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This child was born on 4 February 1794, according to the baptism records for St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey: ‘Abraham, son of Abraham and Ann Roberts, Ropemaker, East Lane’. It was unusual for the second son to take the father’s name: in this branch of the Roberts family this would traditionally be the first-born son.
It is not certain if the Abraham born in 1794 survived for long though: he is not apparent in any nineteenth-century census, nor in any record after that of his baptism.
We know the Roberts children were all relocated to Plymouth in the early 1800s, but there is no obvious sign of an Abraham Roberts there. (A male of this name died in 1811 at Plymouth St Andrew, but no age is given in the record and it seems more likely this was the Abraham Robert[s] baptised at Plymouth St Andrews in 1789.)
An Abraham Roberts was buried on 19 November 1794 at St Mary Magdalene church – but the one in Woolwich, not Bermondsey.
Was he buried at Woolwich because Abraham and Ann had temporarily relocated here in 1794? Or were there no burial spaces available locally and so the infant was taken downstream for burial there?
The symbol against the last four names in the death record, including Abraham’s, is probably ‘Cd’, for ‘child’. If it is him, he was only nine months old.
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