Sir Thomas Stanley Sheriff of Anglesey

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 57:36, Also mentioned 20:33 & 23:33, 233:36 Sir Thomas Stanley, K.G., married Joan Goushil, daughter of Sir Robert Goushill


~NEHGR, Vol. 108, pg. 173, Joan Goushill, living in 1460, married Sir Thomas Stanley, K.G., b. 1406, d. 20 Feb 1459, Lord Stanley of Lathom and Knowsley, M.P. 1432, K.G. 1456, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. ¹⁰²

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ^141,748
Thomas Stanley, of Lathom and Knowesley, Lancashire, son and heir of John Stanley, Steward of the household of Henry IV, and Isabel, sister of Sir William Harington, Knight of the Garter, of Hornby Castle in Lancashire. Thomas Stanley was a knight before 1429, when he was made Lieutenant Deputy Governor of Ireland (1431-1436), and was summoned to parliament for Lancashire from 1446 to 1454. He was the Comptroller of the Household in 1448. He was a Conservator of the Peace with Scotland on several occasions, 1450-1459. He was summoned to Parliament as Baron, Lord Stanley, by a special writ, tested 15 Jan 1455/46. He was elected to the Knights of the Garter before 13 may 1457, and was installed on 14 May 1457. He was an embassy to Scotland in 1458.

Sir Thomas Stanley married Joan, daughter and coheir of Sir Robert Goushill, of Hoveringham, Nottingham, and Elizabeth Duchess of Norfolk, daughter and coheir of Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel. Sir Thomas died 20 Feb 1459, and was buried at Burscough.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. VII, 1887 Edition, (Stanley), pp. 237-238, or Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Stanley), Vol. XIIA, pp. 250-251

Thomas married Joan Goushill, daughter of Sir Robert Goushill Knight and Elizabeth de Fitz Alan de Arundel ^202,259.^{, 748} (Joan Goushill was born about 1401 in Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire, England ⁵⁹⁹ and died on 27 Apr 1466 in England ⁵⁹⁹.)