User:Maile66/Hawaii/Robinson

Robinson family (British-Hawaiian)

 * Template:Rp

John James Robinson (1799-1876) first generation in Hawaii
User:Maile66/Hawaii/Tales About Hawaii (Robinson)


 * NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH AUBREY ROBINSON of the Niihau bunch. Different family, Aubrey Robinson (Hawaii planter) was from New Zealand.


 * Born in London 1799
 * Arrived in Hawaii 1820
 * Carpenter on the whaling ship “Hermes.” In 1822, sailing from Honolulu for Japan the Hermes was wrecked on the reef of Holoikauaua (what is now referred to as Pearl and Hermes.)
 * The crew took refuge for months on a nearby small island.
 * Robinson and Robert Lawrence rebuilt the wrecked Hermes into the schooner Deliverance and saled to Oahu.
 * Kamehameha II and John Young (Hawaii) befriended them
 * They sold the schooner and had a career repairing royal schooners
 * 1827 Established their shipyard in Honolulu harbor at Pākākā, or “the Point,” on land obtained from Kalanimoku. They were later joined as a full partner by James Holt
 * 1830 the Shipyard Hotel opened with partners Robinson, Lawrence, Holt and Joseph Elliott.
 * Whalers became sizeable clientele for the ship building end of their business
 * 1868 Lawrence died
 * 1843, James Robinson married Rebecca Prever; they had eight children: Mark, Mary, Victoria, Bathsheba, Matilda, Annie, Lucy and John. (who was John?)
 * 1876 Robinson died
 * Son Mark Robinson was Liliuokalani's Minister of Foreign Affairs, founder of First National Bank of Hawai’i and First American Savings.
 * Son Mark Robinson was Liliuokalani's Minister of Foreign Affairs, founder of First National Bank of Hawai’i and First American Savings.

Charlotte C Robinson Von Hasslocher (March 3, 1834 – November 30, 1913)
Died in Bathsheba's house


 * Sister of Mrs. S. C. Allen
 * Daughter of James J. and Rebecca
 * Henry Hodges Parker officiated at the funeral
 * Henry Hodges Parker officiated at the funeral


 * 1876 Obituary of James Robinson mentions: "a widow and 10 children, two of whom, James J. Robinson of Kauai and Charlotte, now Mrs. Hasslocher of San Francisco, are by a former wife". The former wife's name is never mentioned. He makes financial provisions for both children and their heirs in his will.


 * 1852 married Richard Cody at Washington Place

Mary Robinson Foster (Foster Gardens) (September 21, 1844 – December 29, 1930)

 * Died in the home of her sister Victoria Ward

(September 21, 1844 – December 29, 1930)


 * Mary Elizabeth Mikahala Robinson Foster
 * WIR The World Contest/Missing articles/Oceania


 * Her husband Thomas R. Foster (1835–1889), along with his brother William, George Norton Wilcox, William B. Godfrey, and John Ena, created the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company in 1883. The service transported passengers and cargo between the islands until 1947.
 * Foster Botanical Garden was their homestead, bequeathed to the city of Honolulu upon her death.
 * Her husband Thomas R. Foster (1835–1889), along with his brother William, George Norton Wilcox, William B. Godfrey, and John Ena, created the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company in 1883. The service transported passengers and cargo between the islands until 1947.
 * Foster Botanical Garden was their homestead, bequeathed to the city of Honolulu upon her death.
 * Foster Botanical Garden was their homestead, bequeathed to the city of Honolulu upon her death.

Siblings (Dec 1891):
 * Charlotte C Robinson Von Hasslocher (1834–1913)
 * Victoria Robinson Ward (1846–1935)
 * Bathsheba Maria Kulamanu Robinson Allen (1849–1914)
 * Mark Prever Robinson (1852–1915)
 * Robert Lawrence Robinson (1853–1854)
 * Matilda E. Foster (or Martha A. Foster) husband W. E. Foster was in the House of Nobles from Oahu 1887-1888 after the Bayonet Constitution.
 * The undersigned, Lorrin A. Thurston and Cardline J. Robinson, Executors of the Will of J. N. Robinson, deceased, and Caroline J. Robinson, Mark P. Robinson, Mary E. Foster, Victoria Ward, Bathsheba M. Allen and Samuel C. Allen, her husband, Matilda Foster and W. E. Foster, her husband, Annie Jaeger and Albert Jaeger, her husband, Lucy McWayne and I Albert McWayne, her husband, and S. C. Allen and M. P. Robinson, Executors of the Will of James Robinson
 * The undersigned, Lorrin A. Thurston and Cardline J. Robinson, Executors of the Will of J. N. Robinson, deceased, and Caroline J. Robinson, Mark P. Robinson, Mary E. Foster, Victoria Ward, Bathsheba M. Allen and Samuel C. Allen, her husband, Matilda Foster and W. E. Foster, her husband, Annie Jaeger and Albert Jaeger, her husband, Lucy McWayne and I Albert McWayne, her husband, and S. C. Allen and M. P. Robinson, Executors of the Will of James Robinson


