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Note: Irish Migrants in the Canadas by Bruce S. Elliot G STANLEY, Thomas 42, black and white smith, Red Gate, Shinrone, formerly of Borrisokane; Elizabeth (Hodgins) 34; Samuel 8; Maria 8; James 7 (died Qu�bec City 30 July 1818); Thomas 6; probably Eliza ?; Catherine ?; Ellen 2 months (born Cork). Excerpts taken from "Irish Migrants in the Canadas" by Bruce Elliot, published 1988, McGill-Queen's University Press, Kingston and Montreal. Page 277 n.106 "�The Stanleys were from Borrisokane, where their son Samuel was born c1810, but had lived briefly at Red Gate in Shinrone parish, where their son William was baptized in 1817. They were noted as 'late from the Parish of Shinrone' at the burial in Quebec City of their son James on 31 July, 1818, PAC, RG 31, 1852 census of Fitzroy Twp, 81; PRO, Dublin, reel 4, Shinrone parish register; Archives nationales, Hull, parish register of Anglican Cathedral, Quebec City, reel MF-138-2, 1818, f.28. �" Page 217 "�Other immigrants made a good start but had their program of acquisition cut short by death rather than by business reverses. In merely practical terms such a turn of events was a greater crisis than insolvency because it robbed the family of the breadwinner rather than just of accumulated possessions. Thomas Stanley, a black and white smith from Borrisokane who came on the Brunswick in 1818, lived and practised his trade in Richmond village but died in 1836 at the age of sixty. Two of his six surviving sons were then of age but none, as yet, were married. Stanley had sold his 100-acre free grant, but retained two -and-a-half town lots and two park lots in Richmond (22 1/2a), and he had recently bought a 200-acte clergy reserve in Nepean, though he had not finished paying for it when he died. Stanley willed a park lot in Richmond to his second son, Thomas, after the death of his wife, and the remainder of his property to his four younger sons equally. In 1842 his widow wrote to the Crown Lands Department that she was experiencing 'great difficulty in rearing a small and helpless family and the times having been so bad, I could not have paid up as I could have wished.' She died in 1845 and her sons endured the additional expense of laying claim to the clergy reserve before the Heir and Devisee Commission. Title was finally issued in 1856, twenty-five years after Stanley first claimed the lot. The burden of having to pay off the purchase of their father's most substantial property combined with its inadequacy for supporting four sons to prevent most of the children from achieving a secure station in life. The eldest son, Samuel, required no assistance from his father, for he was one of the children raised to artificial adult status in 1818 when Richard Talbot adjusted the free list of Brunswick passengers. As a settler under Talbot he therefore received his own free grant which he sold to buy land in Fitzroy, selling it in turn and moving to the Gatineau in the mid-1850's to obtain farms for his sons there. As the eldest he inherited his mother's village property under the intestacy law, but he signed it over to his brother James. The second son, Thomas Jr., was raised to be a blacksmith like his father, and received a free grant of a town lot in Richmond and inherited the park lot�." ___________________________________________________________________________ Hello Barb, Thanks for your message about 'Thomas Stanley. It is interesting and in some way I am sure all the Stanley's that came over from the Borrisokane area are related. When I reread the notes on the Thomas Stanley in our family they do not seem to connect with your Thomas Stanley. (wish the did) Here are my notes: DEATH: Thomas Stanley died at age 78. According to Goodspeeds "History of Middlesex" Obit. "Thomas Stanley, left Tipperary County, Ireland, his native place, in 1835, and came in June to Canada, immediately locating in Biddulph Township, where he took up land on Lot 15, 3rd Concession. He served in the Rebellion in 1837, and in 1840 married Miss Eliza Dobbs, a native of Queen's County, Ireland, who came with her parents to Canada in 1835. This union was blessed with six sons and three daughters, six of whom are now living. Mrs. Stanley died in 1855, aged thirty-eight." Pat Hewitt notes that she died 2 (7?) Sept 1855 age 41 and would have been born c1814. MARRIAGE: Thomas married a second time on 8 Jan. 1856 to Elza Hodgins wid of Biddulph. She died 5 Oct. 1887 at age 78. Thomas then married a third time on 22 Nov. 1887 to Bertha Aikins born in Canada c1857. Is in the 1861 census Row 3-3 Clandeboye. BURIAL: His gravestone is in Lucan and reads THOS STANLEY, DIED MAY 8, 1893 AE 78 YRS. IMMIGRATION: Bruce Elliott wrote Everett Stanley June 30,1990; "My records show their bro Thos came in June 1835; this comes from the obituary of his son Thos D. (St Mary's Argus 12 Oct 1911 p. 4); see also Goodspeed's History of Middlesex p.1008, and Alex Fraser, A Hist of Ont, p. 988-92). Thos contracted to buy 15/3 Biddulph from the Cda Co 28 Feb 37. Thos, the eldest bro, would only have been 20 when he came, so it is reasonable to expect that the whole family came together, but I can't prove it. Wm Cooper contracted for 14/4 Bidd on 13 Feb 1840 so he was here by then." It seems that our group of Stanleys did not come with the Talbot Party as far as I know. And I cannot find any Samuel Stanley being a son of any of our Thomas Stanleys. That is not to say he did not have a son by that name since he had married several times. Your Samuel came about 1818 where as our Thomas came June 1835 settling in Biddulph Township, which is much later. He probably followed relatives that had preceeded him. Thomas' children I have listed as - 1. Robert Dobbs Stanley, James D. Stanley, William D. Stanley, Margaret Ann Stanley, Sarah Stanley, Thomas D. Jr. b. 22 May 1849, George Stanley, Eliza Stanley, and Leonard D. Stanley. Thomas had a sister Elizabeth, brother Leonard and another brother Robert R. Stanley. His parents were Robert Stanley and Margaret Robinson Stanley. Margaret remarried to William Cooper and had a daughter (Ann) after her husband died. Have you been able to find any information about your Stanleys in Ireland? Would love to work with you in sorting out the Stanley Family. Until later... Everett
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