Genealogy: Richard M. Roberts (1821-1871)

I'm experimenting with posting some random bits of my genealogy research here with the goal of eventually creating a linked family tree on Hive. You can see the index here.

Richard Roberts was born in 1821. About 1850 is what I consider the cutoff between on average easier to find info and on average harder to find info. That's based primarily on the availability of census records but of course the later you go, the more easy it is to find other types of records as well. This individual was born before 1850 but lived until 1871 and indeed it seems that most of the info here is based on census records. Most census records usually identify things like "head of household" and relationship of other individuals to that person.

According to Gramps Richard is my third cousin six times removed.

I use GenoPro (commercial software) to maintain my family tree but I mainly use Gramps to generate reports which is what most of the info below is based on. GenoPro generates reports too, I just don't like formatting as much. While GenoPro is commercial software, Gramps is open source software that is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS. I also use its relationship calculator functionality as noted above. I've also been exploring The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG) which is web based and requires a web server, PHP and mySQL database. I also have GedSite which also generates static HTML reports.

Both TNG and GedSite are commercial software so you have to pay for them. I think their price is reasonable and they are both excellent in their own ways. However, I prefer the open source nature of Gramps and the fact that it generates static HTML makes it easier to work with. I still like TNG enough that I will probably keep using it as well. I've been playing with GedSite on and off but haven't committed to it yet, however I've liked other sites I've seen generated with it. For now I am generating reports with Gramps and updating TNG on a fairly regular basis.

The chart at the top is an ancestry chart out to four generations from Gramps. The chart at the bottom is the same thing as generated by TNG. The index of all individuals I have posted so far can be found here.

Roberts, Richard M. ^1a

Birth Name	Roberts, Richard M.
Gender	male
Age at Death	49 years

Narrative

Events

Event	Date	Place	Description	Sources
Birth	1821	Rockingham Co, NC		2
Death	1870			2
	Age: 49y
Christening	NC290: P35, 1.14	Census 1870

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date	Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father	Roberts, James	1800	between 1840 and 1870
Mother	Thomas, Susannah	1802	1833
Brother	Roberts, George W.	1816	between 1880 and 1897
Brother	Roberts, Michael F.	1817	1850
Brother	Roberts, John	1818	1870
	Roberts, Richard M.	1821	1870
Sister	Roberts, Martha	1822
Brother	Roberts, Daniel	1823
Brother	Roberts, James Dutch	1826-03-17	1900
Sister	Roberts, Mary	1828
Brother	Roberts, Nebuchanezer	1832-10-00	1917-10-29

Families

Family of Roberts, Richard M. and Allen, Mary
Married	Wife	Allen, Mary ( * 1828 + 1870 )
		Event Date Place Description Sources Marriage 1846-04-01 NC Religious Marriage 2

  Children

Name	Birth Date	Death Date
Roberts, Martha Jane	1847
Roberts, Nathaniel	1849
Roberts, Robert	1853
Roberts, Eldridge	1855-06-00	1900
Roberts, Richard M.	1857-10-00

Pedigree

1. Roberts, James
   1. Thomas, Susannah
      1. Roberts, George W.
      2. Roberts, Michael F.
      3. Roberts, John
      4. Roberts, Richard M.
         1. Allen, Mary
            1. Roberts, Martha Jane
            2. Roberts, Nathaniel
            3. Roberts, Robert
            4. Roberts, Eldridge
            5. Roberts, Richard M.
      5. Roberts, Martha
      6. Roberts, Daniel
      7. Roberts, James Dutch
      8. Roberts, Mary
      9. Roberts, Nebuchanezer

Ancestors

Roberts, Richard M.
*1821
+1870

Roberts, James
*1800
+between 1840 and 1870

Roberts, Thomas
*1750
+1814-03-00

Roberts, James
*1725
+1784-02-09

Lightfoot, Elizabeth
*1726
+1799

Joyce, Sarah
*1755
+1840

Thomas, Susannah
*1802
+1833

Source References

1. Jan Westmorland: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=janwest&id=I84263 Our Westmorlands
   1. • Source text:

        # ID: I84263
        # Name: James Roberts
        # Given Name: James
        # Surname: Roberts
        # Sex: M
        # Birth: 1725 in Craven Pct, NC 1
        # Death: 9 Feb 1784 in Rockingham Co, NC 1 1
        # _UID: 20556281B4DF47CFBF43A8B39EDEE571307F

         

         

        Father: Henry Roberts b: 1700 in Fairfax Co, VA
        Mother: Wife Unknown b: Abt 1700

        Marriage 1 Elizabeth Lightfoot b: Abt 1726 in Orange Co, NC

        * Married: Abt 1749 1
        * Change Date: 16 Oct 2010

        Children

        1. Has Children Thomas Roberts b: 1750 in Orange Co, NC
        2. Has Children Cyrus L. Roberts b: Abt 1753 in Caswell Co, NC
        3. Has Children Naman Roberts b: Abt 1755 in Orange Co, NC
        4. Has No Children William Roberts b: Abt 1757 in Orange Co, NC
        5. Has No Children James D. Roberts b: Abt 1760 in Caswell Co, NC

         

        Sources:

        1. Abbrev: World Family Tree Vol. 15, Ed. 1
        Title: Brøderbund Software, INC, World Family Tree Vol. 15, Ed . 1 (Release date: November 20, 1997) ABBR World Family Tre e Vol. 15, Ed. 1

        Customer pedigree.

         

        NAME Not Given ADDR Not Given

         

         

      • Citation:

        e-mail: [email protected]

2. Brøderbund Software, INC, World Family Tree Vol. 15, Ed. 1 (Release date: November 20, 1997) ABBR World Family Tree Vol. 15, Ed. 1 Customer pedigree. NAME Not Given ADDR Not Given World Family Tree Vol. 15, Ed. 1

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