Bower & Collier Family Tree
Research by CM Bower
Collier Family
Ted Collier's Original Family Tree
"A MARRIAGE TOOK PLACE ON 15TH OCTOBER 1853 BETWEEN;-
CHARLES COLLIER b. 1834 and MATILDA GARDINER b. 1835
Occupation. Weaver/Ropemaker and Occupation. Bootbinder
Of Colchester, Essex and of Loughton, Essex
* * * *
The Marriage Certificate shows that the Father of the Charles Collier was in fact, another Charles Collier.
It might well be that after the marriage, the couple resided in Bethnal Green, East London but the Census of 1861 shows them living in Canterbury Terrace, New Brompton, Gillingham, Kent. By then, they had three children, Charles age 6 years, Elizabeth age 2 years and William age 9 months. That son Charles died later on and another Son, Charles Robert was born in 1873 to continue the name. Certain members of the family recall that a Charles Collier, believed to be the one born 1853, became the Sheriff of Bow, East London.
Recollections also exist that at least two of the Sons of Charles and Matilda had Musical Talents and played musical instruments at Variety Theatres in East and North London.
My own Father played the Cornet and had musical talents.
It is known too, that Charles Cocker in Canada had considerable musical talent.
The following pages attempt to show the large number of descendants from this marriage.
N.B.
Further text appears at the end of this long list of names.
Generation Numbers (with Charles & Matilda Collier being Generation 1) have been added to Ted's original script so that relationships in families may be distinguished. Charles & Matilda Collier's daughter Alice married Edgar Charles Cocker not Edward Charles Cocker.
Page 1
1. Charles Collier b c 1833/4
Married 15.10.1853
Matilda Gardiner b c 1834/5
Page 2
2. Charles Collier b 1855, died young
2. Elizabeth Emma Collier b 1859 d 1910
Married
John Nicholas Lotz b 1859 d 1917?
3. Walter Lotz
3. John Charles Lotz
Married
Maria Elizabeth Smith
4. Marie Blanch Elizabeth Lotz b 24.12.1916
2. William Collier b 1860
Married
(Page 3)
Mary (Collier)THIS COUPLE WENT TO THE U.S.IN THE GOLD RUSH - NO TRACE SINCE
2. Walter Collier b 9.6.1862 d 1942
Married 1.5.1894
Mary Peryer d 10.2.1949
3. Ellen Maud Collier b 4.5.1895
Married 1925
Albert Edward Rice d 1968
4. Albert Edward Leslie Rice b 4.6.1926
Married 1955
Doreen Teresa Budd b 12.3.1927
5. Peter Martin Rice b 31.3.1960
Married 16.6.1980
Catherine Neill
5. Angela Carol Rice
5. Gillian Rice b 26.10.1966
Married
Michael Ward b 7.4.1957?
6. Christopher Terence Ward b 4.7.1981
Page 4
3. Albert Collier b 1899
Married
May (Collier)
4. Dannie Collier
- since divorced and remarried
Married
Brenda (Collier)
3. Queenie Collier b 1906
Married
Harry Jeffery d 1983
4. Colin Jeffery
Page 5
3. Leonard Stanley Collier b 30.11.1909
Married 6.6.1936
Phyllis Marjoram Hunt b 6.6.1912
4. Jean Mary Collier 12.2.1943 d 1983
Married 30.3.1964
Roy Abbey
5. Karen Elizabeth Abbey b 6.2.1969
5. Paul Abbey b 26.6.1971
Married 15.10.1966
Colin Malcolm Bower
5. Helen Jane Bower b 22.1.1969
5. Stephen James Bower b 2.3.1971
Page 6
2. Edward George Collier d 23.2.1913
Married 27.5.1883 (?)
