Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Stanley (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Ireland, the Isle of Man, and England (especially the counties of Cheshire, Derby, Lancaster or Lancashire, and Stafford). One of their earliest ancestors was Adam de Audley (Alditheley or Audithlegh) who is recorded in the 1085 Domesday Book. Thomas Stanley immigrated to the Virginia Colony prior to 1681. Other Stanleys...

Ezekiel Price, son of William Preece and Mary Pugh, was born 5 February 1833 in Lower Lye, Herefordshire, England. He married Rhoda Elizabeth Watkins (1844-1912), daughter of Robert James Watkins and Mary Smallman, in 1862 in Alpine, Utah. They had fifteen children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Wales, England Utah and Idaho.

The Stanley family descends from William De Stonely (1170-1230) who was the ancestor of the Earls of Stanley. Members of the early family inter-married with other noble British families. One of the descendants of the Earls of Stanley was Thomas Stanley (ca. 1666) who immigrated to Virginia. He was the father of at least three sons. One of his sons, James Stanley (1688-1754) married Catherine Hutchins and became the father of eight children. Descendants...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Benbow families who came mainly from Herefordshire, England to the United States in the 1840s. Some early ancestors included Prestwood Benbow, Ellen Benbow and her husband William Carter; and Tom and Sarah Benbow. Tom, Sarah, and others were converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, and migrated to Utah with the Latter-day...

"To a considerable extent I have tried to use the words of those being written about , also holding onto their expressions, even their spelling. There are memories that have been left out and probably others that should have been, but most are there."--Introd. Lines are traced to: James Burke (b. 1803 in Dublin, Ireland) and Catherine Fahey (b. 1793 in Ireland) who settled in Massachusetts where they raised six children; Samuel Scott and Amy Cozens...

Edward Broughton lived in Craven County, South Carolina, as early as 1773. He married Elizabeth Ragan, daughter of William Ragan, ca. 1767. They had six children. Descendants live in several southern states and Texas. Alexander Douglas (ca. 1754-1827), a son of James Douglas, was born in Northern Ireland. He immigrated to America with his family in 1768, settling in South Carolina. He married Jane Elliot ca. 1788. They had three children. He married...

William Cloud II (1620-1702), a Quaker son of William and Joanne Cloude, married Susan James in 1647, and emigrated in 1682/1683 from England to Chester County, Pennsylvania. Enos Cloud (1842-1916), a direct descendant, served in the Civil War, married Nancy Clayton in 1866, and moved from Indiana to Caldwell, Kansas. Descendants of William lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas and elsewhere.

Joseph J. Flory, a descendant of French Huguenots who fled to Germany in 1572, emigrated from Germany (via Rotterdam) to Philadelphia in 1733. Jacob Flora (b.1748), a son of Joseph, moved from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Franklin County, Virginia, and married Barbara Dillman. Eli Flora (1816-1864), grandson of Jacob and great grandson of immigrant Joseph, moved from Virginia to Indiana, married Elizabeth Vanaman in 1838, and died in Miami County,...

Joseph Rich lived in West Nottingham Township, Chester County Pennsyvlania. He married Elizabeth, widow of Edward Beeson, in about 1714. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania , North Carolina and Missouri.