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Collyer Family Tree
Beard - Bishop - Boddeus - Chaplin - Clements - Collyer - Connor - Deetmerink - Deijs - Drenth - Finch - Gerrie - Gilbert - Grenfield - Hall - Harms, de Jong - Havinga - Holland - Humphreys - Koeslag - Michel - Morgan - Nicholas - Oates - Olver - Osborn - Ouderdorp - Paas - Pellegrim - Petrie - Ponting - Pool - Rowe - Savage - Slomp Warring - Strauß - ten Broecke, Grauwert - Trembath - Veltkamp - Vivian - Vos - Warin - Watkins - Wellink - Westenborg - Wevers - White - Williams - Wisely

Name variations: Collyer, Collier, Colyer, Colyar.

The Collyer's originally came from the Boarhunt, Hampshire area where the family had been smiths for generations until they were thrown off their lands for smuggling and poaching.

John Collyer - Born 1715 in Southwick, Hampshire. Buried 9th of June 1779 in Southwick, Hampshire.
Mary Unknown - Born 1719 in Southwick, Hampshire. Buried 8th of September 1783 in Southwick, Hampshire.
Marriage details unknown.

Thomas Collyer - Chr. 13th of August 1749 in Southwick, Hampshire, buried 26 May 1814 in Southwick, Hampshire.
Ann Holland - Chr. 27th of October 1754 in Southwick, Hampshire, buried 21 Nov 1820 in Southwick, Hampshire.
Married 4th of November 1773 in Southwick, Hampshire.

Henry Collyer - Chr. 20th of March 1791 in Southwick, Hampshire, died 1840 in Southwick, Hampshire.
Hannah Rowe - Chr. 11th of October 1795 in Southwick, Hampshire.
Married 24th of December 1815 in Southwick, Hampshire.

Thomas Collyer - Chr. 29th of Marchy 1818 in Southwick, Hampshire, died 30th of October 1893 in Boolara, Victoria, Australia.
Thirza Houghten - (also Thyrza) Born 5th of November 1826 in Boarhunt, Hampshire, England. Died January 1849 at sea near Adelaide, Australia.
Married 25th of December 1843 in Southwick, Hampshire.

Thomas Collyer - Chr. 29th of Marchy 1818 in Southwick, Hampshire, died 30th of October 1893 in Boolara, Victoria, Australia.
Christiana Clemens - (also Christina Clemens) Born 17th of January 1825 in St Just, Penwith, Cornwall, died 1884 in Boolara, Victoria, Australia.
Married 2nd of July 1849 in Walkerville, South Australia.

Thomas, Thirza with children Caleb and Thirza arrived in Adelaide on the ship "William Money" on the 3rd of January 1849. Thirza died while still on the ship at Adelaide, baby Thirza died 6 months later.

Son Caleb once wandered away and was found 3 months later living with aboriginals.

Christina arrived on the ship "Marion" on the 13th of February 1849. She was taken from the ship by Thomas Collyer to mind his son Caleb, and married soon after. In 1853 they moved to Geelong. Thomas came first by walking overland with a bullock train. He went to Bendigo gold fields to find enough gold for his families fare over by boat. Her cousin Mary Nicholas was also on board.

Thomas Thomas husband of Christina's sister Patience went from Geelong to Adelaide to pick them up. They lived in Geelong until moving to Colac in 1860. They lived at Chilwell when Thomas worked as a builder, then they went to Mount Duneed where they had land. At Colac he had a store & ran a carrying business. When the store burnt down in 1879 he moved to Boolara in Gippsland. Thomas died in 1893 and Christina in 1884. They were buried in the Hazelwood Cemetery.

Colac Herald Friday 27th Oct 1893.
Mr Thomas Collyer of Morwell, Gippsland died on Sunday last at the ripe old age of 80yrs. The deceased was well known in Colac where he carried on business for a number of years. Old residents will remember his premises at Colac west, which was destroyed by fire. Mr Collyer then removed to Gippsland where he took up a selection, upon which he resided until the time of his death. For some years he followed the occupation of carrier between Colac & Geelong. While he was here he was a prominent Wesleyan Churchman. He leaves a grown up family of sons and daughters. Mr C. Collyer head teacher of the Colac State School being his eldest son.

I have found 2 seperate dates for the marriage of Thomas & Christiana, and have unfortunatly lost both sources. Others have not been able to find their marraige record at all, so it is important that I find where those dates came from.

Robert Bruce Stewart - Born in London, England.
Hannah Collyer - Born 1855 in Newtown, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, died 1926 in Yinnar, Victoria, Australia.
Married 1878 in Victoria, Australia.

The children & first wife of Robert Maitland Stewart were drowned when they were coming from Tasmania (where they were living near Stanley) to see the family & the overloaded boat Orion sank off Stanley in bad weather. He returned to Victoria & married his wife's sister who died of TB soon afterwards. He then married Valerie Lawdorn & had children Ruby Eileen, Daisy, Robert Raymond. They were very small when he died in 1919 (buried Hazelwood).

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