When Sarah Elizabeth Robinson was born on 15 December 1865, in Threlkeld, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Robinson, was 34 and her mother, Sarah Taylor, was 30. She married Joseph Akitt on 12 March 1888, in Great Crosthwaite, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Underskiddaw, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Keswick, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom for about 38 years. She died in 1944, in Cumberland, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 79.
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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