PART FOURTEEN

The John Kyte Collett Line - 1550 to 1810

This is the first of two sections of the fourteenth part of the Collett family

Updated January 2023

It includes a great many references to the Colletts of Bourton-on-the-Water

and should be read in conjunction with Part 33 – The Bourton-on-the-Water Line

This line commences at Anthony Collett (Ref. 1F12) in the very first section of Part One – The Main Line.

It may be of interest to know that the surname Kyte appears at other times connected to the Collett name.

The first in the Will of Thomas Collett in 1538, the next in 1621 when Robert Collett married

Editha Kyte at Mickleton in north Gloucestershire and again in 1714 when Mary Collett

married Richard Kyte at Westcote near Stow-on-the-Wold.

The underlined names indicate the family line of Wayne Arthur Collett (Ref. 14Q10) of Brisbane

	The original information used in the composition of this family line, around 2006, was obtained from Pedigree 5 of The Collett Saga by Margaret Chadd, published in 1988. Since then, a great many more details have been added thanks to numerous contributions from other Collett researchers all around the world.
14F1	ANTHONY COLLETT (Ref. 1F12) was born in 1554 at Over Slaughter and he married Elizabeth Hules of Over Slaughter in 1593. Elizabeth was the daughter of John and Ann Hules of Over Slaughter, as known as Upper Slaughter. Ten years after Anthony and Elizabeth were married John Hules made his Will (as John Hulles) in which his wife Ann and her three sons, William, John and Hugh were the main beneficiaries (see Will in Legal Documents)
	In the Will made on 12^th May 1603 and proved in May 1604, the overseers were Anthony Collett (John’s son-in-law), his older brother Thomas Collett (Ref. 1F8) of Over Slaughter and Nicholas Perratt. Anthony Collett “of Over Slaughter” died on 20^th May 1627 and his Will, which was made on 8^th April 1627, was proved on 5^th July 1627 (PROB11/152) and named his four children and his wife Elizabeth as beneficiaries (see Will in Legal Documents)
	Elizabeth’s eldest brother William Hules, who was one of the three trustees listed in Anthony’s Will, was also one of the witnesses to the signing of the Will. In addition to William Hules, the other two trustees were Anthony’s eldest son Henry (below) and John Collett of Naunton (Ref. 2G1). William Hules was also one of the witnesses at the making of the Will of Anthony’s eldest son Henry Collett (below) in 1645. Under the terms of her husband’s Will, Elizabeth Collett inherited the house, the land and a hall belonging to it, but only if she remained a widow.
	14G1	Anne Collett				Born in 1598 at Over Slaughter
	14G2	HENRY COLLETT				Born in 1601 at Over Slaughter
	14G3	Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1610 at Over Slaughter
	14G4	John Collett				Born in 1613 at Over Slaughter
14G1	Anne Collett was born in 1598, the first-born child of Anthony Collett of Over Slaughter and his wife Elizabeth Hules. She was around sixteen or seventeen years old when she married Mr T Minchin on 2^nd May 1614. The couple had four children before Anne died in 1647. Under the terms of her father’s Will of 1627, Anne Minchin was bequeathed five pounds, with six pounds being giving to each of her four children, all paid within two years of his death.
14G2	HENRY COLLETT was born in 1601 and most likely at Over Slaughter where his father Anthony was a farmer. Following the death of his father in 1627, Henry inherited freehold and leased land at Naunton, together with free lands at Stow-on-the-Wold and Upper Slaughter, plus two hundred pounds, the second-best bed, a plough and a harrow. Henry married Ann Lombard the daughter of Thomas Lombard and in 1642 he took over half-ownership in Naunton Manor, following the death of his cousin Henry Collett, the previous owner. Prior to his death, Henry held a lease on a farm at Nethercott which, in 1647 and after his death in 1645, passed to his eldest son Anthony Collett, as did all other lands at Naunton including land at Harford in the Parish of Naunton.
	The reason for the delay was that Henry’s Will had been disputed resulting in a lengthy process of proving the Will in which Henry had originally specified the property be passed to his wife Ann. The arguments over Henry’s Will were eventually settled on 20^th February 1647 (PROB11/199), when he was referred to as Henry Collett of Bourton-on-the-Water (see Will in Legal Documents)
	The farm and lands at Nethercott had been previously been granted to Thomas Lombard by the knight Sir Thomas Edmonds, Henry inherited from Ann’s father upon his death. The property at Upper Slaughter that Henry had inherited from his father was left to his second son Henry Collett (below), together with lands at Bourton-on-the-Water. All of Henry’s other children listed below were beneficiaries under the terms of the Will and received various sums of money on reaching the age of twenty-one.
	Other beneficiaries were (a) Henry Collett’s cousin Henry Collett of Slaughter and his wife Judith Collett who received five shillings of wood per year and (b) the poor of Bourton, Naunton, Upper Slaughter and Stow. Tragically, Judith’s husband Henry also died in 1645 but obviously after the Will had been written. Further details of Henry and Judith can be found in the first section of Part 2 under the Ref. 2G3. Henry’s widow Ann Collett nee Lombard lived a long life and died during 1692.
	It was previously unclear what happen to Henry’s half-share in Naunton Manor when he passed away in 1645, but now, according to www.british-history.ac.uk, the next owner was Henry’s eldest son Anthony Collett (1632-1682), after which it passed to Anthony’s eldest son Anthony Collett (1674-1719), who never married, and then to his brother Henry Collett (1676-1731). Thereafter, the Collett family’s half of manor was passed to William Moore, the son-in-law of Henry Collett (1676-1731) and the husband of his daughter Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 14J4). William Moore died in 1768 who, by then, was on his second marriage, the manor subsequently passing into the Dawe family via an illegitimate son of William Moore.
	14H1	Anthony Collett			Born circa 1630 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14H2	Elizabeth Collett			Born circa 1633 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14H3	Sarah Collett			Born circa 1635 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14H4	Henry Collett			Born circa 1637 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14H5	Thomas Collett			Born circa 1639 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14H6	JOHN COLLETT			Born circa 1640 at Bourton-on-the-Water
14G3	Elizabeth Collett was born in 1610 at Over Slaughter and died there in 1628 shortly after her late father Anthony Collett. In comparison to her older sister Anne Minchin (above), Elizabeth would have inherited a small fortune from her father’s Will had she lived long enough to enjoy it. Under the terms of the Will she was left one hundred and fifty pounds, plus the third best bed and other furniture and household items.
14G4	John Collett was born in 1613 and as the fourth and youngest child of Anthony Collett of Over Slaughter, and his wife Elizabeth Hules, John inherited from his father the fourth best bed and other furniture and fifty pounds, plus ‘all the timber at Nether Slaughter’ and the ‘free lands at Bourton’. John was referred to as “Gentleman of Naunton, Bourton and Upper Slaughter” and he farmed his own estate. He was married to Bridget with whom he had just two daughters. John Collett died during 1690 and, towards the end of the following year, his widow Bridget died and was buried at Bourton-on-the-Water on 28^th November 1691, aged 76.
	John’s Will made on 14^th May 1685 and proved on 25^th November 1690 confirmed the names of his wife Bridget, his sole surviving daughter Mary and her husband John Collett, together with their children John, Ann, Mary and Elizabeth (see Will in Legal Documents). The Will referred to land and property at Harford in the Parish of Naunton, Smith Mill at Bourton, plus lands at Upper and Lower Slaughter, all of which was bequeathed to John’s grandson John Collett (Ref. 14I13). Sole executor to the Will was son-in-law John Collett and the overseers were kinsman Thomas Collett of Bourton, Richard Collett of Lower Slaughter and Hercules Lydall of Lower Swell. ‘Kinsman’ Thomas was probably the son of John’s older brother Henry (above) and the brother of son-in-law and sole executor John Collett (Ref. 14H6), being Thomas Collett (Ref. 14H5).
	14H7	Ann Collett				Born in 1654
	14H8	Mary Collett				Born in 1654
14H1	Anthony Collett was born in 1632 and he married Anne Greening in 1673 with whom he had three children. Although he was referred to “Gent of Bourton”, his estate covered other areas of Gloucestershire and parts of Oxfordshire. Under the terms of the 1645 Will of his father Henry, Anthony, upon reaching 21 years of age, inherited his father’s property at Naunton, including Harford. Anthony died at Bourton-on-the-Water on 2^nd November 1682 and his Will proved in 1683 left property to his wife for the duration of her widowhood. The remainder of his estate went to his children upon them reaching 21 years of age (see Will in Legal Documents). His Will, made on 25^th July 1679 revealed the extent of his land and property, most of which was held in trust by Anthony’s wife until his eldest son Anthony (below) reached the age when he was able to take them over. Only the property at Bourton was directly left to his wife Anne. The properties that ultimately passed to son Anthony were those in Oxfordshire being at Rawford, Chalgrove, Great Haseley and Watlington.
	The lands and property at Naunton, including Harford in Naunton were to be inherited by son Henry (below) upon reaching 21 years of age. Daughter Anne was bequeathed various sums of money under the Will but would only inherit property in the event of the death of her brothers before reaching their twenty-first birthdays. Anthony’s two younger brother Henry and John (both below) were named as the executors to the Will. There is a monumental inscription at Bourton that confirms Anthony Collett died on 2^nd November 1682 aged 50. It has been confirmed on the website www.british-history.ac.uk that Anthony’s two eldest sons, Anthony and Henry, were the last two members of the Collett family to own a half-share in Naunton Manor, their ancestor John Collett (Ref. 1F9 & 2F1) being the first shareholder with Giles Venfield from around 1600. That John Collett was the older brother of Anthony’s grandfather.
	14I1	Anthony Collett				Born in 1674
	14I2	Henry Collett				Born in 1676
	14I3	Anne Collett				Born in 1678
14H2	Elizabeth Collett was born around 1633 and inherited money from her father’s estate following his death in 1645 but only payable to her on reaching her twenty-first and twenty-fourth birthdays.
14H3	Sarah Collett was born around 1635. When she was just ten years of age her father died and provision was made in his Will for Sarah to receive money, but only upon reaching 21 years of age. It therefore seems unlikely that she ever inherited the money as she died when close to her twenty-first birthday in 1656.
14H4	Henry Collett was born around 1637 and, following the death of his father in 1647, and upon reaching the age of 21, Henry inherited property at Upper Slaughter and at Bourton-on-the-Water. It possible that Henry was first married to Alice, with whom he had a son, also named Henry. However, many years later, the wife of Henry Collett of Upper Slaughter was Ann since, such a pairing was named within the joint guardianship of Anthony Collett (Ref. 14I1) in 1679, when the child was five years of age. During his life, Henry Collett of Upper Slaughter was also reputed to own property known as the Shapes Closure and Lake Kedow, although these were not specifically named in his father’s Will. Henry, together with his brother John (below), were joint executors of the 1679 Will of their eldest brother Anthony Collett (above), whose son was the aforementioned, five-year-old Anthony Collett junior. Henry Collett was in his nineties when he died during 1731.
