A Record of the BAGE Family History

Last night, in the Police Court, North Shields, Mr Deputy Coroner H. T. Rutherford conducted an inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Grace Isabella Bage, four years of age, daughter of William Henry Bage, of Grey Street. It was stated by Charles Bolam, an uncle of the deceased, that the parents were so much prostrated with grief that they were unable to attend the inquiry. It appeared from the evidence that on Tuesday that the mother of the child visited a sister in Princes Street, taking the deceased with her. This was about 10.30 in the morning. The child ran out into the backyard and became lost. A search was made for her, but without avail; until late in the afternoon, when the deceased's aunt observed some pieces of bread floating on the top of the water in a well in the yard. The well had a square opening about sixteen inches across flush with the surface of the yard, and there was a loose wooden cover over it. On hearing of the bread in the well the father had his suspicions aroused. He dragged the well and found the child's body. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the child had been accidentally drowned by falling into the well, and at the request of the jury the coroner undertook to see the owner of the property with a view to having the cover over the well properly fixed.

(Ed;- These people are located in the Tynemouth Family Tree for BAGE).

Three from Shields get bravery awards

A Secretary, a policeman and a customs officer - all from South Shields......named today to receive Royal Humane Society awards for their parts in Northern river and sea rescues.

Irene Bage receiving her award

For her part in rescuing a 10 year old boy from drowning in the Wear at Chester Le Street on July 6, the secretary, 24 year old Mrs Irene Bage, of East Stephenson Street, gets a testimonial on parchment combined with a resuscitation certificate........When the boy - Tony Brown - fell into the river from the east bank, Mrs Bage swam across from the opposite side followed by Mr McEwan. He arrived first at the scene, where he dived and brought the unconscious boy to the surface.

They then took turns at artificial respiration on the bank, but the boy did not respond until Mr McEwan changed to mouth-to-mouth resuscitation...............He was taken to hospital and fully recovered.

(Ed;- This person is my wife and we are part of  the South Shields Family Tree for BAGE).

Item from The Shields Gazette - 23 Apr 1976

Retiring chairman

(Photo)

Mrs Chris Bage, retiring chairman of South Shields Ladies' Circle, hands over the badge of office to her successor.............

Clean out that room miss!

Tidy 10 year old Theresa Bage's bedroom clean-up is helping fight a crippling disease. After a sound nagging from her mum over the state of her bedroom the industrious North Shields schoolgirl decided to turn chaos into cash and sell off her old toys...........The youngsters fund raising success has stunned Theresa's mum, Rosemary.......Theresa said she decided to donate the money to multiple sclerosis because her mum has helped organise shows for the charity........

(Ed;- These people are located in the Tynemouth Family Tree for BAGE).

How's That Dad!

Air Cadet Kevin Bage followed in his father's footsteps - and then outdid him when he gained his flying wings.

Brian Bage is the squadron leader of a cadet unit in the south of England. His son is a cadet flight sergeant in the 324 (South Shields) Squadron of the Air Training Corps.

But Mr Bage, 51, a member of the RAF Volunteer Reserve Training Branch, never gained a pilot's licence.

His son, who wants to be an RAF pilot, has just done so after 39 hours of flying - at the age of 18...........

(Ed;- These people are located in the South Shields Family Tree for BAGE).

Call to Stop Crossing Rage

.........And in a recent incident, one lollipop lady needed hospital treatment after being knocked down near a busy Stockton school.

.........Joanne Bage needed hospital treatment for severe bruising after being knocked to the ground by a car while on duty at Hartburn Primary School.

..........."There are a lot of impatient people about. They just want to get from A to B as quickly as possible regardless," added the 38 year old from Stockton.

Fine Outing for Athletes

And NYSD cross country league champion Kirsty Bage (M&C) third in 5mins 7.3 secs.

Women in the life of a crooked lawyer

Three blonde women in the tangled love life of a crooked lawyer were facing an uncertain future last night as he was jailed for four years........But mistress number one - single mother Michelle Bage - condemned her former lover as a "cheating bastard."

Rohm and Haas JOC League

...........and Hebburn A with a 6 - 2 win at home to Bengal Dragons with goals from Anthony Bage (5)..............

Staff commended for staff training

Long-established Cross Hills printing firm Dixon Target has gained the acclaimed Investor in People award...........The certificate was handed over to Dixon Target's longest-serving employee Colin Bage, who has been with the company for 40 years.

