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Mary Acton (Stapleton)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: England (United Kingdom)
Death: Longnor, Salop, Shropshire, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Stapleton, Esq., of Stapleton, Shropshire etc. and Margery Stapleton
Wife of Walter Acton, I and Mary Acton
Mother of Sir William Acton of Longnor; Sir Thomas Acton, II and Thomas Acton
Sister of Joyce Horde and Joan Bondes
Half sister of Elizabeth Stapleton; Leonard Stapleton and Margaret Stapleton

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About Mary Acton


https://soc.genealogy.medieval.narkive.com/ATZuXKVc/re-john-staplet...

http://www.historykb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/medieval/4932/Descendants-o...

"MARGARET DEVIOCK, daughter and heiress, evidently born before 1380. She married before 1400 (as his 1st wife) JOHN STAPLETON (or STEPULTON), Esq., of Stapleton, Shropshire, Dormington, Herefordshire, etc., Knight of the Shire for Shropshire, 1421, 2nd son of John Stapleton, of Stapleton and Oaks (in Pontesbury), Shropshire, by Katherine, 2nd daughter and co-heiress of Edward Burnell, of Langley, Shropshire. They had one son, Leonard, Esq., and two daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth. He married (2nd) MARGERY _____. They had three daughters, Joyce (wife of Thomas Horde), Joan (wife of Thomas Walwyn), and [Mary?] (wife of Walter Acton)."


https://soc.genealogy.medieval.narkive.com/ATZuXKVc/re-john-staplet...

Transactions of the Shropshire (1914), p. 221 “De Banco, Easter, 10 Edw. 4., No. 343.

SALOP. John Leghton, Richard Bondes & Joan his wife, Robert Cresset & Christine his wife,– Robert Mountfort & Thomas Acton were summoned at the suit of Thomas Horde & Joyce his wife in a plea that they should permit a partition to be made of the manors of Stepulton, Armegrove & Folhampton which formerly belonged to John Stepulton, Armiger, the father of the said Joyce, and of whom she was one of the heirs, between the said Joyce & the Said John Leghton son & heir of Elizabeth, daughter and the second of the heirs of the said John Stepulton and the said Richard & Joan the daughter and the third heir of the said John Stepulton & Robert Cresset and Christine the daughter of Margaret, the daughter and the fourth heir of the said John Stepulton, and the said Robert Mountfort in right of Mary late his wife and another of the heirs of the said Margaret, & Thomas Acton in right of Mary late his wife, the daughter and fifth heir of the said John Stepulton.”

References

  • Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... Page 92. GoogleBooks
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Mary Acton's Timeline

1390
1390
Longnor, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom
1390
Shropshire, Englanti, United Kingdom
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England (United Kingdom)
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Longnor, Salop, Shropshire, England