Thomas Rogers, of Chelmsford

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rogers-3526

Thomas was baptised at Chelmsford, Essex on 30 January 1574/5, with his father named as John Rogers.[1] He was almost certainly the son of John Rogers, a Chelmsford shoemaker.

Known Children

As mentioned in his 1624 will:

1. Thomas b. abt 1603 (1624: of legal age when father appointed him will executor, but not yet twenty-two, and unmarried).
2. Mary b. aft 1603 (1624: not yet twenty-one, and unmarried)
3. John b. aft. 1603 (ditto)

Will

Written 23 May 1624 : Probated - Chelmsford, Essex, England[2]

Thomas Rogers of the hamlet of Mulsham in the County of Essex shoemaker, 23 May, 1st Charles (I.), proved at Chelmsford 14 Jan 1625.

• To Mary, my loving wife, my three tenements with all and singular their appurtenances, the which I lately bought of my brother John Rogers of Dedham, clerk, for and during the time or term that my daughter Mary shall attain to one and twenty years or day of marriage: the which my wife shall be contented with. And upon one of those times I will the said Tenements & c. to my said daughter and to her heirs. But if it shall please God to call her out of this mortal life before she shall come to her several age or day of marriage then I shall the same to my son John and to his heirs. And if both of them die before their several ages of one and twenty years then I will the said tenements to the next heirs of me the said Thomas the testator; provided always that if both my said children do die before they come to their several ages... [said property to remain with wife Mary. Remainder of will parses Moulsham residence and property to eldest son Thomas and rooms within the dwelling to wife Mary; also, a legacy to brother John]... and, 'residue to my son Thomas...
• The executors to be my loving brother John Rogers of Dedham, clerk, and my said son Thomas.
• Witnesses: Petter de Court, Tho. Sherlock Scr.
• Commissary Court, Essex and Herts, 1624-5.

Disputed Origins

Thomas has previously been shown on Wikitree as son of John Rogers, a prominent Elizabethan lawyer and diplomat and son of John Rogers the first Protestant martyr of the reign of Queen Mary I. He is not listed as a son of John the lawyer in the 1634 Middlesex Visitation[3] and a daughter of John the lawyer was baptised in London on 30 November 1575, which is within ten months of Thomas's baptism. These factors, together with his baptism place, confirm the strong likelihood that Thomas was not the son of John Rogers the lawyer and was the son of the Chelmsford shoemaker.

According to Waters, his mother was Mary (Unk) who died 1579. [4] -added C-213 11:32, 30 October 2019 (UTC) < Archive.Org >