Stapley Family History
Stapley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Stapeley in Cheshire or Stapely in
Hampshire, so named from Old English stapol ‘post’ +
leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. The reference may have been to a
place where timber was got for posts.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Stapley
Name Distribution of Stapley Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Stapley families
 145 - 287  49 - 144 |
 1 - 48  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Stapley census records
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Stapley Family Origin
Stapley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Stapley Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Stapley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Stapley census records
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Military Service by Stapley
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