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Arthur Robinson
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Arthur Robinson was born 12th July 1891. His parents were Alfred, born 1863 at Olney, a shoe laster, and Elizabeth, born 1865 in Rushden. The family lived at 49 Harborough Road, and the children, Alfred, Lizzie, Sidney, Arthur and Edward went to South End School. From the infant department Arthur went up to the junior school on 2nd May 1898, and stayed until 15th July 1904. In 1911, Arthur, now 20, was working as a boot operative and living at 49 Harborough Road, Rushden, with his father Alfred, aged 49, bootmaker, born Olney, mother Elizabeth, 48, and two of his brothers, Sidney, 26, bootmaker and Edward, 15, boot operative.
On August 14th 1917, when they were living at 13 Grove Street, Higham Ferrers, Arthur enlisted at Leicester in the Royal Naval Division. His training was on Victory IX, then as a Able Seaman he was transferred to Hood Battalion and served on Victory IV and again on Victory IX. He was discharged on 28th January 1919. Arthur and Ada moved to 20 Queen Street, Rushden, and Arthur worked at the CWS Boot Factory. They had three children, Olive born 26 Oct 1919, Owen born 1923, and Jean born 3rd January 1926. The family had moved to 39 Queen Street by 1939 and Arthur was working for Green & Coe. Olive worked in a box factory, and married Patrick J Bryan in 1948, and Jean married Donald G Smith in 1953. Owen Robinson was a factory worker, and he emigrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1950. He died in 1975 in Australia. |
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