 * Here are the heirs in this version:
 * Mark P. Robinson
 * Caroline J. Robinson
 * Mary E. Foster (of Foster Gardens)
 * Victoria Ward
 * Bathsheba M. Allen
 * Annie Jaeger
 * Lucy McWayne
 * Charlotte von Hasslocher
 * Rebecca Houghtailing
 * Martha A. Foster of San Francisco (all others in Honolulu)
 * Martha A. Foster of San Francisco (all others in Honolulu)

The first schooner Mary E. Foster
 * pp=187-216
 * pp=187-216


 * Newspapers.com 1891 search



The second schooner Mary E. Foster


 * Mary E. Foster four-mast schooner


 * S. C. Allen ordered this built
 * S. C. Allen ordered this built


 * Mary E. Foster


 * Mary Elizabeth Mikahala Robinson Foster (September 21, 1844 – December 19, 1930) donated Foster Botanical Garden and Buddhist enthusiast
 * Parents shipbuilder James Robinson and Rebecca Prevar Robinson (daughter of Chiefess Kamakana and foreigner M. Peavar)
 * Sister of Victoria Ward and Bathsheba Allen



Victoria Ward (June 1, 1846 – April 11, 1935)

 * Victoria Ward (Hawaii)
 * Sister-in-law of Samuel Clesson Allen (Hawaii)
 * Ward Centers







Bathsheba Maria Kulamanu Robinson Allen (February 11, 1849 – February 11, 1914)

 * (February 11, 1849 – February 11, 1914)






 * Allen's estate re inheritance taxes
 * Allen's estate re inheritance taxes

Mark Prevar Robinson (July 4, 1852 – April 2, 1915)
Mark P. Robinson

Annie Robinson Jaeger (May 12, 1815 – November 29, 1921)
Died in her own home on King Street

She married Albert Jaeger in 1878, a German immigrant. Their children were:
 * Henry → married Nellie Fox
 * James Emil → married Elsie M. Robertson
 * Iwalani Amelia → married T. Edgar Robinson from England
 * Samuel Allen → first wife Lillian Fisk, also married Mae


 * Annie Robinson Jaeger
 * survived by 4 sisters, Mary E. Foster, Matilda E. Foster, Victoria Ward and Lucy McWayne

a German immigrant who was appointed Hawaii's commissioner of the Bureau of Forestry. He became a manager at Allen & Robinson Lumber Company.

His uncle Hermann A. Widemann was Minister of Finance under both Kalākaua's Cabinet Ministers and Liliʻuokalani's Cabinet Ministers. Together, Jaeger and Widemann ran an amateur planting operation on Kauai. A biology hobbyist, Jaeger planted numerous trees on Mount Tantalus, and amassed a large collection of rare plants. Upon his death, the government was given the collection to re-plant on public lands.

Caroline Tauwati Robinson Holt (1815-June 4, 1891)



 * C.B. Taylor's Tales about Hawaii, the Fabulous Holts - Parts 1-24


 * C.B. Taylor's Tales about Hawaii, the Fabulous Holts - Parts 25-51


 * C.B. Taylor's Tales about Hawaii, the Fabulous Holts - Parts 52-79


 * C.B. Taylor's Tales about Hawaii, the Fabulous Holts - Parts 80-89

Married William Robert Holt.