U-turn for plan at historic site

Residents are celebrating after controversial plans to build a bungalow on the grounds of an historic South Shields landmark were withdrawn...................Brian Bage, secretary of the Cleadon Village Association, said: "We are very relieved that the plans have been withdrawn.

"We were against the idea of building on the grounds from the start and cannot understand how the council could even consider granting permission to the scheme."

Mr Bage added: "Cleadon House is a prominent part of the area and we would like to see it returned to its former glory. The house could be taken over by English Heritage or by a private tenant. It would make a fine family home."

(Ed;- This person is located in the South Shields Family Tree for BAGE).

House fire treated as suspicious by police

...........Station Officer Colin Bage said: "When the crews turned up, flames were issuing from the front bay window..........

Making waves with story of Tyne hero.

Family Tree has a few surprises

IT'S estimated that 100,000 people turned out to witness his funeral procession, part of it over the stretch of water on which he had enjoyed so many of his glittering achievements.
Harry Clasper went to his grave as feted and as mourned as any football star would be now.
"People today don't realise what an extraordinary man he was," says John Bage. John, of Coventry Way in Jarrow, has spent the last few years researching his family tree which includes links with Clasper, who features in a new book to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Tyne Rowing Club. Compiled by Ian Whitehead, Keeper of Maritime History with Tyne and Wear Museums, The Sporting Tyne charts the development of competitive rowing on the river from an event to mark the coronation of George IV in 1821, to the end of professional rowing in the mid-1950s.
During its golden period it produced three 'greats', two of whom were Robert Chambers, originally an iron worker, born in the east end of Newcastle in 1831, and James Renforth, also thought to have been born in the city but a decade later, who worked as a blacksmith's striker then got a job ferrying men and materials for the demolition of the old Tyne bridge.
Between them they were Thames, England and World sculling champions.
The third was Harry Clasper, almost a bantam of a man at 5ft 8ins and just a few pounds over 9st, who could neither read nor write. He was born in 1812 at Whickham but the family later moved to Jarrow where, aged 15, Harry began work at the pit. But Jarrow Colliery had a terrifying (and well-earned) reputation for explosive firedamp and Harry left to become apprenticed as a ship's carpenter in Brown's boatyard, also at Jarrow.
He would later use these skills in building a four-oared boat, The Five Brothers, named for himself and his rowing siblings Edward, William, Robert and Richard, which laid the foundations of outrigger design for generations to come.
Harry and his brothers also established a sliding style of rowing as 'the traditional Tyne stroke', best demonstrated by James Renforth and later given physical manifestation by the development of a practical sliding seat by the American J C Babcock.
Says Ian Whitehead: "The Tyne has no claim on the invention of the slide, but Babcock
acknowledged that the Tynesiders were the best oarsmen in the world, and that he was only trying to achieve mechanically what they did when they slid on their seats. It shows the influence the Tyne, and in particular Renforth and his crews, had on Babcock's thinking."
Over the years, the Clasper family became almost invincible. When a Clasper crew defeated the Londoners on their home ground of the Thames in 1845, they returned to a gala reception on Tyneside; even the bells of All Saints' Church in Newcastle were rung.
Harry eventually went into the pub trade, having been presented with a pub, The Clasper Arms in Scotswood, as a mark of respect by his admirers.
He eventually settled at the Tunnel Inn at Ouseburn which he ran until his death - probably from a stroke - in 1870. His loss resounded around Tyneside.
Says John Bage: "Grown men were seen to be in tears when they heard the news."

OARSOME

                          Harry Clasper depicted rowing on the Tyne as a young man.


In fact Harry Clasper, James Renforth and Robert Chambers all died within three years of each
other.
It was the start of a long decline in the Tyne's rowing fortunes, with the rise of champions
elsewhere, such as London's Joseph Sadler.
Ian Whitehead notes: "Things were so bad that one of the music hall songs of the time imagined
Jim Renforth coming back to life again because he was so irritated by the failure of the Tyne to
produce a sculler to beat Sadler."
Harry Clasper was buried in Whickham cemetery where his elaborate memorial, complete with
representations of his boatbuilding tools, can still be seen,
Rowing on the Tyne, in the shape of the Christmas Handicap, continued until the 1950s, although,
within recent years, annual races between Durham and Newcastle Universities have drawn the
crowds back to the riverside.

The Sporting Tyne, A History of Professional Rowing, by Ian Whitehead is published in
paperback by Portcullis Press (Gateshead Council) price £5.50.

