ROBERTS, William J b. 9 Jul 1757 St. Keverne, Cornwall, England d. 14 Feb 1820 Windsor. New South Wales: BBFHS Connections

1757 - 1820 (62 years)

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Name	ROBERTS, William J
Birth	9 Jul 1757	St. Keverne, Cornwall, England [1]
Gender	Male
Charge	14 Aug 1786	Bodmin, Cornwall, England
	Stealing “five pond and half weight of yarn (value 9 s), property of Wm Moffat”
Arrival	26 Jan 1788 [2]
	Aboard Scarborough with First Fleet
Land Grant	8 Jan 1794	Bulanaming, New South Wales [3]
	NRS 13836 [7/445] Register1, Page 17; Reel 2560
Land Grant	15 Sep 1796	Mulgrave Place, New South Wales [4]
	NRS 13836 [7/445] Register1, Page 75; Reel 2560
Will	1820	Mulgrave Place, New South Wales [5]
Death	14 Feb 1820	Windsor. New South Wales [2, 6, 7, 8]
Burial	16 Feb 1820	Windsor. New South Wales [2, 8, 9]
		ROBERTS William 1820 St Matthews C of E Windsor Headstone
Probate	1821 [5]
Reference Number	43
Notes	William Roberts 1755 - 1820 William Roberts was most probably born in the Cornwell region of England about 1755, but little is known of his early life. On 14th August 1786 he was charged at the Bodmin Assizes with stealing “five pond and half weight of yarn (value 9 s), property of Wm Moffat” of Launceston. His sentence was for seven years transportation. William would then have been taken, probably in an open cart, to the gaol on the outskirts of Bodmin. On 25th September 1786 he was known to be on the hulk Dunkirk, moored in Plymouth Harbour and aged 30. His behaviour is recorded as being “tolerably decent and orderly”. On 11th March 1787 he was transferred to the convict ship Charlotte, then later to the Scarborough which carried 208 male convicts. The First Fleet set sail 0n Sunday 13th May, making stops first at Teneriffe then Rio De Janeiro and also Cape Town before the long haul across the Pacific to New South Wales. All the Fleet had arrived at Botany Bay by January 20th. However Phillip decided rather than at Botany Bay, to establish the colony at Port Jackson and it was here the Union Jack was raised on January 26th 1788. At Port Jackson in 1788 William is recorded as working for Lt George Johnson and caring for his stock at Long Cove. On 8th January 1794 William received a grant of thirty acres “between the ground used as a brick field, without the town of Sydney, and the east end of the land allotted for the maintenance of a schoolmaster.” In July 1788 he had a hut in this area as it is recorded that some of his pork was stolen by a James Gray. William formed an association with Kezia Brown who had arrived on the Neptune in 1790. Their son William was baptised on 4th September 1791, the first of ten children to be born to the couple. A daughter Mary was born in June 1793. William & Kezia were not married till August 1793. This suggests that William may have been married previously in England as, by then, any marriage would have been absolved and by this time as well William would have completed his sentence. By mid 1800 William had purchased a farm at Mulgrave Place. He also owned ten hogs, had 13 acres sewn in wheat and 15 ready for maize. In 1802 he was renting 30 acres there and the household consisted of William, his wife, five children and one free employee - all off stores. In August 1804 he received a grant of 100 acres at Mulgrave Place & by 1806 was a substantial landholder. He was recorded as a landholder in the Windsor district in 1814. William Roberts died on 14th February 1820 and was buried at St Matthews, Windsor in a family vault. His will, made only a week before his death, is one of the earliest to have survived in the colony. He left Hobby Farm (probably purchased from the grantee Thomas Hobby before 1806) to his son Edward with other land and stock divided amongst his children and grandchildren.
Person ID	I3927338	Genealogy Connections
Last Modified	5 Aug 2020

Father	ROBERTS, John, b. 1717, St. Keverne, Cornwall, England d. 1792, St. Keverne, Cornwall, England (Age 75 years)
Mother	LUGG, Jane, b. Abt 1724, St. Keverne, Cornwall, England
Marriage	11 Feb 1744/45	St. Keverne, Cornwall, England
Family ID	F160858	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 BROWN, Kezia, b. 1771, Severn Stoke, Worcestershire, England d. 22 Jun 1854, Richmond, Surrey, England (Age 83 years)

