Coventry Stanley request

[chempat]

If he married in 1815 he must have been born before 1806.

[chempat]

Tree on Ancestry has his parents as Stephen Stanley and Elizabeth Dodd.  It suggests that they were from Warwickshire, and his birth just happened in London. Their marriage in 1793.

For consideration.

[rosie99]

That marriage ties in with the licence I found earlier (apart from the age of William that I quoted but looking again it is minor -sorry).  The witnesses John Gardner & Harriet Gardner.   

I think the legal age with consent at that time was 14 for boys and 12 for girls.  The licence confirmed the consent of both fathers

[gpiazzon]

I'm awaiting a copy of the death certificate but pretty confident on having the same William Stanley who died in 1947 aged 41, was married to Mary Gardner (both as minors), had a son Matthew Stanley in 1837 and was a publican at Swanswell Tavern in Coventry.

The confusion is definitely around his birth. If he was born in 1806/07 then he'd have only been around 9 when married! Would that have even been posible?

If he was older in 1815 at the point of being married, then we must be looking at two different William Stanleys?

[rosie99]

Morning Post 27 February 1815
Partnerships dissolved
John McRae & Stephen Stanley, Ribbon Manufacturers -Wood Street, London

[chempat]

If they married in 1815, when did they have children, or a large missing gap?

[gpiazzon]

Know there was a son Matthew Stanley (1837) who's parents were William and Mary Stanley - publicans at Swanswell Tavern

[gpiazzon]

What makes this even more curious is:

William Stanley died aged 41 in the Coventry Herald is listed as "of the Swanswell Tavern"
the other
William Stanley died aged 55 in the Coventry Herald is listed as "of Weston Street" which from this link (https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol8/pp24-33) seems to be in pretty much the same place as the Swanswell Tavern.

If it were the former, then he'd have been born in c1806, married at age 9 and had Matthew aged 31ish

If the latter, then he'd have been born in c1794, married at age 21 and had Matthew aged 43ish


Hopefully the death certificate will help confirm the right one!

[chempat]

Sarah Stanley from 1841 census looks to be this one:

Sarah Stanley of Bilston Female Age: 21  Birth Date:1835
Marriage Date:  9 Jun 1856  Marriage Place:  St. Leonard'S, Bilston, Stafford,
Father:  William Stanley (a publican)
Spouse:  Richard Parker Bagley (pattern maker)

However there looks to be other Stanleys in Bilston also.