PART SIXTEEN

The Lucy Ann Collett Line – 1820 to 2000

Updated October 2023

This is the family line of Brian John Foster of Maryborough in Australia

and commences with Lucy Ann Collett from Part 14 – The John Kyte Collett Line.

The information provided for the January 2018 update of this family line

was kindly provided by Tess Patterson (Ref. 16Q7)

14M13	LUCY ANN COLLETT was born at The Mill in Bourton-on-the-Water on 27^th February 1823, the ninth child of Robert Collett of Upper Slaughter and his wife Mary Ann (Marianne) Kyte. She was a milliner and dressmaker and lived for some years with her widowed father up to 1853 when she sailed to Australia on the ship Euphemus. On arrival at Melbourne, she was engaged as a dressmaker, working for a Mr Turner at Geelong. At the start of the following year, whilst at Castlemaine, she met and married John Henry Foster a carpenter and builder. John was born in London in 1827 and the couple was married on 25^th March 1854. Lucy Ann Foster died on 24^th December 1902 at Queensland, her husband John having died two years early on 5^th July 1900.
	For the May 2015, a better-quality photograph of Lucy Ann Foster nee Collett has been kindly provided by her great great grandson Brian Foster. At the same time Brian submitted details of a Phyllis Mary Collett nee Blunt who married a Frank Collett who had links with the island of Jersey.
	Phyllis Mary Blunt was born in 1923 at Nakuru in Kenya, the daughter of British parents. She was educated in Belgium by Ursuline Nuns and she served with the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War. It was also during the war that she met Frank Collett, whom she married and with whom she had five children, the first three being born before 1952.
	After the war, the family lived on Jersey, but emigrated to Australia in 1952, and it was at Melbourne that the couple’s fourth and fifth child were born. A book written by Phyllis Mary Collett entitled ‘Historical Homes of Wide Bay’ was signed by her in 1983, and was handed down through the family of Brian Foster’s wife. Wide Bay is in Queensland, Australia. However, it has still to be resolved who her husband Frank Collett was, and who his parents were.
	16N1	Lucy Flora Marianne Foster	Born in 1855
	16N2	FRANCIS HENRY ROBERT FOSTER	Born in 1857
	16N3	Ernest F J Foster	Born in 1859
	16N4	Theodore Arthur George Foster	Born in 1861
	16N5	Julian Augustus Walter Foster	Born in 1865
16N1	Lucy Flora Marianne Foster was born on 6^th February 1855 and she married Joseph Hume on 25^th April 1879. After almost exactly forty years together Lucy died on 10^th April 1919.
	16O1	John Collett Hume	Born on 15.12.1879
	16O2	Edith Ann Cecil Hume	Born on 28.04.1881
	16O3	Olive Myrtle Blanche Hume	Born on 08.07.1883
	16O4	Joseph Hume	Born on 09.05.1885
	16O5	Mabel Lucy Jubilee Hume	Born on 11.08.1887
16N2	FRANCIS HENRY ROBERT FOSTER was born in 1857 and he married Eliza Nixon on 22^nd May 1875.
	16O6	Emily Lucy Jane Foster	Born on 02.08.1876
	16O7	WILLIAM HENRY RICHARD FOSTER	Born in 1879
	16O8	Sarah Jane Eliza Foster	Born in 1880
	16O9	Thomas Arthur Benjamin Foster	Born in 1882
	16O10	Henery Francis Foster	Born on 16.12.1884
	16O11	George Robert Collett Foster	Born on 01.02.1887
	16O12	John Oliver Ernest Foster	Born in 1889
	16O13	Thomas Edward Nixon Foster	Born on 25.02.1891
	16O14	Ruby Ethel Daisy Foster	Born on 21.10.1892
	16O15	Walter Edward Nixon Foster	Born on 02.08.1894
	16O16	Eva Victoria Alice Foster	Born on 25.06.1897
16N4	Theodore Arthur George Foster was born in 1861 and he married Josephine Ethel Roberts during 1896. Josephine was born on 19^th January 1870 and she died on 20^th October 1955, having spent nearly the last thirty years of her life as a widow, following Theodore’s death on 26^th October 1924.
16N5	Julian Augustus Walter Foster was born during April 1865 and died two years later on 11^th May 1867.
