Thanks for all that information, have been in touch with bob orr. Better luck next time.
Cheers.......kittie

Hi Phyllis, My gtgt grandmother was Lydia Hodgskin Deighton married 1850 John Curtis Marshall her parents were John (Hodgskin)? Deighton mother Jane Dickerson, 1841 census living in Huntingdon she had several brothers & sisters - Jane - John - Betsy - George - Riley - Eliza, is there any connection. Bob Orr e.mailed a list of Dighton's/Deighton's of Godmanchester and as yet have found no concrete evidence.
Hopefully Valerie Howard

Hello Valerie - I cannot see a connection with the names you quoted. Our Bartholomew Deighton (1810-1850) was the son of John Dighton & Elizabeth Green. He married Eliza Goss & they had many children but only a few survived - William, John, George & Eliza. I gave traced most of them & the names do not link with yours. I am from George who came to Canada. I know the kin of William & John & Eliza. Bartholomew had brothers John, George, Philip, Parish, James & sister Mary. I have not worked up these children except Parish as he was convicted of theft & transported to Australia. He left no kin in Australia. Perhaps you can work up John Dighton's children - perhaps you are from their line. They all lived in Huntingdon The OPR's for the 1700's of Huntingdon were very hard to read so I may have missed alot. Lotza luck, Phyllis Lindsay

My 4 x great grandparents were John Dighton and Elizabeth Green. They married on 26 1 1796. I have only traced the family of one child John bap 29 7 1804. Could my family tree be the same as Bartholomew's I have othe children's names for John and Elizabeth, but Bartholomew is not one of them. Can any one help

Hello Jan - enjoyed your e-mail. I have checked the Deighton research that I did quite a few years ago & I probably 'assumed' that John Dighton was married to Elizabeth Green & they were the parents of our Bartholomew. Perhaps it was another Elizabeth that was also married to another John. This is what I found from the Bishops Transcripts - John Dighton born ca 1771 died 7 Sept. 1828 St. Benedicts, Huntingdon. Marriage of John Dayton & Elizabeth Green on 15 June 1795 at Cambridge - St. Benedicts & Chesterton. Children: George 1804, Philip 1806, Parish 1809, Bartholomew 1810, James 1813 and Mary 1817. I only worked up Bartholomew as he was ours and Parish as he was transported to Australia for theft. I was in Australia looking for his grave but no luck. He was married in England to Avery Cox & married 3 times in Australia - but no children that lived.
If I have made the incorrect assumption about John & Elizabeth (Green) I am always pleased to find out I have made an error. Oh yes, I have Elizabeth Green's death as 2 Feb. 1829 at Huntingdon, St. Benedicts.
The O.P.R.'s are very difficult to read into the 1700's. for Huntingdon. I managed to read a Robert Dighton but no connection that I could find.
Thank you, Mrs. P. Lindsay, North Saanich, B.C. Canada

I have been looking thro what I have found. I have found three Bartholmew Dightons/Deighton. One born 1868 to William Deighton and Sarah, born Huntingdon. One born London 1878 to John Deighton and Sarah. Also I found a death of a Bartholomew in 1850 in Huntingdon. So there are a few Bartholomew's None that I can find related to my John and Elizabeth Dighton. Have you treid the Dighton one name study web site.
regards JAN

Hell Jan, thanks for your e-mail. Where do you live. I am in North Saanich B.C. on the west coast where George Deighton settled - finally.
The Bartholomew Deightons - Yes I have most of them except the one from the William Deighton & Sarah Cox family. Their gr grandson Ernie gave us the list of the children but no Bartholomew was listed but I do see a space for that birth period.
Bartholomew & Eliza (Goss) Deighton had a Bartholomew who was born posthumously in 1850 - 6 months after the father Bartholomew died in 1850 at age 39 of lung problems - I have his death certificate. The baby Bartholomew died at age 7 months in 1851. Poor Eliza must have had quite a struggle. We visited their home several years ago when we went to Huntingdon.
I went onto Google & saw Dighton things - mostly items I had given Paul Orr about my own line thro George Deighton. Is this the site you mentioned?
Looking back on the contributions that various Deightons have sent me they all seem to agree that it was John Dighton & Elizabeth Green that were Bartholomew's parents. I am not convinced about that. Ernie Deighton has put Robert Dighton as John Dighton's father & an Elizabeth _____ as the mother. I did check the OPR's & did find Robert but no name for Elizabeth.
The lst child of John D. & Eliz. Green is Robert Green so that sort of clues that in. Ernie gives the list of children as Robert G., John, George, Philip, Parish, Bartholomew, James and Mary., Lotza fun eh! Would like to hear from you again, Phyllis
ps I have a great photo of George Deighton

Phyllis,
Your John was called John Dayton and married Elizabeth Green in 1795 in Cambridgeshire. My John was called John Deighton and Married Elizabeth Green in 1796 in Godmanchester. John Deightons father was called Robert Dighton and married Elizabeth Whittleseay, thats were Whittlesea Daniel got his first name from and there are quite a few Whittlesea's in my family tree. John Deighton's children were: Robert Green 1796, Mary 1798, John 1804(my 3rd great grandfather), Whittlesea William1805, William Green 1807, William 1808 and Elizabeth 1811. I have a George on my tree born 1840, but I think that it is your George, as I have not found another George born 1840.
I live in Tottington, Lancashire England. The trouble I have found with Dighton's is that they all seem to give their children the same names.
regards Jan

Hello Jan, thanks so much for the information about John D. and Eliz. Green. I guess there were people with the same names that married. About George Deighton - he is mine the son of Bartholomew Deighton & Eliza Goss. He was born 30 June 1840 in Huntingdon. I have his apprenticeship papers to a cabinet maker. It seems that when Eliza was left a widow in 1850 she made sure her boys were all apprenticed to good trades. There are two versions of what happened to George. For the time being I will let him rest in peace - in Ross Bay cemetery, Victoria, B.C. about 20 miles from where I live in North Saanich. He somehow got to Canada & somehow managed to get to a remote part of Ontario where he met & married Hannah Matheson in Tiverton, Bruce County on the shore of Lake Huron in 1863. My grandmother #4 was born there. They had 10 children that George moved about Canada & the U.S.A. frequently. They ended up in Vancouver B.C. where George & the boys are listed as painters. Then they moved to Vancouver Island sometime in the late 1880's. George never worked at anything in particular. My own father said he was afraid of George as George was a cruel man & hit the grandchildren with his cane. He died in Essondale B.C. in 1920. Essondale was an asylum for the insane but looking back into things & would assume that George was senile. That condition has passed down to my father and his brothers....... some were violent, some passive. Very sad. Has any of this come into your line? Oh yes, child #9 of George was Harry Molesworth Deighton. I used to write to great uncle Harry so I asked him where his middle name came from. He said he did not know. I note a village called Molesworth near to Huntingdon. Wonder if its any connection. Thanks again for e-mailing, much appreciated. Phyllis Lindsay

Hello - I am sorry if I neglected to reply to your reply to me re the several Bartholomew Deightons. Yes, the ones you noted are our Deighton line. Bartholomew who died 31 May l850, St. Mary's Huntingdon was 39 years old, a cabinet maker & he died of Pleurisy & Empyema. He left a big family for the widow Eliza (Goss) Deighton to bring up. I have copies of some apprenticeships that she managed to get her boys into. A son Bartholomew was born Sept. 1850 after B. died but the child B. died 28 April 1851. The widow Eliza lived a long life ending up in London with her married daughter Eliza Toovey. She died at age 92. Many thanks, Mrs. P. Lindsay