All I know about Robert is that he was a farmer in 1884 when his daughter Margaret was married.

The family were protestant Church of Ireland so it is likely, but I am a long way from proving, that they were planters from northern England or southern Scotland given land in Ireland as part of 16th and 17th century efforts to supress Roman Catholicism in Ireland.

Robert's wife is the only one of my 16 great great grandparents for whom I do not even have a name, but it is from this unknown great great grandmother that I get my mitochondrial DNA which is haplogroup W; found in low numbers across Europe as far west as Ireland, but not one of the commoner Seven Daughters of Eve haplogroups.