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Robert Bage Family Tree

Descendants of Robert Bage

Generation No. 1

1. ROBERT2 BAGE (GEORGE1) was born 29 Feb 1728 in Darley, St Alkmonds, Derbyshire, and died 01 Sep 1801 in Tamworth, Staffs.. He married ELIZABETH WOOLLEY 03 Aug 1751 in Mackworth, Derbyshire, daughter of MR WOOLLEY. She died Aft. 1801.

Marriage Notes for ROBERT BAGE and ELIZABETH WOOLLEY:
Derbyshire: - Registers of Marriages, 1538-1813 Marriages. 
Marriages at Mackworth, 1603 to 1812. Volume 3. County: Derbyshire Country: England 
Robert Bage, of Derby, & Elizabeth Woolley, of Mickleover 03 Aug 1751 


Children of ROBERT BAGE and ELIZABETH WOOLLEY are:
i. Another 3 BAGE.
2. ii. CHARLES WOOLLEY BAGE, b. 1751, St Chad's, Shrewsbury, Shropshire; d. 30 Dec 1822, St Chad's, Shrewsbury, Shropshire; Stepchild.
iii. ELIZABETH BAGE, b. 1752, Derby, Derbyshire.
3. iv. EDWARD BAGE, b. 01 Jan 1755, Elford, Staffs; d. 1822.
v. JOHN BAGE, b. 28 Oct 1758, Elford, Staffs; d. 1793.


Generation No. 2

2. CHARLES WOOLLEY3 BAGE (ROBERT2, GEORGE1) was born 1751 in St Chad's, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and died 30 Dec 1822 in St Chad's, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. His first wife died 1806. He married ANN HARDING 10 Jan 1809 in St Peter's, Derby, Derbyshire. She was born 1786 in Tamworth, Staffordshire.

Notes for CHARLES WOOLLEY BAGE:
A letter written by Bage to William Strutt from the Buxton Centre Hotel provides an insight into his mind: “So here I am, enjoying idleness and perfect vacuity of mind. I hardly understand the satisfaction you take in continual labour of mind, and since you are ambitious of continuing in this world as long as you can, you should not work on the machine too hard, but give it occasionally a little relaxation oil.” 

Bage’s correspondence with Strutt shows that he held radical views. Writing in 1818 during the period of Lord Liverpool’s “repressive” Tory administration, he was concerned “that Government is becoming everyday more and more absolute, and in the end Parliament will be either discontinued or merely complying and adulatory like the old Roman Senate.” One letter shows that he did not lean as far as the Unitarians, Strutt, Marshall and the Benyons in supporting the amelioration of working-class conditions. 
Bage believed that stimulating working-class improvement would encourage unrest and lead to more repressive legislation. Like his father, Robert, the “Jacobin novelist”, Charles Bage was a political radical. He was not a social paternalist like several nonconformist industrialists of the early nineteenth century. Nevertheless, Bage was involved in establishing a Lancasterian school for local poor children in Shrewsbury. 

Bage was active in other local enterprises. He established the first gas company in Shrewsbury and served as mayor of the town. He died in 1822 and was buried in the graveyard of St Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury.

After Bage left his partnership with the Benyons in 1815, he built a new smaller steam-powered factory to weave linen cloth at Kingsland in Shrewsbury. The mill was a single-storey structure and employed up to 70 workers. It was built of brick and may not have used the iron-framed construction which Bage applied at Ditherington and Castlefields. As it was a single storey building, an iron fire proof construction was not necessary to support upper floors. Bage tried to develop a power loom for weaving linen. He wrote to Strutt: “Being no longer a spinner, and having little else to do, I have been constructing a loom on a plan quite new, and am about to try it with four horse power. Linen has not 
been advantageously wove with by power looms, and having the weakness of other projectors, I flatter myself I shall succeed better.” He did not succeed in producing a viable power loom.

Following Bage’s death in 1822, the factory was run by his widow, Ann, but the business went bankrupt in 1827. A local advertisement listed the contents for sale in the mill which included a four horse-power steam engine, a variety of power and hand-operated looms. 
In 1829, Thomas Burr, a local entrepreneur, bought the building from Ann Bage. A London plumber by trade, he moved to Shrewsbury in 1813 and patented Burr’s Lead Squirting Press in 1820 which revolutionised the production of lead pipes. The Kingsland factory site was developed as a lead manufactory.

