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John "Johnny Cake" Roberts was born in December 1803 in Harbour Island, Bahamas to John Roberts and Ann Bethel Roberts.
He married Sarah/Sariah Ann Curry, daughter of Richard Curry and Catherine "Caty" Weatherford, 22 October 1829, in Harbour Island. The couple had children - among them Sarah Ann, John, Alexander, Frederick, James, Martha Jane, Mary Elizabeth, and Joseph Roberts.
"Johnny Cake" and Sarah Ann emigrated to Key West in the mid-1840s. Their daughter, Mary Elizabeth, and son, Joseph, were born, in fact, in Florida.
John Roberts, mariner, passed away sometime after the 1870 US Census was taken in Key West, Florida.
Florida Keys Sea Heritage Journal. Volume 15, Number 4, Spring 2014.
University of Florida, Bahamas Collection, Marriages Index, Box 6, 1829. St John's Parish, Harbour Island.
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DCJZ-B2?cc=1401638&wc=95R8-79K%3A1031318401%2C1031455001%2C1031455002 : 9 April 2016), Florida > Monroe > Monroe county > image 20 of 58; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
"United States Census, 1860," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YBT-926?cc=1473181&wc=7QCB-V9C%3A1589423167%2C1589422620%2C1589423344 : 24 March 2017), Florida > Monroe > Key West > image 19 of 61; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-64V3-FQG?cc=1438024&wc=9223-443%3A518676601%2C518876101%2C519085301 : 22 May 2014), Florida > Monroe > Key West > image 47 of 126; citing NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
Bahamas DNA Project, Direct Paternal Line Descendant Charts https://genealogy.hopetownmuseum.com/bahamasdnaproject/bahydna.htm
Paternal 3rd Great Grandfather of Y-DNA kit 10142
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