William de Stanleigh Lord of Thalk
Husband William de Stanleigh Lord of Thalk 1
AKA: William Audley, William [I] de Stanley, William de Stonelegh Lord of Thalk Born: Abt 1170 - Staffordshire, England Christened: Died: Abt 1236 - <Staffordshire>, England Buried:
Father: Adam de Aldithley of Stanlegh (Abt 1125-Abt 1200) 2 Mother: Mabella? ( - )
Marriage:Events
• Manor or Stanleigh: granted to Adam de Aldithley by Bertram de Verdun, 1190.
• Manor of Stanleigh: exchanged for William's Manor of Talk [Thalk] on the Hill, After 1192.
• Witnessed a charter: as William de Stanleigh, 1203.
• Witnessed a charter: as William de Stanle', 1217.
• Witnessed a charter: as William de Stanle', 1223.
• Participated: in Invasion of Brittany, 1230, Brittany, (France).
• Attended: Henry III in his invasion of Brittany, 1230, Brittany, (France).
Wife
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Children
1 M Adam Stanley
Born: Abt 1208 - Stanley in Leek, Staffordshire, England Christened: Died: Buried:
2 M Walter De Stanleigh 3
AKA: Walter de Stanley Born: Abt 1215 - Stanley, Staffordshire, England Christened: Died: by 1285 - Staffordshire, England Buried:
3 M John Stanley
Born: Abt 1220 Christened: Died: Abt 1288 Buried:
Birth Notes: Husband - William de Stanleigh Lord of Thalk
Glenda Turcks http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=nanatea&id=I33919 gives b. abt 1170, d. abt 1236, as does stanleyroots.co.uk. Another source has b. 1166.
May have been born in Hooton, Cheshire, England or in Staffordshire, England
Death Notes: Husband - William de Stanleigh Lord of Thalk
Glenda Turcks http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=nanatea&id=I33919 gives d. abt 1236.
Research Notes: Husband - William de Stanleigh Lord of Thalk
www.familysearch.org (AFN: 8XKQ-61)
Excerpted from The House of Stanley from the 12th Century
by Peter Stanley at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ourpage/history.htm :
"In 1190 Bertram de Verdun accompanied King Richard I to the Crusades in the Holy Land. Before leaving England, he granted to Adam de Aldithley the additional Manor of Stanleigh in Staffordshire, as a mark of his special favour. Bertram did not return to England, dying in Juppa in 1192. He was succeeded to his estates in England by his son, Nicholas de Verdun. Some time later, Adam de Aldithley took the opportunity to rearrange his estates by exchanging his new Manor of Stanleigh, and half of the Manor of Balterley, with his cousin William, the son of his uncle, Adam (later styled 'de Stanleigh') for William's Manor of Talk [Thalk] on the Hill (which adjoined Aldithley). His cousin, William, being possessed of the Manor of Stanleigh then adopted the surname of 'de Stanleigh', being the first member of the family appearing in records using a surname when he witnessed a Charter in 1203, and again in 1217 and 1223 as 'William de Stanle'. Thus William was the first Ancestor of the Stanley family.
"In 1230, William de Stanleigh, together with his Kinsman, Henry de Aldithley (the son of Adam de Aldithley), accompanied their Overlord, Nicholas de Verdun when he attended Henry III in his invasion of Brittany. Thereafter, many of William's descendants distinguished themselves as soldiers, playing a prominent part in the various French, Irish and Scottish Wars."
"Both Aldithley and Stanleigh were Saxon place names - the former meaning a meadow belonging to And (a Saxon female name), and the latter meaning a meadow or clearing which was craggy or stony. Because of this, Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms, suggested in his book English Ancestry, that the Audleys and Stanleys were probably of Saxon stock. Mr L. G. Pine, former editor of Burke's Peerage, held a similar view. Surnames, however, first appeared in Europe in the 11th century and were not introduced into England until the arrival of the Normans. They were still rare at the time of the Conquest and only the more important barons possessed them at the time of the Great Survey in 1086. These surnames were generally derived from their estates in Normandy. It was not until the 12th century that the minor barons and knights adopted surnames and it is therefore unlikely that the early Aldithleys or Stanleys possessed a surname during their actual lifetime. These were probably added later by their descendants as a means of identification of an ancestor...
