Francis COLLINGWOOD was a saddler living and working at Great Portland Street, London in the early nineteenth century. It is likely that he died aged 50 in 1820. I am investigating the possibility that he came from an Uppingham family. Two things suggest this could be the case.
1. An older Francis COLLINGWORTH (about 1739-1780) was a publican in Uppingham, and his family included two children with names and dates of birth that correspond to those of the known siblings of Saddler Francis.
2. There was a bequest in the will of an Uppingham lady, Sarah PARKER (died 1805 – she was the sister of Rev’d John Parker MA who was Usher at the School). The bequest is to “Francis Collingwood of Great Portland Street, Middlesex, saddler”.
Francis, the Uppingham publican appears to have had children, Mary 1771, Henry 1774, Ann, 1776 and Edward, 1778. It would have been ideal had there been one more: Francis, 1770, but I can find no sign of this.
Two of the siblings, Mary and Edward are buried at Uppingham churchyard with their parents. It is interesting that neither Henry nor Ann are there since there is an older Rootschat string (
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=532975.msg3872772#msg3872772) about people who could well have been them, together with their brother Francis (who is confirmed to be the Saddler Francis). At the time when that string was active, an Uppingham origin was suggested, but not established; all three of them lived at least the latter parts of their lives away from Rutland.
I’d be very glad to receive help from anybody who knows about the Uppingham COLLINGWOODs or can find any other evidence that the Saddler Francis was born in Uppingham in about 1770.
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