WI BIO - Dodge Co - ROBERTS, Robert W.

History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, p 685

Robert W. ROBERTS, deceased; was the son of Robert ROGERS*, of Denbighshire, 
North Wales, and was born in May 1816, his mother dying when he was quite 
young. He was raised by his grandfather, and in the summer of 1849, he came 
to America and settled on a farm of 80 acres, in Section 30, town [Township] 
of Calamus [Dodge County, Wisconsin], which, by his own industry and toil he 
improved and increased to 133 acres in the same Section.

On 25 December 1849 he [Robert W. ROBERTS] married Miss Mary [ROBERTS], 
daughter of David and Ann ROBERTS, of the town [Township] of Elba, Dodge 
County, Wisconsin. Miss Mary ROBERTS was born in Carnavonshire, North Wales, 
but in 1845 was an emigrant to Dodge County [Wisconsin]. Mr. [Robert W.] 
ROBERTS died 26 February 1875, leaving a widow [Mrs. Mary ROBERTS] with three 
children [issue of Robert W. and Mary (ROBERTS) ROBERTS] as follows: (1) 
Robert M.; (2) Ann, now Mrs. Edward P. ROBERTS, of Westford [Westford 
Township, Dodge County]; and (3) William D. They are members of the Welsh 
Methodist Episcopal Church.

[* In some parts of Wales the custom of a son taking his father's first 
instead of his last name as his surname was practiced. Thus Robert W., son 
of Robert ROGERS, became Robert W. ROBERTS, not Robert W. ROGERS, as American 
naming custom would have dictated. In the Welsh tradition, Robert M., son of 
Robert ROBERTS, takes his father's first name (Robert) as his surname, and 
becomes Robert M. ROBERTS. By American custom, Robert M., son of Robert 
ROBERTS, takes the same surname as his father (ROBERTS) and still becomes 
Robert M. ROBERTS, but does so on the basis of a different custom of naming.]

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