Bage Family History

The Bage Surname
There are many early records on the International Genealogy Index (I.G.I.) in Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Migration may have taken place into Normandy, France as well as other countries in Europe, and from there to England shortly after the invasion by William the Conqueror.
According to an American researcher there is evidence of a William Bage in 1273-4 who is mentioned in the survey of the rights and revenues of the crown carried out at the request of King Edward I. The survey is called the Rotuli Hundredorum, the hundred rolls.
There are two records on the 'British History Online' web-site referencing a publication 'Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire', author Keene, D. J.; Harding, Vanessa, published 1987 and they are;- BAGE, John, Floruit 1406 and BAGE, Maud, Floruit 1426. (Ed. Floruit means 'he flourished'; period during which person lived (abbr. fl.); dates indicating when a person was active, especially in brackets after person's name).
Haughton, Staffordshire: Will Abstract 1534-1700 has the following record;-
Clement Bage of Haughton 9 Feb 1546-47; Will lost Folio 57b no detail ????
The remains of a Norman castle - Bage Castle, have been found in Hertfordshire, England, but up to now no other information is available.
The early Bage families must have moved from southern England into the Derbyshire area where they settled and became involved with Corn and Paper Mills and, fortunately, there is quite a bit of documentation about them such as the following by a fellow researcher;-
Early in the eighteenth century John Bage (sometimes spelt Bayge in early records) arrived at Ollerton. He brought with him his widowed mother Susanna, his wife Susan, and presumably his very young son John.
John was already a trained paper maker, but probably a Catholic, perhaps invited by the Catholic Lord of the Manor, Thomas Markham Esq. Both men were newly married and in there twenties, and Ollerton at this time had a background of being a safe place for the harassed Catholic faith.
On the 21 March 1702 Thomas Markham granted him a Lease (N.R.O. Land Tax on microfilm QDR 1/1) for twenty one years to commence on Ladyday, 25 March, for a house, Paper Mill and Fulling Mill, Stable, Cow house, Drying House for Paper, a piece of ground called Bullivants Cottage, being thirty five perches, at a yearly rent of sixteen pounds, paid half yearly at Michaelmas and Ladyday. This property, the marshy Northfield, was situated on the banks of the River Maun, and became known as Paper Mill Closes.
John and Susan had four children. The place of John's birth is unknown, but the other three were born at Ollerton, as set out in the family tree. John's mother was buried in 1709 at Ollerton. (N.R.O. Ollerton Parish Registers)
John Bage was quickly drawn into the life and government of the parish. In 1708 he was a juror at the Manor Courts (University of Nottingham Manuscripts Dept. MaB 229/6) and he was made Overseer of the Poor in 1710 and again in 1715 ( N.R.O. Town Book PR 237). Also in 1715 he was called upon to take the Oath of Supremacy to the King. As he was able to write he witnessed the Town accounts on three occasions during 1709 - 1710. (N.R.O. Town Book PR 237). As a Parish official he paid out Mr Cade's legacy of five shillings for the Preaching of the Good Friday sermon to the Minister, Mr Penn on four occasions in 1708 - 1711. (N.R.O. Town Book PR 237). At the same time each year the sum of ten shillings was given to the churchwardens towards keeping Boughton Bridge in good repair, and three shillings paid for the poor of the parish.
A warrant was issued on 20 July 1715 (K. Tweedale Meaby. County Records of the 18th Century. (Nottm 1947) p. 29) for him to appear with four others on 4th Aug at the Swan Inn, Mansfield to take, repeat and subscribe the declaration against Transubstantiation contained and expressed in the Act of Parliament. He duly appeared.
When he was overseer of the Poor in 1715 he was called upon to be the second party with Edward Herring to the Bond (N.R.O. Bastardy Bond. PR 247/2) by Francis Thompson, butler to Sir George Savile, for one hundred pounds to see that the child expected by Mary Shillitoe was kept off the parish rates.
