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Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (November 8, 1853 – January 20, 1904) was a Quaker schoolteacher; the wife of the Reverend William Drew Robeson of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey and the mother of Paul Robeson and his siblings.
- Schoolteacher
- Bustill
- 6; including Paul Robeson
- Charles Hicks Bustill (father)
Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson. Paul Robeson’s mother, Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (1853–1904), a descendant of free Blacks. Maria married William Robeson in 1878. They had seven children, the youngest of whom was Paul Leroy Robeson, born in 1898. Maria was a former teacher of black children.
Paul Robeson was born in Princeton, N.J. to William D. Robeson, a Presbyterian, and schoolteacher Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson, a Quaker. In 1858, his father had escaped from enslavement in North Carolina via the Underground Railroad. Maria Bustill, who came from a long family line of Friends, died in a house fire during Paul’s early childhood.
Paul’s mother, Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson, was from a family of prominent, free, Black Quakers from Philadelphia. Her family worked for the abolition of slavery and promoted trade and business among other freed Blacks. Mrs. Robeson attended Lincoln University and worked for a time as a Quaker school teacher and tutor. She was 45 when Paul ...
Paul Robeson’s mother, Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (1853–1904), a descendant of free Blacks. Maria married William Robeson in 1878. They had seven children, the youngest of whom was Paul Leroy Robeson, born in 1898. Maria was a former teacher of black children. Nearly blind from cataracts, she died from burns received in a kitchen fire in ...
Paul Robeson's mother, Maria Louisa Bustill, died when he was six years old. The Bustill family is one of the oldest black families in America.
Maria Louisa Robeson formerly Bustill. Born 8 Nov 1853 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Ancestors. Daughter of Charles Hicks Bustill and Emily (Robinson) Murray. Sister of Gertrude Emily (Bustill) Mossell. Wife of William Drew Robeson I — married 1878 [location unknown] Descendants.
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