On Robert's marriage certificate William has been written in as a Professor of Music, there is nothing for Hannah Mary.
I don't have any info on Jean except that possible birth date and the story that Robert Francis went to see her when he left the navy to return to Australia. Samuel is just a name that my late cousin had found in his research of the family.
The birth recards of Robert are all very mixed up, Info from another cousin. "He gave his place of birth as London, Middlesex, however, this was later to change to Tumavara, Tipperary, Ireland, when he became an Ordinary Seaman 2nd Class on 10th October 1860. This place and date of birth is recorded by his name in subsequent paylists". On his death certificate his place of birth is Malahide, Dublin, Ireland.
In a memoir written by Frank Young, presumuably taken from Roberts memoirs he writes " Robert Francis Talbot was born at Malahide, Dublin in 1844 the second son of William Henry Talbot a Professor of Music, and Hannah Talbot, nee Watts" futher on he writes " At this time HMS Clio and her crew had concluded their stint of 3 years of duty as flagship for the Australian Station and departed for England where on her arrival at Sheerness, her crew were paid off. Robert Talbot visited his sister Jean then living at Lanack, Scotland and severed old family ties He returned to Australia aboard the Jerusalem on the 5th April 1874.
Also in his notes he stated that his Father died in c.1856 in Ireland but doesn't say where. I have also heard that Hannah died in 1845 and that William may have remarried but this has never been confirmed. It is such a grey area and most irritating.
That is about all I have from his life before Australia. I have been through everything I have