Sarah Rebecca Barnard b 1869? d 9.6.1943
- M (2) Richard Crossman 23.5.1917
3. Elizabeth Matilda Collier b 11.5.1886 d 9.6.1969
Married
Arthur Godfrey
4. Arthur Henry Edward Godfrey
4. Ivy Godfrey
3. Cecilia Sarah Collier b 24.6.1886 d 8.4.1955
Married
Frederick Henry Charles Dennis d 1.11.1954
4. Elsie Dennis
Married
Albert Kelly
4. Hilda Dennis
Married
(Page 7)
Philip Marlowe
3. Edward Charles William Collier b 4.10.1888 d 1965
Married
Daisy Blacksall
4. Kenneth Collier d Dunkirk
4. Kathleen Collier
Married
John Standing
5. Kenneth Standing
5. Rosemary Standing Dec'd
3. George Ernest Collier b 3.1.1892 d 16.2.1966
Page 8
3. Emily Georgina Collier 24.3.1896 d 18.6.1968
Married
Charles Thomas Pope b 26.6.1895 d 1975
4. Irene Constance Pope b 16.5.1921
Married 10.1.1942
Ronald Frederick Glenister b 3.10.1921
5. Valerie Irene Glenister b 26.3.1947
Married 1968
Peter Charles Tustin b 9.6.1943
6. Michael Charles Tustin b 3.7.1972
6. Ailsa Louise Tustin b 21.3.1975
3. Albert George Collier b 14.5.1896 d 23.9.1896
3. Ivy Irene Collier b 21.6.1905 d 1981
Married
(Page 9)
James Caird Paxton d 13.1.1956
4. Irene Paxton
Married
Paul Sharland
5. Peter Sharland
3. William James Collier b 19.11.1908 d 1978
Married
Grace Toop
4. Anthony James Collier Dec'd
Married
Pat Roche
5. Deborah Collier
5. Mark Collier
5. Adam Collier
Married
John Cargill
5. Ian Cargill
Page 10
3. Henry Thomas Collier 12.4.1910
Married 4.4.1942
Alice Lambert
4. Annie Marie Collier b 28.6.1945
Married 2.4.1966
Colin Anderson b 17.8.1939
5. Samantha Anderson b 13.10.1968
5. Caroline Anderson 26.1.1971
Married 1967
Robert Collingham b 2.3.1942
5. Petra Jane Collingham b 2.3.1968
5. Lynda Susan Collingham b 24.7.1970
5. Steven Robert Collingham b 21.6.1973
4. Thomas Richard Collier b 15.6.1950 d 19.12.1950
(Page 11)
4. Edward George Collier b 19.7.1953
Married 21.7 1982
Shirley Jane Dibble b 4.12.1956
5. Judie Sarah Collier b 5.3.1983
Canadian Branch of the Family
EDWARD COCKER AND ALICE EMIGRATED TO CANADA IN 1905 FROM THIS POINT TO PAGE 17 COVERS THE CANADIAN BRANCH OF THE FAMILY
2. Alice Jane Collier b 25.2.1871 d 9.12.1943
Married 17.3.1894
Edward Charles Cocker b 3.9.1869 d 21.1.1951
3. Agnes Rose Matilda Cocker b 23.12.1894 d 2.12.1975
Married
Edwin Bocking b 17.2.1881 d 18.12.1951
4. Edgar James Bocking b 22.9.1919
Married 15.8.1941
Rose Olsen
5. Ronald James Bocking b 29.6.1942
Page 12
5. Anthony Gerald Bocking b 29.7.1947
Married 1968
Sue McIntosh b 6.7.1947
6. Dawn Lee Bocking b 3.9.1971
6. Gerald Anthony Bocking b 25.3.1972
6. Sherry Lynn Bocking b 26.12.1972
5. Laura Rose Bocking b 13.5.1950
6. Kathryn Rose Bocking b 13.2.1971
5. Linda Alayne Bocking b 26.6.1956
4. Margaret Rose Bocking b 9.4.1921 d 7.6.1921
4. Esther Florence Bocking b 17.4.1922
Married
(Page 13)
