PART TWENTY-FOUR

The Norwegian Line – 1655 to 1810

This is the first of three sections of the twenty-fourth part of the Collett family

Updated March 2022

This is the family line of Peter Collett (Ref. 24P44) of Oslo

This line starts with James Collett of London and, even though his parentage has still to be determined, it should be noted that his family coat of arms, only documented from around the early 1700s, has similar features to that of John Colet (1466 to 1519) in Part 18 – The Suffolk Line. John was Dean of St Pauls in 1504 and it was he who founded the St Paul’s Cathedral School for Boys around 1509. Today, the school still carries the same coat of arms. New research, carried out by Professor Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard – husband of Camilla Cathrine Collet (Ref. 25R5), has come to the conclusion that James Collett of Norway was the son of James Collett and Mary Browne (Ref. 24H1) and NOT the son of London cooper James Collett and Elizabeth Grigson. Peter also contemplates that there may be a link between the Norway Collett family and that of John Collett (Ref. 52G1) in England who married Susanne Ferrar of Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire during 1600.

Norwegian titles are indicated in italics

Part 25 - The Danish Line & Part 26 - The Swedish Line both stem from this line

in the second section - see Ref. 24M35 and Ref. 24N16 respectively

Some recent Will discoveries may be related to the earlier Collett members of this family line but, so far, no direct connection has been made. The three Wills are as follows:

Mary Collett, widow of St Botolph Bishopsgate in the City of London, whose Will was proved on 14^th January 1658.

John Collett, a turner of St Botolph Without Aldersgate (Aldgate) in London, whose Will was proved on 18^th September 1696 – a turner being a person working with wood.

Thomas Collett, Captain Steward of His Majesty’s Ship Newcastle, of St Botolph Without Aldgate in Middlesex.

It therefore seems possible that widow Mary (above) could have been the mother of James Collett (Ref. 24H/2) below and died around three years after he was married, while John (above) could have been his brother as they died within seven years of each other.

