"Harry" Henry ROBINSON
Born 1902 at Lurgan in County Armagh, Ulster, Ireland [15] [71] [555]
Son of tailor Henry ROBINSON and Ellen WHITE [15] [555]
In 1911 he was living with his parents and siblings at Lurgan in County Armagh, Ulster, Ireland [71]
He was one of at least six children with an elder brother Thomas and younger siblings James, Miriam, Sarah, and Margaret [71]
Tailor in Carnamah, Western Australia 1928-1931 [6] [19] [50]
He worked as an Assistant Tailor for Alfred E. NIND at his tailoring business at 27 Macpherson Street in Carnamah [P15]
Played the cornet at the wedding dance for Charles and Winifred ROBERTSON on 27 March 1928 at the Carnamah Hall [4: 31-Mar-1928]
He and local butcher Tommy TWADDLE left Carnamah in mid June 1928 to spend a holiday in the south-west of WA [4: 23-Jun-1928]
Played the cornet at the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held at the Carnamah Hall during July 1928 [4: 14-Jul-1928]
Played the cornet or flute at the Carnamah Football Club's dance at the local hall Saturday 25 August 1928 [4: 1-Sep-1928]
Attended the Show Ball following the Three Springs Agricultural Society's First Annual Show on 20 September 1928 [4: 29-Sep-1928]
One of the four people who supplied the music for the Carnamah Show Dance on Thursday 4 October 1928 [4: 20-Oct-1928]
Supplier of music at the Carnamah Tennis Club's Dance held at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 20 October 1928 [4: 27-Oct-1928]
Supplier of music at the Oddfellows Social held in Carnamah during October 1928 [4: 27-Oct-1928]
Supplier of music at the Anglican Church Ball held at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 1 December 1928 [4: 8-Dec-1928]
He was among those who attended the Centenary Ball held at the Carnamah Hall on 26 July 1929 [86: 3-Aug-1929]
The ball was to celebrate 100 years since the founding of Perth and the establishment of the Swan River Colony [86]
Pallbearer at the funeral of ten year old Norman Reginald WYLIE at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 August 1929 [4]
Played the cornet at the Carnamah Race Club's Presentation Ball at the Carnamah Town Hall in March 1929 [4: 6-Apr-1929]
Played the cornet at the Carnamah Cricket Club's Dance held at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 2 April 1929 [4: 27-Apr-1929]
On 11 May 1929 attended the surprise party tendered to Mrs Ida CROSSING, during which he played the cornet [4: 25-May-1929]
Played the cornet at the Carnamah Football Club's Ball held in the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 18 May 1929 [4: 25-May-1929]
Played the cornet at the Plain and Fancy Dress Ball at the Carnamah Hall on Thursday 8 August 1929 [4: 17-Aug-1929]
Played the cornet at the Grand Ball following the Carnamah Show and opening of Centenary Park on 19 September 1929 [4: 28-Sep-1929]
Played the cornet at the Carnamah Anglican Church's Freak Ball at the Carnamah Hall on Thursday 3 October 1929 [4: 12-Oct-1929]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1929-30 and 1930-31 [4: 19-Oct-1929, 11-Oct-1930]
Saw in the new year of 1930 with the singing of Auld Lang Syne at the Church of England's Dance at the Carnamah Hall [86: 4-Jan-1930]
Attended the Carnamah Football Club's Smoke Social held in the lounge of the Carnamah Hotel on 9 September 1930 [4: 13-Sep-1930]
He appears to have shifted from Carnamah to Meekatharra with his employer Alfred E. NIND in May 1931 [4: 30-May-1931]
As he had done in Carnamah, he contributed music to local dances in Meekatharra with his cornet [563: 19-Dec-1931]
Tailor in Meekatharra, Western Australia 1935-1939 [563: 4-Jan-1935] [50]
In late 1934 he purchased the tailoring business of his employer Alfred E. NIND in Meekatharra [563: 4-Jan-1935]
Advertised his business with the line "Style, Fit and Workmanship Guaranteed" [564: 4-Jan-1935]
During his time in Meekatharra he resided at the Meekatharra Hotel [50]
Married Rita Winifred Mongan SULLIVAN nee TROY in 1949 in the Perth suburb of Leederville [15]
His wife's first husband, Maurice SULLIVAN, had died in 1943 after being electrocuted by an electric shaver [15] [30: item 4571037]
He and his wife resided for many years at her home at 92 Loftus Street in the Perth suburb of Leederville [30: item 4571037] [50]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Subiaco [2]
Died 31 July 1980; ashes interred at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia (EC Section, Garden 26, 192) [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Henry Robinson' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 20 June 2026 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/henry-robinson [reference list] |
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