More About CHARLES WOOLLEY BAGE:
Occupation: 1807, Mayor of Shrewsbury

More About ANN HARDING:
Residence: 1851, Living with daughter Caroline and her husband Charles Evans

Children of CHARLES BAGE and ANN HARDING are:
i. MARY4 BAGE, b. 08 Nov 1809, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
ii. CHARLES BAGE, b. 10 Dec 1811, St Chad's, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

More About CHARLES BAGE:
Christening: 13 Feb 1812, St Chad's, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

4. iii. ROBERT BAGE, b. 06 Aug 1813, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; d. 28 Jul 1851, Naples, Italy - Old Protestant Cemetery.
5. iv. EDWARD BAGE, b. 08 Jun 1816, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; d. 1890, Melbourne, Australia.
6. v. CAROLINE MARIANNE BAGE, b. 01 May 1819, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
7. vi. WILLIAM BAGE, b. 31 Dec 1820, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; d. 1887, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales.


3. EDWARD3 BAGE (ROBERT2, GEORGE1) was born 01 Jan 1755 in Elford, Staffs, and died 1822. He married EDITH BOURNE 01 Sep 1785 in Hints (Source: (1) Hints Marriages 1558 to 1812., (2) I.G.I..). She died Abt. 1842 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

More About EDWARD BAGE:
Occupation: Surgeon and apothecary
Will: See Will Document

Children of EDWARD BAGE and EDITH BOURNE are:
8. i. EMMA4 BAGE, b. 1787, Tamworth, Staffordshire.
ii. MARY BAGE, b. Abt. 1786; m. SAMUEL TEFFLOY HARDING, 27 Apr 1808, St Chad's, Shrewsbury, Shropshire (Source: I.G.I..).
iii. ROBERT CHARLES BAGE, b. 1789, Tamworth, Staffordshire.


Generation No. 3

4. ROBERT4 BAGE (CHARLES WOOLLEY3, ROBERT2, GEORGE1) was born 06 Aug 1813 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (Source: I.G.I..), and died 28 Jul 1851 in Naples, Italy - Old Protestant Cemetery. He married LYDIA C O'REILLY, daughter of CAARLOS O' REILLY. 

Notes for ROBERT BAGE:
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.

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.
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

More About ROBERT BAGE:
Occupation: Surgeon
Residence: 1851, 260 Riviera di Chiaz a Naples

Notes for LYDIA C O'REILLY:
Extract from Mary Charlotte Bage's Letters
Thursday 24th October 1889.
This morning when we looked out of our porthole we saw Vesuvius smoking in the distance. It looked just as we expected it to look as it is very familiar to us in pictures. Soon after breakfast Mr. Holmes came on board & we got our luggage together & the guide got it into the boat & we rowed off to the custom house where it was soon passed & we all got into a carriage & drove through the crowded streets & up the steep hill of Capodimonte where we had to pass another custom house & at last arrived at Villa Bage where we were verily heartily welcomed by Edward’s Aunt Lydia, Mrs. Whyte. We had lunch early & then walked round the pretty little garden & admired the lovely view & the fine orange plants & the enormous camellia bushes in the garden. We then went over the farm & saw the poor cows that never go out of their stables & the orchard with many kinds of fruit trees with vines climbing up every tree & trained across from one to the other, & with crops of grain growing between the trees.


Children of ROBERT BAGE and LYDIA O'REILLY are:
i. CHARLES EDWARD5 BAGE, b. 28 Feb 1848, Naples, Italy; d. 10 Apr 1886, Spezia, Italy - Naples, Italy - Old Protestant Cemetery.

More About CHARLES EDWARD BAGE:
Residence: 1861, Visitor at 13 Sutherland Gardens, Paddington

ii. CATHERINE LYDIA BAGE, b. 1849; d. 29 Jan 1855, Naples, Italy - Old Protestant Cemetery.
9. iii. ANNE SARAH BAGE, b. Aft. 1849.


5. EDWARD4 BAGE (CHARLES WOOLLEY3, ROBERT2, GEORGE1) was born 08 Jun 1816 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (Source: I.G.I..), and died 1890 in Melbourne, Australia. He married ANNA NEWSOM GODWIN 1850 in Sierra Leone. She was born 1820, and died 1891.

Notes for EDWARD BAGE:
Details of the voyage on S.S. Great Britain;-
Captain B. R. MATHEWS; Port of Departure LIVERPOOL; Departure Date 11 Aug 1853; Port of Arrival MELBOURNE Arrival Date 16 Oct 1853
Amongst passengers;-
Bage Edward, Age 2; Bage Robert, Age 1; Bage Edward, Adult and Bage Anna, Adult.

After Sierra Leone he went to Australia in 1853 and as the gold rushes were on and qualified people were scarce he quickly got a job as government surveyor in Western Victoria. He remained there until the mid 1860s and then went to Melbourne where he did contract work for the Government and surveyed some suburbs in outer Melbourne.

Edward's appointment as an assistant surveyor in Victoria was on 1 November 1853, (Victorian Government Gazette) and he was based in Geelong until 1855 when he shifted to Colac.

