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Descendents of Marshall Robison I (1787 - 11 Apr 1862)
and Jane Dickson (1788 - 8 Oct 1871)Third Immigrant Generation
*********************************************************************************************27. Thomas Robison . Son of Marshall Robison & Mary Herbert. Born 4 Nov 1856 in Harvey. Died 5 Mar 1911 in Harvey. Buried in Harvey Settlement Cemetery. Occupation Contractor, Also Hotel Business.
Tom was a contractor and built several buildings in the Village of Harvey, including St. James Church (Presently the Baptist Church). He was manager of the Farmers' Grange and later went into the hotel business. He was the first elected member of the Provincial Parliament from Harvey representing the conservatives.
2417. Thomas Robison. Son of Marshall Robison & Mary Herbert. Born 4 Nov 1856 in Harvey. Died 5 Mar 1911 in Harvey. Buried in Harvey Settlement Cemetery. Occupation Contractor, Also Hotel Business.
Source: Collection of David Robison, Ottawa, Ontario.. Rephotographed by Tim Patterson 13 June 2007. .
2449. Undated photograph of Frances "Fannie" Elkington, daughter of William Elkington & Susannah "Susan" Martin. she married Thomas Robison on 15 Jun 1876.
Source: Collection of David Robison, Ottawa, Ontario.. Rephotographed by Tim Patterson 13 June 2007.
From New Brunswick Reporter, 21 Jun 1876: "Married manse of St. Paul's, 14th inst., by Rev. Dr. Brooke, Thomas Robinson and Miss Fannie Elkington, both of Manners Sutton, York Co."
Witnesses to marriage were Catherine McCurdy and A. Disbrow.
From newspaper obituary - 1911:
Thomas Robison, York County M.P.P., Died On Sunday
Harvey Station, March 5 -- Thomas Robison, M.P.P., died this evening at 7:40, after an illness of nine days. He was taken with what seemed to be a bilious attack a week ago Saturday, and seemed to be recovering, but on Wednesday he became much worse. This afternoon he began to sink. He was fifty-four years of age and leaves his wife, five sons and five daughter, all of whom were with him when he died, except a son and a daughter, who reside in British Columbia.
He married Frances "Fannie" Elkington, daughter of William Elkington & Susannah "Susan" Martin, 15 Jun 1876 in Manse, St. Paul's Church, Fredericton By Rev. John M. Brooke. Born 2 Sep 1859 in New Brunswick. Died 11 Aug 1941 in Harvey Station. Buried in Harvey Settlement Cemetery.
(1901 Census: birth date 2 Sep 1859, and 41 years old.)
Copied from undated newspaper obituary:
Mrs T. Robison Dead
Widow of Thomas Robison ex-M.P.P. Passed Away at Coburn, NB
Harvey Station, NB, Aug 12 -- The death of Mrs Thomas Robison, widow of Thomas Robison, M.P.P. occurred last evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Guy Little, Coburn, following an illness of a few weeks.
Before her marriage she was Miss Fannie Elkington and came here with her parents from Chamcook, NB when quite young. Had she lived to Sept. 2nd she would have been 83 years of age.
Mrs Robison was well and favorably known throughout York County and other parts of the province, having carried on the Robison Hotel from the time of Mr Robison's death in 1911 until 1918, when she sold the property to her brother-in-law, the late S. Allan Robison.
Some years ago Mrs Robison removed to Grand Bay but had made frequent visits to Harvey from time to time and had spent several weeks with Mr and Mrs Little previous to her illness. She was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church in Harvey.
Of a family of eleven children, seven survive. They are Mrs William Hunter, Harvey Station, Miss Elizabeth Robison, RN, Fitchburg, Mass., Benjamin Robison, Grand Bay, Mrs J. H. Patterson, Penticton, BC, Mrs H. B. MacDougall, Lexington, Mass., Howard T. Robison, with the Canadian Army Overseas and David T. Robison of Penticton, BC. The late James M. Robison of West Saint John was also a son.
The funeral will be held on Wednesday afternoon, but arrangements have not yet been completed.
They had the following children:
115 i. Camilla "Millie" Robison
116 ii. James Marshall Robison
117 iii. Elizabeth Robison RN
118 iv. Benjamin Robison
119 v. Mabel Robison
120 vi. Ada Winnifred Robison
121 vii. Annie Robison
122 viii. Maud Alexandra Robison
123 ix. Paul Robison
124 x. Howard Thomas Robison
125 xi. David Taylor Robison
2459. Millie Robison. daughter of Thomas Robison and Frances "Fannie" Elkington.
Source: Collection of David Robison, Ottawa, Ontario. Rephotographed by Tim Patterson 13 June 2007.
28. William Robison . Son of Marshall Robison & Mary Herbert. Born 19 Aug 1858 in Harvey. Died 27 Dec 1927 in Fredericton.
Unmarried. Bill stayed home until a few years before his death when he went to Fredericton to a home for the elderly and he died there, but is buried in Harvey.
2419. William Robison. Son of Marshall Robison & Mary Herbert. Born 19 Aug 1858 in Harvey. Died 27 Dec 1927 in Fredericton.
Source: Collection of David Robison, Ottawa, Ontario.. Rephotographed by Tim Patterson 13 June 2007.
29. Isabelle "Belle" Robison . Daughter of Marshall Robison & Mary Herbert. Born 1 May 1860 in Harvey. Died 17 Sep 1932 in Camden, ME. Buried in Harvey Settlement Cemetery.
2421. Isabelle Robison. Daughter of Marshall Robison & Mary Herbert. Born 1 May 1860 in Harvey. Died 17 Sep 1932 in Camden, ME. Buried in Harvey Settlement Cemetery.
Source: Collection of David Robison, Ottawa, Ontario.. Rephotographed by Tim Patterson 13 June 2007.
She first married Robert Piercy "Bob" Grieve, son of Patrick Turnbull Grieve & Mary Piercy, 23 Nov 1881 in Fredericton, York Co., NB By James Scott Mullin . Born 24 Dec 1857 in Parish Of Manners Sutton, NB. Died 28 Sep 1907 in Stockton Springs, ME. Buried in Harvey Settlement Cemetery. Occupation Railway Section Foreman.
Witnesses to marriage were Thomas R. Rutherford and Jane Robinson.
Robert and Isabelle lived in Harvey until 1905 when they bought the Cape Jellison House, a hotel at Stockton Springs, Maine. In Harvey, Robert and son Oscar worked for the CPR, while Allan, the eldest son was a dispatcher for the Boston & Maine Railroad in Bangor, Maine. Son Everett was very musical, he was a pupil of Annie Smith, a well known teacher in Harvey, and later became quite famous as a musician and composer in Maine.
Robert suffered a serious injury from which he did not recover. Sons Allan died after an illness of three days, and Wallace, age 17 years, died of tuberculosis of the lungs--three deaths in the family within a short period of time.
They had the following children:
126 i. Allan Lewis Grieve
127 ii. Oscar Marshall Grieve
128 iii. Wallace McGregor Grieve
129 iv. Gilbert Grieve
130 v. Robert "Everett" Grieve
131 vi. Frank Grieve
132 vii. Kenneth Joseph Alexander Grieve
133 viii. Margaret Luella Grieve
She second married Rupert M. "Jack" Dorr, 9 Jun 1910 in Searsport, ME. Born in Frukee, CA. Died 1918 in ME.
