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Whiston Families

Rodgers Family

Matthew Rodgers, a Stone Mason, was born in Whiston. He married Sarah Cawthorne 16 MAY 1805 in Whiston. Sarah was born in Thorpe Hesley.

According to the History & Directory of Sheffield and Rotherham, dated 1833; Matthew Rodgers owned the Beer House in Whiston.

1851 census Children of Matthew and Sarah Rogers all born in Whiston:

Living with Sarah in Kimberworth at the time of the census of 1861:

According to the marriage certificate of Matthias, his father Matthew was deceased before 1871, census details suggest, deceased before 1861.

Mathias Rodgers was born in Whiston about 1843. He married Annie Shaw (nee Pierpoint) in Dec 1871 . The marriage took place in a registry office. Witness was John Rodgers and another (unreadable). They were now living at Chemist Lane, Masbrough

Mary Elizabeth Rodgers

Children of Mathias and Annie:

Mary Elizabeth Rodgers, pictured here, married Richard Jones from Rawmarsh, possibly around 1894. They moved away to Sunderland where they had a shop.

Notes re Annie Pierpoint
Annie's father was Henry Pierpoint (blacksmith).
She was a widow, aged 29, when she married Matthias.
Her first husband was unknown Shaw.



Children of Arthur and Bertha(Nee Rodgers):

Edith died in 2007 at the age of 101.

John Rogers (1850), son of Matthew and Sarah, had married Annie from Masbrough by 1881. He was a Stone Mason, living in Whiston with children:

Also with the family was a niece, Edith Annie Rowdon aged 14 from Sheffield.

Listed on the 1891 census for Whiston and the 1901 census for Treeton, is another Rodgers family. (Is there a connection with this family?)

 

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