Stanley Families

Letitia Sophia Stanley
Born 6th 11th Month 1870
Called Home 7th 3rd Month 1946.

Mona Wylie ‘The burial ground of Grange Meeting: Gravestone Inscriptions’.
Duiche Neill: Journal of the O’Neill Country Historical Society, No. 13, 2000, page 207.

Sir Edmond was baptized 1761.  Died April 1843, aged 82 years at Richmond, Surrey.   Member of Parliament for Ireland & Chief Justice of Madras in India. He was the son of James of Low Park, Roscommon & Jane, daughter of Edmond Kelly of Mt. Gray.  His estates & residence at Sackville St. Dublin & Richmond.

Edmond qualified as a Barrister & in 1786 married Jane, daughter of Rev. John Talbot.  However she spent most of her youth with her grandmother at Mt. Talbot, Roscommon.  Mt. Talbot was still standing in 1974 but without a roof. The Church at the gate was locked & the church yard with Talbot graves was derelict.

In 1798 Edmond was under a special commission to Cork to preside at the trials there & received the thanks of the country of the Gov. for his conduct on that occasion. At Madras he introduced many useful reforms into the Registrars Office & in 1820 was promoted to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Edmond’s successful career in the Irish Parliament came to an end with the Union of Ireland with England & the resulting end of home rule. He sold Low Park & bought property at Roscrowther in Pembroke which included a coal mine. They went to live in London where he would seek another job. It was in 1807 that he received an appointment to the East India Company.  He rose to the post of Chief Justice of Madras & retired in 1825 at the age of 64.

Edmond & Lucy had only one child, Mary Ann, born in 1801.  There is much more to his life story but too long to continue.

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Curates of Willowfield Parish, Co. Down.

Edward John Theodore Stanley was licensed curate in December 19, 1904. (Diocesan Register of Down and Dromore). He attended Trinity College Dublin, graduating with a B.A. in 1903, receiving his Divinity Testimonium (2) in 1903. He was ordained deacon in 1903 in Ossory for Down, ordained a priest for Down in 1904; he was curate for Willowfield from 1903 to 1906. He was a Church Missionary Society (C.M.S.) Missionary in China from 1906 to 1920. Then curate at All Saints, Shooter’s Hill from 1920 to 1923, followed by Vicar in Christ Church, Dover in 1923.

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J.B. Leslie and H.R. Swanzy ‘Biographical succession lists of the clergy of diocese of Down’
Enniskillen: Fermanagh Times, 1936, page 167.

Tom Reilly's book 'Joe Stanley: Printer to the rising' tells the life story of Joseph Michael Stanley or more accurately Joseph Michael Patrick William Catherine Larkin Stanley. Born in Dublin, the son of John and Mary Stanley of Ardbolies, near Clogherhead in Co. Louth, the book concentrates on the period from 1913 to 1923. In 1913 Joe bought a struggling printing works, and in the following years the book records his increasing involvement in the republican movement. His printing works were raided in March 1916 and the presses confiscated. He delivered copies of a handbill 'The Provisional Government to the Citizens of Dublin' to the GPO on Easter Tuesday. He was arrested at the end of the week and eventually was imprisoned at Frongoch Concentration Camp near Bala in North Wales. Other prisoners included Michael Collins, Sean T. O'Reilly, Dr James Ryan, Tomas MacCurtain, Terence MacSwiney, Desmond Ryan, W.J. Brennan-Whitmore, Richard Mulcahy, Michael Staines, Oscar Traynor and Dick McKee. All the prisoners were released before Christmas 1916. Returning to Dublin he recommenced printing under his imprint the Gaelic Press. In 1918 he started printing An tOglach for Michael Collins, and again found himself subject to raids from the police. In 1919, frustrated by the confiscation of his presses, he moved with his family to Drogheda where he opened a cinema, this was followed by the opening of a second cinema in Dundalk in the same year. In 1920 he stood for election and was elected to Louth County Council. Following independence in 1921 Joe was back in Dublin getting his printing presses back and resurrecting the Gaelic Press. When the Civil War broke out in 1922 Joe resigned his position in the IRA.

In 1929 he moved to London to take up the post of sub-editor at the Daily Mail, the family remaining in the Clogherhead area. He returned to Ireland in 1935 and the family moved to Drogheda. In 1936 he bought over the Drogheda Argus and Advertiser and he was back in the printing and publishing business, which proved to be very successful. Joe died in hospital in Drogheda in June 1950.

Tom Reilly, Joe Stanley: Printer to the rising. Brandon Press, Dingle; 2005. ISBN: 086322346X.

FUNERAL OF MR. HENRY R. STANLEY, WARRENPOINT – The funeral of the late Mr. H. R. Stanley took place yesterday from the Stanley Restaurant to Clonallon Cemetery, amid many manifestations of regret. The chief mourners were two of his sons, Messrs. Henry R. and Robert. The eldest son, Sergeant Charles M. Stanley, R.A.M.C., is at the front, having returned to France recently after a short furlough. On the route through Dock Square, The Square, Church Street, and Great George’s Street business was suspended, and houses were closed during the passage of the funeral cortege. The Rev. E. S. Medcalf, M.A., Vicar of Warrenpoint conducted the service in the parish church, and also officiated at the graveside. Mr George Toombs had charge of the funeral arrangements.

Newry Reporter, Saturday, March 17, 1917

Sir John Stanley and his wife Lady Annie Stanley are buried in East Sheen Cemetery, Richmond, London in grave G144.

