Records of Francis Collier on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Francis Collier in your family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Francis Collier and the Collier Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Collier Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Collier family tree.

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Some Famous People called Francis Collier

Francis Augustus Collier

Rear Admiral Sir Francis Augustus Collier, CB, KCH (7 August 1786 – 28 October 1849) was a senior officer of the British Royal Navy during the early nineteenth century. Born into a naval family, Collier served in the French Revolutionary Wars and fought at the Battle of the Nile on Horatio Nelson's flagship. During the Napoleonic Wars he was engaged in campaigns in the West Indies and in 1819 he commanded an operation against pirates in the Persian Gulf. He remained in service for the next thirty years, holding several commands before his death in 1849 as commander of the China Squadron at Hong Kong.
Source: Francis Augustus Collier, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Collier

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