I am wondering where this coat of arms originates from.
Mary Stanley (b 1762) is daughter of Joseph Stanley (1728-1789)
http://www.thepeerage.com/p41070.htm#i410696 Mary married William Wentworth and had a family.
Mary's brother (also Joseph Stanley, 1769-1856) outlived all his siblings, but left his vast fortune to Mary's downline IF they changed their name back to Stanley. Mary's son (William, 1793-1832) had died, so it went to the next generation (Sidney, 1828-1896). So they huffed and puffed a bit, but we all like a bit of money, so double-barrelled the name to Wentworth-Stanley, claimed the inheritance from (great uncle) Joseph and bought a nice big house.
At this point in time the newly wealthy and double-barrelled Wentworth-Stanleys appear to have joined their coats of arms together. They wrote, as you do, to the Queen - and it was all legal/agreed.
My question is: How come this Stanley family "suddenly" started having/using the Stanley arms?
ThePeerage gives as a source Burke's Landed Gentry, 1965, Volume 1, page 650 - but I don't happen to have a copy of this book on my bookcase here *grins*.
Can anybody shed any light on the question of: What is the source of this particular Stanley family having a claim to use the Stanley coat of arms?
Cheers.
For the record: Am I related? I doubt it, but who knows.... I am on the quest to find somebody else with the surname within 2 miles, so was wondering if Joseph (1728-1789) had any brothers, that's how I got caught up in this lot.... I had to "find out more about them" in order to eliminate them and understand their movements.