This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Collins, Cannon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YYB.2ACI/1551.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.4 Message Board Post: I am sorry I had not responded to this message before, I guess I didn't realise that your message had been posted. I have not come upon Collings as a variant, but then I only have one name to go on and that in Mary Etta Collins the wife of John Handy Cannon. I do have a very promising lead though. John and Mary marrried in Knox County Illinois and a person did a look up in the 1850 census for me there. There is a person just a few doors down from them by the name of Frances Collins a 50 year old woman listed with a daughter named Sarah 15 or 16 years old. The thing that is so promising about this lead is that one of John and Mary's daughters is names Sarah Frances. The only problem is how to verify that Frances Collins is her mother, and then who is her father. Anyway. Thats all I have. Thanks.