PART
EIGHTEEN
The Main Suffolk
Line – 1890 to 2020
This
is the fourth of four sections of Part 18 of the Collett family
Updated October 2023
The contributors for a previous update
were Gillian Hawley, Liz Whittaker,
Gordon Collett, cousins Alan Collett and
Sue Hammler, and Robert Porter
The new information in May 2011 was
provide by John Davies,
great grandson of Edith Florence Davies
nee Collett [18Q169], and
Sue Hammler, the daughter of Cecil
Benjamin Collett [18Q79]
The information for the previous update
was generously provide by
Katerina Antalopoulos, the granddaughter
of Emily Collett [18P28].
The Jan ‘10 update
related to Mabel May Collett [18Q84], the information for which
was kindly provided by
Mary-Ann Dunn nee Collett [18S40],
and Kate Collett [18P104]
the great grandmother of Steve Keeble
The Dec ‘09 update was
thanks to Jane Reuben nee Collett [18S92] of Surrey
Gordon Alan Collett [18S95]
kindly provided some of his family details
The information for the
April 09 update related to Lionel Chas Geo Collett [18Q162]
which was kindly
provided by his great grandson Mark Norman
The information for the
February 2009 update was kindly provided by Judith Jones
and relates to the
family of John Christian George Collett [18P151]
The previous update to
the file provided details of the family line of siblings Rachael
and Andrew Collett down
to Andrew’s son Sean Francis Collett [18T47] who was
born in 2002 from Henry
Colet in 1360, the line being identified by the names in italic print.
Benjamin
George Collett [18Q60] was born at Gorleston in early 1888, the birth being registered
at Mutford (Ref. 4a 957) during the first quarter of that year. He was always known as George, following the
death of his father, when he was only a few weeks old. He was the third child and only known son of
George Collett and Eliza Kerrison. In 1891
he was recorded with his widowed mother and his older sister Margaret (above)
living at St Johns Road in Belton, the home of his maternal grandparents George
and Sarah Kerrison. George Collett was
three years old at that time in his life.
By 1901 he was still living with his widowed mother at the home of her
then widowed father at St Johns Road in Belton All Saints, Sarah Kerrison
having passed away during the 1890s.
George Collett of Gorleston was 13 and was still attending school while,
to provide an income for the family, his mother ran a laundry and wash business
with her own account. Also living at the
address was George Kerrison junior, the uncle of George B Collett, which must
have been confusing, having three Georges living together. Four months after the census day, gardener
George Kerrison senior died at Belton, where he was buried on 6th
August 1901. Over the next few years
George and his mother left Belton, when they moved into Gorleston, where they
were living at 68 Suffield Road in the town in 1911. George was recorded in the census return that
year as George B Collett, aged 23, who was born there, while his widowed mother
Eliza from Belton was 52. On that
occasion George was working as a railway clerk
In the middle of the First World War, Benjamin
George Collett married Winifred Alice Harper, their wedding recorded at
Yarmouth register office (Ref. 4b 51) during the first three months of
1916. Winifred’s birth was recorded at
Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 21) during the third quarter of 1893, after which she was
baptised on 10th September 1893, the daughter of blacksmith Edward
Patrick Harper and his wife Elizabeth of Victoria Street where Winifred had
been born on 13th August 1893.
They were only married for thirteen years when the death of Benjamin
George Collett was recorded at Norwich register office (Ref. 4b 131) during the
second quarter of 1929 at the age of only 41.
He was buried at Great Yarmouth on 23rd April 1929, but not
in consecrated ground, when it was confirmed that he died at the Norfolk &
Norwich Hospital. The Administration of
the Estate of Benjamin George Collett of Montcalm Road in Norwich, who died on
29th March 1929, was granted at Norwich on 27th June 1929
to Winifred Alice Collett, widow, for £280 2 Shillings and 8 Pence. Ten years later Winifred and her two children
were residing at 78 Upper Cliff Road in Great Yarmouth. Winifred A Collett, a widow, gave her date of
birth as 14th August instead of the 13th, when she was
the housekeeper doing unpaid domestic duties.
Her daughter’s details were redacted on the form, although she was known
to be Brenda E Collett whose birth was recorded at Norwich register office
(Ref. 4b 192) during the third quarter of 1926, while her son’s details were
not redacted. He was Brian G Collett, a schoolboy,
whose date of birth was 3rd May 1929, meaning that he had been born
just over a week after his father had died.
Perhaps it was the Second World War that caused Winifred to leave Great
Yarmouth, because she was later living in Bedfordshire when she died, with her
death recorded at Luton register office (Ref. 4a 154) during the second quarter
of 1955, when she was 61 years old
18R49 – Brenda E Collett was born in 1926 at
Norwich
18R50 – Brian George Collett was born in 1929 at
Yarmouth
James Edward Collett [18Q61] was born at Gorleston
in 1884, the first-born child of James Collett and Hannah Priscilla Adams, his
birth registered at Mutford (Ref. 4a 900) during the second quarter of the year. By 1890, the family had travelled north to
West Hartlepool, where two of James’ brothers were born, and where the family
was living in 1891 at 1 Belgrave Terrace in the Stranton
district of West Hartlepool, when James E Collett who was seven years of
age. Towards the end of the century, his
family moved again, to 12 Beethoven Street in South Shields, where James Edward
Collett aged 17 and from Gorleston, was a steward on a trawler. His father was not with the family that day
as he was in South Africa making preparations for his family to emigrate there
a few years later. On his return to
England shortly thereafter, his father together with James and his brother John
(below) sailing out to South Africa to set up their new home, for James’
mother and his younger sibling, who joined them in 1904. It was at Highfield Road in Green Point, Cape
Town that his family was living in 1926, where James’ father died that
year. By the time his mother died in
1942, she was living at ‘Allviews’ Vesperdene Road, Green Point within the Cape
Town District. No record of the marriage
of James Edward Collett from England has been found, even though he was
described as a married man when he died.
At that time in his life, he was still living at ‘Allviews’ on
Vesperdene Road at Green Point, where he died on 6th May 1952. His death certificate said he was 68, a
retired maslin mariner working for a trawling company, who was to be cremated
at Maitland. The cause of death was (a)
coronary occlusion, (b) chronic myocarditis, and (c) arterial sclerosis. While he had been suffering with (b) and (c)
for three years, with (a) being only during the last eight months
John Edward Collett [18Q62] was born at Gorleston
in 1887, his birth registered at Mutford (Ref. 4a 933) during the third quarter
of the year, another son of James and Hannah Collett. Just after the birth of his sister Maud (below)
also at Gorleston, the family to 1 Belgrave Terrace in the Stranton district of
West Hartlepool, where they were residing in 1891, Edward J Collett from
Gorleston was three years old. Nine
years later his father was seeking a new life for the family in South Africa and
was missing from the family home at 12 Beethoven Street in South Shields on the
day of the census of 1901. By that time
John had finished his schooling and, as John Edward Collett from Gorleston, he
was 13 and already working as a draper’s errand boy. Tragically, later that same year, 14-year-old
John Edward Collett died, with his passing recorded at South Shields register
office (Ref. 10a 575) during the third quarter of 1901
Maud May Collett [18Q63] was born at Gorleston
in 1889 with her birth also registered at Mutford (Ref. 4a 921) during the third
quarter of the year, the eldest of the two daughters of James and Hannah
Collett. Not long after she was born,
her family travelled north to West Hartlepool where they were living in 1891 at
1 Belgrave Terrace in the Stranton district of West Hartlepool, when Maud M
Collett was one year old. By the end of
the decade, with her father in South Africa, preparing to take the family
there, Maud and the remainder of the family was living at 12 Beethoven Street
in South Shields in 1901, when she was 11 years old and still at school. After the preparations had been completed the
family sailed to Cape Town in 1904. It
was in South Africa, later in her life, that Maud May Collett was married and
became Maud May Bengtson. She was only
42 years old when she died on 8th November 1931 and living at Torbay
Road in Green Point, Cape District, when her anticipated burial place was Waltemath. The cause of death was chronic interstitial
nephritis and broncho pneumonia, with which she had suffered the past two years. Her husband was Johan Edward Bengtson from
Sweden who had survived his wife by twenty years when he died on 12th
March 1951 at Tamboers Kloof Nursing Home in Cape Town. His death certificate confirmed that he was
78, a retiring sea captain with a trawling company, residing at 19 Sidney
Street, Green Point within the Cape District, with his body to buried at
Maitland No. 1 Cemetery, the cause of death being prostate cancer. The family gravestone includes the names of
Maud May and Johan Edward, together with George Basil Bengtson and Elsie
Lol Bengtson
Cecil Henry Collett [18Q64] was born at 1 Belgrave
Terrace in Stanton, West Hartlepool in 1890, the fourth of the six children of
James Collett and Hannah Priscilla Adams.
His birth was registered at Hartlepool (Ref. 10a 151) in the third
quarter of 1890, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Adams. It was there also that he was living with his
family in 1891, when he was a few months old.
Ten years later, when Cecil H Collett was 10 years of age, the family
was living at 12 Beethoven Street in South Shields, when his fisherman father
from Suffolk was in South Africa planning a new life there for his family. It was three years later when the family sailed
to Cape Town in 1904, where Cecil became a fishing boat skipper. On reaching full-age he married Eveline with
whom he sailed back to England on board the ‘Guildford Castle’ of the Union
Castle Shipping Line, due to arrive at the Port of London on 29th
July 1913. The passenger list identified
the couple, travelling third-class and disembarking at Southampton, as Cecil
Henry Collett aged 23 and a clerk, and his wife Mrs Eveline Collett who was
also 23, both of them from the Union of South Africa
Over the following years the couple sailed to
England on many occasions, the next in 1924, when Henry was 33 and a manager
travelling second-class to 15 Crouch Hall Road at Crouch End in London, when
Eveline was 34. For the next two crossings,
in April and August 1939, the couple had a first-class cabin, when their
forward destination for both trips was 37 George Road, South Chingford in
London, when they were both 49 years old and Cecil was a branch manager. Further sailings were made in 1950 during
March and August and again to the same address, from which they sailed back to
Cape Town in December 1952, by which time Cecil had retired, when he and
Eveline were 62. The next time they were
in England, they were staying at the home of Mr Flux at 1 Willis Vean, Mullion,
near Helston in Cornwall, from where the couple returned to Cape Town on 22nd
October 1955. Once again, they were
travelling first-class when their dates of birth were recorded as 15th
July 1890 for Cecil and 11th January 1890 for Eveline. For the next visit to England, the couple
sailed from Cape Town direct to Plymouth, arriving there on 20th
March 1958, when they were heading back to Mullion Cove in Cornwall. That was the final voyage for Cecil, while
Eveline travelled unaccompanied when she disembarked at Plymouth on 24th
November 1960 for her last journey to Mullion.
The death of Cecil Henry Collett was recorded
at Plymouth register office (Ref. 7a 669) during the last three months of 1959,
at the age of 69. At the time he and
Eveline were living at Nahoon Poldhu Cove Road, Mullion, but it was in Freedom
Field Hospital in Plymouth where he died on 22nd October 1959. His Will was proved at Bodmin on 19th
January 1960 to Lloyds Bank Limited for £3,885 6 Shillings and 8 Pence. It was during the first quarter of 1968 when
the death of Eveline Collett, a widow, was recorded at the Cornwall Kerrier
register office (Ref. 7a 68) when she was 78.
She died a fairly wealthy lady, when her Will was proved at Bodmin on 14th
June 1968 in the sum of £21,988, having died on 13th January 1968 at
Top Flat, Trelawne, Mullion, Helston, Cornwall
Arthur Benjamin Collett [18Q65] was
born at West Hartlepool on 9th November 1892, his birth registered
at Hartlepool (Ref. 10a 115) during the last three months of that year. He was another son of James and Hannah
Collett, who was eight years old in the South Shields census of 1901, and three
years after that, he and his family left England for a new life in Cape Town,
South Africa. During the First World
War, Arthur served with the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and reached the rank
of Lieutenant (2372/SA), who tragically died when the H MS Plumpton, a Paddle
Minesweeper, struck a mine off the coast of Ostend on 19th October
1918, with the loss of all the crew. The
Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the South African War Graves Project
included the following details. He was
26 years of age, the son of James and Hannah Collett of 2 Highfield Road in
Cape Town and his naval base was Plumpton (Plymouth) in Devon. He was buried at Dunkirk (Dunkerque) Town
Cemetery
Alice Beulah Collett [18Q66], who
was known as Beulah, was born at Gorleston on 19th July 1895, the
last of the six children of James Collett and Hannah Priscilla Adams. Her birth was recorded at Yarmouth register
office (Ref. 4b 33) during the third quarter of 1895, and she was five years
old in the South Shields census of 1901 when living at 12 Beethoven Street. Her family left England for South Africa in
1904, and it was at Cape Town where she married John James Ovenstone (known
as Ean) on 14th, July 1919, with whom she had at least four, one
of whom, who may not have survived, was Ray F Ovenstone. Beulah was the paternal grandmother of the
wife of David Elias of Perth in Western Australia, who generously provided new
informed about his wife’s Collett family in 2016. The couple, and their first two children, sailed
from Cape Town on the ‘Walmer Castle’ of the Union Castle Line, which arrived
at Southampton on 23rd June 1930.
The family, travelling second-class, comprised John James Ovenstone, a
manufacturer aged 39, Alice Beulah Ovenstone aged 34, seven-year-old Andrewina
B Ovenstone, and five-year-old John Ovenstone. The forward address for the family was ‘care
of’ Messrs A L Brown & Company, Botolph Lane, Eastcheap, London EC3, with
their hotel rooms booked at the Regent Palace Hotel near Piccadilly Circus in
the centre of London. It was on 17th
October 1930, that the family sailed back to Cape Town from Southampton on
board the ‘Edinburgh Castle’
Their combined memorial stone was arranged by
their children and reads as following. “In Loving Memory of Our Father and Our Mother
John James Ovenstone, born 26th September 1892, died 11th
October 1959, and Alice Beulah Ovenstone, born 19th July 1897, died
23rd October 1962”. It is
apparent that the surviving children were aware of the day of her birth in
July, but not the year in which she was born.
The South African death certificate for widow Alice Beulah Ovenstone,
formerly Collett, stated she died at Victoria Hospital, Wynberg, Cape Province,
of pancreatic cancer, her home address being 501 Ashley Court, Main Road, Green
Point, Cape Town, with an intention of being buried at Maitland Crematorium,
where John was buried three years before her passing. The earlier death certificate for John James
Ovenstone described him as having been born at Wick in Scotland, a company
director of a manufacturing company living at 501 Ashley Court, Green Point,
with a wife and three surviving children.
Their three children were married daughter Andrewina Beulah von
Bruddenbock who was named after his mother and his wife, John Ovenstone, and
Miss Zila Ovenstone
Between the death of her husband and her own
demise, Alice Beulah Ovenstone travelled to England in 1960 to resolve her late
husband’s personal estate and to visit her sister-in-law Eveline Collett, the
widow of Alice’s brother Cecil Henry Collett (above) who had died in a
Plymouth hospital earlier that year in January.
It was on board the ‘Athlone Castle’ which sailed out of Southampton on
21st July 1960, when the passenger list stated that Alice Beulah had
been staying at Nahoon Poldhu Road in Mullion, Cornwall
Elizabeth
Julia Collett [18Q67] was born at Gorleston on 26th June 1893, the
eldest child of Cornelius Bradnum Collett of Mettingham and his wife Elizabeth
Taylor from Crook in County Durham. Her
birth was recorded at Yarmouth register office (Ref. 4b 29) during the third
quarter of the year. It was during the
following year that Elizabeth was baptised at the Church of St Peter & St
John in Kirkley in Lowestoft on 23rd November 1894. During the following years Elizabeth and her
parents left East Anglia, when they moved north to West Hartlepool where the
family was living at 38 Winter Street in 1901 when Elizabeth was seven years
old. Another family move took place
during the first decade of the new century, when Elizabeth’s family settled in
the Tynemouth area, where they were living at 25 Princes Street in North
Shields by 1911. Elizabeth had already
left the family home by then and was recorded in the census that year as
Elizabeth Julia Collett from Gorleston who was 17. She was at an institution in South Shields,
just across the River Tyne from North Shields, where she was possibly working
as a nurse, rather than being there as a patient. It was during the third quarter of 1916 when
the marriage of Elizabeth Julia Collett and James H Turner was recorded at
Tynemouth register office (Ref. 10b 422).
As simply James Turner, his birth was recorded at Tynemouth (Ref. 10b
258) during the second quarter of 1891, having been born on 29th May
that year
Over the following years Elizabeth gave birth
to six children, one of whom suffered a premature death, with four of the
remainder still living with the couple at 3 Tyne Terrace in Tynemouth in
1939. The births of five children were recorded
at Tynemouth register office, where their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Collett. They were James Henry Turner
born in 1919, Arthur Turner born in 1923, Irene Turner (1925 –
1931), Roland Edwin Turner born in 1929, and Harold Turner born
in 1932. The child missing from this
list is William John Turner who was one of the four children with James
and Elizabeth in 1939. The Register that
year recorded James H Turner as a trawler fisherman aged 48, his wife Elizabeth
as 46, William J Turner, an assistant in a shipping store, whose date of birth
was 29th March 1921, Arthur Turner who was unemployed but seeking
work who was born on 25th December 1922, Roland E Turner who had
been born in 1st April 1929 and still at school, while the entry for
Harold Turner was redacted and officially closed. Elizabeth Julia Turner was 69 when she died
at Tynemouth where her death was recorded (Ref. 1b 498) during the second
quarter of 1961. Nearly twenty years
later James Henry Turner was 88 when he died, his death recorded at North Tyneside
register office (Vol. 2 1133) at the start of 1980.
Cornelius William Collett [18Q68] was born at West
Hartlepool towards the end of 1895, his birth recorded at Mutford register
office (Ref. 4a 968), the second child and only son of Cornelius Bradnum
Collett from Suffolk and Elizabeth Taylor from County Durham. Tragically, he did not survive, with the
death of Cornelius William Collett being recorded at Hartlepool (Ref. 10a 93)
during the first three months of 1897
Grace
Hilda Collett [18Q69] was born at West Hartlepool on 20th May 1897,
her birth being recorded at Hartlepool register office (Ref. 10a 157) during
the second quarter of the year. She was
three years of age at the time of the census in 1901 when she and her family
were residing at 38 Winter Street in West Hartlepool. By the time of the next census in 1911 Grace,
aged 13 and still attending school, was living at 25 Princes Street in North
Shields with her family. It was during
the last three months of 1917 that Grace H Collett married George T Green while
she was still living within in the Tynemouth registration district, and it was
at Tynemouth register office (Ref. 10b 443) that the event was recorded. The birth of George Thomas Green was also
recorded at Tynemouth (Ref. 10b 236) during the first three months of 1891. Their children were Cornelius C Green
born in 1918, Minnie L Green born in 1924, and Hilda Green who
was born in 1925, all three births recorded at Tynemouth register office, when
the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. The death of Grace Hilda Green was recorded
at Tynemouth register office (Ref. 1b 1531) during the first quarter of 1973
Mary Ann
Collett [18Q70] was
born at West Hartlepool on 22nd September1898, the youngest of the
three daughters of Cornelius and Elizabeth Collett. Her birth was recorded at Hartlepool register
office (Ref. 10a 133) during the last three months of 1897. By 1901 she was two years old and was living
with her family at 38 Winter Street in West Hartlepool, where it is possible
that she was born. Not long after that
the family moved to 25 Princes Street in North Shields where they were living
in April 1911, when Mary was 12 years of age.
It was after peace in Europe was declared that Mary Ann Collett married
John Thomas Taylor Williams, their wedding recorded at Tynemouth register
office (Ref. 10b 801) during the last quarter of 1919. As John Thomas Taylor Williams he born on 21st
October 1897 and was baptised at St Stephen’s Church in South Shields on 7th
November 1897, the son of John Taylor Williams and his wife Mary Elizabeth. It was during the spring of 1973 when his
death was recorded at Tynemouth register office (Ref. 1b 1310). After five years as a widow, the death of
Mary Ann Williams was recorded at North Tyneside register office (Vol. 2 1084)
towards the end of 1978
Cornelius Collett [18Q71] was born at 38 Winter
Street in West Hartlepool, just after the day of the census in 1901, his birth
recorded at Hartlepool register office (Ref. 10a 190) during the second quarter
of that year. It was only a few months
later that the death of Cornelius Collett was recorded there (Ref. 10a 87)
during the third quarter of 1901. He was
the second son of that name and the last of the five children of Cornelius
Bradnum Collett and Elizabeth Taylor
Matilda
Mary Collett [18Q72] was
very likely born at 21 Wards Terrace in the Stranton area of West Hartlepool,
where she was living with her parents on the day of the census in 1891. She was born on 15th March 1891,
her birth registered at Hartlepool (Ref. 10a 130) during the second quarter of
that year. She was the eldest child of
Henry Collett and his wife Mary Tims Mitchell, and was just three weeks old on
the day of the census that year. Her
enlarged family was living at 26 Bentley Street in the town, ten years later,
when Matilda Collett was 10 years of age and, by the time of the next census in
1911, Matilda Mary Collett was 20 and still living with her family which was
recorded as residing at 194 Hart Road in Hartlepool. Matilda remained a spinster well into her
later fifties, although she did eventually marry Frederick S Edwards in Durham
(Ref. 1a 1985) during the third quarter of 1947, the marriage being recorded at
the Durham South-Eastern registration office.
Frederick Sykes Edwards of Stockton, whose birth was recorded there
(Ref. 10a 60) on 20th September 1886, was the son of William and
Jane Ann Edwards, and was an apprentice joiner at Stockton in March 1901, when
he was 14 years old, and was still single at the age of 53 in 1939 when he was
a shipyard rivetter living at 39 Vicarage Avenue in Stockton-on-Tees. Living at that same address was Frederick’s
future brother-in-law William Henry Collett (below) with his second wife
Edith. Prior to her wedding day,
unmarried Matilda Mary Collett was a state registered nursery residing at West
End Terrace in Tynemouth in the 1939 Register
It was during the first quarter of 1964, when
Frederick was 77 that he died, with his death recorded at Durham South-Eastern
register office (Ref. 1a 670). The Will
of Frederick Sykes Edwards of 1 Stavordale Road, Stockton-on-Tees was proved at
Durham on 30th June 1964 to Edith Collett, wife of William Henry
Collett, and the said William Henry Collett, a retired railway goods guard,
when his estate was valued at £3,703.
The probate process also confirmed that the deceased passed away on 26th
March 1964 at Portrack Hospital in Stockton-on-Tees. Why it was not Matilda, but her younger
brother William, and his wife Edith, remains a mystery. The later death of Matilda Mary Edwards was
recorded at Cleveland register office (Vol. 3 2935) during the first quarter of
1975, at the age of 69. The Administration,
with a Will, of the personal effects of Matilda Mary Edwards who died at St
Ann’s Hospital in Stockton-on-Tees on 2nd March 1975 was granted at
Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 27th March 1975 to the value of £7,138
William
Henry Collett [18Q73] was born at West Hartlepool on 20th January
1893, the second child and eldest son of Henry and Mary Tims Collett. It was also during the first quarter of that
year, when the birth was recorded at Hartlepool register office (Ref. 1a 144). It is possible that he was born at 21 Wards
Terrace in Stranton, West Hartlepool, where his parents had been living in
1891. However, by the time of the census
in 1901 William was eight years old and he and his family were living at 26
Bentley Street in West Hartlepool. Ten
years later, when he would have been 18, he was absent from the family home,
which by then was at 194 Hart Road in Hartlepool, so may have been in military
service at that time. It was over eight
years later that he married (1) Eva Evans at Stockton-on-Tees (Ref. 10a 238)
during the last quarter of 1919, presumably after he had served his King &
Country in the Great War. Their
daughter, and only known child, was born eighteen months later
Tragically, Eva Collett, nee Evans, died when
daughter Nancy was only 15 years old, her death recorded at Stockton register
office (Ref. 10a 89) during the second quarter of 1937 when she was 45. What happened to Nancy after that sad event
is not known, but during the second quarter of 1938, the marriage of William
Henry Collett and (2) Edith Edwards was recorded at Stockton register office
(Ref. 10a 253). Edith Edwards had been
born on 7th January 1894, and was the younger sister of Frederick
Sykes Edwards who married William’s older sister Matilda Mary Collett (above). The year after William and Edith were
married, they were living at the home of Frederick Sykes Edwards at 39 Vicarage
Avenue in Stockton-on-Tees, when William was employed as a railway guard. It is possible that Nancy was still living
with her father and stepmother, but that has still to be confirmed. Rather curiously, when Frederick Sykes
Edwards died in 1964, with his widow still alive for the next eleven years, it
was Edith and William Collett who were named as the executors of his estate and
not his wife Matilda Mary Edwards.
Around nine months later, the death of William Henry Collett was
recorded at Cleveland register office (Ref. 1b 801) during the first three
months of 1965, when he was 72. It was
over ten years after being made a widow that the death of Edith Collett was
recorded at Cleveland register office (Vol. 3 2182) during the third quarter of
1975, at the age of 81
18R51 -
Nancy E Collett
was born in 1921 at Stockton-on-Tees
Maud May
Collett [18Q74] was
born at West Hartlepool on 9th May 1894, the third child of Henry
Collett and Mary Tims Mitchell, her birth recorded at Hartlepool register
office (Ref. 10a 162) during the second quarter of that year. Tragically, she only survived for thirty
months, when she died on 9th November 1896, her death recorded at
Hartlepool register office (Ref. 10a 8710) during that same month
John
Arthur Collett [18Q75] was born at West Hartlepool on 25th November
1895, the son of Henry and Mary Collett, whose birth was recorded at Hartlepool
register office (Ref. 10a 167) during the last quarter of the year. He was five years old in March 1901 when he
and his family were living at 26 Bentley Street in West Hartlepool, but by
April 1911 the family had moved again and was living at 194 Hart Road in
Hartlepool, where John Arthur Collett, aged 15, had already left school and was
working as a repairer of scales. It was
just over ten years after that, when the marriage of John A Collett and Emily
Fulton was recorded at Stockton register office (Ref. 10a 233) during the third
quarter of 1921. Emily was the daughter
of Robert and Mary Jane Fulton of Stockton-on-Tees and, nine months after her
wedding day, she gave birth to the couple’s only child. The possible death of John A Collett was recorded at Yorkshire register
office (Ref. 2b 45) in 1953 when he was 58 years old
18R52 -
Arthur Collett
was born in 1922 at Stockton-on-Tees
Charles
Albert Collett [18Q76] was born at West Hartlepool on 26th January
1899, the son of Henry and Mary Collett, his birth recorded at Hartlepool register
office (Ref. 10a 164). The birth may
have taken place at 26 Bentley Street in West Hartlepool, where the family was
certainly living in March 1901 when Charles was two years old. It was as Charles Arthur Collett that he was
recorded with his family at 194 Hart Road in Hartlepool in the census of 1911,
when he was 12 and still at school. The
marriage of Charles Albert Collett and Gladys May Anderson was recorded at
Stockton register office (Ref. 10a 151) during the fourth quarter of 1926. The marriage produced two children, with the
births of both daughters recorded at Stockton, where their mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Anderson. From the
1939, it is established that the four members of the family were living at 169a
Laburnum Road in Redcar, where Charles Albert Collett was a railway clerk with
the London North-Eastern Railway, who was also an air raid patrol warden. His wife Gladys May Collett gave her date of
birth as 11th May 1901, when her birth had been recorded at Stockton
register office (Ref. 10a 96). Once
again, the details of their two children had been redacted and declared
officially closed
The later death of Charles Albert Collett was
recorded at Claro register office (Vol. 2 1977) during the last three months of
1977. The district of Claro was
abolished in 1998, when it became the North Yorkshire Registration District. At that time in his life, he was living at
228 Laburnum Road in Redcar, where he died on 11th November 1977. His Will was proved at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on
15th December 1977 for his estate of £200. Gladys May Collett was 91 years old when she
died, her death recorded at Cleveland register office (Vol. 3 2615) during the
month of November 1992. She was still
living at 228 Laburnum Road in Redcar, when she died on 24th
November 1992, her Will proved at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 31st
December 1992 with an estate valued at £125,000
18R53 -
Margaret Anderson Collett was born in 1927 at Stockton-on-Tees
18R54 -
Joan May Collett
was born in 1930 at Stockton-on-Tees
Albert
Edward Collett [18Q77] was born at West Hartlepool on 12th April 1902,
the son of Henry and Mary Collett, his birth recorded at Hartlepool register
office (Ref. 10a 153). One year earlier
his family was living at 26 Bentley Street in West Hartlepool, which is where
he may have been born. However, he was
only a couple of years old when his parents left West Hartlepool and moved the
family into the Hartlepool parish of Throston, where they were living in 1911
at 194 Hart Road, when Albert Edward Collett was eight years of age. Fifteen years after, the marriage of Albert E
Collett and Edith Sudron was recorded at Stockton-on-Tees register office (Ref.
10a 204) during the second quarter of 1926.
Edith was the daughter of Charles and Margaret Sudron and was born in
1904 and was six years old in the census of 1911, her birth recorded at Stockton
register office (Ref. 10b 98) during the last three months of the year
Over the following years. Edith gave birth to
three children, with the births of all three recorded at North Bierley register
office, when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Sudron. It was at Nunwick Hall, three miles north of
Hexham, Northumberland, where the family was living when the 1939 Register was
produced. Nunwick Hall was the ancestral
home of the Allgood family, so all of the numerous people recorded at the large
property, including the Collett family, were all employed on the premises in
some domestic capacity. Typically, a
family of five residing at a property would be recorded under numbers 1 to 5 but,
in the case of the Collett family at Nunwick Hall, head of the family Albert was
no. 17, and ended with Margery at no. 23.
Unfortunately, the entries for 19 to 22 were redacted and official
closed, which would certainly include the couple’s two eldest children Ronald
and Hilda. Curiously both Albert and
Edith were recorded as being single, when Albert E Collett, born on 12th
April 1902, was a lithographic printer and a member of the auxiliary fire
service. Edith was a domestic servant
who had been born on 12th November 1904, and daughter Margery
Collett was attending school. Ten years
later the death of Albert Edward Collett was recorded at Newcastle-upon-Tyne
register office (Ref. 1b 93) during the second quarter of 1949, at the age of
47. His widow lived for a further thirty
years, when the death of Edith Collett was also recorded at Newcastle-upon-Tyne
register office (Vol. 2 0476) during the second quarter of 1979, when she was
74
18R55 -
Ronald Collett
was born in 1927 at North Bierley near Bradford, Yorkshire
18R56 –
Hilda Collett
was born in 1930 at North Bierley near Bradford, Yorkshire
18R57 -
Margery Collett
was born in 1932 at North Bierley near Bradford, Yorkshire
George
Richard Collett [18Q78] was born at Hartlepool on 10th May 1907, another
child of Henry and Mary Collett, his birth recorded at Hartlepool register
office (Ref. 10a 198). He was three
years old while living there with his family at 194 Hart Road in April
1911. It was at Stockton register office
(Ref. 10a 220) during the fourth quarter of 1934 when George Richard Collett married
Aileen Anderson Fordy, with whom he had a son.
Aileen was from Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham and was born there on
16th August 1909 (Ref. 10a 87), the daughter of George and Mary
Elizabeth (Lillian) Fordy. According to
the 1939 Register, Aileen A Collett was 30 years old and a married woman living
at 6 Studley Road in Stockton, where she was an unpaid housewife, who had two
people living there with her. The first
of them was her three-years old son Alan, the second being her widowed
mother-in-law Mary T Collett who was 69. Yet again, the line of data for son Alan was
redacted and officially close. Her
absent husband George, had already enlisted with Royal Engineers by then, with
whom he became Sapper Collett 1927515 with 107th Army Field
Company. Sadly, around nine months
later, on 29th May 1940, he was killed on board a destroyer, having
already been evacuated from Dunkirk beach.
He was 33 and his name is one of the 4,500 listed on the Dunkirk
Memorial in Dunkirk Town Cemetery. His
widow lived a long and full life and was 95 years old when she died, her death
recorded at Tameside register office (Vol. c61a 214) within the Great
Manchester area in April 2005
His military record confirmed that he was the
son of Harry and Mary Tims Collett, and the husband of Aileen Anderson Collett
of Stockton-on-Tees. It was George’s son
Alan who kindly provided this photo of his father. The
history books indicate there were three destroyers rescuing troops that fateful
day and all three were sunk just off the beach at Dunkirk. HMS Wakeful had already picked up 600 men
when it was hit by a torpedo, and when HMS Grafton attempted to pick up the
survivors, she too was torpedoed and sunk
18R58 - Alan F
(P) Collett was
born in 1936 at Stockton
Cecil
Benjamin Collett [18Q79] was born at Hartlepool on 6th December 1909, the
youngest of the eight children of Henry Collett and Mary Tims Mitchell. His birth was recorded at Hartlepool register
office (Ref. 10a 106) during the first quarter of 1910. It is very likely that he was born at 194
Hart Road in Hartlepool, where he was one year old at the time of the census in
1911. It was three months before his
twenty-seventh birthday when Cecil married Grace Ness on 10th
September 1936 at Stockton-on-Tees, the event recorded at Stockton register
office (Ref. 10a 311) during the third quarter of the year. Grace was the third child of John William
Ness and his wife Jane, whose birth was recorded at Middlesbrough (Ref. 9d 612)
during the third quarter of 1909. The
marriage later produced two daughters for Cecil and Grace. Prior to the outbreak of the war Cecil was a
carter and carrier, delivering fireplaces and hearths. For that work he was the proud owner of a
wagon, which he affectionately called ‘Daisy’.
When Daisy was requisitioned by the British Army as part of the war
effort, Cecil volunteered to join the army in order to remain the driver of the
wagon. Like his older brother George (above),
Cecil also served with the Royal Engineers and had already join-up, prior to
the 1939 Register. Within that
census/survey document, Grace Collett gave her date of birth as 18th
June 1909 when she was living at the Stockton-on-Tees home of her
parents-in-law, John and Jane Ness
The brothers George and Cecil Collett were just
two of the many soldiers stranded on Dunkirk Beach in May 1940. Somehow in the chaos, George had lost his
rifle, so Cecil gave him his rifle as a replacement, but to no avail, since
George was tragically killed while on board a rescue destroyer which was struck
by a torpedo. Thankfully, Cecil was one
of the lucky ones who managed to reach England in ‘one of the small boats’
which helped in the evacuation from Dunkirk
18R59 -
Jean Collett
was born in 1946 at Stockton
18R60 -
Susan Collett
was born in 1953 at Thornaby-on-Tees
Robert
James Collett [18Q81] was born at Mistley in Essex on 24th May 1883,
the eldest child of Harry Collett and his cousin Emma Porter, his birth
recorded at Tendring (Ref. 4a 426) during the second quarter of that year. On being baptised at the Church of St Mary
the Virgin in Mistley on 1st July 1883, his date of birth was
recorded as shown above, the son of Harry and Emma Collett. Shortly after he was baptised, his parents
left Essex and moved to the St Mary Stoke area of Ipswich. And that was where Robert was still living
with his family in March 1901, when he was 17 and his occupation was that of a
merchant’s clerk. He was later employed
at Paul’s of Ipswich, where he worked alongside a very young John Mills, who
later became a legendary British film actor.
Robert, who was known as Bobs, married Elizabeth Teresa Hamblin at
Ipswich (Ref. 4a 2247) during the last three months of 1918, following their
only child was born there three years after. Elizabeth was born at Ipswich on 15th
December 1887, her birth recorded there in the first quarter of 1888 (Ref. 4a
845), the daughter of retired bookmaker Robert Hamblin and his wife Matilda
Blanche Hamblin. Coincidentally in 1901,
Elizabeth, aged 13, was living with her family in the St Mary Stoke area of
Ipswich, not far from where Robert’s family lived. Ten years later Robert James Collett, aged 27
and from Mistley, was recorded in the census return for 1911 as a boarder at
the Ipswich home of elderly Robert Perry from Dudley, when he was employed as a
clerk to a shop owner. Also recorded in
the same census area was his future wife Elizabeth Teresa Hamblin, aged 23 and
with no stated occupation, who was still living with her family in
Ipswich.
The family was living at 3 Lower Dales View
Road in Ipswich in the 1939 Register, although the entry for their son was
redacted and officially closed. Robert J
Collett was 56 and employed as a corn merchant’s clerk, when his wife Elizabeth
T Collett was 51. Eight years later Robert
James Collett and his son Robert junior attended the 90th birthday
celebrations for Emma Collett, nee Porter, the mother of Robert senior, at the
Ipswich home of his brother William (below) in 1947 - see photograph at
Ref. 18P93. The death of Elizabeth Teresa
Collett was recorded at Ipswich (Ref. 10 2291) towards the end of 1976, when
she was 89. Fifteen years earlier, the
death of Robert James Collett had also been recorded at Ipswich register office
(Ref. 4b 763) during the second quarter of 1961, at the age of 77 years. His Will was proved at Ipswich on 6th
June 1961 to Elizabeth Teresa Collett, widow, for £2,784 11 Shillings. The legal documentation confirmed that he
passed away at 21 Constitution Hill in Ipswich on 21st April 1961,
when his home address was still 3 Lower Dales View Road, also in Ipswich. The Administration process for Elizabeth
Teresa Collett placed her living at The Lodge in the Parish of Rushmere St
Andrew, just east of Ipswich, where she died on 10th February
1976. Administration of her personal
effects valued at £17,473 was granted at Ipswich on 18th March 1976
18R61 - Robert P
Collett was
born in 1921 at Ipswich
William
Walter Collett [18Q82], who was always referred to as Will, was born at Ipswich on
6th October 1884, the son of Henry (Harry) Collett and Emma
Porter. The birth of William Walter
Collett was recorded at Ipswich (Ref. 4a 773).
By March 1901, when he was 16 years old, he was working as a brewer’s
clerk at the Tollemache Brewery, in the St Mary Stoke area of Ipswich. Seven years later on his twenty-fourth
birthday on 6th October 1908, Will married Florence Maud Death,
formerly of Ipswich, at the parish church in Great Clacton in Essex, their
wedding recorded at Tendring register office (Ref. 4a 1197). Florence was slightly older than William,
having been born on 10th June 1881.
In 1911 the census was conducted on the second of April, less than a
week away from the birth of the couple’s first child. The completed census return therefore
recorded just William Collett, aged 26, and his wife Florence Collett, aged 28,
as living in Ipswich on that occasion. The
marriage produced two sons for Will and Florence, and both of them were born at
Ipswich just prior to the Great War of 1914-1918, when their mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Death
The photograph of him (above), was taken
in the garden of his Ipswich home during 1939, following the birth of Will’s
first grandchild. The full picture shows
four generations of the Collett family, from baby-in-arms Mary Ann Collett, her
father Philip Robert Walter Collett, Will (William) Collett, and to Will’s
mother Emma Collett nee Porter. A later
photograph also taken in William’s own garden in Ipswich in 1947, capture the
90th birthday gathering of the family for his mother Emma Collett
nee Porter. See photograph at Ref. 18P93,
in which Will and his wife Florence feature, together with other members of the
family still living in England at that time.
The death of Florence Maud Collett was recorded at Ipswich register
office (Ref. 4b 2385) during the second quarter of 1970. The Will of Florence Maud Collett of 28
Henley Road in Ipswich who died on 2nd June 1970 was proved at
Ipswich on 21st July 1970 and was valued at £2,484
18R62 - Philip
Robert Walter Collett was born in 1911 at Ipswich
18R63 - William
Geoffrey Collett was
born in 1912 at Ipswich
Beatrice
Emma Collett [18Q83], who was known as Beattie, was born at Ipswich on 9th
March 1887 when the birth was recorded at Ipswich (Ref. 4a 797) during the
first quarter of 1887. and was 14 years
of age and still attending school in March 1901 while living with her family at
St Mary Stoke in Ipswich. At the time of
the census of 1911 Beatrice Emma Collett was 24 and was living and working in
the Sudbury area of Suffolk. Beattie
never married and later returned to live with her parents, and remained with
her widowed mother after the death of her father Harry in 1917. The 1939 Register confirmed that Beatrice E
Collett, aged 52, was living at the home of her mother Emma Collett at 45
Burrell Road in Ipswich, where both of them were undertaking unpaid domestic
duties. Seven years later, when she was
59 years old, Beattie Emma Collett died at Ipswich, leaving her elderly mother
Emma, who was approaching her ninetieth year, on her own for the last four
years of her long life. The death of
Beatrice Emma Collett was recorded at Ipswich register office (Ref. 4a 1046)
Mabel May
Collett [18Q84], who
was known as May, was born at Ipswich in 1889, where her birth was recorded
(Ref. 4a 796) during the third quarter of the year. In 1901 she was 11 and was living with her
parents at St Mary Stoke in Ipswich. Ten
years later, at the age of 21, she was still living at the family home in
Ipswich with her parents and younger sister Dorothy (below). It was towards the end of 1917 at Ipswich,
that Mabel May Collett married widower Howard Gant who already had two children
from his first marriage. Their wedding
was recorded at Ipswich register office (Ref. 4a 2156) during the last three
month of the year. Howard was the ninth
child of gardener Samuel Gant of Boxted in Essex and his dressmaker wife Anna
Gant of Nayland in Suffolk. Like all of
the Gant children, Howard was born at Boxted in 1879 and, on leaving school, he
worked as a tool turner. In March 1901
at the age of 21 he was living with his parents, who were living in Colchester
by then. Five years later, during the
summer of 1906, Howard Gant married Caroline and, by April 1911, the marriage
had produced two children for the couple, both born in Colchester, where the
family was still living at that time.
Their son Harold Gant was born in 1907 and died at the start of 1908,
while their daughter Violet Gant was born near the end of 1909. However, quite tragically their mother
Caroline died during the last quarter of 1913
The subsequent marriage of Mabel Collett and
Howard Gant produced two children for the couple both born at Ipswich. Their son Howard Henry Gant was born in
1918, and their daughter Dorothy Lily Gant in 1922. It was two years later on 19th
June 1924, that Howard’s eldest son Harold Gant, aged just 16, sailed to
Australia to seek a new life in Queensland.
The passenger list of the steamship SS Sophocles of the Aberdeen Line
gave his occupation as farming, while his address on that occasion as 26
Bradley Street in the Stoke district of Ipswich, where Mabel and Howard and the
rest of the family were living at that time.
It was also at that same address where the family of Howard, Mabel,
Violet, Howard junior, and Dorothy was still living five years later, when they
left England for Australia in October 1927
However, their sea voyage to Australia was not
uneventful. After sailing out of the
Port of London for Brisbane on board the P & O Line steamship SS Bendigo on
13th October 1927, the vessel broke a drive shaft and was forced to
dock at Falmouth in Cornwall. The
passenger list recorded the family as having two tickets. The first 2279 covered Howard Gant, aged 47,
who was a turner, and his son Howard Henry Gant who was eight years old. The second 2280 covered his wife Mabel May
Gant aged 37, Violet May Gant who was 17 and a domestic, and Dorothy Lily Gant
who was five. The same tickets were used
again for their onward journey from Falmouth to Australia on board the P &
O steamship SS Balranald which sailed out of Falmouth on 31st
October 1927. The SS Bendigo was
subsequently taken out of service and was given a complete re-fit, following
which is made its first voyage on 5th July 1929. Howard Gant senior, died on 25th
November 1963 at Queensland, Australia.
Less than eleven years after losing her husband, Mabel May Gant nee
Collett died in Australia on 2nd April 1974 at the age of 85. She was followed in 1990 by her daughter
Dorothy who was 68, and in 2001 by her son Howard Gant junior who was 83. All of the original information was kindly
provided by Mary-Ann Dunn nee Collett [18S40], and our thanks also go to
Beverley Hill who kindly provided the information on the Gant family, and to
Roger Collett for his new details supplied in 2021
Dorothy
Alice Collett [18Q85], who was referred to as Dorrie, was born at St Mary Stoke in
Ipswich on 11th June 1895, the youngest of the five children of
Harry Collett and Emma Porter. Her birth
was recorded at Ipswich (Ref. 4a 875) during the third quarter of the
year. She was five years old at the time
of the March census in 1901, and by April 1911 she was still living with her
parents in Ipswich, when she was recorded as Dorothy Alice Collett, aged
15. Later in her life she was still
living at Ipswich, where she married Walter Alfred Ramsey, the event recorded
at Ipswich register office (Ref. 4a 1327) during the first three months of
1924. Walter Alfred Ramsey was born on
22nd December 1889 and was baptised at Hertford on 19th
February 1890, the son of Thomas and Ellen Rachel Ramsey. Their marriage produced a son Henry (Harry) Thomas
Ramsey, whose birth was also recorded during the first quarter of 1924, but at
Ipswich register office (Ref. 4a 1672)
By 1939 the family was living in Ipswich where
Walter was a civil servant and a clerk with the income tax office at 49 years
of age, when Dorothy was 44, and Harry was 15.
Twelve years later, in 1947, all three members of the Ramsey family
attending the 90th birthday celebration for Dorothy’s mother Emma
Collett nee Porter, at the Ipswich home of Dorothy’s brother Will (above). See Ref. 18P93 for a photograph taken on that
summer’s day. Dorothy Alice Ramsey, nee
Collett, was 70 years old when she died at Ipswich, her death recorded there (Ref.
4a 1008) during the last quarter of 1965. Four years after that, the death of Walter
Alfred Ramsey was also recorded at Ipswich register office (Ref. 4b 2771)
during the fourth quarter of 1969. His
Will was proved at Ipswich on 20th November 1969 at £4,141 following
his passing at Flat 118, Francis Towers, Greyfriars in Ipswich on 28th
October 1969
Ralph Edwin Collett [18Q86] was born at Ipswich on
14th March 1916, the eldest child of Sidney Walter Collett and Ethel
May Mallett, his birth recorded at Ipswich register office (Ref. 4a 1973), his
mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Mallett. Ralph never married and was still living with
his family in 1939 at 18 Ringham Road in Ipswich when he was 23 years old and an
agricultural clerk. When his father died
in 1950, the remaining three members of the family were still living at Ringham
Road, but at No. 17, with Ralph Edwin Collett, a commercial clerk named as one
of the executors of his Will for £1,952 6 Shillings, the other being Ethel May
Collett, widow. Twenty-two years later, the
death of Ralph Edwin Collett was recorded at Ipswich (Ref. 4b 2956) at the
start of 1972 when he was 55 years old
Sidney Victor Collett [18Q87] was
born at Ipswich on 30th September 1921, his birth recorded there
(Ref. 4a 1791), the second of the two sons of Sidney Walter Collett and Ethel
May Mallett. The record of his birth
also confirmed that his mother’s maiden-name was Mallett. He and his older brother Ralph Edwin Collett
were still living with their parents at the start of the Second World War, as
confirmed in the 1939 Register. The
family was living at 18 Ringham Road in Ipswich, where 18-year-old Sidney V
Collett was a cigarette operator. Eight
years later, and three years before his father died at the age of 61, the marriage
of Sidney Victor Collett and Joan May Hunt was recorded at Ipswich register
office (Ref. 4a 2221) during the second quarter of 1947, perhaps after he had
seen action during the Second World War.
Joan May Hunt was born on 22nd April 1927, when her birth was
recorded at Ipswich register (Ref. 4a 1665).
In the 1939 Register, Joan was at school, when she was living with her
parents James and Ethel Hunt at Packard Avenue in Ipswich. One year after their wedding day, Joan
presented Sidney with a son, their only child.
Seventeen years after her son’s wedding day, the death of Joan May
Collett was recorded at the Suffolk Gipping & Hartismere register office (Vol.
17a 275) during March 1999. Three years
after that sad day for Sidney, he died in the spring of 2002, when he was 80
years old, with the death of Sidney Victor Collett recorded at Ipswich (Vol.
7471c c26b)
18R64 - Alan Victor Collett was born in 1948 at
Ipswich
Florence
Mary Collett [18Q88] was born at Patricroft
in the Eccles area of Manchester on 17th January 1885, with her
birth recorded at Barton-upon-Irwell (Ref. 8c 677). Three months later, she was baptised at
Christ Church in Patricroft on 15th April 1885, the eldest child of
George Collett of Mettingham and his first wife Matilda Jane Collett. In 1891 the family was living at 24 New York
Street in the Pendleton area of Salford, where Florence M Collett was six years
old. By 1901, the Collett family,
including Florence Collett who was 16 and a machinist at a baby linen factory, was
residing at 86 Church Street in Pendleton.
Ten years later in 1911, unmarried Florence Mary Collett from Patricroft
was 26 and her mother’s helper, when she was living within the South Shore area
of Blackpool with her complete family.
Six months earlier, Florence had given birth to a base-born daughter, Gertrude
Lucy Collett, whose place of birth was nearby Fylde, who was also living with
the family that census day. Unmarried
Florence Mary Collett was a witness at two weddings in Blackpool in 1914, the
first in February for her brother Walter Collett (below) in February,
and then again in October for brother George (below). Those two events were recorded at Fylde
register office, and it was there also that the marriage of Florence Mary
Collett and George Robinson was recorded (Ref. 8e 1163) during the last three
months of 1918. By 1939 George and
Florence Mary Robinson were living in Blackpool was Florence was 54, with
George’s detail being redacted and officially closed. Twenty years later, the death of Florence M
Robinson was recorded at Blackpool (Ref. 10b 759) during the first quarter of
1959, aged 74
18R65 - Gertrude Lucy Collett
was born in October 1910 at Fylde
George
Collett [18Q89] was
born at Pendleton in Salford on 16th May 1888, and his birth was
recorded at Salford (Ref. 8d 47) during the second quarter of that year. He was baptised on 1st July 1888
at Christ Church in Patricroft, the eldest son of railway ticket examiner
George Collett of Pendleton. He was two
years old in the census of 1891 when he and his family were living at 24 New
York Street in Pendleton. By 1901 the
family had moved to 86 Church Street in Pendleton where George Collett was 12. After a further ten years the family had left
the Salford area and had settled at South Shore in Blackpool within the Fylde
district of Lancashire where George Collett from Pendleton was then 22 and
employed as a printer machine operator for a local newspaper. Just over three years after that census day,
the marriage of George Collett and Blanche Gregson at Flyde register office
(Ref. 8e 1078) during the last quarter of 1914. They were married after the reading of banns
at Christ Church in Blackpool on 31st October 1914, when Florence
Mary Collett (above) was one of the witnesses, the other being Blanche’s
brother Fred Gregson junior. George
Collett was 26, a bachelor, and a printer living at 24 Victoria Street in
Blackpool – the Collett family home, the son of George Collett a railway
worker. His bride was 32 and a spinster
from 7 Fairhurst Street, Blackpool, the daughter of Fred Gregson a
photographer.
It was also at Christ Church, Blackpool, where
Blanche was baptised on 10th September 1880 the daughter of Fred and
Margaret Ellen Gregson, her birth recorded at Fylde (Ref. 8e 692) in 1880
following her birth on 25th July 1880. Twenty-five years after her wedding day,
Blanche Collett was a widow stilling living in Blackpool during 1939 at the age
of 59. That was because, during the
spring of the previous year, the death of George Collett was recorded at Blackpool
register office (Ref. 8e 746), during the second quarter of 1938 at the age of
50. Blanche was 68 years old when she
died, her death also recorded at Blackpool (Ref. 10b 517) during the second
quarter of 1949. The Will of Blanche
Collett was proved at Lancaster on 3rd June 1949 to Norman Victor
Gregson an ironmonger, when her estate was worth £654 10 Shillings, and her
home address was 90a Osborne Road in Blackpool, where she died on 11th
May 1949
Walter
Collett [18Q90] was
born at Seedley Road in Pendleton, Salford on 4th May 1890, his
birth recorded at Salford (Ref. 8d 45), after which he was baptised at Christ
Church in Patricroft on 6th July 1899, when the occupation of his
father George was recorded as a railway ticket collector. He was just under one year old by the time of
the census in 1891 when his family was living at 24 New York Street in
Pendleton where he was very likely born. He was still living with his family in
Pendleton in 1901 but at 86 Church Street where he was still attending school
at the age of 10. Shortly after that his
family left Pendleton and moved to South Shore, Blackpool, where the whole
family was living in 1911 when Walter Collett from Pendleton was 20 years of
age and a house painter. Three years
later, the marriage of Walter Collett and Martha Perkins was recorded at
register office (Ref. 8e 988) during the first quarter of 1914. Their wedding service by the reading of banns
was conducted at Christ Church in Blackpool on 21st February 1914
when Walter’s sister Florence Mary Collett was a witness. Walter Collett was 24, a bachelor and a
railway ticket collector, living in the Collett family home at 24 Victoria
Street in Blackpool, the son of George Collett a foreman porter. Spinster Martha Perkins was also 24, living
at 18 Albert Street, South Shore in Blackpool, the daughter of John Perkins
deceased, a cab proprietor. Martha had
been born during the third quarter of 1889, with her birth recorded at Fylde
(Ref. 8e 759), after which she was baptised on 9th October 1889, the
daughter of John, a cab driver, and Elizabeth Perkins
After being married for thirteen years, Martha
presented Walter with a son, their only known child. He would have been 12 years old in 1939, when
the 1939 Register for Blackpool included his parents, as a childless couple,
living (or lodging) at the home of Leslie Howarth and his wife, when Walter
Collett was 49 and a ticket collector with the London Midland & Scottish
Railway Company. His wife Martha was
carrying out domestic duties and gave her date of birth as 14th
August 1889. Martha Collett’s death was
recorded at Blackpool (Ref. 10b 476) during the second quarter of 1954, when
she was 61. Administration of her
personal effects (£29 6 Shillings and 4 Pence) was granted at Lancaster on 11th
May 1954 to Walter Collett, a retired railway ticket inspector. At that time in their live the couple were
living at 38 Selby Avenue in Blackpool, where Martha died on 22nd
April 1954. Four years after, Walter
Collett was 74 when his death was recorded at Blackpool register office (Ref.
10b 628) during the first three months of 1958, twenty years after his older
brother George (above) had died there, and only three years after his
younger brother Ernest (below) died there. His Will was proved at Lancaster on 7th
April 1958 to Thomas Hesmondhalgh, solicitor, and Albert Robinson Fletcher,
dentist, for £223 9 Shillings and 11 Pence.
The probate paperwork confirmed that he was living at 187 Park Road in
Blackpool, although it was at Victoria Hospital in Blackpool that he died on 5th
February 1958
18R66 - Henry Edwin
Collett
was born in 1927 at Blackpool
Ernest
Victor Collett [18Q91] was born at 24 New York Street, Pendleton in Salford on 9th
July 1893 with the birth recorded at Salford (Ref. 8d 16). It was at the parish church in Pendleton that
he was baptised on 20th August 1893, the son of omnibus driver George
Collett, and his wife Martha Jane, of 24 New York Street, Pendleton. In 1901 Ernest Collett who was seven years of
age, was a schoolboy living at 86 Church Street in Pendleton with his family. It was during the next decade that his family
moved to the Fylde district of Lancashire where, in 1911, Ernest Victor Collett
from Pendleton was 17 years old and a grocer’s shop assistant. Four years later, on 9th October
1915, Ernest Victor Collett aged 22 was married by licence to Mary Ann Harrison
aged 21 at Christ Church in Blackpool. The
groom’s occupation was that of a driver for R F A West Lanes who was living at
24 Victoria Street in Blackpool, the son of railway porter George Collett. The bride was living at 79 Reads Road in
Blackpool and was the daughter of Joseph Graham Harrison, a gentleman. As with his two older brothers George and
Walter, their sister Florence Mary Collett was one of the witnesses who signed
the parish register. The marriage of
Ernest and Mary was recorded at Fylde register office (Ref. 8e 1399) and
produced two daughters for the couple. The
birth of Mary Ann Harrison was recorded at Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester
(Ref. 8c 835) during the first quarter of 1894. Upon the recording of the
births of her two daughters at Fylde register office, the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Harrison
By 1939 the couple and just their youngest
unmarried daughter were living at 2 Weeton Avenue in Blackpool, the first house
on the corner of Weeton Avenue with Faringdon Avenue. Ernest Victor Collett was 46 and an employee
of the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company, where he was a shunter
and a trainee yard foreman and inspector.
Mary Ann Collett gave her date of birth as 30th December
1893, while the entry for Margery Collett, aged 19, was redacted and officially
closed. However, living next door at 4
Weeton Avenue was the couple’s married daughter Florence with her husband William
Lister. Like his two older brothers
George and Walter, the death of Ernest Victor Collett was also recorded at
Blackpool register office (Ref. 10b 433) during the third quarter of 1955 at
the age of 62. The later death of his
widow Mary Ann Collett was recorded at the Blackpool & Fylde register
office (Vol. 40 0440) during the last months of 1983
18R67 - Florence
Collett
was born in 1916 at Blackpool (Fylde)
18R68 -
Margery Collett
was born in 1920 at Blackpool (Fylde)
Fanny
Collett [18Q92] was
born at Wigan on 27th July 1896, the elder of the two daughters of
Frederick Christopher Collett and his wife Margaret Jane Challoner. The birth of Fanny Collett was recorded at
Wigan (Ref. 8c 49) during the third quarter of that year. It is very likely that she was born at 39
Darlington Street in Wigan, where she was living with her parents in 1901 at
the age of four years. After the birth
of her sister Clara during the following year, the family of four settled in
Hoscar Lathom, where they were living in 1911 when Fanny was 14. Fanny Collett was still a spinster when first
her mother passed away, and then also at the time of the death of her father in
February 1939. It therefore seems highly
likely that Fanny was looking after her father at their home at West View in
Hoscar Lathom, just three miles from Ormskirk.
However, six months after her father passed away, Fanny Collett was 43
when she was a paid domestic servant at 146 Chapel Lane in Wigan, the home of
Thomas Barrow and his wife Clara Barrow, formerly Clara Collett (below),
Fanny’s younger sister (below).
Many years later Fanny Collett was living in Cheshire, although her death
was recorded at the Shropshire Ludlow register office (Vol. 30 69). The Will of Fanny Collett of Brookfield
House, Shrewbridge Road at Nantwich in Cheshire, where she died on 28th
April 1992, was proved at Liverpool on 20th May 1992 and did not
exceed £125,000
Clara Collett [18Q93] was born at Wigan on
18th October 1902, the younger of the two daughters of Frederick
Collett from Suffolk and Margaret Jane Challoner from Flintshire, her birth
recorded at Wigan register office (Ref. 8c 55) during the fourth quarter of the
year. By the time she was eight years of
age, Clara and her family were residing at West View in Hoscar Lathom, near
Ormskirk. Clara was 20 years of age when
her marriage to Thomas Barrow was recorded at Ormskirk register office (Ref. 8b
1608) during the third quarter of 1923.
The 1939 Register identified Thomas Barrow as having been born on 4th
February 1886, who was living at 146 Chapel Lane, ‘Lock House’, Henhurst Bridge,
to the south of Wigan, where he was the toll clerk and lock-keeper on the Leeds
& Liverpool Canal. His wife Clara
was an unpaid domestic, when living with the couple was Clara’s unmarried
sister Fanny Collett (above), a paid domestic. The death of Thomas Barrow was recorded at
Liverpool North register office (Ref. 10d 293) during the first three months of
1964 when he was 79. After thirty-eight
years as a widow, Clara was just short of her one-hundredth birthday when she
died, her death recorded at Shropshire Ludlow register office (Vol. 17d 259) at
the end of 2001.
