Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameJohn Robb 3rd 
BirthJan 1846, Maine
Census1870, Baring, Washington Co, ME
Memoroll#562/3, pg 8
Census5 Jun 1880, Baileyville, Washington Co, ME
Memoroll#489, pg 6
Census16 Jun 1900, Baileyville, Washington Co, ME
Memoroll# 601, pg 6
Census15 Apr 1910, Baileyville, Washington Co, ME
Memoroll#574, pg 1
Census15 Jan 1920, Baileyville, Washington Co, ME
Memoroll#649, pg 7
Death1923, Washington Co, ME
OccupationFarmer, Lumberman
FatherJohn Robb 2nd (1816-1860)
MotherAnastasia A. Burke (1818->1880)
Misc. Notes
Listed in 1880 as age 35, unmarried, a farmer born in Maine, parents from Ireland. With him is his mother Anastatia age 56 born in Ireland and parents from Ireland.
Listed in 1900 census as age 50, with four daughters and no wife. Birth records show they had a son, born 25 July 1893, who died that day.
Listed as widowed (64, ME) in Baileyville in 1910, with daus Nellie and Mary.
By 1920, he was remarried to Maggie Hickey of Calais and is listed as a farmer (64, ME) with wife Katie (48, ME) and adjacent to the family of his daughter Catherine & son-in-law Edwin Robb.
“Apparently John had become a successful farmer and lumberman. Maggie was quite extravagant and demanding. John spent the last few months of his life with Edwin and Catherine at the old farm. He died in 1923. After Maggie claimed her one third share of his estate there was very little left for the four girls.”
Listed in 1900 census as age 50, with four daughters and no wife. Birth records show they had a son, born 25 July 1893, who died that day.
Listed as widowed (64, ME) in Baileyville in 1910, with daus Nellie and Mary.
By 1920, he was remarried to Maggie Hickey of Calais and is listed as a farmer (64, ME) with wife Katie (48, ME) and adjacent to the family of his daughter Catherine & son-in-law Edwin Robb.
“Apparently John had become a successful farmer and lumberman. Maggie was quite extravagant and demanding. John spent the last few months of his life with Edwin and Catherine at the old farm. He died in 1923. After Maggie claimed her one third share of his estate there was very little left for the four girls.”
Spouses
Misc. Notes
Daughter of John and Penelope Porter. She was a very fine person and so admired Catherine (Cassie) Flood, grandmother Dawson-Flood's daughter, that she became a devout Catholic before she died.
Died young, leaving four little girls.
Died young, leaving four little girls.
Marriage1883, Maine
ChildrenJosephine M. “Josie” (1883-1974)
Catherine Susan "Katie" (1887-1949)
Nellie G. (1889-1983)
Mary Jane (1892-1972)
Birth1868, Robbinston, Washington Co, ME
Misc. Notes
Daughter of Martin and Cristina/Caroline Tucker, and age 2 in the 1870 census.
She was married to William E. Hickey and widowed prior to her marriage with John, and is listed both as Catherine Tucker and Catherine Hickey in the records.
She is listed in 1920 as Katie, married to John Robb, and referred to as Maggie Hickey in a family history.
“She was quite extravagant and demanding. John spent the last few months of his life with (son) Edwin and Catherine at the old farm. He died in 1923. After she claimed her one third share of his estate there was very little left for the four (orphaned) girls.”
In 1930 she is listed as Catherine Robb (61, ME) a dishwasher in a hotel and widowed.
She is then listed in 1940 as Kate Robb (70, ME), living with her brother Martin Tucker Jr. in Robbinston, ME.
She was married to William E. Hickey and widowed prior to her marriage with John, and is listed both as Catherine Tucker and Catherine Hickey in the records.
She is listed in 1920 as Katie, married to John Robb, and referred to as Maggie Hickey in a family history.
“She was quite extravagant and demanding. John spent the last few months of his life with (son) Edwin and Catherine at the old farm. He died in 1923. After she claimed her one third share of his estate there was very little left for the four (orphaned) girls.”
In 1930 she is listed as Catherine Robb (61, ME) a dishwasher in a hotel and widowed.
She is then listed in 1940 as Kate Robb (70, ME), living with her brother Martin Tucker Jr. in Robbinston, ME.
Marriage21 Dec 1918, Calais, Washington Co, ME