Ebenezer Rogers
of Abercarn, Abercorn
c.1816 Born in Aberystruth, Monmouthshire[1]
1841 Married Anne Maria Blackwell in Old Swinford[2]
1851 Mine Surveyor, Abercarne, Monmouthshire.[3]
1851 Ebenezer Rogers 35, colliery proprietor, civil engineer, lived in St Woollos, Newport, with Maria Rogers 30, William Rogers 8, Fanny Rogers 6, John Kenyon Rogers 4, Maria Rogers 3[4]
1850s Ebenezer Rogers and Herbert Francis Mackworth patented a design of open top kiln for coking
1855 Patent on improvement of safety doors in mines[5]
Worked at the Abercarn Collieries
1856 Patent to Ebenezer Rogers, of Abercarn, and Herbert Mackworth, of Clifton, in the county of Gloucester, for the invention of "improvements in cooking, and in apparatus for that purpose.[6]
1859 President of the South Wales Institute of Engineers
1863 Died at Abercarn[7]