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He married secondly on 26 December 1750, Jane Bond 'daughter of one
Godfrey', and widow of Henry Jermyn Bond, Esq. of Bury St. Edmunds. Her first husband Henry was a nephew (via his wife) of a Gage cousin, Sir William Gage, 2nd Baronet of Hengrave. Jane died without issue, shortly after Thomas, on 8
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Christenings, 1538-1975 ., database Ancestry.co.uk, subscription only, "William Hall Gaga, male, Born 6 Jan 1717, Baptized at Westminster, St James, Middlesex, England, 29 Mar 1717, Father, Thomas Gaga; Mother, Benedicta Maria Tereza", accessed 1 December
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528: : 13 September 2020), Benedicta Maria Theresa Hall Gage; Burial, Newland, Forest of Dean District, Gloucestershire, England, All Saints Churchyard; citing record ID 193467558, Find a Grave,
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disputes regarding windfall trees, soil rights, and manorial waste. Gage also spent considerable time collecting paintings which are still housed in the Long
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22:(c. 1695 – 21 December 1754) of High Meadow, Gloucestershire and later Firle Place, Sussex, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the
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1528:1754 deaths
1459:Henry Bushe
1287:Henry Warde
1274:John Skeete
1256:James Leith
1215:David Parry
1183:Samuel Rous
1171:Samuel Rous
1149:James Dotin
1143:Robert Byng
1138:Thomas Gage
1122:James Dotin
1105:James Dotin
1045:John Farmer
1016:Edwyn Stede
1004:John Witham
908:Philip Bell
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698:John Lumley
655:John Martin
637:John Martin
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1209:John Dotin
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1088:Samuel Cox
1081:John Frere
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129:Tewkesbury
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45:Early life
1479:John Stow
1414:James Hay
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