Frederick Augustus "F A Page-Turner” Blaydes 1845 – 1931

 

Frederick Augustus "F A Page-Turner” Blaydes 1845 – 1931

Born 1845 in Uppingham Registration District, Rutland, England

Son of Frederick Henry Marvell Blaydes and Fanny Maria (Page-Turner) Blaydes

Brother of Edward Henry Samuel Blaydes, Katharine Louisa Frances (Blaydes) Carter, Arthur Charles Julius Blaydes, George Frederic Handel Blaydes, Fanny Sophia Blaydes, Blanche Sophia Blaydes, Helen Blaydes and Constance Gertrude Blaydes

Husband of Alice Caroline (Dyer) Blaydes — married 19 Jun 1874 in Auckland, New Zealand

Father of Edith Marguerite Blaydes, Edward Henry M Blaydes, Maude Winifred M Blaydes, Hugh Gregory Blaydes, Dorothy Alice Blaydes, Frances Helen Blaydes, Fred Ambrose Blaydes, Margery Blaydes, Cassandra Sophia Blaydes, Muriel Agnes Blaydes, Delia Emily Louisa Blaydes and Barbara Olive Blaydes

Died about 1931 at about age 86 in England.

Frederick Augustus "F A Page-Turner” Blaydes 

as a young man

Frederick was born in 1845 to Frederick Henry Marvell Blaydes and Fanny Maria (Page-Turner) Blaydes, the second child (and second son) of nine children. 

The family appears in Harringworth, (then in Rutland), on the 1851 census - all except for five-year-old Frederick Augustus, who is staying with his widowed maternal grandmother, Sophia (Williams) Page-Turner, in Westbourne Street, Kensington. Her eldest daughter (and Frederick's mother), Fanny Maria, is the only one not still living at home, while her two sisters, Catherine and Emily, and her only brother, Edward, remain. The household is cared for by six servants: Mary Pleassants, Sarah Giles, Martha Williams, Teresa Steele, Henry Grimmer, and Charles Williams.  Perhaps the two Williams servants were relatives, as Sophia was born a Williams? He went to Auckland  New Zealand in 1864 in the ship “Ardbeg” and returned home to the UK in the year 1870. He returned to New Zealand in the year 1872 returning to England at the end of the year 1874.  In 1865, tragedy struck, as the eldest son of the house (Frederick's brother), Edward, died at age 21 at sea 'between Taka and Foochow' on his way home to England. This meant that Frederick Augustus became the 'eldest son'.

 

Frederick Augustus "F A Page-Turner” Blaydes 1845 – 1931 aged 26

By the time he was 19, Frederick Augustus had travelled from Yorkshire via London to Cornwall, where his 1871 census entry has him described as an 'electrical student' at the new Telegraph Service. He is also described as a 'British Subject'; this may have something to do with the fact that most of his uncles and aunts were born in France, and his own father was educated in Boulogne. He is living in the household of Francis and Ellen Wallis in Treen, St Levan, and is accompanied by two other 'electrical students': Louis Blackwell from Bath, Somerset, and Osmond Dakeyne from Bedfordshire.   He must have continued to travel, for his next appearance is in New Zealand, where he married Alice Caroline Dyer youngest daughter of William Dyer, Physician General (H.E.I.C.S) they were married at the church of St Paul, Auckland, New Zealand by the Bishop of Auckland 10^th June 1874. 

                          

Alice Caroline Dyer Later Blaydes

"At Auckland (NZ), on the 19th June, Frederick Augustus, the eldest surviving son of the Rev F H Marvel Blaydes, MA, Vicar of Harringworth to Alice Caroline, youngest daughter of W Dyer, Esq, MD, HELCS."  He first lived in the parish of St Peter, Leicester, when he was removed to Hockliffe Lodge, Co Bedfordshire. The couple began their family with Edith Marguerite in 1875, born in her mother's birthplace of Bath, Somerset. They then moved to Bedfordshire and, on the 1881 census, can be found in Tilsworth, with three more children: Edward Henry, Maude Winifred, and Hugh Gregory. Alice's cousin, Harriet Dyer, visits them, and they have three female servants: Sophia Pole, Mary Hornsby, and Rebecca Horne. Frederick is described as a licenced lay reader, living on his own means. 

In 1890, Frederick Augustus published his well-known Genealogia Bedforiensis, being described as 'a Collection of Evidences Relating Chiefly to the Landed Gentry of Bedfordshire, A. D. 1538-1700, Collected Out of Parish of Registers; The Bishop's Transcripts; Early Wills; Monumental Inscriptions; Etc;, Etc.' An excerpt of this publication's foreword is reproduced below.

