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THE ANCESTRY OF STANLEY BALDWIN

 

1  Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

   b 3 Aug 1867, Bewdley, Worcestershire

   d 13 December 1947, Astley Hall, Worcestershire

 

Parents

 

2  Alfred Baldwin, MP for Bewdley

   b 4 Jun 1841, Stourport

   d 13 Feb 1908, London

   m 9 Aug 1866, Wolverhampton

3  Louisa Macdonald

   b 25 Aug 1845, Wakefield

   d 16 May 1925, Wilden House, Worcestershire

 

Grandparents

 

4  George Pearce Baldwin of Stourport, iron founder

   b 17 May 1789, bap 9 Jun 1789, Lower Mitton, Worcestershire

   d 1 Oct 1840, Stourport

   m 4 Oct 1822, St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol

5  Sarah Chalkley Stanley

   b 5 May 1802, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

   d 25 Feb 1874, Stourport

6  George Browne Macdonald, Wesleyan minister

   b 2 Oct 1805, Stockport

   d 13 Nov 1868, Bewdley

   m 2 May 1833, Manchester Cathedral

7  Hannah Jones

   b 4 May 1808, Manchester

   d 2 Mar 1875, Bewdley

 

Great-grandparents

 

8  Thomas Baldwin of Stourport, iron founder

   bap 29 Sep 1751, Broseley

   d 26 Apr 1823, bur 29 Apr 1823, Lower Mitton

   m 1 Jan 1784, St Chad, Shrewsbury

9  Mary Gough

   b ca 1752

   d 7 Feb 1820, bur 10 Feb 1820, Lower Mitton

10 Jacob Stanley, Wesleyan minister

   b 14 Jan 1776, Alnwick

   d 5 Sep 1850, Stourport

   m 4 Aug 1801, Luton

11 Sarah Taylor

   b 9 Mar 1772, Luton

   d 6 Sep 1852, Stourport

12 James Macdonald, Wesleyan minister

   b Jun 1761, Ballinamallard, Co. Fermanagh

   d 18 Oct 1833, Gosport, Hampshire

   m 27 Jun 1789, Newry, Co. Down

13 Ann Browne

   b ca 1763

   d 19 Aug 1815, London

14 John Jones of Manchester, grocer

   b ca 1775

   d 24 May 1845, Manchester

   m 15 May 1803, Manchester Cathedral

15 Elizabeth Muckalt

   bap 9 Jun 1772, Witton, Cheshire

   d 4 Sep 1843

 

Great-great-grandparents

 

16 John Baldwin of Broseley

   bap 4 Dec 1725, Broseley

   bur 29 Jun 1757, Broseley

   m 8 Jan 1748/49, Broseley

17 Mary Pearce

   bap 27 Nov 1725, Broseley

   d 8 Oct 1811, bur 11 Oct 1811, Lower Mitton

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20 Edward Stanley of Alnwick, slater

   b 10 Sep 1737

   d 24 Oct 1825, Alnwick

   m 25 Jun 1764, Alnwick

21 Margaret Bowmaker

   bap 9 Feb 1745/46

   d 3 Apr 1814

22 Henry Taylor of Luton, miller

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   m 9 Nov 1767, St George, Southwark

23 Sarah Lincoln

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24 John Macdonald of Ballinamallard

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30 William Muckalt of Northwich, Cheshire, ship carpenter

   bap 25 Mar 1746, Witton

   bur 16 Dec 1772, Witton

   m 30 Jul 1771, Witton

31 Sarah Cook

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Burke’s Landed Gentry (1937)

Judith Flanders, A Circle of Sisters (London, 2001)

Edith Macdonald, Annals of the Macdonald Family (London, 1928)

Arthur Windham Baldwin, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, The Macdonald Sisters (London, 1960)

Thomas Stanley, Memoirs of Mr. Robert Swan Stanley, Late Collector of Inland Revenue, Liverpool, the Alnwick Stanley family, and a Few of their Contemporaries (London, 1878)

Ina Taylor, Victorian Sisters (London, 1987)

The Letters of James Macdonald, 1816-1831, with Notes by his Grandson Frederic W. Macdonald (London, 1907)

The Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, 63(1840):959

Bristol Marriages 1800-1837, Part Three, Bristol & Avon Family History Society

Chipping Wycombe Methodist Chapel registers (National Archives, RG 4/603)

Stockport Wesleyan registers (National Archives, RG 4/1470)

Registers of Gravel Lane Chapel, Salford (National Archives, RG 4/1159)

City Road, London, Wesleyan registers (National Archives, RG 4/4264, RG 4/4333)

1841 census returns, Manchester (National Archives, HO 107/573/13, fol. 13)

1851 census returns, Kidderminster (National Archives, HO 107/2039, fols 30, 68)

1851 census returns, Aston (National Archives, HO 107/2062, fol. 197)

The Times, 28 Feb 1874, 4 Mar 1875, 18 May 1925

The Leeds Intelligencer, 27 Oct 1825

The Worcester Herald, 14 Sep 1850, 18 Sep 1852

Berrow’s Worcester Journal, 1 May 1823

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The Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 9 Sep 1843

Minutes of Several Conversations Between the Methodist Ministers... 1869

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“The Family of Bowmaker”, Antiquities of Sunderland and its Vicinity, 10(1909)

“Memoir of Mr. Edward Stanley, of Alnwick, in Northumberland, by his Son, the Rev. Jacob Stanley”, The Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, 49(1826):793-806

Patricia Bell, “Henry Taylor of Pulloxhill, 1750-72”, Some Bedfordshire Diaries, Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, 40(1960 for 1959):38-45

William Le Hardy, ed., Calendar to the Sessions Books, Sessions Minute Books and Other Sessions Records, 1752 to 1799 (Hertford, 1935), 109, 112

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