	The reason for the above change to the name of the wife of Henry Collett comes from research work being carried out in 2018 by Vera Keller. She is researching a book in the collection at her university library, previously in the collection of Hannah Collett (1692 to 1756). Hannah was the wife of Job Goodman and Vera has enquired whether the information about Hannah came from The Collett Saga by Margaret Chadd, nee Collett. Through an exchange of details between Vera and Brian Collett, it became clear that Margaret had added Hannah and her younger sister Ruth, as the daughters of Henry’s brother John Collett (below) and his second wife Mary Collett, his cousin and the sister of his first wife. It is now established that Hannah Collett was the daughter of Henry and Dorothy Collett. Furthermore, Hannah had written in the book that Vera is researching, entitled The History of Plants, and the same book also contains the writing of Ruth Collett. Therefore, both Hannah and Ruth, previously Ref. 14I15 and Ref. 14I17 respectively, have been removed as the children of John and Ann Collett. In this 2020 version of Part 14, the two girls have been assigned to Henry (here), the known son of Henry and Alice Collett.
	14I4	Henry Collett				Born circa 1660
14H5	Thomas Collett was baptised on 1^st March 1639. Together with his brother John (below), Thomas benefited from his father’s Will in 1647 to the tune of £8 per year until reaching 21, plus a further £8, on two specified days during each year. In addition, each was paid two further sums totalling £485 two years after their father had passed away in 1645. Thomas lived the life of a yeoman farmer at Nethercott near Great Wolford just north of Bourton-on-the-Water. He married Ann Lumbert and was a nonconformist for which he was fined in 1685 for not attending church. Thomas Collett died in 1720 at the age of 81 and was buried at Bourton. It seems very likely that, as the nephew of John Collett (Ref. 14G4) and the brother of John Collett (below), he was one of three overseers referred to ‘kinsman Thomas Collett’ in the 1685 Will of John Collett (Ref. 14G4).
	14I5	Elizabeth Collett					Date of birth unknown
	14I6	Thomas Collett					Buried in 1739
	14I7	Henry Collett					Date of birth unknown
	14I8	Hannah Collett					Date of birth unknown
	14I9	Sarah Collett					Died in 1713
14H6	JOHN COLLETT was born in 1640, the sixth and last child of Henry Collett and Ann Lombard. Together with his brother Thomas (above), John benefited from his father’s Will in 1647 to the tune of £8 per year until reaching 21, plus a further £8 on two specified days during each year. In addition, each was paid two further sums totalling £485, two years after their father had passed away in 1645. He upset the family when, in his 30s and against their wishes, he married (1) his much younger cousin Ann Collett (below), one of the twin-daughters of John and Bridget Collett. Tragically, Ann died without issue in 1674, aged 20. There was further upset within the family following her death when, shortly after, John married (2) Ann’s twin sister Mary Collett, apparently upon the express wish of his first wife when she knew she was dying. John’s second marriage to Mary Collett took place in 1675 and the witness at the marriage was John’s uncle John Collett of Upper Slaughter who acted as bondsman. He was the father of twins Ann and Mary.
	It was as ‘John Collett of Upper Slaughter’ that in 1679, John was named as joint guardian of five-year-old nephew Anthony Collett (Ref. 14I1), following the death of his father Anthony Collett, John’s older brother. And it was John and his brother Henry (above) who were named as executors of the 1679 Will of their eldest brother Anthony Collett (above), the father of nephew Anthony Collett. John was named as the sole executor in the 1685 Will of his uncle and father-in-law John Collett (Ref. 14G4), in which his own eldest son John (below) was named as the main beneficiary in his grandfather’s Will. (see Will in Legal Documents)
	Both of the marriages between John and his two cousins were viewed as incestuous and, after John and Mary had been married for ten years, and around the time when Mary was pregnant with their fifth child, the Church made the proclamation reproduced below. As a result of all the trouble with the church at that time John and Mary turned dissenters and had their goods confiscated. The property John owned at Upper Slaughter was referred to as Tidmarshes and it was there that all of their nine children were born. "By virtue of an order from the Lord Bishop and Court of Gloucester, the sentence of divorce between John Collett and Mary, his wife, was pronounced in the Parish Church of Upper Slaughter, the 22^nd day after Trinity, November 1^st 1685, the said sentence being confirmed by the Dean of Archbishops Court of Delegates. The reason they give is because of the incestuous marriage, she being the natural and lawful sister of his former wife, deceased, by virtue of the same order, the sentence of divorce registered and reported on record". Signed by Jos. Stone, Minister and Richard Perrett & John Perrett, Churchwardens
	It was nine years earlier, when John and Mary were married, that the Church became upset by their union, resulting in the following proclamation after the birth of their first child: “Gloucester Consistory Court June 12^th 1677. John and Mary Collett - The Articles state that, after the decease of Anne, his first wife, the said John did, within the space of two or three years last past marry Mary the sister of Anne and by her has had a daughter and continues to live with her and so has committed the most vile and detestable sin of incest. Therefore, this pretended marriage ought to be dissolved and defendants condemned in costs.” Thirty years after the date of their ‘enforced divorce’, John Collett eventually passed away in 1716 at the age of 76, and it is believed that his body was buried in the burying ground of the Meeting House, off Station Road in Bourton-on-the-Water. Mary, his second wife, who died in 1729 at the age of 75, may have been buried with her husband.
	An extract from the history of Upper Slaughter refers to the Collett family in the following way: “Nearly a third of the population in 1676 was returned as nonconformist and during the 18^th century, apart from single families of Presbyterians and Independents, there was a considerable community of Baptists. They may have drawn their strength mainly from the Collett family, which was numerous and influential in the village. A certain John Collett was fined for dissent in the 1660's and the same or another was a dissenting preacher in 1715. In 1842 the house of William Collett was registered as a place of worship, presumably for Baptists, but it seems to have been out of use by 1851. A Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1885, possibly by a group which had registered a house as a place of worship in 1842, but it had fallen out of use as a chapel by 1931, and perhaps even as early as 1918. It was sold in 1954 by a Major-General Witts, and in 1961 was being used as a shed”.
	In 2001 Phyllis Collett Tyler (Ref. 33P38) wrote a booklet entitled ‘Cotswold Romance’ the 17^th Century story of John Collett of Upper Slaughter who first married his cousin Anne Collett and, when she died in 1675, he then married her sister Mary. In doing so, in the eyes of the authorities, John committed the most vile and detestable sin of incest.
	So upset were the authorities by his actions, the sentence of divorce between John and Mary was pronounced in the Parish of Upper Slaughter on 1^st November 1685, the sentence confirmed by the Dean of the Archbishops’ Court of Delegates, by virtue of an order from the Lord Bishop and Court of Gloucester. The document was signed by Joseph Stone (Minister), Richard Perratt and John Perratt (Churchwardens).
	14I10	Ann Collett				Born in 1676 at Upper Slaughter
	14I11	Mary Collett				Born in 1679 at Upper Slaughter
	14I12	Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1681 at Upper Slaughter
	14I13	JOHN COLLETT				Born in 1683 at Upper Slaughter
	14I14	Sarah Collett				Born in 1686 at Upper Slaughter
	14I15	Henry Collett				Born in 1689 at Upper Slaughter
	14I16	Freelove Collett				Born in 1695 at Upper Slaughter
14H7	Ann Collett was born in 1654, possibly a twin-sister to Mary Collett (below), the only two children of John and Bridget Collett. Ann married her much older cousin John Collett (above) who was born in 1640. The marriage must have taken place around 1674 when Ann was just 20 years old but tragically, she died that same year perhaps during childbirth, although there was no resulting child. However, Ann must have known there was a chance she might die, as it was pre-arranged with her sister Mary that she would marry her husband John Collett in the event of her death. See John Collett (Ref.14H6) for more details.
14H8	Mary Collett was born in 1654, possibly the twin-sister to Ann Collett. Upon the early, and untimely death of her twin-sister Ann in 1674, it was agreed that Mary would marry her sister’s widowed husband John Collett, which she did in 1675. Fifteen years later, and following the death of Mary’s father John Collett “Gentleman of Naunton, Bourton and Upper Slaughter” it was his only surviving child, Mary Collett, her husband John Collett, and their son John Collett junior who were named in his Will. Grandson John Collett was the main beneficiary under the terms of the Will. However, it was stated, that should young John not survive or leave an heir, then the estate and lands of his grandfather would pass to Mary’s younger son Henry Collett. See John Collett (Ref.14H6) for more details.
14I1	Anthony Collett was born in 1674 and was just five years old when his father Anthony Collett died. Thereafter, he came under the joint guardianship of his uncles John Collett (Ref. 14H6) and Henry Collett (Ref. 14H4) and his wife Ann. For whatever reason, Anthony “Gentleman of Bourton-on-the-Water” as he was known, was not baptised until he was 21 years of age in 1695. It was also at that time that Anthony inherited the bulk of his father’s estate at Bourton and at other locations in Oxfordshire (as listed below).
	Anthony never married and twenty-four years later he died at Bourton on 12^th April 1719, aged 45. In his Will, made on 16^th January 1716, Anthony’s estate comprising land at Bourton and at Chalgrove, Rawford and Watlington in Oxfordshire was equally divided between his two siblings Henry and Anne (both below). The Will also referred to the fact that his sister Anne was married to John Collett and that she and her brother Henry were joint executors of the Will (see Will in Legal Documents). Also, within the Will, proved on 15^th May 1719, Anthony bequeathed the sum of ten pound per year to be paid to a schoolmaster to teach and instruct five poor boys in Bourton-on-the-Water.
	Anthony was buried just inside the doorway of St Lawrence’s Church at Bourton and upon the stone slab are the words “Interred under this stone the body of Anthony Collett gent who departed this life April 12^th 1719 aged 45”. Also, at Bourton on the wall inside the church, there is a memorial tablet dedicated in his name which highlights his generous annual donations to support the teaching of twelve poor boys of the town. Thanks to Peter Davies, and information received from him in 2017, it is now established that Anthony Collett held the half-share in the Naunton Manor passed down to him through the Colletts since around 1600, the other half originally in the ownership of Giles Venfield (Ref. 1F9 & Ref. 2F1). This he held until his death in 1719, when it passed to his brother Henry Collett (below), Anthony having no children of his own.
14I2	Henry Collett was born in 1676 and married his cousin Mary Collett (Ref. 14I10) the daughter of John and Mary Collett (Ref. 14H6). All of the children of Henry and Mary were born and baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water. Following the death of his father in 1682 and upon reaching 21 years of age, Henry inherited his father’s land and property at Naunton, including land at Harford within the Parish of Naunton. In addition, Henry and his children, although not named specifically, were listed as beneficiaries in the Will of Henry’s bachelor brother Anthony Collett (above). Anthony’s estate, comprising extensive lands in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, was divided equally between his only two siblings Henry and his sister Anne (below).
