John Darling Robbins

Johnson Darling Robbins


John Robins family
John Robbins, wife Harriet LaRose, daughters Mary and Leota

Individual Facts

  • Name: John Darling Robbins
  • Sex: Male
  • Also known as: "Grandpa Robbins"
  • Birth: 10 Mar 1865, Townsend Twp, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada
  • Death: 27 Dec 1946, North Tonawanda, Niagara, New York, USA
  • Burial: 31 Dec 1946

Townsend Twp, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada

At John Darling Robbins’s birth on 10 Mar 1865 in Townsend Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, life was mostly rural and farm-based. Families in that part of Ontario often lived on scattered farms or in small hamlets, and daily life centered on seasonal work, livestock, crops, church, and family labor.

It was also a time of change and uncertainty. Canada had not yet become a confederated nation; that would come in 1867. In 1865, people in Ontario still lived in a British colony often called Canada West a few years earlier. Roads were rough, travel was slow, and most people depended on horses, wagons, and local markets.

Homes were modest, heating came from wood, and water had to be carried by hand. News from the American Civil War, which ended in 1865, would have been widely discussed because Norfolk County was close enough to the U.S. border for cross-border trade and awareness of events there.

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Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada
Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada

Shared Facts

  • Marriage: (Harriet Eliza LaRose) 26 Jun 1887, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada
  • Marriage: (Caroline J Dean) 26 Feb 1935, Niagara, New York, USA

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