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Edward James Wastfield Staples 1848 – 1916 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 17 May 1848

Birth Location: Warminster, Somerset, England

Death Date: 29 May 1916

Death Location: Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand

Father: Frederick Staples

Mother: Emma Price

Spouse(s): Hannah Wright

Children(s): Frederick Staples, Walter Staples, Emma Staples, Mary Staples, Edward Staples, Charles Staples, Mary STAPLES, Stanley Staples, Percy Staples, Ethel Staples, Ernest STAPLES

In 1848, Edward James Wastfield Staples OR Archibald Edward McDonald entered the world in Warminster, Somerset, England, born to Frederick Wastfield Staples and Emma Ruth Price. Edward James Wastfield Staples OR Archibald Edward McDonald married Hannah Maria Wright, and had children including Frederick John Staples, Walter Charles Staples, Emma Maria Staples, Mary Elizabeth Staples, Edward James Staples, Charles Edwin Samuel Staples, Mary Elizabeth STAPLES, Stanley Norman Staples, Percy Gordon Staples, Ethel Maude Staples, Ernest James STAPLES. Edward James Wastfield Staples OR Archibald Edward McDonald passed away in 1916 in Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand.

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Biography

  • In 1848, Edward James Wastfield Staples OR Archibald Edward McDonald entered the world in Warminster, Somerset, England, born to Frederick Wastfield Staples and Emma Ruth Price.
  • Edward James Wastfield Staples OR Archibald Edward McDonald married Hannah Maria Wright, and had children including Frederick John Staples, Walter Charles Staples, Emma Maria Staples, Mary Elizabeth Staples, Edward James Staples, Charles Edwin Samuel Staples, Mary Elizabeth STAPLES, Stanley Norman Staples, Percy Gordon Staples, Ethel Maude Staples, Ernest James STAPLES.
  • Edward James Wastfield Staples OR Archibald Edward McDonald passed away in 1916 in Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand.

Immediate Family

Parents

Frederick Staples
1823 – 1898
Birth Location: Wiltshire, England
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Emma Price
1826 – 1910
Birth Location: Warminster, Wiltshire, England
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Spouses(s)

Hannah Wright
1858 – 1928
Birth Location: Polstead, Suffolk, England
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Children(s)

Frederick Staples
1876 – 1940
Birth Location: Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
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Walter Staples
1877 – 1878
Birth Location: Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
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Emma Staples
1879 – 1922
Birth Location: Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
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Mary Staples
1881 – 1881
Birth Location: Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
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Edward Staples
1882 – 1923
Birth Location: Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Charles Staples
1884 – 1956
Birth Location: Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Mary STAPLES
1887 – 1929
Birth Location: Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Stanley Staples
1889 – 1922
Birth Location: Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
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Percy Staples
1892 – 1964
Birth Location: Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Ethel Staples
1894 – 1900
Birth Location: Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Ernest STAPLES
1897 – 1938
Birth Location: Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Edward Staples's Ancestors

Self
Edward Staples
1848 – 1916
Birth Place: Warminster, Somerset, England
Parents
Frederick Wastfield Staples
1823 – 1898
Wiltshire, England
Emma (Ruth) Price
1826 – 1910
Warminster, Wiltshire, England
Grandparents
John (Wastfield) Staples
1793 – 1869
Imber, Wiltshire, England
Mary (Jane) Applegate
1798 – 1859
Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England
Edward Price
1796 – 1852
Wiltshire
Elizabeth Watts
1805 – 1826
Corsley, Wiltshire, England
Great-Grandparents
John Staples
1768 – 1829
Mary Wastfield
1763 – 1831
James Applegate
1774 – 1830
Jane
1776 – 1867
John PRICE
1769 –
Sarah Betterton
1770 –
Isaac Watts
1780 –
Elizabeth Watts
2nd-Great-Grandparents
Richard Staples
1731 – 1808
Sarah Bartlett
1738 – 1800
Anne Collins
1733 – 1782
John Applegate
Jane
john Applegate
sarah studson

