Thomas Preston, IV - Merge issues is mother Dobroah Norton or ELizabeth Harrison

Updated Thomas Preston, Jr. to show mother as Deborah Norton.

Do we have mixed up Thomas Prestons, perhaps?

Thomas Preston, of Kettringham in Norfolk

Notes do not match the notes at https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I7122...

I'm separating into two different men; one who married Elizabeth Harrison, the other who married Deborah Norton.

They can always be re-merged if in fact the same person.

Disambiguation

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/554809/two-different-thomas-prestons-b...

Two different men named Thomas Preston with two different wives seem to be combined together in one profile (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Preston-255), He is shown as having died in 1674 in Calvert County, Maryland. And each of the two wives have sons named Thomas about the same age (apparently both died in 1710, but probably in different places). The proposed merge of those two sons should probably be rejected, but I don't know where to start to clean up this mess. Please help.

I'm thinking the easiest solution would be to create a new profile for the Yorkshire Thomas Preston, and attaching Elizabeth Harrison to him (as well as the two profiles of their children, Thomas and Dorothy). That would leave the original profile for Thomas Preston of Norfolk (husband of Deborah Norton).

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The Thomas Preston who left a will in 1674 named wife Eliza and children Thomas & Dorothy Stevens.

Perhaps each of the Thomas Preston's had sons Thomas also.

See https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I7122...

Here's the man who left a widow Elizabeth; he's probably the Yorkshire man, as the other (original) Thomas Preston married Deborah Norton in 1631 in Norwich.

Thomas Preston, of Calvert County & Elizabeth Preston

Judith "Judi" Elaine (McKee) Burns

This is what I think it is.

Brothers Thomas Preston, of Calvert County & Richard Preston, of Patuxent in Maryland parents unidentified, but probably originating in Yorkshire, emigrated to Virginia, and then to the Maryland Colony.

I think this is the reference you had found?

From the Tri County Researcher, FIRST IN FREEDOM By James R. Ewing. " INSTALLMENT 2, Charles Anderson, Signer of The Bush Declaration, 22 March 1775 ...

Thomas Preston was born in England in 1615. In 1635 or 1637 he and his brother, Richard, immigrated to Virginia and settled there. Later they objected to the actions, which they considered to be persecution, of the Governor of Virginia and, separately, moved up the Chesapeake to Maryland.

On 16 May 1665, Thomas Preston bought 500 acres of land lying on "The Clifts" of Calvert County which is a short distance north of the mouth of the Patuxent River and about 35 miles south of Annapolis. While in Virginia he married Elizabeth (family name unknown) and they had three children. The eldest, born about 1641, was Thomas Preston, Jr. The others were Elizabeth and Sarah and we have no knowledge of who they married.

The son grew to adulthood at The Clifts and married Mary Hewes about 1671. The second of their four children was James Preston, born 1675. ...

So this is a different line from Thomas Preston, of Kettringham in Norfolk who married Deborah Lady Preston They had a number of children baptized in Kettringham in the 1640s, but there's no note I've seen so far that this couple left children.

However, I believe their daughter Dorothy Stevens and her brother Christopher Preston did come to America.

Hope this works for you. I've seen you manager requests.

Descent from Thomas Preston, Jr. and his wife Mary Hewes Preston is described in Baltimore County Families, 1659 - 1759:

https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000209516078840