When Herring Robert Robinson was born on 8 October 1888, in Bowling Green, Pike, Missouri, United States, his father, Joseph Robert Robinson, was 29 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Worthington, was 25. He married Gabriella Mae Tinsley on 24 November 1909, in Pike, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Cuivre Township, Pike, Missouri, United States for about 40 years. He died on 20 October 1957, at the age of 69, and was buried in Antioch Cemetery, Cyrene, Pike, Missouri, United States.
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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