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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

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

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

m 9 Nov 1767, St George, Southwark

23 Sarah Lincoln

24 John Macdonald of Ballinamallard

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

Sources

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

The Manchester Guardian, 7 Jun 1845

The Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 9 Sep 1843

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