PART TWENTY-THREE

The Newbury and Wiltshire to Australia Line – 1550 to 1995

Updated December 2023

This is the family line of Dorothy Estelle Shepherd (Ref. 23R5) of Geraldton in Western Australia

and Christopher Lloyd whose great great grandfather was Edmund Lloyd (Ref. 23N3)

An earlier update included details of the life of Rose Laura Collett (Ref. 23P24)

who suffered badly at the hands of her Swedish husband Johan Hedlund,

all as provided by her great granddaughter Jenny Stanser

The following statement, taken from Section Two in Part 63 – Two Collett Families from Buckinghamshire, has been re-produced here as Harry (Ref. 23D1) and sons Henry (Ref. 23E1) and Gabriel (Ref. 23E2) are now located here, thanks to the book ‘My Journey into Genealogy’ written in 2016 by the aforementioned Dorothy Estelle Shepherd nee Collett

It has been suggested by Eve McLaughlin, author of the ‘McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians’ and Secretary of Buckinghamshire Genealogical Society that “This branch [Part 63] of the Collett family can be traced back to (Harry) Henry and his wife Elizabeth/Isobel, married and with their first two children Henry and Gabriel born at Newbury in Berkshire prior to 1538. There are four more children born in Newbury. Research, hints and leads, point back further to a John Colet (Will proved 1461) who was married to Alice with whom he had issue”. So far though, no link between Part 63 – Two Collett Families from Buckinghamshire and Part 23 has been found.

23D1	HENRY (HARRY) COLLETT, whose children were born during the decade from the middle of the 1530s up until 1545 and was married to Elizabeth and/or Isobel. This would place his year of birth to be around the first few years of the sixteenth century, while it was during 1552 that he died at Newbury, where it is believed his children were also born.
	23E1		Henry Collett			Born before 1539
	23E2		Gabriel Collett			Born before 1539
	23E3		Richard Collett			Born in 1539; died in 1539
	23E4		Annys Collett			Born in 1540; died in 1546
	23E5		Richard Collett			Born in 1542
	23E6		Robert Collett			Born in 1545; died in 1547
23E1	HENRY COLLETT was most likely the eldest child of Harry (Henry) Collett of Newbury, and probably born there in the middle of the 1530s. It was in Newbury during 1555 that he married Elizabeth, with whom he had nine children. He was a yeoman (a farmer) and later in his life he left Newbury, when he settled in Gloucestershire, the tenant of a property owned by John Winchcombe who was also a beneficiary in his Will. While in Gloucestershire, Henry formed a relationship with the Whyte and Blisset families. It was around the time Henry was born at Newbury, that Thomas Collett of Upper Slaughter in Gloucestershire passed away there. His father William (Ref. 1C1) was also born there, and he was the grandson of Thomas Collett (Ref. 18Z2), the Rector of Little Kimble in Buckinghamshire.
	23F1		Gideon Collett			Born in 1557 – settled in Reading
	23F2		John Collett			Born in 1559; died 1563
	23F3		Henry Collett			Born in 1560 at Newbury, Berkshire
	23F4		William Collett			Born in 1561 at Newbury, Berkshire
	23F5		Alice Collett			Born in 1563 at Newbury, Berkshire
	23F6		Agnes Collett			Born in 1564 at Newbury, Berkshire
	23F7		Johane Collett			Born in 1566 at Newbury, Berkshire
	23F8		John Collett			Born in 1569 at Newbury; died 1569
	23F9		Thomas Collett			Born in 1570 at Newbury, Berkshire
23E5	Richard Collett was born in 1542 and, upon becoming a married man, he and his wife gave birth to eight children. It was later in his life, that Richard and two of his sons relocated to Gloucestershire at the same time that Richard’s eldest brother Henry (above) settled in that county.
23F3	Henry Collett was born at Newbury in 1560 and he married Mary Sheppard of Kingsbury in the London Borough of Brent. At the time of their marriage in 1582, Henry was referred to as a yeoman of Edgware in Middlesex. Their marriage produced eight children before Henry died in 1614.
23F4	WILLIAM COLLETT was born at Newbury in later 1560 or early in 1561, and he married Elizabeth and was a yeoman farmer at the hamlet of Badbury near Swindon in Wiltshire. He received property by deed of assign from John Curtis/Forster. William later passed property to his son Henry and then, by deeds, passed further land to his son Samuel. William Collett died in 1603 at Badbury and his Will was proved in 1604, in which he bequeathed Fotherbell Farm shed and two lynd to his wife Elizabeth. There is speculation that William also had a son of the same name, it being the custom to carry the father’s name forward. If so, then he may have been the William Collett, say Ref. 23G3, whose wife was Jane and their daughter Mary (Marie) Collett was baptised at Chirton on 24^th February 1607, who later married John Muspratt at Urchfont on 28^th November 1628.
	Certainly there is the record at Urchfont of the marriage of William Collett and Jane on 2^nd May 1603. That is followed by the baptisms there of John Collett on 2^nd January 1604, James Collett on 24^th May 1606, William Collett on 30^th December 1607, and Agnes Collett on 24^th February 1609. The above Mary (Marie) would fit comfortably within this family. On 23^rd April 1644 Jane Collett was buried at Urchfont, where husband William had been buried seventeen years earlier on 29^th August 1626. Between those two dates, their daughter Agnes had been buried there on 28^th May 1640.
	23G1		HENRY COLLETT			Born in 1581 at Badbury, Wiltshire
	23G2		Samuel Collett			Born in 1583 at Badbury, Wiltshire
	23G3		William Collett – not proved			Born in 1585 at Badbury, Wiltshire
23F9	Thomas Collett was born at Newbury in 1570 and he was a surgeon of Newtown in Hampshire. Following his death in 1612, he was buried at Newbury and his Will was proved in 1613, the document confirming that he never married.
23G1	HENRY COLLETT was born at Badbury around 1580 or 1581, the eldest son of William and Elizabeth Collett and, like his father, he was also a yeoman farmer of Badbury, working land given to him by his father. He married Bridget around 1603, with whom he had five children who were baptised at the parish church in Chiseldon. Upon the death of his father in 1603, Henry received deeded property at Strongboy Farm (or Manor), plus Rothermaide in nearby Chiseldon, and all woods, etc. It was during 1662 that both Henry and his wife passed away in their old age when they were still residing in Chiseldon. Bridget Collett was buried at Chiseldon on 24^th January 1662, where she was reunited with Henry Collett who was buried there on 12^th March 1662.
	23H1		Robert Collett			Born in 1604 at Badbury, Wiltshire
	23H2		Agnes Collett			Baptised in 1605 at Chiseldon, Wilts.
	23H3		Margaret Collett			Baptised in 1606 at Chiseldon, Wilts.
	23H4		a daughter			Baptised in 1606 at Chiseldon, Wilts.
	23H5		WILLIAM COLLETT			Baptised in 1607 at Chiseldon, Wilts.
23G2	Samuel Collett was born at Badbury, in the parish of Chiseldon near Swindon, around 1583 the youngest son of William and Elizabeth Collett, his father yet another yeoman farmer of Badbury. Following the death of his father in 1603, Samuel inherited Westroppe House and a close of two acres, a close of three acres, and Northmead and a close of two acres with others. These properties were later assigned to his nephew William Collett (Ref. 23H5), most likely following his death during December 1639. This very likely indicates that Samuel never married.
23H1	Robert Collett was born at Badbury in 1604, the eldest son of yeoman farmer Henry and Bridget Collett of Badbury. Like his father before him, Robert was also a yeoman farmer and died in 1672, but without making a Will, as a result of which his estate was subject to administration. It would appear that he may have been married three times, with the first occasion being prior to 1628. It was on 8^th June 1628 that the marriage of Robert Collett and the slightly older (2) Alice Myles took place at Urchfont/Wedhampton, near Devizes. The marriage register confirmed that Robert was a widower and a yeoman from Wedhampton, with Alice being a spinster from Stanton St Bernard (just north of Wedhampton and Urchfont), who was 30 years of age. The two bondsmen were Thomas Powell from Stanton St Bernard and John Gilbert Wyatt from Market Lavington, who was a tailor. Whether they had any children is not yet known.
	He later married (3) Joan Muspratt at Urchfont on 3^rd August 1640, with whom he had seven children, the baptism of those children confirmed the name of their father as Robert. The village of Chirton, where the couple’s first two children were baptised, lies less than two miles to the east of Urchfont, where the remaining children were baptised. Robert Collett was also referred to as ‘of Wedhampton’ on the baptism of his children, Wedhampton being midway between Chirton and Urchfont. This may be an indication that Robert and Joan resided at Wedhampton, where all of their children were born. Upon his death in 1662, he was buried at Urchfont on 17^th September 1662 when, once again, he was recorded as Robert Collett of Wedhampton.
	Interesting Note: Another marriage at Urchfont in 1628, was that of John Muspratt and Mary Collett on 28^th November 1628. John was 25 and a tailor from Urchfont and Mary was 19 and a spinster from Chirton, when the two bondsmen were William Crook from Urchfont and Matthew Sempe from Hankerton. A certain Marie (Mary) Collett, the daughter of William Collett was baptised at Chirton on 24^th February 1607, William’s wife believed to be Jane. There is a possibility that Mary was the granddaughter of William Collett (Ref. 23F4), through an eldest son, most likely given his father’s forename, but about whom nothing is currently known.
	23I1		Henry Collett			Born in 1641 at Chirton
	23I2		Robert Collett			Born in 1643 at Wedhampton
	23I3		James Collett			Born in 1645 at Wedhampton
	23I4		Grace Ann Collett			Born in 1649 at Wedhampton
	23I5		Edmund Collett			Born in 1651 at Wedhampton
	23I6		Mary Collett			Born in 1653 at Wedhampton
	23I7		Hester Collett			Born in 1655 at Wedhampton
23H2	Agnes Collett, who was born at Badbury and baptised at Chiseldon during 1605, married William Shergoll at Chirton on 9^th April 1627. It may be of interest that, on 4^th November 1672 at Urchfont, an Edith Shergoll married Robert Collett (Ref. 23I1a). Theirs was a tragic family, insofar that, when their daughter was born, Edith did not survive. On the same day her daughter was baptised at Urchfont, Edith was being buried there on 6^th March 1675. Mary Collett (Ref. 23J1a) was confirmed as the daughter of Robert Collett, and Edith Collett was described as the wife of Robert Collett of Wedhampton. Just over three months after losing his wife, Robert Collett of Wedhampton died and was buried with his wife at Urchfont on 19^th June 1675. There is a possibility that Robert Collett was the son of Robert Collett (above) who could have been born around 1643 or 1647, the only two four-year gaps between his other children.
23H3	Margaret Collett was born at Badbury and was baptised at Chiseldon on 22^nd January 1606, the third known child of Henry and Bridget Collett. Margaret was around twenty years of age when she married Thomas Jerratt at Urchfont on 2^nd February 1626.
23H4	The fourth child of Henry and Bridget Collett was a daughter who was born at Badbury and baptised at Chiseldon in 1606, perhaps on the same day as her sister Margaret (above). All that is known about her is that she married Henry Monday, with whom she had three children.
23H5	WILLIAM COLLETT was born at Badbury and was baptised at Chiseldon on 24^th January 1607 and, just like his father Henry, William was also a yeoman farmer of Badbury. Much later in his life he married Mary Komm at the parish church in Chiseldon in 1650, by whom he had five children and died shortly after the birth of their last child in 1660, having not made a Will. Mary was the daughter of Robert Komm of Chirton near Devizes. Mary’s maiden name may have been Combe, Komm being a mistranslation or misinterpretation of the name, there being many people named Combe in Wiltshire around that time.
	William Collett of Chiseldon died there and was buried there on 19^th April 1660, when his youngest child was still under one year old. He was survived by his much younger wife, who was also buried at Chiseldon following her passing during the month of August in 1719, when she was described as a widow.
	23I8		WILLIAM COLLETT			Born in 1651 at Chiseldon
	23I9		Henry Collett			Born in 1654 at Chiseldon
	23I10		Richard Collett			Born in 1656 at Chiseldon
	23I11		Robert Collett			Born in 1657 at Chiseldon
	23I12		John Collett			Born in 1659 at Chiseldon
23I1	Henry Collett may have been born at Chirton or Badbury and was the eldest child of yeoman farmer Robert Collett and his wife Joan Muspratt, who were married at Urchfont in 1640. His father was described as being of Wedhampton, between Urchfont and Chirton in the Devizes area of Wiltshire, on the occasion of the baptisms of Henry’s younger siblings. Henry was also a farmer and may have inherited land at Badbury from his father, following his death in 1672, since he was known as Henry Collett, yeoman of Badbury.
	23J1		Robert Collett			Born circa 1661
23I2	James Collett was born at Wedhampton in 1645 and was baptised at nearby Chirton on 8^th September 1645, when his father was confirmed as Robert Collett of Wedhampton. It was on 14^th March 1661, when he was 15 years old, that James Collett was buried at Urchfont.
23I3	Grace Ann Collett was born at Wedhampton, either in late 1646, or early in 1647, and was baptised at Urchfont on 27^th January 1647, the eldest daughter of Robert Collett. Tragically, she was only seven years of age when she was buried at Urchfont on 1^st September 1654, the daughter of Robert Collett of Wedhampton.
23I4	Edmund Collett was born at Wedhampton in 1651, and was baptised at Urchfont on 12^th June 1651, another son of Robert Collett. It is now confirmed that Edmund Collett of Wedhampton married Marie Purnell, also of Wedhampton, at Urchfont on 28^th May 1677. Their two children were born at Wedhampton, the eldest baptised at Urchfont, where the younger one was later married. Edmund was still living in Wedhampton when he died in 1723, following which he was buried at Urchfont on 22^nd April.
	23J2		Hester Collett			Born in 1677 at Wedhampton, Wilts.
	23J3		Marie Collett			Born in 1678 at Wedhampton, Wilts.
23I5	Mary Collett was born at Wedhampton in 1653, and was baptised at Urchfont on 26^th March 1653, the second daughter of Robert Collett. The Urchfont/Wedhampton marriage register stated that Mary Collett was a spinster of 26, when she married cordwainer Richard Few, a widower of Urchfont, on 22^nd March 1680. The first bondsman was Walter Few, a yeoman of Urchfont, and the second bondsman was inn keeper Edward Hulett from Salisbury. Curiously, the parish register at Urchfont records the marriage of Marie Collett of Wedhampton and Richard Few of Wedhampton took place there on 3^rd April 1681.
23I6	Hester Collett was born at Wedhampton in 1655 and it was at Urchfont where she was baptised on 4^th December 1655, the last known child of Robert Collett and Joan Muspratt. Hester was only six years old when her father died in 1662.
23I7	WILLIAM COLLETT was born during 1651 and was the first-born child of William Collett, a yeoman of Badbury, and his wife Mary Komm, who were married in 1650. Unlike his younger brothers (below), who were baptised at Chiseldon in Wiltshire, no such record there has been found for William. He later married Mary at St Ann’s Church in Westminster during 1675, Mary having been born in 1653. William junior was a tallow merchant and the first two of their five known children were baptised at St Martin-in-the-Field in Westminster, while two were baptised at St Anne Soho in Westminster. The chandlery that William Collett owned was suspiciously burned down for a second time in 1700 during property inheritance disputes amongst the male members of the family at that time.
	William died in 1714, while Mary had passed away one year earlier in 1713. The family was known to have a connection with the church of St Giles-in-the-Fields in London, where their son Richard was baptised. William Collett was referred to in Peter G Laurie’s memoirs “Our Collett Ancestors” which was published in 1898. In this he was described as being ‘William Collett of the Great House born 1651 and died 1714’. The Great House referred to was in Hog Street in St Giles-in-the-Fields.
	At a later time, Hog Street was renamed Crown Street and today is Charing Cross Road. At one end of Hog Street there was a pond and that area became Tottenham Court Road and Tyburn Road which today is Oxford Street. Nothing of the house remains today.
	23J4		Mary Collett			Born in 1682 at Westminster, London
	23J5		Martha Collett			Born in 1683 at Westminster, London
	23J6		Mary Collett			Born in 1685 at Westminster, London
	23J7		William Collett			Born in 1687 at Westminster, London
	23J8		RICHARD COLLETT			Born in 1690 at Westminster, London
	23J9		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1693 at Westminster, London
23I8	Henry Collett was born at Chiseldon in 1654, where he was baptised on 6^th January 1655, the second son of William and Mary Collett.
23I9	Richard Collett was born at Chiseldon and was baptised there on 1^st November 1656, the third son of William and Mary Collett. Later in his life he was a citizen and vintner of London and married (1) Arrabella, with whom he had two daughters who were baptised at St Margaret in Westminster. It seems likely Arrabella died during, or just after, the birth of a third child, who also did not survive. Richard later married (2) Elizabeth Hern in 1687 who presented her husband with six children, of which only two of them survived to reach adulthood, according to the Quaker records. Richard Collett died on 27^th June 1721 of dropsy, and he left a Will which was proved on 7^th September 1721, in which property at Badbury was passed on, although the ownership and entitlement were disputed. In his Will he was referred to him as ‘Richard Collett, vintner of London’.
	23J10		Susanna Collett			Born in 1682, at Westminster, London
	23J11		Mary Collett			Born in 1684, at Westminster, London
	The following are the children of Richard Collett and his second wife Elizabeth Hern:
	23J12		a still born child			Born in 1688, in London
	23J13		Mordecai Collett			Born in 1689; died in 1689
	23J14		William Collett			Born in 1691; died in 1714
	23J15		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1693, in London
	23J16		Jeremiah Collett			Born in 1695; died in 1698
	23J17		Thomas Collett			Born in 1696; died in 1697
23I10	Robert Collett was born at Chiseldon towards the end of 1657, and it was also there that he was baptised on 8^th February 1658, another son of William and Mary Collett. Although no record of his death was recorded in the parish register at Chiseldon, it is understood that he died there during 1661, but that be a mix-up with his older brother Henry who did die there that year.
23I11	John Collett was born at Chiseldon, where he was baptised on 6^th August 1659, the last child of William Collett and Mary Komm. Tragically, nine months later, his father died at Chiseldon, and was followed year later by John’s older brother Henry (above), but of them buried at Chiseldon.
23J1	Robert Collett was born around 1661 and, at the age of seven years, he was placed in the care of his uncle Richard Collett in December 1668. He later married Ada Freeman in 1706.
23J2	Hester Collett was born at Wedhampton, around seven months after her parents were married at the end of May in 1677. Hester was baptised at Urchfont on 15^th December 1677, the first-born child of Edmund Collett and Marie Purnell, both of Wedhampton. Hester was 26 when she married John Alexander at Urchfont on 9^th October 1703.
23J3	Mary Collett was born at Wedhampton around 1679, another daughter of Edmund Collett and Marie Purnell of Wedhampton. On being baptised at Urchfont on 17^th September 1681, Mary Collett was confirmed as the daughter of Edmund Collett of Wedhampton. It was as Marie Collett, of Urchfont, aged 24 years of age and a spinster, that she married John Lyddiard at Urchfont on 16^th October 1701. John was a bachelor and a yeoman of Urchfont, while the two bondsmen were William Gilbert, a yeoman of Urchfont, and Theo Dyer, a gentleman of Salisbury Close.
23J4	Mary Collett was born at Westminster on 4^th September 1682 and was baptised that same day at the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, where her parents were recorded as William and Mary Collett. The reason for her very quick baptism, after her birth, may have been because she was unwell because, shortly thereafter she died early in 1683.
23J5	Martha Collett was born in Westminster on 19^th October 1683 and was baptised at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 24^th October 1683, as the daughter of William and Mary Collett. Martha married (1) John Pinke (Pinck) at the Church of St Mary Le Strand in 1704. John was a tallow chandler and was some years older than Martha and, as such, he took on Martha’s younger brother Richard (below) as his apprentice. Later, as Martha Pink, she married (2) Richard Pane on 19^th February 1728 at Lincoln’s Inn Chapel in Holborn, London. That marriage, unlike the first, about which nothing is known, produced a daughter for Martha and Richard, Elizabeth Pain (sic) who was baptised at Boxley in Kent on 21^st December 1729.
23J6	Mary Collett was born at Westminster on 23^rd December 1685 and was baptised at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 1^st January 1686, the baptism record confirming that she was another daughter of William and Mary Collett.
23J7	William Collett was born in Westminster in 1687 and was baptised at St Anne’s Church in Soho, Westminster on 9^th January 1687, the fourth child and eldest son of William and Mary Collett.
23J8	RICHARD COLLETT was born at Westminster, in London, around 1690 and was baptised that year at St Giles-in-the-Fields in London, which confirmed he was the son of William and Mary Collett. After serving an apprentice with his brother-in-law John Pinke, the husband of his sister Martha (above), Richard also became a tallow chandler. It was during 1717 that he married Elizabeth Cobb, the daughter of John Cobb, deceased, and his widow Sarah. Elizabeth was the beneficiary of property and goods, as bequeathed by Elizabeth Collett nee Hern, the second wife of Richard’s uncle and namesake, Richard Collett (Ref. 23I9). The marriage of Richard and Elizabeth Cobb produced the six children listed below. Richard Collett died during the month of July in 1748, and he was followed twenty-six years after by his wife Elizabeth Collett nee Cobb, in 1774.
	23K1		RICHARD COBB COLLETT			Born in 1718 in London
	23K2		John Collett			Born in 1719 in London
	23K3		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1721 in London
	23K4		Samuel Collett			Born in 1725 in London
	23K5		Sarah Collett			Born in 1727 in London
	23K6		Peter Collett			Born in 1734 in London
23J9	Elizabeth Collett was born at Westminster, in London, during 1693 and was baptised at the Church of St Anne in Soho on 10^th May 1693 when her parents were recorded as being William and Mary Collett.
23J10	Susanna Collett was born in London on 29^th October 1682 and was baptised at St Margaret in Westminster on 3^rd November 1682, the record confirming she was the daughter of Richard and Arrabella Collett. In 1703 she married James Norton a citizen and dyer of London. The couple never had any children and Susanna died after her father had died in 1721 since she was referred to in his Will.
23J11	Mary Collett was born in London 1684 and was baptised at St Margaret in Westminster on 3^rd April 1684. The baptism the record listed her parents as Richard and Isabella Collett rather than Richard and Arrabella. Mary was around three years old when she died in 1687.
23J15	Elizabeth Collett was born in London during 1693. She married in 1721 (1) John Green a wine cooper from London and (2) Thomas Greenhill of Bath in 1735. Thomas died in 1666 and his Will was proved in 1668. Neither of the marriages produced any children and Elizabeth died in 1768. In her Will she left property to her cousin Elizabeth Collett nee Cobb, the widow of Richard Collett the elder (above).
23K1	RICHARD COBB COLLETT was born in London in 1718 and was the eldest son of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Cobb. He was an attorney at law in London who married (1) Mary Harrison around 1750 who, it would seem, died during the birth of their only child. Richard then married (2) Mary Wilkinson in 1754, who presented him with two more sons. Richard Cobb Collett died during February 1788 and his Will was proved on 29^th March 1788. In the Will he was referred to as ‘Richard Collett, Gentleman of St Luke’s Chelsea’.
