CHILDREN:
| NAME | BAPTISM | DEATH | MARRIAGE |
| Thomas | 24 March 1598/9, Watford, Northampton, England | bur. 27 May 1599, Watford, Northampton, England | unmarried |
| Richard | 12 March 1599/1600, Watford, Northampton, England | bur. 4 April 1600, Watford, Northampton, England | unmarried |
| Joseph | 23 January 1602/3, Watford, Northampton, England | between 2 and 15 January 1677/8, Eastham, MA | Hannah (---) |
| John | 6 April 1606, Watford, Northampton, England | between 26 August 1691 and 20 September 1692, Duxbury, MA | Anna Churchman, 16 April 1639, Plymouth |
| Elizabeth | 26 December 1608, Watford, Northampton, England | living in Leyden in 1622, no further record. | unknown |
| Margaret | 30 May 1613, Watford, Northampton, England | living in Leyden in 1622; no further record. | unknown |
The often published descent of Thomas Rogers from John Rogers the Martyr is complete fiction. Thomas Roger's true English origins were discovered in 1989 by Clifford Stott and published with supporting documentation in The Genealogist 10:138-149. Thomas Rogers was the son of William and Eleanor Rogers, and grandson of William and Joan Rogers. Thomas' marriage to Alice Cosford and his children's baptisms are all found in the parish registers of Watford, Northampton, England.
Thomas Rogers became a citizen of Leyden on 25 June 1618 with sponsors William Jepson and Roger Wilson, and is called a Camlet-merchant. And just two years later, on 1 April 1620, he sold his house in Leyden before coming to America on the Mayflower.
Thomas Rogers brought his son Joseph on the Mayflower. He died the first winter, but his son Joseph survived. William Bradford in his Of Plymouth Plantation writes of Thomas Rogers: "the rest of Thomas Rogers' [children] came over and are married and have many children."
In the 1622 poll tax for Leyden are listed his wife Elsgen (Alice), and daughters Lysbeth (Elizabeth) and Grietgen (Margaret), and son John. John Rogers is known to have come to America and married, but unfortunately the whereabouts of Elizabeth and Margaret remain unknown, though Bradford seems to suggest they came to America and married.
Clifford Stott, "The English Ancestry of the Pilgrim Thomas Rogers and His Wife Alice (Cosford) Rogers", The Genealogist, 10:138-149.
Robert S. Wakefield, "Mayflower Passengers Turner and Rogers: Probable Identification of Additional Children," The American Genealogist 52:110-113.