The name Stapel
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Genealogy
The Anglo-Saxons were familiar with geographical names including "stapel" well before they embarked for Northern France and the Britisch Isles after Roman times. As a family name Stapel began to appear only in the Late Middleages, when in emergeing cities the number of usual fathersnames no longer sufficed to identify the citizens.
In the Middle Ages the Saxonian "Urkunden des Bisthums Paderborn" as from 1153 mention Conradus Stapel, his sons Conrad and Thiemo and his brother Wernerus, who's line ran out in 1547. Conradus was a serf who was knighted for his special services as a Ministerialis.
The American "Staple & Staples My Family Branch" identifies early Staple and Staples namesakes living in England and France around the same period.
In the Late Middle Ages the earliest Stapel family in Holland was recorded: Dirk Stapel Willemsz and his son Willem Stapelsz, Delft aldermen in 1371 and 1391-1392 resp., possibly related to Herman Buchel Stapelsz and Hughe Jacobs Stapelsz. Their last name is a notable toponym and patronymic in one.
In the 16th -18th century there were small Stapel families in or near fortified cities in Holland and North-Brabantine: Hoorn, Alkmaar, Amsterdam, Leiden, Brielle, Bergen op Zoom, Steenbergen, Breda, Oosterhout, Heusden and 's-Hertogenbosch. They had up to 10 members in may be 3 generations, but all their Stapeltraces come to an end without sons or inconclusively without documented migration or death.
In the 17th -18th century five new Stapel families settled in the Netherlands, each with enough offspring to talk of large regional families 3). Genealogically unrelated they settled in regions equally apart, as shown anticlockwise on the yellow map with encircled numbers, "new arrivals" first:
Stapel families including the 19th century.
Spreading of 734 Stapels in 2007. Derived from the Netherlands'
Familienamenbank, Central Bureau for Genealogy, The Hague.
❶ David Stapel in Guelders Gendt, founder of my own Stapel family and the only one with a documented origin: Pomerania, Prussia;
❷ Willem Lucas Stapel in De Wijk, Drenthe, contemporary of David and Adolf Hindriks, all born around 1725-1735;
❸ Adolf Hindriks Stapel in Groningen, with the smallest family;
❹ Claas Stapel in Sijbekarspel, West-Friesland, with XIII narrated and illustrated generations the best documented and also the largest family;
❺ Arend Stapel in Sommelsdijk on Goeree Overflakkee, was the first born of these five settlers, in 1605 Heenvliet.
3)
A guestimate of family sizes in the above order is: 1250, 500, 250, 2000 and 500, in multiples of 250 to express uncertainty. Included are the founding father
and all Stapel born offspring with partners and children until 2007, based on public information and assuming a comparable 20th century family growth.
In the 19th century three more Stapels migrated to the Netherlands: Johan Herman Emanuel Stapel (*1764 Ladbergen), Bernard Hendrik Stapel (*1790 Ostbevern) and Friedrich Wilhelm Stapel (*1875 Duisburg). They settled in Dordrecht, Delfshaven and Nijmegen, all together some 50 individuals.
Also in the 19th century five Guelders' Stapels created a flowering branch in The Hague, starting in 1825. Up to the early start of the 20th century their families counted over a hundred all together. Additionally some 25 Stapels in The Hague descended from the Groningen boatman Hendrik Stapel, who around 1878 also came to The Hague, via Amsterdam.
Regional ties
The large Stapel families initially stayed close within the regions where they first settled. Yet, increased geographical and social mobility gradually loosened the regional ties. They are hardly noticeable any more with the Groningen and Guelders' Stapels and those on the South-Holland islands. Simultaneously a migratation to larger cities has occurred. Both trends are apparent from the phone registrations and the civic registration services.
Dutch Phonebooks in 2005 registered a total of 248 Stapels for all families together: N-Holland 70 (incl. Amsterdam 14), Flevoland 8, Z-Holland 49 (incl. The Hague 14), Zeeland 7, Utrecht 15, N-Brabantine 18, Limburg 6, Guelderland 22, Overijssel 18, Drenthe 28, Groningen 2 and Friesland 5 (cellphones & secret numbers excluded). The area around Gendt where Guelders' Stapels settled for over 4 generations yet counted only 8 phone connections.
Citizens in Dutch municipalities have been mapped in 1947 and 2007 by the databank for Family names, counting 594 and 734 Stapels resp., a 23.5% growth. The latter equates to nearly 3 Stapels for each fixed phone (or family).
Geneanet offers a wide perspective on the spread of the Stapel familyname during 5 centuries, showing statistics of the global distribution, albeit limited to the nearly 6000 Stapels in family trees published on their website.
Sources and limitations
Family stories and documents, data from 26 public archives and many internet sources are included in this account of the Guelders' Stapels.
The description of Stapels in general ends with the early 20th century, necessarily following the Dutch privacy laws. These allow free access to civil registration records only after 100 years for births, 75 years for marriages and 50 years for deaths. More recent events can only be accessed via private family information, newspapers, hearsay and internet. Thus, young distant relatives are few in this and many other family trees, the more while the privacy of living family members as a rule is protected by genealogists. An exception may apply when family explicitly agree with (partial) publication, as clearly is the case in "Stapel is de naam", the book about West-Frisian Stapels including the 21st century.
Famous Stapels of more than local significance are mentioned under "about all Stapels", with a reference to the regional family they come from.
