PART FIFTEEN

The Kenilworth & Coventry Line - 1700 to 2010

Updated March 2022

This is the family line of Neil Collett (Ref. 15P47) of Ashow near Kenilworth,

his line of descendants denoted by the names in capital letter.

I first met Neil in June 1996 at the Collett Reunion at Shepton Mallet.

It is also the family line of Mal [Malcolm] Collett (Ref. 15R9) who contributed

all of the new photos for February 2012, plus lots of details about his family.

His line is denoted by the names in italics which converges with Neil’s line at 15J4.

		Much of the earlier information contained within this family line has been kindly provided by Neil, and towards the end of 2010 he also provided more details of the Colletts of Warwickshire. While the vast majority of the information has been included in the main family line here, some of the details relate to other families for which no direct link has yet been made. Therefore, those particular details have been included in the Appendices at the end of the file for completeness, and in the hope that they may be connected at some time in the future. Some however, relate to members of the Collett family in Part 33 – The Bourton-on-the-Water Line, thus cementing that fact that the town Bourton has connections with the neighbouring county of Warwickshire
		This line has its origins in Part 1 – The Main Line starting in 1485 with Thomas Collett (Ref. 1D1) and moving forward through the years using Part 14 – The John Kyte Line to Thomas Collett (Ref. 14I5) of Bourton-on-the Water, who starts this part.
		Further information has been received during 2011 which indicates that the earliest Collett resident of Coventry was Richard Colet back in 1434. The details, taken from the Coventry Leet Book, have been kindly provided by Mick Coggins of Rothwell in Northamptonshire who works in Coventry, whose only family line is Part 1 – The Main Gloucestershire Line. The details supplied by Mick can be found in Appendix Five at the end of this family line.
14I5	THOMAS COLLETT was born in the area of Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire. He married Mary Tombe and the union produced four children for the couple and all of them born at Bourton. From their individual records, it is evident that, as the children grew-up, they left Bourton to make their own way in the world. The couple’s two sons made their way north and settled in Coventry, whereas it would appear that the two daughters possibly entered domestic service which took them respectively to the Burford and Banbury areas in the adjacent county of Oxfordshire.
	It would seem that Thomas and his wife spent their whole life together at Bourton-on-the-Water, since it was there that Thomas Collett died in 1739, following which he was buried in the graveyard of the Baptist Chapel in the town. Sixty years later, in 1799, his son Thomas was buried in the grave next to his father.
	15J1		Ann Collett	Born circa 1713
	15J2		Hannah Collett	Born circa 1715
	15J3		Thomas Collett	Born circa 1723
	15J4		WILLIAM COLLETT	Born circa 1729
15J1	Ann Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water around 1713 and it was there that she was baptised on 13^th May 1716, the daughter of Thomas Collett. It was just twenty years later that the archdeacon’s marriage bond permitted the marriage of Ann Collett of Bourton-on-the-Water to William Young of Islip in Oxfordshire to take place at Burford on 13^th June 1736. William was 24 years old and a bachelor, while Ann was 23 and a spinster living within the Parish of Burford. However, no apparent record of the wedding has been located within the Burford parish register or the IGI. William Young was baptised at Islip on 3^rd April 1711, the son of William and Ann Young.
15J2	Hannah Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water around 1715. It would appear that it was through her sister Ann’s marriage to William Young (above) that Hannah formed a relationship with Richard Young who, also being from Islip like William, may well have been his cousin, since both had different parents. So just over eight years after her sister Ann married William Young, Hannah married Richard Young on 22^nd December 1744 at Idbury in Oxfordshire. Once again, the event was approved by the archdeacon’s marriage bond, which stated that Richard was a bachelor and yeoman of Islip, while Hannah from Bourton-on-the-Water was a spinster at the Parish of Swalcliff, which lies south-west of Banbury.
	Richard Young was baptised at Islip on 24^th August 1719, the son of Richard and Mary Young. Unlike her sister’s wedding, which took place in Burford, Hannah and Richard were married in the Oxfordshire village of Idbury, five miles to the north of Burford. But just like her sister’s wedding, no record of it has been found in the parish register or the IGI. Once married, Richard and Hannah returned to Islip where their first child was born, but shortly after that the family moved eight miles due north of Islip and settled in the village of Ardley, where their remaining children were born. The children were Mary Young (baptised on 29^th January 1745 at Islip), Richard Young (baptised in 1748 at Ardley), Hannah Young (baptised in 1753 at Ardley), and Hannah Young (baptised in 1755 at Ardley).
	Hannah Young nee Collett died on 16^th July 1781 at the age of 67. In her Will made on 1^st April 1780 she left the residue of her estate to her brother Thomas Collett (below), Alderman of the City of Coventry, whom she also made executor of the Will. High up on one of the walls inside the Church of St Mary at Ardley there is an interesting coat of arms on the memorial plaque to Richard Young. It would appear to be a shared coat of arms with his wife Hannah. The right-hand side shows the design of the Young family crest, while the left side has the distinctive chevron design of the Collett crest, and includes three flowers or rosettes.
15J3	Thomas Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1723, where he was baptised on 24^th January 1724, the son of Thomas Collett. Sometime after completing his schooling in Bourton, Henry eventually left the town when he moved north to settle in Coventry, where he remained for the rest of his life. Thomas Collett was around twenty years of age when he married Elizabeth Rebecca Gibbard at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 22^nd February 1744. Elizabeth was baptised as Rebecca Gibbard at Southam in Warwickshire on 18^th August 1719, the daughter of John and Mary Gibbard.
	Thomas was a leather dresser (a currier) and later in his life he was Mayor of Coventry from 1762 to 1763. The name of Thomas Collett, currier, was included in a list of principal inhabitants of the City of Coventry for the year 1791. Thomas Collett died in Coventry during 1799, following which he was buried alongside his father in the grounds of the Baptist Chapel at Bourton-on-the-Water, as instructed within his Will. When his wife Elizabeth died two years later, during the summer of 1801, she was buried inside Southam Church where there is a stone tablet set in the aisle floor at the Church of St James, which states that “Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth Rebecca Collett, wife of Thomas Collett”.
	The Will of Thomas Collett, currier of Coventry, was proved on 8^th April 1801, the death duty abstract of which refers to his wife as Rebecca. Others mentioned were his niece Ann Collett and nephews John Collett and William Collett, his nieces Sarah Smith and Hannah Pettifor, his nephew Henry Collett, and lastly his niece Rachall Lea who was the former Rachel Collett. From those details it can perhaps be deduced that Thomas’ brother William Collett (below), and the father of all of the nephews and nieces named in his Will, had also died by then, together with his wife Ann who was also not mentioned.
	Elizabeth Rebecca Collett also left a Will which was proved on 9^th October 1801, and that named William Gibbard and Thomas Wyatt of Coventry as executors. The estate was divided between William Gibbard and Rebecca Wyatt, the wife of Thomas Wyatt, indicating that the marriage of Thomas Collett and Elizabeth Rebecca Gibbard had produced no surviving children. William Gibbard and Rebecca Wyatt were probably Elizabeth’s nephew and niece, the two children of Elizabeth’s brother John Gibbard and his wife Mary. William Gibbard was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral on 20^th October 1756, the son of John and Mary, while Rebecca Gibbard was baptised there on 8^th March 1759, the daughter of John and Mary, where she later married Thomas Wyatt on 26^th June 1782.
	During his life Thomas Collett had links with Edward Remington, an apothecary of Coventry. In October 1751 both of their names featured in a conveyance made over to them as trustees by Robert Stone, gent of Hollington in Derby. And four years later, currier Thomas Collett was named in the 1755 Will of Edward Remington, when he received the sum of one hundred pounds. It is possible, although not proved, that Thomas and Elizabeth may have had children. From the wedding date in 1744, there is a probability that children would have been born during the following two decades. It is also likely that if that was proved to be true, that they would have very likely named one of their sons Thomas Collett. The records for St Michael’s Church in Coventry include the baptism of Henrietta Collett in 1768, who was the daughter of Thomas Collett and his wife Mary.
15J4	WILLIAM COLLETT was born around 1729 at Bourton-on-the-Water. Like his brother Thomas (above, William also left the family home in Bourton when he joined his brother in Coventry. It was also in Coventry that William Collett married Ann Mathews of Coventry. William Collett and his wife Ann may have both died before 1799, since neither of them was mentioned in the Will of his brother Thomas Collett who died that year. However, named as beneficiaries under the terms of the Will were seven of their nine children. And it is the order in which they are named in the Will that they are shown below, with daughter Ann Collett assumed to be the eldest child, since she is the first to be mentioned, through to Rachel who is the last.
	15K1		Ann Collett	Date of birth unknown at Coventry
	15K2		William Collett	Date of birth unknown at Coventry
	15K3		John Collett	Born circa 1752 at Coventry
	15K4		Sarah Collett	Born circa 1754 at Coventry
	15K5		Hannah Collett	Born circa 1756 at Coventry
	15K6		Oliver Collett	Born circa 1758 at Coventry
	15K7		Thomas Collett	Born circa 1760 at Coventry
	15K8		HENRY COLLETT	Born circa 1762 at Coventry
	15K9		Rachel Collett	Born circa 1764 at Coventry
15K1	Ann Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the eldest child of William and Ann Collett. She was referred to in the 1801 Will of her uncle Thomas Collett and, since her name was the first of the seven children of William and Ann Collett listed, it might be assumed that she was the oldest. Also, she was obviously not married by that time as she was included as ‘niece Ann Collett’.
15K2	William Collett, who was born at Coventry the son of William and Ann Collett. What is known is that he married Elizabeth Townsend of Coventry at St Michael’s in Coventry on 28^th March 1771, and was named in the Will of his uncle Thomas Collett of Coventry, which was proved in 1801. It was previously thought that, because he had his father’s name, he was the eldest son of William and Ann, although in the Will the name of ‘nephew William Collett’ appears after that of his sister Ann Collett (above) and his brother John Collett (below).
15K3	John Collett was born at Coventry around 1752 and was the son of William and Ann Collett. It was also in Coventry that he married Mary Bostin on 22^nd April 1782 at the West Orchard Baptist Chapel in the Holy Trinity district of Coventry. Just over a year after they were married, John and Mary had a daughter, followed by a son two years later. A second son was added to the family after a further seven years and the Coventry baptism records for all three children confirm the parents as John and Mary Collett.
	It is possible that there were more than just these children, one such child may have been William born at Coventry around 1793. Although no baptism or birth details have been located, his details are included here in the hope that they may be verified at a future date. The family was completed by the beginning of the new century, with the addition of two more daughters for John and Mary.
	John Collett was named as one of the seven beneficiaries under the terms of Will of his uncle Thomas Collett of Coventry. In the document, proved in 1801, he was referred to as ‘nephew John Collett’ and his name followed his sister Ann Collett (above) and before his brother William Collett (below), which may indicate that John was the second child of the family of William and Ann Collett. Rather curiously it was in 1815 when John Collett was baptised at the age of 63. The church record at Vicar Lane Independent Chapel in Coventry confirmed that he was the son of William and Ann Collett, and it is that event which has provided his approximate year of birth.
	15L1		Ann Collett	Born in 1783 at Coventry
	15L2		Thomas Collett	Born in 1785 at Coventry
	15L3		John Collett	Born in 1792 at Coventry
	15L4		William Collett	Born in 1793 at Coventry
	15L5		Rachel Collett	Born in 1798 at Coventry
	15L6		Sarah Collett	Born in 1800 at Coventry
15K4	Sarah Collett, who was born at Coventry around 1754, was the daughter of William and Ann Collett. However, the year of her birth has been based on her assumed age at the time of her marriage in 1775. Sarah married Thomas Smith of Coventry at St Michael’s Cathedral on 11^th November 1775. Sarah was another child of William and Ann Collett to be named in the 1801 Will of her uncle Thomas Collett of Coventry, when she was included as ‘niece Sarah Smith’. The marriage of Sarah and Thomas Smith produced three children for the couple. The first of them was James Smith, who was baptised at Coventry Cathedral in 1786, who married Ann and, who in 1841, was a whitesmith living in Much Street in Coventry with his wife. Their second child was Rosanna Smith who was baptised during 1795, but who died the following year, while the last child was Elizabeth Smith who was baptised at Coventry Cathedral in 1797.
15K5	Hannah Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the daughter of William and Ann Collett. Hannah Collett married Joseph Pettifor of Coventry at St Michael’s Cathedral on 2^nd March 1778, just over two years after her sister Sarah (above) was married there. That event could indicate that Hannah was born at Coventry around 1756. Hannah is known to have presented Joseph with two sons; Thomas Pettifor was baptised at Coventry Cathedral on 7^th March 1780, while Joseph Pettifor was baptised there during the following year. Their son Joseph Pettifor married Elizabeth Lloyd at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 29^th March 1801. It was also ten days after that event that the Will of Hannah’s uncle, Thomas Collett of Coventry, was proved and in which ‘niece Hannah Pettifor’ was named as one of the beneficiaries, together with six of her siblings.
15K6	Oliver Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the son of William and Ann Collett. Oliver was probably born in Coventry where the remainder of his sibling seem to have been born, and that is likely to have been at some time during the end of the 1750s. However, it is known that he had died before 1799, because he was one of only two of the nine children of William and Ann not to be mentioned in the 1801 Will of his uncle Thomas Collett of Coventry, the other sibling being his brother Thomas Collett (below).
15K7	Thomas Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the son of William and Ann Collett. Just like his brother Oliver (above), he too was very likely born at Coventry around 1760. What is known is that he later married Ann of Coventry, possibly during the latter couple of years of the 1770s. Although no record of the marriage between Thomas and Ann has so far been found, the couple are known to have had three sons, although yet again, no record of their baptisms has been found. However, it would seem as if Thomas Collett, and perhaps even his wife Ann, had both passed away before the end of the eighteenth century, since neither of them was mentioned within the Will of Thomas’ uncle, Thomas Collett of Coventry, which was proved in 1801.
	15L7		Thomas Collett	Born circa 1780 at Coventry
	15L8		John Collett	Born circa 1782 at Coventry
	15L9		Henry Collett	Born circa 1784 at Coventry
15K8	HENRY COLLETT was born at Coventry around 1762, the son of William and Ann Collett, although an alternative source suggests, perhaps in error, that he was born at Wolston in 1758. He married (1) Esther Mann on 8^th August 1785 at Wolston, which is situated immediately north of Stretton-on-Dunsmore and herein after referred to as simply Stretton. Esther was the daughter of William Mann and Mary Browne and was baptised at Wolston on 17^th May 1762. She died in 1788 the same year that their only child, Esther Collett, was born and died. Therefore, it is highly likely that those two events were linked, that is, that both died during childbirth. In 1838 Henry’s son Oliver married Rachel Mann who may have been related to his late wife’s family.
	Following her death Henry married (2) Sarah Wells on 30^th December 1794 at Stretton. Sarah was fourteen years younger than Henry and was the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Wells. She was born in 1776 and tragically died in early 1805 and just after presenting Henry with their fifth child. It was four years earlier, in April 1801, that the Will of Henry’s uncle Thomas Collett of Coventry, was proved, and in which ‘nephew Henry Collett’ was named as a beneficiary. In the listing of beneficiaries, Henry Collett was named in front of his youngest sister Rachel, which may indicate that Henry was the youngest son of William and Ann Collett.
	Just over a year after the death of his second wife, Henry married (3) Susannah Currell who was eighteen years younger. That took place at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry on 19^th January 1807. Susannah was born on 10^th June 1780 and was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Currell. Over the next sixteen years Susannah presented her husband with a further eight children, the youngest being thirteen when Henry died. Henry Collett of Stretton was described as a cordwainer (a shoe maker) when he died in 1836. Susannah survived him by ten years when she died in 1846.
	15L10		Esther Collett	Born in 1788 at Wolston
	The following are the children of Henry Collett by his second wife Susannah Currell:
	15L11		Anne Collett	Born in 1795 at Stretton
	15L12		Elizabeth Collett	Born on 04.11.1796 at Stretton
	15L13		Esther Collett	Born on 15.09.1799 at Stretton
	15L14		Sarah Collett	Born on 16.12.1801 at Stretton
	15L15		HENRY COLLETT	Born on 14.12.1804 at Stretton
	15L16		Mary Collett	Born on 16.04.1807 at Stretton
	15L17		Mary Ann Collett	Born on 02.10.1808 at Stretton
	15L18		Thomas Collett	Born on 23.02.1810 at Stretton
	15L19		William Collett	Born in 1813 at Stretton
	15L20		Charlotte Collett	Born in 1815 at Stretton
	15L21		Oliver Collett	Born in 1817 at Stretton
	15L22		Maria Collett	Born in 1819 at Stretton
	15L23		John Collett	Born in 1823 at Stretton
15K9	Rachel Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the youngest child of William and Ann Collett. It was at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry that Rachel Collett married Thomas Lea on 26^th March 1787. That might indicate that she was born during the middle of the 1860s. Rachel Lee was named as ‘niece Rachall Lea’ in the Will of her uncle Thomas Collett of Coventry, and it is the fact that she was last of the seven children to be named which has given rise to the fact that she may have been the youngest child of William and Ann Collett. Thomas Lea was a weaver and he and Rachel were living at Bonds Hospital in Coventry in both 1841 and 1851. Their marriage produced three children, the first of which, Mary Ann Lea was baptised on 10^th September 1792 at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry.
	The couple’s second child was Benjamin Lea who was baptised there on 17^th February 1974, while their third child, Charlotte Lea was baptised on 1^st July 1799. Benjamin Lea was a tailor and on 24^th March 1811 he married Mary Burnham at St Lawrence’s Church in Foleshill, Coventry. In 1841 Benjamin and Mary were living in Far Gosford Street in Coventry, and ten years after that, at Primrose Terrace. Over the years from 1812 to 1826, the couple had five children.
15L1	Ann Collett was born at Coventry in 1783 and it was there that she was baptised on 22^nd January 1784 at Holy Trinity Church, the eldest child of John and Mary Collett, formerly Mary Bostin, who were married there in 1782.
	It may also be of interest that, according to the IGI, Ann Wainwright Collett was born on 3^rd December 1782, the daughter of John and Mary Collett. However, she was baptised at the Vicar Lane Independent Chapel in Coventry on 28^th October 1821. Other records show that she never married and that she died in Coventry during 1897. That then brings into question the stated date of her birth, since she would have been 115 years old at the time of her death, and raises a further question, was she the daughter of Ann’s brother John Collett (below) who was married to a Mary, which seem more likely. So, it is with them, that she has been placed.
15L2	Thomas Collett was born at Coventry in 1785, where he was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral on 8^th May 1786, the eldest son of John and Mary Collett. Thomas married Mary around 1810, and their marriage produced three daughters for the couple, and all of them were born at Coventry. Although no record of Thomas or Mary has been found in the census of 1841, Thomas Collett age 65 was living in the Parish of St John & St Michael in Coventry in 1851, with his unmarried daughter Elizabeth living and working nearby within the same parish with her two children. The baptism records for all three daughters confirmed that Thomas and Mary were their parents.
