Roberts Family
Thomas Roberts was Born 1790/95 at
Stockport, Cheshire, England
His
Father was Thomas Roberts Snr. ( 1764--
) his Mother Ann
(1768-- )
Thomas Married
1813 Jane Williamson
Their
Children
1.
Phillip Roberts was born
4th May 1814 Johnson, Pembroke, Wales.
And married on the 2nd. Feb/
1843 Maria Obray (1814--1879) at St. Mary's Pembroke shire, Wales.
He died 6th Feb. 1901 Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA.
2.Thomas Roberts born 1816 John stone, Pembroke
shire, Wales
3.Margaret Roberts born 1818, Johnson, Pembroke, Wales.
4.Mary Roberts was
born 1820 at Johnson, Pembroke, Wales she married a man named Stit.
5.Sarah
Roberts was born 25/3/ 1820 Johnson,
Pembroke, Wales
(Sally she married
a Mr Gwyn
Phillip
Roberts---the son
Phillip Roberts was Born on the
4th May 1814 Johnson, Pembroke, Wales and was baptised the 12th May
1816 May Pope Hill, Pembroke, Wales --was baptised (Mormon)
8th June 1844
And endowed on the 7th Nov. 1868
He was a Stonemason and was
married on the 2nd. Feb. 1843 to Maria Obray at St. Mary's Pembroke Wales
Philip died
--- February 6th 1901 Ogden,
Weber, Utah, USA
Their Children ---
1. Emma Jane Robert was born
10th Oct. 1843 St. Martin's
Pembroke Dock, Wales
and died 1851 Liverpool,
Lancashire, England at 8 y
2. Joseph John Aubray
Roberts was born 6th April 1846 Pembroke
shire, Wales and he
Married on the 14th June
1865 to Jane Fayle in St. Peters Church. Liverpool, believed to
have
died 10th March 1920 (?) U.S.A
3.Hyrum Thomas Roberts
was born 1st. August 1848 Menai Bridge, Pampha, llandysillia, Angls,
Wales
4.Celestial Roberts was born 28th August 1850 Liverpool, Lancs. England she married
on the 22nd. August to James Vincent Knight
(1833--1912) Salt Lake City,
Utah, USA and died 15th March 1939 Hinckley, Millard, Utah USA
5..Phillip Roberts was
born 28th August 1852
Bank field Terrace, Kirkdale, Everton, Lancs. he Married Maggie
Curtain (1852-- died
6. Mariah Roberts was
born on the 17th Nov. 1855 Liverpool, Lancashire. England, she married
23rd. march 1880 to Ephraim William Syrett (1854---) Endow House,
Salt Lake City, Utah. USA and
died 14th Nov. Kingston, Piute, Utah. USA
Phillip Roberts
Phillip Roberts was born in Pembroke shire, Wales in 1814, the first born of 5
children. He became a stonemason, as was his father, he married Maria Obray in
1843. The Obray family was members of the Mormon Church and on the 8th June
1844 Phillip was baptised.
Their first three children were born in
Wales, but by 1850 they had moved to Liverpool where their fourth child Celestial
was born in August. Two more children were born to them by 1855
1851 census Liverpool
P391 piece 2190/2 LDS film 87197 Ward Everton, Kirkdale 1851
Celestial Roberts, 6 months, born
Liverpool
Emma J ", 7, born Wales
Hiram ", 2, born Wales
Joseph J ", 4 , scholar, born Wales
Maria " , 32, born Wales
Phillip ", Stone Mason, born Wales
By 1868 Phillip and Maria decided to
immigrate to Utah in the USA, where Maria's brothers Samuel and Thomas lived
with their families.
They left on the 4th June 1868 on the 'John Bright' and
arrived in New York Harbour on the 23rd. July 1868. Three of their children
travelled with them, Celestial, Phillip Jnr. and their daughter Maria. The two
older sons, Joseph John, and Hyrum Thomas followed later.
During the journey to Utah, Celestial met
James Vincent Knight, and the two were married shortly after arriving in Salt
Lake City. They moved to the more southern part of Utah. Phillip and Maria,
together with their son Phillip and daughter Maria, continued on to Cash County
in Northern Utah to meet up with Samuel and Thomas Lorenzo Obray.
In 1869 Joseph John Aubray Roberts and
his wife Jane and daughter Elizabeth travelled to Omaha, Nebraska, where
he worked on the bridge across the Missouri river between Omaha and Council
Bluffs. By 1871 his wife and Maria Aubray Roberts was born in Omaha. Jane and Elizabeth and baby Maria left and returned to
Liverpool, As yet it is not known what happened to Joseph John , but it is
possible that he followed his parents to Utah to begin a new life
Maria, died on the 15th November 1879 in
Hooper, Weber, Utah aged 65 years.
Phillip lived until he was 87 and died on
the 6th February 1901 in Ogden, Weber.
"Thurs. 4. [June 1868] -- The
packet ship John Bright sailed from Liverpool, England, with 722 Saints
(176 from Scandinavia), under the direction of James McGaw; the company arrived
at New York July 13th, and at Laramie City, on the Union Pacific Railroad, 573
miles west of Omaha, July 23rd."