	Upon the death of his brother Anthony Collett (above), a bachelor with no children, the half-share in Naunton Manor passed to Henry in 1719, as his nearest next-of-kin. Twelve years later Henry Collett died at Bourton during 1731 and Mary followed six years later on 25^th December 1737 aged 58, which corresponds exactly with the year in which Mary was born, that being 1679. By the time of the death of Henry Collett, his daughter Elizabeth was very recently married to William Moore, and it was to him that the Collett half-shared in Naunton Manor passed.
	14J1	John Collett			Born circa 1704 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14J2	Richard Collett			Born circa 1708 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14J3	Mary Collett			Born circa 1710 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14J4	Elizabeth Collett			Born circa 1712 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14J5	Ann Collett			Born circa 1714 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14J6	Anthony Collett			Born circa 1716 at Bourton-on-the-Water
14I3	Anne Collett was born in 1678, the third child and only known daughter of Anthony Collett and Anne Greening. She married her cousin John Collett (below) Ref. 14I13) on 4^th February 1707 at Great Rissington. John Collett was the son of John and Mary Collett (Ref. 14H6). Anne was just four years old when her father died in 1682 and in his Will Anne inherited £400 on reaching the age of twenty-one. The Will also stipulated that, in the event her two brothers died before reaching 21, Anne would inherit the whole of her father’s extensive estate in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. In addition, Anne and her children, although not named specifically, were listed as beneficiaries in the Will of Anne’s bachelor brother Anthony (above). Anthony’s estate comprising extensive lands in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire was divided equally between his only two siblings Anne and her brother Henry (above). The Will also made reference to sister Anne being married to John Collett. For more details of Anne and John and their family, go to John Collett (Ref. 14I13).
14I4	Henry Collett was born at Upper Slaughter around 1660, where he was baptised on 18^th October 1662, the son of Henry and Alice Collett. It is also known that Henry married Dorothy in the latter part of the 1680s and that their marriage produced at least three children, who were baptised at Upper Slaughter.
	14J7	John Collett				Born in 1690 at Upper Slaughter
	14J8	Hannah Collett				Born in 1692 at Upper Slaughter
	14J9	Ruth Collett				Born in 1697 at Upper Slaughter
14I5	Elizabeth Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was married in 1718 to her cousin Henry Collett of Bourton-on-the-Water who was born in 1689. See Henry Collett (Ref. 14I15) for more details
14I6	Thomas Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Mary Tombe and their marriage produced a total of four known children, all of them born at Bourton-on-the-Water. Thomas Collett died at a relatively young age in 1739.
	14J10	Ann Collett			Born circa 1715 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14J11	Hannah Collett			Born circa 1720 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14J12	Thomas Collett			Born circa 1723 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14J13	William Collett			Born circa 1729 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	The continuation of this family line is provided in Part 15 – The Kenilworth Line, being the family line of Neil Collett of Kenilworth.
14I8	Hannah Collett, whose date of birth is not known, died on 4^th October 1713 and was buried in St Lawrence’s Church Cemetery where a gravestone bears her name (see Headstone Epitaphs)
14I10	Ann Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1676 and was a beneficiary under the terms of the 1685 Will of her grandfather John Collett (Ref. 14G4). She was the first child of John Collett and his second wife Mary Collett, his cousin, his first wife being Mary’s twin-sister Ann Collett who died aged twenty. In her grandfather’s Will, Ann was to be given two hundred pounds upon reaching eighteen years of age, plus twenty nobles each year for her maintenance and education up until she was eighteen. Ann Collett later married John Gorle at Great Rissington on 1^st June 1708.
14I11	Mary Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1679 and was a beneficiary under the terms of the 1685 Will of her grandfather John Collett (Ref. 14G4). In it she was to be given one hundred and fifty pounds upon reaching eighteen years of age, plus twenty nobles each year for her maintenance and education up until she was eighteen. Just like her father John Collett, Mary also married her cousin Henry Collett the son of Anthony and Ann Collett. See Henry Collett (Ref. 14I2) for more details.
14I12	Elizabeth Collett was born and baptised at Upper Slaughter in 1681 and was a beneficiary under the terms of the 1685 Will of her grandfather John Collett (Ref. 14G4) through which she was to be given one hundred pounds upon reaching eighteen years of age, plus twenty nobles each year for her maintenance and education up until she was eighteen. Elizabeth Collett was the third child of John and Mary Collett, and she married Benjamin Horniblow and died in 1726.
14I13	JOHN COLLETT was born and baptised at Upper Slaughter in 1683, the eldest son of John Collett and his second wife Mary Collett, the twin-sister of John’s first wife, both of them being John’s cousins. During his life he was referred to as “Gent of Bourton” and had property at Upper Slaughter and Naunton. As the eldest and only male heir at that time, he was the main beneficiary in the 1685 Will of his grandfather John Collett (Ref. 14G4). The Will also made allowance for his maintenance and education with an annual sum of twenty pounds which ceased upon him reaching the age of eighteen years (see Will in Legal Documents).
	On 4^th December 1707, at Great Rissington, he married his cousin Anne Collett from Naunton, the daughter of Anthony Collett and Anne Greening (above). Their marriage produced a total of eleven known children. John Collett died in 1734 and his Will made on 15^th April 1734 was proved at Canterbury later that same year. Within the Will of John Collett of Bourton-on-the-Water, his eighth child John, was referred to as the eldest son and was named as the sole executor of the Will, while Thomas was referred to as the youngest son. The only other surviving child, being a beneficiary in the Will, was daughter Sarah, all three of them below the age of twenty-one years (see Will in Legal Documents).
	14J14	John Collett				Born in 1708; died in 1710
	14J15	Anthony Collett				Born in 1710; died in 1710
	14J16	Ann Collett				Born in 1711; died in 1711
	14J17	Moses Collett				Born in 1712; died in 1712
	14J18	Joshua Collett				Born in 1712; died in 1712
	14J19	Henry Collett				Born in 1713; died in 1714
	14J20	Sarah Collett				Born in 1714 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14J21	JOHN COLLETT				Born in 1716 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14J22	Mary Collett				Born in 1718; died in 1718
	14J23	Thomas Collett				Born in 1719 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14J24	Henry Collett				Born in 1720; died in 1723
14I14	Sarah Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1686, another daughter of John and Mary Collett. Twenty-two years later she married John Rushton at Great Rissington on 29^th September 1708. It was forty-one years later that Sarah Rushton nee Collett died during 1749.
14I15	Henry Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1689, and lived at Bourton-on-the-Water. He married his cousin Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 14I5), the daughter of Thomas Collett and Ann Lumbert. In 1734 he acted as trustee for his brother John Collett (above) and died shortly thereafter. There appears to be a great number of years between the birth of Henry Collett and the baptism dates of his children. However, their mother was born around 1700, being ten years younger that Henry.
	14J25	Thomas Collett			Born in 1728 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14J26	John Collett			Born in 1731 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14J27	Henry Collett			Born in 1734 at Bourton-on-the-Water
14I16	Freelove Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1695, and was the youngest child of John and Mary Collett, who were cousins. Freelove was around twenty-seven years old when she married Joseph Ryland in 1722. Joseph was the son of John Ryland and was born at Sezincote and had first married a wealthy widow at Lower Ditchford near Shipston-upon-Stour. That marriage produced no children for Joseph and, upon the death of his wife, Joseph a bailiff, married Freelove Collett, with whom he had three children. Their sons were John Collett Ryland who was born in 1723, and Joseph Ryland who was born in 1727, while their daughter Freelove Ryland was born the following year, but died young. It would appear that her mother Freelove may have died during her birth, since it is known that Freelove Ryland nee Collett died in 1828.
	The couple’s eldest son John was baptised in October 1741, following which he was taken into the ministry and went to Bristol to study. In 1750 he was ordained and became Pastor of the Baptist Church in Warwick. He later moved to Northampton where he was a minister for 26 years and where he established a strong Baptist presence as well as opening a Baptist school in the town. John was well known as Doctor John (Collett) Ryland and died in 1792. His brother Joseph initially joined the army but later became a member of the Baptist Church at Eagle Street in London. For other references to the name Ryland see Ref. 14M10 and Ref. 14N12.
	John Collett Ryland married Elizabeth Frith and their son Herman Witsius Ryland was born in England around 1759 or 1760. Herman joined the British Army and spent 1781 and 1782 in the American colonies. Nothing is known of his activities for about a dozen years after his return to England when, in 1793, Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester) became Governor of Lower Canada and selected Herman W Ryland as his civil secretary. The two of them then set out for Quebec together and that was the beginning of a long career for H.W. Ryland as a public servant in Lower Canada. He served as civil secretary to Carleton (1793 to 1796) and to his successors including Robert Prescott (1796-1798), Lieutenant Governor Robert Milnes (1799-1807), James Craig (1807-1811) and George Prevost (1811-1813). Herman W Ryland also held the position of Clerk of the Executive Council from 1796 to 1798, and from 1799 to his death. He was also Clerk of the Crown in Chancery from 1802 to 1833, and treasurer and secretary of the Jesuit's Estate Commission from1811 to 1826. He was also a political figure, sitting as a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1812 until his death in 1838.
14J1	John Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water around 1704 and was baptised there on 14^th April 1706. However, before reaching his twentieth birthday he died on 12^th April 1719 in the Reign of Queen Ann. He was the first child born to Henry Collett and his wife Mary Collett, who were cousins.
14J2	Richard Collett born at Bourton-on-the-Water around 1708 and was baptised there on 15^th October 1710, another son of Henry and Mary. He married Sarah around 1728 and all of the couple’s five children were born and baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water.
	14K1	Elizabeth Collett			Born circa 1729 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14K2	Mary Collett			Born circa 1731 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14K3	Anne Collett			Born circa 1733 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14K4	Anthony Collett			Born circa 1740 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14K5	Elizabeth Collett			Born circa 1742 at Bourton-on-the-Water
14J3	Mary Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water around 1710, where she was baptised there on 23^rd November 1712, the eldest daughter and third child of Henry and Mary Collett.
14J4	Elizabeth Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water around 1712, the fourth child of Henry and Mary Collett. It was around the time of the death of her father that Elizabeth married William Moore of Bourton-on-the-Water during 1731. And it was William Moore who took over the Collett family’s half-share in the Manor at Naunton, which had been held by the Colletts for over one hundred and twenty years.
14J5	Ann Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water around 1714 and was baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water on 13^th May 1716, another daughter of Henry and Mary Collett.
14J6	Anthony Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water around 1716 where she was baptised during 1717, the last child of cousins Henry and Mary Collett. He was only sixteen when he died on 14^th September 1732, following which he was buried at Bourton-on-the-Water.
