Thirteenth Generation

2757. Josephine Martha Tyler was born about 1828 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. She died on 16 October 1868 at the age of 40 in Durdham Downs, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Death GRO 1st qtr 1868
Collis, Josephine Martha 40 Clifton 6a 81 (Clifton is a suburb of Bristol)

of Kingswood, Gloucestershire.

DEATH
COLLIS.- On the 16th October, at Durdham Downs, near Bristol, Josephlne Martha, wife of the Rev. John Day Collis, D.D., vicar of Stratford-on-Avon, and eldest daughter of the late John Chatfield Tyler, Esq., of the Forelands, near Bromsgrove.

Census, 1861
name: Josephine Martha Collis
event: Census
event date: 1861
gender: Female
age: 32
relationship to head of household: Wife
birthplace: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
record type: Household
registration district: Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

Josephine Martha Tyler and Rev. John Day Collis Dd,Bd,Ma,Ba were married on 18 June 1846 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England. Marriage
groom's name: John Day Collis
bride's name: Josephine Martha Tyler
marriage date: 18 Jun 1846
marriage place: Bromsgrove, Worcester, England
groom's father's name: Robert Collis
bride's father's name: John Chatfield Tyler
indexing project (batch) number: I03752-6
system origin: England-EASy
source film number: 321129
reference number: 185
Rev. John Day Collis Dd,Bd,Ma,Ba, son of Robert Fitzgerald Collis and Maria Bourke, was born on 24 February 1816. He died on 1 April 1879 at the age of 63 in Shottery Hall, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Death GRO 2nd qtr 1879
Collis, John Day 63 Stratford 6d 379

Vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon in 1868.

John Day Collis (1816–1879) was a British headmaster and educational writer.

Collis, son of the Rev. Robert Fitzgerald Collis, prebendary of Kilconnell, County Galway, by Maria, daughter of Edward Bourke of Nun's Island, Galway, was born 24 Feb. 1816, and, after being educated at Rugby 1832–4 under Dr. Arnold, entered Merton College, Oxford, as a postmaster in the latter year. In 1835 he became Eaton scholar of Worcester College, proceeding B.A. 1836, M.A. 1841, and B.D. and D.D. 1860. He was elected to a fellowship at his college, and gained the Kennicott, and Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholarships, 1839–41.

Having been nominated to the head-mastership of Bromsgrove in December 1842, that school, through his indomitable energy, grew to be one of the best educational establishments in England. The tercentenary of the grammar school was celebrated on 31 March 1853. In 1856, through his exertions, the chapel was built at a cost of 1,500 Pounds, and new school rooms were erected and the old buildings enlarged and improved at a cost of 5,000 Pounds.

He was nominated an honorary canon of Worcester Cathedral in 1854, and in 1856 was offered, but declined, the colonial bishopric of Grafton and Armidale. From 1863 to 1865 he held the Grinfield lectureship on the Septuagint at Oxford. His connection with Bromsgrove was severed in 1867 by his appointment to the vicarage of Stratford-on-Avon. During his incumbency Stratford church was restored and improved, and he completed the formation of the water terrace in the churchyard. He was the founder and first warden of Trinity College school at Stratford, 27 Jan. 1872.

He married first, 18 June 1846, Josephine Martha, eldest daughter of John Chatfield Tyler of Kingswood, Gloucestershire, who died 16 Oct. 1868; and secondly, 11 Oct. 1871, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Castleman of Chettle, Dorsetshire, and widow of Rear-admiral Douglas Curry of Shottery Hall, Stratford-on-Avon.

Collis died at Shottery Hall 1 April 1879, and was buried in the Bromsgrove cemetery on 4 April.