A free exhibition to accompany the book, Oarsome! Rowing Heroes of the Tyne, can be seen at
the Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead until Sunday.

(Ed;- This is me in the photo, and I am located in the South Shields Family Tree for BAGE).

Undercliffe Council Elections 2003

Raymond Bage (Lab) 890 (votes)

(Ed;- Stuart is located in the Tynemouth Family Tree for BAGE) 

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May 18 2002

By Amanda Crook, The Journal

A team of women from Tesco is aiming to raise as much money as possible for Cancer Research UK when they take part in the Race for Life...........

........Carol Bage, 41, from Brasside, Durham, said: "I've been surprised how willing people have been to make really generous donations."

(Ed;- Carol is located in the Sunderland 03 Family Tree for BAGE) 

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Off the web;-

Middlesbrough Football Club

Head of Finance and Administration - Alan Bage

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Customers were today urged to stop buying clothes from two York shops because of an advertising campaign which has been branded "obscene".

York resident Ian Small said he was offended by the Christmas shop window campaign being used by French Connection in its Coney Street branch.Posters in the windows bear the words "FCUK-XM@S".

He has called for shoppers to stay away from the shop and also from Sarah Coggles, in Low Petergate, York.

The owner of Sarah Coggles, Victoria Bage, is also owner of the franchise for French Connection.

Mr Small said: "The central French Connection organisation is certainly well aware of the aim of the campaign and is unwilling, like the York branch, to withdraw it.

"People of all faiths who object to the vilification of an important religious festival can show their displeasure by ceasing to buy goods at these two shops until the campaign is discontinued. I hope the franchisee will not lower York's standards even more when Muslim, Jewish and other religious festivals come round."

Mrs Bage said the window displays at French Connection were decided nationally.

She said: "We have always had unusual Christmas windows at our stores.

"I don't see why this is offensive and our customers don't seem to have been put off by this slogan."

Durham County Local History Society Website Newsletter Summer 2003

NEW BOOK

Shafts of Life: Mining Art in the Great North Coalfield, by Robert McManners and Gillian Wales, is a very significant contribution to the recording of North East history. The 250 page book retails at £12.95, which is excellent value for such a well-produced book. Although the book deals primarily with artists and the images they produced about mining life. by telling their stories, the book also charts some important social history. Included is art education in Durham University, the Spennymoor Settlement and the Ashington Group.

Stores R, Wiggs L and Stores G (2000) Service issues for the management of sleep disorders in children with severe learning difficulties. In Positive Issues for People with Learning Difficulties (Bage R and Jeffereys K eds.). Basingstoke. Macmillan Press Ltd 132-146.

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Death Notices in Yorkshire Newspapers;-

Bage, James - 10 Apr 1901 - 8 months - 43 Highfield Terrace, Bingley - BIC
Bage, Thomas William - 28 Mar 1901 - 62 - 7 King Street, Stockton - EPY,NEDG

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James Bond Movie Information
(The World Is Not Enough)

Year of Production: 1999 

Unit Nurse [Consultant]: Alison Bage

THE funeral of leading York retailer Victoria Bage, was taking place today, followed by a horse-drawn procession through the city centre.

Victoria, who chaired the Sarah Coggles fashion chain as well as holding the franchise for a number of French Connection UK outlets, died suddenly ten days ago.

A funeral service was being held at St Olave's Church in Marygate. The cortege was then due to process through Bootham Bar and along Low Petergate, past the Sarah Coggles store, to Kings Square.

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SHE was as flamboyant in death as she was in her life.

Crowds of curious tourists lined the sunlit streets as a magnificent horse-drawn hearse carried the body of leading York retailer and fashion trailblazer Victoria Bage through the city centre.

The funeral procession, involving many scores of mourners, began yesterday afternoon after a service at a packed St Olave's Church, Marygate.

After passing through Bootham Bar and along High Petergate, it then halted outside Sarah Coggles, her fashion store in Low Petergate, which had closed for two hours as a mark of respect.

Then it moved on to Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate, where she had owned a shop earlier in her career.

Victoria chaired the Sarah Coggles fashion chain and also had the franchise for a number of French Connection UK outlets, and the fashion and retail worlds had been shocked last week by her sudden death through natural causes.

Leading business figures joined family and friends for the funeral and procession.

Both were led by an Orthodox Bishop, who said he had known Victoria for a long time and had many things in common.

