Bio/genealogy work courtesy Debra Hart, great-great granddaughter of Benjamin Robinson II and wife Anna Ball. Revised 08.28.2021. PLEASE retain credits if copied; thank you!
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Benjamin Robinson II is son of Benjamin Robinson I (b. abt. 1803, County Armagh, Northern Ireland; d. unknown) and Dorothy Ritchie/Richards (b. abt. 1804, County Armagh, Northern Ireland). All of the children we have confirmed records for were born by 1840 in County Armagh. It is likely that Benjamin and/or Dorothy either brought the family to Canada during the beginnings of the Great Famine (known outside of Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, which was 1845-1851); or perished during the Famine and the older children fled to Canada. The two eldest brothers, Benjamin and Jonathan, now adults, appeared to have emigrated either before or during the Great Famine to Grey County, Ontario, Canada. They both appear in the first Canadian Census of 1851/52, and the Robinson brothers married about 1850 in Grey County to the Ball sisters, whose family had emigrated from County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland about a decade earlier.
Benjamin and Jonathan's two (documented) sisters may have arrived later: Elizabeth first appears in 1861 for her marriage in Bentinck, Grey County; and sister Mary Jane Robinson appears in 1877 for her marriage in Owen Sound, Grey County.
Thus, Benjamin II was second of four children (possibly six; still researching). BENJAMIN ROBINSON (II) SIBLINGS:
1-JONATHAN ROBINSON (1824 – 1896) m. 1st to ELIZABETH BALL, sister of his brother Benjamin's wife ANN BALL, with whom he had 5 children. After Elizabeth's 1859 death, he m. 2nd to MATILDA CHESNEY, with whom he had 9 children.
2-ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1838 – after 1901) m. 1st to JAMES BURNS; they had 8 children. After James' 1881 death, she m. 2nd to EDWARD F. LANDER; no children.
3-MARY JANE ROBINSON (1840 – after 1885) m. 1st to DAVID NELSON; m. 2nd to JOHN O'BRIEN. Children unknown. Appears she stayed in Owen Sound area of Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
MARRIAGE #1-Benjamin married 1st about 1850/51 in Grey County, Ontario, Canada (still researching) to ANN/ANNA J BALL (1833-abt. 1864). Together they had 9 children:
1-ANN JANE ROBINSON (1852 – 1862); died in childhood
2-BENJAMIN ROBINSON (1853 – 1922) m. AGNES GORDON, 2 ch.
3-ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1854 – 1934) m. 1st to JAMES DICKEY, 4 ch; m. 2nd to JAMES KERR, 2 ch.
4-SARAH ROBINSON (1856 – 1934) m. 1st to JOHN A. HART, 3 ch.; m. 2nd to John's brother GEORGE HART, no ch.; m. 3rd to PATRICK GENTER/GINTER, no ch.
5-MARY ROBINSON (1859 – 1948); she outlived all her siblings by over 15 years; m. HENRY C BASCOM, 2 ch.; m. 2nd CASPER DIEHM; m. 3rd HENRY POWELL HOAG
6-JAMES WILSON ROBINSON (1861 – 1902) m. ELIZABETH ANN SANDBURNE/SANBURN, 8 ch.
7-SAMUEL ROBINSON (1862 – 1901) m. ADAH L. QUANTZ (4 ch.); after his death, Adah married 2nd to Edward B Williams, 4 ch. Some of the Robinson children used their stepfather's last name of Williams.
8-ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1863 – 1931) m. FRED W. LILLY, no ch.
9-DAVID WILLIAM ROBINSON (1864 – 1916) m. EMMA BERTHA QUADE, 4 ch.
MARRIAGE #2-Benjamin had two children with Agnes Ann Carleton Banks, whom he married 20 Nov 1865 in Normanby, Grey, Ontario, Canada:
1-JONATHAN ROBINSON (c. 1868-1879)
2-AGNES ROBINSON (1871-1879)
These two young children, age 11 and 8, d. of diptheria within 6 days of each other (Agnes d. 10 Jul 1879, Jonathan d. 16 Jul 1879). Based on later events in Agnes Ann' life documented by the newspaper articles, it is likely this trauma caused a great deal of distress in her life from which she may not have fully recovered.
BIO/TIMELINE:
1828 Dec - Birth, County Armagh, Ireland. SOURCE(s): 1) Headstone transcription, www.rootsweb.com shows b. County Armagh; d. 19 Dec 1895 age 67 yrs. 2) 1861 & 1871 Canada Census records show b. Ireland, 1825-1830 3) Various Ontario Canada marriage records for children and his own 2nd marriage to Agnes Ann Carleton, Banks.
1852 Age: 24 - Marriage to Ann (Anna) J. Ball, Prob. Grey, Ontario, Canada or County Armagh, Ireland. SOURCE(s): 1) 1861 Canada Census states marriage year as 1852 (no location); likely Grey County because both families were there.
13 Jan 1861 - Age: 33, Residence, Normanby, Grey County, Canada West (Ontario), Canada. SOURCE: 1861 Canada Census. Benjamin Robinson, Male, 30, b. 1831 Ireland. Married 1852. Wife Ann, 28 (b. 1833 Ireland); Ann 8 (b. 1853); Benjamin 6 (b. 1855); Sarah 4 (b. 1857); John 3 (b. 1858); Mary 2 (b. 1859). No birth locations for children listed.
1861 - Age: 33, Residence, Bentinck Township, Grey/Bruce, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928 for daughter Elizabeth's marriage
c. 1864/65 - Age: 35/36, Death of 1st wife, Ann(a) J. Ball, prob. in Grey County, Ontario. Benjamin & Anna's last child, David William Robinson, was b. 22 Feb 1864 and Benjamin married in 20 Nov 1865 to Agnes Ann (Carleton) Banks, so Ann(a) Ball likely died shortly after David's birth in 1864 or early in 1865.
1865 20 Nov - Age: 36, Residence & Marriage to AGNES ANN CARLETON, BANKS, Normanby Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: 1) Archives of Ontario Microfilm MS248_6 shows Benjamin's marriage to 2nd wife Ann (Carleton) Banks in Grey Co., Ontario. Includes info on birthplace of bride & groom, residence and their parents names. 2) Ontario, Canada, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869 and 3) Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928 shows same.
02 Apr 1871 - Age: 43, Residence, Normanby, Grey South, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: 1871 Census of Canada. Benjamin 46 (b. 1825 Ireland); Agnes (b. 1831 Ireland); Elizabeth 17 (b. 1854); Benjamin 16 (b. 1855); Sarah 14 (b. 1857); Mary 10 (b. 1861); Elizabeth 8 (b. 1863); James 9 (b. 1862); Samuel 7 (b. 1864), children b. Ontario. NOTE: There is a Jonathan Robinson on the line ABOVE their entry, age 2, that doesn't seem to belong to the previous family listed; this is likely the son of Benjamin & Agnes. Their only other child, Agnes, was born 2 months after this Canada Census was taken. Both children died young.
02 Apr 1871 - Age: 43, Residence, Normanby, Grey, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: Ontario, Canada Census Index, 1871
1880: Emigration to United States, prob. through Sault Ste. Marie or De Tour, Chippewa, MI USA. It's likely that the diptheria deaths of his 2 youngest children with 2nd wife Agnes in mid-1979 prompted the move. SOURCE: 1896 Sault Ste. Marie News, article about his death in Schlesser Twp., Raber, Chippewa, Michigan, USA states he came to the U.S. in 1880, and since he settled in the DeTour area, he may have come through that port.
1892 02 Apr - Age: 63, Notice Filed for Michigan Land Claim in De Tour, Chippewa, MI USA at Marquette, MI Land Office. SOURCE: 1) 1892 Sault Ste. Marie News article: "Benjamin Robinson, H[ea]d, Application #4094 for the n/e 1/4, sec 29, tp 42, r.r 3E." Goes on to name 98 witnesses to prove continuous residence upon & cultivation of said land, including son Benjamin Robinson (or Benjamin himself as a witness to the other applicants named).
1895 19 Dec - Age: 67, Death, either Schlesser Twp., Raber or De Tour Village, Chippewa, MIichigan, USA. SOURCE(s) 1) http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~michcgs/detour_update.html
1895 21 Dec - Burial, Rosemont Cemetery {Believe this is now Lytle/Little Cemetery}, DeTour, Chippewa, Michigan, USA
NOTE: Cemetery Transcription for Lytle/Little Cemetery also shows Benjamin's burial here. URL: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~michcgs/detour_update.html. From LYTLE CEMETERY (LITTLE), Section 20,2 Miles South of Goetzville East off M-48. Transcribed 08/04/1998. {Copyright Donna White and used with permission, 09.15.2012, Debra Hart Blackgrave Tyre}
BIO/TIMELINE courtesy Debra Hart Blackgrave Tyre, 3rd-great-granddaughter on 09.13.2012; revised 08.28.2021. A special thank you to my Robinson cousins/researchers: Rick Meyer, Dayna Woerner, and Karen Sundberg for their contributions and help to uncover the Robinson stories. I am deeply indebted and grateful!
