Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Emma Blakie Rogerson

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 20 May 1879 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁴³⁷ Christening: Death: Cir 1960 - ( about age 81) ²⁴³⁷ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: James Carlot Rogerson ²²¹¹ Mother: Ann Congdon Duder ²⁴³⁷

Georgiana M. Rogerson

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1891 - Ireland ⁴³³⁷ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Census: 1891, Hutton, Dumfries, Scotland. (Household Member)
• Residence: Gillesbie House, 1891, Hutton, Dumfries, Scotland. (Occupant)
• Census: Gillesbie House, 1901, Gillesbie, Dumfries, Scotland. (Household Member)

Parents

Father: Col. William Rogerson 52rd Shropshire Regiment ⁴³³⁵ Mother: Georgiana Letitia Drought ⁴³³⁴

James Rogerson

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1737 - Moffat, Dumfries, Scotland ⁷⁸⁶⁵ Christening: Death: 19 Mar 1790 - Johnstone, Dumfries, Scotland ( about age 53) ⁴⁶⁰⁴ ^,7865 Burial: After 19 Mar 1790 - Johnstone, Dumfries, Scotland ⁴⁶⁰⁴ Cause of Death:
Events
• Occupation: Merchant, Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland.
• Residence: Upper Tentory, 13 Nov 1789, Johnstone, Dumfries, Scotland.
• Property: Tenant in Fenton (near Lockerbie), 19 Mar 1790, Johnstone, Dumfries, Scotland.
• Residence: 1807, Wamphray, Dumfries, Scotland.

Parents

Father: Samuel Rogerson ¹⁷² Mother: Janet Johnston ³⁹⁹¹ ^,5811

Spouses and Children

1. *Margaret Halliday ⁹⁷⁹ ^,5145 ^,5146 Marriage: Children: 1. Peter Richard Rogerson MEC 2. Margaret Rogerson 3. Elizabeth Rogerson

Notes
General:

061118:

James J. Rogerson was the descendant of a Scottish family of some prominence in Johnstonebridge, Dumfriesshire. His grandfather, a Greenock merchant, is found in the Newfoundland records at least as early as 1803. Peter Rogerson became a permanent resident of Harbour Grace in 1817 and soon married a local girl.

It isn't clear whether the grandfather (James Rogerson) ever came to Newfoundland or if he was simply trading there out of Greenock. His son, Peter R. Rogerson, did come and settled in Newfoundland (originally Harbour Grace then St. John's) and died there.

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110122:

There is a problem concerning the details of Peter "Richard" Rogerson and his parentage.

First of all, nowhere that I have seen is he referred to as Peter RICHARD Rogerson. I don't know how I obtained that middle name and it may be a mistake. But I have seen records where he is referred to as Peter R. Rogerson.

Secondly, and more importantly, today I discovered on FindMyPast a transcript of the memorial to his father, James Rogerson, in the Johnstone Parish Churchyard in Dumfrieshire which contains dates for Peter and his father that make no sense and do not conform with those already present in my family tree, taken mostly from the data compiled on FamilySearch by Chrtistopher Carter. I believe he may have mistakenly mixed up data from one James Rogerson with another. There were many Rogerson's in that part of Scotland and it would be easy to do since many of the church records have gone missing. It is also possible, but less likely, that the transcript by the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society contains errors. I believe for example that the age of James at death should be 53, not 33. Also, I don't understand how Peter can be the only son of James. I show another son as well as two daughters not mentioned on the monument. Neither is his wife, whom I believe to be Margaret Halliday. The second son I had has been removed as it was clearly an error by Christopher Carter to add him in here.

Here is that transcript:

Peter Rogerson in 1858
Scotland Monumental Inscriptions
Johnstone, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Transcript of Peter's record
Record set Scotland Monumental Inscriptions
Birth date ? ? 1789
First name(s) Peter
Death date ? ? 1858
Last name Rogerson
Age 69
Birth year 1789

Inscription In Memory of James Rogerson, late Tenant in Fenton who died 19th March 1790 aged 33 years. Also his only son Peter Rogerson Merchant, St. Johns, Newfoundland, who died there 27th September 1858 aged 69 years. He resided 44 years in that Colony. The Honble. J.J. Rogerson, his son, sometime Receiver General of the Colony died at St. Johns Newfoundland in 1907 aged 87, leaving numerous descendants. Erected by Peter Rogerson, his son, of Newfoundland.
Death year 1858
Cemetery Johnstone Parish Church
County Dumfriesshire
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Country Scotland
Subcategory Parish Burials
Place Johnstone
Collections from Great Britain, Scotland