In a moving and sometimes amusing address, Bishop Stephen said Victoria had been a "unique and exceptional woman," who even in her early days had shown a certain eccentricity.

"She had vigour, determination, courage and a great sense of fun," he said.

Bishop Stephen said everyone would miss Victoria, "some with real sorrow, some with relief."

He said she had had a reputation for hardness. When he had told a friend that she had had a heart bypass operation, they had said: "How can you have a bypass for something that isn't there?"

"But she did have a heart. She didn't want to allow people to see it, but it was there." He said Victoria had loved people, and wanted to find out what made them tick. He spoke of the way Victoria had started her fashion business with a stall in York market in the 1970s and taken it through rapid expansion.

Then he shocked mourners by saying she had left a business disaster behind her. As the congregation braced itself for his next words, he then quipped that both Benson & Hedges and Wine Rack were about to declare themselves bankrupt!

Jean Greenwood, head of Clifton Preparatory School, is welcomed back by, from back left, Frankie Cross, Cathy Prowde, Gregory Bowler, and front, from left, Edward Frost, Ella Nadian and Marcus Bage.......

From   http://www.financialmail.co.uk/20040314/mh75653.html

Fattest of the fat cats

Top cat looks after a minnow

HE may cut a sleek figure in his tailored suits, but Michael Bage is the fattest of all building society fat cats. His contract as chief executive of Chelsea building society entitles him to the most generous pay-off and pension in the sector, even though Chelsea is only the sixth-biggest society and a minnow beside Nationwide, Britannia or Yorkshire.

Yet Bage, who has been top cat at Chelsea for 25 years and whose pay last year leapt 17% to £496,000, earns more than any other society boss except Nationwide's Philip Williamson and has far more generous benefits.

Under his two-year contract he would collect at least £650,000 if sacked. At retirement, Bage will get £268,000 a year, almost twice that of any other society boss, even though he has not personally contributed since 1999.

Chelsea's corporate governance-record is far from sparkling. It has been among the slowest to adopt a member vote on boardroom pay and publishes less pension information than rivals.

The society insists that Bage is properly rewarded. It says: 'His salary, bonus and pension arrangements reflect the length of his service and Chelsea's consistently exceptional performance relative to its peers.'

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http://www.forehill.aberdeen.sch.uk/index_files/page0024.html

LYNN BAGE - elected.

I am the Treasurer of the Board and currently have two children attending Forehill.  Callum, aged six, is in primary two and Megan, aged four, is at the nursery.  I joined the Board so that I could be involved in the education of our children.

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From Web-site;-   http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/ZWiltsMuster/B.html

North Wiltshire Musters Anno 30 Henry VIII [Year 1539]

Bage     Robtus.     Chalston.    Calne

Bage     Thomas     Chalston.    Calne

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From Web-site;-   http://www.shrewsbury.gov.uk/public/council/civictradition/mayorslist.htm

Mayors of Shrewsbury 1638 - 2004

 1807      Charles Bage     Wine Merchant

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From web-site;- http://www.lkpc.org.uk/index.html

Lynsted Parish Council Marks Honour to Former Colleague.

Tom English, Chairman of Lynsted with Kingsdown Parish Council, presented senior Lynsted resident David Bage with a cut-glass decanter to mark the occasion of Mr Bage’s award of the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

The presentation took place prior to the meeting of the parish council on 10th August, before an invited group of friends.  Tom explained that the Council was particularly pleased that David had received the honour, since he had served as Member, Clerk and Chairman of the Parish Council.

‘ The award of the MBE was for services to Lynsted’ said Cllr English. ‘It was richly deserved. David has been involved with the parish for 50 years and had served, among other things, as churchwarden, school governor, editor of the parish news magazine and chairman of the annual fete committee.  Everyone in the parish was pleased at the honour’.

David responded by saying that he had suspected a conspiracy when he saw the abnormally high number of the public attending a routine parish council meeting! But he was pleased to accept the surprise award of the specially inscribed decanter.  The inscription read:  Presented by Lynsted with Kingsdown Parish Council to David Andrew Bage, MBE. For services to the Community, June 2004.

