STAPLES, Alexander (d. 1673), of Faughanvale, co. Londonderry.

Family and Education

b. aft. 1623, 2nd s. of Thomas Staples (cr. bt. 1628) of Lissan, co. Tyrone and Charity, da. and h. of Sir Baptist Jones of Vintnerstown, co. Londonderry.CB ii. 251. m. (bef. 1659) Elizabeth, ?da. of John Cleypoole* of Northborough, Northants,TSP vii. 489. s.p. suc. bro. June 1672. d. 1673.CB ii. 251.

Offices Held

officer, Londonderry garrison by Mar. 1645.Bodl. Tanner 60, ff. 1–3. ?Capt. of ft. (parlian.) regt. of George Cooke (later Thomas Sadleir*), army in Ireland, Nov. 1649-May 1658;Wanklyn, New Model Army, i. 160–1; ii. 181, 202, 208, 232; TSP vii. 143. maj. regt. of Thomas Cooper II* May 1658–60.TSP vii. 143, 203, 489; HMC Ormonde, n.s. iii. 425. Lt-col. royal army in Ireland, c.Oct. 1660–3.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 289; 1663–4, p. 268.

commr. assessment, cos. Antrim, Down, Donegal, Londonderry, Tyrone, 12 Jan. 1655;An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1655). poll money, co. Londonderry 24 Apr. 1660, 1 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 626, 645. Sheriff, co. Tyrone 1661.CB ii. 251. MP, Strabane 1661.CJI i. 592.

Parlimentarian

STAPLES, Alexander (d. 1673), of Faughanvale, co. Londonderry.

co. Londonderry.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

STAPLES, Alexander (d. 1673), of Faughanvale, co. Londonderry.

Will

Estates

Lands in co. Londonderry estimated at £500 p.a. in 1663.CSP Ire. 1663-4, p. 130. In 1670 held lands in 14 townlands in baronies of Kenoght, Tirkeren, Magheragh and Loghinsholin, co. Londonderry, 7 in Balrudery, co. Dublin and 37 in Carbery, co. Cork.Down Survey website.

Oxford 1644

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