He married a widow, Phoebe Chopping, on 27 August 1841 at St Luke's Church, Chelsea"London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754–1932" for Charles James Hamilton and Phoebe Chopping, London Metropolitan Archives, via Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 25 June 2020 and their only known child, Edward James Bruges Collins, was born in the second quarter of 1847 at Lambeth."Index Entry", ONS via freeBMD, accessed 22 June 2020