24H1	JAMES COLLETT married Mary Browne on 16^th September 1653 at All Hallows Church, London Wall. Their two known sons James and Thomas were both baptised at St Margaret Pattens at East Cheap in London, within a year of each other. On both occasions, the parents were confirmed as James and Mary Collett. Twenty years after the birth of the younger of their two sons, the baptism of George Collett, the son of James and Mary Collett, was recorded on 25^th June 1676 at St Botolph-Without-Aldgate, just a short distance from St Margaret Pattens. Whether he was a very late arrival for James Collett and Mary Browne has still to be determined. There is speculation that James Collett, a barrister of the Middle Temple, was the husband of Mary Browne. Furthermore, twenty years prior to the wedding of James Collett at All Hallows in 1653, a certain John Collett, the son Thomas Collett, a barrister of the Middle Temple, was also baptised at All Hallows in 1633. Details of the family of that Thomas Collett and his wife Martha Sherington (Ref. 52I2) can be found in Part 52 – The England to Baltimore & Ohio Line. As a result, there is some speculation that The Norway Line may have its earlier origins in the Collett family in Part 52, even though no positive direct link has yet been discovered.
	24I1		James Collett	Born in 1655 at St Margaret Pattens
	24I2		Thomas Collett	Born in 1656 at St Margaret Pattens
	24I3		George Collett	Born on 25.06.1676 at St Botolph Aldgate
24I1	JAMES COLLETT was born in London on 18^th August 1655 and was baptised the day after at St Margaret Pattens, the first child born to James Collett and Mary Browne. He first visited Norway in 1677 when he was 22 years of age, where he worked as an agent for an English timber merchant. During that time, he lived at Bragernes in Drammen and became the best friend of the son of the Leuch family at Bogstad Gard near Oslo. The Leuch family were large exporters of timber and proprietors of the best-known timber company in Christiania. While staying at Bogstad Gard, James met, and fell in love with, the young daughter of the family, seventeen-years-old Karen Leuch, to whom he sent a prayer book with a personal poem in 1685.
	Their relationship developed and, a year later, on 21^st July 1686 at Christiania, James Collett from London and Karen Leuch were married. Their marriage produced nine children and the family lived in a large house that James bought in Oslo, at Kirkegaten, in 1704. Just over one hundred years later the Collett House was sold to the Cappelen family, who later used it as a bookshop. The house was eventually demolished in 1938 and given to the Norwegian Folk Museum at Bygdoy, where it was rebuilt in 1985.
	In 2004, one of the rooms in the house was established as a permanent exhibition to display aspects of the life of the Collett family living there, during the time of their ownership. The photograph on the right was taken at the Folk Museum during the 2009 Collett Reunion. Although he built up a flourishing business in Norway, James never took up Norwegian citizenship and often thought about returning to England. However, for tax reasons, and to concede to his wife’s wishes, he abandoned the idea.
	When he eventually died, on 29^th May 1727, he was one of the wealthiest people in Christiania, and it was there that he was buried on 5^th June 1727. His wife Karen, who was born at Christiania on 5^th August 1666, died there on 26^th October 1745 and it was there that all their children were born.
	Historical Note: In 1624 Oslo was badly affected by the Great Fire which destroyed most of the city. As a result, the city was rebuilt by Christian IV King of Denmark and Norway and renamed Christiania, the name it held until 1925 when it reverted back to being Oslo.
	24J1		James Collett		Born in 1687 at Christiania
	24J2		Peter Collett		Born on 21.05.1688; died on 22.08.1688
	24J3		Peter Collett		Born on 15.06.1689; died on 24.06.1689
	24J4		Anna Collett		Born in 1690 at Christiania
	24J5		Peter Collett		Born on 06.08.1691; died on 10.12.1691
	24J6		PETER COLLETT		Born in 1694 at Christiania
	24J7		Maria Collett		Born in 1695 at Christiania
	24J8		John Collett		Born in 1698 at Christiania
	24J9		Sarah Collett		Born in 1702 at Christiania
24I2	Thomas Collett was born in London on 17^th July 1656 and was also baptised that day at St Margaret Pattens, where he was buried on 18^th July 1656. He was the second son of James Collett and Mary Browne.
24J1	James Collett was born at Christiania on 16^th May 1687, the eldest child of James Collett and Karen Leuch. He later married Karen Madsdatter Berg who was baptised on 10^th February 1687 and their marriage produced six children. James Collett, who was a Stadskaptein, died on 4^th July 1724.
	24K1		Matthias Collett		Born in 1708
	24K2		James Collett		Born on 06.09.1710; died 16.01.1711
	24K3		Karen Collett		Born in 1711
	24K4		James Collett		Born on 16.12.1713; died on 27.12.1713
	24K5		James Collett		Born on 21.10.1715; died on 29.10.1715
	24K6		James Collett		Born in 1717
24J4	Anna Collett was born at Christiania on 11^th August 1690 and she married Stadsmajor Anthoni Muller. The marriage produced nine children, although only five sons and two daughters survived. Anna died at a relatively young age on 14^th November 1729, while Anthoni died nearly twenty years after on 8^th June 1748.
24J6	PETER COLLETT was born at Christiania on 29^th July 1694. He married Anna Cathrine Rosenberg who was known as Trinchen, and together they had eleven children. Peter was educated in Copenhagen which, at that time, was the capital of the combined kingdoms of Denmark and Norway. Peter Collett died on 9^th January 1740 and was followed by Anna nearly eight years after on 24^th December 1747. Norway was more or less under Danish administration in the years before 1814 and the connection with Denmark was an important one, particular as the university was in Copenhagen.
	24K7		James Collett		Born on 19.08.1723; died on 11.12.1724
