Editing May Robson (section)

==Marriages and children==
Robson ran away from home to marry her first husband, 18 year-old Charles Leveson Gore, in London.<ref name=Theatre /><ref name=Nissen185/> They were married on 1 November 1875 at the parish church in [[Camden Town]], London.<ref name="Gore marriage">{{cite news | title=Marriages | newspaper=The Times | location=London, England | date=5 November 1875 | issue=28465 | page=1 }}</ref>{{efn|Although Robson said that she was 16 when she married,<ref name=Theatre /><ref name=Nissen185/> she was 17 years-of-age, based upon her date of birth, when she married Charles Gore.<ref name="Gore marriage" /> Her husband's name has been said to be Charles Leveson Gore,<ref name=Jones>{{cite book|author=Jones, Jan|title=Renegades, Showmen & Angels: A Theatrical History of Fort Worth, 1873-2001|publisher=Texas A & M University Press|pages=37–38|isbn=0-87565-318-9|year=2006}}</ref> Charles Livingston Gore,<ref name=Nissen185/> Edward H. Gore,<ref name=James/><ref>{{cite book|author1=Alison McKay|author2=Bayside Historical Society|title=Bayside|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q04jD4bfvakC&pg=PT132|date=August 4, 2008|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4396-2027-4|page=132}}</ref> and E. H. Gore.<ref name="Inc.1942" /><ref>{{cite news | url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1942/10/21/page/20/article/may-robson-78-film-and-stage-actress-is-dead | title=May Robson, 78, film and stage actress is dead | newspaper=Chicago Tribune | date=21 October 1942 | access-date=12 November 2016 }}</ref>}} They traveled on the steamer [[SS Vaderland|SS ''Vaderland'']] and arrived in New York on 17 May 1877. They purchased 380 acres of land in [[Fort Worth, Texas]] where they built a house and established a cattle ranch. According to Jan Jones, "the Gores survived two years in their prairie manor house before homesickness, rural isolation, and repeated bouts of fever convinced them to sell and try their fortunes in the more settled East."<ref name=Jones /> They  moved to [[New York City]]<ref name=Nissen185 /> with little money and Robson said that Gore died shortly thereafter.<ref name=Nissen185 />{{efn| According to Jan Jones, when Gore wanted to return to England, Robson decided that she wanted to stay in New York and the couple divorced. Gore returned to London.<ref name=Theatre /><ref>{{cite book|author=Jan Jones|title=Renegades, Showmen & Angels: A Theatrical History of Fort Worth from 1873-2001|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=roHkr0fNxTwC&pg=PA38|year=2006|publisher=TCU Press|isbn=978-0-87565-318-1|page=38}}</ref> He died in the early 1880s.<ref name=Nissen185 />}}

Robson supported her children by crocheting hoods and embroidery, designing dinner cards, and teaching painting.<ref name=Nissen185>{{cite book|title=Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties|author=Nissen, Axel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IbpwDl1nt0MC&pg=PA185|publisher=McFarland & Company|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|page=185|isbn=978-0-7864-2746-8|year=2007}}</ref><ref name=Theatre /> By the time she began her acting career in 1883, two of her three children had died from illnesses,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Two Brilliant Women, They are Both Bright Ornaments of the Stage: Viola Allen and May Robson|journal=The Olean Democrat|location=Olean, New York|date=November 29, 1892|page=6}}</ref>{{efn|Robson says that the children both died of scarlet fever.<ref name=Theatre /> Axel Nissen states the causes of death as diphtheria and scarlet fever.<ref name="Nisson p. 189">{{cite book|author=Axel Nissen|title=Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IbpwDl1nt0MC&pg=PA189|year=2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-2746-8|page=189}}</ref> ''Who's Who on the stage'' states that the children's death came about as the result of poverty (i.e., not a specific cause of death, but an influencing factor).<ref>{{cite book|author1=Walter Browne|author2=Fredrick Arnold Austin|title=Who's who on the stage; the dramatic reference book and biographic al dictionary of the theatre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xIoXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA191|year=1906|publisher=W. Browne & F. A. Austin|page=191}}</ref>}} leaving only Edward Hyde Leveson Gore.<ref>{{cite book|author=Alison McKay|title=Bayside|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q04jD4bfvakC&pg=PA96|date=July 30, 2008|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4396-2027-4|page=96}}</ref>{{efn|Her son, whose full name was Edward Hyde Leveson Gore, was born on December 2, 1876<ref>{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2XDG-BGT|title=England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837–1920|publisher=FamilySearch|access-date=July 4, 2014}}</ref> and died September 23, 1954<ref>{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VP75-3CF|title=California, Death Index, 1940–1997|publisher=FamilySearch|access-date=July 4, 2014}}</ref> Her son Edward and daughter-in-law were alive at the time of his mother's death.<ref name="James p. 185"/> They had a son, Robson Gore.<ref name="Inc.1942">{{cite magazine|title=May Robson|magazine=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FwwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT26|date=October 31, 1942|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|page=27|issn=0006-2510}}</ref>}}

Six years after beginning her stage career, Robson married Augustus Homer Brown, a police surgeon, on 29 May 1889. They were together until his death on 1 April 1920.<ref name=James>{{cite book|title=Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, vol 2|author1=Edward T. James |author2=Janet Wilson James |author3=Paul S. Boyer |year=1971|publisher=Radcliffe College|page=185|isbn=0-674-62734-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=New York State journal of medicine, Volume 20|author=New York State Medical Association, Medical Society of the State of New York|year=1920|page=170|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mrhYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA170}}</ref> Robson's son, Edward Gore, was her business manager.<ref name=Berkshire>{{cite journal|title=May Robson, Stage, Screen Star, Is Dead: Character Actress Began Long Career in 1883|journal=Berkshire Evening Eagle|location=Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts|date=October 20, 1942|page=1}}</ref>