Mary Ann Robinson and her brother William arrived in Australia as Free Settlers in about 1840 (Mary was in the care of her brother and was about 18yo according to her obit as Mrs Benjamin Cook, she died in 1906 at the age of 84 and had been in the state of NSW for 66 years).
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Thread: Robinson - County Derry 1800's
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08-06-2016, 11:50 PM #1
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Robinson - County Derry 1800's
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09-06-2016, 2:28 AM #2
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NSW BDM says her father was John (no mother's name)
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09-06-2016, 3:01 AM #3
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we know how obits can have the wrong information but here is her obit. She was my great great grandmother via Benjamin her son
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09-06-2016, 3:01 AM #4Dundee10Guest
The ship Percy arrived in Sydney on 28 August 1841.
Mary Ann ROBINSON
Native Place: Londonderry
Age: 17
Calling: House Servant
Religion: Episcopalian on one record, Protestant on another
Under the protection of brother William ROBINSON and wife
Parents not named
Person certifying registry of baptism: Wm Horatio SLACK
William is recorded as ROBERTSON.
William ROBERTSON
Native Place: Londonderry
Age: 24
Calling: Blacksmith
Religion: Protestant
Parents: John (occupation: Cooper) and Margaret
Person certifying registry of baptism: Wm Horatio SLACK
Jane ROBERTSON
Native Place: Lurga brack (?), Donegal
Age: 26
Calling: House Servant
Religion: Presbyterian
Parents: James FISHER (occupation: Farmer or Farrier) and Anne (?)
Person certifying registry of baptism: Wm Horatio SLACK
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09-06-2016, 3:14 AM #5
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Thanks, so she was probably supposed to have been a Robertson and parents are John and Margaret. I gather Jane was William's wife.
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09-06-2016, 7:43 AM #6Dundee10Guest
I would be inclined to think the name was ROBINSON if that was the name Mary Ann used, but yes, you should keep an open mind. There was a child Margaret baptised in Sydney in 1841 to William and Jane ROBINSON but it is not possible to calculate a birth/baptism date in the online indexes.
I think the clergyman who certified their baptisms in Ireland was William Horatio STACK, not SLACK.
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09-06-2016, 9:24 AM #7
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ok as William was older than Mary Ann. Maybe a marriage for William and Jane might help with it.
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09-06-2016, 11:17 PM #8
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oops was looking at the wrong era when I typed this message so deleted it
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03-07-2016, 6:46 PM #9
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The surnames Robertson and Robinson are interchangeable in Ireland (and Scotland) and you often see the spelling switch all the time. Very common. Kirkpatrick and Kilpatrick do the same. Plenty of other examples.
If Mary was recorded as Episcopalian then, in Ireland, that’d be Church of Ireland. The problem, you inevitably face is whether Londonderry means the city or the county. But the logical place to start would be with the city. The good news is that Londonderry’s main Church of Ireland parish (Templemore) has records that go back to 1642. I think they may be on-line on the rootsireland site (subscription) but if not PRONI (the public record office) in Belfast has a copy which can be inspected free.
I did look in the 1831 census for Co Derry. There was only 1 family in the county with a John Robertson as its head who was Church of Ireland. He lived in Ballymully, in the parish of Desertlyn. No John Robinsons who were COI.
https://www.census.nationalarchives.i.../Ballymully/7/
There was a Robinson household in Ballymully in 1901:
https://www.census.nationalarchives.i...mully/1534454/
Desertlyn Church of Ireland records start in 1797. (Copy in PRONI).
Jane Robertson’s place of origin may be Lurganbrack which is a townland on the Fanad peninsula in Co Donegal. Nearest Presbyterian church is probably Fannet which has records from 1827. (There’s a copy in PRONI.)ELWYN
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01-06-2021, 1:05 AM #10
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Hi Dundee, It has been a while and I have been doing some research lately. I have not been able to find anything that says that Reverend William Horatio Stack certified any of the baptisms of Mary Ann Robinson, William Robertson and Jane Fisher (who was a different county). This is because William Horatio Stack died 13 April 1863 and lived Balteagh Glebe in the County of Londonderry and the records for Balteagh Church of Scotland that he was with, were destroyed in the 1922 fire.
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