Marian Shields Robinson Marian Shields Robinson Marian Lois Robinson (née Shields; born July 30, 1937) is the mother of Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States, and mother-in-law of Barack Obama, former President. Marian Shields was born in Chicago in 1937, the fourth of seven children—five girls, followed by two boys—born to Purnell Nathaniel Shields, a house painter, and his wife Rebecca Jumper, a licensed practical nurse. Two of her sisters and her brother Steve still live in Chicago on the South Side, as she did. Both parents had multi-racial ancestry, but slavery times were not discussed much when she was
Aubrey Robinson (Hawaii) Lester Beauclerk Robinson (1901–October 1969) and one daughter, Eleanor (1898 - 1986). Robinson died on his estate in 1936, and the Kauai estate passed to his wife and their five children and Niihau going to Aylmer and Lester. His descendants have kept the tradition of treating Niihau as private, earning it the name "Forbidden Island". Niihau was owned by Lester's wife Helen Matthew Robinson (1910–2002) and then , her sons Bruce and Keith Robinson. Aubrey Robinson (Hawaii) Aubrey Robinson (1853–1936) was an owner of a sugarcane plantation and a ranch consisting of an entire island in the Hawaiian Islands. Aubrey