Roberts Roots & Branches

  Isaac Roberts(10) and Janet Howie(16) along with their 7 children arrived in  the United States of America.  The Isaac Roberts family boarded the SS Friesland, 5 September 1906, in Liverpool, England.  Many of the family member suffered with seasickness and were ill long after they arrived in Wyoming. 

Happy birthday Robert Owen Roberts(7).  Robert was born 7 September 1856 in County Durham, England , 164 years ago today.  He is the son of Hugh Roberts(1) and Margaret(2) Roberts.  He married Alice Leese and together they had two children.  He worked in the potteries and then was a coal miner.  He died in England, never coming to the United States.  Robert was deaf, and it is unknown if he was born deaf or became deaf as a small child.  His wife, Alice was also deaf, as was one out of their two children.  His deafness was why he didn’t immigrate and why he he wasn’t christened until he was older.