Collier collator : a quarterly for Collier, Colyer, etc. families and allied lines
(Periodical)

Quarterly

Quarterly.

Vol. 1 issue 1 (July 1986) - [vol. 7 issue 4 (1992)]

Editor: Alice Collier Clark.

Publication ceased with vol. 7 [issue 4] (1992).

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (17 Nov. 2005).

Each issue includes a partial index to names, localities, and topics. Each issue also includes a bibliographic references and table of contents.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Collier (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England. Some allied families came from Holland. Some Colliers immigrated to Barbados and Jamaice (West Indies), and Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York (New Netherlands and Long Island), and Virginia in the 1600s. Some were Quakers and some were Huguenots. In the 1700s, some settled in Kentucky and North Carolina. During the 1800s, some moved to Ontario (Canada), Alabama, the Arkansas Territory, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, the Indian Territory, the Mississippi Territory, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and West Virginia. Includes names of slaves, and adoptions. Information is primarily abstracts, extracts, transcriptions, and photocopies of original records, including baptismal records, birth records, burial records, cemetery inscriptions, census returns, court records, death records, deeds, directories, family Bible records, indentures, land records, marriage records, military records, newspapers, obituaries, parish records, pensions, probates, wills, and other sources dated from 1600s to the late 1900s.