14J7	John Collett was born at Upper Slaughter around 1690 and may have been the eldest child of Henry Collett and his wife Dorothy. It was also at Upper Slaughter where John was baptised on 5^th July 1691, when his parents were confirmed as Henry and Dorothy Collett.
14J8	Hannah Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1692 and was baptised at Upper Slaughter on 16^th March 1892, the daughter of Henry and Dorothy Collett. Some years later, Hannah Collett married Job Goodman. Hannah was the owner of a book, The History of Plants published in 1598, in which her name was written, together with the names of her sister Ruth Collett, and her likely daughter Sarah Goodman. It was inside the front cover of the book, on a torn page one, that a younger Hannah laid claim to the book by writing “In whose hand secure, I be Hannah Collett is the owner of me”. On that same page, and alongside Hannah’s comment, was a much later note by Sarah Goodman, which reads “Sarah Goodman, her book in 1744”. It was on the last page of the book, preceding the index, that the young hand of her sister had written the name Ruth Collett, accompanied by some random scribblings. Twelve years after Sarah Goodman had been given the book by her mother, Hannah Goodman, nee Collett, died during 1756.
14J9	Ruth Collett was born in 1697, the sister of Hannah Collett (above) and therefore another daughter of Henry and Dorothy Collett, although no baptism record has been found, unlike those of her two older siblings at Upper Slaughter. Ruth Collett later married John Collett of Loughborough, the son of Thomas Collett Yeoman of Longborough. John and his father can be found in Part 4 – The Great Western (Ref. 4I3).
14J20	Sarah Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water where she was baptised on 20^th March 1714, the seventh child of John Collett of Upper Slaughter and his cousin Anne Collett from Naunton, her previous six siblings all suffering infant deaths. Aged twenty-one, she married Andrew Paxford on 31^st May 1735 at Upper Slaughter. One year earlier, Sarah was one of only three surviving children included in her father Will. The mother of Andrew Paxford may have been Ann Paxford who was a tenant of land at Bourton Hill owned by the Collett family, who was listed as such in the Marriage Indenture of 1740 between Sarah’s brother John Collett (below) and Ann Hanman. It may also be of interest to note that on 7^th June 1768, at Stow-on-the-Wold, John Collett (Ref. 14K11) married Sarah Paxford, the daughter of Thomas Paxford and Anne Thorne.
14J21	JOHN COLLETT was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1716, the eldest surviving son of John Collett and his cousin Anne Collett. He was 24 years old when he married Ann Hanman on 9^th October 1740 at Bourton-on-the-Water, as confirmed by the entry in the parish register. Earlier in that same year a Marriage Indenture was drawn up for the couple and was signed the day before the wedding by John, his future bride Ann, his future mother-in-law Margaret Hanman, and was witnessed by John Reynolds, Richard Boswell and Henry Collett (see Marriage Indenture 1740 in Legal Documents)
	Ann Hanman was born in 1713, the daughter of the late Robert Hanman and his wife Margaret, and she died in 1794 and was buried at Bourton on 9^th February 1794. The Will of Robert Hanman was dated 20^th October 1737 (PROB11/685) while his wife’s Will of 1746 was proved in Gloucester on 22^nd June 1749 (PROB11/115). That latter document made her granddaughter Ann Collett the sole beneficiary, Ann being the eldest child of John Collett and Ann Hanman (see Will in Legal Documents)
	John Collett died in January 1776 and was buried at the Baptist Chapel in Bourton-on-the-Water on 18^th January 1776. His Will, in which he was referred to as “Gentleman of Bourton-on-the-Water” was proved on 28^th March 1776 (PROB11/1017) and makes reference to land and property at Northmoor near Oxford.
	John’s wife Ann was the sole executor of his Will, in which she was also the sole beneficiary. There is no reference at all to any of their children who would have all been in their thirties, so perhaps they were already well established financially (see Will in Legal Documents). The two witnesses to the signing of the Will were John’s niece Sarah Fox nee Collett (Ref. 14K13) and her husband Samuel Fox. It is very interesting that Sarah and Samuel Fox were also beneficiaries under the terms of the 1784 Will of Henry Collett (Ref. 14J28). John’s wife Ann was born in 1713 and died in 1794 and was also buried at Bourton on 9^th February 1794.
	14K6	Ann Collett				Born in 1741 at Upper Slaughter
	14K7	Sarah Collett				Born in 1743 at Upper Slaughter
	14K8	JOHN COLLETT				Born in 1744 at Upper Slaughter
	14K9	Thomas Collett				Born in 1746 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14K10	Anthony Collett				Born in 1747 at Bourton-on-the-Water
14J23	Thomas Collett was born and baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1719. He was one of only three surviving children of John Collett from Upper Slaughter, within whose Will of 1734, he was referred to as the youngest surviving son and not being of full age at that time. It was during 1742, that Thomas Collett married Mary Beale who died in 1750, leaving Thomas with three young children. Thomas died twenty-four years later in 1774. See references 14K6 and 14M24 for other connections with the Beale family.
	14K11	John Collett				Born in 1743 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14K12	William Collett				Born in 1746 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14K13	Sarah Collett				Born in 1747 at Bourton-on-the-Water
14J26	John Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water around 1731, the second of three son of Henry Collett and his much younger cousin Elizabeth Collett. When John was born his father was in his forties, while his mother in her early thirties. He married Mary and their son was baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water. It is possible that John died at nearby Lower Slaughter where a gravestone in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary at Lower Slaughter reads “John Collett died September 25^th 1797”. No alternative John Collett has so far been found to whom this might apply, while it is likely that both father and son were farmers.
	14K14	William Collett				Born in 1766 at Bourton-on-the-Water
14J27	Henry Collett was baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1734 and all that is known about him is that he appears never to have married and, upon his death after 1784, his Will written on 28^th December 1784 bequeathed the bulk of his estate to his nephew John Collett senior of Upper Slaughter, and his niece Ann Collett (both below), John’s older sister and the wife of James Beale of Bourton-on-the-Water. Two others each received five pounds and they were John Collett of Maugersbury and Sarah Fox (Ref. 14K13), the wife of Samuel Fox of Bourton-on-the-Water. The former Sarah Collett was the daughter of Thomas Collett (above) who was the cousin of testator Henry Collett (see Will in Legal Documents)
14K1	Elizabeth Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water during 1729 and was baptised there on 5^th July 1729. She was the first child of Richard Collett and his wife Sarah, and it was between the day she was born and 1742 that she suffered a premature death, with the couple’s final child also given the name Elizabeth in memory of her.
14K2	Mary Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1731, where she was baptised on 16^th May 1731, another daughter of Richard and Sarah Collett.
14K3	Anne Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water, the third child of Richard and Sarah Collett, who was baptised at Bourton on 22^nd July 1733.
14K4	Anthony Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water around 1740, the only son among a family of daughters, the fourth child of Richard and Sarah Collett. Very little is known about Anthony except that he died in 1823 and was buried on 19^th March 1823 aged 83 at Bourton-on-the-Water, as recorded in the nonconformist records at the Baptist Chapel there.
14K5	Elizabeth Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1742 where he was baptised on 8^th August 1742, the last of the five children of Richard and Sarah Collett. The first of the five children was an Elizabeth who, it must be assumed, died sometime between 1726 and 1742, for the couple’s last child to be given the same name.
14K6	Ann Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1741, the eldest child of John Collett and Ann Hanman. When she was just five years of age, her grandmother Margaret Hanman wrote her Will in which her granddaughter Ann Collett was the sole beneficiary. Margaret died shortly after and the Will was proved at Gloucester on 22^nd June 1749 (see Will in Legal Documents). She was married by licence to James Beale of Stow-on-the-Wold on 6^th June 1768 at Bourton-on-the-Water with whom she had seven children. James was very likely a nephew of Mary Beale who married Thomas Collett (Ref. 14J21). Upon the death of her uncle Henry Collett (Ref. 14J28) after 1784, Ann Beale, the wife of James Beale of Bourton-on-the-Water and her brother John Collett (below) of Upper Slaughter were bequeathed equal shares of his residual estate. Ann Beale nee Collett died in 1811.
14K7	Sarah Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1743, another daughter of John and Ann Collett. Tragically, it was there also that she died and was buried during the following year in 1744.
14K8	JOHN COLLETT was born at Upper Slaughter, the eldest son of John and Ann Collett, and was baptised there on 11^th August 1744. He married Elizabeth Shelburn on 3^rd May 1768 at the Church of St Michael’s in the village of Budbrooke, to the west of the town of Warwick. Elizabeth was slightly older than John, having been born in 1740. The birth of all of their children was included in the nonconformist records of the Baptist Chapel at Bourton-on-the-Water, and in which John and Elizabeth were described in each entry as being ‘of Upper Slaughter’. The chapel records for two of the children also gave the dates that they died, again with the note that their parents were ‘of Upper Slaughter’. And it was also as John Collett of Upper Slaughter that he was named in the 1784 Will of his uncle Henry Collett (Ref. 14J28) as an equal beneficiary with his sister Ann Beale (above).
	John Collett died in 1811 aged 67 and was buried at the Baptist Chapel in Bourton-on-the-Water on 23^rd May 1811. Elizabeth his wife died in 1817 aged 73 and was buried on 10^th October 1817. The first entry refers to John as ‘of Upper Slaughter’ while Elizabeth’s states she was the ‘relict of John late of Upper Slaughter’ – relict being an archaic word for widow. The document ‘The Complete Diary of a Cotswold Parson’, compiled by Alan Sutton, includes a reference to John Collett, the father of Joseph Collett (1785-1827), as John, the Prince of Wales, so called because he was the farmer at Wales Farm.
	A brass plaque on an inside wall of the Church of St Peter at Upper Slaughter makes reference to John Collett who, with the Rector of the Parish and William Cook, were the Trustees of the Lands of Upper Slaughter. The details on the plaque are reproduced here, from a photograph taken in 2018 during a visit by Clive & Pat Tolley, with the heading 1792 Benefactions to the Parish “In the year 1591 certain lands were purchased and conveyed to Trustees for the repair of the Church and for the relief of the poor. At the enclosure, 56 acres were allocated in lieu of the said lands which are upon lease at £31 10 00 per annum. John Collett, Richard Perratt and Thomas Collett, are the only surviving Trustees. Several sums of money have at different time been given to the Poor amounting in the whole to Fifty Two Pounds which is lent upon mortgage to the Trustees of the Church Estate, the interest is distributed annual. In 1789, The Rev F T Travell conveyed by deed to three Trustees viz. the Rector of the Parish for the time being John Collett and William Cook £166 15 00 and three percent reduced annuities for the maintenance of a Sunday School for ever. NB Upon the decease of one of the Lay Trustees, the remaining two are to appoint a third.” The aforementioned John Collett (Ref. 1F9) was joint Lord of the Manor of Upper Slaughter and he, and his brother Thomas Collett (Ref. 1F8), were two of the three named as responsible to setting up the trust. The later reference on the plaque, to William Cook and John Collett, relates to John Collett (1744-1811). William Cook was listed in the 1771 Will of John Humphries together with John Collett’s brother Thomas Collett (below) who married John Humphries’ daughter Mary.