(www.cstapel.nl)
(home = www.cstapel.nl)
Genealogy
The Anglo-Saxons were familiar with geographical names including "stapel" well before they embarked for Northern France and the Britisch Isles after Roman times. As a family name Stapel began to appear only in the Late Middleages, when in emergeing cities the number of usual fathersnames no longer sufficed to identify the citizens.
In the Middle Ages the Saxonian "Urkunden des Bisthums Paderborn" as from 1153 mention Conradus Stapel, his sons Conrad and Thiemo and his brother Wernerus, who's line ran out in 1547. Conradus was a serf who was knighted for his special services as a Ministerialis.
The American "Staple & Staples My Family Branch" identifies early Staple and Staples namesakes living in England and France around the same period.
In the Late Middle Ages the earliest Stapel family in Holland was recorded: Dirk Stapel Willemsz and his son Willem Stapelsz, Delft aldermen in 1371 and 1391-1392 resp., possibly related to Herman Buchel Stapelsz and Hughe Jacobs Stapelsz. Their last name is a notable toponym and patronymic in one.
In the 16th -18th century there were small Stapel families in or near fortified cities in Holland and North-Brabantine: Hoorn, Alkmaar, Amsterdam, Leiden, Brielle, Bergen op Zoom, Steenbergen, Breda, Oosterhout, Heusden and 's-Hertogenbosch. They had up to 10 members in may be 3 generations, but all their Stapeltraces come to an end without sons or inconclusively without documented migration or death.
In the 17th -18th century five new Stapel families settled in the Netherlands, each with enough offspring to talk of large regional families 3). Genealogically unrelated they settled in regions equally apart, as shown anticlockwise on the yellow map with encircled numbers, "new arrivals" first:
Stapel families including the 19th century.
Spreading of 734 Stapels in 2007. Derived from the Netherlands'Familienamenbank, Central Bureau for Genealogy, The Hague.
❶ David Stapel in Guelders Gendt, founder of my own Stapel family and the only one with a documented origin: Pomerania, Prussia;
❷ Willem Lucas Stapel in De Wijk, Drenthe, contemporary of David and Adolf Hindriks, all born around 1725-1735;
❸ Adolf Hindriks Stapel in Groningen, with the smallest family;
❹ Claas Stapel in Sijbekarspel, West-Friesland, with XIII narrated and illustrated generations the best documented and also the largest family;
❺ Arend Stapel in Sommelsdijk on Goeree Overflakkee, was the first born of these five settlers, in 1605 Heenvliet.
3)
A guestimate of family sizes in the above order is: 1250, 500, 250, 2000 and 500, in multiples of 250 to express uncertainty. Included are the founding fatherand all Stapel born offspring with partners and children until 2007, based on public information and assuming a comparable 20th century family growth.In the 19th century three more Stapels migrated to the Netherlands: Johan Herman Emanuel Stapel (*1764 Ladbergen), Bernard Hendrik Stapel (*1790 Ostbevern) and Friedrich Wilhelm Stapel (*1875 Duisburg). They settled in Dordrecht, Delfshaven and Nijmegen, all together some 50 individuals.
Also in the 19th century five Guelders' Stapels created a flowering branch in The Hague, starting in 1825. Up to the early start of the 20th century their families counted over a hundred all together. Additionally some 25 Stapels in The Hague descended from the Groningen boatman Hendrik Stapel, who around 1878 also came to The Hague, via Amsterdam.
Regional ties
The large Stapel families initially stayed close within the regions where they first settled. Yet, increased geographical and social mobility gradually loosened the regional ties. They are hardly noticeable any more with the Groningen and Guelders' Stapels and those on the South-Holland islands. Simultaneously a migratation to larger cities has occurred. Both trends are apparent from the phone registrations and the civic registration services.
Dutch Phonebooks in 2005 registered a total of 248 Stapels for all families together: N-Holland 70 (incl. Amsterdam 14), Flevoland 8, Z-Holland 49 (incl. The Hague 14), Zeeland 7, Utrecht 15, N-Brabantine 18, Limburg 6, Guelderland 22, Overijssel 18, Drenthe 28, Groningen 2 and Friesland 5 (cellphones & secret numbers excluded). The area around Gendt where Guelders' Stapels settled for over 4 generations yet counted only 8 phone connections.
Citizens in Dutch municipalities have been mapped in 1947 and 2007 by the databank for Family names, counting 594 and 734 Stapels resp., a 23.5% growth. The latter equates to nearly 3 Stapels for each fixed phone (or family).
Geneanet offers a wide perspective on the spread of the Stapel familyname during 5 centuries, showing statistics of the global distribution, albeit limited to the nearly 6000 Stapels in family trees published on their website.
Sources and limitations
Family stories and documents, data from 26 public archives and many internet sources are included in this account of the Guelders' Stapels.
The description of Stapels in general ends with the early 20th century, necessarily following the Dutch privacy laws. These allow free access to civil registration records only after 100 years for births, 75 years for marriages and 50 years for deaths. More recent events can only be accessed via private family information, newspapers, hearsay and internet. Thus, young distant relatives are few in this and many other family trees, the more while the privacy of living family members as a rule is protected by genealogists. An exception may apply when family explicitly agree with (partial) publication, as clearly is the case in "Stapel is de naam", the book about West-Frisian Stapels including the 21st century.
Famous Stapels of more than local significance are mentioned under "about all Stapels", with a reference to the regional family they come from.
(www.cstapel.nl)