Bertha
Collett [18Q94] was
born at Patricroft in Eccles on 4th June 1894, the eldest of the
five children of Henry Collett and his wife Catherine Atkinson. Her birth was recorded at Barton-upon-Irwell
register office (Ref. 8c 627) during the third quarter of that year. At the age of six years Bertha was living
with her family at 12 Hampton Grove in Eccles, while ten years later in 1911,
when she was 16, the family was residing at 54 Liverpool Road in Eccles. It was at 2 George Street in Urmston, in the
Trafford area of Manchester, that Bertha Collett was 45 years old and a state
certified midwife in 1939. At time in
her life, she was the head of the household, who had the three members of the Todd
family living there with her. Bertha never
married and died while living in the north part of Lancashire, her death
recorded at Lancaster register office (Vol. 40 1592) during the second quarter
of 1980
Christopher
Henry Collett [18Q95] was born at Patricroft in Eccles on 20th
February 1896, the son of Henry and Catherine Collett, with his birth recorded
at Barton-upon-Irwell register office (Ref. 8c 716) during the first three
months of that year. He was five years
old in 1901 when living at 12 Hampton Grove in Eccles with his family. By 1911 the family was living at 54 Liverpool
Road in Eccles when Christopher was 15.
It was during the third quarter of 1923 when Christopher Henry Collett married
Eleanor Thom, their wedding recorded at Barton-upon-Irwell register office
(Ref. 8c 1507). Eleanor Thom was born at
Smalley in Derbyshire where she was baptised on 3rd July 1898, the
daughter of mineral borer George Thom and his wife Mary. In April 1924, Christopher Henry Collett was
a witness at the Swinton marriage of his cousin Alfred Collett (below)
By 1939, the couple and their only known child
were residing at 39 Gordon Road in Eccles, where Christopher was a scouring
stone manufacturer using artificial stone (cement). His wife Eleanor gave her date of birth as 1st
June 1898, while the couple’s son Geoffrey J Collett was eight years old and at
school. The family was still living at 39
Gordon Road, Monton in Eccles where Christopher Henry Collett died on 21st
January 1961, with his death was recorded at Barton-upon-Irwell register office
(Ref. 10b 385) at the age of 64. His
Will was proved at Manchester on 17th May 1961 to Eleanor Collett, a
widow, when his estate had a value of £1,732 12 Shillings and 10 Pence. The later death of Eleanor Collett was
recorded at Salford register office (Vol. 39 0887) during the third quarter of
1977. Her Will was proved at Manchester
on 26th August 1977 for an estate of £9,873, which also confirmed
she was still living at 39 Gordon Road, where she passed away on 15th
July 1977 when she was 79
18R69 – Geoffrey John Collett was born in 1931 at
Eccles
Elsie
Collett [18Q96] was
born at Patricroft in Eccles on 16th November 1898, the daughter of
Henry and Catherine Collett. Her birth
was recorded at Barton-upon-Irwell register office (Ref. 8c 701) during the
fourth quarter of the year. Elsie was
two years old when she and her family were living at 12 Hampton Grove in
Eccles, and was 12 years old ten years later, by which time her family was
still living in Eccles but at 54 Liverpool Road. Like her two sisters it is understood that
she never married and was certainly a single lady in the 1939 Register, living
at The Pines on Vyner Road South in Birkenhead, where she was 40 years of age
and a paid domestic servant. She later
lived at Ulverston, just north of Barrow-in-Furness, and had her younger sister
Dora (below) living with her there and later at nearby Grange-over-Sands. It was at Ulverston where the death of Elsie
Collett was recorded (Vol. 1 0530) during the third quarter of 1978. Her personal estate was recorded as £27,868
when her Will was proved at Liverpool on 9th October 1978, her last
address being Holmegarth, Cardrona Road, Grange-over-Sands in Cumbria, where
she died on 10th September 1978 and where sister Dora died eleven
years earlier
Dora
Collett [18Q97] was
born at Winton in Eccles on 4th June 1903, the last of the five
children of Henry Collett and his wife Catherine Atkinson. Her birth was recorded at Barton-upon-Irwell
register office (Ref. 8c 677) during the third quarter of that year. She may have been born while her family was
living at 12 Hampton Grove, although by 1911 they were living at 54 Liverpool
Road in Eccles, where Dora was recorded as being eight years of age. It would appear that she followed the example
set by her two older sisters by staying unmarried all her life, as confirmed by
two later records. The first was the
1939 Register when, at the age of 36, Dora Collett was living with her parents
at 7 Brentwood Drive in Eccles, from where she was employed as a typist within
the soft furnishing trade. The Register
also confirmed her date of birth, as detailed above
Some years after that, Dora moved north to
Cumbria to live with her older sister Elsie Collett (above) at Ulverston
and Grange-over-Sands. The death of Dora
Collett was recorded at Barrow-in-Furness register office (Ref. 10b 219) during
the first three months of 1967 following a period of time in the North Lonsdale
Hospital in Barrow where she died on 17th February 1967. It was during the Administration of her
personal estate of £615, which was resolved at London on 3rd May
1967, that it was confirmed she had been living with her sister Elsie at
Holmegarth, Cardrona Road, Grange-over-Sands in Cumbria. It was also Elsie Collett, spinster, who was
the sole beneficiary of Dora Collett
Lillian
Collett [18Q98] was
born at Winton in Eccles in 1896, the eldest of the two children of Walter
William Collett and his wife Ada Jones, and her birth was recorded at
Barton-upon-Irwell register office (Ref. 8c 666) during the third quarter of
that year. At the age of four years
Lillian and her family were residing at 22 Worsley Road in Eccles in 1901, and
by 1911 they were living at 5 Byron Street in Eccles, where Lillian was 14
Alfred
Collett [18Q99] was
born at Winton in Eccles on 5th June 1898, his birth was recorded at
Barton-upon-Irwell (Ref. 8c 693) during the second quarter of that year, when
his parents were confirmed as William and Ada Collett. He and his family were living at 22 Worsley
Road in Eccles in 1901 when he was two years of age. Ten years after that Alfred Collett, aged 12,
was staying with his uncle Henry Collett and aunt Catherine at their home at 54
Liverpool Road in Eccles. Perhaps that
was a temporary arrangement to cover the period when his own family was living
at 5 Byron Street in Eccles, where they had staying with them Samuel Bower the
second husband of Alfred’s grandmother Lucy Collett nee Jones. It was at St Peter’s Church in Swinton of 21st
April 1924 that Alfred Collett was married by banns to Mary Stainsby, their
wedding recorded at Barton-upon-Irwell register office (Ref. 8c 1360). On that day Alfred was 25, a bachelor and a
decorator, living at 2 Lynwood Avenue in Patricroft, the son of decorator
William Collett. His bride was 23 and a
spinster working as a clerk while living at 62 Chorley Road in Swinton, the
daughter of grocer Arthur Stainsby deceased. Alfred’s cousin, Christopher Henry Collett (above)
may have been his ‘best man’, since he was one of the witnesses. Mary was the daughter of Arthur and Susan
Stainsby, her birth recorded at Salford register office (Ref. 8d 90) during the
first three months of 1901
No record of any children has been found and fifteen
years later the 1939 Register included Alfred and Mary living at 7 Lynwood
Avenue in Eccles, when Alfred was already a full-time ARP Warden (air-raid
patrol), when he was additionally described as a former decorator. Mary was also in work as a shop assistant in
a food store. Living with the childless
couple was Alfred’s elderly parents William and Ada Collett. One very important detail known about the
life of Alfred Collett has been kindly provided by Garry Helsby who spotted the
name of Alfred Collett from Eccles mentioned in a local newspaper printed
during the Second World War. The article
referred to “the promotion of Major Alfred C Collett to the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel, whose mother lives at Lynwood Avenue in Patricroft”
The 1945 newspaper article continued as
follows: “Aged 47, Alfred was well known in the Eccles district before the
war, having been with the family firm of W Collett & Son, painters and
decorators. [His father had already
died in 1943, also at 7 Lynwood Avenue in Eccles, where his mother died towards
the end of 1945]. A former pupil at
Green Lane Council School in Patricroft, Alfred served throughout the last war,
entering as a private and finishing up as a First Lieutenant. When he rejoined the army in 1940, he went
back as a First Lieutenant, subsequently promoted to Captain and then
Major. For the past three years he has
been in command of a port operating company of the Royal Engineers, and has
seen service in North Africa, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Today, he is still with the British Army of
the Rhine. His wife now resides at St
Anne’s-on-Sea”
This is likely to be a reference to Lytham-St-Anne,
south of Blackpool, where Alfred may have still been living when he died in
1966, at the age of 68. The death of
Alfred Collett was recorded at Blackpool register office (Ref. 10b 472) during
the third quarter of that year. Two
years after being widowed, the death of Mary Collett, aged 67, was recorded at
St Anne’s Fylde register office (Ref. 10c 223) during the summer of 1968, her
date of birth being 3rd February 1901, as confirmed in the earlier
1939 Register
Herbert Robert Collett [18Q100] was born at Kentish
Town, London, on 1st January 1892 when his birth was recorded at St
Pancras register office (Ref. 1b 143) during the first three months of the
year. He was the eldest child of George
Collett from Norwich and Ellen Wise Humbley of Kentish Town. By 1901 the family was living at Manor Park
in the East Ham area of London, where Herbert R Collett was nine years old and
from where his father was employed as a coach smith. Completing the family group was his mother
Ellen, his sister Margaret, and brother Charles.
It was during 1906 that he and his family left
England when they sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to a new life in Canada. The passenger list for the ship Pomeranian
included all five members of the family, with Herbert R Collett from Norfolk
being a scholar aged fourteen years. Five
years later, the family was identified in the Calgary census of 1911, when
Herbert Robert Collett was 19 and a laundry operative, and his date of birth
was confirmed as January 1892. He was 28
in the census of 1921, by which time his father had purchased land and was
working a farm at Alta, with Herbert and his brother Charles (below)
both working on the farm. After a
further five years, Herbert Robert Collett from England was still single at the
age of 34, when he was living at Acadia in Alberta with his father George
Collett, his mother Ellen Wise Collett, and his seventeen-year-old sister Fern
Alma Collett (below). Seven years
later the marriage of Herbert Robert Collett and Mabel Leckle, daughter of E
Leckle took place at Hillhurst in Calgary on 28th June 1933.
The death of Herbert Robert Collett in Alberta,
Canada was recorded on 3rd November 1979 when he was 87, after which
he was buried at the Mountain View Memorial Gardens in Calgary. His obituary published in Calgary on 6th
November 1979 recorded that his spouse was Mabel Collett, that their daughter
was Vera Collett, and that the family home was at Redcliff in Alberta
Margaret Priscilla Collett [18Q101] was born at Wood Green
in London during the penultimate month of 1898, her birth recorded at Edmonton
register office (Ref. 3a 416) during the fourth quarter of 1898. Margaret P Collett was two years old in the
Manor Park, East Ham census of 1901. In
April 1906 all five members of the family were aboard the ‘Pomeranian’
travelling from England to Hamilton in Canada, when Margaret Collett was seven
years old. By the time of the census in
1911, the whole family was living in Calgary where Margaret Priscilla Collett was
12 years old, her date of birth confirmed as November 1898. She was 22 in the Alta census of 1921, when
she was simply Margaret Collett from England who had no job of work.
Ten years later, Margaret had left the family
home and, at the age of 18, she was residing in the Calgary West area of
Alberta where she was described as born in England and a roomer at the home of
Ida van Essery. The later records
indicate that Margaret Priscilla Collett married George Furness on 4th
September 1943, when she was confirmed as the daughter of George Collett, and
gave birth to a son Arthur Furness
The undated obituary for George Furness reads
as follows: “October 2nd, at Edmonton. George beloved husband of Mrs Margaret
Furness, 838 18th Avenue, N. W, born in Littleport (Cambridgeshire)
England. He came to Ontario in 1910 and
moved to Winnipeg in 1912. He served
overseas in the First World War with the Imperial Army and came to Vermilion in
1922 as a maintenance man with the Alberta Government. He moved to Calgary in 1942 and retired in
1948. He was a member of the First
Baptist Church and the King’s Men’s Class.
Also surviving are a son Arthur of Wingham, Ontario, and two
grandsons”. His body was then laid
to rest in the Mountain View Memorial Gardens in Calgary, where Margaret’s
brother Herbert (below) was buried in 1979, and where Margaret was
buried on 4th August 1973. At
that time in her life, she was a widow living at 512 14th Avenue, S.
W, and was survived by her two brothers Herbert Robert Collett and Charles
Leslie Collett
Charles Leslie Collett [18Q102] was born at Manor
Park, East Ham, in London in 1900 and was still living there on the day of the
census in 1901, at the age of one year.
He was six years old when his family sailed to Hamilton in Canada in
April 1906. He and his family had
settled in Calgary by the time of the census in 1911, when Charles Leslie
Collett was ten years of age, his date of birth reported to be during September
1900. After a further ten years, he was
working on his father’s farm, aged 20, alongside his older brother Charles (above). Three years after that, it was at Calgary
where Charles Leslie Collett married Ethel Constance King in 1924, and two
years later his brother Herbert and sister Fern (below) were unmarried
and still living with their parents at Arcadia in Alberta in 1926. Upon the death of his married older sister (above),
her obituary acknowledged that Charles Leslie Collett was still alive in 1973. It was near the end of the following year
that Charles Leslie Collett died at White Rock on 5th November 1974
at the age of 73. His wife passed away
six years after Charles, with both of their names and dates included on an
ornate gravestone marker, the birth of Ethel Constance King recorded at
Wellingborough, Northants, register office (Ref. 3b 124) during the third
quarter of 1904
Fern Alma Collett [18Q103] was born at Alberta in
Canada during March 1909 to English parents George Collett and Ellen Wise
Humbley, their fourth and last child and the only one not born in England. Two years later she was listed with her
family at Calgary, but recorded as Jesse Alma Collett, while in 1921 she was
Fern Collett aged 12 who was living with her family at Calholm in Alta Province. It was at Acadia in Alberta that she was
living with her parents in 1926 at the age of 17. On 15th August 1936 Fern Collett,
a Canadian national aged 27 and the daughter of George Collett, crossed the
border from Canada into America for the first time in her life, and at her own
expense, for a two-week vacation, when she was an employee of the Calgary Power
Company. Four years later the marriage
of Fern Alma Collett and Joseph (Joe) Hetherington took place at Calgary on 25th
June 1940, when her father was confirmed as George Collett and the sister of
Margaret Collett. Joseph Peter
Hetherington had been born at Listowell, Perth County in Ontario on 15th
March 1904, the son of Arthur Robinson Hetherington and his wife Mary Jane
Kines. All that is currently known, is
that Joe and Fern had a daughter Ellen Mae Hetherington. At the time of her death on 31st
May 1972, at the age of 62, her obituary published in Calgary on 1st
June 1972 referred to her spouse Joe and her married daughter Ellen Mae Buttner
Ann
Collett [18Q104]
was born at Kendal in 1871, the eldest child of carpenter Henry Collett from
Ireland and his wife Isabella Bousfield of Kendal. Her birth was recorded at Kendal (Ref. 10a
689) during the second quarter of the year, and was baptised at Kendal on 6th
August 1871. In 1881, at the age of
nine, Ann was attending school in Kendal where she was living at 10 Serpentine
Road with her family. Ten years later,
when she was 19, she was working as a woollen warper, while she was still
living with her family in Kendal. By
that time in her life, she may have already been betrothed and perhaps even was
looking forward to being married, as she was the following year. The marriage of Ann Collett and Thomas
William Troughton took place at Kendal on 4th June 1892, when Ann
was 21 and the daughter of Henry Collett and Thomas was 23 and the son of
William Troughton. The event was also recorded
at Kendal (Ref. 10b 1138), where Thomas William Troughton had been baptised at
St George’s Church on 28th March 1869
Their only child William Troughton was also
born there towards the end of the following year and was baptised at Kendal on
5th November 1893. It was after just five years of married life, and
at the age of 26, that the death of Ann Troughton, the wife of Thomas W
Troughton, was recorded at Kendal register office (Ref. 10b 442) during the
second quarter of 1897, following which she was buried on 30th June
1897. Twenty years after that sad event,
the death of Thomas William Troughton was recorded at Kendal register office
(Ref. 10b 1033) during the first quarter of 1917, at the age of 48. Thomas was residing at 85 Stramogate in
Kendall when he died on 30th January 1917, and his Will was proved
at Lancaster on 12th March 1917 to William Troughton, a retired
commercial traveller, and Esther Troughton, a widow and likely to be his second
wife. His estate had a value of £657 17
Shillings and, later that year on 23rd May 1917 his father William
Troughton, aforesaid, left an estate amounting to £2,759 3 Shillings and 6
Pence
Mary Elizabeth Collett [18Q105] was born at Kendal in
1872, her birth recorded at Kendal (Ref. 10a 670) during the last three months
of the year. It was just after
Christmas, when she was baptised at Kendal on 29th December 1872,
her parents confirmed as Henry and Isabella Collett. As Mary E Collett aged seven years, she and
her family were living at 10 Serpentine Road, just north of Kendal town centre,
in 1881, and was still with her family in 1891, when she was working with her
older sister Ann (above) as a woollen warper at 18 years old. Less than four years after that, Mary
Elizabeth Collett, aged 22, and William Stavert, who was 21, were married at
Kendal on 26th January 1895, when the bride’s father was confirmed
as Henry Collett and the groom’s father as John Stavert. Their wedding day was recorded at Kendal
register office (Ref. 10b 931), as was the birth of William Stavert (Ref. 10b
670) during the last quarter of 1873
Around five months after they were married the
first of their three children, Isabella Collett Stavert, was born at
Kendal (Ref. 10b 760) during the second quarter of 1895 and baptised there on 2nd
June that year. Three years later the
birth of John Henry Stavert was recorded there (Ref. 10b 705) during the
last quarter of 1898. Tragically, the
birth of the couple’s third child coincided with the Mary not surviving the
ordeal. Mary was only 32 years old when
she died, the death of Mary Elizabeth Stavert was recorded at Lancaster
register office (Ref. 8e 493) during the fourth quarter of 1905, the same three
months in which the birth of William Stavert was recorded at Kendal
(Ref. 10b 746). Mary’s widower William
Stavert was 81 when he died, his passing recorded at Lancaster register office
(Ref. 10c 774) during the first three months of 1955
Margaret
Collett [18Q106]
was born at Kendal in 1875, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 10b 720) during
the second quarter of that year. It was
also at Kendal where she was baptised on 1st August 1875, another
daughter of Henry and Isabella Collett.
It was as Maggie Collett, aged five years, that she was recorded in the
Kendal census of 1881, when she was living at 10 Serpentine Road in Kendal with
her family. After a further ten years,
Margaret Collett was 16 and working as a woollen winder, when she was again
still living with her family at Kendal in 1891.
Sadly, it was approximately eighteen months after that census day, when
the death of Margaret Collett, aged 17, was recorded at Kendal (Ref. 10b 369)
during the third quarter of 1892
William
Henry Collett [18Q107] was born at Kendal in 1877, the eldest son and fourth
child of Henry and Isabella Collett, whose birth was recorded at Kendal (Ref.
10b 753) during the first three months of the year. A few months later, the baptism of William
Henry Collett was conducted at Kendal on 20th May 1877, which
confirmed the names of his parents, as above.
He was four years old in 1881 when he was living at 10 Serpentine Road
in Kendal, the census including him with his family as William H Collett. On leaving school, William started his
working life alongside his father who was a house carpenter, as confirmed in
the Kendal census of 1891, when William H Collett was 14 and an apprentice to a
joiner. It was the similar situation in
1901, when William H Collett was a joiner aged 24, one of only two siblings
still living with their father, who had re-married by then, and with whom they
were both working
Ten weeks after that census day, the marriage
of William Henry Collett, aged 24, and Isabel Benson took place at Casterton on
9th July 1902, fourteen miles south-east of Kendal, the event
recorded at Kendal register office (Ref. 10b 1279). Isabel’s birth was registered at Kendal (Ref.
10b 687) during the first quarter of 1878.
The couple then settled in Kendal, where all of their children were
born, and where the couple and their first two children were living in
1911. That year, the family comprised
William Henry Collett who was 33 and a carpenter and a joiner, his wife Isabel
Collett who was also 33, and their two daughters were Elsie Collett who was
nine, and May Isabel Collett who was seven.
All four members of the family were noted as having been born at Kendal,
where the births of their four children were also recorded
After the birth of their second child, no
obvious birth or death records have been found at Kendal during the following
thirteen years. Then, in the middle of
the war years, the couple was blessed with a late gift of twins, the
consecutive birth records at Kendal confirming the mother’s maiden-name as
Benson. Those two additions to the
family were recorded there during the first four days of 1916 (Ref. 10b 1301)
and (Ref. 10b 1302), but did not survive the ordeal, with both Collett babies,
William and Mary, being buried at Kendal on 5th January 1916, the
children of William and Mary (?) Collett.
Their deaths were recorded at Kendal register office (Ref. 10b 952) and
(Ref. 10b 953). Just over two years
later their mother was widowed, when the death of William H Collett was
recorded at Kendal register office (Ref. 10b 846) during the second quarter of
1918, at the age of only 41
18R70 -
Elsie Collett was born in 1902 at Kendal
18R71 -
May Isabel Collett was born in 1903 at Kendal
18R72 - William
Collett (twin) was born in 1916 at Kendal; infant death
18R73 - Mary Collett (twin) was
born in 1916 at Kendal; infant death
Robert
Bousfield Collett [18Q108] was born at Kendal, possibly near the end of 1879 or early
in 1880, with his birth registered at Kendal (Ref. 10b 672) during the first
quarter of 1880. It was on 28th
March 1880 that Robert Bousfield Collett, the son of Henry and Isabella
Collett, was baptised at Kendal. He may
have been born at 10 Serpentine Road in Kendal, where his family was living in
1881 when, simply as Robert Collett, he was one year old. It was as Robert B Collett, aged 11, that he
was still living in Kendal with his parents at the time of the census in
1891. He was around fourteen years old
when his mother and his younger brother John (below) died but, by 1901,
Robert was still living with his father, who had re-married by then. Like his brother William (above),
Robert also took up his father’s trade and in 1901 he was a joiner at the age
of 21. Tragically, within two months of
that census day, Robert Bousfield Collett died, at the age of 21, and was
buried on 27th May 1901, his death recorded at Kendal register
office (Ref. 10b 455). With the death of
his older married brother William in 1918, there was no surviving male member
of his original family, just his half-brother Harold from his father’s second
married
Edward Compston Collett [18Q109] was born at Kendal,
either at the end of 1882 or the beginning of 1883, with his birth recorded
there (Ref. 10b 736) during the first three months of 1883. He was around fifteen months old when he
died, and was buried at Kendal on 13th April 1884, his young death
recorded there (Ref. 10b 410)
Isabella Collett [18Q110] was born at Kendal in
1887, her birth registered there (Ref. 10b 750) during the second quarter of
that year, another daughter of Henry Collett and Isabella Bousfield. She was baptised at Kendal on 29th
May 1887 and was six years old when she was buried on 13th July
1893. Her death was recorded at
Lancaster register office (Ref. 3c 591).
Two years earlier in the census of 1891, Isabella Collett was three
years of age and was staying at 5 Tewitfield in Priest Hutton, ten miles north
of Lancaster, with her aunt and uncle Margaret and Edward Compston
John
Frederick Collett [18Q111] was born at Kendal in 1889 and his birth was recorded
there (Ref. 10b 730) during the third quarter of the year. He was one-year-old in the census return for
Kendal in 1891, on that occasion he was the youngest child of Henry and
Isabella Collett, who were anticipating the birth of their ninth and last
child, who sadly did not survive. Just
over one year later the death of John Frederick Collett was recorded at Kendal
(Ref. 10b 425) and was buried on 15th April 1892, less than two
years prior to the death of his mother, in the first three months of 1894
Ruth Bousfield [18Q112] was born at Kendal in
not long after the census day in 1891, the ninth and last child of Henry
Collett and Isabella Bousfield. Her
birth, like those of all her older siblings, was recorded at Kendal (Ref. 10b
779) during the second quarter of 1891.
She was baptised there on 28th August 1891 but, two years
after that, she died during November, her death recorded at Kendal (Ref. 10b
471), following which she was buried with her many deceased siblings on 28th
November 1893
Harold
Collett [18Q113] was
born at Kendal on 15th May 1896, the only son of widower Henry
Collett from County Mayo, Ireland, and his second wife, widow Mary Alice
Foster, nee Lancaster, from Scarborough, who were married during the previous
year. The birth of Harold Collett was
recorded at Kendal register office (Ref. 10b 773) during the second quarter of
189, after which he was baptised at Kendal on 21st June 1896. Harold was living with his parents, his two
Collett half-brothers and three Foster stepchildren in March 1901, when he was
four years old, but by April 1911 he was the only Collett child still living at
Kendal with his parents at the age of 14, who also had living there with them
27-year-old Nellie Foster, his half-sister.
By that time, he was an assistant in an ironmonger’s shop, when his only
surviving half-brother, William Henry Collett, was married, his other
half-brother Robert Bousfield Collett had already passed away within two months
of the census in 1901. The 1939 Register
included unmarried Harold Collett as a boarder at 26 Eleanor Road in South
Shields, the home of widow Margaret E Gammon aged 54. Harold was 43 and was working as a
waggon-wright, in heavy work. Just under
thirty years later, the death of Harold Collett was recorded at South Shields
register Office (Ref. 1a 1949) during the second quarter of 1969 when he was 73
years old
Albert
Vernon Tanner [18Q114] was born on 4th April 1873 at Kendal in
Westmorland, his birth registered there (Ref. 10b 705) during the second
quarter of 1873, the first of the nine children of John William Tanner and
Bethia Ann Collett. He married (1) Mary
Agnes Wilson in 1910 at Holy Trinity Church in Lancaster, their wedding
recorded at Lancaster register office (Ref. 8e 1354) during the last quarter of
that year. Tragically, after only
fourteen years together Mary died on 20th June 1924 aged 44. From the Index of Wills & Administrations
1858 – 1966, the administration of the personal effects, valued at £108 8
Shillings and 4 Pence, of Mary Agnes Tanner of 7 Leyster Street in Morecambe,
the wife of Albert Vernon Tanner, a ship’s steward, was granted in London on 17th
July 1924 to the said Albert Vernon Tanner.
It was during the following year that Albert married (2) widow Clara
Woodhouse, their marriage recorded at Lancaster register office (Ref. 8e 2107)
during the third quarter of 1925. It was
at 3 Ridge Lane in Lancaster that the couple was living in 1939, where Albert
was described as retired from Merchant service.
Clara was much younger than her husband, having been born on 24th
July 1892. Living with them was Clara’s
daughter Alfreda Woodhouse, a mental nurse who was born on 13th July
1912
Although nearly twenty years younger than her
husband, it was Clara Hannah Tanner who died on 12th February 1958,
at the age of 66, at 3 Ridge Lane, her death was recorded at Lancaster register
office (Ref. 10c 685). Her Will was
proved at London on 20th March 1958 to Joseph Albert Jones,
solicitor, for £364 4 Shillings and 6 Pence.
Albert survived for another eleven months, when he passed away on 19th
January 1959 at the age of 85. His death
was recorded at Lancaster register office (Ref. 10c 712) during the first
quarter of 1959. From the Index of Wills
& Administrations 1858 – 1966, the Will of Albert Vernon Tanner of 3 Ridge
Lane in Lancaster valued at £262 was proved on 13th October 1964 and
placed in the hands of executors John Taylor, a builder, and Joseph Albert
Jones, a solicitor. The probate notice
also confirmed that Albert died at The Laurels, Cannon Hill in Lancaster
Walter
Kitchen Tanner [18Q115] was born at Barrow-in-Furness in the last three months 1874,
his birth registered at Ulverston (Ref. 8e 803) and sadly, he was only seven
years of age when he died at Barrow-in-Furnace during the third quarter of 1882
and record there (Ref. 8e 518)
Edith Ann
Tanner [18Q116] was
born at Kendal in 1876, her birth recorded there (Ref. 10b 682) during the last
three months of the year. It was during
the third quarter of 1896 when the marriage of Edith Ann Tanner and David
Richard Hurley, who was born at Workington on 11th January 1878, the
son of Edwin and Elizabeth Hurley, was recorded at Barrow-in-Furnace register
office (Ref. 8e 1562). Five years later
the census in 1901 recorded the couple at 14B Walney Road in Barrow-in-Furness
with their three children. David Hurley,
an ironworks coke fitter, was 23, his wife Edith was 24 and their children were
David Hurley junior who was three, George F Hurley who was one
year old and Edith L Hurley who was just eight months old and died later
that same year. A fourth child had been
born to the couple in 1896, Albert Edward Hurley, who died during the
following year before his first birthday
Further tragedy struck the family in 1902 when
Edith Ann Hurley nee Tanner died at the age of 25. Following the death of his wife and two of
his children, David emigrated to America during 1903 and arrived in New York on
30th July aboard the ship Teutonic which had sailed out of
Liverpool. He married Agnes Simpson who
was born in 1886 with whom he had another son John who was born in 1910. David Richard Hurley became a naturalised
American on 27th January 1912 when he was residing at 1338 Jenny
Lind Street in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, where his brother Joseph Daniel Hurley
also lived. According to the US Census
of 1940 David Hurley was 52 and his wife Agnes was 54 when they were living at
1604 Geaner Street in McKeesport, from where he was employed as a
millwright. During that decade he and
Agnes were living at 604 Beaver Avenue in McKeesport, while it was on 21st
June 1949 that David Richard Hurley died in McKeesport aged 71
John
William Tanner [18Q117] was born at Barrow-in-Furness in 1878. It was at St Mark’s Church in Barrow in 1905
that he married widow Sarah Ann Hetherington who was born in 1880 at Croydon in
Surrey, England. By 1911 John, aged 31
and Sarah were living at 19 Hawcoat Lane, Hawcoat Park in
Barrow-in-Furness. The census return
that year confirmed the property had six rooms and stated that John, a flour
mill labourer, and Sarah had been married for six years. They had no children from their marriage,
although living there with them was Sarah’s daughter Eva Hetherington who was
10 years of age and born at Barrow-in-Furness.
The record of the death of a ‘Sarah Tanner’ was recorded at
Barrow-in-Furness register office in 1933 when she was 53, while it was fifteen
years later that John William Tanner passed away in 1948 when he was 70
Francis
Henry Tanner [18Q118] was born at Barrow-in-Furness in 1880 and died there the
following year when he was one year old
Arthur
Henry Tanner [18Q119] was born at Barrow-in-Furness in 1881 and was yet another
childhood death in the family when he died during 1890 at the age of eight
years
Beatrice
Eleanor Tanner [18Q120] was born at Barrow-in-Furness on 13th August
1883, a daughter of John William Tanner and Bethia Ann Collett. She later married William Eddleston in 1914
when she was 31. Thanks must go to Brian
Eddleston, the grandson of Beatrice and William, who generously provided lots
of new information regarding Bethia Ann Collett and her family
Frederick
James Tanner [18Q121] was born at Barrow-in-Furness in 1884. He married Hilda Augusta Wise who was born in
1894 at Peckham in Surrey, one of the five children of Hubert and Jane
Wise. They married on 2nd
December 1915 at the Church of St Mary in Balham, London when Frederick was 30
and a seafarer and Hilda was 21. His
address was the same as Hilda’s, that being 43 Balham Hill in Balham. The groom’s father was confirmed as John
William Tanner, a storekeeper, and the bride’s father was described as Hubert Lewington
Wise, deceased, whose past occupation was that of a clerk. The census in 1911 confirmed that Hilda was a
laundry porter, while Hubert was a shipbrokers clerk
Edwin
Smallwood Tanner [18Q122] was born at Barrow-in-Furness in 1887, the last of the nine
children of John William Tanner and Bethia Ann Collett. Sadly, neither mother nor child survived
William
Collett [18Q123] was
born at Berwick-on-Tweed in 1875, the only child of John Collett and Isabella
Landell, his birth recorded at Berwick (Ref. 10b 410) during the last quarter
of 1875. He was later baptised at
Berwick-on-Tweed in Northumberland on 5th December 1875 when his
parents were confirmed as John and Isabella.
Tragically William was still only a few months old when his father
died. However, on the day of the census in
1881, when his widowed mother was working as a servant in Halifax, William
Collett aged five years and from Berwick was staying with his grandmother Ann
Collett of Ravenglass at 41 Hawke Street in Barrow-in-Furness. Just a few months later, his mother married
Job Barker in Halifax, and it was with his mother and stepfather that William
was living in 1891. The census in 1891
recorded William Collett from Scotland as being 15 years old and already
working as a worsted doffer, who was living at Northowram, with Job and
Isabella Barker and their daughter Martha E Barker, aged nine years. It was just under seven years later, that the
marriage of William Collett and Elizabeth Ann Priestley was recorded at Halifax
register office (Ref. 9a 605) during the first three months of 1898
Their marriage service was conducted at the
Parish Church in Queensbury, to the north of Halifax on 8th January
1898 after the reading of banns. William
was of full age, a bachelor, and a mechanic, living at Queensbury, the son of
John Collett, a clerk. Elizabeth Ann,
also of full age, was spinster of Queensbury with no occupation, the daughter
of Samuel Priestley, a warehouseman. The
birth of Elizabeth Ann had been registered at nearby Bradford in Yorkshire
(Ref. 9b 279) during the first quarter of 1878.
The marriage is known to have produced just three children for the
couple and, according to the census in 1901, William and Elizabeth Ann were
living at Ambler Thorn, Queens Head, just north of Queensbury, midway between
Halifax and Keighley. Living there with
them, were their first two children and living nearby in Queensbury were
William’s mother Isabella and his stepfather Job Barker
By that time William Collett, aged 25 and from
Berwick, was working as a machine tool maker and turner, his wife Elizabeth A
Collett was 23, and their two children were Annie Collett who was two, and
Leonard Henry Collett who was not yet one year old. On that occasion the place of birth of
Elizabeth and her two children was simply given as Halifax, which was where the
births of all three children were recorded.
Ten years later, and after the arrival of the couple’s third and last
known child at Amber Thorn, the family was living in the Keighley area of
Yorkshire, some seven miles north of Queensbury. The census in 1911 listed the family as
William Collett from Berwick, who was 35, Elizabeth Ann Collett from Queensbury,
who was 33, Annie Collett from Queensbury, who was 12 and born at Queensbury,
whereas Leonard Harry Collett, aged 10, and Harold Collett, who was nine years
old, were both recorded as having been born at Ambler Thorn, within the parish
of Queensbury
The death of William Collett was recorded at
Keighley register office (Ref. 9a 260) during the second quarter of 1934, when
he was 58 years of age. It was just over
two years after being widowed, that Elizabeth Ann Collett passed away at the
age of 58, when her death was recorded at Doncaster register office (Ref. 9c
733) during the third quarter of 1936.
Three years after being made a widow, the 1939 Register included
Elizabeth Collett and her daughter Annie residing at 33 Hainworth Road in
Keighley. Widow Elizabeth A Collett had
been born on 18th October 1877 and unmarried Annie Collett was
employed a sickness visitor under national health insurance at the age of 41. It was during the last three months of 1953
that the death of Elizabeth Ann Collett was recorded at Bradford (Yorkshire)
register office (Ref. 2d 224) at the age of 76
18R74 - Annie
Collett was
born in 1898 at Queensbury
18R75 - Leonard Harry Collett was born in 1900 at
Ambler Thorn, Queensbury
18R76 - Harold Albert Collett was born in 1902 at
Ambler Thorn, Queensbury
Elizabeth
Ann Collett [18Q124]
was born at Barrow-in-Furness in 1883, the first child of William Collett and
Frances Nelson, whose birth was recorded at Barrow (Ref. 8e 855) during the
fourth quarter of 1883 when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Nelson. Tragically Elizabeth Ann Collett
was only three years old when she died at Barrow (Ref. 8e 543) during the third
quarter of 1887
John
William Collett [18Q125] was born at Barrow-in-Furness on 7th June 1886,
where his birth was recorded (Ref. 7e 814) during the last quarter of that
year. He was recorded as John W Collett
aged four years in the census of 1891 and was again named as John W Collett in
the Barrow census of 1901 when he was 14.
It was only in the next census of 1911 that, as John William Collett
aged 24, he was still living with his family at the Bay Horse public house in Barrow-in-Furness
when his mother was the inn keeper and John was an electrical wireman. His occupation was that of an engineer, his
work taking him to and from South America on numerous occasions, as recorded
here. At that same time in 1911, the
future wife of John William Collett, Olga Rickenberg aged 13 and her sister
Elsie Rickenberg aged 15, both born in Brazil, were attending the Convent of
Notre Dame in Wandsworth, London.
However, it was during the last years of the Great War that he married
Olga Rickenberg and their only know daughter Adolpha Collett was born in
1918. It seems likely that she was born
in Brazil, since John William Collett left that country in 1919 on board the steam
ship ‘Hildebrand’, a vessel of the Booth Steamship Company, when he travelled to
England, arriving at Liverpool on 6th September 1919, three days
after the ship’s scheduled dis-embarkment date. Unaccompanied John William Collett from Para
in Brazil was 33 and a public works manager whose destination was 65
Bishopsgate in London.
On 9th July 1926 all three members
of the family sailed into Liverpool on the steam ship ‘Hildebrand’, having
sailed from the Port of Belem in Brazil.
John William Collett, was an engineer aged 40, his wife Olga Collett was
29, and their daughter Adolpha Collett was eight years old, when they were
travelling first class from their permanent residence in Brazil to the same
destination address as in 1919, that being 65 Bishopsgate in London. The purpose of that visit may have been to
place their daughter in a private boarding school because, on 22nd
January 1927, 29-year-old Olga embarked at Liverpool on a return to Brazil
onboard the ‘Denis’ of the Booth Line, having been staying at the Albemarle
Court Hotel, 18 Leinster Gardens, Bayswater in London. After a further seventeen months, Olga and
John travelled from Para in Brazil to Liverpool on the ‘Hildebrand’ arriving on
29th June 1928. The passenger
also proved very similar details for the couple, in that their forward address
was again 65 Bishopsgate, London, for engineer John William Collett who was 42
and wife Olga who was 31. Whether that
was the occasion when the couple came to England to take their daughter back to
Brazil has not been confirmed, however, three years after, on 26th
June 1931, when Olga was 34, she made the solo journey onboard the ‘Hildebrand’
from the Port of Manaos to Liverpool, arriving that day. From Liverpool she travelled to 149
Leadenhall Street in the Aldgate area of central London
Sometime later the family returned to their
home within the State of Para on the northern Atlantic coast of Brazil. Then again in 1932 John and his wife set sail
from the Port of Manaus in the State of Amazonas and sailed down the Amazon
River, before crossing the Atlantic out of Belem, bound for Liverpool. On that occasion John Wm Collett was 45 and
his wife Olga Collett was 33, when they were named on the passenger list of the
steam ship ‘Hilary’ of the Booth Line, which arrived in Liverpool on 31st
May 1932. Their forward address was once
more 149 Leadenhall Street in London, when the prime reason for that trip was
that Olga was expecting the birth of another child. It may also have been the case that John
accompanied her to England for security reasons and that once she was safely
settled there, he returned to Brazil.
The birth of their son Bolivar Jack Collett was recorded at Hampstead
register office in London (Ref. 1a 674) during the last three months of 1932,
when the child’s mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Rickenberg.
With her new-born baby only six weeks old, Olga
Collett aged 35 had a first-class cabin on board the SS ‘Aidan’ of the Booth
Steamship Line which sailed out of the Port of London on 24th
November 1932 bound for the Port of Para in Brazil. The passenger list also stated that her
address while in London was 51 Cholmley Gardens, West Hampstead. Nearly three years later John William Olga,
and Bolivar, sailed from Manaos to Liverpool aboard the SS ‘Hilary’ of the
Booth Line, arrived in Liverpool on 25th July 1935. By that time the three of them were said to
be from Para, where John W Collett was 49 and an engineer with the Para
Telephone Company, whose forward address in England was 149 Leadenhall Street. Olga Collett was 38, and Bolivar J Collett was
three years old. Ten years after that
trip, it was just Olga and her son who were named on the passenger list of the
‘Basil’ of the Booth Line, arriving at Liverpool from Para on 10th
March 1946, when Olga Collett was 48, a housewife, who was travelling to 27
Church Row in Hampstead, London, when Bolivar Jack Collett was 13
Towards the end of 1947, when Olga Collett was
49 and staying at the Whitehall Hotel on Steeles Road in Hampstead, London, she
was on her own when she sailed out of the Port of Cardiff on 21st
November on board the ‘Hilary’ bound for Brazil. With his family presumably at their home in
Para, it was just John William Collett, an engineer aged 63, who sailed out of
Liverpool bound for Brazil on the ship ‘Hilary’ on 10th November
1949. For his time in London, he had
been staying at the Sandringham Hotel, 3 Holford Road in Hampstead. Less than three years later the couple was
named on the passenger list for the ‘Hilary’, when they arrived at the Port of
Liverpool from the Port of Belem in Brazil on 8th June 1952. That year John William Collett was 65 when
the destination for him and his wife Olga was 30 Highgate in West Hill, London. Olga was 56 when she returned to Brazil from
that address, dis-embarking at the Port of Belem on 19th March 1954
Eighteen months later, it was just John who
sailed from Liverpool on 23rd September 1955 on the ‘Hubert’ of the
Booth Line, having been living at Wyldes, North End, Hampstead, London. Curiously, Olga’s name was on the passenger
list but was crossed through, indicating that she did not make the journey with
her engineer husband. The last time they
made the sea journey together was onboard the ‘Hildebrand’, arriving at
Liverpool on 27th June 1957, when their intended stay in England was
said to be nine months. The date of
birth for John Collett was 7th June 1886, who was still an engineer
at the age of 71, when he and Olga, 60 and born on 15th June 1897,
were again to stay at Wyldes, North End, Hampstead
It was also from Wyldes, North End in
Hampstead, that John travelled back to Brazil on the ‘Sallust’ of the Lamport
& Holt Line, sailing out of the Port of London on 4th December
1957. Many years later, Olga Collett was
living in the Hertfordshire area of England, with her death recorded at the
Elstree & Potters Bar register office (Vol. 10 0276) during the early
months of 1980, at the age of 82. For
the previous four years of her life, she was a widow, following the death of
John William Collett whose death was also recorder in Hertfordshire, at the
Barnet register office (Vol. 11 0272) during the last four months of 1975
18R77 - Adolpha Collett was
born in 1918 at Brazil
18R78 – Bolivar Jack Collett was born in
1932 at West Hampstead, London
Thomas
Henry Collett [18Q126] was born at Barrow-in-Furness either at the end of 1888 or
early after the start of 1889, the son of William and Frances Collett, where
his birth was registered (Ref. 8e 832) during the first quarter of 1889. It was as Thomas H Collett aged two years and
12 years that he was listed with his family in the two Barrow censuses
conducted in 1891 and 1901, and as Thomas Henry Collett that he was recorded
again with his family in Barrow in 1911 when he was 22 and working as a joiner
and woodworker for a building contractor.
Eleven years after that census day, the marriage of Thomas H Collett and
younger Phoebe Williams was recorded at Barrow-in-Furness register office (Ref.
8e 2219) during the third quarter of 1922.
The birth of Phoebe Williams was recorded at Chorlton-cum-Hardy register
office (Ref. 8c 911) during the first three months of 1899. Their son may have been a honeymoon baby,
born in mid-July the following year, who was living with his mother in 1939
Where Thomas Henry Collett and his daughter
Frances was that day has not yet been determined. The 1939 Register only included his wife Phoebe
Collett and their son, who were staying at the home of widow Sarah A Turner,
aged 58, at 41 School Street in Barrow-on-Furnace. There was a total of eight people at the
address, which may have been a boarding house.
Phoebe gave her date of birth as 1st October 1899 and
confirmed that she was married and undertaking unpaid domestic duties, possibly
in lieu of payment of rent. Her son
William J Collett was fifteen years of age and an apprentice in metal work. Very little else is known about Thomas Henry
Collett except that he was 58 years of age when he died, his death recorded at
Barrow-in-Furness register office (Ref. 10b 149) during the second quarter of
1947, but was still alive when his son became a married man just a few months
earlier. After ten years as a widow, the
death of Phoebe Collett was recorded at Barrow-in-Furnace register office (Ref.
10b 159) during the third quarter of 1957, when she was 57
18R79 –
William John Collett
was born in 1923 at Barrow-in-Furnace
18R80 –
Frances A J Collett
was born in 1924 at Barrow-in-Furnace
Robert Collett [18Q127] was born at
Barrow-in-Furness on 7th August 1891, the last child of William
Collett and Frances Nelson, his birth recorded there (Ref. 8a 858) during the
third quarter of the year. It was at
Back Hartington Street North in Barrow that he was living with his parents in
1901 at the age of nine years, and again in 1911 when he was 19 years old and a
fitter and turner working with guns and engines. Eight years later, during the third quarter
of 1919, the marriage of Robert Collett and Blanche Evelyn McVee was recorded
at Barrow-in-Furnace (Ref. 8e 2347). The
birth of Blanche Evelyn McVee was recorded at Barrow (Ref. 8e 797) during the
second quarter of 1894
They only had one child, who was also born at
Barrow two years later, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as McVee. As far as can be determined, it was Blanche
and Derek (sic) who were the first to sail to Quebec in Canada, leaving
Liverpool on 29th August 1924 on the steamship ‘Montclare’ of the
Canadian Pacific Line, when their home address was 31a Welbeck Road, Walker in
south-east Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and when Blanche was 29 and Derek Nelson was
just two years old. It was Robert’s job
as an engineer/mechanic that saw him crossing the Atlantic Ocean to Canada,
when he also sailed out of Liverpool on 27th July 1926, bound for
Quebec. He travelled first-class onboard
the ‘Montlaurier’ of the Canadian Pacific Line at the age of 31 and from his
home address at 26 James Street in Barrow-in-Furnace.
Sometime after arriving in Quebec, it would
appear that was a stepping stone in America, with the three of them recorded in
the 1930 Census at Precinct 38 in Detroit, Wayne County in Michigan. Robert Collett from England was 38 and a
diemaker at an automotive factory, his wife Blanche E Collett was 33 and an
inspector at a carburettor factory, and Derek N Collett was nine years
old. The census day that year was 17th
April, while it was two years later that the three of them travelled to
Montreal from where they sailed to Liverpool onboard the ‘Duchess of Richmond’
which arrived on 7th May 1932.
The occupants of the third-class cabin were engineer Robert Collett 40,
Blanche Collett 38, and Derek Collett who was 11, when they were headed for 16
Brown Street in Barrow-in-Furnace. That
was likely only a temporary home for them because, by 1939, with war looming in
Europe, Robert and Blanche were residing at 19 Cameron Road in Ilford,
Essex. Robert confirmed his date of
birth (above) and that he was a toolmaker by trade, and was a tool and
gauge inspector. Blanche stated that she
had been born on 21st March 1894 and was undertaking unpaid domestic
duties. The third member of the
household was their son, whose record was redacted and officially closed
Thirty-one years later, the death of Robert
Collett was recorded at the London Borough of Redbridge register office (Ref.
5d 1406) during the third quarter of 1970, at the age of 79. Following the death of her husband, Blanche
travelled to the north of England where, less than six years later, the death
of Blanche Evelyn Collett was recorded at Gateshead register office (Vol. 2
0404) during the first months of 1976, when she was 81 years old
18R81 –
Derrick Nelson Collett was born in 1921 at Barrow-in-Furnace
William
Collett [18Q128] was
born at Cratfield on 13th January 1883, his birth recorded at
Blything (Ref. 4a 850) during the first quarter of that year. He was the first child born to Harry Collett
and Elizabeth Randall, who eventually moved to nearby Redenhall around the
start of the next decade. That was
partially confirmed in the census of 1891, when William Collett from Cratfield
was still living there, at the age of seven, with just his mother and his
younger sister Maria Collett (below), but at the Bell Lane home of his
maternal grandfather. On that same day,
William’s father was setting up the new family home at Bungay Road in
Redenhall. As the oldest child in the
Collett family, that arrangement was probably made out of convenience for the
family, since William’s mother Elizabeth Collett, nee Randall, was expecting
the family’s fifth child. A little while
later, William moved back in with his family at Redenhall, where he was
recorded in 1901. The census that year
showed the family reunited and living in a house on the Bungay Road in
Redenhall. The only missing member was
William’s sister, Maria, who was working in a neighbouring village. By that time, William was 17 and an ordinary
farm labourer from Cratfield. It is very
likely that he was working alongside his two younger brothers Harry and George (below)
who were also farm labourers and, it may have been on the same farm, where
their father worked as a teamster
The marriage by banns of William Collett and
Laura Magdalene Leist was conducted at the parish church of Redenhall-with-Harlston-and-Wortwell
on 9th October 1905, when he was 21 and she was 19. They were both residing in Redenhall, where
William was a labourer and the son of labourer Harry Collett, while Laura was
the daughter of Henry Leist, also a labourer. The two witnesses were both members of Laura’s
Leist family, Henry and Rachel, her father perhaps because she was not of full
age, and maybe her sister. The wedding
of William and Laura was recorded at Depwade register office (Ref. 4b 641), five
months after which, their only known child was born. The birth of Harry Collett was recorded at
Depwade register office during the second quarter of 1906. Laura had been born at Hardwick in 1885, the
daughter of Henry and Magdalene Leist of Needham, whilst it was the day after
her twelfth birthday that she was baptised at Needham parish church on 16th
November 1897 in a joint ceremony with two younger siblings Edith Maria aged
seven and Charles Frederick aged five
On the day of the census in 1911, the family of
three was residing at Green Lane in Redenhall where their son had been born, when
they were recorded as William Collett aged 27 who was a horseman working on a
farm born at Cratfield, his wife Laura from Hardwick who was 25, and their son
Harry Collett who was five years old had been born at Redenhall. The electoral roll also confirmed that
William and his family were still living at Green Lane in 1914. Twenty-five years later, the 1939 Register
identified the family living in Docking in North Norfolk, where William was 56
and an agricultural labourer, Laura gave her date of birth as 15th
November 1885, and son Harry was still single at the age of 33, when he was
working as a tractor-driver on a farm.
Later on, the death of William Collett was recorded at King’s Lyn
register office (Ref. 4b 458) during the first three months of 1948 when he was
64. At that time in his life, his home
address was 1 Cross Street, Harpley in Norfolk, although he was buried in the
churchyard of the parish church at Redenhall-with-Harlston-and Wortwell on 9th
March 1948. Geographically, Harpley lies
a few miles south of Docking, and just west of Harpley in King’s Lyn, while his
burial ground was some fifty miles to the south-east. Laura survived her husband by over twenty
years, when the death of Laura Magdalene Collett was recorded at Norwich (Ref.
4b 1887) during the third quarter of 1970
18R82 -
Harry Collett
was born in 1906 at Redenhall
Harry
Collett [18Q129] was
born at Cratfield towards the end of 1885, when his birth was registered at
Blything (Ref. 4a 843) during the last three months of that year. He was another son of Harry and Elizabeth Collett
who was around four years old when his family left Suffolk and moved to Redenhall-cum-Harleston
in Norfolk. By 1891 Harry was six years
old and living at Bungay Road in Redenhall.
Ten years later and at the age of 15, Harry was working as an ordinary
farm labourer with his two brothers William (above) and George (below),
while all three of them were still living in the family home at Redenhall. Harry Collett was nineteen years of age when
her married Lucy Ellen Fairhead – who already had a son, the event recorded at
Depwade register office (Ref. 48 586) during the last quarter of 1904. Lucy was born on 31st October
1886, a daughter of carpenter Frederick and Mary Ann Fairhead of Alburgh,
Norfolk, where she was baptised with her older sister Jessie Fairhead in a
combined ceremony at Alburgh on 29th March 1887
Following their wedding day in 1904, the couple
initially settled in nearby Redenhall-with-Harleston where their son was
born. However, not long after the birth,
the family moved to Pulham Market in Norfolk, where they were recorded in the
census of 1911. At that time Harry
Collett from Cratfield was 25 and employed as a horseman working on a farm, his
wife Lucy Collett from Alburgh in Norfolk was 24, and their son Arthur was five
years old. The fourth person at the
dwelling was Lucy’s son who was described as Harry Fairhead aged six years and
also born at Alburgh as Harry William Fairhead, whose birth was also recorded at
Depwade (Ref. 4b 220) during the same quarter of 1904 in which Harry and Lucy
were married. Harry Collett was only 48
years old when his death was recorded at Wangford register office (Ref. 4a
1003) during the third quarter of 1931.
Lucy’s marital status was confirmed as a widow
in the 1939 register when she was residing at 73 Ingate Street in Beccles where
she declared she was much younger than her real age, perhaps because she had a
younger bachelor living there with her.
He was Ernest G Studd who was born on 9th April 1892 and a
fisherman, while housewife Lucy gave her date of birth as 23rd
October 1891, instead of 31st October 1886. She never re-married and it was as Lucy Ellen
Collett that she died, when her death was recorded at Lothingland register
office (Ref. 4b 932) during the fourth quarter of 1964, at the age of 77. Her Will for £647 was proved at London on 2nd
December 1964 to Iris Elizabeth Bussey, a married woman. The probate documentation also confirmed that
Lucy was still living at 73 Ingate Street in Beccles, where she died on 16th
November 1964, a widow
18R83 -
Arthur Tom Collett
was born in 1905 at Redenhall
Maria
Collett [18Q130] was
born at Cratfield on 16th February 1887, the only daughter in the
six children of Harry Collett of Fressingfield and Elizabeth Randall of
Cratfield, whose birth was registered at Blything (Ref. 4a 875) during the
first quarter of 1887. Rather
confusingly Maria seems to appear twice in the census of 1891. In the first she was four years old and
living at Redenhall-cum-Harleston with her parents and two siblings Harry (above)
and George (below), her place of birth confirmed as Cratfield. At the same time her grandfather William
Randall said she and her older brother William Collett (above) were
staying with him at Cratfield, together with her mother Elizabeth Collett nee
Randall. It is accepted that William
Collett was there, but it is thought that Maria and her mother were just
visiting
On leaving school Maria entered into domestic
service and by March 1901, at the age of 15, she had left the family home at Clintergate
Cottage in Redenhall and was employed as a general domestic servant at a house
in Fressingfield cum Withersdale. Twenty-seven
months later Maria Collett married Frederick Arthur Ashfield at the parish
church in Starston, Norfolk on 6th July 1903. Frederick of Wingfarthing in Norfolk was 20
and a carman living in Starston, the son of Elijah Ashfield. Maria was 18 and also living at Starston, the
daughter of Harry Collett. The witnesses
were Laura Magdalene Leish, who married Maria’s older brother William in 1905,
and Harry Collett who could have been her father of her older brother. Their marriage was recorded at Depwade
register office (Ref. 4b 451) during the third quarter of 1903
The marriage produced at least four children before
1911 and another seven afterwards. In
the census that year the young Ashfield family was living at Redenhall and
comprised Frederick 28, Maria of Cratfield who was 24, and their children George
Frederick Ashfield who was six, Albert Edward Ashfield who was four,
Leonard Arthur Ashfield who was three, and Irene Winifred M Ashfield
who was one year old. All of the
children were born at Redenhall, with their births recorded at Depwade register
office. Other children followed, with
their mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Collett. They were Maud M H Ashfield in 1911, Annie
E Ashfield in 1913, Wilfred G Ashfield in 1914, Laura A Ashfield
in 1915, Mabel F Ashfield in 1917, Kathleen M Ashfield in 1918, Cissie
E Ashfield in 1920, Ernest W Ashfield in 1921, and Leslie John Ashfield
in 1926
The 1939 Register placed six members of the
family still living together at Pecks Farm in Redenhall, within the Depwade rural
district council area, where Frederick was a farm labourer who had been born on
2nd November 1882. His wife
Maria was 52, while three of the four children with them were Kathleen who was
21, Ernest who was 18, and Leslie who was 13. Maria Ashfield, nee Collett, was 60 years of
age when she died at Redenhall, her death recorded at Depwade register office
(Ref. 4b 343) during the first three months of 1948, after which she was buried
at Redenhall-with Harlston-and-Wortwell on 6th January 1948
George
Collett [18Q131] was
born at Cratfield on 18th January 1889, with his birth registered at
Blything (Ref. 4a 861) during the first quarter of 1889. Not long after he was born, his family left
Cratfield and moved across the Suffolk County boundary into Norfolk, where they
settled in Redenhall-cum-Harleston; and it was there in 1891 that George was
recorded aged two years. The family
lived in a house on the Bungay Road in Redenhall where there were also living
in 1901 and 1911. By March 1901 George
Collett was twelve years old and was already employed on a local farm as an
ordinary farm labourer like his two older brothers William and Harry (above)
with whom he was probably working. It
was during the last three months of 1909 when George Collett married Edith
Goldspink, with their wedding recorded at Depwade register office (Ref. 4b 635). Edith had been born on 23rd
February 1890 and was the daughter of Henry and Ellen Goldspink of Starston
where Edith was baptised on 7th June 1891
By the start of April in 1911, George Collett
of Cratfield was 22 and an agricultural labourer living at Green Lane in
Redenhall-with-Harleston with his wife Edith Collett who was 21 and from
Starston in Norfolk. The marriage had
not produced any children for the couple by that time, which was still living
at Green Lane in 1914. The death of
Edith Collett, nee Goldspink, at Green Lane was recorded at Depwade register
office (Ref. 4b 365) during the second quarter of 1956, age the age of 66. Just under fourteen years after his loss, the
death of George Collett was recorded at Depwade (Ref. 4b 1293) during the
second quarter of 1970 when he was 81.
The Will of George Collett for £255 was proved at London on 18th
August 1970, following him dying at home on Green Lane in Redenhall on 5th
June 1970
Charles
Collett [18Q132]
was born at Bungay Road in Redenhall in 1892, the fifth child born to Harry and
Elizabeth Collett. He was nine years of
age in the census of 1901, when he and his family were living at Clintergate
Cottage in Redenhall. By 1911, it was
only Charles, aged 19, and his youngest brother Ernest (below) who were
living By Clintergate (in a cottage by Clintergate Farm), it was also later
that same year that Charles’ mother died.
Tragically, Charles Collett was only 28 years of age when he died at
Redenhall, his death recorded at Depwade register office (Ref. 4b 238) during
the second quarter of 1920
Ernest
Collett [18Q133]
was born at Bungay Road, Redenhall in 1893 and was the last of the six known
children of Harry Collett and Elizabeth Randall. The family was again living in Redenhall in
1901, but at Clintergate Cottage, where Ernest was seven years old and was 18
years of age in 1911, when the family’s address was By Clintergate in
Redenhall. He and his brother Charles (above)
were the only children still living with their parents that census day where, towards
the end of 1911 their mother passed away.
Just over five years after that day, the death of Ernest Collett was
recorded at Depwade register office (Ref. 4b 229) during the third quarter of 1916,
when he was 23
Emily
Emma Collett [18Q134]
was born on 2nd August 1891 at St James South Elham, her birth recorded at Wangford (Ref. 4a 932) during the
third quarter of 1891 as Emily Emma, the same as her mother Emily Emma Poppy,
her father being Benjamin Collett. It
was also as Emily Emma Collett that she was baptised at St James South
Elham on 6th September 1891. Whether it was an attempt to save any
confusion with her mother, her two forenames were reversed in the following two
census returns, when Emma Emily Collett was nine years old and living with her
parents at Barnham, and again aged nineteen, when the three of them were
residing at Loddon. Four years later the
marriage of Emma Emily Collett and George W Medler was recorded at Henstead
register office (Ref. 4b 655) during the last quarter of 1915. George was born on 23rd April 1893
It would appear that their only
child, Reginald George Benjamin Medler was born either at the end of 1919
or early in 1920, with his birth recorded at St Faith’s register office in
Norfolk (Ref. 4b 209) during the first quarter of 1920. Six years after that, Emma’s mother died during
1926 and it may have been after that sad event that Emma’s father went to live
with the Medler family. Certainly,
Benjamin Collett was living with his daughter on the day the 1939 Register was
put together, when he was 73. At that
time George W Medler was 46 and a general labourer in heavy goods, while Emma E
Medler was 48 and undertaking unpaid domestic duties. Their son Reginald was nineteen, having been
born on 1st February 1920, whose occupation was that of a trailer
assembly fitter. The later death of Emma
Emily Medler was recorded at Lincolnshire Kings Lynn register office (Ref. 4b
1681) towards the end of 1972 and the age of 81, when her dated on birth was
recorded as 30th August 1891
Frederick
George Collett [18Q135] was born at Metfield on 21st July 1898, the only
son of Eliza and George Collett from Fressingfield, whose father died around
the time that he was born. His birth was
recorded at Hoxne register office (Ref. 4a 886) during the third quarter of
that year. The baptism of Frederick
George Collett also took place in 1898 at the Church of St John the Baptist in
Metfield. During the next year his
mother married Thomas Woolnough and it was with Thomas and Eliza that George
Collett aged two years and from Metfield was living in March 1901. When he left the home of his stepfather is
not known, except that it had taken place prior to the next census in 1911, by
which time his mother had given birth at Metfield to two half-sisters. It was as Frederick George Collett aged 12
years that he was living with the Balls family at The Common on Harleston Road
in Metfield, not far away from his mother’s new family when he was still
attending the village school. Eight
years after that census day, the marriage of Frederick George Collett and
Florence Rose Churchyard was recorded at Hartismere register office (Ref. 4a
2611) during the last three months of 1919.