16O7	WILLIAM HENRY RICHARD FOSTER was born on 15^th February 1879, and he later married Beatrice Maud Haid on 25^th December 1908. Beatrice was born on 27^th May 1880 and she died on 14^th August 1967, while her husband William had died fifty years earlier on 25^th September 1917, possibly as a casualty of the First World War.
	16P1	Raymond Douglas Collett Foster	Born in 1910
	16P2	Noel Spencer Foster	Born in 1911
	16P3	CECIL NEVILLE FOSTER	Born in 1915
16O8	Sarah Jane Eliza Foster was born on 23^rd December 1880 and she married Tom Braithwaite.
16O9	Thomas Arthur Benjamin Foster was born on 30^th December 1882 and he married Lillian Joesbury.
	16P4	Arthur Jack Foster	Born in 1913
	16P5	Dorothy Foster	Born in 1915
	16P6	David Foster	Date of birth unknown
16O12	John Oliver Ernest Foster was born at Brisbane on 13^th March 1889, the son of Francis Henry Robert Foster his wife Eliza Nixon. John later married Elizabeth Charlotte Moore and their son was born just eight days before the start of the First World War. Not long after John join the Australian Imperial Force and first served with the 9 Battalion AIF at Gallipoli, before later seeing action in France with the 49^th Battalion AIF. Tragically he was killed in action at Mouquet Farm on 3^rd September 1916. At the time of his death the army records provide the following information. Corporal John Oliver E Foster, Service No. 2141, who was born in Brisbane was 27 and was the son of Francis Henry and Elizabeth Foster, and the husband of Mrs Foster of Charles Street, Kennedy Terrace, Red Hill, in Queensland. The war memorial at Villers-Bretonneux bears his name.
	16P7	Albert William Ernest Foster	Born in 1914
16P1	Raymond Douglas Collett Foster was born on 8^th November 1910. He married (1) May Doris who was born in 1912, and the marriage produced three children before May died on 31^st July 1948. Raymond then married (2) Daphne Elvira Barmes and that second marriage produced a further four children for Raymond. Daphne, who was born in 1926, died on 25^th May 1971 and was followed by Raymond who died during August 1977.
	16Q1	Lenore Eral Foster	Born in 1933
	16Q2	Gene Collett Foster	Born in 1935
	16Q3	Janet Leigh Foster	Born in 1942
	The following are the children of Raymond D C Foster by his second wife Daphne Elvira Barmes
	16Q4	Mark Alistair Foster	Born in 1951
	16Q5	Miriam Beatrice Foster	Born in 1952
	16Q6	John Kyte Collett Foster	Born in 1955
	16Q7	Esther Thalia Foster	Born in 1958
16P2	Noel Spencer Foster was born on 24^th September 1911. He married Marie Blanche Male who was born on 6^th March 1912. Marie died on 26^th August 1981, and was closely followed by Noel who died in the October of that same year.
	16Q8	Allan Spencer Ernest Foster	Born in 1933
	16Q9	Darrell Gordon Foster	Born in 1936
	16Q10	Rodney Lyle Foster	Born in 1938
	16Q11	Warren Spencer Foster	Born in 1942
	16Q12	Gareth Russell Foster	Born in 1944
	16Q13	Marilyn Noela Foster	Born in 1946
	16Q14	Kerry Melville Foster	Born in 1949
	16Q15	Gailene Lorelle Foster	Born in 1950
	16Q16	Elwyn Elvis Foster twin	Born in 1952
	16Q17	Averil Joy Foster twin	Born in 1952
	16Q18	Steven Clyde Foster	Born in 1955
16P3	CECIL NEVILLE FOSTER was born on 28^th February 1915. He married (1) Kathleen Alice Ruth Lockwood on 17^th December 1941 and Cecil’s two sons came from their union. Kathleen was born on 21^st October 1909 and she died on 14^th August 1948. Following the death of his first wife, Cecil married (2) Grace Norah Harris who was the widow of Albert William Ernest Foster (below) who died during 1954.
	16Q19	William Charles Foster	Born on 17.03.1942
	16Q20	BRIAN JOHN FOSTER	Born in 1947
16P4	Arthur Jack Foster was born in 1913 and had a son Jack Foster of whom no details are known or available.
	16Q21	Jack Foster	Date of birth unknown
16P7	Albert William Ernest Foster was born on 20^th July 1914. He married Grace Norah Harris on 2^nd April 1942. Grace was born on 11^th March 1917 and she died on 5^th October 2004, her husband Albert having died fifty years earlier in 1954. It was after that year when she married (2) Cecil Neville Foster (above), her late husband’s cousin. Grace Norah Harris was the daughter of cabinet maker William Evan Harris and Eunice Emma Drinkwater, as confirmed on her father’s death certificate following his passing on 12^th June 1960 at South Brisbane Hospital, when Grace was 43 and her brother William was 47.
