Historical information

ROBINA MARSHALL was born on 30 November 1833 (Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom as the first child of Andrew MARSHALL and Barbara GROAT).She had one sibling,,who died on 19 December 1919 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

In 1854, left Liverpool on the Stamboul on 18 May and arrived Melbourne on the 21st of August at the age of 20. She went to Bendigo to help her sister Lillian (possibly Gibson).

While in Bendigo she met and married Charles Fox on 13 September 1855 in Sandhurst, Bendigo. and they had two children Charles and Edward.

Charles FOX was born in 1857 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (Ballarat East).He died on 10 April 1862.
Edward FOX was born on 20 January 1862 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (Ballarat West).

When Edward was 4 years of age when husband Charles died. She then moved to Ballarat and at the age of 31, she married John Smith WATSON,son of William WATSON and Agnes Nance SMITH, on 30 November 1864.

John Smith WATSON and Robina MARSHALL had the following children:
1. William Andrew WATSON was born on 19 June 1865.
2. Barbara WATSON was born in 1871.She died about 1873.
3. Robina (Ruby) WATSON was born on 27 December 1866 in Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia.She died on 08 September 1903 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
4. Adam Arthur WATSON was born on 19 June 1874 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.He died on 12 July 1954.
5. Alexander WATSON was born about 1877 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
6. George WATSON was born in 1880.

Robina died in 1919 aged 86 years.

Physical description

Portraits of Robina taken at different time