"The Manor of Stanleigh (Stanley) is situated about five miles from Leek in Staffordshire. At the time of the Great Survey in 1086, it was part of the larger Manor of Endor (which later became part of the De Verdun estates). It did not come into the possession of the De Aldithley family until late in the 12th century, when it was gift to Adam de Aldithley from his Overlord, Bertram de Verdun before the latter left with Richard 1 for the Crusades in 1190. ...
Birth Notes: Child - Walter De Stanleigh
Glenda Turcks http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=nanatea&id=I33919 gives b. abt 1215
Death Notes: Child - Walter De Stanleigh
Glenda Turcks http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=nanatea&id=I33919 gives d. abt 1285
Adam Stanley
Husband Adam Stanley
Born: Abt 1208 - Stanley in Leek, Staffordshire, England Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: William de Stanleigh Lord of Thalk (Abt 1170-Abt 1236) 1 Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
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Children
1 M William [III] de Stanley
Born: Abt 1234 - <Hooton, Wirral, Cheshire, England> Christened: Died: Buried:
Research Notes: Husband - Adam Stanley
www.familysearch.org (AFN: 8XKQ-3H)
Sir Edward Stanley 3rd Baronet of Bickerstaffe
Husband Sir Edward Stanley 3rd Baronet of Bickerstaffe 4
Born: 1643 - Preston, England Christened: Died: 16 Oct 1671 Buried:
Father: Sir Thomas Stanley 2nd Baronet of Bickerstaffe (1616-1653) 4 Mother:
Marriage:
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Children
1 M Sir Thomas Stanley 4th Baronet of Bickerstaffe 4
Born: 27 Sep 1670 - Preston, England Christened: Died: 7 May 1714 - Hanover, Virginia, (United States) Buried:
Edward Stanley 1st Baronet of Bickerstaffe
Husband Edward Stanley 1st Baronet of Bickerstaffe 4
Born: 1576 - Ormskirk, West Lancashire, England Christened: Died: 2 May 1640 Buried:
Father: Sir Henry Stanley (1515-1595) 4 Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
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Children
1 M Sir Thomas Stanley 2nd Baronet of Bickerstaffe 4
Born: 22 Oct 1616 Christened: Died: May 1653 Buried:
James Ewen Wallace and Elizabeth Stanley
Husband James Ewen Wallace 5
Born: Abt 1859 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: John Wallace ( - ) 6 Mother: Margaret Shaver ( - ) 6
Marriage: 2 Aug 1898 - Perth, Lanark, Ontario, Canada 5
Wife Elizabeth Stanley 5
Born: Abt 1874 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Mathew Stanley ( - ) 5 Mother: Maria Stephens ( - ) 5
Children
Thomas de Troghford and Ellen de Stanley
Husband Thomas de Troghford
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Marriage:
Wife Ellen de Stanley
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: William de Stanleigh "The Elder", Lord of Stanley, Storeton & Hooton (Abt 1337-1398) 7 8 9 10 11 Mother: Margery de Hooton (1342-Abt 1430) 11 12 13 14
Children
Flora Jayne Stanley
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Wife Flora Jayne Stanley 4
Born: 5 May 1906 - Great Bend, Kansas, United States Christened: Died: 2003 - Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States Buried:
Father: William Cary Stanley (1870-1928) 4 Mother:
Children
1 M Stanley Klein Ph.D. (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
George W. Stanley
Husband George W. Stanley 4
Born: 1762 Christened: Died: Jun 1843 Buried:
Father: Pleasant Stanley (1733-Abt 1763) 4 Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
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Children
1 M Pleasant M. Stanley 4
Born: 13 Nov 1798 Christened: Died: 14 Dec 1873 - Bedford, Virginia, United States Buried:
Sir Henry Stanley
