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Antrim, Ireland

William Staveley of County Antrim is believed to have arrived in Ireland from Yorkshire around 1650.  He married Sarah COX and had the following child:

William b. 1657 is believed to have had the following children:

William's son Joseph (1675-1767) married Janet EDMISTON and had the following children:

Joseph's son Joseph married Mary Ann JAMISON on June 23, 1742 in Dublin.

Joseph's son Robert moved to County Cork, where he married Sarah JONES in 1745.

Joseph's daughter Ann married a miller John SHAW.

William's son William married Elizabeth MCWHIRTER, and had the following children:

Aaron married Elizabeth VANCE and had the following children:

Aaron died in 1786, and is buried in Connor churchyard.

Aaron's son Anthony married a Margaret, and there is speculation that one of their children may have given rise to the Staveleys of County Down. Anthony and Margaret had the following children:

Although a record of marriage has not been found, Hugh Staveley is thought to possibly be the progenitor of a line of Stevelys in Stevenston, Scotland. James (b. abt 1813) and his son Hugh Stevely (b. abt 1838) of Ireland settled in Stevenston in the mid 1800's, later of Kilwinning, Scotland.

Anthony's son James Staveley settled Belfast where he was a grocer and wine merchant at 15 Church Street.  He constructed a house on Waring St, where he had the following children:

Anthony's son David is believed to have had a son Hugh who married Sarah ALLEN in 1869, and settled in Bonhill, Scotland.

Aaron's son William married Mary DONALD in 1776, and had the following child:

William John Staveley was a Vicar, and resided at Chequer Hall, Ballyboyland.  He married Jane ADAMS, and they had the following children:

Ann Adams Staveley married Andrew FERGUSON.

Son Alexander McCleod Staveley married Margaret CAMERON, and had a daughter Jane Adams Staveley.

Daughter Mary married Hugh McCurdy HAMILTON of South Carolina.  Mary and Hugh had a son Alexander McLeod Hamilton (b. 1846). Alexander HAMILTON in turn married his first cousin, Jane Adams STAVELEY (the daughter of Alexander McCleod Staveley above).  Alexander's mother, and Jane's father were siblings.

Son William Staveley married Margaret HIND in 1840 and emigrated to America around 1842.  In 1850 we find William with his family residing in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.

It is not clear who William's son John married, but there is a reference to John having had a single son who resided in County Armagh:

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