Notes for Jane Hope: Hope - name of local origin. John Hope of Peebleshire rendered homage in 1296. Simon de la Hope was received to King's ------ in 1321. In 1478 a Thomas Hope held a tenement in Edinborough.
Jane (Hope) Oliver Rogers was born in Scotland about 1807, emigrated to the United States in 1836/37. She brought four children with her, had two more after she arrived in Indiana. Her obituary states she and her husband made the trip to Indiana from the east by oxen. She had married William Oliver in Scotland, his name appears in the 1840 census returns for St. Joseph county but apparently had died by 1842. Jane Oliver married John Rodgers/Rogers 22 July 1842, appears in the 1850 census, and was a widow by the census of 1870, living with her son John Oliver. She fell and broke her leg, sustained other injuries which at her extreme age (86) proved fatal, April 8, 1893. Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian Church and she was buried in Mishawaka, IN.
References: National Archives NY NY Passenger list from Liverpool 12 Aug 1837, ship master Charles Barthing. Also Index to Passenger Lists 1820- M261 Roll 74. Arrived Aug 1837 from England on ship Henry Kneeland with husband William, children, she aged 29.
Census:US 1840 IN St. Joseph Co. family of William Oliver, p. 78, line 3, female 30-40 (age 32), National Archives Microfilm M-704, roll 94. Census:1850 U.S. Census; St. Joseph County IN;Penn Township, family 160, dwelling 160, line 11, age 42, married to John Rodgers, her four Oliver children live with her, as well as 2 yr old Jane Rodgers. N.A. film M-432 roll 171. Census-1870 U.S.; St. Joseph Co. IN; Penn Twp; p.28; family#213, dwelling 226, line 38, age 62 keeping house for son John Oliver, N.A. film M-593, roll 360. Census-1880 U.S.; St. Joseph Co.IN; Penn Twp.; p.13; family # 136, dwelling 131, line 18, age 72, keeping house for son John, N.A. film T-9, roll 309.
Obituary of Mrs. Jane Rogers, MISHAWAKA ENTERPRISE; 14 Apr. 1893; Mishawaka, IN. Photocopy in Possession of Beverly Oviatt Schonewolf. Children: Listed in notes of husband William Oliver with the exception of Jane Rodgers, child of John Rodgers b.1848 IN From her obituary: Another Venerable Pioneer Gone Mrs. Jane Rogers, one of the early settlers of Mishawaka, but who for 3 years past had resided with a son and daughter at Middlebury, died in the latter town last Saturday afternoon, at the advanced age of 86 years. Some time ago, Mrs. Rogers fell and broke her leg and sustained other injuries which at her extreme age, proved fatal. Mrs. Rogers was a native of Scotland, she and her husband coming to Mishawaka in 1836, making the journey from the east here by oxen. Mrs. Rogers was the mother of Mrs. J.J. Melvin and Thomas Oliver of Elkhart, John Oliver and Mrs. Ellen Myers of Middlebury and Mrs. Jennie Stevenson of Leadville, Colo. The remains were brought to Mishawaka for interment on Monday last, the funeral services being held at the Presbyterian Church.
