Robert Lawther was born in Sunderland, Durham in 1809. He married Margaret Henderson on 18 December 1830 at St Michael, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland. They had 7 children: Robert, Margaret, Sarah, Eliza, George, Mary and Edward. Robert changed jobs frequently and was listed in 1839 as a shoemaker, in 1841 as a coalminer, in 1851 as an innkeeper, in 1857 as a glapman, in 1861 as a labourer in Bishopwearmouth Cemetery and in 1871 as a gardener.
LInked names - Henderson, Bewick, Johnson, Calvert, Bell, Pile, Donkin, Davison