In Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, p. 110:amount of hairs I have left out of my head.
ELIZABETH STAPLETON (d. of Sir Miles/Katherine de la Pole) ... she married ... WILLIAM CALTHORPE (s. of Sir John/Anne Wythe):
"They had three sons, Edward, Francis, Knt., and John"
I have been unable to find any reference to their son John anywhere, and I have been looking in the sources named on the following page (p. 111). This is frustrating and I am hoping that some clarification can be offered so I'm not pulling the few
Thank you!
D. E. Larocque
Darrell,William's heir. William's will mentions no other son John. I don't have the 2nd ed. of MCS, but in the first ed., there was no son John by the 2nd wife. RA (2013) 5:37-38 shows two sons named John, one by each wife.
I suspect the John you are looking for does not exist. In the sketch you'll see William also had a son John by his first wife. Per William's will, (abstracted in Wedgewood's HoP, 150n(1), this John died before his father leaving a son Philip who was
Perhaps Douglas will weigh in and explain his reasoning.
Greg
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