Mrs J. J. Rogers
(1822-1911)
29 June 1864

Volume 12, page 105, sitting number 15,569.

[Identified in the Silvy daybooks as ‘Mrs J. J. Rogers,’ this is probably the wife of John Jope Rogers (1816-1880), barrister and Conservative MP for Helston in Cornwall.]

Born Maria Hitchens in 1822, the eldest daughter of William Hitchens of Camberwell Grove, she married John Jope Rogers at Camberwell in 1844. The marriage produced seven sons and several daughters. The family lived at Penrose, a house and estate near the Cornish town of Helston. The estate included Loe Pool, the largest lake in Cornwall, now owned by the National Trust.

The 1871 census shows the family living at Penrose together with a governess and ten servants, including a butler, a footman, two lady’s maids and a dairy maid, with a coachman (and his family), a gardener (and his family) and a gamekeeper (and his family) also living on the estate.

John Jope Rogers published a biography of the Cornish painter John Opie which included a catalogue of 760 of his pictures. He was also Chairman of the old Cornwall Quarter Sessions, a Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall, president of the Helston Bank and president of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.

John Jope Rogers died. aged 64, on 24 April 1880, leaving an estate valued at £16,000.

Mrs Maria Rogers died in 1911, aged 89.