Their marriage resulted in the birth of four children, the births of all
four recorded at Hartismere register office, when the mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Churchyard
It is unclear what happened to the family after
1931, since the 1939 Register placed son Charles living with his paternal grandmother
who, by then, was Eliza Woolnough, the former Eliza Collett nee Pearce. The pair of them were recorded at The Street
in Hartismere when Eliza was 66 and a widow for the second time in her life, while
the date of birth of eleven-year-old school boy Charles Collett was 3rd
March 1928. That same day in 1939 the
main part of the family was residing at Church Lane in the Hartismere district
at 3 Council House. Frederick G Collett
was 41 and multitasking as a wheelwright, a builder, and a coffin maker. His wife Florence R Collett gave her date of
birth as 23rd April 1897, son Felix W Collett was 19 years old, and
a fourth entry for the family had been redacted and officially closed, which was
for daughter Thelma, since son Thomas has been located working at another
property within the Hartismere area. It
was at the home of seventy-year-old couple Walter and Annie Balls, at The
Common, Harlston Road in Metfield, where Thomas W Collett was 15 years old and
one of their three servants employed by the retired wheelwright and his wife. Interestingly, it was also at the same
couple’s house, and with them, that Thomas’ father was staying when he was a
twelve-year-old schoolboy in 1911
As far as can be determined, their daughter may
have been the only member of the family to marry, which she was at Hartismere
in 1950. The death of Florence Rose
Collett was recorded at Hartismere register office (Ref. 4b 980) during the
first three months of 1965, at the age of 67.
As Florence Rose Churchyard, her birth was recorded at the Suffolk Stow
register office (Ref. 4a 828) during the second quarter of 1897. Just over two years after losing his wife,
the death of Frederick George Collett was recorded at Depwade register office
(Ref. 4b 483) during the second quarter of 1968 when he was 69 years old
18R84 –
Felix William G Collett was born in 1920 at Hartismere
18R85 –
Thomas Wilfred Collett was born in 1924 at Hartismere
18R86 –
Charles Frederick Collett was born in 1928 at Hartismere
18R87 –
Thelma E Collett
was born in 1931 at Hartismere
Mary Ann Collett [18Q136] was born on 17th
May 1902 at Clapton, within the London Borough of Hackney, where her birth was
recorded (Ref. 1b 436) during the third quarter of 1902, the eldest child of
Esau Collett and Mary Ann Cracknell. She
was eight years of age in the Hackney census of 1911, where she living with her
completed family, when her place of birth was reported as Clapton, like all of
her siblings (below). Mary Ann was
around twenty-five years old when she married Albert Edward Brockis at the
London Hackney register office (Ref. 1b 1040) during the third quarter of 1927,
his birth recorded at West Ham register office (Ref. 4a 186) during the third
quarter of 1902. Their wedding ceremony service
was conducted at the Church of St Matthew, Upper Clapton in London on 25th
September 1927, just over a year after the death of her mother
By then Mary Ann was 25 and living at the
Collett family home at 44 Aveley Road in Upper Clapton, a laundress and the
daughter of Esau Collett, a plate layer. Albert was also 25 and a shop assistant, the
son of Edward Brockis, a gas worker, when his address was also recorded as 44
Aveley Road in Upper Clapton. The witnesses were Edith Jane Collett, Mary Ann’s
younger sister (below), and Leslie Henry Brockis. The 1939 Register revealed that the childless
couple was living at 18 Beecholme Road in Hackney when living there with them
was Mary Ann’s brother Charles Esau Collett (below). Albert E Brockis was a shopman and cold store
worker at Smithfield Market, where he was classified as a heavy worker, and
whose date of birth was 9th August 1902. His wife Mary A Brockis was 37 years old and
a packer and sorter at a local laundry
It was is possible that Albert Edward Brockis
died as the result of a road traffic accident, as the place he died on 27th
February 1965 was recorded as Station Parade, Elm Park Hornchurch in Essex, and
not far from his home at 1 Windermere Avenue in Elm Park. Administration of his affairs was resolved at
London on 3rd May 1965 in favour of Mary Ann Brockis, a widow, in
the sum of £4,238. He was 62 years old
when his death was recorded at Romford register office (Ref. 5a 556). Nearly thirty years later, Mary Ann was
living within the Havering area of Greater London when she died during the
month of September in 1994 and the age of 92, with her death recorded there (Vol.
hc73 13). Her Will was proved at London
on 11th November 1994 for her estate valued at under £125,000, when
it was confirmed that she died at 1 Windermere Avenue, Elm Park, Hornchurch,
Essex on 21st September 1994
George
William Collett [18Q137] was born at 32 Detmold Road in Upper Clapton on 2nd
November 1903, with his birth recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 1b 442)
during the last three months of 1903. It
was nine months later that he was baptised at St Matthew’s Church in Upper
Clapton on 12th August 1904, the eldest son of horse-keeper Esau Collett
and Mary Ann Collett. That was a double
baptism with his cousin Walter James Collett, son of horse-keeper William
Collett and his wife Lydia (below), whose temporary address at that time
was also 32 Detmold Road. In the census
of 1911, he was simply recorded as George Collett aged seven years, but sixteen
years later it was as George William Collett, aged 24, a railway porter, and
the son of bricklayer Esau Collett, that he was recorded on 23rd
July 1927, the day he married Doris Griffin.
At that time in his life, George was still living at the family home at 44
Aveley Road in Upper Clapton. Doris was
22, with no job of work, and
was the daughter of Alice Griffin, nee Bassam, the former wife publican Samuel
Joseph Griffin of the Willow Tree Inn on Balls Pond Road in Islington, who died
eighteen months before Doris was born.
She had been born at Upper Clapton on 5th September 1904 and
was baptised at St Matthew’s Church on 3rd June 1906, father unknown. On their wedding day Doris Griffin was
residing at 112 Winterbourne Road in Thornton Heath, when one of the witnesses
was A Brockis. He was Albert Brockis,
the future husband of George’s older sister Mary Ann (above), who were
marriage at the same church in September that same year. Their marriage was conducted at St Stephen’s
Church in Norbury, near Croydon, the event recorded at Croydon register office
(Ref. 2a 900), after which Doris presented George with four children, the first of born in
Croydon, the last three at
Hackney
The three
youngest children were absent from the family group when the information for
the 1939 Register was collected, as they had already been evacuated from during
to the impending war with Germany. It
would appear that there were more than three families residing at 44 Aveley
Road, Upper Clapton in the London Borough of Hackney. First on the list of occupants was Frederick
Haddon, whose mother and her second husband were also listed at the address,
and they were Esau Collett, George’s father, and his second wife Elizabeth
Collett, formerly Haddon, George’s stepmother.
Two other people were also recorded there and they were mother and
daughter May Elizabeth Reay and six-year-old Joyce E Reay. The very next entry in the 1939 Register was
the family of George William Collett, which comprised George W Collett aged 36
and a railway porter, his wife Doris Collett who was 35, and their son George F
Collett who was eleven years old and attending school. Twenty years later, the death of George W
Collett was recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 5c 618) during the second
quarter of 1960, when he was 56. Many
years later, Doris Collett passed away at the age of 91, when her death was
recorded at London register office in Greater London (Vol. e5 2551e) in 1996
18R88 - George Frank Collett was born in 1928 at
Croydon
18R89 - Iris Winifred Collett was born in 1931 at
Hackney
18R90 – Derrick John Collett was born in 1932 at Hackney
18R91 - Doris M Collett was born in 1936 at
Hackney
Edith Jane Collett [18Q138] was born at 32 Detmold
Road in Upper Clapton, London on 9th November 1905, her birth
recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 1b 410). As just Edith Collett she was five years old
when she was living with her family in Hackney on the day of the census 1911. Upon the occasion of the wedding of her older
sister Mary Ann Collett (above) in 1927, it was Edith Jane Collett who
was one of the witnesses. Her own
marriage took place nine years later, when the wedding of Edith Jane Collett
and Alfred Raymond Langdon Weaser was recorded at Hackney register office (Ref.
1b 1006) during the third quarter of 1936.
Alfred was six years younger tha Edith, having been born on 27th
November 1911, his birth recorded at Hackney (Ref. 1b 736), and was baptised at
St James’ Church in Clapton on 31st December 1911, the son of
licenced victualler Alfred Weaser of 34 Charnock Road, and his wife Mary Jane
Just after their wedding day, Alfred’s father
died, with Alfred and Edith then going to live with his widowed mother Mary
Jane, where they were recorded in the 1939 Register. The three of them were still living at 34
Charnock Road in Clapton within the London Borough of Hackney where, in
addition to being a licenced victualler, as was his mother, Alfred was also a
special constable volunteer. He was 27
and his wife Edith was 33. The death of
Alfred Raymond L Weaser was recorded at Islington register office (Ref. 5c 1859)
during the first three months of 1972.
He died on 27th January 1972 and was cremated at Islington on
3rd February 1972.
Charles Esau Collett [18Q139] was born at 32 Detmold
Road in Upper Clapton on 18th March 1907, with his birth recorded at
Hackney register office (Ref. 1b 396) during the second quarter of 1907. In the Hackney census of 1911, Charles
Collett was four years of age. Twenty-eight
years later when he was unmarried at the age of 32, Charles E Collett was
staying at the Hackney home of his married sister Mary Ann Brockis (above),
when he was working as an attendance at the Hackney Wick and Hendon
greyhound-racing track. No marriage has
been found for Charles, while his death was recorded at Havering in Essex (Ref.
13 0834) towards the end of 1983, when he was 74 years old
Albert John Collett [18Q140] was born at 32 Detmold
Road in Upper Clapton in 1909, while it was at Hackney register office that the
birth was recorded (Ref. 1b 390) during the third quarter of the year, as a
result John Collett was one year old in the Hackney census of 1911. Tragically, just days or weeks later, the
death of Albert J Collett, aged one year, was recorded at Hackney (Ref. 1b 205)
Frank Martin Collett [18Q141] was the last child
born to Esau Collett and Mary Ann Cracknell and was born on 1st
February 1911 at 44 Aveley Road in Upper Clapton and, like all of his older
siblings, his birth was also recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 1b
393). He was seven months old when he
was baptised at St Matthew’s Church in Upper Clapton on 17th
September 1911, when the parish recorded confirmed his parents as platelayer
Esau Collett and his wife Mary Ann, their home address being 44 Aveley Road. Earlier that year, Frank Collett was two
months old on the census return. He was
22 years old when he married Ivy Edith Metson, their wedding day recorded at
Pancras register office (Ref. 1b 8) during the last quarter of 1933. It was at Christ Church on Albany Street, to
the east of Regents Park in London, that they were married by banns on 25th
November 1933, when Frank was a sawyer living at 20 Cumberland Market and the
son of Esau Collett, a railway under-man.
Ivy was 21, having no occupation, who was also said to be living at 20
Cumberland Market, the daughter of Ernest Harry Metson deceased, a former
coachman. Cumberland Market is situation
at the north end of Albany Street, at the north-east corner of Regents
Park. Over the following decade, Ivy
presented Frank with four children, the births of all of them were recorded at
Hackney register office when, in each case, the mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Metson
The four members of the family by then were recorded
in the 1939 Register, when they were living at 40 Betmold Road in Upper Clapton,
within the London Borough of Hackney, the property being home to two
families. It was also at 32 Betmold Road
where all of Frank’s older siblings were born before the family moved to 44
Aveley Road. The first named occupants of
40 Detmold Road were the three members of the Gimble family. Of the four members of the Collett, the
details for their first-born child Anthony were redacted and officially
closed. For the other three, Frank M
Collett was 28 and a wood machinist, his wife Ivy E Collett had been born on 6th
June 1912, and their son Kenneth Collett was under school-age, having been born
on 15th July 1937. Later in
his life, Frank appears to have moved the short distance to Poplar, where his
death, as Frank Martin Collett was recorded (Ref. 5d 1412) nearing the end of
1970, when he was 59 years old. His
youngest son, seems not to have married, but his birth was recorded at Hackney
(Ref. 1b 398) during the first three months of 1943. Following the death of her husband, Ivy E
Collett married Alfred G Bailey during the first three months of 1976, the
event recorded at Hackney register office (Vol. 12 0981)
18R92 - Anthony Frank Collett was born in 1935 at
Hackney
18R93 - Kenneth Collett was born in 1937 at
Hackney
18R94 - Albert Collett was born in 1940 at
Hackney
18R95 - Brian Collett was born
in 1943 at Hackney
Mabel
Lydia Collett [18Q142] was born on 7th February 1902
at 32 Detmold Road in Upper Clapton, her birth recorded at Hackney register
office (Ref. 1b 449). She was nine
months old when she was baptised on 9th November 1902 at Haverland
in Norfolk, the first-born child of stableman/horseman William Collett from
Suffolk and Lydia Frances Jarvis from Norfolk.
When she was around three years old the family moved to 7 Detmold Road, where
her younger siblings were born and from where they were baptised, and where the
family was living in 1911. That census
day Mabel Lydia Collett was nine years of age.
Unlike her three younger sisters, Mabel never married and was still
living with her parents in 1939. The
Pre-War Register for that year placed the family living at 11 Southwold Road in
Hackney, where Mabel L Collett was 37 and a shop manageress at a laundry, one
of two daughters at the address, the other being Agnes S Collett (below). Three years later Mabel’s maiden aunt May
Collett, her father’s youngest sister died and, in her Will, spinster Mabel
Lydia Collett was the second named beneficiary.
After a further fourteen years, the death of Mabel Lydia Collett was
recorded at Ilford, Essex, register office (Ref. 5a 284) during the third
quarter of 1956, when she was 54 years old.
Administration of her personal effects of £640 14 Shillings and 2 Pence
was granted in London on 4th January 1957 to Grace Maria Eagle and
Annie May Warbey, married women – Mabel’s sisters. The legal documents also confirmed that Mabel
was a spinster who had died at 12 Keswick Gardens in Ilford, Essex on 10th
October 1956
Walter
James Collett [18Q143] was born on 3rd May 1904 at
32 Detmold Road in Upper Clapton, his birth recorded at Hackney register office
(Ref. 1b 441) during the second quarter of the year. It was at St Matthew’s Church in Upper
Clapton that he was baptised on 12th August 1904 in a combined
ceremony with his cousin George William Collett (above) the son of Mary
Ann and Esau Collett a horse-keeper, with Walter being the eldest son of horse
keeper William and Lydia Collett. According
to the baptism entries in the parish register, both families were living at 32
Detmold Road. During the following year
the family left 32 Detmold Road, when they moved to a home of their own at 7
Detmold Road, where Walter James Collett was six years old in 1911. He was 22 when the marriage of Walter James
Collett and Mary Ann Crowther was recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 1b
1038) during the third quarter of 1927.
It was also at St Matthew’s Church in Upper Clapton on 4th
September 1927 that they were married after the reading of banns, when they were
both 23 and single, Walter a fruiter the son of William Collett a fruiter, Mary
a domestic servant and the daughter of William Crowther a coal miner. Both the bride and the groom were of 7
Detmold Road, Upper Clapton, both of whom signed the register in their own hand
when one of the witnesses was Annie May Collett, Walter’s sister
The birth of each of their three children was
recorded at a different register office, the first in Islington, the second in
Hackney, and the last in Finsbury. In
each case the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Crowther.
18R96 – Doreen M Collett was born in
1928 at Islington, Middlesex
18R97 – Clifford James Collett was born in 1931 at Hackney, Middlesex
18R98 – Marylin B Collett was born in
1938 at Finsbury, Middlesex
Grace
Maria Collett [18Q144] was born on 19th June 1906 at
7 Detmold Road in Upper Clapton, her birth recorded at Hackney register office (Ref.
1b 398). Three weeks later she was baptised
at St Matthew’s Church in Upper Clapton on 6th July 1906, when her
father William was a horse-keeper and her mother Lydia of 7 Detmold Road. Grace Maria Collett was four years old in the
census of 1911, when she and her family were again residing at 7 Detmold Road
in Upper Clapton. She was 23 years of
age when, on 1st September 1929 at St Matthew’s Church in Upper
Clapton, Grace was married by banns to Bertie Ward Eagle, who was 21, single,
and a civil servant, residing at 16 Ceesped Buildings, Brett Road in Hackney,
the son of Bertie Ward Eagle, an engineer.
Grace Maria Collett of 7 Detmold Road was confirmed as the daughter of
William Collett, a motor driver, when her sister Annie May Collett was one of
the witnesses. The wedding was recorded
at Hackney register office (Ref. 1b 1185) and produced one child for the
couple. The birth of Gerald W Eagle was
recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 1b 507) during the last three months
of 1930. Upon the death of her old
sister Mabel (above) in 1956, it was Grace Maria Eagle who was named,
together with her younger sister Annie May Warbey (below), who were the
beneficiaries. By contrast, Mabel lived
a very long life and was 98 years old when she died, her death recorded at
Croydon register office during March 2005
Annie May Collett [18Q145] was born on 15th May 1909 at 7
Detmold Road in Upper Clapton, her birth recorded at Hackney register office
(Ref. 1b 389). She was baptised at St
Matthew’s Church in Upper Clapton on 15th June 1909, another
daughter of labourer William and Lydia Collett.
Annie May was recorded as being one year old in the Upper Clapton census
of 1911 when she and her family were living at 7 Detmold Road. The later marriage of Annie May Collett and Ernest
Robert Warbey took place on 22nd August 1936 at St Matthew’s Church
Upper Clapton, when they were both 27 years of age and one of the witnesses was
W Collett. Ernest was an insurance agent
living at 84 Reighton Road, the son of Ernest Edward Warbey a traveller, while
Annie of 11 Southwold Road (her parents’ address) was working as a clerk
and was confirmed as the daughter of William Collett, a gardener. Their wedding was recorded at Hackney register
office (Ref. 1b 1212). No record of any
children has been discovered, with Annie May Warbey being 78 years old when she
died, her death recorded at the Gipping and Hartismere register office in Suffolk
during April 1988. Five years later Ernest
Robert Warbey died in Suffolk during 1993.
He had been born on 18th August 1908, with his birth recorded
at Islington register office (Ref. 1b 352)
Agnes
Sarah Collett [18Q146] was born on 8th January 1915
at 7 Detmold Road Upper Clapton, her birth recorded at Hackney register office
(Ref. 1b 736), where her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Jarvis. She was then baptised at St Matthew’s Church in
Upper Clapton on 4th April 1915, the fourth child of London City Council
official William Collett and his wife Lydia Frances. By 1939, Agnes S Collett was 24 and a
telephonist working on a private telephone switchboard (PBX), when she was
still living with her parents at 11 Southwold Road in Hackney, together with
her eldest sister Mabel (above).
Less than five years later, the marriage of Agnes Sarah Collett and Geoffrey
Roland Passmore was recorded at Hartismere register office in Suffolk (Ref. 4a
2501) during the second quarter of 1944. The childless couple was residing in
the county of Surrey when Geoffrey Roland Passmore died in 1985, his death
recorded at the Surrey register office (Vol. 11 1335), when his date of birth
was stated as 14th December 1913.
After twenty-one years as a widow, Agnes Sarah Passmore was living at
Harleston where she died on 16th February 2005, her death recorded
at Depwade register office (Ref. 24c 252) at the age of 91
Ernest
William Collett [18Q147] was born on 28th June 1920 at
7 Detmold Road in Upper Clapton, the last child of William Collett and Lydia Frances
Jarvis, his birth recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 1b 801) during the
third quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Jarvis. It was also at St Matthew’s
Church in Upper Clapton that he was baptised 22nd August 1920, when
his father’s occupation was that of a conduit cleaner with the London City
Council
John
William George Collett [18Q148] was born at Wrentham near Southwold on 4th
October 1893, the eldest of the thirteen children of John Christian George
Collett and Anna Meadows and interestingly in 1950, one of his daughters,
Violet, married into the Meadows family.
John’s birth was recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 899)
during the fourth quarter of 1893. Shortly
after he was born the family moved to Yoxford north of Saxmundham, where his
brother and sisters were born. At the
time of the 1901 Census, John W G Collett was seven years old when living at Willow
Marsh Lane in Yoxford with his family.
By 1911, his father’s work as a farm labourer had taken the family to
Westleton, near Yoxford, where John Collett from Wrentham was living with his
family at the age of 17, from where he was working as a fisherman. Within the next three years, on 28th
December 1913, at St Margaret’s Church in Lowestoft, John William George
Collett married Laura Lily Burden when he was 20 and she was 21, both of them
recorded as living at 24 Cathcart Street in the centre of Lowestoft. John was a fisherman and the son of labourer
John Christian George Collett, while Laura was the daughter of labourer Henry
Victor Reeves Burden. The witnesses were
Laura’s father and her sister Hilda Burden
Their marriage was recorded at Mutford register
office (Ref. 4a 2550) during the last three months of 1913, and Laura had been
born at Lowestoft on 22nd October 1892, the daughter of Henry and
Harriet Burden, and was baptised at Lowestoft on 17th February 1897
with three of her siblings, when her family was living at 14 Albert Street. Over the next twenty years Laura gave birth to
a total of fourteen children, although not all of them survived. According to the 1939 Register, eight members
of the family were living at 217 Raglan Street in Lowestoft, although the last
three entries have been redacted and officially closed. Of the remainder, John W G Collett was 45 and
a general labourer, wife Laura L Collett was 46, Hazel H Collett was 18 and a general
hand in a food factory, Harold G Collett was 14 and at school, as was Raymond L
Collett who was 12 years of age.
Twenty-one years later Laura Lily Collett nee Burden died at Lowestoft
on 17th November 1970, her death recorded at Lothingland register
office (Ref. 4b 2595). Five years later
she was followed by John William George Collett who also died there, on 21st
December 1975, his passing recorded at Waveney register office (Vol. 10 2943). Laura and John were both buried at Lowestoft
Cemetery, where a single headstone marks their grave
Their children who did not survive were (1) Jack
Henry Frank Collett whose birth was recorded at Mutford register office (Ref.
4a 7121) during the second quarter of 1914.
His Lowestoft baptism record confirmed that his parents were fisherman Jack
William Collett and Laura Lily Collett of 12 Cathcart Street, where he was born
on 16th April and baptised on 7th May 1914. His subsequent death was recorded at Mutford
(Ref. 4a 1759) during the first three month of 1915, after which he was buried
at Lowestoft Cemetery on 5th March 1915. The next was (2) Henry Alfred Collett whose
birth was recorded during the third quarter of 1916 at Mutford (Ref. 4a 2022) who
died shortly after on 5th July 1916 and was buried at Lowestoft
Cemetery, his death recorded at Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 1009) during
that same quarter of the year
The next was (3) John Christian George Collett his
birth also recorded at Mutford (Ref. 4a 1937) during the third quarter of 1923.
He was two years old when he died on 20th February 1926 after which
he was buried with his brothers at Lowestoft Cemetery. His death was recorded at Mutford (Ref. 4a
1276) during the first three months of 1926.
The next was (4) Noel John William Collett, his birth recorded at
Mutford (Ref. 4a 1646) during the first three months of 1932 when later that
same year his death was recorded at Mutford (Ref. 4a 1025) during the third
quarter of 1932. The last of the
unfortunately children not to survive was (5) Myrtle Rose Collett whose birth
was recorded at Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 1703) during the second
quarter of 1934. It was on 1st
June 1934 that she died and was buried at Lowestoft Cemetery and her death
recorded at Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 1248) during the same second
quarter of 1934. On all of the occasions
of the registering of the birth of the above children, the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Burden.
18R99 - Jack Henry Frank
Collett was born in 1914 at Lowestoft; infant death
18R100 - Irene
Laura B Collett was
born in 1915 at Lowestoft
18R101 - Henry Alfred Collett
was born in 1916 at Lowestoft; infant death
18R102 - Edward Henry William Collett was born in 1917 at
Lowestoft
18R103 - Francis
Robert Charles Collett was born in 1919 at Lowestoft
18R104 - Hazel Hilda Collett was born in 1920 at Lowestoft
18R105 - John Christian George
Collett was born in 1923 at Lowestoft; infant death
18R106 - Harold G
Collett was
born in 1925 at Lowestoft
18R107 - Raymond
Lewis Collett was
born in 1926 at Lowestoft
18R108 – Douglas N E Collett was born in 1929 at
Lowestoft
18R109 – Violet L
Collett was born in 1930 at
Lowestoft
18R110 – Noel John William Collett was born in
1932 at Lowestoft; infant death
18R111 - Myrtle Rose Collett was born in 1934
at Lowestoft; infant death
18R112 – Dorothy R E
Collett was in 1935 at
Lowestoft
Alice
Mary Collett [18Q149] was born at Willow Marsh Lane in Yoxford on 9th
July 1895, the eldest daughter of John and Anna Collett, whose birth was
recorded at Blything (Ref. 4a 970) during the third quarter of 1895. Probably because she came from a large family,
by the time of the census in 1901, Alice Collett aged five years and from
Yoxford, was a visitor at the Great College Street home in St Pancras of her
married aunt Sarah Smith nee Collett, her father’s older sister. She continued to live with her aunt, who had
no children of her own, but adopted a son, and in 1911 Alice Collett was 16 and
from Reydon (sic) in Suffolk, when the three of them were residing at 172
Sirdar Road in Noel Park, Wood Green, the home of William Smith and his wife Sarah
Smith nee Collett. Alice retained her
London connection later in her life after she had married Lewis John Block by
banns at St Margaret’s Church in Lowestoft on 24th May 1926, with
whom she had three children. The
original marriage certificate was later amended because of false information
provided by Lewis. The information used
on the first occasion stated that John Lewis Block was 36, a bachelor and a
machinist, the son of John Block a diamond polisher. Both he and Alice gave their address as 217
Raglan Street in Lowestoft, which was the home of her older brother John W G
Collett (above) during the 1930s and perhaps even the 1920s. Alice Mary Collett, a spinster at 30 years of
age, with no occupation, was the daughter of John Christian George Collett, a
labourer. One of the witnesses was
Alice’s aforementioned brother John W G Collett, while the groom signed the
parish record as Lewis John Brock
The first error was noticed on the day of their
wedding when, in the margin, was written “Column 2 should read Lewis John”. Under that, but dated 23rd
September 1930 was the following note: “In Entry No. 402, Column 7, for John
Block read William Abram Block and in Column 8 for diamond polisher read hair
dresser, sign by Grant Morgan Rector in the presence of F W Osborne, superintendent
registrar, and witnessed by J Hadenham & James G Warner.” The couple’s wedding day was recorded at
Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 2506) during the second quarter of 1926. Lewis was born at Islington in London and was
the son of William Abraham and Emily Block of Tottenham. It is interesting that, in 1954 at Wood Green, Clifford James Collett
[18R95] married Margaret R Block
By 1939 the family
was living at 206 Windsor Avenue in Uxbridge, where Lewis J Block was a wood
machinist working in the cabinet making business, whose date of birth was 18th
September 1894. His wife Alice M Block
was 44, when the details for only one of the three children living with the
couple were available to view, the other three being redacted and officially
closed. Irene W
Block was attending school aged ten years, her date of
birth recorded as 3rd October 1928, with her birth recorded at
Hackney register office (Ref. 1b 510).
She suffered a premature death at the age of 21, when her death was
recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 5f 99) during the last quarter of 1949. The couple’s other two children were (2) Lewis
John O Block his birth recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 122)
during the third quarter of 1931, and (3) Hannah M V R Block whose birth
was also recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 176) during the third quarter of 1939. Their mother was 60 years of age when she
died, the death of Alice M Block register at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 5f
125) during the fourth quarter of 1955.
The later death of Lewis John Block was recorded at the London Borough
of Hillingdon register office (Ref. 5c 954) during the first three months of
1973
Annie
Elizabeth Collett [18Q150] was born at Willow Marsh Lane in Yoxford on 4th
April 1897 with his birth recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 960)
during the second quarter of the year.
She was the third child of John and Anna Collett and was four years old
in the census of 1901 when living with her family at Yoxford. She was 14 in 1911 when Annie from Yoxford
was living with her family at Westleton, not far from Yoxford. Towards the end of the First World War, the
marriage of Annie Elizabeth Collett and William Alexander was recorded at
Blything register office (Ref. 4a 2099) during the first the months of 1918. William was born at Ipswich in 1896 and was
the son of William Alexander of Stonham Aspal and his wife Harriet. The marriage never produced any children for
Annie and William although they did raise the base-born daughter of Annie’s
younger sister Elizabeth Collett (below), Queenie Doreen Collett. Sadly, Annie only lived a relatively short
life when she died in 1933 aged 36, the death of Annie Elizabeth Alexander
recorded at Ipswich register office (Ref. 4a 912) during the third quarter of
that year. Many years later the death of
widower William Alexander was recorded at Blyth register office (Ref. 4b 750)
during the first quarter of 1957, when he was said to be 67 when he was 62
William
Saunders Collett [18Q151] was born at Willow Marsh Lane in Yoxford on 22nd
October 1898, his birth recorded at Blything (Ref. 4a 981). He was another son of John and Anna Collett
and was two years old in the 1901 Census when he was living with his family at
Yoxford. Ten years later, when William
from Yoxford was 12 years old, he and his family had just moved to nearby Westleton. Twenty years later, during the last three
months of 1931, the marriage of William Saunders Collett and Laura Agnes Crisp
was recorded at Plomesgate register office (Ref. 4a 2639). Laura was born at Darsham in Suffolk, the youngest
child of Jonah Crisp, a corn millers carter of Darsham, and his wife Emma, her
birth recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1103) during the second
quarter of 1902. The marriage of William
and Laura produced three children, whose births confirmed that their mother’s
maiden-name was Crisp. After eight years
together, the couple was living at Cheney Lane within the Blyth registration
district of Suffolk, where William S Collett was 40 years of age and working as
a stockman carrying out heavy duties on a farm
His wife Laura A Collett had been born on 29th
March 1902 and, by that time in their life, William and Laura had two children,
with the details for the first of them having been redacted and officially
closed. The younger one was Clive R
Collett whose date of birth was confirmed as 18th October 1938, so
was just under a year old. It was five
years later that their last child was birth, the birth recorded at Ipswich,
where the birth of the second had also been recorded. The later death of William Saunders Collett
was recorded at Ipswich register office (Vol. 10 2702) during the spring of
1975, at the age of 76. It was at Chapel
Cottage in Darsham that he died on 3rd May 1975, after which his
Will was proved at London on 28th July 1975. For the last fifteen years of his life, he
had been a widower following the death of Laura Agnes Collett which was
recorded at Blyth register office (Ref. 4b 710) during the last three months of
1959, when she was 57. Administration of
her estate was granted in London on 15th March 1960 to William
Saunders Collett, a farm labourer, in the sum of £1,064 1 Shilling and 7
Pence. That process revealed that she
too died at Chapel Cottage in Darsham, on 28th December 1959
18R113 - Roy William
Collett
was born in 1932 at Blythburgh, near Southwold
18R114 - Clive Rex
Collett
was born in 1938 at Ipswich
18R115 - Gordon Daniel
Collett
was born in 1944 at Ipswich
Elizabeth
Cissie May Collett [18Q152] was born at Willow Marsh Lane in Yoxford on 31st
May 1900, her birth recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1039) during
the third quarter of the year, and was under one year old on the day of the
census in 1901. It was as Cissie Collett
from Yoxford, aged ten years, that she was living with her family at Westleton
in 1911, when the census return confirmed that she had been born at Yoxford. When she was in her mid-teenage years, she
conceived a child that was born when she was 17. Once the family discovered she was with-child
she was sent away to Bulcamp Workhouse in Blythburgh, six miles north of
Yoxford, with her base-born daughter given .
The birth of Queenie D Collett was recorded at
Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1500) during the last quarter of 1918, when
the child’s mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. The father of the child was never determined
and once born, the child was passed to Elizabeth’s older sister Annie (above)
to be brought up by her and her husband William Alexander as they had no
children of their own. A little over two
years after giving up her daughter, the marriage of Elizabeth C M Collett and Jack
E Reeve was recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 2173) during the
first three months of 1921. Jack Edwards
Reeve was baptised at Southwold on 27th December 1900, the son of John
Edwards Reeve and Matilda Moore.
Curiously, when Jack was four months old (in the 1901 census) he
was a boarder with Samuel and Annabella Woodgate at 86 High Street in Southwold,
who had adopted him by 1911. Once
married, Jack and Elizabeth moved to Chatham in Kent, where Elizabeth gave
birth to four daughters
By the time of the 1939 Register, just three
children were living at 138a Ordnance Street in Chatham with their mother, Jack
perhaps already absent due to the impending war. Elizabeth C M Reeve was 39, Dorothy Hazel
A Reeve was a shop assistant in a provisions and grocery store, her date of
birth being 4th October 1921, Ivy Winifred Constance Reeve
was a domestic, most likely helping her mother, and her date of birth was 8th
April 1923. The details for the third
child were redacted due to the child still being alive when the document was made
available for the public to read. She
would have been Pamela E Reeve born early in 1935, who later married
Michael Morse. The absent daughter was Violet
May Reeve, born in 1930 who later married Peter Noble. From other details it is known that Dorothy married
Alfred Hatt, with Ivy marrying Edward King.
The later death of Elizabeth Cissie M Reeve was recorded at Chatham
register office (Vol. 16 0530) during the first quarter of 1978 at the age of
77.
18R116 – Queenie Doreen Collett was born in 1918 at
Suffolk
Francis Ernest James Collett [18Q153] was
born on 16th October 1901 at Willow Marsh Lane in Yoxford, when his
birth was recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1097) during the last
quarter of the year. He was nine years
of age in the Westleton census of 1911, to where his parents John and Anna had
recently moved. Francis from Yoxford
eventually left Suffolk and moved north to live in Scotland where he worked as
a marine engineer. It was while at
Rosehearty near Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire that he married the widow Jemima
Ritchie. Jemima’s first husband had been
a fisherman and died when he was lost at sea while working out of
Rosehearty. It was through Jemima’s work
as a fish processor that she met Francis and by which time she had a child from
her previous marriage. The couple, with
Francis’ stepdaughter, continued to live at Rosehearty after they were married,
and it was there that their three children were born
18R117 - John
Collett was
born in 1930 at Rosehearty, Scotland
18R118 - Ivy
Collett was
born in 1936 at Rosehearty, Scotland
18R119 - Francis Ernest James Collett was born in 1942 at Rosehearty,
Scotland
Violet
Hazel Collett [18Q154] was born on 1st June 1903 at Willow Marsh Lane
in Yoxford, with her birth recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1145)
during the third quarter of that year. When
she was only one or two years old, her family moved two miles east of Yoxford
to Westleton, where they were living in 1911, when Violet was eight years old. In the 1939 Register, Violet H Collett was 36
years old and was a general domestic servant at The Bungalow on The Hill in
Blythe. It was four years later when Violet
Hazel Collett from Yoxford married Gerald Ronald William Earrye, their wedding
recorded at Blythe register office (Ref. 4a 2765) during the third quarter of
1943. His surname was originally Eary
and it was Gerald’s father, William James Eary - who was born at Lavenham
around 1883, who changed the name to Earrye, prior to his marriage to Ethel
Janet Moore from London. They were
married during the second quarter of 1805 at Wangford, Suffolk, where the birth
of Gerald Earrye was recorded on 14th September 1910. The census in 1911 placed the Earrye family
as residing at Bungay in Suffolk when William was 26, Ethel was 23 and Gerald
was six months old
The marriage of Violet Hazel Collett and Gerald
Ronald William Earrye produced a daughter, Gloria May Janet Earrye, who
was born at Sudbury in Suffolk where her birth was recorded (Ref. 4b 1835) during
the second quarter of 1947 when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Collett. Sadly, six years later Violet
Hazel Earrye nee Collett was only 49 when she died at Sudbury, where her death
was recorded (Ref. 4b 868) during the second quarter of 1953, the cause of
death being cancer. From that time
onwards her daughter was cared for by Gerald’s sister. By the time of the death of Gerald Earrye at
Newmarket, at the age of 76, during August 1987, his daughter Gloria had been
married to John M Arbon for over fifteen years, their marriage recorded at
Ipswich register office (Ref. 4b 2184) during the first three months of 1972
Our thanks go to Pat Watson nee Earrye who, in
early 2016, made contact regarding Gerald and his father William, and it was
the brief details that she kindly provided which enable a more detailed
investigation into their lives to be undertaken and from which resulted in the
insertion of the above information. Pat
has also generously extended an offer of help to anyone carrying out research
into the Eary/Earrye/Earey family name
Ivy Sarah
Collett [18Q155] was
born on 11th September 1906 after her family had moved the two-miles
from Yoxford to Westleton. Her birth was
recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1077) during the fourth quarter
of that year. As simply Ivy Collett, she
was four years old in the Westleton census of 1911, where her parents remained
for the rest of their life. The later marriage
of Ivy Sarah Collett and Herbert James Spindler was recorded at Blything register
office (Ref. 4a 2825) during the last three months of 1927. Herbert was also from Westleton and his
marriage with Ivy produced only one child for the couple, Herbert James
Spindler who was born at Westleton in 1928.
However, following the birth, Ivy suffered badly with post-natal
depression from which she never recovered
Eleven years after the birth, the 1939 Register
identified the three members of the family residing within the Blyth area, at
Hulver Hill, where Herbert J Spindler was a builder’s labourer and a member of
the observer corps. His date of birth
was recorded as 6th November 1892, making him nearly fourteen years
old that his wife, Ivy S Spindler being 33 compared to Herbert who was 46. The details for their son were unfortunately
redacted. From sometime after that time,
and due to her failing mental health, she spent her life in St Audrey’s Hospital
at Melton near Woodbridge. where she died.
The death of Ivy Sarah Spindler was recorded at Deben register office (Vol.
10 2743) during the first three months of 1982.
Prior to 1916, St Audrey’s Hospital was the former East Suffolk County
Lunatic Asylum. The earlier death of her
husband was recorded at Hartismere register office (Vol. 10 2341) during the
last quarter of 1977, when Herbert James Spindler was 84 years old. Herbert James Spindler junior died in
Cheshire on 6th March 2014, having married Barbara Rosina Smith in
1953
Robert
Charles Collett [18Q156] was born at Westleton on 10th April 1908, his
birth recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1124) during the second
quarter of the year. He was two years of
age when he and his family were living Westleton in 1911. He was the youngest son of John and Ann
Collett and his later marriage to Rachel Violet Goodchild, born on 4th
March 1912, was recorded at Blyth register office (Ref. 4a 5267) during the
fourth quarter of 1939. Just prior to
their wedding day, according to the 1939 Register, Rachel was 27 years of age
when she was working as a paid domestic servant at the Holmwood, Blyth home of
elderly widow Annie Cuthbert. Their
marriage produced three sons for the couple, with all three births recorded at
Blyth register office, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Goodchild. The death of Robert Charles
Collett was recorded at Deben register office, just south of Woodbridge (Vol.
7431 26c) during the spring of 2000.
Three years prior to that, the death of Rachel Violet Collett was
recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds register office (Vol. 7421b b17d) in early 1997,
her birth recorded at Blything (Ref. 4a 2017) eighty-five years earlier
18R120 – Gerald F Collett was born in 1941 at
Blyth
18R121 – Graham R Collett was born in 1945 at
Blyth
18R122 – David John Collett was born in 1947 at
Blyth
Lilian
Emma Collett [18Q157] was born at Westleton on 19th May 1910 where her
family was living in 1911, when Lillian was ten months old. She was another child of John Christian
George Collett and Anna Meadows, and her birth was recorded at Blything
register office (Ref. 4a 1097) during the second quarter of 1910. Lilian was a member of the Girl Guides and it
was while with the guides that she picked up a splinter in her finger which
turned septic. The resulting blood
poisoning was listed as the cause of her death on 2nd February 1922. The death of Lilian E Collett was recorded at
Ipswich register office (Ref. 4a 1507) during the first three months of that
year
Claude
Victor Collett [18Q158] was born on 26th March 1912 at Westleton, his
birth recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 2019), when his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Meadows, the eleventh known child of John and Anna Collett. The marriage of Claude Victor Collett and Bessie
Helena Harmer, not of full age, took place towards the end of 1934, and was
recorded at the Norfolk’s Henstead register office (Ref. 4b 329) during the
first three months of 1935. Bessie’s
birth was recorded at Henstead register office (Ref. 4b 334) during the second
quarter of 1916. They had two children
who were both born while the couple was living at The Old Mill House in
Westleton. It was at the second of the
four St Helena’s Cottages in Westleton that the family of four was living in
the 1939 Register. Claude V Collett was 27
and a forest worker and warrener, Bessie H Collett was looking after the
family’s domestic duties, when Thelma J Collett was four years old and under
school age. The details for their son
John were redacted. Sometime later, Claude
and Bessie moved to Norfolk, when the death of Claude V Collett was recorded at
Norwich register office (Vol. 10 1891) at the end of 1991.
18R123 -
Thelma June Collett
was born in 1935 at Westleton
18R124 -
John Victor Collett
was born in 1937 at Westleton
Louisa
May Collett [18Q159] was
born at Westleton on 16th March 1913 another daughter of John and
Anna Collett, whose birth was recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a
2157) during the second quarter of the year.
Her later marriage to Leslie Arthur Harper, by whom she had three
children, was recorded at Blyth register office (Ref. 4a 3649) during the third
quarter of 1935. Leslie had been born on
11th November 1914, his birth recorded at Blything register office
(Ref. 4a 1982) during the last quarter of the year. Four years after their wedding day, the
couple had already completed their family and had three children living with
them in the second of the two West Cottages on Yoxford Road within the Blyth
area. However, on the day the 1939
Register was compiled, Louisa’s husband was away from home, living Louisa M
Harper aged 26 as a housewife, with Brian Arthur Harper who had been
born on 27th December 1935 and described as under school age. The details of her other two child were
redacted, when they would be Maurice R Harper aged two years, and Beryl
who was born around six-nine months prior to the 1939 Register. Louisa May Harper, nee Collett, died in 1990
with her passing recorded at Waveney register office (Vol. 10 2693), when she
was 77. Sixteen years after the death of
his wife, Leslie Arthur Harper passed away during October 2006, his death
recorded at Deben (Vol. 34c 006). One of
their daughters, Beryl May Harper, later married Christopher Scott. They in turn, had a daughter of their own,
Jane Scott who, as Jane Clements, provided valuable details of her family that
enabled this family line to be updated during the early years of the
twenty-first century
Dorothy Vera Collett [18Q160] was born at Westleton on 8th October 1914, the
last child of John Christian George Collett and Anna Meadows. Her birth was recorded
at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1977), when her mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Meadows. She married
Jack E Brabbin during the fourth quarter of 1937, the event recorded at Blyth
register office (Ref. 4a 2991). Their
marriage eventually produced two children for the couple, although they were
born after the 1939 Register was put together.
Within that, Jack E Brabbin was a road transport driver carrying heavy
goods and passengers, with his date of birth recorded as 22nd
September 1903. Dorothy V Brabbin was
undertaking unpaid domestic duties at their Mildenhall home at St Helens
Cottage. Many years later, the death of
Dorothy Vera Brabbin was recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds on 17th October
2007 at the age of 93
Laurina
Sarah Mary Collett [18Q161] was born at Southtown, Gorleston-on-Sea, on 1st
October 1884, her birth being recorded at Mutford (Ref. 4a 930) during the
fourth quarter of that year. She was the
eldest child of Charles George Collett and Lavinia Ann Howlett and was baptised
at Lowestoft on 26th October 1884 when her father was a cow man,
with the family living at Southtown. In
the census of 1891, she was listed with her family at 8 Common Lane in
Gorleston as Sarah Mary Collett who was six years old, while ten years later
she was 16, when she was named in the 1901 census as Lavinia Collett. Just under eight years after that census day,
the marriage of Laurina S M Collett and William Ernest Killett Halfnight was
recorded at Yarmouth register office (Ref. 4b 10) during the first quarter of
1919. William was born on 20th
February 1885 and baptised on 21st June that year at Gorleston. Their two Farnham, Surrey, born children were Lorna
G S Halfnight born in 1921 and Victor W Halfnight who was born in
1922, where their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. Many years later, the death of Laurina S M
Halfnight, nee Collett, was recorded at Greenwich (Ref. 5a 427) during the last
three months of 1967, aged 83. Her Will
was proved at London on 4th January 1968, when her estate was valued
at £606, the probate process confirming that she died on 11th
November 1967 at her home address of 17 Craylands Main Road in St Pauls Cray,
Orpington. Her husband William died
shortly thereafter, his death recorded at Chelsea register office (Ref. 5a
1428) during the second quarter of 1970, when he was 85. His Will, estimated to be worth £6,853 was
proved at London on 13th July 1970 following him dying at 65 Chorley Wood
Crescent in St Pauls Cray, Orpington on 12th April 1970
Lionel
Charles George Collett [18Q162] was born at Southtown, Gorleston-on-Sea, on 26th
February 1886, his birth was recorded at Mutford (Ref. 4a 927b) during the
first three months of 1886. He was the
second child and the eldest son of cow keeper Charles Collett and his wife Lavinia
Anna, whose abode when Lionel was baptised on 28th March 1886, was
Southtown. Following the birth of his
brother Albert early in 1891, it would appear that Lionel was sent to live with
his grandparents to allow his mother to spend more time with the new arrival. Certainly, in the census that year he was
staying them at East Marsh Road in Burgh Castle, when he was recorded in error
as George L Collett, who was five years old.
By the time the next census was conducted in 1901, grandsons Lionel and
his younger brother Bertie (below), were two of the children of Charles
and Lavinia who were living with their paternal grandparents Charles and Mary
Collett at 11 Common Road in Great Yarmouth. On that occasion, he was simply described as
Lionel Collett from Gorleston who was 15 and a cattle man working on a local
farm. After a further ten years he was recorded
as Lionel C G Collett from Southtown aged 25 and a milkman working on a farm, and
a boarder at Marsh House in Southtown the home of William Moore, a retired
cow-keeper from Marsham, Norfolk who was 76.
Also still living and working with Lionel in 1911 was his younger
brother Bertie Collett
It was just over eighteen months later, on 12th
December 1912 at All Saints Church in Filby, just north of Yarmouth, that
Lionel Charles G Collett married Rosa Elizabeth Hubbard, their wedding recorded
at the Flegg register office (Ref. 4b 93).
Rosa had been born at Filby, Yarmouth, on 29th March 1891 and
was baptised on 28th June 1891, the daughter of carter William
Hubbard and his wife Louis June Hubbard of Filby. In the census of 1911, she was listed as Rose
E Hubbard, aged 20 and from Yarmouth, who was living and working there at that
time. The 1939 Register revealed that
the couple and their unmarried daughter were living at 66 Victoria Road in
Great Yarmouth, where Lionel was 53 and a dairyman, his wife Rosa was a dairy
helper, and their daughter Joan was a shorthand typist. At the time of the death of his widowed
mother, Lionel and Rosa were living at 24 Albany Road in the Southtown district
of Yarmouth where, certainly, their first child was born, perhaps even the
second one, six years later. Lionel
Charles George Collett died at 66 Victoria Road in Great Yarmouth on 24th
June 1946 (Ref. 4b 27), where his Will was proved on 1st March 1947,
when his widow Rosa Elizabeth Collett, was named as the sole executive of his
estate. His body was laid to rest at
Caister Cemetery who he was 60 years old.
After that sad event, it was his son Kenneth who inherited the family
business of L Collett Dairies, which Lionel had established over many years. After thirty years as a widow, the death of
Rosa Elizabeth Collett was recorded at Great Yarmouth register office (Vol. 10
1175) during the third quarter of 1977.
It was at Gorleston Nursing Home where she died, and from there she was
buried on 6th October 1977 in Great Yarmouth Cemetery at the age of
86. Her Will was proved at Ipswich on 16th
February 1978 for £30,276, the probate process confirmed that her home address
was 41 Lynn Grove, Gorleston-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth, and that she passed away
on 29th September 1977
18R125 - Kenneth
Lionel Collett was
born in 1915 at Southtown
18R126 - Joan
Evelyn Collett was
born in 1921 at Southtown
Bertie Herbert
Victor Collett [18Q163] was born in the Southtown, Gorleston-on-Sea, on 16th
September 1887, his birth recorded at Mutford (Ref. 4a 926) during the last
three months of 1887. Just over one
month later, he was baptised at Gorleston parish church using all three
forenames on 23rd October 1887, the son of dairyman Charles Collett
and his wife Lavinia Anna of Gorleston. He
was recorded with his family at 8 Common Road in Great Yarmouth in 1891, when Bertie
H V Collett was three years old.
However, as his family increased in size, Bertie and his older brother
Lionel (above) were sent to live with their Collett grandparents at
Common Road in Great Yarmouth, where grandson Bertie Collett was 13 years old
but with no stated occupation in 1901. The
same two brothers were still together in 1911, when they were both boarders at
Southtown, the home of the Moore family, where Bertie Collett of Southtown was 23
and a cowman on a farm, with his brother being a milkman on a farm. It was at St Martin’s Church in New Buckenham
on 10th October 1911 that the first of Bertie’s two marriages was
conducted. The groom was recorded under
his full name and was 24, a yardman living at 21 Burnt Lane in Gorleston, the
son of Charles George Collett, a labourer.
His bride (1) Gertrude Esther Bridges had been born and baptised at New
Buckenham, where she was still living on their wedding day. She was 21 years of age, with no occupation,
when her father was named as labourer Thomas Beales, who may have been her
mother’s husband. Horace was also one of
the witnesses, the other being Selina Maud Bridges. Their wedding was recorded at the Thetford
Wayland register office (Ref. 4b 707) during the last quarter of 1911, and their
only child was born just over nine months after their wedding day. On being baptised in October 1912, the family
was living at 53 Trafalgar Road East in Gorleston-on-Sea, where Charles was a
yardman
Gertrude was the base-born child of unmarried
Emma Bridges of New Buckenham in Norfolk, where she was baptised on 5th
April 1891 following her birth on 13th May 1890. By 1939 the couple was living at 162 Bowthorpe
Road in the County Borough of Norwich, where Bertie was a gardener at the age
of 51, and Gertrude was 49. Two years
later, Gertrude was 51 when her death was recorded at Norwich (Ref. 4b 264)
during the third quarter of 1941. One
year after being widowed, Bertie H V Collett was 55 years old when he married (2)
Maud Queenie Powley at Norwich (Ref. 4b 332) during the third quarter of
1942. Three years earlier Maud Queenie
Powley was living with her parents at 7 Henderson Road in Norwich, where she
was working as a packer and her date of birth was 5th April 1915,
and her parents were Harry Powley and Maud Powley. They were married for almost twenty years when
the death of Bertie Herbert V Collett was recorded at Norwich register office (Vol.
10 2069) towards the end of 1980. Maud
passed away near the end of the century, when she died at Norwich in March
1999, at the age of 83
18R127 - Hettie Lourina Maud Collett was born in 1912 at Gorleston
Albert
Edward Sydney Collett [18Q164] was born at Southtown, Gorleston-on-Sea, on 27th
August 1890, his birth recorded at Mutford (Ref. 4a 916) in the third quarter
of that year, the fourth child of Charles and Lavinia Collett. He was baptised in the parish church of
Gorleston-with-Southtown on 24th September 1890, when he and his
family was living at Gorleston, when his father was a dairyman. He was seven months old in the census the
following years when, Albert Edward Sydney Collett and part of his family was
living at 8 Common Road in Great Yarmouth.
It was as Sidney Collett, aged 10 years and born at Southtown, that he
was listed with his family at the High Road in Great Yarmouth in 1901. By 1911 he was one of only two children still
living at the home his parents at 21 Burnt Lane in Southtown, Yarmouth. At that time in his life, he was recorded as
Albert Edward Sidney Collett from Gorleston Great Yarmouth, aged 20, who was
employed as a wooden box and crate maker within the box makers’ trade. It is also known that he was residing at 34
Highfield Terrace in Southtown in 1915, when his mother passed away and that,
on joining the Middlesex Regiment in 1916, he gave his next-of-kin as his
eldest brother Lionel Collett (above).
He eventually transferred to 338 Regiment of the Home Service and, later
still, to 337 Regiment of the H S Works Company. The marriage of Albert E S Collett and Laura
M Mills was recorded at Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 27) during the first quarter of 1935,
Laura having a son from her first marriage
The 1939 Register recorded the childless couple
living at 70 Century Road (Southtown) Great Yarmouth, when Sidney A E Collett
was 48 and working as a box-maker and wood machinist. Living with the couple was Edwin Mills, a
textile hosiery machine operator, whose date of birth was 27th July
1919. His mother Laura M Collett gave
her date of birth as 1st June 1887 (?). Albert was still living in the Great Yarmouth
area when he died in 1965, his death recorded there during the third quarter of
that year (Ref. 4b 497)
Curiously, although his home address was still
70 Century Road in Great Yarmouth, it was at Winchester Cemetery in Hampshire that
he was buried on 4th August 1965, at the age of 74. His Will was proved at Norwich on 10th
November 1965 to Laura May Collett, a widow, in the sum of £1,091. The documentation also confirmed that he was
living at 70 Century Road, Southtown, Great Yarmouth when he died on 30th
July 1965. The name on his Will was
Sidney Albert Edward Collett, the same as in the 1939 Register, which would
indicate he had chosen Sidney as his preferred forename. It was during the fourth quarter of 1979 that
the death of Laura May Collett of 70 Century Road, was recorded at Great
Yarmouth (Vol. 10 1179). Unlike her late
husband, Laura was cremated on 14th November following her passing
on 8th November 1979 at the age of 82, when her ashes were interred
at Great Yarmouth Crematorium
18R128 –
Ann Collett born at Acle, Norfolk in 1942 was not their daughter
– see 18S29
Grace
Nellie Kate Collett [18Q165] was born at Southtown, Gorleston-on-Sea, on 5th
March 1893, the last child of Charles George Collett and Lavinia Ann
Howlett. Her birth was registered at
Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 36) during the second quarter of that year. It was at the parish church of
Gorleston-with-Southtown that she was baptised on 10th May 1893,
when her father was a cow keeper at Gorleston. It is more than likely that she was born at 8
Common Lane in Gorleston where her family was living in April 1891, although
her birth was recorded at Yarmouth register office during the second quarter of
1892. Grace was eight years old in 1901
and was still living with her parents and brother Albert (above) at 21
Burnt Lane in Southtown, Yarmouth in 1911 when she was listed under her full
name of Grace Nellie Kate Collett. By
that time in her life, she was 18 and was employed as a domestic servant. It would be reasonable to assume that she
married during the next decade, although no further details of her life are
available at this time
Gladys was still a single lady by 1939, when
the Register that year revealed she was a parlourmaid at a large house on
Ravenhill, off Summerhill in Chislehurst, Kent, the residence of chartered
accountant Cecil W Atkins and his wife Edna.
Gladys’ date of birth was again confirmed as 5th March
1893. The later death of Grace Nellie
Kate Collett was recorded at Croydon register office (Ref. 5a 1840) during the
second quarter of 1972. She was
subsequently cremated with her ashes buried at Greenwich Crematorium on 22nd
May 1972, following her passing on 14th May 1972. Administration of her personal estate, valued
at £4,586, was granted at London on 14th August 1972, but with no
named beneficiary. However, it did state
that she died on 14th May at the Coulsdon Hospital, which was very
likely the Cane Hill Hospital in Coulsdon, which was the third Surrey pauper
and lunatic asylum that closed during 1988
Lilian Emma Collett [18Q166] was born at Easton
Bevants (Southwold), the first-born child of John Collett and Louisa Clara
Haward. She was known as Lily and her
birth was recorded at Blything (Ref. 4a 868) during the fourth quarter of 1892. As Lily Collett, she was eight years old in
the Southwold census of 1901 when she and her family were residing at 42 Church
Street. On leaving school, Lily followed
the career path of a lot of young girls, by entering into domestic service,
with the lure of London where there was plenty of work to be had. According to the next census in 1911, she had
left Suffolk, when Lilian Collett from Southwold was 19 and a general domestic
servant for the Usher family at Friern Barnett within the Finchley, Middlesex, area
of London
Ellen Louisa Collett [18Q167] was born at Easton
Bevants in 1893, her birth recorded at Blything (Ref. 4a 903) during the last
quarter of the year. The family was
living at 42 Church Street in the Southwold census of 1901, when Ellen Collett
was seven years of age. She had left the
family home by 1911 and, on that census day, Ellen Collett aged 18 and from
Southwold, was a general domestic servant employed by electroplate manufacturer
George Gates Honour and his family at a large 9-roomed property ‘Slanecroft’ in
Muswell Hill, London. Six years later,
Nellie L Collett married the much younger Charles E Simpson at Southwold in
1917, the event recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1881) during the
second quarter of 1917. The birth of
Charles Edward Simpson was recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1053)
during the second quarter of 1900. Their
son Charles William John Simpson was born in 1919, his birth recorded at
Blything (Ref. 4a 1399) during the first three months of that year
William John Collett
[18Q168] was born at Easton
Bevants on 16th February 1895, whose birth was recorded at Blything
(Ref. 4a 1010) during the first three months of that year. He was six years old in 1901 when, simply
John Collett, he and his family was recorded at 42 Church Street in Southwold,
although no record of him has been identified in 1911. His marriage to Emily
Plantagenet Plant was recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 3061)
during the third quarter of 1920, Emily’s birth having been recorded at
Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1022) during the third quarter of 1899. Their marriage produced three children and,
on reporting the names, the mother’s maiden-name in each case was confirmed as
Plant. The births
of the first two children were recorded at Blything and by the time their third
child was born, the family was living within the Lowestoft area
Four year later, the 1939 Register identified
Emily Collett living at 24 Wembley Avenue in Beecles, when she was 40 years of
age and the head of the household, William being absent when the register was
compiled. The details for her three
children were redacted and officially close.
The later death of William John Collett was recorded at Waveney register
office (Vol. 10 2839) towards the end of 1978, at the age 83. Afterwards, he was cremated at Great Yarmouth
Crematorium where his ashes were interred.
The service record for the event held on 4th December confirmed
that he had died on 28th November 1978 at his home at 24 Wembley
Avenue in Beccles. His widow was 90
years old when she died during April 1990, her death recorded at Waveney
register office (Vol. 10 3028). The Will
of Emily Plantagenet Collett of Chevington Lodge, 8 Flixton Road in Bungay,
where she died on 17th April 1990, was proved at Ipswich on 14th
May 1990, when her estate did not exceed £100,000
Their eldest daughter Cicely was 24 years of
age when she married Denis James Gruchy, the event recorded at Lothingland
register office (Ref. 2b 2434) during the third quarter of 1950. The couple had two children, the first of
them being their son Martin Clive Gruchy was born in 1954, his birth
also recording at Lothingland (Ref. 4b 1226), when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Collett. Their daughter was
born three years after, with the birth of Jacqueline D Gruchy was also
recorded at Lothingland (Ref. 4b 1308) in 1957.