	16Q22	Jill Foster	Born in 1944
	16Q23	Beth Foster	Born in 1948
16Q1	Lenore Eral Foster was born on 16^th October 1933 and she married Peter Laizans with whom she had one son, Martin Laizans who subsequently married Lyn Thomas. By 2022, Martin and Lyn have two children, Simon Laizans and Charlotte Laizans who was originally Amelia Laizans, but changed her name when she was eleven years of age.
16Q2	Gene Collett Foster was born on 27^th November 1935 and he married Sally Moon.
16Q3	Janet Leigh Foster was born on 1^st February 1942 and she married Barry Mullin and they had two children, John Mullin who married Andrea, and Claire Mullin who married April Trish Youngberry on 2^nd June 2018.
16Q4	Mark Alistair Foster was born on 5^th February 1951 and was the first of the four children of Raymond Douglas Collett Foster and his second wife Daphne Elvira Barmes. Mark later married Colleen Hazlett and passed away on 11^th December 2008, the cause of death being pancreatic cancer.
16Q5	Miriam Beatrice Foster was born on 9^th July 1952 and she married James Locke with whom she had three children. The couple’s eldest child was Jane Elizabeth Elvira Locke who was born on 4^th June 1971, who later married Chris Stafford. The couple’s two other children were Peter Locke and Kate Locke.
16Q6	John Kyte Collett Foster was born on 25^th April 1955 and he married Julie Ann Hirst.
	16R1	Alex Foster	Born in 1989
	16R2	Gen Foster	Born in 1994
16Q7	Esther Thalia Foster, who is referred to as Tess, was born on 24^th March 1958, the youngest child of Raymond Douglas Collett Foster and his second wife Daphne Elvira Barmes. She married (1) Paul Wroe with whom she had two children Toby Mark Wroe and Ellen Leah Wroe. Tess later married (2) Gavin Hamilton Patterson in 2004.
16Q8	Allan Spencer Ernest Foster was born on 16^th October 1933 and he was eight years old when he died 2^nd November 1941
16Q9	Darrell Gordon Foster was born on 1^st March 1936. He married Barbara Larcombe on 9^th September 1963, Barbara having been born on 16^th March 1944.
	16R3	Darren Jason Foster	Born in 1969
	16R4	Andrea Nadine Foster	Born in 1973
16Q10	Rodney Lyle Foster was born on 13^th August 1938. He married (1) Kaye Leahy on 4^th April 1964 and later he married (2) Patricia Gale Lovett who was born on 14^th July 1943. Both of his two children came from Rodney’s first marriage.
	16R5	Lyle James Foster	Born in 1966
	16R6	Cara Lee Ellen Foster	Born in 1971
16Q11	Warren Spencer Foster was born on 13^th August 1942. He married Lynette Steed on 9^th November 1968. Lynette was born on 21^st May 1949.
	16R7	Wayne Allan Foster	Born on 20.06.1969
16Q12	Gareth Russell Foster was born on 17^th July 1944. He married Patricia Byrne on 9^th February 1963. Patricia was born on 9^th March 1944.
	16R8	Karen Joy Foster	Born in 1963
	16R9	Alan Russell Foster	Born on 03.07.1965
16Q13	Marilyn Noela Foster was born on 31^st October 1946 and she married Joseph Pansini on 21^st December 1968. Joseph was born on 12^th October 1946 and died on 4^th October 1994, while Marilyn passed away in 2012.
16Q14	Kerry Melville Foster was born on 9^th February 1949. He married Patricia Reynolds on 30^th November 1974. Patricia was born on 9^th May 1950.
	16R10	Lyndon Graeme Foster	Born on 16.05.1977
	16R11	Amanda Jayne Foster	Born on 11.02.1979
	16R12	Candice Marie Foster	Born on 13.08.1983
	16R13	Melanie Anne Foster	Born on 14.02.1985
16Q15	Gailene Lorelle Foster was born on 30^th December 1950. She married Barry Williamson on 7^th February 1970, with whom she had four children.
	16R14	Lorelle Helen Blanche Williamson	Born in 1971
	16R15	Melinda Mae-Anne Williamson	Born in 1973
	16R16	Jodie Louise Williamson	Born in 1977
	16R17	Theresa Megan Williamson	Born in 1980
16Q16	Elwyn Avis Foster was one of a pair of twins who were born on 20^th October 1952. She married Ian Payne on 5^th May 1979. Ian was born on 14^th January 1956 and the marriage produced three children for the couple.
