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1 SOUR PAF
2 NAME Personal Ancestral File
2 VERS 5.2.18.0
2 CORP The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
3 ADDR 50 East North Temple Street
4 CONT Salt Lake City, UT 84150
4 CONT USA
1 DEST PAF
1 DATE 3 Jan 2005
2 TIME 09:17:26
1 FILE robinson.ged
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2 FORM LINEAGE-LINKED
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1 LANG English
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1 NAME Gerald Caswell
1 ADDR 62 Seymour Street
2 CONT North Shields
2 CONT Tyne and Wear
1 EMAIL geraldcaswell@hotmail.com
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1 NAME Martha /Marr/
2 SURN Marr
2 GIVN Martha
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 Dec 1892
2 PLAC Quarrington Hill, Durham, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 Jan 1989
2 PLAC Kelloe  
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1 FAMS @F110@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 09:18:21
0 @I220@ INDI
1 NAME John Chew /Robinson/
2 SURN Robinson
2 GIVN John Chew
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1892
2 PLAC Darlston, Staffordshire, England.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 Oct 1970
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1 NOTE By David Stevens
2 CONT John Chew Robinson, DCM MM, achieved a rare distinction in The Great War – he survived. The a
2 CONC verage life of an infantry soldier serving on the Western Front was measured in weeks. John R
2 CONC obinson, although he was wounded, served almost continuously from September 1915 until the ce
2 CONC ssation of hostilities.
2 CONT John Chew (Chew being his mother’s maiden name) was a front-line soldier, a man who faced dea
2 CONC th daily and whose personal courage was formerly recognised on two separate occasions for whi
2 CONC ch he won two of his country’s highest awards for gallantry. He was also mentioned in dispatc
2 CONC hes and would have won the supreme honour – the Victoria Cross – had the officer who had prop
2 CONC osed to recommend it not been killed.
2 CONT John Robinson was born on June 23rd, 1892 at 4, Factory Street, Darlaston, Staffordshire th
2 CONC e third of eight children born to Arthur and Harriet Robinson. John’s father, a screw forge
2 CONC r by profession, moved his family to Hartlepool County Durham in 1896 and it was in the north
2 CONC -east that young John grew up and went to school.
2 CONT John’s father was a harsh man who frequently beat him until, eventually, John ran away from h
2 CONC ome. He joined some fairground people in the Trimdon area and moved with them to Spennymoor w
2 CONC here he was befriended by a Mr. Bland, the local cobbler, who took the runaway boy into his h
2 CONC ome. His father searched for him and finally tracked him down, demanding that his son retur
2 CONC n home. Mindful of the treatment young John had experienced, Mr. Bland refused to hand him ov
2 CONC er and threatened to go to the police with the details of Arthur Robinson’s cruelty to his so
2 CONC n.
2 CONT On leaving school John found work as a miner at East Hetton Colliery. Coal, along with stee
2 CONC l and ship building were the region’s principal sources of employment. During his working lif
2 CONC e John would work at two other collieries in the Durham coalfields – Wheatley Hill and Thornl
2 CONC ey. He was still a miner when, on April 11th, 1914 he married a twenty-one year old local gir
2 CONC l, Martha Marr at Quarrington Hill, County Durham. The young couple set up home and prepare
2 CONC d for their life together blissfully ignorant of the storm clouds gathering over Europe.
2 CONT A month after war broke out the 14th (Service) battalion of the Durham Light Infantry was for
2 CONC med at Newcastle. Within weeks John Robinson travelled to the city to join them. The battalio
2 CONC n began training and on the 11th of September, 1915 it landed at Boulogne as part of 18th Bri
2 CONC gade, 6th Division.
2 CONT The battalion saw action in the Ypres sector before being ordered to the Somme where they arr
2 CONC ived on August 11, 1916. They took part in the attack on The Quadrilateral on September 18t
2 CONC h and stormed their objectives. They moved around the sector taking up positions at Lesboeufs
2 CONC , Méaulte, Ville-sur-Ancre and Trônes Wood. They attacked the trench system known as Rainbo
2 CONC w and Shine trenches, taking them under heavy bombardment, C Company taking Rainbow and B Com
