WW1 soldiers - ROBERTS family Scowles Coleford (General)

by ScowlesBoy , Monday, January 20, 2014, 14:55 (3965 days ago) @ dink999

Frustrating isn't it? I've also been working on the Roberts family of Scowles (where I was born and brought up) but, I suspect, a different part of it. The earliest I can get to is about 1801 and I can't, as yet, find a connection to your Roberts family although I'm sure there must be one.

My mother was Dorothy Amy Roberts (1904-1998); her father was Benjamin Roberts (Abt 1867-1937); his father was Daniel Roberts (1832-1901) whose father was John Roberts (Abt 1801-Abt 1867). Some of the dates may well be wrong. One of the inhibitors as I'm sure you've found is the way the area is treated in the various Censuses - sometimes in Monmouth/Wales and sometime in England and even then the sub-district's name changes.

Happy to share any other information with you if it helps. Also, have you been on the terrific Scowles Hamlet website researched and put together by Tome Bint? He has varoius bits on the Roberts family as well as the school registers going way back. It's at:

http://www.dance-family.com/scowles%20hamlet.htm

Good luck.