Marriage 14 Aug 1793 Sydney Cove, New South Wales [10, 11, 12, 13, 14]

Children

	1. ROBERTS, Sarah, b. 15 Jun 1795, Sydney Cove, New South Wales d. 22 Aug 1874, Richmond, New South Wales (Age 79 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	2. ROBERTS, William, b. 4 Sep 1791, Sydney Cove, New South Wales d. 20 May 1863, Richmond, New South Wales (Age 71 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	3. ROBERTS, Mary, b. 15 Jun 1793, Sydney Cove, New South Wales d. 22 Jul 1863, Windsor. New South Wales (Age 70 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	4. ROBERTS, James, b. 28 Jul 1798, Sydney Cove, New South Wales d. 13 Apr 1877, Dubbo, New South Wales (Age 78 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	5. ROBERTS, John, b. 1801, Sydney, New South Wales d. 28 Jul 1880, Richmond, New South Wales (Age 79 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	6. ROBERTS, Maria, b. 5 Oct 1805, Windsor. New South Wales d. 10 Jul 1867, Windsor. New South Wales (Age 61 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	7. ROBERTS, Harriet, b. 1807, Windsor. New South Wales d. 14 Nov 1857, Richmond, New South Wales (Age 50 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	8. ROBERTS, Ann, b. 20 Nov 1809, Windsor. New South Wales d. 2 Aug 1876, Windsor. New South Wales (Age 66 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	9. ROBERTS, Edward, b. 3 Apr 1813, Windsor. New South Wales d. 29 Nov 1890, Windsor. New South Wales (Age 77 years)
	10. ROBERTS, Robert, b. 2 Mar 1803, Windsor. New South Wales d. 22 Jul 1873, Walgett, New South Wales (Age 70 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]

Family ID F160303 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 25 Oct 2017

Family 2 RUSSELL, Mary

Marriage 1 Jul 1778 Helston, Cornwall, England [15]

Hugh Roberts Family Tree;by Kirsten Hawkes

Children

	1. ROBERTS, Mary, b. 1782, Cornwall, England [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	2. ROBERTS, William, b. 1783, Cornwall, England [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	3. ROBERTS, Richard, b. 1786, Cornwall, England [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	4. ROBERTS, Joseph, b. 1782, Cornwall, England d. 1783, St. Keverne, Cornwall, England (Age 1 year) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]

Family ID F160854 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 25 Oct 2017

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	Birth - 9 Jul 1757 - St. Keverne, Cornwall, England
	Marriage - 1 Jul 1778 - Helston, Cornwall, England
	Charge - Stealing “five pond and half weight of yarn (value 9 s), property of Wm Moffat” - 14 Aug 1786 - Bodmin, Cornwall, England
	Marriage - 14 Aug 1793 - Sydney Cove, New South Wales
	Land Grant - NRS 13836 [7/445] Register1, Page 75; Reel 2560 - 15 Sep 1796 - Mulgrave Place, New South Wales
	Will - 1820 - Mulgrave Place, New South Wales
	Death - 14 Feb 1820 - Windsor. New South Wales
	Burial - 16 Feb 1820 - Windsor. New South Wales

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[S221] Family Search -- England Births & Christenings 1538 - 1975, ROBERTS William 1757.
Name: William Roberts
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: Aug 1757
Baptism Place: St Keverne, Cornwall, England
Father: John Roberts
Mother: Jane
FHL Film Number: 246852, 246853