Cicely’s husband, Denis was born on 27th October 1919, his
birth recorded at Depwade register office (Ref. 4b 383), and died on 11th
August 1991 and was cremated at Great Yarmouth Crematorium on 19th
August 1991, when his home address was 1 Temperance Place in Beccles. Administration of his estate was granted at
Ipswich on 12th November 1991 when it was said to be not exceeding
£125,000
18R129 - Herbert John
Collett was born in 1921 at Southwold
18R130 - Cicely M Collett was born in 1926 at
Southwold
18R131 - Hazel E Collett was
born in 1935 at Lowestoft
Edith
Florence Collett [18Q169] was born at Southwold on 3rd September 1896, the
daughter of John Collett of Ilketshall St Andrew and Louisa Clara Haward of
Reydon. Her birth was recorded at
Blything (Ref. 4a 972), while it was at Southwold that she was baptised on 11th
March 1897. It was at 42 Church Street
in Southwold that Edith, aged five years, was living with her parents in March
1901. Ten years later, in April 1911,
her parents were still living at Southwold in the Blything registration district,
where Edith Florence Collett of Southwold was recorded as being 14 years of
age.
She later married Alfred Davies during the
third quarter of 1916, the event recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a
2037), with whom she had three children.
The first of them was Alfred Ernest John Davies, who is pictured below
with his parents, the original photograph kindly provided by Edith’s great
grandson John Davies
Agnes Bessie Collett [18Q170] was born at Southwold on
3rd May 1903, another daughter of John and Louisa, her birth
recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1156) during the second quarter
of the year. There was nearly seven
years between Agnes and her older sister Edith, perhaps because her father may
have been involved in African Wars, or maybe there were child born during those
years, who did not survive. It may have
been at 42 Church Street in Southwold where Agnes was born, where her family
was living in 1901. Agnes Bessie Collett
was seven years old in the Southwold census of 1911. It was as Bessie A Collett that she married
Claude A Dawson in 1926, the event recorded at Blything register office (Ref.
4a 2814) during the third quarter of that year.
After forty-eight years together, the death of Agnes Bessie Dawson was
recorded at Ipswich (Volf. 10 2532) during the fourth quarter of 1974
Dorothy Mary Collett [18Q171] was born at Southwold on
6th March 1905, the sixth child of John and Louisa, when her birth
was recorded at Blything (Ref. 4a 1111) during the second quarter of the
year. She was six years old in 1911,
when still living in Southwold with her family.
The marriage of Dorothy M Collett and Charles L Gleed was recorded at
Ipswich register office (Ref. 4a 2677) during the third quarter of 1926. Their daughter Barbara B Gleed was
born on 24th October 1928, and was living with the couple in 1939 at
10-12 Tuddenham Avenue in Ipswich, where they operated the family dairy
business. Charles L Gleed was a master
dairyman who gave his date of birth as 9th January 1904, Dorothy M
Gleed was 34 and a dairy worker, and daughter Barbara was at school. Dorothy Mary Gleed was 85 when she died in
February 1991, with her death recorded at Ipswich register office (Ref. 10
3070)
Daisy Evelyn Gertrude Collett [18Q172] was born at Southwold
in 1907 and like all of her seven siblings, her birth was also recorded at
Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1096) during the third quarter of that
year. Under her full name, she was
recorded living with her family in Southwold in the census of 1911, when she
was three years old. She later married
Leonard J Ling, his wedding with Daisy G E Collett being recorded at Ipswich
(Ref. 4a 2942) during the second quarter of 1935. Later that same year, Daisy gave birth to
daughter Margaret Gwendoline Astrid Ling, her birth recorded at Ipswich
(Ref. 4a 1435). Leonard was born on 13th
July 1914 and, after forty years of being marriage, the death of Leonard James
Ling was recorded at Ipswich (Vol. 10 2586) during the second quarter of 1975
Roland Sidney George Collett [18Q173] was born at Southwold
on 23rd January 1909, the eighth and last child of John Collett and
Louisa Clara Haward. His birth was
recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1081) during the first quarter of
1909. In the Southwold census conducted
in April 1911, he was listed with his family using his full name, when he was
two years of age. No record of him ever
being married has been found, and it was at Poole in Dorset (Vol. 23 756),
where he was living, when he died on 19th December 1992, when he was
83. The death record gave his name as
Roland Sidney G Collett. His Will was
proved at Winchester on 30th March 1993, when it was stated that his
estate did not exceed £12,500 and that his address had been Vergamont, Baileys
Drive, in the Dorset village of Wool
Francis
William Charles Collett [18Q174] was born at Carlton Colville near Lowestoft on 21st
July 1890, his birth as Francis William C Collett recorded at Mutford (Ref. 4a
911) during the third quarter of that year.
It was at Carlton Colville that he was baptised on 17th
August 1890, the eldest child of Robert Collett and Lois (Louisa) Girling. It was as Francis W C Collett from Carlton
Colville, who was eight months old, that he was listed with his parents at 15
Carno Street in Wavertree, in the Liverpool census of 1891. By 1901 the family was living at 68 King
Street in Garston, South Liverpool, when William Collett from Carlton Colville
was 10 years of age. Following the death
of his father in June 1903, and the birth of his younger brother Robert in July
that same year, William Collett aged 20 and from Carlton in Suffolk, was living
with his widowed mother in 1911, when his occupation was that of a crane driver
at a bobbin works
Just over two years following that census day, again
simply as William Collett, his marriage following the reading of banns, to May
Davies of Liverpool was recorded during the third quarter of 1913 at the
Liverpool West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 660). Their wedding ceremony was conducted at St
Michael’s Church in Garston on 14th July 1913, when William was 22
and a crane driver, the son of labourer Robert Collett, deceased, who was
living at 97 Chesterton Street in Garston.
May was 21 with no occupation, the daughter of labourer Matthew Davies,
living at 10 Canterbury Street in Garston.
May Davies was baptised at Garston on 17th June 1894, the
daughter of collier Matthew and Mary Ellen Davies of Downell Green, North
Ashton, Wigan. By the time of the birth of the first of their five
children the couple was residing at 14 Canterbury Street in Garston, two doors
up the road from May’s parents. Tragically,
two of their sons suffered infant deaths when only one year old, having already suffered the loss
of their first-born child by then
At the start of the Second World War the family
was still living at 14 Canterbury Street in Garston when, according to the 1939
Register, William Collett was 49 and a labourer at the nearby Albert Docks, May
Collett’s date of birth was 3rd June 1893, when their two children
were Mary E Collett a shuttle finisher who had been born on 12th
April 1923, and Kenneth L Collett who was still at school, having been born on
26th April 1928. The family
was again living at 14 Canterbury Road when the death of William C F Collett,
aged 63, was recorded at Liverpool South register office (Ref. 10d 447) during
the last quarter of 1953. Upon being
buried at the Corporation of Liverpool Allerton Cemetery on 2nd
October 1953, his name was recorded as William Francis Charles Collett. May Collett, nee Davies, was 70 years old
when she died at Liverpool, where her death was recorded at the Liverpool South
register office during the first three months of 1965 (Ref. 10d 707). When the Will of May Collett was proved at
Liverpool on 1st April 1965 and valued at £2,204, it was her married
daughter Mary Elizabeth Howell, a married woman, who was the beneficiary. The documentation also confirmed that May died
at home, at 102 Lincoln Street in Liverpool, on 8th March 1965
18R132 – May Collett was born in 1915 at Garston, Liverpool
18R133 – William Collett was born in 1918 at Garston, Liverpool
18R134 – Harold Collett was born in 1920 at Garston, Liverpool
18R135 – Mary Elizabeth Collett was born in 1923 at Garston, Liverpool
18R136 – Kenneth Leonard Collett was born in 1928 at Garston, Liverpool
Norah
Collett [18Q175] was
born at Wavertree in Liverpool on 19th May 1892, and it may have
taken place at 15 Carno Street where her parents Robert and Lois Collett were
living in Wavertree at the time of the census in 1891. The birth of Norah Collett was recorded at the
West Derby (Liverpool) register office (Ref. 8b 624) during the third quarter
of that year, who was then baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Wavertree on 15th
June 1892, by which time her parents address was 22 Oak Street, and her
father’s job of work was that of a labourer.
When she was eight years old, on the day of the census in 1901, Norah
was not listed as living with her parents who, by then, were living at 68 King
Street in the Garston area of South Liverpool. Instead, Norah Collett from Wavertree was many
miles south, and living with her grandmother Lydia Ann Collett, nee Brighton,
and her second husband William Artis, at their Suffolk home at Rushmere
Road in Gisleham to the south of Lowestoft. Norah’s father died at Liverpool in 1903, so it
was the same situation for Norah after a further ten years when, in the census
of 1911, she was 18 years old and from Wavertree, when it she and her younger
sister Florence Collett (below) staying at the home of their grandmother
Lydia Artis at Rushmere village, just a mile south of where she and Norah had
been living in 1901. By that time Norah
was employed as a beatster, which is a shortened version of a drift fishing net
beatster, a person skilled at making and repairing fishing nets
The marriage of Norah Collett and Bertie Charles
Phillips was recorded at Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 2703) during the
third quarter of 1912. A month before
the end of that same year their son Bertie George Richard Phillips was
born on 22nd November 1912 while the couple was still in Suffolk. It was there also, that the family was living
when Norah presented Bertie with a daughter Sylvia C Phillips at the end
of 1914. Sometime thereafter, the family
then made their way back to Norah’s hometown of Liverpool. It was there at 105 Chesterton Road in
Garston that the couple and their son were living in 1939. The Register that year confirmed that Bertie
senior had been born on 29th April 1893 and was incapacitated in
some form or other, his wife Norah was 47 and an office cleaner, while Bertie
junior was a clerk working at an engineer’s store
Tragically, four years later, Bertie junior was
killed in action in Burma on 10th August 1943, when he was serving
with 13th Battalion of The King’s Infantry Regiment Liverpool. Norah’s husband was 54 when he died, his
death recorded at Liverpool South register office (Ref. 10d 591) during the
last quarter of 1947. Bertie Charles
Phillips of 105 Chesterton Road in Garston was buried at the Allerton cemetery
on 31st December 1947.
Administration of his estate estimated to be £138 18 Shillings was
granted at Liverpool on 7th May 1948 to Norah Phillips, a widow,
whose husband had died on 28th December 1947. The much later death of Norah Phillips was
recorded at Liverpool register office (Vol. 36 0579) during the first months of
1982, when she was 80 years old. Upon
being buried at the Liverpool Allerton Cemetery on 8th March 1982,
the burial record confirmed that her address was still 105 Chesterton Road in
Garston
Ethel
Maude Collett [18Q176] was born at Garston in Liverpool in 1895, when her birth was
recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 614) during the last three
months of the year. Later on, she was
baptised in joint ceremony with her younger brother Albert (below) at St
Michael’s Church in Garston on 1st March 1898, the children of
Robert and Lois Collett. By that time
her father was working as a labourer when the family was living at 3
Shakespeare Road in Garston, so it may have been there or the family’s previous
address at Oak Street in Garston where she was actually born. Ethel was five years old in the census of 1901
when she was living with her family at 68 King Street in Garston where she may
have been born
Albert
Collett [18Q177] was
born at 3 Shakespeare Road in Garston on 16th November 1897, the son
of Robert and Lois Collett, his birth recorded at West Derby register office
(Ref. 8b 662). For some reason the
baptism of his sister Ethel (above) had been delayed, so it was on 1st
March 1898 that both siblings were baptised at the Church of St Michael in the
Garston area of South Liverpool. On that
occasion his family was living at 3 Shakespeare Road but, by the time he was
two years old, they were living at 68 King Street in Garston in March
1901. Ten years later, and after the
premature death of his father in 1903, Albert Collett of Garston was 13, when
he was still living at Garston with his widowed mother, his older brother
William (above), and his youngest sibling Robert. On the census day, Albert was described as
being a school news-boy, most likely meaning that he was still attending
school, while also being a newspaper delivery boy
Seventeen years later, when Albert was nearly
31 years old, his marriage to Gertrude Harris was recorded at Liverpool
register office (Ref. 8b 45) during the last three months of 1928. Their wedding ceremony, following the reading
of banns, took place within St Michael’s Church in Garston on 17th
November 1928, when Albert was 31, a labourer living at 97 Chesterton Street in
Garston, the son of Robert Collett (deceased), a labourer. 97 Chesterton Street was the home of
Albert’s married brother Francis William Charles Collett (above). Gertrude was 30 and a spinster with no
occupation who was living at 61 York Street in Garston, the daughter of Thomas
Harris (deceased), a labourer. One of
the witnesses was Robert Collett, Albert’s youngest sibling (below)
Gertrude had been born at 102 York Street in
Garston on 13th December 1897 and was baptised at St Michael’s
Church on 25th January 1898, the daughter of Thomas Perkins Harris
and his wife Emily. It would appear that
Gertrude took over her own family home, possibly after her mother had passed
away, since it was at 61 York Street that she and Albert were recorded as
living in the 1939 Register. Albert
Collett was 42 and working as a pneumatic driller and constructional engineer
involved with heavy work, while Gertrude had been born on 13th
December 1897 in Liverpool and was also 42, undertaking unpaid domestic
duties. Completing the family was their
son, school boy Albert Collett junior was nine years of age. Gertrude Collett was 62 years old when she
died, her death recorded at Liverpool South register office (Ref. 10d 402)
during the third quarter of 1960. Her
burial record at Allerton Cemetery in Liverpool confirmed that she was residing
at 61 York Street when she passed away, and that she was buried on 18th
June 1960. Administration of her estate,
amounting to £147 19 Shillings and 9 Pence was granted at Liverpool on 15th
August 1960 to Albert Collett, a general labourer of 61 York Street in Garston,
where his wife died on 12th June 1960. He survived his wife by seventeen years, when
Albert Collett died early in 1978, with his death recorded at Liverpool (Vol.
36 0995) during the first months of that year
18R137 – Albert Robert Collett was born in 1929 at
Liverpool
Florence
May Collett [18Q178] was
born at 68 King Street in Garston, south Liverpool, with her birth recorded at
the Liverpool West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 660) during the second
quarter of 1900. She was baptised at St
Michael’s Church in Garston on 22nd July 1900, the youngest daughter
of dock labourer Robert Collett and his wife Lois Girling of 68 King Street. In March 1901, Florence was eleven months old
and was one of only four children still living with the family at 68 King
Street, Garston. At that time, her
missing older sister Norah Collett (above) was living in Suffolk with
her father’s widowed and remarried mother Lydia. Two years later, and following the death of
Florence’s father in 1903, the family was split up, with Florence travelling
south to Suffolk to live with her sister Norah at their paternal grandmother’s
house. According to the census of 1911,
Florence Collett, aged 10 and from Garston, was living at the Suffolk village
of Rushmere, just two miles from Carlton Colville where her eldest brother
Francis William Charles Collett had been born in 1890. On that occasion in 1911 Florence had with her,
sister Norah Collett from Wavertree in Liverpool who was 18. Both girls were described as the
granddaughters to the head of the household, widow Lydia Artis who was 72, a
widow (for the second time in her life) and an old age pensioner from
Ilketshall St Andrew
It is obvious, that perhaps on the event of
their grandmother’s death, the sisters returned to Liverpool, Norah already
married before they moved, with Florence May Collett marrying William Francis
Burnett by banns shortly after their return to the place of their birth. Their marriage was recorded at the West Derby
register office (Ref. 8b 664) during the third quarter of 1921. It was at St Michael’s Church that the
wedding ceremony was performed on 16th July 1921, six-days before
the anniversary of her being baptised there twenty-one years earlier. That detail was confirmed on their marriage
record, which also confirmed that spinster Florence May Collett, of 97
Chesterton Street in Garston, was the daughter of Robert Collett, deceased, a
coal trimmer. 97 Chesterton Street
was the home of Albert’s married brother Francis William Charles Collett
(above). William Francis Burnett was
26, a bachelor and an iron moulder, living at 2 Durham Street in Garston, the
son of Francis Burnett, deceased, a blacksmith.
One of the witnesses was Albert Collett, Florence’s older unmarried
brother (above)
Tragically, they were only married a fairly
short while, when the premature death of Florence May Burnett was recorded at
Liverpool register office (Ref. 8b 253) during the second quarter of 1931, at
the age of 31. She was buried at
Allerton Cemetery on 15th June 1931 from her home address at 6 Lyon
Street in Garston, when she was simply described as a married woman. William Francis Burnett was also baptised at
St Michael’s Church in Garston on 30th April 1895, the son of
Francis ad Mary Jane Burnett of 23 York Street in Garston. It was earlier that same year that his birth
had been recorded at Toxteth Park register office (Ref. 8b 250) during the
first three months of 1895. William was
later married for a second time, to Martha Ellen Wimpenny, and died at the age
of 66, at 72 Critchley Road in Liverpool, and was cremated on 14th
December 1961
Robert
Collett [18Q179] was born at 31 Salt Dock Cottages in Garston on 28th July 1903, where his father and namesake Robert Collett
died one month before he was born. The
birth of Robert Collett junior was recorded at the West Derby register office
(Ref. 8b 716) during the third quarter of 1903, and it was at St Michael’s
Church in Garston that he was baptised on 16th August 1903, the last
child of Robert and Lois Collett of 29 Salt Works in Garston. Robert was living with his widowed mother and
two brothers, William and Albert at Garston in 1911 while it was twenty-two
years after that census day that the marriage of Robert Collett and Alice
Marrion was recorded at Liverpool register office (Ref. 8b 63) during the
second quarter of 1933. Their first
child was born at the end of that same year.
The wedding was conducted after the reading of banns at St Michael’s
Church in Garston when Robert was 29, a bachelor, a labourer, and the son of
Robert Collett (deceased), who was living at 97 Chesterton Street in Garston,
the home of his married brother William.
Alice was 22 and the daughter of labourer George Marrion of 19 Vulcan
Street, one mile north of Albert Dock.
One of the witnesses was Albert Marrion, presumably Alice’s brother,
with the other being Sylvia Phillips who was the niece of the groom, being the
daughter of Robert’s married sister Norah Phillips, nee Collett (above)
Six years later, married Robert Collett was one
of two men living at 56 Lincoln Street in Garston, when he confirmed his date
of birth as that written above. At that
time, he was employed by the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company,
with whom he was a dock labourer and a trained capstan driver. The other was Donald Simpson who was born on 13th
March 1917 in Mansfield. Alice Collett
was recorded in the West Lancashire area that day, when she was undertaking
unpaid house duties, whose date of birth was 25th June 1910. Living there with her, at that same dwelling,
were three redacted entries, two of which would have been the couple’s first
two children, their third child born three years after. The births of all three children listed below
were recorded at Liverpool register office, all during the fourth quarter of
their respective years, and all confirmed as having a mother whose maiden-name
was Marrion
Robert was still living in Liverpool when he
died, with his death recorded at Liverpool register office (Vol. 36 0528)
during the spring of 1976, at the age of 72.
It was at Allerton Cemetery was he was laid to rest on 14th
April 1976, when his home address was 104 Lincoln Street in Garston. His Will was proved at Liverpool on 8th
June 1976 in the sum of £6,760. The
probate documentation differed from the burial record insofar as his address,
which was recorded as Crescent Lodge, Crescent Parade in the Speke area of
south Liverpool
18R138 – Vera Collett was born in 1933 at
Liverpool
18R139 – Hazel J Collett was born in 1936 at
Liverpool
18R140 – Barbara Collett was born in 1942 at
Liverpool
Hammond
Alexander Collett [18Q183] was born at Brentford on 8th April 1891, the
eldest child of Hammond Isaac Collett and Jessie Elizabeth Draper, his birth
registered at Brentford (Ref. 3a 101). He
was baptised on 3rd May 1891 and, following the birth and baptism at
Brentford of his brother William (below), the family settled in Chiswick.
It was also at Chiswick that the family
was living in 1901, when Hammond Collett was nine years old. Ten years later he was still there where
Hammond Alexander Collett was 19. Five
years later the marriage by banns of Hammond Alexander Collett, aged 25, and
Edith Lilian Louise Smith, aged 21, was recorded at Fulham register office
(Ref. 1a 687) towards the end of 1916.
The wedding took place at Christ Church on Studdridge Street in Fulham
on 19th November 1916, when both the bride and the groom gave their
current address as being 198 Stephendale Road (Sands End, Parson Green), just a
short walk from the church
At that time in his life, Hammond was a
bombardier with the RFA, the son of Hammond Collett, an engineer, while the
bride’s father was named as William Smith, who was a painter. The military records for Hammond Alexander
Collett confirm that he served as a gunner 42708 with the Royal Field Artillery
during the First World War and was later promoted to bombardier by the time he
was married. He survived the war and
received the Victory Medal, British War Medal, 1915 Star Medal and the Silver
War Medal. The last of these medals was
awarded to those men who were invalided out of the service due to an injury or
health problem caused by the war. The
London Gazette for 21st September 1916 includes the name of Hammond
Collett in a list of men who were awarded the Military Medal. That may indicate he was involved in the
Battle of the Somme
Edith Lilian Louise Smith was baptised at St
John’s Church in Chelsea on 21st April 1895, having been born a
month earlier on 23rd March 1895, the daughter of painter William
Smith and his wife Janie of 17 Luna Street. During the first fourteen years of their life
together, Edith presented Hammond with four children, two sons and two
daughters, their births all recorded at Fulham register office, when their
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Smith.
It was also at Fulham that all six members of the family were living in
1939. Unfortunately, the entries for the
two daughters had been redacted in the 1939 Register, which means that they
were still alive when the Register was available to view by the general
public. Of the other entries, Hammond
was a telephonist working for the London Telephone Company at the age of 48,
his wife Edith was 44, Alexander was 17 and a clerk in a coal office, and John
was 10 years and at school. Hammond and
Edith continued to reside in Fulham for the remainder of their lives. The death of Hammond Alexander Collett was
recorded at Fulham register office (Ref. 5b 871) during March 1970 when he was
78, and the death of Edith Lilian L Collett, at the age of 76, was recorded
there (Ref. 5b 728) in December 1971.
The same record gave her date of birth as 23rd March 1895
18R141 - Marjorie
J Collett was
born in 1919 at Fulham
18R142 - Juanita
Collett was
born in 1920 at Fulham
18R143 - Alexander
A Collett was
born in 1922 at Fulham
18R144 - John
Alfred Collett was
born in 1929 at Fulham
William
Alfred Collett[18Q184] was born at 3 Star Court in Brentford on 9th
March 1893, the second child of Hammond and Jessie Collett, his birth recorded
at Brentford (Ref. 3a 91). It was on
Easter Sunday 2nd April 1893 that he was baptised at St George’s
Church in Brentford, shortly after which his family moved to Chiswick where his
younger siblings were all born and where the family was still living in 1901. On that census day, William Collett was eight
years old and ten years later as William Alfred Collett he was an errand lad
aged 18 when he was still living with his family at 3 Bond Street in Chiswick
in 1911. Just over four years later
William Alfred Collett married Emily Eliza Watts by the reading of banns at
Blandford Forum on 5th, 12th, and 19th December
1915, when William was residing within the parish and Emily was from
Chiswick. Furthermore, the marriage was
recorded at Brentford (Ref. 3a 197) during the last two weeks of 1915. The Dorset location is perhaps an indication
that, like his brother Hammond (above), William was already a member of
the British Army by that time
Tragically, they were married for less than two
years when William Alfred Collett was killed in action in France on 28th
April 1917. According to his military
records he was Private Collett, service number CH/1902S, serving with 1st
Battalion of the Royal Marines Light Infantry, his place of birth was Chiswick
and his next-of-kin was his wife Emily Eliza Collett of 17 Hunt Street in
Notting Hill, West London. The name of
William Alfred Collett appears on Bay 1 of the Arras Memorial. It is not known if Emily ever gave birth to
any children during their short time together, but being made a widow so soon
after being married, Emily Eliza Collett later married Thomas Harold Willisson
on 12th July 1919 at St Clement’s Church in Kensington. She was born on 4th December 1893
and died in Hampshire at the end of 1985, aged 92
Another William Alfred Collett, who was born at
Hackney and whose occupation was that of a carman, was the son of John Collett
and the brother of Joseph Collett, Edward Collett and Margaret Collett. So far though, he has not been identified
amongst the near 18,000 birth Colletts detailed within the Collett Family
History website database
John
Isaac Collett [18Q185] was born at 7 Back Lane, Strand-on-the-Green in Chiswick on
18th March 1897 and was baptised on 2nd May 1897 at St
George’s Church, Old Brentford, in the Borough of Hounslow. His birth was recorded at Brentford register
office (Ref. 3a 122) and he was the son of Hammond Isaac Collett and Jessie
Elizabeth from Australia and in the Chiswick census of 1901 he was simply named
as John Collett aged four years. Ten
years later it was as John Isaac Collett that he was recorded still living with
his family in Chiswick when he was 14.
What he did during the next decade is not currently known, but it was at
Brentford register office (Ref. 3a 281) that the marriage of John I Collett and
Mary E Stentiford was recorded during the first three months of 1923
Mary Emily Stentiford was born on 13th
January 1902 and was also baptised at St George’s Church in Old Brentford on 31st
January 1902, the daughter of George Robert Stentiford, a foreman and night
watchman, and his wife Harriet Elizabeth of 1 Layton Road in Chiswick, where
she was very likely born. It has not
been established whether they had any children, while at the start of the
Second World War, John and Mary were living at 42 Springfield Road in
Twickenham. There were three people
living at that address, with the third entry being redacted, which may have
been a son or a daughter. Mary was
accurately recorded as having been born on 13th January 1902 who, in
addition to her unpaid domestic duties, was an air raid patrol
first-aider. John on the other hand,
gave his date of birth as 10th July 1898, perhaps embarrassed at
being five years older than his wife.
His occupation at that time was that of a coppersmith and plumber
John Isaac Collett was 77 when he died in Surrey,
with his death recorded at the Richmond-upon-Thames register office (Vol. 14
1614) during the month of September in 1974.
Administration of his estate, valued at £1,153 was granted at London on
24th September 1974, following him dying at home at 12 Redknap
House, Cleves Road in Richmond on 11th August 1974. Later on, the death of Mary Emily Collett was
also recorded at Richmond-upon-Thames during the month of May in 1990 when she
was 88 years old. Her Will was proved at
Llandaff on 3rd July 1990, when her estate was said to be not
exceeding £100,000 and that she died at home at 49 Calvert Court in Richmond on
12th May that year
Harry
Collett [18Q186] was
born at 2 West Place in Chiswick on 23rd February 1899, with his
birth recorded at Brentford register office (Ref. 3a 120) during the second
quarter of the year. He was baptised at
Christ Church, Turnham Green in Chiswick on 26th March 1899, was the
fourth son of Hammond and Jessie Collett.
He was two years old in the Chiswick census of 1901, and tragically died
just over one year later, the death of Harry Collett being recorded at
Brentford register office (Ref. 3a 74) during the third quarter of 1902
Jessie
Elizabeth Collett [18Q187] was born at 57 Essex Place in Chiswick on 18th
July 1901 and her birth was also recorded at Brentford register office (Ref. 3a
142) during the third quarter of that year.
She was baptised at Christ Church, Turnham Green in Chiswick on 1st
September 1901 when her parents were confirmed as Hammond and Jessie Collett,
and she was nine years old in the Chiswick census of 1911. It was sixteen years later when the marriage
of Jessie Elizabeth Collett and Sydney Edward Hands was recorded at the
Buckinghamshire Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 2279) during the second quarter
of 1927. By the time of the 1939
Register Jessie Hands was recorded as a divorced lady living at 1 Cornwall
Grove, off Chiswick Lane in Chiswick, the home of elderly Bessie Lee, with
Jessie acting as her paid housekeeper. Much
later in her life, she married Mario Giovanni Bianco, the event recorded at
Ealing register office (Ref. 5e 487) during the third quarter of 1961. After only fourteen years together, the death
of Jessie Elizabeth Bianco was recorded at Hounslow (Vol. 13 1172) during the
third quarter of 1975. It was at 230 London Road in Twickenham where she passed
away on 16th September 1975, after which her Will was proved at
London on 2nd December that same year, her estate worth £5,698
Sydney Edward Hands was born on 4th
June 1903 and in 1939 was one of three male patients being treat by Doctor
Douglas R Ainsworth at 10 Kendrick Road, off London Road in Reading. All three men were described as having no
occupation, and as patients of the Pay Master, with their respective R A P C
numbers, Sydney’s being 9257. In the
end, he lived a long life and died on 22nd November 1991 at
‘Deahener’ 17 Brands Hill Avenue in High Wycombe at the age of 88. His Will was proved in Oxford on 5 February
1992 for £107,590
Rosetta
Collett [18Q188] was
born at 57 Essex Place in Chiswick on 1st May 1904 while it was at
Brentford register office (Ref. 3a 168) was recorded during the second quarter
of the year. She was baptised at Christ
Church, Turnham Green in Chiswick on 5th June 1904, the second
daughter and sixth child of Hammond Isaac Collett and his wife Jessie. She was six years old by the time of the
census for Chiswick in 1911 and was 24 when she married James F Murray at
Brentford, where the event was recorded (Ref. 3a 526) during the fourth quarter
of 1928. The birth of James Murray was
recorded at Brentford register office (Ref. 3a 161) during the last quarter of
1903. During the second quarter of the
following year, the birth of their son James was recorded at Brentford register
office (Ref. 3a 357) when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. On 15th May 1931, Rosetta Murray
of 3 Bond Street in Chiswick, aged 27, together with her two-year-old son James
Murray sailed out of the Port of London onboard the ‘Barrabool’ of the P
& O Steam Navigation Company in a third-class cabin, bound for Australia.
Irene
Rebecca Collett [18Q189] was born at 57 Essex Place in Chiswick on 27th
September 1906, her birth recorded at Brentford register office (Ref. 3a 168)
during the fourth quarter of the year. She was the seventh of the eight known
children of Hammond Isaac Collett and Jessie Elizabeth Draper. Like her older siblings above, she too was
also baptised at Christ Church in Turnham Green in Chiswick on 11th
November 1906. The marriage of Irene Rebecca
Collett and Frederick William Hamilton was recorded at Brentford register
office (Ref. 3a 802) during the third quarter of 1931 when she was 24. Frederick was born on 17th July
1905, with his birth recorded at Bethnal Green in London (Ref. 1c 139). Eight years later, they were residing at 11A
Lyttelton Way in the Finchley area of London, when the 1939 Register identified
Frederick Hamilton working as a chauffeur and a mechanic at the age of 34, and
his wife Irene R Hamilton who was 32. By
the time she passed away, Irene Rebecca Hamilton was 92 years old, when death
was recorded at Ealing register office in August 2004. The last seventeen years of her life was
spent as a widow, following the death of Frederick William Hamilton at Hounslow
in April 1987, when he was 81
Albert Collett [18Q190] was born at Chiswick on 16th July 1909 when his birth was recorded at Brentford register office (Ref. 3a 175) during the third quarter of that year. It was at the parish church of Christ Church, Turnham Green in Chiswick that he was baptised on 29th August 1909, the last child of Hammond and Jessie Collett. It is likely that he was born at 3 Bond Street in Chiswick, the family’s address on the day of his baptism and on the day of the census in 1911, where Albert was said to be one year old. The later marriage of Albert Collett and Ivy Violet Clitheroe was recorded at Brentford register office (Ref. 3a 324) during the first three months of 1939. Ivy Violet was born at 7 Bond Street, two dwellings from Albert, when she was baptised in Turnham Green on 27th September 1913, the daughter of Joseph and Annie Clitheroe. That same year that they were married, the 1939 Register recorded the childless couple at 70 Silver Crescent with the London Borough of Brentford & Chiswick, where Albert was 30 and an omnibus driver, while his wife’s date of birth was 31st July 1913. Tragically, less than three years later, the premature death of Ivy Violet Collett was recorded at Brentford register office (Ref. 3a 573) during the first three months of 1942, when she was only 28 years old. Just after the end of the century, Albert Collett was 95 when he died on 30th January 2004 within the area of Bognor Regis, his death recorded at Chichester register office in Sussex
Alfred
Lewis Collett [18Q191] was born at Kew in London on 8th September 1903,
the first-born child of Alfred Lewis Collett and Rose Punter. His birth was recorded at
Richmond-upon-Thames register office (Ref. 2a 470) during the last three months
of the year. It was at St Anne’s Church
in Kew Green where he was baptised on 13th December 1903. In the census of 1911, the family home was at
21 Cambridge Cottages, Kew Green, in Richmond, where Alfred
Lewis Collett junior was recorded as being just four years, which may have
been an error in transcription or a poorly written seven by the
enumerator. After the war he married Lilian Rhoda Hobbs who was born on 7th
September 1902 and baptised at St Peter’s Church in Crawley on 16th
November with two older siblings, the children of French polisher George and
Rhoda Hobbs of 94 Arthur Street. The
event was recorded at Richmond register office (Ref. 2a 1087) during the fourth
quarter of 1922. The young couple was
married after the reading of banns at the parish church in Kew on 19th
November 1922, when Alfred Lewis Collett was 20 and a milk roundsman living at
21 Cambridge Cottages in Kew, the son of Alfred Lewis Collett, a general
labourer, who was also one of the witnesses.
Lilian Rhoda Hobbs was 21 and a shop assistant living at 35 Cambridge
Cottages, the daughter of George Henry Hobbs, a French polisher and an
upholster. Milkman Alfred had a
horse-drawn milk-cart with a horse called Gladys, the name he gave to his first
daughter. When the dairy was sold by
Raleigh to Express Dairies, the livery on the milk-cart, depicted on the pub
sign of the “Jolly Milkman” in Mortlake, was also changed in his honour
The large family was living at Ashburnham Road
in Richmond-upon-Thames in 1939, where Alfred L Collett was 36 and a milk
salesman, his wife Lilian was 37, when all seven children born into the family
by then were still living with the couple, two more added within the following
six years. Three of the children’s
details had been redacted in the Register prepared as the country faced another
world war. The other four children were Alfred
L Collett junior who, at the age of 16 was working with his father as a milk
yard boy, George H Collett who was 12 and at school, as was Charles A Collett
who was 10, and William G Collett who was one year old and described as under
school age. The three redacted children
were therefore John E Collett aged 14, Gladys L Collett aged eight years, and
Joan S Collett who was four years of age.
Each of them would have still been alive when the 1939 Register was made
a public document. Alfred Lewis Collett
died on 21st October 1963, his death recorded at the Surrey North
register office (Ref. 5g 446) during the fourth quarter of 1963, when he was 60
years old. Administration of his estate
of £266 12 Shillings was granted at London on 3rd December 1963 for
Lilian Rhoda Collett, widow. That
process revealed that he and Lilian were living at 50 Buckingham Road in
Petersham, Surrey, where Alfred died on 21st October 1963. Twenty years after losing her husband, the
death of Lilian Rhoda Collett was recorded at Richmond-upon-Thames register
office (Vol. 14 1530) during the second quarter of 1983, when she was 81 years
old. Her Will was proved at Brighton on
6th June 1983, when her estate was valued at £30,035. The probate process also confirmed that
Lilian died on 1st June 1983 when she was in the Barnes Hospital,
East Sheen in London
18R145 - Alfred Lewis
Collett was
born in 1923 at Richmond
18R146 - John
Edward Collett was
born in 1925 at Richmond
18R147 - George Hammond Collett was born in 1927 at Richmond
18R148 -
Charles Arthur Collett was born in 1929 at Richmond
18R149 -
Gladys Lilian Collett was born in 1931 at Richmond
18R150 -
Joan S Collett
was born in 1934 at Richmond
18R151 - William
Gordon Collett
was born in 1938 at Richmond
18R152 - Reginald
Alan Collett
was born in 1942 at Richmond
18R153 - Robert Graham
Collett
was born in 1945 at Richmond
Freda Rose Mary Collett [18Q192] was born on 2nd
October 1907 at 21 Cambridge Cottages, Kew Green in Richmond, the eldest
daughter of Alfred and Rose Collett, whose birth was recorded at Richmond
register office (Ref. 2a 480) during the last quarter of the year. She was baptised at St Anne’s Church in Kew
Green on 27th October 1907, when she was recorded as Freda Mary Rose
Collett. As Freda Collett, she was three
years old and living with her family at 21 Cambridge Cottages, Kew Green. She was only seventeen years of age when she married
Alfred Frederick Knight in 1925, their wedding recorded at Richmond register
office (Ref. 2a 718) in the first three months of that year. Their marriage, by licence, was conducted at
the parish church in Kew on 14th February 1925, when Alfred was of
full age and working as a milkman, who was living at 49 Priory Road in Kew, the
son of Thomas Knight, deceased, a former potato salesman. His bride Freda was only 18 and living at 21
Cambridge Cottages in Kew – the Collett family home, the daughter of Alfred
Lewis Collett, a labourer.
Alfred was born on 8th January 1903
and was baptised at Friern Barnet on 29th January 1905, the son of
Thomas and Elizabeth Knight of 71 Friern Barnet Road. It is possible that they had six children,
although only the births of four of them at Richmond register office, confirmed
the mother’s maiden-name was Collett, none of whom were living with the family
in 1939. By the time the 1939 Register
was published, Alfred and Freda had three children with them, although for the
middle child the record was redacted and labelled “officially closed”. The four confirmed children of Alfred Knight
and Freda Collett were: Beryl Knight (Ref. 2a 901, 1926 Qrt 2); Robin
Knight (Ref. 2a 865, 1930 Qrt 4); Winifred C Knight (Ref. 2a 941,
1932 Qrt 3); and Rosemary Knight (Ref. 2a 176, 1937 Qrt 3)
The two children recorded with the couple in
1939 were Joyce Knight who was born on 16th May 1928, and Ronald
Knight who was born on 9th November 1933, both of them attending
school. On that day in 1939 family was
residing at the home of Freda’s parents Alfred Lewis Collett and his wife Rose
at 24 Kew Green in Richmond, where Knight Alfred F Knight was described as a
heavy worker/lorry driver, who was born on 8th January 1903, with
his wife being Freda R M Knight. When
Joyce Knight was married on 11th August 1947, she became Joyce
Hattam. The death of Alfred Frederick
Knight was recorded at Hounslow register office (Ref. 5c 1508) during the last
three months of 1969. It was at 5 Willow
Cottage in Kew where he was living when he died on 2nd October 1969,
after which his Will was proved at London on 27th November 1969, his
estate valued at £8,714. Freda Rose Mary
Knight was still living in the Richmond area when she also died at 5 Willow
Cottages on 4th December 1986 at the age of 79. Her Will was proved at Winchester on 10th
November the following year, her personal effects amounting to £59,165
John
Collett [18Q193] was
born at 21 Cambridge Cottages, Kew Green in Richmond on 3rd August
1912, although his father’s later military record simply stated he and all four
of his siblings had been born at Richmond.
His birth was recorded at Richmond register office (Ref. 2a 1005) during
the third quarter of 1912, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Punter. It was on 8th
September 1912 that he was baptised at St Anne’s Church in Kew Green when his
parents were Alfred Lewis Collett and Rose Punter, living at 21 Cambridge
Cottages where the family lived from around 1906, until his father died
there. It was at St Anne’s Church in Kew
Green that John Collett married May Alexandra Fisher after the reading of banns
on 6th August 1934, when the groom’s father was confirmed as Alfred
Lewis Collett, a labourer, and the bride’s father was named as Thomas Abner
Fisher, a boiler engineer. Both the
bride and the groom were 21 years old, John being a milkman residing at the
Collett family home at 21 Cambridge Cottages, and Rose living at 5 Willow
Cottages in Kew, and having no occupation.
John’s father was one of the witnesses, the other being a member of the
Fisher family. May Alexandra Fisher was
born on 1st May 1913, her birth recorded during the second quarter
of 1913 at Richmond register office (Ref. 2a 1036), and was baptised at St
John’s Church in Richmond on 22nd June 1913, the daughter of Thomas
and Alice Fisher of 9 Avalon Street
The wedding was recorded at the Surrey
North-Eastern register office (Ref. 2a 63) during the third quarter of the
year. Five years later, according to the
1939 Register, the childless couple was living at 9 Cambridge Cottages in
Richmond, where John Collett was a milk salesman aged 27, and May A Collett was
26 and a domestic servant who had been born on 1st May 1913. Living at 15 Cambridge Cottages was John’s
uncle Robert Collett [18P169] and his wife Edith Martha Collett. The 1939 Register included John and May
residing at 9 Cambridge Cottages, Kew Green, in Richmond, where John was a milk
salesman having the same date of birth as provided above, while May’s date of
birth was also the same as above, when she was carrying out domestic duties. Not long after that day, John Collett joined
the 61st Anti-Tank Regiment of the Royal Artillery in which he was
Gunner 1080057. It was at El Alamein in
North Africa that he saw active service and there also where he was killed on
18th October 1942, following which he was buried at the El Alamein
War Cemetery. His military records
confirm that he was the son of Alfred Lewis and Rose Collett of Kew, and the
husband of May Alexandra Collett of Kew Green.
After the war was over his widow, May Alexandra Collett, married Joseph
Orr during the first three months of 1946 with whom she had a child, whilst it
was forty years later that May Alexander Orr died at Kew in August 1986, at the
age of 83, her death recorded at Richmond register office. Joseph Orr was also 83 when he died in
September 2000, his death recorded at Hounslow register office, when his date
of birth was recorded as 28th May 1917
Marjorie Collett [18Q194] was born on 13th
January 1914 at 21 Cambridge Cottages, Kew Green in Richmond, with her birth
recorded at Richmond register office (Ref. 2a 951) during the first three
months of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Punter. However, just as with her younger brother
Arthur, who was also born at Kew, they were baptised at St Mary’s Church in
West Horsley, midway between Guildford and Leatherhead in Surrey, with first Marjorie
on 3rd February 1915, another daughter of Alfred Lewis Collett and
Rose Punter. Marjorie was approaching
eighteen years of age when she married (1) Joseph Robert Lazenby, their wedding
recorded at Richmond register office (Ref. 2a 1304) during the last quarter of
1931. He was born on 18th
June 1902 and his birth was recorded at South Shields register office (Ref. 10a
835) during the third quarter of that year.
Eight years later the couple was living at 31 Mead Road in Richmond,
where Joseph was incapacitated and had no job of work, and Marjorie was
carrying out unpaid domestic duties. One
of two redacted entries at the same address, will have been Arthur Lazenby
who was born in 1937, which his mother was confirmed as Collett. At that same time, a patient at the Richmond Royal
Hospital on Kew Foot Road in Richmond was four-year-old Marjorie Lazenby
who had been born on 13th September 1935, whose mother’s maiden-name
was also confirmed as Collett
During the summer of 1952, the death of Joseph
Robert Lazenby was recorded at South Shields register office (Ref. 1a 665) at
the age of 50, after which, around six months later, Marjorie married (2) Arthur
George Lipscombe, the event recorded at the Surrey North register office (Ref.
5g 766) during the first quarter of 1953.
Arthur was born at 32 Chilton Road in Richmond on 3rd
December 1903, the son of Henry and Louisa Lipscombe. Arthur was 86 when he died on 2nd
October 1990 at 9 Craig Road in Ham, Richmond, his Will proved in London on 27th
March 1991, not exceeding £115,000.
Eight years prior to his passing, his wife Marjorie died during the
spring of 1982, with her death recorded at Richmond register office (Vol. 14
1358) when she was 68
Arthur Collett [18Q195] was born at 21
Cambridge Cottages, Kew Green, Richmond in 1916, his birth recorded at Richmond
register office (Ref. 2a 819) during the last three months of the year, when
his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Punter. Arthur was subsequently baptised at St Mary’s
Church in West Horsley, Surrey between Guildford and Leatherhead on 23rd
November 1916, when the parish register confirmed his parents as Alfred Lewis
and Rose Collett, their last child.
Sadly, he only survived for a short time, when the death of Alfred
Collett, aged one year, was recorded at Richmond register office (Ref. 2a 770)
during the first three months of 1918
ROBERT
JOHN COLLETT [18Q196] was born on 6th April 1904 at 34 Parliament
Road, Strand-on-the-Green in Chiswick, his birth recorded at Brentford register
office (Ref. 3a 160), the eldest of the four children of Robert Collett and
Edith Martha Sykes. He was just under
three months old when he was baptised at St George’s Church in Old Brentford on
26th June 1904. At the time
of the census in 1911, Robert and his family were still living in Chiswick but,
within a short while, the family moved to 15 Cambridge Cottages at Kew
Green. It was also there, at that
address, that his parents remained for the rest of their life. Robert J Collett married Winifred Jeanes on
26th January 1929, and was recorded at Richmond register office
(Ref. 2a 957). Winifred was born at
Birmingham on 11th December 1909, the daughter of Thomas Fenton
Churchman and Jessica Louisa Jeanes
The birth of the first of their four children
was recorded at Holborn register office, the remainder at Richmond register
office when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Jeanes. The actual place of birth of that first child
is not known, while the three younger children were all born at Kew, with their
only daughter suffering an infant death.
The 1939 Register recorded the family living at 316 Kew Road, where
Robert J Collett was a window cleaner at the age of 34, and his wife Winifred J
Collett was 39. All three of their
surviving children were living with the couple, although the details for son
Peter, aged 10, were redacted and officially closed due to him still being
alive when the register was published. The other two sons were both attending
school and were David Collett who was eight years old, and Michael J Collett
who was five years of age. Robert John
Collett died at Putney Hospital on 29th April 1990 aged 86, his
passing recorded at Wandsworth register office, and Winifred died just over a
year later, at St Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton on 26th June 1991
18R154 - Peter
Robert Collett
was born in 1929 at Holborn, London
18R155 -
David Collett was born in 1931 at Kew (Richmond)
18R156 -
Jean Collett
was born in 1932 at Kew (Richmond)
18R157 - MICHAEL
JOHN COLLETT
was born in 1934 at Kew (Richmond)
William
Hammond Collett [18Q197] was born at 15 Pyrmont Road in Chiswick on 19th
January 1910, his birth recorded at Brentford register office (Ref. 3a
169). It was then a month later, at St
Paul’s Church on Grove Park Road in Chiswick, that he was baptised on 27th
February 1910, the second child of Robert and Edith Collett. He was one year old in the Chiswick census of
1911, when family was residing 15 Pyrmont Road.
A couple of years after, that his parents moved to 15 Cambridge Cottages
in Kew Green, where they lived for the rest of their lives. Twenty years later, the marriage by banns of
William Hammond Collett and Ruth Ivy Rossiter was recorded at Richmond register
office (Ref. 2a 1310) during the final quarter of 1932. Their wedding ceremony was conducted at the
parish church in Kew on 19th November 1932, when William was 22 and
a steward with the Royal Navy, assigned to HMS Fitzroy at Sheerness, the son of
Robert J Collett, a labourer with the Port of London Authority. The bride was 23 and working as a domestic
servant, who was living at the Collett family home of the groom, at 15
Cambridge Cottages, the daughter of Walter Rossiter, a miner
Ruth Ivy Rossiter was born in Wales on 17th
June 1909, her birth recorded at Bedwellty (Ref. 11a 69), again under her full
name, and was the sister of Walter Stanley Rossiter who married later William’s
sister Alice Ada Collett (below).
In fact, the two witnesses at the marriage of William and Ivy, were
Robert John Collett (William’s brother) and Walter Stanley Rossiter (Ivy’s
brother). Curiously, many years later on
being baptised at Aberystwyth on 3rd July 1918 with three younger
siblings, she was simply named as Ivy Rossiter one of the four children,
baptised that same day in a joint ceremony, of Walter Stanley Rossiter, a collier,
and his wife Ruth, of 79 Lancaster Street in Blaina. Under her full name again, Ruth Ivy Collett
died in the spring of 1991, her passing being recorded at Wandsworth (Vol. 15
931), after which her ashes were buried at Mortlake Crematorium. Ten years after being widowed, William
Hammond Collett died at Feltham in Middlesex on 18th January 2001, and
was buried there on 23rd January.
His death was recorded at Hounslow register office at the age of 91
18R158 -
Valerie Collett
was born in 1935 at Marylebone, London
18R159 -
William John Collett
was born in 1939 in Surrey
Alice Ada
Collett [18Q198]
was born at 15 Pyrmont Road in Chiswick on 25th November 1911, the
third child of Robert Collett and Edith Martha Sykes, her birth recorded at
Brentford register office (Ref. 3a 346) during the first month of the following
year. It was at St George’s Church in
Old Brentford that she was baptised on 15th December 1911. She later married her brother-in-law, Walter
Stanley Rossiter, the brother of Ruth Ivy Rossiter who married Alice’s brother
William Hammond Collett (above).
The marriage of Alice A Collett and Walter S Rossiter was recorded at
Surrey North Eastern register office (Ref. 2a 75) during the third quarter of
1940. One year earlier, Alice A Collett
had been living with her parents at 15 Cambridge Cottages in Richmond, when she
was a domestic servant. Also at the same
time, and also recorded in the 1939 Register, Walter S Rossiter was a gardener
living and working in the Richmond area of London, when his date of birth was 6th
April 1911, although he was baptised in Wales, with his sister Ivy (above)
and two other siblings on 3rd July 1918. The couple had two daughters Anne Rossiter
and Betty Rossiter and their father, who was born on 6th
April 1911, died at Portsmouth on 15th May 1996. The death of Alice Ada Rossiter was recorded
at Surrey Northern register office (Vol. 17 296) during May 1985, at the age of
73. It was eleven years after being
widowed, that Walter Stanley Rossiter was recorded at Hampshire during May
1996, when he was 85 years old
Winifred
Rose Collett [18Q199] was born at 15 Cambridge Cottage in Kew Green on 2nd
June 1915, the fourth and last child of Robert and Edith Collett. Her birth was recorded at Richmond register
office (Ref. 2a 943), when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Sykes. Two weeks later, Winifred Rose
Collett was baptised at St Mary’s Church in West Horsley in Surrey on 18th
June 1915. She was 22 years of age when
she married Frederick S Richardson, the event recorded at the Surrey North
Eastern register office (Ref. 2a 78) during the third quarter of 1937. It was at the parish church in Kew that they
were married by banns, when Frederick Stephen Richardson was also 22, and a
packer living at 60 North Road in Brentford, the son of Frederick William
Richardson, deceased, a former soldier. Winifred
Rose was employed as a domestic servant, and was still residing in the Collett
family home at 15 Cambridge Cottages in Kew Green. Winifred’s mother Edith M Collett signed the
register as one of the witnesses
Frederick had been born at 60 York Road on 1st
August 1915, and was baptised at St George’s Church, Old Brentford on 12th
September 1915, the son of Frederick and Annie Richardson. Once married the couple lived at 52 North
Road in Brentford, where just Frederick was recorded in the 1939 Register, with
Winifred working at 19 Essex Road in Chesham, the home of elderly draper Richard
Jepson and his wife, where she was described as an unpaid domestic. Where nine-month-old daughter Patricia was is
still not known. Frederick was 24 and a
commercial packer, who confirmed his date of birth as stated above, as did his
wife. The couple’s three children were Patricia
Richardson who was born on 4th January 1939 who married John
Gorham, Eileen Winifred Richardson who was born in 1941 who emigrated to
New Zealand, and Kenneth Frederick Richardson who was born in 1943. In each case, the birth were recorded at
Brentford register office, when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Collett. The couple was living in the
Hounslow area of Middlesex when Frederick died at the age of 68, his death
recorded there (Vol. 13 1230) during the spring of 1983. Winifred Rose Richardson died in West Surrey
on 13th January 1999, at the age of 83, and was buried at
Easthampstead on 22nd January 1999
Ernest Louis Collett [18Q200] was
born at Wilby on 9th June 1894, the first of the four surviving children
of John Collett and Ellen Muttock, whose birth was recorded at Hoxne (Ref. 4a
787) during the third quarter of the year. Before the end of the century, the family
moved to Shotley on the north bank of the River Stour and across the water from
Harwich. It was there, as George
Collett, that he was six years old and, while ten years later he was 16 and
living with his family in Bury-St-Edmunds, from where he was working on a farm
as a horse-keeper. It was during the
last quarter of 1917, when the marriage of Ernest L Collett and Jessie Johnson
was recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds register office (Ref. 4a 1941). Upon the birth of their three children, all recorded
at Bury-St-Edmunds, their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Johnson
The 1939 Register identified four members of the
family living at Council House No. 8, Shinham Bridge Road, Great Barton,
Bury-St-Edmunds. Ernest Collett was a
stockman and a farm worker aged 45, whose date of birth was incorrectly
recorded as 9th June 1896.
His wife Jessie Collett was born on 25th December 1895, and
unfortunately the entry for one of the other two persons was redacted. What was interesting though, was the
un-redacted entry, which was a late addition to the family, being daughter June
Collett who had been born on 11th June 1931 and who was at school. Jessie Collett died in the summer of 1986,
when she was 92, her death recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds register office (Vol. 10
2111). Ernest Louis Collett was nearly
80 years old, when his death was recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds (Vol. 10 2105)
during the spring of 1974.
18R160 - Arthur Ernest
Collett was born in 1919 at Bury-St-Edmunds
18R161 - Herbert Stanley
Collett was born in 1921 at Bury-St-Edmunds
18R162 - June E Collett was born in 1931 at Bury-St-Edmunds
Emily Collett [18Q201] was born at Wilby on 20th
December 1896, with her birth recorded at Hoxne (Ref. 4a 879) during the first
months of 1897. She was the only surviving
daughter of John and Ellen Collett, with whom she was living in 1901 at
Shotley, where her two younger brothers (below) were born. Ten years later, Emily had left school and was
already working as a domestic servant at the Bury-St-Edmunds home of farmer
Arthur Henry Cobbald and his large family, where Emily Collett from Wilby was
14 years old and employed by the family as a maid, the youngest of three
servants. Emily was thirty years old
when her marriage to Charles S Payne was recorded at the village of Stow (West
Stow) just north of Bury-St-Edmunds (Ref. 4a 2391) during the fourth quarter of
1927. After nearly twelve years
together, the couple and their only child were living in the Bungay area of
North Suffolk, where Charles S Payne was a milk pasteuriser whose date of birth
was 3rd February 1897. His
wife Emily Payne had been born on 20th December 1896 and was
undertaking unpaid domestic duties, while their son Cyril Stanley Payne
was nine years old and at school, his date of being recorded as 11th
July 1930. His birth was recorded at
Risbridge register office (Ref. 4a 1443).
Cyril later married Cynthia S Loynes at Newmarket in 1954. The birth of Charles Stanley Payne was also
recorded at Risbridge (Ref. 4a 775) and his death was recorded at
Bury-St-Edmunds (Ref. 4b 1034) during the first quarter of 1960, when he was 62
John William Collett [18Q202] was
born at Shotley on 28th March 1900, with his birth recorded at
Samford register office, south-west of Ipswich, (Ref. 4a 959) during the second
quarter of that year. As simply John
Collett, he was one year old in the Shotley census of 1901 and as John William
Collett, he was 11 years of age in 1911, by which time, he and his family were
living in Bury-St-Edmunds. John W
Collett, a bachelor aged 39, was still living with his parents John and Ellen
Collett in 1939, at Great Green in Thedwastre (Bury-St-Edmunds), from where he
was working as a horseman on a farm, possibly the same farm where his father
was a yardman. Whilst no obvious record
has been found to suggest that John later became a married man, the death of
John William Collett was recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds register office (Ref. 4b
2705) during the spring of 1971
Herbert George Collett [18Q203] was born
at Shotley on 23rd February 1903, following which his birth was
recorded at Samford (Ref. 4a 1027) during the first quarter of 1903. He was the fourth, but not the last child of
John Collett and Ellen Muttock, the couple’s last child suffering an infant
death. He was eight years old in the Bury-St-Edmunds
census of 1911, where his family had settled.
It was with war looming in Europe, when the marriage of Herbert George Collett and Margaret Mary Plumpkin was
recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds register office (Ref. 4a 2979) during the second
quarter of 1939. Just before the
outbreak of war that year, Herbert G Collett was 36 and a horseman working on a
farm, and Margaret was 28 and a housewife who was anticipating the birth of
their first (and only) child, when they were living at Chard Lane in Thedwastre
(Bury-St-Edmunds). Margaret had been
born at Stow in Suffolk on 12th March 1911 and, just after the 1939
Register was compiled, around nine or ten months after their wedding day, she
gave birth to a son, whose birth was recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds, when the
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Plumpkin. Their son was twenty-seven years old, when his
father died, the death of Herbert G Collett being recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds
register office (Ref. 4b 1154) during the first quarter of 1967, when he was 64. Thirty-two years after being widowed,
Margaret Mary Collett died on 3rd January 1999, when her death was
recorded at Sudbury in Suffolk at the age of 87
18R163
- David J Collett was born in 1940 at Bury-St-Edmunds
Edith May Collett [18Q205] was born at Elmswell on
19th November 1893, her birth recorded at Stow register office in
Suffolk (Ref. 4a 745) during the last quarter of the year. She was the first child of Ephraim George
Collett and Alice Louisa Mulley. Under
her full name, she was seven years of age and 17 years old in the two following
census returns for Elmswell in 1901 and 1911.
Nearly twenty years later, the marriage of Edith May Collett and Ernest
William Ford was recorded at Stow register office (Ref. 4a 2754) during the
third quarter of 1930. Ernest was three
years younger that Edith, his birth recorded at the Sussex Steyning register
office (Ref. 2b 281) during the second quarter of 1897
When the 1939 Register was compiled the couple
was living at 36 Hamilton Road in Brighton, where Ernest was a parcel porter
with the Southern Railway Company, when his date of birth was recorded as 4th
May 1897 and his wife was Edith M Ford who was 45 years old. Eleven years later, the death of Ernest
William Ford was recorded at Brighton register office (Ref. 5h 92) during the
last quarter of 1950 at the age of 53. Administration
of his personal effects was resolved at Lewes in Sussex on 10th
February 1951, Edith being the sole beneficiary of his estate of £369 5
Shillings and 11 Pence. The
documentation also confirmed that his home address was still 36 Hamilton Road
in Brighton, although it was at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton
where he died. Having spent the last
years of her life as a widow, the later death of Edith May Ford was also recorded
at Brighton (Ref. 5h 199) during the last three months of 1973.
Ephraim George Collett [18Q206] was born at Elmswell on
30th April 1895, while it was at Stow register office that his birth
was recorded (Ref. 4a 817) during the second quarter of the year. In the Elmswell census returns for 1901 and
1911, he was five and 15 years of age respectively, when he was still living
with his family. Just over eight years
later, the marriage of Ephraim George Collett and Edith Kate Kedge was recorded
at London Dartford register office (Ref. 2a 1825) during the third quarter of
1919, possibly after serving King & Country in the Great War. It was at the Parish Church in Erith, Kent,
that they were married on 13th September 1919, when the groom was 24
and fish merchant residing at Rose Cottage in Elmswell, the son of Ephraim
George Collett a bricklayer and journeyman.
