Margaret Halsall

Margaret Stanley married Sir John Ireland, son of William Ireland and Eleanor Molyneux.2 Margaret Stanley was born illegitimate circa 1460 at Somersham manor, England; Her 2nd husband was Sir Henry Halsall.2,1

Family1

1. Sir John Ireland d. 29 Jul 1525
2. Henry Halsell

Child

1. Thomas Ireland+ b. c 1481. Married Margaret Bold

Family2

From Visitation of Lancashire by William Flowers, 1567. “Hallsall of Hallsall.” Page 93. link

Children of Sir Henry Hallsall, son of Hugh, by Margaret, daughter of James Stanley, clerk:

Sons:

1. Sir Thomas, 1st son & heir, m Jane, dau of John Stanley
2. Jeames
3. Richard, a clerk
4. Henry
5. Robert

Daughters:

1. Catherine, m John Eccleston
2. Helene, m William Bannester
3. Anne, m Richard Holme
4. Margaret, sans issue

Notes

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somersham

There was a substantial manor house at Somersham with formal gardens dating to the 12th century and possibly earlier. A Tudor palace was constructed over the mediaeval building by Bishop James Stanley, of Ely, under Henry VII

From http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2013-04/...

On 12 Apr 1513, Richard Halsall 'kinsman of
Hugh' was appointed rector, said by Baines, likely based on the 1576 visitation, to be the 3rd son of Sir Henry by "Margaret natural daughter of James Stanley Archdeacon of Chester, brother to the first Earl of Derby." "Richard Halsal Clerk, Parson of Halsal" was one of the executors of the will of Sir Thomas Stanley 2nd Earl of Derby (d. 23 May 1521) along with Richard's father Sir Henry (identified as 'steward of my household' in the will).

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• Margaret Stanley1
• F, #32575, b. circa 1460
• Father James Stanley, Archdeacon of Chester2,1 b. c 1441, d. b Jul 1485
• Margaret Stanley married Sir John Ireland, son of William Ireland and Eleanor Molyneux.3,1 Margaret Stanley was born illegitimate circa 1460 at Somersham manor, England; Her 2nd husband was Sir Henry Halsall.3,2
• Family Sir John Ireland d. 29 Jul 1525
• Child
  • Thomas Ireland+ b. c 1481
• Citations
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 27.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 91.
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 680.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1085.htm#... __________________
• The Derby Household Books: Comprising an Account of the Household ... By William Ffarington
• https://books.google.com/books?id=3mJVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&d...
• https://archive.org/details/derbyhouseholdb00ffargoog
• https://archive.org/stream/derbyhouseholdb00ffargoog#page/n263/mode...
• Pg.143
• IBID. "Mr Halsoll."] Richard, son and heir of Henry and grandson of Sir Thomas Halsall of Halsall Knt., whose wife was Jane, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Stanley of Honford Knt. (base son and heir of John Stanley, brother of Thomas first Earl of Derby) and of Elizabeth his wife, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Harrington of Hornby Castle Knt. and of his wife, the daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Nevile of Hornby. In her widowhood Dame Jane Halsall married 2nd Edward VI. John Osbaldeston Esq., and in the same year her daughter Maud married Edward Osbaldeston of Osbaldeston, her husband's son by his first wife Margaret,
• https://archive.org/stream/derbyhouseholdb00ffargoog#page/n264/mode...
• daughter of George Lord Strange. The mother of Sir Thomas Halsall was Margaret, daughter of James Stanley, Clerk, and by her husband, Sir Henry Halsall of Halsall, she had issue six sons and three daughters. On the south side of the chancel of Halsall Church upon an altar tomb ornamented with escutcheons, now defaced, are the full-length figures of a knight of the Halsalls and a lady of the Stanleys. (Baines, vol. iv, p. 262.) Richard Halsall Esq. succeeded his father Henry (whose Will was proved at Chester 30th December 1574) and married before 1567 Ann, daughter of Alexander Barlow of Barlow Esq. M.P. the niece of Margaret Countess of Derby, and a lady who was a frequent visiter at Knowsley, (See p. 106, Note.) By this lady he had no surviving issue, and the name of his second wife has not been recorded in the Visit. Lanc., A° 1613, c. 5, 50 b. in Coll. Arm. She was, however, Jane, daughter of William Norres and the mother of Sir Cuthbert Halsall, mentioned page 35 and afterwards in this Diary. (Lanc. MSS., vol. iii. pp. 216-331.) __________________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 54
• Stanley, James (1465?-1515) by Albert Frederick Pollard
• STANLEY, JAMES (1465?–1515), bishop of Ely, born probably about 1465, was sixth son of Thomas Stanley, first earl Derby [q. v.], by his first wife, Eleanor, daughter of Richard Neville, earl of Salisbury [q. v.] Edward Stanley, first baron Monteagle [q. v.], was his brother. He is said to have studied both at Oxford and Cambridge, and to have graduated at the latter university, but he was certainly M.A. of Oxford (Reg. Univ. Oxon. i. 46). He has been confused by Newcourt, Le Neve, and Cooper with his uncle James, who became prebendary of Holywell, London, on 26 Aug. 1458, prebendary of Driffield on 11 Nov. 1460, archdeacon of Chester in 1478, prebendary of Dunham in Southwell Cathedral, warden of the collegiate church of Manchester in 1481, and died in 1485 or 1486. ..... He resigned the wardenship of Manchester in 1509, and died on 22 March 1514–15. He was buried in the collegiate church at Manchester, where there is an inscription to his memory. His will, dated 20 March and proved 23 May 1515, is printed in Nicolas's ‘Testamenta Vetusta,’ ii. 535–6. Stanley's loose morals afforded an easy mark for protestant invective (cf. Godwin, De Præsulibus, ed. Richardson, p. 271). By a lady who shared his episcopal residence at Somersham he had at least two sons, John and Thomas, and a daughter, Margaret, who married Sir Henry Halsall of Halsall. The elder son, John, fought at Flodden Field on 9 Sept. 1513, was knighted, and founded the family of Stanleys of Hanford, Cheshire.
• [Authorities quoted; Campbell's Materials for the Reign of Henry VII (Rolls Ser.); Andreas's Historia, pp. 108, 125 (Rolls Ser.); Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, ed. Brewer, vols. i. and ii.; Rymer's Fœdera; Le Neve's Fasti, ed. Hardy, passim; Collins's Peerage, iii. 48; Fuller's Worthies; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ii. 704–5; Dodd's Church Hist.; Hibbert-Ware's Collegiate Church of Manchester, i. 48–64; Warden and Fellows of the Collegiate Church of Manchester (Chetham Soc. new ser.); Hollingworth's Mancuniensis; Churton's Lives of W. Smyth, &c., pp. 13, 548–9; Seacome's Memoirs of the House of Stanley, edit. 1840, pp. 70–1; Ormerod's Cheshire; Bentham's Ely; Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. i. 16, 525; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714; Chambers's Book of Days.]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stanley,_James_(1465%3F-1515)_(DNB00) ________________________

Margery Stanley was the illegitimate daughter of James Stanley, Bishop of Ely and unknown mistress. This information was obtained from the Massey Family genealogy and family trees on ancestry.com.

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