	15M1		Ann Collett	Born in 1811 at Coventry
	15M2		Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1814 at Coventry
	15M3		Sarah Collett	Born in 1816 at Coventry
15L3	John Collett was born at Coventry in 1792 or 1793 and he was baptised there at the St Michael’s Cathedral on 1^st January 1794, the son of John and Mary Collett. It is believed that that John was married to Mary, possibly Mary Wainwright, and that the marriage produced a daughter for the couple who was baptised in Coventry in 1821. However, the same IGI record on the Family Search website gives her year of birth as 1782, but that may be an error.
	15M4		Ann Wainwright Collett	Baptised on 28.10.1821 at Coventry
15L4	William Collett was born at Coventry around 1793, although no actual birth or baptism record has been found to confirm the year. Why he has been included here it because his grandson was a watch finisher in Coventry, the same occupation as other members of the Collett family detailed later in this family history. He was married to Hannah Linden at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry on 25^th December 1811, Hannah having been born around 1790. It is now confirmed that William Collett, who died in 1850, and his wife Hannah Lindon had another son prior to son Thomas and daughter Hannah, and he was Oliver Collett who was born at Coventry within the first year of their marriage, but who sadly died and was buried at Holy Trinity in 1816.
	15M5		Oliver Collett	Born in 1812 at Coventry
	15M6		Thomas Collett	Born in 1813 at Coventry
	15M7		Hannah Collett	Born in 1815 at Coventry
15L5	Rachel Collett was born at Coventry in 1798, and was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral on 7^th August 1798, the fifth child of John and Mary Collett. Rachel married John Willcox at Coventry Cathedral on 12^th February 1816.
15L6	Sarah Collett was born at Coventry in 1800, the last of the six children of John Collett and Mary Bostin, and was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral on 22^nd July 1800. Sarah was 24 when she married Thomas Mills at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 16^th August 1824. Sarah was with-child on the day of her wedding, and less than three months after she gave birth to a son, Thomas William Mills who was baptised at St John’s Church in Coventry on 12^th November 1824.
15L7	Thomas Collett was born at Coventry around 1780, the eldest of the three known sons of Thomas and Ann Collett. On 9^th April 1804 he married Mary Roberts at the Holy Trinity Church in Coventry, but it would appear that she died very shortly after, perhaps even during childbirth. Following the death of his wife, widower Thomas Collett then married Hannah Wheelband at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry on 25^th November 1805. It has not been determined whether they were any children resulting from either of his marriages. What is known is that Hannah Collett died in 1836 and was buried in the churchyard of St John’s Church in Coventry, where a headstone marks the grave.
15L8	John Collett was born at Coventry around 1782, another of the three sons of Thomas and Ann Collett. John died at Coventry on 29^th August 1852, prior to which he had married Ann, and was a bookseller in the city.
15L9	Henry Collett was born at Coventry around 1784, the youngest of the three known sons of Thomas and Ann Collett. What is interesting is that Henry Collett married Elizabeth Townsend at the Church of St Nicholas in Willoughby on 22^nd June 1815. Elizabeth was born in 1795 and may have been the niece of Elizabeth Townsend who married William Collett, the brother of Henry’s father. Willoughby lies to the south of Rugby in Warwickshire and the earliest Collett found in the church records there, date from 1634 – see Appendix Three for further information on this and other, so far, unrelated Colletts. It was at Willoughby that Henry and Elizabeth settled after they were married, and it was there also that all of their children were born. All of them, with the exception of their daughter Sarah Ann, were baptised at Willoughby, while she was baptised at the Cathedral Church of St Michael in Coventry.
	However, by the time of the census in 1841, with their family complete, Henry and Elizabeth had left Willoughby and instead were living at a dwelling in Great Butchers Row in Coventry. By that time only three of their children were living there with them. The rounded ages of both Henry and Elizabeth were incorrectly recorded in the census return as 47, when there was a difference in their ages of ten years. Their three sons were confirmed as Job Collett aged 22, Joseph Collett aged 17 and Oliver who was 14, all of them confirmed as having been born with the county of Warwickshire. Where the couple’s other children were on that day has still to be discovered, although it seems likely that their daughter Sarah Ann Collett had died by then.
	Ten years later, in 1851, the census that year recorded the family living at Bishop Street in Coventry, where Henry was a tailor as were his sons Job, still living at home, and Joseph who was married by then and also residing in Bishop Street. Once again Henry and his wife Elizabeth were incorrectly recorded as having the same age, that being 58. So perhaps Henry did not want to admit that he was ten years older than his wife. That census day two of the couple’s younger children were living with them, plus two of their unmarried sons. Those four children were Job Collett who was 32, Oliver Collett who was 23, Isaac Collett who was 20 and Mary (Mercy) Collett who was 15. It was just over four years after that when Henry Collett died at Coventry in 1855, following which he was buried at the London Road Cemetery in the city. His death was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 212) during the last quarter of the year.
	15M8		Job Collett	Born in 1819 at Willoughby
	15M9		Henry Collett	Born in 1821 at Willoughby
	15M10		Joseph Collett	Born in 1824 at Willoughby
	15M11		Mary Collett	Born in 1825 at Willoughby
	15M12		Sarah Ann Collett	Born in 1826 at Willoughby
	15M13		Oliver Collett	Born in 1827 at Willoughby
	15M14		John Collett	Born in 1828 at Willoughby
	15M15		Isaac Collett	Born in 1831 at Willoughby
	15M16		Mercy Clarke Collett	Born in 1835 at Willoughby
15L10	Esther Collett was born at Stretton during the first few days of June 1788 and was baptised there on 10^th June 1788. Tragically she died only two months later on 24^th August 1788 at Stretton. Her death seems inextricably linked to that of her mother Esther who also died in 1788.
15L11	Anne Collett was born in 1795 and married Joseph Carter of Coventry in 1818.
15L12	Elizabeth Collett was born at Stretton on 4^th November 1796 and was baptised there on 23^rd January 1797. She was the daughter of Henry Collett and his second wife Sarah. Elizabeth married John Forster of Stretton in 1820. Their son Henry Forster was born in 1821 and he died at Princethorpe in 1840 aged 19. It was also at Princethorpe, just one mile south of Stretton-on-Dunsmore, that Elizabeth Forster nee Collett died in 1870, and was followed by her husband John who also died there, six years later in 1876.
15L13	Esther Collett was born at Stretton on 15^th September 1799 and it was there that she was baptised on 17^th November 1799. In 1823 she married William Hayward from the village of Ladbroke, south of Southam in Warwickshire. They had six children, and all of them born at Leamington: Henry Hayward (1824-1868); Sarah Hayward (1826-1846); Hannah Hayward (1829-1836); John Hayward (1831-1831); William Hayward (1832-); and Charles Hayward (1835-1902). Esther’s youngest child was only five years old when she died at Leamington Priors (Leamington Spa) during 1840, and she was survived by her husband who died thirty years later in 1870.
15L14	Sarah Collett was born at Stretton on 16^th December 1801 and was baptised there on 7^th March 1802, the daughter of Henry and Sarah Collett.
15L15	HENRY COLLETT was born at Stretton on 13^th September 1804 where he was baptised on 14^th December 1804. Sadly, he was the last child of the second marriage of Henry Collett, since his mother Sarah died when he was not yet one year old. Henry married Phoebe Tubbs at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry in 1840. Phoebe was born in 1802 and was baptised at Baginton in Warwickshire on 2^nd January 1803 the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Tubb or Tubbs. Henry Collett was Clerk to the Parish of Stretton midway between Coventry and Rugby.
	By the time of the census in 1851 their family was complete. Henry was 45, his wife Phoebe was 44, and their two children were Emma who was nine years old, and Henry who was six. At that time the family was residing within the Rugby & Dunchurch registration district. By 1861 the couple’s daughter had left the family home in the Rugby & Dunchurch area, so the census that year just recorded the family as Henry Collett 54, Phoebe Collett 57, and their son Henry who was 15. Henry Collett died in 1870 and was buried at Stretton, and that same year his son Henry became a married man. According to the Rugby & Dunchurch census in the following year, Henry’s widow Phoebe Collett was aged 70 and was living alone. However, five years after that, Phoebe Collett nee Tubbs died in 1876.
	15M17		Emma Collett	Born in 1841 at Stretton
	15M18		HENRY COLLETT	Born in 1844 at Stretton
15L16	Mary Collett was born at Stretton on 16^th April 1807. She was baptised at Stretton on 5^th July 1807 when she was confirmed as the first child of the third marriage of Henry Collett and his new wife Susannah Currell of Coventry. Tragically, Mary died just over a year after she was born, when she passed away at Stretton on 3^rd May 1808.
15L17	Mary Ann Collett was born at Stretton on 2^nd October 1808, was baptised at Stretton on 4^th December 1808, and died there on 9^th February 1815.
15L18	Thomas Collett was born at Stretton on 23^rd February 1810 where he was also baptised on 13^th May 1810 the son of shoemaker Henry Collett and his second wife Susannah Currell. Thomas was married twice during his life, although it is only the details of his second marriage that are currently known. It was at St Bartholomew’s Church in Birmingham that Thomas Collett was married to Mary Ann Dixon on 19^th July 1851. Thomas was 40 and a widower whose father was confirmed as Henry Collett, a shoemaker, while spinster Mary Ann was 37 and the daughter of Joseph Dixon who was a publican. By 1861 he was a widower once again when the census that year placed him living at Chester-le-Street in County Durham when he was 50.
	It was also at Chester-le-Street that he was living in 1871 at the age of 60, and living nearby was his younger brother William (below) with his wife Sarah. Thomas survived for almost another ten years, by which time he and his brother had moved back to Warwickshire and were living at Bubbenhall, just west of Stretton-on-Dunsmore. And it was there, at Bubbenhall, that Thomas Collett died at the age of 70 on 15^th January 1881. The death certificate issued by the Warwickshire sub-district of Kenilworth states he died from bronchitis and was a retired inn keeper. The informant was listed as his brother William Collett who was also of Bubbenhall.
15L19	William Collett was born in 1813 at Stretton and was baptised there on 7^th February 1813, the son of Henry Collett and Susannah Currell. William was a shoemaker, but no record of him has been found in the census in 1841, but by 1851 he was still a bachelor at the age of 36, when he was living at Stretton, within the Rugby & Dunchurch registration district of Warwickshire. Living nearby were his brothers Henry (above) and John (below).
	It was during the 1850s that William Collett married Sarah, although marrying that late in his life produced no children for the couple. However, at some point during that same decade, William’s nephew John Collett, the son of his brother Oliver, was living with William and Sarah, where he was being trained by William in the skills of a shoemaker.
	That situation was confirmed in the census of 1861 when William Collett of Stretton was 46, his wife Sarah Collett from Stretton was 48, and their nephew John Collett from Ladbroke was 16. At that time in his life, shoemaker William was the publican at the White Lion Inn on the London Road in Stretton, while the occupation of his nephew was confirmed as a shoemaker. During the 1860s William and Sarah left Stretton-on-Dunsmore, when they moved north to Chester-le-Street in County Durham, where they were reunited with William’s brother bachelor Thomas Collett (above).
	And it was at Chester-le-Street that the couple were recorded as living at the time of the census in 1871, when William was 56 and Sarah was 58. However, sometime later William and Sarah, and brother Thomas, all left County Durham and returned to Warwickshire, where they all settled in the village of Bubbenhall, near Stretton-on-Dunsmore.
	It was at Bubbenhall that William’s brother, and then his wife, both died during the first three months of 1881, William being the informer of the death on both occasions. So, by the time of the census shortly after Sarah’s passing, William Collett from Stretton was a widower at the age of 66. He was listed as head of a private house in Bubbenhall in which the only other occupant was a lodger, Henry Clarke a retired ribbon manufacturer 55 years and born in Coventry. William’s occupation at that time was given as a retired inn keeper, just like his late brother. Two years later William, then around 57, married (2) Ellen Jones nee Blundell, a widow from Bubbenhall, the wedding taking place there during 1883.
	However, at the time of William’s death five years later on 10^th November 1886, his occupation was given as shoemaker. The full death certificate issued by the Warwickshire sub-district of Rugby states that he was 70 and was born at Stretton, and at the time of his death he was living at the Union Workhouse in Rugby. The cause of death was given as senile decay and the informant was Robert Billington who was Master of the Union Workhouse in Rugby.
15L20	Charlotte Collett was born at Stretton in 1815 and was baptised there on 13^th July 1817, the daughter of Henry and Susannah Collett. Charlotte was around two years old when she died at Stretton on 10^th May 1819.
15L21	Oliver Collett was born at Stretton in 1817 was baptised at Stretton-on-Dunsmore on 16^th April 1818 when his parents were confirmed as Henry and Susannah Collett. During his life, Oliver’s occupation was that of a butler. Oliver married (1) Rachel Mann in 1838, the wedding recorded at Southam (Ref. 16 454d) during the second quarter of that year. The wedding ceremony actually took place at Rachel home village of Burton Dassett on 18^th April 1838, when Oliver’s father was confirmed as Henry Collett and Rachel’s father was named as Thomas Mann. The first of their five known children was born while Oliver and Rachel were living at Wappenbury, to the north-east of Warwick. Almost immediately after the birth, the family left Wappenbury when they settled in the village of Ladbroke, to the south of the town of Southam, where their next four children were born.
	Oliver’s wife Rachel was born in 1813 and was very likely related to Esther Mann who was the first wife of Oliver’s father Henry Collett. By the time of the census in 1841, the couple was confirmed as living at Ladbroke within the Southam registration area to the east of Warwick, and with them was their first child. Oliver Collett and his wife Rachel both had a rounded age of 25, while their daughter Maria was just one year old. Rachel was possibly with-child on the day of the census in June 1841, since later that same year she presented Oliver with their second child. Three further children were added to the family over the following four years before Rachel Collett nee Mann died in 1846.
	Following her death, and during the second quarter of 1848 at Coventry (Ref. 16 434), Oliver married (2) Harriet Newcomb, with whom he had a further six children. At the baptism of all of those children, the mother’s name was confirmed as Harriet, although at her own baptism at Burton Dassett on 3^rd July 1828, she was named as Eleanor Harriet Newcomb, the daughter of John and Eleanor Newcomb. According to the Ladbroke (Southam) census in 1851, Oliver Collett was 32 and a coachman from Stretton, while his wife Eleanor Harriet Collett from Burton Dassett was 22. The children listed with the couple in 1851 were John Collett who was seven and Eleanor Harriet Collett who was five, both of them from Oliver’s first marriage, and Sarah Ann Collett who was two and Caroline Collett who was under one year old, the children from his second marriage to Harriet. Visiting the family that day was Harriet’s younger sister Caroline Newcomb. By that time in his life, Oliver had already suffered the loss of two of his children from the first marriage and, between 1853 and 1856, one of his older children died, plus two from his second marriage.
	Harriet was very likely with-child on the day of the census in 1851, since later that same year their son John Oliver Collett was born. That probably took place at Ladbroke, even though John Oliver Collett later said that he was born at Eathorpe, which is the next village to Wappenbury, where his parents were living ten years earlier. During the remainder of the 1850s, a further two children were born to Oliver and Harriet, but tragically only one of them survived. In addition to that, Oliver’s second wife, died in 1856, and her death may have been linked to the birth of the couple’s last child who also died. Both mother and child died while the family was living at Shipston-on-Stour, and it was there also that they were buried.
	No record of Oliver or the surviving members of the family have been located within the census details for 1861. What Oliver did after the death of his second wife in 1856 and his re-appearance in the census in 1871 is still a mystery, but by that time Oliver Collett, from Stretton-on-Dunmore, was a servant in the Lillington, Leamington Spa, home of John Walker, while some of his children were actually living nearby in the town of Leamington. Widower John Collett was 53 years old and working for Mr Walker as a butler. It is significantly interesting, that one of the other three servants was Marian (Mary Ann) Woodward from Knowle near Alcester in Warwickshire, who was 28, and just over a year later they were married.
	After sixteen years as a widower Oliver Collett married (3) Mary Hannah Woodward at St Martin’s Church in Birmingham on 27^th May 1872. Sadly, for Oliver, his third marriage only last for around three years, although it did produce his twelfth child, since he died at Warwick in 1875, and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church in Warwick. Following her short marriage to Oliver, Mary was recorded in the next two census returns as Ann Woodward from Knowle (aged 38 in 1881) and had living with her, birth her daughter Ada (aged eight years) and unmarried younger sister Eliza (aged 30 and also born at Knowle. The three of them were living together in Warwick at The Market Place in 1881 and at Brook Street in 1891, after which dressmaker Mary Hannah Woodward passed away.
	15M19		Maria Collett	Born in 1840 at Wappenbury
	15M20		Ann Collett	Born in 1841 at Ladbroke
	15M21		John Collett	Born in 1843 at Ladbroke
	15M22		Eleanor Harriet Collett	Born in 1845 at Ladbroke
	15M23		Ellen Collett	Born in 1847 at Ladbroke
	The following are the children of Oliver Collett by his second wife Harriet Newcomb:
	15M24		Sarah Ann Collett	Born in 1848 at Ladbroke
	15M25		Caroline Collett	Born in 1850 at Ladbroke
	15M26		John Oliver Collett	Born in 1851 at Ladbroke
	15M27		William Collett	Born in 1852 at Ladbroke
	15M28		Elizabeth Anne Collett	Born in 1854 at Ladbroke
	15M29		Thomas Oliver Collett	Born in 1856 at Shipston-on-Stour
	The following is the only child of Oliver Collett by his third wife Mary Hannah Woodward:
	15M30		Ada Alice Collett	Born in 1873 at Warwick
15L22	Maria Collett was born at Stretton to Henry and Susannah Collett in 1819, just a few months after their daughter Charlotte (above) died. Maria was baptised at Stretton on 7^th November 1819 and was twelve years old when she died at Stretton on 1^st January 1832.
15L23	John Collett was born in 1823 at Stretton where he was baptised on 16^th November 1823. John married (1) Elizabeth Ford who was born in 1818. Their marriage produced four children for the couple, and all of them were born while John and Elizabeth were living in the village of Marton to the north-east of Leamington. However, only two of the children survived to adulthood. In the Marton census of 1851 John Collett was 27, and his wife Elizabeth was 32, but only their youngest son Oliver was listed with them at under one year old, since their first child had died in March in 1850.
	The family was still living at Marton five years later when their daughter was born, but sadly she never reached her first birthday. Sometime following her death in 1856, the family left Marton and moved to the St John district of Coventry, where they were living at the time of the census in 1861. John Collett was 37, his wife Elizabeth Collett was 42, and their two surviving children were their sons Oliver John Collett who was 10, and Arthur Thomas Collett who was eight years old. Ten years after that, the same family group was still living in the St John district of Coventry.
