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Hi
My ancestor Thomas Roberts was born in c1778 in Kent. He wed in 1807 in Patrixbourne, near Canterbury. I have not yet found his baptism.
But I was reading about the famous Roberts Baronets of Glassenbury, who lived there in the 1400s to the 1700s. I wonder if my Thomas Roberts is a distant relation as he worked as a servant for rich country manors in Patrixbourne and later Kemsing near Sevenoaks. It is probably a long shot, but Roberts is not as common in Kent as it is in Wales, where the surname originates.
I wonder if it is the same for several people tracing Roberts in Kent?
Ben
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain