Born in Cudham, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Daniel Collins
and Ethel (Ouzman) Collins
Sister of
Tony Collins
Wife of
Bernard Kenneth Sparkes
— married
Jul 1943 (to 20 Feb 1944) in Bromley Kent
Wife of
Jack Edward Miller
— married
23 Oct 1948 (to 2004) in Margate St John the Baptist, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Descendants 
Mother of
Nick Miller
Died
at age 82
in Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom
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| Created 11 Aug 2019
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Biography
Audrey (Collins) Miller was born in Cudham, Kent, England.
Name: Audrey D Collins
Event Type: Birth Registration
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Registration Year: 1922
Event Place: Bromley, Kent, England
Mother's Maiden Name: Ouzman
Audrey's parents were living at Grub Ground Cottage, Jail Lane at the time of the 1921 census.
Geographical Note and Social context: Jail Lane runs east to west from the Shingle Street junction to Biggin Hill. It may have taken its name from the Old Jail Inn, a hostelry built in the 18th C as a terrace of two or three cottages with attached outbuildings. There is speculation that it earned its name by accommodating convicts and their guards travelling between Maidstone and London.
Grub Ground is a farm to the south of Jail Lane , between the Old Brickfield and Biggin Hill
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| Grub Ground and Berries Farm map |
Note
Audrey's family had moved to Margate by 1937 when Audrey will have been 15 years old.
Audrey Miller (Sparkes, Collins)'s life in 1939 National Registration,
20 Oak Cottage Westonville Avenue, Margate M.B., Kent, England
Mussared household (4 people)
First name(s) Last name(s) DOB Sex Occupation Marital status
George L Mussared 27 Sep 1878 Male Retired Married
Alice Mussared 01 Dec 1878 Female Retired Married
Audrey Miller (Sparkes, Collins) 24 Mar 1922 Female Housemaid Single
George Leslie Mussared passed away in 1940.
Marriage Registration
Event Place: Bromley, Kent, England
Registration Year: 1943
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Spouse: Bernard K Sparkes
Sparks-5169 - Bernard Sparks died 20 Feb 1944 over Hanover Germany
Marriage Registration
Event Place: Thanet, Kent, England
Registration Year: 1948
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse: Jack E Miller
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| JE & AD Marriage3 Cert |
Transcript
Married at St John the Baptist Parish Church, Margate at October 23rd 1948.
Jack Edward Miller, 22, Bachelor, Fisherman, Seaview Cottages', Botany Road, Margate,, Father, William Walter Miller, fishmonger.
Audrey Dorothea Miller, 26, Widow, Shop Assistant, Seaview Cottages', Botany Road, Margate, Father: Thomas Daniel Collins, farm labourer.
Witnesses T D Collins, G A Robbins.
Places of Residence
Grub Ground Cottage, Jail Lane Biggin Hill, at time of birth.
Margate Kent in fathers household before or about 1937.
20 Oak Cottage Westonville Avenue, Westbrook, Margate M.B., Kent, 1939, live in housemaid
2 Seaview Cottages, Botany Road, 16 Sep, 1948
131 Northdown Rd Cliftonville, Margate, 11 Nov 1949
Grange Farm, Mayland Althorn, 16 May 1951
2 Seaview Cott, 29 Nov 1951
54 Western Rd Margate. Employed as a sewing machinist in a clothing factory.
26 Caldicote Rd, Eynesbury Hunts.
Junipas, Pertenhall, Bedfordshire
5 Muncaster Road Walney, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria.
She passed away in 2004 at Furness General Hospital, Barrow in Furness.
Sources
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| Collins Family Tree |
- Personal knowledge and certificates in keeping of Miller-68614
- "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV3H-P76C : 2 October 2014), null in entry for Audrey D Collins, 1922; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, Bromley, Kent, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
- https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=TNA/R39/1753/1753B/012/35
- "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV8T-V6D7 : 8 October 2014), Audrey K Collins and null, 1943; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1943, quarter 3, vol. 2A, p. 1892, Bromley, Kent, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
- "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVDW-7QB3 : 8 October 2014), Audrey D Sparkes and null, 1948; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1948, quarter 4, vol. 5B, p. 1469, Thanet, Kent, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
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Name Meaning Collins 1 Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coileáin and Mac Coileáin ( see Cullen 1).2 English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Col(l)in, a pet form of Coll , itself a short form of Nicholas
Audrey Much altered form of the Old English girl's name Æðelþryð, derived from æðel ‘noble’ + þryð ‘strength’. This was the name of a 6th-century saint (normally known by the Latinized form of her name, Etheldreda), who was a particular favourite in the Middle Ages. According to tradition she died from a tumour of the neck, which she bore stoically as a divine punishment for her youthful delight in fine necklaces. The name went into a decline at the end of the Middle Ages, when it came to be considered vulgar, being associated with tawdry, that is, lace and other goods sold at fairs held in her name (the word deriving from a misdivision of Saint Audrey). Shakespeare bestowed it on Touchstone's comic sweetheart in As You Like It. In the 20th century, such associations largely forgotten, the name was revived, partly due in the 1950s and 60s to the popularity of the actress Audrey Hepburn ( 1929–93 ).
Dorothea form of a post-classical Greek name, from dōron ‘gift’ + theos ‘god’ (the same elements as in Theodora , but in reverse order). The masculine form Dorotheus was borne by several early Christian saints, the feminine by only two minor ones, but only the girl's name has survived. In modern use in the English-speaking world it represents either a 19th-century Latinization of Dorothy or a learned reborrowing.
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Bio notes: 1939, Housemaid to George L & Alice Mussared Retired. 20, Oak Cottage, Westonville Avenue, Margate, Kent, England. Widow of Sergeant BERNARD KENNETH SPARKES. 1320930, 625 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died age 23 on 20 February 1944. Son of Arthur and Edith Sparkes 54 Weston Rd, Cliftonville, Kent. Occupation Seamstress. 26 Caldicote Rd, Eynesbury Hunts. Junipas, Pertenhall, Bedfordshire 5 Muncaster Road, Walney, Barrow in Furness. Cumbria. Occupation Housewife.