Robert Eric Ambler was born in Barnet in London on 8^th May 1900. He was the younger of two children born to Robert and Frances Ambler, the other child being Norah, who was two years older than young Robert.

In 1901, the census shows the family living at Blythe House, on the East Barnet Road where Robert snr ran his own house decorating business. His sister, a dressmaker called Alice Ambler also lived with the family.

By the time the 1911 census was taken, the family had increased in size, with the addition of two daughters, Margery and Ella. The Amblers had also moved to an address in Bayswater Place, in Harehills, Leeds, although it appears that around 1909, they had been living in Lincoln, as that is where Ella had been born.

Robert Ambler didn’t move his decorating business north with him, and he was described on the census as a salesman of paper hangings, and as a worker, rather than an employer.

Robert Ambler returned home to Badger Terrace in Scholes, however he travelled to the USA from the Port of Glasgow aboard the SS Columbia in 1921 to work on a farm in Wyoming.

He returned to England and in 1923 married Emily Burton, a girl from Edmonton, roughly 5 miles away from East Barnet, where he grew up. The couple lived in Edmonton. Unfortunately, the marriage lasted only until 1932, when, aged 28, Emily died.

Robert Ambler returned to the USA and settled there. He married Irma Marie Potter on 10^th November 1943 in Seattle, Washington. They moved to Blackduck, Beltrami County, Minnesota, where Robert Ambler died on 12^th September 1974. His widow died in 1985.