General Notes

On the south side of the river Tees stands an inconsiderable village
called STAPYLTON, whence this ancient family hath obtained its surname.
Tradition states that, in the year 450, Octa, brother of Hengist, and
Ebusa arrived, withtheir followers, on the banks of the Tees, to defend
the adjacent country from the ravages of the Picts, and that being
Angles, and some from that part ofthe Cimbrica Chersonesus, which is
still called Stapelholm, situated betweenSleswick and Frederickstall,
they preserved the name of their original residence by calling the new
settlement Stapyltun.
Source:     "A Genealogy andHeraldic History of the Commoners of Great
Britain and Ireland", Vol II, Pp.207-8,
John Burke, Call Number: R929.725 B95 v.2.