Edward Staples's Descendants

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Edward (James Wastfield) Staples (17 May 1848 – 29 May 1916) m. Hannah (Maria) Wright (1858 – 1 Nov 1928)
  1. 1. Frederick (John) Staples (9 May 1876 – 20 Feb 1940) m. Elizabeth (Ellen) BRANDT (12 Feb 1881 – 6 Jan 1948)
    1. 1. Frederick (Wastfield) Staples (14 Feb 1905 – 10 Mar 1997)
    2. 2. Ethel (Maud) Staples (24 May 1906 – 23 Oct 1920)
    3. 3. Mary (Elizabeth Ellen) Staples (17 June 1909 – 29 Mar 1995)
    4. 4. Gordon (Stanley) Staples (02 Jul 1910 – 2002)
    5. 5. Emma Staples (9 Nov 1912 – 23 Jul 1913)
    6. 6. Samuel (Ian) Staples (23 Sep 1915 – 26 July 1996) m. Annie (Enid) Wilton (19 10 1921 – 7 Jul 2017)
      1. 1. Richard (John) Staples (24 Oct 1952 – 18 Aug 1998) m. Unknown
        1. 1. James (Tane Wastfield) Staples m. Bingham
        2. 2. Lisa Staples
        3. 3. Vanessa Staples
        4. 4. Deanna Staples
      2. 2. Ian (Edward) Staples m. Unknown m. Unknown
        1. 1. Staples
        2. 2. Staples m. Unknown
        3. 3. Staples
      3. 3. Staples m. Unknown
      4. 4. Staples m. Unknown
      5. 5. Staples
  2. 2. Walter (Charles) Staples (11 Nov 1877 – 7 Dec 1878)
  3. 3. Emma (Maria) Staples (13 Jun 1879 – 16 Sep 1922)
  4. 4. Mary (Elizabeth) Staples (12 Aug 1881 – 15 Dec 1881)
  5. 5. Edward (James) Staples (24 Dec 1882 – 14 Nov 1923) m. Elizabeth (Maria) Stribling (28 Aug 1883 – 1 Jun 1963)
    1. 1. Mabel (Ethel) Staples (29 Nov 1905 – 19 Feb 1989)
    2. 2. Doris (Lucy) Staples (10 Feb 1907 – 25 Aug 1983)
    3. 3. Theodore (Edward) Staples (30 Oct 1918 – 15 Mar 2020) m. Mary (Irene) Bruce (17 Oct 1919 – Jul 2020)
      1. 1. Jocelyn (Marie) Staples m. Christopher (George) Beath
        1. 1. Andrew (Lance) Beath
        2. 2. Alison (Mary) Beath
      2. 2. Aubrey (Bruce) Staples m. Sandra (Louise) Bolland m. Colleen (Joy) Looser
        1. 1. Ewan (Murdoch Bruce) Staples (6 Mar 1974 – )
        2. 2. Cameron (Bruce) Staples (25 Jan 1985 – )
        3. 3. Philippa (Jane) Staples m. Samuel (Thomas) Wallace
        4. 4. Bronwyn (Claire) Staples
        5. 5. Fleur (Alice) Staples
        6. 6. Duncan Staples
  6. 6. Charles (Edwin Samuel) Staples (24 Dec 1884 – 03 Jan 1956)
  7. 7. Mary (Elizabeth) STAPLES (21 May 1887 – 29 Oct 1929) m. Thomas (Henry) Elliott (Apr - Jun 1884 – 14 Jul 1914) m. James (Edwardes Collingwood) Thomas
    1. 1. Hazel (Eileen) Elliot (06 Jun 1906 – 23 Feb 1991) m. John (Francis) Yeatman (7 Mar 1904 – 23 Dec 1988)
      1. 1. Jan (Gregory) Yeatman (18 May 1932 – 04 Jun 2020) m. Diana (Iris) Robertson (18 Feb 1936 – 29 June 2019)
        1. 1. Jonathan (Francis) Yeatman (7 Mar 1904 – 23 Dec 1988) m. Valerie (Ruth) Gluyas
