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THE ANCESTRY OF EDWARD GEOFFREY SMITH-STANLEY, 14TH EARL OF DERBY

1  Edward Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
   b 19 Mar 1799, Knowsley, Lancashire
   d 23 Oct 1869, Knowsley

Parents

2  Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby
   b 21 Apr 1775, Westminster
   d 30 Jun 1851, Knowsley
   m 30 Jun 1798, Knowsley
3  Charlotte Margaret Hornby
   b 20 Oct 1778
   d 16 Jun 1817, Knowsley

Grandparents

4  Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
   b 1 Sep 1752, bap 3 Oct 1752, Preston, Lancashire
   d 21 Oct 1834, Knowsley
   m 23 Jun 1774, Richmond, Surrey
5  Elizabeth Hamilton
   b 26 Jan 1753, Holyrood House, Edinburgh
   d 14 Mar 1797, Marylebone
6  Geoffrey Hornby, rector of Winwick, Lancashire
   bap 14 Aug 1750, Bispham, Lancashire
   d 31 Jul 1812
   m 25 Apr 1772, Knowsley
7  Lucy Smith-Stanley
   b 26 Dec 1750
   d 10 Feb 1833, Orford Hall

Great-grandparents

8  James Smith-Stanley
   b 7 Jan 1716/17, bap 29 Jan 1716/17, Preston
   d 1 Jun 1771, Bath
   m 17 Mar 1746/47, Keith's Chapel, St George, Hanover Square
9  Lucy Smith
   bap 25 Aug 1729, Aveley
   d 5 Feb 1759, Preston
10 James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton
   b 5 Jul 1724
   d 17 Jan 1758, Great Tew, Oxfordshire
   m 14 Feb 1752, London
11 Elizabeth Gunning
   b Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, bap 7 Dec 1733, Hemingford Grey
   d 20 Dec 1790, Argyll House, London
12 Edmund Hornby of Poulton le Fylde, Lancashire
   bap 8 Oct 1728, Poulton le Fylde
   d 29 Sep 1766
   m 6 Nov 1749, Broughton near Preston
13 Margaret Winckley
   b Nov 1723
   d 12 Apr 1798
14 James Smith-Stanley = 8
15 Lucy Smith = 9

Great-great-grandparents

16 Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby
   b 17 Sep 1689, Knowsley
   d 22 Feb 1776, Knowsley
   m Sep 1714
17 Elizabeth Hesketh
   b 29 Aug 1694
   d 24 Feb 1776, Knowsley
18 Hugh Smith of Weald Hall, Essex
   b 16 Dec 1673, bap 19 Dec 1673, Kensington, Middlesex
   d 9 May 1745, Bloomsbury, Middlesex
   m 22 Sep 1724, Great Warley
19 Dorothy Barrett
   b ca 1688
   d 1 Feb 1755
20 James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton
   b 5 Jan 1702/03
   d 2 Mar 1742/43, Bath
   m 14 Feb 1722/23
21 Anne Cochrane
   b 22 Feb 1706/07, Edinburgh
   d 14 Aug 1724, Edinburgh
22 John Gunning of Castle Coote, co. Roscommon
   b ca 1687
   d 27 Jun 1767, Somerset House, London
   m 11 Oct 1731
23 Bridget Bourke
   b
   d 9 Jun 1770, Somerset House, London
24 Geoffrey Hornby of Poulton le Fylde
   bap 9 Apr 1684, Poulton le Fylde
   d 27 Mar 1732, bur Poulton le Fylde
   m 2 Jul 1719, Bispham
25 Susannah Sherdley
   bap 16 Nov 1699, Poulton le Fylde
   d 20 Jun 1793, Preston
26 John Winckley of Preston
   bap 5 Jun 1683, Preston
   bur 31 Jul 1753, Preston
   m ca 23 Sep 1717
27 Margaret Starkie
   b 3 Nov 1692, bap 3 Nov 1692, Bolton le Moors
   bur 29 Jun 1737, Preston


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The Complete Peerage (2nd edition)
John Seacome, The History of the House of Stanley (Preston, 1793)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland (London, 1789)
Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, 4th ed. (London, 1862-63)
Henry Fishwick, The History of the Parish of Poulton-le-Fylde, Chetham Society, n.s. vol. 8 (Manchester, 1885)

Henry Fishwick, The History of the Parish of Preston (Rochdale and London, 1900)
John Porter, History of the Fylde of Lancashire (Fleetwood and Blackpool, 1876)

A.E. Hodder, ed., The Registers of the Parish Church of Broughton, near Preston (Rochdale, 1913)

William Edward Robinson, ed., The Registers of the Parish Church of Bispham (Wigan, 1908)
William Dobson, Rambles by the Ribble (Preston, 1864)
Henry B. Wheatley, London Past and Present (London, 1891)
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P.H. Lawson, ed., Marriage Bonds... 1715-1719, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 101(1949):174
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England, Essex Parish Registers, 1538-1997 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDW-VJHX)