Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha Robinson was born from 1777 to 1781, in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Robinson, was 28 and her mother, Martha Collison, was 27. She married Matthew Surfling on 30 May 1803, in East Ruston, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in East Ruston, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died in 1843, in Tunstead, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom.
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- Martha Suffling in household of Matthew Suffling, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Legacy NFS Source: Martha Robinson - Government record: Census record: birth: about 1780; East Ruston, Norfolkshire, England, United Kingdom
- Martha Robinson Marriage 1803
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World Events (6)
1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
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).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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