When Catherine Edwards was born on 17 October 1873, her father, Richard Edwards, was 44 and her mother, Anne Owen, was 43. She married Henry William Roberts on 26 December 1900, in Backford, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1900 and Shotwick, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. She died on 1 November 1961, at the age of 88.
English and Welsh: variant of Edward , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: One of the earliest American bearers of this very common English surname was William Edwards, the son of Rev. Richard Edwards, a London clergyman in the age of Elizabeth I, who came to New England c. 1640. His descendant Jonathan (1703–58), of East Windsor, CT, was a prominent Congregational clergyman whose New England theology led to the first Great Awakening, a great religious revival.
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