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Benjamin Robinson II is son of Benjamin Robinson I (b. abt. 1803, County Armagh, Northern Ireland; d. unknown) and Dorothy Ritchie/Richards (b. abt. 1804, County Armagh, Northern Ireland). All of the children we have confirmed records for were born by 1840 in County Armagh. It is likely that Benjamin and/or Dorothy either brought the family to Canada during the beginnings of the Great Famine (known outside of Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, which was 1845-1851); or perished during the Famine and the older children fled to Canada. The two eldest brothers, Benjamin and Jonathan, now adults, appeared to have emigrated either before or during the Great Famine to Grey County, Ontario, Canada. They both appear in the first Canadian Census of 1851/52, and the Robinson brothers married about 1850 in Grey County to the Ball sisters, whose family had emigrated from County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland about a decade earlier.
Benjamin and Jonathan's two (documented) sisters may have arrived later: Elizabeth first appears in 1861 for her marriage in Bentinck, Grey County; and sister Mary Jane Robinson appears in 1877 for her marriage in Owen Sound, Grey County.
Thus, Benjamin II was second of four children (possibly six; still researching). BENJAMIN ROBINSON (II) SIBLINGS:
1-JONATHAN ROBINSON (1824 – 1896) m. 1st to ELIZABETH BALL, sister of his brother Benjamin's wife ANN BALL, with whom he had 5 children. After Elizabeth's 1859 death, he m. 2nd to MATILDA CHESNEY, with whom he had 9 children.
2-ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1838 – after 1901) m. 1st to JAMES BURNS; they had 8 children. After James' 1881 death, she m. 2nd to EDWARD F. LANDER; no children.
3-MARY JANE ROBINSON (1840 – after 1885) m. 1st to DAVID NELSON; m. 2nd to JOHN O'BRIEN. Children unknown. Appears she stayed in Owen Sound area of Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
MARRIAGE #1-Benjamin married 1st about 1850/51 in Grey County, Ontario, Canada (still researching) to ANN/ANNA J BALL (1833-abt. 1864). Together they had 9 children:
1-ANN JANE ROBINSON (1852 – 1862); died in childhood
2-BENJAMIN ROBINSON (1853 – 1922) m. AGNES GORDON, 2 ch.
3-ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1854 – 1934) m. 1st to JAMES DICKEY, 4 ch; m. 2nd to JAMES KERR, 2 ch.
4-SARAH ROBINSON (1856 – 1934) m. 1st to JOHN A. HART, 3 ch.; m. 2nd to John's brother GEORGE HART, no ch.; m. 3rd to PATRICK GENTER/GINTER, no ch.
5-MARY ROBINSON (1859 – 1948); she outlived all her siblings by over 15 years; m. HENRY C BASCOM, 2 ch.; m. 2nd CASPER DIEHM; m. 3rd HENRY POWELL HOAG
6-JAMES WILSON ROBINSON (1861 – 1902) m. ELIZABETH ANN SANDBURNE/SANBURN, 8 ch.
7-SAMUEL ROBINSON (1862 – 1901) m. ADAH L. QUANTZ (4 ch.); after his death, Adah married 2nd to Edward B Williams, 4 ch. Some of the Robinson children used their stepfather's last name of Williams.
8-ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1863 – 1931) m. FRED W. LILLY, no ch.
9-DAVID WILLIAM ROBINSON (1864 – 1916) m. EMMA BERTHA QUADE, 4 ch.
MARRIAGE #2-Benjamin had two children with Agnes Ann Carleton Banks, whom he married 20 Nov 1865 in Normanby, Grey, Ontario, Canada:
1-JONATHAN ROBINSON (c. 1868-1879)
2-AGNES ROBINSON (1871-1879)
These two young children, age 11 and 8, d. of diptheria within 6 days of each other (Agnes d. 10 Jul 1879, Jonathan d. 16 Jul 1879). Based on later events in Agnes Ann' life documented by the newspaper articles, it is likely this trauma caused a great deal of distress in her life from which she may not have fully recovered.
BIO/TIMELINE:
1828 Dec - Birth, County Armagh, Ireland. SOURCE(s): 1) Headstone transcription, www.rootsweb.com shows b. County Armagh; d. 19 Dec 1895 age 67 yrs. 2) 1861 & 1871 Canada Census records show b. Ireland, 1825-1830 3) Various Ontario Canada marriage records for children and his own 2nd marriage to Agnes Ann Carleton, Banks.