The Papist Register of 1717 records a Papermill, House, Drying House for paper as being John Bage's Lease. The Compton Census of this year shows that there were twelve catholics, two non-conformists, 341 Church of England persons over the age of sixteen years (Confirmation age) in the Edwinstowe Chapelry as a whole. In Ollerton, the families of Markhams (6), James Jakeman (2) whose wife had land confiscated at Mansfield, and John Bage (4) are listed as Catholics. This makes very few catholics to be found in the rest of the Edwinstowe area.
After the death of Thomas Markham in May 1743 (N.R.O. Ollerton Parish Register) his brother George took over the leases, and John Bage had an increase in his land holding, (N.R.O. Land Tax on microfilm QDR 1/17) and was paying a yearly rent of twenty four pounds ten shillings for the five plots of land he held, part of which was a hop yard.
On the 14 April 1728 John Bage was buried (N.R.O. Ollerton Parish Register), and his son John, now about twenty eight years of age took over the family business. He also began to participate in the running of the parish. During the lifetimes of the two John's they witnessed thirty six weddings (N.R.O. Parish Register) in the Ollerton Chapel of Ease, but as their signatures are almost identical it is not easy to differentiate between them. None of their family made wills or had inventories made of their homes that we know of. The two surviving sisters leave no trace of their lives, but catholic weddings are unrecorded. Their mother, Susanna was buried a year after her husband in 1729.
In 1730 a John Bage, Papermaker of Ollerton, obtained a licence (T. Blagg & F. Wadsworth. ed. Nottinghamshire Marriages) to marry a Sarah Limb of Ticknell, Co. York, a spinster of twenty two, either there or at Blyth, but as the Ollerton registers in 1733 name John's wife as Elizabeth it is not clear who this was. John and Elizabeth had four children (N.R.O. Ollerton Parish Registers) as shown on the family tree. John was often called upon to act as juror at the Manor Courts and he served in this capacity twenty times from 1738 to 1767 when he died. He was also one of the persons presented for various offences during this period - for keeping his ducks on the common, for encroachment on the Paper Mill Green, for cutting ollers, for allowing his swine to root at a time of the year when this was not allowed, for stopping the water course at his dam and drowning the meadow lying above it, for suffering his turkeys and his geese to trespass in his neighbours closes. The amercements varied from six pence and a shilling up to ten shillings. These fines were collected by Mr. George Holt, bailiff, and it is recorded that he sometimes reduced the fine on collection.( N.R.O. Manorial Records DDSR 213/7 ) These were the Court Baron of Thomas Markham and were held either at the Ship Inn or more usually at the White Hart, the home of John Roberts. When Sir George Savile took over the estate in 1745 there is no mention of where the Courts were held.
In August 1750, John was called upon to witness the will of Francis Snowden ( N.R.O. PRNW Will - Francis Snowdon) who was the village blacksmith.
During 1752 John paid tax assessment (N.R.O. Land Tax on microfilm QDR 1/4 ) for lands lately belonging to David Millington, of sixteen shillings and nine pence halfpenny, and he is shown as renting some Church lands in 1759 (N.R.O. Land Tax on microfilm QDR 1/4 ) so it appears he was increasing his holding of land wherever possible.
His eldest son, also called John, was buried in Feb.1761 ( N.R.O. Ollerton Parish Registers) aged about thirty six. He was presumably unmarried and he left no will. Elizabeth, wife of John senior was buried in Jan.1768 ( N.R.O. Ollerton Parish Registers) and in Jan.1769 he married again, first obtaining a licence ( T. Blagg ed. Abstracts of the Bonds & Allegations for Marriage Licences in the Archdeaconry of Nottingham. 1754 - 1770. (Nottm 1947) p.220 ) to do so, where he gives his age as sixty, whereas he must have been at least sixty nine or seventy. His new wife was Sarah Clayton, age fifty, and they were married at St. Nicholas Church in Nottingham. John unfortunately died in the March of that year. George, his second son, now takes over the Paper Mill and in Oct.1770 obtains a licence ( T. Blagg ed. Abstracts of the Bonds & Allegations for Marriage Licences in the Archdeaconry of Nottingham. 1754 - 1770. (Nottm 1947) p.227 ) to marry Elizabeth Naylor, the daughter of a very prosperous Maltster of Mansfield.
