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CO-CTCH-0004
Record Date:
25 September 2013
Graveyard:
Exact wording of epitaph:
N MEMORY
OF ELIZABETH
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
ROBERT NAYLOR ROGERS ESQ
LIEUTENANT IN HER
MAJESTY'S SERVICE
AND STAFF OFFICER
OF THE GALWAY DISTRICT
WHO
DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 4TH DAY OF MARCH 1844
AGED 44 YEARS
Memorial Type:
Headstone
Number of people commemorated:
2
People commemorated:
Name:
Elizabeth
Surname:
Rogers
Date of death - day:
4
Date of death - month:
March
Date of death - year:
1844
Age:
44
Title:
Lieutenant
Name:
Robert Naylor
Surname:
Rogers
Relationship with first person:
Husband
Notes:
Elizabeth was born in 1800 and was the daughter of Patrick Coleman of Bandon. Her uncle was a master builder of homes named John Coleman of Cork. She owned and inherited several properties and mortgages in and around Cork City and Bandon jointly with her husband Robert and her father in law Jacob William Rogers.
Elizabeth and Robert were married on 18th October 1817 at St Nicholas Church of Ireland, Cork. Eizabeth's husband, Robert, was born in 1797 in Gilbraltar. He was the son of Jacob who married Frances Langdon Naylor in Gibraltar. Jacob was an ensign in the 70th regiment at that time. Robert was one of their five surviving children. Like his father and grandfather, he also joined the British Army and was promoted to ensign in 1813 at the age of 16. Robert served in the Duke of Wellington's army in the last Peninsular war and as a Lieutenant at Waterloo with the 2nd Battalion 30th Foot. His father continued to serve as Major in the 77th foot which was posted to Ireland in 1815.
After Waterloo Robert was present at the Capture of Paris. In 1817 he was posted to County Cork in anticipation of leaving active military service. He went on half pay in 1818.
Robert Naylor and Elizabeth had eight surviving children all born in Bandon
Jacob William Rogers baptised in Devon in October 1820
Frances Coleman Rogers born 1819 and died 8th October 1877. She married John Tresilian Belcher of Bandon and had six children: Alicia Tresilian b 1851, Robert Naylor b 1853, John Tresilian b 1855, Fanny b 1857, Theresa b 1859, and William who married Margaret Sherlock b 1868
Maria Swanton Rogers born 1822 and died 1845
Henry Rogers born 1828
John Wilks Rogers born 1830 and died 1886
Robert Naylor Rogers born 1832 and died after 1880
Alicia Tresilian Rogers born 1841
From 1821 to 1831 the family lived at 2 Devonshire Square, Bandon (now Hamilton High School). In 1837 they were recorded as living at 58 Kilbrogan Street, Bandon. In 1843 they moved to Galway as Robert was made a Staff Officer of Pensions. Elizabeth died in 1844 and is buried here. In 1851 her widower, Robert, was appointed a temporary Captain and led a group of British Army pensioners to Canada to replace regular troops at Fort Malden near Amherstburg, Ontario. He took his daughter, Alicia, and at least three younger sons with him, John Wilks, Robert and Henry. On 5th May 1854 Captain Rogers left the Fort at Amherstburg to go fishing on the Detroit river. The boat was found upturned sometime after and his body was never found.