	The census in 1871 described the family as John Collett who was 47, his wife Elizabeth who was 52, and their two sons Oliver Collett who was 20, and Arthur T Collett who was 18. It was just five years later that Elizabeth died in Coventry in 1876.
	Following the death of his wife, John married (2) Ann Golding nee Richards who was born in 1823. According to the next census in 1881, John and Ann Collett were living at 35 Parliament Street in Aston, Birmingham. John was working as a cordwainer (a shoemaker) at 58, while Ann from Foleshill in Coventry was also 58. It may be of interest that the wife of their son Oliver John Collett also came from Foleshill, which might suggest that the wives of both father and son were perhaps related or known to each other.
	By 1881 both of John’s sons were married and had remained living in the Coventry area when he and Ann moved to Birmingham. Their respective census returns revealed that they were both born in the village of Marton, just two miles south of Stretton, in addition to which, the baptism record for John’s deceased son Henry Ford Collett also gave Marton as his place of birth. The time spent in Birmingham seems to have been fairly short because both John and Ann were once again residing within Coventry parish of St John in 1891, where John and Ann were both aged 67. Four years later, at the time of his death at Coventry in 1895, John Collett was described as a master shoemaker. His widow Ann appears to have passed away not long after her husband, since no record of her has been found within the census of 1901.
	15M31		Henry Ford Collett	Born in 1849 at Marton
	15M32		Oliver John Collett	Born in 1850 at Marton
	15M33		Arthur Thomas Collett	Born in 1852 at Marton
	15M34		Sarah Jane Collett	Born in 1855 at Marton
15M1	Ann Collett was born at Coventry in 1811 and was baptised at St John’s Church on 8^th March 1812, the eldest of three daughters of Thomas and Mary Collett.
15M2	Elizabeth Collett was born in 1813 at Coventry where she was baptised at the Church of St John on 8^th May 1814, the middle one of the three daughters of Thomas and Mary Collett. In June 1841 Elizabeth Collett was still living within the Parish of St John the Baptist in Coventry. The full census details show that unmarried Elizabeth Collett was a ‘filler’ (a reference to a silk-filler), living at the home of watchmaker and jeweller Harvey Mind, age 50, and his wife Elizabeth who was 30, on the south side of Sovereign Place within the Parish of St John the Baptist.
	Elizabeth may have been with-child at that time or just after, since at the beginning of the following year, she gave birth to a base-born son. He was followed six years later by the birth of a base-born daughter. In between those two children Elizabeth also had a second son who was also born out of wedlock at Sovereign Place in Coventry.
	By 1851 unmarried Elizabeth Collett, age 34, was a pauper living within the Parish of St Michael in Coventry with her nine years old son Thomas and her daughter Sarah Collett who was three years old. The two children were described as the bastard children of Elizabeth, while she was described as a ribbon trader and a filler, a shortening of ‘silk-filler’ perhaps. Where her son Joseph was on that day has not yet been discovered.
	At that time, the family was living in an ‘institution’ which was very likely the Whitefriars Workhouse, which later became the Coventry Union Workhouse. Around the time that Elizabeth’s first child was born, a commercial silk throwster was contracted to operate a silk mill within the workhouse. That was to provide employment for the inmates, of which Elizabeth, as a silk-filler, was very like just one of many who were paid five pennies each week. What happened to Elizabeth after that time is not known, and it is possible that she may have married, whereas her son Thomas C Collett was still living in Coventry in 1861 at the age of 18. If her daughter Sarah survived beyond infancy, she may have also taken her mother’s married name.
	15N1		Thomas Charles Collett	Born in 1842 at Coventry
	15N2		Joseph Collett	Born in 1845 at Coventry
	15N3		Sarah Collett	Born in 1847 at Coventry
15M3	Sarah Collett was born at Coventry in 1816, where she was baptised at St John’s Church on 8^th March 1812, the youngest of the three daughters of Thomas and Mary Collett.
15M4	Ann Wainwright Collett was born at Coventry, where she was baptised at the Vicar Lane Independent Chapel on 28^th October 1821, which confirmed her parents were John and Mary Collett. It would appear that she never married, and that she died in 1897, although no record of her has been found in any census.
15M6	Thomas Collett was born at Coventry in 1813 and was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 7^th March 1814, the son of William Collett and Hannah Linden. He married Jemima Standbridge on 27^th May 1839 at St Lawrence Church in Foleshill, Coventry. Jemima was the daughter of Thomas and Catherine Standbridge of Kenilworth. By June 1841 both Thomas and Jemima had a rounded age of 25 in the St John & St Michael district census for Coventry that year. Tragically the couple’s first child, born during the previous year, had died by then. However, over the following two decades a further eight children were born to Thomas and Jemima.
	By 1851 Thomas was 37 and Jemima was 35. Living with them within the St Michael & St John district of Coventry were five of their six children born during that period, they being William, who was nine, Rebecca, who was six, Edwin, who was four, John, who was two, and Mark who was under one year old. Missing from the family was their son Alfred who would have been seven years old, had he survived. Ten years later the family living within the St John area of Coventry was complete and comprised Thomas 47, Jemima 45, William 19, Rebecca 16, Edward (Edwin) 14, John, age 12, Ruth, who was five, and Philip who was two years old. Once again, during that decade, the family had lost another of their children to an infant death, when their son Mark had died in the 1850s.
	By the time of the next census in 1871 the couple’s older sons had left the family home in Coventry. The census that year listed the family as Thomas Collett 57, his wife Jemima 54, daughters Rebecca 25 and Ruth 15, and sons John age 21 and Philip who was 12. Thomas Collett died at Coventry three years later in 1874. Therefore, by the time of the census in 1881, 65 years old Jemima from Kenilworth was described as head of the household, a widow, and an annuitant. Living with her at 7 Cow Lane in Coventry were her two unmarried daughters Rebecca Collett, age 35 and dressmaker, and Ruth Collett, age 25 who was a ribbon paper box maker.
	Also living with Jemima and her daughters was her unmarried son Philip Collett who was 22 years old and a watch finisher. All three of Jemima’s children were confirmed as having been born at Coventry, as had all nine of them had over the eighteen years. It was just a short while after the census day in 1881 that Jemima Collett passed away, following which she was buried with her husband in the London Road Cemetery in Coventry. It was also in the same family grave that their daughter Rebecca Jemima Collett and their daughter-in-law Clara Collett were later buried, and where a large headstone marks the plot.
	15N4		Thomas Collett		Born in 1840 at Coventry
	15N5		William Henry Collett		Born in 1841 at Coventry
	15N6		Alfred Collett		Born in 1843 at Coventry
	15N7		Rebecca Jemima Collett		Born in 1844 at Coventry
	15N8		Edwin Collett		Born in 1846 at Coventry
	15N9		John Collett		Born in 1848 at Coventry
	15N10		Mark Collett		Born in 1850 at Coventry
	15N11		Ruth Collett		Born in 1855 at Coventry
	15N12		Philip Collett		Born in 1858 at Coventry
15M7	Hannah Collett was born at Coventry within the Holy Trinity district of the city in 1815. She was the only known daughter of William Collett and Hannah Linden. In 1833 she married John Warring with whom she had two children, including daughter Sarah Ann Warring who was born in 1846. Their son William Warring, who was born at Coventry in 1843, married Harriet Ellen who was born at Colchester in 1847. Their marriage resulted in the birth of four children. Osborne William Warring was born at Ryton-on-Dunsmore in 1869, Bob Warring was also born there in 1871, as was Ellen Warring in 1873, and by 1877 the family was living in Coventry, where Harry Warring was born.
15M8	Job Collett was born at Willoughby in 1819, where he was baptised on 12^th April 1819, the eldest child of Henry Collett and Elizabeth Townsend. The census in 1841 included Job Collett aged 22 still living with his family which, by then, was living in Great Butchers Row in Coventry. After a further ten years, the 1851 Census, described Job as being 32 and unmarried, who was a tailor, working alongside his father, with whom he was still living in Coventry, but at Bishop Street. On the 21^st June 1857 the marriage of Job Collett, aged 38, and Hannah Wilson, aged 31, was conducted at St Michael’s Church in Coventry, when Job’s father was confirmed as Henry Collett and Hannah’s father was named as Joseph Wilson. Hannah Wilson had been born at Wolston near Coventry during 1828. In 1861, when tailor Job from Willoughby was 40, he was living at Warwick Lane in Coventry St Michael with his wife Hannah who was 33, together with their two children, Henry who was three and Kate who was under one year old, both born in Coventry.
	Two more children were added to their family which, on the day of the next census in 1871, was recorded residing in the Holy Trinity area of Coventry. Job’s occupation was still that of a tailor when he said he was only 49, Hannah was 43, Henry was 13, Kate was 10, Richard was eight and Joseph was still only a few months old. By the time of the census in 1881, Job Collett from Willoughby was again a tailor, like his father before him. He was 62 and was living at 53 New Buildings within the Holy Trinity district of Coventry with his wife Hannah who was 52 and from Wolston in Warwickshire. Still living with the couple were their four children. Henry Collett was 22, Kate Collett was 20, Richard Collett was 18, and Joseph Collett was 10 years old.
	Sadly, it was towards the end of the following year, that the death of Hannah Collitt was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 317) during the fourth quarter of 1882, at the age of 55. Nine years after that, Job Collett, a widower aged 72, had returned to the St Michael area of Coventry by 1891, where he was living at St John Street with his two unmarried sons, Henry Collett aged 35 and Joseph Collett who was 20. It was just three years after that when the death of Job Collett was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 286) during the last quarter of 1894, when he was 74.
	15N13		Henry Collett	Born in 1857 at Coventry
	15N14		Kate Collett	Born in 1860 at Coventry
	15N15		Job Richard Collett	Born in 1863 at Coventry
	15N16		Joseph Collett	Born in 1870 at Coventry
15M9	Henry Collett was born at Willoughby in 1821, and was baptised there on 21^st October 1821, the son of Henry Collett and Elizabeth Townsend. In 1841, when his family was living at Great Butchers Row in Coventry, Henry Collett had a rounded age of 20 when he was living at Stoke Green in Coventry, the home of Richard and Sarah Keene and their large family. Seven years later the marriage of Henry Collett and Ann Lewis took place St Bartholomew’s Church in Wednesbury on 25^th June 1848. On the day Henry’s age was recorded incorrectly as 25, when he was confirmed as the son of Henry Collett. It is likely that he lowered his age to align better with Ann’s 24 years, when she was described as the daughter of Thomas Lewis. Ann was baptised at St Lawrence’s Church in Darlaston on 4^th July 1823, the daughter of Thomas and Martha Lewis.
	Upon being married, the couple settled in Wednesbury where their first child was born and where the family was residing on the day of the census in 1851. However, it was with Ann’s widowed mother, Martha Lewis, that the family of three was living at Wood Green in Wednesbury, where Henry Collett from Willoughby was 29 and an agricultural labourer. His wife Ann Collett from Wednesbury was 26 and their daughter Mercy Collett was one year old. During the following decade a further four children were added to their family which was recorded at Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury in 1861, where Henry and Ann lived most of their life together. The census return that year listed the family as Henry who was 40 and a blacksmith, Ann who was 37, Mercy who was 12, Sophia who was nine, Henry who was six, Elizabeth who was four and John who was not yet one year old.
	Another two children were born into the family at Wednesbury during the 1860s, where the enlarged family was still living in 1871. Blacksmith Henry was 49, Ann was 44, Mercy was 21, Henry was 16, Elizabeth was 13, John was 10, Mary was six and Thomas was two years old. Unlike all of the couple’s other children, no birth or baptism record for daughter Sophia has been found, and the same applies for her possible childhood death, hence her absence from the family in 1871. An eighth child was added to the family five year later, with the family still residing at Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury on the day of the census in 1881. Hobbs Hole was a colliery. Tragically, by that time, the couple’s three eldest children had died some years earlier.
	According to the completed census return that year, head of the household Henry Collett from Willoughby, a blacksmith, whose age was incorrectly recorded as 52. The age of his wife Ann, was also incorrect when she was recorded as being 50 years of age. The four children still living with the couple were listed as Lizzie Collett who was 21, John Collett was 19, Thomas Collett who 12, and Richard Collett who was four years old. Only the last two children were credited with their correct age, which was the same in the next census of 1891, when once again Henry and Ann’s ages were recorded in error.
	That year Henry said he was 73 – a twenty-year jump from ten years earlier, Ann said she was 64, while it was left to sons Thomas and Richard to record their ages more accurately as being 22 and 14 respectively. Father and son Henry and Thomas were both employed as labourers at a boiler yard, while son Richard was working at a nearby tube factory. The problem Henry and Ann had during their life together, regarding knowing their own ages, continued right up to the time of their deaths. When the death of Henry Collett was recorded at West Bromwich during the third quarter of 1898, the informant (possibly his widow Ann) gave his age as being only 72, when he was actually 77. Having lost her husband, Ann Collett, a widow from Wednesbury was a visitor at Gospel Oak Road in nearby Tipton, the home of the Norman family in 1901, where she was 77.
	On the day of the next census in 1911, Ann Collett was 87 when she and her son Thomas were boarders with widow Elizabeth Ann Crouch nee Gadd at her home in Wednesbury. Just under two years after that the death of Ann Collett, nee Lewis, was recorded at West Bromwich register office (Ref. 6b 1108) during the first quarter of 1913 when she was 89.
	15N17		Mercy Collett	Born in 1849 at Wednesbury
	15N18		Sophia Collett	Born in 1852 at Wednesbury
	15N19		Henry Collett	Born in 1855 at Wednesbury
	15N20		Elizabeth Ann Collett	Born in 1857 at Wednesbury
	15N21		John Collett	Born in 1859 at Wednesbury
	15N22		Mary Collett	Born in 1863 at Wednesbury
	15N23		Thomas Collett	Born in 1868 at Wednesbury
	15N24		Richard Henry Collett	Born in 1876 at Wednesbury
15M10	Joseph Collett was born at Willoughby in 1824, and it was there also that he was baptised on 13^th June 1824, the third child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. When he was around fourteen years old his family left Willoughby when they settled in Coventry, and it was there they were living in June 1841, at Great Butchers Row, but recorded in the census under the name Joseph Collitt aged 17. It was three years later that Joseph Collett married Ann Foxon at St Michael’s Cathedral Church on 21^st April 1844. Joseph’s sister Mary Collett (below) was one of the witnesses at the wedding. It was towards the end of that same year, or at the start of the next year, that the first of their two sons was born, while the couple was residing at Earl Street in Coventry. Ann Foxon was quite a few years older that Joseph, having been born at Burbage within the Hinckley area of Leicestershire in 1814, the daughter of John and Lydia Foxon, and was baptised at Burbage on 5^th June 1814.
	By the time of the census in 1851 Joseph Collett, a tailor, his wife Ann and their first child, were living at Bishop Street in Coventry, the same street where his parents were also living. His father Henry was also a tailor in 1851, as was Joseph’s older brother Job (above), both of Bishop Street, so perhaps all three of them were working together. Joseph Collett from Willoughby was 27, his wife Ann Collett from Burbage was 36, and their son Joseph Collett from Coventry was six years of age. Sadly though, the couple’s missing youngest son John Collett, who was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry during 1848, had died later that same year.
	It is apparent from the subsequent records that Joseph did not continue to his work as a tailor, but took up other trades over the following years, including being a greengrocer, a cab driver and a fishmonger - which was his stated occupation in the next census return. According to that census in 1861, the three members of the family were recorded living at Silver Street in the Coventry Holy Trinity area of the city. Joseph Collett from Willoughby was 38, his wife Ann was 46 and their son Joseph was 15 years old. Also recorded with the family that day was nine-year-old John Foxon from Burbage, the son of stocking weaver Thomas Foxon and his wife Elizabeth, both of them also born at Burbage. Although not described as the nephew of Joseph Collett, it would be logical for the boy’s father to be Ann’s younger brother.
	After a further ten years, the census in 1871 recorded just Joseph and Ann still living within the Holy Trinity district of Coventry, but by then Joseph’s occupation was that of a greengrocer. He was 47 and Ann was 55 and, to supplement her husband’s income, Ann had taken in a lodger, fourteen-year-old James Mulvaney, who was a shop assistant. However, seven years later, during the first quarter of 1878, Ann Collett nee Foxon died while the couple was still living in Coventry, her death recorded there (Ref. 6d 340) when she was 64. That sad situation was confirmed in the next census of 1881, when widower Joseph Collett from Willoughby was a cab driver at the age of 56. On that day, he was living alone at 10 Little Butchers Row within the Holy Trinity district of Coventry. It was at Great Butchers Row that Joseph Collett had been living with his parents, forty years earlier, in 1841.
	Another change of occupation for Joseph took place during the next decade, together with a change of location. It was most likely his new job, that of a boatman on the Oxford Canal, which resulted in him being recorded at Braunston in Northamptonshire in the spring of 1891. In addition to his occupation as a boatman, the census return also described him as ‘captain’, where it would usually say ‘head of the household’. Furthermore, the address was stated as being ‘Iron Bridges’, and listed with Joseph, who was 67, was Henry Hiams who was 65 and described as a ‘hand’. Braunston lies on the junction between the Grand Union Canal to London, to the south, and the Oxford Canal to Coventry, to the north. At that junction, at that time, there were two cast iron footbridges over the canal, so it is very likely that the narrow-boat skippered by Joseph Collett was moored at that location on the day of the census.
	One story told by Joseph’s great granddaughters, was that Joseph Collett was in fact the owner of a barge, and that on one occasion he had purchased a field of potatoes ‘already sown in the ground’ with the intention of delivering them by barge to market. However, the crop failed and he lost all his money. By March 1901 he had returned to Coventry and Well Street, where Joseph Collett from Willoughby was living at the age of 77, when he was described as being ‘unable to work’. It was after a further four years that Joseph Collett died on 26^th February 1905 at the union workhouse in Coventry, when he was described as a retired fishmonger of Well Street in Coventry. His passing was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 307) during the first quarter of that year, when he was said to be 80 years of age. Administration of his personal estate of £46 8 Shillings was granted in Birmingham on 16^th March 1905 to his son Joseph Collett, another fishmonger.
	15N25		Joseph Collett	Born in 1844 at Coventry
	15N26		John Collett	Born in 1847 at Coventry
15M11	Mary Collett was born at Willoughby in 1825 and was baptised there on 3^rd July 1825, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. By the time of the census in 1841, Mary Collett was 16 when she was still living in Coventry but had already left the family home and was working as a servant at 1 Hat Lane in Coventry, the home of Andrew Tucker, an attorney, and his wife. Just over eight years later Mary Collett married Daventry born George Pearce at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 11^th June 1849 (Ref. 16 445). The marriage certificate confirmed she was residing at Well Street in the city, which was curiously where her older brother Joseph (above) was living in 1901 and where he died four years later. George’s father was confirmed as Thomas Pearce.
