9. ROGERS-TAYLOR

Charlotte image

Fay Sampson’s Family History

This site is a work-in-progress. There is a massive amount to cover. I have included both male and female lines, and some go back 30 generations. Keep coming back for more.
I have numbered the generations working backwards from my own as (1)

Baker Tree

THOMAS ROGERS and SARAH TAYLOR (9)

 

THOMAS ROGERS. Thomas and Sarah were both of St Margaret at Cliffe in Kent when they married there in 1698.

The date would lead us to expect that they were born around 1673. No such baptism has been found for Thomas at St Margaret at Cliffe. The nearest is the baptism in 1682 of Thomas son of Richard and Mary Rogers at St Pancras, Coldred. This is nearly 8 miles west of St Margaret at Cliffe, so we should treat this result with caution. It is more likely that he was born in a nearer parish whose records do not go back that far, or that his baptism is on one of the pages in the St Margaret’s register where the ink is too faded to be read.

In the 16th and 17th century, the overwhelming majority of the register entries for Rogers in this area of Kent are in Ringwould, a village outside Deal. Thomas’s ancestors may have come from here.

We first meet the name Rogers in the St Margaret at Cliffe registers with the marriage of Thomas Rogers and Elizabeth Marsh in 1624. This is too early for them to be the parents of the Thomas who married in 1698. This is followed by the marriage of John Roggers and Elizabth Jedger in 1632.

There are no Rogers in the 1641/2 Protestation Return for St Margaret at Cliffe and its neighbouring Westcliffe, so it would appear that these couples did not stay to raise their families in St Margaret’s.

After the Civil War, in 1667, we find the marriage between Thomas Rogers and Ann Kenny, both of St Margaret’s. Thomas, or his parents, must be recent arrivals. This pair would be possible parents for our Thomas. The poor state of the register means that there may be other entries now illegible.

In 1691, we have baptisms for of the twins Elizabeth and Katherine, children of Thomas and Joan Rogers. Both died the same month. It is possible that Joan was an earlier wife of our Thomas. We have not found her burial, but there are no more children for her.

SARAH TAYLOR. We are in better luck with Sarah. There is a baptism in St Margaret at Cliffe around the date we would expect.

Baptism. St Margaret, St Margaret at Cliffe.
1675 Jan 27  Sarah daughter of Wm and Bennitt Taylor.

This makes her mother Bennit Wellard, who was of St Margaret’s when she married William there in 1669.

Sarah was the fourth of nine children, though two boys had died before she was born. Of the remaining children, six were girls and one a boy.

She was only twelve when her mother died, following the birth of her last child. It is likely that Sarah and her older sister Anne would have had to help with caring for their younger siblings.

 

Marriage. St Margaret at Cliffe.
1697/8 Feb 20  Thomas Rogers and Sarah Taylor, both of this parish.

St Margaret at Cliffe stands high on the white chalk cliffs between Deal and Dover, at the point where the North Sea meets the English Channel. The chalky soil is poor, but the main occupations were farming and fishing. St Margaret’s is known for its small, but unusually well-flavoured lobsters.

The unusually large church is dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch.

Thomas and Sarah brought up their family here.

We have records of three children.

Baptisms. St Margaret at Cliffe.
1698 Oct 10  Thomas
Sarah must have been two months pregnant when she married.
1701 Dec 6  Sarah
1705 Aug 19  James

There may be other entries now illegible.

On 25 Mar 1719 we have the burial of “the son of Sarah Rogers an infant”. This is probably Thomas and Sarah’s 18-year-old daughter.

We have not found a plausible burial for either Thomas or Sarah in St Margaret at Cliffe. Given the state of the register, this is not surprising.

 

 

NEXT GENERATION: 8. PETLEY-ROGERS

PREVIOUS GENERATIONS: 10. ROGERS-WELLAND

Baker Tree