Rogers
William and Dora Rogers
lived most of their married life in Saxham Street in the 20th century.
Noel Charles Rogers (9/10/15
Youngest son of William and Dora, worked as a foundry man, but in the 1930’s he was found guilty of stealing money, gloves and a watch from the Jewers family of Upland Farm. His mother said he had had health problems, neuritis and tuberculosis. His older brother William helped him start a small poultry farm so he could work in the open. He was given 3 years probation.
Lenny Rogers
According to a local resident, Lenny Rogers lived in Saxham Street and worked for Robert Black at Stowupland Hall (so possibly in the 1950s). He took in a lodger who had been a sniper in the war, but one day when Lenny’s daughter came home from school she found the lodger had committed suicide. The back story was that the sniper had killed a German who had hidden himself in the chimney of a derelict French farmhouse and had been taken pot shots at British troops.
Soon after Lenny returned to Essex with his daughter.
