Thomas II

The Village Blacksmith

Thomas Stanley was born & baptised in Snowshill in 1760, the son of Thomas Stanley & Hannah. Nothing much is known about his early years.

By 1782 he was 22 and a blacksmith “of Temple Guiting” and in that year he married Mary (nee Lyne) in Lower Guiting, Glos..

Mary was the daughter of Thomas Lyne of Farmcott.


	The church is still there of course and if you peep through the windows at the rear of the church you can see the place where the couple were married all those years ago. It doesn’t look like much has changed inside.

He signed his name Thomas Standly, but it is the same person.
Spelling in the eighteenth century was not as important as it has become today.

Didbrook

Very shortly afterwards the couple moved into the nearby village of Didbrook in the same county. Thomas then 22 years old presumably moved there as the village smithy became vacant. Thomas & Mary had a small family there between 1783-1793.

Henry (1783 - aft 1815)
Blacksmith. Married Sarah Wallington in Oxford, later settled and had a family in Salford near Chipping Norton.
Nancy (1786)
Alice (1787 - 1788)
Elizabeth (1788)
Thomas (1790 - 1870)
Mary (1793)

Later references are only to Henry & Thomas, so we presume that none of the girls survived infancy.


		Tragically Thomas (senior) died in 1807 aged only 47 years. His widow Mary then had to sell the blacksmith shop to clear her debts.

	Sale at Toddington Inn for Mr. Williams, September 5th, 1809 Lot 1 - A messuage or tenement with Blacksmiths shop and other buildings and garden hereto adjoining now occupied by Mary Stanley, widow, situated at Didbrook within a mile of the place of sale. Purchaser Mr. J. Moore £202 Deposit £2 Duty £5.17.10

1809. Mary, then 49 and a widow, and her small family then moved to the nearest town, Chipping Norton, and the story takes another twist.

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