It was then necessary for them to depart to safer places. Many went to America. Sir Walter de Dyghton was born 1130. He became first Preceptor when the Knights Templar Protectory was founded at Temple Newsham. The family name probably was derived from the Village of Dyghton in West Riding of York.
Name signifies town with a dyke or moat.
Dyghton became Wm. Dyghton, then Dighton. By 1500, the common spelling was Deighton and soon thereafter, Deaton.