Brief Life History of Emma Lawson
When Emma Lawson Stapley was born in 1862, in Gibraltar, her father, Robert Calverley Stapley, was 33 and her mother, Harriet Selina Mackenzie, was 28. She lived in Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years.
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Sources (3)
- Emma Lawson Stapeley in household of Robert Charles Stapeley, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Legacy NFS Source: Emma Stapley - Government record: birth-name: Emma Stapley
- Emma Stapley in household of Robert C Stapley, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
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World Events (8)
1879
The French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars lead to a big increase in the trade, prosperity and population of Gibraltar. The town, which had been destroyed in the Great Siege, is rebuilt.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English (Kent and Sussex): habitational name from a lost place called Stapele recorded in the 13th century in the manor of Wootton in East Chiltington (Sussex). The placename probably derives from Old English stapol ‘post, pillar’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’; the reference may have been to a place where timber was got for posts.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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