"A MARRIAGE TOOK PLACE ON 15TH OCTOBER 1853 BETWEEN;-

CHARLES COLLIER b. 1834 and MATILDA GARDINER b. 1835

Occupation. Weaver/Ropemaker and Occupation. Bootbinder

Of Colchester, Essex and of Loughton, Essex

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The Marriage Certificate shows that the Father of the Charles Collier was in fact, another Charles Collier.

It might well be that after the marriage, the couple resided in Bethnal Green, East London but the Census of 1861 shows them living in Canterbury Terrace, New Brompton, Gillingham, Kent. By then, they had three children, Charles age 6 years, Elizabeth age 2 years and William age 9 months. That son Charles died later on and another Son, Charles Robert was born in 1873 to continue the name. Certain members of the family recall that a Charles Collier, believed to be the one born 1853, became the Sheriff of Bow, East London.

Recollections also exist that at least two of the Sons of Charles and Matilda had Musical Talents and played musical instruments at Variety Theatres in East and North London.

My own Father played the Cornet and had musical talents.

It is known too, that Charles Cocker in Canada had considerable musical talent.

The following pages attempt to show the large number of descendants from this marriage.

N.B.

Further text appears at the end of this long list of names.

 

Generation Numbers (with Charles & Matilda Collier being Generation 1) have been added to Ted's original script so that relationships in families may be distinguished. Charles & Matilda Collier's daughter Alice married Edgar Charles Cocker not Edward Charles Cocker.

Page 1

1. Charles Collier b c 1833/4
Married 15.10.1853
Matilda Gardiner b c 1834/5

Page 2

2. Charles Collier b 1855, died young

2. Elizabeth Emma Collier b 1859 d 1910
Married
John Nicholas Lotz b 1859 d 1917?
3. Walter Lotz
3. John Charles Lotz
Married
Maria Elizabeth Smith

3. George Lotz

2. William Collier b 1860
Married

(Page 3)

Mary (Collier)

 

THIS COUPLE WENT TO THE U.S.IN THE GOLD RUSH - NO TRACE SINCE

2. Walter Collier b 9.6.1862 d 1942
Married 1.5.1894
Mary Peryer d 10.2.1949
3. Ellen Maud Collier b 4.5.1895
Married 1925
Albert Edward Rice d 1968

Page 4

3. Albert Collier b 1899
Married
May (Collier)

3. Queenie Collier b 1906
Married
Harry Jeffery d 1983

Page 5

3. Leonard Stanley Collier b 30.11.1909
Married 6.6.1936
Phyllis Marjoram Hunt b 6.6.1912

Page 6

2. Edward George Collier d 23.2.1913
Married 27.5.1883 (?)
Sarah Rebecca Barnard b 1869? d 9.6.1943
- M (2) Richard Crossman 23.5.1917
3. Elizabeth Matilda Collier b 11.5.1886 d 9.6.1969
Married
Arthur Godfrey

3. Cecilia Sarah Collier b 24.6.1886 d 8.4.1955
Married
Frederick Henry Charles Dennis d 1.11.1954

(Page 7)

3. Edward Charles William Collier b 4.10.1888 d 1965
Married
Daisy Blacksall

.3. George Ernest Collier b 3.1.1892 d 16.2.1966

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3. Emily Georgina Collier 24.3.1896 d 18.6.1968
Married
Charles Thomas Pope b 26.6.1895 d 1975

3. Albert George Collier b 14.5.1896 d 23.9.1896

3. Ivy Irene Collier b 21.6.1905 d 1981
Married

(Page 9)

James Caird Paxton d 13.1.1956

3. William James Collier b 19.11.1908 d 1978
Married
Grace Toop

Page 10

3. Henry Thomas Collier 12.4.1910
Married 4.4.1942
Alice Lambert

(Page 11)

Canadian Branch of the Family

EDWARD COCKER AND ALICE EMIGRATED TO CANADA IN 1905 FROM THIS POINT TO PAGE 17 COVERS THE CANADIAN BRANCH OF THE FAMILY

2. Alice Jane Collier b 25.2.1871 d 9.12.1943
Married 17.3.1894
Edward Charles Cocker b 3.9.1869 d 21.1.1951
3. Agnes Rose Matilda Cocker b 23.12.1894 d 2.12.1975
Married
Edwin Bocking b 17.2.1881 d 18.12.1951

