Rachel Rogers

Notes

The interesting situation of Giles marrying two different Eastham women (Rachel & Lucy) the same year of 1672 in England (according to different researchers) seems clear that something happened to Rachel and that the Giles children were born by Lucy, since the first female child was named Lucy after her mother. Most researchers agree there were 6 children. Giles was named after St. Giles, the Patron saint of Edinburgh. He was well educated and then moved to Worcestershire, England. He then migrated to Virginia and patented 400 acres on April 18, 1670, in the Parish of Stratton Major in New Kent County. He returned to England and married Rachel. Many researchers state that her name was Rachel, but Rachel disappeared and Giles married another, sister Lucy. Several eminent tomes state that her name was Lucy or Luci. . Giles returned to Virginia in 1680 aboard the Bay, his own ship, together with everything in the way of tools, household furnishings, and servants. Many generations later the Rogers started moving west. Some say Giles was probably an only child and his father had a motto "Act Justly and Fear Not", which Giles is said to have followed.

See "Genealogies of Virginia Residents", "A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the US

The children of Giles Rogers and Rachel Eastham are shown as:

Giles, Lucy, Peter, John, Rachael, and Mary Ann. Spouses of the children are also identified. - “Giles Rogers daughter Mary Ann Rogers b abt 1687 married Roe Samuel or Samuel Roe.”

References

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=8138003&i...
• Lineage of the Rogers family, England : embracing John Rogers the martyr, emigrant descendants to America and issue, pp 33-34 New York: Press of W.E. Rudge, c1911.