Rogers
William Henry (b. 1881) and Dora (Ethel) Rogers (b.1883)
lived most of their married life in Saxham Street in the 20th century. See Rainbow Cottage.
William had been orn in Somerset and Dora in Earl Stonham. They started married life in Somerset before moving into Saxham Street.
They had 4 children William John (b. 1908), Cyril Ernest (b. 1910), Noel Charles (b. 1912) and Marjorie Constance (b. 1915) all born in Somerset.
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.
Noel died in 1979, age 67. In WW2 he served in the RAF
In 1939 they took in 2 evacuees David and Alan Kramer.
In 1968 William and Dora celebrated their Diamond Wedding anniversary. This photo was from a report in the local paper which a local resident had cut and saved in a scrapbook which was then passed onto SLHG archives.
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.