Husband Sir Henry Stanley 4
Born: 1515 - Cross Hall, Aughton, England Christened: Died: 23 Jul 1595 - Bickerstaffe, Lancashire, England Buried:
Father: Sir James Stanley of Cross Hall (1486-1562) 4 15 Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Children
1 M Edward Stanley 1st Baronet of Bickerstaffe 4
Born: 1576 - Ormskirk, West Lancashire, England Christened: Died: 2 May 1640 Buried:
Death Notes: Husband - Sir Henry Stanley
John Warren and Isabel Stanley
Husband John Warren
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Marriage:
Wife Isabel Stanley
Born: Abt 1398 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Sir John de Stanley King & Lord of the Isle of Man and the Isles, K.G. (1390-1437) 16 17 18 Mother: Elizabeth Harington (Abt 1390-1437) 19 20 21
Other Spouse: Sir Richard Dalton of Apthorp, Northants. (Abt 1350- )
Children
Research Notes: Husband - John Warren
Source: Glenda Turcks http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=nanatea&id=I33919
Research Notes: Wife - Isabel Stanley
Source: Glenda Turcks http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=nanatea&id=I33919
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1 Website:, http://cybergata.com/roots/815.htm. Cit. Date: 28 Jun 2013.
2 Website:, http://cybergata.com/roots/8089.htm. Cit. Date: 28 Jun 2013.
3 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), http://cybergata.com/roots/8090.htm. Cit. Date: 28 Jun 2013.
4 Web - Message Boards, Discussion Groups, Email, Dr. Stanley Klein, email 1 Sep 2009. Cit. Date: 1 Sep 2009.
5 <i>FamilySearch Historical Files</i> (www.familysearch.org), "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZBS-R5Z : accessed 19 January 2016), Jno Wallace in entry for James Ewen Wallace and Elizabeth Stanley, 02 Aug 1898; citing registration , Perth. Cit. Date: 19 Jan 2016.
6 <i>www.findagrave.com</i>, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=96226454. Cit. Date: 13 Jan 2016.
7 <i>http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi</i>. Rec. Date: 25 Aug 2001, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mjr6387&id=I45411.
8 <i>http://www.familysearch.org</i>, Compact Disc #94 Pin #316914 (submitted by Samuel Taylor "Sam" Geer).
9 Website:, http://stanleyroots.co.uk/thenorthwest.htm.
10 Seacome, John, <i>The History of the House of Stanley From the Conquest to the Death of the Right Honourable Edward, Late Earl of Derby, in 1776.</i> (Manchester: J. Gleave, 1821.), pp. 14-15.
11 Kimber, E. and R. Johnson, <i>The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets Now Existing: with their descents, marriages, and memorable actions both in war and peace.</i> (Vol. 2. London: Printed for G. Woodfall, 1771.), p. 206.
12 <i>http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi</i>. Rec. Date: 25 Aug 2001, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mjr6387&id=I4541.
13 Website:, www.fintco.demon.co.uk/stanley/ches-hooton.htm.
14 Website:, http://www.penrose.org/familygroup.php?familyID=F23881&tree=penros.
15 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby. Cit. Date: 15 Sep 2009.
16 Website - Genealogy, www.whitneygen.org/archives/biography/princewm.html.
17 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 57-35.
18 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>.
19 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 40-33, 57-35 (Sir John Stanley).
20 Seacome, John, <i>The History of the House of Stanley From the Conquest to the Death of the Right Honourable Edward, Late Earl of Derby, in 1776.</i> (Manchester: J. Gleave, 1821.), p. 229.
21
Website:, http://cybergata.com/roots/481.htm. Cit. Date: 27 Jun 2013.
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