Percival Russell (Percy) ROBERTS

Date of Birth: 
8 Jul 1883
Date of Death: 
17 May 1967

Percy was born at the Hutt Valley.

He married Ada Hook (born at Wellington in 1887) at Wellington in 1909. (Her father, Friend,  featured in a profile HP0039.)

They had 3 sons & 4 daughters. She died in childbirth along with their 8th child.

He married again, in 1926, to Gertrude Pengelly (born at Oxford, England in 1891). She had a son from a previous relationship, so Percy adopted him as his son.

One son, Mervyn died on active service at El Alamein in WW2. A son-in-law, Percy Mathewson also served in WW2.

Percy started out as a labourer at Lower Hutt, then moved to Levin around 1908. He became a farmer at Koputaroa around 1925, then moved to Wearenga & finally Auckland as a poultry farmer. He retired to Hastings.

The adopted son, William, was a storekeeper in Otaki, then a market gardener in Ohau & then a contractor living in Levin until around 1987.

Percy's mother is buried in Levin as a Butler.

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Relatives mentioned in profile: 
Percival Russell (Percy) Roberts, James Henry Roberts, Susan Russell, Ada Pearl Hook, Friend Hook, Martha Ann Morgan, Gertrude Bessie Pengelly, William Pengelly, Sarah Ann Stuart, Leslie Percival Roberts, Gabrielle Fay Anderson, Aileen Pearl Roberts, George Lindsay Reed, Ursula Winifred Cecilia Roberts, Edwin Hamilton Brown, Evelyn Lavinia Roberts, Stanley Purvis Reed, Mervyn Howard Roberts, Ida Lillian Roberts, Percival Arthur (Percy) Mathewson, Maurice Percival Roberts, Nola Myrtle Monson, Baby Roberts, William Murray Roberts, Joyce McAvinue.