Posted by Robert Stacey on April 24, 19102 at 13:46:37:
In Reply to: frank staley and/or margaret Yarborough posted by staley/yarborough- north carolina on November 09, 19101 at 21:45:41:
I am a descendent of William Stacy who married Rebecca Griffith, at least 1/2 Cherokee in blood. Because the Indians had a different level of literacy and a different way of naming it may be that we are related. The Stacy clan has spelled its name a number of different ways--Stacy, Stacey which is the way my dad came to spell it after 1907, Stacye which was the way Mahlon Stayce spelled it when he settled in at Stacye Island (Now Burlington Island, New Jersey) in the 1600's, and some internet spellings include Stayse,Stacie, Stace and perhaps....Staley.
I have no authority for this other than my instinct, however, I know that the Indians usually had no last names and when asked they would often pick the same last name as someone whom they had come to admire. As for spelling, perhaps the Inidans were as accurate as the English who had so many variations in spelling it would make your head spin.
Another possibility is that the Staley you are looking for is a descendent of a German family that is said to have come from Ohio which brings up a lot of other variants (possible) in spelling, leaning toward the Stahlie, etc,...
Let me know if you find out you are related to our Stacy family which settled in North Carolina in the early 1600's beginning with Simon Stacy and his brothers who came over from England as indentured servants. They grew tobacco as tenant farmers, had large families, and eventually came to acquire some wealth. It appears that the wealth was always divided and reallocated because of the many, many offspring each descendant had.
: I am trying to put together family history and i'm running into blank walls when it comes to frank staley of North Carolina- i do know that he was Indian(Cherokee extraction) he was married to Margaret Yarborough and family was around High Point NC, Cumberland County- can anyone help ?