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Joseph
Roberts was baptized at Cubley, Derbyshire on 19 Jun 1836, eldest of three children
of John Roberts, a carrier, and
his first wife Ann. His mother died when he was still young, and
his father remarried, having a further two daughters. Joseph
became a cordwainer, but by April 1861 he was also working as a
photographer. He had by this time married and moved to the
village of Draycott-in-the-Clay, nearby, but across the county border
in Staffordshire. He appears to have continued using the
photography as a sideline until at least 1870, when Harrod's directory
lists him as a beer retailer &
photographer. The census of April 1871, however, shows him
merely as a beer house keeper, living at Lichfield road,
Draycott-in-the-Clay. I have found no records of him working as a
photographer between then and 1900; census records indicate that he was
still a publican, at first "The Swan" (1881) and then at the "Roe Buck"
Inn (1891). However, the census of April 1901 once again lists
him as a photographer. The single example of CDV (see
below) suggests that in the late 1860s he perhaps operated a travelling
studio between the villages of Draycott-in-the-Clay (Staffs), Sudbury
(Derbyshire) and the town of Stoke-on-Trent. Joseph Roberts married Frances in about 1855, his first child - a daughter - being born at Cubley in 1856. They moved to Draycott shortly after, and had two more children there. Their only son Edward Henry Roberts, who was born in 1858, became a blacksmith, and in the 1880s took over proprietorship of "The Swan." |
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Possibly
Elizabeth Allcock née Leason (1806-1893) by J. Roberts of Draycott in the Clays, Sudbury & Stoke on Trent Undated, but probably taken in the late 1860s Format: Carte-de-visite Size: 60 mm x 105 mm Image © & courtesy of Sally Betts Notes by SB:
We think this is my great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Allcock
(née Leason) born 1806 in Church Broughton and died 1893 in
Darlington Co. Durham. She lived all her life in and around Church
Broughton and Boylestone until shortly before her death when she moved
to Darlington to live with a daughter. |
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References Images kindly provided by Sally Betts 1841 & 1861 Derbyshire Census - CDROM published by ArchiveCD Books 1851 Census Index, publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society 1881 UK Census - online from the LDS church 1871, 1891 & 1901 UK Census - online from Ancestry.com FreeBMD International Genealogical Index - online from the LDS church Bagshaw (1846) History, Gazetteer and Directory of Derbyshire. Collection of Brett Payne. Anon (1870) Harrod & Co.'s Postal & Commercial Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland & Staffordshire, from University of Leicester - Digital Library of Historical Directories. Anon (1896) Kelly's Directory of Staffordshire, from University of Leicester - Digital Library of Historical Directories. Anon (1904) Kelly's Directory of Staffordshire, from University of Leicester - Digital Library of Historical Directories. |
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