ANCESTRY OF VERN ELIJAH ROGERS

TRUNK: VERN ELIJAH ROGERS (GEN. 1) TO HENRY OF HUNTINGTON (GEN. 26)

 

Gen. 26: Henry I of Huntingdon, b. 1114, d. 1152, bur. Kelso Abbey (Kelso, Scotland); m. 1139, Ada de Warenne, d. 1178. Henry was the Earl of Huntingdon and is the end of the Anglo-Saxon fork. Ada is the end of the Frankish fork. The lineage through each fork is reported separately.

 

Gen. 25: David of Huntingdon, b. 1133, d. 1219 (Northamptonshire); m2. 1190, Matilda of Chester, b. 1171, d. 1233.

 

Gen. 24: Ada of Huntingdon, d. 1241; m. abt 1237, Henry I de Hastings, d. before 1250.

 

Gen. 23: Hillary de Hastings, m. about 1256, William III de Harcourt, d. 1270 or 1271. The Harcourt family descends from Bernard the Dane (Gen. 33), who settled in Harcourt in Normandy. Bernard’s great-grandson Anchetil de Harcourt accompanied William the Conqueror in the invasion of England in 1066 and is regarded as the first person to use the Harcourt name. The family took possession of the Oxfordshire manor that came to be called Stanton Harcourt in 1191.

 

Gen. 22: Richard II de Harcourt, b. 1256, d. 1293; m., Margaret Beke.

 

Gen. 21: John de Harcourt, b. about 1275, d. 1330; m., Eleanor LaZouche.

 

Gen. 20: William IV de Harcourt, b. about 1300, d. 1349; m. before 1345, Jane de Grey.

 

Gen. 19: Thomas I de Harcourt, d. 1347; m. 1374, Maud de Grey. Thomas I de Harcourt served as Member of Parliament from Oxfordshire in 1376.

 

Gen. 18: Thomas II de Harcourt, b. 1377, d. 1420; m., Jane Francis.

 

Gen. 17: Richard IV de Harcourt, d. 1486; m. about 1445, Edith Saint Clair, b. about 1425, d. about 1472.

 

Gen. 16: Alice de Harcourt, d. about 1526; m. William de Bessiles, d. 1515. William de Bessiles was appointed the Sheriff of Berkshire and Oxfordshire in 1488 and 1500, and he later served as a justice of the peace.

 

Gen. 15: Elizabeth Bessiles; m., Richard Fettiplace, b. about 1456, d. 1511.

 

Gen. 14: Anne Fettiplace, b. 1496, d. d. 1568; m., Edward Purefoy, b. 1494, d. 1558.

 

Gen. 13: Mary Purefoy; m., Thomas Thorne, d. 1588 or 1589.

 

Gen. 12: Susan Thorne; m., 1575, Roger Dudley, b. about 1550, d. 1585 or 1586.

 

Gen 11: Thomas Dudley, b. 1576 (Yardley-Hastings, Northamptonshire), d. 1653 (Roxbury, MA); m1. 1603, Dorothy Yorke, d. 1643 (Roxbury, MA). Thomas Dudley landed in Boston in 1630 along with John Winthrop aboard the Arbella, the first ship in the great Puritan migration of the 1630s. Dudley was probably in the audience when Winthrop delivered his famous sermon “A Model for Christian Charity,” where Winthrop told the Puritan migrants that their venture in the New World made them “a city on a hill” that could be seen by everyone. Dudley was the third governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and one of the original overseers of Harvard.

 

Gen. 10: Mercy Dudley, b. 1621 (England), d. 1691, Newbury, MA); m. 1639 (prob. Newbury, MA), John VI Woodbridge, b. 1613 (Stanton, Wiltshire), d. 1695, bur. First Parish Burying Ground (Newbury, MA). Woodbridge is at least the sixth in a line of Puritan ministers named John Woodbridge in England and America, the first of whom was a follower of John Wycliffe.

 

Gen. 9: John Woodbridge VI, b. 1644 (England), d. 1691; m. 1671, Abigail Leete, b. 1643 (Wethersfield, CT), d. 1710 (Simsbury, CT), bur. Simsbury (Simsbury, CT). Abigail is the child of William Leete (Gen. 10), a former governor of the Colony of New Haven and the later Colony of Connecticut.

 

Gen 8: Mercy Woodbridge, b. 1672 (Killingworth, CT), d. 1707 (Suffield, CT); m. 1696 (Hartford, CT), Rev. Benjamin Ruggles, b. 1676 (Roxbury, MA), d. 1708 (Suffield, CT), bur., Old Center Cemetery (Suffield, CT). Benjamin Ruggles is the grandson of John Ruggles and Barbara Bridges, who arrived in Boston from London aboard the ship “Hopewell” in 1635 as part of the Puritan migration to New England.

 

Gen 7: Joseph Ruggles I, b. 1701 (Simsbury, CT), d. 1791 (Brookfield, CT); m. 1722, Rachel Tolles, b. 1702 (Old Saybrook, CT), d. 1746 (New Milford, CT).

 

Gen. 6: Joseph Ruggles II, b. 1729, d. 1802; m., Sarah Dunning, b. 1741 (Newtown, CT), d. 1817.

