1828
Born
1828 at Asselby
1828, Asselby, Howden, East Yorkshire— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
Mary Ann Stainley
1828 – 1898
✓ Validated against records · 2026-07-09
Mary Ann Stainley was baptised at Howden on the 19th of July 1828, born at Asselby — the daughter of George Stainley, an agricultural labourer of Asselby, and his wife Rial Barker, of Spaldington. In 1841, a girl of twelve or thirteen, she was already out to service, a farm servant at Yokefleet in the household of Samuel Taylor, farmer.
On the 7th of November 1854 she married, at Howden, George Scott — a widower of Thorpe Lidgett, his first wife lately dead. The register, read at the image this pass, has her making her mark, her father entered as George Stanley, labourer; the wedding was witnessed by John Calvert, who had married into the Scotts. She was George's second wife and outlived none of the difficulty of the first: of her own children the eldest, a first Ralph, died an infant, and it was her second, Annie Elizabeth, born in 1860, who lived to carry the line.
Her father did not vanish from the record when she married. The 1871 census finds the widowed George Stainley, seventy-eight and a former agricultural labourer, living under his daughter's roof at Newfields — the one record that names and places the Stainley grandfather, and the point where the Scott story reaches back into a line of its own. Mary Ann was buried at Howden on the 10th of March 1898, two days after George; the old couple died almost together. Through her daughter Annie, and the Harrisons, Mary Ann Stainley's line joins the Drewerys and the Brocks.
Composed from validated records · 2026-07-09
- Birth
- 1828, Asselby, Howden, East Yorkshire
- Baptism
- July 19th 1828, Howden (Parish Records)
- Marriage
- November 7th 1854 to George Scott in Howden (Parish Record)
- Burial
- March 10th 1898 Howden aged 69 years
- Parents
- George Stainlay born Asselby, East Yorkshire Rial Barker born Spaldington, East Yorkshire
- Siblings
- Hannah Maria Stanley baptised May 16th 1819 Bubwith burial November 26th 1838 Jane Stainley baptised September 9th 1821 Howden John Barker Stanley baptised December 19th 1925, Aughton, nr. Selby Mary Stainley baptised July 19th 1828, Howden Eliza Stanley baptised September 25th 1831, Howden
- Children
- Ralph Scott baptised November 4th 1855, Howden Annie Elizabeth Scott baptised August 12th 1860, Howden Ralph Scott born 1866, Thorpe Lidgett George Henry Scott born 1868, Thorpe Lidgett
- 1841c
- Living in Howden Mary Stanley , born 1827 Yorkshire Samuel Taylor, 1781, Farmer Elizabeth Whitaker, 1791 Samuel Leedham, 1821 Address: Yolkfleet Occupation: Farm Servant
- 1851c
- Not traced
- 1854
- Marries George Scott , a widower, in Howden
In your grandmother’s words · from her notebook
Family
Marriage
Children
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Confirmed — anchored to a recordEstimated — inferred
1828
Baptised — Howden, born Asselby
19 July 1828
Mary [Ann] Stainley — baptised 19 July 1828, Howden — daughter of George & Rial Stainley of Asselby. (Janet Brock's transcript.)— Baptism — Howden (19 July 1828)
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research, cited — not yet re-verified at the image:
- Baptism — Howden (19 July 1828) — Baptism of Mary Ann Stainley, 19 July 1828, Howden — from Janet Brock's reading; born at Asselby. Her father George Stainley (of Asselby), her mother Rial Barker (of Spaldington). Not re-read at the image this pass. from Mum’s research
1841
A farm servant at Yokefleet
1841
Mary Stanley — born ~1827, Yorkshire — Farm Servant, in the household of Samuel Taylor, farmer, Yokefleet. (Janet Brock's transcript.)— 1841 census — a farm servant at Yokefleet
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research, cited — not yet re-verified at the image:
- 1841 census — a farm servant at Yokefleet — 1841 Census, Yokefleet — from Janet Brock's transcription (not re-read at the image this pass): Mary Stanley, a farm servant in the household of Samuel Taylor, farmer. from Mum’s research
1851
Census · 1851
1851
Not traced— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1854
Married George Scott
7 November 1854 at Howden Minster
No. 161 — Nov. 7th 1854 — George Scott, of full age, Widower, Labourer, of Thorpe Lidgett, father Ralph Scott, Lab.; and Mary Stanley, of full age, Spinster, of Thorpe Lidgett, father George Stanley, Lab. Married by Banns by me, Wm Hutchinson, Curate. George Scott ✗ his mark; Mary Stanley ✗ her mark. In the Presence of: J[no] Calvert; Joseph Poole.