The name Nillumbik was a district name, certainly referred to in the Government Gazette of 1840, and used as the name of the township by the surveyor, Edward Bage, when he surveyed the area in 1867.....................The first township of Nillumbik was surveyed by Edward Bage. He had been a Government Surveyor in Otway - Geelong District, but left the Government services about 1859, and worked on contracts. He moved to Melbourne in 1862, and in 1866 he took a contract to survey Nillumbik at Diamond Creek for the Government. This work was done in 1866-67...................................................On the 23rd November, 1867, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, arrived in Victoria to lay the foundation stone of the Melbourne Town Hall, and a procession was made along Queen Street. Edward Bage , who had the plan of Nillumbik lying on his desk in his office in Queen Street, turned round to his plan and put the street names on it, such as Alfred Street, Edinburgh Street. The ship on which the Prince travelled was the "Galatea", so Galatea Street was also included. The Commander-in-Chief of Victorian Armed Forces, who was travelling with the Prince, was Major General Sir Trevor Chute, K.C.B., hence Chute Street. Lt.-Col. Hyde Page, who was the Deputy Quarter Master General, was with the Prince also, so Hyde Street. Watkins Street was named after the man who owned the land on the original plan.


More About EDWARD BAGE:
Occupation: Assistant Engineer and Surveyor

Children of EDWARD BAGE and ANNA GODWIN are:
10. i. EDWARD5 BAGE, b. 1851, Sierra Leone; d. Jul 1891, St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
ii. ROBERT TERRY BAGE, b. 1852, At sea; d. 1873, Melbourne, Australia.
iii. WILLIAM BAGE, b. 1855, Geelong, Australia.
11. iv. CHARLES BAGE, b. 07 Oct 1859, Colac, Australia; d. 07 Dec 1930.


6. CAROLINE MARIANNE4 BAGE (CHARLES WOOLLEY3, ROBERT2, GEORGE1) was born 01 May 1819 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (Source: I.G.I..). She married EDWARD EVANS JUNIOR 1842 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: (1) FreeBMD 26 415, (2) St Catherines Index 26 415). He was born 1813 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: 1851 Wales Census.).

More About CAROLINE MARIANNE BAGE:
Christening: 06 Oct 1819, St Chad's, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

More About EDWARD EVANS JUNIOR:
Occupation: Surgeon
Residence: 1851, 5 Cuckherbtown, Cardiff, Wales

Children of CAROLINE BAGE and EDWARD JUNIOR are:
i. EDWARD CHARLES5 EVANS, b. 1843; d. Bef. 1844.
ii. EDWARD CHARLES EVANS, b. 1844, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: 1851 Wales Census.).

More About EDWARD CHARLES EVANS:
Occupation: 1851, Scholar

iii. ROBERT BAGE EVANS, b. 1845, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: 1851 Wales Census.); d. 1865, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: St Catherines Index.).

More About ROBERT BAGE EVANS:
Occupation: 1851, Scholar

iv. CAROLINE MARTHA EVANS, b. 1847, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: 1851 Wales Census.).
v. GERTRUDE EVANS, b. 1850, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: 1851 Wales Census.); m. WILLIAM BAGE; b. Abt. 1850.

More About GERTRUDE EVANS:
Residence: 1871, Living with uncle

12. vi. ARTHUR GEORGE EVANS, b. 1853, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales; d. 1882, Bedwelty.


7. WILLIAM4 BAGE (CHARLES WOOLLEY3, ROBERT2, GEORGE1) was born 31 Dec 1820 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (Source: 1881 Wales Census.), and died 1887 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: St Catherines Index 11a 183). He married HARRIETT EVANS 1862 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: St Catherines Index 11a 283). She was born 1824 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: 1881 Wales Census.), and died 1913 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: St Catherines Index 11a 350).

Notes for WILLIAM BAGE:

http://www.direct-resources.uk.com/cardiff.htm

570 Bage W & co Coal owner & coal merchant Docks Bute st 064 

697 Bage Wm & co Agent Eagle fire & life Docks Bute st 064

1166 Bage W & co Ship & insurance broker Docks Bute st 064

More About WILLIAM BAGE:
Occupation: 1881, Retired Civil Engineer
Residence: 1881, 1 Herbert Terrace

Children of WILLIAM BAGE and HARRIETT EVANS are:
i. EMILY CAROLINE5 BAGE, b. 1863, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: 1881 Wales Census.); d. 1953, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: St Catherines Index 8b 261).
ii. FRANCES GERTRUDE BAGE, b. 1865, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: (1) 1881 Wales Census., (2) FreeBMD 11A 227); d. 1932, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: St Catherines Index 11a 405).
iii. ADELINE (ADA) MARY BAGE, b. 1867, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: (1) 1881 Wales Census., (2) FreeBMD 11a 247); d. 1940, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Source: St Catherines Index 11a 481).