© Dumfries & Galloway Family History Society

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250122:

I am working on transcribing letters on a microfilm that was created years ago by the Scottish Record Office for the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland which contains documents pertaining to Scottish interests in Newfoundland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Amongst them are several letters from and to members of the Rogerson family. In one of these letters a young man of about 18, Samuel Rogerson, is writing home in 1820 to report on his first experiences in Newfoundland. He comments that he does not know how much he can expect to earn at the company where he is working but that his uncle informed him he would have to apprentice for three or four years before he could expect to be given much of a position of importance in the company just as he had done. That young man, Samuel Rogerson's only known Rogerson uncle would have been James Rogerson. But James was deceased long before the letter was written, whether you believe the date of death found on the monument transcribed above or the date proposed by Christopher Carter. So there was either another Rogerson brother who was this uncle or perhaps the uncle to whom this refers was a Mounsey, brother of Samuel's mother.

James Rogerson

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1764 - Lochbrow, Dumfries, Scotland ⁴⁶⁰⁴ Christening: Death: 18 May 1846 - Moffat, Dumfries, Scotland ( about age 82) ⁴⁶⁰⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Occupation: Merchant, Bef 18 May 1846, Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland.

Parents

Father: William Rogerson ⁴⁶⁰³ ^,4604 Mother: Jean Thomson ⁷⁸⁶⁴

James Rogerson

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1749 - Johnstone, Dumfries, Scotland ⁵⁸¹⁴ Christening: Death: 28 May 1773 - Johnstone, Dumfries, Scotland ( about age 24) ⁵⁸¹⁴ Burial: After 28 May 1773 - Johnstone, Dumfries, Scotland ⁴⁶⁰⁴ Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children

1. *Isabella Johnston ⁵⁸¹⁴ Marriage: Bef 28 May 1773 - Dumfries, Dumfries, Scotland ⁵⁸¹⁴

Notes
General:

110122:

Scotland Monumental Inscriptions Transcription
Record set Scotland Monumental Inscriptions
First name(s) David
Last name Rogerson
Birth year 1735
Death year 1814
County Dumfriesshire
Country Scotland
Place Johnstone
Birth date ? ? 1735
Death date ? ? 1814
Age 79
Inscription Here lies James Rogerson in Fingland who died May 28th 1773 aged 24 years. Also David Rogerson in Fingland, brother to the above, who died May the 26th 1814 aged 79 years. Also Isabella Johnston his spouse who died the 13th of May 1809 aged 59 years.
Cemetery Johnstone Parish Church
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory Parish Burials
Collections from United Kingdom, Scotland

Â© Dumfries & Galloway Family History Society

James Carlot Rogerson

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1853 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Christening: Death: After 1890 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁷⁸⁶⁶ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Death: After Jul 1856, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Residence: May be the business address -- 171 Duckworth St., 1885-1886, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Broker, 11 McBride's Hill, 1890, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Residence: bds Tremont Hotel, 1890, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Hon. James Johnstone Rogerson MHA ²⁹² Mother: Emma Garrett Blaikie ²⁹² ^,1512

Spouses and Children

1. *Ann Congdon Duder ²⁴³⁷ Marriage: 15 Jun 1878 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁴³³⁸
Marriage Events
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1878, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Minister/Priest: Rev. Thomas Harris, Wesleyan Church, 15 Jun 1878, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Children: 1. Emma Blakie Rogerson

Hon. James Johnstone Rogerson MHA

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 21 Mar 1820 - Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁹² ^,595 ^,4604 ^,7867 ^,7868 Christening: 24 Mar 1820 - Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁷⁸⁶⁸ Death: 17 Oct 1907 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 87) ²⁹² ^,595 ^,4604 Burial: After 17 Oct 1907 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁵⁹⁵ ^,7867 Cause of Death:
Events
• Religion: Presbyterian or Methodist, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Minister/Priest: William Ellis, Carbonear Methodist Church, 24 Mar 1820, Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. PRE 1891 REGISTRATION RECORDS
Volume 48
Pages 26 - 56
Carbonear District

