Hi Matt,
I'm well, hope you are too
Glad you've made some progress with the Dourns, I look forward to hearing from you.
Claire
Quick update here.
I think I have possibly made a breakthrough with the Dourns/Dorns and also the Rogers/Rodgers - possibly taking both lines back aother generation. I'm putting a basic tree for each family together at the moment and will sned you copies to look at.
At the moment I am working on the following theory:
Peter Rogers [who married Elizabeth Dourne] was probably born in the late 1640s or mid 1650s [they married in 1671] - possibly earlier.
I think Peter may have been the son of Thomas Rogers who was born in Leaveland in 1631 [the son of Thomas and Judith Cheeseman].
It looks like this Thomas (Thomas snr who married Judith) was born in Leaveland in 1604 and was the son of Robert Rogers. Robert also had two other children:
Anne - born April 1602 Leaveland
Peter - born Oct 1606 Leaveland.
With regards to Judith Cheeseman I think I have found a possible christening for her:
"Judith Cheeseman - 19 Oct 1606 Throwley"
There are a lot of Chees[e]man/Cheez[e]man christenings between 1590 and 1619 - only on one of them is a father named but given how close the christenings are I suspect they are siblings.
Walter Cheesman - chr 5 Mar 1596 Throwley, Kent
Avrys Cheesman - chr 7 Mar 1598 Throwley, Kent
William Cheesman - chr 9 Nov 1600 Throwley, Kent
Arthur Cheesman - chr 9 Jan 1602 Throwley, Kent
Mary Cheeseman - chr 22 Feb 1604 Throwley, Kent
Judith Cheeseman - chr 19 Oct 1606 Throwley, Kent
Robert Cheeseman - chr 18 Oct 1607 Throwley, Kent
Robert Cheeseman - chr 7 Apr 1611 Throwley, Kent - son of John Cheeseman
Thomason Cheeseman - chr 24 Feb 1616 Throwley, Kent
Abraham Cheeseman - chr 30 Jan 1619 Throwley, Kent
As you can see only the Robert christened in 1611 has a father named, however I think these could all be siblings. There is a Will for John Cheeseman in the Archdeaconry of Canterbury dated 1616 which might help shed some more light on this.
Matt