On the 1891 census, Frederick is described as a JP (Justice of the Peace), and living on his own means. His family has expanded to include more children: Dorothy Alice, Fred Ambrose, Frances Helen, Margery, Muriel Agnes, and Cassandra Sophia. Living in Bedford St Paul, the family is also attended by four female servants: Sarah Hammond, Elizabeth Minnie, Emily Wooding, and Clara Geary.  During the following year (1892-93) he served as mayor of Bedford, serving again in the same capacity during 1895-96. He was a member of the Ely Diocesan Conference and a Member of the Canterbury House of Laymen at its inception year.

Egerton  House Great Berkhampstead in Hertfordshire

The 1901 census was the last in which he carried the surname Blaydes. He had moved to Egerton  House Great Berkhampstead in Hertfordshire in 1897, with his family having grown by the addition of two more daughters: Delia Emily, and Barbara Olive. Three female servants were included in the household: Edith Holmes, Lydia Redding, and 13-year-old Lily Harris. 

Sir Edward Henry Page-Turner, sixth Baronet, passed away childless. His estates went to Frederick Augustus (possibly his nephew), so he renounced the name of Blaydes and became Page-Turner instead. The Blaydes got the Page-Turner name and coat of arms to be quartered with his family arms of Blaydes and to have this Royal concession recorded at the College of Arms on 17^th November 1903  by Royal licence. Moved to no 9 Denmark Terrace Brighton on the 21^st March 1902 and then on to 15 Palmeria Square Hove on the 8^th March 1911.

15 Palmeria Square Brighton

Frederick, his wife, and children all appear as Page-Turner on the 1911 census of 15 Palmeira Square, Hove, Sussex, where Frederick appears as a land owner, with a cook and three housemaids: Louisa Taylor, Johanna Molle, Ada Skinner, and Bessie Ayling (and his family, of course).   He was a founder member of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society and a benefactor to the County Record Office. 

Frederick Augustus Page-Turner died in 1931.

Bibliography

·        The Visitations of Bedfordshire (1884)

·        Institutions of Chantry Priests in Bedfordshire

·        Genealogia Bedfordiensis (1890)

·        Bedfordshire Notes and Queries (1882-1893)

Excerpt from Genealogia Bedfordiensis: Being a Collection of Evidences Relating Chiefly to the Landed Gentry of Bedfordshire, A. D. 1538-1700, Collected Out of Parish of Registers; The Bishop's Transcripts; Early Wills; Monumental Inscriptions; Etc;

When I commenced this collection, now some eight years ago, my original intention was to make use of it in illustrating and extending the Visitations of Bedfordshire edited by me for the Harleian Society in 1884, but in the course of correspondence with several genealogical friends I found many who, like myself, were interested in Bedfordshire families, so, in order that the material which I had collected might be available for such, I resolved to print a limited edition for subscribers.

The greater part of the contents of this volume has never, till now, been printed, and I cannot but think they will prove useful to the genealogist. The principal sources I have drawn upon are parish registers, the bishop's transcripts, early wills, and monumental inscriptions, and, in the Notes, I have incorporated a few references to, and extracts from, printed genealogical works.

It will be seen that I have not gone beyond the year 1700; I intended to edit another volume carrying the work on another century, but I fear I must abandon that idea for lack of support, and print the rest of my collections in Bedfordshire Notes and Queries, a slower but a less expensive medium.

The parish registers of this county are, generally speaking, in a fairly good condition; I have, with the kind consent of their custodians, examined and searched some forty-seven, and the conclusion I have arrived at is, that those well cared for and kept in the more equable temperature of the parsonage study are likely to last for all time, whereas those kept in the damp stagnant atmosphere of our too often alas! Barred and bolted churches are gradually but surely decaying. In one instance I have seen the original paper register book still extant, viz., at St. Mary's, Bedford, which is preserved together with the parchment copy made under a constitution passed in the Convocation of I 597.

Frederic Augustus Blaydes (1845-1931) (who changed his surname to Page-Turner on inheriting his uncle's estate) was a founder member of the Bedfordshire Historical Records Society. (BHRS) He was an antiquarian and best known for his edition of the Harleian Society of The Visitations of Bedfordshire (1884), Bedfordshire Notes and Queries (1882-1893) and Genealogia Bedfordiensis (1890). 