	Once married, George made a return to Northamptonshire with his wife, and to Long Buckby, near Daventry, where their first child was born, while it was at George’s parents’ home, at Church Street in Daventry, that the family of three was living with Thomas and Mary Pearce on the day of the census in 1851. Their son George Pearce was 23 and a licenced hawker, his wife Mary Pearce was 25, and their daughter Mary Ann Pearce was nine months old. The respective places of birth for George and Mary, being Daventry and Willoughby, both lie very close to each other across the county boundary between Northamptonshire and Warwickshire. So, it is possible the couple knew each other prior to being married in Coventry.
	According to the next census in 1861, the Pearce family was residing at Chapel Lane in Daventry where head of the household George, age 33, was a grocer, Mary his wife was 35, and their two children were Mary Ann who was ten and Henry T Pearce who was five. The census return that year stated in error, that all four members of the family had been born in Daventry. The birth of Henry Tomas Pearce was recorded at Daventry (Ref. 3b 100) during the first quarter of 1856, after which he was baptised there on 26^th May 1856, the son of George and Mary Pearce.
	On completing his education Henry Thomas Pearce entered into domestic service and, in 1871 at the age of 15, he was working as a general servant at the Warwick St Nicholas home of commercial traveller Michael Jealous. On that same day, his parents and his older sister were living in the nearby parish of Warwick St Mary. By that time in his life George Pearce aged 42 and from Daventry was a male nurse. His wife Mary from Willoughby was 45, and their unmarried daughter Mary Ann Pearce from Long Buckby was 20. Presumably during the next decade daughter Mary Ann was very likely married. What is known for sure, is the George suffered the loss of his wife during the 1870s, and was a widower in the Warwick census of 1881.
	At the age of 55, George Pearce from Daventry was a nursing attendant at The Packmores lunatic hospital in Warwick St Nicholas. Perhaps due to the possible variations in the spelling and interpretation of his surname, no record of George has been found in either of the next two census returns. However, in the census of 1911, George Pearce from Daventry was still living in the St Nicholas parish of Warwick when he was described as being 81, instead of being 83.
15M12	Sarah Ann Collett was born at Willoughby in 1826, like all of her siblings, but curiously unlike all of her siblings, she was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry, the city where her father was born. The baptism on 4^th August 1826 confirmed that she was the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. She would have been 14 years old in 1841, but she was not listed with her family in that year’s census.
15M13	Oliver Collett was born at Willoughby in 1827, where he was baptised on 11^th March 1827, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. When Oliver was around ten or eleven years old his family moved into Coventry, where they were living at Great Butchers Row in 1841 and where Oliver was 14 years of age. By 1851 the family was living at Bishop Street where Oliver was 23 years and employed as an agricultural labourer. However, he failed to reach his thirtieth birthday, when he died at Coventry during 1857, and was buried at London Road Cemetery.
15M14	John Collett was born at Willoughby in 1828, and it was there also that he was baptised on 31^st August 1828, and where he was died on 13^th October 1828, the son of Henry Collett and Elizabeth Townsend.
15M15	Isaac Collett was born at Willoughby in 1831, the youngest son of Henry Collett and Elizabeth Townsend. His baptism was delayed until he was six years old, when there was a double baptism with his younger sister Mercy (below) at Willoughby on 29^th June 1837. Not long after Mercy was born Isaac’s family moved from Willoughby to Great Butchers Row in the city of Coventry. Around the time that he left school, Isaac and his family were living at Bishop Street in Coventry where, in 1851, Isaac Collett from Willoughby was recorded as being 20 years old. On that census day he working as an agricultural labourer, most likely with his older brother Oliver (above).
	Nearly nine years later, when he was 28 years old, Isaac Collett was married by banns to (1) Caroline Warden, aged 22, at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 26^th February 1860. Each of them made the mark of a cross on the wedding register, which also stated that Isaac was a porter of Bishop Street, the son of Henry Collett, a tailor. Caroline also made the mark of a cross, who was residing at Palmer Lane, the daughter of William Warden, a weaver, and his wife Jane. The marriage was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 361) and produced a daughter who was born while the couple was living at Palmer Lane in Coventry. The birth of Jane Elizabeth Collett was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 404) during the last three months of 1860. That was confirmed in the Coventry census of 1861, when Isaac Collett from Willoughby was 29 and a carter, Caroline Collett of Coventry was 23, and their daughter Jane E Collett, also of Coventry, was five months old. The family of three was still residing at Palmer Lane on that day in 1861. Caroline Warden had been born in 1836 but tragically she died eight years later in 1869. The death of Caroline Collett was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6b 305) during the final quarter of 1869, when she was only 33 years of age. The obituary in the Coventry press confirmed that she died on 5^th November and was the wife of Mr Isaac Collett.
	It was just over one year later that widower Isaac Collett married (2) widow Martha Aries, presumably to help look after his daughter Jane, at St John’s Church in Coventry on 18^th December 1870. The marriage certificate inaccurately described Isaac as being a bachelor aged 36, who was a porter residing at Spon Street and the son of Henry Collett, a tailor. Martha was recorded as a spinster aged 41, also of Spon Street, whose father was named as Thomas Aries, a labourer. Isaac again signed the register with the mark of a cross, while Martha signed her name in her own hand. She was the daughter of Thomas Aries and Sophia Blackwell and had been baptised at St John’s Church in Coventry on 19^th February 1829. Once they were married, the couple, together with Isaac’s daughter Jane, lived at Little Park Street in Coventry, where they were recorded in 1871. On that occasion Isaac gave his age as 40, while his wife Martha was 42, and Isaac’s daughter Jane was 11. Living with the family was Martha’s daughter from her previous marriage, Ellen Aries who was 12 and born at Snitterfield near Stratford-on-Avon.
	Nearly five years prior to that census day, Isaac’s daughter Jane Elizabeth Collett was baptised at St Michael’s Church in Coventry on 30^th June 1876, the baptism recorded also confirmed her date of birth as 27^th November 1870. The same record stated her father was Isaac Collett, a labourer of Much Park Street. However, Jane’s mother’s name was incorrectly recorded as Catherine, rather than Caroline. Jane had left the family home at 74 Little Park Street in the St Michael district of Coventry by the time of the census in 1881, when she was 20 years old and was working as a general domestic servant at the nearby home of elderly Thomas Smith on Broad Street in Coventry. On that same day, Isaac said that he was 51 and his wife Martha was 52, the only two occupants at 74 Little Park Street.
	It was also at Little Park Street in Coventry that the pair of them were still living alone on the day of the census in 1891. By that time Martha Collett from Coventry was 62 and Isaac Collett from Willoughby was 59 and a general labourer. According to the census in March 1901 Isaac Collett from Willoughby was 70 years of age and a grocer’s porter when he was living at London Road in Coventry with his wife Martha who was 72. It was five years later that Isaac Collett died in 1906, his death recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 403) during the first three months of that year, when he was 74. Three years later the death of Martha Collett was recorded at Coventry record office (Ref. 6d 284) during the second quarter of 1909, when she was 80 years old.
	15N27		Jane Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1861 at Coventry
15M16	Mercy Clarke Collett was born at Willoughby in 1835, the last child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. She was baptised at Willoughby on 29^th June 1837 in a joint ceremony with her older brother Isaac (above). No record of her has been found within the Coventry census of 1841, to where her family had moved after she was born, but she was living with her parents and three older brothers at Bishop Street in Coventry in 1851, when she was recorded as Mary Collett aged 15 from Willoughby. It is possible she was married before 1861.
15M17	Emma Collett was born at Stretton in 1841 and was baptised there on 7^th November 1841, the only daughter of Henry Collett and Phoebe Tubbs. Emma was nine years old in the 1851 census for the Rugby & Dunchurch area of Warwickshire, when she was living there with her parents and brother Henry (below). No record of Emma has been located in 1861, but two major events in her life took place in 1870, and they were the death of her father and the marriage of her brother. Her widowed mother Phoebe was still living in the Rugby & Dunchurch area in 1871, while Emma Collett, aged 29, was living and working in the Foleshill area of Coventry.
	According to the next census in 1881, Emma Collett aged 36 was a housemaid, one of ten domestic servants, employed at Weddington Hall near Nuneaton in Warwickshire, the home of Magistrate and High Sheriff of Warwickshire, Henry Cunliffe Shaw of Kingsbury in Warwickshire and his wife Georgina. Just less than four years later, on 1^st January 1885, Emma Collett married William Buckingham at St Martin’s Church in Birmingham. The marriage certificate recorded that she was Emma Collett spinster aged 43 of Smithfield. William Buckingham was listed as a widower and gentleman aged 60, and also of Smithfield, which was the wholesale market area within the city of Birmingham.
	On the certificate, Emma’s father was described as Henry Collett, a parish clerk, and that ties in exactly with what is known about Emma’s father. William’s father was given as Joseph Buckingham, a stocking maker, while the witnesses were Samuel Buckingham, possibly William’s son or brother, and Charlotte Constable. Four years earlier in 1881 William Buckingham, who was born at Plymouth, was living at 8 Bond Gate in Nuneaton aged 60, where he was a chimney sweep. Living with him was his 35 years old sister Louisa Gibson, a dressmaker who was also born at Plymouth.
	So, from being a chimney sweep in 1881, he became ‘a gentleman’ by January 1885, according to his marriage certificate. Further records reveal that William Collett was born around 1820, the son of Adam and Martha Buckingham, and that his first wife was Ann Mason. So, not only would it appear he enhanced his status for his second marriage, he also said he was younger by five years than his actual age of nearer 65, that is over twenty years older than Emma Collett.
	By the time of the census in 1901, Emma Buckingham was listed as being aged 59 born at Stretton-on-Dunsmore, a widow living at Nuneaton with her son William Buckingham aged 16. He was an office worker at an ironmongers and was born at Nuneaton. Emma Buckingham nee Collett died at Nuneaton in 1906, where she was buried in the same grave as her husband and his first wife Ann. The single headstone that marks the grave includes the details for all three of them.
	Emma’s son William Buckingham married Rose Ellen Green in 1908. Rose was born in 1884 and died in 1966, while her husband died forty-five years earlier in 1921. Their relatively short marriage produced a daughter for William and Rose, Laura Rose Buckingham who was born in 1913. Laura Rose Buckingham married Leslie Arthur Oliver in 1937 and they had two children: Margaret M Oliver born 1939 who married Derek Farnell in 1960 who had a daughter Elizabeth in 1961 and a son Andrew in 1965; and Stephen William Oliver born 1948 who married Lynn Smithson in 1968, and they had a daughter Sarah Louise Oliver born in 1969.
15M18	HENRY COLLETT was born at Stretton on 4^th May 1844, the only son of Henry Collett and Phoebe Tubbs. In 1851 Henry was six years old when living in the Rugby & Dunchurch area with his parents and his sister Emma (above). Ten years later he was 15, by which time his sister had left home to seek work, leaving Henry living with his parents in the Rugby & Dunchurch registration district.
	In 1870 the marriage of Henry Collett and Harriet Field was recorded at Rugby. Harriet was born in 1850 at the village of Marton near Stretton. The couple had fourteen children, all of whom are listed below, although three of them died very young. By 1871 Henry and Harriet were living in the Southam area of Warwickshire, by which time Harriet had present Henry with the first of their child. Henry Collett was 25, Harriet Collett was 21, and their son William H Collett was not yet one year old.
	According to the 1881 Census, Henry and Harriet were living at 2 St John’s Street in Kenilworth. With them were five of their six children, all of whom were born at Kenilworth. The couple’s eldest son William Henry Collett would have been ten years old, but tragically he had died when he was five. Henry was listed as a labourer aged 34 and born at Stretton-on-Dunsmore. His wife Harriet was 30, and their five children at that time were recorded as Walter J Collett, who was eight, Emma Collett, who was six, Geo Hy Collett, who was four, Harry Collett, who was two, and Chas John Collet who was four months old.
	Ten years later the family was living at Henry Street in Kenilworth, where Henry was 46 and Harriet was 40. On that on occasion only seven of their fourteen children were still living with them, and they were Charles 12, Annie 10, Ada, who was eight, Frank, who was four, Harold, who was two, and Ellen who was one day old. By that time the family had lost Ellen, who died in 1886, while their daughter Emma, age 16, and their son George, who was 15, had both left home by then, perhaps to ease the overcrowded accommodation that was the family’s home.
	According to the Kenilworth census in March 1901 Henry Collett at 57 was a domestic gardener, and his wife Harriet was from Marton in Warwickshire and was 51. By that time only five of their seven youngest children were still alive and living with them in Kenilworth, following the death of the couple’s second daughter named Ellen. The five children recorded as living with them were Henry who was 23, Frank who was 13, Harold who was 12, Jack who was eight, and six years old Ernest. Once again, all of them were confirmed as having been born at Kenilworth. Daughter Ada Collett was 17 and was also living and working in Kenilworth, not far from the family home.
	Pictured on the right is Henry Collett standing in Albion Street, Kenilworth. At that time there were six alehouses along Albion Street, and Henry was a frequent visitor to many of them. By April 1911 only three of the couple’s children were still living with Henry and Harriet at Henry Street in Kenilworth. The census that year listed that family as Henry aged 65, his wife Harriet from Marton who was 60, and their sons Frank Collett 23, Jack Collett 17, and Ernest Collett 16.
	Henry Collett died two years later on 3th December 1913 at the age of 69, while his widow Harriet survived for a further sixteen years, when she died in 1929. At the time of the death of their son Reginald Jack Collett, at the end of 1917, Harriet Collett was living at 65 Henry Street in Kenilworth according to her son’s military records. Henry and Harriet and their daughter Ada, were all buried in a single family grave in the churchyard of St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth.
	15N28		William Henry Collett		Born in 1871 at Stretton
	15N29		Walter Joseph Collett		Born in 1872 at Kenilworth
	15N30		Emma Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1874 at Kenilworth
	15N31		George Henry Collett		Born in 1876 at Kenilworth
	15N32		Harry Collett		Born in 1878 at Kenilworth
	15N33		Charles John Collett		Born in 1880 at Kenilworth
	15N34		Jane Anne Collett		Born in 1881 at Kenilworth
	15N35		Ada Collett		Born in 1883 at Kenilworth
	15N36		Ellen Collett		Born in 1885 at Kenilworth
	15N37		Frank Collett		Born in 1887 at Kenilworth
	15N38		HAROLD JAMES COLLETT		Born in 1889 at Kenilworth
	15N39		Ellen Collett		Born in 1891 at Kenilworth
	15N40		Reginald Jack Collett		Born in 1892 at Kenilworth
	15N41		Ernest Collett		Born in 1894 at Kenilworth
15M19	Maria Collett was born in 1840, possibly born at Wappenbury to the north-east of Warwick, since it was there that she was baptised on 31^st May 1840, the first of five children of Oliver Collett and Rachel Mann. The parish register stated that her parents were residents of Eathorpe on that day, which may have been a temporary arrangement. By the time of the census in June 1841 Maria, who was one year old, and her parents, were living in the village of Ladbroke to the south of the town of Southam in Warwickshire. And it was there that she died during the last quarter of 1849, her death recorded at Southam (Ref. 16 361), following which she was buried at Ladbroke on 5^th October 1849, aged nine years.
15M20	Ann Collett was born at Ladbroke in 1841, her birth recorded at Southam (Ref. 16 451) during the fourth quarter of the year. It was at Ladbroke that she was baptised on 12^th December 1841, the second child of Oliver and Rachel Collett. Like her sister Maria (above), Ann also did not survive and died at Ladbroke in 1847, her death recorded at Southam (Ref. 16 390) during the second quarter of the year, following which she was buried at Ladbroke on 5^th June 1847, aged five years.
15M21	John Collett was born at Ladbroke towards the end of 1843, just one mile south of Southam where his birth was recorded (Ref. 16 499) during the first few days of 1844. However, it was at Ladbroke where he was baptised on 31^st December 1843, the son of Oliver and Rachel Collett. By the time of the Ladbroke (Southam) census in 1851, John Collett was seven years old. On leaving school, he went to live with his uncle William Collett (Ref. 15L19) at Stretton-on-Dunsmore. His uncle was a shoemaker, and he trained John to also become a shoemaker. By the time of the next census in 1861 John Collett from Ladbroke was 16 and was a shoemaker, living at the White Lion Inn on London Road in Stretton, where the publican was his uncle William Collett. What happened to John after that time is not known, except that his uncle left Stretton and moved to Chester-le-Street, so John was forced to make his own way in the world, wherever that was since no record of him has been found in the next census returns for 1871.
	However, it was at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-on-Avon on 26^th May 1874 that John Collett married widow Susan Hellis, the former wife of George Hellis and the daughter of Samuel Metcalf. John was described as being 29 and the son of Oliver Collett, while his much older bride was 38. Susan had been born at Long Melford, just north of Sudbury in Suffolk during 1837, and in 1870 she and her first husband were living in Leamington Spa when they daughter Georgina Hellis was born and baptised. Within the next six months George Hellis died, as too did daughter Georgina so, in the census of 1871, widow Susan Hellis from Long Melford was described as a needlewoman of 33 years still living in Leamington with her six-year-old son Mark Hellis from Buckhurst Hill in Essex.
	After nearly seven years together, the census of 1881 confirmed that John and Susan were living at 39 Guild Street in Stratford-on-Avon, when John from Harbury was 34 and not in employment and Susan from Long Melford was 43. Living with the couple was Susan’s son Mark Hollis who was 16 and born at Chigwell in Essex. Susan’s son left home over the following years, during which time John and Susan became foster parents.
	That was confirmed in the next census of 1891 when the three of them were still living in Stratford-on-Avon but at Meer Street. John Collett from Southam was 46, Susan was 54 and their foster son was Henry W King aged two years. By that time in his life John was working as a car driver and groom. The couple later settled in Surrey as confirmed by the census in March 1901. John and Susan were then living and working in the Kingston-upon-Thames area of south London. On that occasion, he gave his age as 53, rather than 57, although his place of birth was confirmed as Ladbroke in Warwickshire, and his occupation was that of a general carman. Susan was 63 and it was seven years later that she passed away during 1908.
	Three years after losing his wife John Collett said he was 69 when he was residing at 95 Park Road, Kingston Hill in Kingston-upon-Thames, the only person living at that address. He was described as a widower and his occupation was again that of a carman, coupled with also being a stable man. Whether it was an enumerator error or not, his place of birth was incorrectly recorded as Kingston in Warwickshire, there being no place of that name within the county. However, it was to the county of his birth that he returned after 1911 and it was at the Shipston-on-Stour register office (Ref. 6d 812) that the death of John Collett was recorded during the fourth quarter of 1917, when his recorded age was again in dispute, the death certificate stating he was 76.
15M22	Eleanor Harriet Collett was born at Ladbroke either at the end of 1845 or very early in 1846. Her birth was recorded at Southam (Ref. 16 508) during the first month of 1846 and it was on 1^st February 1846 that she was baptised at Ladbroke, the fourth child of Oliver Collett and his first wife Rachel, who died shortly after the birth. In the census for Ladbroke in 1851 Eleanor was five years old and one of only two children still living with her father, while just over five years later the death of Eleanor Harriet Collett was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 292) during the second quarter of 1856. Coincidentally, that was also around the same time that her father’s second wife Eleanor Harriet Newcomb and Eleanor’s half-brother Thomas Oliver Collett (below) died.
