John Rogers the Younger family chart

This John Rogers was the father of John Rogers, shoemaker, Richard Rogers, minister of Wethersfield and Mary Duckfield, along with six others.

The appellation ‘the younger’ naturally indicates that there was an ‘elder’ as well. Sure enough, the St. Mary the Virgin parish register mentions one entry that says ‘the elder’; “Jone Rogers, wife of John Rogers the elder, carpenter, was buried on Wednesday the 3^rd day of November, 1540“. This doesn’t tell us if ‘the elder’ was the father of ‘the younger’, however since John the younger named one of his daughters Jone, the name of the wife of John the elder, it does seem likely that he named his daughter after his mother. Continue reading →