8. EMMA4 BAGE (EDWARD3, ROBERT2, GEORGE1) was born 1787 in Tamworth, Staffordshire. She married THOMAS SUTTON 20 Mar 1810 in St Chad's, Shrewsbury, Shropshire (Source: (1) I.G.I.., (2) Pallot's Marriage Index for England: 1780 - 1837.). 

Children of EMMA BAGE and THOMAS SUTTON are:
i. ELLEN5 SUTTON.
ii. MARY SUTTON.
iii. EDITH SUTTON.

Generation No. 4

9. ANNE SARAH5 BAGE (ROBERT4, CHARLES WOOLLEY3, ROBERT2, GEORGE1) was born Aft. 1849. She married EDWARD WILLIAM BONHAM 07 Nov 1865. 

Child of ANNE BAGE and EDWARD BONHAM is:
i. WALTER FLOYD6 BONHAM, b. 03 Jan 1869.


10. EDWARD5 BAGE (EDWARD4, CHARLES WOOLLEY3, ROBERT2, GEORGE1) was born 1851 in Sierra Leone, and died Jul 1891 in St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He married MARY CHARLOTTE LANGE, daughter of FREDERICK LANGE and ANNIE RICHARDSON. She was born Abt. 1863, and died 1931 in Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Notes for MARY CHARLOTTE LANGE:
Bage, Edward (Mrs) fl 1889 

Diary describes journey undertaken by Mrs Bage, her husband, Edward, and children, from Australia to England on board the `Ionic' and then the `Coptic'. Diary comments on time spent in Christchurch, visiting friends in England and tour on to Europe and the Middle East.

Extracts from the Diary;-
Thursday 29th 1889 
We left Blaenau Festiniog at 10 A.M. & went by train past Bala & the Llangollen valley (which Queen Victoria visited a few days ago) to Shrewsbury. We went first to the Raven Hotel in Castle Street & after lunch went to see the house (Murivance) in which Edward’s father was born. It belongs to Mr. John Watton & we saw his daughter, a cousin of Miss Adeline Watton, whom we met three years ago. We were allowed to go into the pretty old garden in front of the house. We afterwards took a carriage & drove to see St. Chad’s Church, The Old Abbey Church, Lord Hill’s Monument, & St Mary’s Cathedral, & to order a photograph of Murivance to be taken to send to Grandpapa as Miss Watton had allowed us to have the house photographed.

We left Shrewsbury at 12.30 & after passing through lovely pastoral country we arrived at Cardiff soon after 3 o’clock. We were met at the railway station by Mr. Charles Evans the brother of Edward’s Aunt & drove at once to Tredegar Road. We were heartily welcomed by Edward’s Aunt Mrs. William Bage & her three daughters Emily, Frances & Ada. During the afternoon Mrs. Bage’s sister Mrs. Payne called to see us.

Saturday 28th September 1889
This morning Edward & I left Slough at nine o’clock intending to go to Hertford but by the time we reached the Liverpool St. station the headache which had been troubling me since early morning became so violent that I was obliged to go to the hotel at the station & go to bed. Edward went to the British Museum & spent several hours there. Among other books he was interested in a novel written by Robert Bage his great-grandfather.


Children of EDWARD BAGE and MARY LANGE are:
i. ANNA FREDERICKA (FREDA)6 BAGE, b. 11 Apr 1883, East St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; d. 23 Oct 1970, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Notes for ANNA FREDERICKA (FREDA) BAGE:
BAGE, ANNA FREDERIKA (1883-1970), university teacher, was born on 11 April 1883 at St Kilda, Victoria, daughter of Edward Bage, wholesale chemist, and his wife Mary Charlotte, née Lange. When her father, a junior partner in Felton, Grimwade & Co., died in July 1891 his widow took the three children to England where she enrolled them in the Oxford High School for girls. Returning to Melbourne in 1894, Freda went to Fairlight School. Inspired by her father's amateur scientific interests, she entered Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne, in 1901, and after failing first year graduated B.Sc. in 1905 and M.Sc. with second-class honours in 1907. She then worked as a junior demonstrator in biology, sharing the MacBain Research Scholarship in 1907 and winning a Victorian government research scholarship in 1908. Next year she read two papers to the Royal Society of Victoria, then went to England on a King's College, London, research scholarship; her work under A. Dendy in 1910-11 led to a fellowship of the Linnean Society. Returning to the University of Melbourne as senior demonstrator, she was appointed lecturer in charge of biology at the University of Queensland in 1913, and became first principal of The Women's College within that university on 8 February 1914.

Miss Bage travelled widely in Queensland on official visits to encourage women to attend the university and to gain rural support for her college. From 1914 she drove and serviced a car, and competed in hill-climbs and reliability trials despite assertions that she was unladylike. As a biologist interested in fauna and flora she became president of the Field Naturalists' Club in 1915 and was a foundation member of the Barrier Reef committee. She was a member of the university senate in 1923-50.

