Rev William Roberts
 

Can anyone find where this man came from and who his parents might be?


ROBERTS, William
family background not identified with confidence
born 25 Aug 1878 [?Llanllyfni co Carnarvonshire]
died 05 Dec 1951 vicarage Glyncorrwg Neath Port Talbot west Glamorganshire
[left £273 probate to Cecil Hanson ROBERTS schoolmaster]- son
buried churchyard S Cynwyd, parish of Llangynwyd with Maesteg, borough Bridgend Wales
Comment: maybe the largest private graveyard in the whole of Europe (church website)
married Jun ¼ 1916 [?S Cynwyd Llangynwyd] registered Bridgend co Glamorganshire
Charlotte Annie HANSON
born Mar ¼ 1880 Bridgend maybe died Mar ¼ 1932 [in hospital Fitzroy Square?] registered St Pancras co Middlesex
daughter of Benjamin HANSON colliery pumpsman
born c1853 Huddersfield died 25 Sep 1934 buried churchyard S Cynwyd Llangynwyd
and Ann -
born c1858 St Brides Minor died Jun ¼ 1900 Bridgend Wales buried 06 Jun 1900 St Cynwyd Llangynwyd
Education
1919 St Michael’s college Llandaff
1921 deacon Llandaff
1922 priest Llandaff (8;not found 411)
Positions
(1911) maybe: William ROBERTS born c1877 Llandegai Carnarvon, head teacher in Llanywern and Llanfihangel Tal Y Llin
1920-1924 assistant (to Morgan Henry JONES) curate Llangynwyd S Cynwyd co Glamorganshire
Jul 1921 member 1st AngloCatholic Priests’ Convention Oxford
1924-1937 curate-in-charge Crynant [Y Creunant] conventional district
Geographical note: on the River Dulais nr Neath Port Talbot west Glamorganshire
and Glyncorrwg is on the River Afon Corrwyg, also in Neath Port Talbot west Glamorganshire
1937-death vicar Glyncorrwg
1937-1940 with Blaengwrach diocese Llandaff
(1939) widowed, also in the house Cecil H ROBERTS born 14 Aug 1917
(1941) residing Glyncorrwg Port Talbot co Glamorganshire

There are two possible William Roberts birth registrations in Carnarvon reg district (which included Llanllyfni) with no middle names, one Jul-Sep 1878 with MMN Humphreys and one Oct-Dec 1878 with MMN Roberts. Also some with middle names - William Owen Roberts, MMN Thomas, and William Wynn Roberts with MMN Roberts.

Here is a William Roberts age 2 in Llandegai on the 1881 census but his father is a quarryman. Of course we don't have your William's father's details from his marriage cert to check.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...cklabel=Return

Llandegai was in Bangor reg district while Llanllyfni was in Carnarvon.

There is a public tree on ancestry which has your William born at Pennal, Merionethshire, the son of Thomas John Roberts and Ellen Evans, with a previous marriage in 1904 to Annie Thomas who died in 1908:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/facts?_ph....co.uk/search/

Thomas is also a quarryman. Guess there were a lot of them around!

Ah, this 1911 census entry fits nicely with that ancestry tree:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...=successSource

William Roberts Boarder 32 Widower Lay Worker, Church of England, born Pennal Merioneth, speaks both English and Welsh.

Perfect! Thanks Kate, that will be him

Do you want to have a try at those Jones's?? LOL :d

Have to leave them till tomorrow, Chris.