1852 Age: 24 - Marriage to Ann (Anna) J. Ball, Prob. Grey, Ontario, Canada or County Armagh, Ireland. SOURCE(s): 1) 1861 Canada Census states marriage year as 1852 (no location); likely Grey County because both families were there.
13 Jan 1861 - Age: 33, Residence, Normanby, Grey County, Canada West (Ontario), Canada. SOURCE: 1861 Canada Census. Benjamin Robinson, Male, 30, b. 1831 Ireland. Married 1852. Wife Ann, 28 (b. 1833 Ireland); Ann 8 (b. 1853); Benjamin 6 (b. 1855); Sarah 4 (b. 1857); John 3 (b. 1858); Mary 2 (b. 1859). No birth locations for children listed.
1861 - Age: 33, Residence, Bentinck Township, Grey/Bruce, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928 for daughter Elizabeth's marriage
c. 1864/65 - Age: 35/36, Death of 1st wife, Ann(a) J. Ball, prob. in Grey County, Ontario. Benjamin & Anna's last child, David William Robinson, was b. 22 Feb 1864 and Benjamin married in 20 Nov 1865 to Agnes Ann (Carleton) Banks, so Ann(a) Ball likely died shortly after David's birth in 1864 or early in 1865.
1865 20 Nov - Age: 36, Residence & Marriage to AGNES ANN CARLETON, BANKS, Normanby Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: 1) Archives of Ontario Microfilm MS248_6 shows Benjamin's marriage to 2nd wife Ann (Carleton) Banks in Grey Co., Ontario. Includes info on birthplace of bride & groom, residence and their parents names. 2) Ontario, Canada, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869 and 3) Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928 shows same.
02 Apr 1871 - Age: 43, Residence, Normanby, Grey South, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: 1871 Census of Canada. Benjamin 46 (b. 1825 Ireland); Agnes (b. 1831 Ireland); Elizabeth 17 (b. 1854); Benjamin 16 (b. 1855); Sarah 14 (b. 1857); Mary 10 (b. 1861); Elizabeth 8 (b. 1863); James 9 (b. 1862); Samuel 7 (b. 1864), children b. Ontario. NOTE: There is a Jonathan Robinson on the line ABOVE their entry, age 2, that doesn't seem to belong to the previous family listed; this is likely the son of Benjamin & Agnes. Their only other child, Agnes, was born 2 months after this Canada Census was taken. Both children died young.
02 Apr 1871 - Age: 43, Residence, Normanby, Grey, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: Ontario, Canada Census Index, 1871
1880: Emigration to United States, prob. through Sault Ste. Marie or De Tour, Chippewa, MI USA. It's likely that the diptheria deaths of his 2 youngest children with 2nd wife Agnes in mid-1979 prompted the move. SOURCE: 1896 Sault Ste. Marie News, article about his death in Schlesser Twp., Raber, Chippewa, Michigan, USA states he came to the U.S. in 1880, and since he settled in the DeTour area, he may have come through that port.
1892 02 Apr - Age: 63, Notice Filed for Michigan Land Claim in De Tour, Chippewa, MI USA at Marquette, MI Land Office. SOURCE: 1) 1892 Sault Ste. Marie News article: "Benjamin Robinson, H[ea]d, Application #4094 for the n/e 1/4, sec 29, tp 42, r.r 3E." Goes on to name 98 witnesses to prove continuous residence upon & cultivation of said land, including son Benjamin Robinson (or Benjamin himself as a witness to the other applicants named).
1895 19 Dec - Age: 67, Death, either Schlesser Twp., Raber or De Tour Village, Chippewa, MIichigan, USA. SOURCE(s) 1) http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~michcgs/detour_update.html
1895 21 Dec - Burial, Rosemont Cemetery {Believe this is now Lytle/Little Cemetery}, DeTour, Chippewa, Michigan, USA
NOTE: Cemetery Transcription for Lytle/Little Cemetery also shows Benjamin's burial here. URL: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~michcgs/detour_update.html. From LYTLE CEMETERY (LITTLE), Section 20,2 Miles South of Goetzville East off M-48. Transcribed 08/04/1998. {Copyright Donna White and used with permission, 09.15.2012, Debra Hart Blackgrave Tyre}
BIO/TIMELINE courtesy Debra Hart Blackgrave Tyre, 3rd-great-granddaughter on 09.13.2012; revised 08.28.2021. A special thank you to my Robinson cousins/researchers: Rick Meyer, Dayna Woerner, and Karen Sundberg for their contributions and help to uncover the Robinson stories. I am deeply indebted and grateful!