CARBONEAR

Methodist
Baptisms

1819 - 1829

SOURCE: LDS Microfilm Reels
Transcribed by Jill Marshall Spring 2004

b Mar 21 1820 Harbour Grace ROGERSON (?) (sic) Richard & Amelia James Johnston M (PALMER?) Wm Ellis bap Mar 24 1820 merchant May be the same couple as PETER ROGERSON and AMELIA PALMER who married 1818 HG ANG.
• Occupation: Apprentice then merchant, 1833-1850, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Membership: Member of the Committee to establish the Native Hall, 1845, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Newfoundland: As it Was, and as it is in 1877, Pg. 80-81

By Philip Tocque

In 1845 the erection of a Native Hall was commenced for the purposes of a classical school lecture room library and reading room. The site of the building was given by the Government. The foundation stone was laid by Sir John Harvey who was then Governor. The following is a copy of the inscription on the foundation stone.

On the twenty fourth day of May Anno Domini 1845 being the anniversary of the birthday of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria this stone was laid by his excellency Major General Sir John Harvey Knight Commander of the most honourable Military Order of the Bath and of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Island of Newfoundland and its Dependencies as the foundation stone of the Native Hall.

For the erection of which the site has been freely granted by his Excellency the Governor then kindly consenting to officiate unto Richard Barnes Edward Kielley, Robert Carter, George Hoyles Dunscomb, Hannibal Murch, Ambrose Shea, and Philip Duggan in trust for the use of the Newfoundland Native Society instituted in this town on the 12th day of June in the year of our Lord 1840, Edward Kielley Esq being its first, Robert Garter Esq lieut Royal Navy and MGA its second, and Richard Barnes Esq MGA its third and present president.

The object and aim of the Association in the use to which the contemplated structure shall be appropriated being the advancement of science by the creation of a thirst for knowledge.

The present Building Committee being Richard Barnes, Chairman, Hannibal Murch, Secretary, George Hoyles Dunscomb, Thomas Graham Morrey, James Johnston Rogerson, John Barron, Philip Duggan, Wm. Freeman, James Gleeson, Henry Thomas, Ambrose Shea, James S. Clift, and Archibald Hamilton McCalman.
May the building be speedily completed amidst the rejoicings of the Society.
God Save the Queen and prosper our native land.

The building was to be of wood and was partly erected when it was destroyed by a violent and terrific gale of wind in the fall of 1846 since which for want of sufficient funds no effort has been made to rebuild it. I hope a substantial stone edifice will soon be erected appropriated to the purposes of a public hall library and lyceum.
.
• Appointment: Legislative Council, 1850, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Grand Jury Member - Merchant - Water St., 20 May 1852, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Appointment: Executive Council, 1858, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Appointment: Justice of the Peace, 1864, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Membership: Wesleyan Methodist Scool and Agency, Grand Division Sons of Temperance, Newfoundland Wesleyan Academy, 1864.
• Occupation: Merchant, 399 Water St., Between 1864 and 1865, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. ROGERSON
. Amelia, wid. Peter, Southside, opp. Gas works
. James J. merchant, 399 Water St.
. Peter & Son, merchants, 399 Water
.
• Occupation: Owner, Peter Rogerson & Son Merchants, 1864-1865, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Listed as being Coal Dealers, Merchants (Commission), Merchants (General) and Provision Dealers.
• Occupation: Trustee, St. John's Factory, 1864, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Member of Grand Jury - Central Circuit of Supreme Court, 20 Apr 1868, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Merchant, Water St., 20 Apr 1868, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Owed $400 to Thomas Avery at the time of his will/death, 5 Aug 1869, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Will of Thomas Avery
from Newfoundland will books volume 3 pages 122 to 125 probate year 1869

In re
Thomas Avery deceased.

In the name of God Amen. I Thomas Avery of St. John's Gentleman being of sound mind and good bodily health but mindful that it is appointed for all men once to die do make this my last will and testament and

Firstly I will and bequeath my soul to Almighty God who gave it and my body to be buried in the burying ground of Witless Bay as near as may be to the last resting place of Daniel and Mary Hynes with a suitable headstone to be erected to my memory valued about £20 with a decent funeral suitable to a person of my rank in life.

Secondly I will and bequeath to my loving niece Elizabeth Winsor the house No. 125 wherein I now live with the sum of £250 of the assets enumerated below

Thirdly I will and bequeath to my loving friend Johanna Hynes the sum of £200 from the assets enumerated in a paper below with the house in the Military Road No. 127.

Forthly, I will and bequeath to my loving friend Elizabeth Winsor Driscoll the house No. 129 situated on the Military Road with the sum of £200 from the assets enumerated below.

