mr job Stapleton was born in Saint Kitts, Saint Kitts and Nevis. He died in 1966, in his hometown.
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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