When James Roberts was born on 12 January 1805, in Kirkby, Lancashire, England, his father, Nicholas Roberts, was 22 and his mother, Rachel Scarisbrick, was 24. He married Ellen Swift about 1830, in St Chad's Church, Uppermill, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Walton on the Hill, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Kirkby, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1861. He died on 14 May 1869, at the age of 64, and was buried in Kirkby, Lancashire, England.
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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.
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