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From: Peter Rogers <>
Subject: My Lost Rogers
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 18:31:58 -0400


Hello, Sorry if this is along one but I`m getting desparate !!!
I`m the new boy on the block ! I wonder if anyone can help me to trace
some cousins who may have come to S.Africa from India in the 1920`s. My
Father came to England in 1924 after he was demobilised from the Indian
Army (He was a lieutenant in the 40th.Pathans.) and, for reasons that I do
know ,did not keep in touch with his family - and like so many of us I
didnt ask enough questions before he died way back in 1963. My Grandfather
was in the political dept of the Indian Civil Service and was the Assistant
Resident in Kashmir at his retirement in 1920. The Family came originally
from Co.Cork and Co.Kerry in Ireland and first appear in India in 1839. I
have, through the excellent records in the India & Oriental Office
Collection of the British Library in London, been able to trace a number of
names and through the India Line of rootsweb been in touch with a New
Zealand lady who knew a second cousin in Rawlpindi - this is the sum total
of contact that I have been able to find of the Rogers Family.
It is the family of my Uncle - GILBERT NOEL ROGERS. His wife DORIS WINIFRED
ROGERS (nee HARRISON) and daughter PAMELA EDNA ROGERS + possibly 2 other
daughters - that I`m looking for. My Father was told in about 1948 by a
priest who came to Birmingham,England, to preach and who knew my
Grandparents that he (the priest) believed that Uncle Gilbert had taken his
family to South Africa in about 1928 to "learn" fruit farming at a place
called Estcourt in Natal. (I`m told by a friend that this could be a "joke"
as its bit on the hostile side for fruit in this part of Natal and did he
mean sausage making.<GGG>).We did try writing to the Post Office in
Estcourt at the time but with no luck.
If its of any help the Rogers & Pembroke(My Grandmothers family) families
are Catholic but the Harrisons were Church of England (or Ireland).
Gilbert Noel Rogers was born in Kashmir in 1891 and was a regular Officer
in the Indian Army (99th,DeccanInfantry) until he too resigned in the big
run down of the Army in 1923. Doris Winfred Harrison was born in Kashmir
also, but in 1895. Her Father was the Agent in North West India for the
Punjab Bank. I can only trace the name of one Daughter Pamela Edna Rogers,
who was born in October 1919 at an Army cantonment outside Bombay. Gilbert
& Doris were married in 1915 again in Kashmir. I think that I remember that
my Father said that Gilbert had 3 daughters, but of course they may had
subsquent family as well.
Apart from my grandfather in the Civil Service all of his brothers,in
India, seem to be connected with Breweries- which may explain where my
thirst comes from.....
I have been lucky to have been able to research India so well through the
London records but I know nothing about S.African sources that I will
appreciate any guidence that any of you can give and perhaps one day I may
be able reciprocate with the odd look up in England.
Thanks and Cheers
Peter Denzil Rogers, Suffolk,England ()

Looking for Rogers,Pembroke,Harrison,Bradbeer and Bradley in
India,Ireland,UK and wherever else that they have settled.

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