 

Gen. 5: Martin Ruggles, b. 1774 (Brookfield, CT), d. 1840 (Caledonia, MO); m. 1807, Lodema Starr, b. 1778 (Brookfield, CT), d. 1848 (Caledonia, MO). Martin Ruggles is one of the pioneer settlers of Missouri and played a key role in the creation of a number of institutions in and around Caledonia, MO, including the first Presbyterian Church and first Masonic Lodge west of the Mississippi River. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives but died before serving.

 

Gen. 4: Emeline Elizabeth Ruggles, b. 1809 (Washington Co., MO), d. 1876 (Washington Co., MO), bur. prob. in an unmarked grave in Bellevue Presbyterian Cemetery (Caledonia, MO); m2. 1838 (Washington Co. MO), Joseph Rogers, b. (Virginia), d. estimated 1849. Joseph Rogers is the first known member of the immediate Rogers line.

 

Gen. 3: Elijah Starr Rogers, b. about 1840 (Washington Co. MO), d. 1911 (Neosho Co., KS), bur. Thayer Cemetery (Thayer, KS); m3. 1870 (Irondale, MO), Barbara Angeline Tummins, b. 1834 (Farmington, MO), d. 1920 (Neosho, KS), bur. Thayer Cemetery (Thayer, KS). During the Civil War, Elijah Starr Rogers served as a private and farrier in Company M, 3rd Regiment, Missouri State Militia Cavalry, and probably was present at the Battle of Pilot Knob in 1864. In 1891, Elijah Starr Rogers took ownership of 160 acres of land in Texas Co., MO, which he had been farming under the Homestead Act of 1862, and eventually moved to the farm of his son James Elijah Rogers (Gen. 2) before 1910.

 

Gen. 2: James Elijah Rogers, b. 1873 (Caledonia, MO), d. 1960 (Post, TX), bur. Terrace Cemetery (Post, TX); m. 1894, Mary Ellen House, b. 1876 (Missouri), d. 1963 (Post, TX), bur. Terrace Cemetery (Post, TX).

 

Gen. 1: Vern Elijah Rogers, b. 1904 (Urbana, Neosho Co., KS), d. 1996 (Beloit., WI), bur. Floral Lawn Cemetery (S. Beloit, IL); m1. 1929 (Abilene, TX), Celia Frances Crump, b. 1907/8 (Garland Co., AR), d. 1942 (Wilson Co., KS), bur. Thayer Cemetery (Thayer, KS); m2., 1943 (Nowata, OK), Ann Marie Austin, b. 1918 (Chanute, KS), d. 2013 (Beloit, WI), bur. Floral Lawn Cemetery (S. Beloit, IL).

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Principal Sources

Gen. 23 to Gen. 26 (Huntingdon): “Scotland, Kings, B. Kings of Scotland 1034-1290” Medieval Lands; Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed., 2004), Lines 93 and 170.

 

Gen. 16 to Gen. 23 (Harcourt): Burke, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland (9th Ed., 1898), Vol. I, pp. 679-81; Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed., 2004), Line 93.

 

Gen. 12 to Gen. 16 (Bessiles/Fettiplace/Purefoy/Thorne): Craig, "Maternal Ancestry of Governor Thomas Dudley: Purefoy, Ayot, and Denton Lines," New England Historical and Genealogical Register,142 (July), 227-44; Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica and the British Archivist, Fifth Series, Vol. V (1923-1925), pp. 63-82; Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed., 2004), Line 143.

 

Gen. 10 and Gen. 11 (Dudley): Adlard, The Sutton-Dudleys of England and the Dudleys of Massachusetts in New England (1862), p. 97; Curtis, "The Mystery of Thomas Dudley's Paternal Ancestors"; The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633; Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed., 2004), Line 143.

 

Gen. 8 to Gen. 10 (Woodbridge): Adlard, The Sutton-Dudleys of England and the Dudleys of Massachusetts in New England (1862), p. 97; The Family of William Leete, One of the First Settlers of Guilford, Conn., and Governor of New Haven and Connecticut Colonies (1884), p. 1; Mitchell, The Woodbridge Record: Being an Account of the Descendants of the Rev. John Woodbridge of Newbury, Mass. (1883); The Ruggles Family in England and America (1893); Talcott, Genealogy of the Woodbridge Family (1878), p. 1.

 

Gen. 6 to Gen. 8: Adlard, The Sutton-Dudleys of England and the Dudleys of Massachusetts in New England (1862), p. 97; Bellevue—Beautiful View: The History of the Bellevue Valley and Surrounding Area (1983), pp. 258-9; Mitchell, The Woodbridge Record: Being an Account of the Descendants of the Rev. John Woodbridge of Newbury, Mass. (1883); The Ruggles Family in England and America (1893).

 

Gen. 5: Bellevue—Beautiful View: The History of the Bellevue Valley and Surrounding Area (1983), pp. 258-9; A History of the Starr Family of New England (1879).

 

Gen. 4: Bellevue—Beautiful View: The History of the Bellevue Valley and Surrounding Area (1983), pp. 258-9; “Joseph Rogers and Emeline Hunt, 26 Jun 1838,” Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920 (familysearch.org).

 

Gen. 3: Bellevue—Beautiful View: The History of the Bellevue Valley and Surrounding Area, pp. 258-9; NATF 86: Military Service File: Elijah S. Rogers, Company M, 3rd Regiment, Missouri State Militia Cavalry; Rogers Family Bible and Notes; U.S. Census manuscripts.

 

Gen. 1 to Gen. 2: Hailey (1993), William Henry Crump Family, Garland County, Arkansas; Rogers Family Bible and Notes; U.S. Census manuscripts.