	The William Cook of Hawling, mentioned in the Will of John Humphries, was in fact the son of William Cook and Mary Collett (of Naunton) who were married in 1714. He was baptised at Hawling during 1719 and the licence for his marriage in January 1747 described him as being 27 and from Hawling. The licence also named John Humphreys of Naunton as a witness, and he and the groom were bound in the sum of £500. This information was kindly provided by Mike Newton, whose earliest Collett ancestor was Hannah Collett, the daughter of Thomas Collett and Hannah Dobbins. Hannah was baptised at Winchcombe on 13^th April 1729, while her father from Winchcombe was married by licence to Hannah at Stanway in 1721. It was also at Winchcombe where Hannah Collett married Michael Cook in 1762. In the end, Hannah Cook nee Collett died in 1819 at Shurdington, south-west of Cheltenham.
	Thomas Collett may have been the Thomas who was born at Hinton-on-the-Green near Evesham, to the north of Winchcombe, where he was baptised on 6^th March 1704 when he might have been a few years old. The baptism record confirmed the parents were Thomas Collett and his wife Susannah.
	14L1	John Collett	Born in 1769 at Upper Slaughter
	14L2	Thomas Shelburn Collett	Born in 1771 at Upper Slaughter
	14L3	Sarah Collett	Born in 1773 at Upper Slaughter
	14L4	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1774 at Upper Slaughter
	14L5	Ann Collett	Born in 1776 at Upper Slaughter
	14L6	Martha Collett	Born in 1779 at Upper Slaughter
	14L7	ROBERT COLLETT	Born in 1780 at Upper Slaughter
	14L8	Job Collett	Born in 1782 at Upper Slaughter
	14L9	Joseph Collett	Born in 1785 at Upper Slaughter
14K9	Thomas Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1746 and he married Mary Humphries at Upper Slaughter on 8^th November 1770. Mary was the daughter of landowner John Humphries and his wife Ann. During February of the following year John Humphries made his Will in which his daughter Mary Collett and her children were beneficiaries (see Will in Legal Documents). At the time of writing the Will, his daughter Mary was four months into the pregnancy of her first child. Sadly, the child did not survive, but Mary was with child again a short time after. Further tragedy struck the family when Thomas Collett died around 1774 and just after the birth of the couple’s second child, his death coinciding with the death of his cousin John Collett (below).
	Following the death of her husband, Mary later married John Hanks at Little Rissington on 20^th October 1779 with whom she had two sons John and Robert Hanks. And it was as Mary Hanks that she was referred to in the Codicil to her father’s Will which was drawn up in 1780.
	What is of interest in the final proved version of the Will (PROB11/1073) is the list of monies loan out as mortgages and bonds by John Humphries. The list includes a £200 mortgage given to Thomas Collett on 27^th April 1762, although at the age of sixteen that was probably not the Thomas that married John’s daughter. It was more likely to be his uncle Thomas Collett (Ref. 14J21) whose wife had died in 1750 leaving him with a young family to raise. In addition to that, there were further bonds of £80 and £20 paid to the same Thomas Collett, together with an entry of a note that £180 was handed to Mary Collett now Mrs Hanks. The very last item on the list was a reference to a Jos Collett who had been paid a bond of £100 which ‘was lost due to the party being insolvent’ (see Will in Legal Documents)
	The later Will of John Humphries’ brother Robert Humphries made in 1802 named Mary Ann Kyte and her two sisters each of whom received £200. The Will was proved in 1806 just a few months immediately prior to Mary Ann marrying Robert Collett (Ref. 14L7). Also, under the terms of that Will, the main bulk of the estate comprising two houses, stables, outhouses and gardens in Bourton was left to Thomas Collett the son of Thomas Collett and Mary Humphries, to which was added £400 (see Will in Legal Documents). The same Will also bequeathed £100 to each of the aforementioned son of John and Mary Hanks.
	Another of the many links between the Collett and Hanks family was the marriage of Sarah Collett and John Hanks which took place at Bourton-on-the-Water on 5^th April 1774. And a son John Hanks was a beneficiary in the 1839 Will of one Emma Hanks (see Will in Legal Documents)
	14L10	Ann Collett				Born in 1771
	14L11	Thomas Collett				Born in 1773
14K10	Anthony Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water during 1747 and died later that same year, the last child of John Collett and Ann Hanman.
14K11	John Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1743 and was the eldest son of Thomas Collett and Mary Beale. It was at Stow-on-the-Wold that John Collett married Sarah Paxford on 7^th June 1768, the daughter of Thomas Paxford and Anne Thorne. At an earlier time, Sarah Collett (Ref. 14J21), the sister of John’s father, married Andrew Paxford at Upper Slaughter on 31^st May 1735. It is therefore possible that Sarah Paxford was in some way related to Andrew Paxford. Sadly, John Collett died just around the time of the birth of his last child, or shortly thereafter, around the same time that his cousin Thomas Collett (above) also died.
	14L12	Sarah Collett				Born in 1771 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14L13	John Collett				Born in 1772 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14L14	Samuel Collett				Born in 1773 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14L15	Mary Collett				Born in 1774 at Bourton-on-the-Water
14K12	William Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1746, the second of the three children of Thomas Collett and Mary Beale, who died in 1755 when he was around nine years old.
14K13	Sarah Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1747, the youngest of the three known children of Thomas Collett and Mary Beale. Sarah was twenty-five when she married Samuel Fox at Bourton-on-the-Water on the 8^th January 1772. However, she tragically died during the birth of the couple’s first and only child which must have taken place after July 1775 – see note below. Sarah Fox and Samuel Fox were the two named witnesses at the making of the Will of John Collett (Ref. 14J19) on 22^nd July 1775. The relationship between them was that Sarah was the niece of John Collett, she being the daughter of his younger brother Thomas Collett.
	It may be of further interest that two earlier Wills were witnessed by a John Fox who may have been the grandfather and father respectively of Samuel Fox, unless they were the same John Fox. The Wills in question were for John Collett (Ref. 14G4) in 1685 and John Collett (Ref. 14I13) in 1734. Likewise, the 1683 Will of Anthony Collett witnessed by Mary Fox, who made her mark. The Fox family also featured in the 1771 Will of John Humphries and that of his brother Robert Humphries in his 1802 Will (see Will in Legal Documents). It was their sister Elizabeth Humphries who married William Fox who was very likely the brother of Samuel Fox who married Sarah Collett (above). And lastly Sarah Fox, the wife of Samuel Fox of Bourton-on-the-Water received five pounds under the terms of the 1784 Will of Henry Collett (Ref. 14J28) of Bourton-on-the-Water – her father’s cousin.
14K14	William Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1766, the only known child of John and Mary Collett of Lower Slaughter who was baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water on 17^th October 1766. He is believed to be a farmer, like his father, who in 1841, was residing at The Square in Upper Slaughter with his daughter Ann Collett who was acting as his housekeeper. It was eight years after that census day, when the burial record and headstone inscription confirmed that William Collett was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church at Lower Slaughter. His headstone reads ‘William Collett who departed this life July 10^th 1849 aged 83 years’. This certainly confirms his birth having taken place around 1766.
	It was previously written here in error that William married (1) Jane, with whom he had two daughters, before being widowed, after which he married (2) Sarah in 1781. Sarah was born on 11^th June 1743 and was the daughter of William Jeynes and his wife Ann of the Parish of Westmancott in the county of Worcester. The details of their marriage confirmed that Wm Collett, widower of the Parish of Lower Slaughter, married Sarah Jeans of the Parish of Bourton-on-the-Water by Banns at Bourton Parish Church on 9th April 1781. It was also at Bourton-on-the-Water where the couple’s two children were born. The birth for both daughters, entered in the Baptist Chapel nonconformist records by Thomas Coles, Protestant Dissenting Minister, “at the request of Mr Collett”, identified the parents as being ‘of the Parish Lower Slaughter’.
	However, the above headstone of William Collett raises a major concern, in that the two daughters of William and Jane Collett could not possibly be the children of William Collett who would have been a child himself when they were born. Likewise, the two daughters of William Collett and Sarah Jeynes were born when William would have been between the ages of 16 and 18, too young for him to have been described as a widower upon his marriage to Sarah. Therefore, all of the four children listed below cannot be the offspring of William Collett, the son of John and Mary Collett of Lower Slaughter. Their father would have had to be born during the early 1740s and near the time of the birth of his second wife Sarah. All of this information has been retained here, in the hope that the correct William Collett can be identified at a later date.
	The first two children are the offspring of William Collett by his first wife Jane:
	14L16	Jane Collett				Born on 26.08.1771
	14L17	Mary Collett				Born on 04.08.1777
	The next two children are William’s by his second wife Sarah Jeynes/Jeans:
	14L18	Ann Collett				Born in 1782 at Lower Slaughter
	14L19	Hannah Collett				Born in 1784 at Lower Slaughter
14L1	John Collett was born at Upper Slaughter and was baptised at the Baptist Chapel in Bourton-on-the-Water on 28^th April 1769, the eldest child of John Collett and Elizabeth Shelburn. He married Ann Herbert on 20^th October 1792 at Little Rissington and their two daughters were both born at Bourton-on-the-Water. The birth entry for daughter Anne in the nonconformist records of the Baptist Chapel at Bourton-on-the-Water listed her father John Collett as a school master, although that note does not appear alongside the birth entry for daughter Elizabeth. The baptism record for both girls gave their parents’ names as John and Ann Collett.
	Not long after the birth of Elizabeth, the family left Gloucestershire and moved the fifteen miles north across the county boundary into Worcestershire, and it was at Badsey, two miles east of Evesham, that they were living when the couple’s first son was born. Their last son gave his place of birth as Evesham in the census of 1851, unlike his older brother who said he had been born at Badsey. Despite that, the two boys were still baptised at Bourton, where their births were also recorded by Thomas Coles, Protestant Dissenting Minister, on 12^th November 1811. Sadly, it was less than five years later when John Collett died in 1816. It may be of interest to note that on 23^rd August 1834 at Stow-on-the-Wold, an Anne Collett married a James Herbert, but further work is needed to ascertain whether or not she was the daughter of John and Ann Collett.
	14M1	Anne Collett				Born in 1793 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M2	Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1795 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M3	John Collett				Born in 1800 at Badsey, near Evesham
	14M4	Thomas Samuel Collett				Born in 1810 at Evesham
14L2	Thomas Shelburn Collett was born at Upper Slaughter on 6^th December 1771 and was baptised at the Baptist Chapel in Bourton-on-the-Water. His death twenty years later was also recorded there, the entry stating that he was ‘of Upper Slaughter’ and that he had died on 3^rd March 1791. Thomas’ parents were the first in the family to adopt the mother’s maiden-name as a child’s Christian name and that tradition was carried on a great many times hereafter.
