James Russell Stapleton

Younger son of Sir William Stapleton 3rd bart. and Lady Stapleton (nee Frances Russell, daughter of Sir James Russell), and grandfather of Stapleton Cotton, Barbara Yonge (both of whom q.v.) and Penelope Shipley nee Yonge, wife of Rev. William Davies Shipley (q.v.). In 1701 his mother Lady Stapleton (d. 1746) settled Russell's Rest and the River estates on Nevis on James Russell Stapleton and his heirs: she later remarried, to General Walter Hamilton (d. 1722).

1. Will of James Russell Stapleton proved 03/10/1743. Under the will he left his property equal to his five daughters at 21, failing whom to his brother Sir William Stapleton subject to £1500 to Sir William Stapleton's children.

Bangor University, Stapleton-Cotton Manuscripts GB 0222 STAP, http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id=39&coll_id=10986&expand= [accessed 13/05/2016].

1. PROB 11/729/164