"Wati was the stepdaughter of Mr. (John James) Robinson. She came into his family when Mr. Robertson married about 1825 for the first time.  Wati was then about 12 years old. She was Mrs. Robinson's child by a previous marriage, having been born in 1815, just five years before Mr. Robinson stopped in Honolulu. Wati became Mr. Robinson's child and took the name Robinson. Her mother had two children by Mr. Robinson.  They were James J. Robinson, born in 1826, and Charlotte C. Robinson born about 1828. The first Mrs. Robinson died shortly afterwards and Mr. Robinson then married Rebecca Prever in 1843 by whom he had a large family."


 * Caroline Tauwati Robinson (1815–1921) of Tahitian-Hawaiian ancestry, she was the step-daughter of John James Robinson, from his first wife's previous marriage. She married Robert William Holt, her step-father's business manager, and related through marriage to Liliʻuokalani's husband John Owen Dominis.;


 * James J. Robinson (1826-1896) lived at north Kona. His wife's name was Kekapa.;


 * Charlotte Robinson (1828? -1913) married Richard Coady at Washington Place in 1852. After his death, she married Dr. E. Von Hasslocher.;

Lucy Hannah Robinson McWayne (October 1858 – 1943)
Lucy McWayne died in the home of Bathsheba Allen


 * Lucy Hannah Robinson McWayne (1858–1943)
 * Last surviving sibling. Sole beneficiary of the estates of Bathsheba Allen, James Robinson, and Mary E. Foster




 * 1899 Lucy's husband died, she and her four children (Robinson, Charles, Clarence, and Kulumanu Beatrice) moved in with S. C. and Bathsheba Allen
 * 1899 Lucy's husband died, she and her four children (Robinson, Charles, Clarence, and Kulumanu Beatrice) moved in with S. C. and Bathsheba Allen




 * Lucy was converted to Christian Science by John Tamatoa Baker
 * Upon her 1943 death, the estates of Bathsheba Allen, Mary E. Foster and her father James Robinson was liquidated
 * Upon her 1943 death, the estates of Bathsheba Allen, Mary E. Foster and her father James Robinson was liquidated

Mary Kapuahualani Robinson
Do you want to add more to the existing article stub? KAVEBEAR (talk) 22:32, 1 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I didn't know we had a stub, but I'll have a look at it. I've needed a vacation from all things Hawaii, you and I did so much for the project, that I eventually felt over-saturated in my poor brain cells.  Since I already have this info and referencing here, I'll see what I can come up with on that stub.  Thanks for mentioning. — Maile  (talk) 22:40, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * User:Ezlev created it a couple of days ago and it popped up on my watch page. KAVEBEAR (talk) 22:42, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Looks like you have more stuff here too User:Maile66/Hawaii/Robinson (Mary K.).KAVEBEAR (talk) 00:51, 2 June 2021 (UTC)


 * And probably even more somewhere else I've forgotten about. I think at one point I was fascinated by this family and trying  to connect all the dots to the individuals. — Maile  (talk) 01:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)






 * p 563, 564 (image) ,566
 * Born May 4, 1896, at Honolulu. Daughter of Edmund H. and Annie K. Hart Mark Alexander Robinson at Honolulu, February 5, 1945. She is a graduate of St. Andrew's Priory. With more than a quarter century devoted to public affairs, Mrs. Robinson was affiliated with the Federal Government for seven years, County Government for three years and was with the Territorial Government for twenty-one years. In addition to being owner and managing director of Hawaiian Tour & Travel Service. Mrs. Robinson serves as Treasurer of Hawaiian Cruises, Ltd., and chairman of the Tourist Business, Ltd. (A-Place-To-Stay). She is also a board member of the Maunalani Hospital & Convalescent Nursing Home. She was elected Senator on the Republican ticket in 1950 and served in the Territorial Legislature during the 1951 and 1953 sessions. Mrs. Robinson is a life member of the Hawaiian Civic Club, Kindergarten & Children's Aid Association and of the Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital. She is a member of the Outrigger Canoe Club (associate member), Chamber of Commerce, Bishop Museum Association, Nuuanu Y.M.C.A.. American Society of Travel Agents, Inc., National Federation of Republican Women, Hawaii Residents' Association (IMUA), Outdoor Circle and Daughters of Hawaii.


 * In 1945, Mark Alexander Robinson wed Mary Kapuahualani Hart (1896–1978). He had no children with her. She was subsequently elected to the Hawaii Territorial Senate, and founded Robinson Travel, Inc.