Researching Roger Evans
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 130866 people with the Evans surname? In that year Evans was ranked number 8 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Roger means "famous spear" and is of German origin.
Records of Roger Evans on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Roger Evans and the Evans Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Evans Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Evans family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 162676 people with the Evans surname in the UK? Evans is now ranked number 8 for popularity in the UK. |
Evans Family History Databases
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Evans Forums
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Miscellaneous Evans Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Roger Evans. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
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Roger Evans (London politician)
Jeremy Roger Evans (born 23 Jun 1964) is a Conservative Party politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London to Boris Johnson from 2015 to 2016. He is a former member of the London Assembly for Havering and Redbridge and a former councillor and leader of the Conservative group in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
Evans was born in Lancashire and moved to London in 1987. He worked for Royal Mail for 10 years before training as a barrister. He was called to the bar in 1997 and is a member of Middle Temple. He worked as a legal advisor to an IT recruitment company from 1998 to 2000.
Evans was elected to Waltham Forest council in 1990 and was the opposition spokesman on audit (1991), housing (1992), deputy leader (1993) and the leader of the Conservative group 1994–1998.
He was first elected to the London Assembly in 2000 and retained his seat in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 elections.Until 2008 he was the Conservative spokesman for Transport and the Chairman of the Transport Committee. In September 2007 he was elected Deputy Leader of the Conservative group at City Hall. In 2008 he retained his seat in an election which returned Boris Johnson as London's Mayor and in September 2008 he became leader of the now eleven strong Conservative group, a post he held until 2011. In the 2012 elections he was returned with a reduced majority.
On 13 May 2015, Evans became Deputy Mayor of London, replacing Victoria Borwick who had been elected to parliament.
In May 2006 he was elected to Havering council, taking the former Labour stronghold of Elm Park in the South of the borough.
In 2016, Evans announced his retirement from politics to pursue a career as a public speaking coach.
Source: Roger Evans (London politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaRoger Evans (Monmouth MP)
Roger Kenneth Evans (born 18 March 1947) is a British Conservative politician.
Evans first stood for Parliament, unsuccessfully, at Warley West in October 1974 and again in 1979, but he was beaten by Labour's Peter Archer each time.
Evans contested Ynys Môn in the 1987 election. It was a Conservative seat with a majority of 1,684 votes from the 1983 election, but the Conservatives lost the seat to Plaid Cymru.
Evans was elected Member of Parliament for Monmouth in 1992, winning the seat back from Labour's Huw Edwards who had defeated Evans in by-election the previous year. However, at the 1997 general election, Edwards retook the seat. Evans stood again in 2001 when he lost by 384 votes.
Evans, a barrister, was a junior Social Security minister from 1994 to 1997.
He was a guest on episode S0041 of the American public affairs show Firing Line, alongside Irish Socialist Bernadette Devlin, recorded on March 25 1972.
Source: Roger Evans (Monmouth MP), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Evans
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