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Roberts Family, Brixworth/Northampton
« on: Monday 27 November 23 00:08 GMT (UK) »
Hello!

I have a couple of recentish ancestors who are driving me mad because I just cannot find information on them!

My granduncle, Charles Roberts was born in Northampton in 1910. I can find him on the 1939 register- he’s still living with his parents Charles Alfred Roberts and Sarah Alice (Hewitt) Roberts, but I have no idea when he died. In a letter from a sibling to a cousin in America it states that he spent time in Canada before the war, but I have no information at all. I can’t find a marriage for him (the ones I can find just don’t seem possible to me). Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Also his siblings George Reginald and Alfred Samuel are fairly elusive! George is also said to have spent time in Canada.

Thank you in advance!

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Re: Roberts Family, Brixworth/Northampton
« Reply #1 on: Monday 27 November 23 01:11 GMT (UK) »
Travelling to Nova Scotia in March 1929 onboard Aurania from Southampton
Charles Roberts and George R Roberts from Northamptonshire
Passage paid by Government

Perhaps look for them in 1931 Canada census.
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Roberts Family, Brixworth/Northampton
« Reply #2 on: Monday 27 November 23 03:34 GMT (UK) »
You didn’t say George & Alfred were also with parents in 1939.

Think this is likely Alfred’s death

ROBERTS, ALFRED  SAMUEL     1907 
GRO Reference:  DOR  Q2/1986 in NORTHAMPTON  (6701C)  Volume 7  Page 2425

Probate gives address of that man as
186 St Andrews Road, Northampton

Buying his will (£1.50) might identify other family (or not 😀)

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Re: Roberts Family, Brixworth/Northampton
« Reply #3 on: Monday 27 November 23 03:36 GMT (UK) »
George’s death?

ROBERTS    GEORGE REGINALD    31MR1913    NORTHAMPTON    7   2481   

George may have been the second husband of Phyllis Mae Bird nee Spear. Married 1957

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Re: Roberts Family, Brixworth/Northampton
« Reply #4 on: Monday 27 November 23 10:00 GMT (UK) »
Thank you all, that’s a great start!

I will have a look into the will and hope it does mention family!

I did have a brief look at the 1931 Canada census, but I didn’t delve too deeply because I wasn’t sure when they had arrived in Canada.

Thank you!

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Re: Roberts Family, Brixworth/Northampton
« Reply #5 on: Monday 27 November 23 10:54 GMT (UK) »
Canada 1931 census ...
Charles Roberts, Canadian originally English, age 20, arrived 1929, living South Monagh, Peterborough, Ontario.
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Re: Roberts Family, Brixworth/Northampton
« Reply #6 on: Monday 27 November 23 15:12 GMT (UK) »
That sounds like it could be him! Thank you!

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Re: Roberts Family, Brixworth/Northampton
« Reply #7 on: Friday 01 December 23 14:17 GMT (UK) »
The passenger list that I quoted in reply #1 was found on Ancestry.
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)
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