Following the Restoration he was created a baronet, of Hengrave in the County of Suffolk in the Baronetage of England, on 15 July 1662.
[5] His first marriage was to Mary, daughter of Sir William Hervey of Ickworth, Suffolk and his first wife Susan Jermyn, by whom he had one son, Sir William, his successor, and two daughters.
Hervey later married Gage's twice-widowed mother Penelope Darcy, a noted recusant.
[6] Sir Edward married, thirdly, Anne Watkins, by whom he had one son, and fourthly Lady Frances Feilding, daughter of George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond and Bridget Stanhope.
His final marriage was to his fourth wife's relation, Bridget Feilding.