John Collins
(1797-1864)

 

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1. Honora Denief

John Collins

  • Born: 7 Sep 1797, London, England
  • Marriage (1): Honora Denief
  • Died: 28 Jan 1864, St. Kyran's, Newfoundland at age 66
  • Buried: St. Kyran's Cemetery Newfoundland
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The Collinses of Grandy's Point / Clattice Harbour, Placentia Bay - Terminal SNP R-BY2881
John Collins was born to parents John and Bridget Oates Collins on September 7, 1797, and baptized ten days later at the Anglican St Marylebone Parish Church, London, England. He was tied to his master until he was 21 years old as an apprentice shipbuilder, after which he immigrated to Newfoundland. He married Honora Denief, a Roman Catholic from Kilkenny, Ireland, and the couple settled at Grandy's Point, where they raised a family of eight children: Mary (c 1821); Lizzie (c 1829); Ellen (c 1834); Peter (c 1824 '96 c 1898); Michael (c 1826); Daniel (c 1831); John (c 1836); and James 1835-1920). John carried on business at St. Ann's, Placentia Bay (close to Grandy's Point and Clattice Harbour), a port at which foreign vessels called, landing their goods and loading up fish for foreign ports. John, himself, was a sea-going captain and had his own ship. He died in 1864.

John may have had brothers William and Michael who joined him in Newfoundland; the Burin records of 1834 show them as sponsors at the baptisms of each other's children. Certainly as evidenced by the later directories of Hutchinson (1864), Lovell (1871), and McAlpine (1870-1871), there were other Collinses, including a Michael, living at Grandy's Point that were not of John's family. Jerome Collins, the great-grandfather of one of the participants in this project, was born there in 1841; he later moved to Clattice Harbour, where he and his wife, the former Mary Hepditch, raised their family. It may be that Jerome was a son of Michael, since Michael is a name that occurs in his family.

Oral tradition has it that John and Bridget Collins, parents of John Collins, may have been born in Ireland.

(With thanks to T. Collins for a number of clarifications. Sources include student paper of John Whittle (Memorial University) and personal research both online and in person at the Rooms, St. John's, NL.)


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John married Honora Denief. (Honora Denief was born in 1810 in Kilkenny. Ireland and died in 1891.)




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