Miles STAPLETON #53413
19 OCT 1626 - 9 FEB 1706/07
BIRTH 19 OCT 1626, Carlton, Yorkshire, England
DEATH 9 FEB 1706/07
Historical Notes
The Stapleton baronetcy, of Carlton, Yorkshire, was created on 20 March 1661/2 (Old Style) for Miles Stapleton (1626-1707), the son of Gilbert Stapleton of Carlton.
He bought Drax and Berwick Hill and married twice, though all of his three children died prematurely. Miles Stapleton has left a reasonable number of papers including the earliest letters in the family archive. He was a recusant who was tried for complicity in the Popish Plot and acquitted by a jury of Yorkshire gentry who also acquitted a member of the Tempest family. A kinsman, father Thomas Thwing, was hanged, drawn and quartered making him the last Catholic priest to be martyred in England, in 1680.
He bought Drax and Berwick Hill and married twice, though all of his three children died prematurely. Miles Stapleton has left a reasonable number of papers including the earliest letters in the family archive. He was a recusant who was tried for complicity in the Popish Plot and acquitted by a jury of Yorkshire gentry who also acquitted a member of the Tempest family. A kinsman, father Thomas Thwing, was hanged, drawn and quartered making him the last Catholic priest to be martyred in England, in 1680.
Family 1
No known children