Descendants of Johan Robin

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Descendants of Johan Robin



This tree, added in 2016, was based on a tree produced by J A Messervy in 1906 to accompany a Robin family history published the following year in the Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise. It was reviewed by Mike Bisson in 2019. A further extensive review was carried out by Guy Dixon in 2022, and at the end of the year Mike Bisson added details of the descendants of Philip Vavasor Robin (gen 12) who emigrated to Canada in about 1850, received from Robin descendants now living in the USA

The 256-ton barque Homely, one of the vessels owned and operated by Charles Robin and Company, painted by Philip Ouless, probably at Paspebiac on the Gaspe coast where the barque was built in 1841

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  • 1 Johan Robin (1440- ) (St P)
    • 2 Johan Robin (1470- ) m Jenette Langlois (liv 1582), daughter of Johan, of Hamptonne (St L)
      • 3 Raoulin Robin (1500-1567+) m Thomasse Pipon, (liv 1557) daughter of Jehannet (St P)
        • 4 Guillaume Robin (1525-liv 1578) m Unknown de St Pierre (1530?- ) daughter of Raulin (St P)
          • 5 Jean Robin (1552-1626)
        • 4 Guillemette Robin [1] m Servais Le Sebirel (St P)
      • 3 Raoulin Robin (1510-1575) m Marie Fondan, daughter of Richard
        • 4 Jean Robin (1540-1582) [2] m Philippine Messervy, daughter of Johan and Mabel Dumaresq, daughter of Richard
          • 5 Raulin Robin ( -1649) [3] m 2 (1639, St P) Catherine Le Febvre ( -1671); 1 Marie Pipon, daughter of Nicolas and Marie de Caen
            • 6 Gedeon Robin ( -1640) m (1637, St P) Judith de Carteret ( -1647) daughter of Pierre [4] and Judith Dumaresq
              • 7 Raoulin Robin (1640-1693) (St P) [5] m 1 (1666, St P) Marie Bailhache ( -1675) daughter of Jean and widow of Nicolas Bailhache, son of Nicolas
                • 8 Raoulin Robin (1668-1731) (St P) [6] m 1 (1689, St P) Marguerite Lempriere ( -1698) daughter of Thomas
                  • 9 Raoulin Robin (1690-1748) (St P) [7] m (1715) [8] Esther Lempriere (1696-1775) daughter of Josue
                    • 10 Marie Robin (1716-1784) (St P) [9] m (1735) m Jean Dumaresq [10]
                    • 10 Thomas Robin (1721-1725) (St J)
                  • 9 Marguerite Robin (1693- ) (St P) m Jean Le Gallais ( -1733)
                • 2nd wife of Raoulin Robin [11], Marie de Carteret ( -1785) daughter of Charles and Marie de Carteret
                  • 9 Charles Robin (1698- ) (St P) [12] m [13] Marie Le Brun, daughter and heiress of Jean, son of Daniel (St P)
                  • 9 George Robin (1702-1749) [14] m Elizabeth Cole ( -1757)
                  • 9 Philippe Robin (1703-1754) (St P) [15] m (1737, St B) Anne Dauvergne ( -1750) daughter of Jean (St Aubin)
                    • 10 Philippe Robin (1738-1821) (St B) [16] m (1764, St B) Anne Pipon ( -1807) daughter of James [17] and Elizabeth Dumaresq
                      • 11 Philippe Robin (1770-1841) (St B) [18] m 2 Madeleine Lehmann (bigamously); 1 (1811, Percé) Marthe Arbour
                      • 11 Jean Robin (1773-1855) [20] m 1 (1802, St H) Anne Clement Hemery, daughter of Clement; 2 (1811, Cheshire) Mary King, daughter of the Rev Bryan, of Birkenhead
                        • 12 Bryan John Robin (1813-1904)
                        • 12 Philippe Raoulin Robin (1814-1897) [21] m 1 (1841) [22] Louisa Mary Robin ( -1844) daughter of James; 2 (1855) [23] Catherine Frances Edwards, daughter of John, of Halifax (Yorkshire)
                          • 13 Percival Carteret Robin (1856- ) m (1882) [24] Fanny Margaret Pollock ( -1904) daughter of James [25]
                            • 14 Bryan Percival Robin (1887- )
                            • 14 Philip James Robin (1888- )
                            • 14 Grace Fanny Robin (1884- )
                            • 14 Monica Robin (1885- )
