Roberts Family History
Roberts Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the personal name Robert. This
surname is very frequent in Wales and west central England. It is also
occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of a
like-sounding Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Roberts
Name Distribution of Roberts Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Roberts families
 7,914 - 15,825  2,639 - 7,913 |
 1 - 2,638  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Roberts families
|
306 - 609 103 - 305 |
1 - 102 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Roberts census records
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Roberts Family Origin
Roberts Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Roberts Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Roberts Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Roberts census records
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Military Service by Roberts
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