ROBERTS / ROBARTS – James 16th Lancers – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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Bronze Star for Battle of Maharajpoor 1843

Name	ROBERTS / ROBARTS – James
Regiment (s)	16th Lancers
Regiment Number (s)	1440
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	19th September 1839 / 18 years 6 months / Queens Square Middlesex England Groom
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 7 in Fresh / Grey / Light Brown / Scars on leg
Overseas Service/Duration	East Indies – 5 years 6 months
Length of Service	17 Years 160 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Private / 13th April 1857 / Chatham Kent England
Campaign Medals	Maharajpor (Maharajpur) Star Sutlej medal with Clasps for Aliwal January 1846 and Sobraon February 1846
Intended Residence at Discharge	Norwich England
Pension Districts	1857 Norwich 1857 South London 1858 1st West London 1862 Tilbury 1862-1866 Western Australia 1866 Victoria 1869-1875 Auckland New Zealand 1876 New South Wales
Pension Paid	7d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	8th October 1862 Portland England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	YORK 31st December 1862
Date/Place of Birth	1821 Marlow Buckinghamshire England
Date/Place of Baptism	Not yet known
Father Date/Place of Birth	ROBERTS Edward
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	Not yet known
Siblings	Not yet known
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	CHAPLIN Henriette Bp 21st September 1831 Bawdeswell, Norfolk, England
Date/Place of Marriage	30th December 1850 St. Stephens, Norwich, England
Children by 1^st Wife	Belinda Bp 27th June 1852 St. John the BAPTIST, Coventry, Warwickshire, England M ENNIS Robert Adolphus 1875 Albany Western Australia Sarah Bp 3rd May 1857 Bawdeswell, Norfolk, England Priscilla B c1860 M HARRISS David J Denfield 1880 Albany, Western Australia M CLARKE William Guildford 1911 Western Australia D 19th May 1943 Goomalling Western Australia
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	CHAPLIN/CHAPLAIN James
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	HERRING Virtue 24th January 1826 Bawdeswell, Norfolk, England
Land Grants Western Australia	Not applicable
Occupation after Arrival	Not yet known
Newspaper Articles	The Inquirer and Commercial News, 18 Jan 1865, p2 Daylight passenger list The Inquirer and Commercial News, 27 June 1866, p3 David & Jessie passenger list The West Australian 1st March 1911 page 5 Harris divorce
Departure from Western Australia	Not known – pension paid Melbourne Australia 1866
Date/Place of Death/Burial	Not yet known
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	1874 Albany Western Australia
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	1841 British Army World Wide Index shows James with the 16th at Meerut India 1851 British Army World Wide Index shows James with the 16th at Hounslow London England Discharge: Private James Roberts of the 16th Lancers at present in hospital received a very bad fracture of the leg by the kick of a horse while on duty on 24 October 1856; he complains of occasional pains in the limb, his constitution is weakly. At the time of his accident this man was in the act of grooming his horse. 17th January 1865 Private James Roberts a single man of the 16th Lancers was one of the pensioners appointed to the Camden Harbour expedition at a salary of 2/- per day his conduct was recorded as being ‘good’. The detachment departed Fremantle 17th January 1865 aboard the Tien Tsin. He returned to Perth when the settlement was abandoned. See EPG Gazette April 2005 Vol 6 No 2 re letter from Richard Daley to Sergt Conley dated 15th March 1865 conditions at Camden Harbour. On the 10th January 1865 Belinda (age 12) and Sarah (age 7) left Western Australia on the Daylight bound for London. Sarah then appears on the 1871 Census living with her uncle Thomas Brigham at Grosvenor Rise, Walthamstow. She is age 14, working as a laundress and was born in Bawdeswell, Norfolk. Back in Western Australia Henrietta and Priscilla Roberts sailed on the David & Jessie for Melbourne on 4th June 1866. They returned to Albany Western Australia for in 1872 Henrietta married William Pearson at Albany. Henrietta had another child, also a Henrietta who died 20th October 1874 age 6 months. Unfortunately Henrietta died 12th April 1874 age 40 at Albany. Priscilla married David J Denfield Harriss at Albany in 1880 after their divorce she married William Clarke at Guildford in 1911. Meanwhile Belinda also turned up in Albany as she married Robert Adophus Ennis in 1875. Belinda Roberts was the mother of Robert Ennis Pearson the father being William Pearson born 1875. Further War Office correspondence dated 25th May 1897. (No location)