Pre 1795 Storyline

This article tells you what was implied to happened to the Collins family of the 18th Century, before the 1795 storyline.
== Events Implied ==
*Barnabas meets a wealthy heiress named Josette DuPres who was brought from France, as the bride of his middle age uncle Jeremiah Collins. (345) 
*Barnabas teaches Josette english during a brief visit to Martinique, and they soon fall in love. (239) 
*Josette marries Barnabas Collins, who gives her a music box which he bought back from the Orient, for her wedding present. (236) 
*Joshua kills his son Barnabas near the stairways in their house, but covers his death and tells the whole family that he went to England, Barnabas soon becomes a vampire. (215)
*The new Collinwood mansion is built by Jeremiah Collins. (212) 
*Josette finds out her lover Barnabas Collins is a vampire, and falls to her death in Widows' Hill. (281)
*Sarah Collins dies. (276) 
*Naomi Collins dies in her sleep. (209)
*Joshua finds out his son Barnabas Collins is a vampire, and chains him in a coffin in the secret room of the Collins mausoleum. (212)