When Arathursa Jones Robinson was born on 12 November 1812, in Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Elijah Robinson, was 47 and her mother, Bathsheba Nye, was 42. She married Nathan B. Jewett on 2 May 1855, in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. She lived in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. She died on 10 May 1905, in Westford, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, at the age of 92.
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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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