In the 1850s, he moved his large family to London and became joint manager of the Marylebone Theatre and appeared there on stage.
Her father taught languages in London, and she spoke English with no trace of a foreign accent.
[10][1] In early 1850, the family performed in Colne and then moved on to Burnley, Lancashire for a week in a temporary theatre, the Temperance Hall, in which they presented The Stranger (an English translation of the 1798 play Menschenhass und Reue (Misanthropy and Repentance) by August von Kotzebue), King Lear, She Stoops to Conquer and William Tell.
[2] Robertson's last appearances were with his wife and his daughter Fanny in 1867 in Planché's Plot and Passion, Sheridan's The School for Scandal and John Baldwin Buckstone's farce A Rough Diamond, in Boston, Lincolnshire.
[17][18] In 1871, Robertson was living with his wife, daughter Fanny and a granddaughter in St Pancras, Middlesex.