Mohawk Ancestry - Marguerite (Peggy) Farndon Page-Turner nee Tate ( later Strode on 2nd Marriage) Born Sept 25th 1910

Marguerite (Peggy) Farndon Page-Turner nee Tate (later Strode on her 2nd Marriage)

Born Sept 25th, 1910 - Died 29 May 2004

Marguerite (Peggy) Farndon Page-Turner nee Tate (later Strode on her 2nd Marriage) Born Sept 25th, 1910 - Died 29 May 2004, her grandfather Charles Francis Tate, was born in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada circa 1851 and died on the 22nd April 1916. His Father was John Tate a Merchant seaman, and his mother was a Native Indian of Halifax Nova Scotia, a Mohawk Indian.

The Mohawk, also known by their own name, are an Indigenous people of North America and the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the Five Nations or later the Six Nations).

Mohawk is an Iroquoian-speaking people with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original members of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Mohawk are known as the Keepers of the Eastern Door who are the guardians of the confederation against invasions from the east.

At the time of European contact, Mohawk people were based in the valley of the Mohawk River in present-day upstate New York, west of the Hudson River. Their territory ranged north to the St. Lawrence River, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario; south to greater New Jersey and into Pennsylvania; eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont; and westward to the border with the Iroquoian Oneida Nation's traditional homeland territory.

Charles left Home aged 16 and joined the Army holding a position as initially a drummer boy and then a Baton Holder in the Royal Canadian Artillery. It is thought he joined the regiment in Nova Scotia and he was posted back to the United Kingdom . It is thought that Charles was serving in 1880 18^th Battalion 1^st or 3^rd Company as the 18^th was the only RA Battalion based in Sheffield. In 1881 The Army was going through significant restructuring and it's possible that Charles left the army in 1881 having served in India, he was listed as a Gunner in the Royal Artillery , address listed as Sheffield Barracks Nether Hallam Sheffield. In 1891 Charles was living with his wife Emma Tate and some of his children in Ipswich Suffolk, the census says he was a boiler maker's labourer. By 1901 the family had moved back to Sheffield where he was listed as being a Lamplighter.

Charles Francis Tate's grave with Emma Tate

immediate right of Grave stone & other members of the Tate Family

Address at census 1911 6 Oakland Road Sheffield Yorkshire profession was listed as a Lamplighter for the Sheffield Corporation in 1911.

Emma Tate born 1862

Wife Emma Tate married 15 Sept 1880, she was born circa 1862 Alderney Channel Islands, her father was George Myers a Tailor , born 1823 Wath Yorkshire who married Mary Ann Ridal from Alderney the Channel Islands. George was also in the Royal Artillery, he is listed as serving 2^nd Batallion 3^rd company in 1858 as a Gunner and a Gunner Driver in 1862. He was not native to the Channel Islands. There was a huge amount of Military building between the 1850’s and 1860’s and the Royal Artillery was based there to help build the defences.

The Tate Family on a family adventure in a motorized Charabanc circa 1916

Emma Tate with Black Hat and glasses Center, Young Peggy behind her

Charles Tate with a hat behind her? Reuben Tate far right

Had 12 children of which 8 survived :

Wedding of Charles Francis Tate Jun ,

Peggy is seated Center in front of Bride & Groom

Helen wife of Rubin Tate with his mother Emma Tate

& Sister Edna May Tate

Francis and Edna May (Peggie) Tate's brother and sister

Dorothy (Dolly) Tate

Annie E Tate born 1884

Anna A Tate born 1887

Charles Francis Tate Jun born 1896

Dorothy (Dolly ) Tate born 1891 – died 2^nd Jan 1968 Married Percy Morris

Mary Ethel Tate born 1892

Francis Henry Tate 1898

Reuben Tate 1903

"Peggy" Edna May Tate

Dorothy (Dolly ) Tate born 1891 – died 2^nd Jan 1968

At the age of 19, she had a daughter from an unknown father, her daughter was christened Margurite Farndon Tate, and she was born Sept 25^th, 1910 at this time Dorothy was living with her parents in Sheffield as appeared in the 1910 census.

