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	1066	1086 Domesday Book is completed in England

The known history of the Standish family begins about the end of the twelfth century, but, in order to get a clearer picture of how it all began, it is necessary to refer back the the Normal Conquest.

After William of Normandy had more or less conquered England he gave large tracts of land which he had confiscated from the Saxons to the men who had helped him in battle. His kinsman, Roger de Poiteu, was allotted the lands between the rivers Mersey and Ribble. He, in turn, parceled these out amongst his retinue, and by this means the Bussel family acquired the Barony of Penwortham and the ancient Saxon Hundred of Leyland. The two adjacent vills of Stanedis and Longetre, as they were then spelt, the present-day Standish and Langtree, formed part of this territory.

At the end of the twelfth century Warin Bussel was Baron of Penwortham, and when his daughter married Richard Spileman he gave to her the vills of Stanedis and Longetre as part of her dowry. Two daughters born of this marriage each received one of the vills as her own marriage portion, the elder, Juliana, marrying Radulphus de Stanedis who took the the name Stanedis or Standish and the younger, Edith, marrying Siward de Longetre, who adopted the name Longetre or Langtree.^[1]

1. ↑ Eleanor Johnson, The Standish Family 1189-1920 (Published by the Standish Local History Group, 1972)