	16R18	Stacey Joy Payne	Born on 08.05.1981
	16R19	Glenn Richard Payne	Born on 15.01.1982
	16R20	Troy Andrew Payne	Born on 15.12.1984
16Q17	Averil Joy Foster was one of a pair of twins who were born on 20^th October 1952. She married Steve Butler on 29^th May 1982. Steve, was born on 2^nd March 1952, had four children with Averil over the following eight years.
	16R21	Chris Neville Butler	Born on 18.06.1983
	16R22	Scott Anthony Butler	Born on 10.03.1986
	16R23	Maree Blanche Butler	Born on 12.01.1988
	16R24	Adam Reece Butler	Born on 18.04.1990
16Q18	Steven Clyde Foster was born on 13^th April 1955 and he married Susan Gay Watts on 14^th August 1976 and the marriage resulted in the birth of two sons and two daughters.
	16R25	Luke Spencer Foster	Born on 27.03.1979
	16R26	Rebecca Foster twin	Born on 03.01.1981
	16R26	Rachel Foster twin	Born on 03.01.1981
	16R28	Rick James Foster	Born on 20.02.1982
16Q20	BRIAN JOHN FOSTER was born on 10^th October 1947. He married later June Cox on 7^th September 1974, June having been born on 30^th June 1949. Their marriage produced two daughters for the couple. Sadly June Foster nee Cox passed away on 27^th March 2014 after a four year battle with melanoma.
	16R29	Julie Maree Foster	Born in 1974
	16R30	Helen Katherine Ada Foster	Born in 1981
16Q22	Jill Foster was born on 9^th October 1944 and she married Rodney Lucht who was born on 14^th July 1951. They had two daughters, Andrea Grace Lucht, who was born on 12^th January 1977 who later married Brad on 3^rd April 2004, and Joanne Mary Lucht who was born on 25^th February 1980.
16Q23	Beth Foster was born on 6^th January 1948 and she married Doug Wallace. They had two children Sharon Anne Wallace, who was born on 11^th December 1977, and Graeme Edward Wallace who was born on 6^th November 1980.
16R3	Darren Jason Foster was born on 9^th September 1969 and he married Stacey Bull on 20^th July 1996.
16R4	Andrea Nadine Foster was born on 8^th June 1973 and she married Rodney Hamilton on 10^th October 1998. The couple had two children, Emmason Hamilton, and Hayley Jo Hamilton who was born on 8^th June 2004.
16R5	Lyle James Foster was born on 25^th June 1966. He married Yvette Defacto McKillop who already had two children, Teagan McKillop and Cody James McKillop, possibly from an earlier marriage.
16R6	Cara Lee Ellen Foster was born on 16^th January 1971. She married David Fernandes on 28^th March 1993, David having been born on 25^th December 1965. They had one child Kai Fernandes, who was born on 11^th November 1993.
16R8	Karen Joy Foster was born on 28^th July 1963. She married Ian Hanson on 25^th September 1982 and they had two daughters, Tanya Louise Hanson, who was born on 6^th July 1986, and Angela Maree Hanson who was born on 24^th July 1989.
16R14	Lorelle Helen Blanche Williamson was born on 31^st January 1971 and she married Luciano Alexander Sergiacomi on 9^th September 2000.
16R15	Melinda Mae-Anne Williamson was born on 5^th November 1973 and she entered into a partnership with Raymond Karl McIntyre with whom she had four children. Raymond Douglas McIntyre was born on 9^th November 1993, Corey James McIntyre was born on 24^th January 1995, Jordan Thomas McIntyre was born on 7^th of September 1997, and Krystal Cheyanne McIntyre was born on 9^th of August 1998. In 2009 Melinda from Maryborough in Australia was separated from her children’s father.
16R16	Jodie Louise Williamson was born on 15^th July 1977.
16R17	Theresa Megan Williamson was born on 7^th March 1980 and she married Kelly Travis Turner.
16R29	Julie Maree Foster was born on 6^th October 1974. She married Brett Anthony Morrison on 12^th October 2000. Brett was born on 8^th July 1977. The marriage produced twins for the couple and they were Emma Louise Morrison and Brandon James Morrison who were born on 24^th December 2004.
16R30	Helen Katherine Ada Foster was born on 29^th July 1981. She married Jason Haaksma. Jason was born on 11^th February 1978.