Brief Life History of Johanna
When Johanna Roberts was born in 1776, in Margam, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Roberts, was 37 and her mother, Margaret Samuel, was 34. She married Robert Philip Jones in 1799, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons.
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- Joan Roberts in the Glamorganshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1570
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1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1831 · Merthyr Uprising
Sparked by a depression that was going through Wales the previous three years, the Merthyr uprisings were carried out by workers that were in debt. In the process, twenty-four people were killed and twenty-six were arrested. Troops were brought in to stop the protestors.
1839 · The Rebecca Riots Take Place
The Rebecca Riots were a group of protests in west Wales from 1839-1843. The people involved were mostly poor farmers, primarily men dressed as women. The group was called “Rebecca and her daughters”, a title believed to have come the book of Genesis. They mostly fought against the toll-gates. There is only record of one death during the riots: a young Sarah Williams had been warned that the rioters were coming, but upon refusing to leave, was killed.
Name Meaning
English: from the personal name Robert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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