Estate Papers, Elkhart County, Indiana, Vault N 54, Drawer F27, Estate # 1004: In the Circuit Court March Term 1894, Application to remove Administrator Now come John Oliver and H.D. Wilson and on oath show to this court that on the 4th day of January, 1894, one Edward G. Walker filed his application in this court to be appointed administrator of Mrs. Jane Oliver Rodgers, deceased, and his bond, both of which application and bond are attached hereto and made a part hereof. Your petitioners Oliver and Wilson signed said bond in good faith supposing said Walker, in good faith, intended to take out letters on said estate and to properly administer the same, but your petitioners show to this court that they are not advised whether letters of administration have been issued to said Walker or not, but that the records of this court show that his appointment has been confirmed by order of this court. Your petitioners further show that said Walker has filed no inventory, nor has he taken any oath of office to properly administer said estate. Your petitioners further show that said Walker has absconded from said County, and his whereabouts are to these parties entirely unknown, but they believe that said Walker has absconded from said county, and his whereabouts are to these parties entirely unknown, but they believe that he has abandoned his family without cause, and left the State of Indiana with the purpose of never returning to the same. That the only object of obtaining such letters if administration was to obtain money from the estate of a deceased relative of said Hope in Scotland. That the money so to be obtained from Scotland is, as your petitioners believe, the property of said John Oliver through his mother Jane hope Oliver Rodgers deceased. We believe that emergency exists, that we do not know whether said Walker has obtained said money from Scotland, or not, but we fear that he will try to obtain the same unless he is forthwith removed, and that an emergency exists for his immediate removal. We ask that said pretended confirmation of letters and his appointment be set aside, and said Walker be removed from said trust without delay. Henry D. Wilson John Oliver Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 16th day of April, 1894 W. J. Davis
December term 1894 Estate Report: The undersigned, Administrator of the Estate of said decedent respectfully submits to said Court the following: I am chargeable with amount received M.22.1894 from Scotland belonging to said estate $269.48 And that is all the money or estate that has come to the knowledge or possession of this administrator.
Notice to Heirs, Creditors published twice in January 1895.
> I have a Mrs Jane Hope or Oliver or Rogers Living (living 1892), widow, of Middlebury, Elkhart County, State or Indiana, , daughter of Mrs Helen Paterson or Hope wife of the late Thomas Hope, shepherd, Shaw, Langholm, who was the sister of the late William Paterson, farmer of Twiglees, in the parish of Eskdalemuir in the county of Dumfries. William Paterson died, leaving the better part of 40,000 pounds sterling, on the 29th September, 1878, unmarried. His estate passed to his sisters and, if they had died before him, to his nephews and nieces. One of the nephews disappeared in the Australian Gold fields and, as a result, a detailed list of family members was drawn up and settled in the Scottish Courts on the 8th December, 1892. I have a copy and it is from this that the above information comes.
Jane Hope or Oliver or Rogers was the aunt of my great grandmother Jane Hope or Allsup of Singleton and later Whittingham Hall, Lancashire.
I have no further information on Janes Husbands (I assume that she married twice given the additional name Rogers) nor can I identify "the castle". There are, of course, plenty of "Border Keeps" of "Peel Towers" associated with border farms, which would not show on a map as a full castle. "Merrylaw" may be farm with a tower. The word "law" usually indicated a hill, so "Merrylaw" may be found on a hill a good position for observation and defence. -- Nigel Barker
I am sending you a copy of the Court Order, which will give you a fair amount of information of the extended family. You will see that Jane has no children mentioned because, having lived so long, she was entitled to her share of the estate in her own right. I calculate that she will have received an interim payment of her share of her uncle's estate of 900 sterling after 11th December, 1879 and a further final dividend of just over 71 pounds sterling after 12th May 1881; she should also have a had a copy of the Court Order but, since the Order is date 8th December, 1892 and Jane died on the 14th April, 1893, she will only just have received it before her death, assuming a safe transit of the documentation from the UK.
I have had some communication with Lynn Crockett; She has been kind enough to let me have a copy of a letter from William Paterson to her relative, William Anderson who had married Wilhemina Oliver, from Hawick. The letter is dated from Twiglees, 17th September, 1840.
You will see, from the Court Order, that cousins (first or further removed) can be found travelling to similar destinations in far off Countries.
More About Jane Hope: Burial: 10 April 1893, Mishawaka, IN. Census Records: 1840, St. Joseph Co., IN. Immigration: 1837, England to New York in the "Henry Kneeland". Obituary: 14 April 1893, Mishawaka Enterprise, Mishawaka, IN.
More About Jane Hope and William Oliver: Marriage: Bef. 1829, Scotland.1205, 1206
Children of Jane Hope and William Oliver are:
+Helen Oliver, b. 06 July 1833, Merrie Law, Roxburghshire, Scotland1207, d. 29 March 1908, Middlebury, Elkhart Co, IN1208, 1209.
Jane Hope (b. Abt. 1808, d. 08 April 1893)
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