Andrew Joseph Robinson was born on 15 April 1856 in Cradock, the eighth child of Philip and Martha. He must have been about 14 when the family moved to Newton, Kimberley.

He married Sarah Frederika Vercuil in about 1877 and they had, so far as we know, only one child*; Philip Joseph Robinson. Andrew was a milkman when at only 27 years old on 25 September 1883, he died. Unfortunately standard South African death notices do not list a cause of death so at this time we can only speculate; there was a smallpox outbreak in late 1883 but no indication that I can find that this reached beyond the community of Basuto labourers working the De Beers mines.

Sarah remarried less than three years after Andrew’s death in June 1886. Her new spouse was Johan George Conradie, but once again Sarah would outlive her husband when Johan himself died in 1906.

Sarah died in 1945 on 22 May. She died with the name Sarah Cahill having married James Henry Cahill in 1907 and being widowed for a third time in 1911 (see this post). James Cahill was reported to have died at church.
Sarah was buried in the West End Cemetery, Kimberley; Block D row I, grave nr 1 – there is no stone. She left no will or estate.

*there is only one child listed on Andrew’s death notice but that is not to say there was not another child or two that did not survive infancy.**

**Update: I have now discovered a second child – Magdalena Catherina – born in 1880. Presumably she died before 1883 but I haven’t found that record yet.