LIFE GOES ON: AN INTRODUCTION

MY GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

THE SIXTEEN FAMILIES

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CORNWELL - I - HUCKLE - I - MORTLOCK - I - MANSFIELD - I - REYNOLDS - I - CARTER - I - ANABLE - I - STEARN

CHRONOLOGY - I - DRAMATIS PERSONAE - I - WHERE PEOPLE CAME FROM - I - CALENDAR

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Rachel Rogers
born Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, 1825
died Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, 1906

on the Reynolds family tree
part of the
Anable family story

married to William Anable

mother of Samuel Anable

daughter of
John Rogers
and Mary Chapman

Rachel Rogers(1825-1906). My Mother's Mother's Mother's Father's Mother. My Great-Great-Great-Grandmother.


  1825: Rachel Rogers born at Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire. She was baptised at St Peter and St Pauls' church Dry Drayton on 6th February, along with her sister Elizabeth, so she may well have been a twin. Her father John's occupation was given as blacksmith.


1845: Rachel married WIlliam Anable on 26th October at St Peter and St Pauls' church, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire. She was 20 years old. Both William and Rachel signed the register with a cross. Rachel's father's occupation was given as blacksmith.


   
 

1851 census:

Rachel was twenty-six years old at the time of the 1851 census. The Anable family were living at 23 the Cottages, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire.

Rachel's husband William is shown as a bricklayer. He was 27 years old.

Rachel had two children at the time of the 1851 census: Elizabeth was 5 and Samuel was 1. Also living in the house at the time of the census were two lodgers, John and Mary Rogers, aged 65 and 64 respectively. John's occupation is shown as blacksmith. Almost certainly, these are Rachel's parents.

The census records that Rachel was born at Dry Drayton in Cambridgeshire, as were her children. Her husband was born in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire. The transcript for the entry is here.

 
 

1861 census:

Rachel was thirty-six years old at the time of the 1851 census. The Anable family were living at Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire.

Her husband William is shown as a bricklayer. He was 37 years old.

Rachel had five children living at home at the time of the 1851 census: Elizabeth, his daughter, who appears on the 1851 census, is no longer at home. Living in the house at the time of the census were Samuel aged 11, William aged 9, Maria aged 7, Susan aged 5 and Rachel aged 9 months. Nine year old William's gravestone is still extant in Dry Drayton graveyard - he died at the age of 71 in 1922. The two lodgers, John and Mary Rodgers, Samuel's mother's parents, who appear on the 1851 census, are no longer living in the household.

The census records that Rachel was born at Dry Drayton in Cambridgeshire, as were her children. Her husband was born in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire. The transcript for the entry is here.





1906: Rachel died in Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire. She was 81 years old. She was buried in Dry Drayton graveyard on 25th August.

 
 


LIFE GOES ON: AN INTRODUCTION

MY GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

THE SIXTEEN FAMILIES

KNOTT - I - BOWLES - I - WATERS - I - HARRALL - I - PAGE - I - WISEMAN - I - CROSS - I - CARTER

CORNWELL - I - HUCKLE - I - MORTLOCK - I - MANSFIELD - I - REYNOLDS - I - CARTER - I - ANABLE - I - STEARN

CHRONOLOGY - I - DRAMATIS PERSONAE - I - WHERE PEOPLE CAME FROM - I - CALENDAR

MAP OF ELY - I - MAP OF MEDWAY
MAP OF CAMBRIDGE AND DISTRICT

THE WORKHOUSE

WORLD WAR I - I - WORLD WAR II

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