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Description: | c1896.
Portrait of the Roberts family taken c1896. It shows George Herbert Roberts who was a manufacturer and merchant of clothing and hosiery. He is pictured with his wife, Selina, nee Ibberson, whom he married at Leeds Parish Church of St. Peter in 1886. The little girl holding her doll is Mildred Elsie Roberts who was born in 1893. They had another daughter, Ethel Kate who was born in 1888, and a son George born in 1889. The family are listed on the 1891 Census as follows: George, a Draper, aged 32, Selina aged 22, Ethel Kate aged 3 and George L. aged 1. They were living at a house called Brookville in the Potternewton district. Also living at the same address was 19 year-old sister-in-law, Annie Ibberson and Draper's Assistant, Annie E. Richards, a niece. The 1901 Census shows Selina Roberts as a widow living with her two daughters, Mildred Elsie, aged 8 and Ethel Kate aged 13 at number 132 Beeston Road. The premises of the firm of G.H. Roberts & Co. were located at the junction of Toronto Street with Quebec Street in the city centre (see Leodis images ID: 20041221_20902651 and ID: 2011912_172635). There was also a hosiery factory in Tong Road, Upper Wortley and an underclothing works in St. Lukes Road, Beeston. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Toronto Street Quebec Street Roberts | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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