Percy Morris, Dorothy's husband

and Peggy's stepfather

Dorothy Married Percy Morris from Abbots Cliffe Folkestone in July 1914 at St Martin, London, he died in 1931 when Marguerite Married.

Peggie with her Mother Winchester circa 1916

Peggy aged between 6 and 14

Margurite Farndon (Peggy ) Tate Born Sept 25^th, 1910 (Mother Dorothy Tate)

Peggy bottom row 3rd from right at Unknown School

Peggy detail

Peggy attends Chateau Mont Choisi finishing school in Lausanne. We are not sure who paid her fees but it may have been her unknown father or her stepfather Percy Morris?

In the early 20th century, Switzerland was known for its private finishing schools. Most are operated in the French-speaking cantons near Lake Geneva. Parents and guardians favoured the country because of its reputation as a healthful environment, its multi-lingual and cosmopolitan aura, and the country's political stability. Château Mont-Choisi was attended by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, as well as by Princess Elena of Romania, Monique Lhuillier, actress Kitty Carlisle, Saudi scholar Mai Yamani and New York socialite Fabiola Beracasa-Beckman. It was one of the first Swiss finishing schools in the 19th century and in its early years a pioneer in secondary education. It was owned by an Italian family for five years prior to its closure (due to financial reasons) after over 100 years of educating women. Like many of its peers it adopted a serious secondary education programme in the early 20th century.

A finishing school focuses on teaching young women social graces and upper-class cultural rites as a preparation for entry into society. The name reflects the fact that it follows an ordinary school and is intended to complete a young woman's education by providing classes primarily on deportment, etiquette, and other non-academic subjects. The school may offer an intensive course or a one-year programme. In the United States, a finishing school is sometimes called a charm school.

Mont Choizi Finnishing school Lausanne

Peggy back row,11th from left 1929-1932

Signatures of Girls in the Photo including

Zanna Parker her future husbands Niece.

Graeme Donald claims that the educational ladies' salons of the late 19th century led to the formal finishing institutions common in Switzerland around that time. At the schools' peak, thousands of wealthy young women were sent to one of the dozens of finishing schools available. The primary goals of such institutions were to teach students the skills necessary to attract a good husband, and to become interesting socialites and wives.

Dorothy (Dolly nee Tate) Morris Peggys Mother in Lausanne & at Home

The 1960s marked the decline of the finishing schools worldwide. This decline can be attributed to the shifting conceptions of women's role in society, competition from more focused vocational or professional education routes, to succession issues within the typically family-run schools, and, sometimes, to commercial pressures driven by the high value of the properties that the schools occupied. The 1990s saw a revival of the finishing school, although the business model was radically altered.

detail Mont Choizi Finishing school Lausanne

Peggy back row fourth from right 1929-1932

Peggy attends Chateau Mont Choisi finishing school in Lausanne. She was there with Zanna Parker who became her friend. Zanna was a daughter of Frances Parker (Nee Page-Turner), her fees were paid by Frederick Ambrose Wilford Page-Turner, her uncle. Through this connection, FAW Page-Turner was introduced to his future wife Margurite Farndon. It was shortly after completing her studies at Chateau Mont Choisi that she started courting FAW Page-Turner. Visiting various parts of Europe including staying at the Negresco Hotel in Nice, staying in the turret part which overlooks the sea, and they went to Le Café de Paris in Monaco.

Chateau Mont Choisi Today

Frederick Ambrose Wilford Page-Turner

Marguerite (Peggy) married Frederick Ambrose Wilford Page-Turner St Mary Abbots Church in Kensington. 8th June 1931 at St Mary Abbots Church Kensington London and they lived at Ambrosden House, St. George's Avenue, Weybridge, and Ambrosden House Bicester, Oxfordshire, & Sundon, Bedfordshire.