15M23	Ellen Collett was born at Ladbroke around 1847 and was the fifth and last child of Oliver Collett and Rachel Mann. To date no baptism record has been found for her. Furthermore, no record of any member of her family has been located in the next census in 1861, but by 1871 Ellen Collett from Ladbroke was 23 and a domestic servant at the Leamington home of William and Sophia Chappell, not far from her half-sister Caroline Collett (below) who was in lodgings with her brother John Oliver Collett (below). The death of an Ellen Collett with the right birth year died in Birmingham, her death recorded at Aston (Ref. 6d 204) during the first quarter of 1896 when she was 49.
15M24	Sarah Ann Collett was born at Ladbroke in 1849, her birth recorded at Southam (Ref. 16 559) during the first quarter of the year. She was baptised at Ladbroke on 18^th February 1849, the daughter of Oliver Collett and Eleanor Harriet Collett. At the time of the Ladbroke census in 1851, Sarah Collett was two years old when living there with her family. Tragically she died two years later at Ladbroke, with her death also recorded at Southam (Ref. 6d 372) during the first three months of 1853.
15M25	Caroline Collett was born at Ladbroke in 1850 and her birth was recorded at Southam (Ref. 16 567) during the second quarter of the year. It was also at Ladbroke where she was baptised on 30^th June 1850, the daughter of Oliver and Harriet Collett. On the occasion of the census in 1851, Caroline was under one year old when living at Ladbroke with her family. With the death of her mother in 1856, followed by her father marrying for a second time shortly after, Caroline was taken in by John Parsons and his family which, in the census of 1861, was living in the Myton area of Warwick. On that occasion Caroline Collett from Ladbroke, aged 10 years, was already working as a servant at the Parsons family home at The Warwick County Prison, where John Parsons was described as a servant garden. Curiously Caroline Collett was also described as his daughter, as was another child, Susan Bromwich, who was not yet one year old. That raises the question, were Caroline and Susan being fostered by John and Elizabeth Parsons.
	Ten years after that, Caroline Collett, at the age 20, was lodging in Leamington with her brother John Oliver Collett (below). By that time, even though she was unmarried, Caroline Collett had given birth to a base-born daughter while she had been living in Leamington, who was just two months old in the census 1871. Mother and daughter were living at a house in Villiers Street North, the home of plasterer Hugh Rainbow and his wife Elizabeth. Caroline’s daughter was baptised at All Saints Church in Leamington Priors (Royal Leamington Spa) four months later on 6^th August 1871. Significantly by that time, according to the child’s baptism record, Caroline Collett was the mother, while the father was named as Frederick Collett. It may be of interest that there is no Frederick Collett associated with this family line around the time of the birth of Caroline’s daughter, so who he was remains a mystery, in addition to which, daughter Annie Elizabeth was only four years old when she died.
	15N42		Annie Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1871 at Leamington
15M26	John Oliver Collett was born at Eathorpe in 1851, the son of Oliver and Harriet Collett although, to date, no record of his birth or baptism has been found, nor as any record of him or his family been found within the census returns for 1861. However, in early April in 1871, John Oliver Collett, from Eathorpe, was 20 years old and working as a mail-cart driver, when he was a lodger at the Leamington home of plasterer Hugh Rainbow and his wife Elizabeth Rainbow. Also lodging at the house in Villiers Street North in Leamington was John Oliver’s unmarried sister Caroline Collett (above) with her base-born daughter.
15M27	William Collett was born at Ladbroke in 1852, his birth recorded at Southam (Ref. 6d 487) during the last quarter of the year. It was at Ladbroke where he was baptised on 21^st November 1852, the son of Oliver and Harriet Collett. No record of William or his family has been found in 1861 but, it is understood from the next census, that he became a married man during that decade. However, no record of any marriage between William Collett and (1) Sarah Ann has been found. According to the census in 1871, the married couple was living in Leamington, where William Collett from Ladbroke was employed as a butler. He increased his age to 20, probably because Sarah A Collett was 24, who was expecting the birth of their first child. Some of his older siblings, namely Ellen, Caroline and John Oliver Collett (above) were also living in Leamington in 1871.
	Just a few months after that census day Sarah Ann Collett gave birth to a son William Oliver Collett, who was baptised at All Saints Church in Leamington on 6^th August 1871. His birth was recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 495) during the third quarter of that year. That part of his life still remains a mystery, since the marriage of William Collett, a bachelor, and (2) Mary Ann Williams, a widow, was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 855) during the third quarter of 1874, when he was 21 years of age. The actual wedding took place at Stretton-on-Fosse on 26^th August 1874, when William was confirmed as the son of Oliver Collett. Mary Ann was stated to be the daughter of Richard Pendery and was the widow of the late Charles Williams.
	Mary Ann Pendery had been baptised at Stretton-on-Fosse on 17^th May 1840, the daughter of Richard and Lydia Pendery, meaning that she was twelve years older than William Collett. With record of the couple found within the census of 1881, his earlier work as a butler (in 1871) stood him in good stead for work in London in 1891. Both William and Mary Ann did not present their true ages to their employer for the census that year, nor did they give the villages of their birth, just the county. Instead, William Collett was 45, Mary Ann Collett was 40, when both of them were servants at the home of Augustus and Mary Broom at Vigo Street in Westminster.
	Even more curious is the discovery, in the Warwick census of 1881, of Sarah Ann Hitchen aged 34, the former partner of William Collett and the mother of his son, who was living at Bridge End with her new husband James Hitchen who was 29. Living with the couple was William’s son William Oliver Collett who was nine years old from Leamington who was described as the son-in-law of James Hitchen. Also, by that time, Sarah Ann had given birth to the daughter of James Hitchen and, on that day, Emily Ann Hitchen was two years of age. No further record of William Collett or his son William Oliver Collett has been unearthed.
	15N43		William Oliver Collett	Born in 1871 at Leamington
15M28	Elizabeth Anne Collett was born at Ladbroke in 1854 and her birth was recorded at Southam (Ref. 6d 457) during the last quarter of the year. She was baptised at Ladbroke on 23^rd November 1854, the last confirmed daughter of Oliver and Harriet Collett. Sadly, it was during the first three months of 1855, that the death of Elizabeth Ann Collett was recorded at Southam (Ref. 6d 414). She was the fourth of five children of Oliver Collett who never reached adulthood.
15M29	Thomas Oliver Collett was born at Shipston-on-Stour in 1856, the sixth and last child of Oliver Collett and his second wife Eleanor Harriet Newcomb. His birth was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 552) during the first quarter of that year, but tragically, neither mother nor child survived the ordeal, and both were buried at Shipston. However, immediately before he died, Thomas Oliver Collett was baptised at Shipston-on-Stour on 30^th April 1856, following which his death was recorded there during the second quarter of that same year (Ref. 6d 293).
15M30	Ada Alice Collett was born at Warwick in 1873, the twelfth child of Oliver Collett, who died when Ada was two years old, and his third wife Mary Hannah Woodward. Her birth was recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 568), following which she was baptised at St Paul’s Church in Warwick on 20^th April 1873, when her parents were confirmed as Oliver and Mary Hannah Collett. After the death of her father, Ada remained living with her widowed mother and in 1881 the pair of them were residing at the Market Place in Warwick. Ada A Collett was eight years of age, her mother Ann Woodward was 38, and living with them was Ann’s younger sister Eliza Woodward who was 30. Both of the sisters had been born at Knowle, near Alcester in Warwickshire, both were dressmakers and sufficiently well off to employ a servant.
	It was at Brook Street in Warwick that Ada, aged 18, was still living with her mother Ann and her aunt Eliza in 1891, by which time Ada A Collett was working as a pupil teacher. It would appear that her mother passed away during the latter days of the old century, since in the next census of 1901, Ada A Collett was 28 and a certificated elementary school teacher living at the Guy Street, Warwick, home of her aunt Eliza Woodward. And it was there also that she was living in 1911, at the age of 38 when she was working as a certificated assistant teacher. She never married and the death of Ada A Collett was recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 9c 1413) during the first quarter of 1962, when she was 88 years old.
15M31	Henry Ford Collett was born at Marton in 1849 where he was baptised on 22^nd October 1849, the eldest son of John and Elizabeth Collett. Sadly, five months later he died at Marton on 23^rd March 1850. The village of Marton lies approximately two miles south of Stretton
15M32	Oliver John Collett was born in 1850 at Marton where he was baptised on 1^st December 1850, the son of John and Elizabeth Collett. His birth was recorded at Rugby (Ref. 16 511) during the final three months of 1850. On the day of the census in 1851 Oliver John Collett was under one year old, when he and his family were still living in Marton. Following the death of his sister Sarah Jane Collett (below) in 1856, Oliver’s family left Marton when they moved to Little Park Street in the St Michael’s district of Coventry, where they were living in 1861. By that time Oliver John Collett from Marton was 10 years old and still attending school, and ten years after that, the same family group was still living at Coventry St Michael when unmarried Oliver Collett was 20 and a cordwainer’s assistant. Five years later Oliver’s mother died in 1876, at which time his father re-married and moved to Birmingham. It was during the second quarter of 1880 when Oliver John Collett married Margaret Eleanor Birch, the event recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 573). The wedding service was conducted at Coventry on 20^th June 1880, when Oliver’s father was confirmed as John Collett and Margaret’s father was made as William Birch. Sadly, the marriage failed to produce any children for the couple.
	According to the census in 1881, the childless couple were listed as living at Bishopsgate Green in the parish of Holy Trinity in Coventry. And it was from there that Oliver John Collett, age 30, and a watch finisher from Marton, was living with his wife Margaret E Collett age 33 from Foleshill in Coventry, who was employed as a silk-filler. It may be a coincidence or not but, when Oliver’s father married for a second time, close to when Oliver married Margaret, it was to Ann from Foleshill and, although she was 58 in 1881 compared to Margaret who was only 33, there is a chance that the two ladies were related in some way or at least knew each other. After a further ten years, Oliver J Collett from Marton was 39 years of age and still working as a watch finisher, when he was living at Bright Street in Coventry with his wife Margaret E Collett from Foleshill who was 42 who was employed as a filler in the ribbon trade.
	It was a similar situation at the end of March in 1901, by which time the couple was recorded residing at Swanswell Place in Coventry. The census return that year described Oliver J Collett from Marton as being 50 and a watchmaker, while his wife Margaret E Collett from Foleshill was 51 and was still working as a silk-filler. Just under three years later the death of Oliver John Collett was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 388) during the first quarter of 1904, when he was 53. As a result of her loss Margaret Eleanor Collett from Foleshill was a widow at the age of 63 when she was still living in Coventry on the day of the next census in 1911. Margaret was born in 1847 and died in 1933.
15M33	Arthur Thomas Collett was born at Marton in 1852 and was baptised there on 2^nd January 1853, the son of John and Elizabeth Collett. Four years later his sister Sarah (below) was born at Marton, but she died the following year. Not long after that tragic event Arthur’s parents left the village and settled in Coventry St John where Arthur Thomas Collett was recorded as eight years old in the census of 1861. Ten years later the family was still living in the St John district of Coventry when Arthur T Collett was 18. After a further five years, Arthur’s mother Elizabeth died in Coventry in 1876, after which his father re-married and moved to Birmingham.
	It was also that same year that Arthur married Eleanor Cramp Angliss in 1876 and by the time of the census in 1881 the marriage had produced a daughter for the couple, who were living in Mount Street in the St Michael with St John area of Coventry. According to that year’s census, Arthur T Collett from Marton was 28 years old and was a watch finisher like his older brother Oliver John Collett (above), while his wife Eleanor was a dressmaker aged 29 who had been born at Coventry where their four years old daughter Gertrude had also been born.
	During the next decade Eleanor presented Arthur with their second daughter. The gap between the two girls may indicate that there were other children born to the couple who did not survive. However, by 1891 the family of four was still living in Coventry, where Arthur T Collett was 38, Eleanor C Collett was 39, and their two daughters were Gertrude 14 and Elsie who was three years old.
	Although no record of the family has been found in the census in March 1901, by April 1911 they were still living in Coventry, by which time the couple’s eldest daughter had left home and was presumably married by then. The remainder of the family were described as Arthur Thomas Collett of Marton who was 58, his wife Eleanor Cramp Collett who was 59, and their daughter Elsie Collett who was 23. Arthur Thomas Collett was living in Coventry when he died in 1927, while his wife Eleanor died nine years later in 1936.
	15N44		Gertrude Collett	Born in 1876 at Coventry
	15N45		Elsie Collett	Born in 1887 at Coventry
15M34	Sarah Jane Collett was born at Marton on 4^th April 1855 and was baptised there on 17^th February 1856, and it was there also that she died on 25^th February 1856 at just eleven months of age. The parish records at Marton confirmed that she was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Collett.
15N1	Thomas Charles Collett was born at Coventry in 1842 and was baptised at St John’s Church in Coventry on 17^th April 1843. Only his mother’s name, Elizabeth Collett, appeared in the parish register, and the later census revealed that he was Elizabeth’s first base-born son of an unnamed father, like his two siblings. By 1851 Thomas Collett was nine years old and, on that occasion, he was living at the Whitefriars Workhouse in Coventry with his unmarried mother Elizabeth Collett who was a pauper, and his base-born sister Sarah Collett who was three years old. Thomas and Sarah were both described as the bastard children of Elizabeth Collett.
	Whether his mother married after 1851 is not known, but by 1861 Thomas Collett from Coventry was 18 years old and was living within the Coventry St John area of the city. Just over two years later Thomas married Rosanna Rowney at Coventry, where Rosanna was born. The record of their wedding is very interesting as it gives the name of Thomas’ father as J Collett. The full parish record at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry states that Thomas Charles Collett was 21, and his wife was Rosanna Rowney who was 22, the event taking place on 7^th June 1863. Although not stated in the parish register, Rosanna was the daughter of William Rowney, and she was actually 21 at the time of the Coventry census in 1861, therefore she was nearer 23 years of age when she married Thomas, making her two years older than her husband, as confirmed by the later census returns.
	The marriage produced five children for the couple, who were all born at Coventry. According to the 1881 Census for the Holy Trinity district of Coventry, the family was living at 5 Bond Street where Thomas C Collett age 38 was a watchmaker and finisher, while his wife Rosanna age 40, was a silk winder. The couple’s eldest daughter Rosanna, age 16, was listed as being a worsted weaver, while their eldest son Joseph Henry Collett age 15 was not in employment. The other children were Mary Elizabeth Collett who was 13, Herbert C Collett who was nine and Walter Collett who was five years old.
	Ten years later in 1891 the family was still living in the Holy Trinity district of Coventry, when Thomas C Collett was 48, his wife Rosanna was 50, and just four of their children were still living at the family home. They were Joseph H Collett who was 25, Mary E Collett who was 23, Herbert Collett who was 18 and Walter Collett who was 14 years of age. Thomas Charles Collett was 58 in the Coventry census of 1901 and by 1911 he was 68 and was still living there with his wife Rosanna Collett who was 70 years old. Thomas Charles Collett died at Coventry in 1918.
	15O1		Rosanna Collett	Born in 1864 at Coventry
	15O2		Joseph Henry Collett	Born in 1865 at Coventry
	15O3		Mary Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1868 at Coventry
	15O4		Herbert Charles Collett	Born in 1872 at Coventry
	15O5		Walter Collett	Born in 1876 at Coventry
15N2	Joseph Collett was born at Coventry on 28^th June 1845, the second of three base-born children of unmarried Elizabeth Collett. Tragically it would appear that Joseph died at Coventry during the early months of the following year and, seemingly before he could be baptised, since no record of that event has been found to date, nor was he living with his mother and his two siblings in 1851.
15N3	Sarah Collett was born at Coventry in 1847 and it was there also that she was baptised on 21^st April 1848 at St John’s Church, the third base-born child of Elizabeth Collett. By the time of the census in 1851 Sarah was three years old and was living with her mother and old brother Thomas (above) at the Coventry Union Workhouse. The conditions in which they were living were particularly harsh and, tragically, Sarah died there later that same year.
15N4	Thomas Collett was born at Coventry in 1840 and it was there at St Michael’s Cathedral that he was baptised on 20^th April 1840, when his parents were named as Thomas and Jemima Collett. He was their first child, but sadly he died later that same year.
15N5	William Henry Collett was born at Coventry in 1841 and was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral in the city on 18^th April 1842. He was the second son, but eldest surviving child of the nine children of Thomas Collett and Jemima Standbridge. It was around 1865 that William married Harriet Hands who was born at Coventry in 1840, and the couple’s three known children were also born at Coventry. At the time of the census in 1871 the family comprised William H Collett, age 29, who was a watch escapement maker, living at 31 Bayley Lane in Holy Trinity district of Coventry, with his wife Harriet, age 30 and a former ribbon weaver, and their daughter Harriet who was three years old. The property adjacent to the Collett family home was the White Horse Inn, at 29 Bayley Lane.
	On the day of the census in 1871, Harriet was expecting the couple’s second child, who was born later that year, and that was followed by the birth of their third and last child four years later. According to the next census in 1881, William Hy Collett, age 38 and a watch finisher, was recorded as living at 4 Theatre Yard, off Smithford Street in the St Michael Stoke district of Coventry, while his wife and their three children were living with William’s mother-in-law. Harriet Collett, age 41 and a weaver of silk, and her three children were lodging at the home of 73 years old Susan Hands, at 7 Charles Street in the Holy Trinity parish of Coventry. Harriet’s status was recorded as married, the daughter of Susan Hands, while her three children were described as grandchildren to head of the household Susan Hands. They were Harriet Collett who was 13, Ada Collett who was nine, and Herbert Collett who was five years old.
	The family’s separation at that time may have had something to with the health of William Henry Collett, because it was during the following year that he died, his death recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 306) at the age of 40, during the first quarter of 1882. By the time of the Coventry census in 1891, widow Harriet Collett was 50, and the only member of her family still living with her was her son Herbert who was 15. Her eldest child Harriet was married by then and was living in Peterborough with her husband at the home of her elderly ‘cousin’ George Mead, a retired merchant and druggist. Also staying at the same address with George Mead, was Harriet’s younger daughter Ada Collett from Coventry, who was 19. During 1894, Ada was married in Coventry where she died in 1897, possible during the birth of a second child who also did not survive.
	It is curious why, three years after the death of her daughter Ada, Harriet was visiting George Mead, age 73 and a retired chemist and druggist from Coventry, at his home at 27 Lincoln Road in the St John the Baptist district of Peterborough. It is possible that they were cousins, rather than George being the cousin of her two daughters, as stated in the earlier census. Also, by the time of the census in 1901, both of Harriet’s surviving children appear to have left England for one of the colonies, since neither of them has been positively identified anywhere within the census returns.