	23L1		RICHARD COBB COLLETT			Born in 1752 in London
	The following are the two children of Richard Cobb Collett by his second wife Mary Wilkinson:
	23L2		George Collett			Born in 1757 in London
	23L3		Dennett Montague Cobb Collett			Born in 1759 in London
23K2	John Collett was born in London in 1719 and was the son of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Cobb. The ship ‘Doddington’ in which he was travelling was wrecked on rocks near Bird Island off Port Elizabeth on the South Africa coast on 17^th July 1755. The ship and its cargo of gold owned by the merchant adventurer Robert Clive of the East India Company was lost and was subject to salvage recovery in 1977. By that time in 1755 John was a married man, and tragically it was also on the Doddington that John’s wife was that fatefully day when she was swept overboard out of the arms of her husband and into the swirling sea. John and twenty-two others managed to swim to Bird Rock where later his wife’s body was washed ashore and was buried. John eventually survived the ordeal but later died of the fever. The full story of Robinson Crusoe Collett as written by Peter George Laurie (Ref. 23O24) the great great grandson of John’s brother Richard Cobb Collett (above) was serialised over a number of months in the Monthly Collett Newsletter.
23K3	Elizabeth Collett was born in London in 1721 and was baptised at St James’ Church in Clerkenwell on 2^nd July 1721, the baptism record confirming she was the daughter of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Cobb. Tragically she suffered an infant death.
23K4	Samuel Collett was born in London, either towards the end of 1724 or early in 1725, following which she was baptised at St Andrew’s Church in Holborn on 26^th February 1725, another daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Collett.
23K5	Sarah Collett was born in London in 1727, the daughter of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Cobb. It is also known that she married Joseph Lowe, a jeweller of Holborn in London, and that she died on 15^th August 1773.
23K6	Peter Collett was born in London on 27^th October 1734 and was baptised at St Olave’s Church, Old Jewry in the City of London on 25^th November 1734. He was the youngest son of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Cobb. St Olave’s Church was dedicated to the patron saint of Norway, while Old Jewry was a precinct of medieval London populated by Jew until their expulsion from England in 1290. The original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 but was rebuilt in 1679 by the office of Sir Christopher Wren.
	Peter Collett attended St John’s College at Oxford where he matriculated on 17^th August 1751 at the age of 16. The university records confirm that he was the son of Richard Collett of London. Peter obtained his Bachelor of Arts at Oxford on 2^nd March 1756 and four years later he took up the role of curate of the parish church at Rye in Sussex, a position he held for thirty years.
	Shortly after securing that appointment Peter married (1) Margaret Bourne who was born in 1734 but who died at Rye in Sussex on 6^th May 1770 at the age of 36. Prior to her death Margaret presented Peter with five children, three of which died while still in their infancy although the name of the third child is not known at this time. Following the death of his first wife, Peter then married (2) Elizabeth Woodhams who was eleven years younger than Peter having been born in 1746. That marriage produced another five children for Peter all of whom survived.
	During his life, and in addition to being the Reverend Peter Collett, he was also the Rector of Denton. Peter died at Rye on 14^th September 1790 where he was also buried and was survived by his second wife Elizabeth for a further fifty years after his death. Elizabeth lived to be 95 and died on 11^th February 1841 and was also buried at Rye. A white marble plaque on the wall inside Rye Parish Church reads as follows:
	“Sacred to the memory of Mrs Margaret Collett wife of the Reverend Peter Collett who died the 6^th of May 1770 aged 36 years. Also of the above-named Rev. Peter Collett Rector of Denton in this county and curate of this parish thirty years who died the 14^th of September 1790 aged 55 years. And of three children who died in their infancy. Also of Elizabeth relict of the above named who died the 11^th of February 1841 aged 95 years”
	23L4		Margaret Collett			Born in 1763
	23L5		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1765
	23L6		Peter Collett			Born in 1767; infant death
	23L7		Jacky Collett			Born in 1769; infant death
	23L8		Sarah Collett			Born in 1775
	23L9		Richard Collett			Born in 1777
	23L10		Anne Collett			Born in 1779
	23L11		Mary Ann Collett			Born in 1781
	23L12		Thomas Collett			Born in 1784
23L1	RICHARD COBB COLLETT was born in London on 28^th February 1752 and was baptised at St Martin Orgar & St Clement Eastcheap in London on 23^rd March 1752, the baptism record confirming his parents as Richard Cobb Collett and his first wife Mary. Richard married Ann Parker on 18^th May 1773 at St Bartholomew the Great in London. He eventually became an attorney and later established the law firm of Collett, Wimburn & Collett at Chancery Lane in London with Rowland Wimburn who were joined by Richard’s son Kenrick in 1797. Ten years later in 1807 Richard was appointed to the office of “One of the Four Sworn Attorneys of the Court of Exchequer of Pleas” a title that was taken up by his son Kenrick between 1824 and 1826, prior to Richard’s death in 1827. On 23^rd May 1821 the address for Collett, Wimburn & Collett was stated as being 62 Chancery Lane.
	The Will of Richard Cobb Collett was proved on 10^th March 1827. In the Will he was referred to as simply ‘Richard Collett, gentleman of Turnham Green in Middlesex’. There was a reference to the christian name Cobb which, it was stated, was not generally used by Richard. In addition to all of the above, Richard Cobb Collett was coroner for the County of Middlesex and was referred to at the time of the death of his son Kenrick Collett in 1841 as “formerly of Chancery Lane and Acton and late of Turnham Green”. It was ten years earlier on 1^st February 1831 that Richard’s wife Ann Collett nee Parker died at Turnham Green.
	The following are some of the notices relating to the work undertaken by the company of Collett, Wimburn & Collett:
	Sale Notice in The Times on 25^th February 1800 – of freehold land at Plaistow Marsh, Poplar and Whitechapel. By Messrs Collett, Wimburn & Collett Solicitors of Chancery Lane. Notice in The Times on Tuesday 15^th December 1818 – all persons indebted to Messrs Hasting & White of Haymarket, chemists and druggists, previous to the 20^th July 1816 (the day Mr Hastings died) are requested to pay the same forthwith to his surviving partner Mr White now carrying on the same business there, in partnership with his widow, under the firm of Hastings & White, in order to enable the Executors of Mr Hastings to settle the accounts of their partnership. Collett, Wimburn & Collett of Chancery Lane in London, Solicitors to the Executors. Notice in the London Gazette on 6^th July 1819 and published in The Times the following day - Collett, Wimburn & Collett of Chancery Lane in London represented bankrupt R Miller grocer of Taunton at The Globe Tavern in Exeter on 22^nd 23^rd July and 17^th August. Notice in the London Gazette on 16^th November 1819 and published in The Times the following day - Collett, Wimburn & Collett of Chancery Lane in London represented bankrupt T Harris inn keeper of Evesham at The Bell Inn, Evesham on 7^th, 8^th and 28^th December. Sale Notice in The Times on 19^th June 1820 – desirable freehold mansion in Kenilworth. Notice in the London Gazette on 2^nd December 1820 and published in The Times two days later - Collett, Wimburn & Collett of Chancery Lane in London represented bankrupt J Allen inn keeper of Warwick at The King’s Head Inn, Warwick on 7^th, 8^th December and 13^th January.
	23M1		KENRICK COLLETT			Born in 1775 at Holborn, London
	23M2		Clayton Collett			Born in 1776 at Holborn, London
	23M3		Richard Collett			Born in 1778 at Holborn, London
	23M4		Mary Ann Collett			Born in 1780; died 1784 at Holborn
	23M5		Robert Collett			Born in 1782 at Holborn, London
23L3	Dennett Montague Cobb Collett was born in London during 1759 and was baptised at the Church of St Andrew in Holborn on 25^th November 1759, the son of Richard Cobb Collett and his second wife Mary Wilkinson.
23L4	Margaret Collett was born in 1763, the daughter of Peter Collett and Margaret Bourne. Around 1780 she married John Shoppee the son of J Shoppee and brother of Charles Shoppee who married Margaret’s sister Elizabeth (below).
23L5	Elizabeth Collett was born in 1765 and she married Charles Shoppee the son of J Shoppee and the brother of John Shoppee who married Elizabeth’s sister Margaret Collett (above).
	It may be significant that in Australia there were many people with the Shoppee surname that had Collett as part of their name. They include: Clarence Collett Shoppee (born 2^nd April 1902); John Stephen Collett Shoppee (born 27^th March 1904); Walter Henry Collett Shoppee (born 26^th January 1914); Charles Tilley Collett Shoppee (an aircraft-man in WWII); all of whom were involved in WWII. In addition to these there was the celebrated Dame Marjorie Alice Collett Parker OBE, formerly Marjorie Alice Collett Shoppee, the daughter of W Shoppee, who was born at Ballarat and who died on 18^th February 1991, who had married Max Parker on 12^th June 1926.
23L8	Sarah Collett was born in 1775 and was the daughter of Peter Collett and Elizabeth Woodhams. She never married, just like her two younger sisters Anne and Mary (below).
23L9	Richard Collett was born in 1777 and was the son of Peter Collett and Elizabeth Woodhams. It is known that he was an assistant surgeon with the 2^nd Bombay Native Infantry and died on 25^th June 1802 at Cannamore, probably as a direct result of the fighting which came to an end that year.
23L10	Anne Collett was born in 1779 and was the daughter of Peter Collett and Elizabeth Woodhams. She never married and lived at Primley Hill in Paignton in Devon. She died on 19^th November 1854 and was buried at Bromley in Kent. In her Will, which was proved on 28^th December 1854, she was referred to as ‘Anne Collett, spinster of Bromley in Kent’.
23L11	Mary Ann Collett was born in 1781, the daughter of Peter Collett and Elizabeth Woodhams. She attended Bromley College and died at Bromley in Kent in May 1849.
23L12	Thomas Collett was born in 1784 and he married Sarah Ireland with whom he had two daughters. He died in 1858.
23M1	KENRICK COLLETT was born in London on 1^st January 1775 and was baptised at St Andrews Church in Holborn on 27^th January 1775, the son of Richard Cobb Collett (the younger) and his wife Anne. He was named after Sir Kenrick Clayton, Baronet of Marden Park in Surrey to whose family his father Richard had acted for many years as confidential adviser and trustee. Kenrick served an apprenticeship with Rowland Wimburn and, in 1797, he joined his father’s firm of Collett, Wimburn & Collett at Chancery Lane in London. Five years later, on the 7^th December 1802 at St Andrews Church in Holborn, he married Mary Anne Webb, the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Webb of Hanwell, who was born on 12^th March 1785.
	Kenrick and his wife lived with the Lloyd family in Harley Street (see other references to the Lloyd family at 23N2, 23N3, 23O3, 23O6 and 23O7) but frequently spent the winter months at Chancery Lane owing to the transportation difficulties during severe bouts of weather. All of their children received their early education at Burlington House, a well-known seminary in Fulham run by the Reverend Robert Roy.
	In 1807 Kenrick, who was an attorney like his father, was promoted to the office of “One of the Four Official Clerks”. From 1824 to 1826 he took over the office of “One of the Four Sworn Attorneys of the Court of Exchequer of Pleas” previously held by his father from 1807. Upon the death of his father in 1827 Kenrick continued his work at Collett, Wimburn & Collett although the company named went through many changes over the following years. On 16^th October 1830 it was trading as Wimburn, Collett & Collett, with presumably Kenrick’s eldest son and namesake joining the company. Then on 8^th June the following year the name was changed again to Wimburn, Collett & Dyson after Kenrick William Collett left the firm to pursue a separate career.
	Two years later in 1833 Kenrick became “Master of the Court of the Exchequer” a post he held up to his death, while two years later the company name was shortened to Wimburn & Collett. He died on 25^th February 1841 at 57 Harley Street and was buried in the family grave at Paddington on 4^th March 1841. It was also around that time that Kenrick’s two sons Henry and Charles took over the law firm, with Mr Charles Collett of Wimburn & Collett being named in The Times on 21^st August 1841 in an article relating to the Summer Assizes at Croydon.
	The Will of Kenrick Collett was made in 1833 and named his two sons Henry Parker and Charles Mynors as trustees, the whole of his estate being left to his wife who, within a year of his death, was remarried (see below). Surprisingly perhaps, not one of his children was named in, or benefited from, his Will. At the time of the married of his youngest daughter Elizabeth Collett in 1834, Kenrick was described as “of Harley Street and Holcrofts in Fulham”, the latter being the home of Samuel Webb, Kenrick’s father-in-law.
	In 1838 Kenrick Collett owned the following properties and was therefore entitled to vote at each of these locations: 44 Mansell Street; 12-14 Chamber Street; the Red Lion Public House all in the parish of St. Mary Whitechapel; Red Lion Stable Yard and shop; two houses adjoining in Castle Street Leicester Square; one house in Hemming Row and four houses in Princes Court, Whitcomb Street in the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Other properties in his ownership were:
	The Three Tuns* Public House and other houses occupied by Sibley and Jennings in the parish of St. Mary Abbotts Kensington; ten houses from 6 to 28 Rose & Crown Court, numbers 3, 4, 5, 15 and 16 Daggett’s Court, and 1-2 Daggett’s Court Passage at Moorfields in the parish of St. Leonards, Shoreditch. He also owned property in Church Passage in the parish of St. Lawrence Jewry; 20-21 New Street in the parish of St. Bartholomew the Great; and 2 Ten Court in the parish of St. Gabriel, Fenchurch.
	On 1^st February 1842, less than twelve months after Kenrick’s death, his widow Mary Ann Collett nee Webb, aged 57, married the Reverend Martin John Lloyd of Depden in Suffolk at Holy Trinity Church in Sloane Street, Belgravia in London. The marriage shocked the family as Martin was at least twenty years younger than Mary Ann and was in fact the brother-in-law of Mary Ann’s own daughter Mary Ann Collett (below) who married Edmund Lloyd.
	The Rev. Martin John Lloyd was the son of Edmund Lloyd and Bridget Eyre and was born on 20^th May 1805 and was baptised at St Marylebone Church in London by the Reverend David Evans. In 1832 Martin was considering marrying Sarah Loretta Timperon but her father would not agree, as Martin, at that time, had no means by which to support her in the manner to which she was accustomed. However, his personal situation improved over the following years, first in 1834 when he achieved an MA at Cambridge and became a priest at Worcester. Around that time, he began writing to the Duke of Richmond using his then home address of Cavendish Square in Marylebone.
	Two years later in 1836 the Duke, who was present at Quebec Chapel in London for one of Martin’s services, was impressed enough to offer him the Rectory at Depden and 30 acres of glebe land, together with an annual salary of £5,000. Depden lies midway between Haverhill and Bury St Edmunds. His new-found wealth resulted in consent being given by Joseph Timperon for Martin to marry his daughter, and to be told that he would provide her with a dowry of £10,000 on their wedding day and a further £10,000 on his death.
	Martin and Sarah were subsequently married on 18^th May 1836 at St Peter’s Church in St Albans, the event being reported in The Times on 20^th May as follows: the Rev. Martin John Lloyd of St. John’s College, Cambridge, Domestic Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Richmond and Rector of Depden, Suffolk to Sarah Loretta, eldest daughter of Joseph Timperon of New Barnes House, Herts.
	It will be of particular interest to Collett researchers that on 8^th November 1806 at St Marylebone, Sarah Timperon’s father Joseph of Harley Street married Anne Kyte the daughter of the late Reverend Doctor Kyte.
	Exactly two years after Martin and Sarah were married Sarah died on 3^rd May 1838 at Horringer near Bury St Edmunds only a few days after giving birth to a still born son who would have been the couple’s first child. A memorial plaque on the church wall at St Mary’s in Depden, where she was buried, commemorates her passing in her thirtieth year. Martin could not bear to live in the same house after Sarah’s death, so he dismissed all of the staff and moved into another house owned by the Duke of Richmond at Goodwood. It was therefore less than four years after Sarah’s death that he then married the widow Mary Ann Collett, the event reported as follows:
	“On the 1^st February 1842 at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Chelsea, Rev. Martin John Lloyd M.A. Domestic Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Richmond & Rector of Depden, Suffolk to Mary Ann relict of the late Kenrick Collett of Holcrofts, Fulham.” And so, in that way, Mary Ann became sister-in-law to her own daughter.
	Martin then organised the building of a new rectory at Depden and during its construction he and Mary Ann rented Branches Park Mansion from Mrs. Phoebe Ann Usborne of Queen Anne Street in Marylebone at £150 per quarter for three years. The edition of The Times published on 17^th July 1848 reported the death of Mary Ann Lloyd as taking place on 14^th July 1848, the same day that she was buried at Depden. She died of cancer of the breast and her tombstone, which stands about seven feet high and under the shade of an elm tree, was inscribed as follows:
	“In a vault beneath are deposited the remains of Mary Ann the beloved wife of Martin John Lloyd, Rector of this Parish who, under a deep sense of the blessing derived from a union of several years has caused this monument to be erected to her memory in token of his gratitude respect and affection. After a protracted period of severe suffering endured with exemplary patience, she departed this life sincerely beloved and esteemed throughout a wide circle of relations connections and friends on 14^th July 1848”
	The description on her Will read as follows: “Mary Ann Lloyd, formerly Collett and before that Webb, wife of Depden in Suffolk, her Will proved on 25^th September 1848.” Within her Will, Mary bequeathed sufficient funds sufficient to provide a smart new rectory for the parish, with the remainder of her estate presumably passing to her husband. Ten years later, on 28^th January 1858 at St Mary’s Church in Cheltenham, Martin married for a third time. She was Adelaide Elizabeth daughter of the late Lt. Colonel Gregory of Bath and grand-daughter of the Honourable John Forsyth of Montreal in Canada.
	That marriage for Martin lasted for the longest period of any of his three marriages, before he passed away on 13^th September 1872. He died while at Depden of paralysis and was buried in a shallow grave alongside the monument to Mary Ann his second wife. Today the churchyard where they were buried is designated as deconsecrated ground. His Will had been made on 30^th November 1858 and was proved on 3^rd January 1873. He left his estates at Depden and St. Botolphs in Bishopsgate, London to his wife Adelaide. His effects were valued at under £450 and his wife’s address was given as Belle View Cottage in Cheltenham. During his life Martin officiated at a number of weddings for his siblings and other relatives and, in addition to his role as rector, he was also a Magistrate for Suffolk County.
	It is interesting to note that The Three Tuns* Public House in Kensington High Street, previously owned by Mary Ann’s first husband Kenrick Collett, was in December 1844 transferred to the joint ownership of (1) Martin J. Lloyd, Rector of Depden and Mary Ann his wife, (2) Henry Crawler of Chancery Lane, (3) John Laurie of Holcrofts, Fulham, and (4) Peter Laurie of Lincoln’s Inn. John Laurie married Elizabeth Helen Collett (below) and Peter was his brother.
	23N1	Kenrick William Collett					Born in 1804 at Holborn, London
	23N2	Henry Parker Collett					Born in 1805 at Holborn, London
	23N3	Mary Ann Collett					Born in 1807 at Holborn, London
	23N4	John Edward Collett					Born in 1809 at Holborn, London
	23N5	George Frederick Collett					Born in 1810 at Holborn, London
	23N6	Charles Mynors Collett					Born in 1812 at Holborn, London
	23N7	ROWLAND WILLIAM DAVIES COLLETT					Born in 1814 at Holborn, London
	23N8	Elizabeth Helen Collett					Born in 1815 at Fulham, London
	23N9	Richard Fowler Collett					Born in 1819 at Fulham, London
23M2	Clayton Collett was born in London on 5^th November 1776 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 2^nd December 1776. His parents were Richard Cobb Collett and his wife Ann, but sadly Clayton died when he was around nine years old.
23M3	Richard Collett was born at the Breams Building, Holborn, in London, on 5^th November 1778 and was baptised at St Dunstan-in-the-West in London on 11^th December 1778. The baptism record confirmed his parents were Richard Cobb Collett and Ann Collett. When he was 14 years old, Richard’s father paid £420 for him to enter a seven-year apprenticeship with Henry Downer, an ironmonger of Fleet Street in London. The agreement, signed on 6^th February 1793, confirmed that Richard was the son of Richard Collett of Chancery Lane, gent. At the end of the seven years, the Admission to the Freedom by Apprenticeship granted by Henry Downer was drawn up on 20^th February 1800, from which time Richard Collett operated as an ironmonger out of premises at 62 Chancery Lane, which was also the address of his father’s law firm Collett, Wimburn & Collett. That was the situation for Richard junior up until 1818, when he transferred his business to 3 Middle Row in Holborn, where he worked until 1836. During those years Richard took on two apprentices; J G Murphy in 1827, and F M Webb in 1832.
	Five years after he established his ironmongery business in Chancery Lane, adjacent to Fleet Street in Holborn, Richard Collett married Jane Newsome of Blackrock, Cork in Ireland during 1805 but, tragically, all three of their children died before their parents. Their deaths were the result of the smallpox epidemic around 1820, following which, all of the children were buried at St Andrew’s Church Cemetery. See also George Frederick Collett (above), another victim of the smallpox outbreak.
	Richard was declared bankrupt in 1837 and had to vacate the premises at 3 Middle Row in Holborn. It was that year’s May-August edition of the Metropolitan Magazine that contained a list of bankrupts, including the following entry on page 26 - “R Collett, Middle Row, Holborn, ironmonger”. Once his finance problems were resolved later that same year, and according to Dawn Peel, an historian, from Colac in Victoria Australia, Richard and Jane Collett provided a home at 3 The Crescent in Edmonton for their niece, Anna Godwin, who was orphaned at the age of 15.
	The Crescent stands on the east side of Hertford Road immediately north of Edmonton Green. It was built in the mid eighteen-twenties but was never finished as there is a gap at the northern end where further houses were to be built. Early census records for 1841, 1851 and 1861 reveal that the inhabitants were both middle class and genteel.
	According to the census in 1841 and again 1851, Richard and Jane were residing in The Crescent in Edmonton and, on both census days, the only other person living at the same address was servant Elizabeth Kent from Newmarket. In the latter census return Richard Collett was 72 and a proprietor of houses, his wife Jane from Ireland was 68, as was spinster Elizabeth Kent, the house servant. Jane Collett nee Newsome, who was the sister of Anna Godwin’s mother from Cork, became the mother figure for Anna for the next twenty years and almost up until her death in 1857. The couple’s Edmonton home was also the base for one of Anna's brothers and his family. It is understood that around 1855/56 Richard and Jane were again in financial difficulties, so niece Anna returned to Cork in Ireland. A little while later she travelled to West Africa where she married Edward Bage in Sierra Leone, before she and Edward emigrated to Australia.
	There are in existence letters from Richard Collett sent to Anna Godwin Bage when she was living in Australia in 1857. At that time Anna’s husband Edward Bage was the District Surveyor in Colac. Another letter was received by Anna from a relative in Cork following the death of her auntie Jane who relayed to her that “Uncle Collett (i.e., Richard) visited us in Cork recently and looked well despite his recent bereavement”. Jane Collett nee Newsome died in 1857, while her husband Richard Collett died during the following year in 1858, both of them being buried at Edmonton in London. The burial record for their son William states that he was nine years old when he was buried in London on 26^th January 1820.
	23N10		Mary Ann Collett			Born in 1809; died in 1821, in London
	23N11		William Wimburn Collett			Born in 1811; died in 1820, in London
	23N12		Margaret Newsome Collett			Born in 1814; died in 1817, in London
23M5	Robert Collett was born in London in 1782 and was baptised at St Andrews Church in Holborn on 11^th September 1782. He was the youngest son of Richard Cobb Collett and Ann Parker and tragically he died at the age of eight years, when he fell from a horse in 1790.
