Samuel Rogers (1545)

Born 1545 in Wittenberg, Kurfürstentum Sachsen, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

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Biography

Samuel was the son of John Rogers and Adriana de Weyden.^[1][2] It is uncertain whether he was born while his father was in Germany, or after his father's return to England in 1548.

He, along with his mother and siblings, witnessed his father’s burning at the stake in 1555.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Sir George John Armitage (ed.). Middlesex pedigrees as collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian MS No. 1551 (the Visitation of Middlesex, 1634), Harleian Society, Vol. LXV, 1984, pp. 84-85, pedigree for Rogers of Sunbury, Internet Archive
2. ↑ Harleian MS 1563, The Visitation of the County of Warwick, made in Anno 1563, by Robert Cooke, Chester Herald, for William Hervey, Clarenceux: continued and enlarged, with another Visitation of the same County, made in Anno 1619, by Sampson Leonard, Blue Mantle, and Augustine Vincent, Rouge Rose, Officers of Arms and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux, folio 19b, cited in Joseph Lemuel Chester, John Rogers: the compiler of the first authorised English Bible ..., London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861, pp. 222-224, Internet Archive
3. ↑ "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", entry for 'Rogers, John (c. 1500–1555)', print and online 2004, available online via some libraries

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Acknowledgments

This profile originally derived from

• information input by Katharine Nusbaum
• the import of HOWE(1).ged on 08 April 2011.
• the import of mike_walton_2011.ged on Aug 20, 2011 by Mike Walton