Craig Beeman wrote: > > Would each of you who have managed to trace a COLLINS family back to > that family's Immigrant Ancestor, please be so kind as to post your > family's descent from that Immigrant Ancestor down to about 1900 if > you would. Please try to include names, dates, and locations as often > as possible, so that some of our subscribers might possibly be able to > identify potential family connections, even if they have not as yet > been able to research back to an Immigrant COLLINS ancestor! > > Hey Craig, not all of us have "Immigrant Ancestors" (or are the British specifically excluded from this list?) :-) Anyway here is my Collins line from my earliest positively documented ancestor: Except where shown all places given are in Dorset, England and I have only included information which has been researched directly from original records. James Collins b Dorchester 1768 son of James and Joanna Collins m Maria Masters at Alton Pancras 1801 children: Maria b Piddlehinton 1814 George b Piddlehinton 1816 George Collins m Mary Ann Burgess at Purse Caundle 1841 children: James b Cerne Abbas 1841 Charles b Fordington 1845 George Payne b Fordington 1847 Elizabeth b Fordington 1849 m James Paul at Weymouth 1873 Mary b Dorchester 1851 William Joseph b Weymouth 1860 Charles Collins m Mary Jane Wood at Weymouth 1866 children: Mary Jane b Weymouth 1867 Walter James b Weymouth 1869 George Payne b Fordington 1875 Emily Elizabeth b Shirley, Southampton, Hampshire 1878 George Payne Collins m Elizabeth Caroline Martin at Weymouth 1896 They eventually had 9 children. I would willingly exchange information with anyone researching Collins in the same area. Ray Collins