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Henry Stapleton, of Wighill

• References:
  • CHETWYND, Viscount in [Burkes Peerage]
  • CHETWYND, Baronet in [Burkes Peerage]

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • CHETWYND-STAPYLTON in [Burkes LG, 1952]

Henry Stapleton (see here),
of Wighill, Yorkshire,
mar 1599 to Mary Forster [dau of John Forster],
he died 1631,
had issue:

1. Robert Stapleton, of Wighill, born 1601.

   
   

2. Sir Philip Stapleton, Kt, of Warter-on-the Wolds, Yorkshire, born 1603,
   mar 1stly, 1627, to Frances Hotham [born est c.1608] and had issue:
   1. Mary Stapleton, born pre-1638,
      mar 1stly to --- Biggs, of Dublin,
      mar 2ndly to Thomas Fitzwilliam, 4th Viscount Fitzwilliam [born est c.1645] and had issue.

   mar 2ndly, 1638, to Barbara Lennard and had issue,
   distinguished officer under the Parliament in English Civil War 1642-51,
   Knight, NOT Baronet,
   died 1647, Calais, France, age 44 yrs.
   See images at [NPG].

The line of Stapleton of Wighill terminated in an heiress:

Henry Stapylton,
of Wighill,
had issue:

1. Martha Stapylton,
   mar 1783 to Granville Chetwynd [son of William Chetwynd, 4th Viscount Chetwynd]
   and had issue [ancestors of Chetwynd-Stapylton].