Unfortunately Elizabeth Naylor is buried at Ollerton on 3 Sept. 1771 and as this date is only eleven months after the wedding, would most likely be caused by the birth of her son John, but no baptism record has been found for him.
George marries again, to Elizabeth Coates, a spinster of twenty one, and they are married at Burton Joyce on the 26 Aug.1773 ( N.R.O. Belper Library. Nottinghamshire Marriage Licence Abstracts 1771 - 1780. Unpublished p.59 ). From this marriage they have five children, as detailed in the family tree, but the eldest daughter dies six weeks after the birth of their second daughter in 1776. The sister of George dies during this year, she had remained a spinster, and would most likely have spent her life working in the paper mill, probably as a sorter of the rags and linen. George is prospering, and his land is extensive, in 1781 he held either as leasehold or Church lands, one hundred and three acres in twenty closes around Ollerton, the largest was Church land of over ten acres called Near Forest Close.( N.R.O. Tenants Map 1781 OL 2 R)
George died in 1789 ( N.R.O. Ollerton Parish Registers) aged forty nine when his son John (by his first wife) would have been about eighteen, and his second son George eleven. George had made his will (N.R.O. PRNW Will - George Bage) about three weeks before he died, and he bequeathed all his goods, furniture, plate, linen and china, his stock in trade, cattle and all other things whatsoever to his friends, John Turberville of Worksop, miller, Charles Doncaster, gentleman, and Joseph Turner, grocer, both of Ollerton, that they may sell, dispose or convert into money to enable them to continue in the possession of the Paper Mills and Farm, or to sell them and place the money out on interest, which ever they think fit. He requests that they allow his wife to remain in the house. He leaves an annuity of ten pounds to Mrs Sarah Bage, his father's widow.
He wished a sum equal to one twelfth of the estate to be put out on security for his son John or to use for him if necessary, and payable to him on reaching twenty one years of age.
The remainder to be divided into five equal parts, one part of this for his wife, and she to receive the interest from the other four fifths which is for the remaining four children on reaching twenty one years.
There was no detailed inventory of his possessions, it just stated that his personal apparel was one hundred pounds, and household goods and utensils in trade were one hundred and eighty pounds. It was taken on 27th May 1789. (N.R.O. PRNW Will - George Bage)
There is a stone in the Churchyard erected in memory of him, which is in a prominent place.
His son John was also left a legacy from his grandfather, John Naylor of Mansfield (N.R.O. DDM 99 / 2 Will John Naylor). This was for two hundred pounds, the interest to be used towards his maintenance and education, but he was not to receive the principal until after the death of Mary Naylor, his grandmother.
In March 1793 when John would have been about twenty two, there is a document (N.R.O. DDM 99 / 9 Document relinquishing Legacy) stating that John, who was now residing in Newgate Street, London and working as a painter and glazier, had borrowed fifty pounds from his uncle George Naylor, and as he was wanting a further one hundred pounds, had agreed to exchange this and to relinquish his claim to the legacy of two hundred pounds.
The Bage family arrived at Ollerton when they were papists. They worked as paper makers, they took their place in the parish, and there is still the stone stating that they were there, but it is not known when the remainder of the family left Ollerton, or where they went too.
In the 1800's several Bage's emigrated to the U.S. and there are records of some of them setting up plantations. Others are recorded in records of the Civil War.
There are also places with the name, a village by the name of Bage in Central Africa, and a city, Bage in Brazil, which was first established in about 1850 ;-
BAGE, a town and municipality of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, about 176 m. by rail W.N.W. of the city of Rio Grande do Sul. Pop. of the municipality (1890) 22,692. It is situated in a hilly region. 774 ft. above sea-level, and is the commercial centre of a large district on the Uruguayan border in which pastoral occupations are largely predominant. This region is the watershed for southern Rio Grande do Sul, from which streams flow E. and SE. to the Atlantic coast, and N.W. and S.W. to the Uruguay river. The town dates from colonial times, and has always been considered a place of military importance because of its nearness to the Uruguay frontier, only 25 m. distant. It was captured by the Argentine general Lavalle in 1827, and figured conspicuously in most of the civil wars of Argentina. It is also much frequented by Uruguayan revolutionists.
