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Quite by chance I came across this forum group. Hi there!
The Robartes of Cornwall are the aristocrats; those of us without an 'e' at the end of the surname are descended from Hertfordshire peasants, I'm afraid - at least as far as we can make out over here. The main aristocrat Robartes was he who gloried in the title of the Earl of Radnor (a senior earldom in Wales, which is where I am e-mailing you from), the first holder of that title being a friend of the great composer Handel.
For those Robarts in the USA and Canada who are literary-minded, my sister has traced the name back to the sister of Anne Seward, novelist and friend of Dr Johnson. Grace, Anne's sister, married a Robarts, and it is from him that I descend via a wavy line - not directly. The first Methodist martyr (stoned by an angry mob in Wales while evangelising in the 1730s, I think) was of this line.
Does any member of the forum know of Alfred Musgrove Robarts who emigrated from the UK to California at the beginning of the 20th century? He was a singer and composer. I have a copy of a couple of his sacred songs published in Portland, Oregon, in 1913. He was my grandfather's uncle.
Les
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