much later (1859) when he was 34. He worked in the Perrot family business, "The Hive" iron foundry. Robert's occupation is listed as "Accountant" when he married Sarah Perrott (1859), but "Iron Merchant" in the birth certificate of our grandfather, his son
Great-grandfather Robert and his wife Sarah had three children, Hannah Mary Humphreys (b. 1862) who married Herbert Allport, Anne (b. 1864) who never married, and Robert. On Robert's birth certificate it says they lived at