Researching Stanley Cole
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The name Stanley means "from a surname meaning rocky meadow" and is of English origin.
Records of Stanley Cole on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Stanley Cole and the Cole Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Cole 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 below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. 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 Cole family tree.
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Cole Genealogy Databases
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Stanley Cole (politician)
Stanley Llewellyn Cole (29 March 1860 – 17 November 1942) was an Australian politician.
Born in Gardiner, Victoria, to gardener George Cole and Emma Lewis Leek, he came to Sydney around 1878 and worked as a carrier, founding S. L. Cole & Son in 1883. On 29 March 1883 he married Isabella Jane Moorley, with whom he had five children. He served as an alderman of Glebe from 1902 to 1925 (mayor 1908–10, 1915, 1921–23), and as a Sydney City alderman from 1924 to 1927. From 1922 to 1924 he was President of the Local Government Association, having served as President of the Master Carriers' Association from 1921 to 1922. In 1927 Cole was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council as a Nationalist, serving until 1934 (later as a member of the United Australia Party). Cole died in Granville in 1942.
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