Boydell and Brewer have completed the design of the front cover (dust jacket) of my forthcoming book The Gages of Hengrave and Suffolk Catholicism, 1640-1767, which will be published in the Catholic Record Society’s Monograph Series later this year.
The design features the south front of Hengrave Hall, built by Sir Thomas Kytson between 1525 and 1538, from an engraving of 1822 taken from John Gage’s History and Antiquities of Hengrave Hall, in the County of Suffolk.
Francis, I am hoping you will have pity on a poor American genealogy researcher who is trying to find information on John Gage, son of John Gage and Penelope d’ Arcy. It is said he married Mary Barker and their marriage settlement was made 12&13 June. He died without issue. Do you have any information on this man? I know he was cited several times for recusancy. I can’t find much else about him. I know that you have done an enormous amount of research on this family and am hoping you have some knowledge of him.
Thanks for your time,
Jeanie
There is a little on this John Gage (John Gage of Stoneham) in my book on the Gages of Hengrave. Yes, he was cited for recusancy along with Sir Edward Gage in 1681. Penelope D’Arcy’s will of 1656 (proved in 1661) bequeathed him the manors of Stoneham and Coddenham and some lands at Beyton. When John died without issue his lands were inherited by his nephew John Gage of Harleston, who died ‘at a very great age’ in 1723. The death of John Gage of Stoneham without issue and the subsequent death of his heir John Gage of Harleston led to a dispute within the Gage family which is discussed in the book.
Thank You!
Dr. Young,
I am told that several years back that you believed “unequivocally” that second son John Gage did NOT go to Massachusetts. I wonder if you’re married to this? And I also wonder if you have any idea why Penelope would skip him — now her oldest — in favor of Edward if he’s standing right there?
I have a letter from 1946 in which Lord Gage is describing a note of his sister, reading “Probably emigrated to America 1630.”
Our family tradition has aways been “John Gage, son of John Gage, of West Firle, England”; though NOT “John Gage from Stoneham in Suffolk, England, and was the second son of Sir John Gage, Bart., who married Penelope…” whom I doubt they would have recognized as their own.
I hate to bug you but you are THE scholar on this family, and Firle branch seems so furtive! I argue that John wouldn’t have to be in England to be named in a will, and if land wasn’t actually SETTLED on him it would’ve gone to the next in line anyway. And there were enough cousin John Gages running around to explain away a LOT, not to mention the non-related ones.
Are you persuadable?
Thank you for reading this far!!
FYI? Your “look inside” on amazon cuts off at the JUICIEST part!!
Cheers, Julie Stewart
P.s. any thoughts on Robert Keyes emigrating around the same time??
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