When Frances Needles was born in 1663, in Poole, Dorset, England, her father, Lieut. John Needles, was 25 and her mother, Frances Elizabeth Nightingale, was 23. She married Thomas Stapleton Sr about 1682. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 14 September 1693, in Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 30, and was buried in Middlesex, Virginia, British Colonial America.
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The Glorious Revolution brought the downfall of Catholic King James II and the reign of his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange.
English (mainly Northamptonshire and Montgomeryshire): variant of Needle , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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