                            • 14 Elfrida Margared Robin (1890- )
                          • 13 Leonard Philip Robin (1862- )
                          • 13 Emily Frances Robin (1857- ) m (1906) Thomas Henry Marston
                          • 13 Constance Ellen Robin (1858- ) m (1892) Arthur Houghton
                          • 13 Mary Sibyl Ann Robin (1876- )
                        • 12 Charles Robin (1817-1867)
                        • 12 John Robin (1819-1902)
                        • 12 James Robin (1822-1822)
                        • 12 Ellen Robin (1816-1872)
                        • 12 Ann Margaret Robin (1828- )
                        • 12 Mary King Robin (1824-1846) m Charles James Cummings ( -1873)
                        • 12 Magdalen Robin (1830-1861) m William Gray ( -1895)
                      • 11 James Robin (1774-1864) (St B) [26] m 1 (1813, St H) Marie Gosset ( -1825) daughter of Matthieu
                        • 12 Charles William Robin (1816-1879) (St L) m (1846, St S) Elizabeth Janvrin, daughter and heiress of Jean Louis
                          • 13 Charles Janvrin Robin (1848- ) (St H) [27] m (1884, St Luke) Henrietta Magdalen Robin daughter of Thomas Smith Robin
                            • 14 Charles Harold Robin (1886-1917) [28] m Yvonne Lempriere, daughter of Reginald Raoul [29]
                              • 15 Raoul Charles Robin, later Lempriere-Robin (1914- ) [30] m (1955) Sheelagh Caroline Maturin-Baird (one daughter)
                            • 14 Guy Janvrin Robin (1889-1980) [31] m 1 (1915, St P) Dorothy Millicent Hargreaves, daughter of Alfred (Devon); 2 (1930, St S) Mary Stewart (1899-1989) daughter of Sir George Powell
                            • 14 Ethel Winifred Robin [34]
                            • 14 Enid Marguerite Robin [35]
                          • 13 Philippe Robin (1849- ) [36]
                          • 13 James Robin (1850- ) died an infant
                          • 13 Snowden Robin (1851- ) [37]
                        • 12 Raoulin Robin (1824- ) m (1848) [38] Mary Louisa Maingay ( -1877) daughter of Charles
                          • 13 Ellen Mary Robin (1858- )
                        • 12 Anne Robin (1814-1850) m (1835) Richard Snowdon Smith
                        • 12 Louisa Mary Robin (1817-1844) m (1841) Philip Raulin Robin
                        • 12 Emily Jane Robin (1820-1855) (St H) m (1841) Matthew O'Brien ( -1897)
                        • 12 Emily Robin, died an infant
                        • 12 Marie Anne Robin (1823-1905)
                        • 12 Margaret Anne Robin (1822-1897) (St H)
                      • 2nd wife of James Robin (1826, St H) Jeanne Hammond ( -1874), daughter of Jacques Lempriere Hammond [39]
                        • 12 James Hammond Robin (1827-1890) (St S) [40] m (1851, St S) Julia daughter of Major Nixon
                          • 13 Arthur Hammond Robin (1852-1889) (St S) [41]
                        • 12 Philippe Vavasor Robin (1829-1898) (St S) m (1852, Toronto) Elena Caroline Phillips
                          • 13 Philip Ernest Robin (1854-1879) (Quebec) m (1874) Kate Hogan
                            • 14 Philip Vavasor Robin (1875- )
                            • 14 Eleanor Mary Robin (1878- )
                          • 13 James Robin (1857-1857)
                          • 13 Arthur Vavasor Robin (1858-1858) (Quebec)
                          • 13 William Manley Robin (1860-1866) (Quebec)
                          • 13 Vavasor Robin (1862- ) (Quebec) m (1893, Ontario) Jane Caroline Reed (India)
                            • 14 Philip Theodor Robin (1894-1980) (Toronto) [42] m Marjorie Jordan (1895-1978) (Boston)
                              • 15 Charles Donald Robin (1920-2011) (Florida) m Elizabewth Ann Wilson
                              • 15 Jean Marjorie Robin (1918-2006) m Earl Mayan (1916-2009)
                            • 14 Frances Eleanor Robin (1904-2004) (Toronto) m Arthur Ahern
