His six sons were keen cricketers and in 1878 the eldest son Alfred Roberts Robinson (1856-1949) received an invitation to bring a team to play West Town on August Bank Holiday. He recruited his five brothers Walter, Edgar, Sidney, Crescens and Theodore who were still living at Backwell House and five of his first cousins to form a team consisting entirely of Robinsons. The team became known as the Backwell House XI and thereafter for the next 87 years until 1964 the Robinson team which was always made up of descendants of the first team played a match on the August Bank Holiday.Robinson Rupert. “The Cricket Family Robinson 1878-1864”. Online reference
