Herbert Noel Rogerson

Herbert Noel, known as Noel in the family, was born in 1897 the only child of Herbert and Susannah Rogerson (née Batterham). His father Herbert was born in South Hindley, Barnsley, Yorkshire, in about 1863. A farm labourer, he joined the police in Yorkshire West Riding on 3 March 1884 (Warrant No. 4561), serving initially in Dewsbury. He was promoted sergeant on 1 June 1896 and to inspector on 1 February 1908. His mother Susannah was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, in about 1861, the daughter of James and Ann Batterham. At the time of the 1871 and 1881 Census her parents were innkeepers at the Four Mile Bar public house at Cowbit, Spalding. Herbert and Susannah were married in 1885 (reg. Spalding), the year after he had joined the police force, and their only child Herbert Noel was born in Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, in 1897 (reg. J/F/M). The family, together with Herbert's cousin, twelve year old Alfred Bimson, was living on School Street, Pateley Bridge, in 1901. However, by 1911 Herbert, now a police pensioner, Susannah and Herbert jnr. were living at Carlton on Trent, Nottinghamshire, with Susannah's married sister, Eliza, and her husband Charles Edward Parsons (m. 1894), a farmer. Herbert and Susannah were still living in Carlton on Trent when their son was killed in 1917. Susannah died in 1964 (reg. Newark) aged about 103.