                          • 13 Charles Edward Robin (1866- ) (Charlottetown)
                          • 13 Claude Bethune Robin (1868- ) (Charlottetown) m (1899, Montreal) Naomi Molson
                          • 13 Philip Ernest Robin (1874- ) (Charlottetown)
                          • 13 Caroline Jane Robin (1853- ) (Quebec) m (1879, London) Charles Hamilton Sams
                        • 12 Jean Nicolas Robin (1833- ) (St S) [43]m (1857) Harriet Elizabeth Maingay, daughter of Charles (Gsy)
                          • 13 James Henry Robin (1860- ) m Giulietta Caroline Straub
                          • 13 Charles Maingay Robin (1861- ) [44] m Louisa Wray, daughter of Henry [45]
                          • 13 Frederick Alexander Garibaldi Robin (1862- )
                          • 13 Thomas Septimus Robin (1870- ) died an infant
                          • 13 John William Robin (1868- ) m Jeanie Haigh
                          • 13 Victoria Alexandrina Robin (1858- ) m Rev Thornton Sutton Shaw
                          • 13 Mary Dobrey Robin (1866- )
                          • 13 Harriet Octavia Robin (1871- )
                        • 12 Thomas Smith Robin (1835- ) [46] m (1860) Henrietta Eliza Penny daughter of Rev H E Penny [47]
                          • 13 Ellen Frances Robin (1864- ) died an infant
                          • 13 Henrietta Magdalen Robin m (1884) Charles Janvrin Robin (above)
                          • 13 Thomas Clement Robin (1871-1900)
                          • 13 James Maingay Robin (1863-1900)
                          • 13 Spencer Raoulin Robin (1866- ) [48]
                          • 13 Nicholas Edmund Robin (1863- ) [49] m Esther Isabel daughter of General MacLeod
                        • 12 Jane Elizabeth Robin (1828- ) (St S) m John Francis Maingay ( -1905) (Gsy)
                        • 12 Marie Magdeleine Robin (1832- ) (St S)
                      • 11 Anne Robin (1765-1836) (St B) m (1792) Rev David Durell
                      • 11 Elizabeth Robin (1771-1824) (St B)
                      • 11 Marie Robin (1772-1813) (St B) m (1796) Jean Durell
                      • 11 Madeleine Robin (1777-1810) (St B) m Isaac Gosset
                    • 10 Jean Robin (1740-1798) (St B) [50] m 1 (1772) Elizabeth Pipon ( -1787) daughter of Josue
                      • 11 Elizabeth Magdeleine Robin (1783-1795) (St B)
                    • 2nd wife of Jean Robin (1789) Elizabeth Poingdestre daughter of Jean (St S)
                      • 11 Robin Robin (1790- )
                      • 11 Anne Robin (1791- ) (St S)
                      • 11 Jeanne Robin (1792- ) (St S) m John Lane [51]
                    • 10 Charles Robin (1743-1824) (St B) [52]
                  • 9 Jean Robin ( -1788) [53] m (1728) Marie Le Couteur, daughter of Francois
                    • 10 Marie Robin (1732- ) (St P) m (1765) Philippe Le Vavasseur dit Durell, Dénonciateur
                    • 10 Elizabeth Robin (1735-1786) (St P)
                    • 10 Anne Robin (1737-1785) (St P) m (1779) Philippe Le Montais
                    • 10 Marie Robin (1729- ) (St P)
                  • 9 Marie Robin (1696-1775) (St P) m Philippe Anley ( -1754) [54]
                  • 9 Thomas Robin (1711-1781) (St P) [55] m (1750, St H) Anne Le Breton, daughter of Jean
                • 2nd wife of Raoulin Robin (1676, St S) Jeanne Anthoine ( -1680) daughter of Estienne
                  • 9 Gedeon Robin ( -1680)
                • 3rd wife of Raoulin Robin (1679, St P) Marguerite Pipon ( -1708) daughter of Jean and widow of Thomas Lempriere
                  • 9 Elizabeth Robin (1682- ) (St P m (1698) Francois Payn, son of Philippe [56]
                  • 9 Marie Robin (1684-1760) (St P) m Thomas Le Breton [57]
            • 6 Marie Robin (liv 1636) m Jean Le Brun (St P)
            • 6 Jeanne Robin ( -1654) m Philippe Fondan
            • 6 Collette Robin m (1626) Mathieu Le Petevin dit Le Roux
