The yougest child of Christopher and
Sarah, Eleanor (b. 1840) married a local gamekeeper, George Webb and
lived in Fleybridge but her sister Sarah ~b. 1832) had left Danbury
by the 1851 census and I recently discovered that she had gone to work
in Bethnal Green where she met and married Henry Fielder, a model engine
maker. The lived in Lambeth.
Christopher died in Danbury in 1869 and Sarah in 1873.
Writtle
George Collis, the farmer in Writtlie, had nine children by his first
wife Ann who he married in 1787, and after Ann died in 1805 he married
Sarah Bennington, a 23 year old widow. They had eight more children
so Writtlehad quite a large representation of the Collis family in the
nineteenth century.
Samuel, (b.1812) was a gardener,but two of his sons, Samuel (b.1848)
and Jefree (b.1850) were bricklayers. Another of Samuel's sons, Walter
(b.1856) moved to Roman Road, Chelms:iord, and was a grocer's assistant.
One of his sons, Herbert Walter (b.1884) became Essex County Accountant.
Stephen was a bricklayer and moved to The Chase, Great Baddow, where
he lived. until after 1891. His son Harry (b.1853)was also a bricklayer.
David, (b.1818) was a shoemaker, as was one of his four sons, David
Harry Collis.