Notes:

This family was seated at Ibstock in 1409, as shown by a deed of that date containing the names of Thomas and John Paget. Valerian Paget d. at Ibstock in 1580, leaving, by Anne his wife, two sons, Richard, who d. unm., 1581, and Leonard Paget, Esq. of Ibstock, who (besides four daus.) had a son, Thomas Paget.

Valerian Paget, a French Protestant refugee, settled in Leicestershire in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and founded a family. From him descended a son, Leonard Paget, ancestor of Thomas Tertius Paget, Esq., of Humberston, near Leicester. Other descendants are Edmund Arthur Paget, Esq., of Thorpe, near Melton, and Charles Paget, Esq., of Ruddington, late M.P. for Nottingham.

Leonard Paget