Ernest Arthur Rogers (1891 - 1970)

Born 10 Jul 1891 in Islington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Fanny Sarah (Terry) Rogers — married 24 Dec 1922 in East Malling, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 17 May 1970 at age 78 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Birth

Birth:

Date: 10 JUL 1891

Place: Islington, London, England^[1]

Marriage

Event: vol 2a page 1667 (Dec quarter)

Type: Marriage

Date: 1922

Place: Malling Kent

Census

Census:

Date: 1901

Place: Sheerness, Kent, England

Occupation: Grocer

Note: He was living with his parents and five siblings.

Death

Death:

Date: 17 MAY 1970

Place: Banbury, Oxfordshire, England^[2]

The Family of Ernest Arthur

Memories of Joan Rogers (daughter 2006)

Dad was originally in the grocery trade.

Mum and Dad first lived in Bristol then moved o Worcester where daughter Winifred Frances was born Jan 30«sup»th«/sup» 1924 , they moved to Gloucester where son Leslie was born July 1926 and died 12 days later from an illness brought on by an illness brought by the midwife.

Joan Mary (me) was born Oct 27«sup»th«/sup» 1927. Dad and Mum moved with us to Banbury Oxfordshire in April 1929 to a terraced house in Broughton Road.

It must have been heaven after living in rooms where I apparently cried a lot at night so I had to be picked up to stop me disturbing the household. Getting to Banbury I was left to cry and mum said after a week I stopped crying!

We had a happy caring home in the days when washing was done on a Monday using the copper heated by a fire underneath after the copper was filled with cold water in the scullery. (The only tap we had- no bathroom) Baths were in a tin tub in front of the kitchen fire. A flush toilet was across the yard outside and down two steps. Washing on fine days was pegged out in lines down the back garden. Mum's white wash was spotless.

We two children played in the back yard with one or two balls against the scullery wall or a skipping rope, not really enough room for whip + top.

At one time we had a swing hung in the large coal house doorway.

When I was 5 years and 4 months Granny Terry came to stay and asked why we did not go to Sunday school. Mum and Dad were Anglicans and Mum did not like St Mary's so did not go.

My bible; received when I was 16 and a half said I (we) started at Marlborough Rd Methodist April 21«sup»st«/sup» 1933.

I have been going there ever since becoming a member when I was 17. I was a Junior Dept Helper. And later worked in the Primary Dept eventually becoming the leader.

I gave up teaching when mum needed more help, returning in 1936 when on the 25«sup»th«/sup» of July I had a happy surprise on waking to hear a baby crying.. I was so thrilled and I said to my self 'We've got a baby!' My brother Ernest James was born (He has always been know in the family as Jim.) I knew nothing although mum said there were baby clothes about, I must have been very un-observant!!

As a small boy Jim had lovely curly hair which I thought a bit unfair as mine was dead straight, even Winifred's had a wave in it.

Holidays were spent in Kent with our grandparents- part with Grandma and Grandpa Rogers in Gillingham (Stopford Rd first and then 95 Kind Edward St) Before the 2«sup»nd«/sup» world war Auntie Clara , Marcel and Cecily also lived there.

It must have been a tight squeeze especially when Jim came as well.

The Sandy stretch by the river Medway called 'The Stand' was our seaside beach. We also stayed with Granny Terry and mums brothers Perce and Horace. And George (Granddad Terry died before I was born) We also stayed with Aunt sally (Granny Terry's half sister) at Boxely2 miles from Maidstone. Granny Terry lived at East Malling near Maidstone. Pleasures were simple we had some lovely holidays unfortunately stopped by the war.

We used to travel mainly by coach via Victoria coach station London. I remember once going by train the year the war broke out Sept 3«sup»rd«/sup» 1939, we had a weeks holiday booked for Southsea. Dad saw war was coming and did not want to go and we were so disappointed when he relented and went.

Before the war Dad used to make the Christmas pudding and one was always parcelled up in a wooden box and sent to Gillingham.

I don't' remember dad being in the grocery trade as he was a gas meter inspector as long as I was old enough to remember . He rode a bicycle and had a lad who pushed the truck which housed the pennies collected from the gas meters. Not only in Banbury but in two villages two and three miles out and the truck had to be pushed there and back, life is so very different now!

Our house was lit by gas, and mum did her cooking at the first with a fire within a side oven. She used to make lovely meat pies and rice puddings. I loved the skin off the top and sides I remember the gas cooker being delivered and also our first radio which had a very large battery and two accumulators (one in the set and one taken to a shop in town to be recharged.

Dad looked after the gardens; a small flower garden in front and a large long veggie garden at the back where dad grew potatoes, peas, runner beans, marrows, onions, lettuce, radishes and beet root.

One year I remember he harvested a lot of Gherkins and in the garden there were red, white and black currant and gooseberry bushes. There was a wall all around the garden and a door at the bottom which opened onto allotments.

We all in turn attended an infant school in town, Jim was there in the war when it was moved to our Methodist Sunday School premises, then came junior school and we each in turn passed the Scholarships for the county school which later became the Grammar school. We all left at 16 years, Winfred I think in 1940 went to work in the Ministry of Aircraft Production Officers (MAP) sited in Banbury where I also went in Jan 1944.

After the war Winfred got a job in London in the city, I transferred across the road from MAP to the Northern Aluminium works into the large planning office leaving in April 1949 when I got married to William Henry Hancox who had served in the army during part of the war.

When we married we started off in rooms for 8 months moving just before Christmas to a terraced house on Broughton Road not far from Mum Dad and Jim. When Jim left school probably 1952 he trained as a gas fitter being called up for National Service in the Army later on for two years.

Henry and I had the joy of the birth of Joan Ruby on June the 6«sup»th«/sup» 1951 then Christine Joy Oct the 10«sup»th«/sup» 1953.

In March 1958 we moved to a semi detached house in Sinclair Avenue. The soil grew lovely vegetables.

When Ruby and Christine left school they both became cadet nurses at the local hospital then trained as state enrolled nurses. Ruby liked maternity work so that was where she continued and Christine working in the local hospital on the wards

Then a time in the Psychiatric wing also in the nearby Cheshire Home in 1978 for several years. Since august 20«sup»th«/sup» 1990 she has working in a nursing home changing jobs last May 2005.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S10 Page: London, Middlesex Volume:1b Page:295 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page VALUE London, Middlesex Volume:1b Page:295 Data: Text: FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983 Record Name:Ernest Arthur Rogers Year of Registration:1891 Quarter of Registration:Jul-Aug-Sep District:Islington County:Greater London, London, Middlesex Volume:1b Page:295
2. ↑ Source: #S13 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Rogers-2073 created through the import of Ann Lambs feb 2011 gedcom.ged on May 27, 2011 by Ann Sims.