General Notes

 Wiliam de Alditheley married Joan, daughter of Thomas de Stoneley, a kinsman of Sir Henry, and received with her as a dowry the manor of Thalk, in the same county. Afterwards he exchanged this estate with his cousin Adam for Stoneley and half of Balterly, and made Stoneley his family residence; and in honor of his lady, and the great antiquity of her family, of noble Saxon descent, who flourished many years before the conquest, he assumed the surname of Stanley, and became the recognized founder of the Stanley family. This was in the reign of Henry I, A.D. 1100-1135.

Wiliam de Alditheley married Joan, daughter of Thomas de Stoneley, a kinsman of Sir Henry, and received with her as a dowry the manor of Thalk, in the same county. Afterwards he exchanged this estate with his cousin Adam for Stoneley and half of Balterly, and made Stoneley his family residence; and in honor of his lady, and the great antiquity of her family, of noble Saxon descent, who flourished many years before the conquest, he assumed the surname of Stanley, and became the recognized founder of the Stanley family. This was in the reign of Henry I, A.D. 1100-1135.

Wiliam de Alditheley married Joan, daughter of Thomas de Stoneley, a kinsman of Sir Henry, and received with her as a dowry the manor of Thalk, in the same county. Afterwards he exchanged this estate with his cousin Adam for Stoneley and half of Balterly, and made Stoneley his family residence; and in honor of his lady, and the great antiquity of her family, of noble Saxon descent, who flourished many years before the conquest, he assumed the surname of Stanley, and became the recognized founder of the Stanley family. This was in the reign of Henry I, A.D. 1100-1135.