Robert Sylvester DEANS

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1861, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 12 Sophia Street with parents

• Census, 1871, Liverpool, Merseyside. Living with sister Jane and her husband Thomas Hewlett

• Military Service, 1877, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Private 24th Brigade Infantry 24 BJ/793 Attested 7 June 1877 aged 18y 3m labourer - intended place of residence 13 Talbot Street Canton Cardiff
Transferred 8 June 1889
Stationed at Cardiff 8/6/77
Pembroke Dock 23/6/77
Aldershot 6/11/77
Chatham 3/12/80
Gibraltar 11/8/80
Natal 2/4/81

• Residence, 1886, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. labourer living at 15 Kent Street Cardiff

• Census, 1891, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Coal hauler Clive Street

• Census, 1901, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 109 Clive Street coal trimmer

• Census, 1911, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 109 Clive Street, Grangetown, Cardiff

• Census, 1921, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 109 Clive Street Grangetown
Robert Sylvester Deansnhead 60y 11m married coal trimmer out of work Penarth Dock with wife Johanna 55y 10m and son Charles Pretoria 21y 1m textile worker Lewis & Taylor out of worknSloper Road Cardiff
Olive Deans daughter 18 8m textile worker Lewis & Taylor out of work Sloper Road Cardiff
also living with them William henry Carpenter boarder 27y 7m single Torpoint Cornwall police constable.
frederick harry Dix 24y singlecardiff police constable and Ivor Edward Morgan 27 single Swansea police constable

• Buried, 1926, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Cathays J646

• Probate, 1928, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Robert Sylvester Deans of 109 Clive Street Grangetown Cardiff died 10 April 1926 Probate Llandaff 1 June to Johanna Deans widow Effects £1977 12s 7d

• Probate, 1948, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Robert Sylvester of 109 Clive Street, Grangetown, Cardiff.died 10 April 1926 Administration (with will) LLandaff 16 January to Charles Pretoria Deans coal trimmer and Gerda May Johnson widow. Effects £1160 Former grant D. R. Llandaff 1 June 1928.

Robert married Johanna VANSTON, daughter of Samuel VANSTONE and Martha, in 1885 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire. (Johanna VANSTON was born on 15 Aug 1865 in Hereford, Herefordshire and died on 12 Mar 1947 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire.)