When Byron Collins was born on 2 August 1884, in Shelby, Iowa, United States, his father, Eli Atkinson Collins, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Graybill, was 31. He married Theresa Rachel O'Day on 25 July 1910, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Blair, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada in 1920 and Cuming Township, Cuming, Nebraska, United States in 1920. He died on 1 May 1920, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Shelby, Iowa, 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 .
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