14L3	Sarah Collett was born at Upper Slaughter on 18^th April 1773 and was baptised at the Baptist Chapel in Bourton-on-the-Water. The records there also list her death twenty years later as ‘died on 4^th April 1793’ and ‘of Upper Slaughter’.
14L4	Elizabeth Collett was born at Upper Slaughter on 25^th October 1774 and was baptised at the Baptist Chapel in Bourton-on-the-Water, the daughter of John Collett and Elizabeth Shelburn. Elizabeth Collett married James Ashwin on 12^th October 1808 at Bourton-on-the-Water and the marriage resulted in the birth of three children, who were all baptised at Bourton.
	James Ashwin was the son of Richard and Esther Ashwin and was baptised at Bourton on 29^th April 1771. James was also one of the three named trustees in the 1818 Will of Elizabeth’s cousin Thomas Collett (Ref. 14L11). The three children of James and Elizabeth were: James junior who was baptised on 25^th August 1809; Hester who was baptised on 21^st July 1813; and Richard who was baptised on 13^th October 1815. James Ashwin died prior to the census day in 1851, so the census return confirmed that Elizabeth of Upper Slaughter was a 76 years old widow and annuitant, and head of the household at Bourton-on-the-Water. Supporting her, in her old age, were two servants, sixty years old Mary Dickenson from Chedworth, and twenty-two years old Elizabeth Tombs from Bourton-on-the-Water.
	By 1851 Elizabeth’s eldest son James Ashwin was married to Anne who was forty-three and from Lower Slaughter. The couple were living at Bourton where James was a farmer of 485 acres at the age of forty-one. Living with the couple was James’ sister-in-law Sarah Williams who was 33 and a builder’s wife from Lower Slaughter, and servant Louis Mitchell who was 31 from Aston Blank. Also by 1851 Elizabeth’s other son Richard Ashwin was married with a family of his own. That comprised Richard, his wife Sarah, the daughter of John and Sarah Harris who was born at Adlestrop in 1809, and their two children Hester Mary Ashwin who was born in 1840 and Richard Ashwin who was born in 1848. By 1871 Richard Ashwin junior was a farmer of 400 acres at Bourton-on-the-Water. Elizabeth Ashwin nee Collett died during 1853.
14L5	Ann Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in October 1776 and baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water where she died 1791.
14L6	Martha Collett was born at Upper Slaughter on 12^th February 1779, whose birth was recorded at the nonconformist Baptist Chapel in Bourton-on-the-Water, when her parents were confirmed as John and Elizabeth Collett of Upper Slaughter. She never lived long enough to be married and was twenty-three years of age when she died and was buried within the churchyard of the nonconformist baptised chapel in Bourton on 7^th October 1802. By that time her father had already passed away, with the record of her burial confirming Martha Collett was the daughter of Elizabeth Collett.
14L7	ROBERT COLLETT was born at Upper Slaughter on 18^th August 1780, his birth recorded at the nonconformist Baptist Chapel in Bourton-on-the-Water, another son of John and Elizabeth Collett. When Robert was 26, he married Mary Ann (Marianne) Kyte, who was 20, on 29^th January 1807 at Bretforton in Worcestershire, four miles east of Evesham. According to the IGI, Mary Ann Kyte was a Baptist who was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 17^th July 1786, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Kyte.
	What is of interest is that during the year preceding their wedding, Mary Ann Kyte was named as a beneficiary in the 1802 Will of Robert Humphries proved in 1806 (PROB11/1441) (see Will in Legal Documents). In another Will, the 1839 Will of Emma Hanks, there is a reference to Emma’s sister Mary Ann Collett, and she is understood to have been Mary Ann Kyte, making Emma Hanks’ maiden-name as Kyte (see Will in Legal Documents)
	All of the children of Robert and Mary listed below were baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water, although the first four children’s dates of birth were recorded in the nonconformist register at the Baptist Chapel in Bourton. Each entry in the nonconformist register included the addition note that the family were ‘of the Parish of Upper Slaughter’ indicating it was there that the family was living at the time of the birth of the children and indicating that they were actually born there, rather than at Bourton. In addition to that, the entry for the first three children stated that they had all been entered in the registers on 12^th November 1811 and extracted from the family’s own register.
	After the birth of their fourth child the family moved from Upper Slaughter and settled in Bourton where their remaining children were born. Robert Collett was a miller at Bourton-on-the-Water but was previously a parishioner at Upper Slaughter. He did not go to church there, preferring the Baptist Chapel at Bourton, nevertheless he accepted the invitation to dine with Francis Witts. That was confirmed by parson Francis Witts in the parish diary for Upper Slaughter which included the following entries: 2^nd November 1827 - The farmers dined with us: Mr. Robert Collett of Bourton-on-the-Water, long a resident here, but now a miller at Bourton. Mr. Joseph Collett [Robert’s brother] was prevented by indisposition. 27^th September 1828 - The last charity connected with the parish was the endowment of the Sunday School by my Uncle & Predecessor, Mr. Travell, with £166. 13. 4. – 3 percent. Cons. now standing on the books of the Bank of England in the names of myself, Mr. W. Cook & Mr. R. Collett.
	However, it is also understood that the Collett family left Gloucestershire around 1831, when they moved south to Shepton Mallet in Somerset. It is likely that it was Robert’s work that prompted the move, since it is established that he was the registrar for the town of Bourton-on-the-Water, a position that he also held for many years at Shepton Mallet, where his son Thomas Shelburn Collett was the deputy registrar. There may have been another, more embarrassing reason, why the family felt they had to leave Bourton-on-the-Water. On 22^nd December 1831 Thomas Collett, the son of miller Robert Collett of Bourton, was charged with trespassing with a gun and a dog at Sherborne, while in pursuit of game.
	The first national census conducted in June 1841 confirmed that Robert and his family were living in the town. Robert Collett was 60, his wife Marianne Collett was 54, and living with them at that time were just three of their children. They were Emma Collett aged 25, Emily Collett aged 19, and Mary Collett who was 12. Also living in Shepton Mallet on that occasion was Robert’s and Mary Ann’s married son Thomas with his wife Ann, and their daughter-in-law Julia Collett, the widow of their late son Robert Hanman Collett.
	It was almost eight and a half years later that Mary Ann Collett died at Shepton Mallet on 28^th December 1849 so, by the time of the next census in 1851, Robert Collett was recorded as a widower at the age of 70. At that time, he was still working as the town’s registrar, while he was living in the High Street at Shepton Mallet with his daughter Lucy Ann Collett aged 25, being the only member of his family still living with him. Just over six years after that Robert Collett died at Shepton Mallet on 1^st September 1857.
	14M5	Mary Ann Collett				Born in 1808 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M6	ROBERT HANMAN COLLETT				Born in 1809 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M7	Thomas Shelburn Collett				Born in 1811 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M8	Elizabeth Kyte Collett				Born in 1812 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M9	Emma Humphries Collett				Born in 1814 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M10	John Ryland Collett				Born in 1816 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M11	Susan Collett				Born in 1818 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M12	Emily Collett				Born in 1821 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M13	Lucy Ann Collett				Born in 1823 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M14	Ellen Hook Collett				Born in 1825 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M15	Mary Anne Collett				Born in 1828 at Bourton-on-the-Water
14L8	Job Collett was born at Upper Slaughter on 15^th July 1782, with his birth recorded at the nonconformist baptist chapel in Bourton-on-the-Water. At the age of twenty-four he married Ruth Reynolds in 1806. Ruth may have been the granddaughter of John Reynolds who was a witness to the Marriage Indenture for Job’s grandparents John Collett and Ann Hanman (Ref. 19J19).
14L9	Joseph Collett was born at Upper Slaughter on 7^th March 1785 while his birth was record at the nonconformist Baptist Chapel in Bourton-on-the-Water, when his parents were confirmed as John and Elizabeth Collett of Upper Slaughter. Joseph was the last child of John Collett and Elizabeth Shelburn and he married Mary Bryan on 3^rd April 1811 at Bourton-on-the-Water, where all of their children were baptised although they may have been born at Upper Slaughter, where Joseph was a tenant farmer who died in 1827. By 1841, his widow, aged 54, was still farming at Eyford, supported by her son George, who was 29, her daughter Martha, who was 17. On that day though, the three of them were staying with John and Anna Davis at The Square in Upper Slaughter. The 2017 document ‘The Complete Diary of a Cotswold Parson’ by Alan Sutton, provides information that Joseph Collett (1785-1827), the son of John Collett, ‘the Prince of Wales’, had seven children, the first four of whom were baptised at Bourton. No birth or baptism records for the last three children have been found, when Joseph and Mary were residing in Maugersbury, where there was only a nonconformist chapel. However, Alan’s book does include their names, which have now been added to the previously known four names below. Furthermore, a total of eight members of the Collett family, including Joseph and his eldest son George Bryan Collett, are featured in the book by Alan Sutton.
	Mary Collett nee Bryan was still living farming at Eyford in 1851 and, on the day of the Upper Slaughter census, widow Mary Collett from Lower Slaughter was 64 when she was described as occupying 244 acres on which she employed seven men. Living with her that day were her unmarried daughter Martha Collett who was 27, her son Samuel Collett who was 24, both of them born at Maugersbury, and married daughter Emma (Amy) Naish nee Collett who was 31 and born at Bourton-on-the-Water. Completing the household was Mary’s grandson George Naish who had only just been born, but at Lambeth in London. During the next decade Mary returned to Maugersbury, where she was recorded, living alone, in 1861 when she was described as a retired farmer’s widow aged 74. The death of Mary Collett, nee Bryan, was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 212) during the second quarter of 1862.
	The aforementioned The Complete Diary of a Cotswold Parson includes many dated references to this Collett family, starting with an entry on 21^st October 1826 which referred to a visit to the local lunatic asylum to see Mary Collett, the eldest daughter of Joseph and Mary. That was followed by a whole series of entries, as follows:
	2^nd November 1827 - The farmers dined with us: Mr. R. Collett of Bourton on the Water, long a resident here, but now a miller at Bourton. Mr. Joseph Collett was prevented by indisposition. 7^th November 1827 - Poor Mr. Joseph Collett, Mr. Dolphin’s Tenant, who was taken unwell on Friday last, when he was engaged to dine here, and whose indisposition was considered in the first instance as trifling, rapidly grew worse. He sank under his burden this morning, in the prime of life, leaving an attached and amiable widow with nine children, the eldest not sixteen years of age. Joseph Collett was a dissenter, as his family before him were, but occasionally and frequently, since his return to this parish last spring, attended church. He was a truly conscientious, upright man, humble & diffident, but possessed of good sense & tolerably educated; a kind husband, father, & master; a most punctual and honest man in all transaction; respected by all, who knew him well, & a great favourite with the labourers.