2 CONC pany (including John Robinson) successfully assaulting Shine. 
2 CONT It was on the Somme that John won his Military Medal. He was by then a Sergeant and the awar
2 CONC d was listed in the London Gazette dated October 27th, 1916. 
2 CONT Later in the war he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. By that time he was an actin
2 CONC g Company Sergeant-Major. The citation reads: For conspicuous gallantry in action. He led hi
2 CONC s company under heavy fire, displaying great courage and determination. Later he led a patro
2 CONC l and obtained most valuable information. He set a splendid example throughout.
2 CONT On February 1st, 1918 the 14th (Service) battalion, Durham Light Infantry was disbanded in Fr
2 CONC ance. John Robinson transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers becoming a Regimental Sergean
2 CONC t-Major. He was still serving with them in April 1920.
2 CONT On demobilisation he returned home to resume his career as a miner. During his war service h
2 CONC e had received severe leg wounds caused by shrapnel, a piece of which he kept as a souvenir
2 CONC . He was still receiving treatment for his wound in the early months of the Second World War
2 CONC . Two of John’s younger brothers also served in The Great War, Joseph (with the Durham Ligh
2 CONC t Infantry) and Arthur, a stoker in the Royal Navy. Arthur died aged twenty-one on November 7
2 CONC th, 1918 – just four days before the armistice.
2 CONT During the Second World War John served for a time with the Home Guard based at Coxhoe Hall w
2 CONC hich became a POW camp for Italian prisoners. Later, he became a Prison Officer spending par
2 CONC t of his service at Durham Prison.
2 CONT During his lifetime John was able to witness at first hand history in the making. He did so a
2 CONC t Ypres and on the Somme. He was to do so again at the end of the Second World War when the P
2 CONC rison Service sent him to London. On the night of December 18th, 1945 John sat in the condemn
2 CONC ed cell at Wandsworth Prison with John Amery who was facing the death penalty for treason. H
2 CONC e had pleaded guilty to eight counts of high treason. The following morning, December 19th, A
2 CONC mery was hanged. 
2 CONT On January 3rd 1946, John was once again involved with a hanging. He was one of the escort le
2 CONC ading William Joyce to the gallows. Joyce, better known as Lord Haw Haw, was a former membe
2 CONC r of the British Union of Fascists who defected to Germany at the outbreak of the Second Worl
2 CONC d War. He spent those years broadcasting Nazi propaganda in English to radio listeners in Bri
2 CONC tain. I well remember hearing his sneering drawl opening each broadcast with the words – "Ger
2 CONC many calling…Germany calling". During his time at Wandsworth Prison John Robinson met Alber
2 CONC t Pierrpoint, who was for many years Britain’s official executioner and sent both Amery and J
2 CONC oyce to their deaths.
2 CONT Soon after these events John Robinson left the Prison Service and returned to the north-eas
2 CONC t and to mining. He was once again back in the industry where he had started his working lif
2 CONC e over forty years earlier. He remained a miner until his retirement.
2 CONT John devoted his final years to his two great passions – his family and gardening. He took gr
2 CONC eat pride in his allotment, built his own greenhouse and grew prize vegetables, specialisin
2 CONC g in cultivating leeks which he grew for show. John died from Coronary thrombosis on Octobe
2 CONC r 14th, 1970 at home, 2 School Avenue in the village of Kelloe in his beloved County Durham.
2 CONT John Robinson was typical of a breed of men now so rare as to be virtually extinct. Men fro
2 CONC m humble backgrounds who took responsibility for their lives and for the lives of those who d
2 CONC epended on them. Men who worked tirelessly at physically demanding and often dangerous occupa
2 CONC tions and who came forward in their thousands when danger threatened their homeland. Men wh
2 CONC o went unquestioningly over the top to almost certain death time after time.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 09:14:08
0 @I265@ INDI
1 NAME Elsie /Robinson/
2 SURN Robinson
2 GIVN Elsie
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 Sep 1934
2 PLAC 15 Burnett Cres, Kelloe,Durham, England.
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1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 14:01:53