        2. 2. Virginia (Jane (Ginny)) Yeatman (1959 – )
        3. 3. Timothy (James) Yeatman (22 Feb 1965 – 18 Feb 2000)
    2. 2. Wasefield (James Henry) ELLIOTT (26 Dec 1908 – 10 Nov 1964)
    3. 3. Allan (Thomas) ELLIOTT (Feb 1910 – 25 Sep 1910)
    4. 4. Mavis (Audrey) ELLIOTT (Jul 1911 – 03 Jun 1968)
  8. 8. Stanley (Norman) Staples (8 Jul 1889 – 14 Jul 1922) m. Eunice (Eliza) Mathews (24 Oct 1889 – 19 Nov 1960)
    1. 1. Florence (Maria) Staples (4 Dec 1911 – 17 Jan 2004) m. Harold (Raymond) Hill (2 Jul 1911 – 29 February 2000)
      1. 1. Graham (Harold Thomas) Hill (23 Jan 1937 – 9 Sep 2014) m. patricia
        1. 1. Rhys Hill m. Raewyn
      2. 2. Elaine Hill
      3. 3. Bruce Hill
      4. 4. Beverley Hill
      5. 5. Rodney Hill
    2. 2. Edward (Norman (Ted)) Staples (9 Nov 1913 – 26 May 1989)
    3. 3. Stanley (William) Staples (19 Mar 1915 – 21 December 1994) m. Christina (Agnes) HENDERSON (10 Oct 1915 – 28 Jun 1987)
      1. 1. Margaret (Christina) Staples (1941 – )
    4. 4. Sydney (Ernest) Staples (24 May 1917 – 21 Aug 1999)
    5. 5. Mavis (Ngaire) Staples (30 Dec 1921 – 30 June 1993)
  9. 9. Percy (Gordon) Staples (27 Apr 1892 – Feb 1964)
  10. 10. Ethel (Maude) Staples (26 Mar 1894 – 25 Oct 1900)
  11. 11. Ernest (James) STAPLES (11 Dec 1897 – 22 Jun 1938) m. Margaret (DORIS May Livingstone) Judson (29 Jun 1897 – 10 Sep 1946)
    1. 1. Doris (Hazel) Staples (06 June 1918 – 26 May 2003)
    2. 2. Ethel (Lorna) Staples (25 October 1918 – 20 July 1969)
    3. 3. Rhoda (Staples) Johnson (23 December 1920 – 13 Aug 1995)
    4. 4. Stanley (Ernest James) STAPLES (16 Feb 1923 – 18 Nov 1981) m. Irene (Maud) Howorth (20 March 1924 – 12 Jul 1991)
      1. 1. Ernest Staples (14 March 1952 – 01 Jan 2020)
      2. 2. Terence (Bertrand) Staples (26 March 1954 – 11 March 1973)
      3. 3. Lyndall (Joy) STAPLES
      4. 4. Sandra STAPLES ( – 12 Feb 2019) m. Keith (Stanners (Kit)) Bird (1950 – 28 Jan 2020) m. Tony Smith
        1. 1. Keith Bird (17 Sep 1985 – )
        2. 2. Tamara Bird (24 Nov 2004 – )
        3. 3. Callum Bird m. Unknown
        4. 4. Kylee Bird

Edward Staples's Timeline

2 Records

1848
17 May 1848
Birth of Edward James Wastfield Staples OR Archibald Edward McDonald in Warminster, Somerset, England
Warminster, Somerset, England
1916
29 May 1916
Age 68
Death of Edward James Wastfield Staples OR Archibald Edward McDonald in Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 17 May 1848
    Event Place: Warminster, Somerset, England

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 29 May 1916
    Event Place: Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
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