Stanistreet Family Origins

The history of Stanistreet family begins around the year 1700 in Liverpool, England, with the birth of Thomas Stanistreet.

Thomas had three children: Thomas, Andrew and William.

The son called Thomas was born in 1717 in the same town as his father.

At some point Thomas decided to move to Ireland, where he became organist at Lismore Cathedral.

Thomas married Nancy Anne Dawson (born in 1731 in Castledawson, Londonderry, Northern Ireland) and had 12 children:

  • Anne Stanistreet - 1760
  • William Stanistreet - 1761
  • Elizabeth Stanistreet - 1764
  • Thomas Stanistreet - 1765
  • Ellen Stanistreet - 1765
  • Robert Stanistreet - 1768
  • Jane Stanistreet - 1769
  • John Stanistreet - 1770
  • Richard Stanistreet - 1773
  • Henry Dawson Stanistreet - 1775
  • Harold Charles Stanistreet
  • Lindsay Stanistreet

John Stanistreet, who was born in 1770 in Ireland, he worked as a tax collector in Borrisoleigh, County of Tipperary.

John married Ellen Sandes.

All information about the Stanistreet family up to this point has no documentar evidence. People and presented dates were encontadas in the family tree of a user "skrboyd" on the Ancestry website. This tree showed Ellen Stanistreet (John's daughter and Ellen Sandes) with two marriages: a Captain Priestman and another unnamed person who revealed to be Robert Pollock Davison, and also revealed the three generations of Ellen Stanistreet ancestors.

If someone has information about this facts please contact me.

Ellen Sandes was born in 1791 in a small village called Crosshaven (current population of 2,000 inhabitants).

In 1818 Ellen Sandes moved to a port city called The Cove of Cork, where her daughter was born Ellen Stanistreet. Today The Cove of Cork is called Cobh. The distance between the two cities is 20 km drive.


Crosshaven for The Cove of Cork

The Cove of Cork was a port city in the eighteenth century. It was renamed Queenstown in 1850 to commemorate the visit of Queen Victoria. This name remained until the end of the 1920s, when it was again renamed Cobh. Cobh currently have a population of no more than 20,000 inhabitants.


The Cove of Cork, Cobh today

The dates and cities of birth of mother and daughter (Crosshaven and Queenstown) could be discovered thanks to the British census of 1861 and 1871 1, despite the difficulty of the spelling of the time. A working assumptions names and research in Irish cities list was needed. Finally hunches were confirmed when looking at the map the two candidate cities were found less than 20 km away from each other.


British census of 1861

The abbreviation that in some rows means "ditto", ie, the same as the line above.

The census of 1871 was one of particular importance for research of ancestors because he was the link for the family of Percy Davison, who was the oldest known ancestor so far. This census revealed his parents and all his brothers.

Ellen Stanistreet married Captain William Priestman ship Mary Hartley, changing its name to Ellen Priestman.

It is likely that Ellen has embarked on Mary Hartley in the city of Cork, on December 11, 1836, bound for Calcutta with stops in Cape (South Africa) and Madras (India). The arrival took place on May 18, 1837. William Priestman died on June 18, 1837, in Calcutta. These data were obtained in the books "The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India, China and Australasia" volumes 22 to 24.


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