Rogers of Somerset and Area

PARISH REGISTERS OF EAST BUDLEIGH

BAPTISMS

1633 , Susanna dau of Henry Rogers, 14th April

1734 , Joseph Rogers son of Joseph and Arabella Rogers, 1st November

1736, Joseph son of Joseph and Arabella Rogers, 4th Sept

1738, Nicholas son of Joseph and Arabella Rogers, 5th Nov

1764, Mary dau of Joseph and Elizabeth Rogers , 5th Jan

1766, Elizabeth dau of Joseph and Elizabeth Rogers , 6th Jan

1768, Thomas son of Joseph and Elizabeth Rogers, 8th May

THE ROGERS OF THE OTTER VALLEY

Devon is approximately 60 miles across and 70 miles in length with the great mass of Dartmoor in the middle , so the county is almost completely square , its western and eastern boundaries are Cornwall and Somerset and Dorset, and its northern and southern boundaries are the Bristol and English Channels. You are therefore never more than an hour, even with Devon`s winding roads, from the sea. The sea brings trade in the shape of coastal and fishing vessels, emi- and immi-grants , food for the table , work of all types and prosperity . Most Devon families who lived by the sea were never rich but neither were they workhouse poor . And when the fashion for the health giving properties of the sea and sea bathing started in the early 19th C , new businesses developed, particularly in villages along the warm Lyme Bay coast line.

JACOB WILLIAM ROGERS

MAJOR 77th Regt of Foot

Jacob William Rogers was born somewhere around 1769 . The burial entry for him in Woodbury , Devon, parish register is dated 28th Nov 1822 and he is said to be 53 years old which makes his date of birth around 1769.

In Hart`s Army lists for 1814 and 1820 , Jacob William Rogers is shown as appointed Captain in the 77th Regt of Foot ( E Middx) 16th Jan 1812 having achieved this rank in the main army in 1803 ; in 1810 he is serving in the 1st Veterans Battalion ; he is further appointed Major in the army in June 1814 . At this time most ranks would have been purchased rather than earned by long service so perhaps , Jacob William had well to do parents or relatives or a legacy to enable him ot purchase his army rank and he is said to have sold his commission in 1818 .

The History of the Rogers of Wiltshire, Somerset & Devon, England

This line of ROGERS lasted for a little over two hundred years, from the earliest proven connection with young Thomas in 1454 to the final Henry in 1672.

We can only guess at the earlier than 1454 connections. . What is certain is that Thomas ROGERS of Bristol, was admitted to Lincolns Inn , London, on the Sunday before Lent , 1454 at the same time as Walter Hungerford. This was not the great Walter Lord Hungerford, who had amassed estates in Wiltshire, Somerset , Berkshire and elsewhere and who died in 1449, but possibly a grandson. And it may have been the Hungerfords who chose and paid for Thomas to accompany Walter . Pupil lawyers might have been between 14 and 16 years old giving Thomas a possible date of birth around 1438. The Hungerfords were hugely important landowners and allied to the Lancastrian cause of Henry Vl as was most of the West Country. At the time of Thomass admission, there was another Thomas ROGERS in Bristol, who was a burgess, then Sheriff in 1455, and Mayor in 1459. In 1458 Wm Canturbury of Bristol granted to Nicholas Poyntz of Acton , Philip Mede and Thomas ROGERS of Bristol, four houses in Redcliffe Street. Perhaps this Thomas was the father of Thomas of Lincoln`s Inn and rich enough to buy his son a place at the earliest of the Inns of Court, or a man in a position to be of local use to the Hungerfords.

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