Great times 8 granparents

For one of the 1,042 Great x8 grandparents... ancestor of mine.

You are an important person who once lived, loved, had zest for life, and passion for whatever you were interested in.

You have a granddaughter eight times great removed.  And many more than the other people of your generation who gave genes to me throughout the centuries.

One of those 1,042 ancestors was

Giles Fitz Rogers 

Birth 1643 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 

Death 1730 in Dunkirk, King and Queen, Virginia

He married another great times eight, Lucille Rachel Eastham (1642 – 1735) in 1672 in Worchestershire, England.

He is noteworthy in all my genealogical tales on my father's side of the family as the first Rogers to become an American.

He came to Jamestown, VA, and had his own ship, and I heard there was a martyr in his ancestry, and someone or another were goldsmiths.  These are not parts of his story that I can find records for, but are certainly interesting stories, and often a story is built on oral histories, whether or not they are accurate.

One such story says that his name had been Giles Fitz-Rogers, and he changed it to Giles Fitz Rogers when he arrived in America.  Since very few people were reading and writing in the 1670s, it's very likely that someone who could write simply wrote it that way.

However the case, I now have a cousin (the only male in my generation of Rogers) named John Fitz Rogers.

So this is the list of the Rogers:

Giles Fitz Rogers, Great x8 grandfather

John Rogers

George Rogers

Henry Rogers

Elijah Rogers

Micajah Rogers

George Rogers

William Rogers (great grandfather)

George Rogers

George Rogers

Barbara Rogers (me)

Ancestors Birthdays for January

A bit retrograde, like Mercury, are the January ancestors' birthdays:
Margaret Etha Miller,
James Winston Rogers
Eugenia Almeta Booth Miller  

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Margaret Etha Miller, (see my blog post about her here)
Born January 10, 1909 in Smithfield, TX.  Great Aunt Margaret was the sister of my mother's mother, Mozelle Booth Miller Webb Munhall. 



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James Winston Rogers was born January 14, 1922
He was a younger brother of my father, George Elmore Rogers, Jr.  Much younger, by 7 years.  We called him Uncle Jimmy.

Married in 1945, (divorced 1980's) to Dorothy Marie Hehlke Rogers, d. 1987 Stevens Point, WI

This picture was from my father's album, which I never knew existed until a few months ago.

(Dad's mother) Ada, James, (my mother) Mataley, (my father) George Jr, and (Dad's father) George Rogers Sr., San Antonio, Texas

4.21.35 (Uncle Jimmy) James Rogers in front, (Uncle) Chauncey and (my dad) George Jr, (Dad's mother) Ada and (Dad's father) George Sr.

James, Ada Rogers, Mataley Rogers, San Antonio Texas.

James, Ada and George Rogers Sr. 1201 Woodlawn, San Antonio TX

George Rogers Sr and his sons, James, Chauncey and George (horsing around!) San Antonio TX

The time I remember meeting my Wisconsin relatives was at Thanksgiving in 1953 when we drove up to Stevens Point from St. Louis.

(Left to right front) (cousin) Patricia, (myself) Barbara, (sister) Mary Beth, (Back) (Dad) George, (Aunt Dottie) Dorothy,(Uncle) James, (cousin) Christine Rogers

Christine and Patricia Rogers (James' children,) are cousins that I've only seen a few times in my life, and now they have children (and maybe grandchildren too)  Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Dottie also had 2 other children, Cynthia and John Fitz Rogers.  I met them once with my oldest 2 sons on a camping trip to Wisconsin.

James Rogers, 1953

Uncle Jimmy was a commercial artist, which somehow was given a second rating whenever I learned about "real art" (like in museums.)  But he made his living doing art for an insurance company (Wassau) for many years.  He was inspirational to me to dabble in various artistic endeavors so my family could say "it may run in the family."

The only picture from this trip with my mother Mataley Rogers in it, center, just behind myself in the coat with collar.  I enjoy the kind of candid nature of these pictures.

James Rogers and brother George Rogers, 1953 (George was around 6 feet, I never noticed James was taller!)

George, Chauncey and James Rogers at their father's burial (George Rogers, Sr.) 1960, Houston, Texas

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Eugenia Almeta Booth Miller (see my past blog post about her here) 
 b. 1.30.1873, 
m 10.28.1896 Charles Miller (Mueller,) 
 d. 1.1.1936. 
 My great grandmother on mother's side, for whom I given the middle name Booth.


I'll try to get the March ancestors birthday published in that month!  No promises!