Miss Lucy Gage
(1835-1905)
19 February 1861

Volume 2, page 219, sitting number 2167.

Frances Louisa Gage and Lucy Amelia Gage were the daughters of Reverend Thomas Wentworth Gage and Lady Mary Elizabeth Douglas (daughter of Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensbury). Their father, who was Vicar of Higham Ferrers, died on 19 March 1837.

Frances Louisa Gage was baptised on 1 October 1833 at West Dean near Chichester in Sussex. Lucy Amelia Gage was baptised on 18 June 1835 at Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.

The two women appear on the 1871 census, aged 37 and 35 respectively, both unmarried, staying at a lodging house at Shanklin on the Isle of Wight with their widowed mother, Lady Mary Gage.

They appear again on the 1881 census, still unmarried, living with their mother at Tonbridge in Kent.

In 1901 the two sisters were ‘living on [their] own means’ at Richmond in Surrey. The household including four servants, namely a lady’s maid, a cook, a parlourmaid and a housemaid.

Lucy Amelia Gage died, aged 67, on 16 January 1905 at 2 Downe Terrace, Richmond Hill, Surrey. She left an estate valued at £492.

Frances Louisa Gage died, aged 81, at the same address on 1 July 1915, leaving an estate valued at £4361. She was buried alongside her sister in the churchyard of St Peter’s, Petersham. 

[A Silvy portrait of their mother appears on page 47 of this section.]