Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Oldham Co.

JUDGE WILLIAM MANBY was born on June 23, 1828, in Yorkshire, England, a son
of the late John Manby, of Skipton, England, where he died in 1878 at the
advanced age of eighty-five years.  The Craven Pioneer, of Skipton, England
says of him: "He was a descendant of anointed kings, queens and emperors.
His mother (John's) was a Miss Swale, whose ancestors were the lords of
Swaledale, and going a long time back, in fact to the year 880, there are
found among her predecessors the counts of Flanders.  In the year just
named, Baldwin the Hardy, count of Flanders, married Judith, daughter of
the bold king of France, grandson of the emperor of Charlemagne, Baldwin
second, the bold, second count of Flanders, married Elfreda, daughter of
Alfred the Great, King of England.  Coming to the fifth count of Flanders
it is found he married for a second wife Susannah, daughter of the king of
Italy and Emperor of Germany.  One of the counts of Flanders married the
sister of William the Conqueror himself.  The Swales have figured in many
historic battles.  They went into the Holy Land with Richard Coeur-de-Leon,
fought at the battle of Agincourt, and one of them was a commander in the
French Army under the king of France.  Sir Solomon Swale served in the
army of King Charles I during the civil war; was made member of Parliament
for Aldburgh, and proposed the restoration of King Charles II, in the
House of Commons, May 17, 1660.  Charles was proclaimed king the next day,
and in consideration of this act and his sufferings for his loyalty to
the king.  Charles I, Solomon Swale was created a baronet."  Judge
William Manby is a lineal descendant of this remarkable family.  At the
age of twenty he left his native county for America and landed in New
York in 1848.  After consideration traveling in the United States he
located in New York in 1848.  After considerable traveling in the United
States he located at LaGrange, Ky., in 1854, and engaged in the general
merchandise business.  During the war he took an aggressive and decided
stand against slavery and against the dissolution of the Union, having
voted for and supported Abraham Lincoln at the beginning of the war.  He
had no great opposition until after Lincoln's emancipation proclamation,
when his friends turned against him, so, in 1865, having a major's
commission in the State militia, First Kentucky Battalion, he went to
Louisville, and was engaged until 1868 in running a "government store."
His interest all being in Oldham County, he returned that year and since
been a citizen of LaGrange.  He now owns two general stores in LaGrange
and one at Ballardsville, and owns 500 acres of land in Oldham County.
He has been three times married and is the father of eighteen children. His
first marriage was in January, 1855, to Miss Martha Rhine, of Meade County,
Ky.  She died in 1866, the mother of nine children, of whom two are living:
Anna and Henry Swale.  His second marriage was in November, 1867, to Miss
Lucinda James, of Oldham County, who died in 1876.  Of her four children,
three are living: Ada, William and Thomas.  He was next married, the same
year, to Miss Elizabeth Clifford, of Louisville, who has borne five
children, of whom four are living: Blanche, Clarence, Claude and Edward.
From 1871 to 1878 Mr. Manby acted in the official capacity of police
judge.  He is a prominent Mason of the LaGrange Lodge, No. 47, and has
reached the Royal Arch degree.  He is also a member of the K. of H., and
is a Republican.  In 1882 he was the nominee of his party for the
Legislature, and reduced, to a great extent, the Democratic majority of
the county.

Manby Swale Rhine James Clifford
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LaGrange-Oldham-KY Meade-KY Louisville-Jefferson-KY England

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