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HARRIS, ROBINSON, WHITE, SIEVER, SHIELDS, GRANT of Middlesex, Lancashire, Devon, Texas and Kansas

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HARRIS, ROBINSON, WHITE, SIEVER, SHIELDS, GRANT of Middlesex, Lancashire, Devon, Texas and Kansas

Tanya Kloesel (View posts)
Posted: 9 Aug 2004 6:19PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: HARRIS, ROBINSON, WHITE, SIEVER, SHIELDS, GRANT
I am looking for information on the ROBINSON family of Chelsea, Middlesex and Wandsworth District, London; the WHITE family of Lancaster, Lancashire, England and Galveston; the SHIELDS family of Galveston, and the SIEVER family of Galveston, Texas and Kansas. Specifically, I am trying to learn something more about the following individuals:

Francis "Frank" ROBINSON who was born around 1853 in Chelsea. He married Mary HARRIS bet. April - June 1874 in the Wandsworth District, London. They had a daughter by the name of Mary Elizabeth who was born August 10, 1875 in Devonshire - possibly Chudleigh, where Mary's family was.

Mary HARRIS ROBINSON immigrated to the U.S. about 5 years later with her little girl, but it doesn't look like Francis ROBINSON was with them. At any rate, Mary HARRIS ROBINSON married a man by the name of James WHITE on July 10, 1884 in Galveston, TX. They had a child by the name of Lillie, b. May 27, 1885, also in Galveston. (James WHITE was b. abt. 1853 in Lankster, England. He died in 1899 in Galveston, Texas.)

Mary HARRIS ROBINSON WHITE died on February 6, 1886 there on the island. Her daughter, Mary Elizabeth ROBINSON married a man by the name of Daniel SHIELDS in Galveston on September 26, 1894 and they had one known daughter by the name of Mackie Eloise SHIELDS. Mackie SHIELDS married Gaston GRANT in Galveston on February 18, 1916.

Lillie WHITE married Dr. Charles M. SIEVER in Galveston on December 25, 1903. They had five children, three boys (James aka "Jimmie" and I am not sure of the names of the two other boys), and two girls (Lillian and Galvesta). One of the SIEVER boys died
around 1966. In 1968, one of the two remaining boys was working as a doctor in San Antonio and the other boy was a preacher somewhere around the Topeka, Kansas area. In 1968 the youngest of the two girls - and I'm not sure which was which - lived around the Kansas City area and the other girl was married and working as a nurse in Indianapolis.

Dr. Charles M. SIEVER died around 1954 and Lillie WHITE SIEVER died in May of 1976 in Manhattan, Riley, Kansas.

If anyone has any information about any of the individuals named above, please get in touch. Any help is appreciated.

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