When Thomas Staley was born in 1571, in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England, his father, Thomas Staley, was 21 and his mother, Joane Styles, was 21. He married Clemency "Clemens" Robinson on 2 March 1605, in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 11 January 1637, in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 66, and was buried in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England.
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The Royal Exchange was organized in January 1571 by Sir Thomas Gresham. Gresham is known as the father of English banking.
England established its first colony in North America in 1585 as a way to generate additional wealth. The colony was named Virginia, after the virgin Queen Elizabeth I.
The Honourable East India Company, a British joint-stock company, was established in 1600 for trade in the Indian Ocean region. At its height, the British East India Company had a private army which was twice the size of the British Army, ruled large sections of India, and revenues in the millions.
English: habitational name from Staveley in Derbyshire, Stayley in Lancashire (now called Stalybridge in Greater Manchester), or perhaps Staveley (Westmorland), Staveley (Lancashire), or Staveley (Yorkshire). The placenames all derive from Old English stæf ‘staff, stave, rod’ (genitive plural stafa) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Staveley .
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