Argle Arthur Packard b 6.12.1920
5. Ellen Rose Packard b 16.1.1946
Married 2.9.1964
Caspar Gerald Nickeldooft b 22.9.1941
6. Anna Rose Nickeldooft b 26.2.1966
6. Thomas Peter Nickeldooft b 1.12.1968
6. Robert Roy Nickeldooft b 8.1.1970
6. June Marie Nickeldooft b 23.2.1974
5. Richard Arthur Packard b 22.2.1948?
5. Dianne Louise Packard b 9.2.1952
Married 14.7.1972 (sice separated)
Norman Wayne Gagnon b 29.5.1949
6. Sean Brennan Cagnon b 23.2.1976
Page 14
5. Roy Edwin Packard b 15? 10.1956
5. Nancy Lorraine Packard b 24.3.1959
4. Leslie Charles Bocking b 20.3.1926
Married 26.5.1949
Velma Joyce Carter b 1929
5. David Allan Bocking b 4.6.1951
Married
Anna Christian Sigurdson b 1954
5. Kenneth Arthur Bocking b 30.9.1952
Page 15
5. Catherine Joy Bocking b 8.12.1954
5. Keith Douglas Bocking b 11.3.1956
5. Joanne Leslie Bocking b 9.3.1957
Married
Robert Brian Trainer b 26.10.1956
5. Norma Lorraine Bocking b 27.10.1962
Page 16
4. Douglas Henry Bocking b 15.7.1925
Married 25.4.1947
Martha Merle Armstrong b 10.5.1925
4. Dorothy May Bocking b 25.10.1926 d 3.8.1927
4. Constance Elizabeth Bocking b 19.10.1928
Married 16.4.1951
(1) James Maurice Stanley
5. Dennis Erwin Stanley b 31.12.1953
Married
Jennifer Barbara Thoner b 5.8.1953
5. Terry Lee (Adopted) b 1958
(2) William Hunter 5.3.1977
Page 17
4. Olive Amelia Bocking b 14.4.1933
Married 2.7.1955 Since divorced
Vernon Ian Mortenson
5. Karen Lynn Mortenson b 19.4.1959
5. Jeffery Ross Mortenson b 17.5.1962
5. Shelley Joan Mortenson b 16.1.1964
4. Joan Beatrice Bocking b 30.9.1932
Married 26.12.1963
Gerald Leslie Ogle b 5.7.1933
5. Jean Louise Ogle? (Adopted) b 20.2.1966
5. Margaret Anne Ogle? (Adopted) b 15.3.1969
From Page 12
FAMILY OF EDWARD & ALICE COCKER CONTINUED
3. Edgar Charles Cocker b 9.10.1896 d 1915
DIED IN ACTIVE SERVICE W.WAR I
3. Francis William Cocker b 19.4.1899Married 1935
Joan Johnson
3. Alice May Cocker b 6.5.1902 d 1905
From Page 13
3. Charles William Cocker b 27.3.1904 d 21.10.1971Married
Rose Van Essen
4. William Charles Collier b 28.8.1952
Married 12.7.1974
Janet Van der Straeton
3. Mabel Jessie Cocker b 22.9.1907
3. Dorothy Violet Cocker b 24.1.1910
LIMIT OF THE CANADIAN BRANCH OF THE FAMILY
Page 18
2. Charles Robert Collier b 1873 d 6.7.1941
Married
Florence Drew d 21.4.1956
3. Frederick Herbert Collier b 26.10.1896
Married
Daisy Laura Camfield d 8.2.1981
4. Dorothy Collier b 5.7.1920
Married 1940
Sidney Jaycock b 1919 d 13.6.1977
5. Anne Jaycock b 19.7.1941
Married 1940
Eric Haskins
6. Eric Haskins
6. Leslie Haskins
5. Roger Jaycock
Married
Susan (Jaycock)
6. Melanie Jaycock
6. Vicky Jaycock
Page 19
5. Martin Jaycock
4. John Collier b 7.2.1932
Married
Florrie Moring
5. Graham Collier b 17.11.1959
5. Dawn Collier b 16.4.1961
3. Albert George Collier b 11.10.1898 d 4.1.1960
Married
Alice Amy Boxall b 19.8.1898 d 21.7.1972
4. Alice Beryl Collier b 6.5.1921
Married 18.8.1945
Charles John Skipp b 26.10.1909 d 24.1.1980
5. Robin John Skipp b 8.8.1966
5. Alison Anne Skipp b 21.10.1968
Page 20
4. Irene Florence Collier b 23.4.1926
Married 20.6.1959
William Swann b 8.9.1925
5. Anne Swain b 16? 5.1961
3. Walter Albert Collier d 7.3.1980
Married
Irene Una Webb b 16.5.1913 d 26.5.1983
4. Elsie Collier
Married 1946
Edward Butcher – since divorced
5. Linda Butcher
Married 1964
Terence Woodland
6. Tony Woodland b 1965
6. Paul Woodland b 1966
6. Sharon Woodland b 1968
6. Tracey Woodland b 1972
5. Allan Butcher b 1949
Married
(Page 21)
Moira (Butcher)
5. Paul Butcher b 19503. Edgar Christopher Collier b 25.12.1906 d 1928
3. Edward Robert Francis Collier b 1908
Married
(1) 31.10.1931?
