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Introduction

Stanley Surname Origins

  1. English: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Derbyshire, County Durham, Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and West Yorkshire, so named from Old English stan ‘stone’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
  2. Americanized form of any of various like-sounding names in other European languages, for example Polish Stanislawski and Greek Anastasiou.

Stanley Surname Origins in England

Mr. Nigel Stanley has a wonderful website, dedicated to the Stanley roots in England. Mr. Stanley has offered his assistance to participants in our DNA project who are able to "cross the bridge" in locating their ancestor from the United Kingdom. 

 

Distribution of Stanley Families in England and Wales in 1891 Distribution of Stanley Families in the U.S. in 1920
1005-2007 336-1004 1-335 0 353-704 118-352 1-117 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1891 England and Wales Census Records. Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records.

We hope that with the help from Stanley descendants from around the world, this site will grow into the No. 1 resource for Stanley researchers.

bulletIf you have a Stanley genealogy website, consider listing it with us, or better yet: allow us to publish your Stanley ancestry on our site;
bulletIf you have a Stanley gedcom but no website, consider publishing it with us;
bulletIf you have Stanley information of genealogical interest, send it to us. Vital information, obituaries, newspaper clippings, bible pages, photos, wills, deeds, etc. are all "hot" commodities.
bulletIf you own any research material and are willing to do lookups for other Stanley researchers, consider getting listed on our Resources page.

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