When William Thomas Roberts was born in January 1852, in Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Roberts, was 39 and his mother, Jane Evans, was 42. He had at least 5 sons and 2 daughters with Mary Ann Jones. He lived in Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1861 and Litherland, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years.
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The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
The Lancashire Rifle Volunteers started in the eighteenth century. Those that fought in the militia were selected by ballot. They were formed because of threat due to the Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.
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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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