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The Rogers Family
In 1700, James and Margaret Rogers lived in
the farmhouse at Rosemorder Farm, Manaccan. They
had seven children, three sons, John, James, and
Sampson, and four daughters, Mary, Elizabeth,
Margaret and Frances. I don't know what happened
to six of them, but Sampson married Ann Richards
and founded our branch of the family.
Young Sampson married Ann Richards on
5-June-1756 at Sithney, Helston. Sampson took
over the farm on the death of his father. Sampson
and Ann had two sons, Sampson (again) and James,
and two daughters,Ann and Penelope. Sampson's
brother, James, married Mary Trezize (or Trerice)
on 27-August-1763. Sampson married Mary Pearce in
March 1812 and had eight children, five of whom,
including another Sampson, don't come into
our story.
If all the spreading families are included this
story will be endless. Two of Sampson and
Mary's children were twin boys, John and
Thomas Pearce Rogers. John married Sarah Jane
Henry and emigrated to Australia from Plymouth in
1838. They had four children, Mary Carswell, John
Churchill and Charles Henry. The other twin
Thomas Pearce married Mary Tresidder at Manaccan
in 1847 and they emigrated to the USA in 1866
with their six children.
This large family proliferated in the fresh
colonial air, too much for me to give details,
but through the generations came another
Sampson,who married Clara Hoover and they had a
daughter, Myrtelle who married Frank Swett. Then
a daughter,one of nine, Margery who married Alan
Walker in 1948 and had five children. Margery
visited us at Rosenithon in 1996.
In Australia, John Churchill married Alice
Gamble and sired Keith Churchill, Lionel
Churchill, John Clyde and Cecil Edward who died
an infant. Keith Churchill Rogers married Janet
Beryl Hodge and had three children.
We must now go back to Rosemorder and the
children of Sampson and Ann Richards, my great
great great grandparents. Their other son, James,
was married to Mary Trezize. They moved to a
little farm at Roskorwell near Porthallow and
then in 1753 they came here to Rosenithon. They
had nine children, five boys and four girls. The
oldest son was James. He married Elizabeth James
and they had three boys and a girl. Another son
was another Sampson who married Elizabeth Gilbert
at St Keverne in August 1818. They had seven
children of whom one was Edward. Edward emigrated
to Australia on the ship "Warspirit".
He married Ellen Shaw at Goornong, Victoria.
Edward and Ellen had four children, the third one
being Edward Frederick Roy, who married Ethel
Harris at Malvern, Victoria in 1915. They had
three children, Amy Linda, Edward Leslie and Reta
Victoria. Edward Leslie, Les, married Rita
Jasprizza on 11-July-1940 and had six children. Les
and I correspond regularly.
To go back to the four children of Sampson and
Ann of 1756, their eldest son Sampson (again), he
married Ursula, they were the parents of Sampson
who married Mary Pearce and made such a
difference to the later population of Australia
and America. They also had twins, girls, Ursula
and Penelope.Young Ursula, too, emigrated to
Australia and some where met up with and married
a Mr Whitford. Their descendents descended on us
at Rosenithon claiming kinship. They were most
welcome, claiming to be twin sisters, again,
Paula and Margaret, grand daughters of Ursula,
daughter of Sampson(again) and Ursula. Paula is
Mrs Hughes and Margaret is Mrs Bowden. They both
have offspring.
Back again to my g.g.grand parents, James and
Mary Trezize. Their eldest son, James married
Elizabeth James and had four children. Thomas
married Alice and had ten children, James, my
g.grandfather married Ann, Mary married a
Williams from Chyreen and John married Ellen
Williams.
In the next generation, Thomas and Alice had
numerous children including for the continuity of
this epistle only, Richard Lory, who I knew
personally as "Cap'n Dick", John
who we all knew as "Old Son" and Alice
who married Richard Lory (surname).
In my direct line, James and Ann, my
g.grandparents had four children, William, my
grand sire, Elizabeth, Mary and Ann. Ann died in
1865 at the age of 37.James died in 1897 at 66
yrs. William married Margaret Ann Mathews of
Cadgwith at St Keverne and continued to live at
Rosenithon, where they had eight children
including my father, James. My mother was
Beatrice Gay from Carnkie, Wendron. She was fully
Cornish, in spite of having been born and brought
up to the age of fourteen in Victoria, Australia.
Her father emigrated at a young age,and sent back
to England for his sweetheart to join him. She
did so, but he died after they had raised four
children. His widow, my maternal grandmother,
brought them back to Cornwall where she rejoined
her family in Wendron.
My grandfather, William Rogers, died in 1927,
two years after I was born, but I don`t remember
him. Margaret Ann had died some years before.
Cap'n Dick farmed various farms in the
Manaccan and St Keverne area before buying a farm
beside the family farm at Rosenithon, where he
died in about 1930. His widow Elizabeth, nee
James, survived him for many years.
"Old Son" married Annie Lory, but they
were childless.
Thomas and Alice's son, James Henry, married
Alice James and their son John married Ethel
Williams and farmed nearby at Treglohan. Their
two sons, James Henry and Thomas George married
Dorothy Herbert, and Edith Pryor respectively.
James Hemry farmed Treglohan after his father,
and Thomas George bought part of Cap'n
Dick's farm at Rosenithon after Cap'n
Dick's son, Lory, died and his part of the
farm was sold. Thomas George`s only son Geoffrey,
still farms their holding in Rosenithon, part
time.
My grandfather, William, left his farm at
Rosenithon jointly between two of his sons,
James(my father) and Herbert John (Uncle Bert).
My father died in 1960 leaving the farm to me.
When Uncle bert died, because my grandfather had
made a will with an entailment clause, half of
his farm came to me. His widow and I came to an
agreement that she should have the house and I
should have the agricultural land. The house was
a fairly modern one, circa 1900, and therefore
not part of family history.
I live in what was the farm cottage which dates
from the seventeenth century. I married Colleen
Upton, a shopkeeper's daughter from Kent and
London, bringing in new blood, but no fortune. We
had two sons and two daughters. William Keith,
our oldest died in a fishing accident when
engaged in commercial fishing in his own boat
when he was 32 years old.
Keith married Ann Treloar of St Keverne and had
two children, Joanne and Luke William. Joanne now
has a son, Oliver, thus making me a great
grandfather.
Keith would probably have been the farmer after
me, but with modern machinery and farming
methods, there isn't work to employ more than
one person.
Ian John, our second son was and is very sport
orientated, became head boy at his school and
went for teacher training before becoming sports
teacher, and ultimately head of sport at Helston
school.
Ian married Margaret Cobb also from Kent. They
have two children, Matthew and Rebecca.
Janice Colleen, our firstborn daughter lives in
her own house in Rosenithon with her two
daughters, Mariette and Christina. Janice was
married to Benjamin Vleminckx from Antwerp,
Belgium, a member of a family I met and got
friendly with in the war. Janice and Benny have
been divorced for a number of years.
Second daughter Sally Marion, also lives in
Rosenithon with her husband Keith Pascoe of
Helston. Keith and Sally run the farm since my
90% retirement. They have two boys, Daniel, the
young farmer and Andrew (at 7 months of age he`s
too young to tell us his plans.) Sally and Keith
have built themselves a new house on ex farm
land.
This little story has shown me what a
complicated thing a family is. I have been poring
over documents trying to decide which Sampson and
which Ursula I was reading about. I know now why
kings are first, second , third etc.
My family history may not be accurate in your
case, I am open to correction, but it has kept me
amused for a few days.
Bernard Rogers.
Rosenithon Family H.Q.
1997.
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