23N1	Kenrick William Collett was born in London on 6^th October 1804 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 11^th November 1804, the son of Kenrick and Mary Ann Collett. He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church College in Oxford where he matriculated on 17^th April 1823 and where the records confirm he was the eldest son of Kenrick Collett of St Andrew’s in Holborn, London.
	It was at Christ Church College that he later obtained his BA on 1^st February 1827. He then became a barrister-at-law at Lincoln’s Inn in 1831 and it may have been between 1827 and 1830 that he joined his father’s law firm which was renamed Wimburn, Collett & Collett, although by 1831 the company had become Wimburn, Collett & Dyson with the departure of Kenrick junior. Kenrick William Collett eventually received his MA on 9^th June 1836 and in 1855 he was made Chief Justice in Sierra Leone. It is interesting that within the documentation listing the Alumni of Cambridge; Kenrick William Collett is recorded there achieving a BA during 1834, incorporated from Oxford. Five years later the Electoral Roll in 1839 included the name of Kenrick Collett of Fulham, who held copyhold houses in Colehill Lane and Walham Green in Fulham, which was repeated in the Electoral Roll of 1840 but was missing in 1841.
	The marriage of Kenrick William Collett and Augusta Ann Richards took place at Newington, Surrey, on 25^th September 1848, when they were both of full age. The marriage was recorded at Lambeth (Ref. iv 264) and an announcement of their wedding was published in a London newspaper on 9^th October 1848. It was also in the Newington area of south London that all four of their children were born, and where the young family was living in 1851. The census that year recorded the family at Frederick Street in Newington, where barrister of law William K Collett from St Andrew Holborn was 45, his wife Augusta A Collett was 30 and their first-born child, George William Kenrick Collett, was one year old and had been born at St Johns Wood, near Regents Park. The final person at the property was servant Mary King from Croydon who was 16. Prior to the birth of the couple’s fourth child Kenrick was appointed Queens Advocate in Sierra Leone and it seems likely that Augusta did not accompany him overseas, for it was while in that country that Kenrick William Collett died and was buried in 1856. at a time when Augusta was expecting their fourth child. Augusta Ann Richards was born at Winkfield near Ascot in Berkshire around 1819 and was living with her parents George and Sarah Richard and four siblings at King’s Row in Newington, Surrey, on the day of the census in 1841.
	After having been made a widow in 1856 and, following the London birth of her last child later that same year, Augusta Ann Collett left London and was recorded living with her parents at Warwick Road in Solihull on the day of the census in 1861. According to the information in the census return, head of the household was George Richard from Sheldon in Warwickshire who was 83 and a retired captain with the Royal Navy, on half pay. His wife Sarah was 70 and their widowed daughter Augusta A Collett from Winkfield was 40, the census return not stating any occupation for her. With Augusta were two of her children, Ada E L Collett who was nine and born at Kennington, and Charlotte Mary Collett who was four and born in London.
	Her parents passed away during the next few years, prompting Augusta to leave Warwickshire and return south, where she took up the role of matron at a boys’ school in Margate, Kent. At the age of 49, Augusta from Berkshire, headed the list of staff members and was the most elderly, all as confirmed in the Margate census of 1871. There is a possibility that Augusta was the owner of the school, since there was a similar situation in 1881 when, once again the widow Augusta Collett was operating a school for young ladies, but at 39 Peak Hill Gardens in Lewisham, London. In the census return that year she was described as simply Augusta Collett, aged 61, a widow from Winkfield, who was the keeper of a private school. Only six teenage girls were attending the school that day, so perhaps it was a finishing school
	Assisting their mother, were two live-in teachers, who were her two unmarried daughters Emily Collett who was 27 and born at Kennington in Surrey and Charlotte Collett who was 24 and born at Islington in Middlesex. Also employed at the school was one female domestic servant. However, within just a few days or week, Augusta Ann Richard passed away, her death recorded at Lewisham (Ref. 1d 599) during the second quarter of 1881, when he aged was recorded as 60 years.
	23O1		George William Kenrick Collett			Born in 1850 at Regent’s Park, London
	23O2		Richard Parker Collett			Born in 1852 in London
	23O3		Emily Louise Collett			Born in 1854 at Kennington, Surrey
	23O4		Charlotte Mary Collett			Born in 1856 at Islington, London
23N2	Henry Parker Collett, who was known as H P, was born in London on 26^th September 1805 and was baptised at the Church of St Andrew in Holborn on 24^th October 1805. He was the son of Kenrick and Mary Ann Collett. On 1^st November 1826 Henry Parker Collett of Chancery Lane secretly married (1) Mary Anne Clarke of Hanbury Place at Marylebone Church. Mary was referred to as being of Blandford Place, Regents Park. The reason for keeping it a secret is not known, but it was only after four years had passed that they publicly announced they were married with an item in The Times on 31^st August 1830. That marriage produced at least the one child for the couple, as listed below. According to the census conducted in June 1841, Henry Collett and Mary Ann Collett were living at Gloucester Place within the St Marylebone district of London with their four-year-old son Henry Collett. His parents were both recorded as being 32, while two other occupants of their house at 34 Gloucester Place, near Portman Square, were a certain Mary A Waller who was 19 and who would possibly turn out to be Henry’s second wife, and her younger sister Georgina Waller who was 15, both of them revealed again living with the family in 1851 and both born at Marylebone.
	Also in 1841, H P took on his father’s business as an attorney with Wimburn & Collett at 62 Chancery Lane, following the death of his father Kenrick in February that year and, later that same year, H P’s brother Charles Collett (below) joined the firm. In addition to this, and also in 1841, and Henry Parker Collett purchased Yateley House in Yateley village near Farnborough in Hampshire, which he subsequently renamed as Yateley Hall, as it is known today, a Grade II Listed Building. It may also have around that same time, when Henry’s wife Mary Anne passed away, perhaps while giving birth to the couple’s second child, shortly after which he married (2) Mary Ann Waller. She was born on 30^th August 1821, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Waller. Mary Ann was baptised on 8^th December 1823 at the Church of St Mary on St Marylebone Road in Marylebone, London. That second marriage producing a further four children for Henry. However, it is interesting to note that the death of a certain Mary Ann Parker Collett was recorded at Islington (Ref. 1b 279) during the first three months of 1865, which raises the question, was she the first wife of Henry Parker Collett, from whom he may have been separated or divorced, rather than suffering a premature death prior to 1845.
	The success of his business allowed H P to take early retirement during the 1840s having already amassed a substantial fortune, leaving his brother Charles as the sole Collett family representative. While working at Chancery Lane, the family continued to live at 37 Gloucester Place until the family moved to Hampshire, where the final four children were born, the first of them at Southampton, the next three at Yateley Hall.
	And it was at Yateley Hall that the family was recorded in the census of 1851. That year Henry Parker Collett of Holborn in London was 44 and described as Esquire, Landed Proprietor and Fundholder. His much younger second wife, Mary Ann Collett from Marylebone, was 29 and their three children recorded with the couple that day were Cecil Mary Collett who was five, Helena Parker Collett who was four and Catherine Ann Spencer Collett who was one year old. Missing from the family was Henry’s son and namesake Henry who was attending a boarding school at Portsmouth Road in Thames Ditton, Surrey, where Henry Collett from Yateley was 14. Still living with the family, and described as a visitor, was unmarried Georgina Waller from Marylebone who was 25 and a fundholder, the sister of Henry’s young wife. Eight domestic servants were employed at Yateley Hall that year.
	Tragically the couple suffered with two stillborn daughters, the first of them on 13^th October 1848 and the second, just one month after the census day, on 6^th May 1851. Eight months later Henry’s fifteen-year-old son died in 1852. In addition to the family home at Yateley Hall, Henry also had a house at 4 Brunswick Terrace in Brighton where he died on 27^th March 1855. His passing, as Henry Parker Collett, was recorded at Steyning in Sussex (Ref. 2b 182) during the first three months of 1855. That was followed eighteen months afterwards, by the death of his widow on 14^th September 1856 at Yateley Hall, the event recorded at nearby Farnborough (Ref. 2a 57) during the third quarter of that year. Henry’s Will, which was made on 27^th July 1854, was proved on 10^th May 1855, less than two months after his death, whereas his widow’s Will was proved nearly five months after her death on 9^th February 1857.
	In an extract from the diary of E. E. Lloyd dated 16^th November 1856 there is a suggestion that some unpleasant news was received from the home of a relative of Mrs Henry Parker Collett which ‘appears to be a very nasty business’. That now seems likely to have been a dispute concerning the Will of Henry Parker Collett in view of the fact that an article in The Times on 24^th January 1857 related to a Prerogative Court hearing about the death and the Will of H. P. Collett. Later that same year there were still outstanding issues with the estates of Henry Parker Collett and his second wife Mary Ann Collett, as displayed in the following notice published in July that year, as re-produced below.
	“Pursuant to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause wherein Cecil Mary Collett [the eldest surviving child of H P Collett] and others are plaintiffs [her siblings], and Mary Ann Collett [their mother], since deceased, and others, are defendants, and in a cause wherein Cecil Mary Collett and others are plaintiffs, and Robert Cornelius Dixon and others, are defendants, the creditors of Henry Parker Collett, late of Yateley Hall, in the County of Hampshire, esquire, who died in or about the month of March 1855 are, by their solicitors, on or before the 7^th day of November, 1857, to come in and prove their debts, at the chambers of the Master of the Rolls, in the Rolls Yard, Chancery Lane, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. Wednesday, the 11^th day of November, 1857, at twelve o'clock at noon, at the said chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims — Dated this day 24^th July 1857.”
	It was nearly another nine years before the whole dispute was resolved, when the following notice was published in the London Gazette on 16^th March 1866 relating to the 1854 Will of Henry Parker Collett.
	“In Chancery In the matter of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Session of the 19^th and 20^th years of the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 120, entitled "An Act to Facilitate Leases and Sales of Settled Estates" and in the matter of a certain mansion-house or messuage, with the offices, outbuildings, gardens, land and park surrounding the same, called or known by the name of Yateley Hall, situate in the parish of Yateley, in the County of Hampshire, comprising 45 acres or thereabouts, in the tenure or occupation of Francis William Medley or his under-tenants, which said hereditaments were settled by the Will of Henry Parker Collett deceased, dated the 27^th day of July 1854;
	and in the matter of certain messuages or cottages, farms, lands, and hereditaments situate in the said parish of Yateley, in the several tenures or occupations of Aaron Barlow, James Ellis, and Joseph Searle, comprising 118 acres or thereabouts, and two small pieces of land or plantation, comprising 2 acres 3 rods 15 poles or thereabouts, situate in the said parish of Yateley, and numbered 269 and 285 in the tithe map for the said parish of Yateley, and which are now in hand, all which said hereditaments were also settled by the said Will of the said Henry Parker Collett dated the 27^th day of July 1854;
	and between Cecil Mary Collett, Helena Parker Collett (now the wife of the defendant William Henry Lloyd), Catherine Ann Spencer Collett, and Horace Chambers Spencer Collett, respectively infants, by Charles William Maugham, their next friend, plaintiffs, and Mary Ann Collett, deceased, Henry Warre (since dismissed), Charles Tylecote, Richard Freeman, and Robert. Cornelius Dixon, defendants, by Original Bill and Order to Revive;
	and between Cecil Mary Collett, Helena Parker Collett (now the wife of the defendant William Henry Lloyd), and Catherine Ann Spencer Collett, infants, by William Henry Lloyd, their next friend, plaintiffs, and Robert Cornelius Dixon, Charles Tylecote, Richard Freeman, Horace Chambers Spencer Collett, an infant, by William Henry Lloyd, his guardian, the said William Henry Lloyd, the Reverend Samuel Webb Lloyd, John Clutton, and the Reverend Henry Dyson Lloyd, defendants, by Original Bill and Order of Revivor and supplement.
	NOTICE is hereby given, that a Petition in the above named matters and causes was, on the 28^th day of February 1866, presented to the Right Honorable the Master of the Rolls, by the above-named plaintiffs, Cecil Mary Collett, Catherine Ann Spencer Collett, and the defendant Horace Chambers Spencer Collett, all of Barham, in the County of Kent, and all infants under the age of twenty-one years respectively, by the Reverend Samuel Webb Lloyd, of No. 8 Upper Seymour Street, Portman Square in the County of Middlesex, clerk, specially appointed for the purposes of the said Petition, the above-named plaintiff Helena Parker Lloyd, the wife of the defendant William Henry Lloyd, of No. 4 Victoria Square, in the County of Middlesex, gentleman, and the defendants Charles Tylecote, of Tamworth, in the County of Stafford, esquire, and Richard Freeman, of Tufnell Park West, in the County of Middlesex, gentleman, praying that the hereditaments and premises described or comprised in the first schedule to an agreement in the said Petition set forth, bearing date the 30^th day of January 1866, made between the said Charles Tylecote and Richard Freeman, of the one-part, and Martin Wilkins Gell de Winton Corry, of Midhurst, in the County of Sussex, esquire, of the other part, being the said hereditaments first above-mentioned, and described as in the tenure or occupation of the said Francis William Medley or his under-tenants, might be sold to the said Martin Wilkins Gell de Winton Corry for the sum of £5,000 and that the hereditaments and premises described or comprised in the second schedule to the same agreement, being the said hereditaments secondly above mentioned, in the several tenures or occupations of the said Aaron Barlow, James Ellis, and Joseph Searle, and the said two small pieces of land or plantation, containing 2 acres 3 rods 15 poles in hand, might also be sold to the said Martin Wilkins Gell de Winton Corry for the sum of £4,365, and that all necessary parties might be directed to concur in such sales; and that the proceeds of such sales respectively, after payment of the costs, charges, and expenses of, and incident to, the said sales and this application, and consequent thereon, might be paid to the credit of the cause "Collett v. Collett, 1860, C. 122" to an account to be entitled "The Purchase Moneys of the Yateley Estates" or that his Lordship would be pleased to make such further or other Order in the premises as to his Lordship should seem meet.
	And notice is hereby also given that the petitioners may be served with any Order of the Court, or notice relating to the subject of the said Petition at the office of their Solicitors, Messrs. Parker, Rooke, and Parkers situate at No. 17 Bedford Row, in the County of Middlesex — Dated this 13^th day of March 1866. Parker, Rooke, and Parkers, No. 17 Bedford Row, Solicitors for the Petitioners”
	Footnote: Yateley Hall was owned by the Collett family from 1841 until the death of Henry’s second wife Mary Ann in 1856. It was then managed by the executors of the estate and was subject to a series of short-term tenancies, some with military connections, until Martin de Winton Corry leased the Hall from the Collett family executors in 1871. Upon the death of Martin de Winton Corry in 1885, his daughter Margaret bought the hall outright from the Collett family executors and remained there until her own death in 1943. During her time, she made Yateley Hall a centre of village life, becoming a benefactor to the Church and various groups, holding fetes, flower shows, sports meetings and other activities in the grounds. The grounds of the Hall had been extensive from medieval times but, by 1947, they had been whittled away to a 40-acre park and farm. The Hall's listed status protects it from demolition for development and, in 1947, it was converted into a school by Farnborough Hill Convent and further parcels of land were sold off to provide modern housing, as the population of Yateley expanded rapidly, particularly from the 1960s. It was opened to the public in 2017.
	23O5		Henry Russell Collett			Born in 1837 at Marylebone, London
	The following are the children of Henry Parker Collett by his second wife Mary Ann Waller:
	23O6		Cecil Mary Collett			Born in 1845 at Yateley Hall, Hants.
	23O7		Helena Parker Collett			Born in 1846 at Yateley Hall, Hants.
	23O8		Catherine Ann Spencer Collett			Born in 1849 at Yateley Hall, Hants.
	23O9		Horace Chambers Spencer Collett			Born in 1853 at Yateley Hall, Hants.
23N3	Mary Ann Collett was born in London on 16^th May 1807 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 11^th June 1807. Her parents were confirmed at the baptism as Kenrick and Mary Ann Collett. Mary Ann married Edmund Lloyd of Harley Street at Fulham Church on 1^st June 1825. Edmund was the brother of the Reverend Martin Lloyd who married Mary Ann’s mother, the widow Mary Ann Collett (Ref. 23M1). Edmund Lloyd, who was the son of Edmund Lloyd and Bridget Eyre, was born on 8^th September 1795 and baptised at St Marylebone Church on 2^nd October 1795.
	It is perhaps significant that their children were given second christian names that reflected other family connections associated with the Collett and Lloyd families’ businesses. The same can be said of the children of Elizabeth Helen Collett (below) and her husband John Laurie.
	Edmund was a book seller at the shop and reading room of Lloyd & Son on the corner of Harley Street with Great Marylebone Street and to which Lady Caroline Lamb was a frequent customer in the 1820s. Even before they were married and from the tender age of just twelve years Mary Ann Collett used to write to the Lloyd family from the Preston School for young ladies that she attended in Brighton.
	In May 1821 Edmund, aged 25, was still living with his mother Bridget who was 44 and his brothers and sisters at 64 Great Marylebone Street. His siblings at that time were: Mary Lloyd who was 22, Rosa Lloyd who was 21, Martin Lloyd who was 15 - who later married the widow of Kenrick Collett (Ref. 23M1) and the mother of Mary Ann Collett (Ref. 23N3), Bazzett Lloyd who was 13, Ellen Lloyd who was 12, Fanny Lloyd who was nine, and Arthur Lloyd who was six years old. Two months later in July 1821 Edmund’s eldest sister Mary Lloyd married Thomas Bent of Hillingdon at St Marylebone.
	Following their own wedding in June 1825, which was announced in The Times, Mary Ann and Edmund spent the honeymoon in Worthing. Just over a year later, at the time of the birth of their first child, Mary Ann and Edmund were living at York Terrace on the south side of Regent’s Park. From 1828 to 1834 the family home was at 57 Harley Street, where in 1831 the annual rent was £160 and the rates were £32 and13 shillings. At that time the household was made up of Mary Ann and Edmund and there four sons, Edmunds two unmarried sisters Ellen and Fanny who had lived with them since their mother’s death in 1829, plus two servants.
	Towards the end of 1834 Edmund’s book business was in financial difficulties and was summoned to attend the bankruptcy court on 5^th December with debts reputed to be upwards of £10,000. It was around that time when the family moved to Cole Hill Cottage opposite the Bishop of London’s Walk. Fortunately for Edmund in early 1835 he inherited £2,000 from the Will of Samuel Webb, Mary Ann’s grandfather, and a year later his wife Elizabeth Webb died leaving various sums of money to Mary Ann, husband Edmund, and their children.
	Another move followed, that time to the Collett family home at Holcrofts in Fulham. By then Edmund had deteriorating health and was suffering greatly from asthma. That prompted talk of selling up and moving abroad. Edmund’s sister Rosa was married by that time and was living in Paris as Rosa Skiers. By 1840 the Collett family had moved abroad and had let Holcrofts to the Laurie family, forcing Edmund and the Lloyd family to move to 27 Lowndes Street in Belgravia. On 3^rd October 1843 Edmund was a witness at the wedding of his sister Ellen Lloyd to Robert William Cumberpatch at Winkfield in Berkshire, with the ceremony being carried out by their brother the Rev. Martin Lloyd Rector of Depden. In 1848 Robert and Ellen Cumberpatch were living in Turkey.
	Between April 1844 and 1847 Edmund and Mary Ann moved house two more times. The first time to 58 York Terrace and the second time to 8 York Place in Portman Square. Midway between the two moves Edmund sold the book shop at 57 Harley Street to Robert Weir. Shortly after the family moved to York Place Edmund sent sons Edmund Eyre and William Henry to Altona in Hamburg to study languages. It was intended that they would stay there for a least a year, but they were suddenly recalled to England after just six months, probably for financial reasons.
	Yet another move took place the following year in 1848 when the family moved to 13 Norfolk Street off Park Lane and six years later, they finally left London. Initially Edmund and Mary Ann went to live with their eldest son the Reverend Samuel Webb Lloyd at The Shrubbery in Barham near Canterbury. By the end of 1854 Edmund and Mary Ann had settled for the time being at 2 Lounden Crescent in Dover. In January of the next year their son Edmund Eyre Lloyd was appointed Assistant Surgeon with the East India Company and moved to live in India.
	During the next four years Edmund’s health worsened such that in early 1860 he and Mary Ann moved back to Barham where he died on 4^th June 1860. He was buried in a vault near the west entrance to Barham Church, the vault being covered by a slab set two feet above ground level. The Will of Edmund Lloyd was made on 12^th February 1855 and left everything to his wife Mary Ann, which amounted to less than £4,000.
	The 1861 Census recorded that Mary Ann Lloyd, head of the household, was living at The Shrubbery in Barham at the age of 55. Living there with her was her unmarried son William Henry Lloyd aged 30, and nieces Cecil Mary Collett who was 15, Helena Parker Collett who was 14, Catherine Ann Spencer Collett who was 11, and nephew Horace Chambers Spencer Collett who was seven years of age, the children of Mary Ann’s brother Henry Parker Collett (above). The whole of the family was supported by five female servants and a butler.
	Living nearby in Barham in 1861 at 6 Dussingstone Street was Mary Ann’s son Oliver Wimburn Lloyd and his three children Robert C Lloyd aged six, Emily M A F Lloyd aged five, and Oliver J H E Lloyd who was four. Within five years Cecil Mary Collett had married Henry Dyson Lloyd and Helena Parker Collett had married William Henry Lloyd, while during the previous year Oliver Wimburn Lloyd received a loan of £1,700 from his mother. However, on 11^th July he was declared bankrupt and, only two weeks after, Mary Ann Lloyd died on 25^th July 1865 at Barham.
	In her Will she left £3,000 to her son Samuel Webb Lloyd, with the balance of her estate going to her son William Henry Lloyd, although four-fifths of the sale of 14 Hemming’s Row in St Martin’s Lane (originally owned by her father Kenrick Collett) to be shared between the four of her sons excluding Samuel. The Will was disputed and a Bill of Complaint was filed in the High Court of Chancery on 14^th November 1865, naming as defendants Edmund Eyre Lloyd, Henry Dyson Lloyd and the three children of Oliver Wimburn Lloyd who were under 21. The result of the action is unknown, while most of the money left in the Will was used to settle the court expenses.
	The windows in Barham Church, either side of the sanctuary are dedicated to Edmund and Mary Ann Lloyd. In the church yard there is a gravestone that is dedicated to the memory of Edmund and Mary Ann Lloyd, together with the Reverend Samuel Webb Lloyd and his wife Catherine Frances.
	The five children of Mary Ann Collett and Edmund Lloyd were Samuel Webb Lloyd (9^th June 1826 to 12^th November 1886), Oliver Wimburn Lloyd (6^th January 1828 to 24^th January 1917), Edmund Eyre Lloyd (6^th June 1829 to 8^th April 1904), William Henry Lloyd who was born on 30^th March 1831, a solicitor, who married his cousin Helena Parker Collett (Ref. 23O7) on 30^th August 1865 at St George’s Church in Hanover Square London, and who died on 17^th November 1912, and Henry Dyson Lloyd who was born on 11^th September 1832, who married his cousin and sister-in-law Cecil Mary Collett (Ref. 23O6) in 1868, and who died on 29^th September 1923. Go to 23O6 and 23O7 for the families of the two younger brothers.
