Who was George Rogers?
From the Herrick papers and wills we know that he married Ruth Herrick and that he was a clerc and that he and Ruth had several children, and I do know he lived in Leicestershire, but other than that it has been a challenge.
In all my initial research, I went along with the information from others who had published information but I was uncomfortable with the ages list of different family members.
So to find who was George, I have spent ages in trying to unravel the mysteries. Having visited Leicestershire gave me some background as to the area and the many towns that surround the city of Leicester.
Robert Herrick called him a clerc. I couldn't understand why he would have approved George as a husband for Ruth if he was a mere clerk!
But clerc is also the name given to the clergy.
Eventually I found the missing links, but not before I worked on those records of Ruth and George's son, John who married Margaret Cock. It was during these searches that I came to the conclusion that
George and Ruth are most likely the grandparents of our John Rogers, not the parents.
George and Ruth had the following children (that I have found)
George Rogers born 1600
Henry Rogers born abt 1600
James Rogers born abt 1600
Robert Rogers born abt 1600
John Rogers born 1601 married Elizabeth Bonson 1626 I believe this to be our line.*
Elizabeth Rogers born 1610 married to William Bent 1633 died 1647 in Cosby Leicestershire
Ruth Rogers born 1611 married to John Jones 1632
Dorcas Rogers born 1616
*Note the dates for the sons would range between 1600 and 1616.
There is evidence that Henry Rogers in about 1634 was involved in litigation
Registrar's certificate that he finds not that Henry Rogers has ever been sequestered for delinquency; but a Mr. Rogers, of Blaby, was returned from Leicester, 21 April 1648, in a list of ministers of that county, as sequestered and outed
*It followed in the tradition that children were named after their father, if they were the first born!
Back to George.
From the Church of England archives I found reference to him being the Rector at Blaby in Leicestershire. The Church is All Saints. Blaby is about 3 miles south of Leicester.
In fact he was there for 42 years, and had a bit of a colourful life as the Reverend.
George attended Magadline College at Cambridge in 1590 and was the Rector of Blaby 1604.
Source List of known students Cambridge
How did George get into Cambridge? Did he come from a wealthy London family, which would fit with the criteria that Robert Herrick had when chosing a husband for his daughters, or was he from the Church? Had his father also gone to Cambridge?
Following that line and again in the Church of England records I found a Georgious Rogers who was the Chaplain at St Thomas's Church in Salisbury (Sarum) in 1550. His father also was George.
This Georgious Rogers had a son Georgious, around the same birth date as our George. To me that is a strong link because the Church Record of George Rogers shows his name as Georgius!
No father's name is shown on the second listing. The name Georgius is quite unusual.
From the Church Archives Relating to George Rogers
From the Herrick papers and wills we know that he married Ruth Herrick and that he was a clerc and that he and Ruth had several children, and I do know he lived in Leicestershire, but other than that it has been a challenge.
In all my initial research, I went along with the information from others who had published information but I was uncomfortable with the ages list of different family members.
So to find who was George, I have spent ages in trying to unravel the mysteries. Having visited Leicestershire gave me some background as to the area and the many towns that surround the city of Leicester.
Robert Herrick called him a clerc. I couldn't understand why he would have approved George as a husband for Ruth if he was a mere clerk!
But clerc is also the name given to the clergy.
Eventually I found the missing links, but not before I worked on those records of Ruth and George's son, John who married Margaret Cock. It was during these searches that I came to the conclusion that
George and Ruth are most likely the grandparents of our John Rogers, not the parents.
George and Ruth had the following children (that I have found)
George Rogers born 1600
Henry Rogers born abt 1600
James Rogers born abt 1600
Robert Rogers born abt 1600
John Rogers born 1601 married Elizabeth Bonson 1626 I believe this to be our line.*
Elizabeth Rogers born 1610 married to William Bent 1633 died 1647 in Cosby Leicestershire
Ruth Rogers born 1611 married to John Jones 1632
Dorcas Rogers born 1616
*Note the dates for the sons would range between 1600 and 1616.
There is evidence that Henry Rogers in about 1634 was involved in litigation
Registrar's certificate that he finds not that Henry Rogers has ever been sequestered for delinquency; but a Mr. Rogers, of Blaby, was returned from Leicester, 21 April 1648, in a list of ministers of that county, as sequestered and outed
*It followed in the tradition that children were named after their father, if they were the first born!
Back to George.
From the Church of England archives I found reference to him being the Rector at Blaby in Leicestershire. The Church is All Saints. Blaby is about 3 miles south of Leicester.
In fact he was there for 42 years, and had a bit of a colourful life as the Reverend.
George attended Magadline College at Cambridge in 1590 and was the Rector of Blaby 1604.
Source List of known students Cambridge
How did George get into Cambridge? Did he come from a wealthy London family, which would fit with the criteria that Robert Herrick had when chosing a husband for his daughters, or was he from the Church? Had his father also gone to Cambridge?
Following that line and again in the Church of England records I found a Georgious Rogers who was the Chaplain at St Thomas's Church in Salisbury (Sarum) in 1550. His father also was George.
