Hi Iain, wow- what a concept for a novel! No, Mrs. Robb's only son Newell, was a curator at the Fall River Marine Museum, home of the big 28 foot Titanic model and former repository of some THS memorabilia until about 3 years ago. Marjorie and her son's family lived in nearby Westport Point. She passed away in the Adams Nursing Home on Highland Avenue, which was a lovely old brick place, filled with many antiques left by years of genteel inhabitants. Marjorie, of course, being a well-read native of Massachusetts, had heard of Lizzie Borden -but it was a very distasteful subject to her, as it was to many of her generation. Still today in Fall River, there is a minority of elderly who do not wish the city remembered for , as in the words of author and Fall River native, Victoria Lincoln in her revealing book, "A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight". Lizzie went to the Chicago World's Fair (Columbian Exposition) in the autumn of 1893 after her acquittal, and often travelled the Newport-Boston-New York corridor fairly extensively. She was a social pariah in her own hometown and said just before dying that she might have been better off leaving Fall River.In 1890, before the foul deed, she took the Cunarder Scythia on a 19 week Grand Tour leaving Boston- Liverpool. The famous Irish maid in the murder case, Bridget Sullivan, arrived in America about 8 years prior to the 1892 murder aboard White Star's Republic. Yes, it is an endlessly fascinating case, America's Jack the Ripper. If you have not read The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen-grab it for a summer's read today. It details the building of the Chicago World's Fair and parallels the famous mass murderer "Dr. Holmes" and his horrifying chamber of terrors located in a vistors' hotel and pharmacy near the fairgrounds. I like to think how close Miss Borden came that 1893 afternoon in Chicago to meeting a worthy mate! Our Titanic friend Frank Millet is also a character in this drama, as he was a kingpin in the arts design of the fair. Good stuff!How history does overlap and connect in unlikely places!