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Ancestors of Raymond Dixon STAPLETON, Sr.

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ALLEN BACH BAUGH BELL BLESSING BLOOMFIELD BOOTHE CARTER CARTY CASSELL CASTLE CAVE COLLINS COSBY CROOK DALE DICKSON DICKSONE DICSON DINWIDDY DIXON DUNN FOULKES FREEMAN HAWLEY HELM HUSBAND JONES KASSELL KEITH KEMPE KENNEDY KILGORE LINDAMOOD MASSIE MATNEY MOREHOUSE MYLES NICKELS NORRIS OPIE OSBORNE PENICK PIPPEN POWERS RAMEY RENFRO REYNOLDS ROBERTSON SAILOR SALLIER SALYER SAYLOR SHAFFER SHANE SKIPWITH STAPLETON THOMPSON UNDERWOOD WARBURTON WARNER WILCOXIN WILLIAMSON WOLF

STAPLETON is one of the earliest names on the frontier in SW VA, along with other ancestors SALYER, CASTLE (remember ole Daniel Boone stayed at a place called "Castles' Woods"?) and DIXON. STAPLETONs traveled from NC as frontiersmen and are recorded in SW VA in the early 1780's. They are shown on the petition to create Russell County (included what is now Scott) from Washington County. This web site is under development to publish over 20 years of my research on SW Va, the STAPLETON Family and specifically my family research. I have provided a lot of information over the years to fellow researchers, and the requests are too numerous to handle one at a time. I am publishing my conclusions in the hope that it will help you with your family search, but also so we can debate those conclusions and prove or correct them. Contact me if you have an interest in early SW Virginia families going back to the mid-late 1700's.

THE CLAN STAPLETON ENGLAND AMERICA by Raymond D. Stapleton contains over 20 years research in the US and England by the Author, publishing his research notes and conclusions. Starting with the first appearance of the STAPLETON name in England, research includs the Irish branch of the family name. Information about Sir Myles Stapleton Founder Knight is of interest to most descandants. The focus in America begins early in the 1700's with a concentration on James and Nancy Salyer Stapleton and their 11 children plus 98 grandchildren raised on the South West Virginia Frontier in the early 1800's. A Virginia Historical Marker at the Russell/Scott County line recognizes the arrival of the STAPLETON and SALYER families and their extended family members including JACOB CASTLE the first settler on the Frontier of SW Virginia before 1750, more than a decade before Daniel Boone showed up at Castle's Woods.

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Raymond Dixon Stapleton, Sr.
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ORIGIN OF THE STAPLETON FAMILY Although the name STAPLETON has a proud history in Ireland and Scotland, it appears to be of English origin from the earliest documented use of the name. Living in London for two years gave us a chance to revisit our roots. The ancestral home of the STAPLETON Clan appears to be centered near what is today, London, England. Mention is made of the family existing back to 600 BC, which I have ignored. The earliest documentation appears to be around 1052 with the spelling of Stapylton, Herman was mentioned as Lord of the Manor of Stapylton upon Tyes on the Tee River. The family of Carlton, Wighill and Myton "County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. II - West Riding", edited by Joseph Foster is an excellent reference. Still today there are 8 towns in England, with an association with some form of Stapleton in the name. The name STAPLETON has been around for centuries and some references are quoted herein (See Ray's Manuscript).
THE ARMS OF CORPORATE BODIES "The arms of Exeter College are given in the Visitation of Oxford in 1574 as those of Sir Richard Hankeford (Hauckford). Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter, founded the College and the arms are really those of the STAPLETON family of Devonshire. At the end of the fourteenth century Sir Richard Hankeford married the heiress of the Stapledons, and henceforth the arms were known as those of Hankeford. This is another example of the practice already mentioned (1) of the assumption of a wife's arms by her non-armigerous husband.