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Roberts Family of Lurgan, County Armagh

Researching my Roberts ancestors from Lurgan, County Armagh and looking for any other descendants or information. Known info:-

Robert ROBERTS (shoemaker) married to Jane FALOON, lived Lurgan or in County Armagh, known children:
(1) Robert ROBERTS born about 1832 Co. Armagh, (shoemaker) lived at Bally Clough in 1854, at Lurgan before 1864, at Ballybundon, Co. Down as game keeper late 1864, at Lurgan 1867 to 1870, at Union Street Lurgan in 1870, at Brisbane, Queensland from late 1870 to 1911. Married: Eliza SMYTH, dress maker, (dau. of Thomas SMYTH and Catherine WRIGHT) of Lurgan, on 28th January 1854 at the C of I Parish Church, Lurgan. Eliza was born 1833 at Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim and died at Brisbane, Queensland on 26 Feb 1914. She immigrated to Brisbane with her children to join Robert there in 1873 on the "Great Queensland. Robert was a shoemaker in Brisbane and died at Goodna on 28 Sep 1911. Their children were:
(a) Jane Eliza baptised 20 Sep 1854 at Church of Ireland, Lurgan, married William Henry BRADBURY 3 March 1879 at Rockhampton, Queensland to whom she had 2 sons and 3 daughters, died 25 June 1938 at Claremont, Perth, Western Australia.
(b) Henry ROBERTS born 24 May 1855 or 56, bapt. 15 Oct 1856 at Lurgan, cabin boy on the "Flying Cloud" in 1870 on which his father immigrated to Brisbane, married Emily Jane MARTIN at Portsea, Hampshire, England on 21 August 1876 to whom he had 7 daughters and 5 sons, immigrated with family to Brisbane in 1882 on the "Almora", died 28 Feb 1945 at West End, Brisbane, Queensland.
(c) Robert ROBERTS baptised 11 March 1859 at Church of Ireland, Lurgan, died before 1864.
(d) Margaret ROBERTS baptised 26 Dec 1860 at Church of Ireland, Lurgan, died before 1867.
(e) Catherine born 18 July 1862, bapt. 11 Feb 1863 at Lurgan, married Herbert Chamberlain Blundell on 6 Sep 1884 at Brisbane to whom she had 2 sons and 2 daughters, died 11 Sep 1924 at Brisbane.
(f) Robert ROBERTS born 16 Nov 1864 at Bullybundon, Co. Down. Was still living in 1914 in Australia(?).
(g) Margaret ROBERTS baptised 29 May 1867 at Church of Ireland, Lurgan, died before 1873.
(i) Thomas ROBERTS born 20 May 1870 in Union Street, Lurgan, bapt. 26 Oct 1870 at Church of Ireland, Lurgan, married (1) Mary Jane HENNESSEY on 14 Sep 1891 at Brisbane, left Sydney for the Boer War in South Africa on 2 April 1902 with the 3rd Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse, turned up in Auckland, New Zealand as tram driver in 1903, with (2) Ruth Myrtle SMITH from 1907 to early 1920s to whom he had three sons, with then married (3) Helena (Nellie) PHILLIPS nee LAING on 26 June 1930 at Auckland, New Zealand to whom he had twin daughters, died 20 Dec 1949 at Auckland, New Zealand.
(j) William ROBERTS born 7 Aug 1874, died 15 April 1875 at Brisbane, Queensland.
(k) Frederick William ROBERTS born 26 Sep 1876 at Brisbane, married Lesbia Eliza Kearnan on 21 April 1897 at Brisbane to whom he had 2 sons, went to 1st World War with 7th Field Company Engineers, AIF, in Middle East and France 1915-18, lived at Five Dock, Sydney, New South Wales, died 25 Aug 1967 at Brisbane.

(2) John ROBERTS born about 1828 to 1833 County Armagh, went to Crimean War 1854-55, wounded, married Johanna MATTHEWS in 1855 on Jersey, Channel Islands, lived at Cavalry Barracks, Fulford Road, Gate Fulford, Yorkshire, England at least from 1871 to 1881, she died 1878, immigrated to Brisbane about 1897, died 21 July 1908 at Brisbane.

Eliza ROBERTS nee SMYTH had a sister, Julia Isabella SMYTH born about 1847 in Belfast, immigrated to NSW or Queensland about 1868 and married Thomas Henry CAREY on 1 May 1869 in Brisbane, Queensland to whom she had 4 daughters and 3 sons, died 17 Jan 1885 at Mulgawarrina (near Bourke), New South Wales. Thomas and Julia lived in Rockhampton, Queensland and Sydney, New South Wales, returned briefly to Ireland for a visit in 1872-73 arriving back in Brisbane 14 Apr 1874 on "Alexandra". Thomas Henry Carey was from Lurgan, Armagh and died Rockhampton on 2 Aug 1933.

If anyone can recognise any of these families, can help look up records in Lurgan or elsewhere, please get in touch. Many thanks, Wayne Roberts, a descendant through Henry Roberts.