Fifthly I will and bequeath to my loving nephew Thomas Avery Winsor the sum of £200 from the assets enumerated below with all my interest in a house in Lion Square built by Mr. Hamelin Fleming.

Sixthly I will and bequeath to my loving niece Ann Winsor the parlor part of the house in Torbryan I having advanced the money £200..0..0 to her father to pay for the whole house.

Seventhly I will and bequeath to my loving niece Amelia Winsor the kitchen part of the house in Torbryan, I having advanced the money £200 to her father to pay for the whole house.

Eighthly I will and bequeath to my loving friend Ann Driscoll wife of Michael Driscoll of Mobile £100 out of the funds enumerated below.

Ninthly I will and bequeath to my loving friend Thomas Driscoll of Mobile son of Michael and Ann Driscoll the sum of £50 out of the funds named below with all my books and also books of accounts to be destroyed with all letters which are not to be opened, and I do request that he will be in attendance in my house at my death and burial.

Tenthly I will and bequeath to my loving friend Michael Patrick Driscoll the sum of £100 out of the funds named below with a request that he will when he becomes a priest, and I hope that he will be a good priest, offer up the Holy Sacrifice for the rest of my soul.

Eleventhly, I will and bequeath to the Rev. Dean Cleary £25, to the Rev. Jeremiah O'Donnell £25, to the Revd. Michael Walsh £25, to the Revd. Father Murphy £25, Ferryland, to the Revd. _____ Forrestal, Ferryland, £25, to the Revd. Richard Brennan Fortune Bay £25. to Revd. Richard O'Donnell, St. John's, £25, to the Revd. John Conway, St. John's, £25 out of the funds enumerated below to offer for me at the altar the Sacrifice of the Mass.

Twelfthly, I will and bequeath to the Sisters of Mercy Convent the sum of £100, to assist the orphans of that Institution.

Thirteenthly, I will and bequeath to Convent of Mercy in Belvedere the sum of £100. for to provide for the Orphans of that Institution and to be paid out of the funds enumerated below.

Fourteenthly, I will and bequeath to Catholic Cathedral the sum of £100. to assist in repairing the building out of the funds enumerated below.

Fifteenthly, I will and bequeath to St. Patrick Church the sum of £100. to assist in finishing the Church, out of the funds enumerated below.

Sixteenthly I will and bequeath to my loving friend Johanna Hynes all my fee simple property in Witless Bay called Brooks Plantation with all the rights appertaining thereto with this express condition that the said Johanna Hynes out of the proceeds of the said fishing room pay the priest of the parish for the time being £5 for my intentions.

Lastly, I will and bequeath to my loving niece Elizabeth Winsor her heirs executors and assigns all the rest residue of my property whatever the same may be and not before disposed of after paying all my just debts all the above legacies, all my funeral expenses, the cost of my headstone the expence of proving this will, to pay £20 each to my executors hereafter named and I hereby appoint my trusty and well beloved friend the Revd. John Conway and my trusty friend Thomas R. Smith of the firm of C.T. Bernett & Co. to be my executors of this my last will and testament, and I hereby order and declare that the above legacies shall not be paid untill six months after my death, and I do hereby desire that this is my last will and testament, revoking all and every my former wills and testaments and I hereby request the above named executors to undertake executorship and also the above named £20 as a small recompense for their trouble- In witness whereof I have to this last will and testament set and subscribed my hand and seal this 10th day of June 1869, Thomas Avery (LS) Witnessed by us this 5th day of August 1869, John Conway, Admr of St. John's, P.G. Little

Legacies in the will.
1. Headstone 20.
2. Elizabeth Winsor 250.
3. Johanna Hynes 200.
4. Elizabeth Winsor Driscoll 200.
5. Thomas Avery Winsor 200.
6. Ann Winsor, house in Torbryan,
7. Amelia Winsor, do.
8. Ann Driscoll, Mobile 100.
9. Thomas Driscoll 50.
10. Michael Driscoll 100.
11, 8 Clergyman 200.
12. Sisters of Mercy Convent 100.
13. Do. Belvedere 100.
14. Catholic Cathedral 100.
15. St. Patricks Church Riverhead 100.
1720. Amount of legacies 1720,
Executors 40, - 1760.

