Born in Twillingate, Newfoundland
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Robert Roberts
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Robert Roberts
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
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Biography
Burial
Kezia? ROBERTS
buried 11 Sept 1862
Bluff Head Cove, Twillingate
69 yrs
note partially illegible…'suffering the guilt, fell asleep in Jesus.' Believed to be nee ANSTEY, dau of Thomas Anstey, wife of Thomas Roberts (sic)[1]
I'm inclined to think Jill made a mistake re Thomas Roberts? Foley-1031 19:25, 26 August 2016 (EDT)
Note
There is a big discrepancy in the birthdate of Keziah. The date ranges from 1793, to 1816. I'll go with the earlier date, to avoid the suggestion that she had son Robert at age 4, and married a man 40 years her senior. There are no sources that I could find, anywhere, so take all of this as speculative. Note, the number of children variously attributed to Keziah seems to range from 12 to 25, and values in between. Foley-1031 19:25, 26 August 2016 (EDT)
From an online Ancestry.com discussion: "Yes, William Roberts did purchase a fishing room in 1839. Robert Roberts was listed on the document as a witness ... I believe that these two parties essentially bought Bluff Heads Cove and started the Roberts families in that area. The original owner apparently was a William Anstey and I note that Robert Roberts, b. 1786, married Kezia Anstey who was born in 1816. They had quite a few children. I think the BHC deal was some family thing but of course there is no way to tell. Anyway, there is quite a lot of Roberts activity between BHC and Twillingate in the 1800's..."[2]
Sources
- ↑ Newfoundland's Grand Banks Site. TWILLINGATE PARISH BURIAL RECORDS. METHODIST. Parish of Twillingate, County of Green Bay (to 1863). Transcription and notes by Jill Marshall. Accessed 2016. http://ngb.chebucto.org/Parish/twil-meth-burials-tw.shtml
- ↑ Rootsweb, Ancestry.com. NFLD-ROOTS-L Archives. Re: [NF-ROOTS] Twillingate research. leo485win, 2002, accessed 2016. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NFLD-ROOTS/2002-10/1035153858
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Keziah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Keziah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Keziah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Keziah:
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~1.56%
~12.50%
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