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Hartlepool Today

10 April 2003

Diane Bage, of Lime Crescent, Hartlepool, has heard from her son, Gavin, 21, who is a marine with 45 Commando.
She said: "Like most families I do not know exactly where my son is but he has phoned and he is good spirits and says morale among the troops is high.
"I am really pleased for the Iraqi people and the way it has turned out with the celebrations at the fall of the regime.
"It proves they wanted to be released from the hand of Saddam but to be honest it's not all over yet. There is still a lot of work to do so it will be a while before they all come back.
"I am very proud of Gavin and we're all looking forward to him coming home and having a party."

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STRICTLY BALLROOM

21 November 2000 

DANCING CHAMPS: Joanne Thompson, Adele Hammond, Stephanie Renahan, Carol Deluce, (front left to right) Anthony Bage, Christopher Braithwaite, and Jodie Gorton. IT WAS strictly ballroom for one group of youngster when they stepped out in style for a top competition.
The youngsters are members of the Carol Hammond Dancing School and were representing the Tyne Tees Area at the Nationwide Old Time and Modern Sequence Dancing finals.
The event took place at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool and the group danced their way through to the final six of their group.
Their performances delighted owner of the school Carol Hammond who was also pleased with the performances of other pupils who took part in the prestigious event.

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23 January 1996

Sunderland Today

ATHLETES VIE FOR TOP TITLES 

Five members of the towns Apollo Trampoline Club are competing in the Copenhagen Cup in Denmark against athletes from all over Europe. Emma Freeman, 18, will take part in the ladies section, twin brothers Gary and Phillip Short, 14, compete in the under-18 section, and Carolyn Bage, 11, will take part in the girls under-18 competition. Emma's younger sister Karen Freeman will also be travelling to Denmark for the girls under-18 competition. The event takes place on April 6 and 7 ; but Gary and Phillip will warm up for it with a top national competition at the end of March. They both won through the northern regional schools zonal competition in Manchester at the weekend, and take part in the National Schools championships in Hull on March 23.Carolyn finished sixth in the under-11 zonal event ; missing out on a place in the national finals by just 0.1 point. The Apollo Club, which has more than 100 members who meet at Washington Leisure Centre four days a week, is also on the look-out for prospective sponsors to help cover the cost of competition expenses.

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From web-site;-    http://a-day-in-the-life.powys.org.uk/eng/cult/eu_bridge.php

(Used with the permission of Powys County Archives Office)

 1891   The Bridge Hotel (later the Metropole Hotel)

Thomas Bage
Age 22. Boots at Bridge Hotel b. Llandegley (1891 Census).
Thomas Bage would have worked a long day, probably starting at six o'clock in the morning until late at night. He would have had to clean all shoes and boots the guests would place outside their bedroom doors. Keep coal bucket filled for all fireplaces, as well as downstairs all bedrooms would have had a fireplace. Candles would have had to been replaced, oil lamps cleaned and filled and slop buckets emptied. As well as all this he would have had to take luggage on the handcart to and from the station for those guests arriving and leaving by train.

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Telling your stories on the BBC

From bbc.co.uk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/tees/tellinglives/hartlepool/tedbage/index.shtml

One night in 1943, 11-year-old Ted Bage had the life scared out of him by horror actor Valentine Dyall. Here's Ted's story.

"It was quiet in our house."

We were all listening to the wireless, praying that we would have no air raid that night."

Ted Bage ...

..has four great-grandchildren and eight grandchildren.

They keep him busy.

Ted worked as a foreman for GEC transport, but is now retired and enjoys sport, gardening, and meeting different people.

Appointment With Fear

Valentine Dyall presented this classic BBC radio horror series between 1943 and 1948, narrating as The Man in Black.

Perhaps the episode that scared Ted Bage was The Bodysnatchers, or Will You Make a Bet With Death?

We've hunted down a copy of Appointment With Fear from the BBC library.

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IC TEESIDE

 Fit kit to be seen in

Jan 24 2005

By Sarah Ivison, Evening Gazette

Ask most women their memories of PE at school and they will probably turn up their noses and shudder.

Memories of standing on a freezing cold hockey pitch getting whacked in the shins from a hockey stick or tripping over a hurdle are top of the list....but running knickers and gym slips are close to the top of the hate list too.

But things are changing. Some schools are moving away from traditional competitive games for girls and introducing aerobics, dance and even activities such as pilates and tae bo.

New research has found that two of the reasons girls are put off sport is because they find PE intimidating and they are embarrassed of their bodies.

Having to wear "old-fashioned" PE kits is another, according to a study by the Institute of Youth Sport at Loughborough University.

Girls' participation in sport has increased steadily with the introduction of girls-only lessons and activities, including pilates and aerobics, the study found.

