leycesters

Updated: May 31, 2025

Her father was one of the Leycesters of Toft House, only a few miles from Alderley, and at Toft most of Catherine's early years were spent. She was engaged to Edward Stanley before she was seventeen, but did not marry him till nearly two years later, in 1810.

Edward Stanley - Before and after Waterloo : Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816)