Sometimes during the research of my family tree, I find that one ancestor (Queen Mary I, aka “Bloody Mary”) was responsible for another ancestor’s death (John Rogers, “the Martyr”) who Mary had burned at the stake as he was a heretic. Mary burned a lot of people as she believed heretics should die by fire. …
John Rogers (the Martyr) (13th GGF) 1507–1555 BIRTH 4 FEB 1507 • Birmingham, Warwickshire, England DEATH 4 FEB 1555 • Warwick, Nottinghamshire, England 13th great-grandfather Rev. John Rogers was a sixth generation Rogers who chose to become a clergyman. He was born circa 1500 in the parish of Aston, near Birmingham at the family home ‘Deritend’. He was educated at Pembroke …
