When Dr Lyda Marion Robinson was born on 9 October 1932, in Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida, United States, her father, Murray Owen Robinson, was 35 and her mother, Edmonia Augusta Elliott, was 27. She married Paul H. Heise in 1951. She died on 29 July 2002, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Logan, Illinois, 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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