The Bower & Collier Family History
Research by Colin Bower
Silk Weavers named Collier
The Family of Thomas & Mary (Kemp) Collier
Family legend has it that the Collier Family had Huguenot links.
I have researched the family of Thomas & Mary (Kemp) Collier as I was hoping that Charles Collier, Silk Weaver might be related.
The first set of details was provided by Leigh Collier in 1983 and potential additional children were identified in 2006:
Family per Leigh Collier
Thomas Collier b 1778/9
Married 4.7.1802 at Christ Church, Spitalfields (see Note 1 below)
Mary Kemp b 1781 (see Note 2 below)
Children
Mary Sarah Collier b 16.8.1803
2 John St, Spitalfields
bp 31.8.1803
Christ Church, Spitalfields)
- Per Huguenot Records
(also per IGI)
James Collier b 27.11.1819
Shacklewell St, Bethnal Green
- per Parish Records
Jane Collier b 6.1.1822
Shacklewell St, Bethnal Green (see Note3)
Shacklewell St, Bethnal Green (see Note 3)
Information obtained from IGI (but see Note 4)
Parents Thomas & Mary Collier
Christ Church, Spitalfields
Mary Sarah Colliier bp 31.8.1803
Harriot Ann Collier bp 13.2.1805
Elizabeth Collier bp 9.3.1806
St Matthew's, Bethnal Green
Phebe Collier bp 28.8.1806
Frances Collier bp 26.7.1807
Thomas Collier bp 26.8.1810
Louisa Collier bp 15.11.1812
Mary Ann Collier bp 19.9.1813
William Collier bp 26.11.1815 (see Note 4)
Sarah Collier bp 23.11.1817
James Collier bp 29.12.1819
John Daniel Collier bp 16.11.1823
Notes
1. The Parish Record of the marriage shows that Matthew and Phoebe Collier were witnesses.
The IGI has details of potential parents and siblings of Thomas Collier:
Marriage at St Leonard's, Shoreditch
William Collier married Phoebe Booth 3.9.1782
Christenings at St Leonard's, Shoreditch
Parents William & Phoebe Collier
Thomas Collier 18.1.1779
Matthew Collier March 1781
Phebe 17.2.1785
Sarah Debues Collier 26.12.1782
2. Mary Kemp’s parents were John Kemp & Ann Gaucheron (of Huguenot descent)
Her brother William Kemp married an Ann Collier on 19.2.1797 at Christ Church, Spitalfields.
3. Jane Collier of 4 Shacklewell Street, Bethnal Green was married on 28.11.1841 at St John's, Bethnal Green when John Daniel Collier was a witness.
4. William Collier's son's birth certificate appears to confirm that Thomas Collier of Shacklewell Street, Bethnal Green, was his father:
A. Birth of William Henry Collier
2 Rounds Court, Shacklewell Street, Bethnal Green 5.6.1839
(Parents; William & Eleanor Frances Collier formerly Noon)
B. William's brother James Collier (father Thomas Collier) was living at 3 Rounds Court, Shacklewell Street per birth of his son James on 15.6.1839 and birth of his daughter Eizabeth on 10.6.1841.
Two wills and a ferret! (Update in June 2013)
As summarised in Progress 2013, Thomas Collier's father was William Collier, a "fringe, ferrit and velevet ribbon maker" (1799)
William Delves Collier was a beneficiary under the will of his father also William Collier (wife Phoebe Booth) who appears to have been a rich man.
Thomas Collier was a beneficiary under his father's will.
The following Parish Records give details of Thomas' father and grandfather:
St Dunstan, Stepney
William Collier, Weaver of Bethnal Green
married 5.3.1738
Sarah (?) Dealus
St Leonard, Shoreditch
William Collier bp 31.5.1741
(Parents William& Sarah)
William Collier
married 3.9./1782
Phoebe Booth
Colin Bower
31 October 2014
Links to:
Silk Weavers named Collier - Introduction & Index
