Rogers of Blachford (Cornwood)
The Rogers baronets began with a Plymouth merchant and M.P. in 1698. Their Dartmoor land, 3,018 acres, is all in Cornwood, around Blachford near Ivybridge. The 1840 owner is Sir John Leman Rogers, 6th Baronet, who died unmarried in 1847 and was succeeded by his brother.
Family tree
Click a name to see everything the sources say about that person, with the exact words quoted, below the chart. Yellow marks the 1840 tithe owner.
John Rogers
John Rogers, a Plymouth merchant and M.P. for Plymouth, created baronet 21 February 1698; sheriff of Devon 1706. Descended from the Rev. Vincent Rogers, himself a son of the Rev. John Rogers, who translated the Bible under the name Thomas Matthew and was the first sufferer in the reign of Mary Tudor. S1
Children shown: Sir John Rogers, 2nd Baronet
Where this comes from
S1 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Rogers
Sir John Rogers, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Rogers, 2nd Baronet, M.P. and recorder of Plymouth. Succeeded 1710. S1
Child of John Rogers. Children shown: Sir John Rogers, 3rd Baronet, Sir Frederick Rogers
Where this comes from
S1 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Rogers
Sir John Rogers, 3rd Baronet
Sir John Rogers, 3rd Baronet, M.P. for Plymouth; died without issue and was succeeded by his brother. S1
Child of Sir John Rogers, 2nd Baronet
Where this comes from
S1 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Rogers
Sir Frederick Rogers
Sir Frederick Rogers, 4th Baronet, recorder of Plymouth and commissioner of the dockyard there. Died 1772. S1
Child of Sir John Rogers, 2nd Baronet. Children shown: Sir Frederick Leman Rogers, 5th Baronet
Where this comes from
S1 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Rogers
Sir Frederick Leman Rogers, 5th Baronet
Sir Frederick Leman Rogers, 5th Baronet, M.P. for and recorder of Plymouth. Married Jane, daughter of John Lillicrap. Died 1797. S1
Child of Sir Frederick Rogers. Children shown: Sir John Leman Rogers, Sir Frederick Leman Rogers, 7th Baronet
Where this comes from
S1 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Rogers
Sir John Leman Rogers
Sir John Leman Rogers, 6th Baronet, born 18 April 1780; died unmarried 10 December 1847. The owner named in the 1840 tithe lists. S1
Child of Sir Frederick Leman Rogers, 5th Baronet
Where this comes from
S1 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Rogers
Sir Frederick Leman Rogers, 7th Baronet
Sir Frederick Leman Rogers, 7th Baronet, born 11 February 1782. Married 12 April 1810 Sophia Deare. Died 13 December 1851. S1
Child of Sir Frederick Leman Rogers, 5th Baronet. Children shown: Sir Frederic Rogers
Where this comes from
S1 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Rogers
Sir Frederic Rogers
Sir Frederic Rogers, 8th Baronet, born 31 January 1811; Under Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1860. Of Wisdome and Blachford, Ivybridge. S1
Child of Sir Frederick Leman Rogers, 7th Baronet
Where this comes from
S1 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Rogers
Stories from the record
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The Gretna Green marriage of the 5th Baronet
In December 1769 Frederick Rogers, eldest son of the 4th Baronet and later the 5th Baronet and M.P. for Plymouth, married Jane Lillicrap, daughter of John Lillicrap of Stoke Damerel, at Gretna Green. The couple were married again in church at Plympton St Maurice on 27 June 1770. The History of Parliament describes the first ceremony as a runaway marriage. Cokayne's Complete Baronetage, as quoted by thepeerage.com, records both the Gretna ceremony of 21 December 1769 and the church ceremony. Jane died in 1800.
Sources: History of Parliament 1790-1820, Rogers, Sir Frederick Leman, 5th Bt.; thepeerage.com p14342, citing Cokayne, Complete Baronetage, vol. IV, p. 177
Sir Frederic Rogers and the sale of encumbered West Indian plantations
In February 1857 Sir Frederic Rogers, Bart. (later Lord Blachford) was appointed Assistant Commissioner, with the Hon. Edmund Phipps as Chief Commissioner, under the West Indian Incumbered Estates Act of 1854. The Act applied the principle of the Irish Incumbered Estates Court to the West Indian colonies, so that heavily mortgaged plantations could be sold through a commission sitting in England. Rogers and Phipps drew up and signed the General Rules, dated 1 May 1857, which were laid before the Queen in Council on 6 May 1857. This was before Rogers became permanent Under-Secretary for the Colonies in 1860.
Sources: R. J. Cust, A Treatise on the West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts, 2nd ed. (London, 1865), introduction and General Rules signed Phipps and Rogers; Rogers, Baron Blachford, Frederic, biographical page citing ODNB and Colonial Office papers
Places on this family's land
Places on this site that stand on, or beside, the fields this family held in 1840.
On their 1840 fields (1)
- Kerbed cairn near Yealm Steps ancient site
Beside them, probably the same owner (1)
- Woodlands Park Primary School organisation
Where the sources differ
Notes
Lysons (1822) lists Sir J. L. Rogers at Cornwood among the baronets' seats.
In the scanned text of Burke, the seat Wisdome reads 'Wisclome'.
Sources
S1 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Rogers
Tithe polygons: Devon Tithe Mapping Polygonisation Project (Adnams 2023), © Devon County Council and Devon Heritage Centre, CC BY 4.0. Transcriptions: Devon County Council.
