'Paget3'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Paget of Barwell, Paget of Rothley, Pagitt of Northamptonshire

                               
(1) Nichols identifies the arms of this family as "Sable, a cross engrailed Argent" but adds that "Mr. Paget produced only the impression of a seal, and nothing to be found to justify his bearing the same.".
(2) Nichols starts with Vicar Harold, shows him as father of the Thomas Paget who married Anne Grey, and shows separately the Andrew of Barnell who married Anne's sister Dorothy. We speculate that Thomas & Andrew were cousins, their fathers both being sons of ...
?? Paget
1. Harold Paget (d c1577, Vicar of Rothley)
  A. John Paget of Rothley
B. Thomas Paget of Rothley, later of Barwell
  m. Anne Grey (dau of John Grey of Barwell, sister of Anne)
  i. Thomas Paget of Barwell (d unm)
  ii. Humphrey Paget of Barwell (b c1588, bur 02.03.1682-3, weaver)
  m. Anne Smallwood (d 06.1655, dau of _ Smallwood, alderman of Coventry)
  a. Humphrey Paget of Barwell (b 1616-7, d 08.1693)
  m1. Mary Shenton (bur 30.07.1663, dau of Francis Shenton of Barwell)
(1) Thomas Paget (b c1638, d 07.1680, Rector of Barwell & Croft)
  m. Mary Chambers (b 1638-9, d 14.05.1719, dau of Joseph Chambers (alderman of Coventry), m2. Rev. Robert Cotes of Aston)
  (A) Elizabeth Paget (d 10.03.1696)
  m. Richard Wightman
  (B)+ other issue - Thomas (d infant), Mary (b c1670, d 09.09.1676)
  (2) Humphrey Paget (b c1642, d 23.11.1708, Rector of Peckleton)
  m. (1671) Humility Dawes (b 1644-5, d 03.05.1688, dau of Jervase Dawes of Stapleton)
  (A)+ issue - Thomas (b 1674), Humphrey (b 16575), Francis (b 1676, d infant), John (b 1681, d infant), Elizabeth (bpt 07.12.1672)
(3) Francis Paget of London (b 1644, bur 21.06.1702, hosier)
  m. Mary Boylston (dau of Rev. John Boylston of Bosworth)
  (A)+ issue - Thomas, John, Mary (d young)
  (4) John Paget of London (b c1646, packer)
  m. Sarah Boylston (dau of Rev. (John?) Boylston of Bosworth)
  (A)+ issue - Thomas, John
  (5) Joseph Paget (b 1649-50, d 18.06.1705, Rector of Barwell & Thurleston, youngest son)
  m. Agnes Shenton (dau of John Shenton of Barwell)
  (A) John Paget (bpt 19.02.1690-1, d 12.04.1749, Vicar of Ashby Folvile, curate of Gaddesby, 4th son)
  m. Elizabeth (b 1687-8, d 06.07.1746)
  (i)+ issue - Joseph (b 1715, d 04.02.1719), son in London (upholsterer), Anne (b 1718, d 20.09.1731), Penelope (b 1719, d 258.06.1762), Elizabeth (b 172*)
  (B)+ other issue - Joseph (b 1683, d 1685), Thomas (b 1686), Joseph (d 1690), Mary (b 1680), Agnes (b 1681), Elizabeth (b 1684, d 1686), Mary (b 1687), Martha (b 1693), Anna (b 1698)
  (6) Mary Paget
  m. Sylvester Ayres of Barton-in-the-Beans
  (7)+ other issue - Wilson of London (b 1648?, d unm 1682), Elizabeth (d 1682)
  m2. Elizabeth Comferford (bur 30.10.1686, widow of Jervase Dawes of Stapleton)
  b. Mary Paget
m. William Read of Sutton juxta Broughton
  c. Hannah Paget (d 1657)
  iii. John Paget (d unm)
  C. Robert Paget of Rothley (d c1590)
  m. (24.10.1574) Margaret Parker
  i. Michael Paget (b 1585, 3rd son)
  m. (1610) Anne Kendal
  a.+ issue - Robert (b 1611), 3 daughters
  ii.+ other issue - John (b 1575, d 1582), Thomas (bpt 17.05.1583?, d infant?), Thomas (b 1589), Frances (b 1587)
2. ?? Paget
  A. Andrew Paget of Barwell (bur 11.06.1688)
  m. Dorothy Grey (dau of John Grey of Barwell, sister of Anne)
  i.+ issue - Grace (d 1654), Elizabeth (d 10.1657), Sarah (d 10.1657), Mary (d 10.1657)

 

 

Cass identifies the arms of the following family as "Sa. a cross engr. arg. in the dexter quarter an escallop of the last". That suggests that it was (believed to have been) a cadet of the family shown above.
Thomas Pagitt of Barton Segrave (near Kettering), Northamptonshire
1. Richard Pagitt of Cranford, Northamptonshire
  m. Katharine Isham (dau of Euseby Isham (by Anne Pulton), sister of John & Ely)
  A. Thomas Pagitt (of the Middle Temple)
  i. James Pagitt 'of Northamptonshire' (bur 10.09.1638, baron of the Exchequer)
m1. Katharine Lewin (dau of William Lewin (Dean of the Arches), sister of Sir Justinian)
  a. Justinian Pagitt (d before 11.01.1668-9)
  m. (07.07.1636) Dorcas Lilcox (d before 18.09.1669)
  (1) Justinian Pagitt (of Gray's Inn, 2nd son)
  m. (c06.1670) Anthonina ## see here ##
  (A)+ issue - Toby, Justitian, Henry, Dorcas, Dorothy
  (2)+ other issue - James (bpt 24.09.1637), Thomas, Lewin (d young), Wilcox (d young), Mary, Dorcas
  b Thomas Pagitt of Tottenham High Cross (d before 23.05.1650, "Serjeant to the Sumpter")
  m. Rachel Vaughan (bur 24.09.1657, dau of Richard Vaughan, widow of Timothy Eman)
  c. Anne Pagitt
  m. Godfrey Maydwell
  d. Elizabeth Pagitt (d unm)
  m2. Bridget Bowter (b c1589, d 12.10.1626, widow of John Moyse)
  m3. Nazareth Harris (dau of Robert Harris of Lincoln's Inn)
  ii. ?? Pagitt
  a. Richard Pagitt ("Ven.")
  B. Euseby Pagitt (d before 17.06.1617, rector in Aldersgate)
  m. Frances
  i. Ephraim Pagitt (d c1648, rector of St. Edmond the Koing, Lombard St.)

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (uploaded 11.08.22) : 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John Nichols, vol 4, part 2, 1811, 'Pedigree of Paget of Barwell', p481)
(2) For lower section (uploaded 19.03.24) : 'Monken Hadley' (Frederick Charles Cass, 1880, 'Pedigree of Pagitt', p203)
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