RESEARCHER QUOTES

 

Stacy - Research by the late EFA Master President Donald W Eustace has verified that Stacy is a shortened version of the name Eustace. The name Stacy is fairly prevalent on all three continents where we find Eustaces and other variants. We hope to learn more of our Stacy connections in the future and share these with you. More infomation is available at http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ga40/euststry.htm The English Family has been in the southeast of Oxford since the 1200s. They are descended from Eustace, Count of Boulogne, chief ally of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings, 1066. The first to make his home in England was Geoffrey of Boulogne who appears in the Domesday, 1086 as holding manors from the Boulogne estates and from his wife’s family, the De Mandevilles. He had three grandsons and it is from the middle one, Master Eustace, a lawyer, in the service of the Archbishop of Canterbury that the family and the name are descended. One of his sons was the seal bearer to Richard, Coeur de Lion, later Bishop of Ely and with his brother and stepfather was involved in the negotiations leading to Magna Carta. 

From: David J. Eustace - The family of STACY, of which Mahlon, the founder of Trenton,was a younger son, was seated at Ballifield Hall, Parish of Handsworth,in the West Riding. Yorkshire. Certianly from the year 1330 down to the 19th Century. Still earlier in the Reign of King Henry 111,1252,acleric ofthenameEustace was rector of Handsworth Church Yorkshire. In ‘Familiae Minorium Gentium’ it states the Ballifeild family of STACY were reported to have held that estate from the time of the Norman conquest.David J Eustace, email

 

Quote from Jim Stacy, a direct descendant and Stacy researcher.

Personally, I believe that based on the coats of arms among other circumstantial evidence, all English Stacy/Stacey/etc. are descended from Roger de Stacy de Ballifield, a French knight granted a fief in Handsworth (Sheffield), York (now West Riding) c. 1243.  Roger claimed descent from  Eustace Count of Boulogne, William the Conqueror's lieutenant, and probably the chief instigator of William's claim to the English throne.  The English Eustace/Eustices are also descended from the count.  We know that the Stacys of Essex were in that county before 1490, not only in Epping but in nearby Waltham Cross.  Simple statistics and probability make the odds that these Stacys were related greater than that they were not." 

 

From research by D. Dennis Stacey, the following theory is offered: