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Bessie Rogerson

Taken about 1914 and sourced from Individual - Roger & Colin Dittmer.

1914ish Betty Hamer

This picture was taken about 1914 and sourced from Individual - Roger & Colin Dittmer.

Individual Picture Notes
- Picture taken from family group

Bessie was born on June 5th, 1896 in Woodchurch.¹

Birth Notes
- Two possible births:
  
  Births Jun 1896   (>99%)
  Rogerson Bessie     Wirral 8a 491
  
  Cheshire Birth indexes for the years: 1896
  ROGERSON    Bessie    JACKSON    Woodchurch, Wirral    WOO/25/39
  
  Bessie Hamer
  born: 05 Jun 1896
  Sex: Female
  Occupation: Unpaid Domestic Duties

Bessie's father was George Edward Rogerson and her mother was Maggie Jackson. She had four sisters named Maggie, Amy, Elsie and May. She was the second oldest of the five children. She died at the age of 53 in June 1949 in Liverpool.²

Death Notes
- Deaths Jun 1949 (>99%)
  Hamer Bessie 53 Liverpool S. 10d 418

General Notes
- Peggy's mother Bessy was blind in later life.
  
  Bessie was was 14 in 1911, living at 36 Walker Street, Hoylake
  
  Bessie was born in Hoylake (MMN Jackson), daughter of George Edward Rogerson and Maggie Jackson from Hoylake who married in 1892. She had three sisters Maggie (b.1893), Amy (b.1898) and May (b.1904), plus two that died as infants.
  
  In 1901, parents George Regerson (a House painter from Manchester) and Maggie (34 & 31) were at 36 Walker Street, Hoylake with Bessie (4), Amy (2) and Elsie (3 mo)
  
  In 1939, Arthur and Bessie Hamer were a 1 Devonshire Road, Upton with their daughter Margaret B (corrected to E) Hamer.
  
  CKD has a high 96cM DNA match with Ian Roberts, grandson of Ethel Rogerson, possibly Bessie's cousin. Ethel married Earnest Guntrip at Chorlton in 1910. Ethel and Ernest (both 21, born Manchester) were boarding in Southborough, Kent in 1911.
  
  Bessie's father George Edward Rogerson was living at Fairfield, 33 Devonshire Road, Upton when he died 13 Nov 1942.

Occupation Details
- From 1920 Bessie's occupation was Domestic Duties in 1 Devonshire Road.

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- George Edward Rogerson
  - b.24 Dec 1865 in Manchester d.13 Nov 1942 in Upton
  
  Bessie Rogerson
  - b.05 Jun 1896 in Woodchurch d.Jun 1949 in Liverpool
  
  Maggie Jackson
  - b.26 Feb 1870 in Hoylake

Personal Timeline

Click here for details of Bessie's family with Arthur Thomas Hamer

¹ 1939 Register Transcription
² FreeBMD.org.uk