0 @I1921@ INDI
1 NAME James E /Turton/
2 SURN Turton
2 GIVN James E
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 Apr 1933
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 Aug 1962
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1 FAMS @F640@
1 NOTE Turton, James Edward, 17 Aug 1962, aged 29, Buried: St. Helen's Parish Church/Cemetery, Kello
2 CONC e <../cemetery/k01.htm>
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 14:02:32
0 @I1922@ INDI
1 NAME George /Turton/
2 SURN Turton
2 GIVN George
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 Sep 1942
1 _UID 7AB02637B51DFF49A9E84ABA80862244A229
1 FAMS @F641@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 14:07:04
0 @I1923@ INDI
1 NAME Harold /Nicol/
2 SURN Nicol
2 GIVN Harold
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 Feb 1928
2 PLAC Kelloe,Durham, England.
1 _UID DA8CDEDA94E80F4BAED40D428D5F363A21F6
1 FAMS @F642@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 14:14:28
0 @I1930@ INDI
1 NAME Jack /Robinson/ (Adopted)
2 SURN Robinson
2 GIVN Jack
2 NSFX (Adopted)
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 Apr 1921
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 Aug 1992
2 PLAC Spennymoor, Durham, England.
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1 FAMS @F643@
1 FAMC @F110@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 09:32:55
0 @I1931@ INDI
1 NAME Jean /Lockett/
2 SURN Lockett
2 GIVN Jean
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 Dec 1928
1 _UID A57105E60EB2864E9009BC1C0092B39AE594
1 FAMS @F643@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 09:35:22
0 @I1932@ INDI
1 NAME Dorothy /Robinson/
2 SURN Robinson
2 GIVN Dorothy
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 Jun 1952
1 _UID 502B3C2F6B3158498242DA44F30799C55D76
1 FAMS @F644@
1 FAMC @F643@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 09:52:34
0 @I1933@ INDI
1 NAME Christina /Robinson/
2 SURN Robinson
2 GIVN Christina
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 Aug 1955
1 _UID EDE8EC3EA0384D439C7FA98969124B42BC69
1 FAMS @F645@
1 FAMC @F643@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 09:53:04
0 @I1934@ INDI
1 NAME Malcolm /Green/
2 SURN Green
2 GIVN Malcolm
1 SEX M
1 _UID EA0F76ACE0E5EA46BC3676CE03A1F6A28243
1 FAMS @F644@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 09:53:46
0 @I1935@ INDI
1 NAME Stephen /Robinson/
2 SURN Robinson
2 GIVN Stephen
1 SEX M
1 _UID ADF5E78A75474E419BB53F5ED1C650144612
1 FAMS @F645@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 09:54:20
0 @I1936@ INDI
1 NAME James Edward /Turton/
2 SURN Turton
2 GIVN James Edward
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 Jun 1956
1 _UID F331CEAE4B957A429D9EFF3AC313C9BD0C14
1 FAMC @F640@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 14:04:56
0 @I1937@ INDI
1 NAME John Robinson /Turton/
2 SURN Turton
2 GIVN John Robinson
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 Nov 1954
1 _UID B81F74A5FFE1F34BBC957F121FF8DFD4BA07
1 FAMC @F640@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 14:04:25
0 @I1938@ INDI
1 NAME Dorothy /Turton/
2 SURN Turton
2 GIVN Dorothy
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 Apr 1967
1 _UID DCA5D02116336B4DBE3C70D20EB1ACD5EF5A
1 FAMC @F641@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Dec 2004
3 TIME 14:06:38
0 @I1994@ INDI
1 NAME Arthur /Robinson/
2 SURN Robinson
2 GIVN Arthur
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1862
