Ref. M6
Our interest in this name arises from the marriage of Michael Turner, butcher, to Mary Robinson at Leeds St Peter’s 13.2.1817, after banns. (For the Turner family see Ref. M5). Mary consistently said she was born at Burton Salmon which is part of Monk Fryston, Yorkshire and at the 1871 Census (April 2nd) she said she was 68, the same age as on her death certificate when she died 6.1.1872. If both these ages are true Mary Robinson would have been born in the first quarter of 1793. We came across two baptisms at the nearest larger town, Pontefract, both for families resident at “Knottingley”, which we believe would be how the clergy there would refer to the area around Mary’s birthplace. One was 4.4.1793 for a daughter of John Robinson and the other 19.1.1794 for a daughter of William Robinson. Confident that the birth would have been at least a week or two before the baptism, we think the first one fits pretty well the “reasonable hypothesis” approach that we adopt to late 18C research.
August 2019
Young Family History 