Page-Turner Family History

  Sir Edward Turner, 1st Bt. Of Ambrosden 1691-1735                                                    Sir Edward Turner, 1st Bt,1691-1735 Edward Turner, was born in 1691, the second son of John and Elizabeth Turner of Sunbury London. He grew up during a period of considerable expansion of British trade and a time when huge profits were to be made from the British East India Company Burke notes that he was a member of Lincoln’s Inn, one of the four professional societies for barristers, though in his time a gentleman’s education often incorporated a period studying the rudiments of law at one of the Inns without pursuing it as a career. Mary Turner  nee Page c.1697 – 1744 In 1718 he married Mary, the eldest daughter of Sir Gregory Page, 1‘ Bt. Of East Greenwich, and it was probably his father-in-law’s influence as well as that of his brother, John...

 Sir Gregory Page, second baronet (1689–1775) his Life Gregory Page, second baronet  ( 1689–1775 ) Sir Gregory Page was born in Greenwich, he was the elder son of  Sir Gregory Page, first baronet (1668–1720) , and his wife,  Mary , daughter of  Thomas Trotman , a citizen of London. 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 . It seems likely that the Pages were obliged at the outset to accept South Sea Stock in settlement of Navy bills (in their case for victualling), this being the main purpose for which the Government founded the Company. Sir Gregory’s friend and business associate, Sir Ambrose Crawley of Greenwich, had a similar experience in supplying iron wares to the Navy and he was for a time d...

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...