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

                               
(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)

Main source(s): 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John Nichols, vol 4, part 2, 1811, 'Pedigree of Paget of Barwell', p481)
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