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ROBERTS, EDWYN CYNRIG (1837 - 1893), pioneer in Patagonia Edwyn Cynrig Roberts was born on 28 February 1837, the firstborn child of John Kendrick (1809-1839), farmer, and Mary Hughes (1809-1892), on Bryn farm, situated between the villages of Cilcain and Nannerch, Flintshire. The record of his baptism dated 14 March 1837 at Ebeneser Independent Chapel, Rhes-y-cae, parish of Halkyn, shows that he was named Edwin Hughes Kendrick. Soon after the birth of a
ROBERTS, ELEAZAR (1825 - 1912), musician Born 15 January 1825, at Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, the son of John and Margaret Roberts, who moved to Liverpool two months after he was born. After attending the Owen Brown school, Rose Place, and the Liverpool Institute, he started to work when he was 13 in a solicitor's office. In 1853 he became a member of the staff in the office of the clerk to the Liverpool magistrates and, in course of
ROBERTS, ELIS (bu farw 1789), cooper, ballad-writer, and composer of interludes relating to christenings, between 1742 and 1748, of the children of ' Ellis Robert and Ellen his wife' refer to the same persons. The name of his wife from 1765 on is given as Grace. Under the date 1 December 1789 we get the entry ' Ellis Roberts was buried.' In a poem begging for the gift of a small spinning-wheel, 1767 (Cwrtmawr MS 46A) Elis refers to his family, his poverty, and, half penitently, to
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ROBERTS, ELLIS (Eos Llyfnwy, Robin Ddu Eifionydd; 1827 - 1895) ROBERT MORRIS Robin Ddu Eifionydd (fl. 1767-1816), miller and poet Poetry Business and Industry The son of Morris Roberts and his wife Elin Williams, Pen-carth (Tŷ Popty?), Llanystumdwy; he was christened in the parish church, 16 April 1769. He became a flax-worker; afterwards he appears to have been a miller. He wrote poems in the strict and free metres and published a book, Ffurf yr Athrawiaeth
ROBERTS, EMMANUEL BERWYN (1869 - 1951), minister (Meth.) Born 31 July 1869 in Y Nant, Rhewl, in the parish of Llantysilio, Llangollen, Denbighshire, one of the eleven children of Morris and Jemima Roberts. The family moved to Carrog, where Emmanuel was an apprentice shoemaker, but his mother died when he was 12 and the impoverished family left for Penygroes, where he and his father found work in Coedmadog, clearing rubble in a clay pit. There, he began
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ROBERTS, EMRYS OWEN (1910 - 1990), Liberal politician and public servant He was born at Caernarfon on 22 September 1910, the son of Owen Owens Roberts and Mary Grace Williams, both natives of Caernarfon. He was educated at Caernarfon Grammar School, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1st class honours in law in 1931 and the Sir Samuel T. Evans Prize) and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1st class honours in both Part I and Part II of the Law Tripos
ROBERTS, Sir ERNEST HANDFORTH GOODMAN (1890 - 1969), judge Born in Pen-y-ffordd, Flintshire, 20 April 1890, the only son of Hugh Goodman Roberts and his wife Elizabeth (née Lewis). He was educated at Malvern College and Trinity College, Oxford; he was president of the Oxford Union in 1914. During World War I he served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers and rose to the rank of captain. He served in Palestine. He was mentioned in despatches and was an officer
ROBERTS, EVAN (1718 - 1804) Minera, trustee of the Trevecka 'Family,' a lead-miner
ROBERTS, EVAN (bu farw 1650), early Puritan Some think he was the 'one Roberts ' who was suspended by the bishop of S. Davids in 1634 for ' inconformity.' What is certain is that the Committee for Plundered Ministers appointed him in 1642 to preach, in English and in Welsh, in the parish of Llanbadarn-fawr, Cardiganshire, and the adjoining parishes, on a stipend of £100 per annum, and that in 1646 he was instituted to that parish. In 1649
ROBERTS, EVAN (1836 - 1918), watch salesman and 'the greatest horological collector of all' Evan Roberts, the second son of Hugh and Jane Roberts, was born 18 December 1836 on his father's small hill farm, Fotty Bach, Gwyddelwern, Meironnydd. The family was very poor and struggled to make a living there. Young Evan received no formal education, but he was a strong lad and in his teens he went to work as a labourer for neighbouring farmers, one of whom cleaned clocks and watches as a

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