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- Edward was one of the surgeons on the settler transport ship, the Chapman. He married Louisa Biddulph, who was an 1820 Settler with her parents Simon and Ann Bidulph. They moved to Cape Town in 1820.
General: He is the first Roberts in South Africa.
He departs on 3 December 1819 together with the first settlers to South Africa under leadership of John Bailie, from Gravesend Engeland abord the ship named Chapman. The second ship sailing together with the Chapman was named Nautilus. There were 101 families aboard the Chapman. He was one of two surgeons on the ship. There was also another medical doctor on the ship. He learnt surgery under Mr Hay of Leeds and was a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
The ship arrived on 17 March 1820 at Tablebay but departs immediatley to Algoabay (Port Elizabeth today) and arrived there on 18 April 1820. On 20 April 1820 the passengers whent ashore. His age on the day, as noted in the Archive of the Colonial Goverment, was 27. He must therefor been born approximetley in 1793.
From Algoabay the people in a group of 96 wagons, departed on the so called lower route because the goverment was afraid that the newcommers would spread diseases to the already settled towns. The route was via Jagersdrift and down alongside the Boesmans river, instead of going through Uitenhage, to the area set aside for the settlers by Earl Bathurst. On a forsaken farm called Kornplace, just over the Kouri River mouth (Fish River mouth) the settlers decided to settle and called the place Cuylerville (? today).
Shortly after settlement Edward and the other two in the medical profession realised that the was no prospect for there profession and they applied to be transferred from Albany to the Western Cape.
He gets married to Louisa Biddulph and they establish themselves in Capetown where he succesfully practiced medicine up to his death in 1830. He was licenced to practise in the colony as surgeon, apothcary and accoucheur on 26 August 1820. He opened an apothecary's shop in Cape Town in addition to practising as a surgeon, and was a founder-member of the South African Medical Association. He was attached to the Merchant Seamen's Hospital for a short time before his death in 1830.
According to his will, which is kept at the State Archive under reference MOOC 7/1/110 page 63, he was born at Armley in the Parish of Leeds in the county of York. At 15/2/1830 when his will was drawn up, his youngest son Edward was not born yet.
According to the Graveyard information on the website www.national.archives.gov.za he is buried at the Somerset Road Cemetary in 1830 and his son Beever Raynor Roberts,whom died at the age of 9, as well.
Sources
1. S.A.Genealogies vol.9 (Ra-Ron) pg.466. Vol 9 (ra-Ron) pg. 466.
- Edward was one of the surgeons on the settler transport ship, the Chapman. He married Louisa Biddulph, who was an 1820 Settler with her parents Simon and Ann Bidulph. They moved to Cape Town in 1820.
General: He is the first Roberts in South Africa.
He departs on 3 December 1819 together with the first settlers to South Africa under leadership of John Bailie, from Gravesend Engeland abord the ship named Chapman. The second ship sailing together with the Chapman was named Nautilus. There were 101 families aboard the Chapman. He was one of two surgeons on the ship. There was also another medical doctor on the ship. He learnt surgery under Mr Hay of Leeds and was a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
The ship arrived on 17 March 1820 at Tablebay but departs immediatley to Algoabay (Port Elizabeth today) and arrived there on 18 April 1820. On 20 April 1820 the passengers whent ashore. His age on the day, as noted in the Archive of the Colonial Goverment, was 27. He must therefor been born approximetley in 1793.
From Algoabay the people in a group of 96 wagons, departed on the so called lower route because the goverment was afraid that the newcommers would spread diseases to the already settled towns. The route was via Jagersdrift and down alongside the Boesmans river, instead of going through Uitenhage, to the area set aside for the settlers by Earl Bathurst. On a forsaken farm called Kornplace, just over the Kouri River mouth (Fish River mouth) the settlers decided to settle and called the place Cuylerville (? today).
Shortly after settlement Edward and the other two in the medical profession realised that the was no prospect for there profession and they applied to be transferred from Albany to the Western Cape.
He gets married to Louisa Biddulph and they establish themselves in Capetown where he succesfully practiced medicine up to his death in 1830. He was licenced to practise in the colony as surgeon, apothcary and accoucheur on 26 August 1820. He opened an apothecary's shop in Cape Town in addition to practising as a surgeon, and was a founder-member of the South African Medical Association. He was attached to the Merchant Seamen's Hospital for a short time before his death in 1830.
According to his will, which is kept at the State Archive under reference MOOC 7/1/110 page 63, he was born at Armley in the Parish of Leeds in the county of York. At 15/2/1830 when his will was drawn up, his youngest son Edward was not born yet.
According to the Graveyard information on the website www.national.archives.gov.za he is buried at the Somerset Road Cemetary in 1830 and his son Beever Raynor Roberts,whom died at the age of 9, as well.
Sources
1. S.A.Genealogies vol.9 (Ra-Ron) pg.466. Vol 9 (ra-Ron) pg. 466.
2, Bailie's party of 1820 Settlers by M D Nash:
Born in Armley, near Leeds, Yorkshire, he learnt surgery under Mr Hay of Leeds, and was a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He joined Bailie's party in company with J.E. Ford and P.R.Marillier. Together with two printers, T.Stringfellow and R.Godlonton, he was given a printing press to take to the colony which was confiscated when the Chapman reached Table Bay. The Cape government paid Roberts the value of the press. On the emi¬grants' arrival in Albany, Roberts was located with Bailie's subdivision at The Hope, but soon moved to Cape Town where he married Louisa Biddulph, daughter of Simon Biddulph, in August 1820. He was licensed to practise in the colony as surgeon, apothecary and accoucheur on 26 August 1820. He opened an apothecary's shop in Cape Town in addition to practising as a surgeon, and was a founder-member of the South African Medical Asso¬ciation. He was attached to the Merchant Seamen's Hospital for a short time before his death in 1830. He left his wife and three sons, Alfred Brooksbank, Bevor Reyner and Richard Miles. Mrs Louisa Roberts kept girls' schools in Cape Town and Bathurst, where she inherited a house from her father in 1842. She died in Grahamstown in 1852. RCC XII, 345, Bailie to Goulburn, 16.10.1819; letter of P.R.Marillier, 15.11.1819; CO 158 no.97, memorial of T.Stringfellow, 4.6.1821; CO 136 no.54, Bailie to Ellis, 28.5.1820; Gazette, 26.8.1820; RCC XVII, 270, evidence of W.Edwards; S.A. Commercial Advertiser, 20.2.1830, 17.3.1830; Burrows, History of Medicine in S.A., p.l31;MOOC 7/1/110 no.63, Will, 15.2.1830; Directory, 1831; Looking Back IX (June 1969), p.59, letter from E.Morse Jones; MOOC 7/1/168 no.58, Will of Simon Biddulph, 24.12.1841; Cape Town Mail, 6.7. 1852.
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