	By the time of the census in early April 1911 Harriet Collett, age 70 and from Coventry, was once again living there within the city. She was described as a widow of a private means residing at 26 Kensington Road in Coventry, where she was support by general domestic servant Agnes Vieduard who was a widow of 53 who had been born in Birmingham. The census return also confirmed that Harriet had given birth to a total of four children, one of which was still alive at that time. With only three children already accredited to William and Harriet, it seems likely the fourth and missing child did not survive beyond infancy and therefore was never listed with the family in any later census return. That leads to the conclusion that the living child in 1911 was either Harriet or Herbert, neither of whom have been identified anywhere in Britain in the census of 1911.
	It was just over one year later that the death of Harriet Collett was recorded at Coventry register office (ref. 6d 506) during the second quarter of 1912. She was 71 years of age and was again residing at 26 Kensington Road in Coventry when she passed away on 10^th June. Probate of her estate of £1,164 18 Shillings 9d was settled at Coventry on 25^th July 1912 when the executors of her Will were named as John Garner Stallebrass, an architect, and Ernest William Hayward who was an outfitter.
	15O6		Harriet Collett	Born in 1867 at Coventry
	15O7		Ada Collett	Born in 1871 at Coventry
	15O8		Herbert Collett	Born in 1875 at Coventry
15N6	Alfred Collett was born at Coventry in 1843, where he was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral on 27^th April 144, the son of Thomas and Jemima Collett. He was their second child to die during the same year that he was baptised.
15N7	Rebecca Jemima Collett was born at Coventry in 1844, where she was baptised on 7^th July 1845 at St Michael’s Cathedral, the daughter of Thomas and Jemima Collett. Rebecca lived all of her life in Coventry and, in the census of 1851, she was six years old, in 1861 she was 16, and in 1871 she was 25, and, on each occasion, she was living there with her parents.
	She never married and following the death of her father, she was living with her widowed mother at 7 Cow Lane in Coventry in 1881. At that time, she was 35 and was working as a dressmaker. As the eldest of the three children still living at the family home with her mother, it would seem logical that she maintained the family home following the death of her mother during the 1880. However, no record of Rebecca has been located in the census of 1891.
	According to the next census in 1901, Rebecca J Collett, age 56 and from Coventry, was still living in the city at that time, when her occupation was that of a general domestic servant. It was eight years later that she died at Coventry in 1909, when she was buried with her parents at the London Road Cemetery, where a headstone marks the grave.
15N8	Edwin Collett was born at Coventry in 1846, the son of Thomas and Jemima Collett. In the census of 1851, he was Edwin Collett age four years, while in 1861 he was correctly recorded as Edward Collett who was 14. By 1871, Edwin was 24 and still unmarried, and was living and working in the St John district of Coventry. Three years after that Edwin married (1) Clara West in 1874 with whom he had five children. According to the census in 1881, Edwin Collett of Coventry, age 34, was a draper. Living with him at 2 Lansdown Terrace in the Holy Trinity area of Coventry was his wife Clara Collett from Wellington in Shropshire who was 30.
	The first two of their five known children had been born by then and they were Clara E Collett who was five and Ellen J Collett who was three, both daughters having been born in Coventry. Edwin’s wife may well have been expecting the couple’s third child on the day of the census in 1881, since it was later that same year that their third daughter was born.
	It was three years after that when Clara presented Edwin with a son, while it was four years later on 13^th November 1888 that Clara died when she and Edwin were residing at 26 Little Park Street in Coventry. Her death coincided with the birth of the couple’s fifth and last child, who tragically died the following year. Clara was only 37 at that time, having been born in 1851. She was buried at the London Road Cemetery in Coventry, where she was later joined by Edwin’s parents and his eldest sister Rebecca (above), a large headstone marking the grave site. The Will of Clara Collett, wife of Edwin Collett, was proved at the Principal Registry on 23^rd April 1890 by the aforesaid Edwin Collett, a draper’s assistant, of 1 Richmond Terrace, Cox Street in Coventry, the sole executor. Her personal estate was valued at £467 7 Shillings 1d.
	Shortly after that Edwin married the much younger (2) Laura Leeson, with whom he had a further two children, both of them born after the census in 1891. At that time the family had left Richmond Terrace and was living at Earl Street in the Holy Trinity district of Coventry, and comprised Edwin Collett, age 44, his wife Laura 32, and Edwin’s daughters Clara E Collett, age 15, Ellen F Collett, age 13, and Lilian A W Collett who was nine, and his son William E Collett who was six years old. The latter entry was an error in the census return, as the child should have been recorded as Wallace E Collett. Edwin’s youngest daughter by his first wife, Beatrice Louise, had died while still an infant.
	On the day of the census, it was very likely that Laura was expecting the couple’s first child, who was born later that same year but, who sadly, did not survived beyond a few months. Their second child was born at Cox Street in Coventry in 1893, and while she was recorded living with the family in 1901, she died at the age of ten years in 1903.
	Once again, the census in 1901 confirmed that Edwin, who was 54 and a draper’s assistant, was married to Laura who was 42 and also from Coventry, where the family was still living with their daughter Gwendoline who was eight years old. However, three children from Edwin’s first marriage were still living with them in the family home and they were his daughters Nellie who was 23 and Lilian who was 19, who were both teachers at a local boarding school, together with their son Wallace who was 16 and a printer’s apprentice. Edwin’s eldest daughter Clara was married by then.
	By the time of the next census in 1911 the only members of the family recorded as living in Great Britain were Edwin Collett of Coventry who was 64 and his wife Laura Collett of Coventry who was 52, and the family of Clara Edith Clemson nee Collett, Edwin’s eldest daughter, which was also still residing in Coventry. Some years earlier Edwin’s three other surviving children from his first marriage had already emigrated to Australia.
	It was just two years later that Laura Collett died in 1913, and she was followed three years after that by her husband Edwin Collett who died in Coventry during 1916. Both were buried at the London Road Cemetery, where a single headstone marks the location of the grave. Also buried in the same grave some years earlier were Edwin’s and Laura’s two daughters Florence and Gwendoline, together with infant Beatrice Louise Collett from Edwin’s first marriage.
	15O9		Clara Edith Collett		Born in 1875 at Coventry
	15O10		Ellen Jane Rebecca Collett		Born in 1877 at Coventry
	15O11		Lilian Annie W Collett		Born in 1881 at Coventry
	15O12		Wallace Edward Collett		Born in 1884 at Coventry
	15O13		Beatrice Louise Collett		Born in 1888 at Coventry
	The children from the second marriage of Edwin Collett and Laura Leeson were:
	15O14		Florence Christine Collett		Born in 1891 at Coventry
	15O15		Gwendoline Collett		Born in 1893 at Coventry
15N9	John Collett was born at Coventry in 1849, the son of Thomas and Jemima Collett. In 1851 he was two years old, in 1861 he was 12, and in 1871 he was 21. It was during the following year that John married Emma Beauchamp at St Peter’s Church in Coventry in 1872. Emma was the daughter of Samuel Beauchamp of Coventry. Over the following years, Emma presented John with two children while they continued to live in Coventry. By the time of the census in 1881 John was 31 and a watchmaker like many members of the Collett family in Coventry, while his wife Emma who was 29, was described as a silk winder.
	Living with them at 5 Cot (Cottage) at No. 16 Hertford Place in Hertford Close in the St Michael Stoke district of Coventry were their two children, John who was aged seven years and Emma who was four years old, both of them confirmed as having been born at Coventry. The year after the census Emma presented her husband with their third child, so by 1891 the family was made up of John 41, Emma 39, their sons John Collett 17 and Albert Collett, age eight years, and their daughter Emma Collett who was 14. Their son Albert only survived for another year, when he died at Coventry in 1892. Whether connected to that tragedy or not, but John Collett then died during the first few months of 1893.
	It was later that same year that his widow Emma married widower Henry Tedd, but sadly the marriage only endured for six years, when Emma died in 1899. It is unclear what happened to her son John Collett, since it was only her daughter Emma Collett who appeared to remain living in Coventry, both in 1901 and 1911.
	15O16		John Collett	Born in 1873 at Coventry
	15O17		Emma Collett	Born in 1876 at Coventry
	15O18		Albert Collett	Born in 1882 at Coventry
15N10	Mark Collett was born at Coventry in 1850, the son of Thomas Collett and Jemima Standbridge. Sadly, he was around three years old when he died at Coventry during 1853.
15N11	Ruth Collett was born at Coventry in 1855, the youngest daughter of Thomas Collett and Jemima Standbridge. During her younger years, she was living with her parents in Coventry when she was five years old in 1861, and 15 in 1871. Following the death of her father during the 1870s, Ruth Collett, aged 25, was one of three children still living with her widowed mother at 7 Cow Lane in Coventry, when she was working as a ribbon paper box maker. It was later that same year when she married John Leedham at Cow Lane Baptist Chapel. John was a carpenter by trade, and over the next fourteen years the couple had four children.
	The first two children were (1) May Elizabeth Leedham who was born in 1884, who married Fred Haley in 1914, and (2) Thomas Leedham who was born 1888, who married Hannah Martin in 1915, with whom he had two children Thelma Leedham, born at Coventry in 1918, and Ronald Leedham who was born there in 1928.
	Their penultimate child was (3) John Roland Leedham (born 1891, died 1962) and he married Lilian Denny in 1914 with whom he had three children, (a) Leonard Leedham (born 1914, died 1994) who married Josephine Redgrave in 1946 and adopted two children Jane and Michael, (b) Kathleen Annie Leedham (born 1916, died 2007) who first married Cecil Percy Smith in 1940 and from whom she was divorced in 1957, when she then married Ernest Smith that same year, and (c) Muriel Harriet Leedham (born 1920, died 1995) who married Thomas Alfred Hobbs in 1940 and had two children (i) Bernadette Patricia Hobbs (born 1943) who married in 1962 Thomas Bryson (later divorced), but had three children Melanie Bernadette Bryson (b.1964), Andrew Jane Bryson (b.1966) and Daniel John Bryson (b.1973), and (ii) Nickoli Hobbs (born 1950 in Coventry) married in 1972 Richard Michael Smith and had two sons Benjamin Richard Smith (born 1976) and Mark Thomas Smith (born 1978) who married Sally Oliver who now have a son Daniel Benjamin Thomas Smith (born 2007).
	While the last child of Ruth Collett and John Leedham was (4) Bernard Leedham, born in 1895 who married Dorothy K Hammond in 1921 who also had two children (i) Anthony J Leedham (born 1926) who married Jennie M Griffiths in 1952 and (ii) Richard J Leedham (born 1930) who married Hazel M Griffiths in 1954. Ruth Leedham nee Collett died in 1926 having been a widow for around the last four years of her life, while her husband John, who had also been born in 1855, had passed away during 1922.
15N12	Philip Collett was born at Coventry in 1858, the youngest child of Thomas and Jemima Collett. In the following census returns he was recorded as being two years old, 12 years old, and 22 when he was living at 7 Cow Lane in St Michael Stoke in Coventry with his widowed mother and two sisters Rebecca and Ruth (above). Within the next year Philip married Susan Hickman in Coventry where she was also born in 1859, and by the time of the next census in 1891 the marriage had produced two children for the couple. Philip was 32, Susan was 31, and their two children were Gladys who was seven, and Horace who was two years old. At that time the family was living at Lord Street in Coventry.
	No further children were added to the family, so by March 1901 Philip Collett was 42 and his occupation was that of a watch finisher, his wife Susan was 41, daughter Gladys was 17 and was working with her father as a watch polisher, and their son Horace was 12 and was still attending school in Coventry, where the family was still living.
	Towards the end of the first decade of the new century, Philip’s and Susan’s daughter Gladys left the family home to be married, but remained living in the Coventry registration district. In April 1911, the three other members of her family were still living there and they were recorded as Philip Collett, age 52, his wife Susan Collett, also 52, and their son Horace Philip Collett who was 22. It was six years after that census day, when Philip Collett died at Coventry in 1917. He was survived by his wife by a further twenty-three years, when Susan Collett, nee Hickman, died during 1940.
	15O19		Gladys Edith Collett	Born in 1883 at Coventry
	15O20		Horace Philip Collett	Born in 1888 at Coventry
15N13	Henry Collett was born at Coventry in 1857, the eldest of the four children of Job Collett and Hannah Wilson, and in 1861 he was three years old and living at Warwick Lane in Coventry St John with his family. And it was there also that the family was still living in 1871. During the next decade the family moved to 53 New Buildings within the Holy Trinity district of Coventry, from where Henry Collett, age 22, was working as a general porter. Following the death of his mother during the 1880s, Henry aged 35 and his younger brother Joseph (below), were the only children still living in Coventry with their widowed father on the day of the census in 1891.
	Over the following years Henry met and married Harriet Green, the event recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 922) during the last three months of 1894. Harriet was eight or nine years younger than Henry having been born at Blockley in Gloucestershire around 1867 while, on the marriage certificate, her name was recorded as Harriet Cooke Green.
	Before the end of the century Harriet had presented Henry with their only known children, as confirmed by the census in 1901. Henry, who was 44, was still working as a porter but, on that occasion, he was employed by a grocer. Harriet was 36, their daughter Jane was four, and their son Frederick was two years old. By April 1911 their daughter Jane, at 15 years of age, was not living at the family home in Coventry, but was living and working elsewhere in the city, while still living with his parents was their son Frederick who was 12 years old. Henry Collett was 55, his place of birth confirmed as Coventry and his occupation was that of a grocer’s porter. Living with him and his son at 57 St John Street in Coventry was his wife Harriet Collett who was 46.
	It was eleven years later that Harriet Collett nee Green passed away, her death recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 735) during the second quarter of 1922 when the informant of her death reported that she was 57 years old. The record of her death described her as Harriet C Collett. Henry Collett survived his wife by another five years when his death was also recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 718) during the last quarter of 1927 when his age was reported as being 70 years.
	15O21		Jane Collett	Born in 1896 at Coventry
	15O22		Frederick Collett	Born in 1898 at Coventry
15N14	Kate Collett was born at Coventry in 1860, when her family was living in Warwick Lane in the city. She was then baptised at St Michael’ Church in Coventry on 7^th November 1860. Twenty years later, according to the census in 1881, Kate Collett was 20 and was living with her parents Job and Hannah Collett at 53 New Buildings in Coventry Holy Trinity area. At that time, she was employed as a beaded trimming maker. It was four years later, on 10^th August 1885 at the Church of St Thomas in Coventry, that she was married James Dowswell who in the census of 1881 was a (house) painter. Their marriage produced five children, who were all born in Coventry. They were Kate Dowswell (born 1889), Herbert Dowswell (born 1891), James Dowswell (born 1894), Richard Dowswell (born 1898) and Sidney Dowswell (born 1903). James Dowswell died at Coventry in 1921 and was survived by his wife; Kate Dowswell nee Collett passing away in Coventry during the first quarter of 1935 (Ref. 6d 850).
15N15	Job Richard Collett was born at Alma Street in Coventry during the first three months of 1863, the son of Job Collett and Hannah Wilson, whose birth was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 162) under his full name. However, during his early years, he was simply referred to as Richard Collett and, at the time of the census in 1871, he and his family were living at Warwick Lane in Coventry, and by 1881 he was still living with his parents, but at 53 New Buildings in Coventry. At the age of 18, Richard’s occupation was that of a watchmaker. It was at the start of the last week of 1882 that, as Richard Collett, he married (1) Mary Roe on 24^th December 1882 at St Thomas’ Church in Coventry. Richard was recorded as being 20 and the son of Job Collett, a tailor, when Mary was 19 and the daughter of John Roe, a watch finisher. Both the bride and the groom signed the register in their own hand, while the witnesses were Mary’s father and Ellen Smith.
	Mary Ann Roe was also born in 1863 and was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Roe of Spon End, Coventry. Over the following years their marriage resulted in the birth of three children. Their first two children were born at Conway Square, Spon End in Coventry, when Richard Collett was a watchmaker but, by the time of the birth of their third child, Richard and Mary were living at Waltham, Massachusetts, in America. However, tragedy struck the family in 1894 when Mary died, possibly giving birth to the couple’s fourth child, who also did not survive. It is not apparent whether Mary died while the family was still in America, but their absence from the UK Census in 1891 may suggest that they were. Upon the death of his wife, Richard and his three children returned to Coventry where they initially lived at the home of his in-laws, the Roe family.
	Out of that situation, Richard started a relationship with his late wife’s sister, with the subsequent marriage of Job Richard Collett, a widower, and (2) Ellen Roe, a spinster, recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 295) during the third quarter of 1894. That second marriage produced a further four daughters for Richard. The first two daughters were born at Spon End in Coventry, when their father’s occupation was that of a publican, the third child born at Foleshill Road in the city but, shortly after that, the family travelled back to America, where their fourth daughter was born, while the family was again living at Waltham in Massachusetts.
	Prior to sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, the Coventry census of 1901 included Richard as Job R Collett, his full name most likely used as a result of the earlier death of his father in 1894. On that occasion he was 38 and a licensed victualler living at 4 Spon End in Coventry with his wife Ellen Collett who was 28, together with all five children of his children, whilst employing a domestic servant. The children from his first marriage were confirmed as Annie Collett who was 15 and a watch trade polisher, Richard Collett who was 13, and Lizzie Collett who was 11 and a British subject born in America. The two children from his second marriage were recorded as Ellie M Collett who was six and Lilian M Collett who was three years old. Other than daughter Lizzie, every member of the household had been born in Coventry, including servant Rose Oxley who was 17.
	Just over five years later the family finally made the permanent move to America, when they sailed out of Liverpool on 22^nd June 1906 on board the S S Arabic, arriving in Boston eight days later on 30^th June. The passenger list including the following members of the family: Ellen Collett and her three children, Elsie Maud Collett aged 11, Lilian May Collett who was eight, and Marjorie Collett who was nine months, together two of her husband’s older children, Job Collett aged 19 and Lizzie Collett aged 18. Job Richard Collett had left Liverpool during the month of September in the previous year on board the S S Cymric.
	It would appear that Job travelled back to England a couple of years after arriving in America, as his name was listed amongst the passengers on board the S S Saxonia which sailed into Boston Harbour on 29^th August 1907, when Job R Collett was 44 years of age. Having arrived in North America, the family settled in Massachusetts where the couple’s last known child was born in 1912. It was also in Massachusetts that they remained living, and where Job Richard Collett, a watchmaker, was still alive at the time of the US Census in 1930, when he was a resident of Lowell City in Massachusetts, by which time his wife had already passed away. Ellen was alive five years earlier, when Job and Ellen were listed on an Atlantic crossing back to USA in 1925. Another passenger list record, confirmed that Job made the same journey, but alone, out of Liverpool on 16^th July 1932, arriving in Boston on 23^rd July on the S S Britannic, indicating that continued contact with the family in England was maintained.
