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22. SIR WILLIAM STANLEY, son of Sir William, Lord of Stourten, etc., married Margery, daughter and heiress of William de Hooton, in Cheshire. From them descended a distinguished succession of families, many of the intermarrying with leading houses of Cheshre and Lancashire, until the death of SIR ROWLAND STANLEY, who died in 1613, and was buried at Eastham, being one of the oldest knights of Englnad at the time of his decease.
His son, William, fell into disrepute by expousing the claims of Philip of Spain, the widowed husband of Queen Mary, as against Elizabeth, and assisting him as far as was in his power in preparing and guiding the Invincible Armada in its attempted invasion of England.
Of course, he was not allowed to reside in England after that, but retired to the Netherlands, then part of the dominions of Philip, where he was appointed governor of Mechelin, and died. Sir Rowland Stanley was succeeded by his great grandson William, (first baronet) then only seven years old. From him the succession was as follows:
30. SIR WILLIAM STANLEY was created a baronet June 17, 1662. He married Charlotte, eldest daughter of Sir Richard Molyneux, of Sefton, Lancashire, created Viscount Molyneau in the peerage of Ireland, and was succeeded by his son,
31. SIR ROWLAND STANLEY. He married Anne, daughter of Clement Paston, Esq., of Berningham, Norfolk, and was succeeded at his decease in 1737, by his son,
32. SIR WILLIAM STANLEY, who married Catharine, daughter of Rowland Eyre, Esq., of Hassop, Derbyshire. His son was,
33. SIR ROWLAND STANLEY, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Parry, Esq., of Pythrmean, Flintshire,
34. SIR WILLIAM STANLEY, his son, married Barbara, daughter of John Towneley, but died without issue in 1792, when the title reverted to his uncle,
35. SIR JOHN STANLEY. This gentleman assumed the additional surname of Massey, under the will of Rev. Thomas Massey, younger son of Sir William Stanley, the 3rd baronet, who had himself adopted the name of Massey, as heir of Sir William Massey of Puddington, and the additional surname of Stanley, under the will of his nephew and predecessor, Sir John Stanley Massey Stanley married Mary, daughter of Thomas Clifton, Esq., of Lytham in Lancashire, and was succeeded by his son,
36. SIR THOMAS STANLEY, who married Catharine, daughter of William Salvin, Esq., of Croxdale, Durham, and had five sons and a daughter,
37. SIR WILLIAM STANLEY, his son died in 1803, during his minority,
38. SIR THOMAS STANLEY, brother of Sir William, succeeded him, who married Mary, daughter of Sir Carnaby Haggerston, County of Durham, and had three sons and a daughter, his eldest son was,
39. SIR WILLIAM THOMAS STANLEY MASSEY STANLEY, who was born in 1807.
The seat of this family is at Hooton, on the banks of the Mersey, near the eastern extremity of the hundred of Wirral, and commanding an extensive view of the river and the entire coast of Cheshire and Lancashire, to the sea.
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