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Cecilia Towneley Standish
When Ralph Standish died in 1755, none of his sons from is two marriages remained alive, and so the estate went to his daughter, Cecilia, who had married William Towneley in 1735. Her eldest son, Charles, inherited the Towneley estates, but he died a bachelor. The second son, Ralph, was to have inherited the Standish Estates but died before his mother, and so the third son, Edward, inherited and assumed the Standish name and as
Edward Towneley Standish became Lord of the manor when his mother died in 1778, aged sixty four years. There was a tradition that she founded a fair in Standish, to be held annually on St. Cecilia's Day, November 29th [sic. - St. Cecilia's Day is November 22nd].
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- ↑ Eleanor Johnson, The Standish Family 1189-1920 (Published by the Standish Local History Group, 1972)
