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William Alfred Collins was born at Drummillar in Banbridge, Co. Down, on 20 May 1869.¹

Sarah Jane Collins, Henry James Collins, Samuel Albert Collins, William Alfred Collins, Bessy Collins, Richard (aka Frederick) Collins and Lucy Collins arrived at Brisbane, Queensland, on 20 September 1875 on board the 'Renfrewshire' in the company of their parents Henry Collins and Margaret Stevenson.²

On 3 May 1876, just 10 days after their mother's death, all the COLLINS children (namely Lucy, Sarah, Bessy, Henry, Samuel, William and Richard), but excluding baby Lucy, were admitted to the Diamantina Orphanage and Receiving Depot.³

The orphanage records show that he was placed in service with a Mr TEESDALE of Mooloolabah on 23 Sep 1879 but he was subsequently sent to the reformatory for 3 years on 26 April 1884 for being 'neglected'. The reformatory records state that both his parents were dead; this sentence would have expired on 26 Apr 1887 when he was 17.^3,4

Richard Collinson was born in December 1990.

Lionel Spencer H Compton was born in Moss Vale, New South Wales, in 1893.²

He married Lillian Edith Hampson, daughter of William Spencer Hampson and Emma Louisa Heywood, in Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales, in 1940.¹

Lionel died on 9 April 1961 in Sydney, New South Wales.^3,4

She was baptised on 3 May 1724 at Logierait, Perthshire.¹

She married Thomas Fergusson in Logierait, Perthshire, on 20 December 1748.^2,3

He married Anne Robertson in Scotland.²

Harold Cone was born in New Hampshire on 26 October 1940.¹

Harold died on 1 February 2010 in Nth Carolina at age 69.¹

John Paine Cone was born in Kansas on 14 December 1903.²

He married Irma Frost, daughter of Robert Lee Frost and Elinor Miriam White, in Franconia, New Hampshire, on 15 October 1926.¹

John was divorced from Irma Frost in 1947.³

John died on 2 April 1991 in Lexington, Nth Carolina, at age 87.²

Joyce Connett was born in New Plymouth on 21 September 1915.¹

She married Hugh McCutcheon (Peter) Spencer, son of Percy Spencer and Lucy Charlotte Nutter, in New Zealand in 1948.²

She was widowed at age 65 on the death of her husband Hugh on 5 July 1981.^1,3,4

Joyce died on 2 November 1996 in Auckland at age 81.⁵ She was cremated at the Purewa Cemetery on 6 November 1996.⁵

Susan Ann Connor was born in Hobart, Tasmania, on 5 April 1840.^1,3

She married William Pooley Ayton at Wesleyan Chapel, O'Brien's Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, on 15 February 1860.^4,3

She was widowed at age 45 on the death of her husband William on 9 October 1885.⁵

Susan died in January 1928 in Hobart, Tasmania, at age 87.⁶ She was buried on 26 January 1928 at the Cornelian Bay Cemetery in Hobart.⁷

He married Susan Stubbings in Hobart, Tasmania, circa 1833.^1,2