Elizabeth Lavinia (Palmer) Collins (1818 - 1874)

Born 1 May 1818 in Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Frank Collins — married 29 Sep 1835 in Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

Descendants

Died 25 Oct 1874 at age 56 in Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Elizabeth Lavinia Palmer^[1][2] was born in Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada on 1 May 1818.^[1][2] She was the daughter of Enoch Lewis Palmer and Margaret Robinson.^[1][2] She died in 1874.^[3][2]

Elizabeth was born into a large family of 14 children. She was the fourth child of Enoch and Margaret Palmer.

Maria, born 11 Jul 1814

Elijah, born 28 Sep 1815

Benjamin, born 3 Sep 1816

Elizabeth Lavinia, born 1 May 1818

Margaret Pamelia, born 5 Mar 1820

Mary Caroline, born 20 Feb 1822

Philena, born 22 Jan 1824

John Robinson, born 6 May 1825

William Richard, born 27 Feb 1827 (likely died young)

Matilda, born 5 Nov 1829

Enoch Lewis, born 17 Apr 1831

Susan, born 6 Jan 1834

James, born 6 Apr 1837

Henry, born 29 Aug 1839^[1][4]

Elizabeth married in Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia on 29 Sep 1835^[2] to Robert Collins.^[2] He was born in Liverpool, Queens County, Nova Scotia and worked as a merchant. He moved to Aylesford shortly before his marriage.^[2]

The children of Robert and Elizabeth Collins were all born in Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia. They are, in no particular order,

Enoch Lewis Collins

Margaret Collins

Phebe Jane Collins

Georgiana Collins

John Collins

David Collins

George Collins

Harvey Collins

Sarah Collins

Stephen Collins^[2]

Elizabeth died of Typhoid Fever 25 Oct 1874^[2] and was buried in the Morse Cemetery, Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia, where her gravestone states she was in her "58th year". However, she died aged 56 years, 5 months and 24 days.^[2] Her husband, Robert, died in Aylesford, 26 Mar 1886.^[2] He is buried in the Morse Cemetery, Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia, Heart of the Acadian Land, Giving a Sketch of the French and Their Expulsion: And a History of the New England Planters who Came in Their Stead, with Many Genealogies, 1604-1910, By Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, Salem Press Company, 1910, page 768
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11} The Robertson Family Tree - Private files - "Preliminary Report of the Palmer Family of Westchester County, N.Y. and Nova Scotia, page 7, by Lawrence Brainerd (Genealogist), Boston, Massachucetts, 1924" citing Authorities: Town Book of Aylesford, Nova Scotia; The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia (A.W.H. Eaton), p. 768, and Kings County Probate Records, Liber III, Folio 121, accessed 9 Jan 2019.
3. ↑ Death of Elizabeth Lavinia (Palmer) Collins Deaths Registered in Kings County, Nova Scotia, 1874, page 115, Image 124, Line 195.
4. ↑ All names included, with the exception of Willam Richard, in the abstract of his last will in Robertson Private Files, cited from Kings County Probate Records, Liber III, Folio 121.