Collins Family History
Collins Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coileáin and
Mac Coileáin (see Cullen 1).English: patronymic
from the Middle English personal name Col(l)in, a pet form of
Coll, itself a short form of Nicholas.Americanized
form of French Colin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Collins Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Collins families
 4,266 - 8,530  1,423 - 4,265 |
 1 - 1,422  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Collins families
|
609 - 1,216 204 - 608 |
1 - 203 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Collins census records
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Collins Family Origin
Collins Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Collins Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Collins Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Collins census records
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