His bride was 21 of 35 Crayford Road, the daughter of Jacob Kedge a
cattle marker
The marriage produced at least two children,
who were born at 35 Crayford Road in Erith, with Ephraim using his second
forename of their baptism records. The
two children were still living with the couple at Erith in 1939. Ephraim was 44 and a foreman bricklayer,
Edith K Collet’s date of birth was 31st August 1898, their son Cyril
was a telephone fitter born on 29th June 1920, and their daughter
Rita was a clerical worker in a publicity office whose date of birth was 15th
March 1925. It was during the first
quarter of 1968 that the death of Ephraim George Collett was recorded at
Greenwich register office (Ref. 5b 512) when he was 72. It was at Greenwich where he was buried on 19th
January 1968, nine days after he had passed away. Edith Kate Collett was 91 when she died with
her death recorded at the Kent Gravesend register office in the summer of 1990
18R164 – Cyril George
Collett
was born in 1920 at Erith, Kent
18R165 – Rita Mabel Collett was born in 1925 at
Erith, Kent
Henry
James Collett [18Q207] was born at Elmswell on 3rd August 1897, the
third child of bricklayer Ephraim George Collett and his wife Alice. His birth was recorded at the Suffolk Stow
register office (Ref. 4a 843). Tragically,
he was only twenty-days old when he was buried at Elmswell on 26th
August 1897, his death was also recorded at Stow register office (Ref. 4a 506)
Bessie Amelia Collett [18Q208] was born at Elmswell on
6th May 1899, another daughter of Ephraim and Alice Collett, who was
one-year-old, and eleven years of age, in the two census returns for Elmswell
in 1901 and 1911. It was during the
third quarter of 1926 when the marriage of Bessie Amelia Collett and Claude
Angus Dawson was recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 2814). He was born on 30th May 1896 with his
birth recorded at Colchester register office (Ref. 4a 626). By 1939, the couple was living at Inglenook,
The Drift, on Hutland Road in Ipswich, with their two children. Claude A Dawson was 43 and a commercial
traveller in confectionary and grocery, but also recently appointed an Air
Ministry Warden. Bessie A Dawson was 39,
and their two children were Pamela D Dawson who was born on 15th
February 1933, and Anthony George Dawson who was born on 29th
July 1936. The details for an older
child have been redacted on the 1939 Register.
Tragically, just over one year later, the death of Pamela D Dawson was
recorded at Ipswich register office (Ref. 2a 2467) during the last three months
of 1940. Claude was 94 when he died at 5
Crick Court in Southwold on 9th September 1990, his death recorded
at Waveney register office in Suffolk.
His Will was proved at Ipswich on 15th November 1990, when
his estate did not exceed £115,000. His
son died at Southend near the end of 2005
Cyril Charles Collett [18Q210] was born at Elmswell on
14th June 1904, whose birth was recorded during the third quarter of
the year at Stow register office (Ref. 4a 979).
He was the youngest surviving son of bricklayer Ephraim George Collett
and Alice Louisa Mulley who was seven years of age in the Elmswell census of
1911. His much later marriage to Lily Elizabeth
Kimberley was recorded at the London Edmonton register office (Ref. 3a 2414)
during the second quarter of 1938, where her birth was also recorded (Ref. 3a
601) during the third quarter of 1910, having been born on 28th
August 1910. The year after they were
married identified Cyril Charles Collett aged 35, a married man and a
bricklayer working away from his wife at 74 Westbury Avenue in the Tottenham
area of London. On that same day in
1939, Lily Elizabeth Collett was staying with her mother-in-law Alice Collett and
sister-in-law Katherine Collett at Rose Lane in Thedwastre (Bury-St-Edmunds). Cyril Charles Collett was 88 years of age
when he died at Norwich during the summer of 1992, and it was around nine
months later that the death of Lily Elizabeth Collett, aged 82, was recorded at
the Thetford Wayland register office in April 1993
Gladys Dorothy Collett [18Q212] was born at Elmswell in
1908, her birth recorded at Stow register office (Ref. 4a 908) during the
fourth quarter of that year, another daughter of Ephraim and Alice
Collett. Gladys was forty-two when her
marriage to Henry John Maslen was recorded at Edmonton register office (Ref. 5a
860) during the third quarter of 1950. Henry was born on 5th May 1917, his
birth recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 1b 695), and was 89 when his
death was recorded at the Essex Epping Forest register office in the summer of
2006
Katherine Grace Collett [18Q213] was the last child of
Ephraim George Collett and Alice Louisa Mulley and was born at Elmswell in
Suffolk on 9th April 1912, her birth recorded at Stow register
office (Ref. 4a 1778), when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Mulley. In the 1939 Register, a very
pregnant Katherine was living with her mother at Rose Lane in Thedwastre
(Bury-St-Edmunds). It was just a few
weeks later that the marriage Katherine Grace Collett and Frederick George Rush
was recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds register office (Ref. 4a 4529) during the last
quarter of 1939, and shortly after Katherine gave birth to twins. The births of Martin C Rush and Roger
A Rush were recorded at Hartismere register office (Ref. 4a 2434) during
the same three months at the end of 1939, when their mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Collett, as it was two years later for the birth of her last child
Brian E Rush. His birth was
recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds register office (Ref. 4a 2004) during the first
quarter of 1942
Frederick Rush was born in 1909 with his birth
recorded at Rochford register office in Essex (Ref. 4a 718) during the first
three months of the year. Just prior to
his wedding day, he was living at 299 South Avenue in Southend-on-Sea, from
where he was employed as a government labourer who had been born on 3rd
January 1909. Perhaps surprisingly, he
was a married man and was living with Gillian V Rush who was born on 21st
September 1915, who was also married, and a first-aid volunteer and well as an
unpaid domestic housewife. It was on 19th
July 1995 that Katherine Grace Rush passed away at the age of 83, her death
recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds register office.
Twelve years losing his wife, Frederick George Rush died on 23rd
October 2007, when he was 91
Caroline
Collett [18Q215] was born at Pocklington on 27th
September 1902, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 9d 74) during the last three
months of that year. She was the first
child born to Cornelius
Collett and Elizabeth Tennison and was eight
years old in 1911, when the family living at Sprotbrough near Doncaster. Nine years after that day, when she was still
in her teens, Caroline Collett married George Lindley with their wedding
recorded at Doncaster register Office (Ref. 9c 2190) during the second quarter
of 1920. His birth on 17th
October was recorded at Doncaster (Ref. 9c 829) during the fourth quarter of
1898. By the time of the 1939 Register,
the couple had two children living with them at 37 Kenilworth Road in Doncaster. George Lindley was 40 and a heavy worker
above ground at a colliery aerial rope way.
Caroline Lindley was 37 and the details for the first of the couple’s
two children was redacted, while the second was named as Gordon Lindley whose
date of birth was 17th May 1929, who was attending school and who
later died in Derby
In total, the couple
actually had five children, their births and deaths recorded at Doncaster
register office during the 1920s and, in each case, the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Collett. They were: Kathleen May Lindley (1921-1923); George Edward Lindley (born 1922 Q3
Ref. 9c 1572); Eileen Lindley (1924-1925); Kenneth Lindley (1926-1927); and Gordon Lindley (1929-1997). It was at Doncaster
register office (Ref. 2b 504) that the death of George Lindley was recorded
during the first three months of 1962 when he was 63. Caroline survived her husband by
thirty-five-years, when her death was also recorded at Doncaster during the
spring of 1997, at the age of 94
Alfred
Collett [18Q216] was born on 13th February 1904 at High
Melton, his birth recorded at Doncaster register office (Ref. 9c 910), the
second child of Cornelius
and Elizabeth Collett. He was seven in the Sprotbrough census of 1911.
Alfred never married and by 1939 he was
recorded in the Register that year as the 125th person listed at
Springwell House, Springwell Lane, Balby in Doncaster, a farm labourer. Springwell House was in fact the Doncaster
Public Assistance Institute which in the 1945 Hospital Survey was described as
having a poor quality of accommodation. Eight
years later, when Alfred was 43 years old, his death was recorded at Doncaster
register office (Ref. 2b 367) during the second quarter of 1947
Florence
Elizabeth Collett [18Q217] was born on 10th
December1905 at High Melton with her birth also recorded at Doncaster register
office (Ref. 9c 876) during the first quarter of 1906, another child of
Cornelius and Elizabeth Collett. She was
five years of age in 1911, when living at Sprotbrough with her family. It has yet to be proved, but it does seem
highly likely that, when Florence was around twenty years old, she gave birth
to the first of two sons, the birth of both boys recorded at Doncaster when
their mother’s maiden-name was Collett. It
was during the second quarter of 1939 that the marriage of Florence Elizabeth
Collett and Lewin Pybus was recorded at Doncaster register office (Ref. 9c
2100). Lewin Oswald Pybus was a farm
labourer who had been born on 24th August 1901 at Ecclesall Bierlow
near Sheffield and, around six months after their wedding day, according to the
1939 Register, Florence
E Pybus aged 33, and Lewin Pybus aged 38, were living at 21 Baker Street in
Doncaster. Staying with them were four
members of the Collett family, although the third name was redacted. The remaining three individuals were
Doncaster born Horace Collett who had been born on 18th October
1925, and his brother Charles Collett born on 28th November 1928,
both of them attending school, and Florence’s widowed grandmother Caroline
Collett, who may have still been living there two years later when she died at
the age of 87. Lewin Pybus died in 1971,
his death recorded at Doncaster (Ref. 2b 1059) near the end of that year. Ten years later, the death of Florence
Elizabeth Pybus was also recorded at Doncaster register office (Vol. 3 0640)
during the last months of 1981
18R166 - Horace Collett was born in 1925 at
Doncaster
18R167 - Charles William Collett was born in 1928 at
Doncaster
Ethel
Minnie Collett [18Q219] was the base-born daughter of unmarried Annie Collett and
was born at Stradbroke on 26th December 1897, her birth recorded at
the Hoxne register office (Ref. 4a 871) during the first quarter of 1898. She was the granddaughter of Alfred Collett
and Caroline Smith, who raised her, most likely following the death of her
mother during the birth, as no record of Annie Collett has been found after
that date. It was as Ethel Minnie
Collett aged three years, that she was listed with her grandmother Caroline
Collett at Wootten Green in Stradbroke in March 1901, and it was with both of
her grandparents that she was still living there in 1911, when Ethel Collett
was 13 and attending school. Twelve
years later Ethel M Collett married Edwin A Eustace, the event being recorded
at Steyning register office in Sussex (Ref. 2b 625) during the third quarter of
1923. Edwin Arthur Eustace was born on 7th
December 1900 and, in 1939, they were residing at 306 Old Shoreham Road in
Knoll, midway between Portslade and Hove, to the west of Brighton. According to the Register that year, there
were five members of the family living there, and they were Edwin Eustace was a
navvy undertaking roads and sewer work, Ethel’s date of birth was as given
above, Kathleen A Eustace was born on 6th November 1923 and was
working as a domestic daily maid, and David A Eustace had been born on 11th
January 1935 and was still under school age. The details of the other child had been
redacted.
On 6th May 1958, Ethel Minnie
Eustace of 306 Old Shoreham Road in Hove, sailed out of Liverpool aboard the
‘Empress of France’ of the Canadian Pacific Steamships Company heading for
Quebec and Montreal. She travelled tourist
class and was described as a housewife.
Later that same year, she made the return journey on the same vessel,
arriving back in Liverpool on 16th September 1958, when her forward
address was still 306 Old Shoreham Road.
Edwin Arthur Eustace died in Sussex at the age of 74, his death recorded
at Cuckfield register office (Ref. 5h 750) during the first three months of
1974. It was around four and a half
years later that Ethel Minnie Eustace nee Collett passed away at the age of 80,
with her death recorded at Brighton register office (Vol. 18 0181) in East
Sussex during the third quarter of 1978.
The marriage of Ethel and Edwin produced a total of four children whose
births were all recorded at Steyning register office in Surrey, when the
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
They were: Kathleen Ada Eustace who was born later in the year
they were married, that is towards the end of 1923, and she married Albert J
Cull; Patricia M Eustace who was born in 1925 and married Albert M
Tiffany; Charles A Eustace in 1926; and David Anthony Eustace
born at the start of 1935
Thomas
Theodore Collett [18R1] was born at Plymouth in 1897, his birth recorded there
(Ref. 5b 227) during the first quarter of that year. Around the turn of the century Thomas’
parents moved north from Devon to the West Riding of Yorkshire, where they
settled for a while in the village of Wheatley.
By 1911 Thomas was attending a boarding school at Whitehaven in
Cumberland. At that time Thomas was 14
and his mother and his two younger sisters had returned to Plymouth, perhaps
for health reason, while Thomas’ father continued his work in Carlisle as the
Reverend Thomas Collett, Vicar of Scotby.
When war broke out three years later, Thomas was 17 and joined the 3rd
Company 7th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment. By the time he was 20 he had risen to the
rank of Second Lieutenant. Tragically,
it was on 15th February 1917 that he died from the wounds he
received in action during the Battle of the Somme. Thomas Theodore Collett was buried in Grove
Town Cemetery at Meaulte in Somme in France, grave reference iii.A.3. By that time his father had died and his
mother was living at 12 Garden Road in Tunbridge Wells. The Grove Town Cemetery contains 1,395 First
World War burials and was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. In September 1916, the 34th and 2/2nd London
Casualty Clearing Stations were established at that location, known to the
troops as Grove Town, to deal with casualties from the Somme battlefields. His father’s gravestone at Scotby, Carlisle,
also includes an inscription regarding Thomas Theodore Collett, although year
was 1918, which is at odds with the year stated by the Commonwealth War Graves
Commission
Kathleen
Maude Collett [18R2] was
born at Plymouth in 1899, her birth recorded at Plymouth register office (Ref.
5b 206) during the third quarter of the year.
Shortly after she was born, the family left Plymouth and moved to
Wheatley in Yorkshire where her two younger sisters were born. The census in 1901 confirmed that her parents
Thomas and Agnes Collett, and her older brother Thomas (above) were
living at St Mary’s Road in Wheatley, when Kathleen Maude Collett who was one
year old. It was at Doncaster register
office (Ref. 9c 475) that the premature death of Kathleen Maude Collett was
recorded during the quarter of 1903, when she was three years old
Florence
Mary Collett [18R3] was
born at Wheatley in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 27th August 1902,
another child of Thomas and Agnes Collett.
Her birth was recorded at Doncaster register office (Ref. 9c 924) during
the third quarter of the year. She was
still there three years later when her sister Evelyn was born. However, by 1911 Florence was eight and
Evelyn was five, and they were living with their mother in Plymouth, while
their father the Reverend Thomas Collett in Carlisle had died near Darlington
two years later. It was during the
second quarter of 1932 when the marriage of Florence M Collett and Max A C Warren
was recorded at Tonbridge register office in Kent (Ref. 2a 2011), who had been
born in Ireland on 13th August 1904.
The 1939 Register recorded the couple living at 1 Selwyn Gardens in the
Newnham area of Cambridge, where Max was a Clerk in Holy Order, at the age of
35. His wife Florence confirmed her date
of birth as written above. By that time,
Florence had given birth to two daughters, both born at Bournemouth where their
births were recorded and where their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Collett, Rosemary E Warren in 1934, and Patricia M Warren in 1936
During the probate process for her mother’s
Will in 1940, she was named as a joint executor with her sister Evelyn (below),
when she was referred to as Florence Mary Warren, the wife of the Reverend Max
Alexander Cunningham Warren. On 25th
June 1947 Max sailed from Southampton on the ‘Queen Elizabeth’ of the Cunard
White Star Line bound for New York. The
passenger list stated that he was 42, a minister of religion, from 15 Eliot
Vale, Blackheath, London. The reverse
journey was made in 1955, when both Max and Florence sailing on the ‘Queen
Mary’ arriving at Southampton on 21st March 1955. The home address was the same as in 1947 and
their dates of birth were recorded as 13th August 1904 and 27th
August 1902, respectively
Max Alexander Warren was 73 when he died during
the summer of 1977, his death recorded at the East Sussex Eastbourne register
office (Vol. 18 0617). His Will was
proved at Brighton on 5th October 1977, when his estate was
estimated to be worth £11,258. Probate
also stated that he had been residing at ‘Waymarkes’ 30 Micheldene Road, East
Dean in Eastbourne when he died on 23rd August 1977. The later death of Florence Mary Warren was
recorded at Solihull South register office (Vol. 34 165) at the end of 1987,
when she was 85. Her Will was proved at Birmingham
on 14th March 1988, when her personal effects were valued at
£182,001. The probate documentation
confirmed that Florence Mary Warren, of Bentley Manor, Box Trees Road in Dorridge
to the south of Solihull, died on 13th December 1987
Evelyn
Margaret Collett [18R4] was born at Wheatley on 20th October 1905, her
birth being recorded at Doncaster register office (Ref. 9c 839) during the
fourth quarter of that year. Not long
after she was born, her mother took Evelyn and her sister Florence to live in
Plymouth, where they were recorded in April 1911, when Evelyn was five years
old. At that time, her father Thomas was
still working in the north of England, where he died during 1913. According to the 1939 Register, Evelyn M
Collett aged 34, was a visitor at the Royal Tunbridge Wells private convalesce
home on Garden Road, where her elderly widowed mother Agnes Collett was a
patient living on private means. At that
time in her life, Evelyn was described as a paid housekeeper at her permanent
address, when her date of birth was as shown above. With the premature deaths of both of Evelyn’s
two elder siblings, Thomas and Kathleen (above), it was just Evelyn and
her sister Florence, who were named as executors of their mother’s Will,
following her death in 1940. Evelyn
Margaret Collett was still a spinster, as she was again a year later, when the
Will of Ann Friend Collett [Ref. 18P6], spinster, was proved in October 1941,
with Evelyn Margaret Collett named as the second executor of the Will. Ann’s eldest brother was Thomas Trusson
Collett, who was Evelyn’s grandfather
Charles
Trusson Collett [18R5] was born at Crowthorne on 15th August 1904, his
birth recorded at Easthampstead register office (Ref. 2c 439) during third
quarter of the year. He was six years
old in the Crowthorne census of 1911, the eldest child of William George Collett
and Ruth Lilian Kempthorne. At that
time, he was living with his family at Wellington College, where his father was
an assistant master. He later married
Elizabeth Catherine Sibbald-Scott, the marriage recorded at Hollingbourne in
Kent (Ref. 2a 3933) during the third quarter of 1938, with whom he four children. Elizabeth was the daughter of Francis and
Gladys Sibbald-Scott, her father being a representative of the Schweppes
Mineral Water Company. However, in the
1939 Register, recently married Elizabeth C Collett was expecting the arrival
of her first child, when she was living with her parents at ‘Oast House’ Poll
Hill in Harrietsham within the Hollingbourne rural district, just east of
Maidstone, where the birth of that first child was recorded. Just after that the family was living
Berkshire, where the next two children were born, before making their permanent
home in Hampshire, finally living at Yateley.
The death of Charles T Collett was recorded at the Surrey Northern
register office (Ref. 5g 338) during the first three months of 1958. In 1985, when his fourth child was married,
David’s late father was described as Lieutenant Commander C T, O B E.
The Will of Charles Trusson Collett of
Southlands, Yateley in Hampshire was proved at London on 21st August
1958 to George Kempthorne Collett, C B, D S C, retired rear admiral in the
Royal Navy and Helen Elizabeth Collett, a spinster, (both siblings below) in
the sum of £8,878 1 Shilling and 1 Penny.
The notice of his death also confirmed that Charles died on 9th
May 1958 at Warren House in Kingston-upon-Thames. Ten years later, Elizabeth Catherine
Sibbald-Scott Collett died on 4th October 1968, at the age of 49,
and was buried in the grounds of St Peter’s Church in Yateley with her husband
aged 53 and her young son Robin aged eight years, where a memorial grave-marker
includes the details for all three members of the family. The record of her death also confirmed her
date of birth as 10th January 1919
18S1 -
Charles Anthony Sibbald Collett was born in 1940 at Harrietsham, Kent (Maidstone)
18S2 - Robin Trusson Collett was born in 1943 at
Windsor, Berkshire
18S3 - Elizabeth
Heather Collett
was born in 1945 at Windsor, Berkshire
18S4 -
David William Francis Collett was born in 1952 at Aldershot, Hampshire
George
Kempthorne Collett [18R6] was born at Crowthorne on 25th January of 1907,
his birth recorded at Easthampstead register office (Ref. 2c 410) during first
quarter of the year. His second forename
was his mother’s maiden-name. By 1911,
he was five years old and living with his family at Quatra Bras in Wellington
College in Crowthorne. It is established
that George was a member of the Royal Navy and travelled a lot in the role,
eventually ending up as a Rear Admiral with honours. It was in 1937 that he married Cashie Rongnye
Fernie Bell, with the event recorded at Windsor register office (Ref. 2c 1507)
during the third quarter of the year, the first of their two children born
during the following year. Where George
and his first child was in 1939 has still to be discovered perhaps not even in
England, while the Register that year recorded his wife living and working as
an unpaid domestic at ‘Lindeth Fell’ in the Windermere area of Westmorland, the
home of solicitor William Forwood aged 67 and his wife Dora aged 64. On that day, Cashie R F Collett gave her date
of birth as 19th February 1915.
By 1947, George was with the navy in Gibraltar when, on 1st
August, his wife and son sailed out of Southampton onboard the ‘Strathmore’ of
the P & O Line bound for Gibraltar.
The passenger list identified them as having a first-class cabin, when C
Rongnye F Collett was 32, and A Michael Collett was nine years old. Their home address was written as “c/o Thomas
Meadows & Co Ltd”, 35 Milk Street in the City of London, EC2
After the death of his older brother Charles
Trusson Collett (above), it was George and his unmarried sister Helen
Elizabeth Collett (below) who were named as the executors of his £8,878
1 Shilling and 1 Penny estate. It was on
that occasion that George Kempthorne Collett was described as C B, D S C, and a
retired rear admiral with the navy. Forty
years after the birth of his daughter, the death George Kempthorne Collett was
recorded at the Surrey South Western register office (Vol. 17 1323) during the
spring of 1982. The notice of the
announcement of his Will provided the following details. That he was living at Coombe Farm in Churt
Farnham, Surrey, when he died on 11th May 1982, and that his Will
was proved at London on 30th December 1982 to the valued of £215,433. His wife survived him by over twenty years,
when Cashie Rongnye F Collett died during November 2004 at the age of 89, her
death recorded at Uckfield register office in Sussex
18S5 -
Anthony Michael Collett was born in 1938 at The Wirral, Cheshire
18S6 -
Jean Rongnye Collett
was born in 1942 at Winchester, Hampshire
Helen
Elizabeth Collett [18R7] was born at Crowthorne on 21st October 1908, her
birth recorded at Easthampstead (Ref. 2c 398), when her mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Kempthorne. She was two
years of age bin the Crowthorne census conducted in 1911. At that time, she was living with her parents
at Wellington College, where her father was an assistant master. With her brother’s connections with the armed
service, it would appear that Helen too was involved with the Royal Air
Force. It was the 1939 Register that
provided the following information on this subject. Helen Elizabeth Collett was a single lady working
as an Assistant Section Leader in administration at the Royal Air Force base at
Odiham in Hampshire. The listing was entirely
comprised of females and, like all of the others above and below Helen, they
had similar reference numbers, Helen’s being 880512, some of them prefixed with
WAAF – Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. The
Register also included Helen’s date of birth, as indicated above. Even after the Second World War, she remained
a spinster, which was how she was described upon the proving of the Will of her
eldest brother Charles Trusson Collett in 1982, when she was an executor of his
Will, together with her brother George Kempthorne Collett. The later death of Helen Elizabeth Collett was
recorded at Reading register office (Vol. 3201a a14b) during the spring of 2005
Frank
Ainslie Collett [18R8] was born at Wellington College in Crowthorne on 27th
August 1911, his birth recorded at Easthampstead (Ref. 2c 838), when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Kempthorne. Frank was a merchant who travelled a lot as
part of his work. On 5th
August 1940 he arrived back in Liverpool, having travelled from Samaran in Java
onboard the ‘Clytomeus’ of the Blue Funnel Line in a first-class cabin. Frank Ainslie Collett’s forward address in
England was recorded as Woodhill, Crowthorne in Berkshire, while his overseas
address was Netherland East Indies. Three
years later, Frank sailed from Southampton to Singapore on the ‘Oranje’ of the
Nederland Line on 26th January 1944, when he gave the business
address of the British America Tobacco Company. He later returned to England, arriving at the
Port of London on 28th November 1949 from Penang in Malaya on the
‘Carthage’ another P & O liner. Once
again, his home address was Woodhill in Crowthorne. Two years later the marriage of Frank Ainslie
Collett and Joyce Neta Gardiner was recorded at Windsor register office (Ref.
6a 563) during the third quarter of 1951.
Joyce was much younger than Frank, having been born on 9th
July 1926, who presented him with two children
Joyce and her family were already used to sea
voyages, with her father Ernest Gardiner being a wharfinger, the owner or
keeper of a wharf, in 1927. That
particular year, when Joyce was only seven months old, the five members of her
family sailed first-class from Shanghai in China, arriving at the Port of
London on 15th March 1927 on the ‘Sarphdon’ of the Blue Funnel
Line. The address on the passenger list
to which the family was headed was c/o Mrs Austin, Redesdale, Bridgnorth in
Shropshire. Joyce’s travel on the high
seas was resumed eight years after she married merchant Frank Ainslie Collett,
and following the birth of their two children.
All four members of their family made the outbound trip from Southampton
onboard the ‘Canton’ of the P & O Line, departing on 13th
November 1959, for India. Merchant Frank
Ainslie Collett’s date of birth was 27th August 1911, Joyce Neta
Collett’s was 9th July 1926, Peter Frank Collett’s was 8th
February 1954, and Diana Joyce Collett’s was 26th September 1956. The family’s home address in England was Cape
Cottage, St Mary’s Road, Sunningdale near Ascot. How long the family was in India has not been
discovered, except to say that it was at St Mary’s Road in Sunningdale that
Frank and Joyce later retired
Under his full name, the death of Frank Ainslie
Collett was recorded at the Berkshire Bracknell register office (Vol. 3181 23)
in early 1995. In fact, it was on 26th
January 1995 that he died at Woodberry Down, St Mary’s Road, Sunningdale,
Ascot, after which his Will was proved at Brighton on 14th December
1995, not exceeding £125,000. Over ten
years after being widowed, the death of Joyce Neta Collett was recorded at
Gloucester during November 2006, when she was 80 years old
18S7 - Peter
Frank Collett was born in 1954 in Surrey
18S8 -
Diana Joyce Collett
was born in 1956 in Surrey
John
William Collett[18R9] was one of twins born at Crowthorne during the third
quarter of 1915, his birth recorded at Easthampstead (Ref. 2c 739), when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Kempthorpe. He was thirty-three years of age when the
marriage of bachelor John William Collett and previously married Betty Mary
Langslow Payne was recorded at the Staffordshire Burton-on-Trent register
office (Ref. 9b 193) during the first three month of 1948. The earlier wedding of Betty Mary Langslow
Bishop and Hugh F Payne was recorded at the Derby Shardlow register office
(Ref. 7a 1719) during the third quarter of 1939. It was at nearby Derby register office that
the birth of Betty M L Payne on 20th October 1918, was recorded
(Ref. 7b 949) during the last quarter of the year. Their married resulted in the birth of one daughter
and two sons. Betty died during the
spring of 1978, when she was 59 and her death was recorded at Eastbourne
register office (Vol. 18 0696). John
William Collett was 69 when he died in 1984, his death recorded at the East
Sussex Hastings & Rother register office (Ref. 18 979) during October 1984. His Will was proved at Brighton on 20th
November 1984 and did not exceed £40,000.
At the time he died on 12th October 1984 he was living at
home at Burnhams, Forewood Lane, Crowhurst, Battle, East Sussex
18S9 -
Leonie Gillian Collett was born in 1949 at Chichester, Kent
18S10 - Andrew
John F Collett
was born in 1955 at Yeovil, Somerset
18S11 - James
Michael Collett
was born in 1957 at Gosport, Hampshire
Gillian
Ruth Collett [18R10] was
one of twins born at Crowthorne on 11th
July 1915, her birth recorded at Easthampstead (Ref. 2c 739), when her mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Kempthorpe.
In the 1939 Register, Gillian R Collett was single and with no stated
occupation, when she was one of the eight occupants of La Chasse on Jubilee
Road in Frimley, Camberley in Surrey, the home of the Beer family. She later married Maurice Knowles Garnett, a (tea)
planter in Ceylon and, on 23rd May 1947, Michael aged 39 and Gillian
aged 32 were first-class passengers on the ‘Oranje’ of the Nederland Line,
which disembarked at Southampton, having sailed from Colombo in Ceylon (Sri
Lanka). The address that was their
destination was Woodhill in Crowthorne, the home of Gillian’s parents, William
and Ruth Collett. The couple’s return
journey to India started at the Port of London on 17th February
1948, when they sailed to Bombay on the ‘Empire Windrush’ of the P & O
Line, stopping off at Ceylon. The
passenger list once again, confirmed the couple had been staying at Woodhill in
Crowthorne.
Maurice’s first trip to Ceylon was in 1927 when
he was 19 years old, and he made the same sea voyage near the end of 1933 when
he was 25 and his home address was Woodthorpe in Crowthorne. After he married Gillian, they made the same
trip, leaving London on 29th October 1952, when Maurice was 44 and
Gillian was 37, again from home in Crowthorne.
Although not confirmed, it is possible that the return journey from
Ceylon, disembarking at Tilbury Docks in London on 19th May 1953,
may have been the last one. On that day,
their destination address was c/o Paul, at The Croft in Berkswell, midway
between Solihull and Coventry. Just
prior to the end of the century, Gillian Ruth Garnett died during May 1996 when
she was 80 years old. Her death was
recorded at the Surrey North-Western register office (Ref. 30b 64). Maurice Knowles Garnett was born at Wokingham
on 3rd July 1908 and died during the summer of 1983 when he was 75,
his death recorded at Bracknell register office (Vol. 19 0049). His Will was proved at Oxford on 13th
April 1984, when his estate did not exceed £40,000. He actually died at home on
6th August 1983, which was Greenshade, 25 Furzehill Crescent in
Crowthorne
Ann
Kathleen Collett [18R11] was born at Crowthorne on 19th July 1923, the
last child of William George Collett and Ruth Lilian Kempthorne. Her birth, like those of her older siblings,
was also recorded at Easthampstead register office (Ref. 2c 735), when her
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed at Kempthorne. It was during the last three months of 1957
when the marriage on Ann Kathleen Collett and Richard David Frederick
Goodfellow was recorded at Windsor register office (Ref. 6a 337), with whom she
had three children. Fiona R A
Goodfellow was born near the end of 1957, her birth recorded at Wokingham
register office (Ref. 6a 354) when her mother’s maiden-name was Collett, and
she later married Aled M Lewis. Angela
M L Goodfellow was born in the summer of 1960, her birth recorded at
Reading register office (Ref. 6a 134) when her mother’s maiden-name was
Collett, and she later married John A Learmond.
Philippa J F Goodfellow was born in the spring of 1963 and her
birth was also recorded at Reading (Ref. 6a 179) and again her mother’s
maiden-name was Collett, and she later married Philip N Stokes
Richard D F Goodfellow was born on 26th
September 1924, the son of Henry and Annie Goodfellow, and died during March in
1988, his passing recorded at Basingstoke register office in Hampshire (Vol. 20
246) at the age of 63, with the death of Ann Kathleen Goodfellow, aged 66,
recorded during the following year also at Basingstoke (Vol. 20 195) during the
summer of 1989. Richard’s Will was
proved at Winchester on 23rd May 1988 when his estate was valued at
£96,779. His death notice stated that he
died at home at 26 Northfield Road, Sherfield-on-Loddon in Basingstoke on 13th
March 1988. The later Will of Ann
Kathleen Goodfellow was worth £235,220 and was proved at Winchester on 22nd
August 1989, also having died at 26 Northfield Road on 30th June
1989
Rita
Eileen Collett [18R12] was born at 1 Bassett Road in the Mill Hill area of London on
27th November 1914, the daughter of George Clemson Collett and
Elizabeth Mary Arkcoll, her birth recorded at Kensington register office (Ref.
1a 259), when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Arkcoll. It was on 22nd December 1914 that
she was baptised at the Mill Hill Church of St Michael & All Angels, the
daughter of George Clemson Collett, gentleman, who assisted the Vicar Henry
Denison with the baptism. During the
First World War, Rita and her family living at 1 Bassett Road in North
Kensington, when they were still living in 1939 at the start of the Second
World War. In the Register that year Rita
E Collett was 24 and working as a shorthand typist. Around eighteen months later, Rita Eileen
Collett married Alan Robertson Gulland, who was born on 29th March
1914, their wedding recorded at Wokingham register office (Ref. 2c 1537) during
the second quarter of 1941
Alan was baptised at Christ Church in Sutton on
3rd May 1914, the son of stock jobber William Gulland and his wife
Louisa Mary of ‘Dunedin’, Devonshire Road, Sutton in Surrey. By that time Rita’s mother and brother George (below)
were no longer alive. Their marriage
produced two sons William George Gulland, known as Bill, who was born at
Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in London on 23rd April 1944, and John
Robertson Gulland whose birth was recorded at Luton register office (Ref.
4a 289) during the last three months of 1946, when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Collett. Alan Robertson Gulland
died in 1975 with his death recorded at Solihull register office (Vol. 34 0079)
during the first three months of that year.
His Will for £25,840 was proved at Birmingham on 6th June
1975 and confirmed that he was living at Stoneleigh Road in Solihull, where he
passed away on 23rd February 1975. Twenty-three years after being widowed, Rita
Eileen Gulland nee Collett passed away in 1998
George
Richard Collett [18R13] was born at 1 Bassett Road in London on 11th
March 1916, his birth recorded at Kensington register office (Ref. 1a 258),
when his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Arkcoll, the younger of the two
children of insurance agent George Clemson Collett and his wife Elizabeth Mary. He was baptised at St Columba’s Church on Pont
Street in Knightsbridge on 7th April 1916. It was during March 1939 that, George Richard
Collett from Luton, joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as an airman
u/t pilot. That situation was confirmed
in the 1939 Register which described 23-year-old George as an insurance
official who was also a sergeant with the Royal Air Force when he was still
living with his family at 1 Bassett Road in North Kensington. He was eventually called up on 1st
September 1939 and, after completing his training, as Sergeant G R Collett
745500, he was assigned to 54 Squadron on 15th July 1940. Just nine days later, he claimed his first
strike, when he shot down a ME109 but, later that same day, he ran out of fuel
pursuing another enemy aircraft and had to make a forced landing on the beach
at Dunwich, just north of Sizewell in Suffolk.
He was unhurt, but the Spitfire N3192 was written off
However, he resumed normal duties and less than
one month later on 22nd August 1940 he was shot down and killed,
when his Spitfire R6708 crashed into the English Channel near Deal. He was 24 years old and, after his body was
washed ashore in Holland, was buried at the Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery in
Holland. At the time of his death, his
parents were living in Luton. His name
appears on the Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne
near Dover in Kent. The Will of George
Richard Collett of 1 Bassett Road in London was proved at Oxford on 14th
July 1941 with a value of £373 2 Shillings and 4 Pence to George Clemson
Collett, a retired insurance superintendent
Daisy Collett [18R14] was born in 1905 at
Lewisham in London. All that is known
about her is that she was very likely the first base-born daughter of Lydia
Matilda Annie Perigo who was living with Alfred Alexander Collett in 1909 when
she gave birth to the first of his three natural children, with only their last
children born just after they were married in 1913. It was on the 9th February 1910 at
Christ Church in Camberwell that Daisy and her base-born sister Violet (below)
were baptised in a joint ceremony there.
The parish baptism entry recorded the details as Daisy Bell, born on 19th
October 1905, daughter of Alfred and Annie Collett of 14 Penarth Street,
Livesey, Camberwell, from where Alfred was a box maker. By 1911 the family was living at 40 Bridson
Street, off the Old Kent Road, in the Camberwell/Peckham area of South London,
where Daisy Collett from Lewisham was six years of age
Violet
Collett [18R15] was born in 1907 at Lewisham and was the second child of
Lydia Matilda Annie Perigow from Hastings, to be adopted by Alfred Alexander
Collett from Camberwell. Although Annie
and Alfred were not married until 1913, their first child together was Gladys
(below) born in 1909. However, it was on
9th February 1910 that Violet and her older sister Daisy (above)
were baptised together at Christ Church in Camberwell. On that day Violet’s entry in the parish
register recorded her details as follows. Violet Annie Amelia born on 31st
May 1909 (not 1907), daughter of Alfred, a box maker, and Annie Collett of 14
Penarth Street in Camberwell. Her age of
four years in the census of 1911, when the family was residing at 40 Bridson
Street in Camberwell, accurately reflected that she had been born in 1970. Violet was 24 years of age when, at All
Saints Church in Deptford, she married 29-year-old Albert Edward Lamb, the son
of James Lamb. Their wedding was
recorded at Deptford register office (Ref. 1d 2350) during the third quarter of
1931, when Violet’s father was confirmed as Alfred Alexander Collett
The birth of Albert Edward Lamb was recorded at
Lambeth register office (Ref. 1d 448) during the last quarter of 1901, after
which he was baptised at the Church of St John the Divine in Kensington on 30th
October 1901. The birth of the first of
the couple’s two sons Ronald J Lamb was recorded at Lambeth register
office (Ref. 1d 210) during the second quarter of 1934. It was also at Lambeth that the birth of Leonard
P Lamb was recorded (Ref. 1d 237) during the third quarter of 1936, in both
cases, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. In the 1939 Register, married Violet Lamb was
staying with her mother Annie Collett at ‘Mayfair’, Hever Road in Dartford,
when she gave her date of birth, in error, as 1st May 1906 – which
would be only six months after the birth of sister Daisy. Nine years later, the death of Albert Edward
Lamb was recorded at Lewisham register office (Ref. 5d 67) during the first
quarter of 1949 at the age of 47
Gladys
Marie Collett [18R16] was born at Greenwich in 1909, although it was
at Southwark register office (Ref. 1d 120) where her birth was recorded during
the second quarter of that year. Gladys
and her family were residing at 40 Bridson Street, off the Old Kent Road, in
Peckham in 1911
Alfred
Alexander Collett [18R17] was born at 40 Bridson Road in Peckham on 13th
January 1911, with his birth recorded at nearby Camberwell register office
(Ref. 1d 876) during the first quarter of the year. He was two months old in the March census of
1911, the fourth child and only son of Alfred Alexander Collett and his wife
Annie Perigow. Thirty-five years later,
the marriage of Alfred A Collett and Iris Bushell was recorded at Camberwell
register office (Ref. 1d 1277) during the second quarter of 1946. After being married for 29 years, the death
of Alfred Alexander Collett was recorded at Ealing register office in London (Vol.
12 0173) during the summer of 1975, when he was 64. Administration of his estate with a value of
£2,197 was granted at London on 6th November 1975, following his
passing at 11 Fontwell Close in Northolt on 19th July 1975
Agnes
May Collett [18R18] was born on 8th April 1913 at 40 Bridson Street
in Peckham, her birth recorded at Camberwell register office (Ref. 1d 1698)
during the second quarter of 1913, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
as Perigow. Although she was the
‘so-say’ fifth child of Alfred Alexander Collett and Lydia Matilda Annie
Perigow, her parents were only married a few months before Agnes was born. Like her older sister Violet (above), Agnes M
Collett was also married at All Saints Church in Deptford, the event recorded
at Deptford register office (Ref. 1d 1711) during the last quarter of 1938,
when the groom was named as Joseph H J Bailey.
Agnes May Bailey was 74 when she died, with her death recorded at Stockport
register office (Ref. 39 1127) during April 1987
Elizabeth
Mary Benson [18R19], known as Liz, was born
in Manchester on 5th January 1941.
She married Arthur Whittaker on 18th June 1962 at Altrincham
register office. Arthur was the son of
Arthur Whittaker and Minnie Dawson and was born on 22nd July
1943. Liz and Arthur have six children,
the first three and the fifth having been born at Bowdon, near Altrincham,
where Liz’s parents were living at the time of her marriage. The fourth child was adopted and had been
born at Ashton-under-Lyne. The family
moved to Gloucester in the early 1970s, where the couple’s sixth child was
born. The couple’s eldest son is listed
separately below, while the other five children were Karen Whittaker (born
26.11.1962), Guy Whittaker (born 07.07.1967), Anthony Whittaker (born
02.01.1968), Howard Whittaker (born 13.11.1968) and Robert Whittaker (born on
15.12.1974). During their lives
together, Liz and Arthur lived in Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Surrey,
Wiltshire, and today in the early years of the twenty-first century, they were
living in Hampshire. Thanks go to Liz
for kindly supplying the information that has enabled this family line to be
extended to the present day from what was originally a dead end with William
Collett back in 1759
18S12 -
Neil Arthur Whittaker
was born in 1964 at Bowdon, near Altrincham
David
William Benson [18R20] was born at a Maternity Home in Bowdon, Great Manchester,
on 19th September 1942, while his family was living at Hale in
Cheshire. He married Marjorie Allen at
Manchester where the event was recorded (Ref. 10e 20) during the second quarter
of 1967, prior to the couple making a move to North America in 1973. It was there, at Manatee in Florida on 7th
January 1975 that they were divorced. In
2008 David was living in Florida
Philip
Martin Benson [18R21] was born at Bowdon, near Altrincham, on 27th
June 1953. He later married Dianne Irene
Bainbridge, nee Borkett, on 14th November 1981, their wedding
recorded at the Gloucestershire Stroud register office (Vol. 22 1456). Tragically, he died from a brain tumour at
the relatively young age of 38, on 7th October 1991 at the Sue Ryder
Hospice in Cheltenham
Vera
Margaret Collett [18R22] was born on 11th March 1911 at West Hartlepool,
her birth recorded at Hartlepool register office (Ref. 10a 119), the only child
of George William Collett and Sarah Margaret Elder, who was one month old in
the census of 1911. The later marriage
of Vera Margaret Collett and Raymond Douglas Beadle was recorded at
Middlesbrough register office (Ref. 9d 1514) during the third quarter of 1933. Six years after their wedding day, the
childless couple was living at 58 Harrow Road in Middlesbrough, when Raymond
was working as an auctioneer’s clerk, his date of birth recorded as 10th
September 1907. His wife Vera M Beadle
was working for the Red Cross in addition to her unpaid domestic duties at home.
They lived at that address right up to
when Raymond died there on 5th December 1969, the death of Raymond
Douglas Beadle recorded at Teesside South register office (Ref. 1b 1891) at the
end of that year, when he was 62.
Administration of his personal effects was resolved at Ipswich on 15th
August the following year when it was valued at £13,487. Eight years after being widowed, the death of
Vera Margaret Beadle was recorded at Cleveland register office (Vol. 3 1802)
during the third quarter of 1977 aged 66.
It was at 33 Birchgate Road in Middlesbrough where she passed away on 8th
September 1977, when her personal estate was valued at £16,618
Benjamin Louis
Collett [18R23] was born in South
Africa during January/February 1907 at 93 Chamberlain Road in Woodstock, Cape
Town. He and his parents returned to
England when Benjamin was one month old, on board the ‘Kildonan’ which docked
at Southampton on 9th March 1907.
He was the eldest of the three children Jesse Collett from Burgh Castle
in Suffolk and Mary Seales from South Shields in Durham. He was four years old in the South Shields
census of 1911, when Benjamin, his parents and brother Clifford Collett, were
staying at the home of his maternal grandparents, Matthew and Harriet Seales at
69 Imeary Street in the village of Westoe, near South Shields. Although his family remained living in the
north of England, Benjamin returned to Cape Town as a skipper for the Ovenstone
Trawling Company. In 1925 he married (1)
Charlotte who was 25 and already carrying Benjamin’s first child, their
daughter Gene, with a second child added to the family shortly after. Later on, in 1939 Benjamin and Charlotte were
divorced, leaving him to marry (2) Myra Moore, with whom he had a daughter and
a son, both born in Cape Town. Six years
after the birth of their daughter, the family minus son Woodliff, sailed to
England, their names included on the passenger list for the sea voyage from
Durban, on board the ship Durban Castle, which arrived at Southampton on 20th
December 1947. Benjamin Collett was 41
years old and a mariner, his wife Myra Collett was 32, and their daughter
Myrene Collett was six years of age. The
Durban Castle was a vessel of the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd. In May 2019, Benjamin and Myra’s
granddaughter, daughter Karen Suzette Nicol, informs us that Gene (the eldest
daughter) is 93 years old and in an old age home in Pineland Cape Town. Her mother Myrene also lives in an old people’s
home in Cape Town, and her brother Woodliff Collett lives in Middleburg
18S13 – Gene Collett was born in 1926 in
South Africa
18S14 – Benjamin James Collett was born in 1928 in
South Africa
The following are the two children of Benjamin
Louis Collett by his second wife Myra Moore:
18S15 - Myrene May Collett was born in 1942 at
Cape Town, South Africa
18S16 – Woodliff Collett
Clifford Collett [18R24] was born at South
Shields, his birth recorded at South Shields (Durham) register office (Ref. 10a
792) during the last three months of 1910, another son of Jesse and Mary
Collett. Sometime later, he and his
older brother (above) settled in South Africa, where he married Bessie
with whom he had two daughters Ann Collett and Marion Collett. Clifford was involved with theatrical work at
62 Shaftesbury Avenue in London when he sailed from Southampton to South Africa
on 14th August 1936 when he was 25 years old. He later made the return journey from Port
Elizabeth to Southampton, arriving on 18th August 1939 on the
‘Winchester Castle’ of the Union Castle Line, when he was 28 and a merchant,
whose onward address was 45 Hulne Avenue, Tynemouth, Northumberland. It was from that same address, two weeks
later, that he sailed back to Port Elizabeth, leaving the Port of London on 5th
September 1939, that time aboard the Gloucester Castle
Edward Arthur Collett [18R25] was born at Tynemouth on
22nd March 1921, his birth recorded at Tynemouth register office
(Ref. 10b 466) during the second quarter of 1921, when the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Seales. He was the last
of the three sons of Jesse Benjamin Collett, a fisherman, and Mary Ann
Seales. His father died while at sea in
1930 and in the 1939 Register it was just Edward who was living at 45 Hulne
Avenue in Tynemouth with his widowed mother.
At that time in his life, he was an eighteen-year-old apprentice
engineer and fitter of ship engines. Six
years later, Edward A Collett married Lilian Hartnupp, their wedding recorded
at Northumberland South register office (Ref. 10b 755) during the fourth quarter
of 1945. Eighteen months later, their
son Bernard L Collett was born, his birth also recorded at Tynemouth register
office (Ref. 1b 899) during the second quarter of 1947, when his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Hartnupp. It is now
known that Edward, who was known as Ted, was reunited with his brothers in
South Africa, when he and Lily settled in Port Elizabeth, where two more
children were added to their family. The
birth of Lilian Hartnupp was recorded at Tynemouth register office (Ref. 10b 542)
during the last three months of 1921
18S17 - Bernard L Collett was born in 1947 at
Tynemouth
18S18 - Lewis Collett was born at Port
Elizabeth, South Africa, date unknown
18S19 - Gordon Collett was born at Port
Elizabeth, South Africa, date unknown
Queenie
Blanche Collett [18R26] was born at Burgh Castle on 15th May 1907, the
eldest of the four daughters of Louis Arthur Collet and his wife Elizabeth
Artherton. Her birth was recorded at
Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 1180) during the second quarter of the year
who, in 1911, she was three years old and living with her family at the High
Street in Burgh Castle. It is
interesting that Queenie Blanche Collett married Frank Pearson, so it is
possible that Frank may have been a relative of her paternal grandmother Emily
Turvey Pearson. The wedding was recorded
at Walsingham register office (Ref. 4a 731) during the last three months of
1937, with her parents married at Walsingham thirty-one years earlier. Two years later the 1939 Register recorded at
recently married couple at ‘Hazelhurst’ on Hayes Lane in Walsingham, where from
was Frank was a china and hardware retail and wholesale salesman. Their stated dates of birth that day also
confirmed what is written here
Nine months later, the birth of daughter Jean
M Pearson was recorded at Walsingham (Ref. 4b 717) during the second
quarter of 1940, with her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. Frank was born on 7th June 1910,
his birth also recorded at Walsingham (Ref. 4b 239) during the third quarter of
1910, and it was at Torbay that he died on 9th January 1995, at the
age of 84, when he was residing at 14 Waterleat Avenue in Paignton. His Will was proved at Bristol on 14th
June 1995 and did not exceed £125,000.
However, it was earlier that the death of Queenie Blanche Pearson was
recorded at Norwich register office (Vol. 10 1936) during the fourth quarter of
1979, after which she was buried at Fakenham on 21st December 1979
at the age of 72, when she and Frank had been living at Hunstanton
Mabel
Jessie Collett [18R27] was born at Burgh Castle on 21st July 1908, the
second child of Louis Arthur Collet and his wife Elizabeth Artherton, the birth
being recorded at Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 1170) during the third
quarter of that year. She was two years
old on the day of the census in 1911, when she and her family were living at
the High Street in Burgh Castle, where it is likely that she was born. Just like her parents and her sister Queenie (above),
but two years after younger sister, Mabel J Collett was married at Walsingham
(Ref. 4b 801) during the last quarter of 1935, when she wed Cecil Arthur
Yallop. It was also during that same
three-month period, that the birth of the couple’s only known child Patricia
H Yallop was recorded at Walsingham register office (Ref. 4b 310) where the
mother’s maiden-name was Collett. Cecil
was born on 5th December 1908, the son of Albert and Florence Yallop
of Walsingham, his birth recorded at Norwich register office (Ref. 4a 139)
during the first quarter of the year. It
was during the summer of 1970 that his death was recorded at Coventry register
office (Ref. 9c 1686). He was living at
Flat 2, Culworth Row in Coventry where he died on 20th August 1970,
when Administration of his estate of £625 was granted at Nottingham on 18th
September 1970. It was later that the
death of widow Mabel Jessie Yallop, aged 79, was recorded at Norwich (Vol. 10
2315) at the start of 1988 and was buried at Fakenham on 14th
January 1988 when she was living at 50 Queens Road in Fakenham
Ivy Selina
Collett [18R28] was born at High Street in Burgh Castle on 23rd
July 1911, her birth recorded at Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 2209) during
the third quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Artherton. Ivy was another daughter of
Louis and Elizabeth Collett. The
marriage of Ivy Selina Collett and Richard Stanley Reynolds was recorded at
Walsingham register office (Ref. 42 721) during the quarter of 1936. Their wedding ceremony after the reading of
banns was conducted at the parish church in Fakenham on 1st August
1936 when Richard Stanley was 28 and a painter the son of publican Richard
Reynolds. Ivy Selina was 25 and the
daughter of Louis Arthur Collett, deceased, a former labourer. The birth of Richard Stanley Reynolds was
recorded at Hampshire Alton register office (Ref. 2c 193) during the second
quarter of 1908. Three years after their
wedding day, the childless couple was living near Fakenham in the village of
Pudding Norton at a dwelling ‘Belmonte’ where Richard was a printer-keyboard
monotype setter, whose date of birth was 25th May 1908. His wife Ivy confirmed that her date of birth
was stated above
It was during towards
the end of the following year that their son Richard
Adrian Reynolds was born, with his birth recorded at Norwich (Ref.
4b 425), when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. Upon the death of Richard Stanley Reynolds on
11th November 1992 at the age of 84, his date of birth was recorded
at Waveney register office as 21st May 1908. At that time in their lives, he and Ivy were
living at 5 Forbes Drive in Beccles, from where he was cremated on 19th
November, his ashes interred at the Great Yarmouth Crematorium in Gorleston. Ivy was 88 years old when she died during
December 1999, her death recorded at Waveney register office in Suffolk. Ivy Selina Reynolds, a widow, died in 4th
December 1999 while in the War Memorial Hospital in Beccles, after which she
was buried at Great Yarmouth on 14th December 1999
Phyllis Emily
Collett [18R29] was born at Burgh Castle on 20th January
1913, the last child of Louis Arthur Collett and Elizabeth Artherton, who sadly
only knew her father for three years, as a result of him being killed in action
in France in 1916. The birth of Phyllis
E Collett was recorded at Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 2180) during the
first three months of 1913, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Artherton. She was three years old when
her father was killed in action while serving with the army in France. Sometime later her mother left Burgh Castle,
taking unmarried Phyllis with her to near where she was born in the Walsingham
area of Norfolk. Interestingly, the 1939
Register for Lawn View Terrace in Walsingham, Phyllis’ soon to be husband was
living there with them, when Phyllis was a saleslady in a grocery shop, and
Jack Beazer was a compositor in the printing trade when his date of birth was 2nd
September 1909. On that day, Phyllis and
Jack were preparing for the day they were to married, their wedding day
recorded at Fakenham register office (Ref. 4b 1247) during the last three
months of 1939. The birth of Jack Beazer
recorded at the south Suffolk register office at Plomesgate (Ref. 4a 1031)
during the fourth quarter of 1909. It
was during the summer of 1977 that he died, when his death was recorded at Great
Yarmouth register office (Vol. 10 1041) at the age of 68. Phyllis was 85 when she died, with her death
recorded at Waveney register office during the month of December 1998. The double headstone that marks their grave
at Great Yarmouth provides the dates of their passing as 23rd July
1977 and 12th December 1998
Joseph
William Collett [18R30] was born at Grimsby on 17th
November 1911, the first-born child of Joseph Thomas Collett and Mary Jane
Bruce, his birth recorded at Grimsby register office (Ref. 7a 1166) when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bruce.
It was at St Andrew’s Church in Great Grimsby that he was baptised on 20th
December 1911. He was 24 on 31st
December 1935 when he married Elsie Vera Neslen, aged 18, at St Luke’s Church
in Grimsby, the daughter of Robert Neslen, when Joseph was confirmed as the son
of Joseph Thomas Collett. Their wedding
was recorded at Grimsby register office (Ref. 7a 1691). Elsie had been born at Caister on 24th
January 1917, where she was baptised on 15th February 1917, the
daughter of Robert and Edith Gertrude Neslen.
All four of their children were born in Grimsby, where her mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Neslen. The
1939 Register included all four members of the family residing at 8 Convamore
Road in Grimsby, when Joseph William Collett was 27 and a trawl fisherman, who
was also a special trawler reserve. His
wife Elsie Vera Collett was 22, and their son Joseph William junior was under
school age, having only just been born.
The entry for the couple’s daughter was redacted, for the reason that
she was still alive when the information was later made public. Joseph William Collett senior was still living in
Grimsby when he died early in 1982, where his passing was recorded (Vol. 7
0656). He was cremated on 19th
March 1982, the same record confirmed that it was on 15th March 1982
that he passed away. Elsie Vera Collett
was 80 years old when she died during December 1997, by which time she was
living within the North-Eastern registration district of Lincolnshire
18S20 – Elsie J Collett was born in 1938 at
Grimsby
18S21 - Joseph William Collett was born in 1939 at
Grimsby
18S22 – Janet Collett was born in 1943 at
Grimsby
18S23 – Terence Collett was born in 1945 at
Grimsby
Frederick
Bertrand Collett [18R31] was born at Aberdeen on 6th August 1914, the
middle of three children of North Sea fisherman Joseph Thomas Collett from
Grimsby and his wife Mary Jane Bruce.
His time in Scotland may have been short-lived, with his parents
eventually returning to Grimsby where his older brother and younger sister were
born. And it was at Grimsby register
office where the marriage of Frederick B Collett and Betsy Amanda Francis was
recorded (Ref. 7a 1703) during the last three months of 1938. The wedding took place at St Luke’s Church in
Grimsby on 26th December 1936, when Frederick was 24 and Betsy was
22, the daughter of John Aloysius
Francis and her birth was recorded at Grimsby register office (Ref. 7a 1078)
during the last quarter of 1916. The
1939 Register identified the couple living at ‘Sea View’ on North Sea Lane in the
Humberston district of Cleethorpes, where Frederick B Collett was the branch
manager at a gentleman’s outfitters, while the date of birth of his wife was 7th
November 1916
Shortly thereafter, Betsy
gave birth to a son and Frederick
signed-up for military service and was assigned to the Royal Army Service Corp
as Driver T/154726. Very tragically, he
survived the war and, although peace in Europe was declared on 4th
May 1945, it was five months later on 9th October 1945 that
Frederick Bertrand Collett died in northern Germany, his body buried at the
Becklingen War Cemetery. The
Commonwealth War Graves Commission confirm that he was the son of Joseph Thomas
Collett and his wife Mary Jane Collett, and that he was the husband of Betsy
Amanda Collett of Grimsby. His widow
Betsy was eventually remarried, the event recorded at Grimsby register office
(Ref. 3b 660) during the third quarter of 1958 when Betsy A Collett married
Sidney Catley. Sidney had been born in
1913 and died at Grimsby in 1971. The
later death of Betsy Amanda Catley on 5th November 1982 was recorded
at Grimsby (Vol. 7 0391), after which she was cremated n 11th
November 1982
18S24 – Frederick J Bertrand Collett was born in 1940 at
Grimsby
Willemina
Cumming Collett [18R32] was born at Grimsby on 20th October 1916, the
youngest child of Joseph Thomas Collett and Mary Jane Bruce. She was 20 years of age, when she married Frederick Olley Rushby, aged 23, at St
Luke’s Church in Grimsby on 29th March 1937. Their wedding was recorded at Grimsby
register office (Ref. 7a 1396), where Frederick’s birth was also recorded (Ref.
7a 1293) during the second quarter of 1913, the son of Fred Rushby, with
Willemina confirmed as the daughter of John Thomas Collett. A year later the birth of Frederick Joseph Betmead Rushby (on 6th April 1938) was recorded
at Grimsby (Ref. 7a 877) during the quarter of 1938, when the child’s mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. Their
son was eighteen months old in the 1939 Register, when the family of three was
living within the Grimsby district of north-east Lincolnshire. Frederick O Rushby was 26 and a fisherman’s
deck hand, while Willemina C Rushby was a housewife whose date of birth was as
indicated above
Within the following
six months Willemina gave birth to her second child on 8th February
1940, when the birth of Thomas William Rushby was recorded at Grimsby (Ref. 7a 1776), who was 62 when he died on 1st
July 2002 in Grimsby. The birth of the couple’s
third child, Heather Mary Rushby, was recorded at Grimsby (Ref. 7a 1159) during the second quarter of
1943. Two years later the birth of their
fourth and last child, Andrewina Rushby, was also recorded at Grimsby (Ref. 7a 1030) during the third quarter of
1945 but sadly, so was her death. When
Frederick Olley Rushby died in North-East Lincolnshire in 19, his date of birth
was recorded as 30th May 1913, making him 86 when he passed away,
the same date as recorded in the 1939 Register.
Their son was still residing in the Grimsby area when he died on 11th
May 1990 at the age of 52, after which he was cremated on 21st May
1990
Gladys Jessie Collett [18R34] was born at 2 Station
Terrace in Southtown (Yarmouth) on 15th September 1899, the first of
the four children of Thomas William Collett and Sarah Anna Jackson. Her birth was recorded at Yarmouth register
office (Ref. 4b 29) during the last three months of the year. Gladys Collett was one year old in the
Southtown census in 1901 and again in 1911, when she was 11. She married late in her life and was
thirty-nine when the marriage of Gladys J Collett and William H Baxter was recorded
at Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 75) during the fourth quarter of 1938. Less than a year after their wedding day,
William and Gladys were living with William’s elderly parents David and Georginana
Baxter at 12 South Road in Cleethorpes.
William was a general labourer and shipwright who had been born on 27th
July 1902 (at Mitford in Norfolk), and Gladys confirmed her date of birth as
recorded above.
