Charles Robin

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Charles Robin was a businessman from the Isle of Jersey. He was born in Saint Brélade, Jersey in 1743. By 1763, he was the captain of a ship working in the Newfoundland cod trade. In 1765, with his two brothers and two others, they formed a firm which developed fishing grounds off Cape Breton Island and the Gaspé region. The company sold dried cod to Portugal and Spain and salmon, furs and timber to England and Quebec.

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Born:
1743
Died:
1824

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ROBIN, CHARLES , businessman, judge, and jp; baptized 30Oct.1743 in StBrelade, Jersey, son of Philippe Robin and Anne Dauvergne, shopkeepers; d. unmarried 10June1824 in StAubin, Jersey.
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