Jane Robins [Robbins] (1851-1916)

Dates

Birth: 1851 Gould Hill, Ibberton, Dorset, UK
Father: John Robins (Robbins) 1808-1857
Mother: Susannah (Susan) Thorne [Homer] 1807-1881

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: 24 December 1871 Winterborne Houghton, Dorset, UK
Husband: Reuben (Ruben) Robbins 1843-1929

Death: Jaunary-March 1916 Blandford, Dorset, UK

Children

Edith Hannah Robbins [James] 1873-1954
Susan Harriet Robbins [Gurd] 1876-1948

Notes

I cannot find a registration for her birth.

In the 1851 census as Jane Robings (sic - on the original) aged 2 months, born in Ibberton, Dorset, and living with her parents (John and Sussana), four brothers (Alfred, Edwin, Frank and George) and two sisters (Cordelia and Martha and Jane) in Gould Hill, Ibberton, Dorset.

Her father died and was buried in Ibberton on 12 November 1857.

In the 1861 census as Jane Robbins (sic - on the original) aged 10, born in Ibberton, Dorset, and living with her widowed mother (Susan), two brothers (Frank and George) and sister (Martha) in Ibberton, Dorset.

Her mother married George Homer in Ibberton on 1 November 1869.

In the 1871 census as Jane Robbins (sic - on the original) aged 20, born in Ibberton, Dorset, single, a glover, and living with her stepfather and mother (George and Susan Homer), and (step)brother (Samuel Homer) in Higher Farm Cottage, Winterbourne Houghton, Dorset.

Marriage of Jane Robins and Ruben Robbins in FreeBMD in October-December 1871 in Blandford (5a 585).

Entry in Ancestry England, Select Dorset Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1999 for Jane Robins aged 20, single, father John Robins, and Ruben (sic) Robbins on 24 December 1871 at Winterbourne-Houghton, Dorset.

Entry in Ancestry Dorset, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1921 for Jane Robons (sic) aged 20, father John Robons (sic), and Ruben Robbins on 24 December 1871 at Winterborne Houghton, Dorset. "Page 40 1871 Marriage solemnized after Banns in the Parish of Houghton in the County of Dorset. No. 79 24 December Ruben Robbins of full age, a Bachelor and Labour of Houghton, father John Robbins, a Labour, and Jane Robins aged 20, a Spinster of Houghton, father John Robins, a Blacksmith. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England ".

Her two daughters were born in Houghton in 1873 and 1876.

In the 1881 census as Jane Robbins aged 30, born in Ibberton, Dorset, a glover, and living with her husband (Reuben) and two daughters (Edith H and Susan H) in Winterborne Houghton, Dorset.

In the 1891 census as Jane Robins (sic - on the orginal) aged 40, born in Ibberton, Dorset, and living with her husband (Reuben) and daughter (Susan) at The Gatekeepers Lodge, The Old Turnpike Gate, Dorchester Road, Blandford St Mary, Dorset.

In the 1901 census as Jane Robins (sic - on the orginal) aged 50, born in Ibberton, Dorset, and visiting her son-in-law and daughter (Archibald and Edith James), grandson (Douglas James) and a lodger (Reginald Leah aged 17, born in Mottingout, Hampshire, single and a game keeper) in four rooms at Oak Cottage, Steeple, Dorset.

In the 1911 census as Jane Robbins aged 59, born in Blandford, Dorset, and living with her son--in-law and daughter (Walter and Susan Gurd), her grandson (Walter Gurd), two granddaughtes (Dora and Vera Gurd), a grandson (Douglas James) and two boarders (Hion Wolters aged 38, born in Holland, single and a calloist? musician at the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, and Alberta Lloyd aged 16, born in Norwich, Norfolk and a servant) in seven rooms at 26 Shaftesbury Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire.

Death of Jane Robbins in FreeBMD in January-March 1916 aged 66 in Blandford (5a 296).

Three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Jane Robins born in Ibberton, Dorset in 1851, parents John and Sudsannah Robins in one, mother Susan Thorne in the other two, her marriage to Reuben Robins in Winterbourne Houghton, Dorset on 24 December 1871, her two children, and her death in Blandford, Dorset in March 1916.

Relationship

Jane Robins was the sister of Alfred Robins, father of Amy Rose Robins, wife of Leonard Shrubb, my second cousin twice removed.

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