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A sister Mary (1795) and brother John (1803) followed Robert's birth and they also were baptised at St Gregory's Church.
Robert's mother died on Christmas Day 1817 and, although his father re-married a year later, Robert himself seems to have married in East Stonehouse in October 1819. His bride was Mary JEFFREY(S). Before the first Census in 1841 seven children had been born to the couple - 6 girls and 1 boy. The first of these was daughter Mary born in 1820/1 who was a dressmaker by the time of this Census and seems to have been born outside of Devon. Elizabeth and Emma were born in 1825/6 in Plymouth, Elizabeth being employed as an Upholsteress by 1841. Then Anna had been born in 1827/8 in Plymouth, Caroline in 1831 in Stonehouse, Samuel in 1834 in Devon and Sarah in 1837 in East Stonehouse. All the family lived in East Stonehouse in 1841.
By 1851 Robert is being described as a Teacher of Mathematics and still lived in East Stonehouse with Mary and children Anna, Caroline, Samuel and Sarah + Mother in Law Martha JEFFREY. Daughter Mary had unfortuately died in 1841 whilst Emma had married in 1847. Elizabeth was a Servant elsewhere in Stomehouse at the home of a Surgeon and his family. In 1852 Robert's family address was 34 East Street, Stonehouse.
In 1861 Robert is described as a Schoolmaster. Anna had moved to Oxfordshire, whilst son Samuel had gone further afield to Australia. So Robert was at home in Plymouth with Mary and daughters Sarah who had followed her father into the teaching profession and Caroline.
By 1871 Robert and Mary, described as Schoolmaster and Schollmistress respectively, were living in Factory Lane, Ermington - a small village a few miles from Plymouth - with Caroline who has the title School Assistant. Sarah was not at home although her son Fred was there with his grandparents.
That was the last Census in which Robert appeared as he died on 24th June 1879 at Keaton, Ermington.
