Stonley, Richard, 1519 or 1520-1600

Richard Stonley was a teller in the Receipt of the Exchequer and lived in Aldersgate St., in the parish of St. Botolph, London. He owned property in Essex at Doddinghurst, where he was a neighbor of the Petre family, East Ham (Estham) and Halstead; in London; in Middlesex and elsewhere. Stonley's wife Anne was the daughter of John Branche and widow of Robert Donne and there are frequent references to his step-sons William Donne, the physician, and Dr. (later Sir) Daniel Donne, principal of New Inn, as well as to his own daughters and sons-in-law, Anne and William Higham or Heigham of East Ham and Dorothy and William Dawtrey of Moor or More, Sussex and to his brothers-in-law William Uvedale and Sir John Branche, lord mayor of London in 1580.