Amount of assets,
Commercial Bank 1000.
James & Peter Rogerson 400.
Henry LeMessurier 150.
Peter Weston Carter 150,
St. John's Water Company 300. - 2000.
Premium on Coml. Bank 100, – 2100.
Saint John's, 10th June 1869. Thomas Avery.

Certified correct,
D. M. Browning
Registrar.
• Election: MHA Bay de Verde, 1870, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Election: MPP for Bay de Verde, 1871, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Members of the House of Assembly (MHA) mistakenly referred to as MPPs in Lovell's directory, which was a Canadian publication. Being the MHA for Bay de Verde did not necessitate living there and he probably never did.
• Owner: Peter Rogerson & Son, 399 Water St., 1871, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Rogerson James J., M.P.P., of P. Rogerson & Son,

Rogerson Peter, & Son, importers, 399 Water

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
District of Bay de Verds - James J. Rogerson.
• Appointment: Receiver General and MLC, 1874-1882, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Departure: Per CASPIAN to Liverpool, 6 Jul 1878, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. PassengersPer Caspian for Liverpool - Rev. Mr. HOYLES and wife, Mr. HOLLOWAY and wife, Mr. R. LAURIE and wife, Mr. J. WINDSOR and wife, Mrs. TOBIN, Misses ADAMS, Rev. Mr. HEAL, Rev. Mr. LISBON, Rev. Mr. TAYLOR, Hon. J.J. ROGERSON, Messrs. BAIRD, ADAMS, LASH, CAMPBELL, G. LASH, ROGERSON, COLYER, RENDELL, BENNETT, J. PHELAN, TOBIN, MAKINSON, ROGERS, Percy JOHNSTON, and BROWN.
• Arrival: Per NOVA SCOTIAN from Liverpool, 14 Sep 1878, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
PassengersPer Nova Scotian from Liverpool - Right Rev. Dr. POWER, Hon. J.J. ROGERSON, Lieut. JACKSON, R.A., Mr. & Mrs. John BAIRD, Mr. & Mrs. John SHARPE, Mrs. James TURPIE, Miss MACPHERSON, Miss FOREST, Miss MURSER, Mons. James GADOT, Messrs. T.M. SIMPSON, J. PIPPY, F.W. TEMPLE, R. STAPLES, R. STAPLES, Jr., STEARNS, J. BAIRD, J.N. FINLAY, BENNETT, and RENNIE.
• Occupation: Merchant, 395 Water St., 1885-1886, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Residence: 2 Queen St., 1885-1890, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: General Merchant, Water St., 1890, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Peter Richard Rogerson MEC ¹³⁸⁹ Mother: Amelia Palmer ⁵⁹⁵

Spouses and Children

1. *Emma Garrett Blaikie ²⁹² ^,1512 Marriage: 21 Jan 1845 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁵⁹⁵ ^,1512 Marriage Notes

ROGERSON, JAMES JOHNSTONE, businessman, politician, and philanthropist; b. 21 March 1820 in Harbour Grace, Nfld, eldest son of Peter Rogerson and Amelia Palmer; m. first 21 Jan. 1845 Emma Garrett Blaikie (d. 1878) in St John's, and they had three sons and four daughters; m. secondly 1879 Isabella Whiteford; they had no children; d. 17 Oct. 1907 in St John's.

James J. Rogerson was the descendant of a Scottish family of some prominence in Johnstonebridge, Dumfriesshire. His grandfather, a Greenock merchant, is found in the Newfoundland records at least as early as 1803. Peter Rogerson became a permanent resident of Harbour Grace in 1817 and soon married a local girl. He was a pew holder, "though a dissenter," in the Church of England, and one of the small but influential group of Scottish-born merchants in the colony, whose involvement was chiefly in the supply of manufactured goods exchanged for the produce of the fisheries.

After a good education at the Harbour Grace grammar school, James Rogerson was apprenticed at the age of 13 to the Scottish house of Green and Hunter in St John's and then served with the old firm of J. and W. Stewart and Company. In 1841 he joined his father in the St John's-based Peter Rogerson and Son, which had a number of vessels engaged seasonally in the seal fishery but was principally in general trade. The firm imported cargoes from Liverpool, England, salt from Cadiz, Spain, coal from Sydney, N.S., lumber from Halifax and Prince Edward Island, and flour from New York, and carried Methodist missionaries to Newfoundland free of charge [see James Dove]. It exported salt and pickled fish, seal skins and oil, and the like. Later Rogerson was to expend his entrepreneurial talents in the encouragement of local enterprises: agriculture, mineral exploration in association with Stephen Rendell*, John Steer, Edward White*, and others, and the establishment of a foundry and a boot and shoe factory.

