Patrick Collins 1840 : Short Biography

Patrick Collins 1840

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I am looking for the Parish of my ancestor Patrick Collins. Family history says Patrick was from County Cork. He died in 1906 and death certificate only states he was born in Ireland and father's name was John. No mother's name was given. There is conflicting information about year of his birth. His death certificate says he was 64 which would make his year of birth 1842, but the first census in which he appears in 1870 states that he is 30 which seems more accurate given that he was married in 1868 so he would have been 28 versus 26. There is no information about his parish of birth on any of his official documents which all simply state Ireland. The information does not appear on his tombstone either. He was very active in civic affairs and eventually becase a county commissioner for Schuylkill County. He was also active in the Ancient Order of Hibernians and was widely believe to have been a Molly Maguire.

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Date of Birth	1st Jan 1840 (circa)
Date of Death	2nd Dec 1906
Father (First Name/s and Surname)	John
Spouse (First Name/s and Maiden/Surname)	Sarah Elizabeth Waldron
Place & Date of Marriage	Port Carbon, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania 8 Jan 1868
Occupation	in 1875 he was elected a County Commissioner for Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Place of Death	Palo Alto, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Names of Siblings	John Collins who was godfather to his son James Bernard Collins
Occupation	Molly Maguires

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Hello...I too have a Patrick Collins born about the same year. Or in 1838. One thing I learned about the Collins family was the surname was at one time Colleran. It was changed when some of the emigrants came to the USA to sound "more American." I have both names on my tree. My great great grandmother used both of them and her married name. Confusing!

One person I communicated with said he was a Collins and Colleran kept coming up in his dna lists. My information seems to have substaniated this quirk.

My Patrick was from County Sligo, near Charleston and Tubbercurry. At the time, it was also considered part of Co Mayo because the towns were close together.

I know my family had relatives out east, and in particular in PA. Let me work on this a bit.

If you have access to ancestry.com or wiki tree I have some of my family members listed.

My great great grandmother was Mary Collins/Colleran Meehan who also was born in County Sligo, Ireland and settled in Augusta, GA. Mary was born about 1844 and she had a sister in GA too. Her name was Bridget E Collins/Colleran Gallaher Geraty. She was born in 1842.

Mary had to work as an indentured servant when she came to America and worked for a large family in Savannah, GA putting her sons in an orphange until she could get them out.

I hope this helps. There are a lot of Luke, Bernard, John and James in the tree---I wish a few of them would have had some unusual forenames. They would have been easier to locate.

Jean