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Re: Stanley family mystery
« Reply #9 on: Friday 15 April 11 11:33 BST (UK) »
James is 29 and his wife Mary is 40! I wonder if James was her first marriage?
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Re: Stanley family mystery
« Reply #10 on: Friday 15 April 11 11:52 BST (UK) »
The 1891 entry I thought was possible for William BRISCOE is  RG12/2098/8/9.

The same couple has a daughter Eliza Jane aged 17 on the 1871 census.  (RG10/2750/72/39)


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James is 29 and his wife Mary is 40! I wonder if James was her first marriage?

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Staffordshire BMD http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk gives Mary an alternative surname STEVENSON, so it was possibly a second marriage for her.

Quite an age difference - it's usually the other way round!

ANT: Nesbit, Potts; CHS: Gosling (Hazel Grove/Lymm), Hinton (Lymm), Johnson (Hazel Grove), Marsland (Hazel Grove), Massey (Daresbury), Sorton (Warmingham); LAN: Jackson, James, Potts (Manchester/Salford); MAY: Caulfield, Griffin (Leveelick); SAL: Goodwin, Johnson (Bridgnorth), Gregory (Wellington); STS: Goodwin, Gregory, Johnson (Wolverhampton); Hallett (Trysull); SOM: Dowding, James, Jones (Bath)

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Re: Stanley family mystery
« Reply #11 on: Friday 15 April 11 12:15 BST (UK) »
Yes indeed quite an age difference! I'm so happy to be filling in these blanks, thanks ever so much for your help.

Just to update on what I still don't have:
--- A marriage and children for William Thomas (if indeed he married)
--- Children for Frances and his wife Emily J Whitehouse.
--- A birth and death for John Henry
--- Children for Samuel and wife Emma Hancox
--- A death and children for James
--- A death for William
--- Marriage, children and death for Mary Ann
--- Marriage and children for George
--- Children for Enoch and wife Millicent Harvey
--- Marriage, children and death for Eliza Jane
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Re: Stanley family mystery
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 19 December 17 09:53 GMT (UK) »
re Josiah Stanley and descendants - I have a reasonable amount of information on this family. I was just looking at the line via John Henry (who married twice; Phoebe Webb & Elizabeth Barnes). He still has Stanley descendants living in the Cannock area. I definitely have continuations for some of Josiah's other children, though I will have to dust that off. I am descended from Josiah's cousin Albert Stanley who came (with several brothers & parents) from Dawley to the Cannock coalfield at much the same time as Josiah.