Pritchard and Edmunds Family History
Pagden Family Page
My husband' grandmother, Helen Dorothea Pagden was born on the 16th January 1877 in Epsom, Surrey to Robert and Catherine Pagden. Her parents were first cousins, both Pagdens. Robert Pagden was a brewer and also lived for a number of years in Nuwara Eliya,Ceylon. The Pagdens had eleven other chuildren all of whom survived into adulthood.
Helen Pagden married the Rev.Claud Edmunds on the 16th April 1910 at St.Peters Church, Colombo.
Arthur Sampson Pagden was the eldest son. Much of my information on him is taken from his obituary which reads...
" Arthur Sampson Pagden, C.M.G. ... of the Ceylon Civil Service died in Exmouth on July 16th 1942.
Born on September 9, 1858 the was the son of the late Mr. R.Pagden. He was educated at Wellington, where he was a scholar and at King's College, Cambridge where he was also a scholar. In 18? he graduated with a first class in the Classical Tripos, being eighth in order of merit and in the same year was a member of the university's shooting viii at Wimbledon. Entering the Ceylon Civil Service in 1881, he held many posts, which included those of chairman of the Municipal Council, Colombo, 1901-05, principal assistant colonial secretary 1905-6, and Postmaster-General 1907-13. and Controller of Revenue in 1913 when he was also a member of the Legislative and Executive Councils in 1916, 1918, and 1919 he acted as Colonial Secretary, was made CMG in 1917 and retired in 1920. In 1900 he married Frances Emma Beatrice the daughter of Mr. K.H.James of Pembridge Square, W.According to the "Pagden Family Tree" by Duncan Gordan, Arthur was very musical and enjoyed tuning in to continental orchestral music. He described his fiancee, Frances James,as 'coming into a room like a ray of sunshine'. They married in1900.
Mabel Catherine Pagden, the eldest daughter married James Yonge Woollcombe.
Her younger sister Olive married Duncan Gordon, a deputy commissioner to the Shan States in Burma. She spoke and read three European languages. She loved the life in Burma and related how she moved house on an elephant. She taught English in Switzerland while Lewis, her son, attended the Swiss kindergarten "Mont joi" in Lausanne. They later moved to Berkhamstead.
The Pagden family roots in Wilmington and Chiddingly,Sussex, have been researched by Sue Ginman and can be found at her website. She intends to publish a book in the future.
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Pagden Gallery A selection of family portraits from a family history compiled by Lewis Gordon
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