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Henry seems to have been intent on naming one of his sons Henry so that the name survived him, but in each case the young Henry died in infancy.
Between 1857-1869 Henry Stanley was keeping the Red Lion in High St. In that year there was a robbery documented by Jackson's Oxford Journal on 28 Nov 1857:
"An impudent robbery was effected in the Market Place. About seven o'clock that evening a man was observed passing the Town Hall with the carcase of a sheep on his back. He turned as if intending to go down the New Street but latering his mind he suddenly disappeared under the Town Hall. Suspicion was thereby aroused and he was followed and the sheep was discovered in a sheep dipping apparatus which had been placed there, it was no doubt deposited there with the intention of it's being fetched away in the night, under cover of the fog the man escaped. Upon enquiry it was ascertained that the carcase had been taken from the hooks before the door of H.Stanley of the Red Lion Inn. Blacksmith."
He kept the Red Lion till about 1869. At the end of his life Henry was living in Pembroke Street and was listed then as a slater. He died aged 63 in 1886 and is buried in the cemetery in Chipping Norton.
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Frederick Stanley
The son of Henry James Stanley & Elizabeth Hathaway, he was baptised in Chipping Norton in 1858.
He was a butcher and married Sophia Jane Hanwell in Banbury in 1885. Their children were as follows:
- Helena Flora (1887 - aft 1891)
- Arthur Frank (1889 - aft 1891)
- Norman Frederick W. J. M. (1908)
Living descendants have been identified.
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