	This is the family line of Christopher Lloyd, the details of which have been published in “The Lloyds of Harley Street, Associate Family and Friends”
23N4	John Edward Collett was born in London on 3^rd February 1809 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 12^th April 1809, the son of Kenrick and Mary Ann Collett. With his past family connections, he was brought up to the Law, but never practised, and in 1839 he was Administrator at the Middle Temple. In 1854 he went to New Zealand with the Honourable Henry Petre who held an appointment in the colony. However, shortly afterwards he returned to England and died at Shepherd’s Bush in London aged 49 on 27^th May 1859 and was buried at Kensal Green on 31^st May 1859 close to the graves of Charles Matthews and Madame Vestris.
	Published in The Times newspaper on Friday 8^th March 1844 was the following article under the headline ‘The Athlone Election Committee’. “John Collett, represented by Thomas Attree of Wimburn & Collett – conclusion of the proceedings, that John Collett Esq is duly elected a burgess to serve this present Parliament for the Borough of Athlone.” Whether this was John Edward Collett has not been proved, although the company of Wimburn & Collett was the law firm of his father and his brothers Henry (above) and Charles (below). John Collett, Member of Parliament for Athlone, lost his seat on 23^rd July 1847 during the General Election that year.
23N5	George Frederick Collett was born in London on 27^th August 1810 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 25^th September 1810, the son of Kenrick and Mary Ann Collett. Tragically he died of smallpox on his father’s birthday on 1^st January 1820 and was buried in St. Andrew’s Burial Ground in Gray’s Inn Road in London. There was a smallpox epidemic at that time and his cousins, the children of his uncle Richard Collett (Ref. 23M3) of Middle Row in Holborn, also died and were buried in St. Andrew’s Cemetery.
23N6	Charles Mynors Collett was born in London on 12^th August 1812 and was the son of Kenrick Collett and Mary Ann Webb. He was baptised later that same year at St Andrews in Holborn on 3^rd November 1812. He married Mary Ann McKenzie on 31^st August 1839 at Old Church in St Pancras. Mary Ann was the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth McKenzie and was baptised at St Sepulchre’s Church in Holborn on 9^th July 1818, having been born at Holborn in 1816 or 1817. Within the Electoral Roll for 1839 Charles Minors (sic) Collett of 62 Chancery Lane was described as a freehold shareholder of Fulham Bridge, on and abutting the Thames. Also listed below his name was the name of Roland William Davies Collett of Holcrofts in Fulham who was also a shareholder, plus Also Kenrick Collett of Fulham who was described as having copyhold houses in Colehill Lane and Walham Green in Fulham.
	The same information that was included in the Electoral Roll for 1839 was reproduced for 1840 and 1841 and within the census of 1841 Charles and Mary Collet (sic) both had a rounded age of 25, when they were residing at College Place in Marylebone, the census confirming that Charles was working as an attorney. However, no record of their son has been found at this time even though he was fifteen years old in the next census of 1851. Living not far away in the same registration district of St Pancras & Camden Town was Charles’ brother Roland Collet (sic) who was also listed as being 25.
	Up to 1840 Charles Mynors Collett was working for his father’s company of Wimburn & Collett at 62 Chancery Lane, with whom he became a partner following the death of his father in February 1841. It was Charles Mynors Collett who was instrumental in the publication of “Our Collett Ancestors by Peter G Laurie” which appeared in The Times on 26^th August 1845. One year earlier his law firm Wimburn & Collett changed its name to Wimburn, Collett, Laurie & Attree. That happened during July 1844 but it was during 1847 that Charles retired, when the business practically came to an end. Around that time, he was living at Earls Court Road in Old Brompton.
	Charles’ name also appeared in The Times newspaper on a number of other occasions, but not for any good news. On 29^th April 1848 the paper reported on the Bankruptcy of Charles M. Collett “the bankrupt being a trader and professional man, a solicitor at Lincoln’s Inn Fields and a patented bread and biscuit maker in Lambeth and Houndsditch.”
	By the time of the census of 1851 Charles and Mary were living at 15 Gladstone Street within the St George Southwark area of London. Charles M Collett, aged 38 and born at Holborn, was an attorney and solicitor in actual practice, while his wife Mary A Collett was 34 and from Islington. Listed with the couple was their son Charles W M Collett who was 15 and a solicitor’s writing clerk from St Pancras, who was presumably working with his father. That would indicate he was born around 1836, which was three years before Charles married Mary Ann, at a time when Mary Ann would have been only 19 years of age, which raises the question, was he their base-born son, or was Charles junior the son by a previous wife who had not survived. If the latter, then why did he carry the name McKenzie?
	Five years later on 15^th July 1856, The Times published an article relating to the Insolvent Debtors Court which started “This insolvent, Charles Mynors Collett an attorney, was opposed for Messrs Shoolbred, linen-drapers, of Tottenham-court-road”. The complaint was that the insolvent had contracted a debt by fraud with the opposing creditors to the sum of £239.19s.10d.
	The goods were obtained through orders given by the insolvent’s wife Mary Ann Collett. The insolvent lived with his family in Osnaburgh Street, at the south-east corner of Regent’s Park and, according to his evidence she was only to obtain credit for £100. It was reported in the same article that the authorities had spent many months trying to track down Charles Collett, but the insolvent was not arrested until 1^st March, having eluded the Sheriff’s Officer since December 1855. The reference to Regent’s Park may well be an indicator that it was Charles Collett, aged 30, who was recorded living there in the census of 1841, which raises the question, where was his wife Mary Ann and his son Charles on that occasion?
	It may have been as a direct result of their court appearance in July 1856 that, shortly after the case was settled, Charles and Mary left London and travelled north to Lancashire. The next census in 1861 placed the couple living within the Blackburn area where Charles Collett was 48 and Mary Ann Collett was 44. At that time, they were the only two Colletts living in the Blackburn registration district, while it is now established that Charles Collett junior had married Frances Coombs four years earlier in 1857, when he was 21.
	Sometime during the following decade, the couple return to London where they were recorded as living in 1871. It was at Gray’s Inn Lane within the St Pancras & Tottenham Court registration district of London that Charles M Collett was 58 and his wife Mary A Collett was 54. Ten years later, according to the census of 1881 Charles and Mary were lodging at 132 Kentish Town Road in St Pancras, the home of bricklayer George Parsons and his wife and family. Charles Mynors Collett, aged 69 and born at Holborn, was described as a solicitor out of practice, while Mary Ann Collett was 64 and was also from Holborn, rather than Islington as previously stated.
	It would appear that Mary Ann Collett nee McKenzie died sometime during the 1880s since she was not listed with her husband in the census of 1891. Instead, it was just Charles Collett, aged 78, who was recorded as living within the Holborn & Goswell Street area of London. Six years later Charles Mynors Collett died on 12^th March 1897 and it seems very likely that he may have been buried close by his brother John Edward Collett (above) who was buried at Kensal Green.
	23O10	Charles William McKenzie Collett						Born in 1836 at St Pancras
23N7	ROWLAND WILLIAM DAVIES COLLETT was born in the City of London on 25^th February 1814 and was named after his father’s partner Rowland Wimburn. Just over a month later he was baptised at the Church of St Andrew in Holborn on 5^th April 1814. He was originally brought up within the medical profession but was subsequently called to the Bar in 1841. In the June census of 1841 Roland Collett was 25 and was living in the St Pancras & Camden Town area of London not far from his married brother Charles (above). It was later that same year, at Old Church in St Pancras on 17^th August 1841, that Rowland married Mary Ann Edwards, the daughter of Abraham Edwards and Sarah Evans. The event was recorded at St Pancras (Ref. i 319) during the third quarter of 1841, when the groom’s name was recorded in error as Rowland William David Collett, as it was again in the following year, at the time of the birth of the couple’s first children. Two years earlier the 1839 Electoral Roll included Roland (sic) William Davies Collett of Holcrofts, Fulham, as being a freehold shareholder, the same as stated in 1840, although not listed at all in 1841. The marriage of Rowland and Mary Ann produced six children for the couple, although three of the sons died while they were still in their teenage years.
	Ten years later, the couple was living at 4 County Terrace just off the New Kent Road in the Newington area of London to the south of the River Thames. Rowland was 37 and a barrister, while his wife Mary Ann was eight years younger at 29, with the census return in 1851 confirming Islington as the place where she was born. Their children at that time were Kenrick C Collett who was eight and born at Camden, Francis A E Collett who was six and also born at Camden, Rowland W Collett who was five and born at Enfield, Fanny Helen Collett who was three and born at Little Amwell in Hertfordshire, and Herbert E Collett who was one year old and born at Lambeth, London. Just over two years after the census day Rowland died at the comparatively early age of thirty-nine on 7^th May 1853 and, five days later, he was buried at Nunhead Cemetery. The death of Rowland William Davies Collett was recorded at Newington (Ref. 1d 139) during the second quarter of that year. His Will, which was proved on 4^th June 1853, confirmed his address at the time of his death as 4 Webbs County Terrace on the New Kent Road in Surrey.
	By April 1861 Mary Ann Collett was living at Frederick Street within the St Pancras area of London with just three of her children. The census confirmed she was a widow at the age of 39, with no occupation, who was born at Islington. The three children still living with her were recorded as Kenrick C Collett who was 18 and born at nearby Camden, Fanny H Collett who was 13 and born at Amwell, and Herbert E Collett who was 11 and born at Blackpoint in Surrey. Three of Mary Ann’s sons eventually emigrated to Australia, and they were the oldest three boys, Kenrick, Francis, and Rowland. The last of them was only eighteen years old when he was found dead and was buried there, in very mysterious circumstances.
	During her life, in addition to losing her husband, when her youngest child was yet to reach one year old, Mary Ann also suffered the loss of her three youngest sons who all died during the 1860s. That shocking news, received during that decade, and the fact that she had been widowed for some year, may have been too much for her to bear on her own. Therefore, she may have married for a second time prior to the census in 1871, since no record of her as Mary Ann Collett from Islington has been found in England after 1861. It may be worth clarifying that the widow Mary Ann Collett born in London, Middlesex, who was 60 in 1881 and living at 75 Belsize Road in the Hampstead area of London, not far from Frederick Street where Mary Ann Collett aged 39 and the widow of Rowland William Davies Collett, WAS NOT the former Mary Ann Edwards from Islington. Further details of that Mary Ann Collett can be found in the Appendix Two at the end of this family line.
	23O11	Kenrick Clayton Collett						Born in 1842 at Camden
	23O12	FRANCIS ALEXANDER EDWARDS COLLETT						Born in 1844 at Camden
	23O13	Rowland William Collett						Born in 1845 at Enfield, Middx.
	23O14	Fanny Helen Collett						Born in 1847 at Ware, Herts.
	23O15	Herbert Evans Collett						Born in 1849 at Newington
	23O16	Murray Campbell Collett						Born in 1852 at Newington
23N8	Elizabeth Helen Collett, often referred to as Eliza, was born at Fulham on 23^rd June 1815, five days after the Battle of Waterloo. She was baptised at St Andrew in Holborn on 26^th October 1815, the daughter of solicitor Kenrick Collett and his wife Mary Ann Webb. Nearly twenty years later she married widower John Laurie of Harley Street on 9^th July 1834 at Holy Trinity Church in Marylebone, where the ceremony was conducted by the Rev. Doctor Saxby Penfold. By that time in his life John was 37 and already had a young daughter, Mary Margaret Elizabeth Laurie, from his first short marriage to Mary Sparkes, while Eliza was only 19 years of age. This photograph of Elizabeth Helen Laurie, nee Collett, is believed to have been taken around 1868.
	Their marriage produced seven children, the youngest of which was only eight years old when John Laurie died in the family home at Hyde Park Terrace in London on 2^nd August 1864, after which he was buried at Brompton Cemetery. John had been born at Linlithgow in Scotland on 3^rd July 1797 as John Snaddon and, after a difficult start to his life, he was adopted by his uncle, Sir Peter Laurie, who housed and educated him in London before setting him up in a prosperous saddlery and harness making business. His name was changed to Laurie by royal licence in 1824. He served as Sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1845, was Deputy Lieutenant for Middlesex in 1846, and was briefly a Member of Parliament for Barnstaple from 1854.
	By the time of the census in 1881, widow Elizabeth Laurie of Fulham, aged 65, was listed as head of household at 47 Porchester Terrace in Paddington to where she had moved following the death of her husband on 2^nd August 1864. Under occupation Elizabeth was described as a ‘share holder’. The only relative living with her was three-month-old Kenrick Laurie, her grandson, who had been born in London. The remainder of the household comprised her six domestic members of staff, and they were Annie Tinkurn aged 49 a widow and cook of Salisbury, Maria Goodeer aged 30 a lady’s maid from Leiston in Suffolk, Jane Weston aged 36 a housemaid, Matilda Ball aged 20 a kitchen maid of Surbiton in Surrey, John Nightingale aged 25 a footman of Walmer in Kent, and Mary Nails aged 57 a nurse from Canada.
	Elizabeth Helen Laurie, nee Collett, died at 47 Porchester Terrace on 1^st January 1891 and was buried with her later husband at Brompton Cemetery. It is well known that she was much loved by Edmund Eyre Lloyd, her nephew. As early as 1832 there had been talk within the Lloyd household that Edmund wanted to take Eliza Collett to India with him. John Laurie was previously married in 1831 to Mary Sparkes and she and her sister Elizabeth Sparkes, who married Robert Peter Laurie (John’s brother) in 1833, had previously lived with their father Charles Sparkes at 21 Harley Street. It was Elizabeth’s son Peter who wrote “Our Collett Ancestors” and “Robinson Crusoe Collett”.
	Furthermore, the census conducted in June 1841, identified Elizabeth Laurie, aged 25, residing at Aberdeen Place in St Marylebone, London, when Charles Sparkes, aged 70, and his daughter Sophia Sparkes, aged 30, were living there with her. Also at the same address was five-year-old Robert Laurie, who was not one of Elizabeth’s children. Completing the household were two domestic servants Charlotte Burning who was 55, and Mary Parker who was 25. Six years later, in 1847, the family home was at Hyde Park Place, near the Bayswater Road and by 1851 it was at North Street in Romford that the family was living, when the couple’s three son, Peter, Julius and Arthur were at school in Brighton. That year, John and Elizabeth employed nine domestic servants. From the mid-1850s to the mid-1860s, the couple’s four eldest sons were serving their Queen and Country overseas.
	23O17		John Wimburn Laurie			Born in 1835 at Marylebone, London
	23O18		Peter George Laurie			Born in 1838 at Holcrofts, Fulham
	23O19		Julius Dyson Laurie			Born in 1839 at Holcrofts, Fulham
	23O20		Arthur Henry Laurie			Born in 1841 at Holcrofts, Fulham
	23O21		Alfred St George McAdam Laurie			Born in 1847 in London
	23O22		Francis Duke Laurie			Born in 1849 at Romford, London
	23O23		Helen Marian Agnes Laurie			Born in 1856 at Marylebone, London
23N9	Richard Fowler Collett was born at Cole Hill Cottage in Fulham on 6^th January 1819 and the birth was listed in the Wednesday 13^th January edition of The Times. He was a seafarer during his early life and went to sea in the service of Honourable East India Company. However, he subsequently quit the nautical profession and filled various appointments in London. On 20^th February 1849 he married his sister-in-law Fanny Edwards at St Andrew’s Church in Enfield, the daughter of Abraham J Edwards of Westmoor House on Enfield Highway, Fanny being the sister of Mary Ann Edwards, the wife of Richard’s older brother Rowland (above). The wedding of Richard and Fanny was recorded at Edmonton (Ref. 3 96) during the first quarter of 1849.
	After being married for almost two years, Richard F Collett, aged 31, and his wife Fanny, aged 27 and from St Pancras, had a baby daughter Fanny Laurie Collett who was seven months old in the census of 1851. On that day, the three of them were residing at Green Street off the Enfield Highway, from where Richard was working as a merchant. Curiously his place of birth was recorded as Tatham in Middlesex. There were two other occupants at the house, and they were two servants, Jane Boultan and Jane Thompson, both from Edmonton. Two more daughters were added to their family over the next five years, while the likely cause for the family’s absence from the next census in 1861 is probably a result of Richard’s work overseas.
	It was in the following census of 1871, when the family was once again recorded, in London at Sydenham south of the River Thames, in the Lewisham area of Kent. Richard F Collett was 52 and a commission agent, his wife Fanny was 47, both born in London, and with them were their two youngest Enfield born daughters. Helen Sarah Collett was 17 and Rose Marion Collett was 14. Living with the family and described as daughter (perhaps in error) was Margaret Braven (Bowen) Foulger who was 15, a general servant. She was the daughter of John and Margaret Foulger who was born on 27^th November 1855 and baptised at the Church of St Dunstan in Stepney on 13^th June 1866. By the time she was five years old, Margaret was an orphan, so perhaps she was adopted by Richard Fowler Collett.
	According to the next census in 1881, the family was living at 57 Kent House Road in Lewisham. Richard was aged 62 and born at Fulham and his occupation was simply given as ‘dividends’ which was a reference to his income from the investments he had made during his life. Fanny his wife was aged 57 and of an unknown London parish, while daughters Helen S Collett aged 27 and Rose M Collett aged 24 were both born at Enfield in Middlesex.
	The family was supported by one servant, Ruth Norton of Paddock Wood in Kent who was 17, and had living with them boarder John Lyz aged 22 from Brooklyn in New York who was a finance clerk with a soap manufacturer. Richard Fowler Collett died four years later on 13^th April 1885 at Lewisham, where his death was recorded (Ref. 1d 600) at the age of 66. Following his death Fanny, together with her youngest daughter, left London and settled in the Landport area of Portsmouth, where they were living in 1891. Fanny Collett was 67 and Rose Maria Collett was 34. At the next two times the census was conducted for some reason Rose managed to provide incorrect details concerning her age.
	By the time of the census in 1911 Fanny Collett, the widow of Richard Fowler Collett, was still residing with her unmarried daughter Rose Marion Collett in Portsmouth, Hampshire. Fanny was 87 and had been born at Kensington in London, while Rose Collett was 51 (sic) and born in Enfield, Middlesex. It was a very similar situation ten-years prior to that, when the Portsmouth census in 1901 recorded the pair of them as Fanny Collett aged 77 and from London and Rose M Collett from Enfield who was 39 (sic), neither of them credited with an occupation.
	23O24		Fanny Laurie Collett			Born in 1850 at Enfield, London
	23O25		Helen Sarah Collett			Born in 1854 at Enfield, London
	23O26		Rose Marion Collett			Born in 1856 at Enfield, London
23O1	George William Kenrick Collett was born at St Johns Wood near Regent’s Park, London in 1850, his birth recorded at Marylebone during the first quarter of that, the eldest child of Kenrick William Collett and Augusta Ann Richards. One year later, on the day of the census in 1851, George William Kenrick Collett was recorded as being one year old and the only child living at Frederick Street in Newington, Surrey, with his parents. Tragically his father died in Sierra Leone five years later, during 1856, when George and the rest of the family were still living in London. When he was 14 years of age, and on completion of his education, George started a seven-year apprenticeship on 20^th May 1864 for a fee of seven pounds per annum, working with wine merchant Henry Johnson, the agreement confirming that he was the son of deceased Kenrick William Collett of Sierra Leone, a Queens Advocate. He married Louise Sandys in 1878 and in 1881 they were living at 4 Waterloo Terrace in Islington, London with their daughter Violet M Collett. George, who was 31 and born at Marylebone, was a retired mariner. Louise was 28 and from Essex (sic), and their daughter Violet was one year old and had been born at Camberwell. On that census day Louise was due to give birth to the couple’s second child, who sadly died when he was only seven years of age.
	Three years after the birth of their only son at Islington, another Collett child, Ethel Mary, was born there in 1884, and she died during the following year. No baptism record has been found, so it cannot be confirmed that Ethel Mary was another daughter of George and Louise Collett. The couple’s final child was born at Islington in 1886 and, shortly thereafter, the family moved south back over The Thames to Beckenham in Kent, and it was there that their only died in 1888. According to the census of 1891, only one of their two surviving daughters was living with George and Louisa at Eustace Terrace in Beckenham. On that occasion, George was described as Kenrick Collett aged 41, who was a commercial clerk, his wife was confirmed as Louise Collett who was 25 and their youngest daughter Helen A Collett was four years of age.
	By the time of the March census in 1901, the reunited family of four was living at Kent House Road in Beckenham, Kent. George W K Collett was 51 and was a factory cashier from Marylebone and his wife Louise was 48 and from Henley-on-Thames. Still living with them were their two daughters Violet M Collett who was 21 and born in Camberwell, and Helen A Collett who was 14 and born in Islington. Sometime after that, the family left Beckenham and moved the short distance north to Sydenham in Kent where they were living at 55 Tannsfeld Road, within the Lewisham registration district of South London in 1911, not far from where his two younger sisters (below) had been living from around the late 1880 and up to 1901.
	By that time the couple’s eldest daughter Violet had already left the family home to be married, so the family then only comprised George William Kenrick Collett of Marylebone, who was 61 and working as the chief cashier in a local meat factory, Louise Collett from Henley who was 58, and Helen Augusta Collett who was 24. George and Louise were still living at 55 Tannsfeld Road in Sydenham thirteen years later, when George William Kenrick Collett was admitted into Charing Cross Hospital in London, where he died on 19^th April 1924 at the age of 73. His estate was valued at the London Probate Office on 22^nd May 1924 at £891 1 Shilling and 6 Pence, which was inherited by his widow Louise Collett. The death of George W K Collett was recorded at the London St Martins register office (Ref. 1a 497) during the second quarter of 1924, when he was 74.
	23P1		Violet Maude Collett			Born in 1880 at Camberwell, London
	23P2		George Augustus Collett			Born in 1881; died in 1888
	23P3		Ethel Mary Collett – not confirmed			Born in 1884; died in 1885
	23P4		Helen Augusta Collett			Born in 1886 at Islington, London
23O2	Richard Parker Collett was born in London on 17^th December 1852 and was the second son of Kenrick William and Augusta Ann Collett. He was only two years old when the premature death of Richard Parker Collett was recorded at Solihull in Warwickshire (Ref. 6d 287) during the last quarter of 1854, following which he was buried at Solihull on 28^th December 1854. At that time in his life, he and his mother, together with his brother George (above) and his sister Emily (below) were living at Warwick Road in Solihull, the home of George and Sarah Richards, the parents of Augusta Ann Collett nee Richards.
23O3	Emily Louise Collett was born at Kennington in Surrey in 1854. Curiously, in the census of 1861, and for the only time in her life, Emily was recorded in that year’s census as Ada E L Collett aged nine years from Kennington in London, while staying with her maternal grandparents, George and Sarah Richard, at their home on Warwick Road in Solihull. It was to Solihull that her widowed mother, Augusta Ann Collett nee Richard, had taken Emily and her sister Charlotte (below) at the end of 1856, following the death of her father. Ten years later Emily A Collett was 17 when she was a pupil at a young ladies’ school in Streatham run by sisters Frances and Eliza Lloyd. By the age of 27 she was still unmarried and was a teacher at a private school operated by her mother at 39 Peak Hill Gardens in Lewisham, where her younger sister Charlotte was also a teacher. After the death of her mother, just after the census day in 1881, Emily and her sister continued to manage the school and were still together at the time of the next census in 1891. By then Emily Collett was 39 and the Principal of the Ladies School on Recreation Road in the Lower Sydenham area of Lewisham (not far from Venner Road), where she was assisted by sister Charlotte.