	8^th July 1840 - Called on my parishioner, Mrs. Collett, who is in great distress in consequence of the obstinacy with which her second daughter, just of age, and having lately received a small legacy from a relation, persists in keeping up a connection with a young labourer, son of pauper parents in the village, with whom she seems to have maintained clandestine intercourse, and whom she is bent on marrying. The second daughter referred to was Amy, two of Mary’s earlier daughters having died by then. 13^th July 1840 - Also conferred with Mrs. Collett who has for the present, at least, recovered her influence over her daughter, who has disclosed to her the particulars of her clandestine intercourse with W. Townsend, has been brought to see her error, and to relinquish the connection; she is to be removed from the village to Cheltenham, where her sister [Sarah] has employment as a dressmaker. Sarah and Amy were confirmed as living and working together in Cheltenham in the census of 1841.
	20^th July 1840 - Wrote to Amy Collett, at Cheltenham, a kind but earnest letter, setting before her the risk she had run in encouraging in herself an attachment to a person her inferior in Station. I had promised my parishioner, Mrs. Collett, to address to her daughter such a letter as might, perhaps, under divine assistance, strengthen good resolutions, and assist to eradicate false views. 23^rd October 1840 - My parishioner, Mrs. Collett, claimed my advice and presence at the office of Mr. Straford, the Solicitor, where she had some business to transact respecting which he wished to confer with her in my presence. 1^st April 1842 - Mrs. Collett came in the evening to consult me on her private concerns. 17^th December 1843 - In the evening Mrs. Collett and her son [Samuel] with me to consult me as to an unexpected and embarrassing demand of money lent on promissory notes given by her to her daughters at Cheltenham, and now recalled on the shortest possible notice by a London Attorney acting for a man of doubtful respectability, who seems to have acquired an improper influence over the young woman.
	19^th Dec, 23-24^th Dec, 30^th Dec. 1844, 6^th January 1845 - Called on Mrs. Collett; fresh and urgent distress there from the commencement of law proceedings against her for the recovery of the money she holds of her two daughters at Cheltenham. 1^st October 1845 - Conferring with Mrs. Collett on her private affairs, as to leaving her farm & c. 10^th December 1849 - Visiting sick parishioners - Mrs. Collett and her son, Samuel. 22^nd January 1850 - Visited sick parishioners, including Mrs. Collett. 5^th February 1850 - Prayed with the widow Rogers and visited Mrs. Collett. 2^nd May & 9^th July 1850 - Called on parish business at the homes of Mrs. Collett and her son G B Collett.
	On page 51 of the 2005 Supplement to The Collett Saga by Margaret Chadd, Joseph Collett is stated as being married to Martha, under which there is a note regarding a subsequent ancestor by the name of Arthur who went to Perth in Australia. New research in early 2007 has unearthed an Arthur Collett who was born in 1874/5 who was the eldest son of Joseph’s grandson George Collett, who in turn was the son of his own son George Bryan Collett listed below – see subsequent generations for details. However, the Arthur referred to by Margaret Chadd (whom she met at the Mansion House Dinner on 6^th March 1989 given by her father Sir Christopher Collett The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of London) was not of this family line. Instead, he was born in 1913 and his family is depicted in Part 29 – The Turkdean to Australia Line (Ref. 29Q1).
	14M16	George Bryan Collett				Born in 1812 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M17	Mary Collett				Born in 1813 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M18	Sarah Collett				Born in 1815 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M19	Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1816 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M20	Emma (Amy) Collett				Born in 1819 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M21	Martha Collett				Born in 1823 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M22	Samuel Collett				Born circa 1826; died in 1907
14L10	Ann Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 23^rd September 1771, although it was many years later on 12^th November 1811 that the details were recorded by Thomas Coles, Protestant Dissenting Minister, and taken from a family register. The entry reads as follows: “Ann, daughter of Thomas Collett and Mary his wife of the Parish of Bourton-on-the-Water in the County of Gloucestershire, was born on the twenty-third day of September 1771 – died in infancy.”
14L11	Thomas Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 23^rd March 1773 and was baptised at the Baptist Chapel. Like his sister Ann (above), his birth was also recorded by Thomas Coles on 12^th November 1811, a Protestant Dissenting Minister who extracted the details from a record provided by his family. He married Ann Tilling at Bourton on 31^st May 1796 where it is believed all their children were born. Thomas was described as ‘gentleman’ but how he came by his wealth is not known. On 6^th May 1796, and just over three weeks prior to their wedding day, Thomas and Ann signed a Marriage Indenture in exactly the same way that his grandfather John Collett (Ref. 14J19) had fifty-six years earlier (see Marriage Indenture 1796 in Legal Documents)
	Following the death of his mother’s brother Robert Humphries in 1806, Thomas as the only son and heir of Thomas Collett and Mary Humphries inherited two dwellings, stables, outhouses and gardens in Bourton, together with £400 (see Will of Legal Documents). Thomas Collett died there on 9^th January 1818 aged 44 and was buried in the St Lawrence’s Church Cemetery on 14^th January 1818, as listed in the nonconformist records at the same Baptist Chapel. His wife Ann Collett nee Tilling died during April 1849 aged 74 and was buried with her husband and their eight years old daughter Martha, as confirmed by the gravestone (see Headstone Epitaphs). Just prior to her passing, and following the death of her son John Collett, whose first wife had already died by then, Ann took into her home, two of her four grandchildren, Ann Mary Collett and Thomas Collett.
	His Will, written only four days prior to his death, was proved on 13^th February 1818 (PROB11/1601). In that he was referred to as ‘Thomas Collett Gentleman of Bourton-on-the-Water’ (see Will in Legal Documents). Only eight of Thomas’ nine children were named in his Will, due to the earlier death of his daughter Martha. Eldest son Thomas (below) was the main beneficiary of the Will, with all of his other children each receiving substantial sums of money. Two of the three trustees named in the Will were James Ashwin and John Beale. James was the husband of Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 14L4) who was the cousin of the deceased Thomas Collett. And John Beale, the son of trustee John Beale, married Mrs Mary Collett the widow of Thomas Collett junior (below) a few short years after his death in 1869.
	14M23	Mary Collett				Born in 1798 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M24	Ann Collett				Born in 1798 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M25	Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1800 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M26	Martha Collett				Born in 1802 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M27	Thomas Collett				Born in 1804 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M28	John Collett				Born in 1807 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M29	Henrietta Collett				Born in 1811 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M30	Robert Collett				Born in 1813 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	14M31	Emma Collett				Born in 1816 at Bourton-on-the-Water
14L14	Samuel Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1773, the son of John Collett and Sarah Paxford, and was baptised at St Within’s Church in Worcester on 22^nd October 1777 when he was four years old. It seems highly likely that the baptism took place when he was seven or eight years of age. This new information comes indirectly from Alan Stanier via Marilyn Stoddard, whose families feature in Part 48, which suggests the parents of Samuel Collett were John Collett and Sarah Paxford.
	For the continuation of this family line See Part 48 – The Dudley West Midland Line (Ref. 48L2)
14L15	Mary Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1774. She never married and she died in 1823. In her Will, which was proved on 28^th August 1823, she was referred to as ‘Mary Collett spinster of Bourton-on-the-Water’.
14L18	Ann Collett was born at Lower Slaughter on 19^th May 1782 into a family of nonconformists with her birth recorded at the Baptist Chapel in Bourton-on-the-Water by Thomas Coles, Protestant Dissenting Minster, at the request of her father William Collett of the Parish of Lower Slaughter and his wife Sarah Jeynes. It is established that her widowed father died at Upper Slaughter in 1847, while six years earlier William Collett was 75 years old when he was living at The Square in Upper Slaughter with his daughter Ann Collett still living there with him.
	It was previously written here that Ann Collett may have married Thomas Hanks in the early 1800s which, in light of the details above, now seems very unlikely. It is a headstone in the graveyard at St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton-on-the-Water that raised the initial assumption, that Thomas and Ann Hanks had a second daughter Sarah Hanks born in 1811, and a son Thomas Collett Hanks who was born in 1816. The headstone epitaph reads “Sacred to the memory of Thomas Collett Hanks son of Thomas and Ann Hanks of Little Rissington who died January 30^th 1838 aged 22”. Beneath that are two more epitaphs. The first reads “Also Sarah their second daughter who died April 17^th 1866 aged 55” and the second states “Loving memory of two children of Thomas and Ann who died in infancy”.
14L19	Hannah Collett was born at Lower Slaughter on 2^nd May 1784 and was baptised at the Baptist Chapel in Bourton-on-the-Water. Sadly Hannah, the daughter of William and Sarah Collett of the Parish of Lower Slaughter, died on 2^nd November 1805, her death recorded at the same Baptist Chapel by Thomas Coles, Protestant Dissenting Minister, at the request of her father. It is very interesting that nearly thirty-two years later in 1837, within the non-conformist register at Bourton-on-the-Water, was recorded the death of Hannah Collett aged 57. The entry reads “Hannah Collett, from Bourton-on-the-Water, was buried in the Protestant Dissenters Burying Ground in Bourton on the sixteenth day of February 1837 by Thomas Coles, Protestant Dissenting Minister”.
14M1	Anne Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 24^th October 1793, her birth - together with those of her sister Elizabeth and her two brothers (below) - recorded by Thomas Coles, Protestant Dissenting Minster, at Bourton Nonconformist Baptist Chapel on 12^th November 1811, when she was confirmed as the daughter of John Collett and Ann his wife of the Parish of Bourton-on-the-Water in the County of Gloucestershire. There is a slight conflict with an alternative source regarding the dates of birth of both Anne and her sister Elizabeth (below). For Anne the alternative date is 4^th October 1793, while for Elizabeth it is 13^th August 1795.
14M2	Elizabeth Collett was born on 30^th August 1795 at Bourton-on-the-Water where she was baptised with her three siblings at the Nonconformist Baptist Chapel on 12^th November 1811 when her date of birth was recorded by Thomas Coles, Protestant Dissenting Minister. It was also there that she later married Stephen Marshall on 21^st April 1819.
14M3	John Collett was born at Badsey near Evesham in Worcestershire on 1^st April 1800, just after his family moved there from Bourton-on-the-Water. However, he was baptised at Bourton with his three siblings on 12^th November 1811. That was recorded in the parish register at Bourton-on-the-Water by Thomas Coles, Protestant Dissenting Minster, which including the following statement. “John, the son of John Collett and Ann his wife was born at Evesham in the County of Worcestershire on the first day of April 1800”. John later married Jane and by the time of the first census in June 1841 the pair of them were recorded in error with a rounded age of 45, when they were living in the Parish of Church Lench, within the Evesham registration district. With them on that occasion was their nine years old son John Collett.
