Edith Collins

Edith Collins (nee Sayers) was the matriarch of the Collins family from the time of her husband’s death in 1840, until her death in 1897. Her husband was Gabriel Collins and they had a son, Geoffrey, who sired four children, Edward, Judith, Carl, and Quentin. She carried to her grave the Collins family secret.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Edith was born in 1807. As Caleb Sayers Collins , "Sayers" maybe a maiden name as sons,' of wealthy families sometimes had their mother's maiden name as part of their surname in order to honor their maternal ancestry, Meaning, Edith may be part of the Sayers family. In the late 1820s, Edith fell in love with a young man named Redmond Van Buren, but unfortunately on the day of the dance, he danced in a ballroom with another women. Edith was heartbroken, and stabbed Redmond and his new lover.
=== Marriage to Gabriel Collins ===
In the early 1830s, Edith married a man named Gabriel Collins. After the wedding, Edith begged her father-in-law, Daniel Collins, to let them live in the Old House, but he refused telling her "If you want to be a Collins, you must live in Collinwood" (706). The marriage was a loveless one and she always hated Collinwood, but lived there until her death. 
The two later had a son named Geoffrey Collins in 1835, whom they sent to boarding school. There is an indication of other children as well. (1119). Caleb, and Thaddeus his elder brothers maybe referenced.
===The Family Secret ===
In 1840, Before he died, Daniel Collins passed on the family secret to Edith, which was that in the family mausoleum there was a relative who suffered under the curse of vampirism: Barnabas Collins. The secret originated with Joshua Collins, who passed it on to Daniel. Daniel should have passed it on directly to his son Gabriel Collins, but instead shared it with Edith. (706) 
===Matriarch Of Collinwood===
Edith and Gabriel became the rulers of Collinwood, in the early 1860s, though Gabriel shortly passed away in 1863, leaving Edith a widow. Shortly thereafter, her son Geoffrey Collins would marry a young woman named Anna, and they had four children, Edward, Judith, Carl and Quentin Collins, though both Geoffrey and Anna Collins died in the 1880s, leaving Edith to raise the children. After her son’s death, Edith was active in the family business and once traveled to France, where she found a missing revolver, and kept up at Collinwood as part of her collection. (776) Edith had a dislike over her family’s lawyer named Evan Hanley, due to role in the occult. (708) 
Edith possibly gave her son, Caleb Collins permission to live in Seaview Valley until his death in 1872. (298) 
His youngest son, Thaddeus Collins fought in the American Civil War, from 1861 to 1865. (639) 
She was the holder of a Family secret. It was theorized by the children that the secret was just information on where the some of the lost Collins family jewels were hidden. (701) 
In the early 1890s, She let a fellow gypsy named Magda Rakosi and her husband Sandor stay at the Old House, when her grandson Quentin and Jenny Collins were married. (706) 
In 1896, Edith banished Quentin out of Collinwood after the affair he had with Edward’s wife, Laura Collins. They later fled to Alexandria, Egypt. 
===Death===
By 1897, She became bed ridden and had her food delivered by the servents, and also had falling health problems. Before she died, Edith told Edward that “Judith did kind things for me while you were gone away. I know why she did it; she thinks she’s getting the money. You, Edward, you are not kind, you shouldn’t have gone away and left" (706).
When Edith died, Magda was reading Carl’s tarot cards. She said there was much money, more than anyone knew. She next said that everyone would be very surprised. She said there is murder but Edith had the last laugh. Next, she said the money would not stay with whoever got it. She then turned over the death card and realized Edith was dead, and had died without telling Edward what the family secret was. However, Magda knew that someone else did know the secret and told Carl (706).
== Edith’s will==
The part of Edith Collins lying in her coffin was played by Natalie Norwick in episodes 708-710 (uncredited).
==Altered time-line ==
Edith Collins is later shown to have died in 1840, by the hand of her husband, Gabriel. This contradicts what had previously been established during 1897. So, either Julia's and Barnabas' presence in 1840 altered history, or Edith Collins only appeared to die in 1840.
==Appearances==
701, 704, 705, 706, 708, 709, 710, 1119, 1146, 1154/1155, 1160, 1161, 1186 
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