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Aubrey Robinson was born in Canterbury, New Zealand, on October 17, 1853.His father was Charles Barrington Robinson and mother was Helen Sinclair. His grandmother, Elizabeth McHutchison (1800–1892), also spelled McHutcheson, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, married Francis Sinclair in 1824 and moved to New Zealand in 1840 with their six children.
The Robinson family has attracted controversy over the strict rules they have imposed on the island’s inhabitants, largely enforced by Bruce Robinson’s wife, Leiana Robinson. The rules include a ban on alcohol and cigarettes, being prohibited from talking about Ni’ihau to the media, a permanent ban from the island if a resident leaves for ...
Robinson and his brother Bruce own the approximately 70-square-mile (180 km 2) island of Niʻihau in the Hawaiian island chain, which has been in the private possession of their family since their great-great-grandmother Elizabeth McHutcheson Sinclair (1800–1892) purchased it from King Kamehameha V for US$10,000 in gold. [5]
Aylmer Francis Robinson was born May 6, 1888, at the Robinson family estate in Makaweli on the island of Kauaʻi during the Kingdom of Hawaii. His father was Aubrey Robinson (1853–1936) and mother was Alice Gay Robinson who was his father's cousin. This made him double great-grandson of family matriarch Elizabeth McHutchison Sinclair (1800 ...
Elizabeth McHutcheson Sinclair (26 April 1800 – 16 October 1892) was a Scottish homemaker, farmer, and plantation owner in New Zealand and Hawaii, best known as the matriarch of the Sinclair family that bought the Hawaiian island of Niʻihau in 1864.
Pākalā Camp consisted of employee and retiree housing for workers at the Gay & Robinson sugarcane plantation in the ahupuaʻa of Makaweli, the last remaining sugarcane plantation on Kauai. [3] The plantation was managed by the Robinson family of Kauai and Niihau, who first arrived in Hawaii in 1863.
Charles B. Robinson: Helen Sinclair: Jane Sinclair (d. 1916) Thomas Gay (d. 1865) James Sinclair (d. 1873) Francis Sinclair (d. 1916) [2] Isabella McHutcheson (d. 1900) Anne Sinclair (1839–1922) Valdemar Knudsen (1819–1898) Aubrey Robinson (1853–1936) Alice Gay: Francis Gay: Eric Alfred Knudsen (1872–1957) Aylmer Robinson (1888–1967 ...
Mary Elizabeth Mikahala Robinson Foster (September 20, 1844 – December 29, 1930) was a Hawaiian philanthropist and known as the first Hawaiian Buddhist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] On her death, she donated her substantial gardens to the city of Honolulu , and they later became the Foster Botanical Garden .