Pagett family? Think I have the correct spelling

[cheesemaker]

My great grandmother was a Pagett, and I have been trying to find her family and history in England. I am assuming Nottingham area, as that is where my great grandfather was from, and that is where my grandfather was raised in early life. My great grandmother was Evelyn Mary Pagett, born about 1881...she had 2 sisters that I know of, and the family was very aristocratic...my great grandmother eloped and married my great grandfather against her families' wishes, as she was engaged to marry John Player (players' tobacco fame), and her family totally cut her off as a result. Which pained my great grandmother to her dying day I know...I was 14 when she passed away at 92 years of age. I am just trying to find out what happened to the rest of the Pagett family. Also for health reasons, as Pagetts' Disease was named after that family, and my great grandmother had it, my grandfather was a hunchback also when he died, and I have back problems too...

Anna

[janan]

Hi Anna
Welcome to Rootschat  The only Evelyn M Paggett I can find in Nottingham (only one in whole of Notts) is born circa 1883 father Thomas a Ledger Clerk in a Tobacco factory.  Have found her in 1891 and 1901. Dosen't sound very aristocratic but there is a tobacco connection- what do you think? Do you want the details?
Jan

[cheesemaker]

Oh yes please! Since she had been supposed to marry John Player, maybe that is the one!

Anna

[carol8353]

Hello Anna

There is a marriage of an Evelyn Mary Pagett in Nottingham on Ancestry in the June 1/4 of 1902,there are two couples per page and so she married either

James Bradley PEAKE or Sidney SMITH.

The only way to find out for sure would be to either access the parish records,or to buy the certificate and if you wish to do that, the ref is Volume 7b page 411.

You have a lovely unusual surname to work with there,it'd be such a shame if she married Sidney and became Smith 

Hope this helps,

Carol

[cheesemaker]

OH THANK YOU! And of course she married James Bradley Peake...I have HIS grandparents portraits hanging on my wall even...hate to admit it but I even noticeably resemble the grandmoter Bradley!.... Now I just need to trace her parents and family....I know almost nothing about them.

Anna
born a Peake, a Smith by marriage - so that about covers it all then!

[carol8353]

Hi Anna

In 1891 Evelyn was 8 and living at 8 Cromwell? St,St Mary's Nottingham.

RG12/2691 folio 57 page 10

The household is,

Thomas Pagett 44 head Ledger Clerk b (sorry really difficult to read- poss Leics?)
Mary Anne E wife 35 b ditto Loughborough(so am assuming Thomas is Leics )
John (2nd initial?) son 10 scholar b Nottingham as are all the kids
Evelyn 8 dau scholar
Gladys C 5 dau
Everard? C son 3

Boarder Alice Barkworth 25 unm surgical appliance maker b Lincolnshire (somewhere?)

Sorry about the missing places above-the image is very very faint.

Will try and do 1901 next.

Regards,

Carol

[carol8353]

Hello again Anna 

In 1901 they are at 32 Gregory (road?) Nottingham

RG 13/ 3184 folio 182 page 17

Thomas Pagett head 54 ledger clerk-tobacco b Groby Leics
Mary A E wife 45 b Loughborough Leics
Evelyn M dau 18 b Nottingham
Gladys C dau 15   b "
Everard W son 12 b "

Evelyn was only 19 when she married a year later-maybe that's what mum and dad didn't like?

Hope this helps,

Carol

[Jane Eden]

Hi

Just to confirm your queries Carol

1891 It is Cromwell St (off Alfreton Road) very close to the City Centre and next to the Nottm General Cemetery and Thomas birth place reads Groby.

1901 The road says Gregory Blvd. (Gregory Boulevard) which is the road running along the bottom of the famous Nottingham Goose Fair at its present site on the Forest Recreation Ground. Though in 1901 the fair (starts 1st Thurs in Oct to Sat midnight) was still being held in the Market Square (often called Slab Square now) in the City Centre. It is also next to the Northern Cemetery often called the Rock Cemetery because of the cave systems there.

Jane

[cheesemaker]

Still researching, not getting very far....Great Grandma eloped, so the Pagett family disowned her, they had arranged for her to marry the son of Player, tobacco maker.....so any further help would be most welcome!


Anna