EFL - Enciclopedia delle Famiglie Lombarde

https://www.geni.com/people/Juliana-de-Standish/380854633000012170 Th e start of the Standish family can be found in the years following th e Norman Conquest. After William of Normandy had more or less conquere d England he gave large tracts of land which he had confiscated from t he Saxons to the men who had helped him in battle. His kinsman, Roge r de Poietou, was allotted the lands between the rivers Mersey and Rib ble. He, in turn, parcelled these out amongst his retinue, and by thi s means the Bussel family aquired the Barony of Penwortham and the anc ient Saxon Hundred of Leyland. The two adjacent vills of Stanedis an d Longetre, as they were then spelt, the present day Standish and Lang tree, formed part of this territory. At the end of the twelfth centur y Warin Bussel was Baron of Penwortham, and when his daughter marrie d Richard Spileman he gave to her the Vills of Stanedis and Longetre a s part of her dowry. Two daughters born of this marriage each receive d one of the vills as her own marriage portion, the elder, Juliana, ma rrying Radulphus de Stanedis, who took the name Stanedis or Standish , and the younger, Edith, marrying Siward de Longetre, who took the na me Longetre or Langtree. With the marriage of Radulphus and Juliana , whose dowry gave them land and a name, the history of the Standish f amily had begun. Ownership of land brings legal documents or deeds an d now, from the beginning of the thirteenth century, the story of th e Standish family can be followed.