Frederick Robarts
(1821-1871)
11 July 1861

Volume 4, page 202, sitting number 4878.

[Although there are other candidates, this is probably the Frederick Robarts who appears on the 1861 census living at 22 College Street in Chelsea. A forty-year-old 'Fundholder,' he was born in Chelsea.]

Born Frederick Mordant Robarts in about 1821, he was the third child of Nathaniel Robarts and Anne Mordaunt; his parents only married the year after Frederick was born. According to one Internet source, this marriage was possibly bigamous, since Nathaniel apparently already had a wife and family in Brighton. 

Frederick appears on the 1861 census, a 'Fundholder' living at 22 College Street in Chelsea with Catherine Robarts, supposedly his wife, and their two children: Sophia, aged 8, and Frederick, aged 6 months. However, Frederick and Catherine were not in fact married yet. Twenty years earlier, at the time of the 1841 census, Catherine Alexander was a 15-year-old servant living in the house of Frederick's mother Anne in Chelsea. In 1851 Catherine was still Anne's servant but the two women were now living at 4 Stanley Terrace in Chelsea. 

Frederick and Catherine Alexander were only married on 21 June 1870. They appear on the 1871 census living at 69 Westbourne Street with two children, Frederick, now aged 10, and 'Ellen,' aged 16, who is presumably Sophia but the enumerator has made a mistake recording her name. 

Frederick Robarts died, aged 50, in 1871.