PACES in NORTHUMERLAND, UK
north/east England, adjacent to Scotland, extending above HADRIAN's WALL
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PACE OF CORBRIDGE, NORTHUMBERLAND, UK
15 mi. west of Newcastle upon Tyne
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998
from: Gilbert Raymond gilr@xtra.co.nz
I have Pace's in my ancestry, fairly early in the piece.
MARY PACE b. circa 1665, daughter of ROBERT PACE of AYDON CASTLE, CORBRIDGE, NORTHUMBERLAND, UK married JOHN SHARP of CORBRIDGE on 9 February 1691 at Corbridge.
Mary is a direct ancestor. I have information about others of the Pace surname of Corbridge, but how precisely they relate to one another, I am not sure.
Does this fall within your area of interest?
I am looking foreward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Gil Raymond - New Zealand
E-MAIL Gilbert RAYMOND
William PACE
Spouse: Margaret SHARPE
Marriage: 7 Oct 1637 All Saints, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Mary PACE
Spouse: John SHARPE
Marriage: 9 Feb 1691 Corbridge, Northumberland
NOTE....I'd like to mention, a ROBERT PACE who married ELEANOR LYDIA SPRAGGON
(born 14 Feb 1814, Jarrow Co. Durham) at Sunderland on 8 August
1831, is being researched. I am afraid that is all the information that I have about this particular Robert. He does not appear to match any of my lot in Northumberland. If any of your correspondents are researching this
couple, I would be happy to pass on the address of this person.
Regards,
Gil Raymond
for this - refer to descendent's posting
on PACE Forum
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EARLIEST
PACE ANCESTOR
My earliest proven Pace ancestor was Gawin PACE, 'lanius de
Mearsford'(lanius being butcher). He was of the PACE family of Aydon
Castle and Corbridge, in Northumberland, England. But before him in 1317 John 'PAGE' in a gang of bandits at Aydon Castle with the company of Gilbert de Middleton seized the castle. In 1336 Robertus PAGE of Thornbrough, a hamlet near Corbridge, was listed on the Subsidy Roll at 5 shillings.
Gawin PACE was buried in Ponteland in June 1609. He had two known children:
- Isabella who married Jeffrey Aitchison at Ponteland in
November 1614
- and Thomas PACE who married Jane Aitchison (Jeffrey's
sister?) - a month later at Ponteland in December 1614.
Thomas who was born circa 1590 had several children: Simon who died in
1699; John baptised 1616; Gawin bapt. 1620; Mary and Susanna bapt. 15
September 1621, and Robert PACE of Aydon Castle born circa 1633. Robert
paid hearth tax in 1664 at Aydon. He married a Barbary - - - - - of New
Riding.
Robert PACE had 6 known children:John of Great Whittington; Richard
bapt. 1658; Edward bapt. 1663 who married Elizabeth Moffitt in 1689;
Elizabeth bapt. 1667, Lyonell bapt. 1672 who married Frances Shield in
1704; and Mary PACE, my direct ancestor, born circa 1660, who married
John SHARP of Great Whittington in 1691.
An historical note: On Sept 1703, Robert Troutbeck, Vicar, called on
Catherine Bell, Margaret Urwin, Isabel Todd, Margaret Wilson and "Mary
Sharp' when Richard Gibson tried to serve a warrant for debt on William
Todd. They 'fell on him, some by the hand, others by his legges,
cloaths and other parts of his body, took him and dragged him and some
of them by his cravat had so far strangled him that he was left
speechless and almost dead'.
I don't know what lesson we can learn from that little episode except,
perhaps, always to wear a clip-on bow tie when serving warrants.
These Paces may sound a little rough, but remember that while Southern
England lived in relative peace and waxed fat, the Borderers lived on a
battlefield, a waste land, for almost 300 years, from the late 13th
century to the middle of the 16th. If they grew up hard they ample
cause. These were the people from whom sprang the reivers, the riding
families. And the reivers gave the English language the words, bereaved
and bereft and blackmail, which had a different meaning from the one it
has today -- it was more like a protection racket. And they instituted
the 'deadly feid' - deadly feud - long before the Hatfields and McCoys
were ever heard of.
I hope you didn't mind the little bit of history from my mother's
county, Northumberland, and the turbulent PACEs who are among my early
ancestors.
Gil Raymond,
Wellington,
New Zealand
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