Editing Marie Collings (section)

== Seigneurship ==

By the time she became Dame of Sark, she was already too old to actively participate in the government of the island. She never visited it during her tenure, "to the regret of the Sark people".<ref name="Guernsey">{{cite book|title=The Guernsey Magazine: A Monthly Illustrated Journal of Useful Information, Instruction, and Entertainment, Volume 2|year=1873}}</ref> [[La Seigneurie]], official residence of the ruler of Sark, was modernised and extended during Collings' brief rule, just like it was in the 1730s, when another widow, [[Susanne le Pelley]], bought the fief.<ref name="Sark">{{cite news|url=http://www.laseigneuriegardens.com/history.html|title=History of La Seigneurie|date=2012}}</ref> Collings meanwhile resided in Guernsey, and was represented in Sark by her only son and [[heir apparent]], the Anglican priest [[William Thomas Collings]]. He succeeded her as seigneur of Sark upon her death in 1853, less than a year after the purchase.<ref name="Marshall"/> She was also survived by a daughter, Catherine Ann Allaire Ozanne (1826–1879). The island remains in Collings' family through the children of William Thomas and [[Louisa Collings]].<ref>{{Cite ODNB |title=Lukis, Frederick Corbin (1788–1871), antiquary and natural historian |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-69159 |access-date=2024-07-03 |date=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/69159}}</ref> Her descendant [[Christopher Beaumont, 23rd Seigneur of Sark|Christopher Beaumont]] is the current seigneur.<ref name="Marr"/>