	Also recorded at the same dwelling were the following, who may have been related to Jane. They were Mary Hichings (Hitchings) aged 40, and her daughter Elizabeth Hichings who was 13, Phoebe Hacker, also 40, her husband Charles Hacker, 30, and their daughter Maria Hacker who was eight years of age.
	Ten years later the couple was residing in a dwelling on the Evesham to Church Lench Road in Atch Lench, where agricultural labourer John Collett from Badsey was 59, while his wife Jane Collett from Atch Lench was 55. By that time their son John Collett, aged 19 and from Church Lench, had left the family home, and was living and working four miles north-west of Evesham. It is that year’s census record which would make the year of birth of John Collett around 1792, whereas he would need to have been 51 in 1851 to be born in 1800.
	14N1	John Collett				Born in 1831 at Church Lench
14M4	Thomas Samuel Collett was born at Evesham around 1810 after his parents, John Collett and Ann Herbert, had moved there from nearby Badsey, previously living at Bourton-on-the-Water where his two older sisters were born. However, Thomas and his older brother John (above), plus their two sisters were baptised together at the nonconformist baptist chapel in Bourton by Thomas Coles on 12^th November 1811. Sadly, his father died in 1816 when Thomas was six years old. Seventeen years later, Thomas married widow Elizabeth Goodwin nee Eddles, of Bledington, by licence on 7^th October 1833 at Eyford, within the parish of Upper Slaughter. Not long after they were married, Thomas Collett, a carpenter living in the village of Upper Slaughter, was appointed to the position of Parish Clerk, following the dismissal of blacksmith William Collett from the post that same day. That event was recorded in the parish diary on 4^th April 1835 and it was a position he held for three years. Further references were made to Thomas Collett, carpenter and wheelwright, in the Upper Slaughter parish diary after 1841 – see below.
	According to the census in 1841, the family was residing at The Square in Upper Slaughter, where Thomas was 30 and Elizabeth was 28. Living there with them, were four children, although so far, only the baptism records for the three younger children have been located. The census revealed that their first and oldest child was Ann, aged six years and so born in 1834. The other three children were Elizabeth who was four, Thomas who was two, and Alfred who was one-year-old. The parish diary entries that followed later that decade, were related to the poor health of Thomas’ wife Elizabeth, and the birth and death of their son Samuel Collett, all as detailed below:
	27^th February 1848 - Summoned early to the bedside of Eliza. Collett, wife of T. S. Collett, who has very lately been confined. 28^th February 1848 - T. S. Collett’s wife, now considered to be out of immediate danger; baptised her infant privately. 11^th March, 6^th May 1848 - Visited joiner Collett’s wife, very recently confined, and in a very exhausted and precarious state. 12^th August 1848 - Officiated at the funeral of an infant of T. S. Collett.
	Three years later, the 1851 Census for Upper Slaughter confirmed the couple’s details as Thomas S Collett aged 40 and a carpenter and wheelwright of Evesham and Elizabeth aged 38 of Bledington. All of the children were born and baptised at Upper Slaughter and each of the individual baptism records included their father’s name as Thomas Samuel Collett. The children listed with the couple in 1851 were: Elizabeth who was 14, Thomas who was 12, Alfred who was 10, Harriet who was nine, Ellen who was seven, Sarah who was five, and Amy who was one year old. The couple’s youngest son had already died by then, while their eldest daughter Mary Ann Collett was not at home on the census day. Over the next three years the Upper Slaughter parish diary included three more entries regarding the family of Thomas Samuel Collett, as follows:
	1^st to 6^th May 1852 - Enquired after T. S. Collett’s wife who is ill. 4 November 1854 - Finding that the Carpenter’s daughter, now temporarily in my employment, M A Collett, is desirous of the situation, appears likely to make a good and intelligent servant, I engaged her. 27^th July 1854 - To Sewell’s office, where conferred with Tipping as to the purchase of the cottages in my village, the property of the widow Collett. [who she was has still to be determined]
	Tragically, Thomas’ wife, who was born at Bledington in 1812, died on 11^th December in 1857, her death recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 14) during the fourth quarter of that year, when she was 44 years of age. Her passing was confirmed by the Upper Slaughter village census in 1861, when Thomas S Collett, aged 50, was a widower and a master carpenter from Evesham. Acting as housekeeper was Thomas’ eldest daughter Mary Ann Collett who was 25 and born at Upper Slaughter. The only other members of the family living with Thomas at that time were his eldest son Thomas, aged 22 and a carpenter like his father, and his daughters Sarah who was 15 and Amy who was 13.
	Daughter Harriett Collett aged 18 was working as housemaid at Upper Slaughter in the house of Edward Witts Rector and Justice of the Peace for Upper Slaughter. It is interesting to note that ten years later her position at the Witts home had been filled by her younger sister Amy who was aged 21 in 1871. Rector Edward Francis Witts was the son of the Reverend Francis Edward Witts, the author of all the diary entries listed above, which in 2017 are included in ‘The Complete Diary of a Cotswold Parson’ as compiled by Alan Sutton. The death of Thomas Samuel Collett at Upper Slaughter was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 18) during the first three months of 1862, following which he was buried with his wife in the churchyard at Upper Slaughter. The single headstone marks the grave, which has eroded quite badly and s very difficult to read. However, there is enough readable details in inscription to confirm the grave of the couple, which reads “In Loving Memory of ..…… Thomas Samuel Collett who died ….… 1862 aged …….. Also of Elizabeth his wife who died Dec …….. 1857 aged …… years ……..The Lord ……..”
	14N2	Mary Ann Collett		Born in 1835 at Upper Slaughter
	14N3	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1837 at Upper Slaughter
	14N4	Thomas Collett		Born in 1838 at Upper Slaughter
	14N5	Alfred Collett		Born in 1840 at Upper Slaughter
	14N6	Harriet Collett		Born in 1842 at Upper Slaughter
	14N7	Ellen Collett		Born in 1844 at Upper Slaughter
	14N8	Sarah Collett		Born in 1845 at Upper Slaughter
	14N9	Samuel Collett		Born in 1848 at Upper Slaughter
	14N10	Amy Collett		Born in 1849 at Upper Slaughter
14M5	Mary Ann Collett was born at Upper Slaughter on 28^th July 1808. However, it was over three years later that her birth was recorded in the register at Bourton-on-the-Water on 12^th November 1811 by Thomas Coles, Protestant Dissenting Minister, when her name was written as Ann Mary, the daughter of Robert and Mary Ann Collett. She was baptised at the Baptist Chapel in Bourton-on-the-Water, where she was buried following her premature death on 22^nd July 1830. The burial register recorded that she was aged 21 and the daughter of Mr R Collett. Not long after that her left moved away from Bourton and set up a new home in Somerset.
14M6	ROBERT HANMAN COLLETT was born on 19^th August 1809 at Upper Slaughter and, like his sister (above) and brother (below), his birth was recorded at Bourton-on-the-Water on 12^th November 1811, the details taken from the family’s own register of the births of Robert and Mary Ann Collett. He was baptised at the Baptist Chapel in Bourton where his date of birth was listed in the nonconformist records by Thomas Coles, Protestant Dissenting Minister. When he was four years old his family left the village of Upper Slaughter and moved into the nearby town of Bourton-on-the-Water, where they stayed until around 1830. At that time in his life Robert’s family left Bourton and settled in the Somerset town of Shepton Mallet where his father Robert Collett held the post of town registrar for many years, having previously been the registrar at Bourton.
	Once established in Shepton Mallet it is believed that Robert assisted his father with his work as the town’s registrar until his brother, Thomas Shelburn Collett (below), was later appointed to the post of deputy registrar to his father. It was also during that phase in his life that Robert met his future wife.
	It was during the mid-1830s that Robert Hanman Collett married Ann Julia Speed of Shepton Mallet. After they were married the couple set up home in the town, and both of their children were born while the couple were living at Longbridge House in Cowl Street in Shepton Mallet. It was there also that Robert ran an academy for young men. On 7^th September 1835, Robert and Julia were the witnesses at the Shepton Mallet wedding of Robert’s younger sister Eliza Kyte Collett and her cousin John Dalby, who then returned to Bourton-on-the-Water where their raised their family. Sadly, three years later, some great tragedy fell upon the house, when Robert Hanman Collett died in Shepton Mallet at the age of only 28. His death was recorded there (Ref. x 321) during the second quarter of 1838. As a result, Julia, a widow with two very young children, moved to a smaller house in Garston Street, where she opened a small grocery shop. It was there also that Julia was living with her two children in June 1841.
	The census that month recorded the family as Julia Collett who was 29, her son John Collett who was five, and her daughter Ann Collett who was two years old. Living with the family that day were two 15-year-old girls, Ann King and Sarah Pearce, who were most likely helping Julia in the shop. The family was still living there ten years later, but at Kilver Street, when the Shepton Mallet census of 1851 listed the three of them as Julia Collett aged 39 who was a grocer, John K Collett aged 14, and Ann Mary Collett who was 13. All three of them were confirmed as having been born at Shepton Mallet. At that time there were seven members of the Collett family still living in the town, including Julia’s father-in-law Robert Collett, and her brother-in-law Thomas Shelburn Collett.
	During the next decade that Julia took her family to live in Cardiff, and to where she also transferred her grocery business. That move was confirmed in the census in 1861 with the family recorded at James Street in the St Mary parish of Cardiff as Julia Collett who was 49 and a grocer and provisions factor, John K Collett who was 25 and a shop assistant working with his mother, and Ann M Collett who was 23 with no stated occupation. Once again, all three confirmed that their place of birth was Shepton Mallet.
	In the years that followed, both of Julia’s children were married, and by the time of the census in 1871 she was still living in Cardiff, but by then also had her son and his wife living there with her. Julia Collett was 59, while her son John K Collett was 35, and his wife Sarah A O Collett was 30. It is her son John Kyte Collett who eventually took over the grocery business that Julia had established. Curiously, according to the census of 1881, Julia Collett, aged 69 and from Shepton Mallet, was living at the home of her daughter Ann Mary Cruickshank nee Collett at Back Lane in Crewkerne on the border of Somerset and Dorset, when she was described as being formerly a glover, and the mother-in-law of head of the household James Cruickshank, a baptist minister from Scotland.
	Perhaps her time spent with her daughter was limited, since by 1891 Julia Collett, aged 79, was living at 21 Windsor Terrace in Penarth near Cardiff. Interestingly enough, that address also appears in the 1927 Will of her son John Kyte Collett, as the home of Elsie Rogers, one of the witnesses to the signing of the Will. Julia Collett nee Speed died six years later in 1897, when she was recorded as being 85 years of age, the wife of Robert Collett, and born at Shepton Mallet.
	14N11	JOHN KYTE COLLETT				Born in 1836 at Shepton Mallet
	14N12	Ann Mary Collett				Born in 1838 at Shepton Mallet