	15O23		Annie Collett		Born in 1885 at Coventry
	15O24		Job Richard Collett		Born in 1888 at Coventry
	15O25		Agnes Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1890 at Waltham, Mass.
	The following are the children of Job Richard Collett and his second wife Ellen Roe:
	15O26		Elsie Maud Collett		Born in 1895 at Coventry
	15O27		Lilian May Collett		Born in 1898 at Coventry
	15O28		Marjorie Collett		Born in 1905 at Coventry
	15O29		Evelyn P Collett		Born in 1912 at Waltham, Mass.
15N16	Joseph Collett was born at Warwick Lane in Coventry in 1870, and was the youngest of the four children of Job Collett and his wife Hannah Wilson. At the time of the census in 1881 Joseph Collett was 10 years old, when he was living with his family at 53 New Buildings in Coventry. With the death of his mother during the 1880s, Joseph was still living with his widowed father and his older brother Henry (above) at the time of the next Coventry census in 1891, when he was 20. Around three years later Joseph married Phoebe Taylor with whom he had three children before his tragic death in the latter part of 1901.
	By the time of the census that year, Joseph Collett, age 30 and from Coventry, was working as a tailor like his father before him, while he was living adjacent to 54 White Friars Lane in Coventry St Michael with his wife and their three children. Phoebe was 28, and the children were Phoebe Collett who was five, Clara Collett who was three, and Thomas Collett who was under one year old, who lost his father when he was still a baby. Phoebe continued to look after her children over the next three years, before she married machinist, Arthur James Bennett who was born at Coventry in 1868. At that time, in 1904, Arthur was still living with his elderly widowed mother Emma Bennett, who continued to live with the family after the couple were married.
	The census in 1911 revealed that Arthur James Bennett was 42, his wife of six years was Phoebe Bennett, age 36, and by that time they had three children, Arthur James Bennett who was five, Phyllis May Bennett who was two, and William Henry Bennett who was seven months old. Also living with the family at 85 Craven Street in Coventry was Arthur’s 78 years old mother Emma, and his three stepchild Phoebe Collett, age 17 and a domestic servant, Clara Alice Collett who was 13, and Thomas Oliver Collett who was 11. The two younger Collett children were still attending the local school.
	15O30		Phoebe Collett	Born in 1894 at Coventry
	15O31		Clara Alice Collett	Born in 1897 at Coventry
	15O32		Thomas Oliver Collett	Born in 1900 at Coventry
15N17	Mercy Collett was born at Wednesbury in 1849 with her birth recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 18 639) during the second quarter of the year. She was baptised at St Lawrence’s Church in Darlaston on 27^th May 1849, when her parents were confirmed as Henry Collett and Ann Collett nee Lewis. In 1851 Mercy was one year old and living with her parents at Wood Green in Wednesbury. It is likely that all of Mercy’s younger siblings were born at Hobbs Hole Road in the town, where they were settled from 1861 through to 1891, and where Mercy Collett was 12 years of age in 1861 and 21 years old in 1871. Shortly thereafter Mercy left Wednesbury and went to work in the area of Wolverhampton. What happened to her there has not been discovered, except to say that it was at Wolverhampton that the death of Mercy Collett was recorded (Ref. 6b 313) during the third quarter of 1872.
15N19	Henry Collett was born at Wednesbury in 1855 and his birth was recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 636) during the first three months of that year. He was baptised on 1^st April 1855 at the Church of St Bartholomew in Wednesbury, the eldest son and third child of Henry Collett and Ann Lewis. By 1861 Henry aged six years, and his family, were living at Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury, where he was still living in 1871 at the age of 16 when he was already working as moulder’s assistant. It may have been an accident at work that took the life of Henry Collett, since it was during the first three months in 1873 that the death of Henry Collett was recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 534), when he was only 17 years old.
15N20	Elizabeth Collett was born at Wednesbury in 1857, the fourth child of Henry and Ann Collett. The birth of Elizabeth Collett was recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 610) during the third quarter of 1857 and, unlike most of her siblings, no baptism record has been unearthed. She was four years old in the census of 1861 at Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury, where she was in 1871 at the age of 13, and again in 1881, when Lizzie Collett was said to be 21.
15N21	John Collett was born at Wednesbury in 1859 with his birth recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 653) during the second quarter of that year, although no baptism has been found. It is possible that he was born after his parents made their home on Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury, where John Collett was under one year old in 1861. It was also at Hobbs Hole Road that he was still living with his parents in 1871, when he was 10, and again in 1881, by which time he was 19 and working as a labourer.
15N22	Mary Collett was born at Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury in 1863 and her birth was recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 744) during the second quarter of the year. She was around eighteen months old when Mary Collett was baptised at St Bartholomew’s Church on 6^th September 1864, the daughter of Henry and Ann Collett. She was six years of age in 1871 but was not listed with her family at Hobbs Hole Road in 1881.
15N23	Thomas Collett was born at Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury in 1868, another son of Henry and Ann Collett. His birth was recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 794) during the second quarter of the year. Very shortly after he was born Thomas was baptised at the Church of St Bartholomew in Wednesbury on 25^th May 1868. He was two years old in the census of 1871 and in 1881 he was 12, on both occasions living with family at Hobbs Hole Road. He was one of only two children still living at his parents’ home in 1891 when Thomas Collett was 22 and working alongside his elderly father as labourers at a nearby boiler yard. His father died at Wednesbury seven years later and three years after that Thomas had moved to the north of England.
	Following the death of his father, plus the earlier premature deaths of three of his older siblings, Thomas Collett of Wednesbury was recorded in the town of Widnes in Lancashire in 1901, as a lodger at the Joseph Street home of the Dean family, from where bachelor Thomas was 32 and employed as a fitter on the construction of an iron bridge. Perhaps because of his mother’s failing health, Thomas returned to Wednesbury and was with his mother Ann when they were boarding at the home of widow Elizabeth Ann Crouch. Thomas was still unmarried at the age of 41 when his occupation on that occasion was that of a planer and a driller. He was also living in that area of Staffordshire when he died, his death recorded at West Bromwich register office (Ref. 6b 899) during the last three months of 1943, when he was 75.
15N24	Richard Henry Collett was born at Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury in 1876, the last child of Henry Collett and Ann Lewis. It was during the third quarter of that year when his birth was recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 865). In the census of 1881 Richard was four years old living with his family at Hobbs Hole Road, where he was still living in 1891 when he was 14 and a fitter at a tube factory. Eight years later, on Christmas Day in 1899, Richard Henry Collett, aged 23 and residing at Hobbs Hole Road, married Eliza Ann Palmer who was also 23 and living at 8 Vicarage Road in Wednesbury, the daughter of Josiah Palmer. It is interesting to note that their daughter was born at Tipton in 1900, where Richard’s widowed mother was living in 1901.
	On that census day, however, Richard and his wife and child were staying at the home of Eliza’s parents, Josiah and Mercy Palmer, at Russell Street in Wednesbury. Richard Collett was 24, as was his wife Eliza Collett, both born at Wednesbury, while their daughter Dora Collett was under six months old. Richard’s occupation was that of an ironwork fitter, but a change of career took Richard in a different direct, as revealed by the next census in 1911. Head of the household Richard Henry Collett was 34 and the manager of a public home at Shire Oak in Walsall, where his wife Eliza Annie Collett, aged 34, was the only other occupant at the address. Their two daughters were both attending school and were living with William Hobbins and his wife Hannah Mary Hobbins and their daughter Mary Hobbins at Walsall. Dora Mercy Collett was 11 and from Tipton, with Annie Palmer being seven years of age and from Wednesbury. The two girls were described as the nieces of William Hobbins, whose daughter was the same age as Annie.
	Forty year later Richard was still living within the Wednesbury area of Staffordshire and it was at the Wednesbury register office that the death of Richard H Collett was recorded (Ref. 9b 1207) during the first quarter of 1951, when he was 74.
	15O33		Dora Mercy Collett	Born in 1900 at Tipton
	15O34		Annie Palmer Collett	Born in 1903 at Wednesbury
15N25	Joseph Collett was born at Earl Street in Coventry on 19^th October 1844, the eldest son of Joseph Collett and his wife Ann Foxon, whose birth was recorded there (Ref. 16 361) during the third quarter of that year. He was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral Church on 13^th January 1845, when his parents were confirmed as Joseph and Anne Collett. In the Coventry census of 1851 Joseph was six years old when he was living at Bishop Street with his parents, his younger brother John (below) having died by then. On that day, his father was working as a tailor as was Joseph’s grandfather who was also a resident of Bishop Street, although later his father worked as a fishmonger, amongst other jobs. By 1861 Joseph was recorded as being 15 when he was still living with his parents, but at Silver Street in Coventry, where he had already taken up the occupation of a fishmonger like his father, with whom he was very likely working. It was eight years after that, on 4^th August 1869 at St Michael’s Cathedral Church, that Joseph Collett, aged 24 and the son of Joseph Collett, married Eliza Ellen Gould who was 24 and the daughter of gardener John Gould and his wife Esther. The birth of Eliza E Gould was recorded at Stourbridge (Ref. 18 481) during the last three months of 1846.
	By 1871 Joseph’s father had ceased to be a fishmonger, while Joseph junior had established a fishmonger’s shop in Upper Well Street by that time, where he also smoked fish and had a concession to gather the oak for burning from Coombe Park, near Coventry. Also, by that time, the marriage of Joseph and Eliza had produced the first of the couple’s six children, when the Coventry census that year revealed that Joseph Collett was 26 and a fishmonger, his wife Eliza from Dudley was 25 and their daughter Josephine Collett was under one year old. Father and daughter were both confirmed as having been born in Coventry.
	Over the following ten years a further four children were added to the family which, by 1881, was living at 21 Upper Well Street in Coventry. Joseph was 36, and a herring fish curer, Eliza Ellen was 35, and their five children were Josephine Collett who was 10, Frank Joseph Collett who was eight, Sidney Collett who was seven, Leo Andrew Collett who was three and Henry Foxon Collett who was eleven months old. Sadly, the youngest of them, Harry Foxon Collett, died just after the census day, while son Leo also did not survive, and died during the first few months of 1882.
	Following the tragic loss of their two youngest children, Eliza later presented Joseph with their last child in 1886. By 1891 the family still residing at (Upper) Well Street comprised Joseph Collett, aged 46 and a fish merchant, Eliza Ellen Collett, aged 45, and their three eldest children Josephine who was 20, Frank who was 18, Sidney who was 17, plus their latest arrival Hugh Wilfred Collett who was four years old.
	It was also later in that same year that their daughter Josephine was married. In the March census of 1901, only the couple’s youngest child was still living with them at Upper Well Street. Joseph aged 56, was still a fishmonger, Eliza E Collett from Dudley was 55, and Hugh W Collett was 14 and had already started work by then. Staying with the family of three that day were three lodgers, Harry Roscoe, William Dixon and Thomas Jones. With the departure of their son Hugh to be married, and following the death of his wife Eliza Ellen Collett nee Gould during the last quarter of 1907 (Ref. 6d 313) at the age of 63, Joseph Collett was living alone in Coventry at the age of 66 on the day of the census in 1911, when he gave his place of birth as Earl Street in Coventry. Amazingly, he lived to be a grand old age, when the death of Joseph Collett, aged 90 years, was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 708) during the last three months of 1934.
	15O35		Josephine Collett	Born in 1871 at Coventry
	15O36		Frank Joseph Collett	Born in 1872 at Coventry
	15O37		Sidney Collett	Born in 1873 at Coventry
	15O38		Leo Andrew Collett	Born in 1878 at Coventry
	15O39		Henry Foxon Collett	Born in 1880 at Coventry
	15O40		Hugh Wilfred Collett	Born in 1886 at Coventry
15N26	John Collett was born at Coventry, his birth recorded there (Ref. 16 428) during the first three months of 1847. He was one year old when he was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 4^th April 1848, when his parents were confirmed as Joseph and Ann Collett. Tragically, it was during the third quarter of that same year, when the death of John Collett was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 16 269).
15N28	William Henry Collett was born at Stretton in 1871, the first child born to Henry Collett and Harriet Field. Shortly after he was born his parents moved to Kenilworth, where William died in 1876. Following his death, he was buried in the churchyard of Stretton Church.
15N29	Walter Joseph Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1872, the eldest surviving son of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. In the census of 1881, he was listed as Walter J Collett, aged eight years, when he was living at 2 St John’s Street in Kenilworth with his family. He was only fourteen years old when he emigrated to Manitoba during 1886, which may suggest that he accompanied other relatives of his family. And it was there in Canada that he married Sadie Riley, who was born in 1870. The marriage produced three children for the couple, all of them born in Canada.
	The picture of Walter has been extracted from a larger photograph that was taken at the family reunion in Kenilworth, possibly at the time of his eightieth birthday celebration in 1952. Other siblings included in the larger picture were his sister Emma, and his brothers George, Frank, Harold, and Ernest. Sadie Collett nee Riley died in 1944, while her husband Walter Joseph Collett died at Vancouver in 1956.
	15O41		Arthur Edgar Collett		Born in 1903 in Canada
	15O42		Constance Sarah Collett		Born in 1905 in Canada
	15O43		Harriet Maime Collett		Born in 1907 in Canada
15N30	Emma Elizabeth Collett was born in 1874 at Kenilworth, the eldest daughter of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. In the census of 1881, she was simply listed as Emma Collett, aged six years, when she was living with her family at 2 St John’s Street in Kenilworth. As one of fourteen children, it was possibly due to the cramped living conditions during the late 1880s that Emma left the family home, which was then at Henry Street in Kenilworth. That was confirmed in the census in 1891, when Emma Collett, aged 16, was working as a general domestic servant for beer retailer Joseph Clemson, aged 25, and his wife Martha E Clemson, aged 24, at The Railway Inn at 21 St Michael Street in West Bromwich.
	On that occasion Emma’s place of birth was given by her employer, in error, as West Bromwich. What is more interesting is that Martha E Clemson was the former Martha Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 9O12), the eldest child of Robert and Mary Ann Collett, whose family details can be found in Part 9 – The Aldsworth Line. That raises the question, was Emma in some way related to Martha, or was her appointment purely a chance coincidence. Eight years later, and sometime during 1899, Emma Elizabeth Collett married Thomas Jones of Bethesda in North Wales, with whom she had four children, although sadly only three of them survived. According to the next census in March 1901, Emma E Jones, aged 26 and from Kenilworth, was living at Bangor in North Wales, where all of her four children were eventually born.
	The census in April 1911, placed the family still living in Bangor, where Thomas Jones was 39, Emma Elizabeth Jones was 36, and their three surviving children were Eluned Collett Jones who was 10, Ceridwen Harriet Collett Jones who was five, and Thomas Collett Jones who was two years old. Emma Elizabeth Jones, nee Collett, died at Blackpool in 1965. Her husband Thomas, who was born in 1871 at Trefdraeth in Anglesey, had died many years earlier at Kenilworth, when he passed away during 1938.
	The above picture of Emma has been extracted from a larger family group photograph which included her five brothers, which was most likely taken in 1952 at the eightieth birthday celebrations for her eldest brother Walter Collett (above).
	15O44		Eluned Collett-Jones		Born in 1900 at Bangor
	15O45		Eleanor Emma Collett-Jones		Born in 1902 at Bangor
	15O46		Ceridwen Harriet Collett-Jones		Born in 1904 at Bangor
	15O47		Thomas Collett-Jones		Born in 1907 at Bangor
15N31	George Henry Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1876, the son of Henry Collett and Harriet Field who were living at 2 St John’s Street in 1881. Ten years later in 1891 he had left school and at the age of 15 he was already working and was not living at the family home, but was living not far away, and still within the Kenilworth area. By March 1901 George Collett from Kenilworth was 26 and was living in the village of Coates near Cirencester in Gloucestershire where he was employed as a domestic butler. What happen to him immediately after that is not known, since no obvious record for him has so far been located within the next census in April 1911.
	The picture of George was taken at the same family gathering referred to under his brother Walter and sister Emma (above), which was probably taken in 1952 at Walter’s eightieth birthday party. What is known for sure about George is that he was employed as a butler at Hodnet Hall in Shropshire, the home of the Mrs and Mrs A Heber-Percy. It was also through his work at Hodnet Hall that he met his future wife who was living in the nearby village of Hodnet.
	It was during the second quarter of 1922 that the marriage George Henry Collett and Mary Ellen Fox was recorded at Stafford register office (Ref. 6b 53). Mary Fox was born at Swynnerton near Stone in Staffordshire in 1898, the youngest daughter of Charles and Lucy Lydia Fox. Their only child was born towards the end of the same year, which may indicate that Mary was already carrying the child on their wedding day. The child’s birth was recorded at Stone register office, who was in all probability born at the Swynnerton home of Mary’s parents. In 1901 Charles Fox from Chebsey in Staffordshire was a waggoner on a farm, and was living at Swynnerton with his family, including his daughter Mary E Fox who was two years old.
	It would appear that George and Mary lived the remainder of their life together at Hodnet, since that was where both of them were buried. Mary Ellen Collett died on 2^nd November 1944 at the age of 45, while her husband survived by a further twenty-five years. George Henry Collett died on 13^th October 1969 and was buried at Hodnet in the same grave as his wife. In addition to George and Mary, the headstone on the grave in the churchyard of St Lukes Church in Hodnet indicates that Mary’s two older spinster sisters Emma Fox and Lucy Lydia Fox were also buried there. Emma was 76 when she died on 29^th May 1970, while Lucy died on 23^rd May 1987 at the age of 90.
	15O48		George Henry Collett	Born in 1922 at Swynnerton, Staffordshire
15N32	Harry Collett was born in 1878 at Kenilworth. In 1881 the census that year described him as Harry Collett aged two years living at the family home at 2 St John’s Street in Kenilworth. No record of him has been found within the census of 1891 when he would have been 12, but by 1901 he was still living with his parents at Henry Street in Kenilworth at the age of 23 when, as Henry Collett, he was working as a labourer at a brickyard. Just four years later Harry Collett married Annie Elizabeth Barnwell at Kenilworth during 1905. Annie was born at Kenilworth in 1876 and, in 1881 when she was four years old, she was living with her parents, labourer Thomas Barnwell and his wife Mary Ann, at School Lane in Kenilworth.
	It is quite likely that the photograph of Harry (above) was taken in the first few years of the 1930s when he would have been in his early fifties. The full picture shows him standing in his back garden (?) formally dressing in a three-piece suit.
	In April 1911 Harry and Annie were still living in Kenilworth where their four children were born. The census return for that year listed the family as Harry 33, Annie Elizabeth 34, and their two children at that time as Albert Harry Collett who was three, and one-year old Elsie Doris Collett. All members of the family were confirmed as having been born at Kenilworth. Missing from the census was the couple’s eldest daughter Winifred, who had died when she was only two years old.