Bio/genealogy work courtesy Debra Hart, great-great granddaughter of Benjamin Robinson II and wife Anna Ball. Revised 08.28.2021. PLEASE retain credits if copied; thank you!
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Benjamin Robinson II is son of Benjamin Robinson I (b. abt. 1803, County Armagh, Northern Ireland; d. unknown) and Dorothy Ritchie/Richards (b. abt. 1804, County Armagh, Northern Ireland). All of the children we have confirmed records for were born by 1840 in County Armagh. It is likely that Benjamin and/or Dorothy either brought the family to Canada during the beginnings of the Great Famine (known outside of Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, which was 1845-1851); or perished during the Famine and the older children fled to Canada. The two eldest brothers, Benjamin and Jonathan, now adults, appeared to have emigrated either before or during the Great Famine to Grey County, Ontario, Canada. They both appear in the first Canadian Census of 1851/52, and the Robinson brothers married about 1850 in Grey County to the Ball sisters, whose family had emigrated from County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland about a decade earlier.
Benjamin and Jonathan's two (documented) sisters may have arrived later: Elizabeth first appears in 1861 for her marriage in Bentinck, Grey County; and sister Mary Jane Robinson appears in 1877 for her marriage in Owen Sound, Grey County.
Thus, Benjamin II was second of four children (possibly six; still researching). BENJAMIN ROBINSON (II) SIBLINGS:
1-JONATHAN ROBINSON (1824 – 1896) m. 1st to ELIZABETH BALL, sister of his brother Benjamin's wife ANN BALL, with whom he had 5 children. After Elizabeth's 1859 death, he m. 2nd to MATILDA CHESNEY, with whom he had 9 children.
2-ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1838 – after 1901) m. 1st to JAMES BURNS; they had 8 children. After James' 1881 death, she m. 2nd to EDWARD F. LANDER; no children.
3-MARY JANE ROBINSON (1840 – after 1885) m. 1st to DAVID NELSON; m. 2nd to JOHN O'BRIEN. Children unknown. Appears she stayed in Owen Sound area of Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
MARRIAGE #1-Benjamin married 1st about 1850/51 in Grey County, Ontario, Canada (still researching) to ANN/ANNA J BALL (1833-abt. 1864). Together they had 9 children:
1-ANN JANE ROBINSON (1852 – 1862); died in childhood
2-BENJAMIN ROBINSON (1853 – 1922) m. AGNES GORDON, 2 ch.
3-ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1854 – 1934) m. 1st to JAMES DICKEY, 4 ch; m. 2nd to JAMES KERR, 2 ch.
4-SARAH ROBINSON (1856 – 1934) m. 1st to JOHN A. HART, 3 ch.; m. 2nd to John's brother GEORGE HART, no ch.; m. 3rd to PATRICK GENTER/GINTER, no ch.
5-MARY ROBINSON (1859 – 1948); she outlived all her siblings by over 15 years; m. HENRY C BASCOM, 2 ch.; m. 2nd CASPER DIEHM; m. 3rd HENRY POWELL HOAG
6-JAMES WILSON ROBINSON (1861 – 1902) m. ELIZABETH ANN SANDBURNE/SANBURN, 8 ch.
7-SAMUEL ROBINSON (1862 – 1901) m. ADAH L. QUANTZ (4 ch.); after his death, Adah married 2nd to Edward B Williams, 4 ch. Some of the Robinson children used their stepfather's last name of Williams.
8-ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1863 – 1931) m. FRED W. LILLY, no ch.
9-DAVID WILLIAM ROBINSON (1864 – 1916) m. EMMA BERTHA QUADE, 4 ch.
MARRIAGE #2-Benjamin had two children with Agnes Ann Carleton Banks, whom he married 20 Nov 1865 in Normanby, Grey, Ontario, Canada:
1-JONATHAN ROBINSON (c. 1868-1879)
2-AGNES ROBINSON (1871-1879)
These two young children, age 11 and 8, d. of diptheria within 6 days of each other (Agnes d. 10 Jul 1879, Jonathan d. 16 Jul 1879). Based on later events in Agnes Ann' life documented by the newspaper articles, it is likely this trauma caused a great deal of distress in her life from which she may not have fully recovered.
BIO/TIMELINE:
1828 Dec - Birth, County Armagh, Ireland. SOURCE(s): 1) Headstone transcription, www.rootsweb.com shows b. County Armagh; d. 19 Dec 1895 age 67 yrs. 2) 1861 & 1871 Canada Census records show b. Ireland, 1825-1830 3) Various Ontario Canada marriage records for children and his own 2nd marriage to Agnes Ann Carleton, Banks.
