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Lydia KIRK, w/o Isaac ROBERTS

The ROBERTS Family of C18th/C19th Birmingham, England & Portsmouth Hants.
- Multi-Generational Hairdressers & Barbers -

by the Geneal Geologist

- Pedigree revised and updated June 2014 -

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The head of my tree is Isaac ROBERTS, Locksmith, (my 4xGGF) who lived in the central Birmingham area (initially within the churches of St. Martin (St M) & St. Philip (St P - Birmingham Cathedral) in the period up to 1825, then afterwards in Handsworth, part of Staffordshire but now a part of Birmingham). Records suggest the following family, where most of the males and their male descendants were in the hairdressing trade. I would be interested to hear from anyone who may be aware of, or has inherited, a traditional ROBERTS hairdressing trade in the Portsmouth area of Hampshire in modern times, or have family stories to supplement or correct this pedigree. Isaac is possibly the s/o Joseph & Mary ROBERTS baptised in 1781 in nearby Halesowen (then part of Shropshire).

Isaac ROBERTS (c1785-1827) = Lydia KIRK (c1785-1863) in 1803 in Handsworth (my 4xGGPs). Lydia was the only surviving daughter of Birmingham couple John & Margaret KIRK - Children:

• Eliza Margaret ROBERTS (1804-1817) – mother incorrectly given as Eleanor. Her 2^nd name is assumed to be from Lydia's mother;

• Charlotte ROBERTS (1807-1808);

• John Joseph ROBERTS (1809 St P - 1868) - Hairdresser in Fordrough Street in 1861 with 20-year older wife Elizabeth (widow BIDDULPH, 1789-1874) of Atherstone. No children. Assumed to be named after both his grandfathers;

• Sarah ROBERTS (1811 St M);

• Samuel ROBERTS (1813 St P - 1896), Hairdresser of 106 Suffolk Street = Jane HOLLOWAY of Bloxwich on 20 Mar 1837 at St M. Samuel was witness to his sister Elizabeth's marriage in 1837. Children:

  • Frederick ROBERTS (1838-1920), Hairdresser of Gooch Street = Ann ROWLANDS of Derbyshire at Birmingham St George in 1864. No issue on census;

  • George Alfred ROBERTS (1841-69) = Mary Elizabeth SHERRATT on 20 Nov 1864 at St George, dying within 5 years of his marriage and no widow found in 1871 census, no further branch history is known;

  • Caroline ROBERTS (1843-74);

  • Mary Ann ROBERTS (1846-53);

• Mary Ann ROBERTS (1815-1819);

• Elizabeth ROBERTS (1818 St P – 1880) = David POPPLEWELL (1815-81) on 23 Oct 1837 at Handsworth, West Bromwich, Staffs., witnessed by older brother Samuel ROBERTS. This couple are my my 3xGGPs.

• William ROBERTS (1820 St P – 1889 Portsea, Hants.), Hairdresser at 395 Summer Lane in 1841, with 55 y-o Lydia GIBBON, who is his remarried mother (m. 23.8.1831 to Robert GIBBON at Handsworth St Mary). By 1851 William & his new family were at 62 Back Church Lane in Goodman Fields, Tower Hamlets, Whitechapel, London. In 1861, 1871 & 1881 the family were at 32 Russell Street, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hants. William = Maria COWLEY of Easington, GLS (1824-93) on 16 Jun 1846, at Harborne near Birmingham. Their descendants include:

  • William Thomas ROBERTS (1847, Birmingham - 1911 Portsmouth), Hairdresser at 26 Charlotte Street, Portsea in 1871 = later in 1871 Portsea to Caroline PAINTER. William was widowed by 1891 (living at 40 Hyde Park Road) as Caroline had died aged 38 in Q3 1888, the same Quarter as the birth of daughter Adelaide. He remarried to Kezia HARMAN nee JONES in Q2 1893 Portsea. Descendants of William & Caroline in Portsea/Portsmouth:

    • 2 unknown children who died before 1911 according to the census return;

    • William John ROBERTS (1872-1960), Hairdresser, of 24 Arundel Street, Landport/Portsea in 1911 (with aunt Adelaide & living with PAINTER/THOMPSON aunts in 1891). In 1897 = Margaret Annie PEARCE:

      • Stanley Herman ROBERTS (1899) = Beatrice E MOOREY in 1923 Fareham. Children:

        • Gwendoline ROBERTS (1925);

        • Patricia M ROBERTS (1929);

        • William J ROBERTS (1933);

      • Vera WINIFRED ROBERTS (1901) = James E MARSHALL in 1924;

      • Herbert William ROBERTS (1906-72);

    • Frederick James ROBERTS (Q2 1875-1912) - unmarried Labourer in 1901 = in Portsmouth in Q2 1905 to Dorothea Leonora VINE. Children include:

      • 2 unknown children who died before the 1911 census;

      • Ivy Gladys Victoria ROBERTS (1908-41) = Arthur Frank MONKCOM (1906-41) in 1937. Due to the same date of death it is assumed they both died in an air raid;

      • William Matthew ROBERTS (1910-11);

