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Descendants of Thomas Matthew Fitz Rogers

Generation No. 2

2. THOMAS JOHN¹⁵ ROGERS (THOMAS MATTHEW FITZ¹⁴, BERNARD FITZ¹³, JOHN (THE MARTYR)¹², JOHN THOMAS¹¹, THOMAS¹⁰, THOMAS⁹, JOHN FITZ⁸, JOHN FITZ⁷ ROGER, AARON JOHN FITZ⁶, AARON FITZ⁵, ROGER [II OF SICILY]⁴ TANCRED, COUNT II³ ROGER, KING OF SICILY, ROGER²I, COUNT OF SICILY, TANCRED¹ DE HAUTEVILLE) was born 1587 in Northern England, and died 11 Jan 1620/21 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. He married (1) GRACE [MAKIN MEKIN] MCKINN. She was born 1592 in Essex, England. He married (2) ALICE "ELSGEN" COSFORD.

Notes for THOMAS JOHN ROGERS:
Book; "James Rogers of New London, CT and his Descendants, 1902," Boston: The Compiler.

Most authorities agree that the name Roger, Rogers, is derived from the word Hroud in Frank; Hrother is the North and Ruhm in the modern German, meaning fame or glory. Historical tradition associates the name with all that is true and noble; another meaning ascribed to it is "one whose word is reliable." Others claim that the name is derived from the French, since we read that Roger l, Count of Sicily and Calarbria, and the founder of the Norman dynasty in the countries, was born in Normandy, France, about 1031. This suggests that the English Rogers families were possibly originally Norman French and went to England with William the Conqueror.

John Rogers The Martyr

Reverend John Rogers, the Martyr of the Anglican Reformation during the Marian Period was born in 1507 near Birmingham, County Warwick, England. He was educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, receiving his BA degree in 1525. That same year he was chosen to the Cardinals College at Oxford, made a junior canon and soon thereafter went into the holy orders in the Roman Catholic Church.

On his conversion to Protestantism, Rogers determined to publish the entire Bible in the English language. It was printed at the Antwerp Press and there are three original copies in the British Museum. Rogers lived in Wittenburg, Germany for 11 years, returning to England upon the accession of Edward VI to the English throne. He diligently labored in the work of the church until the accession on Queen Mary to the throne, when on Sunday after her triumphal entry into London 16 July 1553, he preached a sermon at St. Paul’s Cross wherein he exhorted the people to adhere to Protestantism. This sermon was the beginning of his end and he was summoned before the Privy Council because of it. Rogers was sent to Newgate Prison in 1553/4 and remained there a year. He was brought again before the Privy Council in January 1554/55 and condemned and sentenced as an excommunicated heretic to be burned to death at the stake. The sentence was carried out on 4 Feb 1554/5. He was offered a pardon if he would renounce Protestantism but refused. (sources: "The Rogers Family of England" by John Cox; "John Rogers, The Compiler of the First Authorized English Bible, the Pioneer of the English Reformation and its First Martyr" by Joseph L. Chester; and "Families Directly Descended From All the Royal Families in Europe")

More About THOMAS JOHN ROGERS:
Fact 1: Died during the first winter-buried on Cole's Hill
Fact 2: Mayflower Passenger along with his son Joseph
Fact 3: Member of Leyden Congregation
Fact 4: 1647, appointed Lt. of the military company at Nawsett
Fact 5: It appears he had multiple wives and children could belong to different moms
Fact 7: some have parents of Thomas: William Rogers and Eleanor ? and
Fact 8: William and Joan Rogers as grandparents
Fact 9: 11 Nov 1620, arrived in America, at Cape Cod, on the Mayflower
Fact 10: One of the 41 signers of the Mayflower Compact-signer #18

Children of THOMAS ROGERS and GRACE MCKINN are:

3.	i.	JOSEPH¹⁶ ROGERS, b. 1608, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England; d. 02 Jan 1677/78, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts.
	ii.	THOMAS ROGERS, b. 1609.
4.	iii.	WILLIAM ROGERS, b. 07 Feb 1612/13, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England; d. 1669, Huntington, Suffolk, England.
5.	iv.	JAMES [SR.] ROGERS, b. 1615, Dedham, Essex, England; d. Feb 1687/88.
	v.	NOAH ROGERS, b. 1617.
6.	vi.	JOHN ROGERS, b. 06 Jul 1617, Stratford, Warwick, Connecticut; d. 25 Aug 1691, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
7.	vii.	ELIZABETH ROGERS, b. 16 Nov 1617, Dedham, Essex, England; d. 27 Jul 1680, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

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