When Joseph Stapleton was born on 5 February 1742, in Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America, his father, Edward Henry Stapleton Sr, was 27 and his mother, Rachel Mary Parks, was 27. He married Sarah Lewis about 1765, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He died in 1776, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 34.
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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.
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