1852 Age: 24 - Marriage to Ann (Anna) J. Ball, Prob. Grey, Ontario, Canada or County Armagh, Ireland. SOURCE(s): 1) 1861 Canada Census states marriage year as 1852 (no location); likely Grey County because both families were there.
13 Jan 1861 - Age: 33, Residence, Normanby, Grey County, Canada West (Ontario), Canada. SOURCE: 1861 Canada Census. Benjamin Robinson, Male, 30, b. 1831 Ireland. Married 1852. Wife Ann, 28 (b. 1833 Ireland); Ann 8 (b. 1853); Benjamin 6 (b. 1855); Sarah 4 (b. 1857); John 3 (b. 1858); Mary 2 (b. 1859). No birth locations for children listed.
1861 - Age: 33, Residence, Bentinck Township, Grey/Bruce, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928 for daughter Elizabeth's marriage
c. 1864/65 - Age: 35/36, Death of 1st wife, Ann(a) J. Ball, prob. in Grey County, Ontario. Benjamin & Anna's last child, David William Robinson, was b. 22 Feb 1864 and Benjamin married in 20 Nov 1865 to Agnes Ann (Carleton) Banks, so Ann(a) Ball likely died shortly after David's birth in 1864 or early in 1865.
1865 20 Nov - Age: 36, Residence & Marriage to AGNES ANN CARLETON, BANKS, Normanby Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: 1) Archives of Ontario Microfilm MS248_6 shows Benjamin's marriage to 2nd wife Ann (Carleton) Banks in Grey Co., Ontario. Includes info on birthplace of bride & groom, residence and their parents names. 2) Ontario, Canada, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869 and 3) Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928 shows same.
02 Apr 1871 - Age: 43, Residence, Normanby, Grey South, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: 1871 Census of Canada. Benjamin 46 (b. 1825 Ireland); Agnes (b. 1831 Ireland); Elizabeth 17 (b. 1854); Benjamin 16 (b. 1855); Sarah 14 (b. 1857); Mary 10 (b. 1861); Elizabeth 8 (b. 1863); James 9 (b. 1862); Samuel 7 (b. 1864), children b. Ontario. NOTE: There is a Jonathan Robinson on the line ABOVE their entry, age 2, that doesn't seem to belong to the previous family listed; this is likely the son of Benjamin & Agnes. Their only other child, Agnes, was born 2 months after this Canada Census was taken. Both children died young.
02 Apr 1871 - Age: 43, Residence, Normanby, Grey, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: Ontario, Canada Census Index, 1871
1880: Emigration to United States, prob. through Sault Ste. Marie or De Tour, Chippewa, MI USA. It's likely that the diptheria deaths of his 2 youngest children with 2nd wife Agnes in mid-1979 prompted the move. SOURCE: 1896 Sault Ste. Marie News, article about his death in Schlesser Twp., Raber, Chippewa, Michigan, USA states he came to the U.S. in 1880, and since he settled in the DeTour area, he may have come through that port.
1892 02 Apr - Age: 63, Notice Filed for Michigan Land Claim in De Tour, Chippewa, MI USA at Marquette, MI Land Office. SOURCE: 1) 1892 Sault Ste. Marie News article: "Benjamin Robinson, H[ea]d, Application #4094 for the n/e 1/4, sec 29, tp 42, r.r 3E." Goes on to name 98 witnesses to prove continuous residence upon & cultivation of said land, including son Benjamin Robinson (or Benjamin himself as a witness to the other applicants named).
1895 19 Dec - Age: 67, Death, either Schlesser Twp., Raber or De Tour Village, Chippewa, MIichigan, USA. SOURCE(s) 1) http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~michcgs/detour_update.html
1895 21 Dec - Burial, Rosemont Cemetery {Believe this is now Lytle/Little Cemetery}, DeTour, Chippewa, Michigan, USA
NOTE: Cemetery Transcription for Lytle/Little Cemetery also shows Benjamin's burial here. URL: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~michcgs/detour_update.html. From LYTLE CEMETERY (LITTLE), Section 20,2 Miles South of Goetzville East off M-48. Transcribed 08/04/1998. {Copyright Donna White and used with permission, 09.15.2012, Debra Hart Blackgrave Tyre}
BIO/TIMELINE courtesy Debra Hart Blackgrave Tyre, 3rd-great-granddaughter on 09.13.2012; revised 08.28.2021. A special thank you to my Robinson cousins/researchers: Rick Meyer, Dayna Woerner, and Karen Sundberg for their contributions and help to uncover the Robinson stories. I am deeply indebted and grateful!
