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Walter Collins and the Beet family
I know, the amount of rabbit holes I've been down for days only to find they have nothing to do with my family, ha ha -
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Walter Collins and the Beet family
Sorry got that wrong Caroline is Kate's cousin, not sister. -
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Walter Collins and the Beet family
What I couldn't understand was that all Kate's children were put down as Collins and on the 1911 census George Atterbury (head) is also put down as a Collins, searched forever for a George Collins before I realised they had just never married. The children like Daisy on her wedding cert. put... -
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Walter Collins and the Beet family
Julia is related to me through her Mum, Kate Pickering, Kate's sister Caroline was my great grandmother -
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Walter Collins and the Beet family
George was Julia's brother, so the child was named after him, Walter after her dad and May must be from the Hackett side of the family. No May's on Julia's side. -
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Walter Collins and the Beet family
You would think someone would have noticed. -
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Walter Collins and the Beet family
I didn't know about George born 1913, so it does sound like the same family, can't understand the gravestone being wrong unless it was put up a long time after, I see Daisy is on there so maybe it is a mistake. I think what threw me was someone mentioned about them coming from Ireland. Are you... -
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Walter Collins and the Beet family
There was more than one Julia Collins around this time, both born in USA and both then living in Birmingham. Walter was a common name, so it maybe that two families are mixed up a bit. Tricky -
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Walter Collins and the Beet family
Julia Collins married Charles Hackett in 1919, Walter was out of wedlock so was a Collins, May was Walters half sister surname Hackett. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? -
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Walter Collins and the Beet family
I doubt it, maybe this one is the wrong family, but the Julia born in the USA is definitely related to me, the other poster mentioned her mother as May Hackett and reading the clip posted it mentions Walter Collins mother as Mrs Hackett? Somewhere all this is related but when you go back in... -
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Walter Collins and the Beet family
It was from the original post, but probably way to late now -
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Walter Collins and the Beet family
Hi, I am related to Julia Collins. From what I have found out Kate Pickering married Walter Collins they had two sons in this country they went to the US sometime after 1881 census, Julia and I think an Alice was born there. Both Walter Jno. and Alice died there, I think George Atterbury was...