Hello CD,
I am an American family historian, and recently, a new member of the Buckinghamshire Family History Society. My area of interest is Thame, and I have posted the following research request to the BFHS Members List. I see that you have been looking for access to The History of Thame, and I hope you found this record, or could help me find access to it as well.
Here is the background of my request to the Buckinghamshire Family History Society:
"Hello Fellow BFHS Members,
I see from the BFHS website that some of you have an interest in the Stanley family of Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire. So I am writing from America, to see if we could help each other, in our common research interests.
After 40 years of research (
www.myheritage.com/site-70561601/lineage...ley-of-massachusetts), I am pursuing a new lead on the 17th C. English origin of Mathew Stanley/Standley, with some unexpected baptismal records offered by a Buckinghamshire genealogist/historian, who generously took the time to dig into some primary source material that I had seen referenced but not researched. The record is the first actual baptismal record for a Matthew Stanley, I've seen, with a birth date 02/11/1628, in Thame, Oxfordshire.
Thame is but a few miles (13) from the birthplace/homeplace of Mathew's American patron and neighbor, Zaccheus Gould, in Great Missenden, in the Aylesbury vale of Buckinghamshire, bordering Oxfordshire and Hertfordshire. The Putnams of Topsfield are also from this part of Buckinghamshire, and related to the Goulds, as are the Weedens, the Griggs, the Farringtons, Coopers, Tituses, and others, who also came to America in the same decade as the Goulds. I now have the image of the Thame baptismal record of Matthew Stanley, son of Ham(or Hamme) Stanley and Elizabeth Hawkins, born? and married in the adjacent community of Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, in 1624.
We have also found a baptismal record for Elizabeth Stanley/Standley, b. 1630, to Ham and Elisabeth Stanley, and another son, Wm./William, father Ham, in 1642, in Thame. There is a death record for Ham "Hamme" Stanley,in 1667, in Thame.
The Buckinghamshire historian that found these records says there are no further Mathew Stanley/Standley/Stanly (marriage/death/land) records, which, of course, leaves her speculation that Matthew may have been taken as a child, or grown up and moved away, or immigrated, as a single young man with some of the 20-odd Buckinghamshire families that escaped from King Charles I and his Civil War, in Buckinghamshire and came to America, in the late 1630's and early 1640's.
Do any of your local English Stanley research or civic records have relevance to the above? Also, are you aware of any current Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire Stanleys, that may have ancestral records, or even DNA tests done, that might be shared? Any help greatly appreciated.
Best Regards,
The Rev. Stephen R. Stanley
(*)Roanoke, VA USA, 9th generation descendant and historian of Mathew Stanley/Stanley (1628? England -1686 Topsfield MA, USA)"
I am most grateful for any response, and would gladly make a contribution to assist the Thame Historical Society, if that is possible.
Best Regards,
The Rev. Stephen R. Stanley
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