Hello to all the Rodger Family researchers. Its been years since I logged into Rootschat but thankfully my user/pass still worked:-)
I was recently in the UK in Scotland mostly research my own kin the Patterson's but while over I met an elderly relative who is quite ill and now lives on the Isle of White. He asked me if I would have a search for his ancestry as he has never known who his Grandfather and other family were and I hesitantly agreed.
My name is Jim Patterson and I am connecting from Vancouver Island Canada. The purpose of my contact is to ask if you or any other researchers happen to hold any information on a William James Rodger who was born abt 1887(location unknown) but was known as James Rodger on his daughters marriage certificate. Wm James Rodger married Sarah Holden Graham 5-Nov-1909 in Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland and they had but one known child, Margaret Bell Graham Rodger. William James Rodgers parents were said to be William Rodger and Jane Bowland I believe?
Margaret Bell Graham Rodger was born13 July 1911 at 5 Overhaugh St, Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland. Soon after this birth it seems Wm "James" Rodger and Sarah split up and eventually divorced or William James perhaps died?
Sarah H Rodger Nee Graham remarried Daniel Clark Graham at Newcastle Upon Tyne Bet Oct-Dec 1921 and they had 6 children. Mary, Ruby, Wm, James, Walter abd Jemima or Mima?
Any and all help and suggestions greatly appreciated as this distant cousins father was a Prison Snr Guard at Parkhurst and other hanging jails and on the Burma Trail as a POW in the first world war.
Cheers Jim Patterson