Amelia Ann (Lowe) Roberts (abt. 1862 - 1914)

Born about 15 Jan 1862 in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, Bahamas

Ancestors

Wife of William Edward Roberts II — married before 1878 in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, Bahamas

Died 9 Mar 1914 at about age 52 in Key West, Monroe County, Florida

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Amelia (Lowe) Roberts is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

Amelia was born 15 January 1862 in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, Bahamas.^[1] She was the daughter of Gideon Lowe and Esther Ann Sweeting.

She married William Edward Roberts before 1878, probably in Green Turtle Cay.^[2]

Amelia died on 9 March 1914 in Key West, Florida,^[3] and she is buried there in the City Cemetery.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Bahamas Registrar General, Civil Registration, Births, 1862, First Quarter, District of Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, p. 39, no. 1, [Unnamed Girl] Lowe, 15 January 1862; digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GBHP-8NN?mode=g&i=40&wc=Q4ZP-FMW%3A216278501%3Fcc%3D1922411&cc=1922411 : accessed January 2016). This date is an exact match with the birth date on Amelia's death record, which also states that she was born in the Bahamas and provides the names of her parents. "Florida Deaths, 1877–1939," Amelia Ann Roberts, 9 March 1914, Monroe County; database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FP9D-M3R : accessed January 2016).
2. ↑ This date estimate appears in the Dolly Mae CD account of William and Amelia's family. It is almost certainly based on the birth of their first child on 6 October 1878. Marriages for this time period are not included in the collection at FamilySearch or the Family History Library. Oreste Lombardi, comp., Amelia Ann Lowe, no. 12308, Green Turtle Cay.ged, 2013 Dolly Mae Bahamas 40th Anniversary CD (Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas: Wyannie Malone Museum, 2014).
3. ↑ "Florida Deaths, 1877–1939," Amelia Ann Roberts, 9 March 1914, Monroe County; database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FP9D-M3R : accessed January 2016).
4. ↑ Donna Jean Robinson, "Amelia Ann Lowe Roberts," Memorial no. 145045792, posted 15 April 2015; memorial without photograph, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=145045792&ref=acom : accessed January 2016).