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The life of Hannah Mitchell Robinson
Biography
Hannah Mitchell was born at Athlone, County Roscommon, in central Ireland, around 1820. She married Arthur John Robinson in Ireland; the marriage transcription gives December 30, 1846 at St Peter’s, Athlone.
Her life ended in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia, where she died at Buchanan Street, West End, on May 13, 1904, aged 84. Her daughter Elizabeth Cumming supplied the information for the death register. It names Hannah’s father as Andrew Mitchell and gives her mother’s surname as Seymour.
The register records three surviving daughters: Margaret, aged 49; Elizabeth, 45; and Hannah, 39. It also records one son and two daughters who had already died. Hannah was reported to have spent 45 years in Queensland, placing her arrival approximately around 1859.
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Children with Arthur John Robinson
A life in dates
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- Estimated Migration
Hannah’s 1904 death register reports 45 years in Queensland, suggesting arrival around 1859.
Queensland
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Birth and marriage — Athlone, St Peter's parish.
Athlone, St Peter's parish, County Westmeath, Éire / Ireland
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Family records
- Arthur John Robinson death-index and marriage-transcription
- DNA consolidated biography and timeline evidence and decisions
- Hannah Mitchell Robinson death1904
- Thomas Charles Good / Margaret Ann Robinson1869