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hello Len
You should contact the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/archives/centre_for_buckinghamshire_studies.page
which is the archive and family history centre at Aylesbury Museum.
I agree with GCB - I think the Little Marlow family are at least fourth cousins, as they originally
came from Princes Risborough rather than Stokenchurch.
It doesn't help that Rogers was a common name in South Bucks
in the 19th century - the commonest in some parishes. The case of the Little Marlow family
in WW1 is particularly sad - they lost four sons in four different battles. It is difficult for us now to
imagine what it must have been like.
I haven' t been to the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies myself, but I've heard that they have a lot of
interesting stuff. I would like to see the school and chapel records for Stokenchurch to spot any ancestors'
activities.
One thing you should check - until 1896, Stokenchurch was officially in Oxfordshire - so make sure that
the records you want to examine really are in Aylesbury rather than Oxford.
Good luck!
Beth

Dear Second Cousins!
If this George Rogers lived at 28, Brook Street, then he is undoubtedly one of our great-uncles - George and Elizabeth lived there from sometime in the 1900s until WW2. Another second cousin, Nellie Harvey, wrote about her childhood before she died and described a great number of the family living under that roof in the 1920s.  The census returns show George (Snr) and Elizabeth living in Ibstone 1881, living on Copstone Hill, Ibstone (1891), Moved to Downley 1893 (ish) Living in Plomer Green Lane, Downley according to 1901 census, although the cottages known to Nellie Harvey as her mother’s birthplace are now classified as Littleworth Road and are, amazingly, still there. Moved to 28, Brook Street , HW between 1901 and 1911. George (according to my aunt who was a Rogers) worked at nightwatchman during WW2 and played the accordion.
In total there were 11 siblings - Mary Ann (Annie), Thomas, Elizabeth (Lizzie) (emigrated to Australia in 1905), George Edward, Robert (I can't find anything about Robert, although a Robert Rogers had a furniture workshop in Green Street in 1924), Leonard, Daisy, Ellen, Albert William, Edward (Ted), Alfred Ernest (Ernie) and Dorothy (Doll).

re: Ann Edgeworth and Maria Rogers - Maria was born in Burford in Oxfordshire, but because there are no census returns before 1841, I can't trace whether Ann and Joseph were cousins. It seems probably that they were at least second cousins. Maria's father was James Rogers. Joseph Rogers was in service in Gloucestershire - I read that the gentry liked their servants to come from a different county to minimise the effect of their gossip!

George Rogers was married to Elizabeth Bradbury who was a lacemaker from Ibstone. I think that it is mis-spelt Bradley on one of the census returns. There are two generations beforehand who lived in Stokenchurch - George's father was Joseph Rogers (wife Ann Edgeworth from Bibury, Gloucestershire) and his father was Samuel Rogers (wife Ann Taylor).

hello GCB
George Rogers and Elizabeth Bradbury had eleven surviving children and there was an Edward born in 1898 in High Wycombe, as they moved to HW to work in the furniture factories. He married Hilda Parker.
I am another of the great grandchildren!