Freda Bage's extra-mural interests were wide. In World War I she was a member of the Queensland recruiting committee and in both wars was president of university women's war work groups. Later she was honorary treasurer and vice-president of the State branch of the Australian League of Nations Union and in 1926 and 1938 she was sent to Geneva as a substitute delegate to the League of Nations Assembly. She was an original member of the National Art Galleries' Association, the Twelfth Night Theatre and the Brisbane Repertory Society. A hockey enthusiast, she managed the first hockey team in Australia to travel interstate, from Melbourne to Adelaide in 1908, and was president of the Queensland Women's Hockey Association in 1925-31.

Miss Bage was always interested in women's organizations and activities, being honorary secretary of the National Council of Women, Queensland, for some years and president of the Women's Club in 1916, and the Lyceum Club, Brisbane, in 1922-23. In particular the organization of university women concerned her and she took the lead in forming the Queensland Women Graduates' Association (later the Queensland Association of University Women). She was president of the Australian Federation of University Women in 1928-29, and represented it at several overseas conferences of the International Federation of University Women; as a tribute to her work the A.F.U.W. established a Freda Bage scholarship. Appointed O.B.E. in 1941, she retired in 1946 and the university conferred an honorary doctorate of laws on 26 April 1951. She died of cerebral arteriosclerosis in Brisbane on 23 October 1970, and was cremated with Anglican rites. Her estate was sworn for probate at $59,566: beside numerous personal legacies, it provided scholarships in Melbourne as memorials to her brother and funds for Melbourne and Queensland universities and their women's colleges.

A forerunner of women in public life in Queensland, Freda Bage was an unpretentious person despite her strong personality. Her portrait by William Dargie hangs in The Women's College, University of Queensland.

Her brother Edward Frederic Robert, born on 17 April 1888, graduated in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1910, worked in the Queensland Railways, then joined the regular army. He served with distinction on the Mawson Antarctic expedition in 1910-13, joined the Australian Imperial Force in 1914 and as a captain, second-in-command of the 3rd Field Company of Engineers, was killed in action at Gallipoli in May 1915. His mother founded a commemorative engineering scholarship at the University of Melbourne in 1917.

A sister Ethel Mary (1884-1943), M. A., achieved some notice in 1926 by accepting management of a garage in Kew, Victoria, to honour the memory of a friend, Alice Anderson, who had founded it.

Her uncle Charles, born on 7 October 1859 at Colac, Victoria, graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1881, practised in South Yarra till 1923 and, having been Alfred Felton's personal physician, served as a trustee of the Felton Bequest from 1904 and as chairman from 1910. He died on 7 December 1930. 


ii. ETHEL MARY BAGE, b. 1884, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; d. 1943, 1291 Christchurch.

Notes for ETHEL MARY BAGE:
Ethel Mary (1884-1943), M. A., achieved some notice in 1926 by accepting management of a garage in Kew, Victoria, to honour the memory of a friend, Alice Anderson, who had founded it.


National Archives of Australia;-
Ethel M Bage (Miss) Non A I F embarked for Australia per Aeneas on 22nd Nov 1919

From web-site;-
http://www.oup.com/pdf/0195142683_index.pdf

To Try Her Fortune In London

Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity
Angela Woollacott

From Index;-
Bage, Ethel p176

...............There is evidence that during World War I, British people came to identify "coo-ee" with the soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force. But Australian women used "coo-ee" too. For example, in June 1917, walking home alone along Baker Street in the West End one night, Dr. Vera Scantlebury went past the flat of her Melbourne friend Ethel Bage. Wanting to get her friend's attention, but not wanting to Knock and disturb the household because it was after 11 P.M., Scantlebury "coo-eed" and then called Ethel's name once.............

Vera Scantlebury Brown Papers, diary letters 1917 - 18, A3, p.53, University of Melbourne Archives.

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Home of the Blizzard, by Sir Douglas Mawson

www.gutenberg.net/etext04/blizz10.txt

... In this work I was aided by Professors Masson and David and by Miss Ethel Bage,
who throughout this busy period acted in an honorary capacity as secretary in ... 

.......................................

Entry for Anna Fredericka Bage in 'The Australian Dictionary of Biography 1891-1931', page 132

'A sister, Ethel Mary, (1884-1943) M.A., achieved some notice in 1926 by accepting management of a garage in Kew, Victoria, to honour the memory of a friend. Alice Anderson, who had founded it.'

