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Jill
26-09-15, 09:05
Father of William Collins (http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=19750&highlight=william+collins)

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
William Collins
Date and place of birth
c1702 Stedham, Sussex
Names of parents
Thomas Collins and Sarah nee Harford
Date and place of baptism - if applicable
20 Dec 1702 Stedham, Sussex
Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
14 Feb 1738 Linch, Sussex to Ann Evans by Archdeaconry of Chichester licence dated previous day (William Collins, husbandman, bachelor of Chithurst & Ann Evans spinster of Stedham, sponsors William Collins, and Wm Guy, victualler, of Chichester) one son, my ancestor William from this marriage

3 Aug 1773 Chithurst, Sussex to Elizabeth Trott, 3 children from this marriage late in his life before she died in 1777 (bur 19 Jan 1777 Chithurst Elizabeth Collins, wife of William Collins snr)
Occupation(s) - if any
Husbandman
Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK)
Stedham, Sussex
Chithurst, Sussex
Woolbeding, Sussex at baptism of eldest son
Date, place and cause of death
Oct 1784 Chithurst, Sussex
Date and place of burial.
15 Oct 1784, William Collins snr, pauper, Chithurst, Sussex
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
none
Memorial inscription - if any
NK

William had been left “All my stock corn Cattle Carts Waggons and other my Implements & Utensils of Husbandry together with all my household Goods” by his father, things seem not to have gone well as he died a pauper.