You have been misinformed as to the PAIGE version being French. The two British versions of the name PAGE/PAIGE are widely seen and used, but the PAIGE less often. I have a portion of my line that used Paige because a wife of a Page preferred the PAIGE spelling because it seemed more correct to her! She named all of their children PAIGE and it remained so in successive generations. In the 1495 will of one of my ancestors, Thomas Page, he uses both spellings in the same document! Their is a very famous immigrant to MA, Nathanial Page, who changed the spelling of his name to PAIGE when he arrived c. 1675 (some records state 1684). My research indicates that his family roots were in county Devon, Eng. NOT county Middlesex as claimed by Charles Nash Page in 1917/8. He had two surviving sons who spelled their name PAIGE: Coronet Nathaniel Paige; and, Christopher Paige. Both of them had Paige descendants, but Nathaniel Paige also had PAGE descendants. At 09:45 AM 8/31/2000 -0400, you wrote: >George, my line of uses the Paige spelling. Are there any links in your >collection using this spelling. I have been told that this spelling is >the French line but I cannot connect anywhere. > >Thanks for any help > >Donna (Paige) Scofield