Hello There,
The above William Stanley was one of my 9x great granddad's.
His son, my 8x great was baptised in Deptford on the 21 of September 1704:
"Thurston Stanley, son of William a distiller of King Street."
The trouble is I can't work out who Thurston's mother was/ really much about the origins of this William. The baptism does not give the mother's name.
Quite a few trees on Ancestry have William getting married to Mary Webster in Deptford in 1687/1689. This might well be true. But I can't find any earlier baptisms of children by a William and Mary before 1704.
However, there was also a William Stanley who married in London around 1689 (I think to a Mary). But that William Stanley, according to the Quaker baptism of ANOTHER child called Thurston Stanley baptised in 1691 was a "Sugar Baker." That Thurston Stanley was buried in 1691.
According to the Quaker marriage certificate of that William, I think it stated he originated in Cheshire.
I have just subscribed to Ancestry. The two William's who had two Thurston Stanley's baptised seven years apart, in different places may well be the same. He could have got another job, and then married another Mary, after one died. And Thurston, I think was not a very common name. But I am not sure.
William's son, Thurston (born 1704) became a Weaver, and was apprenticed to William Bingley, on the 11th of April 1720 in London.
There is a "Freedom of The City Of London Admission Paper" for this Thurston Stanley, dated the 6th of March 1738.
It states down the left hand side that Thurston was:
"Son of Wm. Stanley, late of (?), distiller(?) dec'd."
I can't quite decipher where William was "late of." If anyone has any clues who also has acces to Ancestry, I would be very grateful regarding this. Here is a link to the original image:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/2052/32512_a063384-00879/866466?backurl=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/108837364/person/422034320401/factsSo this must have obviously meant that William died before that date in 1738.
The closest I can seem to get, for a possible burial of William is one in Deptford on the 13th of July 1736:
"William Stanley, (a) Caulker (of?) Broomfields."
I presume a "Caulker" was somebody who worked with bottles, like distilling?
Anyway, if anyone has any information regarding the above and origins of this William, I would be very grateful.
Thank you very much.