Almost 11,000 girls between the ages of 11 and 16 were surveyed by the research, which was unveiled recently at the Let's Go Girls conference, which looks at how to tackle girls' dislike of PE.

Nicola Bage, assistant head of the PE department at Sedgefield Community College, was one of the speakers at the conference last Wednesday.

"We won the Innovation in the Curriculum Award from the Nike/Youth Sport Trust Girls in Sport Partnership last year," says Nicola, who has been teaching at Sedgefield Community College for four years.

"So I was invited to speak at the conference to explain the measures we took at Sedgefield to get more girls into sport.

"These include our PE kit policy, which has made them more confident. Our participation rate is now 100pc.

"Year 10 pupils can wear tracksuit bottoms for all activities. Year 9 pupils can wear tracksuit bottoms for outdoor sports and for trampolining. They have to wear the school T-shirt but they can wear anything that is suitable for sport on the bottom half. This has made a big difference to girls as has girls-only lessons. We do ask boys too, but they aren't bothered about it.

"Year 11 pupils can wear any leisurewear for PE. It makes them feel more confident."

The school has taken out hockey, basketball and volleyball from the curriculum and introduced sports aerobics, tae bo, pilates, step aerobics and body conditioning.

"These are activities that girls will continue to do once they have left school," says Nicola.

"We have also introduced a sports council and 48pc of the representatives are female."

Since the school introduced the changes in 2001, the number of girls aged 11 to 14 doing extra-curricular sport has risen from 35pc to 75pc and the proportion of girls pleading sickness or injury to avoid PE has fallen.

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J Lyons & Co Obituary History

BAGE Joseph J. Died 1992 Bakeries

(Ed;- This person is Joseph James Bage, or Jan as he was known, and he is in Tynemouth Family Tree for BAGE).

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BBC News web-site

17th April 2005

Man arrested over girl's murder

A man has been arrested after a teenage girl was found murdered in a frenzied attack at a house in Teesside.

Police were called to a house in Troutpool Close on Hartlepool's Central Estate shortly before midday on Friday.

They found the body of 16-year-old Kim Bage who had suffered multiple stab wounds in the attack.

Cleveland Police said on Saturday that they had seized a 29-year-old man from Hartlepool for questioning in connection with the incident.

Forensic tests are continuing in the area but no weapons have been recovered.

'Fought valiantly'

Det Supt Tony Hutchinson, leading the inquiry, said: "The victim suffered a frenzied attack that would have lasted some minutes.

"The young girl I believe has fought valiantly for her life. Tragically, she was unsuccessful."

There was no sign of a break-in at the house, which belongs to a family member, although Mr Hutchinson said it was unclear whether the teenager lived there.

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Hartlepool Today

18 April 2005

A popular girl and a good friend

TEENAGER Kimberley Bage was a popular girl with everything to live for.

Friends of the 16-year-old former St. Hild's pupil said she was loyal and caring and filled with ambition, on the verge of adulthood.
One of her best friends broke down after visiting the house in Troutpool Close to lay a floral tribute of a cuddly pig, lovehearts and red tulips.
It signified a girl who was still very much a child, but who was beginning to experience life as a young woman.
"I loved her to bits," said Lauren Astill, who used to live on the Central Estate, but now lives in Stockton.
"She was my best mate. She was funny, friendly and 'ellish. Everyone got on with her.
"I only saw her on Thursday and she was her usual self. She was a very loyal friend and a good listener. I will miss her."
Lauren, 15, and another friend, Tanya Watson, 18, hugged each other and cried as they tried to come to terms with the loss of Kim.
But they broke into a smile when they remembered Kim's gutsy personality.
"She will have fought for her life," said Lauren.
"Kim wasn't daft and she would stick up for herself."
And Tanya, of Leas Walk, the Headland, said: "She would not have just laid down and died."
Kim was studying at Hartlepool College of Further Education, with the hope of one day becoming a child psychologist and going to university.
The teenager was well-known on the Central Estate, where her mother Paula Hanley and two younger brothers, Christian and Ryan lived.
While she stayed with them some of the time, she mainly lived with her grandparents in the Middleton Road area of Hartlepool.
Popular with friends, family and neighbours, everyone the Mail spoke to said they had no idea why someone would want to kill her.
Lauren added: "She had no enemies, so I think she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"Why would anyone want to kill her, she was only 16?"

