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A Record of the BAGE Family History A Letter to the Duchess of Bedford London Aug 5 1850 My Dear Madam, I venture to trespass on your Grace's kindness, and to ask you to make an application to H. M. Principal Secretary of State for Colonial affairs in behalf of my brother William Bage who is anxious to get an appointment in one of the Colonies as Engineer and Surveyor - William Bage is younger brother of Edward Bage now holding the appointment of Assistant Engineer and Surveyor at Sierra Leone, whose talents and conduct have been highly approved by the government. I believe William Bage to be equally skilled in his profession, and he has excellent testimonials from Mr. Locke Civil Engineer and others; he also is perfectly acquainted with the French and Spanish Languages - If your Grace would comply with this request you would add another to the many favours I have already received at your hands & I remain ever gratefully & sincerely yours Robert Bage To Her Grace The Duchess Dowr of Bedford. .............................................. Reply from Lord Grey to the Duchess of Bedford August 7/50 Lord Grey to Duchess of Bedford Dear Duchess of Bedford I think we may xxx anything I can for Mr W. Bage at your request and if he is willing to face the climate of S. Leone and can produce satisfactory testimonials of his fitness in the kind of employment he asks I shall be able to give it to him. The enclosed letter xxxxxxxxxxx does not contain his address or I would have a letter sent to him without troubling you, as it does not may I ask you to desire him to call upon Capt. Dawson at the office of the xxxxx Commrs. at Somerset House who has been good enough to undertake for me to examine him as to his fitness for employment in the department of works at S. Leone. (Ed;- The I.G.I. has entries for Charles Bage ch. 13 Feb 1812, Robert Bage ch. 14 Sept 1813, Edward Bage ch. 2 Oct 1817, William Bage ch. 13 Oct 1821, all in Shrewsbury, and these people may be those mentioned in the letter. They may also be related to the author Robert Bage who was from the same area.
Also from Malta Family History on the Internet - Index to Old Protestant Cemetery-Naples ;- Catherine Lydia BAGE d 29 Jan 1855 aged 5yrs 6m. Same grave as Robert Bage. Charles Edward BAGE b 28 Feb 1848 & d 10 Apr 1886 at Spezia. The son of Robert Bage & same grave.Robert Bage d 28 July 1851 aged 37 years, a Surgeon. This Robert Bage was born c1814 and is probably the same as the one mentioned in the text above. Robert WHYTE, M.D., d 4th July 1857, aged 31 years. Same grave as Bage family.
The Last Will and Testament of Robert Bage (From the Public Record Office National Archives) This is the last Will and Testament of me Robert Bage of 260 Riviera di Chiaz a Naples ........all my real and personal estate to my dearly beloved wife Lydia C Bage daughter of the late Caarlos O' Reilly Esquire ............. 14th day of ???? 1851....................................................................... subscribed our ???? ???? - Giles Pugh Chaplain to ?? ?? Legation at Naples Charles Turner Merchant of Naples. Proved at London the 20th December 1851 before the Judge by the ???? of Lydia Catactuint?? Bage Widow the ???? the sole Excrutux |
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