Frederick Augustus "F A Page-Turner” Blaydes 

twice Mayor of Bedford 1892 &1895

He was mayor of Bedford twice, a member of several local societies and a benefactor to the County Record Office. He was an antiquarian and best known for his edition of the Harleian Society of The Visitations of Bedfordshire (1884), Bedfordshire Notes and Queries (1882-1893) and Genealogia Bedfordiensis (1890).  Genealogist, edited and wrote most of Bedfordshire Notes and Queries, 1880-1893 (see A16b), mayor of Bedford el. 1892 and 1895, inherited estates (Sundon, etc.) from and assumed the surname of his maternal uncle, Sir Edward Henry Page-Turner (1823-74), 6th bt., on the death of the latter’s widow. This property was sold by 1919.

Children of Frederick Augustus Blaydes, Later Page-Turner and Alice Caroline Dyer later Page-Turner  :

Top Row L-R Dorothy A B, FAW B, Hugh G B, Maude W M B, Edward HM B, 

Bottom Row L-R Muriel A B, Delia E L B, Alice C B,Cassandra S B, B O Blaydes, FA Blaydes Frances , Marjorie Blaydes

Blaydes children and friends as the British Empire Montage

             

            Rita aged 5                  Lancelot William M Green & Edith Marguerite  Blaydes 

Edith Marguerite  born 4 Beaufort Buildings  Bath 14^th July 1875, baptised at St Saviours Bath 13^th August 1875 , and confirmed St Pauls Bedford  21 March  1890 by the Bishop of Ely. Married Church of St Patrick Hove 2^nd May 1905 to Lancelot William Morton Green, curate of Clevedon Somerset, he died 29^th August 1906 of Gastritis.

                                    

Edward Henry Marvell Blaydes aged 5                       Edward Henry Marvell Blaydes in his 20's

Edward Henry Marvell Blaydes , Later Page-Turner born 14^th Feb 1877  Hockliffe Lodge Bedfordshire baptised 18^th April 1877  by his grandfather Rev Frederick Henry Marvell Blaydes at Hockliffe , Confirmed at Felstead School Chapel 23^rd Feb 1892 by the Bishop of Rochester. He served his articles to Messrs W H Allen & Son Co Engineers of Bedford .

 

Captain Edward Page-Turner Kenya (Jim Cooper's album)         E P-T  13 th August 1915

Gazetted to the Royal Lancashire Fusiliers on 19^th Sept 1900 and went on to South Africa during the rebellion there. Soon after having sent his papers, he accepted an appointment with E R P M  as manager of the water supply where he remained for just over 4 years. He returned to England in May 1905 and in November 1905 he proceeded to Egypt to take an appointment at Deirout as Assistant Manager to Messrs Hunter Day and Co Engineers. He returned home on the 4^th August 1907 on account of ill health. On 25^th November 1912 he left home enroute to Athi River, near Nairobi B.E.A. he embarked at Marseilles on board the “Melbourne” MM Line. He went out with Mr and Mrs Langridge of Una Park to learn Coffee Planting and returned home on 28 April 1915. He served in World War I on the front (City of London) Battalion, The LondonRegiment (Royal Fusiliers). Edward Henry Marvell Page-Turner to b& Captain (temporary). Dated 16th June,. 1915. He died in 1927.

                       

Winifred Blaydes  at Tilsworth aged 5 and in her 20's 

Maude Winifred Mary Blaydes (Page-Turner) born at Hockliffe Lodge Bedfordshire 11^th June 1878, baptised 25^th July 1878 Hockliffe. Confirmed at St Pauls church  Bedord by the Bishop Ely 13^th March 1894 Married  Edward Charles Charleton June 26^th  1905.  They lived at  Massetts Lodge Horley Surrey. Their first child was born 21^st April 1909 Joan Mary, second child 27^th October 1910 Edward Philip.

                         

Hugh Gregory (Blaydes) Page-Turner 1894             Hugh Gregory (Blaydes) Page-Turner 1920's

Hugh Gregory Blaydes (Page-Turner) was born 18^th November 1879 at Hockliffe Lodge Bedfordshire , baptised 18^th Jan 1880 at Hockliffe. Confirmed at St James’s Dover 30^th March 1895 by Bishop Suffragan Dover. He went to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1895 for a few months. On his return, he worked with Mr Woodforde, agent to Mr Fitzwiliam of Milton, and Mr Oswald agent to Lord Ewenlock of Escrick. 

