William Roberts 1824 & Ann (General)

by jimashton , Tuesday, October 09, 2007, 06:45 (6257 days ago) @ jimashton

I am replying to myself as a family tree contact has emailed me directly with information, which added to previous information, persuades me that William Roberts b. 1824, son of William Roberts & Ann Barnard married Susannah Roberts, not Ann. This then breaks the link from the Watkins family back via this line. The detail of the email is shown below.

It looks to me (though it may be unprovable) that William Roberts, son of William & Ann, married his cousin Susannah, daughter of George Roberts, both of them living at Stenders, and that the marriage entry is in fact inaccurate as to father of Susannah. The witness John Roberts would have been her older brother. Her belief that she was born in Wales may have been true but like so much may have been also inaccurate.

George Roberts 1797 & Hannah Thomas 1801 are in my Family Tree – census data is shown below. As Susannah married 21.8.1847 she is not here, but you can see the brother John referred to above. Interesting that their daughter Eliza married a Thomas J Barnard (they subsequently moved to Cornwall for the Tin mining) as the father of Ann Barnard who married William Roberts was Thomas Barnard who married Mary Ann Goode :

1851 Census
ROBERTS George 49 Coal Miner Forest of Dean
Hannah 44 Forest of Dean
John 28 Iron Miner Forest of Dean
George 18 Coal Miner Forest of Dean
Edwin 15 Coal Miner Forest of Dean
William 12 Scholar Forest of Dean
Albert 8 Forest of Dean

1861 Census RG9 1754 176
Roberts George 60 Coal Miner Ruardean
Hannah wife 55 Abenhall
Albert Edwin 18 Coal Miner East Dean
Thomas J Barnard son in law mar 21 Iron Miner Abenhall
Eliza dtr 25 mar Abenhall
Hannah E grandaughter 1 mth East Dean

1871 Census East Dean RG10/2597/5/2
George Roberts 69 iron Miner Ruardean
Hannah 67 Abinghall

The question for which I am seeking assistanceremains; who were the parents of William Roberts also born 1824 who married Ann whose family are detailed below :

1881 Census
Dwelling: (Newham Bottom)
Census Place: (Westbury On Severn) East Dean, Gloucester, England
Source: FHL Film 1341609 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 2522 Folio 20 Page 2
William ROBERTS M 53 M Ruardean, Gloucester, England
Rel: Head
Occ: Coal Miner
Ann ROBERTS M 52 F Ruardean, Gloucester, England
Rel: Wife
Elizabeth ROBERTS U 26 F Ruardean, Gloucester, England
Rel: Daur
James ROBERTS U 22 M Ruardean, Gloucester, England
Rel: Son
Occ: Coal Miner
Henry ROBERTS 9 M East Dean, Gloucester, England
Rel: Son
Occ: Scholar
Richard ROBERTS 3 M East Dean, Gloucester, England
Rel: Gson
Thomas ROBERTS 2 M Ross, Hereford, England
Rel: Gson