Sir
Edward
Stanley
1st Bt
Born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
Ancestors 
Son of Henry Stanley Esq
and Margaret Stanley
Brother of
William Stanley, Alice Stanley, Margaret (Stanley) Houghton, Jane (Stanley) Hesketh, James Stanley, Anne Stanley and Dorothy (Stanley) Boteler
Husband of
Catherine (Mainwaring) Stanley
— married
about 1596 [location unknown]
Husband of
Isabel (Warburton) Stanley
— married
after 29 May 1615 in Cheshire, England
Descendants 
Father of
Anne Stanley, Elizabeth Stanley, Frances Stanley, Thomas Stanley Bt, Henry Stanley, James Stanley, Robert Stanley, John Stanley, Francis Stanley and Peter Stanley
Died
at age 63
in Bickerstaffe, Lancashire, England
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Biography
Sir Edward Stanley, Knight, 1st Baronet of Bickerstaffe (in Ormskirk), High Sheriff of Cheshire and Lancashire.
Edward was born 14 Dec 1576, Bickerstaff, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, and is the son of Henry Stanley and Mary Stanley.
In a record relating to his father's 1598 funeral he is listed as having been given 5 yards of black.[1]
He married first, Catherine Mainwaring, daughter of Sir Randall Mainwaring of Over Peover. Catherine died in 1613.
He married second, Isabel Warburton. On 29 May, 1615, the Archdeaconry of Chester issued to Edward Stanley of Bickerstaffe, Parish of Ormskirk, Lancashire, esq, and Isabel, daughter of Peter Warburton of Arley, Parish of Great Budworth, Cheshire, a licence to marry without proclamation of banns at Mobberley, Lymm or Great Budworth, Cheshire.[2]
Children:
1. Thomas STANLEY (2nd Baronet) b. 1616
2. James STANLEY
3. Robert STANLEY
4. John STANLEY Acceded: 26 Jun 1627, Bickerstaffe, Lancashire, England
Edward died 2 May 1640 (aged 63), Buried: 4 May 1640, in a chancel at St Peter and St Paul, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England.[3]
Research Notes
Douglas Richardson misidentifies Edward as son of his maternal grandfather, Peter Stanley and his second wife.[4]
Sources
- ↑ Lancashire Funeral Certificates, Chetham Society, 1869, p. 31, Hathi Trust
- ↑ Wm Fergusson Irvine, ed., "Marriage Licences Granted Within the Archdeaconry of Chester in the Diocese of Chester. Vol I. 1606-1616". (London: The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol LIII, 1907), 185. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/recordsocietyfo04chesgoog/page/n199/mode/1up : accessed 28 February, 2023).
- ↑ Lancashire Online Parish Clerks, https://www.lan-opc.org.uk/, search results for 'Edward Stanley', 1640 in Ormskirk: Burial: 4 May 1640 St Peter and St Paul, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England Edward Stanley, Baronet - Notes: bur[ied] in his owne Chancell [X in margin]
- ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol. II, p 502, ELTONHEAD #19.
- Cokayne, G E. Complete Baronetage, Vol. II, William Pollard, 1902, p. 27. Internet Archive
- "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NBHM-B6V : 11 February 2018, Henry Stanley in entry for Edward Stanley, 14 Dec 1576); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 0093437, 0844820 IT2.
- Stanley of Hooten, Croshall, Aughto, and Bickerstaff (http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STANLEY4.htm#Edward%20STANLEY%20of%20Bickerstaffe%20(1%C2%B0%20Bt)
- The Peerage (http://www.thepeerage.com/p1381.htm#i13804 the peerage.com)
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Sir Edward Stanley 1576-1640 and his wife Isabel Warburton 1592-1662