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lang=EN-GB>Internet researches indicate a possible connection with the
Stapletons of Greys Court, Rotherfield Greys [Oxfordshire], and also with the
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Sir William Stapleton (1674-1699), 3rd baronet of the Leeward Isles. She
survived her husband by many years and died in 1746. This all fits with the 1730
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