Sir
William
Stanley
Born about in Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England
Ancestors 
Son of William Stanley
and Anne (Harrington) Stanley
Brother of
Peter Stanley
Husband of
Grace (Griffith) Stanley
— married
1523 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Rowland Stanley Knt
Died before
before about age 41
[location unknown]
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Biography
Sir William Stanley was a member of the aristocracy in England.
Father Sir William Stanley, Sheriff of Cheshire b. c 1474, d. a 1529
Mother Anne Harrington b. c 1479, d. a 16 Aug 1528
Sir William Stanley was born circa 1506 at of Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England.[1]
He married Grace Griffith, daughter of William Griffith, circa 1523. [2]
Sir William Stanley died before 1547. He was Chamberlain of North Wales.
Family
- Grace Griffith b. c 1500
Children
- Rowland
- William
- Edward
- John
- James
- Jane
- Agnes
Sources
- ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 291
- ↑ George Ormerod, The history of Chester, etc, Vol. II, (London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones, 1819), [1] pp.230.
- Source: 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 page 345.
William Griffith, son and heir by his father's 1st marriage, born about 1480. He married Jane Stradling, daughter of Thomas Stradling, by Janet, daughter of Thomas Mathew, Esq. They had five sons, William, Edward, Esq., Rhys, Knt., John, and Hugh and eight daughters Grace (wife of William Stanley, Knt.), Jane (wife of Thomas Mostyn), Elin/Elinor (wife of Hugh Conway, Esq.), Catherine (wife of Richard Bulkeley, Knt) , Anne (wife of Hugh Lewis, Esq.), Elizabeth (wife of John Philipps, Esq.) , Dorothy, and Margaret (wife successively of Peter Mytton, Thomas Griffith, and Hugh Thelwall). His wife, Jane, died before 1520. He married (2nd) 2 August 1522 Jane Puleston, widow of Robert ap Maredudd, and daughter of John Puleston, by Eleanor, daughter of Robert Whitney, Esq. They had three sons, and two daughters. Sir William Griffith died in 1531.
- Harleian Society. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, The Publicatons of The Harleian Society (London: The Society, 1882) Vol. 18, Page 260: Appendix: The Visitation of a Part of Cheshire, A.D. 1533:
- "W'm maried to Grace one of the d: to W'm Griffith, Chamb'layne of North Wales, and they had yssue W'm, Rowland, Edw., John, Jane and Agnes."
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