	In the years prior to that census day the two sisters had been living together at 1 Lincoln Villas on Venner Road in Lower Sydenham, while in the years following the census day their address was still Recreation Road, the house name being Maycroft. By 1897 the pair of them were recorded at Burleigh House on Recreation Road, but just after that the sisters separated, with Charlotte going to live with her late mother’s sister in Ealing. Emily continued to live south of the River Thames, although no record of her has been identified within either of the censuses conducted in 1901 or 1911. However, the electoral rolls confirm that she was residing at 5 Streathbourne Road in Tooting Bec from 1899 to 1903, to the west of Tooting Bec Common, and at 22 Angles Road in Streatham, to the east of Tooting Bec Common in 1905 and 1907. From 1908 onwards, Emily Collett was living at 25 Manville Road in Tooting Bec, which is where she was still living in 1911 and again in 1936, when she died there on 16^th February 1936, after which her Will was proved at London on 25^th March 1936. Emily Collett, spinster of 25 Manville Road in Upper Tooting, Surrey, named Arnold Francis Steele, solicitor, as the sole executor of her personal estate valued at £6,878 7 Shillings and 1 Penny.
23O4	Charlotte Mary Collett was born at Islington in Middlesex, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 1b 235) during the last three months of 1856. Earlier that same year her father had died in Sierra Leone, after which Charlotte’s widowed took her young family to stay at the home of her parents on Warwick Road in Solihull. And that was the reason why Charlotte Mary Collett from London was baptised at Solihull on 2^nd March 1859, when her parents were confirmed as Kenrick William Collett (deceased) and Augusta Ann Collett. Charlotte and her older sister Ada (above) and their mother Augusta were still residing at the Solihull home of George and Sarah Richard in 1861, where Charlotte M Collett from London was four years old and described as the granddaughter of retired naval captain George Richard. Where Charlotte was in 1871 has still not been discovered when her sister Emily was attending a girls’ school in Streatham and her mother was the matron at a school for boys in Margate.
	However, just like her sister Emily, Charlotte entered the world of education and in 1881 the two sisters were recorded as working as school teachers in a private girls’ school at 39 Peak Hill Gardens, Lewisham, operated by her mother Augusta Collett. And also, like her sister, Charlotte Collett from Islington was unmarried at the age of 24 years. Her mother died very shortly after the census day in 1881, when it would appear that two sisters continue to run the school and, according to the next census in 1891, they were still unmarried and running a school for young ladies on Recreation Road in Lewisham. The sisters parted company some time thereafter, with Charlotte aged 44 living at Inglis Road in Ealing, Middlesex in March 1901. On that day she had no stated occupation and was the niece of elderly Emily Louisa Richard, her mother’s sister. And it was again at Ealing that she was still living with her aunt Emily in April 1911, when Charlotte Mary Collett was 54, with no occupation but living on private means.
	Twenty-five years after that census day, and only eight months after her sister Emily Collett (above), the death of Charlotte Mary Collett was recorded at Stourbridge register office (Ref. 5c 59) during the final quarter of 1936, when she was 80 years of age. The Will of Charlotte Mary Collett of 60 Croydon Road at Beckenham in Kent, a spinster who died on 28^th November 1936 at 24 Red Hill, Stourbridge in Worcestershire, was proved at London on 6^th January 1937 to Violet Maud Parfitt (wife of Henry Francis Parfitt) for the personal effects of £1,164 10 Shillings and 7 Pence. Violet was the eldest child of Charlotte’s eldest brother George William Kendrick Collett (above).
23O5	Henry Russell Collett was born near Regent’s Park in London on 2^nd March 1837. He was baptised at St Mary’s Church in St Marylebone Road, London, on 21^st June 1837, the son of Henry Parker and Mary Ann Collett. Sadly, he died on 10^th February 1852 when very nearly 15 years of age, and was buried at St Peter’s Church in Yateley, Hampshire. At that time, he was the only son of Henry Parker Collett, who had been living at 37 Gloucester Place in London until the mid-1840s, after which his family settled in Yateley Hall at Yateley, the property having been purchased by his father during 1841.
23O6	Cecil Mary Collett was born at Yateley Hall in Hampshire in 1845, although within the Yateley census in 1851, her place of birth was named as Southampton, when she was five years of age. Following the deaths of both her parents, when she was around ten years old, she and her three surviving siblings (below) were taken in by their aunt. In 1861, when Cecil Collett from Southampton was 15, she was living with her three siblings at The Shrubbery on Barham Street in Barham, Kent, with her aunt, the widow Mary Ann Lloyd nee Collett, the daughter of Kenrick Collett. In 1866 she married the son of Mary Ann Lloyd, Henry Dyson Lloyd, a clergyman of Marylebone in London, who was born in 1833. Henry was the brother of William Henry Lloyd who married Cecil’s sister Helena Parker Collett (below).
	According to the 1881 Census the family was living at Strickstemming-in-Much-Birch, south of Hereford, where Henry, aged 48 and of Marylebone, was a clergyman without care of souls, while his wife Cecil was 35 and from Yateley, a clergyman’s wife. Their three children at that time comprised two sons Cecil Henry Lloyd and Evelyn E C Lloyd, and a daughter Jane A C Lloyd, all born in Shropshire but at three different locations. Employed by Henry and Cecil was a cook domestic servant and a young male page domestic servant. Their three children were Cecil Henry Lloyd who was born at Cardeston in 1868, Evelyn Edmund Cecil Lloyd who was born at Easton-under-Heywood in 1872 but baptised at Herefordshire on 28^th June 1872, and Jane A C Lloyd born at Wistanstow in 1877. Their mother Cecil Mary Lloyd, nee Collett, died in 1921.
	By the time of the census in 1901, it was just Henry and Cecil, together with their youngest child, who were living at Runnington in Somerset. Henry Dyson Lloyd was 68 and a Church of England Clergyman who had been born in London, his wife Cecil Mary Lloyd was 55, and Jane A C Lloyd was 24 with no occupation, born at Wistanstow. Ten years later, the three of them were still living in The Vicarage in Runnington, when Clerk in Holy Orders Henry from Marylebone was 78, Cecil from Yateley in Hampshire was 65, and unmarried Jane Alexandra Cecil Lloyd was 32.
23O7	Helena Parker Collett was born on 6^th November 1846 at Yateley Hall and was four years of age in the Yateley census of 1851. By the time she was ten years of age both of her parents had died, following which Helena and her three siblings passed into the care of their widow aunt Mary Ann Lloyd. So, in the census of 1861, when Ellen P Collett from Yateley was 14, she and her two sisters and her brother (below) were living at The Shrubbery in Barham with Mary Ann Lloyd nee Collett, the daughter of Kenrick Collett. Also living there was her future husband to be, 30-year-old William Henry Lloyd, the son of Mary Ann Lloyd. William Henry Lloyd was born at 57 Harley Street, Cavendish Square in London on 3^rd March 1831 and was the son of Edmund Lloyd and Mary Ann Collett. He was baptised at St Marylebone Church when his sponsors were his grandfather Kenrick Collett, his uncle Henry Parker Collett and his wife.
	Four years later on 30^th August 1865 Helena married her cousin solicitor William Henry Lloyd at St George’s Church in Hanover Square. William was the brother of Henry Dyson Lloyd who married Helena’s sister Cecil Mary Collett (above). After the wedding the couple took up residence at 6 Burwood Place near Hyde Park where their first two children were born. Following the upset of two failed births the family moved to Barham in Kent where the next three children were born. Although their next child was born in Brighton, the family home was still residing at Barham while, one year later, the family had moved to Pembury, near Tunbridge Wells, close to where Helena’s unmarried sister Catherine Collett (below) was living.
	The 1881 Census confirmed William H Lloyd as being aged 50 and a solicitor of St Marylebone. His wife was listed as Helena P Lloyd aged 34 of Yateley in Hampshire. At that time the family was living at Station Road in Pembury, near Tunbridge Wells, in Kent. The household comprised three of the four daughters and two of the three sons listed below. Also at the property, was a paid governess and four domestic servants.
	The family’s next change of address took place during May 1884, when they moved to 34 Linden Road in Bedford, to be close to William’s brother Edmund Lloyd. Further moves took the family to Headcorn and Worthing, Bay Lodge in Danbury, Allington House near Devizes, and Frogmore House at Milton-Under-Wychwood from 1905 to 1908. It was in January 1908 that William underwent a major operation and just a month later, on 7^th February 1908, his wife died while staying with a relative at Droitwich, where she had been visiting the brine baths to ease her ailments.
	Her death was reported as ‘on the 7^th instant at Droitwich Helena Parker the beloved wife of William Henry Lloyd of Otley House and late of Barham in Kent’. Following her death and in poor health himself, her husband moved to Droitwich so that he could be buried next to her when he died. William Henry Lloyd died on 17^th November 1912 and was buried alongside his wife at St Andrew’s Church Cemetery in Droitwich.
	Their children, in order of their birth, were Mary Ann Lloyd who was born on 29^th July 1866 at Hyde Park in London, as was William Edmund Eyre Lloyd who was born there on 10^th November 1867. Next were the two children who suffered infant deaths at birth, who were born on 29^th November 1868 and 27^th October 1869. The next three, born at Barham in Kent, were Helena Graham Lloyd born on 14^th September 1872, Kenrick Horace Lloyd born on 1^st January 1874, and Camilla Parker Lloyd born on 17^th September 1875. Their penultimate child was born at 12 Wilbury Road in Brighton on 31^st August 1878 and he was Martin Archibald Lloyd, while the last child was Bridget Eyre Lloyd born at 34 Linden Road in Bedford on 12^th May 1886.
23O8	Catherine Ann Spencer Collett was born on 6^th December 1849 at Yateley Hall and was one year old in the Yateley census of 1851. She was five years old when her father died and the year after that her mother passed away, resulting in Catherine and her sibling being taken into the Kent home of their aunt, the widow Mary Ann Lloyd nee Collett. Within the census returns for 1861 Catherine A Collett from Yateley was 11 years old and was living with her three siblings at The Shrubbery on Barham Street in Barham, Kent. By the time of the 1881 Census, she was 31 and still a single lady when she was living at St Albans Lodge on Bridge Road in Speldhurst, near Tunbridge Well, Kent not far from her married sister Helena Lloyd (above). In the census she was listed as having an ‘interest in property’ which presumably was where her income came from. Also living at the lodge was a lady’s maid and cook/domestic servant.
	Twenty years later Catherine S Collett from Yateley was living on her own means at the age of 53, when recorded in the census of 1901 at Broughton Road in Ealing, Middlesex. Visiting her that day was Edith Rose from Ramsey in Huntingdonshire who was 36, the pair of then being waited on by domestic servant Annie Smith who was 45. She was still living there in 1911 when she was recorded as C A S Collett aged 63 and from Yateley, by which time she was employing a housekeeper, Amelia Gazzard, and a domestic servant, Florence Wakefield.
	Catherine never married and it was therefore as Catherine Ann Spencer Collett that she died on 29^th January 1928. Her Will was proved at Exeter on 12^th March 1928 when the executors of her estate were named as George William Jackson, solicitor, and George William Archibald Jackson, solicitor, and Kenrick Lloyd, retired Major in His Majesty’s Indian Army. Catherine’s estate amounted to £9,385 0 Shillings and 4 Pence, while her last address was given as Hydrina, Polsham Road at Paignton in Devon.
23O9	Horace Chambers Spencer Collett was born at Yateley Hall in Hampshire on 11^th June 1853, the youngest child of Henry Parker Collett and his second wife Mary Ann Waller. His birth, using his full name, was recorded at Farnborough (Ref. 2a 69) during the third quarter of 1853. He was still only two years of age when his father passed away, following which his mother died when he was just three years old. Those tragic events resulted in Horace and his three older sisters (above) being taken into the care of their aunt. At the time of the census in 1861, when he was seven years old, he was recorded as Charles Collett from Yateley, one of four siblings living at The Shrubbery on Barham Street in Barham, midway between Canterbury and Dover, the home of the widow Mary Ann Lloyd nee Collett, the younger sister of his father Henry Parker Collett.
	Horace was education at schools in Harrow and Malvern, where he was 17 in April 1871, before entering Trinity Hall College in Cambridge on 14^th December 1871. He matriculated during the following year and obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1875. The record held by the university at the time of his admission confirmed he was the son and heir of Henry Parker Collett of Yateley Hall in Hampshire. It was the same year that he received his B A that he was admitted into the Middle Temple on 1^st May 1875, at the age of almost 23, when he was described as being 'of Trinity Hall, and residing at 15 Lansdowne Crescent in Leamington.'
	It was just two years later, during the third quarter of 1877 that Horace Chambers S Collett married Annie Spedding, the daughter of Carlisle Harrington Spedding and his wife Annie, at Kensington in London (Ref. 1a 317). The birth of Annie Spedding was recorded at Whitehaven in Cumberland (Ref. 10b 488) during the last three months of 1857. She was baptised on 30^th October 1857 at the Church of St John in Beckermet when her parents were named as Carlisle Wellington Spedding and his wife Annie. Six years earlier Annie Spedding, aged 13, together with three of her sisters, was attending a boarding school at St Bees near Whitehaven, while the same census in 1871 the girls’ parents were recorded at Muncaster to the south of Egremont.
	Four years after they were married Horace and Annie were living at 2 Oxford Park in Ilfracombe, North Devon, with their first two children, where they were recorded at the time of the census in 1881. Three years earlier their daughter Cecil was born in London, but baptised shortly after at Royal Leamington Spa, with the couple eventually arriving in Ilfracombe where the three youngest children were born. In 1881, Horace C Collett was described as having no occupation, when he was 26 and born at Yateley in Hampshire. His wife Annie Collett from Egremont in Cumberland was 22 and was preparing for the birth of the couple’s third child. Their two children were both born in London before the family moved to the West Country, and they were Louise Collett who was two years old, and Margaret Collett who was one year old. Although not working at that time, Horace was clearly a man of some wealth, since he was employing two servants at that time in his life. They were Mary Keane aged 26, a cook from Croyde Bay in Devon, and Eliza Tucker who was 18 and from Portsmouth, who was a general servant.
	By the time the next census was conducted in 1891, Horace and some members of his family were living at 2 Richmond Road at Pevensey on the Sussex coast between Eastbourne and Bexhill-on-Sea. Horace Chas S Collett was 37 and from Yateley in Hampshire who was living on his own means. His wife Annie from Egremont in Cumberland was 32 and the only child still living with them was their youngest son Joseph H S Collett who was seven years old and born at Ilfracombe. The couple’s eldest son Horace Collett from Ilfracombe was nine years old and was a patient at the Western Hospital in Fulham, while their two daughters were being educated at a private school for girls in Fulham.
	Rather interestingly, living with the Collett family at Pevensey in 1891 were two other people recorded in error under the name of Collett. The first was Annie’s married sister, recorded as Frances Edith H Collett who was 26 and from Cumberland, who was described as the sister-in-law to head of the household Horace Collett. With her was her son Edwin Percy H Collett, a nephew to Horace, who was six years of age and born at St Helier on Jersey. In 1881 Frances Edith Spedding, aged 18 and from Cumberland, was living with her older sister Sarah Jane Spedding at 7 Heath Terrace in Milverton, Warwickshire. Also living at the same address was Frances’ widowed father Carlisle Harrington Spedding who was living there with his wife Annie in 1871. However, it was at Rugby on 30^th November 1884 that Frances Edith Spedding had married Edwin John Dexter Hensman, who suffered a premature death at Rugby in 1895 when he was only 36.
	Ten years later Horace’s two sons were once again living with him and his wife, while it was the couple’s eldest daughter who was a nurse working at a hospital in Yorkshire. The couple’s other absent daughter was employed as a children’s companion in Brighton. The census in 1901 recorded the family staying at the Lateridge Arms Inn at Irton-with-Santon near Ravenglass in Cumberland, only a few miles from where Annie had been born. Horace C S Collett from Yateley was 46 and was still living on his own means. His wife Annie Collet from Beckermet was 40, Horace C S Collet was 19 and Joseph H S Collet was 17, both of them born in Ilfracombe.
	From Cumberland the family sailed across the Irish Sea and settle at Newton Stewart in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. And it was The Cottage in Deer Park, Newton Stewart that was the family home when Horace Chambers Spencer Collett died on 7^th August 1908 at 17 Claremont Street in Belfast. He was 56 and his estate of only £25 was passed to his widow Annie through the probate process in London. Annie Collett nee Spedding was still living at The Cottage in Deer Park when she also died at 17^th Claremont Street in Belfast on 9^th September 1912 at the age of 50. Her Will was proved in London on 26^th February 1913 when her married daughter Cecil Louise Russell, the wife of Samuel Charles Russell, was named as the sole executor of her estate amounting to £102 1 Shilling and 6 Pence.
	Claremont Street lies adjacent to Belfast City Hospital, so it seems right to assume that both of them were patients at the hospital when they passed away. It may have been around the time of the death of Horace Collett or that of his wife Annie, that three of their four children emigrated to Canada, since it is known that their eldest daughter was living near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire at the time of the census in 1911, when she was recorded there with her husband and his elderly mother.
	23P5		Cecil Louise Collett			Born in 1878 at Mayfair, London
	23P6		Eveline Margaret Collett			Born in 1880 at Ilfracombe, Devon
	23P7		Horace Carlisle Spedding Collett			Born in 1881 at Ilfracombe, Devon
	23P8		Joseph Harrington Spedding Collett			Born in 1883 at Ilfracombe, Devon
23O10	Charles William McKenzie Collett was born within the St Pancras area of London around 1836, the son of Charles Mynors Collett. Charles Mynors was married to Mary Ann McKenzie in 1839, so it seems logical Charles William McKenzie was the base-born son of Mary Ann McKenzie, rather than the child from a previous marriage of Charles Mynors Collett. No record of Charles junior or Mary Ann has been found within the census of 1841, while Charles Collett senior appears to have been living in the Regent’s Park area of London.
	Ten years later in 1851 all three of them were recorded as living at 15 Gladstone Street in Southwark St George, when Charles W M Collett, aged 15 and from St Pancras, was already working for his father, as a solicitor’s writing clerk, while his mother Mary was only 34. That would indicate that Mary was around 19 years old when she gave birth to Charles, which may account for why he was a couple of years old when his parents were married in 1839. Also living at the same address was mother and daughter Catherine Fitzmayer, aged 60, a widow and a pensioner from Madeira who was described as lodger, and Mary Eliza Fitzmayer, aged 34, an annuitant from Woolwich, who was a visitor. The whole household was supported by a house servant Elizabeth Nugent from Deptford who was 25.
	Following a fall from grace in the mid-1850s, Charles’ parents left London and moved to Blackburn in the north of England, where they were recorded in 1861. Charles had remained in London where he married Frances Coombs on 27^th August 1857, the event recorded at Clerkenwell. Both he and Frances were 21 years of age, and the same address was given for both of them, it being 13 Middleton Square in Clerkenwell. Frances, a spinster with no occupation, was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester, Dorset on 27^th December 1835, the daughter of gentleman William Coombs by his wife Sarah Ellis. Charles William McKenzie Collett was described as a solicitor’s managing clerk, and his father was named as solicitor Charles Mynors Collett of 13 Middleton Square.
	Six years earlier, in the census of 1851, Fanny Coombs (Coombe) from Dorchester in Dorset had already left her family’s home, when she was working and living in the Clerkenwell St James district of London at the age of 14. By the time of the census in 1861 Charles Collett from St Pancras was recorded in error as being 28, while his occupation was that of a solicitor. He and his wife were lodging at 2 Swiss Villa in Stretford near Barton-upon-Irwell in Lancashire, the home of Thomas William Ridsdale and his family. Charles’ wife was named in error as Francis Collett, who was correctly described as being 24 and from Dorsetshire.
	New information discovered in 2013 reveals that law clerk Charles William McKenzie Collett died on 11^th December 1863 while he was living at 373 Oxford Street in the City of Manchester. His death was recorded at Chorlton in Lancashire (Ref. 8c 389) during the final three months of 1863. His Will was proved in Manchester which named his widow Fanny Collett of Blackburn as being the sole executor. Presumably Fanny later re-married and that is therefore the reason why no obvious record of her has been found in the census of 1871.
23O11	Kenrick Clayton Collett was born at Camden Town in London on 24^th November 1842 and was baptised at Old Church in St Pancras one month later, on 28^th December 1842, when his parents were confirmed as Rowland William Davies Collett and Mary Ann Edwards. At the age of eight years, Kenrick C Collett from Camden was living with his parents and four siblings at New Kent Road in Newington, South London in 1851. By 1861 he was 18 and working as a clerk, when living with his widowed mother Mary Ann Collett at Frederick Street in St Pancras. Eight years later he married Mary Crumpton at Hackney where the event was recorded (Ref. 1b 484) during the first three months 1869, with whom he had three children in London before the family emigrated to Australia.
	This was in some way confirmed by the census of 1871, when the couple was still living at Plaistow, in the West Ham area of East London, with the first of their three English born children. Kenrick C Collett from St Pancras was 27 and still employed as a clerk, his wife Mary from Manchester was 25 and near the end of her second pregnancy, and their daughter Mary E E Collett, born at Plaistow, was recorded in error as being under one year old when in fact she was over one year old. The next two children were born in London, their births recorded at West Ham and Edmonton, and it seems very likely that the fourth child was born somewhere between England and Australia. It was nearly five years after the 1871 Census that the Kenrick and his young family sailed from Gravesend on 15^th February 1876 bound for Western Australia on the ship ‘Robert Morrison’, arriving at Fremantle, to the south of Perth, on 19^th December 1876 with four of their children. There was a total of 154 passengers on board the ship for the ten-month voyage.
	Kenrick was noted as a gardener at The Canning (see also below) and was buried at the Old East Perth Cemetery. The Canning is on the east side of Perth and may have been a reference to the Canning Vale district of the city or Canning Mills on the eastern outskirts of Perth. Kenrick Clayton Collett died in Australia on 25^th May 1912. One source, in Australia, states he and his wife gave birth to a total of ten children, meaning that four of them are missing from the list below.
	23P9		Mary Ellen Edwards Collett			Born in 1869 in London
	23P10		Kenrick Rowland Collett			Born in 1871 in London
	23P11		Constance Madeline Collett			Born in 1874 in London
	23P12		Sydney Collett			Born in 1876 en route to Australia
	23P13		Francis Albert Collett			Born in 1883 at Fremantle
	23P14		Rose Laura Collett			Born in 1884 at Perth
23O12	FRANCIS ALEXANDER EDWARDS COLLETT was born at Camden in London on 12^th April 1844 and was the son of Rowland William Davies Collett. Six weeks after he was born Francis was baptised at Old Church in St Pancras on 29^th May 1844. In 1851 the family was living at 4 County Terrace on the New Kent Road in Newington when Francis A E Collett from Camden was six years old. Tragically, just two years later, his father died at the age of thirty-nine, leaving Francis to be brought up by his widowed mother Mary Ann Collett. On leaving school Francis was an apprentice chemist, and later a bank clerk and a bank manager.
	Francis was a bank clerk when he married Laura Augusta Wedlake on 5^th March 1870 at Plaistow in the West Ham area of East London. She was the daughter of Henry Brayley Wedlake and Mary Louisa Church and was born at St Pancras on 8^th September 1845. By the end of the year in which the couple was married, they were living in the South Hackney area of London, where the first of their seven children was born. A few months later the family of three was residing in Edmonton, where bank clerk Frank Collett was 26 and from St Pancras, as was his wife Laura who was 24. Their daughter, Mabel Laura Collett, was three months old. Curiously their second child, born in 1872 was also recorded as having been born at South Hackney, while the couple’s third child was born at Marshside Close in Lower Edmonton.