This Georgious Rogers had a son Georgious, around the same birth date as our George. To me that is a strong link because the Church Record of George Rogers shows his name as Georgius!
| However there are two baptism records for Georgius Rogers, so apologies if I have an incorrect date or information. Other than the record for Rev Georgious Rogers at St Thomas's Church I am unable to find him at either St Mary's or in Sutton at Cambridge. Georgius Rogers |
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| Gender: | Male |
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| Baptism Date: | 26 Apr 1564 |
| Baptism Place: | Sutton, Cambridge, England |
| Father: | Georgii Rogers |
| Georgius Rogers |
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| Gender: | Male |
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| Baptism Date: | 6 Apr 1569 |
| Baptism Place: | Saint Marys,Hanley Castle,Worcester,England |
| FHL Film Number: | 435361, 465263 |
From the Church Archives Relating to George Rogers
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Cleric Detail
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Surname
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Rogers
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Forename
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Georgius
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University
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College
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- CCEd Record ID: 163248
- Linked to person: Rogers, George 1600-1600
In the Petersorough district
Event Type
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Type
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Faculty to be ordained deacon and priest at the same time
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Date
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31/1/1600
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Source
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LPL, Whitgift's Register III (Register)
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Bishop
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Entered as letters dimissory addressed to Richard, Bishop
of London and John, Suffragan Bishop of Colchester
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From Leicester Records on line: This is a description of the Advowson of Blaby
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Advowson
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Immediately after the Reformation the advowson
was held by the Bishop of Lincoln, but it appears to have come into lay hands
in the late sixteenth century.2 By the
seventeenth century there appears to have been some dispute over the right of
presentation, as rector George Rogers, inducted in 1604, claimed in 1646 to
have spent most of his 42 years as rector defending his incumbency against
someone called Stirton.3 In a record of
1605, the name of the patron has been amended at some point from Sir George
Belgrave to the king.4 From 1662 the
advowson was in the hands of the crown,5 and
was administered by the Lord Chancellor from 1863.6
In 1874 the advowson was transferred to the Bishop of Peterborough by
exchange for benefices outside the diocese.7
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Rector John Legh,
inducted in 1545, is reputed to have remained in office throughout the reigns
of both Edward VI and Mary I.37 George Rogers, rector from 1604 to 1646, was a
Royalist, and was charged by the county committee in 1646 on counts including
being active for the Commission of Array and preventing parishioners from
attending a parliamentary summons to resist the king’s forces.38
Rogers
appointed his son-in-law John Jones as curate, perhaps to care for
Countesthorpe, and Jones was similarly articled against.39 Rogers was
replaced in 1646 by Thomas Bosse, whose appointment was confirmed by the Crown
in 1660. During his incumbency, Bosse was involved in a dispute regarding
infant baptism (see Protestant Nonconformity below).40 At the primary
visitation of Bishop Sanderson in 1662 it was reported that he had abandoned
his living,41 and it was declared vacant that year.42
Now George was responsible for the recording of all births, marriages and deaths in the Bishops Register, however between the years of 1639 and 1646 there are no records at all!
George died in 1654. His will is held in the National Archives at Kew.
Will of George Rogers, Clerk of
Blaby, Leicestershire
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29 November 1654
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Held
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Public Record
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Context
of this record
- PROB - Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
- Wills and Letters of Administration
- PROB 11 - Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers
- PROB 11/241 - Name of Register: Alchin Quire Numbers: 410 - 462
In sourcing my information I came across this from a discussion on line about the Rogers in Blaby.
Some of the Rogers actually from Blaby emigrated to the US and became some of the first settlers in 1600 in the time of the Mayflower period. Perhaps some were from George's family
No Rogers in Ashby Folville but Blaby seems to the very
close or within that small local area. Rogers go back to the 1500's there with
a George Rogers having a large family, including son George 1600, John
1605, Ruth 1611, Dorcas 1616 etc. (These are our 8th Great aunts and uncles)
Early Rogers in Prestwold (as you say just across the village from Loughborough) beginning in the 1500's including another Elizabeth Rogers who married a Richard Roe in 1574. Other Prestwold Rogers continue on. You found the soldier, Thomas who married there from St Ives, who was a Rogers so maybe he was a cousin of theirs, visited and married a village girl. Since there was also that John Rogers "the stranger" who married a Jane in Loughborough about 10 years earlier perhaps he too was from St Ives and was Thomas' older brother.
And from the Rogers Family in US describing Cambridge another insight into some of the founding Roger's family.
Crossing the little river Can by an ancient stone bridge, we
find ourselves in the manor of Moulsham. On the right a few rods from the
bridge stands a dwelling house of Tudor times which is owned and occupied by a
Rogers family who have possessed it from time immemorial. Of this family was
John Rogers of Moulsham, born about 1510, who was great-grandfather of Rev.
Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich, Mass., who was the father of Rev. John Rogers,
fifth president of Harvard College, and ancestor of our distinguished New
England ministerial Rogers family. His descendants long claimed descent from
the Marian martyr, Rev. John Rogers, a native of Warwickshire, who was burned
at the stake in Smithfield, London, in 1555; but while the latter was thus
displaying in fire his devotion to spiritual freedom, his contemporary John,
the ancestor of the New England Rogers family, was making shoes in Moulsham.
Among the modern objects of interest in Chelmsford are the buildings housing
the famous grammar school of Edward VI, founded in 1551, and a bronze statue
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