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Hartlepool Today

20 April 2005

Andrew Bayston, headteacher of Kim's former school, St Hild's in the Headland, paid tribute to the teenager, who was awarded the school's learning mentor's prize in December last year for her dedication in studying prior to her GCSEs.
He said: "It was with both sadness and shock that we heard the news of Kimberley's death.
"Staff and pupils will remember her as a lively and popular girl who did well at St Hild's.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends."

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/grimsby.trawlers/h.htm

Lost Fishermen

GY.1326 Henrietta

T. Bage died 30th August 1934

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The Proceedings of the Old Bailey

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, 31 April 2004), April 1783, trial of George Bage (t17830430-25).

Web-site;-  http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/html_units/1780s/t17830430-24.html

George Bage and Jane Brown were again indicted for feloniously stealing on the 11th of April last, one woollen blanket, value 5s.............

George Bage transported for seven years.

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Just leave me alone

May 12 2005

Sarah Stack, Evening Gazette

A disabled man stabbed, assaulted and robbed in less than three years has been targeted again by mindless yobs on Teesside.

Cerebral palsy sufferer Kenneth Bage - who is also deaf and speechless - is fed up with coming under attack.

The latest assault on the 44-year-old happened at 12.30pm last Thursday as he came out of a social services building in Ipswich Avenue, Park End, Middlesbrough.

He was taunted by two youngsters, aged about 12 or 13, who pushed him from his Honda scooter.

Speaking through a signer, Mr Bage told the Gazette: "I am not sure if they were trying to steal the bike or just being cheeky. They had been sitting on a rail between two parked cars, as if they were waiting for me."

It is the second time Mr Bage, who lives in Brambles Farm, has been pushed off his bike outside the offices, but the fourth time he has been attacked.

In December 2002, Mr Bage was stabbed in the back with a screwdriver as he walked home from a night out in Middlesbrough. He suffered a punctured lung and needed surgery following the late night assault on Cargo Fleet Lane.

He has also been beaten up and robbed in the town's Zetland Road, and has had two previous scooters stolen, the first from his shed and the second from outside a friend's house.

Mr Bage continued: "I am frightened, but I still have to go out, what else can I do?

"I am fed up. It seems to be me that gets picked on all the time. I have had it up to here and want them to leave me alone."

Mr Bage can walk short distances but has always relied on his bike to get about. His moped is currently off the road needing £250 worth of repairs. Mr Bage also has pay for the damage caused to a parked car which he was pushed in to.

Social worker Penny Sowerby, who meets Mr Bage weekly at Middlesbrough Deaf Centre, on Park Road South, blasted his attackers.

She said: "The people who do this are cruel and cowardly. They obviously watch him, can see he is disabled and pick on a vulnerable man.

"Kenneth is very trusting and friendly but he is also very brave because he doesn't let these attacks stop him.

" He doesn't count himself as a victim but sees them as having a problem."

The thugs responsible for the most recent attack both wore dark coloured hooded tops and one was wearing a baseball cap.

* Any witnesses or anyone with information on the identity of the youths, is urged to call PC Ian Lambert of Berwick Hills police on 01642 326326.

Disabled victim is an inspiration

 May 17 2005

By Evening Gazette

We would like to comment on the case of Kenneth Bage (Just Leave Me Alone, 12.5.05). We have read some horrendous articles in the Gazette over the past few months of people being killed, pensioners and disabled being mugged and beaten up. No one is safe. We know drugs and drink play a very big part in these incidents.

Kenneth Bage has suffered a series of assaults in under three years. This disabled man has been stabbed, he has been beaten up and robbed and has had two scooters stolen. What a society we live in.

Mr Bage has had enough to cope with in life and we admire his courage. He said he doesn't count himself as a victim - but sees them as having the problem. If this is not courage, we don't know what is.

RON and VIVIEN CARTER-BONSTEEL, Thorntree, Middlesbrough

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Hartlepool online

Kim death: Inquest opens

AN inquest into the death of stab victim Kimberley Bage has been opened.

