Robert Patten Adams (1831 - 1911)

Born Mar 1831 in Somerset, England

Ancestors

Husband of Matilda Adelaide (King) Adams — married 10 Aug 1857 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Husband of Kate (Huston) Adams — married 13 Dec 1870 in New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia

Died 24 Feb 1911 at age 79 in Tasmania, Australia

Biography

Robert Patten Adams was born in March 1831 in Somerset, England to James White Adams and Mary Ann Elizabeth (Patten) Adams.

He Immigrated to Tasmania after 1854.

He married 1) Matilda Adelaide King at Hobart, Tasmania on 10 August 1857. Together they became the parent of four children including Adelaide Laura Adams, Violet Isabel Adams, and Guy L'Estrange Adams . Matilda died in 1867. ^{[1] [2]}

He married 2) Kate Huston at New Norfolk in 1870. Together they became the parent of six children : Frank Bertram Adams, Gerald Adrian Reeve Adams, Helen Adams, Kathleen Mary Adams, Madoline Beatrice Adams, Raymond Adams, Gilbert Waynflete Adams. ^{[3] [4]}

Robert died on 24 February 1911 and was buried at ___.

Sources

1. ↑ "Australia Marriages, 1810-1980", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTZL-QQV : 18 July 2023), Robert Patten Adams, 1857.
2. ↑ "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q279-QHMN : 3 October 2018), Robert Patten Adams and Mathilde Adelaide King, 10 Aug 1857; citing Marriage 10 Aug 1857, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, line #40180, Archives Office of Tasmania, Hobart; FHL microfilm 7,368,160.
3. ↑ "Australia Marriages, 1810-1980", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTCN-JLM : 18 July 2023), Robert Patten Adams, 1870.
4. ↑ "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q279-7VGS : 3 October 2018), Robert Patten Adams and Kate Huston, 13 Dec 1870; citing Marriage 13 Dec 1870, New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia, line #59056, Archives Office of Tasmania, Hobart; FHL microfilm 7,368,166.

• "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ1X-J2S : 13 December 2017), Robert Adams in household of James Adams, Martock, Somerset, England; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

Addtional Data

MR. ROBERT PATTEN ADAMS.

Mr. Robert Patten Adams was born in March, 1831, and was educated at Marlock Grammar School, and at King's College School, London. He entered at the Middle Temple in 1851, and was called to the bar in 1854. Mr. Adams then came to Tasmania, and was called to the bar here in 1856. He subsequently became chairman of Quarter Sessions, and a Commissioner of the Court of Requests for the northern division of Tasmania. Mr. Adams was returned as member of the House of Assembly for Hobart, at the elections held in 1859-61, '62, and '66. He became Solicitor-General in 1867, and held the appointment until 1887, when he was appointed a puisne judge, and retired from the bench in 1898, on a pension of £600 a year.

The Mercury (Hobart, Tas.)

Saturday, 12 Sep 1903, Page 2.