When Alice Stapleton was born on 10 June 1737, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America, her father, Edward Henry Stapleton Sr, was 22 and her mother, Rachel Mary Parks, was 22. She died after 12 May 1780.
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English and Irish: habitational name from any of various places called Stapleton (in Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Leicestershire, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Cumberland), all named in Old English with stapol ‘post, pillar’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The name is common in Ireland, where it has been established since medieval times in the counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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