Gordon Hetherington, deputy Hartlepool Coroner, formally opened the hearing at the town’s Civic Centre, in Victoria Road. Kimberley, 16, known as Kim, was found dead at the Troutpool Close home, in the town’s Central Estate, of her mother, Paula Hanley, on Friday, April 15. At yesterday’s hearing her father Christopher Bage, 38, confirmed the victim was his daughter. Mr Hetherington released Kim’s body to allow the family to make funeral arrangements The teenager, who left St Hild’s School, in King Oswy Drive, last year, was believed to have been staying at her mother’s terraced house while her own flat, in Joicey Court, off Murray Street, was being refurbished. Hartlepool man Paul Andrew Knappett, 29, of Wentworth Grove, Clavering, has been charged with her murder and has been remanded in custody, to reappear at Teesside Crown Court for a plea and directions hearing during late August or early September

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WALE OF A TIME FOR GOLD NATALIE

A YOUNG Hartlepool army cadet has struck gold in a home nations cross-country meet.

A YOUNG Hartlepool army cadet has struck gold in a home nations cross-country meet. Henry Smith's pupil Natalie Wale represented the North East at Lancaster University in the National Championships of the Army Cadet Force (ACF) and came home ahead of 60 other competitors in the junior category's 2.5 mile race.
Natalie of Whitrout Road, King Oswy, said: "It was brilliant. I can't believe how well I ran and I won by quite a large gap.
"Now I'm thinking about taking up athletics more regularly and I'm thinking about joining an athletics club."
The 14-year-old joined the Owton Manor detachment of the ACF in September and after successful cross-country trials she ran in the county championships at Berwick three weeks ago.
First place in the Scottish border race automatically included her in the Nationals last weekend at Lancaster.
Natalie's mum Julie Bage was just as delighted for her daughter and she believed her success was good for the Territorial Army as a whole.
"Natalie has done really well and for her to win this competition when she has only just started to run is great," said Mrs Bage.
"It is also good for the TA because it gives the centre on Easington Road a good name and it will hopefully help attract more youngsters."

25 March 2000

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Wenlock Bage

I found this extract on the following web-site but don't know anymore about it;-

http://medlicott.uk.com/fam/13_supplement.htm

In regards to Mr William Medlicott's suggestion, based on the similarity of the coats of arms and that the correct spelling may be "Meirion" thus identifying Sir Roger with the descendants of Merion grandson of Cunedda, Lewis's topographical dictionary of Wales has this to say about Merionethshire :-
"This Cantref recieved its appellation from its having been the portion of Merion grandson of Cunedda, the latter a Prince of North Britain who came into North Wales in the fifth century to rescue it from some Irish invaders and having succeeded in its enterprise, he divided the recovered territory among his sons and grandsons."

Any connection of our family with all this is of course pure speculation. I prefer Mr William Medlicott's second suggestion that the name was derived from the ancient British name of Wenlock Bage which was in fact "Llan Meirion." Sir Roger de Meirion would then be a place name.

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http://www.dorset-opc.com/SymondsburyMarriages1558-1812.htm 

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Newton News Online Thursday, March 23

Flight Sergeant Peter Bage and former Flight Sergeant Nick Sloane from 1407 (Newton Aycliffe) Squadron Air Cadets attended a presentation ceremony at St. James's Palace in London to receive their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Awards.

They were presented with their certificates by the explorer and mountaineer David Templeman-Adams and spoke with His Royal Highness, Prince Phillip.

To complete their awards they both worked on the squadron helping to train younger cadets for their Bronze awards and teaching the ATC syllabus.

Peter travelled to Germany for his residential project and Nick attended an ATC Summer camp, both carrying out NCO duties.

Their expedition in the Lake District was marked by some of the wettest weather for months even by Lakes standards! Although the sun finally shone as they finished the last days walking over Cat Bells.

All cadets follow an approved syllabus of lectures whilst in the Corps and both Peter and Nick successfully passed all their exams gaining them BTec awards in Aviation Studies for their Skill section. Nick is now studying for a degree in Aeronautical Engineering at Manchester University.

The squadron currently has 32 cadets working for various levels of the Award, more than any other in Durham/Northumberland Wing. The cadets also have the opportunity to go flying, gliding, shooting, climbing and much more. If anyone aged 13 to 20 is interested in joining please contact the squadron on Monday or Thursday evenings 7.00-9.30pm at the Barnard Armoury, Greenwell Road, Newton Aycliffe.

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17/04/06

South Tyneside Today website;-

From Defence News 10/04/06 Article about Crazy golf course;-

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/PeopleInDefence/BritishTroopsBuildIraqsFirstCrazyGolfCourse.htm 

"There's a volleyball court on the base, but most of the sports facilities, like the football pitches, are dominated by the boys. So in the evenings it’s good to come in here and see groups of girls playing."

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