Page-Turner Family History

      Thomas Page  d. 1763  and his wife Juliana Page, nee Howe 1701-1780 Thomas Page was the younger brother of Sir Gregory Page 2nd Bt. (1689-1775)  He was the son of Sir Gregory Page 1st Bt and his wife Mary Page, nee Trotman , he was the third child born after Ambrose Page who died in infancy 1698. Thomas was almost certainly born in Wapping  between 1699 and 1700, but certainly before his younger sister Mary Page who was born in 1702. Thomas like his eldest brother Gregory was an Alderman of the City of London and director of the East India Company.   Both his father and his grandfather had been directors of the  East India Company . The first baronet was MP for New Shoreham in 1708–13 and 1715–20: on his death in 1720 his executors sold his large shareholding in the  South Sea Company , and his son was left about  £600,000 .  He was very wealthy in his own right having an additional fortune of £700,000.  His brother started purchasing land and estates from 1720 for himself and hi

Wricklemarsh seat of Sir Gregory Page 2nd Bt   (c.1695 – 1775) Sir Gregory Page. the second baronet, was 30 when he succeeded his father and in the following year he married Martha, daughter of Robert Kenward of Yalding, Kent. This Sir Gregory appears not to have concerned himself greatly with the family business. Indeed he had probably little need to do so for with his father’s accumulated fortune, substantially ’ augmented by the successful South Sea speculation, he was described as “ the richest commoner in England ”. He greatly extended his father‘s small Greenwich property by investment in real estate with the following purchases which made him one of the most important land-owners in south-east England. Thus, when Sir Gregory Page 2nd Bt,  came into his rights as head of the family only two or three members lived at Greenwich. With neither a family to worry about, nor a living to be earned, Gregory Page set about devoting the middle years of his life to the purchase of land. This