Redmond Stapleton

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Biography

Redmond was a Roman Catholic

Redmond Stapleton was born about . . . . ,

An English Catholic (who may have come to Ireland with Cromwell although the family had links to Ireland long before this time ^[1] who had lands at Thurlesbeg, County Tipperary. The Stapleton Family had roots in Yorkshire (see monmumental inscription for Redmond's son, Edmund).

Redmond Stapleton married the daughter of Cornelius Fogarty Esq of Devey.

Redmond possibly had a fourth son also in the Leeward Islands (see the letter from William Freeman to Colonel William Stapleton dated August 1684 where Freeman complains to the colonel that a "third" brother has possession of Edmund Stapleton's estates in Montserrat and not Redmond the younger).^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire by John Bernard Burke, 1845.
2. ↑ William Freeman, 'Freeman's Letters, 1684: nos 344-369', in The Letters of William Freeman, London Merchant, 1678-1685, ed. David Hancock (London, 2002), pp. 360-386. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol36/pp360-386 [accessed 3 October 2016]. Letter no 361.

See also:

• An Irish History of Civilization, Volume 1 by Donald H Akenson, page 268.