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19 unusual facts about Stafford


10th Louisiana Infantry

In April 1862, it totalled 595 men and during the war served in McLaws', Semmes', Starke's, Nicholl's, Iverson's, Stafford's, and York's Brigade.

80th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

It was active at South mountain and Antietam, encamped at Sharpsburg for one week and marched through Crampton's Gap, Leesburg, Warrenton and Stafford Court House to Fredericksburg, where it participated in the battle.

Augustine Washington, Jr.

In 1753, he inherited his brother Lawrence's share in Accokeek Furnace near Stafford, Virginia.

Baron Cadman

Baron Cadman, of Silverdale in the County of Stafford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Beorhthelm of Stafford

He is said to have had a hermitage on the island of Bethnei, which later became the town of Stafford.

Chris Carrieri

After a successful high school career at North Stafford High School in Stafford, Virginia, Carrieri played college soccer at the University of North Carolina, where he was hugely successful.

Francis Fitzherbert-Stafford, 12th Baron Stafford

He was a DL and JP for Staffordshire and Lord High Steward of the Borough of Stafford.

He was also commissioned into his native county's Staffordshire Yeomanry in 1885, and promoted Major in 1898.

His lifetime marked the point where the Stafford barony first came into contact with Fitzherbert as a surname.

Past Brothers

At present, Past Brothers competes in the South East Division junior competitions, playing out of Gibson Park in Stafford.

Queensland Housing Commission

In the Brisbane suburb of Stafford a significant number of post-war Queensland Housing Commission homes were built on quarter-acre blocks in the 1940s and 1950s.

Ryecroft, West Midlands

It is situated to the north of the town centre and is centred around the main A34 road in the direction of Stafford.

Scott Bruun

He served in the Oregon House of Representatives representing District 37, which encompasses some of the southern suburbs of Portland, Oregon, including part or all of the cities of Durham, Lake Oswego, Rivergrove, Tualatin and West Linn, as well as the hamlet of Stafford and parts of unincorporated Clackamas County.

Stafford Reformed Presbyterian Church

The Stafford Reformed Presbyterian Church, also known as Covenanter Church, is a historic church in Stafford, Kansas, United States.

Stafford, Connecticut

In the Connecticut General Assembly, Stafford is represented by State Representative Penny Bacchiochi and State Senator Tony Guglielmo.

The barracks of Troop C of the State Police are located nearby, just off Interstate Highway 84 in Tolland.

Stafford, Virginia

English sea captain, Samuel Argall abducted the Pamunkey princess, Pocahontas near this area on April 13, 1613 while she was residing with her Patawomeck husband, Kocoum in an attempt to secure some English prisoners for release and ammunitions held by her father.

The vicar, Alexander Whitaker converted Pocahontas to Christianity during her captivity.

The Varnett Public School

In 2004 The Varnett School appointed Ronique Bastine-Robinson, a municipal judge of Stafford, Texas, to its board of directors.


Anne Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

In two 2007 episodes of the Showtime television series, The Tudors, Anne Stafford, portrayed by Anna Brewster, is presented as the 3rd Duke of Buckingham's daughter (she was his sister), and is involved not with Henry VIII but with a fictionalized version of the King's future brother-in-law, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

Bizarre Inc

Bizarre Inc were a house/dance-pop band from Stafford, England, that formed in 1989 as a duo of English DJs Dean Meredith and Mark "Aaron" Archer (not to be confused with the film producer of same name).

Blessed William Howard Catholic School

William Howard was the 1st Viscount of Stafford in the 17th century, and owned the land on which the current school is built.

Bridgewater House, Westminster

It was famous, in both incarnations, as the site of the Stafford Galley (in Cleveland House) and Bridgewater Gallery (in Bridgewater House), where the collections of paintings of the Duke of Bridgewater and his nephew and heir George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (whose second son Ellesmere was) were on at least semi-public display.

City Rise

Notable historical industrial connections with the suburb include Choie (Charles) Sew Hoy's importing company and the Kempthorne Prosser chemical manufacturing company, both of which had their main offices on Stafford Street.

Darlene Remembers Duke, Jonathan Plays Fats

The duo put their own unique interpretation on the music of Duke Ellington and Fats Waller with Stafford singing deliberately off key, while Weston plays an out of tune piano.

Delia Stafford-Johnson

For nearly a decade, Ms. Stafford-Johnson directed the nation's largest school district-based alternative teacher certification program in Houston Independent School District.

Digital Sky Technologies

key people = Yuri Milner, Founder;
John Lindfors;
Rahul Mehta;
Tom Stafford;
Shou Zi Chew;

Dilhorne Hall

The Baronetcy of Dilhorne in the County of Stafford was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 20 January 1866 for Edward Manningham-Buller.

Drifting and Dreaming with Jo Stafford

Originally known as The Carnation Contented Hour, and co-hosted by Stafford and Dick Haymes on CBS Radio, the show was renamed as The Melody Hour and its commercial content edited out for re-broadcast to the Armed Forces.

Edward Burgh

His first marriage, at the age of 13, was to the 9 year old heiress, Anne Cobham, daughter of Sir Thomas, de jure 5th Baron Cobham of Sterborough and Lady Anne Stafford (daughter of, who had been "affianced" to the recently deceased Edward Blount, 2nd Baron Mountjoy: she brought him ownership of Sterborough Castle.

