'Rogers05'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Rogers of Dowdeswell, Rogers of Okle Clifford
[Some of the following was originally included within Rogers03. It was moved here to facilitate expansion of both pages.]

                               
William Rogers of Dowdeswell (b c1565, bur 02.06.1649)
m. Ellen Pulton (bur 02.02.1648/9, dau of James Pulton of Hartpury & Eldersfield)
1. William Rogers (bpt 15.03.1600, bur 23.03.1600)
2. Richard Rogers of Dowdeswell (d c1680)
  m. Mary Browne (d 1674, dau of William Browne of Hasfield (Sheriff of Gloucester))
  A. William Rogers of London, later of Dowdeswell (bpt 14.10.1657, d unm 09.04.1734, Master in Chancery)
  This was the William Rogers identified by VCH as "kinsman and creditor" of William Rogers (b c1662), being "from a younger branch of the family", who bought the remnants of the old Dowdeswell Manor estate from that William.
  B. John Rogers of Dowdeswell (bpt 30.11.1662, d 28.06.1732)
  m. Hester (bur 21.06.1737)
  i. John Rogers of Dowdeswell (bpt 22.03.1688, d unm 26.08.1768, rector of Dowdeswell)
  ii. Richard Rogers of Dowdeswell (bpt 04.04.1692, d 11.07.1757)
  m. (20.04.1731) Mary Lynch (b 1705-6, d 12.07.1782, dau of Richard Lynch of the Inner Temple)
  a. William Rogers of Dowdeswell (b 02.05.1732, d 10.01.1783)
  m1. Ann Burrows of Withington (b 1740-1, d 15.03.1776)
(1) Anne Rogers (b 14.05.1772, d 06.02.1773)
  m2. Ann Smith (a 1782)
  b. Richard Rogers of Dowdeswell (b 28.05.1733, d 10.03.1780, rector of Dowdeswell)
  m. Hester Curtis (b 1740-1, bur 02.04.1819, dau of Thomas Curtis of Hasleton)
  (1) Hester Rogers of Dowdeswell (b 26.12.1760, d unm 18.04.1848)
  (2) Mary Rogers of Dowdeswell (bpt 22.03.1762, d unm 01.6.1819)
  (3) Anne Rogers (b 08.05.1768, d 08.11.1844)
  m. (17.06.1796) Charles Coxwell of Ablington House (rector of Dowdeswell)
  Dowdeswell passed into the Coxwell family, members of which assumed the name Coxwell-Rogers.
  c. John Rogers of Dowdeswell (b 21.06.1734, d 02.12.1760)
  m. Anne Appleyard (dau of John Appleyard)
(1) Anne Rogers (b 1759-60, d 28.06.1845)
  m1. Joseph Berwick of Hallow Park, Worcestershire
  m2. William Welch of Hawford (b c1751, d 30.12.1833, bencher of the Middle Temple)
  d. Edward Green Rogers (b 11.10.1736, bur 29.04.1737)
  e. Edward Rogers of Dowdeswell (b 02.12.1741, d unm 25.08.1810)
  f. Mary Rogers (b 21.10.1737, dsp bur 22.07.1815)
  m. (06.12.1768) Daniel Lysons of Hempsted Court (b 12.03.1727, dsp 20.03.1800)
  g. Hester Rogers (b 30.12.1738, dsp)
  m. John Bright of Totterton House
  iii. William Rogers of Farn Court, Dowdeswell (b 16.02.1695, d unm 13.10.1738)
  C. Eleanor Rogers (bpt 15.11.1650, d 1696)
  m. (13.04.167) William Cox alias Hayward of Wollesthrop in Quedgeley
  D. Elizabeth Rogers (b 13.03.1653)
  m. (after 1681) John Prinn or Prynne of Charlton Park (d 26.02.1734/5)
  E. Mary Rogers (bpt 18.11.1655, bur 25.07.1656)
3. William Rogers of Okle Clifford, Newent, Gloucestershire (bpt 03.08.1606, d 06.10.1662)
  m. Elizabeth Surman (d 13.06.1680, dau of Thomas Surman of Tredington)
  A. William Rogers of Okle Clifford (b 13.04.1640, d 19.05.1690)
  m1. (24.01.1670) Elizabeth Milton (b 1653-4, d 12.05.1688, dau of Robert Milton of Cheltenham)
  i.+ issue - Richard (bpt 04.06.1678, d infant), Elizabeth (b 21.12.1673, d 19.05.1677), Anne (b 19.05.1677, a 1690), Elizabeth (bpt 15.02.1680, a 1690)
  m2. Anne Hooke (d 30.08.1728, dau of John Hooke of Crooks)
  v. Mary Rogers (b 10.09.1687, d 16.04.1720)
  m. (28.07.1715) Francis Biddulph of Ledbury (bpt 22.11.1683, d 22.10.1744)
  B. John Rogers of London, later of Okle Clifford (b 22.01.1645, d 20.01.1721, 3rd son)
  m. (12.1681) Letitia Horton (b 1659-60, d 30.06.1746)
  i. John Rogers of Okle Clifford (b 18.04.1703, d unm 20.09.1735, 2nd son)
  ii. Edward Rogers of Okle Clifford (b 13.02.1705, d 28.04.1763)
  m. (06.08.1730) Elizabeth Green (b 1704-5, d 24.06.1782, dau of William Green of Newent)
  a. Elizabeth Rogers (bpt 28.05.1733)
  m. Edward Bearcroft (a 1796, barrister)
  b. Letitia Rogers (bpt 01.09.1742)
  m. Charles Jones of Newent (bur 12.01.1792)
  iii. Elizabeth Rogers (b 21.05.1695, d 16.09.1732)
  m. Miles Beale of Newent (b 1694-5, d 05.06.1748)
  iv.+ other issue - William (b 18.05.1694, d infant), Richard (bur 28.04.178), Letitia (b 17.06.1693), Sarah (b 09.04.1699, d 04.06.1699), Anne (b 27.03.1700, d 05.09.1711)
  C. Eleanor Rogers (b 11.04.1638, d 18.04.1699)
  m. (18.09.1666) William Green of Newent (b c1649, d 22.03.1703/4)
  D. Elizabeth Rogers (b 13.09.1648, d 11.12.1727)
  m1. Robert Holder of Taynton
  m2. (18.04.1677) John Witt of Newnham
  E. Anne Rogers (b 25.01.1653, d 12.04.1742)
  m. John Cam of Dymock (b 1650-1, d 10.06.1707)
  F.+ other issue (d unm) - Richard (b 28.07.1643, d 27.04.1677), Robert of London then Haresfield (bpt 23.02.1650, d 01.12.1675)
4. Margery Rogers (bpt 17.03.1597, a 1649)
  m. (12.05.1622) John Welles of the Lye (d 10.04.1663)
5. Eleanor Rogers (bpt 01.08.1609, bur 08.11.1673)
  m. Poole Pauncefoote of Carswell (b c1612, a 1682)

Main source(s): MGH (vol 1, 1868, 'Rogers Genealogy', p262+) with support from BLG1952 (Coxwell-Rogers formerly of Dowdeswell) and a little from VCH (Gloucestershire, vol 9 (Bradley hundred), 'Parishes: Dowdeswell')
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