When Violet Evelyn Ethel Robinson was born on 12 February 1899, in Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia, her father, Albert George Robinson, was 31 and her mother, Ellen Ethel Hale, was 20. She married Ernest Grafton Maxted on 7 April 1926, in Casino, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 1 March 1976, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 77.
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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