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From Page 12

FAMILY OF EDWARD & ALICE COCKER CONTINUED

3. Edgar Charles Cocker b 9.10.1896 d 1915

DIED IN ACTIVE SERVICE W.WAR I

3. Francis William Cocker b 19.4.1899
Married 1935
Joan Johnson

3. Alice May Cocker b 6.5.1902 d 1905

From Page 13

3. Charles William Cocker b 27.3.1904 d 21.10.1971
Married
Rose Van Essen

3. Mabel Jessie Cocker b 22.9.1907
3. Dorothy Violet Cocker b 24.1.1910

LIMIT OF THE CANADIAN BRANCH OF THE FAMILY

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2. Charles Robert Collier b 1873 d 6.7.1941
Married
Florence Drew d 21.4.1956
3. Frederick Herbert Collier b 26.10.1896
Married
Daisy Laura Camfield d 8.2.1981

Page 19

3. Albert George Collier b 11.10.1898 d 4.1.1960
Married
Alice Amy Boxall b 19.8.1898 d 21.7.1972

Page 20

3. Walter Albert Collier d 7.3.1980
Married
Irene Una Webb b 16.5.1913 d 26.5.1983

(Page 21)

3. Edgar Christopher Collier b 25.12.1906 d 1928
3. Edward Robert Francis Collier b 1908
Married
(1) 31.10.1931?
Amy Johnson b 4.7.1910
- divorced 1963

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 Page 21 Continued

 

Edward Robert Francis Collier (Contd)
(2) 1.7.1963
Iris Minnie Thurso (?) Shadbolt b 23.4.1916 d 16.5.1981

Page 23

3. Lily May Violet Collier b 17.12.1911 d 23.4.1956
Married 24.9.1832
Henry Charles Jackson b 20.11.1904

Page 24

2. Jessie Anne Collier b 1.4.1880 d 1.3.1954
Married 26.2.1900
George Thomas Barnard b 1879 d 19.3.1935
3. Jessie Matilda Barnard b 1900
Married
Frederick Churchill
3. Lilian May Barnard b 17.3.1907 d 26.12.1978
Married 6.5.1927
John Wood b 10.11.1905 d 12.12.1973

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3. Elsie Violet Barnard b 22.3.1910
Married
Charles Edward Hull

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3. Ivy Alice Emily Barnard b 1917
Married 30.10.1937
Albert Russell

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THE COLLIER “FAMILY TREE”

The idea of a “Family Tree”, first started back in 1976 when Mabel and Dolly Cocker wrote from Vancouver saying that Nieces and Nephews were asking for information to create their own Family records and asked whether I would help them from the U.K. end whilst they did the Canadian end. Since then, I have been quietly plodding on and these pages are the result.

I have had considerable help from so many people to whom, I have written and I express my thanks not only for their help but for the pleasure in re-establishing contacts. It is a great pity that our Parents and Grandparents did not commit namea and dates to paper but perhaps we as children were to blame for not asking them to do so.

We cannot trace the Parents of Charles Collier b 1834 or Matilda Gardiner b 1835.

The memory of two people mention Carrie Hughes. It seems she was the sister of Matilda Gardiner.

When Dolly and Mabel were over in 1981, I took them to Loughton, Essex to see “The Gardeners Arms”. Their mother, my Aunt Alice, had given them a photograph of her, standing outside that Public House.

From there, at the suggestion of the present Landlord of the Pub, we visited a house a few yards along the same Road and met a Mrs Sullivan. This lady is the Daughter of Henry George Hughes who married one of the Gardeners who is now a Lady of nearly 100 years in age but we managed a short chat with her.

We learned that Caroline Gardiner had married John Hughes and for a time, lived at 12, Queen Carolines Gardens, Bethnal Green. In time they had three children, Jack, Henry George and Alice Caroline.

Memories also suggested that one of the Hughes females, was in fact the first Lady to hold a full British Pilot's Licence but we cannot trace so far.

I hope the present generation will find this record of interest and perhaps add to it as their lives progress. My apologies for any mistakes I may have made.

Ted. (E.R.F.) Collier
December 1983"

Links to:

Ted Collier's Family Tree - Introduction

The Colliers in England and Canada

Collier Family - Progress To Date