Other Events:

• Occupation: Boatman, dock labourer, haulage driver

Notes:

Adopted by Joshua Robinson (qv, b 1864) and Jane nee Hampton. John's history and reminiscences form an 18-page chapter of Janet Rigby's book "Life on the Lancaster Canal" (Landy Publishing 2006). She writes: "His mother died five days after giving birth at the age of 23 and his father (unnamed), unable to bring him up on his own, asked Joshua Robinson and his wife Jane, who had no children, to look after him . . . They treated him like their own son."

John married Gertrude Fletcher in 1931 in Preston Register Office. Gertrude (daughter of Moses Fletcher and Catherine Walsh) was born on 28 Aug 1904 in Preston. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]