                

In November 1895 he obtained an appointment of Agent to Mr Empson at Adlingfleet, nr Goole Yorkshire, he worked there until 1908 when he became agent to his Father to help manage the Page-Turner estates of Ambroseden and Battlesden in Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire. 

Queen's own Oxfordshire Yeomanry Aldershot 

He left Bicester on 28^th  September 1914 to join the Queen's own Oxfordshire Yeomanry, gazetted 2^nd Lieutenant 24^th November 1914. Left Oxford for Southampton 21 January 1915, sailed for le Havre at 7.30 am on the 23^rd  November 1915 on the “R.M.S.S. Haptonica” 

  

Hugh Gregory Page-Turner's medals Afghanistan North West Frontier 1919, 

South Africa Medal, Great War 1914-18 Medal

Hugh Gregory  Blaydes, later Page-Turner Nov 1879   Hocklif Lodge 28th September 1914.  Appointed Second Lieutenant (Graded for purposes of pay as Staff Lieutenants, 1st Class.) Second Lieutenant H. G. Page-Turner, Oxfordshire (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) Yeomanry, Territorial Force. Dated 19th November 1915.  1920 appointed Captain. Hugh Gregory Died on the 19th July 1929.

Dorothy Alice Blaydes (Page-Turner) born Tilsworth Vicarage, Bedfordshire 4^th May 1881, baptised Tilsworth on 26^th June. Confirmed St Paul's  Bedford by the Bishop of Ely 24^th March  1896. 

                    

Dorothy Blaydes 1897 and 1899

She was married to St Patrick's Church Hove on 7^th September 1905 to Joseph Alexander Moore only son of  Joseph Moore of Haywards Heath and afterwards Torquay. 

                     

Dorothy (nee Blaydes ) Moore 1913  & Edward Marvell Moore

On their marriage, they went to reside at the Dell Haywards Heath.  

Dorothy with her Brother Edward Hugh Marvel Page-Turner 1920 

with Dorothy's children Alec and Edward Moore

There their first child was born 18^th June 1906 and was baptized  18^th June 1906 at the church of St Wilfred Haywards Heath by the name of Edward Marvell Moore on the 14^th of July. Francis Alan Moore was their second child who was born at Haywards Heath 3^rd February 1910 and baptised on 16^th April 1910.

Dorothy Alice (Page-Turner) & Joseph Alexander Moore's 

Grave Ambrosden 

Frederic Ambrose Wilford Blaydes (Page-Turner) born at Tilsworth Vicarage 30^th July 1882, and baptised Tilsworth 10^th September. 

Hugh Gregory (Blaydes) Page-Turner  (Left) & his younger Brother 

Frederick Ambrose Wilford (Blaydes) Page-Turner (Right)

Pupil of Hinwick House School under Mr Augustus Orlebar. Confirmed School Chapel Berkhampstead  16^th December 1897. By the Bishop of Colchester. 

Frederick Ambrose Wilford Blaydes 1898

He worked at the National Provincial Bank of England for 1 year. 1902 he was appointed an officer to serve with the Rajah Brooke in Sarawak and sailed for Sarawak on 13^th February 1902.  Appointed assistant Resident 1^st July 1905. 1906 he was appointed assistant resident in the Rejang station and soon after he moved to Kapit. He returned to England on leave arriving in Brighton 3^rd September 1908 and leaving for Sarawak  12^th March 1909. returned to England on leave  6^th September 1914 and returned to Sarawak 6^th February 1915 leaving from Tilbury in the P&O SS Malwa for Kuching via Singapore. More information on his life in Sarawak can be seen in a separate post on this Blog. 

Frances Helen Blaydes (Page-Turner) was born Shenstone Lodge, Ashburnham Road, Bedford 3^rd September 1883 baptized St Pauls Bedford 23^rd October. 

 

Frances Helen (Blaydes) Page-Turner aged 5 and  in her 20's 

Confirmed St Peters  Berkhampstead  by the Bishop of St Albans 8^th March 1898.  5^th May 1909 sailed in the SS Adelph Weerman for Mombassa to pay a series of visits to friends. After a stay in British East Africa for some months went via Colombo and Singapore to Kuching to stay with her brother Ambrose F.A.W. Page-Turner finally arriving in October 2^nd 1910. April 20^th 1911 married Harry Sholto Searle Parker at All saints church Hove. 14^th March 1912 a son Willaim Searle Parker was born. 13^th April 1913 Frances Cassandra Mary Parker was born. 23^rd March 1916 Harry Edward Julian was born.

