Robert Whaits
1836–1921
Wheelwright and missionary. Lived in Bristol, 1861, 1871. With his wife, Mary Ann, and daughter, in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, from 1876, as assistant to the missionary Thomas Bridges. Married Agnes Fletcher in Londonderry in 1899; travelled with her to England from the Falkland Islands in 1911. Lived in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, in 1915.
Sources
BMD (Marriage index, Death index)
Bridges 1948, p. 70
Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/1715/50/7), 1871 (RG10/2531/61/12)
Gloucestershire, England, electoral registers, 1832–1974 (Ancestry.com, accessed 27 February 2020)
Hazlewood 2000, pp. 326, 347
Ireland, civil registration marriages index, 1845–1958 (Ancestry.com, accessed 27 February 2020)
UK and Ireland, incoming passenger lists, 1878–1960 (Ancestry.com, accessed 27 February 2020)
Western Daily News, 28 March 1921, p. 8
Bibliography
BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.
Bridges, Esteban Lucas. 1948. Uttermost part of the earth. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
Hazlewood, Nick. 2000. Savage. The life and times of Jemmy Button. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
