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...

      Thomas Page  d. 1763  and his wife Juliana Page, nee Howe 1701-1780 Thomas Page was the younger brother of Sir Gregory Page 2nd Bt. (1689-1775)  He was the son of Sir Gregory Page 1st Bt and his wife Mary Page, nee Trotman, he was the third child born after Ambrose Page who died in infancy 1698. Thomas was almost certainly born in Wapping between 1699 and 1700, but certainly before his younger sister Mary Page who was born in 1702. Thomas like his eldest brother Gregory was an Alderman of the City of London and director of the East India Company.   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 .  He was very wealthy in his own right having an additional fortune of £700,000.  His brother st...

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...

 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. ...