Herbert Healey Robinson
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Herbert Healey Robinson was born in 1886 at Thorney Cambridgeshire and was the son of William a groom gardener and later labourer in an iron foundry and Elizabeth Robinson, (née Pearson). William was born in 1855 at Swayfield Lincolnshire, Elizabeth Pearson in 1856 at Stamford Lincolnshire. Married at Stamford in 1880, the following children - Emma Elizabeth b.1881 Stamford, William Henry b.1883 Stamford, Edith Maud b.1885 Stamford, Herbert Healey b.1886 Thorney, Cambridgeshire, May Nellie Healey b.1889 Ellim Cambridgeshire, Harry Charles Healey b.1891 Lenton, George Frederick b.1896 Lenton and Sidney Pearson b.1898 Beeston. The family moved to Nottingham around 1891, lived in Lenton and by the time of the 1901 census were living at Dallas York Street in Beeston. In 1911, William, Elizabeth and Sidney lived at 26, March Street, Nottingham. Emma Elizabeth and her four children Frederick Eaton, Stanley Hector Byrne, Gertrude and Robert family lived at 4, Meadow View, Beeston. Herbert married Katherine Knight at Nottingham in 1913.
Herbert Healey Robinson landed in France on 4th November 1914. He died at the Nottinghamshire County War Hospital and is buried in Nottingham General Hospital.
Nottingham Evening Post 4th April 1919: ROBINSON. – Died at Radcliffe military hospital, April 2nd, [1919] after 4½ years' service, Pte. H. Robinson, 1st Sherwoods, the beloved husband of Kate Robinson. Military funeral Tuesday, 12 noon.” Obituary courtesy of Jim Grundy and his facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918. Sidney Robinson attested on 25th August 1916 at Nottingham and died of wounds 18th April 1918.