John ROGERS & Adryan DE WEYDEN, a.k.a., Adriana PRATT

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John ROGERS, the Smithfield Martyr
Adryan DE WEYDEN / Adriana PRATT

Husband: John ROGERS
Birth: ca. 1500-1505, prob. Deritend^A, Aston Parish, WAR
Martyrdom: 4 Feb 1555, Smithfield, London, LND
Education-1: 1525, Bachelor of Arts, Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, CAM
Education-2: 1525, made a Junior Canon, Cardinal's College, Oxford, OXF
Father: John ROGERS
Mother: Margery WYATT

Marriage: ca. 1537, Antwerp, Brabant, NL [now BE]

Wife: Adryan DE WEYDEN, a.k.a. Adriana PRATT^B
Birth: of Brabant, NL [now BE]

Children — all believed born at Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhault, DEU:

. Daniel ROGERS
. John ROGERS, bap. 21 Nov 1538
. Ambrose ROGERS, alive in 1591
. Samuel ROGERS
. Philip ROGERS
. Bernard ROGERS
. Augustine ROGERS
. Barnaby ROGERS
. Susan ROGER; m. John SHORT, merchant, London, LND
. Susanna ROGERS, b. 15??; d. 29 Sep 1565; bur. St Mary Woolnoth Parish, London, LND; m. William SHORTE
. Elizabeth ROGERS; m. James PROCTOR, Chancellor of Salisbury
. Hester ROGERS, m. Henry BALL, Physician

Asserted to be, but definitely not children of the martyr:

. Thomas ROGERS, bap. 25 Nov 1540
. Richard ROGERS, bap. 29 Jun 1551

Keywords for search engines: UK, United Kingdom, England, Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire; FRG, Germany, Deutschland, Sachsen-Anhault; Netherlands; Belgium, België, Belgien, Belgique

Sources:

1. Joseph Lemuel Chester. 1861. John Rogers: the Compiler of the First Authorised English Bible; the Pioneer of the English Reformation; and its First Martyr. Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, London.

2. Henry F. Waters. 1890. "Genealogical Gleanings in England." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 44(3): 296-308.

1565. Sep. 29, Susanna, wief of William Shorte, grocer, and daughter to Mr. Rogers, late burned in Smithfield. [Parish Register of St. Mary Woolnoth, Burials, p. 188]

[Footnote:] If Col. Chester had seen the [above] entry he might have been spared much labor in proving the family of the proto-martyr. This entry, taken with the pedigree found in the British Museum, constitutes proof positive.--Editor.

Comments:

A. This hamlet has since been swallowed up by the City of Birmingham; hence some sources say the martyr is "of Birmingham," not Deritend.

B. The surnames PRATT and DE WEYDEN are synonymous: both mean "meadow."

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