Townshend, Martha Robinson, "Pattie"
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Robinson, Franklin A., Jr., 1959- (actor)
label: Collection Creator
content: Quinn, Terry (photographer)
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content: Robinson and Via Family Papers
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content: Robinson and Via Family Papers / Series 2: Robinson Family
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1896-1961
label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0475, Subseries 2.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subseries contains material and ephemera of Martha Perry Robinson Townshend (1880-1961), known as "Pattie".  She was the daughter of Robert H. and Amanda Baden Robinson.  She married Harry Naylor Townshend in October 1906.  The couple moved to Leigh Castle farm, Marston, Carroll County, Maryland in 1908. After Harry's death in 1955, Pattie sold Leigh Castle and moved to Clinton, Prince George's County, Maryland to live with her daughter Margaret Naylor Ward, wife of Frank E. Ward.  It contains personal and business papers, including correspondence, postcards and a postcard album, newspaper wedding accounts, confirmation memorial, Holy Matrimony book, three scrapbooks (circa 1895-circa 1955), a farm account book for Leigh Castle farm (1954-1955), and her funeral ephemera including floral cards and funeral register. This series also contains material originating with her daughter, Margaret (1908-1997).