Wife of William Collingwood, mother of William Gershom Collingwood. Janet Gnosspelius' great-grandmother.
Marie Elizabeth Imhoff (1826-1873)
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- Dates of Creation1998-1999
- Language of MaterialEnglish
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Born in Switzerland in 1826, Marie Imhoff married William Collingwood in 1851. Together, they had three children, including W. G. Collingwood. She was the daughter of a Protestant notary. She appears to have come to England with William Collingwood's elder brother, Samuel, in 1846, and to have started a school. She died in 1873.