When Hamlin Allen Collins was born on 20 December 1930, in Roanoke Rapids, Halifax, North Carolina, United States, his father, Benjamin Franklin Collins, was 27 and his mother, Wilda Hardison, was 19. He married Daphne Grey Bartley on 24 December 1949, in Harris, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 8 July 1988, at the age of 57.
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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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