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It has been mistakenly claimed that John Rogers was the son of Thomas Rogers and Catherine Courtenay of Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. This appears to have been a different John Rogers who married Eleanora Coppinger, but the genealogy of this family has been muddied by groundless suppositions on the internet. The parentage of John Rogers of Deritend, father of the martyr Rev. John Rogers, is unknown.
John Rogers, father of the martyr Rev. John Rogers, was a lorimer (a maker of spurs and bits for horses and small metal objects for bridles) of Deritend, Warwickshire. His wife was Margery Wyatt, "whose family were tanners in Deritend at this period."[1]
"The mother of [Rev.] John Rogers was Margaret Wyatt, the daughter of a very prominent Deritend tanner. The marriage with John Rogers, the Deritend lorimer, took place considerably before 1511. In the register of the Gild of Knowle it is shown that John and Margaret Rogers became members in that year. Of their five children, one (Edward) was born after 1515...."[2]
In 1519 "'John Rogers, of Deret End, lorymer,' had taken a lease for 60 years from 'Edward Byrmyngeham, Essquier, lord of Byrmyngeham, of a cottage in Deritend, opposite the house or hall of the Gild, and near to the modern River Street."[2]
"At his death, about Christmas, 1540, Rogers left to his wife, Margaret, the lease of the house in which he dwelt, held under Thomas Greves of King's Norton; the other property passing by his will was considerable. His son, John Rogers, 'priest,' he appointed overseer if he returned home."[3]
The 1540 will of John Rogers is quoted in its entirety in The book makers of old Birmingham, pp. 109-110.
John’s son the martyr John Rogers was probably born in about 1500 - see his profile - so John was likely to have been born no later than 1485 and married no later than 1500.
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The man in the portrait is more likely to be his son, the martyr, but painted long after his death.
The father was a maker of bridles in a small town in Warwickshire; there is no chance he would have had a portrait painted.
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And the 1540/1 will of John Rogers is reproduced on pp. 109-110 of the same source, with a statement about his ancestry.