aft 1930 when Marie Victoria “Mary” was 20, she married John Frederick “Jack” ROBBINS. Born in Aug 1901 in Newfoundland, Canada. John Frederick “Jack” died in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA, on 24 Sep 1976; he was 75. Buried in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.
From a descendant:
- Worked as a maintenance employee for a railroad company.
- 1930 census Cambridge MA - was a lodger with Charles Edward Andrew and his wife Mary J - not yet married to Ed’s niece Mary Compton. Listed as John Robbins, single, age 28, male, white, can read and write, born in Canada (English) as were both his parents, immigrated to USA in 1920, naturalization AL, inspector, steam railway, not a veteran
- I think you have the right John Robbins. He was born in NFLD, Canada. He worked for the railroad in the Boston area. I think it was called the B&M Railroad...short for Boston and Maine Railroad. I'm not sure what kind of work he did there. I don't think he was an inspector, although there are all kinds of inspectors. He might have been involved in basic maintenance, cleaning the railroad cars out, something along those lines. His education I believe was rather limited.
- My Grandfather and Nana [Jack and Mary Robbins] both lived in Belmont for as long as [I] could recall. My father [George] and Uncle [Billy] went to school there. My grandfather died of a heart attack. My Nana rrecounted the day several times to me. she said that day he hadn't been feeling well and told her that he knew he was going to die. He told her to come hold his hand. She stayed by his side and it was only a few minutes later that he did pass, at their Belmont apartment.
- From his citizenship papers John Robbins was born in 1901, sorry no month or day. His death was on September 24th,1976, this was from his death certificate. It does however give me how many days and months his death occurred. So I did my math and his birth month and day might have been August 4th, 1901.( If everything is correct) My Grandfather's name was John Fredrick Robbins, not Jack. For some reason people sometimes would call him Jack.As I was saying before the information I have even though it's death certificates/citizenship papers/license etc. has his middle name different each time and dates mixed up.
- I believe my grandfather passed away at his Belmont Massachusetts apartment. He died of a heart attack.He and my grandmother are buried in Belmont. I'll dig through more of the paper work.My grandfather's family came from Europe and I have records all the way back to the 14th century.