Thirty years later, Gladys Jessie Baxter was
residing in North Elmham, Norfolk, when her death was recorded at East Dereham
register office (Ref. 4b 1109) during the summer of 1969, while it was early in
1976 that William died, when his passing was recorded at the Thetford Wayland
register office (Vol. 10 2514) in Thetford, Norfolk, during the first quarter
of the year. He died at Eastgate Street
in North Elmham, East Dereham on 16th January 1976, following which
his Will was provided at Ipswich on 27th February 1976 when his
estate was valued at £,923
Miriam May Collett [18R35] was born at 2 Station
Terrace in Southtown on 31st March 1901, her birth recorded at
Yarmouth register office (Ref. 4b 33) during the second quarter of the
year. In the Southtown census of 1911,
May Collett was 11 years old, when living there with her complete family. As Miriam M Collett she married Alfred Edward
Warner, the event recorded at Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 47) during the third quarter of
1923. Nine months later, their only
child Donald M Warner was born at Yarmouth in the spring of 1924, where
his birth and subsequent infant death were recorded (Ref. 4b 43 & 4b 39). With the threat of war on the horizon, the
Warner family was living at 49 Tillett Road, in the north part of Norwich in
1939, where Alfred E Warner was recorded with no occupation but with his date
of birth as 14th May 1902. In
addition to his wife Miriam M Warner, who confirmed her date of birth as above,
there were two other persons living with them, both redacted and officially
closed. It was on 18th April 1979
that Alfred died, with his death was recorded at Norwich (Ref. 10 1885) at the
age of 77. For some reason Alfred Edward
Warner was cremated at Greenwich on 27th April 1979. Ten years later, the death of widow Miriam May
Warner was recorded at Norwich near the end of 1989 (Vol. 10 2193), when she
was 88. Her Will, said to be not
exceeding £100,000 was proved at Brighton on 21st December 1989 and
confirmed that she died on 16th November 1989 at home, which was 24
Merlin Avenue, Sprowston, Norwich
Isa Irene Collett [18R36] was born at 47 Elsie
Road in Southtown on 29th July 1903, another daughter of Thomas and
Sarah Collett. Her birth was recorded at
Yarmouth register office (Ref. 4b 34) during the third quarter of 1903, and she
was seven years of age in the Southtown census of 1911. Twenty years later the marriage of Isa Irene
Collett and Benjamin Reardon was recorded at Epsom register office (Ref. 2a
133) during the third quarter of 1931. Benjamin was born on 12th April 1904,
his birth recorded during the second quarter of the year at Yarmouth (Ref. 4b
6). Their daughter, and only child, was
born in 1932, when the birth of Brenda Isa Reardon was recorded at
Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 43) during the third quarter of the year, her mother’s maiden-name
being Collett. Towards the end of their
lives, Benjamin and Isa were living in Derbyshire, where they both died. Benjamin was 73 when he died there, with his
death recorded at Derby register office (Vol. 6 0859) during the second quarter
of 1977. His Will was proved at
Nottingham on 28th June 1977 for £1,534 and recorded that he died at
6 Ashby Street in Allerton, a suburb of south Derby, on 14th May
1977. The later death of Isa Irene
Reardon was recorded at Derby register office (Vol. 6 533) during August 1992,
when she was 89. Daughter Brenda married
Anthony F Bethell, their wedding recorded at Derby (Ref. 3a 557) during the
last three months of 1958. It was also
in Derby that Brenda Isa Bethell died on 14th October 2019
Thomas William Harcourt Collett [18R37] was born at 47 Elsie
Road in Southtown on 21st December 1906, with his birth recorded at
Yarmouth (Ref. 48 28) during the first three months of 1907. He was the fourth and last child of Thomas William Collett and Sarah Anna Jackson. Simply as William Collett, he was four years
of age in the Southdown census of 1911. Nineteen
years later, when Thomas William Harcourt Collett was 23 and a clerk living at
Sefton Lane in Great Yarmouth, the son of factory hand Thomas William Collett,
he married Florence Gertrude Lee after the reading of banns at the parish
church in Great Yarmouth on 14th September 1930. Florence was 22 with no stated occupation,
living at Tottenham Street, the daughter of William Herbert Lee, a
bricklayer. The two witnesses were Isa
Irene Collett, Thomas’ unmarried sister (above), and Herbert Lee,
possibly Florence’s brother. The wedding was recorded at Yarmouth register office (Ref. 4b 27)
during the third quarter of 1930 and provided the couple with three children. The births of all three children were recorded
at Yarmouth register office, when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Lee
By the time of the 1939 Register, there were
four members of the Collett family living at 76 Sturdee Avenue in Great
Yarmouth, although the details for the couple’s first-born child had been
redacted. The other three were as
follows. Thomas W Collett was a brewer’s
clerk whose date of birth was as written above, Florence G Collett whose date
of birth was 14th June 1908, and Malcolm D Collett who was two years
old and recorded as being under school age. Florence was only 55 years old when she died,
when her death was recorded at Norwich register office (Ref. 4b 790) during the
first three months of 1964. It was twenty-six
years later, towards the end of 1990, that the death of Thomas William Harcourt
Collett was recorded at Great Yarmouth register office (Vol. 10 1282). He was cremated on 30th October
1990 and his ashes were buried at Great Yarmouth Crematorium, with the record
there stating that he was a widow when he died on 22nd October when
he was living at 30 Beresford Road in Great Yarmouth. Those details were also confirmed when his
Will was proved at Ipswich on 27th November, the value of his
personal effects rated as not exceeding £115,000
18S25 - Margaret E Collett was born in 1931 at
Yarmouth
18S26 - Malcolm David Harcourt Collett was born in 1936 at
Yarmouth
18S27 - Valerie F Collett was born in 1941 at
Yarmouth
Freda Jessie B Collett [18R38] was born at Heath Road
in Banham, Norfolk, on 17th April 1903, her birth recorded at the
Thetford Wayland register office (Ref. 4b 248) during the second quarter of
1903. It was previously written here
that she was born on 28th June 1903, which now appears the day that
she was baptised She was the eldest of
the five children of Frank Ernest Collett and Alethea Rasberry. As Freda Collett, aged seven years, she was
living with her family at New Buckenham Road in Banham in 1911. Twenty-five years later, the marriage of
Freda J B Collett and Rudolph Barlow was recorded at Sheffield register office
(Ref. 9c 938) during the fourth quarter of 1936. The childless couple was recorded in the 1939
Register at 13 High Storrs Drive in the Greystones area of south-west
Sheffield, where Rudolph was engaged in work with aircraft, when his date of
birth was 14th January 1882 (registered at Blackburn - Ref. 8e
469), making him twenty-one years older than his wife, whose date of birth
was recorded as 17th April 1903
It was also at Garden Terrace in Blackburn
where Rudolph Barlow was born and from where he was baptised in Blackburn on 5th
February 1882, the son of Abraham and Mary Anne Rudolph. Just after the 1939 Register was compiled,
Freda gave birth to a daughter, Celia Barlow, whose birth was recorded
at Blackburn register office (Ref. 9c 919) during the last three months of
1939. Celia was only thirteen years old
when her father passed away at the age of 71, the death of Rudolph Barlow
recorded at Sheffield (Ref. 2d 259) during the second quarter of 1953. After a further forty-seven years, the death
of Freda Jessie B Barlow, aged 97, was recorded at Sheffield in South Yorkshire
(Vol. d61a 47) during April 2000
James William Hughbourne Collett [18R39] was born at Heath Road
in Banham, his birth recorded at the Thetford Wayland (4b 224) during the
second quarter of 1904, the eldest son of Frank and Alethea Collett. As Hugh Collett, he was said to be seven
years old in 1911 when he was still living at the family home at Buckenham Road
in Banham. He was 22 years old when the
marriage of James William H Collett and Olive Irene Bland was recorded at
Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 67) during the second quarter of 1926. The birth of Olive Irene Bland was recorded at
Yarmouth register office (Ref. 4b 15) during the second quarter of 1902. Less than one year after their wedding day,
Olive presented James with a daughter, Megan D M Collett, whose birth was also
recorded at Yarmouth during the first three months of the year, when the
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bland.
Just after the birth, the death of James W H Collett was also recorded
at Yarmouth at the end of the same first quarter of 1927 (Ref. 4b 47)
The young family was residing at 32 St Andrew’s
Road in Gorleston-on-Sea when their daughter was born and when her father died,
just prior to his twenty-third birthday.
The Administration of the personal effects of James William Hughbourne
Collett was granted at Norwich on 24th June 1927 to Olive Irene
Collett, widow, in the sum of £146 7 Shillings and 6 Pence. The process recorded that he died on 27th
March 1927 at 87 Arundel Road in Great Yarmouth, two miles north of his home, after
which he was buried at Great Yarmouth on 1st April 1927. Three years after that sad day, Olive Irene
Collett married George Richard Nickerson by banns at the parish church in Great
Yarmouth in August 1930
18S28 -
Megan D M Collett
was born in 1927 at Yarmouth
Frank Christian Clowes Collett [18R40] was born at New
Buckenham Road in Banham on 26th September 1907, another son of
Frank and Alethea Collett. His birth was
recorded at the Thetford Wayland register office (Ref. 4b 217) during the last
three months of the year who, as Frank C Collett he was the months old in 1911. According to the 1939 Register, arrangements
were being made for his forthcoming wedding, when he was staying with his
future parents-in-law at their home on Mill Road in Reedham, within the
Blofield & Flegg district of Norfolk. Head of the household was Samuel Mills a
retired roadman aged 66, his wife Ethel was 60, and their daughter Gladys E
Mills aged 32 (born on 15th March 1907) and the future wife of Frank
C Collett, who was also 32 and the manager of a radio and cycle retailer whose
date of birth was a stated above. Gladys’ birth was recorded at the
Norfolk Blofield register office (Ref. 4b 201). Shortly after, the marriage of Frank C
Collett and Gladys E Mills was conducted at Reedham and recorded at Acles
register office (Ref. 4b 161) during the last three months of 1939
Three years later, Gladys gave birth to their
only child, Ann Collett, whose birth was also recorded at Acle register office
(Ref. 4b 48) during the last three months of 1942. Daughter Ann was 23 when she married Michael
J Brooks during the second quarter of 1966 (Ref. 4b 1009). Frank was still living in Norfolk when he
died on 28th March 1983, the death of Frank C C Collett recorded at
Norwich register office (Vol. 10 2252).
By that time in their life together, he and Gladys were living at
Windsor Cottage, The Hills in Reedham, not far from where they were living in
1939, to the south of Acle. Upon
cremation in Great Yarmouth on 31st March 1983, his was recorded
under his full name of Frank Christian Clowes Collett aged 75. After fifteen years as a widow, the death of
Gladys Elizabeth Collett was recorded at Norwich register office (Vol. e21b
266) during November 1998, when she was 91 years old
18S29 -
Ann Collett
was born in 1942 at Acle, Norfolk
Olive Elizabeth Hagan Collett [18R41] was at New Buckenham
Road, Banham, on 10th July 1909, another daughter of Frank and
Alethea Collett. Her birth was recorded
at the Thetford Wayland (Ref. 4b 225) during the third quarter of the year, and
was reported to be one year old in the Banham census of 1911. Olive E H Collett was 35 when she married
Henry Alfred Thomas Whiley, the event recorded at Yarmouth register office
(Ref. 4b 95) during the fourth quarter of 1934.
The couple and their first child were living at 22 St Andrew’s Road in Gorleston-on-Sea,
Great Yarmouth in 1939, where Henry A T Whiley was a special constable in Great
Yarmouth, his main job of work being a buyer at a hardware and oil paint
store. His date of birth was recorded as
21st May 1908, while Olive’s date of birth was as written
above. The third person at the property
had their details redacted, which would have been their four-year-old son Derek
F J Whiley, his birth recorded at Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 33) during the third
quarter of 1936. On that day in 1939,
Olive was already expecting the birth of her second child, Keith O Whiley,
whose birth was recorded at Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 13) during the second quarter of
1940. One more child was added to the
family, when the birth of Brian G Whiley was recorded at the Thetford Wayland
register office (Ref. 4b 297) during the third quarter of 1943. In all these cases, the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Collett
Despite the birth of their third child being recorded
Thetford, perhaps a switch of venue during the war, it would appear that Olive
and Henry continued to live at 22 St Andrew’s Road for the rest of their lives together
since, it was at that address that they were still living when Henry Alfred T
Whiley died on 21st September 1990 as patient in James Paget
Hospital. His death was recorded at
Great Yarmouth when he was 82, and afterwards was buried at Great Yarmouth
Cemetery on 27th September 1990.
His Will was proved at Ipswich on 12th November 1990 when his
estate was said not to exceed £115,000.
At the start of his life, Henry was born at 46 Springfield Road in
Gorleston when his birth was recorded at Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 35) during the
second quarter of 1908. Six weeks later,
his baptism was conducted at Gorleston-with-Southtown parish church on 5th
July 1908, the son of sailor James Whiley and his wife Lucy. Fifteen years after being widowed, Olive
Elizabeth Hagan Whiley died at Gorleston on 21st January 2006, at
the age of 96. By then she was a patient
at the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston-on-Sea where she died, after which she
was buried with her later husband at Great Yarmouth cemetery on 6th
February 2006
Ida Alethea Mary Collett [18R42] was born in the family
home at New Buckenham Road in Banham towards the end of 1912, the fifth and
last child of Frank Ernest Collett and Alethea Rasberry. He birth was recorded at the Thetford Wayland
register office (Ref. 4b 416) during the last three months of the year, when
her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Rasberry. Her father died in 1917 and her mother in
1926, just a few weeks before Ida died in Gorleston Hospital. The death of Ida Alethea Mary Collett was
recorded at Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 34) during the second quarter of 1926, and was
buried at Great Yarmouth Cemetery on 12th May 1926 when she was just
13 years of age
William A Collett [18R43] was born at Grimsby in
1919, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 7a 1156) during the fourth quarter of
that year, the eldest of the three children of George Collett and Ethel May
Shepherd. He was born during the Spanish
flu pandemic which followed the First World War. Whether it was an after effect of that
illness, the premature death of William A Collett was recorded at Grimsby
register office (Ref. 7a 666) during the last quarter of 1927, when he was
nearly eight years old
Eileen Nora Collett [18R44] was born at Grimsby on
22nd November 1921, the daughter of George and Ethel Collett, whose
birth was recorded at Grimsby register office (Ref. 7a 1091) during the last
three months of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Shepherd. She was 26 years of age when
the marriage of Eileen Nora Collett and Maurice Alan Wells was recorded at
Grimsby register office (Ref. 3b 524) during the first three months of 1948. The birth of Morris A Wells was recorded at
the Kent Tonbridge register office (Ref. 2a 1347) at the start of 1927, having
been born on 2nd January 1927. It was during the following year that Eileen
gave birth to a son, John Alan Wells, whose birth was recorded at
Tonbridge register office (Ref. 5b 1359) during the second quarter of 1949
During the very next year Eileen presented
Maurice with a daughter, with the birth of Jean Ann Wells recorded at
Kent Tonbridge register office (Ref. 5b 1077) during the third quarter of 1950.
The mother’s maiden-name for both
children was confirmed as Collett. Eileen
Nora Wells was 62 when she died in North Norfolk, her death recorded at Kings
Lynn register office (Vol. 10 1395) during December 1984. Being six years younger than Eileen, it was
six years after he was widowed that Maurice died on 4th February
1991 at the age of 64, his passing also recorded at Kings Lynn (Vol. 10
1780). The Will of Maurice Alan Wells
was proved at Ipswich on 4th June 1991 when the value of his estate
did not exceed £115,000. That process
revealed that he died while at home, his last address being 8 Old Roman Walk (Branodunum),
Brancaster, North Norfolk
Norman George Collett [18R44] was born at Grimsby on
2nd April 1924, the last child of George Collett and Ethel May
Shepherd, as confirmed at the registration of his birth (Ref. 7a 1024). He was 15 years of age in 1939, when he was
one of the three children living with his parents at 102 Ainslie Street in
Grimsby, when he was still attending school, but in non-school time was a scout
messenger with the Air Raid Patrol. The
marriage of Norman George Collett and Dorothy Alward was recorded at Grimsby
register office (Ref. 3b 713) during the third quarter of 1950. Dorothy had also been born at Grimsby, on 1st
July 1930, and was nine years old in the 1939 Register when she was living at
17 Haven Street in Grimsby with her parents, Horace and Eleanor Alward. Norman George Collett died on 1st
November 1999, when his death recorded at Lincoln register office at the age of
75, and was cremated on 9th November 1999. His widow was 77 years of age, when Dorothy
Collett passed away at Sleaford in Lincolnshire on 5th March 2007
18S30 - Brian Collett was born in 1956 at
Grimsby
18S31 - Sheila A Collett was born in 1958 at
Grimsby
Leslie James Collett [18R47] was born at Yarmouth on
31st March 1924, the second child and only son of Louis (Lewis)
James Collett and Ethel May Hicks.
Rather strangely his entry in the 1939 was redacted, even though he was
only fifteen years of age and may or may not have left school by then. It was during the summer of 1948 that the
marriage of Leslie James Collett and Jean Whittaker was recorded at Yarmouth
register office (Ref. 4b 1314) during the third quarter of the year. Jean had been born on 30th
December 1927 and she presented Leslie with two children, their births recorded
at Yarmouth register office. Jean
Collett was 77 when she died on 23rd July 2005 at Mildred Stone
House, Northgate in Great Yarmouth. At
time the couple’s home was 28 The Fairway in Caister, while it was at Great
Yarmouth that she was buried on 2nd August 2005. Seven years later, Leslie James Collett was 88
years old and a widower when he died at Great Yarmouth on 16th April
2012, and was buried with his wife at Great Yarmouth on 27th April,
when he had been living at The Vineries, Winterton Road, Hemsby near Great
Yarmouth
18S32 – Susan E Collett was born in 1950 at Yarmouth
18S33 – Stephen James Collett was born in 1956 at Yarmouth
Brian George Collett [18R50] was born at Yarmouth
on 3rd May 1929, the second child and old son of Benjamin George
Collett and Winifred Alice Harper. His
birth was recorded at Yarmouth register office (Ref. 4b 45) during the second
quarter of 1929, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Harper. That was the same quarter of the year in
which the death of his father was recorded, just over a week before Brian was
born. He was ten years old and at school
when he and his widowed mother and his older sister Brenda were living at 78
Upper Cliff Road in Great Yarmouth for the 1939 Register. Thirteen years later the marriage of Brian
George Collett and Mary I Price was recorded at Maidstone register office (Ref.
5b 1040) during the last three months of 1952.
As far as we know, it is possible that their marriage did not produce
any children. Much later Brian was
living in Surrey when he died during the spring of 1991, when he was 61, the
death of Brian George Collett recorded at the Surrey South-Eastern register
office (Vol. 17 1263)
Nancy E
Collett [18R51]
was born at Stockton-on-Tees in 1921, the only child of William Henry Collett
and Eva Evans, her birth recorded at Stockton register office (Ref. 10a 197)
during the third quarter of 1921, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
as Evans. Only one such person with the
name Nancy E Collett was born in England from the First World War onwards and
that was the only daughter of William Henry Collett and Eva Evans. Interestingly, there are two marriages for
Nancy E Collett and both of them at Durham, just six years apart. The first was during the second quarter of
1942, when the marriage of Nancy E Collett and Walter L Grooby was recorded at
Durham South Eastern register office (Ref. 10a 241), with the second, between
Nancy E Collett and David J Sabourin was recorded there during the last quarter
of 1948 (Ref. 1a 1485). It is therefore
possible that Walter L Grooby was a casualty of the Second World War, with
Nancy reverting to her maiden-name for the second wedding. Certainly, on 5th May 1950, David
Sabourin and his wife Nancy Sabourin sailed out of Liverpool on the ‘Franconia’
of the White Star Line, bound for Quebec in Canada. Both of them was 28 years old, with David
being an engineer, the address from which they came recorded as Vicarage Lane,
Dore in Sheffield
By the summer of 1956, the couple had two
children travelling with them from Vancouver to Auckland, New Zealand (31st
July to 17th August 1956), the passenger list including David J
Sabourin, Nancy E Sabourin, Susanna C Sabourin, and Malcolm N
Sabourin. They made the return
journey, on the same ship, the ‘Oronsay’ later that year, leaving Auckland on
14th December and arriving in Vancouver of 28th December
1956. On 21st May 1958, the ‘Maasdan’
of the Holland & America Line sailed into Southampton from Montreal with
the same four members of the Sabourin family on board. The address there were heading for was
‘Gables’ Cirencester Road in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. On this voyage their dates of birth were
included on the passenger list. David
Sabourin’s was 2nd September 1921, Nancy’s was 31st
August 1921, Susanna Sabourin was born on 5th March 1952, and
Malcolm Sabourin was born on 1st August 1955
Arthur
Collett [18R52]
was born in 1922 at Stockton-on-Tees and was the only child of John Arthur
Collett and Emily Fulton. His birth was
recorded at Stockton (Ref. 10a 131) during the first the months of 1922, when
the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Fulton
Margaret
Anderson Collett [18R53] was born at Stockton-on-Tees in 1927, where her birth was
recorded (Ref. 10a 73) during the fourth quarter of the year, when Anderson was
confirmed as her mother’s maiden-name.
She was the older of the two daughters of Charles Albert Collett and
Gladys May Anderson and was nearly twelve years old when she was living with
her family at 169a Laburnum Road in Redcar at the time the 1939 Register was
compiled. The later marriage of Margaret
Anderson Collett and Alan Stangroom was recorded at Cleveland register office
(Ref. 1b 1619) during the third quarter of 1950. The birth of Alan Stangroom had been recorded
at Leeds during the second quarter of 1928.
Nine months later their daughter Christine E Stangroom was born, with
her birth also recorded at Cleveland register office (Ref. 1b 902) during the
second quarter of 1951, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett
Joan May
Collett [18R54]
was born at Stockton-on-Tees in 1930, the youngest child of Charles and Gladys
Collett. Her birth, like that of her
sister (above), was also recorded at Stockton-on-Tees register office (Ref.
10a 129) in the first quarter of 1930.
At the age of nine, Joan was and her family were residing in Redcar 169a
Laburnum Road. The marriage of Joan May
Collett and Thomas Caddy was also recorded at Cleveland (Ref. 1b 1573) during
the first three months of 1952, where her older sister’s wedding had been
recorded less than two years earlier. Thomas
Caddy had been born at the start of 1930 in Guisborough, and he died at
Saltburn-by-the-Sea in Yorkshire on 23rd February 2010. Joan gave birth to two children, the first of
them being Susan Caddy, whose birth was recorded at Cleveland register
office (Ref. 1b 924) during the third quarter of 1958, as was the couple’s
second child Gordon Caddy with his birth recorded there (Ref. 1b 1003)
during the second quarter of 1961. On
both occasions their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett
Ronald
Collett [18R55]
was born in 1927 at North Bierley near Bradford in Yorkshire, with his birth
recorded at North Bierley register office (Ref. 9b 2) during the summer of that
year. He was the eldest of the three
children of Albert Edward Collett and Edith Sudron, the record of his birth
confirming his mother’s maiden-name was Sudron.
According to the 1939 Register, his family was residing at Nunwick Hall,
three miles north of Hexham in Northumberland, when the details for Ronald and
his sister Hilda (below) were redacted. The reason for that to had
happens, indicate that both Ronald and Hilda were still living when the
document was made available for inspection by the general public. Twenty years after that census day, the
marriage of Ronald Collett and Dorothy Bartlam was recorded at Huddersfield, a
few miles south of where he had been born, (Ref. 2b 1684) during the first
three months of 1959
The only
children of the right age born to Collett-Bartlam parents were: Susan A
Collett, whose birth was recorded at Birmingham register office (Ref. 9c 977)
during the second quarter of 1961, and Paul Anthony Collett who was born five
years later, during the first three months of 1966, with his birth recorded at
Derby register office (Ref. 3a 537).
18S34 –
Susan A Collett was born in 1961 at Birmingham
18S35 –
Paul Anthony Collett was born in 1966 at Derby
Hilda
Collett [18R56]
was born at North Bierley in 1930 where her birth was recorded (Ref. 9b 9)
during the fourth quarter of the year, another child of Arthur and Edith
Collett. Her entry in the 1939 Register
was redacted because she was still alive when it became a public document, with
her family living at Nunwick Hall.
Margery
Collett [18R57]
was born at North Bierley on 30th May 1932 and her birth was also
recorded there (Ref. 9b 17) during the spring of 1932 when her mother’s
maiden-name was Sudron. Margery was
seven years old and attending school when she and her family were recorded in
the 1939 Register at Nunwick Hall, near Hexham, Northumberland. She later married Charles N Bell, with their
wedding recorded at Newcastle-upon-Tyne register office (Ref. 1b 300) during
the first three months of 1955.
Alan F
(P) Collett [18R58] was
born on 9th June 1936, the only son of George Richard Collett from
Hartlepool and Aileen Anderson Fordy from Stockton-on-Tees. His birth, as Alan P Collett, was recorded at
Stockton register office (Ref. 10a 161), when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Fordy. Just one week before
his fourth birthday Alan and his mother received the sad news that his father
had been killed while taking part in the evacuation from Dunkirk on 29th
May 1940, when the destroyer to which he was assigned was bombed
Not long after his twenty-third birthday, Alan
married Christine Louise Marriott on 22nd August 1959 at Belper in
Derbyshire (Ref. 3a 183), with whom he had four daughters who, following their
marriages at Oldham in Lancashire, presented Alan and Christine with seven
grandchildren between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two by 2011. The earlier birth of Christine Louise
Marriott was recorded at Belper register office (Ref. 7b 1003) during the
second quarter of 1938.
18S36 - Gillian A Collett was born in 1960 at
Durham
18S37 - Beverley A Collett was born in 1962 at
Durham
18S38 - Joanne L Collett was born in 1965 at
Durham
18S39 - Andrea Michelle Collett was born in 1969 at Saddleworth,
Yorkshire
Jean
Collett [18R59]
was born at 13 Vicarage Street in Stockton on 21st July 1946, the
eldest daughter of Cecil Benjamin Collett and Grace Ness. Her birth was recorded at Durham
South-Eastern register office (Ref. 1a 949), with her mother’s maiden-name
confirmed as Ness
Susan
Collett
[18R60] was born at Thornaby-on-Tees
on 14th May 1953 and was the younger of the two daughters of Cecil
and Grace Collett. Her birth was
recorded at Cleveland register office (Ref. 1b 955) when her mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Ness. It
was Cecil’s daughter Sue Hammler, nee Collett, who kindly provided the details
regarding her parents, and those of her aunts and uncles, all of which have
been included in this family line
Robert P
Collett [18R61] was
born at Ipswich in 1921, his birth recorded there (Ref. 4a 1862) during the
third quarter of that year, when his mother’s name was confirmed as
Hamblin. He was the only son of Robert
James Collett and Elizabeth Teresa Hamblin who were married after peace in
Europe was declared, towards the end of 1918.
Like his father, before him, Robert was also known within the family as
Bobs. He married later in his life and
was around thirty-nine when Robert P Collett married Judith M Gower, the event
recorded at Ipswich register office (Ref. 4b 2247) during the third quarter of
1960. Judith was born early in 1934,
with her birth recorded at Ipswich register office (Ref. 4a 1475) during in the
first three months of 1934. Perhaps,
because of age, it appears that the couple had no children. Prior to their wedding day, Robert had
attended the 90th birthday celebrations for his grandmother Emma
Collett nee Porter in the summer of 1947 – (see photograph at Ref. 18P93). It is possible that he died in March 2009 and
that his obituary was published in the Ipswich Advertiser at that time
Philip
Robert Walter Collett [18R62] was born at Ipswich on 8th April
1911, where his birth was recorded (Ref. a 1018), the eldest son of William
Walter Collett and his wife Florence Maud Death. Six months later his family was living in the
Clacton area of Essex, where the baptism ceremony for Philip Robert Walter
Collett was conducted at St James’ Church on 8th October 1911. Just over two years before the start of the
Second World War, Philip married May Lilian Read at St Matthew’s Church in
Ipswich on 12th June 1937, their wedding recorded at Ipswich
register office (Ref. 4a 2542). Within
the next couple years May presented her husband with a daughter, just prior to
Philip setting off to fight for King and Country. The photograph (below) was taken at
Ipswich in 1939, following the birth of his daughter, Mary-Ann, who kindly
provided the full picture which included four generations from herself to her
great grandmother Emma Collett nee Porter.
Two years after their wedding day, it would appear that Philip had
already enlisted in the armed forces since, the 1939 Register for Ipswich
placed only May L Collett living at 13 Beechcroft Road in the Castle Hill of
the town. May gave her date of birth as
17th May 1912, she having also been born in Ipswich, while there
were two other people living with her at that address, but sadly, both of them
redacted
18S40 - Mary-Ann
Collett
was born in 1938 at Ipswich
William
Geoffrey Collett [18R63], who was referred to as Geoffrey, was born at Ipswich on 28th
August 1912, a son of William Walter Collett and Florence Maud Death. His birth was recorded at register office
(Ref. 4a 1912) but only during the last three months of 191, when his mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Death. It
was during the second quarter of 1938, when the marriage of William Geoffrey
Collett and Gladys Victoria May Finney was recorded at Ipswich register office
(Ref. 4a 3185). Gladys was born in
Suffolk on 28th November 1912, her birth recorded at Woodbridge
(Ref. 4a 2023) during the first quarter of 1913, where her mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Finney. Eighteen months
after their wedding day, William had already enlisted with the British Army
with the Second World War approaching, leaving his wife living with his parents
at 16 Westwood Avenue in Ipswich where she was an auxiliary reserve nurse at
the age of 26. In addition to his
wartime service, at other times in his life, Geoffrey was a talented
photographer, and also worked for the local electricity board. His marriage to Gladys produced just one child who, in turn produced
the couple’s only grandchild
Later on, both Geoffrey and his wife died during
the 1980s, and it was at Ipswich register office (Vol. 10 2937) that the death
of Gladys Victoria May Collett was recorded during the first months of
1982. The Administration of her personal
effects was granted at Ipswich on 25th May 1982, for a sum not
exceeding £25,000. This also revealed
that she and William were residing at ‘Coniston’ on Falkenham Road, in the
village of Kirton, just north of Felixstowe, where she died on 30th
March 1982. Having lost his wife,
William left Suffolk and moved to Kent, where his death was recorded five years
later at Tunbridge Wells register office (Vol. 16 1824) during the summer of
1987
18S41 -
Simone Hilary Collett
was born in 1944 at Bromley, Kent
Alan Victor Collett [18R64] was born in 1948 at
Ipswich, the only child of Sidney Victor Collett and Joan May Hunt. His birth was recorded at Ipswich (Ref. 4b
1342) during the second quarter of 1948, when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Hunt. Alan was thirty-four
when he married Rosemary J Huntingford at Ipswich in the spring of 1982 (Vol.
10 2955), although they appear to have had no children
Henry Edwin Collett [18R66] was born at Blackpool on
1st August 1927, the only child of Walter Collett and Martha Perkins,
with his birth recorded at Fylde register office (Ref. 8e 789), when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Perkins. Where he was when the 1939 Register was compiled has not so far been
discovered, except to say that he was not recorded with his parents at
Blackpool. However, just over eleven
years later the marriage of Henry Edwin Collett and Annie Green was recorded at
Blackpool register office (Ref. 10b 1091) during the first quarter of 1951. It would appear they had no children and that
Henry lived for most of his life in Lancashire, with his death recorded there
(Vol. 40 0511) during 1980, at the age of 52
Florence
Collett [18R67]
was born at Blackpool on 22nd January 1916, the first-born child of
George Collett and Mary Ann Harrison. Her
birth recorded at Fylde register office (Ref. 8e 527) during the first quarter
of that year when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Harrison. The marriage of Florence Collett and William
Lister (from Leeds) was recorded at Blackpool register (Ref. 8e 1293) during
the last three months of 1937. Less than
two years later, according to the 1939 Register, Florence and William were
living at 4 Weeton Avenue in Blackpool, the adjacent next-door-neighbours of
George and Mary Collett, Florence’s parents.
William Lister was a market gardener and pig farmer, whose date of birth
was 10th May 1912, when Florence Lister was 23 and a shop assistant
selling boots and shoes. It was during
the summer of 1983 when Florence Lister died at the age of 67, her death
recorded at Blackpool & Fylde register office (Ref. 4d 0302). The later death of William Lister was
recorded at the same register office (Vol. 40 596) but during the summer of
1991, when he was 79. He was living at
137 Cunliffe Road in Blackpool when he died on 22nd July 1991, his
Will proved at Liverpool on 16th December 1991, with his estate said
to be not exceeding £125,000
Margery
Collett [18R68]
was born at Blackpool on 11th March 1920 and her birth was also
recorded at Fylde register office (Ref. 8e 1319) during the quarter of that
year. She was the second of the two
daughters of George Collett and Mary Ann Harrison, her mother’s maiden-name
confirmed on her birth certificate. The
1939 Register revealed that Margery was the only daughter still living with her
parents at 2 Weeton Avenue in Blackpool, her older sister (above) having
been married two years earlier.
Unfortunately, the details for Margery Collett were redacted and
officially closed, due to her still being alive when the Register was released. Just under four years later, the marriage of
Margery Collett and Douglas Clark Horner, born 15th September 1920,
was recorded at Blackpool register office (Ref. 8e 1060) during the first three
months of 1943. Twenty-six years later,
the death of Margery Horner was recorded at Preston register office in
Lancashire (Ref. 10f 780) near the end of 1969, when she was only 49 years of
age. Douglas was 70 when he died 11
States Road, St Annes-on-Sea, his death recorded at Blackpool & Fylde
register office (Vol. 40 564) on 18th November 1990. His Will was proved at Liverpool on 18th
February 1991 for his estate of under £115,000
Geoffrey John Collett [18R69] was born at Eccles on
25th March 1931 and possibly at 39 Gordon Road, where he was living
with his parents in the 1939 Register.
He was the only child of Christopher Henry Collett and Eleanor Thom and
his birth was recorded at the Manchester North register office (Ref. 8d 799),
when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed at Thom. Geoffrey J Collett was 24 when he married Norah M Collier, with their
wedding recorded at Barton-upon-Irwell register office (Ref. 10b 459) during
the third quarter of 1955. Norah’s birth
was also recorded at Barton-upon-Irwell (Ref. 8c 698) during the summer of
1932. It would appear that they had no
children and that Geoffrey was only 47 when he died, with the death of Geoffrey
John Collett recorded at Lancashire register office (Vol. 38 0402) in 1978. He was the first of Norah’s three husbands
since, as Norah M Collett she married (2) Thomas Haslam in Bolton during 1983,
and as Norah M Collett-Haslam she married (3) John W Bassett at Cockermouth in
1999
Elsie
Collett [18R70] was born in 1902 at Kendal and was the eldest child
of William Henry Collett and Isabel Benson, who was already with-child on her wedding
day. It was also during the first three months of
that year that Elsie’s birth was recorded at Kendal (Ref. 10b 773). The marriage of Elsie Collett and
Norman Sarginson was recorded at Kendal (Ref. 10b 1545) during the second
quarter of 1923. It was during the third
quarter of 1896 that Norman’s birth was recorded at Kendal (Ref. 10b 722). Just like her own mother, Elsie was pregnant
on their wedding day, following which she gave birth to Elsie D Sarginson
around four months later, her birth also recorded at Kendall (Ref. 10b 1329)
during the third quarter of that same year, when the mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Collett. Tragically, Elsie
Sarginson, nee Collett, did not survive the birth, with her death recorded at
Kendal register office (Ref. 10b 686) during that same third quarter of
1923. She was only 21 years of age. The later death of Norman Sarginson was
recorded at Westmorland South register office (Ref. 1b 529) during the second
quarter of 1958, when he was 61
May
Isabel Collett [18R71] was born on 12th May
1903 at Kendal, only the second of the four children of William and Isabel
Collett to survive beyond infancy. The birth of May Isabel
Collett was recorded at Kendal register office (Ref. 10b 820), and it was there
also that her father died in 1918. Seven
years later, May Isabel Collett married William Ward, born 29th
March 1904, their wedding recorded at Kendal (Ref. 10b 1434) during the third
quarter of 1925. The first of their two
sons was born nine months later, when May gave birth to Brian William Ward,
whose birth was recorded at Kendal register office (Ref. 10b 1255) during the
first three months of 1926. The family
was still living within the Kendal area eight years later, where the birth of
their second son, John Ward, was recorded near the end of 1934 (Ref. 10b
968). On each occasion, the mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Collett
The 1939 Register listed the family living at
58 Shakespeare Road in Fleetwood, to the north of Blackpool. William Ward was a locomotive fireman – heavy
work, who was born on 29th March 1904, his wife May I Ward was 36
and a housewife, Brian W Ward had been born on 3rd January 1926 and
was at school, and John Ward had been born on 6th November
1934. It was forty years later when the
death of May Isabel Ward was recorded at Blackpool & Fylde register office
(Vol. 40 0515) during the third quarter of 1979. William Ward was 85 when he died, his death also
recorded at Blackpool & Fylde register office (Vol. 40 821) during the
first month of 1990
Annie
Collett [18R74] was
a honeymoon baby who born at Queensbury on 21st July 1898, the
eldest child of William Collett from Berwick-on-Tweed and his wife Elizabeth
Ann Priestley of Queensbury. Her birth
was recorded at nearby Halifax (Ref. 9a 494).
In the March census of 1901, Annie Collett from Queensbury was two years
old and living with her parents and her younger brother Leonard Henry, at
Ambler Thorn, Queens Head, to the north of Queensbury. Around one year later her parents presented
the family with a further son, so by the time of the census in 1911 the family
of five had left the Queensbury area and, instead, was residing in Keighley,
South Yorkshire, where Annie Collett was 12 years of age. On leaving school, it is possible that she
trained to be a nurse and, following the outbreak of the Great War, by 1917 she
was certainly working in some capacity at Keighley War Hospital in Morton
Banks, on the left bank of the River Aire, where she was caring for those
injured during the hostilities
Between the years of 1916 and 1919, the
hospital treated over 13,000 military cases and, from her first day on the
wards, Annie kept an autograph book which was signed by many of the wounded
soldiers. Whatever role she performed in
the hospital, she was very popular and certainly made an impression on the
soldiers, judging by the comments, verses and drawings, they added to their
signatures in her book. Many of the
entries made reference to the fact that she was a young single lady, like “Annie is your name, Single is your station,
Happy will be the man, Who’ll make the alteration”. And again in 1919, when the following was added
“Annie now, Annie ever, Collett now, But not forever”. The existence of the book only came to
light in recent years, when it was retrieved from a rubbish skip by Ronnie
Pickles of Keighley, following which an article was published in the magazine
‘Down Your Way’ in October 2011, which was spotted by Joyce Hidden nee Collett,
who sent it on to us
Annie Collett was still not married at the
start of the Second World War when, at the age of 41, she was living with her
widowed mother Elizabeth Ann Collett at 33 Hainworth Road in Keighley, from
where Annie was still caring for the sick and needy under a national health
insurance scheme. Fifteen years later, and
just over a year after her mother had passed away, the marriage of Annie
Collett, at the age of 56, and Thomas Narey took place during the first three
months of 1955, the event recorded at Worth Valley register office (Ref. 2c
114) covering the area of Keighley.
After twenty-two years together, the passing of Annie Narey was recorded
at Bradford register office (Vol. 4 0122) following her dying in Scalebor Park
Hospital, a mental health facility in Burley-in-Wharfdale, Ilkley, West
Yorkshire on 28th January 1977, when she was 78. Administration of her estate of £2,585 was
granted at Leeds on 16th February 1977
Leonard Harry Collett [18R75] was born towards the
end of 1900 at Amber Thorn, Queens Head, Queensbury, and was six months old in
the census of 1901. His birth was
recorded at Halifax (Ref. 9a 453) during the last quarter of 1900. By 1911, he and his family were living in
Keighley, where Leonard Harry Collett was ten years of age. Seven years after that census day, the death
of Leonard H Collett was recorded at Keighley register office (Ref. 9a 255)
during the second quarter of 1918, at the age of 17. The name of Leonard Harry Collett was not
included on the list of World War One fatalities
Harold Albert Collett [18R76] was born at Ambler
Thorn, Queens Head, Queensbury, his birth recorded at Halifax register office
(Ref. 9a 68) during the first quarter of 1902.
He was the last child of William Collett and Elizabeth Ann Priestley, and
was nine years old in the Keighley census of 1911. No record of a marriage for Harold has been
found, while his death was recorded at Worth Valley (Ref. 2c 77) during the
first three months of 1963, when he was 61 years of age. Worth Valley is just three miles from where
he was born
William
John Collett [18R79]
was born on 15th July 1923 at Barrow-in-Furnace, where his birth was
recorded (Ref. 8e 1213) during the third quarter of the year, when his mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Williams.
In 1939 William J Collett was 15 years of age, by which time he had
finished his schooling and was an apprenticed sheet Iron worker living with his
mother at 41 School Street in Barrow-in-Furnace. Seven years after, the marriage of William
John Collett and Bridget Murphy was recorded at Barrow-in-Furnace register
office (Ref. 10b 277) during the last three months of 1946. The birth of Bridget Murphy was also recorded
at Barrow-in-Furnace (Ref. 8e 1099) the first quarter of 1926. In the 1939 Register, Bridget Murphy’s date
of birth was recorded as 21st February 1926, so was 13 and still at
school. On that occasion she was living
at 120 Rosedale Road in Barrow, the home of her parents, shipyard labourer
James Murphy and his wife Marion
His father Thomas Henry Collett died during the
first half of 1947 and his mother ten years later. Tragically, Bridget suffered a premature
death when she died at the age of 36, her passing recorded at Barrow-in-Furnace
register office (Ref. 10b 194) during the second quarter of 1962, one year
after presenting William with the couple’s fourth child. All of the children were born at
Barrow-in-Furnace, where their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Murphy. Thirty-three years after losing
his wife, the death of William John Collett was recorded at Barrow-in-Furnace
in the spring of 1995, aged 71. The
probate process confirmed that he died at home on 28th March 1995 at
57 Lesh Lane in Barrow, his Will proved at Liverpool on 3rd May 1995,
when his estate was assessed at under £125,000
18S42 – Kathleen Collett was born in 1947 at
Barrow-in-Furnace
18S43 – William John Collett was born in 1953 at
Barrow-in-Furnace
18S44 – Peter Collett was born in 1957 at
Barrow-in-Furnace
18S45 – David Collett was born in 1961 at
Barrow-in-Furnace
Frances A
J Collett [18R80]
was born at Barrow-in-Furnace in 1924 and was the second of the two children of
Thomas Henry Collett and Phoebe Williams.
Her birth was recorded at Barrow register office (Ref. 8e 1079) during
the last three months of 1924, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Williams. Rather curiously, no further record of Frances has been
found
Derrick
Nelson Collett [18R81] was born at Barrow-in-Furnace on 13th February
1921, the only child of Robert Collett and Blanche Evelyn McVee. His birth, using the name Derrick Nelson
Collett was recorded there (Ref. 8e 1354) during the first quarter of 1921, the
only time when that spelling of his first forename was used. Every record thereafter referred to him as
Derek Nelson Collett, the first of them being on the passenger list of the
‘Montclare’ which took just Derek Nelson Collett and his mother out of the Port
of Liverpool on 29th August 1924, aged two years, to Quebec, from
their home at 31a Welbeck Road in the Walker district of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His father joined
them there later, and by 1930, when Derek N Collett was nine, he and his
parents were living in Detroit. Their
time stateside ceased in April 1932, when they returned to England, landing at
Liverpool off the ‘Duchess of Richmond on 7th May. The passenger list included 11-year-old Derek
Collett, with a note that the family’s destination was 16 Brown Street in
Barrow-in-Furnace. However, seven years
later they were living at 19 Cameron Road in Ilford (east of London), when
Derek’s entry in the 1939 Register was redacted
It was during the first three months of 1945,
when the marriage of Derek Nelson Collett and Gwyneth M Richards was recorded
at Cardigan North register office (Ref. 11b 65). Gwyneth’s birth was recorded at Hackney in
London (Ref. 1b 574) during the third quarter of 1930. Derek Nelson Collett was only 53 when his
death was recorded at Stroud in Gloucestershire (Vol. 22 2095) in the spring of
1975. It was on 24th May 1975
that he died at home at Bownham Park, Bagpath south of Rodborough, near Stroud
Harry
Collett [18R82]
was born on 6th March 1906 at Green Lane in Redenhall, and was
baptised at the parish church of Redenham-with-Harlston-and-Wortwell on 17th
July 1910, the only child of William Collett and Laura Magdalene Leish. His birth was recorded at Depwade register
office (Ref. 4b 213) during the second quarter of 1906. It was also at Green Lane in Redenhall that
the family was living through to at least 1914 according to the electoral
roll. In 1911 Harry Collett was with his
parents at Green Lane when he was five years old. By the time the 1939 Register was published,
Harry was 33 and working as a tractor-driver on a farm when he was still living
with his family, but at Docking in North Norfolk
It was at Docking that Harry met his future
wife, who was living there with her parents in 1939 at 35 South Lodge when her
date of birth was recorded as 20th September 1910 and when she was
employed as an office cleaner. Her
parents were Thomas and Elizabeth Seaman.
Just over a year later, Harry Collett married Frances Sarah Seaman,
their wedding recorded at Fakenham register office (Ref. 4b 863) during the
first quarter of 1942. Two years after
their wedding day, Frances gave birth to a daughter, whose birth was recorded
at Fakenham register office (Ref. 4b 378), when her mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Seaman. Frances was 56 when
she passed away, her death recorded at Norwich register office (Ref. 4b 878) during
the first three months of 1967. Three
years after that sad event, the death of Harry Collett was recorded at Norwich
(Ref. 4b 1686) during the third quarter of 1970, when he was 65
18S46 – Gillian G
Collett
was born in 1944 at Docking, North Norfolk
Arthur
Tom Collett [18R83]
was born at Redenhall on 12th November 1905 and six months later she
was baptised there on 19th May 1906, the only known child of Harry
Collett and Lucy Ellen Fairhead. His
birth was recorded at Depwade register office (Ref. 4b 209) during the last
months of 1905. By 1911, the family was
living at Pulham Market in Norfolk, where Arthur Collett was five years
old. Also with him was his six-year-old
half-brother Harry William Fairhead from Alburgh, the base-born son of Arthur’s
mother. Seventeen years later Arthur Tom
Collett married Gertrude Ethel Maltby, the wedding recorded at Mutford register
office (Ref. 4a 2742) during the second quarter of 1928. Gertrude was born on 12th April
1907 and was baptised at Lowestoft on 14th October 1912 with three
of her siblings, Beatrice Louisa Maltby, Priscilla Maltby, and Frederick Francis
Spall Maltby, the children of fisherman John Maltby and his wife Beatrice of 11
Meadow Cottages in Oulton
Over the following years, Gertrude presented
Arthur with three children, their births recorded at Wangford register office,
and by 1939 the five members of the family were recorded at 50 Ellough Road in
Beccles although, unfortunately, the details for two of the children were
redacted and officially closed. Arthur T
Collett was a builder’s handyman aged 33, when Gertrude E Collett gave her date
of birth as 29th March 1906, nearly a year different from the date
recorded at her baptism. That is also
despite the record of her birth being registered at Mutford (Ref. 4a 1152)
during the second quarter of 1907. The
only one of the three children whose details had not been redacted was Pearl S
Collett who was very nearly nine years old and attending school, with her date
of birth recorded as 3rd September 1930. It was during the first three months of 1973
when the death of Arthur Tom Collett was recorded at Yarmouth register office
(Ref. 4b 1705) at 66 years of age. Seven
years after losing Arthur, the death of Gertrude Ethel Collett was recorded at
Waveney register office (Vol. 10 2800) during the second quarter of 1980. On that occasion her actual date of birth was
not known by the informant of her passing, which was recorded as ‘being around
1902’
18S47 – Velma I Collett was born in 1929 (Wangford)
18S48 – Pearl Sylvia
Collett
was born in 1930 at Beccles (Wangford)
18S49 – Roy G Collett was born in 1932 at Beccles
(Wangford)
Felix
William G Collett [18R84] was born on 25th July 1920 at Hartismere, the
first of the four children of Frederick George Collett and Florence Rose
Churchyard. His birth was recorded at
Hartismere register office (Ref. 4a 1985) during the third quarter of 1920,
when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Churchyard. By 1939 the members of the family were living
at three different dwellings. Only Felix
and his sister Thelma were still living at the family home at Council House No.
3 on Church Lane in the Hartismere district, when Felix W Collett was also a
wheelwright and a builder, working with his father, when he confirmed his date
of birth as above. It was nearly fifty
years later when the death of Felix William G Collett was recorded at Ipswich
register office (Vol. 10 2489) during the summer of 1988, when he was 68.
Thomas
Wilfred Collett
[18R85] was born on 6th
July 1924 at Hartismere, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 4a 1603) during the
third quarter of 1924, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Churchyard. He was another son of
Frederick and Florence Collett. While
his family was living in a Council House within the Hartismere area in 1939,
Thomas was living and working at the home of seventy-year-old couple Walter and
Annie Balls, at The Common, Harlston Road in Metfield. Thomas W Collett was an assistant gardener
for the retired wheelwright and his wife, one of their three servants employed
by the couple. It is very interesting
that, it was there also where Thomas’ father was staying when he was a
twelve-year-old schoolboy in the census of 1911. Many years later, the death of Thomas Wilfred
Collett was recorded at Ipswich register office (Ref. a13b 134) during the
summer of 1994, when he was 70 years of age.
It is possible that the three unmarried brothers were living in close
proximity to each other towards the end of their lives, as they were all living
in the Ipswich area when they passed away over a period of eight years
Charles
Frederick Collett [18R86] was born on 3rd March 1928 at Hartismere, the
third son of Frederick and Florence, his birth recorded at Hartismere register
office (Ref. 4a 1542) during the second quarter of the year. According to the 1939 Register, it was at The
Street in Hartismere that eleven-year-old school boy Charles Collett was
staying with his paternal grandmother who, by then, was Eliza Woolnough, the
former Eliza Collett nee Pearce, when she was 66 and a widow for the second
time in her life. Living not far away,
at that time was his family at Council House No 3on Church Lane in Hartismere. No recorded of a marriage has been found and
it was during October 1986 that his death was recorded at Norwich register
office (Vol. 10 1791) when he was aged 58
Thelma E
Collett [18R87]
was born in 1931 at Hartismere and was the youngest of the four children of
Frederick George Collett and Florence Rose Churchyard. Her birth was recorded at Hartismere register
office (Ref. 4a 1573) during the third quarter of that year, when her mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Keable. It
would appear that she was only one of the four children to be married, when the
wedding of Thelma E Collett and Basil J Keable was recorded at Hartismere
register office (Ref. 4b 1640) during the last three months of 1950. Within the following six months, Thelma gave
birth to a son, when the birth of Frank J Keable was recorded at Blyth
register office (Ref. 4b 971) during the first three months of 1951. The couple’s second child, daughter Shirley
A Keable, also had her birth recorded at Blyth (Ref. 4b 1223) during the
second quarter of 1959. On both
occasions the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett
George Frank Collett [18R88] was born on 21st
April 1928, the first of the four
children of George William Collett from Hackney and Doris Griffin from
Croydon. It was at Croydon register
office (Ref. 2a 530) that his birth was recorded during the second quarter of
that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Griffin. Just after he was born his parents settled in
the London Borough of Hackney, at 44 Aveley Road in Upper Clapton. It was there, in the 1939 Register, that George
F Collett was eleven years old and still at school, the only child still living
with his parents at 44 Aveley Road
Two
years later, a certain Brenda Cunnold – the future wife of George, married
Derek J Saunders at Hackney where their wedding, towards the end of 1951, was
recorded (Ref. 5c 1704) early in 1952.
Brenda was 22 years old, having been born on 23rd December
1929, with her birth also recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 1b 501)
during the first three months of 1930.
Very tragically, her husband died with weeks of their wedding day, when
the premature death of Derek J Saunders was recorded at Hackney register office
(Ref. 5a 621) again during the first quarter of 1952. Although no record of the subsequent marriage
of George Frank Collett and Brenda Saunders, nee Cunnold, has been found, the
births of their two sons were born within the Hackney area of London, where
their births were recorded, when their mother’s maiden-name was recorded as
Cunnold
Sometime
during the 1960s the family moved out of London and made a new home at Benfleet
in Essex. It was there that they lived
in the bungalow that was previously the home of Alice Griffin, George’s
maternal grandmother and her second husband Frank Brewer. The later death of George Frank Collett was recorded
at Southend-on-Sea register office (Vol. 9 2822) towards the end of 1979
18S50 –
Paul Collett was born in 1955 at Hackney
18S51 –
Graeme Collett was born in 1957 at Hackney
Iris Winifred Collett [18R89] was born at 44 Aveley
Road in Upper Clapton on 22nd March 1931, her birth recorded at
Hackney register office (Ref. 1b 495), when her mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Griffin. With war looming in 1939, Iris
and her two younger siblings were part of the evacuation from London, hence the
reason for their absence from 44 Aveley Road that year. Later on, when Iris was 21, she married
Sidney Joseph White, with the event recorded at Hackney (Ref. 5c 1476) during
the first three months of 1953. Sidney’s
birth was recorded during the first quarter of 1930 at Hackney register office
(Ref. 1b 496). They were married for
around forty-four years, when the death of Iris Winifred Collett was recorded
at Waltham Forest register office (Vol. 2551c c53) during the early weeks of
1997. It was eleven years later, when
Sidney was living at Benfleet in Essex, that he died on 9th October
2009, at the age of 79
Derrick John Collett [18R90] was born at 44 Aveley Road in Upper Clapton, within the London
Borough of Hackney on 20th
August 1932, with his birth recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 1b 496)
during the third quarter of that year.
He was the second son and third of the four children of George and Doris
Collett, whose birth record confirmed that his mother’s maiden-name was
Griffin. Together with his two sisters,
Derrick was evacuated from London in 1939, as confirmed by the fact they were
no longer living with their parents and older brother George at 44 Aveley Road. After the war, Derrick did his national
service in 1951
Upon
being married during the summer of 1957, Derrick was
recorded as Derek John Collett when he married Brenda Gladys Rose White,
with their wedding recorded at the Essex South-Western register office (Ref. 5a
506). It was in Essex that Brenda had
been born on 12th March 1937, when her birth was recorded at Romford
register office (Ref. 4a 648), her mother’s maiden-name being Pannell. Over the following years, Brenda presented
Derrick with a daughter and a son
18S52 - Kerry
Collett was born in 1962, in Essex
18S53 - Robert
Neil Collett was born in 1965, in Essex
Doris M Collett [18R91] was born at 44 Aveley
Road in Upper Clapton when her birth was recorded at Hackney register office
(Ref. 1b 519) during the second quarter of 1936. Her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Griffin, she being the third and last child of George William Collett and Doris
Griffin. The later marriage of Doris M
Collett and John Ledger was also recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 5c 1628)
during the first three months of 1959.
After only seven years together, the premature death of Doris M Ledger
was recorded at Carlisle (Ref. 1a 47) during the first three months of 1966
when she was just 30 years old
Anthony Frank Collett [18R92] was the first-born
child of Frank M Collett and Ivy E Metson, his birth recorded at Hackney
register office (Ref. 1b 545) during the last three months of 1935. As Anthony F Collett, aged 22, he married
Christina Philpot, their wedding recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 5c
1427) during the first quarter of 1958. Christina
V Philpot was born in London at the start of 1936, her birth recorded at
Stepney register office (Ref. 1c 193).
She was the eldest daughter of church missionary John Philpot, and his
wife Joyce, whose family had been spending some time in Western Australia,
after which they sailed into Tilbury Docks from Freemantle on 9th April
1952 on board the ‘Ormonde’. The birth
of their two children were also recorded at Hackney register office, where
their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Philpot. Daughter Jacqueline’s birth (Ref. 5c 918) was
recorded during the second quarter of 1961, while son David’s birth (Ref. 5b
761) was recorded during the third quarter of 1967. Anthony Frank Collett was in Norfolk when he
died at the age of 75 on 3rd July 2011
18S54 - Jacqueline A
Collett was born in 1961 at Hackney
18S55 - David Antony Collett
was born in 1967 at Hackney
Kenneth Collett [18R93] was born on 18th
July 1937, another son of Frank and Ivy Collett, his birth recorded at Hackney
(Ref. 1b 578) during the third quarter of 1937, his mother’s maiden-name
confirmed as Metson. It was also at
Hackney register office, where his marriage to Hilda L Salmon was recorded
(Ref. 5c 1241) during the fourth quarter of 1960. Just over one year later, the birth of their
only known child was recorded at Hackney.
Having seen his son married early in 1986, it was later that same year when
Kenneth Collett died at Waltham Forest, in London (Vol. 15 513) in September
1986 when he was only 45
18S56 - Christopher Kenneth Collett was born in 1962 at
Hackney
Albert Collett [18R94] was the third of the
four sons of Frank and Ivy Collett, with his birth also recorded at Hackney
(Ref. 1b 550) second quarter of 1940, when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Metson. Just as with his
two older brothers, Albert was also married at Hackney, where his wedding to
Jeannette A Stout was recorded (Ref. 5c 1197) during the second quarter of
1960. Jeannette’s birth was recorded at
the Hertfordshire Hitchin register office (Ref. 3a 1781) during the second
quarter of 1943. Over the three years
following her wedding day, Jeanette gave birth to three children, all recorded
at Hackney, where the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Stout
18S57 -
Susan Jeannette
Collett was born in 1960 at Hackney
18S58 -
Steven A N Collett was born in 1962 at Hackney
18S59 -
Barbara I M Collett
was born in 1963 at Hackney
Doreen M
Collett [18R96] was the first of the three children of Walter James Collett
and Mary Ann Crowther, and was born at
Islington in 1928. Her birth was
recorded at the Middlesex Islington register office (Ref. 1b 444) during the
third quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Crowther. Just after the Second World War, the marriage of Doreen M
Collett and Walter R Forsdike was recorded at Edmonton register office (Ref. 3a
1975) during the first quarter of 1946.