Extract from the University of Melbourne web-site;-

In 1926, Webb travelled with a fellow member of the Lyceum Club, Alice Anderson, to central Australia. Anderson was the proprietor of a garage, chauffeur service and driving school in Kew, which employed only women mechanics and drivers. The pair travelled in a Baby Austin car, accomplishing the difficult journey to Alice Springs and back in six weeks.


iii. EDWARD FREDERICK ROBERT BAGE, b. 1888, East St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; d. 07 May 1915, Silt Spur, Gallipoli.

Notes for EDWARD FREDERICK ROBERT BAGE:
Edward Frederic Robert, born on 17 April 1888, graduated in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1910, worked in the Queensland Railways, then joined the regular army. He served with distinction on the Mawson Antarctic expedition in 1910-13, joined the Australian Imperial Force in 1914 and as a captain, second-in-command of the 3rd Field Company of Engineers, was killed in action at Gallipoli in May 1915. His mother founded a commemorative engineering scholarship at the University of Melbourne in 1917.

Captain, 3rd Field Company, Australian Engineers - Killed in action at Silt Spur, 7th May 1915, aged 27. Son of Edward and Mary Charlotte Bage. He lived in 'Cranford' East St. Kilda, Melbourne. He is buried at Beach Cemetery.

Robert was educated at the Church of England Grammar School and left with First Class Honours in 1904, and with a Warden's Scholarship to Trinity College, the University of Melbourne. He graduated from the University in 1910 with the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Engineering. On the social side, Robert took full part in University life, being Hon. Secretary of the Students' Representative Council. He also rowed in the Trinity College Eight.

He began his military career in 1909 as a Second Lieutenant with the Corps of Australian Engineers in Queensland, but transferred to the Royal Australian Engineers with the rank of Lieutenant in 1911. He was stationed at the Submarine Mining Station, Swan Island, and Victoria and for some time was in command of the Station.

In 1911 he obtained Leave without Pay and joined the Australian Antarctic Expedition under Sir Douglas Mawson as Astronomer, Assistant Magnetician and Recorder of Tides. He was with the Antarctic Expedition for two years and three months, and was one of the six volunteers who formed the relief party that was left in Antarctic for a second winter when Sir Douglas and his ill-fated companions failed to return to the winter quarters.

Robert Bage was the leader of the Southern Sledging Party, which accomplished a perilous journey of 600 miles. From this experience, he contributed a chapter to Sir Douglas Mawson's book ''The Home of the Blizzard''.

For his work in Antarctic, Lieutenant Bage was awarded the King's Polar Medal.

On mobilization Orders, issued in August, 1914, Robert took up duty at Port Phillip Heads. He volunteered for active service, and was appointed second in command of the 3rd Field Company (Engineer) with the rank of Captain and was killed at Gallipoli on May 7, 1915.

It was said of Robert Bage that he was one of the most promising young officers of the permanent forces and was very popular amongst both brother officers and the men under his command.

In 1916, his mother, Mrs Edward Bage, presented to the University of Melbourne a sum of One Thousand Pounds to create a Scholarship in memory of her son. The Robert Bage Scholarship is still being awarded some eighty-six years later. It is presented by the Faculty of Engineering to assist postgraduate students engaged in research.

It is interesting to note that an earlier edition of The Varsity Engineer contains a long letter from Captain Bage, written in 1911 when he was stationed in the Antarctic, which gives an account of the hazards and trials he was experiencing on that particular expedition.

(Source; Article by Editor, Helen Whyte in engineering@home for 2002 - Faculty of Engineering - Alumini)

Captain Edward Frederick Robert BAGE (King's Polar Medal), 3rd Field Coy. Aust. Engineers, AIF. Born East St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria. Single; Soldier / Officer of Australian Permanent Forces, of 'Cranford', Fulton Street, East St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria. Next of kin: Father; Edward Bage. Mother; Mary Charlotte Bage (nee Lange), of same address. Killed in action on Silt Spur, southern Anzac, on 7 May 1915, aged 27. Grave: Beach cemetery.

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BAGE Captain Edward Frederick Robert (King's Polar Medal)

3rd Field Company, Australian Engineers

Born 17 Apr 1888, in St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria
[Birth certificate: 1888 15976 St Kilda Vic]

Educated: Melbourne Church of England Grammar School; Trinity College, Melbourne University. B.Eng. (Civil) 1905 - 1910, Victoria.

Single; Soldier / Officer of Australian Permanent Forces, of Fulton Street, East St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria

Next of Kin listed as: Father; Edward Bage. Mother; Mary Charlotte Bage (nee Lange), of Cranford, Fulton Street, East St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria

Photos of Captain Bage are known to exist in the following locations: 
Anzac Memorial 1917 p256. University of Melbourne Record of Active Service p1.War Services of Old Melburnians 1914-18 p113. Argus 16 June 1915 p7*. Brisbane Daily Mail 19 Jun 1915 p13. Sydney Mail 23 Jun 1915 p30. Melbourne Punch 24 Jun 1915

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From www.anzacs.org 
2nd Lieutenant in Corps of Australian Engineers, Queensland, 1909. Transferred to Royal Australian Engineers as Lieutenant, 1911, submarine mining station, Swan Island, Victoria.

