Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Perspective: The Poulton Project

About five or six years ago, I joined http://ManleyDNA.com and got a lot from it. But I was unaware that it started as a result of the Poulton Project! All these years of wondering whether I could find the father of George Manley. Suddenly, I am back at the Poulton Project with Sir Nicholas as my 11th generation grandfather! Incredibly interesting.

All of the people I emailed with, including Jim Maule, Cathy Manly Sockol, many others. You can see on the right a response from Jim Maule to my entreaties that he be closer to me than 1500 years ago!

Some things you might do - Wikitree is excellent! You need an email address and a password to log in but you might try "Manley-209" to see what it's like. It's http://www.wikitree.com.

The "Meet the Ancestors: The Black Hand" is not available, but the transcript is. See this URL.

The Poulton Project is not available, but a close project is. See the Time Teams work.


Manley/Manly - Moved Back Five Generations!

Well, Doug Manley extended his streak. In addition to to Thomas Manley, father of George Manley, he has extended this streak back to 1475, with the birth of Sir Nicholas Manley. That's five generations.


  • Let see them in turn. The father of George is Thomas Manley. He was born in 1605 in London and died in Banbury in 1683. (George is the father of Lazarus Manley.)



  • The father of Thomas is Richard Manley. There are two Richards in a row. There is not much on the first one. He lived to be almost 72. He married Margaret Larken in 1583.



  • Then his father, also Richard Manley, married Marie Lowman in 1549. He lived to 65.



  • Now to the "Sirs." The first was Sir Peter Manley, called DeManLegh. He was born in London in 1518 and died in Babington in 1590. He lived to be 72.



  • Now to Sir Nicholas Manley. born in Babington in 1475. He died in Poulton in 1520. He is the focus on the Poulton Research effort resulting in the BBC's 1998 "Meet your Ancestors: The Black Hand." He married Stanley Ellen. He died when he was only 45 years old. Below is a clay mask from his skeleton. Look familiar?