Roger Lane

BIRTH 1572
Herefordshire, England
DEATH Apr 1603 (aged 30–31)
Hereford, Herefordshire Unitary Authority,
Herefordshire, England
BURIAL St. Peter's Churchyard
Hereford, Herefordshire Unitary Authority,
Herefordshire, England
MEMORIAL ID 198084430 · View Source

Roger Lane was born in about 1572 in Herefordshire, England. To my knowledge, his parents have not been
proven. While some people would like to believe that Roger Lane was a son of Sir Ralph Lane and Maud Parr,
there is absolutely no evidence for this. Despite the fact that the evidence suggests otherwise, this fiction
persists in many family trees found on the Internet: Ralph Lane was from Orlingbury, Northamptonshire, and
Maud Parr was from Kendal, Westmorland, while Roger Lane spent his entire life in Herefordshire. The pedigree
of Maud Parr is well known, since she was a cousin of Catherine Parr, Henry VIII's last wife. There is no evidence
to suggest she bore a son named Roger in Herefordshire. We simply do not know for certain who Roger Lane's
parents were. I found a baptismal record for a Roger Lane in Madley, Herefordshire, only 6.5 miles from Hereford,
where Roger was known to have lived, born in 1572; his parents were Walter & Aloicia.[1] A birth date of 1572 is
plausible, since his first known child, Anne, was born in 1590, so this could be our Roger Lane.

A. Russell Slagle states that Roger Lane was an apothecary in Hereford, citing the baptismal records of his 10
children between 29 Jan 1590/91 and 10 Jan 1602. The children's mother and his wife was a woman named
Beatrix; they were married on 08 Mar 1589/90 in St Peter's Church, Hereford.[2] Beatrix's name may also have
been Beatrice, according to an extract of Roger's probate record.[3] I am aware of no documentary source record
showing Beatrix as the daughter of Thomas Fitton and Margaret Leigh of Cheshire, which was almost 100 miles
away.

Roger died in Hereford in April 1603, since he was buried on the 30th of that month, probably in the St Peter's
Church cemetery in Hereford,[4] since that is where all his children were baptized, including the last one, Mary,
in 1602.[5]

[1] "England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980," online database, Ancestry.com
(http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=bivri_EnglandBirth&h=1687437&indiv=try : accessed 4 Apr
2019), entry for Rogerus Lane, baptized 12 Oct 1572; citing British Isles Vital Records Index, 2nd Edition, (Salt
Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 2002).

[2] A. Russell Slagle, "Major Samuel Lane (1628-81): His Ancestry and Some American Descendants," in Maryland
Genealogies, Vol. II (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976), p. 129, citing records from St.
Peter's Church, Hereford, England; digital images, Ancestry.com
(http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/BookList.aspx?dbid=48199 : accessed 4 Apr 2019).

[3] "UK, Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975, online database, Ancestry.com, (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-
bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1610&h=1673251&ssrc=pt&tid=112625926&pid=180103105095&usePUB=true :
accessed 4 Apr 2019); citing Index to Acts of Administration in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1596 - 1608, p.
154, record for Lane, Roger, Hereford. To Beatrice L., rel., 1603.

[4] Ibid.

[5] "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," online database, FamilySearch.org

(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ND3D-P72 : accessed 4 Apr 2019), entry for Mary Lane, baptized
10 Jan 1602/03, citing FHL film number 1041601.

Source citation for this biography:

Keith Riggle (contributor 47779373), "Memorial for Roger Lane, 1572-1603," online database, Find a Grave
(https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198084430), 4 Apr 2019.

Family Members
Spouse

 Beatrix Lane
1572 – unknown (m. (marriage) 1589)

Created by: Riegelstamm

Added: 4 Apr 2019
Find A Grave Memorial 198084430

Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 07 April 2019), memorial
page for Roger Lane (1572–Apr 1603), Find A Grave Memorial no. 198084430, citing St. Peter's Churchyard,
Hereford, Herefordshire Unitary Authority, Herefordshire, England ; Maintained by Riegelstamm
(contributor 47779373) .

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