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- Almost immediately after Thomas and Amelia married on 18 March, 1829, the young couple set off for the Wesleyan Methodist mission station at Butterworth beyond the Kei River to join the Rev. John William SHEPSTONE. After a brief valedictory service held in the chapel at Butterworth, Rev. SHEPSTONE and his wife and the ROBINSONs set out on the 5th of May, 1829, for Dapa’s country to found the Morley mission station. Within a month of the new station being started, Thomas George ROBINSON was killed by the fall of a tree when he was engaged in cutting it down to obtain timber for the Morley Mission. The young widow returned to Salem and afterwards she remarried.
Husband No 1. THOMAS GEORGE ROBINSON married AMELIA TALBOT on 18 March 1829
From: Ellen Stanton, Installment #5, Microfilm #1886513, Matrimonial Court Minutes and Special Marriage Licenses: 1821 - 1884, Albany/Grahamstown, Cape, South Africa, Item 7, (m/d/y), numbering is that of transcribers as none on microfilm. Entry #205: Husband: Thomas Charles (properly George) ROBINSON, 23, Protestant, England, Wife: Amelia TALBOT, 19, Protestant, England, Father, John TALBOT, gives consent, Date: 3/18/1829 (18 March 1829).
Husband No 2. JOHN PASKIN married (WIDOW) AMELIA ROBINSON (TALBOT) on 9th Nov 1830
[Installment #6, Microfilm #1886513, Matrimonial Court Minutes and Special Marriage Licenses: 1821 - 1884, Albany/Grahamstown, Cape, South Africa, Item 7]: Entry #251: Husband: John PARKINS (should be PASKIN), 27, Protestant, England, Wife: Amelia ROBINSON, 20, Protestant, England, Widow, Date: 11/9/1830.
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