            • 6 Elizabeth Robin m (1637) Pierre Le Febvre
          • 5 Pierre Robin m (1605, St H) Charlotte Le Boutillier, daughter of Jean
            • 6 Daniel Robin (liv 1629)
          • 5 Daniel Robin
        • 4 Jacques Robin ( -1581)
        • 4 Catherine Robin (liv 1583) m Matthieu Falle
        • 4 Collette Robin (liv 1598) m Richard Le Court
        • 4 Francoise Robin (liv 1583) m Guillaume Hamon
        • 4 Janette Robin (liv 1575) m Nicolas Arthur
        • 4 Perronelle Robin (liv 1583) m Jean Vibert (St P)
    • 2 Bastian (Sebastian) Robin
      • 3 Jacquette Robin (liv 1550) m Jean Le Marchant

Notes and references

  1. ↑ RP 4/160; 4/273
  2. ↑ Procureur du Bien Public, St Peter, 1579
  3. ↑ Procureur du Bien Public, St Peter, 1614-1644, Centenier, 1618-1647
  4. ↑ Jurat
  5. ↑ Advocate, 1664; Centenier and Procureur du Bien Public, St Peter, 1661-1673, Constable (St P) 1673-1686; Registrar of Contracts, 1681, and Jurat, 1686-1693
  6. ↑ Seigneur d`Orville and du Prieur a St Pierre; Advocate, 1686, Constable St Peter, 1689, Jurat, 1700-1731 and Lieut-Bailiff
  7. ↑ Seigneur of the above fiefs
  8. ↑ Marriage record not found
  9. ↑ Dame of the above fiefs and heiress
  10. ↑ Jurat
  11. ↑ Marriage record not found. 1715 datestone at Ty Anna, St Aubin
  12. ↑ Baptism record not found
  13. ↑ Marriage record not found. There was no issue of this short marriage
  14. ↑ Seigneur of Avranches, inherited from his mother. Also, owner in 1737 of the George and Philip, which bore his name
  15. ↑ Master and co-owner, with his brother George, of George and Philip (1737), marking the start of his family`s long ship-owning career. After his marriage he became a chandler in St Aubin, assisted by his sister-in-laws, Dauvergne, whose father`s business this had probably been:Balleine`s History of Jersey; David Lee, The Robins in Gaspé, 1766 to 1825,
  16. ↑ Founder (1765) of Robin, Pipon and Company, of Cape Breton Island, Canada; merchants owning fisheries and ships. Lived in St Aubin, Constable of St Brelade, 1771-1774, Jurat, 1777-1821
  17. ↑ Seigneur of Noirmont
  18. ↑ Justice of the Peace, in Gaspe. A merchant in Gaspe for some years, as principal heir of his uncle, Charles Robin, before his health failed. He lived in various places, probably to help his respiratory condition, including Switzerland, where he died. The Rev J A Messervy`s genealogy of the Robin family, on which this tree is immediately based, does not mention Philippe Robin`s marriages: David Lee, The Robins in Gaspé, 1766 to 1825,
  19. ↑ A Robin manager, who founded, in 1830, his own company in Gaspé, which was to be highly successful
  20. ↑ Godson of Charles Robin. He became a broker in Lisbon, before founding in 1808, with a member of his wife`s family, Robin, King and Company, brokers, of Liverpool. He lived in Cheshire. He retired to Denbigh: David Lee, The Robins in Gaspé, 1766 to 1825
  21. ↑ Of Woodchurch Rectory, Birkenhead; Honorary Canon of Chester
  22. ↑ Marriage record not found
  23. ↑ Marriage record not found
  24. ↑ Of Woodchurch Rectory, Birkenhead. Marriage record not found
  25. ↑ Physician in Ordinary to Queen Victoria
  26. ↑ Bought Le Petit Menage, St S, St Saviour, in 1822; Seigneur of Grainville and Petit Rozel; Captain Militia. Merchant and major shipowner
  27. ↑ Of Steephill, St Saviour, Seigneur of Grainville and Petit Rosel. Barrister-at-Law
  28. ↑ Of Steephill; Lieutenant, Militia, then Captain, Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment. Killed in action, 1917
  29. ↑ Seigneur of Rozel; Vicomte of Jersey, Jurat
  30. ↑ OBE, Seigneur of Rosel; Brigadier, formerly of The Coldstream Guards. States Deputy
  31. ↑ Of Le Petit Menage, St S, St Saviour; Captain, Militia
  32. ↑ MC. Lieut-Colonel, Royal Inniskillen Fusiliers, latterly of Petit Menage, St Saviour
  33. ↑ Flight-Lieutenant, RAF, missing, believed killed in action over the Middle East: Memorial inscription, St Saviour
