ROBINSON

(aka - Robbinson etc )

James Robbinson eldest, yeoman of Tideswell, 1669

Will dated 23/4/1667 mentions:

• To be buried in Tideswell churchyard
• Wife [Eyme] Robbinson (sole executor)
• Robt Bagshaw and Henry Baghaw of Wormhill owe him £20
• Witnesses: Ellis Mellor & John Blackwall

Will dated 16/12/1703 mentions:

• Son Anthony Robbinson (executor)
• Wife Anne Robbinson (executor)
• Son [....y] Robbinson (Page torn so the name cannot be read, but from the context it is a different son, not Anthony mentioned again)
• Daughter Grace, wife of George Higgett
• Elizabeth [.......] (A later insertion, too small to read surname. She is responsible for paying a debt of his son Anthony's)
• Grandson George Robbinson
• Brother Thomas Robbinson
• "all my nephews and nieces"
• The poor of Tideswell
• Brother George Robbinson (overseer)
• Witnesses: Alex Brassington & Joane Gregory

Will dated 24/4/1713 mentions:

• Nephews George Sickes & Richard Sickes
• Nephew William Darwent
• Nephew [Isanak Dakeing]
• Nephew Thomas Willson, and his children
• Nephews Daniel Frost (executor), William Jackson & William Wright (executor)
• Lives in a house in "Back Side" - left to William Wright
• Catherine Frost, Margaret Jackson, Mary Wright & Grace Willson (no relationship stated but looking at the surnames they must surely be either sisters, nieces or wives of nephews)
• Poor of Tideswell
• Nephew John Sickes
• Henry Robinson
• Nephew Anthony Robinson
• Niece Grace Wibersley
• Witnesses: Willom Worslow, Elizabeth Middleton & Jonathan Middleton

Will dated 1/5/1740 mentions:

• Wife Alice Robinson (executor)
• Gervas Hill (executor)
• Witnesses: Thomas Robinson Jun^r, Humphrey Timms & W^m Beech

Will dated 3/12/1742 mentions:

• Sons George Robinson & Anthony Robinson (executors)
• Witnesses: Thomas Fynney, Wm Beech & Emmet Roebottham

Will dated 6/10/1746 mentions:

• Daughter Martha Robinson (executor)
• House where Emmet Hudson lives
• Son & heir Samuel Robinson
• Sons Thomas & John Robinson
• Witnesses: John Goddard, John Staley & W^m Beech

Will dated 1/9/1765 mentions:

• Wife (un-named)
• Son William Robinson (executor)
• Son Samuel Robinson (executor)
• Son Robert Robinson
• Daughter Mary
• Witnesses: W Buxton & Joseph Thompson

Will dated 12/2/1779 mentions:

• Brother James Robinson, blacksmith of Tideswell (executor)
• Witnesses: Rob^t Howson, Anthony Robinson & [R... How]

Will dated 7/7/1782 mentions:

• Son Anthony Robinson, the Usher of Sheffield Free School (executor)
• Daughter Jane Skidmore
• Witnesses: Joseph Cook, Martha Ball & Hugh Ball

Will dated 7/7/1782 mentions:

• Son James
• Buildings called "The Two Smithys"
• Wife (un-named) (executor)
• Dauhter Sarah, wife of Joseph Frost
• Daughter Mary Ann
• Friend Thomas Bagshaw of Tideswell, currier (executor)
• Witnesses: W.H. Cheek of Tideswell, Hugh Hill & Rob^t Firth