Abraham and Johanna’s son Abraham was baptised on 19 June 1706 at Falmouth, ‘the son of Mr Abraham Roberts’, and is assumed to be my 6xgreat grandfather. 

He married a Jone or Joan Grub (Groube) at Mawnan, Cornwall on 1 December 1727. She was probably baptised in 1709, the daughter of Thomas Grub (Groube) and Joan James of Falmouth, and was thus only eighteen when she married Abraham. She was also the brother of Thomas Groube who died in 1761, leaving a will in which he stipulates ‘paying unto my Sister Jone Roberts Widow one clear yearly Sum or Annuity of Six pounds and Six Shillings of lawfull Money of Great Britain during her life’.

Joan benefitted from her brother’s legacy for over twenty-five years and was buried at Falmouth on 6 December 1788, aged seventy nine.

The codicil to Lazarus Steele’s will (dated 17 May 1764) lists at least some of this couple’s children (the grandchildren of Johanna Roberts), confirmed by Falmouth parish records as the children of ‘Abraham Roberts and Joan’: 

Margery, baptised 1 January 1728 d. of Abraham Roberts ?

Martha, baptised 19 December 1729

Abraham, baptised 29 May 1732

Thomasine, baptised 5 November 1734

Joan, baptised 27 February 1737

Mary, baptised 23 April 1739

Johanna, 15 November 1741

As Joan was widowed when her brother Thomas Groube drew up his will, Abraham must therefore have died before 1760, but after 1741 when their youngest child was born. The Calendar of Wills and Administrations lists the will of an Abraham Roberts of Falmouth, proved  in 1759. This could be him. However an Abraham Roberts was also buried at Falmouth on 21 August 1763. Could this be him?