| Relationship to me: | 1st Cousin 4 times removed | Gen -4 |
Portrait of “Francis Newman Rogers” |
| Born | perhaps around 1788 judging by portrait below | ||
| Died | ???? | ||
| Age | ?? | ||
| Father: | James Rogers | unknown | |
| Mother: | Catherine (née Newman) | 1762 - ???? | |
| Brothers: | none known | ||
| Sisters: | none known | ||
| Married: | married his cousin Julia Yea according to Louisa Annie Rogers | ||
| Children: | must have been at least one son for the Newman-Rogers name to have persisted |
Francis Newman-Rogers: As noted on Catherine Roger's page, information about Francis Newman-Rogers comes an old Newman-Rogers Bible currently in the possession of Francis's descendent, Jonathan Newman-Rogers. The fly-leafs of this Newman-Rogers' Bible contains references to the Rogers family and their inclusion of the Newman name at the request of Francis's grandfather Francis Newman of North Cadbury. On one page Catherine's sister Frances Newman records her gift of the book to her nephew Francis Newman-Rogers Esquire. And in some accompanying notes written by Louisa Annie Rogers in 1947, she records her own gift of the book to her son Francis Henry Rogers and requests that he pass it onto his son Timothy.
According to Louisa Annie Rogers' notes, Catherine's sister Frances Newman 'left these books to the son of her sister, who married the Revd S. Rogers Rector of Queen Camel. Francis Newman-Rogers, who took the name of Newman at his grandfather's request. This Newman-Rogers married his cousin Julia Yea - became Recorder(?) of Exeter and rebuilt Rainscombe. Grandfather of my husband F.E.N. Rogers." She goes on to state that the books were given by her husband's uncle the Revd E.H. Rogers to her son Francis Henry Rogers in trust for his son Timothy. From this we can deduce that Francis Newman-Rogers was the great-grandfather of Louisa's son Francis Henry Rogers and great great grandfather to his son Timothy Rogers, father of Jonathan and Alex Newman-Rogers.
From the above description, Julia Yea must have been the daughter of Catherine's sister Jane. However this appears to be contradicted by further information sent by Alex Newman-Rogers in April 2008 consisting of several portraits of his ancestors (see below), one of which is of "Sir William Yea Bart of Pyrland Hall, Taunton, Somerset, died c.1810", another being of Julia Yea described "Julia – Wife of William Yea". Also below is a portrait of a young Francis Newman-Rogers dated 1797.
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Pyrland Hall is described as one of four chief residences around Taunton in the 1870s (see Descriptive Gazetteer entry for Taunton) and now forms part of Kings Hall preparatory school
Page created: 2nd May 2008.
