Author: Paas, Frederick
Biography:
PAAS, Frederick (1806-74: ancestry.co.uk)
He was probably the Frederick Pase born on 16 Mar. 1806 and baptised at St. John’s, Hackney, London, the son of Edward and Ann Pase. It is not known where or when they married and his mother’s maiden name is unknown. Nothing is known of his education. He married Sarah Carpenter on 30 Aug. 1826 at St. George the Martyr, Southwark (Southwark Cathedral). They had at least two children. At some point he moved to Devon, where a daughter was born at Exeter in 1829 and the work listed here was printed by John Rippon at Sidmouth in 1830. From 1842 to 1848 he was master of Stoneleigh School, Warwickshire, so his employer would have been the poet and landowner Chandos Leigh (q.v.) of Stoneleigh Abbey. By 1851 he was back in South London where he and his wife are recorded at Elizabeth Street, St. Mary’s Newington, with his occupation given as agent. He was charged with passing a fake Australian diamond to a pawnbroker in Nov. 1851 but the charges were dismissed. He was described as a former schoolmaster and clerk at the Beresford Chapel, Beresford Street, Walworth. His daughter Sarah, a governess, died at Walworth in 1852. By 1861, he had moved to Keynsham, Somerset, where he was recorded as agent and toll clerk for a railway company. By 1871 he had returned to South London once again and was recorded living at Upper Park Street, Greenwich, his occupation, scripture reader. He died at Greenwich on 2 July 1874, “after many years of great suffering.” His wife Sarah died at 136 Kingsland Road, Hackney, in 1878. (ancestry.co.uk 12 Feb. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 12 Feb. 2023; Bell’s Weekly Messenger 16 Nov. 1851; LES 13 July 1874, 29 July 1878) AA