Source Information:
Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: Family Search, 2013.
[S126] St Matthews C of E Windsor Parish Records 1810 to 1856, Death Register ROBERTS William.
William Roberts
Death 14 February 1820, Burial 16 February 1820
Died Windsor: Minister John Cross
Free: Came out a prisoner. Ship Scarborough 1788
Entry No 0355 Index No 3463
[S227] A.O.N.S.W. -- Registers of Land Grants and Leases, ROBERTS Wm 8 Jan 1794 Bulanaming Series: NRS 13836; Item: 7/444; Reel: 2560.
No of Grant: 145
No of Register & Folio of Register: Register1; Folio 72
Grantees Names: Wm Roberts
No of Acres: 30
Grant or Lease: Grant
District: Bulanaming
By Whom Granted:
When Granted: 8 Jan 1794
Annual Quit Rent:
When Quit Rent Commencing: 8 Jan 1804
Name of Farm: Roberts Farm
Witnesses Names: Jos Foveaux, Wm Gibbons, L Shaw, S Collins
Description of Grant: Laying and situate between the ground used as a Brickfield without the Town of Sydney and the E end of the land allotted for the maintenance of a Schoolmaster
[S227] A.O.N.S.W. -- Registers of Land Grants and Leases, ROBERTS Wm 15 Sep 1796 Mulgrave Place; Registers of Land Grants and Leases; Series: NRS 13836; Item: 7/444; Reel: 2560.
No of Grant: 566
No of Register & Folio of Register: Register 2; Folio 70
Grantees Names: Wm Roberts
No of Acres: 50
Grant or Lease: Grant
District:
By Whom Granted: John Hunter
When Granted: 15 Sep 1796
Annual Quit Rent:
When Quit Rent Commencing: 15th Sep 1806
Name of Farm:
Witnesses Names: Jas Williamson, Mrs Stevenson; Mrs Sullivan, S Collins
Description of Grant: Lying and situate on the River Hawkesbury and bounded on the N by Dunstans’ farm.
Remarks: NB. There is a Blank left in the register for the Name of the Farm and District. The District is Mulgrave Place and is known by the name of Robert’s farm.
[S213] A.O.N.S.W -- Deceased Estate, ROBERTS William Died 1820 Mulgrave Place; Series 1; Item 113.
Photo copy of will & probate documents
[S1] NSW BDM Index, Deaths ROBERTS William V18204562 2B/1820.
Aged 65
[S119] A Rich Inheritance: William Roberts & Kezia Brown - their background and their family, ROBERTS William Page 015;.
Bap 4.9.1791;
D 20.5.1863
[S244] St Matthews C of E Windsor Headstone Inscriptions, ROBERTS William Left Section Row 13 Plot 27.
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM ROBERTS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
FEBY 14TH 1820
AGED 65 YEARS
[S233] A.O.N.S.W. -- Registers of births, deaths & marriage pre 1856, Death ROBERTS William Burial, Reel 5001, Volume 2B, No 4562, 16 February 1820.
Abode: Windsor
Age: 65
Burial: St Matthews Windsor
[S1] NSW BDM Index, Marriage ROBERTS William & BROWN Kezia V1793255 3A/1793, V1793152 4/1793.
Groom: William Roberts
Bride: Kezziah Browne
CA = St Phillips C of E Sydney
[S119] A Rich Inheritance: William Roberts & Kezia Brown - their background and their family, ROBERTS William Page 015;.
B. c1755 England D. 14.2.1820 Richmond NSW;
M.14.8.1873 Sydney NSW;
Children 10;
Kezia Brown Bap 10.3.1771 Severn Stoke England
D. 22.6.1854 Richmond NSW
[S233] A.O.N.S.W. -- Registers of births, deaths & marriage pre 1856, Marriage ROBERTS William & BROWN Reel 5001, Vol 2, 1787 to 1831 CofE, 3A , 255.
August 14th , St Phillips C Of E Sydney
[S233] A.O.N.S.W. -- Registers of births, deaths & marriage pre 1856, Marriage ROBERTS William & BROWN Kezia Reel 5002, Vol3 (1--5474) No 255, 14th August 1793.
Ceremony: St Phillips Sydney
Registered: St Phillips Sydney
[S233] A.O.N.S.W. -- Registers of births, deaths & marriage pre 1856, Marriage ROBERTS William & BROWN Kezziah Reel 5002. Vol 4 Chronological St Phillips) No 152, 14 Aug 1793.
The solomnization of matrimony By Banns between William Roberts
& Kezziah Browne and married this 14th day of August
In the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Ninety nine by me -------------------- Richard Johnson
This Marriage was solominized between us Wm Roberts X
Kezziah Browne X
In the presence of Thos Allan
[S325] Cornwall OPC Database, Marriage ROBERTS Williiam & RUSSELL Mary 1778 Helston.
Witnesses : Rich'd James & John Luke

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