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Caperton...anything new?

I forgot about this little blog where I can put tidbits of what I have learned.  It took me awhile to relearn how to post but now I have got it again!  I will start where I am thinking right now.  After consulting with the book, " The Tower of London Prisoner Book" by Brian E. Harrison,  I found no prisoners there in the time frame of 1400's of the the names of Caperton, Wallace, Douglas, Erskine.  So now I am looking at the Sterling Castle, the house of Stewart, in Scotland, where prisoners were also kept because it was in the area where all these people lived.  I have had no luck so far in finding lists or places where they might have been recorded. You ask, why Sterling Castle....(Stirling Castle) ....I read the book" the Forest Laird"  about William Wallace and that is where they were placing prisoners during the Scottish Rebellion and in this book, the names of these people kept cropping up.....all except Caperton.

James Caperton Family Tree in England..UK

After looking at the tree I put together using the census data and birth, death and marriage records available on Ancesty.com for the UK,  I was hoping I could make some kind of connections with an Englishman that is interested in his family history and get him to do DNA testing to see if he USA Capertons match.  I am waiting patiently....please contact me before I die and go to Heaven......lol.

This is a tree I created from data on Ancestry.com regarding births, deaths , marriages and census records for all Capertons I could find in the UK

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