Page-Turner Family History

Ambrose Page (circa 1670 - 1743) ,  brother of Sir Gregory Page 1st Bt Ambrose Page as a director of the East India Company (1714) and having received a personal grant of arms Argent, on a bend sable, three martlets or these arms appertain to Ambrose Page of Enfield, Esquire  his descendants (College of Arms Library, 0.1., 0.24), might reasonably have expected to follow other members of his family, in having a Chinese dinner service made with his arms or crest, but no conclusive evidence  exists. However since his nephew Gregory (later 2nd. baronet) was thought to be living in his father's house (Red House) in 1717 when the other Imari Kang Hsi porcelain services were ordered, it is unlikely he would have wished to order a service for himself at this time. So could the lmari Kang Hsi service with the Page crest, have been ordered by Ambrose Page.   The exact date of Ambroses' birth remains a mystery, though it is safe to assume, it must have been about the year 167...

 Sir Gregory Page, 1st Baronet (c. 1669 –  1720), of Greenwich, Kent Sir Gregory Page 1st Bt. 1669-1720 by Herman Van Der Mijn 1684-1741       Sir Gregory Page, 1st Baronet  (c. 1669 – 25 May 1720), of  Greenwich , Kent, was an English brewer, merchant and Whig politician who sat in the  House of Commons  between 1708 and 1720. Early life Page was the eldest son of Gregory Page (died 1693) and his second wife Elizabeth Burton. Page Senior was a wealthy London merchant, shipwright, and director of the British  East India Company , who owned a brewery in  Wapping . He was also an  Alderman  of the  City of London  in 1687. Elizabeth Burton was a widow from Stepney. Page Junior married Mary Trotman, the 17-year-old daughter of Thomas and Mary Trotman of London, on 21 January 1690. Career Page followed in his father's footsteps as a brewer and merchant, building a vast fortune in trade with South and East Asia. ...