Edwin Nelson

Ed Nelson (born 1928), American actor, full name Edwin Stafford Nelson

Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire

At the accession of Henry VIII on 21 April 1509 Stafford was imprisoned in the Tower on suspicion of treason, but was released without charge.

James J. Archer

Archer was born at Stafford, near Havre de Grace, Maryland, to John and Ann Stump Archer, a wealthy military family.

Jean Stafford

Stafford enjoyed a brief period of domestic happiness with her third husband, A. J. Liebling, a prominent writer for The New Yorker.

John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley

On 11 July 1838 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Wrottesley, of Wrottesley in the County of Stafford.

Kevin Street

Street's first experience of management came in 2008 in a spell as joint caretaker manager with Neil Grayson at Stafford Rangers.

Kim Weild

Among her many collaborators and associates are Anne Bogart (SITI Co.), Diane Paulus, Tina Kronis and Richard Algers, George Balanchine, Caryl Churchill, Max Stafford-Clark, Simon Curtis, André Gregory, Antoinette LaFarge, Judith Malina, Larry Moss, Mike Nichols, George Morrison, Sabrina Peck, Abraham Pulido, Richard Schechner, Paul Sills, Tadashi Suzuki and Robert Wilson.

Life with Billy

The film begins with Jane Hurshman (Beatty) shooting her common-law husband Billy Stafford (McHattie) in his sleep, and then shows the resulting police investigation and trial, interspersed with flashbacks showing the domestic abuse that Stafford inflicted on Hurshman over the course of their relationship.

Margaret Beaufort

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Stafford (c. 1427–1474), the daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (second creation) and the mother of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.

Michelle Stafford

In 2013, Stafford created her own web comedy series, The Stafford Project.

New England Interstate Route 32

North of Norwich, it heads northwest going through Willimantic and Stafford before entering Massachusetts.

North Stafford High School

North Stafford is located on State Route 610, or Garrisonville Road, approximately 3 miles from I-95 and U.S. Route 1.

Penstemon floridus

austinii, is named for Stafford Wallace Austin, collector of plants and husband of writer Mary Hunter Austin.

Pinnacle Career Institute

The school participates in Title IV funding through the Department of Education and administers the Pell Grant, Student Educational Opportunity Grant, and Federal Stafford and PLUS Loan programs.

Plainville High School

Scott Martin, former MLB player for the Los Angeles Dodgers, now is the head baseball coach at Stafford High School.

Ruth Stafford Peale

She was born in Fonda, Iowa to Canadian parents, Methodist clergyman Frank B. Stafford and Loretta A. Stafford, and died on February 6, 2008 in Pawling, New York, aged 101.

Spotlight on Jo Stafford

Spotlight on Jo Stafford is a 1996 compilation album of songs recorded by American singer Jo Stafford.

St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr

It was extended around 1475, and the wagon roof over the chancel was boarded or plastered in 1491 by John Stafford (1476-1516), Abbot of Strata Florida Abbey.

Stafford Brothers

In Australia, the Stafford Brothers host their weekly radio show on Austereo Radio Network.

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act

One proposed amendment to the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistant Act is the Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit Fairness Act of 2013 (H.R. 592), a bill that passed in the United States House of Representatives on February 13, 2013, during the 113th United States Congress.

Stafford Hollow, Connecticut

Stafford Hollow was the town center of Stafford during the 18th and 19th centuries, before the growth of the village of Stafford Springs.

Stafford Parkway railway station

Stafford Parkway is a proposed railway station on the West Coast Main Line, just north of Stafford, England.

Starring Jo Stafford

Starring Jo Stafford is a 1953 album by Jo Stafford,with Paul Weston and His Orchestra accompaniment by The Starlighters and The Pied Pipers.

Sweigert

In 2007, the Biographical Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) issued a report indicating that the game was played in Gloucester, New Jersey, and Philadelphia manager Bill Sharsig used four local players (Sterling, Sweigert, Stafford, and McBride) in the game.

The Wench is Dead

Much of the research for the novel was carried out at the William Salt Library in Stafford.

Thomas Maxfield

He was born in Stafford gaol, one of the younger sons of William Macclesfield of Chesterton and Maer and Aston, Staffordshire; William Macclesfield was a Catholic recusant, condemned to death in 1587 for harbouring priests, one of whom was his brother Humphrey.

Tommy Ball

The jury rejected this argument, returning a verdict of "wilful murder", and Stagg was committed for trial at Stafford Assizes.

Tualatin River

Soon Athey Creek enters from the right and Pecan Creek from the left before the river passes under Southwest Stafford Road near the unincorporated area of Wankers Corner and flows past the unincorporated community of Shadowood.

Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar

Constance, an author who married to Walter Fowler, of St. Thomas, near Stafford.

Walter Norris Congreve

His younger son Geoffrey Cecil Congreve was created a baronet, of Congreve in the County of Stafford, in July 1927 (see Congreve baronets).

William F. Readdy

He served in numerous support roles including: Training Officer; Safety Officer; Operations Development Branch Chief; NASA Director of Operations, Star City, Russia; Stafford Task Force; and the first manager of Space Shuttle Program Development charged with upgrading the Space Shuttle.

William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford

Stafford was attainted and the family lost the title; the title of Baron Stafford was returned to the Howard line in 1824 with the attainder being reversed but the title of Viscount was extinct as there were no male heirs.

Woody Freeman

Freeman’s partners are Phil H. Hout and Jesse Stafford, both then of Jonesboro, and Peter Seale of Houston, Texas.