In the 1840s, recently married to the daughter of the Scottish-born magistrate James Blaikie and beginning to raise what would be a large family, Rogerson first appeared prominently in the public life of the colony. He was an early member of the Newfoundland Natives' Society, founded to secure the advancement of native-born residents in the era of representative government. In 1850 he was appointed to the Legislative Council and eight years later to the Executive Council as a representative of mercantile and Methodist interests. With Ambrose Shea he stood for the Liberal party in Burin district in the general election of 1859, and they were returned after a hard-fought contest. Rogerson was not a candidate in several subsequent campaigns, but in April 1870, at the by-election made necessary by the appointment of John Bemister* as sheriff of the Northern District, he was chosen mha for Bay de Verde. Re-elected in 1873, 1874, and 1878, he served as receiver general in the administrations of Frederic Bowker Terrington Carter* and Sir William Vallance Whiteway between 1874 and 1882. During the election in the latter year Rogerson emerged as a leader of the New party, a group of individuals dissatisfied with the Whiteway administration, particularly its railway-building policy. Like most of the New party candidates, he was defeated. On his retirement from political life he had bestowed upon him the title "Honourable" in recognition of a public career of probity and distinction.

With a son, William, now experienced in the family business, Rogerson was increasingly able to direct his prodigious energy to philanthropic work, for which he and his second wife, Isabella Whiteford, were held in uncommon regard by contemporaries. He was active, as always, in Methodist affairs and in the Temperance Society, whose journal he edited. With Isabella he was involved in the creation of a fishermen's and sailors' home and an agency to give employment to jobless workers in winter, and in the education of poor children, the provision of teachers for juvenile youths incarcerated in the penitentiary at St John's, and the distribution of books and magazines to advance literacy in the most remote out-harbours of the colony. The vivid remembrance by his contemporaries on his death at age 87 was of "a life of unbounded charity and benevolence."

G. M. Story

General Protestant Cemetery (St John's), Tombstone inscription. Maritime Hist. Arch., Memorial Univ. of Nfld (St John's), Keith Matthews coll., ser.I, Rogerson name file. Evening Telegram (St John's), 18 Oct. 1907 (obit. notice by D. W. P. [Daniel Woodley Prowse*]). Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser, 28 Jan. 1845. The book of Newfoundland, ed. J. R. Smallwood et al. (6v., St John's, 1937—75). P. K. Devine, Ye olde St. John's, 1750—1936 (St John's, 1936). Encyclopedia of Nfld (Smallwood et al.), 1: 679—749. G. E. Gunn, The political history of Newfoundland, 1832—1864 (Toronto, 1966). J. [K.] Hiller, "The railway and local politics in Newfoundland, 1870—1901," Nfld in 19th and 20th centuries (Hiller and Neary), 123—47. K[eith] Matthews, Lectures on the history of Newfoundland, 1500—1830 (St John's, 1988), esp. 163—65. Methodist Monthly Greeting (St John's), November 1907 (obit. notices by James Dove, who preached Rogerson's funeral oration, and Charles Hackett). Nfld men (Mott). R. E. Ommer, "The Scots in Newfoundland," Nfld Quarterly, 77 (1981—82), no.4: 23—31. Paul O'Neill, The story of St. John's, Newfoundland (2v., Erin, Ont., 1975—76), 2. Prowse, Hist. of Nfld (1895). G. M. Story, George Street Church, 1873—1973 (St John's, 1973).
Children: 1. Living 2. Emma Blaikie Rogerson 3. Living 4. Sarah Blaikie Rogerson 5. James Carlot Rogerson 6. Bertha Mary Rogerson 7. William Paterson Rogerson MBE 2. Isabella Whiteford Marriage: Cir 1879 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Notes
General:

[Tessier.FTW] Occupation Receiver General of Newfoundland

280114:

From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography:

ROGERSON, JAMES JOHNSTONE, businessman, politician, and philanthropist; b. 21 March 1820 in Harbour Grace, Nfld, eldest son of Peter Rogerson and Amelia Palmer; m. first 21 Jan. 1845 Emma Garrett Blaikie (d. 1878) in St John's, and they had three sons and four daughters; m. secondly 1879 Isabella Whiteford; they had no children; d. 17 Oct. 1907 in St John's.