      • Cecil Walter ROBERTS (1912-2003) = Grace E BLEACH in 1939. Possible children include:

        • Keith E ROBERTS (1940, Portsmouth);

        • Jacqueline ROBERTS (1941, Lewes, SSX);

        • David George ROBERTS (1944, Brighton, SSX - 1973);

        • Christine A ROBERTS (1946, Portsmouth);

        • Graham A ROBERTS (1948, Portsmouth);

    • Edith Ellen ROBERTS (Q1 1877-85);

    • Henry Horace ROBERTS (Q4 1878-1953) = Harriet SHIRES in Q3 1899. Portsea children include:

      • 3 unknown children who died prior to the 1911 census;

      • Henry Charles ROBERTS (1897-1974) = Gladys Elsie PASSELLS (1902-73) in 1922;

        • Violet G ROBERTS (1923) = Jeremiah COLEMAN (1921) in 1943;

        • Eva Eileen ROBERTS (1926-74) = Denis F MARSH in 1942;

        • Henry F ROBERTS (1929) = Matilda RUNDLE in 1948;

        • Kenneth J ROBERTS (1933) = Moila E E BUGLER in 1957;

        • David J ROBERTS (1935) = Dorothy M SINNICK in 1957;

      • Lord William F ROBERTS (1900-01);

      • Arthur Frank ROBERTS (1902-92) = Lilian R EDNEY (1904-97). Children in Portsmouth:

        • Joyce May G ROBERTS (1924-95) = 1946 to Alfred FOULKES;

        • Arthur F ROBERTS (1926), = Patricia NOLAN in 1946;

        • Roy Cornelius ROBERTS (1929-2005) = Marlene J BENNETT in 1954:

          • Wendy S ROBERTS (1955);

          • Debra J ROBERTS (1959);

      • Florence Harriet ROBERTS (1909-2003) = Charles H CLARK in 1930;

      • Maud G ROBERTS (1911-30);

      • Hilda Dorothy ROBERTS (1913) = Walter FISHER in 1929 Portsmouth;

      • Nellie M ROBERTS (1914) = in 1933 to George A BUGDEN;

      • Stanley E ROBERTS (1918);

    • Albert Edward ROBERTS (Q4 1880 - Q1 1882);

    • Rose Lilian ROBERTS (Q3 1882, twin - 1959) - a domestic in 1901 = Thomas J ASHFORD in 1921;

    • Lilian Rose ROBERTS (Q3 1882, twin - 1961) - a domestic in 1901 at the "Sailor Welcome Coffee Tavern" at 88 Queen Street, was given as unmarried in 1911 (probably to retain her occupation) but appears to have married Henry Edward ALLINSON in 1904 (and died with that name);

    • Albert Charles ROBERTS (1884-95);

    • Adelaide ROBERTS (Q3 1888-1968), with brother Thomas John was living with PAINTER aunt in 1891 = 1909 Portsmouth to Horace Henry Standing SHAVE;

  • Maria Ann ROBERTS (1849-1927) = John Isaac MATTHEWS, a Tobacco Warehouseman, in 1874 Portsea;

  • Edward David ROBERTS (1851-52);

  • Adelaide ROBERTS (1859-86). Unmarried;

• Lucy ROBERTS (1822-1870) - May have been the unmarried dressmaker in Moseley Street, Aston in 1841, otherwise nothing further known;

• Thomas ROBERTS (1825 St P - 1896) - Located as unmarried in 1851 at 186 Birmingham Street, Oldbury with Lydia GIBBON. Thomas was also a Hairdresser. In 1853 Birmingham Thomas = Sarah BALL (1930-1907). In 1861 the couple were still in Oldbury but shortly thereafter moved to Portsmouth to join the other branches of the relocated family. Children:

  • Thomas ROBERTS (c1855 Oldbury). No further history known, but presumably died after 1861 census;

  • Walter Kirk ROBERTS (1859 Oldbury – 1941 Portsmouth), a Hairdresser in 1891 = Annie (c1887, m. not found), however family not evident after the 1891 census (?emigrated). This is the only reference to Lydia' maiden name in the family, but supports research. Children:

    • Queenie ROBERTS (1888);

    • Gladys Jessie ROBERTS (1889);

    • Nellie May ROBERTS (1890-92);

  • Georgina Julia ROBERTS (1861 Oldbury) = Robert Augustus GILES a Hairdresser in 1887 Portsea;

  • Laura Lucy ROBERTS (1863-1945) = George FARRELL in 1891;

  • Rosaline ROBERTS (1865). A Board School Teacher in 1891. No further history known;

  • Samuel ROBERTS (1867-1906) – serving on the “Royal Oak” in Malta in 1901;

  • William Francis ROBERTS (1983-1960 Portsmouth) = Bertha Ada Diana FREEMAN (1877-1964) in 1900. Their 2 surviving of 3 children by 1911 are:

    • William ROBERTS (1901-86 Portsmouth);

    • Francis Harold ROBERTS (1905-72 Portsmouth);
      
      
      

The outline above is indicative only and not necessarily fully correct or complete.
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