Ancestors

Richard Robins

Richard Robins was a gentleman of Long Buckby in Northamptonshire. The parish clerk wrote his name as Robbens, Robens, Robenns and Robins. "Gent", short for gentleman, marked a man of standing who did not work with his hands.

His children were baptised at Long Buckby over twelve years. Continue came in 1598, Richard on 10 December 1599, Obedience on 26 April 1601, John on 25 September 1602, Edward on 26 August 1604, Sarah on 1 September 1606 and Thomas on 3 April 1608. Each entry reads the same way: "Obedience s Richard Robbens & ux", the son of Richard Robbens and his wife. Ux is short for the Latin uxor, wife.

The first entry to give his wife a name is a daughter's, in 1610: "Dorithy d Richard Robenns & Dorithy his wyfe." No other marriage of his is in the register, so Dorothy was most probably the mother of all his children.

Two of his sons went to Virginia and settled on the Eastern Shore, the peninsula across Chesapeake Bay from the mainland, in the county then called Accomack. Obedience became the leading man there. He sat as burgess for Accomack in 1629-30, 1639 and 1642, and in 1642 he had the county renamed Northampton, after the county he was born in. Edward was a merchant in Accomack and died there in July 1641. His son Richard stayed in Northamptonshire.

He was buried at Long Buckby on 19 May 1634, entered as "Richard Robins Gent". His widow outlived him by nearly seven years. She was buried there on 20 February 1640/1, entered as "Dorothe Robins wife sometime of Richard Robins Gent."

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Cite: Heirology, "Richard Robins (d. 1634)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/richard-robins-1634-bc56be.