Thomas Stockton (judge)

The Stockton family suffered heavily for their loyalty to the Crown during the English Civil War, but they recovered their estates after the Restoration of Charles II, when Thomas received high praise for his personal fidelity to the King, "having suffered much in his person and fortune for his fidelity and allegiance".

[1] The second son, Richard Stockton, left England during the English Civil War for the Colonies where he disembarked in New York which was in Dutch hands at the time.

The younger Ursula married firstly, as his third wife, her father's colleague Sir William Aston (died 1671), by whom she had one surviving son, Thomas.

[6]Her stepson, William Aston junior, was hanged for the murder of one Mr. Keating, who he claimed had insulted his wife, in Dublin in 1686.

[6] The death sentence was carried out despite "great intercessions for mercy" having been made on his behalf by Ursula, and by certain prominent Protestants who argued that religious bias had influenced the verdict, as the victim was a Roman Catholic, although the Government insisted that the trial was scrupulously fair.