— Second marriage — Mary Ann Stainley, Howden (7 November 1854)
No. 161 — Nov. 7th 1854 — George Scott, Widower, Labourer, Thorpe Lidgett (father Ralph Scott, Lab.) and Mary Stanley, Spinster, Thorpe Lidgett (father George Stanley, Lab.). Married by Banns. George Scott ✗ his mark; Mary Stanley ✗ her mark. Witnesses: J[no] Calvert; Joseph Poole.— Marriage — George Scott, Howden (7 November 1854)
Read at the image record Evidence
Confirmed against the original record, read at the image:
- Second marriage — Mary Ann Stainley, Howden (7 November 1854) — Howden parish register, marriages 1854, entry No. 161, page 81 — East Riding of Yorkshire Archives, PE 121/22. Read at the register image (findmypast Yorkshire Marriages, GBPRS/YORKSHIRE/MAR/201824144/1), 9 July 2026. George a widower; both made their marks; witness John Calvert (his brother-in-law). Confirms Mum's transcript to the letter. read at the image
- Marriage — George Scott, Howden (7 November 1854) — Howden parish register, marriages 1854, entry No. 161, page 81 — East Riding of Yorkshire Archives, PE 121/22. Read at the register image (findmypast Yorkshire Marriages, GBPRS/YORKSHIRE/MAR/201824144/1), 9 July 2026. She made her mark; her father entered George Stanley, labourer. The register spells her 'Stanley'. read at the image
1871
1871 census — Newfields, Thorpe
1871 at Howden
[Newfields, Thorpe] George Scott — Head — 52 — Agric Lab — Cavile · Mary Scott — Wife — 43 — Asselby · George Stainley — Father-in-Law — Widower — 78 — Formerly Agri Lab — Asselby · Annie Eliz. Scott — Daughter — 11 — Scholar · Ralph — 5 · George — 3.— 1871 census — her widowed father under the roof
The record image is with the family — family sign-in
Read at the image record Evidence
Confirmed against the original record, read at the image:
- 1871 census — her widowed father under the roof — 1871 Census — RG 10/4763, folio 23, page 4; Newfields, township of Thorpe, Howden. Read at the enumeration image (findmypast GBC/1871/4763/0049), 9 July 2026 — the record that names her father George Stainley, widower, 78, 'Formerly Agri Lab', born Asselby. read at the image
1898
Buried
10 March 1898
Mary Ann Scott — buried 10 March 1898, Howden — aged 69. (Janet Brock's transcript.)— Burial — Howden (10 March 1898), aged 69
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research, cited — not yet re-verified at the image:
- Burial — Howden (10 March 1898), aged 69 — Burial of Mary Ann Scott, 10 March 1898, Howden, aged 69 — from Janet Brock's reading; two days after her husband George. from Mum’s research
Our research
Mary Ann Stainley — and the Stainleys of Asselby
Research · Asselby, Yokefleet & Thorpe
Her marriage to George Scott (Howden, 1854) is read at the register image this pass, and her father George Stainley is named and placed at the image in the 1871 census (widower, 78, 'Formerly Agri Lab', of Asselby). Her baptism (Howden 1828) and the 1841 census rest on Janet's transcripts.
- The Stainley line. Janet carried the Stainleys back beyond her father George (b. ~1793, Asselby): a Thomas Stainley of 1712–1787 and another of about 1680 sit in her notebook — a Stainley wife-line pass of its own, waiting.
- Her mother. Rial Barker of Spaldington — a Barker line entirely untouched.
- 1851. Janet could not trace Mary Ann in 1851 (between service and her marriage); worth another look at the image.