When Euphemia Rogers was born in 1778, in Flemington, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States, her father, Benjamin Rogers, was 19 and her mother, Ellen Reading, was 23. She married Samuel Elias Wright on 19 March 1806, in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 29 March 1876, at the age of 98, and was buried in Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English (of Norman origin): variant of Roger , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Ruaidhrí (see Rorie ).
History: Thomas Rogers (c. 1587–1621), born in London, England, was among the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. He died during the first winter at Plymouth Colony, but his son Joseph survived and married, and was later joined in MA by his brother John. This name was subsequently brought to North America independently by many different bearers.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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