When Mary Robinson was born on 25 August 1817, in Edinburg, Saratoga, New York, United States, her father, Issachar Robinson, was 29 and her mother, Mary Pettenger, was 33. She married Christopher Walthart about 1837. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Homer, Calhoun, Michigan, United States in 1850 and Northampton, Fulton, New York, United States for about 5 years. She died on 28 September 1863, at the age of 46, and was buried in Northville, Fulton, New York, United States.
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): patronymic from the Middle English personal name Robin , a pet form of Robert , + -son. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
French: from a pet form of the personal name Robin .
West Indian (including Haiti) and Guyanese: most likely not (only) of English or French origin as in 1 above and 2 above, but also, if not mostly, from the related name of the famous Daniel Defoe's literary character Robinson Crusoe (from a novel first published in 1719).
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