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Benjamin Robinson II is son of Benjamin Robinson I (b. abt. 1803, County Armagh, Northern Ireland; d. unknown) and Dorothy Ritchie/Richards (b. abt. 1804, County Armagh, Northern Ireland). All of the children we have confirmed records for were born by 1840 in County Armagh. It is likely that Benjamin and/or Dorothy either brought the family to Canada during the beginnings of the Great Famine (known outside of Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, which was 1845-1851); or perished during the Famine and the older children fled to Canada. The two eldest brothers, Benjamin and Jonathan, now adults, appeared to have emigrated either before or during the Great Famine to Grey County, Ontario, Canada. They both appear in the first Canadian Census of 1851/52, and the Robinson brothers married about 1850 in Grey County to the Ball sisters, whose family had emigrated from County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland about a decade earlier.
Benjamin and Jonathan's two (documented) sisters may have arrived later: Elizabeth first appears in 1861 for her marriage in Bentinck, Grey County; and sister Mary Jane Robinson appears in 1877 for her marriage in Owen Sound, Grey County.
Thus, Benjamin II was second of four children (possibly six; still researching). BENJAMIN ROBINSON (II) SIBLINGS:
1-JONATHAN ROBINSON (1824 – 1896) m. 1st to ELIZABETH BALL, sister of his brother Benjamin's wife ANN BALL, with whom he had 5 children. After Elizabeth's 1859 death, he m. 2nd to MATILDA CHESNEY, with whom he had 9 children.
2-ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1838 – after 1901) m. 1st to JAMES BURNS; they had 8 children. After James' 1881 death, she m. 2nd to EDWARD F. LANDER; no children.
3-MARY JANE ROBINSON (1840 – after 1885) m. 1st to DAVID NELSON; m. 2nd to JOHN O'BRIEN. Children unknown. Appears she stayed in Owen Sound area of Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
MARRIAGE #1-Benjamin married 1st about 1850/51 in Grey County, Ontario, Canada (still researching) to ANN/ANNA J BALL (1833-abt. 1864). Together they had 9 children:
1-ANN JANE ROBINSON (1852 – 1862); died in childhood
2-BENJAMIN ROBINSON (1853 – 1922) m. AGNES GORDON, 2 ch.
3-ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1854 – 1934) m. 1st to JAMES DICKEY, 4 ch; m. 2nd to JAMES KERR, 2 ch.
4-SARAH ROBINSON (1856 – 1934) m. 1st to JOHN A. HART, 3 ch.; m. 2nd to John's brother GEORGE HART, no ch.; m. 3rd to PATRICK GENTER/GINTER, no ch.
5-MARY ROBINSON (1859 – 1948); she outlived all her siblings by over 15 years; m. HENRY C BASCOM, 2 ch.; m. 2nd CASPER DIEHM; m. 3rd HENRY POWELL HOAG
6-JAMES WILSON ROBINSON (1861 – 1902) m. ELIZABETH ANN SANDBURNE/SANBURN, 8 ch.
7-SAMUEL ROBINSON (1862 – 1901) m. ADAH L. QUANTZ (4 ch.); after his death, Adah married 2nd to Edward B Williams, 4 ch. Some of the Robinson children used their stepfather's last name of Williams.
8-ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1863 – 1931) m. FRED W. LILLY, no ch.
9-DAVID WILLIAM ROBINSON (1864 – 1916) m. EMMA BERTHA QUADE, 4 ch.
MARRIAGE #2-Benjamin had two children with Agnes Ann Carleton Banks, whom he married 20 Nov 1865 in Normanby, Grey, Ontario, Canada:
1-JONATHAN ROBINSON (c. 1868-1879)
2-AGNES ROBINSON (1871-1879)
These two young children, age 11 and 8, d. of diptheria within 6 days of each other (Agnes d. 10 Jul 1879, Jonathan d. 16 Jul 1879). Based on later events in Agnes Ann' life documented by the newspaper articles, it is likely this trauma caused a great deal of distress in her life from which she may not have fully recovered.
BIO/TIMELINE:
1828 Dec - Birth, County Armagh, Ireland. SOURCE(s): 1) Headstone transcription, www.rootsweb.com shows b. County Armagh; d. 19 Dec 1895 age 67 yrs. 2) 1861 & 1871 Canada Census records show b. Ireland, 1825-1830 3) Various Ontario Canada marriage records for children and his own 2nd marriage to Agnes Ann Carleton, Banks.