Margery Blaydes (Page-Turner)  was born at Shenstone Lodge Bedford 19^th December 1884, was baptized St Pauls Church Bedford, confirmed St Peters Berkhampstead by the Bishop of Colchester 1900

Blaydes Sisters :

Top row L-R, Maude Winifred M, Dorothy Alice, Edith Marguerite, Frances Helen,  bottom L-R Margery, Cassandra Sophia, Barbara Olive,  Delia Emily Louisa,  Muriel Agnes 1898

Muriel Agnes Blaydes (Page-Turner) was born Shenstone Lodge Bedford  11^th June 1886, and baptised St Pauls Bedford  14^th August 1886. Confirmed St Annes Eastbourne by the Bishop of Colchester 29^th March 1901. Married  Charles Everard Crowder All Saints Hove 11^th June 1912. 

 

                  Muriel Agnes  Blaydes  and                              Muriel Blaydes in her 20's

            Cassandra Sophia Blaydes Page-Turner

Muriel & Delia Page-Turner as part of the Cara Melles, Muriel far right

Cassandra Sophia Blaydes (Page-Turner) born 6^th November 1887 at Shenstone Lodge Bedford baptized St Pauls Bedford  16^th December by the Bishop of Ely, and confirmed  St Michaels Brighton by the Bishop of Chichester  4^th April 1903. 

 

     Cassandra Sophia Blaydes Page-Turner                Cassandra Page-Turner as Dolly Somerset

14^th November 1912 she embarked on board “S.S. Derbyshire “ for Colombo married Lionel Oswald Gilliat manager of the Oodoowarre Tea Estate Demorera Ceylon. 

                                      Lionel Gilliet                                     Lionel Gilliet and Cassandra

Married St Michaels and All Angels  Colombo  by the Bishop of Colombo 12 December 1912 . A son was born Peter Oswald Gilliat 23^rd February 1914.

             

Delia & Bobby (Blaydes) Page-Turner

Delia Emily Louisa Blaydes (Page-Turner)  born 6^th August 1892 baptized St Pauls Bedford in the same year. there is more information on Delia Blaydes in a seperate post on this blog.

Barbara Olive Blaydes (Page-Turner)  was born 16^th June 1894 Shenstone Lodge Bedford , baptized St Pauls Bedford  14^th August  1894. 

 

     Bobby (Blaydes) Page-Turner                       Bobby and Delia (Blaydes) Page-Turner 

              

Barbara Olive (Blaydes) Page-Turner her engagement to Kit Burne and her tragic death

On a visit to the home of her fiancé Lt Christopher H Burne at St Mary Bourne Hampshire with Delia 6^th December 1915 and died 21^st February 1916 she was buried there in the parish churchyard.

The Blaydes Sisters

 

 

 

 
 

Various Photographs of the Blaydes Sisters 

Sources

1.      ↑ England & Wales birth registration: Uppingham [district], Volume 15, Page 678, September quarter 1845, mother's maiden name PAGE TURNER

2.      ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1851," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGFT-HCR : 8 November 2017), Frederick A Blaydes in household of Sophia P Turner, Paddington, Middlesex, England; citing Paddington, Middlesex, England, p. 42, from "1851 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com/ : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

3.      ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1871", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VFJX-16V : 26 April 2019), Frederick A Blaydes, 1871.

4.      ↑ "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPCK-Z8ZP : 18 April 2019), Frederick Augustus Blaydes, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom; records extracted FamilySearch and images digitized by FindMyPast; citing Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, 11 Sep 1874, The British Newspaper Archive, Ireland; FHL microfilm .

5.      ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27C-FVYM : 11 December 2017), Frederick A Blaydes, Tilsworth, Bedfordshire, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing p. 1, Piece/Folio 1639/124, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 101,774,494.

6.      ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7B88-Y3Z : 2 May 2019), F A Blaydes, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, Findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Bedfordshire county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

7.      ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS44-7R6 : 20 May 2019), Frederick Blaydes, Great Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Berkhampstead subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

8.      ↑ https://privateinvestigator.co.uk/oxfordshire/ambrosden/

9.      ↑ 1911 census for England & Wales, census ref RG14PN5180 RG78PN229 RD80 SD2 ED6 SN102, piece number 5180, viewed via findmypast

10.   ↑ Bedfordshire Historical Record Society

11.   ↑ Genealogia Bedfordiensis, published 1890