	The wording under his Coat of Arms states “On the 5^th March, at St Mary’s Plaistow, by the Rev. Marsh, Francis Alexander Edwards, second son of the late Rowland W D Collett, Esq, barrister-at-law, to Laura Augusta, youngest child of the late Henry Brayley Wedlake, Esq, solicitor, of the Temple.
	Their first two children were baptised together in a joint ceremony on 2^nd June 1872 at Weld Chapel in Southgate, London. However, shortly after the birth of the third child in 1874, Frank’s work as an auctioneer took the family from London to the Isle of Guernsey, where the next three children were born. According to the census of 1881, the family was living at 3 St James Street in St Peter Port where Francis, who was referred to as Frank aged 37, continued his occupation as an auctioneer. His wife Laura was 36, and their five children at that time were Mabel aged 10 years, Rowland who was nine, Grace who was six, Herbert who was three, and Murray who was one year old, the last two confirmed as having been born at St Peter Port. On that occasion, the Collett family employed a domestic servant, Elizabeth le Lacheur, eighteen years old and from St Peter Port. One further child was born to Frank and Laura while they were still living on Guernsey and that happened almost one year later.
	During the latter half of 1884 Frank and Laura, and their six children, left the Channel Islands when they emigrated to Australia. The family sailed out of the Port of London on the ship ‘Glengoil’ with forty-two passengers on board, bound for Fremantle in Western Australia, where they arrived on 11^th October 1884. The journey would have been difficult for the young family, but must have been particularly difficult for Laura, as she was pregnant with the couple’s seventh and last child Daisy, who was born at The Canning (see reference above) two weeks after they had arrived in Fremantle. Once the family was established in Australia, Frank continued with his work as an auctioneer.
	Francis Alexander Edward Collett died seven years later on 5^th October 1891; his wife Laura having died earlier that same year in the month of June from ‘the colonial fever’ typhoid. The story within the family is that youngest son Hugh, aged only nine years, was sharing his father’s bed at that time and awoke to find him dead. It was then that his son Herbert Brayley Collett took over as head of the household.
	23P15		Mabel Laura Collett			Born in 1870 at South Hackney, London
	23P16		Rowland Francis Collett			Born in 1872 at South Hackney, London
	23P17		Grace Marion Collett			Born in 1874 at Edmonton, London
	23P18		HERBERT BRAYLEY COLLETT			Born in 1877 at St Peter Port, Guernsey
	23P19		Murray William Collett			Born in 1880 at St Peter Port, Guernsey
	23P20		Hugh Collett			Born in 1882 at St Peter Port, Guernsey
	23P21		Daisy Belle Collett			Born in 1884 at St Peter Port, Guernsey
23O13	Rowland William Collett was born at Enfield in London on 17^th December 1845 and was the son of Rowland William Davies Collett and Mary Ann Edwards. When he was aged five years, at the time of the 1851, Rowland W Collett from Enfield and his family were living at 4 County Terrace in the Newington area of South London. Just like his two older brothers Kenrick and Francis (above), Rowland also emigrated to Australia. Tragically it was there in 1863, at the age of only eighteen years, that Rowland died in what has been described as “suspicious circumstances”. Following his death, he was buried at Denial Bay in South Australia on 11^th March 1863.
23O14	Fanny Helen Collett was born in 1847, her birth recorded at Ware in Hertfordshire (Ref. 6 556) during the second quarter of that year. It was also at Great Amwell near Stansted that Fanny Helen Collett was baptised on 4^th July 1847, which was also where her parents said she was born in the census return completed in 1851. On that day Fanny Helen Collett from Amwell was three years old and living at 4 County Terrace in Newington with her family. Two years later, and following the death of her father, Rowland William Davies Collett at Newington in 1853, Fanny and two of her brothers, Kenrick and Herbert, remained living with their widowed mother. By the time of the next census in 1861, Fanny H Collett was 13 years of age when she was living with her family at Frederick Street in St Pancras. With no record of her found after that census day, it has to be assumed that she became a married lady.
23O15	Herbert Evans Collett was born in 1849 when his family was living at 4 County Terrace just off the New Kent Road in the Newington. His birth, as Herbert Evans Collett, was recorded at Newington (Ref. 4 328) during the second quarter of that year. And it was there also the family was living in March 1851 when Herbert was said to be one year old (although he was very nearly two), his place of birth recorded as Lambeth. After losing his father at such a young age, Herbert E Collet aged 11 and from Blackpoint in London, was living with his widowed mother and two older siblings at Frederick Street in St Pancras on the day of the census in 1861. It would seem as though Herbert was in the process of emigrating to Australia, like other members of his family, when he died at sea off Ascension Island in 1864 at the age of 15 or 16.
23O16	Murray Campbell Collett was born at 4 County Terrace off New Kent Road in Newington, London on 6^th August 1852, his birth recorded at Newington (Ref. 1d 162) during the third quarter of that year. He was baptised at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Newington on 12^th November 1852, the last child of Rowland William Davies Collett and his wife Mary Ann Edwards. Not long after he was born there was a succession of deaths within the family. The first of them was his father Rowland Collett who died in 1853 aged 39 when Murray was only one year old. Next to die was Murray’s two older brothers Rowland Collett junior in 1863 aged 18, followed by Herbert Collett during the following year when he was 15 or 16. It seems rather strange that no record of Murray, aged around nine years, has been discovered with the census of 1861, when other siblings were living with his mother in St Pancras.
	It was during the last three months of 1872 that Murray Campbell Collett married Rebecca Farrer, the event recorded at Bethnal Green (Ref. 1c 871). The two witnesses were Mary Sarah Duke and John Thomas Bowsher. The couple was only married for a short while, when Murray Campbell Collett died in London during the summer of 1879, his death recorded at the St Saviour Southwark (Ref. 1d 51) in the third quarter of that year, when he was only 26. No record of his widow has been found in the 1881 Census or any later census, perhaps indicating that she had remarried following the death of her young husband.
23O17	John Wimburn Laurie was born at the family home on Harley Street in Marylebone, London, on 1^st October 1835, the first-born child of Elizabeth Helen Collett and John Laurie. He fought in the Crimean War, was commanding militia in Nova Scotia at the time of the American Civil War and was the senior officer involved in the Canadian North-West Rebellion of 1885. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant General and served as Member of Parliament for Shelburne in the Canadian House of Commons from 1887 to 1891). On his return to England, he served in the British House of Commons, representing Pembroke and Haverfordwest from 1895 to 1906 and was the Mayor of Paddington in London during 1907. It was five years later that John Wimburn Laurie died in 1912.
23O18	Peter George Laurie was born at Holcrofts in Fulham during 1838 and he died in 1912. He was in Hong Kong when he married Emily Ann Smale at St John’s Cathedral on 2^nd September 1868. At an earlier time, he was a civilian in the Crimea during the latter stages of the Crimean War and later travelled to Hong Kong where he joined Jardine Matheson & Company at the time of the second Opium War. He and Emily retired to Essex in 1876 when Peter was only 38 years of age. He subsequently filled his time as an enthusiastic local historian and writer for private publication.
	It was Peter George Laurie who wrote “Our Collett Ancestors” in 1898, copies of which are held at the Guildhall and the British Library in London. Two years later in 1900 he published for private circulation the tragic story of John Collett (Ref. 23K2) which he entitled “Robinson Crusoe Collett” and which has been serialised in the Monthly Collett Newsletter. John Collett was the brother of Peter’s great great grandfather Richard Cobb Collett.
23O19	Julius Dyson Laurie was born at the family home at Munster House, Holcrofts in Fulham on 9^th December 1839. He arrived in Crimea during 1855 as a fifteen-year-old Lieutenant in time to be wounded in the leg in the final attack on Sevastopol. Despite serious infection, he survived to travel home via Florence Nightingale’s hospital at Scutari. Following the Indian Mutiny in 1857, his regiment was rushed to Cawnpore where he fought in the final relief of Lucknow. He served in India and Afghanistan from 1875 to 1885, before retiring as Colonel with The Border Regiment. He died at his home at Gloucester Place in London on 19^th December 1909.
	He was first married to (1) Beatrice Margaret Northall-Laurie on 2^nd June 1869 when Beatrice was 23 and he was 29. Their marriage lasted ten years when Beatrice died in India on 8^th December 1879. Many years later he married (2) the Honourable Gwen Gertrude Mary Molesworth at St Luke’s Church in Chelsea on 9^th May 1906. Gwen was born at 7 Castle Terrace in West Cowes on the Isle of Wight on 4^th November 1865. They were only married for three years when Julius died at 111 Gloucester Place in London on 19^th December 1909. His widow survived him by forty-two years, when she died on 12^th March 1951 at The Clock House in Byfleet, Surrey, following which she was buried at Wimborne Cemetery in Bournemouth.
23O20	Arthur Henry Laurie was born at the family home at Munster House in Fulham on 4^th November 1841. It was on 12^th September 1866 that he married Matilda Wahab at St John’s Church in Secunderabad in India. Sadly, it was only six years later, at Deesa in India, when he was serving as a Captain in the Saugor Field Division of the Indian Army that he and another officer were murdered by a deranged European soldier in his Regiment on 17^th April 1872.
23O21	Alfred St George McAdam Laurie was born in London, where his birth was registered, simply as Alfred Laurie, during the second quarter of 1847. He later married Ellen Catherine Dawson at St Thomas’ Church in Portman Square in London on 4^th July 1871. They lived at High Street, Sevenoaks in Kent from where Alfred worked in the City of London as a stockbroker. He was a Justice of the Peace in 1897 and a Queens Counsel in 1902. When the first municipal – rather than national – telephone service was introduced at Tonbridge in 1901, Alfred had the distinction of being allocated the number ‘Sevenoaks 1’. His eldest son, Lt. Col. Sir John Dawson Laurie was Lord Mayor of London in 1940, while his fourth son, Major-General Sir Percy Laurie KCVO, CBE, DSO after distinguished service in WW1, became Assistant Commissioner ‘D’ with the Metropolitan Police from 1933 to 1936 and was recalled from retirement in 1940 to become Provost-Marshal for the United Kingdom. Alfred St George McAdam Laurie was 79 years old when his death was recorded at Sussex register office (Ref. 2b 112) during 1927.
23O22	Francis Duke Laurie was born at Romford during 1849, the youngest son of John and Elizabeth Laurie. He later emigrated to Canada, most likely guided by his elder brother John, where he married Joanna Archibald. He became the superintendent of the Intercolonial Railway in Canada and was the Mayor of New Glasgow in Nova Scotia in 1898. It was at Halifax in Nova Scotia that he died in 1900.
23O23	Helen Marian Agnes Laurie was born in 1856, the last child of Elizabeth Helen Collett and her husband John Laurie, whose birth was registered at Marylebone (Ref. 1a 411) during the first quarter of the year. She was born after her three brothers John, Peter and Julius had returned from their respective involvements in the Crimean War. It was in 1885 that she married Colonel Charles Bradford-Brown of 8^th Regiment of Foot at Holy Trinity Church in Paddington, their wedding recorded at Paddington (Ref. 1a 120) during the second quarter of the year. The marriage produced no children for the couple who lived at Northiam in East Sussex, while it is known that Helen died in 1939.
23O24	Fanny Laurie Collett was probably born at Green Street in Enfield on 26^th October 1850, since that was where her parents Richard and Fanny were living during the census in the following year, and where he two younger sisters were both born. Her birth was recorded at Edmonton (Ref. 3 151) during the last quarter of 1850. She was seven months of on the day of the census in 1851, but no record of her, or her family, has been found in the census of 1861, nor was she living with her parents at Sydenham in Kent in 1871. Just over eight years later Fanny married John Dag on 14^th November 1879 and left England to live in Ireland. Sadly, the marriage was less than eighteen months old when, Fanny died in Limerick on 6^th May 1881.
23O25	Helen Sarah Collett was born in Enfield in London on 27^th February 1854 and was the second of the three daughters of Richard Fowler Collett and Fanny Edwards. Her father’s work as a merchant and commission agent may have been the reason for the family’s absence from the census in 1861, although by 1871 Helen and her family, minus her eldest sister (above), were residing in the Sydenham area of Lewisham in Kent, when Helen Sarah Collett from Enfield was 17. In 1881 she was 27 and was still living with her parents at 57 Kent House Road in Lewisham. Three years later in 1884 Helen married Edmund Joseph Clark who was born in Portsmouth in 1854, the son of miller Edward Clark and his wife Fanny. Their wedding also took place in Hampshire.
	The marriage produced a son for Helen and Edmund who was born at Southsea in 1886 and, who in 1901 at fourteen years of age was living with his grandparents at Curdridge in Southampton. At that time Helen S Clark of Enfield and her husband Edmund were both 46 and living on their owns means in Portsmouth. What happened to Edmund during the first ten years of the new century is not known, except that Helen Sarah Clark aged 53 and from Enfield and her son Douglas Richard Clark aged 24 were living alone at Steyning in Sussex.
	Helen Sarah Clark nee Collett died at Southsea on 20^th July 1919 and her Will was proved at London on 5^th November 1919. The Will of Helen Sarah Clark of 3 Nettlecombe Avenue in Southsea, the wife of Edmund Clark, named the sole executor as Douglas Richard Clark, a gentleman of independent means, her personal effects amounting to £1,377 7 Shillings and 7 Pence. Her husband survived her by eighteen years, with Edmund Joseph Clark passing away at the age of 82 on 11^th March 1937. His death was recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 938). By that time in his life, he had amassed a considerable fortune as indicated by the probate of his Will which stated that his address was 131 High Street in Portsmouth, and that the executors of his Will were Cassandra Mary Clark, widow, and John Fulton Houston, dental surgeon, and George Bramsdon Addison, solicitor. His personal estate was valued at £10,307 3 Shillings and 4 Pence. It is interesting that George Bramsdon Addison had married Emily Clark at Kensington in London just seven years earlier during the last three months of 1930.
23O26	Rose Marion Collett was, according to the subsequent census returns, born at Enfield in 1856, while it was at Edmonton that her birth was recorded (Ref. 3a 137) during the last three months of that year, the youngest of the three daughters of Richard Fowler Collett and Fanny Edwards. No record of Rose and her family has so far been found within the census records for 1861, but by 1871 the family was recorded at Sydenham in Lewisham, South London, Kent when Rose Marion Collett from Enfield was 14. Ten years later the family was living at 57 Kent House Road in Lewisham, where Rose M Collett was 24. Following the death of her father at Lewisham in 1885, Rose accompanied her widowed mother Fanny to Landport in Portsmouth, where they were confirmed as living in the census of 1891. On that occasion Rose Maria (sic) Collett was unmarried at the age of 34.
	The Portsmouth census of 1901 placed Rose and her elderly mother residing at Festing Grove in the parish of Milton St James, where Rose M Collett from Enfield was recorded in error as being aged 39, when in fact she was 44. It seems highly likely that Rose never married, since she was continuing to look after her ageing mother at Portsmouth in the April census of 1911. That year her mother Fanny was 87, while Rose Collett was described as being of Enfield but whose age was once again recorded in error as being was 51, when she was actually 54.
23P1	Violet Maude Collett was born at Camberwell in the spring of 1880, her birth recorded there (Ref. 1d 799) during the second quarter of that year, the eldest surviving child of George Collett and Louise Sandys. It was on 9^th May 1880 that she was baptised at East Dulwich, the daughter of George William Kenrick Collett and his wife Louise. Not long after she was baptised, her parents left Camberwell and moved north of the River Thames, living at Waterloo Terrace in Islington on the day of the census in 1881, where Violet M Collett of Camberwell was one year old. Even though no trace of Violet has been found in 1891, when she was absent from the family home at Eustace Terrace in Beckenham, Kent, by March 1901 Violet M Collett of Camberwell was 21 and was with her family living at Kent House Road in Beckenham, where she was working as a solicitor’s clerk. She married Henry Francis Parfitt during the third quarter of 1905, the wedding recorded at Bromley register office (Ref. 2a 1091) and by April 1911, Violet Maude and Henry Francis Parfitt were both 31 when they were still living in the Bromley area of Kent.
	Violet Maude Parfitt nee Collett died on 18^th January 1946 at the age of 65 and was buried at Beckenham Crematorium in Elmers End Road, Beckenham, Kent. Her name was written as Violet Maud Collett Parfitt in the burial record. From the information on the headstone to the right, it can be seen that Henry Francis Parfitt was born on 25^th December 1879 and died, two days before his ninety-third birthday, on 23^rd December 1972. It can perhaps also be assumed that, following the passing of Violet, Henry took up with his sister-in-law, Helen Augusta Smith nee Collett (below) who was born in 1886, and who also died in the 1970s.
	Nine years prior to the death of Violet Maude Parfitt, nee Collett, she was named as the sole executor of the 1936 Will of unmarried Charlotte Mary Collett who passed away on 28^th November 1936, her Will proved at London on 6^th January 1937. The official probate record stated that it was Violet Maude Parfitt (wife of Henry Francis Parfitt) who was responsible for the estate of £1,164 10 Shillings and 7 Pence. Violet’s father was Charlotte’s eldest sibling, making their relationship that of niece and aunt.
23P2	George Augustus Collett was born at Waterloo Terrace in Islington in 1881, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 1b 286) during the third quarter of the year as George Augustus O Collett. He was the son of George William Kenrick Collett and Louise Sandys and was only seven years old when he died, his death recorded at Camberwell (Ref. 1d 417) during the third quarter of 1888. On that occasion his name was written as George Augustus C Collett.
23P3	Ethel Mary Collett, who has yet to be confirmed as a daughter of George William Kenrick Collett and Louise Sandys, was born in 1884, her birth, like that of her potential brother above and sister below, was recorded at Islington (Ref. 1b 355) during the first three months of that year. She was just over one year old when she died at Islington, where her death was recorded (Ref. 1b 221) during the second quarter of 1885.
23P4	Helen Augusta Collett was born at Islington on 9^th October 1886, where her birth was recorded (Ref.1b 301). Although born north of the River Thames, as were two of her three siblings, by the time of the premature death of her brother George Augustus Collett, when she was nearly two years of age, Helen and her parents were living at Eustace Terrace in Beckenham, Kent in 1891. Where her eldest and only surviving sibling, Violet Maude Collett, was that census day, has still to be determined. Ten year later both sisters were again living with their parents at Kent House Road in Beckenham, where Helen A Collett from Islington was 14. During the next decade her sister Violet (above) was married and Helen’s parents moved the few miles north to Lewisham in Kent and it was there, at 55 Tannsfeld Road, where they were living on the day of the next census in 1911. Helen Augusta Collett, who was 24 years old and born in Islington, who had no stated occupation, who was soon to be married.
	Very shortly after that census day, the marriage of Helen A Collett and John E Smith was recorded at Lewisham register office (Ref. 1d 1939) during the second quarter of 1911. John Ernest Smith was the son of Frederick George and Ellen Smith of St Michael’s Road at Aigburth in Liverpool. The marriage had produced two children for the couple before Helen’s husband became Private J E Smith 44846 with D Company 11^th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, who was tragically killed during the fighting at Ypres on 10^th August 1917. At the time of his death, he was 32 and his name appears on Panel 6 of the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres. As his next-of-kin, his wife Helen was listed in the military records as living at 55 Tannsfeld Road in the Sydenham district of London, the home of Helen’s parents.
	The couple’s eldest son was George Ernest Collett Smith who was born in 1913. He married Cecilia Williams in 1937 and served as a gunner in the 302^nd Battery HAA Regiment during the Second World War. He later worked as a partner solicitor with the firm of Herbert Smith in London. George who, in the 1990s, was living at Rotherfield in East Sussex, carried out extensive research into the Collett family. The three children of George and Cecilia were Michael John Henry Smith who was born in 1938, Charles George Stephen Smith who was born in 1942, and Jennifer Jane Smith who was born in 1945. Nothing much is known about the second child of Helen Augusta Collett and John Ernest Smith, except that John Frederick Sandys Smith was born during 1915
23P5	Cecil Louise Collett was born at Maddox Street, Mayfair in London during 1878, the eldest of the four children of Horace Chambers Spencer Collett and his wife Annie Spedding. However, when her birth was registered at St George Hanover Square in London (Ref. 1a 362) during the second quarter of 1878, her name was recorded as Cecil Louisa Collett. Not long after she was born, the three members of the family were in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, where Cecil Louise Collett was baptised at All Saints Church on 11 July 1878. It was at 2 Oxford Park in Ilfracombe that as Louise Collett, aged two years, was living with her family in 1881. That was the last occasion when she was named as Louise, thereafter she was known as Cecil. Over the following years Cecil and her sister Evelyn (below) were admitted to a private girls’ school in Fulham where they were recorded at the time of the next census in 1891. The school at 23 Charlville Road in Fulham was run by Rebecca Douglish, aged 37, whose husband Algernon was a collector for the Aerated Bread Company. Cecil Collett from London was 12 years of age, while her sister was 11, both of them described as school boarders.
	Upon completing her education, Cecil entered the world of nursing and by March in 1901 she was working as a nurse at a hospital in the Walmgate area of the City of York at the age of 22. On that occasion she was described as Cecil Louise Collett from Maddox Street in London. A few years later her parents left Cumberland, where they were staying in 1901, and made a new home at Newton Stewart in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Cecil may have joined them there, where she might have met her future husband, Dublin born Samuel Charles Russell. However, the marriage of Cecil Louise Collett and Samuel Charles Russell was recorded at the Somerset Wellington register office (Ref. 5c 579) during the last three months of 1906.
	According to the census in 1911, Cecil Louise Russell from London was 31 when she was living at Llangarron, five miles south-west of Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire. That was the home of her elderly widowed mother-in-law Sarah Russell who was the head of the household, aged 93, and from Dublin. Living there with them was her much older husband, Samuel Charles Russell from Dublin who was 48 and had no stated occupation or trade. Thirty years earlier, Sarah Russell was 61 when she was living at 10 South parade in Portsea, Hampshire, where she was described as an annuitant and the widow of a Major in Her Majesty’s Army in 1881. Completing the household at Llangarron in 1911, were four domestic servants, a cook, a lady’s maid, a housemaid, and a groom/gardener.
	Cecil’s mother was still living in County Tyrone during 1912, when she died at Belfast City Hospital during the summer of that year. Following her death, it was her eldest daughter Cecil Louise Russell who was named as the sole executor of her estate of just over £100. With Cecil’s husband being that much older, it is possible that he passed away during the next few years, at which time Cecil was reunited with her three siblings who had already emigrated to Canada.
23P6	Eveline Margaret Collett was born at Ilfracombe, North Devon in 1880 with her birth registered at nearby Barnstaple (Ref. 5b 481) during the first three months of that year. That took place after her parents had left London for Devon, via a short time in Royal Leamington Spa, where her older sister was baptised. It was for this reason that her place of birth was given as Ilfracombe in subsequent census returns. It was as Margaret Collett who was one year old in the Ilfracombe census of 1881 that she was living with her family at 2 Oxford Park in the town. Later that decade, Margaret, who was subsequently only known as Evelyn Collett after 1881, and her older sister Cecil (above) were sent to school at 23 Charlville Road in Fulham when the girls’ parents were living on the south coast in Sussex. At that time in her short life boarder Evelyn Collett from Ilfracombe was 11.
