Thomas Clayton, of Clayton

Biography

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THOMAS CLAYTON was born about 1540 at the family home, Clayton Manor in Lancashire. As a young boy, he went to Yorkshire with his family and lived in their new home, Clayton Hall. In Yorkshire he met and married Angius Thornhill about 1560. Angius or probably Agnes, was born in Fixby, Yorkshire and was the daughter of John Thornhill and Janet Saville. They had at least three sons.

Children

• John Clayton, the eldest son, married a Barnaby girl. John had one son, Thomas Clayton who married Alice Burdette.
• William Clayton the second son did not live at Clayton Hall, but resided in Wakefield in Yorkshire. Around 1590, he married Joan Bentley, daughter of Henry Bentley of Yorkshire.
• Thomas Clayton was born about 1570 in Yorkshire. In about 1590, he married Margaret CHOLMONDELY a daughter of John Jasper Cholmondely of East Riding, Yorkshire. The Cholmondely family goes all the way back to the first Earl of Chester, Hugh de Kyvelioc.

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Written History- (Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware, The Clayton Family, By Henry K. Hepburn)

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 1618. 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.

John Clayton, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister at law in 1626, born April 15, 1592, died April, 1671. He married and had issue. John Clayton, of- the Inner Temple and a Barrister at Iaw, born 1620; (2) James Clayton, born 1624. John, the eldest son d. s. p., and James, the second son, became a D. D., and the issue of that branch of the family produced many ministers and lawyers.

From the 1915 fourth volume of the Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography,[1] we find the following entries (derived from Hepburn):

"Thomas Clayton, descended from the Claytons of Clayton Hall, county of Lancaster, England, married Agnes, daughter of Thornell, of Fixby, county of York, England.

Children:

• 1. A son, who died young.
• 2. William, see forward.
• 3. ———, from whom Thomas Clayton, now of Clayton Hall, county of York, England, is descended."

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"William Clayton, of Okenshaw, county of York, England, son of Thomas and Agnes (Thornell) Clayton, and of the Inner Temple, heir to the family estate married the daughter of Cholmely, of the East Riding, county of York. He died in 1627.

Children:

• 1. John, of Okenshaw, barrister of the Inner Temple, 1660, and a member of the northern circuit; married Elizabeth Citterne, of Kent; he was aged seventy-four years, April 6, 1666.
• 2. Sir Jasper, see forward."

Sources

• ↑ Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography 1915. New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Volume IV, pp 114-119. Accessed by Baty-260 on 17 June 2018 at http://vagenweb.org/tylers_bios/vol4-12.htm#drjohnclayton.
• Visitations of the North, pt. 2, Surtees Soc. 133 (1920), p. 87, citing College MS H 19 (f. 71) and Ashmole MS 834 (iii/23b) for Flower's Visitation of 1563-4.
• Norcliffe MS, Harleian Soc. 16 (1881), p. 317. Apparently a copy of H 19, expanded by a later herald (seemingly about the time of Glover's Visitation, though no Thornhill pedigree appeared in Foster's main source for that Visitation).
• Le Neve, Peter: Pedigrees of the Knights, p. 86, p. 186. Presumably the Thornhill marriage was taken from H 19, D 2, or the Norcliffe MS.
• Hepburn, Henry F: The Clayton Family (1904), p. 12. Hepburn's account of the Yorkshire Claytons is derived from Le Neve, Dugdale's Visitation, and who knows what else.