Brief Life History of William Bogle
When William Bogle Collier was born on 2 September 1815, in Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Ezra Collier, was 41 and his mother, Patty Downs Howard, was 35. He died on 4 October 1841, in Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 26.
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- William Bogle Collar, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
Parents and Siblings
1774–1844 Male
1780–1843 Female
Siblings (9)
1807–1877 Male
1808– Female
1810–1813 Female
1811–1813 Female
1813–1862 Female
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World Events (3)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
Age 4
1820 · Making States Equal
Age 5
1820 · Making Land more affordable
Age 5
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English colier, in most parts of the country ‘maker or seller of charcoal’, but in some areas (such as Bolton le Moors and Wigan, Lancashire) where coal measures were near the surface, ‘miner or seller of coal’ (in the modern sense, ‘fossil fuel’). The name was taken to Ireland from England and was first recorded there in 1305. In Petty's ‘census’ of 1659, it was recorded as a principal surname in Meath.
English: occupational name from Middle English coilour, coliour, culliour, Old French coileor, coillour ‘tax collector’. Surnames with this origin seem to have died out in Britain.
French (northern): from collier ‘collar’, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of collars.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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