Our English Roots
Subtitle: And Some Descendants of William Page Sr. of Caswell County, North Carolina
Series: No
Publisher: Higginson Books
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Salem, USA
Format: Hardcover and ebook
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780740476648
Copyright date: 2019
Notes: Why did several members of the distinguished and prosperous Page family leave Middlesex County, England to begin life again in Colonial Virginia?  The author offers a compelling answer to that question.  Using historical documents and DNA data, the author traces the Page family that appeared in King and Queen County and Goochland County, Virginia, in the first half of the 18th century to their English roots.   A chapter is devoted to the colorful, tragic, and never-before-published story of Sir Richard Page, Knight who was baptized at Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England in 1603 and died in Bruges, Belgium in 1657 while in exile following the defeat of King Charles I in the English Civil War.  A chapter is also given to Sir Richard Page’s son, John Page, who immigrated to Virginia in the 1650s to become the progenitor of this large family that spread from Virginia to the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and beyond.  Many of the 18th, 19th and 20th century descendants of Sir Richard Page’s Great Great Grandson, William Page, Sr. who died in Caswell County, North Carolina in 1805, are included.
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: Foreword											                                         iii; title: List of Photos and Illustrations								                                 ix; title: Chapter 1:  Our English Roots:  1492–1739				                                          1; title: Chapter 2:  Sir Richard Page, Knight							                                  7; title: Chapter 3:  John Page Sr., Immigrant to Virginia					        	         23; title: Chapter 4:  The Sons of John Page Jr. and Eleanor Hodges Page 		             		 27; title: Chapter 5:  A Brief Summary of the Author’s Paternal Line in America 1739–2001	    	 33; title: Some Descendants of William Page Sr. of Caswell County, North Carolina; title: Chapter 6:  Beginning with the Family of William Page Sr. (1739–1805)			        45; title: Chapter 7:  Beginning with the Family of William Page (1786–1856)			                55; title: Chapter 8:  Beginning with the Family of Jane Page Cook (1808–1893)			        73; title: - Notes on Benjamin Page, Private, 47th Alabama Infantry, CSA (1809–1864)    75; title: Chapter 9:  Beginning with the Family of James Page (1831–1910) 			               135; title: -  James and Susannah Page’s Journey by Ox Cart from Alabama; title: to Louisiana in the Fall and Winter of 1859				                       137; title: Addendum; title: Notes on Nathaniel Page (1730–1809), the presumed brother of William Page Sr.                      			of Caswell County, North Carolina							                               165; title: Bibliography and Sources									                               177