Researching John Stanley
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 11514 people with the Stanley surname? In that year Stanley was ranked number 356 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Stanley on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Stanley and the Stanley Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Stanley Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Stanley family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 17900 people with the Stanley surname in the UK? Stanley is now ranked number 301 for popularity in the UK. |
Stanley Family Tree Databases
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Stanley Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 139759 people with the Stanley surname in the USA? Stanley is ranked number 111 for popularity in the USA. |
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Search the Ellis Island Database for information on John Stanley. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called John Stanley
John Mix Stanley
John Mix Stanley (January 17, 1814 – April 10, 1872) was an artist-explorer, an American painter of landscapes, and Native American portraits and tribal life. Born in the Finger Lakes region of New York, he started painting signs and portraits as a young man. In 1842 he traveled to the American West to paint Native American life. In 1846 he exhibited a gallery of 85 of his paintings in Cincinnati and Louisville. During the Mexican–American War, he joined Colonel Stephen Watts Kearney's expedition to California and painted accounts of the campaign, as well as aspects of the Oregon Territory.
Stanley continued to travel and paint in the West, and mounted a major exhibit of more than 150 works at the Smithsonian Institution in 1852. Although he had some Congressional interest in purchasing the collection, he was unsuccessful in completing a sale to the government. He never recovered his expenses for a decade of intensive work and travel.
In 1854 he exhibited a 42-scene panorama of western scenes in Washington, DC: Baltimore, New York and London, but it has been lost. More than 200 of his paintings, maps and other work being held at the Smithsonian were lost in an 1865 fire. The irreparable loss of most of his works caused the eclipse of Stanley's reputation for some time in American art history. His appreciation and portrayal of the American West is valued, and today his few surviving works are held by national and numerous regional museums.
Source: John Mix Stanley, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Stanley (cartoonist)
John Stanley (March 22, 1914 – November 11, 1993) was an American cartoonist and comic book writer, best known for writing Little Lulu comic book stories from 1945 to 1959. While mostly known for scripting, Stanley also drew many of his stories, including the earliest issues of Little Lulu and its Tubby spinoff series. His specialty was humorous stories, both with licensed characters and those of his own creation. His writing style has been described as employing "colorful, S. J. Perelman-ish language and a decidedly bizarre, macabre wit (reminiscent of writer Roald Dahl)", with storylines that "were cohesive and tightly constructed, with nary a loose thread in the plot". He has been compared to Carl Barks, and cartoonist Fred Hembeck has dubbed him "the most consistently funny cartoonist to work in the comic book medium". Captain Marvel co-creator C. C. Beck remarked, "The only comic books I ever read and enjoyed were Little Lulu and Donald Duck".
Source: John Stanley (cartoonist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
John Stanley (Hastings MP)
John Stanley (1740 – 1 April 1799) was a British politician and colonial lawyer.
He was born the eldest son of Michael Stanley of St. John's on the Caribbean island of Nevis and sent to London to be trained in the law at the Inns of Court in 1758, where he was called to the bar in 1761. He was made bencher in 1797. He returned to the West Indies to practise law and was appointed Solicitor-General of the Leeward Islands for 1771-81 and Attorney General of the Leeward Islands for 1781–99. He was President of the council for 1793–95.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Hastings from 1784 until 1796.
He died in 1799. He had married Susanna, the daughter of Lewis Feuilleteau and the widow of Henry Brouncker of St. Kitts. He had one son who predeceased him.
Source: John Stanley (Hastings MP), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Stanley
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