I am trying to trace the service of Edward Roberts (and his wife Emily) who was vicar of All Saints Church, Viney Hill, Westbury on Severn in the 1901 census. My family thinks he became a missionary in India. He had been born in Bombay in 1873 and educated at Rossall School, Fleetwood but I know nothing else.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Carol

1911
ROBERTS EDWARD M 1873 38 Gloucester Gloucestershire
ROBERTS EMILY F 1869 42 Gloucester Gloucestershire
+ possible children

1901
Edward Roberts abt 1873 Bombay Presideney Head East Dean, Gloucestershire
Emily Roberts abt 1869 Wyeburn, Nottinghamshire, England Wife East Dean, Gloucestershire

Name: Emily Godber
Name: Edward Roberts
Year of Registration: 1897
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
Volume: 7b
Page: 487

1891 Rossall School
Edward Roberts abt 1873 India Scholar Thornton, Lancashire

1871 Ockbrook Derbyshire
Gertrude Godber 28
Lucy Godber 5
Emily Godber 2 Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England

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Crockfords
http://www.crockford.org.uk/index.asp?id=1

or Lambeth Palace would seem to be the natural place to research for his "Service records"

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Historical data ( at Crockfords web site)

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1540 to 1835
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1835 to 1967
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The library can be contacted and they are happy to check their printed sequence of Crockford's Clerical Directory and other printed sources to answer specific enquiries. They will take enquiries for any period, since they do have some relevant sources (e.g. published alumni lists for universities) in addition to Crockford's Clerical Directory.

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

I have found a large number of clergymen in my father's side of the family (no Forest of Dean connection). There are usually extensive records if they were missionaries for the C of E. If you can find the missionary society which employed them you will probably find there are archives. I found one missionary society had a huge number of records on one vicar in my family, including photographs of him, his wife, his sister, his children, mother-in-law etc. I have also found a great deal just from "Googling" their name too as they can be mentioned in church minutes, on grave stones, as the vicar of a particular church or patron of some church activity. Also you might be able to find where he was educated and an obituary in the same way.