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Hi Jenny

She was marrying into the Rogers family.  By 1755 one member of the family was a yeoman and another a husbandman and they are involved in leasing property, so they appear to be well established by that time.

Helen

...I think Les's idea could well be your answer, Helen...much more likely than my German...!!

Couldn't leave this alone so have checked a few things out and I now wonder if the name is SERGENT or a derivative as I saw it written in the burials as SHERGANT.  I then looked at the baptisms and found Hannah SERGANT baptised 28 Oct 1701 d/o John and Joyce.  Do you think this is more likely than SUGAR.  It is a surname that crops up many time in Cheddar.

I have come across the surname SUGAR many times in Somerset, so it could be a possibility.

This is the original entry - any more ideas about what it might be? - bearing in mind it was probably written by someone with a Somerset accent writing what they thought they heard.  Comparing other writing on the page it could be SHARGET?

...regarding are there German names around Cheddar I'll leave that to the locals with greater knowledge...  After George I came to the throne in 1714 many Germans came to the UK and settled.

What was her husband's occupation?  (Sometimes similar trades drew people together...)

Many Germans came to the UK to work and often married locals (altho they also wrote home and asked for servants/housekeepers/assistants/apprentices to come and join them - and subsequently married one of them). 

Unfortunately, women don't tend to leave a paper trail -so it would be great if you could find her father...

J