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Stapleton is an English and Irish surname dating back to the times of Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain.[citation needed] It is a habitation name; examples of habitations are found in Cumbria Gloucestershire Herefordshire Leicestershire Shropshire Somerset and Yorkshire and is from the Old English word stapol meaning post and ton meaning settlement. The Stapleton family was dispossessed from England in the Irish Rebellion of 1641.[citation needed]