There is a small village in Wales called 'The Bage', but enquiries to the local council hasn't resulted in a satisfactory explanation for the use of the name.
There is also a mine with the name Bage ;-
Bage Mine, Bolehill, Derbyshire, England, UK
There is a 'Bage Way' in Shrewsbury, England.
Somerset Maps Catalogue Ref. MAP
FILE - Map of DRAYTON, CURRY RIVEL, and ALLER - ref.  MAP\DD\CTV/57 - date: 1820
   \_ [from Scope and Content] C.625 a. in south of Drayton based on Middleney, Bowlens and Westover Farms. Village mapped but not surveyed. State of cultivation indicated on map and in book of reference. White Cross, Middleney Shuttles (locks) and Bage Bridge (later Parrett Bridge) and adj. landowners and common land incl. Wendick noted. Book of ref. also states field names, tenants, acreages, and distinguishes titheable land.
FILE - Map of MUCHELNEY - ref.  MAP\DD\PR 78 - date: 1768
   \_ [from Scope and Content] About 1 sq. mile within an area bounded by the R.Yeo to the N., Whett Moor to the E., the R.Parret to the W., and Kingsbury Horsey Common to the S., although the entire area is not mapped. Names of fields, moors, roads; some bounding owners; buildings drawn in elevation, including Langport, Huish and Muchelney Churches and the Abbey House and Amnery near the last; Bage Bridge over R.Parret drawn; Pebsbury Ford, pound and cattle stalls shown; some evidence of strip cultivation.
Wilmot-Horton of Osmaston and Catton
Catalogue Ref. D3155
Creator(s):
Wilmot-Horton family of Osmaston and Catton, Derbyshire
Horton, Wilmot-, family of Osmaston and Catton, Derbyshire
Wilmot family of Osmaston, Horton family of Catton, Wilmot-Horton family of Osmaston and Catton
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'Derbyshire Deeds' Series
   FILE  [no title] - ref.  D3155/6818 - date: 5th Sep. 1724
      \_ [from Scope and Content] Declaration: Robt. Wilmot of Osmaston, Ann Revell of Brookhill, Notts., widow, Edwd. Wilmot of Brookhill, gent., (children and surviving execs. and trustees of will of Elizabeth Wilmot, wife of Robt. late of Osmaston, dec'd.) and Bridget Wilmot of Kirk Langley, widow and exec. of Charles Wilmot of K.L. dec'd. clerk, a son of Elizabeth, of account of monies received and how applied from estate of Mrs. Eliz. Wilmot, dec'd. W: Mary Revell, Martha Haynes, Geo. Maddock, Robt. Charnells, J. Blundell, Alice Ryder, John Ryder, Jos. Felkin, John Bage. (Includes receipts for legacies.)
   FILE  [no title] - ref.  D3155/6934 - date: 8th Jun. 1723
      \_ [from Scope and Content] Assignment of trust: Robt. Wilmot of Osmaston, esq. of 1st part, Francis Revell of S. Normaton, clerk and Alfreton, (Frances and Elizabeth were younger son and daughter of Robt. Revell dec'd.) of 2nd part, Robt, Revell of Carnefield (son and heir of Robt. dec'd.)of 3rd part, Thomas Noble of Leicester, esq. of 4th part and Robt. Holden of Inner Temple of 5th part of the manor of Carnefield, and a third part of the Manor of Pinxton with appurtenances in Carnefield, S. Normanton, Brookhill, Pinxton, Chesterfield, Newbold, Brampton, Tapton, Dronfield, Birmingham, Whittington, Blackwell, Alfreton, Wormhill etc. in Derbyshire and Notts. W: Wm. Bateman, Hen. Fielding, John Bage