Thomas Roberts and his wife Hannah and five children arrived in SA on the `Sir Charles Forties’ in June 1839. Thomas was from Perran-ar-Worthal in Cornwall. Hannah nee Webb his wife, was from Penzance. It is believed that Thomas at the age of 16 years went to Penzance to work as a miner. The Roberts travelled to SA with Thomas’s brother Jonathon and his family.
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