John Clayton, Sr

GEDCOM Note Reference 1 John Clayton, of Clayton Hall in High Hoyland Parish, County of Yorkshire, was living about 1550. He had two sons, Thomas and Richard. Richard of Wakefield married Joan, daughter of Henry Bentley, by whom he had one son, Daniel of Wakefield. Daniel married (i) Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Methwold, Esq. , and had issue Richard, D. D., Master of University College ; (2) Jane, daughter of Thomas Leghe, by whom he had four sons : Thomas, Robert, Ferdinando and John.

Thomas Clayton, the eldest son of John Clayton of Clayton Hall, Lancashire (*), married Anguis, daughter of John Thornhill of Fixby, County York, and died about the year 1585, having had issue two sons: (1) John Clayton of Clayton Hall, who died in 16 18. His will is dated the 13th day of April, 1618. He married a daughter of .... . Barnby, of Barnby Hall, and had one son, Thomas, of Clayton Hall, who married Alice, daughter of . . . Burdette of Dunly, and sold Clayton Hall to Sir George Cook of Wheatly. This "John" is called Richard in some of the works, but it must be a mistake.

William Clayton, of Oakenshaw, County York, and of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law, married Margaret, daughter of Jasper Cholmley of East Riding, and died 1627, having had issue eight sons and three daughters. (Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware, The Clayton Family, By Henry K. Hepburn)