Amy Johnson b 4.7.1910
- divorced 1963
4. Pamela Collier b 22.11.1935
Married
Reginald M J Andrews
5. Marc Andrews b 25.6.1960
5. Lisa Andrews b 16.4.1963
Page 22
4. Gillian Collier b 26.8.1943
Married
Brian Williams
5. Benedict Guy Williams b 15.9.1970
5. Lucy Rebecca Williams b 21.9.1973
4. Paul Graham Collier b 24.2.1947
Married
(1) Susan Macmillan (since divorced & married John Blair)
5. Quentin Edward Collier b 3.11.1969
5. Bobby Jane Collier b 27.4.1973
(2) 9.10.1982
Johanna Baby Rolfes
Page 21 Continued
Edward Robert Francis Collier (Contd)
(2) 1.7.1963
Iris Minnie Thurso (?) Shadbolt b 23.4.1916 d 16.5.1981
Page 23
3. Lily May Violet Collier b 17.12.1911 d 23.4.1956
Married 24.9.1832
Henry Charles Jackson b 20.11.1904
4. Peter Jackson b 9.2.1936
Married 14.7.1956
Olive Lane
5. Paul Jackson b 21.5.1957
5. Graham Jackson b 16.12.1958
Page 24
2. Jessie Anne Collier b 1.4.1880 d 1.3.1954
Married 26.2.1900
George Thomas Barnard b 1879 d 19.3.1935
3. Jessie Matilda Barnard b 1900
Married
Frederick Churchill
3. Lilian May Barnard b 17.3.1907 d 26.12.1978
Married 6.5.1927
John Wood b 10.11.1905 d 12.12.1973
4. George Wood b 1933 d 3 days old
4. Jean Dorothy Wood b 26.12.1936
Married
John Barratt b 12.6.1938
5. Sarah Barratt b 18.7.1969
5. Claire Barratt b 13.5.1973
5. Sophie Barratt b 17.2.1976
Page 25
4. Brian John Wood b 7.9.1936
Married 11.6.1960
Sheila Allen b 9.4.1936
5. Kenneth Wood b 30.5.1962
5. Stella Amanda Wood b 1.7.1968
3. Elsie Violet Barnard b 22.3.1910
Married
Charles Edward Hull
4. Betty Lillian Hull b 31.5.1935
Married
Colin Baker
Page 26
4. Doreen Violet Hull b 29.5.1937
Married
(1) Harry Burgess
(2) Terry Giddings
4. Linda Hull b 18.2.1962
Married
Derek James
5. Anne Marie Alexandra James b 4.7.1979
Page 27
3. Ivy Alice Emily Barnard b 1917
Married 30.10.1937
Albert Russell
4. Alan Russell
Married
Jean (Russell)
5. Tracey Russell
5. Gillian Russell
5. Joanne Russell
4. Graham Russell
Married
Sue (Russell)
5. Lindsey Russell
5. Michelle Russell
5. James Russell
Page 28
THE COLLIER “FAMILY TREE”
The idea of a “Family Tree”, first started back in 1976 when Mabel and Dolly Cocker wrote from Vancouver saying that Nieces and Nephews were asking for information to create their own Family records and asked whether I would help them from the U.K. end whilst they did the Canadian end. Since then, I have been quietly plodding on and these pages are the result.
I have had considerable help from so many people to whom, I have written and I express my thanks not only for their help but for the pleasure in re-establishing contacts. It is a great pity that our Parents and Grandparents did not commit namea and dates to paper but perhaps we as children were to blame for not asking them to do so.
We cannot trace the Parents of Charles Collier b 1834 or Matilda Gardiner b 1835.
The memory of two people mention Carrie Hughes. It seems she was the sister of Matilda Gardiner.
When Dolly and Mabel were over in 1981, I took them to Loughton, Essex to see “The Gardeners Arms”. Their mother, my Aunt Alice, had given them a photograph of her, standing outside that Public House.
From there, at the suggestion of the present Landlord of the Pub, we visited a house a few yards along the same Road and met a Mrs Sullivan. This lady is the Daughter of Henry George Hughes who married one of the Gardeners who is now a Lady of nearly 100 years in age but we managed a short chat with her.
We learned that Caroline Gardiner had married John Hughes and for a time, lived at 12, Queen Carolines Gardens, Bethnal Green. In time they had three children, Jack, Henry George and Alice Caroline.
Memories also suggested that one of the Hughes females, was in fact the first Lady to hold a full British Pilot's Licence but we cannot trace so far.
I hope the present generation will find this record of interest and perhaps add to it as their lives progress. My apologies for any mistakes I may have made.
Ted. (E.R.F.) Collier
December 1983"
Links to:
Ted Collier's Family Tree - Introduction