	Harry Collett, and sometimes called Henry, was tragically killed in an accident at the Courtaulds Factory in Coventry on 5^th January 1935 aged 56. Annie Elizabeth Collett nee Barnwell survived her husband by twenty-five years, and in her later years she lived at Earlsdon in Coventry prior to her passing on 20^th February 1960 at the age of 85. The couple was buried in the same grave at the London Road Cemetery in Coventry, where their daughter Doris was also buried a few years later. A single headstone marks the grave with the following inscription:
	In Loving Memory of a Dear Husband Harry Collett who feel asleep on 5^th January 1935 aged 56 years Also Annie Elizabeth his wife died 20^th February 1960 aged 85 years
	15O49		Winifred Anne Collett		Born in 1906 at Kenilworth
	15O50		Albert Harry Collett		Born in 1908 at Kenilworth
	15O51		Elsie Doris Collett		Born in 1909 at Kenilworth
	15O52		Marjorie Gladys Collett		Born in 1913 at Kenilworth
15N33	Charles John Collett was one of the fourteen children of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. He was born at Kenilworth and his birth was recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 226) during the second quarter of 1880. Later that same year, he was baptised at the Church of St John in Kenilworth on 1^st August. He may have been born at 2 St John’s Street in Kenilworth, where he was living with his large family in 1881, when he was listed as Chas John Collett. Ten years later, in the Kenilworth census of 1891, he was listed as Charles Collett aged 11 years, who was living at Henry Street in Kenilworth with his parents. Sometime after leaving school, Charles signed up for military service and by March 1901, at the age of 19 (sic), he was in the Coldstream Guards in London. Just less than eight years later, the marriage of Charles John Collett and Florence Cross was recorded at West Bromwich register office (Ref. 6b 180) during the first three months of 1909.
	Florence Cross was born at Aston in Birmingham on 28^th June 1874, where she was baptised on many years later on 6^th June 1886, the daughter of George and Hannah Cross. By the time of the census in 1911, Florence had already presented Charles with a daughter. Charles John Collett from Kenilworth was 30 and a relief railway signalman who was living in Walsall with his wife Florence Collett from Aston in Birmingham who was 36, and their one-year-old daughter Eileen Florence Collett who had been born at Pleck in Walsall. Staying with the family that day was Olga Alberta Hindley aged ten years and from Handsworth, who was incorrectly described as the niece of Charles Collett. In fact, Olga’s birth was recorded at West Bromwich register office (Ref. 6b 31) during the first quarter of 1901 under the name of Olga Alberta Louise Cross, indicating that she was the base-born daughter of the unmarried Florence Cross and therefore the stepdaughter of Charles John Collett.
	The family eventually emigrated to Canada where Charles John Collett died at Port Moody in 1947. Like Charles, his wife Florence also died at Port Moody, but ten years later in 1957. It was while the couple was living at Port Moody that Charles built their house, where their daughter Eileen and her half-sister Olga lived for the rest of their lives up until 1997 and 1999 respectively. Upon the deaths of the two half-sisters, the house was occupied by Charles’ and Florence’s granddaughter Daphne Walker and her second husband Harold Peter St Mary, Daphne being the granddaughter of Eileen Florence Collett and Arthur Eric Walker.
	15O53		Olga Alberta Louise Cross	Born in 1900; died 1999 at Port Moody
	15O54		Eileen Florence Collett	Born in 1909; died 1997 at Port Moody
15N34	Jane Ann Collet who was known as Annie, was born at Kenilworth on 8^th December 1881, with her birth recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 635) during the first quarter of 1882. It was also as Jane Ann Collett that she was baptised at St John’s Church in Kenilworth on 2^nd April 1882, another child of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. It was as Annie Collett, aged 10, that she was recorded living with her family at Henry Street in Kenilworth in 1891. Ten years later, at the age of 19, Annie Collett from Kenilworth, was a patient in hospital at Leamington Priors (today known as Leamington Spa), by which time she had been working as a domestic servant.
	With her older brother Walter Joseph Collett having sailed to Canada in 1886, it seems likely that Jane followed him there before the end of the century. It also seems high likely that the formal photograph of Jane around 1907, was taken to celebrate her engagement to her future husband, who also featured in the full photograph, and was used to send to her family back in England. It was during 1908, at Brandon, Manitoba in Canada, that Jane Anne Collett married Patrick Joseph Kelly. Patrick from Seattle was born at Clonmoyle Township within the parish of Lynn, County Westmeath in Ireland [Éire] on 15^th March 1879, who emigrated to Canada in 1903, and who died at Seattle, Washington USA, during 1958 and was followed five years later by Annie.
	Patrick and Annie were buried at the Riverton Crest Cemetery in Tukwila, Washington, just south of Seattle. Their daughter Alma and her family are also buried there. Norah, the mother of Jim and Ron (below) was interred at the Tahoma National Cemetery for Veterans in Kent (Washington) with her husband Raymond, who was a veteran of the United States Army. The death certificate for Patrick Joseph Kelly produced a number of interesting facts, as follows. It was at home at 6115 44^th Avenue South, Seattle, in King County, Washington on 14^th February 1958. By then, he had retired after being involved with an occupation in building maintenance, the son of John Kelly and Brigett Moran who had been born at Westmeath in Ireland. The informant of his passing was his daughter Ruth Suttell of Seattle (aka Norah Irene). The cause of death was coronary occlusion with myocardial infraction. And finally, the certificate confirmed that he was buried at Riverton Crest on 18^th February 1958.
	Annie and Patrick had three daughters as shown in the delightful picture on the right, taken around 1920. The eldest daughter was Alma Marguerite Kelly (1913-1977) who married Julian Roy Storey (1908-1993), with whom she had two children in Seattle – Kenneth Allen Storey (1934) and Patricia Storey (1936) who never married. Their son Kenneth on the other hand was married twice, the first time in 1957 to June Eileen Olsen, and later to Judy Olsen. Kenneth and June had three daughters, Eileen (1958), Linda (1960), and Nancy (1963).
	Annie and Patrick’s second daughter was Ada Kelly (1914-1999) who married Daniel Price (1911-1979), and they a daughter - Joanne L Price (1938-1999) who married Lewis E Walker (1935) of St Maries in Idaho, and had four sons. The third daughter of Annie and Patrick was Norah Irene Kelly (1918-2007) who married Raymond Joseph Suttell (1911-1999) and they lived in Seattle where they had two sons, James Edward Suttell (born 26.09.1945), Director of The Seattle Times, who was married on 02.06.1973 to Beth Brezina who was born on 18.01.1948, and Ronald Patrick Suttell (born 21.05.1949), Facilities Director Alaska Airlines, who was married on 03.04.1976 to Kathy Rose Greminger who was born on 28.02.1950, both of whom live at Tacomo in Washington State. In early 2022, Jim and Ron Suttell provided updates to their family details.
15N35	Ada Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1883 and was recorded in the census of 1891 as being eight years old while living at Henry Street in Kenilworth with her parents Henry and Harriet Collett. Ada was still living in Kenilworth in March 1901, but had moved out of the family home to secure work as a general domestic servant at the age of 17. Ada was still unmarried ten years later in April 1911, when she was recorded in that year’s census as Ada Collet from Kenilworth aged 26 who was still living within the county of Warwickshire. The picture of Ada may have been taken at the time of her engagement to her future husband, who also featured in the photograph in full army uniform.
	Four years later Ada Collett married Ernest Letts in 1915. Ernest was born in 1886 and was killed on 9^th October 1917 at Ypres. He was Private 36676 with the First Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment and was buried at Poelcapelle British Cemetery in Belgium. At the time of his death Ada was living at 35 Henry Street in Kenilworth, her parents Henry and Harriet living at 65 Henry Street at that time. Ada Letts nee Collett died at Kenilworth in 1941 and was buried with her parents in a share grave in the churchyard of St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth.
15N36	Ellen Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1885, the daughter of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. Sadly, she died the following year during 1886.
15N37	Frank Collett was born at Kenilworth, his birth recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 124) during the third quarter of 1887, another son of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. He was four years old in the Kenilworth census of 1891 when he was living in Henry Street with his family. Ten years later in March 1901, Frank Collett was 13 when he was still attending school while living in Kenilworth with his parents and four of his siblings. He was still living there with his parents in April 1911 when, at the age of 23, he was employed as an assistant grocer when once again his place of birth was confirmed as Kenilworth. Two years later, during the third quarter of 1913, Frank Collett married Sarah Huff Simpson, the event recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 73). The picture of Frank was taken during 1952 at the eightieth birthday party of his eldest brother Walter (above).
	Sarah Huff Simpson was born in 1889 and was tragically killed on 7^th November 1940 during a German bombing raid over Kenilworth. Sarah was a rest centre worker with the Women’s Voluntary Service and was not was on duty, but at the family home when the house was destroyed by falling anti-aircraft fire. Her youngest son Frank was also in the house at that time and suffered two broken legs. A later report of the incident published in the Kenilworth newspaper after the war read as follows: “Sarah Huff Collett aged 51, wife of Frank Collett. Sarah was injured at her home at 7 Arthur Street due to falling anti-aircraft fire, and died in an ambulance on the way to hospital. Sarah, nee Simpson, married Frank locally in 1913. Their son also Frank, had both legs broken in the blast and spent several months in hospital. Another son Ivan, a Royal Marine, was killed in Sicily in January 1944. A daughter still lives in Kenilworth. Sarah was in the WVS, mainly concerned with rest centre work, and appeared as Kenilworth’s only representative on the WVS Roll of Honour. Sarah is buried in Kenilworth cemetery.”
	Sarah Collett was buried at the Kenilworth (Urban District Council) Cemetery where a single headstone bears not only her name, but that of her son Ivan Ernest Collett, who was killed in Italy just over three years after his mother. Also named on the same headstone is her husband Frank Collett, who died at Kenilworth many years later on 24^th February 1965, his passing recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 9c 185), at the age of 77.
	15O55		Frederick Charles Collett		Born in 1915 at Kenilworth
	15O56		Ivan Ernest Collett		Born in 1921 at Kenilworth
	15O57		Gwenda Marian Collett		Born in 1922 at Kenilworth
	15O58		Joyce Estelle Collett		Born in 1925 at Kenilworth
	15O59		Reginald Frank Collett		Born in 1928 at Kenilworth
15N38	HAROLD JAMES COLLETT was born at Henry Street in Kenilworth on 24^th February 1889, the son of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. And it was Henry Street in Kenilworth that he was living with his family in 1891 aged two years, and ten years later in 1901 when he was 12. His apparent absence from the April census in 1911 may have been due to the fact that he might have been in military service and out of the country on that occasion. What is known is that he later became an engineer with Rover Car Company, and that he married Eveline Fanny Smith at St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth on 31^st December 1917. Eveline was born at Kenilworth on 25^th May 1890, the daughter of Thomas and Fanny Smith.
	The picture of Harold was very likely taken when he was in his sixties. In the full photograph, he was dressed formally in a three-piece suit and, standing with him, was his diminutive wife Eveline. Harold was a very tall man, at something over six feet, compared to his wife who was well over a foot shorter. The occasion at which the photograph was taken was possibly the wedding of one of their sons, Harold or John, who were both married in the early nineteen fifties.
	Harold James Collett died during 1972, while his widow Eveline survived him by ten years when she died on 30^th July 1982. The couple were buried in the same grave in Kenilworth Cemetery, where a single headstone erected by their children marks the grave with the following words:
	Treasured Memories of Our Dear Parents Harold James Collett 1889 – 1972 Eveline Fanny Collett 1890 – 1982
	15O60		Eveline Beatrice Collett		Born in 1918 at Kenilworth
	15O61		HAROLD THOMAS COLLETT		Born in 1920 at Kenilworth
	15O62		John Henry Collett		Born in 1923 at Kenilworth
	15O63		Alan James Collett		Born in 1925 at Kenilworth
15N39	Ellen Collett was born at Kenilworth on 6^th April 1891 and was named after her sister who had died just four years earlier in 1886. However, she too failed to survive, when she died in December that same year and was buried in St Nicholas’ Churchyard in Kenilworth.
15N40	Reginald Jack Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1892 and was simply recorded as Jack Collett aged eight years in the Kenilworth census of 1901. At that time, he was living with his family at Henry Street. Ten years later in April 1911 he was once again recorded in the census return as Jack Collett aged 17, while he was still living with his parents at Henry Street in Kenilworth. Whilst the two references to his age in the census returns for 1891 and 1901 confirmed his date of birth, at the time he was killed in action in 1917 his age was incorrectly stated by the military services as being 31 instead of 25. This is Reginald Jack Collett in his army uniform just prior to the Great War.
	Reginald Collett was Private 52926 with the Eighth Battalion Royal Fusiliers and saw active service in the First World War and was killed on 24^th November 1917. Below is the record of his death. As there is no mention of a widow, it must be assumed that he never married. “Reginald Jack Collett aged 31 died on 24^th November 1917. He was the seventh son of the late Henry and Harriet Collett of 65 Henry Street in Kenilworth. He was killed during the early days of the Battle of Cambrai and his name appears on Panel 3/4 of the Cambrai Memorial at Louverval Nord in France.”
	The Cambrai Memorial is situated near the village of Louverval. It commemorates the lives of 7,000 British and South African servicemen who died in the Battle of Cambrai from 20th November through to December 1917 under the command of Sir Douglas Haig.
15N41	Ernest Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1894, the last of fourteen children of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. In March 1901, Ernest Collett was six years old while living with his family at Henry Street in Kenilworth. Ernest was sixteen years old at the time of the next census in 1911 when he was still living at the family home in Henry Street in Kenilworth with his parents Henry and Harriet Collett, and his two older brothers Frank Collett and Jack Collett. From his appearance in this photograph, Ernest looks to have been in his twenties when it was taken after the Great War, and perhaps around 1920, and therefore around six years or so prior to his wedding day.
	Ernest Collett was in his early thirties when he married Maggie Wilson Philp in 1926, and later that same year the first of the couple’s three children was born. Maggie, who was also known as Daisy, was born in 1898, the daughter of William and Christina Philp. Daisy died in 1973, while Ernest survived for a further fourteen years before he died at Kenilworth on 25^th December 1987. They were buried in a single grave at the Kenilworth Cemetery where a headstone marks the site, with the words:
	Resting In Loving Memory of Maggie Wilson Collett ‘Dais’ 1898 – 1973 Also Ernest Collett 1894 – 1987”.
	15O64		Kathleen Marguerite Collett		Born in 1926 at Kenilworth
	15O65		Peter Ernest John Collett		Born in 1929 at Kenilworth
	15O66		Alison Christine Collett		Born in 1931 at Kenilworth
15N42	Annie Elizabeth Collett was born at Leamington Priors, the base-born daughter of unmarried Caroline Collett. Her birth was recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 451) during the first three months of 1871 and, on being baptised at All Saints Church in Leamington on 6^th August 1871, she was described as the child of Caroline Collett and Frederick Collett. The earlier census of 1871 included two-month-old Annie E Collett living with her unmarried mother at a house in Villiers Street North, the home of plasterer Hugh Rainbow and his wife Elizabeth. Also listed as living at the same address was Annie’s young uncle, her mother’s brother John Oliver Collett. Tragically, Annie was just over four years old when the death of Annie Elizabeth Collett was recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 360) during the third quarter of 1875.
15N44	Gertrude Collett was born at Coventry in 1876, the eldest of two daughters of Arthur Thomas Collett and Eleanor Cramp Angliss. She was four years old in 1881 when living at Mount Street in Coventry with her parents and was 14 in 1891. Seven years later in 1898, she married William Thompson of Coventry, with whom she had two children. Doris Thompson was born at Coventry the year after they were married, while Cyril William Thompson was born in 1904, and he married Hilda Annie Steward in 1931, and died in 1987. Gertrude Thompson nee Collett died in 1954.
15N45	Elsie Collett was born at Coventry in 1887, the younger of two daughters of Arthur and Eleanor Collett. Elsie was three years old in the Coventry census of 1891 and although the family has not been located in 1901, Elsie was 23 and still living with her parents in 1911. It was four years after that when she married Walter J Bird in 1915. The marriage produced three children for the couple, including twins, all of which were born while the family was living in the Foleshill district of Coventry. The twins Thomas R Bird and Constance Bird were born during 1916, while Walter John Bird was born in 1918. Elsie Bird nee Collett died in 1939.
15O1	Rosanna Collett was born at Coventry in 1864, the eldest child of Thomas Charles Collett and Rosanna Rowney. In 1881 Rosanna and her family were living at 5 Bond Street in Coventry, where Rosanna was working as a worsted weaver at the age of 16. It was just four year later that she died in 1885.
15O2	Joseph Henry Collett was born at Coventry in 1865, the eldest son of Thomas and Rosanna Collett. He was 15 years old in 1881 when he was living with his family at 5 Bond Street in Coventry. By that time, he had left school but had not yet secured a job. Later in his life he was employed as a nickel-plater, working in the manufacture of bicycles. He was 25 in the census of 1891 when he was still unmarried and living with his parents in Coventry. However, ten years later, the next census in 1901 recorded bachelor Joseph H Collett from Coventry as a nickel plater in the cycle trade who was 35 when he was staying with his younger married brother Herbert at 25 Arthur Street in Coventry. And it was there that he died three years later in 1904 at the age of 39.
15O3	Mary Elizabeth Collett was born at Coventry on 22^nd March 1868, the second daughter of Thomas and Rosanna Collett, who was baptised at St Michael’s Church on 23^rd September 1868. Mary E Collett was recorded as 13 in 1881, and 23 in 1891 when, on both occasions, she was living with her family in Coventry. It is assumed that she was married after 1891, since no record of her as Mary Collett has been found in 1901 or 1911.
15O4	Herbert Charles Collett was born at Coventry in 1872, the son of Thomas and Rosanna Collett. In 1881 Herbert and his family were living at 5 Bond Street in Coventry when he was nine years old, and ten years later in 1891 he was 18 years of age. During 1896 Herbert married the teenage Rose Ann Peacey from Coventry with whom he had four children before 1911. By March 1901 the Coventry family comprised Herbert C Collett who was 28 whose occupation was a watch dial enameller, his wife Rose who was 23, and their three children Edith R Collett who was four, Thomas C Collett who was two and Herbert Collett who was one year old. At that time the family was living at 25 Arthur Street in Coventry where Herbert’s older unmarried brother Joseph H Collett (above) was also lodging.
	Two years after that census day the family suffered the tragic loss of their youngest son Herbert at the age of just three years. However, the couple’s loss was offset by the birth of another son during the following year, the baby named after Herbert’s brother Joseph whose premature death was recorded that same year. The census for Coventry in April 1911 listed the family as Herbert Charles Collett who was 38, his wife Rose who was 32, and their three surviving children Edith Rose Collett who was 14, Thomas Charles Collett who was 12 and seven-year-old Joseph Collett. Herbert Charles Collett was still living in Coventry when he died in 1928.
	15P1		Edith Rose Collett		Born in 1896 at Coventry
	15P2		Thomas Charles Collett		Born in 1898 at Coventry
	15P3		Herbert Collett		Born in 1900 at Coventry