Thomas Daniel Collins (1895 - 1968)

Born 13 Jun 1895 in Cudham, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Ethel (Ouzman) Collins — married 18 Oct 1919 (to 1952) in St Johns Church, Kensal Green, Paddington.

Descendants

Died 1968 at about age 72 in Cliftoneville, Margate, Kent

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Biography

Tom Collins was born in Cudham, Kent, England.

Gunner Tom Collins served in the British Army in World War I
Service started: 1916
Unit(s): Royal Garrison Artillery
Service ended: 1919

Thomas was born in 1895. He passed away about 1985.

Residence Place: Kent, England
Christening Date: 04 Aug 1895
Christening Place: Cudham, Kent, England
Father's Name: John Collins
Mother's Name: Jemima Jessie

Geographical Note and Social context: Berry's Green a small hamlet to the west of Cudham.
"Cudham is an extensive parish and widely-scattered village, in Ruxley Hundred, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, and Union and County court district of Bromley, west Kent, situated west of the high road from London to Seven Oaks. The area is 5,869 acres. Here is a wood 2 miles long. The soil clayey, with great quantity of flint, but very fertile; and the population, in 1851, was 897. The church of St Peter and St Paul is an old building of flint and brick, with a steeple rising from the centre. There is a chapel for the Wesleyans, and National schools, erected in 1851, which are supported by voluntary contributions."^[1]

Census Event Date: 31 Mar 1901
Event Place: Cudham, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Age: 5
Birth Year (Estimated): 1896
Birthplace: Cudham, Kent

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Daniel Collins Head M 75 Kathorpe, Lincolnshire
Francis Collins Wife F 69 Knockholt, Kent
John Collins Son M 45 Cudham, Kent
Jemima Jessie Collins Daughter-In-Law F 39 Rotherhithe, London
Elizabeth Fanny Collins Grand Daughter F 17 Cudham, Kent
William John Collins Grand Son M 14 Cudham, Kent
Arthur Collins Grand Son M 9 Cudham, Kent
George Collins Grand Son M 7 Cudham, Kent
Thomas Daniel Collins Grand Son M 5 Cudham, Kent
Eva Jessie Collins Grand Daughter F 0 Cudham, Kent
William Brey Servant M 57 Maidstone, Kent

Service in the Great War

Served in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War, sending home a photo from France to Ethel on the 12th March 1918. Tom may have joined up with his brothers in Dec 1915. Many records of service in the Great War were lost or damaged in an air raid on London during WWII. The surviving fire or water damaged, or intact records are known as "Burnt Records". Unfortunately Thomas' records did not survive.

NAME: Thomas D Collins
MILITARY DATE: 1914-1920
MILITARY PLACE: England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, United Kingdom
REGIMENT OR CORPS: Royal Garrison Artillery
REGIMENTAL NUMBER: 65634^[2]

After demobilisation

Notes in italic taken from image of parish register
Name: Ethel Ouzman Spinster, Clerk P. O., residing 76 Sixth Avenye
Event Type: Marriage
Event Place: St Johns Church Kensal Green Paddington, London, England
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration Year: 1919
Spouse Name : Thomas D Collins, Batchelor, labourer, Berries Green Farm, Beakon or Biggin Hill, Sevenoaks

Thomas Collins Grub Ground domicile

Thomas Daniel Collins census 1921

Transcript.
Residence Grub Ground, Jail Lane Biggin Hill.
Thomas D Collins, Head, 26 years 0 months, Farm labourer for A Beal & Co, farmers, Cudham
Ethel Collins, wife, 28 years 5 months,

Name: Audrey D Collins
Event Type: Birth Registration
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Registration Year: 1922
Event Place: Bromley, Kent, England
Mother's Maiden Name: Ouzman

Change of employment

These Birth Registrations indicate that Thomas was still employed as a farm labourer in Cudham in 1922, but had moved to Margate before 1937. His father had left Berries Farm between 1919 and 1921.

Name: Anthony J T Collins
Event Type: Birth Registration
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year: 1937
Event Place: Thanet, Kent, England
Mother's Maiden Name: Ouzman

1939: 60 Glencoe Road, Margate M.B., Kent, England,
Collins household
(5 people)
First name(s) Last name(s) DOB Sex Occupation Marital status
Thomas D Collins 13 Jun 1895 Male Gas Works-Heavy Worker Married
Ethel Collins 05 Jan 1893 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married
The record for this person is officially closed. Antony Collins son
Edwin Poad 28 Mar 1871 Male Glen Clerk (Retired) Single
Elsie (B) Poad 04 May 1898 Female Dress Maker
Notes The 1939 survey was made in preparation for the possibility of rationing during the coming war. The designation "Heavy worker" entitled the person to a more generous food ration.

Biographical summary

Prior to 1937 Occupation: Farm Labourer and service in WWI.
June 13 1939, 60 Glencoe Rd Margate Kent. Heavy Worker, Margate Gas works
Post WWII:
Sea View Cottages, Botany Bay, Kent, CT10 3RY, before wedding of daughter Audrey Dorothea in Sept 1948.
Farm Labourer.

Name: Thomas D Collins
Age: 72
Death Date: 1968
Death Place: Kent, England, United Kingdom
Birth Year (Estimated): 1896^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/crockenhill-gravesend/cudham
2. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/39/?name=Thomas+Daniel_Collins&birth=1895_Cudham-Kent-England-United+Kingdom&death=1968&location=3257.3250&priority=english
3. ↑ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVCP-367L : 1 November 2021), Thomas D Collins, 1968.

• Personal knowledge,
• Marriage certificate,
• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NTTL-7JT : 11 February 2018, Jemima Jessie in entry for Thomas Daniel Collins, ); citing item 3, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 2,145,472.
• "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9FS-3W7 : 20 May 2019), William Brey in household of Daniel Collins, Cudham, Kent, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Orpington subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

Collins Family Tree

• Hand drawn family tree of John Collins
• "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:26KN-S1W : 13 December 2014), Ethel Ouzman and null, 1919; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1919, quarter 4, vol. 1A, p. 11, Paddington, London, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
• "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV3H-P76C : 2 October 2014), null in entry for Audrey D Collins, 1922; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, Bromley, Kent, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
• "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVQX-2TFK : 1 October 2014), null in entry for Anthony J T Collins, 1937; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, Thanet, Kent, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
• 1939 national Registration: [1]