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Hi Ruskie,

After searching through papers, I have the marriage certificate for John Robinson, Farmer, Helpringham and Rebecca Day, 19th May 1847, although her father's name and profession has a black line of ink in, it doesn't say her father was deceased.  Residence is listed as New Sleaford. 

Census
1841, Rebecca Day, resident, New Sleaford, birthplace Lincolnshire
Married 1847
1851, Rebecca Robinson resident, Helpringham, birthplace Boston, Lincs
1871, Rebecca Robinson, resident Surfleet, birthplace Boston, Lincs
1881, Rebecca Robinson, resident, Surfleet, birthplace, Wildmore Fen, Lincolnshire
1891, Rebecca Robinson, resident, East Retford, birthplace, Boston

The 1881 census helped with the name Wildmore Fen, can only hope this is the place.  After looking online about the history of the area of Wildmore Fen, it was a newly drained fen creating new village(s), it looks as if a church was set up in 1816, the year of Rebecca's birth 1814.  Although I am slightly clucthing at straws, have found the lincstothepast.com website really helpful, although still no sign of Rebecca Day, although still unsure if I am heading in the right direction.  Will keep on searching :-)

Really good to stumble upon Robinson family members on here, thank you both for sharing the connection

OK, here goes,  if it's the same Thomas Robinson at Helpringham, could be my Great x 4 Grandfather (I missed 1 x great from the first count!)

Thomas Robinson b 1776 Helpringham, Innkeeper,
-son John Robinson b 1813, married Rebecca Day in 1847 at Sleaford
- daughter Fanny Robinson b 1848 married William Goodliffe in 1873
- daughter Rebecca Ann Goodliffe b 1876, East Retford, my great grandmother.

More recently when I can have been trying to sift through records on lincstothepast.org, to look for details about Rebecca Day's family, still searching for a baptism record.  On one of the censuses Rebecca Day's birth place is described as Boston (looked no record of Baptism), then Wildmore Fen or Bolingbroke in Lincolnshire.  Will keep searching, and will be back on this wonderful forum.