Astronomer, assistant magnetician and recorder of tides with Sir Douglas Mawson's 1911 Antarctic expedition. Stayed away two years and three months, as he was one of the six volunteers forming the relief party that was left in the Antarctic for a second winter when Mawson and his companions had failed to return to winter quarters on time. Lieutenant Bage contributed the chapter 'The Quest of the Southern Magnetic Pole' to Mawson's book 'The Home of the Blizzard.' Awarded the King's Polar Medal in 1915.

Took up duty at Port Phillip Heads in 1914, on return from Antarctica.
Appointed Captain, 3rd Field Company Engineers 18th October 1914. (War Services of Old Melburnians 1914-18 p66, 125).

Only son of the late Edward Bage, merchant, of Melbourne and Cranford, Fulton Street, East St. Kilda. Entered Melbourne Grammar School 1900, obtained Witherby scholarship, 1901. Left the school in 1904 with 1st class honours in physics at matriculation and a warden's scholarship to Trinity College, Melbourne. Obtained 1st Class honours in chemistry. Rowed in College Eight, and was honorary secretary of the Students' Representative Council. While in Antarctica was leader of the southern sledging party which accomplished a hazardous 600 mile journey. (Brisbane Daily Mail 19 Jun 1915 p13).

The toll that war is taking of our bravest and best is strikingly shown in the death of Captain E. F. R. Bage, states the Melbourne Argus. Here was a young man who before the war had enshrined his name in the book of Australian heroes. During the two and a quarter years he was away with the Mawson Antarctic Expedition he amply proved the fine temper of his courage and resolution. He was one of the choicest spirits of that gallant band, and at twenty-five years of age had crowded a world of romantic achievement into his life. Yet immediately war broke out he volunteered for service, and it was second in command of the 3rd Field Company engineers that he fell.

Killed while marking out a proposed new trench on the forward slope of Silt Spur, on the southern edge of the Lone Pine Plateau:
'At 3 in the afternoon Bage and Drake Brockman went out, eight men under Lieutenant Selby of the 11th accompanying them. ...It has been estimated that at least five machine-guns were directed upon them. Bage was hit first in the arm, then in the leg, and finally through the head, and killed; Selby and two others were wounded. Bage's body was left until dark, when at great risk one of the covering party, Lance-Corporal Joyce, and some men of the 11th, searched for and brought it in.' (Bean V2 p257 quoted, 258n. diagram p257).

'Captain Bage was killed by a bullet. Went out in front of firing line to mark out a trench and got picked off. It was only natural, very bad luck tho'. The enemy's guns killed a few men today,. Knocked up a couple of guns. Killed an artillery officer.' (Probert, Cpl. J.K. No. 1, 4 Section, 2nd Field Company, Engineers. Diaries. 7 May 1915).

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 'Official History of Australia in the War of 1914 - 1918', Vol. 11 The Story of Anzac by C. E. W. Bean;-

pages 257 - 259 ...........where it was required, he ordered that an officer of engineers should first go out in daylight and mark its line with pegs. At that moment there came up the trench Captain Bage, a regular officer of the Royal Australian Engineers, well known in the Commonwealth as a member of Mawson's Australasian expedition to the Antarctic. "Here's the man, cried Bridges, and directed Bage to make the survey.

To mark out such works was a traditional duty of military engineers; it would avoid unplanned digging, and Bridges did not ask of Bage more than he himself would have performed. Nevertheless the task could hardly have been more perilous. At 3 in the afternoon Bage and Drake Brockman went out, eight men under Lieutenant Selby of the 11th accompanying them. Crossing the head of the first valley - Allah Gully - they reached the crest of Silt Spur. Here Selby's men lay down in order to give covering fire, if necessary, while Bage, Drake Brockman, and two young sappers crawled down the fore-slope to mark the trench. The two officers, holding a stretched cord between them, had fixed the southern face of the proposed redoubt, and Bage was hammering in with a stone, the eastern peg, when the Turks at the head of the same knuckle, and also farther back on Lone Pine, 250 yards distant, opened fire. It has been estimated that at least five machine-guns were directed upon them. Bage was hit first in the arm, then in the leg, and finally through the head, and killed; Selby and two others were wounded. Bage's body was left until dark, when at great risk one of the covering party, Lance-Corporal Joyce, and some men of the 11th searched for and brought it in.

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Bage, Cape, Antarctica

A prominent point on the coast between Murphy Bay and Ainsworth Bay. Discovered in 1912 by the AAE (1911 - 14) under Douglas Mawson, who named it for Lt. R. Bage, the expedition's astronomer, assistant magnetician and recorder of tides. 

