When Mary Collins was born on 10 October 1819, in Letcher, Kentucky, United States, her father, James Shephard Collins, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth Pheobe Lewis, was 31. She married John Preston Breeding in 1842, in Letcher, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Magisterial District 3 Rockhouse, Letcher, Kentucky, United States in 1880. She died on 5 June 1885, in Booneville, Owsley, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Booneville, Owsley, Kentucky, United States.
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English: variant of Colin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish and Manx: shortened Anglicized from Ó Coileáin, compare Cullen , or in Man or west Ulster shortened from Mac Coileáin, compare McQuillan and McCallion . The genitival -s is a local addition to Collin and variants after the surname was Anglicized.
Americanized form of French Colin or Collin and also Collette .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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