The inscription on the headstone reads as follows: SIR JOHN STANLEY KT., K.C.I.E. CHIEF JUSTICE OF N.W.P. INDIA “PASSED ON” 22nd DEC 1931, AGED 85 LADY ANNIE STANLEY DIED Ist MAY 1946 While the text along the surround of the grave reads as follows: THE LORD SHALL BE A LIGHT UNTO ME HE WILL BRING ME FORTH TO THE LIGHT AND I SHALL BEHOLD HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS MICAH 7.8.9.

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STANLEY – April 29th, at his residence, The Square, Warrenpoint, Henry B. Stanley, second son of the late Henry R. and Catherine J. Stanley. Funeral on Friday at 2:30 p.m. to the family burying ground, Clonallon. Deeply regretted.

Newry Reporter, Thursday, April 30th, 1925. Page 1, Column 1.

DEATHS

Stanley – At her residence, the Square, Warrenpoint, Catherine J., relict of the late Henry Stanley. Funeral at 2:30 p.m. to-day (Thursday), to Clonallon burying-ground.

“Till the day break and the shadows flee away.”
Sadly missed by her sorrowing children.

The Newry Reporter, Thursday, July 21st 1921. Page 1, Column 1.

Emma Sarah Hardy married Rev. Henry Todd on 30th October 1902 in St Patrick’s Cathedral Armagh. Emma Sarah is the eldest daughter of John Hardy and Mary Crooks Stanley of Bessbrook. Henry is the youngest son of James Todd of Stonebridge, Kilmore, Co Armagh.

Henry was born on 12th January 1863 in Portadown. He was educated at The Educational Institution, Dundalk; Santry School, Co Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. In Trinity he obtained Mathematical Sizarship, Senior Exhibition, Michael Roberts Prize in Mathematics, First Honours and Prize in Modern History and Logics, First Resp. B.A. 1895.

Before entering the Church, he was Mathematical Master in the Royal School, Cavan; and in Drogheda Grammar School; and Mathematical Lecturer in Mungret College, Limerick.

On entering the Church of Ireland, he became Curate of Carlingford and was ordained Deacon in 1896, and Priest in 1897; in 1899 he became Curate of St Mary’s, Newry, and was installed as Incumbent of Camlough Parish on 30th July 1900 a post he held until his death on the 17th November 1942. In addition to his Incumbency he held the following posts within the Church: Examining Chaplain to the Archbishop of Armagh, 1911-1914; Chancellor of Armagh Cathedral, 1928-1934; Prebendary of Yagoe and Representative Canon of Armagh in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, 1934-42.

Rev. James B. Leslie in his book ‘Armagh Clergy and Parishes’ described him as “probably one of the best all-round scholars in the Church of Ireland”.

Emma Todd died on 22nd February 1947, and was buried with her husband in Bessbrook Churchyard. The couple had no children.

This post is compiled from entries in the following books:
Rev. James B. Leslie ‘Armagh Clergy and Parishes’ Dundalk: William Tempest, 1911; pages 155 and 163.
Rev. W.E.C. Fleming ‘Amagh Clergy 1800-2000′ Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 2001; page 249.

ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT

DEPARTURE OF SIR JOHN STANLEY

There was a full attendance of judges and a crowded gathering of barristers, and officials at the High Court, Allahabad, on the 18th April, to bid farewell to Sir John Stanley, who appeared in the court for the last time, after occupying the position of Chief Justice for almost ten years. Several speeches were delivered expressing regret at Sir John’s departure, and he was presented with an inkstand from the members of the Bar Library. Sir John, in reply, said that as he felt it a wrench to leave the Bar of Ireland and come to India, he assured them that the wrench felt no lighter for him to leave the Bar at Allahabad and his delightful Indian home. He should carry away with him happy recollections of the friendships he had made in India, and should never forget the warm-hearted and kindly intercourse which he had enjoyed from time to time with his Indian friends.

In the course of a leader, the “Allahabad Pioneer” of the 22nd April says:- “Yesterday Sir John Stanley made over to his successor, Mr Justice Richards, the office of Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court, before starting for Bombay, whence he and Lady Stanley sail for home by this week’s steamer. When the news of Sir John Stanley’s appointment to succeed Sir Arthur Stracey first reached these provinces, nearly ten years ago, there were probably some who questioned the wisdom of the selection. Such persons may have apprehended, not unreasonably, that the good relations, which, since the departure of Sir Comer Petheram, have existed between the Government and Court, would be imperilled by the appointment of a Chief Justice who had graduated in the Calcutta High Court. If any such apprehensions were entertained they have been signally falsified. While no man was more regardful of the dignity and independence of the Court, Sir John Stanley recognised from the first, what is sometimes overlooked, that the High Court is itself a part – a very essential if peculiar part – of the administration; and the relations between the Court and the Executive have never been more cordial than during his tenure of the post of Chief Justice. As a judge Sir John Stanley was one of the hardest workers the Allahabad Court had ever had. A trained lawyer quick to form and to formulate his conclusions, his unfailing sincerity and the zeal with which he strove to reduce, as far as might be, the law’s delays, were recognized on all hands; and with the leaders of the Bar he was on the best of terms. Sir John Stanley’s crowning achievement had been the extraction from a somewhat reluctant Government of an undertaking to construct a new High Court building ……. Last month he had the pleasure of laying the foundation stone of the new building, whose erection will for ever lay the spectre of a transfer of the Court to Lucknow, which has for long haunted the imagination of the Hallabad [sic] Bar and public. Many a good cause will have reason before long to feel the loss of Sir John and Lady Stanley; but today it is for a host of private friends to realise the loss they are sustaining in the departure of the high-minded lady and gentleman who have so worthily played their Indian part.

[Sir John Stanley is an uncle of Mrs. Todd, Bessbrook; Mr H. E. Hardy B.A., Bessbrook; and Mr Wm. Hardy, marine engineer, Newry.]

The Newry Reporter, Tuesday, May 9th 1911, page 8, column 5

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