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11. CHARLES5 BAGE (EDWARD4, CHARLES WOOLLEY3, ROBERT2, GEORGE1) was born 07 Oct 1859 in Colac, Australia, and died 07 Dec 1930.

Notes for CHARLES BAGE:
Charles, born on 7 October 1859 at Colac, Victoria, graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1881, practised in South Yarra till 1923 and, having been Alfred Felton's personal physician, served as a trustee of the Felton Bequest from 1904 and as chairman from 1910. He died on 7 December 1930. 

Dr Charles Bage is mentioned in a book entitled 'Articles and Lectures' by F. Matthias Alexander;-
Dr Charles Bage (1859 - 1930). He obtained his medical degree in 1881 and became Doctor of Medicine in 1884. He ran a private practice in South Yarra, Melbourne, until 1923 and retired in 1925. Dr Bage was a founding member of the Felton Bequests (1904) - a trust assisting charities and the arts. He took a keen interest in the St. John Ambulance Association and the Red Cross. It was Dr Bage who treated Alexander for his throat trouble and who assured Alexander that two weeks' rest would cure his throat trouble before an important recital engagement, it was the failure of this advice which led Alexander on to the development of the Technique as recounted in "The Evolution of a Technique" in UoS. In a letter of appreciation of Alexander's work, Dr Bage wrote: "After a course of lessons from you, I am fully convinced that your confidence in the correctness of your methods is abundantly justified. The exercises you give not only improve the tone of the voice, but also lessen the strain of loud or continued speaking. In addition, they tend to benefit the general health by inducing good habits of breathing."

History of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences at Melbourne 
Biographical entry;-
Charles Bage was appointed University of Melbourne lecturer in therapeutics in 1917 when the lectureship in therapeutics, dietetics and hygiene was divided into therapeutics on the one hand and public health on the other.
Book by Charles Bage;-
Historical Record of the Felton Bequests from their inception to 31st December 1922. I.D.2119 Date 1923.

Ed;- I have purchased a copy of this old book, 'Historical Record of the Felton Bequests' compiled by Charles Bage M.A., M.D. Chairman Felton Bequests Committee. The book lists many art treasures which Alfred Felton collected. Alfred Felton was a Melbourne wholesale druggist and general merchant. He joined Mr. F. S. Grimwade, in 1866 in purchasing the business of Youngman & Co., wholesale druggists, thenceforth conducted under the name of Felton, Grimwade & Co. These men were extremely successful and must have been multi-millionaires eventually. Alfred Felton collected historical art and must have contributed greatly to Melbourne's art collection. Alfred Felton lived in the Esplanade Hotel, St Kilda.
In Mary Charlotte Bage's diary there is regular correspondence between several Grimwade's and Edward Bage;- Mary and Edward, in their travels, visit all the museums and art galleries in the towns and cities they visit. Often she makes comments on pictures. 
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In the entry for Anna Frederika Bage in The Australian Dictionary of Biography 1891-1931 it states that Frederika's Uncle, Charles, had been Alfred Felton's personal physician as well as serving as a trustee of the Felton Bequest from 1904 and the Chairman from 1910.

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Children of CHARLES BAGE are:
12i. JESSIE ELEANOR6 BAGE, b. South Yarra, Victoria, Australia.

Notes for JESSIE ELEANOR BAGE:
National Archives of Australia;-
Jessie E Bage (Miss) Non-member embarked for Australia per Ypiranga on 15th Nov 1919

Bage, Jessie Eleanor
OBE, OStJ
Social welfare
Born: South Yarra, Victoria, Australia. In 1935 Jessie Bage became the first woman appointed to the Royal Melbourne Hospital Management committee. Educated at Melbourne Church of England Girls Grammar School. Bage was a member of the school council. Jessie Bage House, which accommodates Year 12 students boarding students at the school, is named in her honour. For her service with a number of social welfare associations Jessie Bage was appointed an Officer to the Order of the British Empire on 2 January 1956.

Career Highlights
Chronology
1916 - 1920 Served with the Military Voluntary Aid Detachment in English and French Hospitals during World War 1

1921 - 1934 Honorary secretary of the Royal Melbourne Hospital Auxiliary


12ii. ALICE NEWSOM6 BAGE (CHARLES5, EDWARD4, CHARLES WOOLLEY3, ROBERT2, GEORGE1) was born 1893, and died 1957. She married UNKNOWN. 

More About ALICE NEWSOM BAGE:
Education: MA Univ Melb

Children of ALICE BAGE and UNKNOWN are:
i. FIRST7 UNKNOWN.
ii. SECOND UNKNOWN.
iii. THIRD UNKNOWN.
iv. FOURTH UNKNOWN.

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