ROBINS OF LOSTWITHIEL
The 1704 marriage entry for Francis Wills and Elizabeth in the Lostwithiel parish registers does not give the bride’s surname. However, probate records allow her to be placed as a member of a Robins family. The will of William Clark of Tywardreath, dated 1713, mentions his kinsman John Robins of Lostwithiel along with John’s brother James Robins and their sister Elizabeth Wills.[1] The will of James Robins of Lostwithiel, written in 1749/50, mentions several nephews and nieces, including “my Neice Epiphany Briant”.[2] Epiphany was a daughter of Francis and Elizabeth Wills. She was baptised at Lostwithiel in 1705 and married Andrew Briant at Lanlivery in 1730.
The registers of Lostwithiel for the seventeenth century are incomplete but the bishop’s transcripts record the baptism in 1678 of James, the “sonne of Peter Robins by Loer His wife”. The children of James’s brother John Robins included both a Peter and a Lore. The latter name sometimes appears in the records as Laura or Leah.
John and James Robins are described as a joiner and a carpenter.[3] Peter Robins seems to have been engaged in similar work as in 1671/72 he received payment for “tymber worke about the Tower, Ladders and Clockhouse”.[4]
The exact connection of William Clark, the kinsman of Elizabeth (Robins) (Morfield) Wills, is uncertain. Prior to residing in Tywardreath, he lived in the parish of Lanteglos by Fowey.[5] A John Clarke and Joan Robyns were married in 1654 at Liskeard[6] where many other Robins individuals were recorded, including a William Robines, carpenter, in 1660.[7]
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ROBINS
PETER ROBINS of Lostwithiel, Cornwall, carpenter,[8] married LORE. She was buried on 7 March 1702/03 at Lostwithiel.[9]
Children of Peter and Lore
Robins:
i ELIZABETH ROBINS, bur 15 Dec
1744, Lostwithiel;[10] m(1) 1689, Lostwithiel, JOHN MORFIELD;[11]
m(2) 17 Apr 1704, Lostwithiel, FRANCIS WILLS[12]
(see here).
ii JOHN ROBINS of Lostwithiel, joiner,
bur 28 May 1745, Lostwithiel;[13] m
26 Aug 1695, Lostwithiel, MARGARET DANIEL.[14]
iii JAMES ROBINS of Lostwithiel,
carpenter, bap 8 Jul 1678, Lostwithiel,[15]
bur 9 Apr 1750, Lostwithiel;[16] m
16 Sep 1711, Lostwithiel, JOANNA GILL.[17]
[4] Kresen Kernow, BLOS/305; Report on Manuscripts in Various Collections, vol. 1 (London, 1901), 335.
[5] Kresen Kernow, AP/C/2722; Kresen Kernow, catalogue entry for R/2969. A “Willm Clerk Jun: of Bodinicke” in Lanteglos by Fowey was mentioned in the will of Charles Rendle in 1685 (Kresen Kernow, AP/R/1238).
[6] Cornwall Marriages (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[8] One Peter Robins was buried at Lostwithiel in 1680 or 1681 and another was buried there on 6 May 1709. They are not further identified in the entries. One may have been a son of Peter and Lore. There was an adult Peter Robins in Lostwithiel in 1707.
[9]
Lostwithiel parish
registers; Lostwithiel bishop’s
transcripts.
[10] Lostwithiel parish registers.
[11] Lostwithiel parish registers; Kresen Kernow, catalogue entry for WH/1/3687.
[12] Lostwithiel parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/C/2722, AP/R/2524.
[13] Lostwithiel parish registers.
[14] Lostwithiel parish registers; Cornwall Marriages (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[15] Lostwithiel bishop’s transcripts.
[16] Lostwithiel parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/R/2524.
[17] Lostwithiel parish registers.