	Having completed her education, Evelyn returned home to the family in Sussex from where she became a children’s companion for the six Locock children. That was confirmed in the census of 1901 when Evelyn Collett, aged 20 and from Ilfracombe, was working and living at 20 Sussex Square in Brighton with the six named children, who had six domestic servants looking after them in the absence of the children’s parents. Not long after that it would appear that Evelyn and her two brothers left England when they emigrated to Canada. That very likely happened after the death of their father in 1908, and then their mother in 1912, as no record of the three of them has been found anywhere in the census of 1911.
23P7	Horace Carlisle Spedding Collett was born at Ilfracombe on 30^th August 1881, his birth being recorded at Barnstaple (Ref. 5b 472) during the third quarter of the year under the name Horace Carlisle S Collett. He was the third child and eldest son of Horace and Annie Collett. Horace may not have been a healthy child since in 1891 he was a patient at the Western Hospital of Infectious Diseases at Seagrave Road in Fulham, while his two older sisters were receiving their education at a nearby school in Fulham. The census return for the hospital included the name of Horace Collett from Ilfracombe who was nine, one of 77 male patients. There were also 101 female patients, the total number of patients being looked after by 77 nurses and 12 doctors/surgeons.
	He obviously recovered from his illness and rejoined his family which, by then, was residing at 2 Richmond Road in Pevensey to the east of Eastbourne. From Sussex the family eventually moved north to Cumberland where Horace’s mother had been born, and in 1901 Horace C S Collett from Ilfracombe was 19 when he and his brother Joseph (below) were with their parents who were staying at the Latridge Arms Inn in Irton-with-Santon in Cumberland. Seven years later Horace’s father died in Belfast and five years after being made a widow, his mother passed away at the start of 1912. Sometime thereafter, Horace and his brother Joseph emigrated to Canada, not necessarily together, where they were later joined by their two sisters.
	Even though no obvious record of Horace Carlisle Spedding Collett has been found in 1911, he had returned south to Sussex from Cumberland where he was married at Brighton in 1914. The marriage of Horace C S Collett and Nancy Locock was recorded at Brighton register office (Ref. 2b 313) during the first quarter of that year. Confirmation of their marriage was provided on the record of the death of Horace Carlisle Spedding Collett in Canada in 1975, when his widow was named as Nancy Locock Collett. This then makes it more of a certainty that the two boys E B Collett and Leicester Carlisle Collett were the son of Horace and Nancy. It was at Kelowna in British Columbia, Canada where Horace Carlisle Spedding Collett died on 26^th October 1975 at the age of 94.
	A letter written from Ottawa in 1982 by the son of either Horace confirmed that the two brothers and their two sisters emigrated to Canada in the early 1900s, also indicated by the absence of three of the siblings from the census in 1911. Only the brother’s eldest sister Cecil was still living in England at that time. The letter dated 19^th March 1982 and typed by E B Collett of 345 Second Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 2J1 is reproduced in full below, from which it is hoped that one day in the future we will be able to add more details about what happened to the four siblings.
	Dear Mr Carlsen Please let me introduce myself. Some years ago, we met in NATO when you were attending the NATO Defence College and I was serving on the IMS in Brussels. You asked if I was related to the Colletts of Norway. At that time, I had to reply in the negative but I believe I told you that I was interested in my genealogy. Since then, I have been slowly tracing the family back and, last month during a visit to London, I made a significant breakthrough. I found in the British Library a 49-page book published in 1898 by P G Laurie entitled ‘Our Collett Ancestors’. I have enclosed a photocopy of the chapter which links my branch of the Collett family with the Norwegian family as well as a copy of the family tree. I have taken the liberty to add my own research in which I am a descendent of Henry Parker Collett. The only male descendent of this gentleman was my grandfather and all of his offspring came to Canada in the early 1900s. My father and a sister settled in Kelowna, British Columbia, the other brother served in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the other sister married a Mounted Police Officer. Unfortunately, that generation has died but I believe all their children still reside in Western Canada, except for myself.
	As you so kindly gave me your card at our first meeting, I thought that I would ask you to put me in contact with a member of the Collett family who, like myself, might be interested in our common ancestry. I fully realize that many people are not interested in the past but perhaps you may find one who is interested and, in that way, we may bring the Norwegian and Canadian branches of the Collett family together. I have been back in Ottawa since 1980 after three very enjoyable years in Brussels. We are just now recovering from a long cold winter which gives us all reason to recall those days and in particular those visits to the College in Rome. I sincerely trust that my request will not cause you too much inconvenience but I am sure you can understand my interest. I will be most grateful for any help that you might be able to provide. I remain yours respectfully, (signed Basil Collett) EB Collett
	23Q1		Leicester Carlisle Angus Collett			Born in 1914 in England
	23Q2		E Basil Collett			Born after 1916 in Canada
23P8	Joseph Harrington Spedding Collett was born at Ilfracombe in 1883, the final child of Horace Chambers Spencer Collett and Annie Spedding. His birth was recorded at Barnstaple (Ref. 5b 454) as Joseph Harrington S Collett during the third quarter of the year. The family’s time at Ilfracombe may have been short-lived when possibly mid-decade they moved to Sussex and in 1891 they were living at 2 Richmond Road in Pevensey near Eastbourne, where Joseph H S Collet from Ilfracombe was seven years old and the only one of the four siblings living with his parents. Ten years after that Joseph, his brother Horace (above) and their parents were staying in Cumberland at the Latridge Arms Inn in Lawton where Joseph H S Collett was 17 with no occupation. It seems likely that he and his family were preparing for a new life in Northern Ireland to where his parents eventually moved and where they both died, his father in 1908 and his mother in 1912.
	It may have been after the death of his father that the two brothers emigrated to Canada where around 1912 or 1913 Joseph married Frances Gertrude with whom he had a son who was born in 1914. Tragically, that same son saw active service during the Second World War when he was a sergeant and an air gunner with the Royal Canadian Air Force and, at the age of 29, he was wounded in action and died on 12^th May 1943 and was buried at Stratford-upon-Avon. The inscription on his gravestone reads: Royal Canadian Air Force – son of Joseph Harrington Spedding Collett and Frances Gertrude Collett, husband of Stelle Elizabeth Collett of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
	23Q3		Joseph Harrington Collett			Born in 1914 in Canada
23P9	Mary Ellen Edwards Collett was born at Plaistow in 1869 and it was at West Ham in East London that her birth was recorded (Ref. 4a 59) during the last quarter of that year. She was over one year old at the time of the census of 1871 when she and her parents were living in the West Ham area of the city. During the next five years two more siblings were born into the family while they were still living in London, following which the family then sailed to Western Australia on the ship ‘Robert Morrison’. By the time they arrived at Fremantle on 19^th December 1876 another sibling had been added to the family, and a further two were added some years later to complete the family. The only other fact known about Mary is that it was in Fremantle that she married Peter John G Hawley in 1893.
23P10	Kenrick Rowland Collett was also born at Plaistow, like his older sister (above) but, just after the census day in 1871, and his birth was also recorded at West Ham (Ref. 4a 52) during the second quarter of that year.
23P11	Constance Madeline Collett was born at Edmonton in London during 1874, her birth recorded there (Ref. 3a 199) during the last quarter of that year. When she was under two years of age her parents Kenrick Clayton Collett and Mary Crumpton sailed to a new life in Australia.
23P14	Rose Laura Collett was born at Perth in 1884, and was baptised at Fremantle in Western Australia on 28^th May 1884. It is possible that she was born while her parents were living at The Canning – a reference to The City of Canning in Perth. When she was twenty-two years of age, Rose married John August Hedlund from Brafors in Sweden. The wedding was a grand occasion which took place at Perth in August 1906. This photograph of the bride and groom is an extract from a much larger picture which included all of the wedding guests.
	The marriage produced two daughters for the couple while they were living in Perth. The first was Hilda who was born on 29^th April 1909 and the second was Thelma who was born in 1911. Sadly, for Rose, she discovered too late that Johan was an abusive man and they were later divorced, following which he ‘stole’ the children from Rose and took them to Sweden telling them that their mother had died. Rose and Johan lived at 12 Francis Street in Perth and in November 1912 Rose asked the court for a judicial separation on the ground of cruelty. Pending the hearing, the children were placed under the control of the state. The court denied the separation and Rose was forced to return to live with her husband.
	That made life even more difficult for Rose and on the 21^st January 1913 an order was made in the Perth Police Court granting her a divorce from Johan on the ground of cruelty. As both parents claimed custody of the two girls, Hilda and Thelma were placed at the Anglican Orphanage on Adelaide Terrace in Perth to where both parents were given visiting rights. Johan continued with his forceful attitude to secure sole custody of the children which he finally won, but only on the basis that he agreed to allow their mother full visiting rights at all times. He never had any intention to keep his promise to the Court and in April 1914 he and the children ‘disappeared’ to Sweden. For whatever reason, Johan and the girls returned to Perth one year later at which point he placed them once again in the Anglican Orphanage but giving firm orders that their mother was not to be allowed access to them.
	By that time Rose had left Perth and was living with her sister in the country and refused to inform Johan of her whereabouts. That angered Johan who demanded to know her address. During 1916 Rose applied to the Supreme Court to try to get access to her children, which resulted in her being given full access at all times. It was as a result of that ruling that Johan finally decided to return to Sweden, taking Hilda and Thelma with him, and leaving Rose never to see her daughters ever again.
	Rose Laura Hedlund nee Collett eventually died in Australia on 11^th June 1942 aged 58. He ex-husband Johan August Hedlund had died during the previous year on 11^th February 1941. The news of the death of Rose was sent in a letter to her daughter Hilda by Hilda’s cousin May Hawley in Australia. May was the daughter of Peter John G Hawley and Mary Ellen Edwards Collett (above), being Rose’s sister. In the letter May explained that Rose had died peacefully of a heart condition caused by years of suffering with rheumatic fever.
	Of Rose’s two daughters, Hilda went on to marry Gunnar Folke Perling on 24^th December 1933 but died in 1944, while Thelma married Nils Oscar Stanser on 25^th July 1942 ironically just after her mother had died, although she had been led to believe by her father that she had died over twenty-five years earlier. Hilda and Gunnar had three sons, Gunnar Magnus, Leif Folke, and Lars Anders, and died during the birth of the latter. And it was Leif’s daughters Karin of Motala in Sweden (born 14^th March 1968) and Ingrid of Norrkoping (born 2^nd March 1972) who kindly provided details of the Swedish side of the family.
	With so many unanswered questions about Hilda’s and Thelma’s early life, Gunnar the eldest son of Hilda travelled to Australia several times with his wife to found out what had actually happened to his grandmother Rose Laura Hedlund. Tragically on one such visit in 1992 he died of a heart-attack during the return flight home to Sweden.
	The marriage of Thelma and Nils produced a son Goran Stanser who was born on 15^th July 1943 and who was later married and had two daughters Susanne born on 7^th September 1963 and Jenny who was born on 12^th September 1971. The various documents from the court proceedings are included in Appendix One at the end of the family line. All of this information, together with the aforementioned detailed papers from the court proceedings, was kindly provided by Jenny Stanser of Stockholm, the great granddaughter of Rose Laura Collett.
23P15	Mabel Laura Collett was born at South Hackney in London on 20^th December 1870, and was baptised at Weld Chapel in Southgate on 2^nd June 1872 in a joint ceremony with her brother Rowland (below). Mabel was the first of the seven children of Francis Alexander Edward and Laura Augusta Wedlake. When she was around five years of age her family left London and moved to Guernsey in the Channel Islands, where the family lived at 3 St James Street in St Peter Port. By the time she was fourteen years old, the family had emigrated to Australia, arriving in Fremantle on 11^th October 1884. It was at Maddington in Perth, Western Australia, that Mabel married John James Harris in November 1892, but tragically she died during childbirth shortly after on 24^th February 1893 while still at Maddington. John Harris was born in Perth on 2^nd August 1864 and died at Maddington on 19^th January 1929.
23P16	Rowland Francis Collett was the eldest son of Francis and Laura Collett. He was born at South Hackney in London on 20^th January 1872 and was later baptised on 2^nd June 1872 with his sister Mabel (above) at Weld Chapel in Southgate. By 1876 Rowland and his family were living at St Peter Port on Guernsey, but in 1884 they emigrated to Australia. And it was in Australia at Perth that he married (1) Louise Allen in 1894 with whom he had one daughter who died while still an infant. Fourteen years later, and following a move to Queensland, Rowland married (2) Louisa Frances Long in 1908. That marriage produced six daughters and three sons for Rowland and Louisa.
	Rowland later saw active service during the First World War and died at Ipswich in Queensland, Australia on 14^th October 1945. His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) for WWI confirms that: he was born at London in England (rather than Guernsey); he enlisted at Brisbane in Queensland; his service number was 618; and his wife and next-of-kin was Louisa Frances Collett. He also had a role in the Second World War from 1940 to 1947 although, because of his advancing years, that was very likely to have been a ‘home based’ service. The entry in the Service Records for WWII confirms that: he was born in London; he enlisted at Redbank in Queensland; his service number was Q/164787; and his wife and next-of-kin was Louisa Collett.
23P17	Grace Marion Collett was another daughter of Francis and Laura Collett and was born at Marshside Close in Lower Edmonton, London on 15^th September 1874. Shortly after she was born the family moved from London and settled at St Peter Port on the island of Guernsey, where they living until the middle of 1884. By the end of 1884 Grace and her family were settled in Perth in Western Australia where in 1906 she married the much younger James Christopher Hennessey. Sadly, she died at Goomalling in Western Australia on 12^th July 1910 during childbirth. James Christopher Hennessey was born in Ireland in 1883 and died at Goomalling on 13^th February 1945.
23P18	HERBERT BRAYLEY COLLETT was another child of Francis Alexander Edward and Laura Augusta Wedlake and the first of them who was born at St Peter Port on Guernsey on 12^th November 1877. In April 1881, he was three years old when he and his family were residing at 3 St James Street in St Peter Port. One month before his seventh birthday, he and his family arrived in Fremantle in Western Australian, having sailed there from London on the ship ‘Glengoil’. He attended Perth Grammar School and on leaving school he started work at the Public Library on 7^th October 1891. Two years later in 1894 and at the age of sixteen, he joined the Metropolitan Rifle Volunteers as a private, but continued to work in the library where he was appointed sub-librarian in October 1897.
	His promotion through the various grades to the higher rank of Lieutenant Colonel was singularly rapid. He appeared in Orders as Corporal in 1897, as Sergeant in 1898, as gazetted Lieutenant in 1899, and received his captaincy in 1900. The next milestone in his life was his marriage to Ann E Whitfield which took place at the cathedral in Perth in 1904. And it was also at Perth that all of the couple’s children were born. Annie Eliza Whitfield was the eldest daughter of Thomas Edwin Whitfield, of West Perth, and his wife Matilda Sophia Langoulant.
	Two years after he was married, Herbert attained his Majority and two years later he received his commission as Lieutenant Colonel. When that happened, he became the youngest officer in the Empire to reach that rank. He later saw service during the first world war and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel with 28^th Battalion on 23^rd April 1915 prior to embarkation on 29^th June 1915. Two months were spent training in Egypt before moving on to Gallipoli, where they arrived on 10^th September 1915. The 28^th Battalion then moved north to France where in 1916, between 28^th July and 6^th August, they took part in the major battle at Pozières.
	It was on the second day, 29^th July 1916, that Herbert was severely wounded at Pozières. After a period of recuperation in England, he commanded the 4^th Training Brigade at Codford, Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, before returning to the 28^th Battalion on 12^th October 1917, during the battle of Passchendaele. Three days later, he was put in temporary command of 7^th Brigade Headquarter. He acted as brigade commander for several weeks and, on 1^st June 1918, was promoted to Colonel-in-Charge of No.2 Command Depot at Weymouth, where he remained until his discharge from the Australian Imperial Force on 7^th September 1919. Herbert Brayley Collett was mentioned in dispatches, received the Distinguished Service Order in 1916, the C.M.G. in 1919 and was promoted brevet-colonel in the Australian Military Forces for 'special meritorious service'. His military record is headed ‘Colonel Herbert Brayley Collett CMG, DSO, VD’.
	A few years later in 1922, Herbert published the first volume of the history of his battalion entitled “The 28^th – A record of War Service with the Australian Imperial Force 1915 – 1919 Volume 1”. He later became a freemason and patron of the Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldier’s Association of Australia. He entered the world of politics as a liberal and, from 1933 to his death in 1947, he was Senator for Western Australia with the National United Australia Party. Annie was only a widow for two years, when she passed away during 1949.
	Herbert Brayley Collett was survived by his and two of his three sons, when he died on 15^th August 1947 at his home in Mount Lawley, Western Australia. As an ex-army man, it was on that same day – the second anniversary of the signing of peace in the Pacific, when he was due to attend a big ‘Returned Servicemen's League’ event, which no doubt came with a lot of pressure. As a result of which he suffered a massive heart attack in the morning, while still at home. His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirms he was born on the Channel Isles and was a Colonel married to Annie E Collett. In his obituary he was referred to as Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Brayley Collett, the second son of the late Francis A E Collett of Perth.
	Following his passing, he was buried in the Anglican portion of Karrakatta cemetery. As a reserved man, who inspired respect rather than affection, he possessed a dry sense humour and had a great concern for his men's welfare. However, he did not hesitate to criticise inefficiency, even when his superiors were involved.
	23Q4	Herbert Thomas Wedlake Collett					Born in 1905 at Perth, Australia
	23Q5	FRANCIS MURRAY GRAHAM COLLETT					Born in 1906 at Perth, Australia
	23Q6	Lawrence Milburn Brayley Collett					Born in 1908 at Perth, Australia
23P19	Murray William Collett was born at St Peter Port in Guernsey on 24^th February 1880 and saw active service in the Boer War. He was only twenty years old when he died in action at Palmeitfontein, South Africa, in 1900.
23P20	Hugh Collett was also born at St Peter Port in Guernsey on 11^th April 1882 and he married Esther M Jackson. It is known that he saw active service during the First World War and perhaps even the Boer War. His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirms that: he was born in the Channel Isles; he enlisted at Perth; his service number was 716; and his wife and next-of-kin was Esther M Collett. Hugh Collett died on 8^th August 1958 at East Perth in Western Australia.
	23Q7		Daisy Collett married Thomas Flynn			Date of birth unknown
	23Q8		Mervyn Collett married Pearl			Died in 1976 at Perth
	23Q9		Kenneth Collett			Date of birth unknown
	23Q10		Hugh Collett married Martha			Born in 1903 at Perth
	23Q11		Laura Mary Mabel Collett			Born in 1904 at Perth
	23Q12		Joseph James Kelvin Collett			Born in 1906 at Perth
	23Q13		Francis Collett			Born in 1907 at Perth
	23Q14		Murray William Collett			Born in 1909 at Perth
	23Q15		Herbert Brayley Collett			Born in 1913 at Perth
	23Q16		Francis Edward Collett			Born in 1920 at Perth
23P21	Daisy Belle Collett was born on 25^th October 1884, the youngest child of Francis Alexander Edward Collett Laura Augusta Wedlake, and was born after the family arrived in Australia. She was twenty-six when she married Hjalmar Emil Boge, from Copenhagen, in 1910 and died on 21^st August 1967 at Hollywood in Western Australia having had no children, her only child being stillborn.
23Q1	Leicester Carlisle Angus Collett was born on 30^th December 1914, the first-born son of Horace Carlisle Spedding Collett and Nancy Locock, who were married in Brighton, Sussex around nine months earlier that same year. He was only fourteen months old when he and his mother sailed out of Falmouth in Cornwall on 26^th March 1916 onboard the Nieuw Amsterdam for Ellis Island in New York, their ultimate destination being Kelowna in British Columbia, Canada. The passenger list named them as Nancy Collett aged 25 from Byfleet in Surrey, her mother recorded as J Locock, and Nancy’s son Leicester Collett was one year old. Travelling with them and sponsored by Horace Collett was Nancy’s sister Kitty Locock who was 20 and also from Byfleet. Leicester later married Betty Goodwin with whom he had one known child who suffered a premature death. Son Michael was only nine years old when he died at the Okanagan Mission. Leicester Carlisle Angus Collett was 72 when he died at Kelowna on 25^th July 1987.
	23R1		Michael Leicester Collett			Born in 1947 at Kelowna, Brit. Columbia
23Q2	E Basil Collett was very likely the second son of Horace Carlisle Spedding Collett and his wife Nancy Locock who were married in Brighton, Sussex in 1914. By April 1916 the family was living in Canada, where Basil was probably born. It was as E B Collett of 345 Second Avenue in Ottawa, that he who wrote a letter in 1982 in which he made a reference to his father, and his father’s sister, coming from England to settle in Kelowna, British Columbia, and another sister of his father who married a mounted police officer, and a brother who served with Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
23Q4	Herbert Thomas Wedlake Collett was born at Perth in 1905, where he died in 1911, the first of the three sons of Herbert Brayley Collett from Guernsey and Annie Eliza Whitfield from West Perth.
23Q5	FRANCIS MURRAY GRAHAM COLLETT was born at Perth on 13^th April 1906, the second son of Herbert and Annie Collett, who was married to Estelle Redgrave between the two world wars. He intending joining the armed forces at the outbreak of the Second World War, and his entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirms that: he was born at Perth; had enlisted at Narrogin in Western Australia; his service number was W/74223; and his wife and next-of-kin was Estelle Collett. However, Francis was rejected for health reasons, but nevertheless he was involved in the security areas of the Defence Forces. It was just over twenty years after the end of the war that Francis Murray Graham Collett passed away at Esperance in Western Australia on 13^th December 1967.
	During his civilian life Francis worked as an officer in a bank, as a stock and field man, as a land surveyor and as a rural and economic adviser. It was in 1935 that he married Estella Beatrice Redgrave who was born in 1909 and the daughter of Alfred Charles Redgrave and Clara Annie Margaret Robinson. Estella survived her husband by thirty-seven years, when she passed away in 2004.
	23R2		DOROTHY ESTELLE COLLETT			Born in 1936 at Cottesloe, nr Perth
	23R3		Peter Graham Collett			Born in 1939 at Mount Lawley, Perth
23Q6	Lawrence Milburn Brayley Collett, who was known as Laurie, was born on 23^rd December 1908, the third and last child of Herbert Brayley Collett and Annie Eliza Whitfield. He married Edna Mary Thom in 1939, with whom he had one child. Edna was the daughter of Charles Leslie Thom and Ella Rhoda Magona. Laurie is known to have played an active role in the Second World War. His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirms that: he was born at Perth; he enlisted at Perth; his service number was 161877; and his wife and next-of-kin was Edna Collett.
23Q11	Laura Mary Mabel Collett was the fifth of the ten children of Hugh Collett from Guernsey and Esther M Jackson and was born in 1904 and was nine years old when she died during 1913.
23Q12	Joseph James Kelvin Collett was born in 1906, another child of Hugh and Esther Collett. He was around seventy-three-years of age when he died in 1979.
23Q13	Francis Collett was another child of Hugh and Esther Collett who suffered a premature death, having been born in 1907 and who died that same year.
23Q14	Murray William Collett was born at Perth in 1909, and was the eighth child of Hugh Collett and Esther M Jackson. and he married Jennifer. He saw active service during World War II between 1938 and 1948. His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirms that: he was born at East Perth on 13^th January 1909; he enlisted at Perth; his service number was 45044; and his next-of-kin was Sarah Collett. Murray William Collett died during 1968.
23Q15	Herbert Brayley Collett was born at Perth on 2^nd August 1913 and he saw active service during the Second World War prior to getting married. His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirms that: he was born at East Perth; he enlisted at Kalgoolie; his service number was 29050; and his wife and next-of-kin was Olive Collett. Herbert married Olive May Tyndall on 13^th January 1944 and he died in 1973. In the 1990s Olive was living at Stirling Street in Perth.