1852 Age: 24 - Marriage to Ann (Anna) J. Ball, Prob. Grey, Ontario, Canada or County Armagh, Ireland. SOURCE(s): 1) 1861 Canada Census states marriage year as 1852 (no location); likely Grey County because both families were there.
13 Jan 1861 - Age: 33, Residence, Normanby, Grey County, Canada West (Ontario), Canada. SOURCE: 1861 Canada Census. Benjamin Robinson, Male, 30, b. 1831 Ireland. Married 1852. Wife Ann, 28 (b. 1833 Ireland); Ann 8 (b. 1853); Benjamin 6 (b. 1855); Sarah 4 (b. 1857); John 3 (b. 1858); Mary 2 (b. 1859). No birth locations for children listed.
1861 - Age: 33, Residence, Bentinck Township, Grey/Bruce, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928 for daughter Elizabeth's marriage
c. 1864/65 - Age: 35/36, Death of 1st wife, Ann(a) J. Ball, prob. in Grey County, Ontario. Benjamin & Anna's last child, David William Robinson, was b. 22 Feb 1864 and Benjamin married in 20 Nov 1865 to Agnes Ann (Carleton) Banks, so Ann(a) Ball likely died shortly after David's birth in 1864 or early in 1865.
1865 20 Nov - Age: 36, Residence & Marriage to AGNES ANN CARLETON, BANKS, Normanby Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: 1) Archives of Ontario Microfilm MS248_6 shows Benjamin's marriage to 2nd wife Ann (Carleton) Banks in Grey Co., Ontario. Includes info on birthplace of bride & groom, residence and their parents names. 2) Ontario, Canada, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869 and 3) Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928 shows same.
02 Apr 1871 - Age: 43, Residence, Normanby, Grey South, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: 1871 Census of Canada. Benjamin 46 (b. 1825 Ireland); Agnes (b. 1831 Ireland); Elizabeth 17 (b. 1854); Benjamin 16 (b. 1855); Sarah 14 (b. 1857); Mary 10 (b. 1861); Elizabeth 8 (b. 1863); James 9 (b. 1862); Samuel 7 (b. 1864), children b. Ontario. NOTE: There is a Jonathan Robinson on the line ABOVE their entry, age 2, that doesn't seem to belong to the previous family listed; this is likely the son of Benjamin & Agnes. Their only other child, Agnes, was born 2 months after this Canada Census was taken. Both children died young.
02 Apr 1871 - Age: 43, Residence, Normanby, Grey, Ontario, Canada. SOURCE: Ontario, Canada Census Index, 1871
1880: Emigration to United States, prob. through Sault Ste. Marie or De Tour, Chippewa, MI USA. It's likely that the diptheria deaths of his 2 youngest children with 2nd wife Agnes in mid-1979 prompted the move. SOURCE: 1896 Sault Ste. Marie News, article about his death in Schlesser Twp., Raber, Chippewa, Michigan, USA states he came to the U.S. in 1880, and since he settled in the DeTour area, he may have come through that port.
1892 02 Apr - Age: 63, Notice Filed for Michigan Land Claim in De Tour, Chippewa, MI USA at Marquette, MI Land Office. SOURCE: 1) 1892 Sault Ste. Marie News article: "Benjamin Robinson, H[ea]d, Application #4094 for the n/e 1/4, sec 29, tp 42, r.r 3E." Goes on to name 98 witnesses to prove continuous residence upon & cultivation of said land, including son Benjamin Robinson (or Benjamin himself as a witness to the other applicants named).
1895 19 Dec - Age: 67, Death, either Schlesser Twp., Raber or De Tour Village, Chippewa, MIichigan, USA. SOURCE(s) 1) http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~michcgs/detour_update.html
1895 21 Dec - Burial, Rosemont Cemetery {Believe this is now Lytle/Little Cemetery}, DeTour, Chippewa, Michigan, USA
NOTE: Cemetery Transcription for Lytle/Little Cemetery also shows Benjamin's burial here. URL: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~michcgs/detour_update.html. From LYTLE CEMETERY (LITTLE), Section 20,2 Miles South of Goetzville East off M-48. Transcribed 08/04/1998. {Copyright Donna White and used with permission, 09.15.2012, Debra Hart Blackgrave Tyre}
BIO/TIMELINE courtesy Debra Hart Blackgrave Tyre, 3rd-great-granddaughter on 09.13.2012; revised 08.28.2021. A special thank you to my Robinson cousins/researchers: Rick Meyer, Dayna Woerner, and Karen Sundberg for their contributions and help to uncover the Robinson stories. I am deeply indebted and grateful!
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