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Lydia ROBINSON
1874 - 1928 (~ 54 years)
Has 73 ancestors and 16 descendants in this family tree.
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Name Lydia ROBINSON Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Mar Q 1874 Waldridge Fell, Chester-Le-Street, Co. Durham, England 
- GRO ref: ROBINSON, Lydia q1 1874 Chester le S. RD 10a 599; GRO online index shows mother's maiden name as Emmerson
Gender Female Education 1881 Scholar Died Dec Q 1928 South Shields Reg Dist, Co. Durham, England - * Possible * death
GRO ref: Robson, Lydia q4 1928 aged 57 S.Shields RD 10a 718
(although the age suggests born 1871, or possibly 1870, more in line with another Lydia ROBSON (in Sunderland in 1901), there is another death registration in 1966 of a 96 year old who fits better as the other Lydia, so I think this death was this Lydia)
Siblings4 brothers and 3 sisters Half-siblings1 half brother (family of [ - ? - ] and Margaret EMMERSON) Patriarch & Matriarch 
Ralph ROBINSON, b. Est 1705, d. Jan 1774, Old Buckenham, Norfolk, England (Age ~ 69 years) (3 x Great Grandfather) 
Barbara HUTCHINSON, b. Abt 1782, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, d. 12 Feb 1858, Smith’s Court, Prudhoe Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England (Age ~ 76 years) (Great Grandmother) Notes - Living in 2 rooms at 5 Queen St, Sunderland (St Peter's parish) (1901) (4 other families also at 5 Queen St. - in other rooms)
Of the many John Robsons who died between 1901 and 1911 are a couple of John Georges, including 2 dying in Sunderland, one of whom could, while not of quite the right age, be this John George.
I am assuming the 2 Robson children adopted along with George and Lydia were their younger siblings, i.e. children of Lydia and John George.
Person ID I670 All | henryAdorbailey Last Modified 16 Oct 2022
Father James ROBINSON, b. 31 Mar 1829, Old Buckenham, Norfolk, England , d. 23 Nov 1899, 4, James Street, Marsden, Whitburn, Co. Durham, England (Age 70 years) Mother Margaret EMMERSON, b. Abt 1837, Benwell, Northumberland, England , d. 1 Feb 1922, 6, Hedworth Terrace, Whitburn, Co. Durham, England (Age ~ 85 years)
Other Partners: [ - ? - ]Married Between 1857 and 1861 Research notes
I have looked hard for the marriage in the index on FreeBMD. TO DO: look at the local indexes in case mistranscribed to the central ones (or to FreeBMD)
Either,
* they may have married but an error in the register or failure to send a copy of the PR entry to the local registration office and GRO means it cannot be found indexes;
* as above but the entry was sent but lost (index-wise) at the GRO (the GRO created slips of paper to make the index - inevitably some will have been lost)
* they married but an error in the PR entry and / or index means the entry cannot be found
* they married but Margaret wasn't an Emmerson at marriage (see consideration of this below - summary: unlikley explanation)
* they did not bother to marry - seems unlikely unless there was a good reason
* they did not marry as one of them was not free to marry. It is worth noting that the likely date of marriage, c. 1859, James would have been aged 30, so there had been plenty of time for him to marry and for the couple to part company. With divorce effectively unavailable some chose to marry bigamously but others to live as though married.
Living in a highly populated area, with many moving in from elsewhere and themselves moving around it would probably have been easy for James and Margaret to live without any but close relations of Margaret knowing they weren't married.
Could Margaret have married and been widowed and then married James?
3 Margaret Em(m)ersons married in the period 1857 - 1860,
one in Southwark RD, very unlikely, one in Guisbro RD, not very likely, one in Sunderland - quite possible (q2 1859).
Latter was to a Joseph Walker or George Baker.
What's more, I haven't found Joseph or George with a wife Margaret in the 1861 census suggesting one of the couple had died (though of course, esp given that the marr was in Sunderland, they could have been at sea, and I haven't searched thoroghly for mis-transcriptions etc.)
Marriages of a James Robinson to a Margaret, 1857 - 1861 include one of a Margaret Baker (but q2 1858 so can't be Margaret widow of Geo as they weren't even marr by then!), one of a Margaret Walker; no surnames matching those in the Guisbro and Southwark marriages.
Marriage to Margaret Walker was q1 1861, Skipton. 2 snags - Skipton abt 90 miles from Washington and after the birth of Ruth, who was registered as a Robinson, not Walker. There were a no. of James and Margarets in or nr Yorkshire in 1861, incl one in Skipton, who could probably have been the couple who married in 1861 - I haven't checked them thoroughly (e.g. children), BUT I haven't found the Skipton couple in the 1851 census and they don't have any children, despite both being shown as aged 39 in the 1861 census, so I suspect it was them who married in Skipton RD, not my James and Margaret.
Family ID F213 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 1 [ - ? - ], d. Yes, date unknown Married Abt 1890 Married? Not married or evidence to suggest they didn't marry Children 1. James ROBINSON, b. 29 Dec 1890, Marsden, Whitburn, Co. Durham, England , d. Yes, date unknownLast Modified 19 Apr 2019 Family ID F11074 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 2 John George ROBSON, b. Abt 1871, Sunderland, Co. Durham, England , d. Yes, date unknown Married Sep Q 1894 South Shields Reg Dist, Co. Durham, England - GRO ref: Robinson, Lydia to Robson, John George q3 1874 South Shields RD 10a 989
Children6 children Last Modified 19 Apr 2019 Family ID F505 Family Group Page | Family Chart
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Born - Mar Q 1874 - Waldridge Fell, Chester-Le-Street, Co. Durham, England 
Child - James ROBINSON - 29 Dec 1890 - Marsden, Whitburn, Co. Durham, England 
Married - Sep Q 1894 - South Shields Reg Dist, Co. Durham, England 
Child - George ROBSON - Sep Q 1896 - Sunderland, Co. Durham, England Child - Lydia ROBSON - Sep Q 1899 - Sunderland, Co. Durham, England Child - Robert Blakey ROBSON - Sep Q 1901 - Sunderland, Co. Durham, England Child - William ROBSON - Abt 1903 - Sunderland, Co. Durham, England Died - Dec Q 1928 - South Shields Reg Dist, Co. Durham, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