It was also at Edmonton that the births of her brother’s children were
recorded, and the first child of her younger sister Marylin was recorded. Over the following years Doreen presented
Walter with two sons; Robert J Forsdike in
1947 (Ref. 5e 540), as recorded at Middlesex register office, and then Mark E Forsdike in 1956 (Ref. 5e 458a) at Edmonton register
office. Each time the mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Collett
Clifford
James Collett [18R97] was born in 1931, his birth recorded at Hackney
register office (Ref. 1b 532) during the second quarter of the year, the only
son of Walter
and Mary Collett, and the second of
their three children. He later married
Margaret R Block, with the event recorded at Wood Green register office in
Middlesex (Ref. 5f 1509) during the third quarter of 1954. After six years together, Margaret gave birth
to twin boys and later on, a daughter, the birth of all three recorded at
Edmonton register office, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Block. It should be noted that an earlier marriage
between the Collett and Block families took place in London when Alice Mary
Collett [18Q149] from Yoxford and Wood Green, married Lewis John Block born at
Islington in 1900, the son of William Abraham and Emily Block of
Tottenham
18S60 – Anthony
James Collett was born in 1960 at Edmonton
18S61 – Gary
James Collett was born in 1960 at Edmonton
18S62 – Alison J Collett was born in
1964 at Edmonton
Marylin B
Collett [18R98] was born at Finsbury, London, in 1938 and was the
third and last child born to Walter and Mary Collett. Her birth was recorded Finsbury register
office (Ref. 1b 630) during the summer of that year, when her mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Crowther. It was at Wood Green in
Middlesex that the marriage of Marylin B Collett and Terence Reynolds was
recorded (Ref. 5f 1417) during the third quarter of 1956. The birth of the couple’s first child, born
at the end of 1957, was recorded at Edmonton (Ref. 5e 455) during the first
three months of 1958, while the second and third births were recorded at Wood
Green (Ref. 5f 640) in the spring of 1959, and (Ref. 5f 725) during the spring
of 1961. Those three children were Paul A Reynolds, Peter A Reynolds, and Pauline A Reynolds, and in each case the mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Collett
Irene
Laura B Collett [18R100] was born at Lowestoft on 7th May 1915, the
daughter of John William George Collett and Laura lily Burden. Her birth, including the initials L B, was
recorded at Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 2110) during the second quarter of
1915 where her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Burden. Before the end of 1938, unmarried Irene
Collett had a liaison with a man, the result of which was the birth to a
daughter nine months later. That
situation was confirmed in the 1939 Register, when Irene L B Collett aged 24
and her baby Myrtle Patricia Collett who had been born on 23rd
August 1939 were living at 56 London Road in Lowestoft. The child’s birth was recorded at Lothingland
register office (Ref. 4a 2143), when her mother’s name was confirmed as
Collett. Between three and six months
later, the marriage of Irene L B Collet and Edward Osborn Lambert was also
recorded at Lothingland (Ref. 4a 3370) during the first quarter of 1940. Edward was born on 8th April 1909,
his birth recorded at Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 1127). Five years after the wedding, Irene gave
birth to a second daughter, with the birth of Sylvia J Lambert recorded
at Lothingland (Ref. 4a 1703) during the second quarter of 1945. Sometime thereafter the couple lived at 1 Well
Cottage, Raglan Street in Lowestoft. It
was also at that address where Irene died on 12th February 1973 and
was survived by her husband. The death
of Irene Laura L Lambert was recorded at Lothingland register office (Ref. 4b
3235) early in 1973, when she was 57 years of age. Later, during the summer of 1981, Edward
Osborn Lambert died after which his death was recorded at Waveney register
office (Vol. 10 2706)
18S63 –
Myrtle Patricia Collett was born in 1939 at
Lowestoft
Edward Henry William Collett [18R102] was born at Lowestoft
on 4th August 1917, the eldest surviving son of John and Laura
Collett. His birth was recorded at
Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 1614) during the third quarter of the year,
when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Burden. He married late in his life, when the wedding
of Edward H W Collett and Ruth Winifred I Taberer was recorded at Luton
register office (Ref. 4a 350) during the first three months of 1961. It was also at Luton, that his younger
brother, Harold (below), was married eight years earlier. Two years after Edward and Ruth were married,
their only known child was born and sometime after the birth the family of
three moved to Kings Lynn, where their son was married in 1982, just after the
death of his father. Edward was 64 years
old, and living at 14 Walpole Road in Kings Lynn, when he died, the death of
Edward Henry W Collett recorded there (Vol. 10 1524) during the first days of
1982. He was buried in the grounds of St
Margaret & St Nicholas’ Church in Kings Lynn on 6th January
1982. Three years after being made a
widow, Ruth Winifred I Collett who had been born on 24th October
1925 at Edmonton in London, died around her sixtieth birthday, when her death
was also recorded at Kings Lynn register office (Ref. 10 1496)
18S64 - Mark Edward Collett was born in 1963 at
Luton
Francis
Robert Charles Collett [18R103] was born at 217 Raglan Street in Lowestoft on 17th
September 1919, another son of John and Laura Collett, whose birth was recorded
at Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 2183) during the fourth quarter of the
year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Burden. It was less than a month later when he was
baptised at the parish church in Lowestoft on 19th October 1919,
when his father’s occupation was that of a fisherman. Tragically, he died in a Japanese Prisoner of
War Camp on 25th June 1943.
He was Private 5826640 F R C Collett of the 4th Battalion
Suffolk Regiment and was buried at the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery. His Will was proved at Ipswich on 7th
February 1946, when the beneficiaries were his mother Laura Lily Collett and
his father John William George Collett
Hazel Hilda Collett [18R104] was born at Lowestoft
on 3rd December 1920, with her birth recorded at Mutford register
office (Ref. 4a 2056) during the first three months of 1921, the youngest
daughter of John and Laura Collett. In
1939 Hazel was still living with her family at 217 Raglan Street in Lowestoft,
from where she was working as a general hand in a food factory at the age of
18. Later on, when she was 24 years old,
she married Richard George Llewellyn Pope, their wedding recorded at
Lothingland register office (Ref. 4a 2389) during the first quarter of
1944. Their wedding service was
conducted on 20th March 1944.
Richard had been born on 25th March 1918 and he was 78 when
his death was recorded at Waveney during the month of January in 1997. The later death of Hazel Hilda Pope was also recorded
at Waveney register office (Vol. 753/1 a 24c) in 2004, when she was 84
Harold G
Collett [18R106] was
born at Lowestoft on 27th May 1925, the son of John and Laura
Collett, whose birth was recorded at Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 1870)
during the second quarter of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Burden. During his school
days, the family was living at 217 Raglan Street in Lowestoft. By the time he was 25 years of age, it would
appear that perhaps, Harold and his older brother Edward (above), had
moved to Bedfordshire, where they were both married. The marriage of Harold G Collett and Gladys Kate
Ephgrave was recorded at Luton register office (Ref. 4a 396) during the third
quarter of 1953. Gladys had been born at
Luton on 8th July 1927 and was the daughter of George and Kate
Ephgrave. It was also at Luton that Harold
and Gladys’ two daughters were born. Gladys
Kate Collett was 76 when she died in December 2003, her death recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds
18S65 -
Teresa J Collett
was born in 1960 at Luton
18S66 -
Rosanne Jean Collett
was born in 1966 at Luton
Raymond
Lewis Collett [18R107] was born at Lowestoft on 26th September 1926, another
son of John and Laura Collett, whose birth was recorded at Mutford register
office (Ref. 3a 1680), when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Burden. In the 1939 Register Raymond was
at school and living at 217 Raglan Street in Lowestoft. He later married Edith May Garrod at St
Margaret’s Church in Lowestoft on 30th August 1950, the event
recorded at Lothingland register office (Ref. 4b 2292), with whom he had three
children. Raymond died at Lowestoft
during March 2003, with his death recorded at Great Yarmouth, and four years
after, Edith died there on 28th October 2007. A black marble headstone marks the couple’s
joint grave, with an inscription that includes the important dated for Raymond =
26. 9. 1926 – 10. 3. 2003, and Edith = 28. 11. 1930 – 28. 10. 2007
18S67 –
Susan Ann Collett
was born in 1953 at Lowestoft
18S68 - Jillian Edith
Collett
was born in 1955 at Lowestoft
18S69 -
Paul Raymond John Collett was born in 1968 at Lowestoft
Douglas N E Collett [18R108] was born at Lowestoft
in 1929, with his birth recorded at Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 1783)
during the third quarter of 1929, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
as Burden. It was during the second
quarter of 1953 that the marriage of Douglas N E Collett and Mary C Jones was
recorded at Luton register office (Ref. 4a 283). Douglas was the first of three sons of John
and Laura Collett to be married at Luton, his wedding followed that same year
by his brother Harold (above) and eight years later by his much older
brother Edward (above). The birth
of Mary Jones was recorded at Hawarden register office (Ref. 11b 276) during
the first quarter of 1933, Hawarden being in North Wales, just west of Chester.
Violet L Collett [18R109] was born at Lowestoft on
17th October 1930 and was another daughter of John and Laura
Collett, whose birth was recorded at Mutford register office (Ref. 4a 1676)
during the last three months of the year, where her mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Burden. In 1939 the family
was living at 217 Raglan Street in Lowestoft, although Violet’s entry in the
1939 Register had been redacted because she was still alive when it became a
public document. She was nineteen years
of age, when the marriage of Violet L Collett and William John Meadows, who was
born on 3rd September 1923, was recorded at Lothingland register
office (Ref. 4b 1760) during the first quarter of 1950. William may have been a member of Violet’s
grandmother’s family since, as Anna Meadows, she married John Christian George
Collett. The death of William John
Meadows was recorded at Ipswich register office during December 1997
Dorothy R E Collett [18R112] was born at Lowestoft
in 1935 and was the 14th and last child of John William George
Collett and Laura Lily Burden. Her birth
was recorded at Lothingland register office (Ref. 4a 1542) during the fourth
quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Burden. She was three years of age in
the 1939 Register, when Dorothy and her family were living at 217 Raglan Street
in Lowestoft where she may have been born.
Just like her sister Violet (above), Dorothy was also nineteen
when her marriage to Noel J Lark was recorded at Lothingland (Ref. 4b 2274)
during the first three months of 1955
Roy William Collett [18R113] was
born at Blythburgh, near Southwold in 1932, the eldest of the three sons of
William Sydney Collett and Laura Crisp.
His birth was recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1555) during
the last three months of the year, when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed
as Crisp. No record of any marriage for
Roy William Collett has been found, even though he was 84 years old when he
died on 19th June 2017 when he
was living at Saxmundham
Clive Rex Collett [18R114] was born at Ipswich on
18th October 1938, his birth recorded at Ipswich register office
(Ref. 4a 1386), when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Crisp. He married Valerie G Knight early in 1964,
their wedding recorded at Blyth (Ref. 4b 2045), which was where the births of
their two children were also recorded, within the Southwold area of
Suffolk. The death of Clive R Collett
was recorded at Ipswich (Ref. 4b 2660) during the second month of 1971. He was only thirty-two years when he died at
the West Suffolk Hospital in Ipswich on 2nd February 1971. The notice of his death, and the administration of his estate, revealed
that his home address was Chapel Cottage in Darsham, Suffolk with his estate granted
at Ipswich on 22nd March 1971 for £933
18S70 - Paul Andrew
Collett
was born in 1967 at Blyth
18S71 - Sandra Jane
Collett
was born in 1969 at Blyth
Gordon Daniel Collett [18R115] was born at Ipswich in
1944, his birth recorded at the register office there (Ref. 4a 1860) during the
second quarter of that year, where his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as
Crisp. He was third and last child of
William and Laura Collett and, tragically, he was only eighteen years old when
he died at Darsham, four miles north of Saxmundham, on 9th January
1963. His death was recorded at the
nearby Blyth register office (Ref. 4a 1131) during the first three months of
the year
Queenie Doreen Collett [18R116] was born in Suffolk on
24th September 1918 with her birth recorded at Blything register
office (Ref. 4a 1500) during the last quarter of that year, when her mother was
confirmed as unmarried seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Collett. The father of the child was never known and,
once she was born, Queenie was raised by Elizabeth’s older married sister Annie
Alexander and her husband William who had no children of their own. Her mother was later married and raised a
family of her own and, within the immediate family, it is understood that she
and Queenie were never reunited. In addition
to which, it is known that Queenie never married and was still living in
Suffolk when she died, when her date of birth was recorded as 24th
September 1918. Her death, using her
full name, was recorded at Suffolk register office (Vol. 3236) in 1987
John
Collett [18R117] was
born at Rosehearty in Scotland in 1930 and at some time in his life he
emigrated to New Zealand where, in 2008, he was living at Palmerston, Otago in
New Zealand aged 78. Sometime after
arriving in New Zealand, he met and married Jean Moyle at Port Chalmers with
whom he had three children. Contact
received from John’s niece Rachael Collett in June 2014 indicates that John
Collett died around two years or more after her father Francis Ernest James
Collett (below) passed away, although his death was not generally known
about within the wider family
18S72 - John Collett, born in New Zealand,
living in Dunedin - date of birth unknown
18S73 - Peter Collett, born in New Zealand,
living on North Island - date of birth unknown
18S74 - Karen Collett, born in New Zealand,
living in Oamaru - date of birth unknown
Ivy
Collett [18R118] was
born at Rosehearty in 1936 and she was still living there in 2008 at the age of
72. She married Mr Simpson and together
they had three children. Sadly, her
husband died and Ivy remarried and is now Ivy Reid
Francis Ernest James Collett [18R119] was
born at Rosehearty on 7th May 1942.
Around the time he was 19 in 1961, he left Scotland to start a new life
in New Zealand, following in the footsteps of his older brother John (above). To stay in Scotland would have meant going to
sea as a fisherman, an occupation with a high mortality rate. On arrival in New Zealand, he settled at Port
Chalmers in Dunedin and not long after he met Kaye Isobel Doreen Montgomery who
was born on 12th December 1943.
Francis and Kaye were eventually married on 17th September
1965 at Port Chalmers and their marriage produced two children. From the time of his arrival in New Zealand
to the time when he was aged 52, Francis was employed as a water-sider and a
dock worker. Francis and Kaye had been
married for forty-three years when Francis died at home on 29th
September 2008 from cancer at the age of 66, his home address recorded as 50
Avenue Road in Timaru. It was his
obituary that confirmed his wife was Kaye and their children were Andrew and
Michelle (?)
18S75 - Andrew James Collett was born in 1969 at
Port Chalmers, NZ
18S76 - Rachael Ann Collett was born in 1973 at
Port Chalmers, NZ
Gerald F Collett [18R120] was born at Blyth in
1941, the eldest of the three children of Robert Charles Collett and Rachel V
Goodchild, his birth recorded at Blyth register office (Ref. 4a 2324) during
the third quarter of the year, his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Goodchild. He was 23 years old when he married Maureen A
Paternoster, the event recorded at Blyth (Ref. 4b 2027) during the first
quarter of 1965. Maureen’s birth was
recorded at Blyth register office (Ref. 4a 1517) during the last quarter of
1944. The birth of the first of their
two children was recorded at Ipswich, the birth of the second at Deben near
Woodbridge (Ref. 4b 1466) when, on both occasions, their mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Paternoster. Daughter
Julie Ann married Ryan D Hall during the summer of 1998, their wedding also
recorded at Deben
18S77 – Stephen Charles Collett was born in 1967 at Ipswich
18S78 - Julie Ann L Collett was born in 1969 at Deben
Graham R Collett [18R121] was born on 8th
March 1945, another son of Robert and Rachel Collett, whose birth was recorded
at Blyth (Ref. 4a 1671) during the first three months of 1945, where his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Goodchild. Unlike his brother Gerald (above), who
married young, Graham was in his early thirties when his marriage to Doreen R
Turner was recorded at Ipswich register office (Ref. 10 3225) during the summer
of 1977. Doreen’s birth was recorded at
Deben register office (Ref. 4b 933) in the last quarter of 1954. Their daughter may have been a honeymoon
baby, as her birth was recorded at Ipswich (Vol. 10 2885) during the first
months of 1978. Graham was 61 when he
died, his death recorded at Wolverhampton register office in February 2006
18S79 - Rachel Louise Collett was born in 1978 at Ipswich
David John Collett [18R122] was born on 12th
August 1947 and was the youngest of the three sons of Robert Charles Collett
and Rachel V Goodchild. Curiously, David’s
birth was recorded at Blyth register office (Ref. 4b 1357) during the second
quarter of that year, which raises the question, was it in April rather than
August. No record has been found to
suggest that he was ever married, while David died at Altrincham on 4th
November 2004, with his death as David John Collett being recorded at the
Cheshire Trafford register office when he was 58 years old
Thelma June
Collett [18R123]
was born at The Old Mill House in Westleton on 14th June 1935, the
eldest of the two children of Claude Victor Collett and Bessie Helena
Harmer. During the last three months of
1962 the marriage of Thelma Joan Collett and Peter L Walker was recorded at
Norwich register office (Ref. 4b 1333).
The birth of her husband had been recorded at the Norfolk Aylsham
register office (Ref. 4b 99) during the last quarter of 1935. Thelma June Walker was 70 years old when she
died, her death recorded at Norwich in the summer of 2005
John
Victor Collett [18R124] was born on 28th August 1937 at The Old Mill
House in Westleton, the son of Claude and Bessie Collett. His birth was recorded at Blyth register
office (Ref. 4a 1703), when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Harmer. Only two records in England feature the
marriage of John V Collett and one of those was certainly John V Collett [Ref.
1R10] of Burton-on-Trent who married Kathleen E Scotney there. It is therefore possible that the other
marriage of John V Collett and Joan Howe, recorded at the Essex South-Western
register office (Ref. 5a 536) in the first months of 1961 was in fact John
Victor Collett
Kenneth
Lionel Collett [18R125] was born at 24 Albany Road in Southtown (Yarmouth) on 20th October 1915,
the eldest child of Lionel Charles George Collett and Rosa Elizabeth
Hubbard. His birth was recorded at
Yarmouth register office (Ref. 4b 43), when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Hubbard. He later married
Doreen Rose Boulter, the event recorded at Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 7) during the
first quarter of 1939, with whom he had just one daughter. Kenneth and Doreen were still a childless
couple when the 1939 Register was produced, when they were living in the Great
Yarmouth area, at a dwelling having the name ‘Kewdar’ possible on Cottage Burgh
Road, but more likely Castle Burgh Road.
Kenneth gave his date of birth as 20th October 1915,
different from that stated above, when he was working as a dairy manager. Doreen gave her date of birth as 14th
June 1916. Around eighteen months after
the 1939 Register was compiled, the birth of their only child was recorded in
North Wales at the Hawarden register office (Ref. 11b 794) during the second
quarter of 1941, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Boulter. In addition to inheriting L Collett Dairies
from his father when he died in 1946, Kenneth also became Mayor of Yarmouth
during the 1960s
During his life as owner and manager of L
Collett Dairies, Kenneth developed the company into a very successful business,
which he sold on when he retired in 1981, at the age of 65. Sadly, he only survived for a few years after
that, when he died at Great Yarmouth, where his death was recorded (Vol. 10
1162) during the summer of 1984, when he was 68 and when his date of birth was
recorded as 20th October 1915.
Following his death on 17th August 1984, he was cremated at
Great Yarmouth Crematorium on 22nd August, his home address recorded
as ‘Valhalla’, Mill Road in Burgh Castle.
His ashes were buried at Great Yarmouth Crematorium. The Will of Kenneth Lionel Collett was proved
at Ipswich on 19th November 1984 at an estimate value of £28,876. After twenty-six years as a widow, Doreen
Rose Collett died on 26th March 2010 at the age of 93 while at James
Paget Hospital in Gorleston and was cremated on 8th April 2010 when
her ashes were also buried near the ashes of her late husband
18S80 – Jacqueline D R Collett was born in 1941 at Hawarden, Flintshire
Joan
Evelyn Collett [18R126] was born at Southtown on 28th November 1921, the
daughter of Lionel Charles George Collett and his wife Rosa Elizabeth
Hubbard. However, her birth was not
recorded at Great Yarmouth until just after the start of 1922 (Ref. 4b 43),
when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hubbard. Joan never married and was living with her
parents in 1939 at 66 Victoria Road in Great Yarmouth, when Joan was employed
as a shorthand typist. She was still
living within the Great Yarmouth area when she died on 28th
September 1989 at the age of 67. When
she was buried at Caister on 25th October 1989, her last address was
recorded as 71 Southtown Road in Gorleston.
Curiously, when her Will was proved at Ipswich on 24th
November 1989 the documentation stated that Joan Evelyn Collett was of 41 Lynn
Grove in Gorleston-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth, when her estate was £111,394
Hettie Lourina Maud Collett [18R127] was born at
Gorleston-on-Sea on 25th August 1912, the only child of Charles
George Collett and his first wife Gertrude Esther Bridges. Hettie was a honeymoon baby, her birth
recorded at Wayland register office (Ref. 4b 413) when her mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Bridges. It was at
Gorleston-with-Southtown parish church that Hetty Lourina Maud Collett was
baptised on 6th October 1912 when her parents were living at 53
Trafalgar Road East, where her father was a yardman. Like her father, Hettie was also married
twice during her life although, upon divorcing her first husband, she reverted
to her maiden-name, which she used again on the day of her second wedding
day. The marriage by banns of Hettie M L
Collett and (1) Cyril George Munday, born 23rd July 1908, was
recorded at Norwich (Ref. 4b 237) during the third quarter of 1934. Five years later, Cyril was a shop assistant
in a chemists’ shop in Aylsham. Less
than thirteen years later and after divorcing her first husband, Hettie Munday
Collett married (2) Josef Wysocki on 24th March 1947 at St Thomas’
Church in Heigham, that event was recorded at Norwich (Ref. 4b 1212). Hettie Wysocki was 89 when she died at
Norwich on 21st February 2002
Herbert John Collett [18R129] was born at Southwold on
1st March 1921, his birth recorded at Blything register office (Ref.
4a 2018), when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Plant, being the eldest
child of the three children of William John Collett and Emily P Plant. Herbert was twenty-eight years old when he
married Joan Victoria Copeman, their wedding recorded at Lothingland (Ref. 4b
2301) during the third quarter of 1949. Joan
was born on 12th September 1923, her birth recorded at Wangford
register office (Ref. 4a 1781). They
were married for around forty-two years, when the death of Herbert John Collett
was recorded at Waveney register office (Ref. 10 2807) during the summer of
1991, when he was 70 years of age.
Administration of his personal effect was granted at Ipswich on 21st
October following his passing on 10th September 1991 at 37
Fredericks Road in Beccles, when his estate was said to not exceed £125,000. Two years after losing her husband, the death
of Joan Victoria Collett, aged 69, was recorded at Waveney register office
(Ref. b7c 181) during the summer of 1993.
Her Will was proved at Ipswich on 4th November 1993 in the
sum of £235,927, which also confirmed that she died on 13th June
1993 at 20 Temperance Place, Blyburgate in Beccles
Cicely M Collett [18R130] was born at Southwold in
1926 and was the second of the three child of William and Emily Collett, whose births
were recorded at Blything register office (Ref. 4a 1809) during the second
quarter of the year. Cicely was 24 years
of age when she married Denis James Gruchy, with their wedding recorded at
Lothingland register office (Ref. 2b 2434) during the third quarter of
1950. The couple had two children, the
first of them being their son Martin Clive Gruchy who was born in 1954,
his birth also recorded at Lothingland (Ref. 4b 1226), when his mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
Their daughter was born three years after, with the birth of Jacqueline
D Gruchy again recorded at Lothingland (Ref. 4b 1308) in 1957. Cicely’s husband, Denis was born on 27th
October 1919 and his birth was recorded at Depwade register office (Ref. 4b
383). He and died on 11th
August 1991 and was cremated at Great Yarmouth Crematorium on 19th
August 1991, when his home address was 1 Temperance Place in Beccles. Administration of his estate was granted at
Ipswich on 12th November 1991 when it was said to be not exceeding
£125,000
Hazel E Collett [18R131] was
born at Lowestoft in 1935, the youngest of the three children of William John
Collett and Emily Plantagenet Plant. Her
birth was recorded at Lothingland register office (Ref. 4a 1520) during the
last three months of the year. The later
marriage of Hazel E Collett and Lionel F H Soanes was also recorded at
Lothingland register office (Ref. 4b 2343) during the third quarter of
1959. Lionel was born near the end of
1927, when his birth was recorded at Loddon register office (Ref. 4b 264). In 1962 Hazel gave birth to a daughter, Lesley
J Soanes, whose birth was recorded at Lothingland register office (Ref. 4b
1449) during the last three months of the year, when the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Collett. Two years
later their son Gordon P Soanes was added to the family, with his birth
also recorded at Lothingland (Ref. 4b 1783) during the second quarter of 1965
May Collett [18R132] was born at 14 Canterbury Street in the
Garston area of Liverpool in 1915.
She was the first of the five children of William Collett (aka Francis William Charles Collett) and May Davies, with her birth recorded at the
Liverpool West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 1206) during the first quarter of
1916, possibly born before the end of 1915, when her mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Davies. Tragically, she was
the first of three children in the family to suffer an infant death, when she
died on 12th January 1916 and was buried at nearby Allerton Cemetery
in the family grave with her paternal grandfather. It was also at West Debry register office
that her death was recorded (Ref. 8b 943) during that same quarter of 1916
William Collett [18R133] was born at 14 Canterbury Street in the
Garston in 1918, another child of Francis William Charles Collett and
May Davies. His birth was recorded at West Derby register
office (Ref. 8b 914) during the first quarter of 1919, most likely after his
father had returning home from the Great War, when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Davies. Sadly, it was
during 1921 when the death of William Collett was recorded at Lancashire
register office (Ref. 8b 679) aged one year, although he may well have been
nearly two years old. He was buried in
the private family grave at Allerton Cemetery
Harold Collett [18R134] was born at 14 Canterbury Street in
Garston in 1920 and
his birth was recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 8a 1224) during the
last three months of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was Davis. It was at St Michael’s Church in Garston that
he was baptised on 26th October 1920, the son of William and May
Collett. Harold was one year old when he
died, his death recorded at Lancashire register office (Ref. 8b 731) and, on
being buried at Allerton Cemetery on 22nd December 1921, his home
address was confirmed as 14 Canterbury Street
Mary Elizabeth Collett [18R135] was born at 14 Canterbury Street in
Garston on 12th April 1923, with her birth recorded at West
Derby register office (Ref. 8b 1216) during the second quarter of the year,
when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Davies. She was the youngest daughter and fourth of
the five children of William Collett and May Davies. The 1939 Register confirmed that unmarried
Mary E Collett, whose date of birth was as stated above, was one of only two
children still living with their parents at 14 Canterbury Road in Liverpool. By that time Mary had left school and was
working as a shuttle finisher. It was
four years later, when the marriage of Mary E Collett and Fredericks S V Howells
was recorded at Liverpool South register office (Ref. 8b 51) during the last
three months of 1943
Their marriage produced two children, Allan
K Howells in 1946, and Glynis Howells in 1952, both births recorded
at Liverpool when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. The children’s grandfather died in 1953 when
Mary’s parents were still living at 14 Canterbury Road, but following the death
of her widowed mother in 1965, it was Mary Elizabeth Howells, a married woman,
who was the main beneficiary of her estate of £2,204 of May Collett of 102
Lincoln Street in Liverpool. Mary
Elizabeth Howells was 59 when she died, with her death recorded at Birkenhead
register office (Vol. 37 0597) during the third quarter of 1982. Her husband was born in London on 8th
February 1921 who, in 1939 was an apprentice carpenter. He was 76, when the death of Frederick Stanley
V Howells was recorded at Birkenhead during August 1997
Kenneth Leonard Collett [18R136] was born at 14 Canterbury Street in
Garston on 26th April 1928, with his birth recorded at Liverpool
register office (Ref. 8b 494), when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Davies. He was baptised at Garston on 5th
June 1928, the fifth and last child of William Francis Charles Collett and May
Davies. He was still attending school in
1939, when he and his family was living at 14 Canterbury Road in
Liverpool. Eight years later, the
marriage of Kenneth L Collett and Doreen E Smith was recorded at the Liverpool
South register office (Ref. 10d 1127) during the second quarter of 1947. There were eleven children born at Liverpool
between 1947 and 1961, all of them having a mother whose maiden-name was Collett,
but surely, not all of them could be the children of Kenneth and Doreen. They were Lynda D Collett in 1949, Kenneth J
Collett in 1950, William Collett in 1951, Patricia M Collett in 1952, Susan V
Collett in 1954, Ann J Collett in 1955, Shirley Collett in 1957, Elizabeth
Collett in 1958, Leonard Collett in 1959, Robert Collett in 1960, and Janet
Collett in 1961. Four of the children
have names that have an association with the family and they are Kenneth,
William, Leonard, and possibly Elizabeth – if that was Doreen’s second name. However, only two of the four have been
included below, while future information is sought
It was during the second quarter of 1982 when
the death of Kenneth Leonard Collett was recorded at Birkenhead register office
(Vol. 37 0566), just a few months prior to the death of his sister Mary (above)
which was also recorded there that same year.
He was cremated on 23rd June 1982 when the record held by the
by crematorium confirmed that he was retired at the age of 54, and living at
102 Lincoln Street in the Garston area of South Liverpool when he died, the
cause of death being cardiac arrest due to cardiogenic shock due to myocardial
infarction and carcinoma of the bronchus
18S81 – Kenneth John
Collett
was born in 1950 at Liverpool
18S82 – Leonard Collett was born in 1959 at
Liverpool
Albert Robert Collett [18R137] was born at 14 Canterbury Street in
Garston on 30th December 1929, where his birth was recorded
(Ref. 8b 487) during the first three months of 1930, when his mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Harris. He
was the only child of Albert Collett and Gertrude Harris, with whom he was
living in 1939 at 61 York Street in the Garston area of south Liverpool when he
was attending school, where they lived all their married life together. It was during the summer of 1955, that the
marriage of Albert R Collett and Barbara M Young was recorded at Liverpool
South register office (Ref. 10d 1097) during the third quarter of that year. Barbara Mary Young was born at Liverpool on
17th February 1934 and was the daughter of Matthew and Lily Young. The couple’s only child was born at Garston
during the second quarter of 1966, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
as Young, her birth recorded at the Liverpool South register office (Ref. 10d
802). Barbara, and Albert, were still
living in Liverpool when she died at the age of 65 in October 1999. Her widowed husband Albert Robert Collett was
still residing in the Garston area of Liverpool, when he passed away on 31st
August 2016 when he was 86 years old
18S83 – Sandra Dawn
Collett was born in 1966 at Garston, Liverpool South
Vera Collett [18R138] was born in 1933 at
Liverpool nine months after her parents were married there. She was the first of the three daughters of
Robert Collett and Alice Marrion. Her
birth was recorded at Liverpool register office (Ref. 8b 128) during the last
quarter of the year. At the age of five
years, Vera was most likely living with her mother in West Lancashire, although
the entry in the 1939 Register had been redacted. Whilst, the entry for her younger sister Hazel
(below) was also redacted, it was the girls’ father who was absent
because he was living at 56 Lincoln Street in Garston. It was during the third quarter of 1957 when
Vera married Leonard Williams, the event recorded at the Liverpool South
register office (Ref. 10d 959), one year after her sister Hazel was married
there
Hazel J Collett [18R139] was born in 1936 at
Liverpool, her birth recorded there during the last three months of that year
(Ref. 8b 88), the second child of Robert and Alice Collett. The record of her birth also confirmed that
her mother’s maiden-name was Marrion.
She was living with her mother in 1939 when her father was absent and
sixteen-years later she married Edward F Preece, their wedding day recorded at
Liverpool South register office (Ref. 10d 996) during the third quarter of 1956
Barbara Collett [18R140] was born in 1942 at
Liverpool, the third and last child of Robert and Alice Collett, her birth
recorded at Liverpool register office (Ref. 8b 406) during the last three
months of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Marrion. The marriage of Barbara Collett and Peter
Baker was recorded at Liverpool South register office (Ref. 10d 866) during the
first quarter of 1965
Marjorie J Collett [18R141] was born at Fulham
where her birth was recorded (Ref. 1a 352) during the second quarter of 1919,
the first-born child of Hammond Alexander Collett and Edith Lilian Louise
Smith. It was during the last three
months of 1946 that she married Sidney Manasseh Gillan, the event recorded at
Edmonton register office (Ref. 5e 654).
Sidney had been born within the Islington area of London, where his
birth was recorded (Ref. 1b 482) during the third quarter of 1915 and had been
a prisoner of war when he was capture by the Japanese army at Singapore. He was a private with the East Surrey
Regiment, service number 6147377, the son of William and May Gillan of
Islington in London, where he was born of 7th July 1915. He was 87 years of age when he died at
Chichester in Sussex, where his death at Midhurst on 1st October
2002 was recorded.
Juanita Collett [18R142] was born at Fulham on
8th October 1920, her birth recorded there (Ref. 1a 537), another of
Hammond and Edith Collett, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Smith. Juanita never married, with her
death recorded at Chichester in Sussex (Vol. 7793 c39) during the summer of
1994. Her Will was proved at Winchester
on 31st August 1994 when it was valued at £284,742 and revealed that
she died on 21st July 1993 at 24 Canada Grove, Easebourne, Midhurst
in West Sussex
Alexander A Collett [18R143] was born at Fulham on
2nd September 1922, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 1a 527)
during the third quarter of 1922, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
as Smith, the eldest son of Hammond and Edith Collett. At the age of 17 he was a clerk working at a
coal office, when he was still living with his family in Fulham in 1939. Nearly four years later, before reaching the
age of 21, he became a married man, the marriage of Alexander A Collett and
Diana A Dobson being recorded at Fulham register office (Ref. 1a 541) during
the second quarter of 1943. Diana had
been born in 1921, her birth recorded at Fulham register office (Ref. 1a 548)
during the second quarter of the year.
John Alfred Collett [18R144] was born at Fulham on
8th February 1929, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 1a 400), the
fourth and last child of Hammond Alexander Collett and Edith Lilian Louise
Smith. According to the 1939 Register,
John was ten years of age and attending school, when he was living with his
whole family in Fulham. He was 21 years
old when his marriage to Betty Theresa Edwards was recorded at Fulham (Ref. 5c
1425) during the third quarter of 1950. Betty
had been born on 17th September 1928 within the Fulham area of London
and had a twin sister Violet, their mother being Lilian Edwards. John Alfred Collett was 72, when his passing
was recorded at the South East Hampshire register office (Vol. 5013 h52) in the
spring of 2001. Eighteen months after
being widowed, Betty Theresa Collett was 74, when her death was recorded at the
same register office (Vol. h54 246) during the month of September in 2002
Alfred Lewis
Collett [18R145]
was born at Richmond-upon-Thames on 17th June 1923, where his birth
was recorded (Ref. 2a 867) during the third quarter of the year, when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hobbs.
He was the first-born child of Alfred Lewis Collett and Lillian Rhoda
Hobbs. With the Second World War at
mid-term, the marriage of Alfred Lewis Collett and Doris Muriel Miles was
recorded at the Surrey North Eastern register office (Ref. 2a 276) during the
last three months of 1942, at the age of 19. Doris was born in 1925, her birth
recorded at Brentford register office (Ref. 3a 147) during the second quarter
of that year. Two years before she
married Alfred, she was living with her parents, Frederick and Ada at their
Richmond, Surrey, home at 6 Woodville Road, when Doris’ date of birth was
recorded as 15th April 1925.
Doris gave birth to three children over the six years following her
marriage to Alfred, all three births recorded at the Surrey North-Eastern
register office, when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Miles. Alfred was 81 years old when he died, his
death as Alfred Lewis Collett being recorded at the Chichester register office
in Sussex (Vol. 779/1 12bd) in the early months of 2004. It was actually at Bognor Regis where he died
on 11th February 2004
18S84 – June Rose
Collett
was born in 1943 at North-East Surrey
18S85 – Alfred Lewis
Collett
was born in 1944 at North-East Surrey
18S86 – John E Collett was born in 1948 at
North-East Surrey
John
Edward Collett [18R146] was born at Richmond-upon-Thames in 1925, his birth
recorded there (Ref. 2a 856) during the third quarter of the year, when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hobbs.
He was the second of the nine children of Alfred and Lillian Collett,
and was known as Jack. It was at the
Surrey Northern register office, where the marriage of John Edward Collett and
Vivienne Joyce W Weston was recorded (Ref. 5g 534) during the last quarter of
1950. Vivienne Joyce W Weston was born
on 27th July 1928, her birth recorded at Cirencester register office
(Ref. 6a 563). In the 1939 Register
Vivienne J W Weston was living at 33 Albert Road in Richmond-upon-Thames with
her parents Jesse and Lily Weston. Her later
death was recorded at the Surrey Northern register office in the summer of 1999
when she was 71
George Hammond Collett [18R147] was born at Richmond-upon-Thames
on 10th September 1927 and was another son of Alfred Lewis Collett
and Lillian Rhoda Hobbs. His birth was
recorded at Richmond register office (Ref. 2a 750) during the final three
months of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hobbs. George Collett served his national service
for eighteen months with the British Army stationed, for a while, in Tripoli
just after the Second World War. He
spent his childhood and early adult years in Ham, Richmond, where he met Jean
Marie Marshall. They married in March
1952, their wedding was recorded at the Surrey Northern register office (Ref.
5g 647) and they had 4 children whilst living in Ham, Brentford then Feltham,
in Middlesex. George and Jean were
divorced in early 1972. Following their divorce,
Jean Marie was remarried to George’s younger brother Charles Arthur Collett (below)
George Hammond Collett died in June 1989, his
death recorded at Hounslow register office (Vol. 13 968), when he was 62. In a very sad twist of fate, both George and
Charles passed away within three months of each other in 1989. For most of his life, George was a passionate
athlete, running for Thames Valley Harriers, both nationally and in
international races. He also ran in
several London Marathons, from the inaugural race in 1981, and always supported
Guide Dogs for the Blind. Chris Brasher (co-founder
of the London Marathon) and Ron Hill were running colleagues of George and
both attended his funeral. Guide Dogs
for the Blind presented his family with a signed portrait in his memory. Following his death at 12 Sunbury Road in
Feltham, Middlesex, on 30th June 1989, the Will of George Hammond
Collett was proved at London on the 15th August 1989 when his
personal effects were valued at £100,000
18S87 - Peter John
Collett
was born in 1954 at Ham, Surrey
18S88 - Christina Jane
Collett
was born in 1955 at Ham, Surrey
18S89 - Paul Graham
Collett
was born in 1959 at Brentford, Middlesex
18S90 - David George
Collett
was born in 1962 at Brentford, Middlesex
Charles Arthur Collett [18R148] was born at Richmond-upon-Thames
on 26th August 1929, his birth also recorded there (Ref. 2a 823)
during the fourth quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Hobbs. Charles was
forty-three when he married the divorced wife of his brother George (above),
their wedding day recorded at Kingston-upon-Thames register office (Ref. 5c
2616) in the summer of 1972, when the bride was confirmed at Jean M Collett. Just
over seventeen years later, the death of Charles Arthur Collett was recorded at
Kingston-upon-Thames register office (Vol. 13 1984) in September 1989, when he
was nearly sixty years old.
Administration of estate not exceeding £100,000 was granted at London on
6th January 1990 and confirmed that he died at 90 Elm Road in New
Malden, Surrey on 12th October 1989
Gladys Lilian
Collett [18R149] was born on 26th September 1931 at
Richmond-upon-Thames, her birth recorded there (Ref. 2a 858), the
eldest daughter of Alfred and Lillian Collett, when her mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Hobbs. She was almost
twenty-one years of age when the marriage of Gladys Lilian Collett and Terence
Maurice Lloyd was recorded at the Surrey Northern register office (Ref. 5g 725)
during the third quarter of 1952.
Terence was born on 31st August 1927 the son of Edward and Margaret
Lloyd with whom he was living at 190 Welbeck Road, St Helier, Carshalton,
Surrey in 1939, having been born at Bedwellty in Wales. Their marriage produced three sons: Alan K Lloyd born during the summer of 1953; Stephen B Lloyd born in the
spring of 1955; and Geoffrey G
Lloyd born in the spring of
1961. All three birth were recorded at
the Surrey Northern register office, when the mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Collett. The couple continued
to live in Richmond-upon-Thames where Terence died on 23rd March
2003 at the age of 76, while survived him by thirteen years, with Gladys being
86 when she also died at Richmond-upon-Thames on 12th January 2017
Joan S Collett [18R150] was born on 5th
September 1934 at Richmond-upon-Thames another daughter of Alfred and Lillian
Collett, whose birth was recorded at the Surrey North Eastern register office
(Ref. 2a 128), again, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hobbs. It was during the last three months of 1956
when the marriage of Joan S Collett and Peter N Walker was recorded at the
Surrey Northern register office (Ref. 5g 470).
William
Gordon Collett [18R151] was born at Richmond-upon-Thames on 29th August
1938, the seventh child of Alfred and Lillian Collett. His birth was recorded at the Surrey North
Eastern register office (Ref. 2a 170), when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Hobbs. He married Jean Ann
Croft on 6th July 1957 and the marriage, recorded at Surrey Northern
register office (Ref. 5g 769), produced four children for the couple. Jean was born on 11th January 1938,
her birth recorded at the Surrey North-Eastern register office (Ref. 2a 185). They enjoyed forty-two years together, when William
Gordon Collett died on 17th September 1999, only three weeks after
his sixty-first birthday, his passing recorded at Kingston-upon-Thames register
office. The last sixteen years of her
life was spent as a widow, with Jean Ann Collett being 78 years old and living
at Verwood, ten miles north of Bournemouth, when she passed away on 2nd
March 2016. It seems likely that she was
buried with her late husband, as her body was certainly returned to Surrey, and
buried at Leatherhead. It was three
years after she died that her obituary was published at Swanage in Dorset on
the third anniversary of her demise
18S91 - Trevor P Collett was born in 1959 at Surrey
18S92 - Jane S Collett was born in 1960 in Middlesex
18S93 - Sarah Jean Collett was born in 1968 at
Kingston-upon-Thames
18S94 - Melanie Clare Collett was born in 1969 at
Kingston-upon-Thames
Reginald
Alan Collett [18R152] was born at Richmond-upon-Thames on 6th
September 1942, his birth recorded at the Surrey North Eastern register office
(Ref. 2a 240), his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Hobbs. He was 22 years old when the marriage of Reginald
A Collett and Patricia M Wotherspoon was recorded at Southend-on-Sea register
office (Ref. 4a 1701) during the last three months of 1964. Patricia May Wotherspoon was from
Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex and had been born on 20th December 1945,
when her birth was recorded at Southend-on-Sea register office (Ref. 4a 1202). The marriage produced two children for
Reginald and Patricia, the birth of the first child recorded at Isleworth in
Middlesex, and the second at Richmond-upon-Thames, in both cases the mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Wotherspoon
18S95 - Gordon Alan Collett was born in 1965 at Isleworth
18S96 - Karen Patricia Collett was born in 1967 at
Richmond-upon-Thames
Robert Graham
Collett [18R153]
was born at Richmond-upon-Thames on 21st December 1945, the last
child of the nine children of Alfred Lewis Collett and Lillian Rhoda
Hobbs. His birth was recorded at the
Surrey North Eastern register office (Ref. 2a 206), when his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Hobbs. During the early
months of 1981 the marriage of Robert Graham Collett and Anna C G de Nijs from
Holland, was recorded at Richmond-upon-Thames (Vol. 14 0968), with whom he had
two daughters whose births were recorded at Kingston-upon-Thames. Their first child, Marieke Anne Collett may
well have been a honeymoon baby, since her birth was recorded during the last
three months of that same year (Vol. 13 1532).
Just over two years after, their family was completed, when the birth of
Emily Rose was recorded during the first quarter of 1984 (Vol. 13 1588). On both occasions the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as de Nijs. It was at the
age of 62, when Robert Graham Collett passed away on 23rd April 2008
when he was still living in Kingston-upon-Thames
18S97 – Marieke Anne
Collett was born in 1981 at Kingston-upon-Thames
18S98 – Emily Rose
Collett was born in 1984 at Kingston-upon-Thames
Peter
Robert Collett [18R154] was born in London on 17th August 1929, his
birth recorded at Holborn register office (Ref. 1b 836). He married Pamela Elodie Davis on 10th
April 1954 at Sidcup in Kent, where the event was recorded (Ref. 5b 1286). She was born on 27th September
1929 at Trinity Rise near Thurlow Park in South London, the daughter of John
Philip Davis and Beatrice Nelly Head, her birth recorded at Lambeth register
office (Ref. 1d 531). Eight years after
their wedding day, their daughter was born
18S99 - Jane Elodie
Collett
was born in 1962 at Dartford, Kent
David
Collett [18R155] was
born at 92 Kew Green in Kew on 9th April 1931, his birth recorded at
Richmond-upon-Thames register office (Ref. 2a 937), where his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Jeanes. He married (1)
Elizabeth Ann Rooney on 20th August 1955, the wedding recorded at
Richmond (Ref. 5g 865). Elizabeth was
born on 20th August 1934 at Sheen in Surrey, her birth recorded at
the Kent Elham register office (Ref. 2a 1911).
Later on, David married (2) June Alice Hebert on 1st May 1982
at Toronto in Canada, June having been born on 6th June 1934 at
Paipoonge in Ontario. When Elizabeth Ann
Collett died on 24th September 2015 at the age of 81, she too was
living in Canada, when her obituary confirmed that three of children were still
alive. They were simply named as Jeff
Collett, Ian Collett and Gary Collett
18S100 - Geoffrey David Collett was born in 1959 in Canada
18S101 - Ian Donald Collett was born in 1961 at
Winnipeg
18S102 - Gary Denis Collett was born in 1962 in
Canada
18S103 - Diane Gail Collett was born in 1964 at
Calgary
Jean
Collett [18R156] was
born at 92 Kew Green in Kew on 31st October 1932, her birth recorded
at Richmond-upon-Thames register office (Ref. 2a 815), when her mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Jeanes. She died just
three months later on 3rd February 1933 and was buried at the
Richmond Cemetery on Lower Grove Road in Kew.
Her death, like her birth, was recorded at Richmond (Ref. 2a 955)
MICHAEL
JOHN COLLETT [18R157] was born at 92 Kew Green in Kew on 5th January
1934, his birth recorded at Richmond-upon-Thames register office (Ref. 2a 885),
when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Jeanes. He was baptised during February that same
year, at St Anne’s Church in Kew. He
married Yvonne Dorothy Bernice Parker on 16th September 1967 at St
Anne’s Church in Kew, their wedding recorded at Richmond-upon-Thames (Ref. 5d
7126). Yvonne was born on 19th
May 1943 at Paddington, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 1a 87), the daughter
of Eric Walter Maurice Parker and Dorothy Susannah Ringe. Sometime after the birth of their son, it
would appear that Michael and Yvonne possibly made their home in France,
because it was there at Jonzac, Charente-Maritime, north of Bordeaux, that his
death was recorded in French on 8 Mai 2013. The same record also confirmed that he was 79
and had been born on 5 Janv 1934 at Richmond, Royaume-Uni
18S104 – DAVID MICHAEL ROBERT COLLETT was born in 1970 at
Taplow, Buckinghamshire
Valerie
Collett [18R158]
was born in 1935 the first-born child of William Hammond Collett and Ruth Ivy
Rossiter, her birth recorded at the London Marylebone register office (Ref. 1a
594) during the last three months of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Rossiter. Valerie was
seventeen years of age when her first marriage to (1) Philip William Liddle was
recorded at Ealing register office (Ref. 5a 264) during the second quarter of
1953. His birth was recorded at
Brentford register office (Ref. 3a 372) during the third quarter of 1931, so
was 21 years old on their wedding day. Not
many months after that day, their daughter Linda V Liddle was born, her
birth recorded at Ealing register office (Ref. 5e 261), when the mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. They
must have been divorced, because Philip Liddle died at Harlow in October
2002. Only four-and-a-half years after
his first wedding day, Valerie Liddle married Peter Collins that second such
event was recorded at the Surrey Northern register office (Ref. 5g 601) during
the last three months of 1958. The birth
of Peter Collins was recorded at Richmond-upon-Thames register office (Ref. 2a
875) during the last quarter of 1931. Many
years later, Valerie Collins was 84 when she died in Maidenhead on 27th
August 2019
William
John Collett [18R159] was born on 30th December 1939, his birth
recorded at the Surrey North Eastern register office (Ref. 2a 4), when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Rossiter.
He was married twice in his life, the first time to (1) June M A Parson
during the third quarter of 1957, when the event was recorded at Surrey North
register office (Ref. 5g 771). June’s
birth was recorded at the Surrey North-Eastern register office (Ref. 2a 247)
during the third quarter of 1940. After around
twenty years with June, the marriage of William John Collett and (2) Patricia M
Thomas was recorded at St Albans register office in Hertfordshire (Vol. 10
0514) during the quarter of 1978.
William’s three children came from his first wife, when their births
were recorded at different register offices in Surrey, the first at the Surrey
North office, the other two at the Surrey North-Western office, all stating
that the mother’s maiden-name was Parsons
18S105 – Ricki J
Collett
was born in 1958 at Richmond-upon-Thames
18S106 – Keith D
Collett
was born in 1961 at Surrey
18S107 – Andrew J
Collett
was born in 1965 at Surrey
Arthur Ernest Collett [18R160] was born in 1919 at Bury-St-Edmunds,
the eldest of the three children of Ernest Louis Collett and Jessie Johnson,
his birth recorded there (Ref. 4a 1208) during the second quarter of that year. The register of his birth stated that the
mother’s maiden-name was Johnson. It was
later, at Bury-St-Edmunds, that the marriage of Arthur Ernest Collett and
Winifred Hazel Trudgett was recorded (Ref. 4a 3355) during the third quarter of
1941. Winifred had been born at
Bury-St-Edmunds on 8th May 1919, one of the daughters of Thomas and
Annie Trudgett of Conyers Green, Great Barton, Bury-St-Edmunds. Just less than three years after their
wedding day, Winifred gave birth to a daughter, the first of the couple’s two
girls. The births were recorded at
Bury-St-Edmunds register office, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Trudgett. Winifred was 84 when she died
at Cambridge on 27th January 2004 where her death was recorded, the
record of her passing stated that her last permanent home address was at
Bury-St-Edmunds
18S108 – Vonda J
Collett
was born in 1944 at Bury-St-Edmunds
18S109 – Monica Collett
was
born in 1947 at Bury-St-Edmunds
Herbert Stanley Collett [18R161] was also born at Bury-St-Edmunds
on 7th April 1921, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 4a 1741a)
during the second quarter of the year when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Johnson, the son of Ernest and Jessie Collett. He was still living in the area of
Bury-St-Edmunds, where his death was recorded during the month of August in
1999, when he was 78
June E Collett [18R162] was
born at Bury-St-Edmunds on 11th June 1931, her birth recorded there
(Ref. 4a 1529) during the third quarter of the year, when her mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Johnson. She
was third child of Ernest Louis Collett and Jessie Johnson and their only
daughter. She was eight years old in
1939, when she was at school and living at Council House No. 8, Shinham Bridge
Road, Great Barton, Bury-St-Edmunds, with her parents and one of her old
brothers. Just after the start of 1953,
the marriage of June E Collett Gerald D Stiff was recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds
register office (Ref. 4b 2173), his birth also recorded there (Ref. 4a 1525)
during the third quarter of 1926.
David J Collett [18R163] was born in 1940 at Bury-St-Edmunds,
the only know child of Herbert George Collett and Margaret M Plumpkin, whose
birth was recorded there (Ref. 4a 2456) during the first quarter of that year,
when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Plumpkin. Tragically, he did not survive, with his very
premature death recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds register office (Ref. 4a 2716)
during the same three months of 1940
Cyril George Collett [18R164] was born at 35
Crayford Road in Erith, Kent on 29th June 1920, the eldest of the
two known children of Ephraim George Collett and Edith Kate Kedge. His birth was recorded at Dartford register
office (Ref. 2a 1304) during the third quarter of 1920, when his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Kedge. Cyril George
Collett was baptised on 16th July 1920, the son of machinist George
Collett of 35 Crayford Road. In 1939, Cyril
was a telephone fitter who was 19 years old and still living with his parents
at Erith, together with his sister Rita (below). Cyril was nearly forty years of age when he
became a married man, when his wedding to Myrtle Georgina Marshall was recorded
at Dartford register office (Ref. 5b 614) during the second quarter of
1960. Myrtle’s birth on 27th
November 1925 was recorded at Dartford (Ref. 2a 976) prior to her being
baptised on 12th December 1925, the daughter of Albert Ernest and
Louisa Bertha Marshall. Cyril was 73
when he died on 10th December 1995, his passing recorded at
Greenwich register office, after which he was buried at Greenwich on 20th
December 1995. Seventeen years after
being made a widow, Myrtle Georgina Collett on 14th December 2012 in
Kent
Rita Mabel Collett [18R165] was born at 35
Crayford Road in Erith on 15th March 1925, the daughter of Ephraim
and Edith Collett, whose birth was recorded at Dartford (Ref. 2a 1050) when her
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Kedge.
She was then baptised at Christ Church in Erith on 3rd April
1925, daughter of bricklayer George Collett and his wife Edith. By the time she was 14 years of age, she had
finished school and was a clerical worker for a publicity office. That was in 1939, while it was less than six
years after, when she married Lenard William Vousden on 6th April
1946, the wedding recorded at Dartford register office (Ref. 2a 1964) during
the first quarter of 1946. His birth as
Leonard W Vousden was also recorded at Dartford (Ref. 2a 992) during the fourth
quarter of 1921, having been born on 5th October 1921. Rita was 69 when she died on 17th
June 1994, her death recorded at Gravesend in Kent, following which she was
buried at Greenwich Cemetery on 30th June 1994. Leonard survived for another five years, when
he died on 7th July 1999, his death recorded at Gravesend, with his
body laid to rest at Greenwich Cemetery on 16th July 1999
Horace Collett [18R166] was born at Doncaster on
18th October 1925, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 9c 1529), when
his mother’s maiden-name was Collett, making him the eldest of the two sons of
unmarried Florence Elizabeth Collett.
Horace was fourteen years of age when his mother married Lewin Oswald
Pybus at Doncaster early in 1939, with whom he and his brother Charles (below)
were living at 21 Baker Street in Doncaster, as confirmed by the 1939 Register.
Ten years later, during the second
quarter of 1949, the marriage of Horace Collett and Gladys Powis was recorded
at Doncaster register office (Ref. 2b 869) which was followed one year after by
the birth of their son, with their daughter born near the end of 1951 who,
sadly did not survive beyond a few days. Horace was 52 when he died, his death recorded
at Doncaster (Vol. 3 0435) in the late summer of 1977
18S110 - David Collett was born in 1950 at Doncaster
18S111 – Christine A
Collett was born in 1951 at Doncaster
Charles William Collett [18R167] was born at Doncaster on
25th April 1928 and, like his brother Horace (above), his
birth was also recorded at Doncaster register office (Ref. 9c 1358), when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
He was eleven years old in 1939 and attending school in Doncaster, when
he and his brother were living at 21 Baker Street in Doncaster, the home of
Lewin Oswald Pybus, a farm labourer who had only very recently married their
mother Florence Elizabeth Pybus
Charles
Anthony Sibbald Collett [18S1] was born in 1940 at the home of his maternal
Sibbald-Scott grandparents at ‘Oast House’, Poll Hill in Harrietsham in Kent,
with his birth recorded at nearby Maidstone register office (Ref. 2a 2728)
during the first three months of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Sibbald-Scott. He later
married Linda Susan Griffith-Jones, with their wedding recorded at Midhurst in
Sussex (Ref. 5h 1920) during the third quarter of 1972. Linda was born at Batu Gajah in Malaya on 13th
February 1950, the daughter of Deputy Public Prosecutor Eric Newton
Griffith-Jones and Mary Patricia Heagarty. The births of the couple’s two children were
recorded at the Reading and Wokingham register office, where the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Griffith-Jones
18T1 -
Lisa Patricia Collett
was born in 1975 in Berkshire
18T2 - Richard Eric Charles Collett was born in 1977 in
Berkshire
Robin Trusson Collett [18S2] was born on 23rd
September 1942, his birth recorded at Windsor register office (Ref. 2c 853)
during the fourth quarter of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Sibbald-Scott. By the time
he was eight years old, Robin and his family were living in Reading, where the
death of Robin T Collett was recorded (Ref. 6a 97) during the third quarter of
1951. A shared memorial grave-marker
with his mother (1919-1968) and his father Royal Navy Commander Charles Trusson
Collett OBE (1904-1958), bears the date of his passing as 14th
August 1951, and can be found in the churchyard at St Peter’s Church in
Yateley, Hampshire, Southlands in Yateley bearing the home of his parents prior
to their passing
Elizabeth
Heather Collett [18S3] was born in 1945, her birth recorded at Windsor (Ref. 2a
908) during the second quarter of the year, where her mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Sibbald-Scott. Just less
than 24 years later, the marriage of Elizabeth Heather Collett and Richard Ahern
was recorded at Wokingham register office (Ref. 6a 571) during the first three
months of 1969. Their marriage produced
three children for the couple, the first of them being Luke Richard R Ahern
whose birth was recorded at Plymouth register office (Ref. 7a 1625) during the
summer of 1972, when his mother’s maiden-name was Collett. It was near to the end of the following year
that their daughter, Kate Sophie Ahern, was born with her birth also
recorded at Plymouth (Ref. 7a 1295).
Five years later the family was complete, with the birth of Thomas
Charles Ahern whose born was also registered at Plymouth (Vol. 21 1543)
during the first months of 1979
David
William Francis Collett [18S4] was born in 1952, his birth recorded at
Aldershot (Ref. 6b 68) during the third quarter of the year. His later marriage to Sarah M Kentish took
place on 10th May 1985 and was recorded at Haywards Heath in Sussex
(Vol. 18 1632) during the summer that year.
The birth of their daughter was recorded at the Surrey South-Western
register office (Vol. 17 1675) in the summer of 1987 where, exactly two years
later, the birth of their son was also recorded (Vol. 17 1601). The mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Kentish
at both events
18T3 - Emma Elizabeth
Collett was born in 1987 in Surrey
18T4 - William Douglas Charles
Collett was born in 1989 in Surrey
Anthony
Michael Collett [18S5] was born in 1938, his birth recorded at the Cheshire Wirral
register office (Ref. 8a 683) during the third quarter of the year, when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bell.
He was the eldest of the two children of George Kempthorne Collett and
Cashie Rongnye Fernie Bell. Anthony was
28 when he married Virginia P Powell, their wedding recorded at Winchester
register office (Ref. 6b 2117) during the third quarter of 1966. Virginia had been born in London, with her
birth recorded at Marylebone (Ref. 1a 461) during the last three months of
1944. The birth of the couple’s first
child was recorded in London (Ref. 5d 1418) at the start of 1969. It was there also that the other two
children’s birth were recorded, near the end of 1970 (Ref. 5d 2771) and at the
start of 1975, in each case their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Powell
18T5 - Marina Rongnye
Collett was born in 1968 in London St Marylebone
18T6 - Julian Edward
Collett was born in 1970 in London St Marylebone
18T7 -
Jessica Rongnye Collett was born in 1975 in London St Marylebone
Jean
Rongnye Collett [18S6] was born in 1942 and her birth was recorded at Wokingham
register office (Ref. 2c 1044) during the first quarter of that year, when her
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bell.
She was the daughter of George and Cashie Collett. The later marriage of Jean R Collett and
Nicholas J Hallings-Pott was recorded at Westminster (Ref. 5e 1411) near the
start of 1969. After giving birth to two
children, the couple was divorced in 1995.
The births of the two children were recorded at Westminster register
office, Lucy Rongnye Hallings-Pott during the summer of 1971, and Charles
John Hallings-Pott three years later
Peter
Frank Collett [18S7] was
born on 8th February 1954, with his birth recorded at Surrey North
Western register office (Ref. 5g 823) during the first three months of that
year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Gardiner, the eldest of
the two children of Frank Ainslie Collett and Joyce Neta Gardiner. Three years after his sister Diana was born,
the four members of the family sailed to India where their father continued to plied
his trade as a merchant. How long the
family remained in India is not known, except that the marriage of his sister
Diana took place at Westminster in London during 1985. Peter was 38 years of age when he married
Philippa L Hutton in the spring of 1992, the event recorded at the Chiltern
& South Buckinghamshire register office (Vol. 19 1223). Peter’s father was described as Frank Collett
of Ascot in Berkshire, and Philippa’s father was recorded as Robert Hutton of
Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire. Philippa’s
birth was recorded at Bromley register office (Ref. 5b 201) during the third
quarter of 1964. The birth of their
daughter was recorded at Westminster early in 1997
18T8 Jennifer Gillian Collett
was born on 25th January 1997 in London
Diana
Joyce Collett [18S8] was
born on 26th September 1956 and her birth was recorded at Surrey
North Western register office (Ref. 5g 842) during the third quarter of the
year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Gardiner. She was the youngest of the two children of
Frank Ainslie Collett and Joyce Neta Gardiner.
Not long after she was born her family left Surrey when they moved to Berkshire
and Cape Cottage, St Mary’s Road, Sunningdale near Ascot but, by the time Diana
was three years old, her whole family sailed to India where they lived for some
years, before returning to England and their home on St Mary’s Road. It was the passenger list for the journey to
India in 1959 that her date of birth was revealed. Back in England, the marriage of Diana Joyce
Collett and Anthony James Hunt took place on 16th September 1985 and
was recorded at Westminster register office (Vol. 15 972), when her father was
confirmed as Frank Ainslie Collett of Ascot, and Anthony’s father was named as
Lieutenant James Hunt of Richmond-on-Thames
Leonie
Gillian Collett [18S9] was born in 1949 and her birth was recorded at Chichester
in Kent during the second quarter of the year (Ref. 5h 475), where her mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Bishop. She
later married Rupert James Beaupre Creed with whom she had twin sons. The couple’s wedding day was recorded at
Cuckfield in Sussex (Ref. 5h 292) at the beginning of 1973. The birth of Benjamin Beaupre Creed
was recorded at Tonbridge register office (Vol. 16 2318) during the spring of
1976, as was that of Quentin Nicholas Creed (Vol. 16 2319) the very next
entry in the register
Andrew
John F Collett [18S10] was born during the second quarter of 1955, with his birth
recorded at Yeovil, Somerset (Ref. 7c 418), when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Bishop. It was in 1980 that
the marriage of Andrew J F Collett and Theresa J Cottam was recorded at the
Hasting & Rother register office (Vol. 18 0463) during the third quarter of
that year. Theresa’s birth was recorded
at Battle register office (Ref. 5h 4) during the third quarter of 1957. Their two children were born in the Brighton
area, where their births were recorded and where their mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Cottam, Ralph (Vol. 18 89) and Alice (Vol. 18 253).
