Peninah Arabelle ALLUM

  General Notes:

fPeninah Arabelle "Belle" (Allum) Robesky, 1853-1945, is buried in Union Cemetery in Bakersfield, Kern County, California. California death info provides her name as "Anna Belle Allen" and her mother's maiden name as "Wallace." If the latter is true, Thomas Allum's first wife Matilda would have been "Matilda Wallace." At this time, we do not know Matilda's parentage, but her mother's first name (perhaps a nickname) may have been "Belle."

A photo of the entrance to Union Cemetery was added to the Find-A-Grave web site by Sharon, a Kern County lookup volunteer, after I requested, and was sent, pertinent information about the death of Peninah Arabelle "Belle" (Allum) Robesky. The photo can be viewed at www.findagrave.com



1853 BIRTH of Peninah Arabelle Allum ("Belle" and "Anna")

1853 MIGRATED from Pennsylvania to Iowa (with parents Thomas and Matilda)

1854 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Scott County, Davenport (Peninah is one of five females--including her mother--in the Thomas Allum household)

1856 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Scott County, Davenport ("Penina A.," age 4, with parents) (Thomas and 1st wife Matilda)

1859 DEATH of grandmother, Jemima (Barnhart) Allum

1860 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Newton Township, P. O. Newton ("P. A.," age 7, with parents) (Thomas and 1st wife Matilda)

1863 DEATH of mother Matilda

1865 MARRIAGE of father Thomas to stepmother, Rebecca Wert

1868 DEATH of grandfather, Charles W. Allum

1870 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Newton Township, P. O. Newton ("Bell," age 18, with father Thomas and stepmother Rebecca)

1876 MARRIAGE of Peninah Arabelle Allum and John Robesky on December 7 in Polk County, Iowa

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, Des Moines ("John," age 32, "Baker") (this census provides John's place of birth as Wisconsin; other census records document Germany) (wife "Belle," age 27)

1897 DEATH of father, Thomas Allum

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, Des Moines ("John," age 51, born "March, 1849 in Germany," occupation "Baker") (wife "Anna B.," age 39, born "July, 1860 in Pennsylvania" [forget it, she was born in 1853]; Anna is documented as the mother of [what appears to be] 10 children, 6 children living in the year 1900; she and John had been married 23 years) (Note: The 1910 census shows "Anna" as the mother of 9 children, 6 living)

1910 CENSUS, California, Kern County, Bakersfield ("John," age 62, "Baker, City Bakery") (wife "Belle," age 50) (Belle is shown as the mother of 9 children, 6 children living in the year 1910; she and John had been married 34 years)

1918 DEATH of stepmother, Rebecca (Wert) Allum

1920 CENSUS, California, Kern County, Bakersfield ("John," age 71, "Proprietor, bakery") (wife "Belle R.," age 64) (in addition to son Robley in the household is "Paul Peck," age 5, John and Belle's grandson)

DEATH of husband, John Robesky

1930 CENSUS, California, Kern County, Bakersfield ("Annabel," age 75, widow, head of household, grandson Paul Pick, age 15, is in the residence) ("Annabd" in some census indexes)

1945 DEATH, Peninah Arabelle (Allum) Robesky, at 92 years 3 months 20 days



In her California death record, "Anne Bell's" father's name is documented as "Allen" instead of Allum. Her mother's maiden name is provided as Wallace (no first name).




THE BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN, Bakersfield, California, November 15, 1945:


ROBESKY, Anna B. - Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Robesky, 92, who died Tuesday at her home, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Payne & Son Chapel with the Reverend B. C. Barrett officiating. Interment will be in Union Cemetery. Surviving Mrs. Robesky are her sons, John and R. M. Robesky, Fresno; daughters, Mrs. Ed Miller, Bakersfield; Mrs. W. E. Simpson, Los Angeles; daughters-in-law, Mrs. T. A. Robesky, Glendale; grandchildren, Paul Pick, Donald Robesky, Kenneth Robesky, U. A. Miller and Robert Simpson, all United States Navy; Thomas Robesky, United States Marine Corps; Robley Miller, United States Army; Richard Miller, Bakersfield; W. E. Simpson, Los Angeles; five great-grandchildren.

Peninah married John ROBESKY on December 7, 1876 in Polk County, Iowa. (John ROBESKY was born in March 1849 in Danzig, Poland (formerly Germany) and died after 1920 in (Probably) Bakersfield, Kern County, California.)