Robert John Roberts and his wife Norah Mary (Hayward) Roberts.

Robert was always called Jack, his parents were John and Mary Roberts. Jack was born at Llecha, Llysfaen, Carnarvon; circa 1900, and he had the following sisters and brothers, Sarah Anne Roberts, Mary Roberts, George Roberts, Edward Roberts, Thomas Roberts, Ellen Roberts and Catherine Roberts. In the 1911 Census his parents had been married for 33 years and had had nine children, one who had died [This child never appeared on any census form] Jack was the youngest child.

The language they spoke was Welsh, although some of the family did speak both English and Welsh. Jack's father had several jobs and was a Quarryman in 1881, Carter and Farmer in 1891, a Lime Stone Quarryman in 1901 and a farm labourer in 1911.

Jacks grandmother Ann Roberts was a retired farmer and widow living with his parents in 1881, and was still living with them at the age of 78 in the 1891 census. In the 1881 census the following page has her directly following the family and living at Pen-y-cefn Farm with three children; Elizabeth Roberts, Edward Roberts and Hugh Roberts. If this is true then these children would have been sister and brother to John Roberts and the aunt and uncles of Jack.

The fact that John Roberts family had a farm would explain his occupation Carter and Farmer in 1891 and farm labourer in 1911.

Ray and Pauline went to stay at Lecha, the house owned by his great grandfather and where his father Robert John Roberts was born. Ray managed to obtain copies of old deeds of the house with his grandfathers signature on them. View a part of the deeds

Ray told me that his father had also been in the army during the first world war View his records.

When Ray's father Jack lived in Birmingham, he was a worker at Mitchell & Butler, at Cape Hill.
View information on where he worked