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Dame Mary Page 1672 -1728 wife of Sir Gregory Page

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Dame Mary Page 1672 -1728  wife of Sir Gregory Page Dame Mary Page 1672-1728 Dame Mary Page 1672-1728 was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Trotman, her father was a wealthy Quaker and merchant, and he was a citizen of London.  She Married Sir Gregory Page  c.  1669 – 1720 on the 21 st January 1690 aged 17 when he was 21.  Trotman Family Tree They originally lived in Wapping and later moved to Greenwich. Her husband was an immensely successful brewer and merchant from Wapping and a busy Whig Politician. Dame May would have been a formidable wife involved in the day-to-day activities of her husband. Dame Mary by all accounts, was a well-liked philanthropist and churchgoer, who gave copiously to charity. She had four children: Gregory Page 2nd Bt born 1687.    of which more later Thomas Page , lived at Battlesden (Beds) the estate purchased for him by his brother Gregory.  Thomas married the Hon Juliana Scrope Howe b. 1701 (sister of Admiral E...