Jack Roberts | |
Fullname: | John Alexander Roberts |
Birth Date: | 2 January 1867 |
Birth Place: | Scarsdale, Victoria |
Death Place: | Abbotsford, Victoria |
Position: | Wingman, defender |
Statsend: | 1899 |
Years1: | 1897–99 |
Games Goals1: | 24 (2) |
John Alexander Roberts (2 January 1867 – 5 August 1921) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
The son of William Roberts (1835-1924),[2] and Jenefer Roberts (-1903),[3] née Trahair, John Alexander Roberts was born at Scarsdale, near Ballarat, Victoria on 2 January 1867.
He married Annie Beatrice Knoll (1873-1956) in 1893.[4] They had four children, Lillian Beatrice Laxton, née Roberts (1894-1980), Archibald John Roberts (1897-1967), Vivian Ernest Roberts (1902-1968), and Dorothy Emily Power, née Roberts (1899-). He was the father-in-law of Charlie Laxton, who married Lily in 1917.[5]
He died on 5 August 1921. He had "caught a chill" when attending the match between Collingwood and Essendon at Victoria Park on 30 July 1921. The "chill" developed into the double pneumonia from which he died.[6] [7]
An "In Memoriam" service was held at St Philips Church of England, in Collingwood, on 21 August 1921.[8]