18T9 - Ralph William Collett
was born in 1984 at Brighton, Sussex
18T10 - Alice Leonie Collett was born in 1988
at Brighton, Sussex
James
Michael Collett [18S11] was born in the first months of 1957, his birth recorded at
Gosport in Hampshire (Ref. 6b 426), when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
as Bishop. It was in the summer of 1985
that he married Mary Ann Tomlinson, when the event was recorded at the Surrey
South Eastern register office (Vol. 17 961).
The birth of the couple’s first-born child was recorded at Bristol (Vol.
22 1863), as was the second (Ref. 3011b b17c), the mother’s maiden-name on both
occasions was confirmed as Tomlinson
18T11 - Harriet Fay
Collett was born in 1990 at Bristol
18T12 - John Edwin Collett was born
in 1992 at Bristol
Neil
Arthur Whittaker [18S12] was born at Bowdon near Altrincham on 24th
April 1964, the eldest of the six children of Elizabeth Mary Benson and Arthur Whittaker. His birth was recorded at Bucklow register
office (Ref. 10a 185) when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Benson. On leaving school he entered the world of
Information Technology, initially working in Cheltenham, before spending a
short time working in Edinburgh. In 1987
Neil emigrated to North America and settled in Connecticut. He had a partner Sherie with whom he had a
daughter Jorgia Whittaker who was born on 8th April 1997
Benjamin James Collett [18S14], who was known as
Jimmy, was born in South Africa on 13th April 1928 in South Africa,
the second child of Benjamin Louis Collett and his first wife Charlotte. It is understood by family members in South
Africa in 2020, that Jimmy returned to England where “he was married and raised
a large family”. There was also a
mention that his wife’s maiden-name may have been Harris. However, no such family has been found,
although the marriage of James B Collett and Cynthia A Wallis was recorded at
the Basford, Nottinghamshire) register office (Ref. 3c 195) during the second
quarter of 1954, when Jimmy would have been twenty-six years of age. Their marriage produced seven children, all
of them born in Nottinghamshire when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
as Wallis. It is also known that the
death of (Jimmy) James Benjamin Collett was recorded at Nottingham in 1995
(Ref. 6891c c65a). The death record also
confirmed his dated of birth as 13th April 1928
18T13 - Helena A
Collett
was born in 1956 at Nottingham
18T14 - Jon B Collett was born in 1957 at Basford,
Nottingham
18T15 - Virginia E
Collett
was born in 1959 at Basford, Nottingham
18T16 - Nancy A Collett was born in 1960 at
Basford, Nottingham
18T17 - Joseph C
Collett
was born in 1962 at Basford, Nottingham
18T18 – Daniel R
Collett was born in 1964 at Basford, Nottingham (Ref. 3c 75) Q1
18T19 - James Alexander
Collett
was born in 1966 at Nottingham
Myrene May Collett [18S15] was
born on 13th October 1942 at Cape Town in South Africa, the daughter
Benjamin Collett and Myra Moore. She was
six years old when she sailed to England with her parents in 1947, to return
later to Cape Town where she married John
Whitelaw von Wiese who was also born in Cape Town on 23rd December
1931, nearly ten years her senior. The
marriage produced a daughter for the couple, who eventually took her mother’s maiden-name. That change of name is likely to have
followed Myrene’s divorce, which was granted in 1969. In 1972, under her maiden-name, Myrene Mary
Collett was back in court opposing an application with George Alexander
Franklin. After a further seven years
she was back in court in a case of Myrene Mary Reynolds versus Bryan Seward
Reynolds. Myrene later became a grandmother,
when Karen gave birth to two children, both born at Cape Town. They were Zoe Ellen Nicol born on 21st
December 1999 and Kirk Anderson Nicol born on 12th December
2001. And it was Karen in South Africa,
who kindly provided this new information about the life of her mother
18T20 - Karen Suzette Collett was born on 23rd
February 1962 at Orkney, Transvaal in South Africa
Lewis Collett [18S18] was born at Port
Elizabeth, South Africa, with his date of birth being after his parents left
England, possibly around 1950, the second son of Edward Arthur Collett and
Lilian Hartnupp. When Lewis became a
married man, his wife gave birth to a daughter Louise Collett, about whom
nothing is known
18T21 - Louise Collett was born
in South Africa, the date and place unknown
Gordon Collett [18S19] was born at Port
Elizabeth, South Africa, the third and last son of Edward and Lily
Collett. The later marriage of Gordon
Collett resulted in the birth of two children although, apart from their names,
nothing further is known
18T22 - Lindsay Collett was
born in South Africa, the date and place unknown
18T23 - Gary Collett was born
in South Africa, the date and place unknown
Elsie J Collett [18S20] was born in 1938 at
Grimsby, where her birth was recorded (Ref.
7a 933) during the second quarter of the year, where her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Neslen. She was the eldest of the two children of
Joseph William Collett and Elsie Vera Neslen. The four members of the family were residing
at 8 Convamore Road in Grimsby, from where her father was a trawl fisherman. However, the entry for Thelma was redacted
and officially closed due to her still being alive when the document was available
to members of the general public. Twenty
years afterwards, when she was 21, the married of Elsie J Collett and Charles F
Gowing was recorded at Grimsby register office (Ref. 3b 437) during the last
quarter of 1959.
Joseph William Collett [18S21] was born on 28th
June 1939 at Grimsby and it was there that his birth was recorded (Ref. 7a 1137) during the third quarter of
the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Neslen. He was the second child of Joseph and Elsie
Collett with whom he was living at 8 Convamore Road in Grimsby in 1939, when
his date of birth was recorded as provided above. He was the first of the four siblings to be
married when he was approaching, or had already celebrated, his twentieth
birthday. The marriage of Joseph William
Collett and Joan Evison was recorded at Grimsby register office (Ref. 3b 643)
during the third quarter of 1959. Joan
was only eighteen years old on their wedding day, her birth having been
recorded at Grimsby (Ref. 7a 1704) during the first three months of 1941. Joseph was 68 when he died on 13th
October 2007 at Cleethorpes, just three miles from Grimsby
Janet Collett [18S22] was born in 1943 at
Grimsby and another daughter of Joseph and Elsie Collett. Her birth was also recorded at Grimsby
register office (Ref. 7a 952) during the last four months of the year, when his
mother’s maiden-name was Neslen. It was during the third quarter of 1961 when
the marriage of Janet Collett and Malcolm H Broadbent was recorded at Grimsby
register office (Ref. 3b 724).
Terence Collett [18S23] was born in 1945 at
Grimsby, and was the last child of Joseph William Collett and Elsie Vera
Neslen. Like his three older siblings,
his birth was also recorded at Grimsby register office (Ref. 7a 1015) during
the second quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was Neslen. He was twenty-five years old when he married Ursula
Schroder with their wedding recorded at Grimsby register office (Ref. 3b 686)
during the second quarter of 1970
Frederick J Bertrand Collett [18S24] was born in 1940 at ‘Sea View’ North Sea Lane Humberston,
Cleethorpes. He was the only
child of Frederick Bertrand Collett and Betsy Amanda Francis, and his birth was
recorded at Grimsby register office (Ref. 7a 1797) during the second quarter of
the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was Francis. There is every chance that Frederick did not
get to know his father for much more than a few months, because Frederick
senior enlisted with the British Army before Frederick junior was born and was serving
abroad for most of the campaign.
Although he survived the Second Word War, he was still serving in
Germany five months after peace was declared, most likely in the ‘clean-up
operations’, where he died during the second week of October 1945. He was very young when, at the start of 1962,
the marriage of Frederick J B Collett and Pearl E A Darke was recorded at the
London Ealing register office (Ref. 5e 535), Pearl’s birth having been recorded
at Brentford register (Ref. 3a 618) during the last quarter of 1940. Their three children were born in London,
when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Darke
18T24 – Matthew F Collett was born in
1963 at Willesden, London (Ref. 5f 562) Q1
18T25 – Kathleen
Amanda
Collett was born in 1969 at Ealing, London (Ref. 5b 68) Q1
18T26 – Peter William Collett was born in
1970 at Ealing, London (Ref. 5b 118) Q4
Margaret E Collett [18S25] was born at Yarmouth,
with her birth recorded there (Ref. 4b 16) during the last quarter of 1931,
when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Lee. She was the eldest child of Thomas William Harcourt
Collett and Florence Gertrude Lee. In
1939 Register, the details for Margaret were redacted because she was still
alive when the document was available to view by the general public. The marriage of Margaret E Collett and Eric G
W Carter was also recorded at Yarmouth register office (Ref. 4b 1253) during
the third quarter of 1953. Eric’s birth
was also recorded at Yarmouth during the first quarter of 1930 (Ref. 4b 26). Just over five years after their wedding day,
Margaret gave birth to the couple’s only child.
The birth of Julie M Carter was recorded at Yarmouth register office
(Ref. 4b 817) during the first three months of 1959, when the mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Collett
Malcolm David Harcourt Collett [18S26] was born at Yarmouth on
20th December 1936, the second child and only son of Thomas and
Florence Collett, whose birth was recorded there (Ref. 4b 26) during the final
three months of 1936, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Lee. Less than three years after being born, he
and his family were living at 76 Sturdee Avenue in Great Yarmouth, when his
date of birth was as repeated above. Malcolm
was 26 years of age, when his marriage to Janet Phyllis Wales was recorded at
Yarmouth register office (Ref. 4b 1434) in the third quarter of 1963. Janet was born on 22nd July 1937 at
136 Beccles Road in Gorleston-on-Sea, the daughter of John and Daisy Wales, when
her birth was recorded at Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 37)
Just over one year later their son was born and
was followed by the birth of a daughter, when their mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Wales. Daughter Judith was
only fifteen years old when her father died on 12th April 1983 at
the age of 46, the death of Malcolm David Harcourt Collett recorded at Great
Yarmouth register office (Vol. 10 1239).
Eight days later he was cremated with his ashes buried at Great Yarmouth
Crematorium. Administration of his
personal effects, of £11,885 was granted at Ipswich on 6th June
1983, which also recorded his last home address as 145 Brasenose Avenue,
Gorleston-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth.
Fourteen years after losing her husband, when Janet was 60 years old and
still living at 145 Brasenose Avenue, she died there on 3rd November
1997, after which she was cremated on 11th November at Great
Yarmouth when her ashes were interred there
18T27 – Richard David
Harcourt
Collett was born in 1964 at Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 887) Q4
18T28 -
Judith Elaine Collett
was born in 1967 at Yarmouth
Valerie F Collett [18S27] was born at Yarmouth
during the third quarter of 1941, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 4b 5),
when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Lee. It is possible that she was born at 76
Sturdee Avenue in Great Yarmouth, where her family was living in 1939. Valerie was the last child of Thomas William
Harcourt Collett and Florence G Lee, who was just nineteen when she married
Graham N Sawyer at Yarmouth (Ref. 4b 1022) during the last three months of 1960. Graham was born in Suffolk with his birth
recorded at Lothingland register office (Ref. 4a 3144) during the second
quarter of 1940. Their marriage produced
a son, with the birth of Anthony G Sawyer recorded at Yarmouth register office
(Ref. 4b 979) during the first three months of 1965, when his mother’s
maiden-name was Collett
Megan D M
Collett [18S28]
was born in 1927 at Yarmouth, the only child of James William Hughbourne
Collett and Olive Irene Bland. Her birth
was recorded at Yarmouth register office (Ref. 4b 22) during the first quarter
of 1927, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bland. Tragically, she grew up not knowing her
father, who died on 27th March, just after she was born. Her mother remarried in the summer of 1930,
and Megan married Raymond R Ward in 1954, their wedding recorded at Watford
register office (Ref. 4b 483) during the fourth quarter of 1948
Ann
Collett [18S29]
was born at Acle in Norfolk in 1942, the only child of Frank Christian Clowes Collett
and Gladys Elizabeth
Mills. Her birth was recorded at Acle,
near Norwich, (Ref. 4b 38) during the last quarter of the year when her mother’s
surname was confirmed as Mills. It was
during the second quarter of 1966, when Ann Collett married Michael J Brook, with
their wedding also recorded at Acle register office (Ref. 4b 1009). The birth of their daughter Rachel
Jacqueline Brook was recorded at Norwich register office (Vol. 10 2160)
during the first three months of 1979
Brian Collett [18S30] was born at Grimsby in
1956, the older of the two children of Norman George Collett and Dorothy Alward,
whose birth was recorded at Grimsby register office (Ref. 3b 273) during the
last three months of 1956, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Alward. In 2021 Brian made contact regarding his family and
kindly provided some new details which were inserted in the 2023 update of this
family line. At that time in his life
Brian was a Professor of Physics at Hamilton College in Clinton, Oneida County,
New York
Sheila A Collett [18S31] was born at Grimsby in
1958, the daughter of Norman and Dorothy Collett. Her birth, like that of her brother’s (above),
was also recorded at Grimsby register office (Ref. 3b 372) during the second
quarter of 1958, with her mother’s maiden-name was Alward. The later marriage of Sheila A Collett and
Dennis Wells was recorded at Sleaford (Vol. 7 2374) during the summer of 1980,
Dennis possibly being a member of the Wells family of Sheila’s aunt Eileen Nora
Collett (above)
Susan E Collett [18S32] was born at Yarmouth in
1950, the eldest of the two children of Leslie James Collett and Jean Whittaker,
whose birth was recorded at Yarmouth register office (Ref. 4b 689) during the
second quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was Whittaker. Susan was twenty-one years old when she
married Roger T Trett, with their wedding recorded at Yarmouth register office
(Ref. 4b 2223) during the third quarter of 1971
Stephen James Collett [18S33] was born at Yarmouth
in 1956, with his birth was recorded at Yarmouth register office (Ref. 4b 737)
during the third quarter of 1956, when again the mother’s maiden-name was
Whittaker. He was the younger of the two
children born to Leslie and Jean Collett
Gillian A Collett [18S36] was born at Durham on
10th July 1960, the first of the four daughters of Alan F Collett
and Christine Louise Marriott. Her birth
was recorded at the Durham South-Eastern register office (Ref. 1a 832), when
her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Marriott. Between 1965 and 1969 the family left Durham
when they moved to Saddleworth in Yorkshire, within the Oldham district of
Greater Manchester. The later marriage
of Gillian A Collett and Nicholas Wooley was recorded at Lancashire’s Oldham
register office (Vol. 39 0056) during the summer of 1981. Nicholas was born in 1960 and his birth was
recorded at Ashton register office (Ref. 10b 201) during the first quarter of
that year. Their son James Robert
Wooley was born at Salford, where his birth was recorded in early 1991 (Vol.
39 1124).
Beverley A Collett [18S37] was born at Durham on
1st June 1962, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 1a 908), another
daughter of Alan and Christine Collett, her mother’s maiden-name confirmed as
Marriott. She was 21 years of age, when
the marriage of Beverley A Collett and Steven J Buckley was recorded at Oldham
register office (Vol. 39 41) during the summer of 1983. Steven was born in Oldham where his birth was
recorded (Ref. 10f 69) during the third quarter of 1960 and he and Beverley had
two sons. Christopher Paul Buckley
and Thomas Anthony Buckley whose births were recorded at Oldham register
office in 1988 and 1991, where their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed Collett
Joanne L Collett [18S38] was born at Durham on
13th January 1965, another daughter of Alan and Christine
Collett. As with her two older sisters (above),
her birth was also recorded at Durham South-Eastern register office (Ref. 1a
854) during the first three months of 1965 when, again, the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Marriott. A few years
later, the family moved to Saddleworth, not far from Oldham, where the marriage
of Joanne L Collett and Andrew L Harrison was recorded (Vol. 39 47) during the
spring of 1987. Andrew had been born
during the third quarter of 1961, his birth recorded at Liverpool North
register office (Ref. 10d 175). Over the
next five years, Joanne gave birth to two children, the first of them being Sarah
Louise Harrison whose birth was recorded at Oldham (Vol. 39 26) in the
summer of 1988. The later birth of their
son Paul Andrew Harrison was also recorded at Oldham (Vol. 39 399)
during the spring of 1992
Andrea Michelle Collett [18S39] was born at
Saddleworth in Yorkshire on 11th August 1969, the last of the four
daughter of Alan F Collett and Christine Louse Marriott. It was also at Saddleworth that her birth was
recorded (2c 2498). Just as with her three
older sisters, Andrea M Collett was married at Oldham, where her marriage to
Gavin Holland was recorded (Vol. 39 46) during the spring of 1992. Gavin’s birth was recorded at Ashton register
office (Ref. 10b 229) during the first quarter of 1968. The births of their twin daughters Katie
Leah Holland and Lauren Jade Holland was also recorded at Oldham
(Ref. 071c OC40b) during the spring on 1995
Mary-Ann
Collett [18S40] was
born at Ipswich in 1938, her birth recorded there (Ref. 4a 1660) during the
second quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Read. Within the next ten years Mary-Ann and her
parents moved to Chelmsford, and it was there she was married. The marriage of Mary-Ann Collett and Jack Taylor
was recorded at Chelmsford register office (Ref. 4a 1295) during the third
quarter of 1960 and produced two children. They were Emma Louise Taylor and Matthew
Nicholas Taylor whose births were recorded at the Cheshire North-Eastern
register office early in 1964 and during the third quarter of 1965
respectively, where their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett
By 2018 Mary-Ann had
five grandchildren, Adam Philip Wood, Robert Matthew Wood, Lee James
Delaunay-Taylor, Max Alaric Delaunay-Taylor, and Louise Alys
Delaunay-Taylor. Her grandson
Adam Philip Wood graduated with an MSc from Emmanuel College in Cambridge in
2011 and, on showing his guests around the campus on graduation day, was
pleased to point out the very large stained-glass window in the chapel
dedicated to the humanist scholar John Colet.
Adam was always proud to show visitors around the college and to mention
that he was descended from the uncle of John Colet. And it was Mary-Ann Dunn who kindly provided
the information relating to her family line
Simone
Hilary Collett [18S41] was born at Bromley, Kent, in 1944 and was the only child
of William Geoffrey Collett and Gladys Victoria May Finney. Her birth was recorded at Bromley register
office (Ref. 2a1194), during the third quarter of the year, when the mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Finney. The
late marriage of Simone H Collett and Peter C Smith was recorded at Ipswich
register office (Ref. 4b 2843) during the third quarter of 1965, where her
parents were married in 1938. It was also at Ipswich that
their son and only child Christopher George Smith was born during the
summer of 1966 (Ref. 4b 1822) when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Collett
Kathleen Collett [18S42] was born at
Barrow-in-Furnace in 1947, the first of the four children of William John
Collett and Bridget Murphy. Her birth
was recorded at Barrow-in-Furnace register office (Ref. 10b 283) during the
second quarter of the year with her mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Murphy. She was only nineteen when the marriage of Kathleen Collett and (1) John
S Dockerty was recorded at Barrow-in-Furnace during the summer of 1966 (Ref. 10b
393). That day Kathleen was well advanced
in the pregnancy for the first of the couple’s two sons, with the birth of
Stewart Dockerty recorded during the last three months of 1966. The second son, Steven Dockerty was born in
the spring of 1968, with both births recorded at Barrow-in-Furnace (Ref. 10b
305) and (Ref. 10b 322) respectively, when their mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Collett. It was eighteen
years after her first wedding day that Kathleen Dockerty married (2) Graham
Archer, their wedding also recorded at Barrow-in-Furnace (Vol. 0066) at the
start of 1979.
William John Collett [18S43] was born at
Barrow-in-Furnace in 1953, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 10b 218) during
the last three months of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
as Murphy. He was the eldest son and
second child of William and Bridget Collett.
It was either at
the end of 1976, or the beginning of 1977, when the marriage of William John
Collett and Irene McCann was recorded at Barrow-in-Furnace register office
(Vol. 1 0015) during the first quarter of 1977.
The couple only had one child who was born later that same year, with
the birth of daughter Nicol also recorded at Barrow-in-Furnace (Vol. 1 15) during
the summer of 1977, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as McCann. Perhaps that was an indication that the
couple had been married in 1976, with Nicol being a honeymoon baby
18T29 –
Nicol Collett was born in 1977 at Barrow-in-Furnace
Peter Collett [18S44] was born at
Barrow-in-Furnace in 1957, another child of William and Bridget, whose birth
was recorded there (Ref. 10b 220) during the second quarter of the year, with
his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Murphy
David Collett [18S45] was born at
Barrow-in-Furnace in 1961 and was the last child born to William and Bridget
Collett. His birth, like those of his three
older siblings, was recorded at Barrow-in-Furnace register office (Ref. 10b
263) during the spring of 1961, with Murphy confirmed as his mother’s
maiden-name. Although not proved, it is possible that the
marriage of David Collett and Dawn Adams, which was recorded at
Barrow-in-Furnace (Vol. 373 1094) in August 1995, was this particular David
Collett at the age of 34. They were a
modern couple who, prior to their wedding day, already had two children whose
birth were recorded at the time they were born, whose births were recorded again
once they were married. All four birth were recorded at Barrow-in-Furnace when
the mother’s maiden-name was Adams. For
their son, his was initially recorded in
July 1991 (Vol. 1 33), while their daughter’s was in January 1994 (Vol. 3731a
a11d). It was during March 1996, seven
months after they were married, that the two children’s births were recorded at
the same time, using the same identification number (Vol. 3731a a17d)
18T30 – Nathan
Gordon Collett was born in 1991 at Barrow-in-Furnace
18T31 – Rebekah
Collett was born in 1994 at Barrow-in-Furnace
Gillian G Collett [18S46] was born at Docking in
North Norfolk in 1944, her birth recorded at Fakenham register office (Ref. 4b
378) during the first quarter of 1944, when her mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Seaman, the only child of Harry Collett and Frances Sarah
Seaman. During the summer of 1965,
Gillian married Brian A Riches, their marriage recorded at King’s Lyn register
office (Ref. 4b 1883) during the third quarter of the year. Brian was very slightly younger that Gillian,
his birth having been recorded at King’s Lynn (Ref. 4b 430) during the second
quarter of 1944, when his mother’s maiden-name was recorded as Batterbee
Velma I Collett [18S47] was born in 1929, her
birth recorded at Wangford register office (Ref. 4a 1753) during the third
quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Maltby,
the first of three children of Arthur Tom Collett and Gertrude Ethel Maltby. It was during the first three months of 1957
that Velma I Collett married Ernest W Ward, as recorded at Lothingland register
office (Ref. 4b 2543)
Pearl Sylvia Collett [18S48] was born on 3rd
September 1930 at Beccles, when her birth was recorded at Wangford (Ref. 4a
1635) during the fourth quarter of the year, with her mother’s maiden-name
confirmed as Maltby. At the time of the
1939 Register her family was residing at 50 Ellough Road in Beccles, from where
nine-year-old Pearl S Collett was attending school. She was over thirty years old when the
marriage of Pearl S Collett and Ronald Mansfield was recorded at Hertford
register office (Ref. 4b 275) during the third quarter of 1959
Roy G Collett [18S49] was born in 1932 and
his birth was also recorded at Wangford register office (Ref. 4a 1576) during
the last three months of the year, his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Maltby. He and his two sisters (above) were
living at 50 Ellough Road in Beccles in the 1939 Register, when the details for
Roy and sister Velma were officially closed, hence no date of birth. His two sisters were already married, by the
time that Roy became a married man, with his wedding to Margaret A Goldsmith
was recorded at Norwich register office (Ref. 4b 1301) during the last quarter
of 1958
Paul
Collett [18S50] was born at Hackney in 1955, where his
birth was recorded (Ref. 5c 610) during the last three months of the year, when
his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Cunnold. He was older of the two sons of George Frank
Collett and Brenda Cunnold. Paul around
ten years of age when his family left London and went to Benfleet in Essex
where, he was 22 years old when his marriage to Jennifer R Young was recorded
at Southend-on-Sea (Vol. 9 2845) during the spring of 1978. The birth of their first child was recorded
at Hammersmith register office (Vol. 12 2133) during the spring of 1982 before
the family settled in Benfleet. And it
was in Benfleet that their two daughters were born with their births recorded at
Southend-on-Sea register office (Vol. 9 3588) towards the end of 1983, and (Vol.
9 3733) also near the end of 1986 respectively.
On all three occasions, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Young. By 2023, their son was a married man,
starting a family of his own
18T32 – Robert Collett was born in 1982 at Hammersmith
18T33 – Denise Collett was born in 1983 at Benfleet
18T34 – Louise Collett was born in 1986 at Benfleet
Graeme
Collett [18S51] was also born at Hackney in 1957 and
was the younger son of George and Brenda Collett, whose birth was recorded at Hackney
register office (Ref. 5c 710) during the first quarter of the year. It was in the spring of 1981 that Graeme
married Julie Wallace in Benfleet in Essex, when their wedding was recorded at
Southend-on-Sea register office (Vol. 9 2832), his parents having taken the
family to live at Benfleet in the 1960s.
Within five years Julie had given birth to two daughters who were born
at Benfleet with their births also recorded at Southend-on-Sea (Vol. 9 3979)
and (Vol. 9 4357) when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Wallace
The
marriage of Graeme and Julie was the first of three same generation links
between the Collett and Wallace families within this file. The second, two years later, was for Steven A
N Collett [18S58] and Jennifer G Wallace at Havering in Essex during 1983, and
the third for Keith D Collett [18S106] and Heather A Wallace recorded at Fulham
in 1997. Graeme and Steven were cousins,
one-step removed
18T35 – Sarah Collett was born in 1984 at Benfleet
18T36 – Emma Collett was born in 1986 at Benfleet
Kerry
Collett [18S52] was born in Essex on 5th May
1962, the first child of Derrick John Collett and Brenda Gladys Rose White. Her birth was recorded at Essex South-Western
register office (Ref. 5a 301), when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
White. And it was Kerry Darby, nee
Collett, who provided the missing details of her family during the summer of
2023
Robert
Neil Collett [18S53] was born in Essex on 8th
August 1965 and was the son of Derrick and Brenda Collett, whose birth was
recorded at Waltham Forest Essex register office (Ref. 5e 732) with White confirmed
as his mother’s maiden-name. He married
Debora Maria Hall at Chingford, Essex, during May 1989, when their wedding was
recorded at Waltham Forest register office (Vol. 15 333). It was also at Waltham Forest that they
settled, where their two children were born and where their mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Hall upon registering their birth (Vol. 15 978)
and (Vol. 2551b b52)
18T37 – Natalie Louise Collett was born on 8th
August 1991 at Waltham Forest, Essex
18T38 - Paul Robert Collett was born 9th
December 1992 at Waltham Forest, Essex
Christopher Kenneth Collett [18S56] was born at Hackney in
1962, the only child of Kenneth Collett and Hilda L Salmon. His birth was recorded at Hackney register
office (Ref. 5c 881) during the first three months of 1962, when his mother’s
maiden-name was Salmon. He went on to
marry Lisa Rowe, with their marriage recorded at the Essex Thurrock register
office (Vol. 9 1802) in early 1986. No record of any children has
been found
Susan Jeannette
Collett [18S57] was born at Hackney in 1960 where her birth was
recorded (Ref.
5c 680) when her mother’s maiden-name was Stout, being the eldest child of
Albert Collett and Jeannette A Stout. Around
the time she was 19 years old, the marriage of Susan J Collett and Anthony J
Rathbone was recorded at Poplar & Bethnal Green register office (Vol. 14
0754) near the end of 1979
Steven A
N Collett [18S58] was born at Hackney in 1962, the only son in the
family of three children of Albert and Jeannette Collett. His birth was recorded at Hackney register
office (Ref. 5c 720) during the first three months of 1962, when his mother’s
maiden-name was Stout. He was
twenty-years-old when he became a married man, when the wedding of Steven A N
Collett and Jennifer G Wallace was recorded at the Essex Havering register
office (Vol. 13 0048) during the first months of 1983. There is the possibility that they were married towards the end of
1982, when Jennifer was already expecting the birth of the first of the three
children
Just a few short months later, that same year, the
birth of the couple’s first child was recorded at nearby Barking & Dagenham
register office (Vol. 11 398) during the second quarter of 1983. Not long after the family appear to have moved
to Southend-on-Sea, where the births of the last two children were
recorded. The first of them (Vol. 9
3937) during the spring of 1984, the second (Vol. 9 4357) during the summer of
1986. In all three cases the mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Wallace
18T39 - Benjamin Brian Collett was born in 1983 at
Barking, Essex
18T40 - Sarah Collett was born in 1984 at Southend-on-Sea,
Essex
18T41 - Emma Collett was born in 1986 at Southend-on-Sea,
Essex
Barbara I
M Collett[18S59]
was born at Hackney in 1963 and
again her birth was recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 5c 430) during
the last three months of the year, when her mother’s maiden-nae was confirmed
as Stout. She was the youngest of the
three children of Albert and Jeannette Collett, and it was at Havering register
office in East London (Vol. 234 041) that the marriage of Barbara I M Collett
and Martin Grover was recorded in May 1999
Anthony
James Collett [18S60] was the twin brother of Gary (below) who were born towards the end of
1960 when their births were recorded at Edmonton register office (Ref. 5e 437/61)
during the last three months of that year, with their mother’s maiden-name
confirmed as Block, being the sons of Clifford James Collett and Margaret R
Block. Although not yet verified, it is
possible that the later marriage of Anthony J Collett and Margaret J Latimer
that was recorded at Cambridge register office (Vol. 9 524) during the spring
of 1985 relates to Anthony born at Edmonton
Gary
James Collett [18S61] was born near the end of 1960, when his birth was recorded
at Edmonton register office (Ref. 5e 437/69) during the last three months of
that year and immediately after his slightly older twin brother Anthony (above),
when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Block. He was the middle child of the three children
born to Clifford and Margaret Collett. It was
around the time he was approaching his twenty-first birthday that he married Tina A Dunton during the on third quarter of 1981,
their wedding recorded at Hillingdon register office in Middlesex (Vol. 13
0820). Almost exactly two years later
their son and only child was born, the birth of Paul Collett also recorded at
Hillingdon (Vol. 13 681) during the summer of 1983, when his mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Dunton
18T42 – Paul Collett was born in 1983 at
Hillingdon, Middlesex
Alison J Collett [18S62]
was the
last child of Clifford James Collett and Margaret R Block and was born either
at the end of 1964 or early in 1965, with her birth recorded at Edmonton
register office (Ref. 5e 541) during
the first three months of the latter year, when her mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Block. Alison was approaching her
mid-twenties when she married Stephen L Nichols with their wedding day recorded
at nearby Waltham Forest register office (Vol. 15 716) during the summer of
1989.
Myrtle Patricia Collett [18S63] was born on 23rd
August 1939 at 56 London Road in Lowestoft.
She was the base-born daughter of unmarried Irene Laura B Collett and
her birth was recorded at Lothingland register office (Ref. 4a 2143), when her
mother’s name was confirmed as Collett.
It was at that address that she was living with her mother in the 1939
Register, while just a few months after, her mother married Edward Osborn Lambert
with whom she had a daughter Sylvia J Lambert in 1945. It is possible that Edward Lambert was also
Myrtle’s father. Myrtle was thirty-four
when she married Peter McCallum, their wedding recorded at Waveney register
office (Vol. 10 30 36) during the spring of 1974. The death of Myrtle Patricia McCallum was
recorded at Great Yarmouth (Vol. 10 1315) during November 1990. The Register of Cremations at Great Yarmouth
confirmed that Myrtle died on 23rd November 1990 at 3 Holst Close,
Lowestoft, after which her cremation took place on 3rd December 1990
Mark Edward Collett [18S64] was the only child of
Edward H W Collett and Ruth W I Taberer, his birth recorded at Luton register
office (Ref. 4a 447) during the second quarter of 1963, when his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Taberer. He and his
parents later settled in Kings Lynn, where Mark’s father died in the early
weeks of 1982. That meant, when Mark
married Maria R Watson, it was his widowed mother who gave him away, the
wedding recorded at Kings Lynn register office (Vol. 10 1931) during the summer
of 1982. Maria was born during the first
quarter of 1963, when her birth was recorded at West Ham register office (Ref. 5a
936). Around fifteen months after their
wedding day, the first of their two daughters was born, with her birth recorded
at Kings Lynn (Vol. 10 1424) towards the end of 1983. Less than four years after that, the birth of
the couple’s second child was also recorded at Kings Lynn (Vol. 10 1904) in the
spring of 1987. In both cases, the
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Watson
18T43 - Lisa Marie
Collett was born in 1983 at Kings Lynn
18T44 - Catherine Collett was
born in 1987 at Kings Lynn
Teresa J
Collett [18S65]
was born at Luton in 1960 and was the first of the two daughters of Harold G
Collett and Gladys Kate Ephgrave. Her
birth was recorded at Luton register office (Ref. 4a 274) during the last
quarter of 1960 with her mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Ephgrave. She was 23 years old when she married John
Clark at Bury-St-Edmunds in July 1984
Rosanne
Jean Collett [18S66]
was also born at Luton in 1966, the youngest daughter of Harold and Gladys
Collett. Rosanne’s birth was recorded at
Luton (Ref. 4a 376) during the second quarter of that year, when her mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Ephgrave
She was around thirty-one years of age when she married Neil J Cornish,
also at Bury-St-Edmunds, in April 1997
Susan Ann
Collett [18S67]
was born at Lowestoft on 10th August 1953, the eldest child of
married Raymond Lewis Collett and Edith Garrod, her birth recorded at
Lothingland register office (Ref. 4b 1209).
Susan later married David J Mortlock, the event recorded at Waveney
register office (Vol. 10 3804) during the third quarter of 1978. David was born at the other side of south
England, his birth recorded at Redruth register office in Cornwall (Ref. 7a
133) during the third quarter of 1953
Jillian
Edith Collett [18S68] was born at Lowestoft on 20th January 1955, the
second of the three children of Raymond and Edith Collett. Her birth was recorded at Lothingland
register office (Ref. 4b 1192). Jill, as
she is known, married Paul Frederick Scott at St Margaret’s Church in Lowestoft
on 1st June 1974, their wedding recorded at Waveney register office
(Vol. 10 2983). The birth of Paul F
Scott was recorded at Lothingland (Ref. 4b 1204) during the third quarter of
1953. The marriage produced two sons for
Jillian and Paul, their births recorded at Great Yarmouth when their mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. They
were Darrell Scott who was born on 24th May 1975, and Kalvin
Scott who was born on 11th September 1986. It was Paul Scott who kindly provided new
information for the April 2016 update of this family line
Paul
Raymond John Collett [18S69] was born at Lowestoft on 17th
November 1968, the last
child of Raymond and Edith Collett, whose birth was recorded at Lothingland register
office (Ref. 4b 1469), where his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Garrod
Paul Andrew Collett [18S70] was born on 8th
February 1967, his birth recorded at Blyth register office (Ref. 4b 1482), when
his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Knight. He married Dawn A Kemp and they have two sons
whose births were recorded at Ipswich register office, when their mother’s
maiden name was confirmed as Kemp. The
earlier marriage of Paul A Collett and Dawn A Kemp was also recorded in
Suffolk, at the Ipswich Deben register office (Vol. 10 3544) in the summer of
1989
18T45 - Martin James Collett was born on
2nd August 1993 at Ipswich (Vol. 7471a a15b)
18T46 - Ryan Lee
Collett was born on 25th April 1996 at Ipswich (Vol. 7471c c21b)
Sandra Jane Collett [18S71] was born in 1969, her
birth being recorded at Blyth register office (Ref. 4b 3409) in the summer of
that year, where her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Knight. She was the youngest of the two children of
Clive Rex Collett and Dawn A Kemp
Andrew James Collett [18S75] was
born in New Zealand on 7th September 1969. Around the age of 25 Andrew left New Zealand
and came to England in 1994. During the
next few years, he held several accounting and banking jobs before he finally
settled in London. And it was while
working in London around 1996 and 1997 that he met Michelle M Bates to whom he
was married a few years later. The
married took place at the Cliff Head Hotel in St Austell in Cornwall on 27th
August 2000 and was recorded at St Austell register office (Vol. 367 170). Following the wedding, the couple lived at
Wapping Wall in London where their son was born, his birth recorded at Tower
Hamlets register office (Vol. c61 113) when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Bates. In 2008 Andrew’s
occupation was that of an accountant and financial advisor. Outside of his work, Andrew and his son Sean
are involved in junior rugby, as illustrated in this article sent in by
Andrew’s sister Rachael. On Saturday 31st
May 2014 at Twickenham, the home of rugby, Northampton Saints played Saracens
in the final of the Aviva Premiership, and the following article appeared in
the press.
“After sharing the Twickenham turf with Lions Owen
Farrell and George North, Blackheath head coach Andrew Collett admits his Under
11 side will be forever reliving their Aviva Premiership Final debut. As
Saracens and Northampton Saints battled it out for Aviva Premiership glory in
Saturday’s final, Blackheath U11s also descended on Rugby HQ. And during half-time Collett’s youngsters [including his son
Sean] got their moment in the spotlight
in front of the sell-out 82,000 crowd as they took part in the Land Rover Cup
Parade of Champions. Not only did
Blackheath U11s get to walk on the hallowed Twickenham turf, they also got to
meet World Cup winner Lewis Moody. Their
time to shine was reward for winning a Land Rover Cup festival held by
Harlequins back in October and Andrew believes his team loved every minute of
their experience of a lifetime. He said:
“Every rugby player and fan dreams of getting the chance to walk out at
Twickenham, so for our players to be in front of an 82,000 strong crowd at such
a young age was incredible for them.”
18T47 - Sean Francis Collett was born on 19th
November 2002 at Wapping Wall
18T48 - Rebecca Collett was born on 16th
June 2009 at Wapping Wall
Rachael Ann Collett [18S76] was born in New Zealand on 27th
October 1973 and today she is working as an embryologist at an IVF centre in
Adelaide in South Australia, while living at Gawler. It is thanks to Rachael that the file has
been amended to include her family line details. It is also hoped that further information
will be received in due course for some of her immediate relatives. On 7th September 2012 Rachael and
her fiancée Andrew James Lindsell celebrated the birth of their son,
coincidentally the same day that Rachael’s brother Andrew (above) was
born forty-three years earlier. Since
that then Rachael and Andrew have been married, following which their second
child, William Francis John Lindsell, was born on 8th September 2014
Stephen Charles Collett [18S77] was born in 1967
and his birth was recorded at Ipswich register office (Ref. 4b 1693) during the
first three month of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Paternoster. It was in the summer of
1995 that Stephen Charles Collett married Alison Jane Heffer, their wedding
recorded at the Suffolk Deben register office.
Alison was born towards the end of 1968, her birth recorded at Ipswich
register office (Ref. 4b 1343)
Jacqueline
D R Collett [18S80]
was born at Hawarden in Flintshire, North Wales, in 1941, the only child of
Kenneth Lionel Collett and Doreen Rose Boulter.
Upon being married she became Jacqueline Norman and gave birth to a son
Mark Norman. She was still alive in
2009, and it was her son who kindly provided the information that has enabled
this family line to be extended into the twenty-first century
Kenneth John Collett [18S81] was born in 1950 at
Liverpool and was possibly the eldest child of Kenneth L Collett and Doreen E
Smith who were married in Liverpool in 1947.
His birth was also recorded at the Liverpool South register office (Ref.
10d 969) during the first quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Smith. That office
includes the Garston area of the city, where the family was known to reside. It would appear that he never married and
died at Garston on 3rd October 2010, aged 60, with his death
recorded at Liverpool register office
Leonard Collett [18S82] was born in 1959 at
Liverpool and was another son of Kenneth and Doreen Collett. His birth was recorded at Liverpool South register
office (Ref. 10d 1116) during the second quarter of the year. There may have been other siblings, apart from
Kenneth (above), as there were many children born at that time in
Liverpool to Collett/Smith parents.
Leonard later married Linda M Griffiths in 1979, their wedding day
recorded at the Merseyside Knowsley register office (Ref. 36 0010) during the
third quarter of the year. There were
two Linda M Griffiths born in that area of the right age, one the daughter of a
mother with the maiden-name of Samosa at Liverpool North (Ref. 10d 735) during
the first quarter of 1962, the other Bishop at Ormskirk (Ref. 10f 208) during
the last quarter of 1959, the latter seeming to be the most likely. The daughter of Leonard and Linda had her
birth recorded at Liverpool register office Ref. 36 827) during the second
quarter of 1980, where her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Griffiths
18T49 - Natalie Lyn
Collett was born in 1980 at Liverpool
June Rose Collett [18S84] was born on 27th
February 1943, her birth recorded at the Surrey North-Eastern register office
(Ref. 2a 235) when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Miles. She was the first of the three known child of
Alfred Lewis Collett and Doris Muriel Miles.
Her first husband was (1) Alan Stokes and their wedding was recorded at
Kingston-upon-Thames (Ref. 5c 1608) during the second quarter of 1965. Alan was born on 24th June 1931,
the son of William and Doris Stokes of Lymm near Warrington, and fifteen years
later he died in Nuneaton. At that time,
he was living at 1 Regency Close in Weddington, Nuneaton where he died on 14th
October 1980. June Rose Stokes then married
(2) Alfred L Emery, their wedding recorded at Richmond-upon-Thames (Vol. 14
1131) during the spring of 1982. She
died at the age of 55, when the death of June Rose Stokes Emery was recorded at
Bournemouth register office following her passing away on 23rd
September 1998 in Christchurch
Alfred Lewis Collett [18S85] was born in 1944, his
birth recorded at the Surrey North-Eastern register office (Ref. 2a 121) during
the third quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Miles. He was the second children of
Alfred and Doris Collett. He was
twenty-one years of age, when the marriage of Alfred L Collett and Doreen
Coombes was recorded at Richmond-upon-Thames register office (Ref. 5d 1835)
during the third quarter of 1965
John E Collett [18S86] was born in 1948, the
youngest child of Alfred Lewis Collett and Doris Muriel Miles, whose birth was
also recorded at the Surrey North-Eastern register office (Ref. 5g 841) during
the first three months of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Miles
Peter John Collett [18S87] was born in 1954 at
Ham, Surrey, the first-born child of George Hammond Collett and Jean Marie
Marshall. The birth of Peter J Collett
was recorded at Surrey Northern register office (Ref. 5g 381) during the second
quarter of 1954, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Marshall. The marriage of Peter
J Collett and Beverley C Tobutt took place at Feltham in Middlesex, during
the latter part of 1976, and was recorded at Hounslow register office (Vol. 13
0776). Beverley’s birth was recorded at
the Surrey North-Western register office (Ref. 5g 785) during the fourth
quarter of 1955, and she presented Peter with two children. The birth of both sons
was recorded at Surrey North register office (Vol. 17 0288) in the third
quarter of 1979, and (Vol. 17 0296) in the second quarter of 1982. On each occasion the mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Tobutt
18T50 – Danny Peter
Collett was born in 1979 at Surrey
18T51 – Billy George
Collett was born in 1982 at Surrey
Christina Jane Collett [18S88] was born in 1955 at
Ham, Surrey, the only daughter of George and Jean Collett. The birth of Christina J Collett was recorded
at Surrey Northern register office (Ref. 5g 410) during the last three months
of 1955, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Marshall. She married Michael F Cooper at Feltham, and their
wedding was recorded at Hounslow register office (Ref. 13 1475) during the
summer of 1974. Michael was born during
the third quarter of 1952, when his birth was recorded at the Middlesex South
register office (Ref. 5f 64)
Paul Graham Collett [18S89] was born in 1959 at
Brentford, Middlesex, another son of George and Jean Collett. The birth of Paul G Collett was recorded at
Ealing register office (Ref. 5e 110) during the fourth quarter of 1959, when
his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Marshall. Paul met Claire Elizabeth Chandler at college
and they married in May 1981 at Bedfont, Middlesex and, like his two older
siblings, his marriage was also recorded at Hounslow register office (Vol. 13
0919). The birth of Claire E Chandler
was recorded at Ealing register office (Ref. 5e 282) during the second quarter
of 1961. They have two children and Paul
is a wildlife conservationist and Head Ranger of a woodland nature reserve in
Surrey. It was also Paul who kindly
provided new details for his family in 2020
18T52 - Andrew Paul
Collett
was born in 1984 at Ashford, Middlesex
18T53 - Laura Claire
Collett
was born in 1987 at Ashford, Middlesex
David George Collett [18S90] was
born in 1962 at Brentford, Middlesex, the last of the four children of George
Hammond Collett and Jean Marie Marshall.
The birth of David G Collett was recorded at Ealing register office
(Ref. 5e 145) during the second quarter of 1962, when his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Marshall. It was during
the summer of 1987 when the marriage of David G Collett and Susan J Baxter was
recorded at Kingston-upon-Thames register office (Vol. 13 2146)
Trevor P
Collett [18S91]
was bornin Surrey on 14th May 1959, the eldest child of William Gordon Collett and Jean Ann
Croft. His birth was recorded at the North Surrey register
office (Ref. 5g 441), when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Croft. Within the next year or so his
family left Surrey and moved north of the River Thames into Middlesex, where
his sister Jane was born, before the family returned to Kingston-upon-Thames
where his two youngest sisters were born.
Trevor was later married in Surrey, perhaps even more than once, since
there are records for three wedding for a Trevor P Collett. The first of them was in the summer of 1982,
when Trevor would have been 23, his marriage to Jacqueline A Richardson
recorded at Surrey Mid-Eastern register office (Vol. 17 0036). The second was under three years after,
during the spring in 1985 at the Surrey North-Western register office (Vol. 17
522), the bride on that day was curiously Jacqueline Osgood, who may even be
the earlier Ms Richardson. The last one
was possibly his second wife, when the marriage of Trevor P Collett and
Catherine L Timney was also recorded at the Surrey North-Western register
office (Vol. 758 0531) during the summer of 1996
Very
interestingly, only one child has been identified, and that was daughter
Abigail Rebecca Collett whose birth was recorded at the Surrey Mid-Eastern
register office (Vol. 17 139) during the final quarter of 1988, when her
mother’s maiden-name was Richardson
18T54 – Abigail Rebecca Collett born in 1988 at Surrey
Jane S
Collett [18S92] was
born in South Middlesex on 21st October 1960, where her birth was
recorded (Ref. 5f 17), when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Croft. She was the second of the four
children of William and Jean Collett. She later married Benjamin I Reuben at
Richmond-upon-Thames, where the event was recorded (Ref. 14 1251) during the
spring of 1984. It was during the month
of May in 1985 that the birth of David Benjamin Reuben was recorded at Kingston-upon-Thames
register office (Vol. 13 1666) when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Collett. It was the same situation three
years later for the birth of the couple’s second son Nathan David Reuben,
with his birth also recorded there (Vol. 13 8123) during the month of January
in 1988. In 2009 Jane was living in
Surrey and kindly provided additional information relating to her family, back
to her grandfather, which enabled this family line to be extended beyond the
early 1900s
Sarah
Jean Collett [18S93]
was born in Surrey on 12th February 1968, another daughter of William and Jean Collett, whose birth was
recorded at Kingston-upon-Thames register office (Ref. 5c 1453), where
her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Croft
Melanie
Clare Collett [18S94]
was the fourth and last child of William
Gordon Collett and Jean Ann Croft. She was born on 10th October 1969 when
her birth was recorded at Kingston-upon-Thames register office (Ref. 5c 2401),
with her mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Croft
Gordon
Alan Collett [18S95] was
born at Isleworth on 22nd June 1965, his birth recorded at Hounslow
register office (Ref. 5c 749), the eldest child of Reginald Alan Collett and
Patricia May Wotherspoon. Gordon is an
accomplished artist with his own website www.muralartist.co.uk.
Later in his life, his partner was Maria Charles, with whom he has two
children. Upon their birth the mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Charles
18T55 - Eleanora
Venus Charles-Collett was born in May 2003 at Ealing, London
18T56 - Monty
Alan Charles-Collett was born in October 2005 at Windsor & Maidenhead
Karen
Patricia Collett [18S96] was born at Richmond-upon-Thames on 27th
September 1967, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 5d 1173) and where her
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Wotherspoon. She was the younger of the two children of
Reginald Alan Collett and Patricia May Wotherspoon. Karen was in her mid-thirties when she
married Timothy J Harland, their wedding recorded at the Castle Point &
Rochford register office in Essex (Vol. 467 134) during the summer of 2002
Jane Elodie Collett [18S99] was born in Kent on 18th
July 1962, with her birth recorded at Dartford register office (Ref. 5b 786),
when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Davis. She was the only child of Peter Robert
Collett and Pamela Elodie Davis. The
later marriage of Jane Elodie Collett and Douglas G Ripley was recorded at the
Kent Gravesend register office in the month of February in 1992. Douglas was born in 1950, his birth also
recorded at Dartford (Ref. 5b 677) during the last three months of that year
Geoffrey
David Collett [18S100] was born at Winnipeg on 30th March 1959, the
first-born child of David Collett and Elizabeth Ann Rooney who were married in
England in 1955. He married Sandra Lynn
on 13th August 1994 at Oakville in Ontario. Sandra was born on 15th July 1961
at Kitchener in Ontario
Ian
Donald Collett [18S101] was born at Winnipeg on 1st November 1961,
another son of David and Elizabeth Ann Collett from England
Gary
Denis Collett [18S102] was born at Winnipeg on 23rd August 1962, a
third son of David and Elizabeth Ann Collett. Sadly, he died in Toronto on 27th
December 1982 aged just 20 years
Diane Gail Collett [18S103]
was
born at Calgary on 4th October 1964, the four and last child, and
only daughter of David Collett and Elizabeth Ann Rooney from England
DAVID
MICHAEL ROBERT COLLETT [18S104] was born at Taplow in Buckinghamshire on 26th
June 1970, his birth recorded at Eton register office (Ref. 6a 2120), when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Parker.
He was the only child of Michael John Collett and Yvonne Dorothy Bernice
Parker
Ricki J Collett [18S105] was born on 3rd
January 1958, the eldest of the three sons of William John Collett and his
first wife June M A Parson. His birth
was recorded at Richmond-upon-Thames register office (Ref. 5g 427), his
mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Parson.
No recorded of a marriage has been positively identity, while it was
during the third quarter of 2003 that he died at the age of 45, his death also
recorded at Richmond-upon-Thames (Vol. 45 41a 76)
Keith D Collett [18S106] was born in 1961, the
second of the three sons of William John Collett by his first wife June M A
Parson. Unlike his older brother (above),
the birth of Keith D Collett was recorded at the Surrey North-Western register
office during the third quarter of the year (Ref. 5g 850), where his mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Parson. He
was in his mid-thirties when he became a married man, the marriage of Keith D
Collett and Heather A Wallace recorded at Fulham register office during September
1997 (Vol. 228 0405). It was also during that same
month that year that the birth of Jack Damien Collett was recorded at the North
Surrey register office (Vol. 7571c NSC3), when the mother’s maiden-name was
Wallace. An earlier register office
record there confirmed that he had been born in June 1997, the original
document (Vol. 7571a NSC2) as gave the mother’s name as Wallace, his birth
obviously re-registered after his parents were married
18T57 –
Jack Damien Collett was born in June 1997 at Surrey
Andrew J Collett [18S107] was born in 1965, the
last son of William and June Collett, whose birth was recorded at the Surrey North-Western
register office (Ref. 5g 296) during the second quarter of the year, when his
mother’s maiden-name was Parson. It was during the spring of 2003
when the marriage of Andrew J Collett and Kim S Collett was recorded at West
Berkshire register office (Vol. 319 0659).
The only Kim S Collett (aka Kim Sharon Collett) logged in the
extensive worldwide Collett database was born in South Africa in 1971 to David Leonard Collett [13R61] and
Robin Welsh, as featured in Part 13 – The Stroud to South Africa & New
Zealand Line
Vonda J Collett [18S108] was born during the
spring of 1944 with her birth recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds register office (Ref.
4a 1769), the eldest daughter of Arthur Ernest Collett and Winifred Hazel
Trudgett, the record of her birth confirming her mother’s maiden-name as
Trudgett. Vonda was 22 when she married David
J Garrod, with their
wedding day recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds register office (Ref. 4b 3241) during
the third quarter of 1966. Their
marriage produced three children, the births of all three also recorded at
Bury-St-Edmunds when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. They were: Tany Joy Garrod who was
born towards the end of 1968 (Ref. 4b 1525); Andrew John Garrod who was
born during the spring of 1970 (Ref. 4b 4405); and Sara Jane Garrod who
was born in the spring of 1974 (Vol. 10 2773)
Monica
Collett [18S109] may have been born near the end of 1946,
when her birth was recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds (Ref. 4b 1828) at the start of
1947, with Trudgett. As the youngest
daughter of Arthur and Winifred Collett, it was eight years after her older sister
Vonda (above), that the wedding of Monica Collett and Peter E Hobson was
recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds register office (Ref. 4b 2486) during the first
three months of 1974. The births of
their two children were also recorded at Bury-St-Edmunds; the first during the
spring of 1978 (Vol. 10 2361) for Jason Mark Hobson, the second during
the first three months of 1981 (Vol. 10 2510) for Gemma Ann Hobson
David
Collett [18S110] was born at Doncaster
on 6th May 1950, the only surviving child of Horace Collett and
Gladys Powis, his birth recorded at Doncaster register office (Ref. 2b 869). He was still living in Doncaster when he died
on 30th August 2006 and was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in the
Cantley district of Doncaster. During
his life, it is possible that he was married on two occasions, the first time
in 1973 when David Collett married (1) Rosemary del Mar
as recorded at Doncaster (Ref. 2b 788) in the second quarter of the year, and
then again in 2000, when the marriage of David Collett and (2) Lesley Webb was
also recorded there (Vol. 042 0215). His three Doncaster born children came from the first
marriage when, in each case, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as de Mar
(Delmar). They were: Simon David Collett
during the third quarter of 1975; Michelle Louise Collett during the fourth
quarter of 1977; and Paul Collett again during the last quarter of 1981
18T58 – Simon David Collett was born in 1975 at Doncaster
18T59 – Michelle Louise Collett was born in 1977 at Doncaster
18T60 - Paul Collett was born in 1981 at Doncaster
Lisa Patricia Collett [18T1] was born in Berkshire during the first three months of
1975, the daughter of Charles Anthony
Sibbald Collett and Linda Susan Griffith-Jones. Her birth was recorded at the Reading &
Wokingham register office (Vol. 19 0462), as was that of her brother (below),
when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Griffith-Jones. The later marriage of Lisa Patricia Collett
and Hadley M Barnes was recorded at Petersfield register office in Hampshire (Vol.
496 0710) during the spring of 2002
Richard Eric Charles
Collett [18T2] was also born in
Berkshire, and his birth was also recorded at the Reading & Wokingham
register office (Vol. 19 681) at the start of 1977. He was the younger of the two children of Charles Anthony Sibbald Collett and
Linda Susan Griffith-Jones
Jessica Rongnye
Collett [18T7]
was born in 1975 at London St Marylebone, the third and last child of Anthony
Michael Collett and Virginia P Powell.
Her birth was recorded at Marylebone register office (Ref. 14
2214). Jessica was twenty-six years old
when she married Robert C Waddington at Winchester in Hampshire, where the
wedding was recorded on 27th September 2001. Jessica’s father was recorded as Michael
Collett of Stoke Charity in Hampshire, with Robert who was born at Cuckfield,
Sussex, in the summer of 1968, being the son of David Waddington of Hadlow Down
in Sussex
Helena A Collett [18T13] was born in 1956,
possible as Basford like her younger siblings, although it was at Nottingham register
office (Ref. 3c 525) during the second quarter of the year where her birth was
recorded. She was the first-born of the
six children of South African born Benjamin James Collett, who was known as
Jimmy, and Cynthia A Wallis. Helena
married late in her life, with her wedding with Bernard O Benfield-Dexter
recorded during the month of May in 1995 at Nottingham register office (Vol.
689 047). However, there was still time
for Helena to add a daughter into the family, when the birth of Anastasia
Grace Benfield-Dexter was recorded at Nottingham register office in July
1997
Jon B Collet [18T14] was born at Basford in
Nottinghamshire, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 3c 53) during the fourth
quarter of 1957, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Wallis. He was the second of the six children of Jimmy
and Cynthia Collett. As Jon B Collett
his marriage to Jane A Frost was also recorded at Basford register office (Vol.
8 0168) in the first months of 1980
Virginia E Collett [18T15] was
born at Basford and her birth was recorded there (Ref. 3c 54) during the second
quarter of 1959, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Wallis. She was another child of Jimmy Collett and
Cynthia Wallis. She was twenty years of
age when the marriage of Virginia E Collett and Ian Frank South was recorded at
Nottingham register office (Vol. 8 0638) at the end of 1979. Ian had been born on 22nd July
1956 in Nottingham, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 3a 392). In the decade after their wedding, Virginia
presented Ian with two children, the births of which were recorded at
Nottingham register office, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Collett. They were Claire Marie South
in July 1985, and Mark Ian South in May 1988. Ian Frank South was only 45 when he died on 5th
October 2001, his death recorded at Nottingham register office (Vol. f71a 57),
following which he was cremated on 23rd October 2001 at Nottingham
Crematorium
Nancy A Collett [18T16] was born at Basford in
1960 where her birth was recorded (Ref. 3c 57) during the third quarter of the
year, another child of Jimmy and Cynthia Collett. She was forty-three years of age when the
marriage of Nancy A Collett and Nicolas Jenkin was recorded at register office
(Vol. 690 073) during October 2003
Joseph C Collett [18T17] was
born at Basford in 1962, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 3c 78) during the
second quarter of 1962, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Wallis. He later married Barbara J,
whose surname may have been either Jordan or Bilous, the event recorded at
Basford register office (Vol. 8 307) in the spring of 1984
James Alexander Collett [18T19] was born at Basford in
1966, the last child of Benjamin James Collett and Cynthia A Wallis. His birth was recorded at Nottingham register
office (Ref. 3c 857) during the second quarter of the year, when his mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Wallis. It is possible that he was
nearly forty years old when he was married. It has not yet been confirmed, but a James A
Collett married Veronica Bowen in the summer of 2005, which was recorded at the
Derbyshire High Peak register office (Vol. 395 2113)
Judith
Elaine Collett [18T28] was born in 1967 at Yarmouth where her birth was recorded
(Ref. 4b 963) during the third quarter of 1967.
She was the second child of Malcolm David Harcourt Collett and Janet
Phyllis Wales. It was during September
1989 at Great Yarmouth register office (Vol. 10 2015) that the marriage of
Judith Elaine Collett and Andrew M J Hall was recorded
Andrew Paul Collett [18T52] was born at Ashford in
Middlesex in 1984, the eldest of the two children of Paul Graham Collett and
Claire Elizabeth Chandler. His birth was
recorded at the Surrey Northern register office (Vol. 17 250) towards the end
of 1984, his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Chandler. Andrew married Aimee Gallant in July 2015 at
Lythe Hill Hotel, Haslemere in Surrey, with their son born during the following
year
18U1 - Benjamin Collett
was born in 2016 at Frimley, Surrey
Laura Claire Collett [18T53] was born in May 1987
at Ashford, Middlesex, the second child of Paul and Claire Collett, after which
her birth was recorded at the Surrey Northern register office (Vol. 17 464),
when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Chandler. Laura later married Bradley Aaron Platt in
May 2015 at Great Fosters, just south of Egham in Surrey