic] from the liberty of this City forever.'"

Henry married Joan. Joan died after 7 Nov 1513. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1420
• Alternate death: Bef 8 Feb 1480, London, England

Notes:

He may have been the son of the Thomas Stoughton to whom John Wolfe granted land in Frolesworth, Leicestershire in 1413. That Thomas Stoughton was the son of a Maud Oudeby.

Amelia Morrow, from Connections: Morrow, Porter, Sanders, etc.:

"Thomas Stoughton worked for the King's household along with his brothers John and William. In Feb. 1444, he was commissioned to 'take fish for the expenses of the household and carriage therefore.' He is described in August 1445 as the King's sergeant and purveyor of sea fish. Around 1450, he was importing fish from Flanders for the King's household. By 1452, he acquired property in Rye, and his seal (a mermaid) and signature are found on a 1454 document appointing James Hyde as receiver for his rents there. He later sold the property to Hyde.

"In March 1475, he was appointed controller of the petty customs in the port of London, 'provided he executed the ofice in person' and received a similar appointment in Sandwich in Nov. 1476, which probably indicates he moved there.

"He is buried in London, in the church of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey on Old Fish Street. There was a plaque in the church at one time inscribed in Latin 'Pray for the peace of ___ _Stockton, citizen and fishmonger of London and for Christian and Beatrice his wives.' The coat of arms shown is the same as on the tomb of Colonial Governor William Stoughton."

Thomas married Christian. Christian died before 31 Oct 1478 in St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, London, England; was buried in St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]