  34. ↑ Twin
  35. ↑ Twin
  36. ↑ Of Fantaisie, Lieut-Colonel, Militia
  37. ↑ Of Platte Rocque, La Rocque, Lieut-Colonel, Militia
  38. ↑ Merchant; senior partner in Charles Robin and Company at the time of the 1886 Jersey bank crashes. The Robin firm was unable to pay its staff or creditors, becoming insolvent. Raoulin Robin was ruined, as were other members of his family. Although the firm was taken over by J and E Collas of Pointe Saint-Pierre, Gaspé, and the name Charles Robin included in the new firm`s title, as Charles Robin, Collas and Company, it was a Collas venture. Marriage record not found
  39. ↑ Jeanne Hammond was the sister of Jean Hammond, Bailiff of Jersey
  40. ↑ Seigneur of Grainville
  41. ↑ Barrister-at-Law
  42. ↑ Emigrated to USA and died in Florida
  43. ↑ Settled in Naples; Agent of the Robin firm there
  44. ↑ Captain, Imperial Yeomanry, then Principal Agent, HM Customs, Jersey. Commodore, RCIYC
  45. ↑ General; Lieut-Governor of Jersey
  46. ↑ Captain 54th Regiment
  47. ↑ Master of Charterhouse
  48. ↑ Of La Rocque, Lieutenant Militia
  49. ↑ Major, Indian Army
  50. ↑ Master mariner
  51. ↑ Army lieutenant on half pay
  52. ↑ Jersey pioneer in Gaspé. Charles Robin assisted as a boy in his parents' chandlery shop in St Aubin. Chandlery stores were to become a major part of his later business model. He went to the Canadian coast in 1766, initially to work as an agent for his brother`s firm at Cape Breton Island. He adopted from the start, when dealing with indigenous, non-Jersey, fishermen, the `truck system of credit` used for generations by the Hudson Bay Company in its dealings with Indian fur trappers. This involved bringing in to remote areas, far from shops and banks, items such as clothing, sea boots and groceries, as well as general chandlery items. These were made available, not for cash, which was in short supply in these regions, but against the cost of the fish that would be caught by the men in the forthcoming season. The fishermen were likely to begin each season in debt to the company, working part of the summer merely to clear their accounts. This worked well for the merchants, who decided the cost of items in their stores, as well as valuing the fish caught, when presented to them for purchase. There were usually few competitors and nowhere else for the fishermen to shop. Charles Robin expanded the business northwards, towards Baie des Chaleurs, in Gaspé, establishing numerous fishing stations, or posts, as they were called in Canada, most of them with similar stores. In 1783 he founded his own firm, incorporating much of the territory in which he had previously set up posts, and employing, for the first time, a shipwright to construct and repair vessels. In 1800, he owned four vessels and in 1820, seven. In the following years the fleet doubled in size, despite the founder having died unmarried in 1824, as he had as successors two of his three nephews. In 1874, the fleet consisted of 29 vessels, operating from numerous posts and trading worldwide. The fleet reached the pinnacle of expansion in 1882, when 33 ships were owned. Early rivals, the Janvrins, had retired from the fisheries and ship owning in 1842, and later rivals, Philip Nicolle and Company, had largely withdrawn from Newfoundland, where their interests lay, in 1863. Charles Robin`s successors then took over, in 1879, Jersey`s Commercial Bank, thus following a time-honoured path from shipping to banking. The Robin firm survived the Jersey bank crashes of 1886 [see Abraham_de_Gruchy's_successors] by means of a merger with another Jersey firm, J and E Collas, and was trading well into the 20th century: David Lee The Robins in Gaspé, 1766-1825, Almanach du Constitutionnel (1820) and Almanach de la Nouvelle Chronique (1875)
  53. ↑ Master mariner
  54. ↑ Jurat
  55. ↑ Master mariner
  56. ↑ Of La Malletière
  57. ↑ Rector of St Mary and Dean
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