23Q16	Francis Edward Collett was born in 1920 and died in 1921, and was the last child of Hugh Collett from Guernsey and his wife Esther M Jackson.
23R1	Michael Leicester Collett was born at Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, on 8^th June 1947, the only known child of Leicester Carlisle Collett and Betty Goodwin. Tragically, it was on 1^st August 1956 that he died at Kelowna, and was buried at St Andrews Anglican Church Cemetery.
23R2	DOROTHY ESTELLE COLLETT was born during 1936 at Devonleigh Hospital in Cottesloe on the coast to the west of Perth, the first child and only daughter of Francis Murray Graham Collett and Estella Beatrice Redgrave. In 1953 she married Philip George Shepherd, the son of George Guy Shepherd and Grace Violet Deverel. Their marriage produced two children for Philip and Dorothy, and they were Christine Estelle Shepherd – born in 1954, who married William (Bill) Henry Woods in 1973, and Graham Philip George Shepherd – born in 1956, who married Barbara Ann Eddy in 1983, from whom he was later divorced, after fathering two children.
23R3	Peter Graham Collett was born at St Anne’s Nursing Home (maternity) in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley, Western Australia, on 22^nd September 1939, the second child and only son of Francis Murray Graham Collett and Estella Beatrice Maud Redgrave. In 1941 the family home was at Kunnunoppin, to the east of Perth, and after at Wagin where he started school, and then at Narrogin. He initially worked in the banking service, before setting up his own business as a Licenced Real Estate & Business Agent and Auctioneer. Peter married Lorraine Gmeiner, with Lorraine presenting Peter with five children. Lorraine, who was the daughter of Eric and Sarah Mitchell, was later divorced from Peter.
	23S1		Malcom Peter Collett			Date of birth unknown
	23S2		Gavin John Collett – mar Maria Rewetti			Date of birth unknown
	23S3		Dale Grant Collett			Date of birth unknown; infant death
	23S4		Michelle Collett – mar Paul Thorp			Date of birth unknown
	23S5		Fiona Collett – mar Ken Brinsden			Date of birth unknown
23S1	Malcom Peter Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the eldest of the five children of Peter and Lorraine Collett. He married Christine Hawkins with whom he had two children.
	23T1		Karly Collett			Date of birth unknown
	23T2		Mitchell Peter Collett			Date of birth unknown
	APPENDIX ONE
	DOCUMENTS USED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
	RELATING TO ROSE LAURA COLLETT (Ref. 23P24) AND JOHAN AUGUST HEDLUND
	In the Supreme Court of Western Australia In the matter of HILDA HEDLUND and THELMA HEDLUND, infants AND In the matter of an act to amend the law relating to the custody of the abovementioned infants The First Day of June 1916. The Humble Petition of Rose Laura Hedlund presently residing at Napier Street, Cottesloe showeth: 1. That your Petitioner is the wife of John August Hedlund labourer presently of 12 Francis Street, Perth and the mother of the abovementioned Hilda Hedlund and Thelma Hedlund aged seven and five years respectively. 2. That your Petitioner has been living apart from her said husband since 21^st Day of January 1913 under an Order of the Perth Police Court granting your Petitioner separation from her husband on the ground of his cruelty, also fifteen shillings per week maintenance. 3. That the abovementioned children are in the custody of the said John August Hedlund and he has placed them at the Anglican Orphanage, Adelaide Terrace, Perth which is under the control of the Church of England in Western Australia. 4. That the said John August Hedlund, without cause, caused the Petitioner to be excluded from access to the said children Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays that an Order may be made giving her access at all reasonable times to the said children AND for such other order as in the circumstances may be just. The Petitioner is presented by Rose Laura Hedlund through her solicitor, Walter Maxwell Nairn, Trustee Chambers, Barrack Street, Perth. It is intended to serve this Petition on John August Hedlund of 12 Francis Street, Perth.
	In the matter of HILDA HEDLUND and THELMA HEDLUND, infants I, ROSE LAURA HEDLUND presently residing at Napier Street, Cottesloe, make oath and say: 1. I was married in 1906 to John August Hedlund labourer presently at 12 Francis Street, Perth and the abovementioned Hilda Hedlund and Thelma Hedlund are our children. 2. In November 1912 I applied to this Honourable Court for a judicial separation on the ground of cruelty. Pending the hearing, the children were placed under the control of the State, both parents having right of access. The application for judicial separation failed and I returned to live with my husband but disagreements continued and on the 7^th Day of January 1913 an Order was made in the Perth police Court granting me separation from my husband on the ground of cruelty, also fifteen shillings per week maintenance. As both my husband and I claim custody of the children the Court decided that they shall be left in a neutral place where both parents might have access to them. 3. On the 10^th October 1913 the Colonial Secretary (the Hon. W C Angwin) directed that the children be boarded out on the following conditions: “Both parents will be allowed reasonable access to the children but neither will have the right to remove them or interfere with their control” 4. My husband continued to agitate for the control of the children and ultimately, they were handed over to him on his definite undertaking that I should have access to them at all reasonable times. This was confirmed by Mr Angwin in a letter to my solicitor dated 18^th February 1914 in which Mr Angwin stated: “Mr Hedlund promised me as you state in the presence of Mr Stonberg, that he is prepared to give his wife access to her children at all reasonable times and under this condition the full custody of the children has been handed over to him” 5. My husband took the children to Sweden in April 1914 without giving me any intimation of his intention to move there. He returned with the children about April 1915 and placed them in the Anglican orphanage, Adelaide Terrace, Perth. There they have been visited by me at different times. 6. About six months ago I was obliged to give up my employment in Perth and take work in the country. I did not give my husband my country address because he had persistently molested me with communications which were very uncompromising in tone and often offensive. As a result, he gave instructions that I was not to be allowed to see the children. 7. On the 25^th May last I came to Perth for the purpose of seeing my children but I was informed by the authorities in charge of the Anglican Orphanage that they regretted they would not permit me to see the children as Mr Hedlund had given instructions to exclude me. 8. On the 30^th May last my solicitor wrote my husband the following letter: “Mrs Hedlund has come to town to see the children but she finds that you have forbidden her to see them. Apparently, your only ground of complaint is that she will not give you, her address. At the present Mrs Hedlund is staying with her sister at the old address in Cottesloe and she is unwilling to give you her country address because of the unpleasantness which has invariably followed upon all your communications with her. Your wife is by the separation order free to live where she chooses and you are not entitled to insist on her address. You have complained to me personally about your wife taking legal steps against you but you refused to give her access to the children is only provoking repetition. Mrs Hedlund wishes to avoid this course of action and I am sure it will be better for you both if you will act reasonably and withdraw the order you have given at the Church Office. I am sending this letter by messenger and I shall be glad if you will give an intimation which the Church Office people can act upon. Otherwise, if Mrs Hedlund is excluded entirely from access to her children, she will have no option but to apply for an order.” 9. My husband still refuses to permit me to see the children or to have any access to them. Sworn at Perth in the State of Western Australia this first day of June One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixteen before me Charles C Campbell – A Commissioner for taking oaths in the Supreme Court of Western Australia
	In Chambers, before his Honour Mr Justice Burnside Upon reading the Petition and the Affidavit of Rose Laura Hedlund both dated the 1^st Day of June 1916 and filed herein and upon having the solicitor for the Petitioner and the Respondent, John August Hedlund appearing in person: It is ordered that the said Rose Laura Hedlund do have access at all reasonable times to the above-named children Hilda Hedlund and Thelma Hedlund. Dated the 8^th Day of June 1916 – signed by J H Chalk, Associate to Mr Justice Burnside
	APPENDIX TWO
	The wife of Rowland William Davies Collett (Ref. 23N7) was Mary Ann Edwards who was born at Islington in London around 1821. Following his death in 1853 his widow was recorded at Frederick Street in St Pancras in 1861 when she was 39. No record of her has been found after the day of the census that year, but twenty years later Mary Ann Collett aged 60 was residing at 75 Belsize Road in Hampstead, only a short distance from Frederick Street. Mary Ann had no stated occupation and her place of birth was simply recorded as London, Middlesex. Completing the household were: Mary Ann’s granddaughter Maud M I Fairweather, who was 11 and born at Monmouth in Wales; visitor Margaret Butler, who was 45 and from Castletown in the Isle of Man; and domestic servant Fanny Wisby from Essex who was 25.
	It was originally believed that Maud Fairweather may have been the child of Fanny Helen Collett, the only daughter of Rowland William Davies Collett and Mary Ann Edwards. However, new research undertaken in late 2017 has provided the proof that this assumption was incorrect, all as detailed below.
	This short line of Colletts appears to start with Thomas Corlett and Margaret Corlett in the Isle of Man, and it was only when their son settled in Wales that the surname became Collett.
23n1	Robert James Corlett was baptised on 10^th February 1802 at St Matheus’ Chapel in the Braddan parish of Douglas on the Isle of Man, when he was confirmed as the son of Thomas and Margaret Corlett. It is possible that he was married and living in France around the time of the census in Britain in June 1841, because it was in that country that his first two children were born. This was confirmed in the Monmouth census of 1851 when married man Robert J Collett, aged 48 and born on the Isle of Man, was a farmer of 27 acres, employing two labourers who were described as ‘out door’, meaning no accommodation was provided for them. His wife was Mary Ann Collett, nee Justus, who was 30 and from St George-in-the-East, London. By that day in their life together, Robert and Mary had previously given birth to six children, with Mary already with-child with the couples’ seventh and last known child.
	Living with them at Monmouth in 1851 were their five surviving children, having suffered an infant death with their first child born in Wales after moving there from France. They were Henry James Collett from France who was 13, Mary Ann Collett, also from France, who was 10, both of them described as British Subjects, Robert Collett who was six, Frederick Collett who was three and Arthur Collett who was one year old, all three of them born at Monmouth. Also living with the family was Mary Ann’s widowed mother Sarah Justus who was 64 and from Bermondsey, London, a proprietor of houses, and Mary Ann’s older unmarried sister, and an annuitant, Elizabeth Justus who was 33 and also born at St George-in-the-East of London like Mary Ann. Another proprietor of houses was living at the same address, and she was Christiana Weldon, a widow from St George-in-the-East, who was 68 and very likely the sister of Sarah Justus. Completing the household were two female and one male domestic servant.
	According to the next Monmouth census in 1861 the head of the household at White Cross Street, Robert J Collett aged 59 and from the Isle of Man, was incorrectly named as Richard J Collett. By then he had no stated occupation, but was simply described as a gentleman. His wife Mary A Collett was 40 and the children still living there with the couple were Henry from France aged 23, and their four Monmouth born sons Robert who was 16, Frederick who was 14, Arthur who was 11 and Alfred who was nine years of age. Continuing to live with the family was Christian Weldon, Mary Ann’s elderly aunt from London.
	After a further ten years Robert and Mary Ann were still residing in Monmouth, but at the home of their married daughter Mary Ann Fairweather. As the father-in-law of Thomas Fairweather, Robert J Collett from Douglas (IOM) was 69 and a retired farmer, while his wife Mary Ann Collett of London was 50. Apart from two domestic servants, the only other person at the property was Robert’s first grandchild Maud M Fairweather who was just one year old and born at Monmouth. Robert James Collett passed away during the next decade, at which time, or shortly thereafter, his widow returned to London at in 1881 she was recorded at 75 Belsize Road in Hampstead. Staying there with her was her granddaughter Maud M I Fairweather who was 11 and from Monmouth, the daughter of bank manager Thomas G Fairweather and Mary Ann Collett, the only daughter of Robert James Collett and Mary Ann Justus. It was later that same year when the death of Mary Ann Collett nee Justus of Belsize Road was recorded at Hampstead (Ref. 1a 441) during the last three months of 1881, at the age of 61.
	23o1		Henry James Collett			Born in 1838 in France
	23o2		Mary Ann Collett			Born in 1841 in France
	23o3		Robert Campbell Collett			Born in 1843 in Monmouth
	23o4		Robert Collett			Born in 1845 in Monmouth
	23o5		Frederick Collett			Born in 1847 in Monmouth
	23o6		Arthur Collett			Born in 1849 in Monmouth
	23o7		Alfred Collett			Born in 1851 in Monmouth
23o1	Henry James Collett was born in France during 1838, the eldest child of Robert James Collett from the Isle of Man and his wife Mary Ann Justus from London. During the 1840s his father took the family to Wales, where they settled in Monmouth and, on the day of the census in 1851 Henry James Collett was still attending school at the age of 13. It was at White Cross Street in Monmouth that the family was recorded on the day of the next census in 1861, when unmarried Henry J Collett from France was 23 and working as a clerk at the local colliery.
23o2	Mary Ann Collett was born in France during 1841, the only known daughter of Robert and Mary Ann Collett. Mary Ann Collett from France was 10 years old in the census of 1851, by which time she and her family were living at Monmouth in Wales. Ten years later she was absence from the family home at White Cross Street in Monmouth and later married the much older Thomas G Fairweather from Scotland who was a bank manager. That was confirmed in the Monmouth census of 1871, by which time Mary had presented her husband with a daughter. Thomas G Fairweather was 51, Mary A Fairweather was 30, and their daughter Maud M Fairweather was one year old. Staying with the young family that day were Mary’s parents Robert and Mary Collett, plus two domestic servants. No record of both Thomas and Mary Fairweather has been identified after that day, while it was with Mary’s widowed mother that their daughter was living in London in 1881 and, following her death, daughter Maud lived for some years with her mother’s sister Elizabeth C Justus.
	Maud Marie Isabel Fairweather was baptised at St Mary’s Church in Monmouth on 19^th January 1870, the first-born child, and possibly the only child, of bank manager Thomas G Fairweather, from Scotland, and his much younger wife Mary Ann Collett from Monmouth, where she was living with her parents in 1871. Whether both of her parents died during the 1870s has not yet been established but, by 1881 Maud M I Fairweather was living with her maternal grandmother Mary Ann Collett at 75 Belsize Road in Hampstead, London. Later that same year her grandmother passed away and, when that happened, Maud Maria Isabel Fairweather travelled to Gloucestershire where, in 1891, she was 21 and living with her maiden aunt Elizabeth C Justus from London who was 74. They were the only occupants of the dwelling at White Ladies Road in the Clifton area of Bristol, where young Maud was living on her own means, as was her aunt.
	It was three years later, when the marriage of Maud Marie I Fairweather and Harold Hilton Heffernan was recorded at Portsea Island, Southsea (Ref. 2b 901) during the second quarter of 1894. Harold was born at Southsea in 1866, the son of John Harold and Eliza Sarah Heffernan. No record of the family has been found within the census of 1901 but, according to the Kempsey, Worcestershire, census in 1911 Harold Hilton Heffernan, a medical practitioner from Southsea was 44, his wife Maud Marie Isabel Heffernan was 40 and their daughter Marie Frances Hilton Heffernan from Weston near Rugby, in Warwickshire, was 10 years of age. She was born on 7^th September 1900 and died in Sheffield during March 1985.
23o3	Robert Campbell Collett was born at Monmouth in 1843, where his birth was recorded (Ref. xxvi 84) during the fourth quarter of that year. He was baptised at the Church of St Mary in Monmouth on 12^th January 1844, but tragically did not survive to see his first birthday, when his death was recorded at Monmouth during the second quarter of 1844 (Ref. xxvi 65).
23o4	Robert Collett was born at Monmouth in 1845 and was named in memory of his later brother who had died one year earlier. The birth of Robert Collett, the son of Robert and Mary Collett was recorded at Monmouth (Ref. xxvi 87) during the second quarter of 1845, following which he was baptised at St Mary’s Church on 10^th April 1845. He was six years of age in the Monmouth census of 1851 and by 1861 he had left school and was working as a clerk in a solicitor’s office at the age of 16 while he was still living with his family at White Cross Street in Monmouth. Perhaps it was Robert’s career that eventually took him to London where he met and married Harriet Westcott from Hoxton in Middlesex. On the day of the census in 1871 Robert Collett from Monmouth, who was 26, was lodging at St Georges Hanover Square in London with his wife Harriet who was 22. With the childless couple that day was twenty-year-old John William Westcott, also from Hoxton, who was Harriet’s younger brother.
23o5	Frederick Collett was born at Monmouth in 1847, where his birth was recorded (Ref. xxvi 103) during the second quarter of that year and was baptised at St Mary’s Church on 7^th May 1847. He was three years old in the Monmouth census of 1851 and was 14 and still attending school in Monmouth in 1861 when living at the family home on White Cross Street. Like his older brother Robert (above) Frederick also travelled to London during the 1860s and was recorded in the 1871 census residing in the St George Bloomsbury area of Middlesex. By then he was 24, unmarried, and work as a clerk, while being a lodger.
	Around three years later Frederick Collett married Martha Ann Thompson from London, with whom he had at least three children prior to the next census in 1891. Their marriage was recorded at the City of London (Ref. 1c 17) during the first three months of 1874, the wedding being held at the Church of St Andrew in Holborn on 21^st February 1874. Frederick’s father was confirmed as Robert James Collett, while Martha’s father was named James Thompson.
	It was at Stanley Villas in Harrow-on-the-Hill that the five members of the family were living in 1881. The census that year recorded them as Frederick Collett from Monmouth was 33 and a manager for an ammunition maker, Martha A Collett was 26, Frederick G Collett who was six, Marie Collett who was five, Robert J C Collett who had only just been born at Harrow. The two older children were said to have been born in London, like their mother. Staying with the family that day was Martha’ younger sister Minnie Thompson who was 12 and described as the sister-in-law of Frederick Collett. Tragedy struck the family in 1884 when the couple’s youngest son died at three years of age. The birth of Robert John L Collett was recorded at Hendon (Ref. 3a 134) during the last three months of 1880, while his death was at Barnet (Ref. 3a 119) during the third quarter of 1884. His place in the family was filled five years later by the birth of another son for Frederick and Martha when they were residing in Barnet.
	When the next census was conducted in 1891 the family living at Station Road in Chipping Barnet had been reduced to just Frederick Collett who was 43 and a civil engineer, Martha Collett who was 35, and their latest arrival Henry J Collett who was two years of age. As they had ten years earlier, once again the family employed a female domestic servant. On that same day their daughter Marie was 15 years old and was attending a private boarding school at Stratton Street in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. Where their son Frederick was on that day has not been discovered, but four years later the death of Frederick George Collett was recorded at Edmonton (Ref. 3a 221) during the third quarter of 1895, where he died when he was 21. The record of his birth, most likely at the end of 1874, has also not been found.
	Just after the start of the new century Frederick, aged 54, and Martha, aged 48, were recorded in the census of 1901 at living at Bethune Road in Stoke Newington, Middlesex. It was the same situation ten years later except by then, the couple was recorded in the census of 1911 and the electoral roll as residents of 33 Harvard Court on Honeybourne Road in the Hampstead area of London. At the age of 64 Frederick, was still manufacturing munitions, when he was described as a cartridge maker. Martha Ann Collet was 58. During the following months the couple moved to 39 Harvard Court, when the electoral roll in 1912 also described them as the owner still, of 33 Harvard Court. Frederick Collett was still residing in the Hampstead area when he passed away, his death recorded at Hampstead register office (Ref. 1a 528) during the third quarter of 1926 when he was 79. His widow survived him by nearly twelve years, when the death of Martha Ann Collett was recorded at Hendon register office (Ref. 3a 523) during the second quarter of 1938, when she was 87.
	23p1		Frederick George Collett	Born in 1874 in London; died 1895
	23p2		Marie Collett	Born in 1875 in London
	23p3		Robert John L Collett	Born in 1880 in Harrow-on-the-Hill; died 1884
	23p4		Henry Justus Collett	Born in 1889 in Barnet
23o6	Arthur Collett was born at Monmouth in 1849 and was baptised at the Church of St Mary on 21^st September 1849 and was one year old in the census of 1851 and was 11 years of age in the census of 1861 for White Cross Street in Monmouth.
23o7	Alfred Collett was born at Monmouth in 1851 and was the last child born to Robert James Collett from the Isle of Man and London born Mary Ann Justus. He was baptised on 5^th November 1851 at St Mary’s Church in Monmouth and was nine years old and living with his family at White Cross Street in 1861.
23p2	Marie Collett was born in London in 1875, her birth recorded at Hampstead (Ref. 1a 611) during the fourth quarter on that year, one of only two surviving children of Frederick Collett and Martha Ann Thompson. When she was five years old Marie and her family were living at Stanley Villas in Harrow-on-the-Hill, while ten years later the 1891 census recorded her as being Maria Collett aged 15, when she was a boarder at a private school on Stratton Street in Biggleswade. Just less than six months after the death of her older brother Frederick, Marie Collett married Henry Edward Swaffer, the event recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 1b 621) during the first three months of 1896.
	Henry was the son of Harriet Swaffer and was born at Finsbury Park in London and, over the next fifteen years, Marie presented him with six children. According to the census in 1901 the family was living at Mornington Road in Bromley, where Henry was 29 and a foreman working for a grain contractor. Marie Swaffer was 24 and had been born at St Johns Wood, and her four children that day were listed as Marie Lucy Swaffer aged four years and born at Brighton, as was Olga Swaffer who was three, plus two children born at Leytonstone in Essex, who were Doris Swaffer who was two and Irene Swaffer who was under one year old.
	The next child added to the family was born while they were still in Bromley, while the last child was again born at Brighton, like the first two. However, by the start of the next decade the family had settled in Maida Vale, the affluent area of Paddington. By that time in his life, Henry Swaffer from Holloway was 39 and a brewer with a grain contractor, Marie from Hampstead was 34, Marie Lucy was 14, Olga was 13, Doris Marguenta Swaffer was 12, Irene Florence Swaffer was 10, Henry Edward Swaffer was eight and Spencer Harold Swaffer was five. Staying with the family was Henry’s widowed mother Harriet Swaffer and the last two people at the property were domestic servants. The electoral roll for 1912 included Henry Edward Swaffer whose property at 183 Maida Vale, Whitechapel Road, was described as an office with stabling.
23p4	Henry Justus Collett was born in Barnet in 1889, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 3a 242b) during the first three months and was two years old on the day of the census in 1891 when he and his parents were living at Station Road in Chipping Barnet, where he was probably born. He was the only surviving son of civil engineer Frederick Collett and his wife Martha Ann Thompson. To complete his education, he attended a boarding school in Hove, near Brighton in Sussex, where he was described as, a pupil boarder at a private school, aged 12 years and from Barnet, in the census of 1901.
	It would appear that Henry became an actor and in 1911 actor and bachelor Henry Collett aged 22 and from London Barnet was a visitor at the Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne, home of the Sheridon family. The marriage of Henry J Collett and Louisa L Bond took place in London in 1924 and was recorded at Marylebone register office (Ref. 1a 1350) during the second quarter of that year. He would have been thirty-six by then, and it was two years after their wedding day that their son was born. The death of Henry J Collett was recorded at Worthing register office in Sussex (Ref. 5h 761) during the second quarter of 1962, when he was 73. Louisa was a widow for just under twelve months, when she died at Worthing, where her passing was recorded (Ref. 5h 1085) during the first quarter of 1963, at the age of 74, making her the same age as her late husband.
	23q1		Grahame Frederick Collet		Born in 1826 in Hampstead, London
	The birth was recorded at Hampstead register office (Ref. 1a 846) during the second quarter of 1926, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bond.