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Origin / History of the Staples Name

This interesting surname of English origin is a topographical name for someone who lived near a boundary post, deriving from the Middle English ‘staple’ and Old English pre-7^th Century ‘stapol’ meaning ‘post’, ‘pillar’, or a locational name from some place named Staple, for example Staple in Kent or Staple Fitzpaine in Somerset.  The place name is recorded as Staples in 1205.  The surname dates back to the late 13^th Century, with the first recorded spelling of the family name that of Robert de Stapel, which was dated 1273, in ‘The Hundred Rolls of Kent’.  Other instances of the name include one Walter de Stapel, 1275 in ‘The Subsidy Rolls of Worcestershire’; Osmund atte Staple, 1279 in ‘The Place Names of Surrey’; John Stapell christened in London, 1558; Betters Staples christened 1562 London; and John Staples christened 1566 London.  Also, one, Mathew Staples is recorded in the Militia Rolls of the Barbados in 1679.  Variations in the idiom of the spelling include: Stapele; Stapels; and Stapells. 

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