James J. Rogerson was the descendant of a Scottish family of some prominence in Johnstonebridge, Dumfriesshire. His grandfather, a Greenock merchant, is found in the Newfoundland records at least as early as 1803. Peter Rogerson became a permanent resident of Harbour Grace in 1817 and soon married a local girl. He was a pew holder, "though a dissenter" in the Church of England, and one of the small but influential group of Scottish-born merchants in the colony, whose involvement was chiefly in the supply of manufactured goods exchanged for the produce of the fisheries.

After a good education at the Harbour Grace grammar school, James Rogerson was apprenticed at the age of 13 to the Scottish house of Green and Hunter in St John's and then served with the old firm of J. and W. Stewart and Company. In 1841 he joined his father in the St John's-based Peter Rogerson and Son, which had a number of vessels engaged seasonally in the seal fishery but was principally in general trade. The firm imported cargoes from Liverpool, England, salt from Cadiz, Spain, coal from Sydney, N.S., lumber from Halifax and Prince Edward Island, and flour from New York, and carried Methodist missionaries to Newfoundland free of charge [see James Dove]. It exported salt and pickled fish, seal skins and oil, and the like. Later Rogerson was to expend his entrepreneurial talents in the encouragement of local enterprises: agriculture, mineral exploration in association with Stephen Rendell, John Steer, Edward White, and others, and the establishment of a foundry and a boot and shoe factory.

In the 1840s, recently married to the daughter of the Scottish-born magistrate James Blaikie and beginning to raise what would be a large family, Rogerson first appeared prominently in the public life of the colony. He was an early member of the Newfoundland Natives' Society, founded to secure the advancement of native-born residents in the era of representative government. In 1850 he was appointed to the Legislative Council and eight years later to the Executive Council as a representative of mercantile and Methodist interests. With Ambrose Shea he stood for the Liberal party in Burin district in the general election of 1859, and they were returned after a hard-fought contest. Rogerson was not a candidate in several subsequent campaigns, but in April 1870, at the by-election made necessary by the appointment of John Bemister as sheriff of the Northern District, he was chosen MHA for Bay de Verde. Re-elected in 1873, 1874, and 1878, he served as receiver general in the administrations of Frederic Bowker Terrington Carter and Sir William Vallance Whiteway between 1874 and 1882. During the election in the latter year Rogerson emerged as a leader of the New party, a group of individuals dissatisfied with the Whiteway administration, particularly its railway-building policy. Like most of the New party candidates, he was defeated. On his retirement from political life he had bestowed upon him the title "Honourable" in recognition of a public career of probity and distinction.

With a son, William, now experienced in the family business, Rogerson was increasingly able to direct his prodigious energy to philanthropic work, for which he and his second wife, Isabella Whiteford, were held in uncommon regard by contemporaries. He was active, as always, in Methodist affairs and in the Temperance Society, whose journal he edited. With Isabella he was involved in the creation of a fishermen's and sailors' home and an agency to give employment to jobless workers in winter, and in the education of poor children, the provision of teachers for juvenile youths incarcerated in the penitentiary at St John's, and the distribution of books and magazines to advance literacy in the most remote out-harbours of the colony. The vivid remembrance by his contemporaries on his death at age 87 was of "a life of unbounded charity and benevolence."

G. M. Story

General Protestant Cemetery (St John's), Tombstone inscription. Maritime Hist. Arch., Memorial Univ. of Nfld (St John's), Keith Matthews coll., ser.I, Rogerson name file. Evening Telegram (St John's), 18 Oct. 1907 (obit. notice by D. W. P. [Daniel Woodley Prowse). Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser, 28 Jan. 1845. The book of Newfoundland, ed. J. R. Smallwood et al. (6v., St John's, 1937'96 75). P. K. Devine, Ye olde St. John's, 1750'96 1936 (St John's, 1936). Encyclopedia of Nfld (Smallwood et al.), 1: 679'96 749. G. E. Gunn, The political history of Newfoundland, 1832'96 1864 (Toronto, 1966). J. [K.] Hiller, "The railway and local politics in Newfoundland, 1870'96 1901," Nfld in 19th and 20th centuries (Hiller and Neary), 123'96 47. K[eith] Matthews, Lectures on the history of Newfoundland, 1500'96 1830 (St John's, 1988), esp. 163'96 65. Methodist Monthly Greeting (St John's), November 1907 (obit. notices by James Dove, who preached Rogerson's funeral oration, and Charles Hackett). Nfld men (Mott). R. E. Ommer, "The Scots in Newfoundland," Nfld Quarterly, 77 (1981'96 82), no.4: 23'96 31. Paul O'Neill, The story of St. John's, Newfoundland (2v., Erin, Ont., 1975'96 76), 2. Prowse, Hist. of Nfld (1895). G. M. Story, George Street Church, 1873'96 1973 (St John's, 1973).

