Project
Overview
This project began
several years ago after Frances Coakley of the
University of Sussex published her Manx pages
containing the intriguing history about the Stanley family (these pages will be moved to www.manxnotebook.com) which raised my curiosity
about my Stanley ancestors.
From Wirral parish
records, census records, monumental inscriptions,
and ancient wills held by Cheshire and Chester Archives and
Local Studies Service, my Stanley ancestors trace back to
Henry Stanley of Storeton (deceased 1599).
Tracing Henry's
family origins, and achieve reasonable proof of
ancestry, involved gathering facts from ancient
and medieval manuscripts (wills, court records,
land records etc) held by the Public Record
Office, John Rylands Library, the British
Library, Record Offices, Record Society
publications, and medieval pedigrees based on
visitations in the mid 1500s.
Ancestral
conclusions are presented in these pages.
When time permits
these pages will be updated, and family groups
not included in "The House of Stanley from
the 12th Century" by Peter Stanley will be
added.
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Note - Anyone
researching their Stanley ancestry should
validate the facts presented in these pages. I
make mistakes, and deciphering hand written
manuscripts can be difficult, many are in Latin.