May have been an artist.

Sometime after 1900 Hugh’s parents and family moved to Dunolly where his father, Hugh, died in 1902. It is likely that the family lived in his grandparent’s home and shop on the corner of Moliagul-Dunolly and Monument Roads. The brick shop, no longer operating, and weatherboard home still exist today (2013) (Section E, Lots 1 & 2).

Hugh, his mother, brother and sister were still living in Moliagul in 1919. The 1919 Commonwealth Electoral Roll noted Hugh’s occupation as: “labourer” and residence: Moliagul. No trace of Hugh has been found on the Electoral Roll of 1924 or later up until 1950 when a Hugh Robinson was recorded as living in Maribyrnong: an Electoral Roll addition for 27 October 1950 noted his occupation: artist and residence: Van Ness Ave, Maribyrnong. (Note: a newspaper article in 1940 noted Hugh’s mother, Elizabeth, as living in Maribyrnong). Hugh does not appear at this location on the 1954 Electoral Roll: he may be the “Thomas” Robinson recorded for Williamstown, occupation: mechanic, residence: Caravan Park, Esplanade, Williamstown.

At the time of Hugh’s death in 1979 he was noted as age: 84 years.

Acknowledgements:
• Rick Smith, Launceston Tasmania, Australia
• Joyce Tuohey, Quambatook, Victoria, Australia
• Billy Warburton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Leonie Ackley, Como, Perth, Western Australia
• Jill Caldwell, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
• Richard (Dick) Deason, Moliagul, Victoria, Australia
• Arthur Deason, Moliagul, Victoria, Australia
• Jonathan Deason, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
• Alan Robinson, Victoria, Australia
• Valda Cole, Victoria, Australia

References:
Births, baptisms, marriages, deaths & burials (Aust):
• Genealogical Society of Victoria, 2003, Goldfields Hospital Admissions 1860-1920, extract 6 April 2006, Robinson for Castlemaine Hospital (ref – D_Doc_#091)
• Digger, 2005, Death Index Victoria 1921-1985, extract for Deason (ref – D_Doc_#104)
• Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Vic), 2001, Historical Index (1855-1920), extract for Deason (ref – D_Doc_#106)
• B M Jackman, 2003, Bendigo Advertiser Personal Notices 1881-1895, Vol 2, p 106 (ref – D_Doc_#173)
• Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Vic), 1860, Marriage certificate, Hugh Robinson & Louisa Julia Rennison (ref – D_Doc_#235)
• Suzanne Lindy Deason, 2008, Moliagul Cemetery Trust Register – As at 5th August 2008 (ref – D_Doc_#252)
• The Age, 26 July 1983, Death Notices, Redvers John Robinson (ref – D_Doc_#381)
• Digger, 2005, Marriage Index Victoria 1921-1942
• Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne, 1983, Index & details for Redvers John Tombe Robinson & 1985, Lillian Beatrice Robinson
Family trees & history:
• Billy Warburton, 1969, Deason Family Tree (ref – D_Doc_#014 & #015)
• probably Venus Free (nee Deason), c1967, Deason Family Tree (ref – D_Doc_#016)
• Venus Free (nee Deason), c1940, Deason Family Tree (ref – D_Doc_#017)
• Rick Smith, 2005, Deason Family Tree, (ref – D_Doc_#136)
• John Edward Deason, 1938, Correspondence, to George Wilfred Deason (ref – D_Doc_#190)
• Alan Robinson, 2008, Correspondence
Other information:
• Catherine McAndrew, 1921, Correspondence, transcribed, Jill Caldwell, 2006 (ref – D_Doc_#041)
• Department of Lands and Survey (Vic), 2005, Moliagul survey map, from www.land.vic.gov.au (ref – D_Doc_#059)
• Genealogical Society of Victoria, 2003, Goldfields Hospital Admissions 1860-1920, extract 6 April 2006, Robinson for Castlemaine Hospital (ref – D_Doc_#091)
• Pat O’Neill, 1940, Gold – Two Hundredweight of it, published in Woman, 14 October 1940, p 13 (ref – D_Doc_#180)
• Pat O’Neil, 1940, Gold – By The Hundredweight, published in Picture News, pp 34 & 35 (ref – D_Doc_#185)
• Genealogical Society of Victoria, 2008, Ballarat Admissions Register 1856-1913, extract 13 August 2008 for Hugh Robinson (ref – D_Doc_#243, #1)
• Genealogical Society of Victoria, 2008, Melbourne General Hospital Ward books 1856, extract 13 August 2008 for Hugh Robinson (ref – D_Doc_#243, #2)
• Government Gazette (Vic), 20 January 1879, p1561, 20 January 1881, p 233, 14 August 1885, p 2320 (ref-D_Doc_#243)
• Author unknown, 1869, Largest Nugget in the World, The Welcome Stranger, published in Dunolly & Betbetshire Express, 12 February, 1869 (ref – D_Doc_#269)
• Commonwealth Electoral Office, 1903, 1919, 1924, 1931, Electoral Rolls for Dunolly, Vic, 1931, Malvern East, Vic, 1936, Avoca, Vic, 1924, Melbourne West, Vic, 1931, Melbourne North & Melbourne West, Vic, 1936, Melbourne West, Vic, 1937, 1943, & 1949, Melbourne, Vic, 1949, Footscray West, Vic, 1954, West Coburg & Williamstown, Vic (ref- D_Doc_#336)
• Author unknown, 1932, Obituary – Mr Henry Jenkins Deason, Moliagul, published in Dunolly & Betbetshire Express, late June 1932, (ref – D_Doc_#357)
• Valda Cole, 1975, Western Port Pioneers and Preachers, pp 44 & 45
Valda Cole, 2011, Correspondence