The Rogers and other Families

I have been researching my family tree, on and off, for some thirty-six years now, and have put this information here for any one who may be interested.

Graham Rogers

February 2006

Family Photos

• Elsie and Doris (52 KB)
  Elsie and Doris were friends ever since they worked together at Wheeler's Clothing Factory in Plaistow.
• Ella, Ernest & Elsie (47 KB)
  This is a picture of Ella & Ernest on Southend Pier. It was taken around 1935.
• Bruce Piggott b.1942 (9 KB)
  There were not many photographs of Bruce as a baby as he was born during the war and film was not easy to come by.
• Christmas 1926 (17 KB)
  This picture was taken by my father in 1926. He threw some flash powder wrapped up in paper on the fire. It used to send soot all over the place!
• Emily Curtis and John Lear Rogers (51 KB)
  This Photograph was taken around 1905. My father was named after John Lear Rogers who died just before my father was born. My father remembers Emily scrubbing the floor when he ran through the kitchen knocking the bucket of water over.
• Horace, Sis, Emily and Jack. (14 KB)
  Emily Curtis was the first person to start calling may father "Jack".
• Coronation in Tunmarsh Lane Plaistow (47 KB)
  Elsie on far right and Graham 2nd row 5th from the right.
• Rose Bulpitt (103 KB)
  Rose married Bernard Hone, Valerie (Graham's wife) Uncle. Bernard and Rose live in S.A.
• Ernest Frederick Rogers 1878 (25 KB)
  Ernest Frederick was a tram driver for most of his working life.
• The Rogers at Southend on Sea (172 KB)
  Ella (Sis),Alice wife of George sister of Ella Elizabeth, Horie, Emily & Ella Elizabeth Taken by Ernest Frederick Rogers.
• Ella and Ernest Rogers (36 KB)
  Ella and Ernest Rogers 1909 Ernie can be seen peeping through the bushes.
• Southend 2 (360 KB)
  Ella Elizabeth, Emily, Ernie, Jack, Sis & Horie.
• Ella in First Avenue (58 KB)
  An unusually unposed photo of Ella taken by Ernest Frederick.
• Southend 3 (327 KB)
  Horie, Ernie & Sis These photographs were taken around 1912.
• Ella and family (50 KB)
  Ella, brother George, his wife Alice, Brother Fred, his wife Louise (and sister of Alice), Emily, Horie and Ernie.
• Emily Rogers, Doris Dennington & Clarer (50 KB)
  Emily, Elsie, Doris (Dolly) and Clarer all worked together at Wheelers. They were Machinists.

Related Links

• Cousin Bruce's own Page
• Graham's Storytelling site