Callaway County Missouri Pioneers

Rogers of Birmingham

John Rogers I

John Rogers I was born in 1485 to a good family of successful English gentlemen. His forbears included a very successful lawyer who “amassed a great fortune” and was able to buy a large estate, Deritend, in the parish of Aston, Birmingham County, Warwick, England.  The property was located on the bank of the River Trent adjoining the boundary line of Staffordshire .  He married Margaret Wyatt, half sister to Sir Thomas Wyatt (poet and statesman).  John Rogers I is frequently called “John Rogers of Birmingham.”   The Rogers Family Motto, imprinted in Latin on the arms shown above was Ourselves and our Possessions to God. 

John Rogers of Birmingham had five children: Three sons and two daughters. William, Edward, Eleanor, Joan, and John II, the oldest and under English Law, the heir.