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Thomas was born & baptised in Didbrook, Glos., in 1790. He was the son of Thomas Stanley & Mary (nee Lyne).
His father died in 1807, Mary his mother recently widowed had to sell the blacksmith shop to cover her debts the 17 year old Thomas Stanley (1790-1870) must have thought it was the end of the world. No work available in the small village of Didbrook of course.
It is probably no surprise therefore that within a couple of years of these traumatic events the family had moved to the nearest town with work prospects, Chipping Norton. Little did they know that within a few decades the family would be “doing quite nicely”, hard work overcoming the bad hand they were dealt at that time. This is probably due in no small part to the hard work of Thomas himself.
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