2 PLAC Darlston, Staffordshire, England.
1 _UID 16FA0516A9469040972EA1C52C19040E6CE2
1 FAMS @F661@
1 FAMC @F662@
1 OCCU Blacksmith
1 CHAN
2 DATE 31 Dec 2004
3 TIME 11:47:18
0 @I1995@ INDI
1 NAME Harriet /Chew/
2 SURN Chew
2 GIVN Harriet
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1868
2 PLAC Broughhill, Staffordshire, England
1 _UID 540C093BE5ABE74ABBC23BED5571CBE78273
1 FAMS @F661@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 11:00:13
0 @I1996@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph Best /Robinson/
2 SURN Robinson
2 GIVN Joseph Best
2 _AKA John
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1816
1 _UID 3A88C080569C424C902B07DD82CC75432755
1 FAMS @F662@
1 FAMC @F663@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 31 Dec 2004
3 TIME 14:31:50
0 @I1997@ INDI
1 NAME Maria //
2 GIVN Maria
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1795
2 PLAC Darlston, Staffordshire, England.
1 _UID 2A98C7431687E549848C4FDE18D6DE53F33E
1 FAMS @F663@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 31 Dec 2004
3 TIME 12:48:39
0 @I1998@ INDI
1 NAME Eliza //
2 GIVN Eliza
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1830
1 _UID 028D3BE5EA9CDE489E4E2794841FF88C29E7
1 FAMS @F662@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 31 Dec 2004
3 TIME 14:29:07
0 @I1999@ INDI
1 NAME John T /Robinson/
2 SURN Robinson
2 GIVN John T
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1859
2 PLAC Darlston, Staffordshire, England.
1 _UID E1B35D9A88512641AFE594112EDB01889670
1 FAMC @F662@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 31 Dec 2004
3 TIME 12:45:57
0 @I2000@ INDI
1 NAME George /Robinson/
2 SURN Robinson
2 GIVN George
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1861
2 PLAC Darlston, Staffordshire, England.
1 _UID EA279B75E7F4954093B1ABCE720FA27122D7
1 FAMC @F662@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 31 Dec 2004
3 TIME 12:46:20
0 @I2001@ INDI
1 NAME Eliza A /Robinson/
2 SURN Robinson
2 GIVN Eliza A
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1867
2 PLAC Darlston, Staffordshire, England.
1 _UID 48E425DDE16CCF4F90606C494CC3CA5A71A4
1 FAMC @F662@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 31 Dec 2004
3 TIME 12:47:16
0 @I2002@ INDI
1 NAME Florence /Robinson/
2 SURN Robinson
2 GIVN Florence
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1869
2 PLAC Darlston, Staffordshire, England.
1 _UID 635FA9E3EEF61B45A43AC7B6AA7545479881
1 FAMC @F662@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 31 Dec 2004
3 TIME 12:47:40
0 @I2003@ INDI
1 NAME Rachel /Robinson/
2 SURN Robinson
2 GIVN Rachel
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1850
2 PLAC Darlston, Staffordshire, England.
1 _UID C2D103DEC88A0940B84359233DA83211AE72
1 FAMC @F662@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 31 Dec 2004
3 TIME 12:50:00
0 @F110@ FAM
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1 HUSB @I220@
1 WIFE @I207@
1 CHIL @I1930@
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1 MARR
2 DATE 1914
2 PLAC Durham Central Registry Area.
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1 HUSB @I1921@
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1 CHIL @I1937@
1 CHIL @I1936@
1 MARR
2 DATE 26 Jun 1954
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1 CHIL @I1938@
1 MARR
2 DATE 19 Dec 1964
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1 MARR
2 DATE 18 Apr 1987
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