%eadnotat; ]> 5131robe An Inventory of the Roberts Family Genealogical Papers, ca. 1864-1918 Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 1983 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, December 2000. ENG Roberts Family Genealogical Papers, ca. 1864-1918 FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 1983 Descriptive Summary Roberts Family Genealogical Papers, ca, 1864-1918 RG 5/131 2 boxes and 2 bound volumes; 2 linear ft. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 U.S.A.
For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog This collection consists of unpublished books and papers compiled by Charles and Lucy Roberts on the descendants of Robert Cadwalader of Wales and his children who came to America, settled in Gwynedd Township, and took the surname Roberts. After the death of Charles Roberts in 1902, his widow, Lucy Roberts, hired Gilbert Cope to continue the compilation and put it in useful order with the intention of publication. Cope had family group sheets bound into two large volumes, which he called “Book A” and “Book B”, and these form the bulk of this collection. The remainder of the collection consists of related books, notes, papers, and correspondence.

Repository:

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 BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL

The Roberts family represented in this collection were descendants of Robert Cadwalader of Wales and his children who came to America, settled in Gwynedd Township, and took the surname Roberts.

Charles Roberts (1846-1902) was a Philadelphia Orthodox Quaker who collected genealogical material relating to his family. After his death, his widow, Lucy Longstreth Roberts, hired Gilbert Cope, the noted Quaker genealogist, to put it into useful order with the intention of publication. Individual genealogical forms were compiled, but the work was never published.

Lucy (Branson) Longstreth Roberts was born in 1856 and was a life-long member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Western District (Orthodox), also known as Twelfth Street MM. She taught in the First Day School and was a founder of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society, which later became the Mission Board of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. She was a president of the Friends Historical Association and was active in the Friends' Library, formerly on 16th Street in Philadelphia.

In 1880 she married Thomas Kimber Longstreth, a graduate of Haverford College and also a member of Twelfth Street Meeting. They had one child, William Collins Longstreth, born in 1882. Thomas K. Longstreth died in 1883. Lucy's second marriage, to Charles Roberts, took place at Twelfth Street MM in November 1892. Charles died in 1902, and Lucy Roberts died in 1936.

 SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection contains genealogical material on the Roberts family, descended from Robert Cadwalader of Wales and his children who came to America and settled in Gwynedd Township, using the surname Roberts. Family group sheets were collected into two bound volumes by Gilbert Cope. The remainder of the collection consists of two boxes containing duplicate group sheets, related correspondence, family memorabilia, and loose genealogical notes.

 Arrangement

The collection has been divided into four series:

Genealogy Correspondence Memorabilia Pictures ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

Donor: Frank H. Longstreth and W. Thacher Longstreth, 1982

 Provenance

The collection was given by the grandsons of Lucy (Branson) Longstreth Roberts. The papers were discovered in 1981 in the former carriage house of her home, by her grandson, Frank H. Longstreth, and given to the Library by him and his brother, W. Thacher Longstreth, in 1982.

 Access

Collection is open for research.

 Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

 Preferred Citation

[Indicate the cited item or series here], Roberts Family Genealogical Papers, RG 5/131, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

 Processing information

Processed by FHL staff. Formerly cited as Roberts Papers.

The following materials, originally part of the collection, have been removed and recatalogued:

Descendants and Ancestors of George DeCou and Margaret Haskell Daniels DeCou, compiled by Frances Branson deCou, printed West Hartford, CT. Sept. 1, 1970. Catalogued in book catalogue. Copies of pictures originally published in Historical Collections of Gwynedd, by Howard M. Jenkins, 1884 edition, and Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania, by Thomas Allen Glenn, 1911. They are oversize, and have been removed to oversize picture files. Pictures include: Plymouth Meeting House; “Coed-Y-Foel”, home of Edward Foulke near Bala, Wales, from which he moved to Pennsylvania, 1698 (2 copies); Residence of Joseph Roberts (restored), near Gwynedd, Pa. (2 copies); Cadwalader Roberts (1777-1871); Charles Roberts (1784-1845) (2 copies); Elihu Roberts (1813-1885) (2 copies); Solomon W. Roberts (1811-1882) (2 copies) SELECTED SEARCH TERMS Materials catalogued separately

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings: Researchers are advised to search by subject and author, when applicable.

Quakers - Pennsylvania Genealogies Quakers genealogies Roberts family Branson family Roberts, Charles, 1846-1902 Roberts, Lucy Branson Longstreth, 1856-1936 Cope, Gilbert, 1840-1928 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below:

 Ser. 1. Genealogy, 1864-1909, n.d. “Book A” and “Book B,” large bound volumes, not boxed. 1 Collection administrative correspondence, original checklist 1 Duplicate copies of family group sheets as bound in Books A and B 1 Notes on Roberts family ca. 1864 1

By Charles Roberts, born 1784, grandfather of the compiler. Copied by Charles Roberts.

 Genealogy of Robert Cadwalader in Wales, by Thomas Allen Glenn 1909 1

Includes related correspondence

 Coat of Arms of Roberts family, 1 small copy

Includes brief biography of Charles Roberts.

 Loose genealogical notes on a variety of families allied with the Roberts line 2 folder Printed genealogy of the Roberts family 2 paper bound copy

Taken from Howard M. Jenkin' Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd, 1884 edition.

 Latin exercise book of Charles Roberts with the genealogy of the Woodnutt family of New Jersey in the middle pages. 2 Manuscript notes on the Roberts family and Gwynedd MM. bound ledger Loose sheets with lists of parents and children 2 in folder Loose family group sheets. 2 in folder Clippings, obituaries 2 2. Correspondence, 1856-1918, n.d. Letters to Charles Roberts 1881-1900, and n.d. 2 Letters to Lucy B. Roberts 1918 and n.d. 2

re: Branson and Antrim families.

 Fragment of letter to “Dear Sister”, written from Pittsburgh during the presidency of James Buchanan 1856-1860 2 References to letters between Gilbert Cope and Lucy B. Roberts concerning this collection 2

Actual letters are part of the Cope Collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

 3. Memorabilia, 1714-1918, n.d. Radnor Monthly Meeting Minutes relating to the marriage of Cadwalader Roberts and Ellin Humphrey 1714 2 ms. copy “A dream drempt the 10th of the 8th month 1800 by Edward Roberts in the twenty ninth year of his age.” 2 manuscript Card announcing the marriage of Charles H. Roberts and Mary Armstrong 1897 2 Blueprint plan of Roberts Hall, Haverford College 2

This building was constructed in 1902 in memory of Charles Roberts.

 Certificate of marriage, for William C. Longstreth and Nella Thatcher Cameron, Washington, D.C. 4/21/1917 2 Memorial Minutes of First Presbyterian Church of Germantown, on death of William Morris Longstreth, a Ruling Elder. 12/13/1918 2 Advertisement for a debenture bond in Philadelphia 2 Lists of addresses 2 4. Pictures, n.d. Gwynedd Meeting House 2 Job. Roberts (1757-1851) 2 Charles Roberts (1784-1845) 2 Joseph Foulke (1786-1863) 2 Solomon W. Roberts (1811-1882) 2