Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (November 8, 1853 – January 20, 1904) was a Quaker schoolteacher; the wife of the Reverend William Drew Robeson of Witherspoon Church in Princeton, New Jersey and the mother of Paul Robeson and his siblings.[1][2]

She was born in 1853 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Charles Hicks Bustill (1816-1890) and Emily Robinson (c. 1815-before 1860).[3] She was of mixed Igbo African, Lenni-Lenape Native American, and Anglo-American descent, born into a prominent black Quaker family.[1][4][5][3][6] Her siblings include: Samuel Bustill (1841-?); George Bustill (1847-?); Desaline Bustill (1848-?); and Mary Bustill (1854-?). After her mother Emily died some time before July 3, 1860, Charles remarried a woman whose first name was Catherine (1808-?).[7] In 1870 Charles and his sons were working as expressmen in Philadelphia.[8]