• General Notes

  Geoff Webb descended from John webb@netconnect.com.au
  
  Phil,
          I am a descendant of John (1802-1853) and Elizabeth (1804-89) ROBINSON nee WORTHINGTON and there second youngest child William ROBINSON (1844-1918).   I will have a look at your site over the next few days.    It is unusual that you mention your family had a military background.   My father's Aunty Kate and Uncle William R. ROBINSON both served in the in the Boer War and Aunt Kate was also in WW1 and WW2.   Uncle William never returned from the Boer War we believe he married a local girl and had one daughter before he ran away from her.   Dad also had a second Aunt who was in WW1
  
  John ROBINSON junior married Elizabeth WORTHINGTON on the 29th of December 1830 at Leek.   Elizabeth was the second child of Thomas and Ruth WORTHINGTON nee DEAVILL, who were farmers at Whitehouse in the parish of Onecote.   The village of Onecote (or Oncote) is similar in size to Meerbrook and located around seven kilometres to the east of Leek.     Whitehouse farm is situated on the western boundary of the parish and located less than half an English mile to the south east of the ROBINSON's property.
  
  John and Elizabeth ROBINSON's first child was born the year after their marriage while the couple were living on the outskirts of Leek and the ROBINSONs named her Sarah.  In 1832 John and Elizabeth moved in with John's father at Blackshaw's Moor Farm and it was at there that their remaining eight children were born.  All nine offspring survived infancy and at the time of the 1851 census, all with the exception of the couple's second daughter Ruth, were living on the family property.  By then the family property was a sizable 163 acres.
  

Details of John's family with Mrs