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James Johnston Rogerson
BIRTH21 Mar 1820
Harbour Grace, Avalon Peninsula Census Division, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
DEATH17 Oct 1907 (aged 87)
St. John's, Avalon Peninsula Census Division, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
BURIAL
General Protestant Cemetery
St. John's, Avalon Peninsula Census Division, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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James Johnstone Rogerson (March 21, 1820 - October 17, 1907) was a businessman, political figure and philanthropist in Newfoundland. He represented Burin from 1859 to 1861 and Bay de Verde from 1870 to 1882 in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.

He was born in Harbour Grace, the son of Peter Rogerson and Amelia Palmer. He apprenticed with a Scottish firm based in St. John's before joining his father's firm, which was involved in shipping goods and the seal fishery, in 1841. He was named to the Legislative Council in 1850 and to the Executive Council in 1858. He did not run for reelection in 1861 but was elected again in an 1870 by-election held after John Bemister resigned to accept a position as sheriff. Rogerson served as receiver general from 1874 to 1882. He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1882. After he retired from politics, he was active in the Temperance Society. Rogerson established a home for fishermen and sailors and an agency to find employment for workers in winter. He also supported the education of poor children and juveniles in prison, and literacy programs for people living in remote locations on the island. Rogerson was married twice: to Emma Garrett Blaikie in 1845 and to Isabella Whiteford in 1879. He died in St. John's at the age of 87.

His daughter Jessie Emma married A.J.W. McNeilly who also served in the Newfoundland assembly.

Janet Rogerson

Sex: F
AKA: Janet Rodgerson ³⁹⁹¹
Individual Information

Birth Date: 22 Apr 1743 - Johnstone, Dumfries, Scotland ³⁹⁹¹ Christening: 5 Sep 1743 - Johnstone, Dumfries, Scotland ³⁹⁹¹ Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Samuel Rogerson ¹⁷² Mother: Janet Johnston ³⁹⁹¹ ^,5811

Janet Rogerson

Sex: F
AKA: Jean Rogerson
Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1791 - Wamphray, Dumfries, Scotland ⁹⁷⁹ Christening: 21 Nov 1792 - Wamphray, Dumfries, Scotland ⁹⁷⁹ Death: 1 Dec 1865 - Wamphray, Dumfries, Scotland ( about age 74) ⁴⁶⁰⁴ Burial: After 1 Dec 1865 - Johnstone, Dumfries, Scotland ⁴⁶⁰⁴ Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1792, Wamphray, Dumfries, Scotland.
• Census: Scithenhall Farm, 1841, Wamphray, Dumfries, Scotland. (Household Member)
• Residence: Schithenhall Farm, 1841, Wamphray, Dumfries, Scotland. (Occupant)
• Census: Leithenhall Farm, 1851, Wamphray, Dumfries, Scotland. (Household Member)
• Residence: Leithenhall, 1851, Wamphray, Dumfries, Scotland. (Occupant)
• Census: Household of David Rogerson, Farmer, Leithenhall Farm, 1861, Wamphray, Dumfries, Scotland. (Household Member)
• Residence: Leithenhall Farm, 1861, Wamphray, Dumfries, Scotland. (Occupant)

Parents

Father: Samuel Rogerson ²²⁰⁶ ^,4603 Mother: Janet Mounsey ⁹⁷⁹ Marriage Did Not Marry

Jean Rogerson

Sex: F
AKA: Jean Rodgerson ²²⁰⁶ ^,3991
Individual Information

Birth Date: 17 Aug 1737 - Johnstone, Dumfries, Scotland ²²⁰⁶ ^,3991 Christening: 21 Aug 1737 - Johnstone, Dumfries, Scotland ²²⁰⁶ ^,3991 Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Residence: Lochbrow, 17 Aug 1737, Johnstone, Dumfries, Scotland. (Occupant)

Parents

Father: Samuel Rogerson ¹⁷² Mother: Janet Johnston ³⁹⁹¹ ^,5811

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