James Edward COLLINS (1878-1956)

Name:	James Edward COLLINS
Sex:	Male
Nickname:	Ted
Father:	John COLLINS (1833-1910)
Mother:	Eliza Lucy CURTIS (1840-1923)

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	26 Jul 1878	Plumstead1
Death	10 Nov 1956 (age 78)	Rochford Hospital2
Occupation		Civil servant, Admiralty Office; Admiralty Office

Marriage

Spouse	Nora Blanche COE (1885-1970)
Children	Evelyn Grace COLLINS (1913-2005)
	Edward Arthur COLLINS (1916-1942)
	James Dudley COLLINS (1921-1994)
Marriage	5 Jun 1912 (age 33)	St Martin In The Fields London
	On 5 June 1912 she married James Edward Collins at St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, in the presence of her mother Ellen Coe, her niece Maud Dennison, her sister-in-law Emily Collins and a James Lenn.

Individual Note

In 1901 Ted, as he was known, was living with his parents, John and Eliza Collins, and his schoolteacher sister Emily at 33 Tuscan Road, Plumstead, and working as a 2nd division clerk at the Admiralty. He was a keen sportsman, climbing many of the Swiss mountains before his marriage to Nora Coe in 1912, after which he promised to confine himself to less dangerous pursuits, such as tennis, cycling and photography. Like his parents and siblings, Ted was a non-conformist by religion and, with his brother-in-law Charles Shipman, ran the all-age Sunday School in Bloomfield Road Plumstead on Sunday afternoons.

By the time of his retirement Ted Collins had reached a senior post in the Admiralty and was on easy terms with many of the admirals. He was also a fine singer, and was enthusiastically involved with a Gilbert and Sullivan society in Woolwich. After the move to Leigh on Sea he liked nothing better than to sail on the Thames estuary with his son Arthur or daughter Evelyn. He had a keen interest in genealogy too, compiling a detailed tree of the Collins family and undertaking research for the Coe family in Maldon Church and in the Essex Record Office.

Sources

1	"James Edward Collins' family tree".

2	"James Edward Collins death, 10 Nov 1956".