	24K8		Karen Collett		Born in 1725
	24K9		Christine Sophie Collett		Born in 1726
	24K10		Ditlevine Collett		Born in 1727
	24K11		James Collett		Born in 1728
	24K12		Peder Collett		Born in 1729
	24K13		Anna Collett		Born in 1731
	24K14		Johan Collett		Born in 1734
	24K15		Mathia Collett		Born on 15.02.1735; died on 11.04.1735
	24K16		Mathia Collett		Born on 1737
	24K17		PETER COLLETT		Born on 1740
24J7	Maria Collett was born at Christiania on 27^th November 1695. She was married to (1) Zahlkasserer Poul Weybye (who was born in 1671) and, following his death on 18^th November 1739, she married (2) president magistrate Peter Resen a Justitsraad. Peter Resen was born on 24^th December 1692 and he died on 26^th March 1743. Both of the marriages were cut short by the death of Maria’s husbands and that may have been the reason that there were no children. Maria Resen nee Collett died on 17^th November 1762.
24J8	John Collett was born at Christiania on 23^rd January 1698. He married Ambrosia Michelsen the daughter of George Michelsen a priest of the Danish Norwegian Church in London where she had been born on 17^th February 1702. Although the couple lived in Oslo, John was trained and worked in London where, at Stepney, he set himself up as a timber broker in 1720. He became a very rich man and established himself as a leading member of the Scandinavian community in London. Ambrosia tragically died on 24^th July 1740 whilst still relatively young and before the couple had had any children. Upon his death on 12^th January 1759, John Collett was referred to as being of St Botolph Bishopsgate. His Will, dated 13^th August 1756, was proved on 15^th January 1759.
	Historical Note: The Church of St Botolph Bishopsgate survived the Fire of London in 1666, but was later demolished in 1725. A new church was built that same year and it was there in 1795 that the poet John Keats (1795-1821) was baptised.
24J9	Sarah Collett was born at Christiania on 3^rd June 1702. She was 25 years old when, on 1^st June 1727 at Akershud in Oslo, she married Etatsraad Lorentz Albrightsen Angell who was born on 21^st January 1692. The marriage produced two daughters for the couple while they were living in Trondheim, following which Lorentz died on 19^th March 1751, followed five years later by Sarah who died on 14^th August 1756. Both of them were buried in Trondheim Cathedral where a plaque in the floor of the cathedral includes the inscription “Lorentz Albrightsen Angell og Hustru Sara Collet”. The same plaque lists other members of the Angell family.
24K1	Matthias Collett was born on 10^th September 1708. He married Beate Love, but the marriage did not produce any children for the couple. Matthias who was an Amtmann died on 24^th March 1759. Beate was born in 1703 and she died on 4^th October 1777.
24K3	Karen Collett was born on 19^th October 1711. She married Raadstuskriver Iver Tyrholm and they had two sons and four daughters. Iver was born on 26^th April 1700 and died on 19^th July 1763, while Karen had died two years earlier on 23^rd February 1761.
24K6	James Collett was baptised on 8^th November 1717 and he died on 3^rd June 1738 before his twenty-first birthday.
24K8	Karen Collett was born on 17^th February 1725. She married Poul Heltzen (known as Hellesen) and they had seven children, including four sons and three daughters. Poul was born on 25^th March 1711 and he died on 10^th May 1772. Karen lived for a further thirteen years and died on 19^th September 1785.
24K9	Christine Sophie Collett, who was known as Stinchen, was born on 24^th February 1726 and she later married Hieronimus Johann Schultze. Tragically, Christine died on 6^th April 1756 before they had any children, while Hieronimus, who was born in 1716, survived for another forty-seven years before he died on 27^th September 1803.
24K10	Ditlevine Collett was born on 19^th July 1727. She married president magistrate Nicolai Feddersen who was twenty-eight years her senior and the marriage produced one daughter and four sons, one of whom died as a child. Ditlevine died on 18^th November 1803, while Nicolai, who was born on 18^th October 1699, died on 4^th March 1769.
24K11	James Collett was born at Christiania on 28^th August 1728, the son of Peter Collett and Anna Cathrine Rosenberg. It was on 10^th November 1756 in Christiania that James married Karen Leuch, the daughter of Peder Leuch and Anne Cathrine Hellesen. It seems highly likely that Karen was the granddaughter of the timber company family (see Ref 24I1). Karen was born at Christiania on 19^th December 1733 and died there on 30^th September 1758. Her untimely death, three months before her twenty-fifth birthday, occurred only eight days after the birth of their second child.
	James bought the estate at Flateby in Enebakk which was well-known for the society parties his son John Collett held there in the late 1790s and which are documented in history books. James Collett died at Christiania during that period and passed away on 15^th November 1794, and was buried there on 21^st November 1794.
	24L1		Peter Collett		Born in 1757
	24L2		John Collett		Born in 1758
24K12	Peder Collett was born on 11^th December 1729. He never married but bought the farm at Ronnebaeksholm in Denmark which was taken over by his brother John Collett (below) in 1763 following the death of Peder on 8^th January 1763. Fourteen years later the farm was sold but was later re-acquired by the Collett family through the efforts of Peter Ferdinand Collett (Ref. 24N13).
24K13	Anna Collett was born at Christiania on 28^th March 1731, the daughter of Peter Collett and Anna Cathrine Rosenberg. It was at Copenhagen in Denmark on 22^nd November 1754 that Anna married Peder Elieson of Hafslund, the son of Iver Elieson and Karen Mortensdatter Leuch. During their short life together, Anna presented Peder with two sons and three daughters. Anna Elieson nee Collett died at Hafslund, Sarpsborg, on 12^th September 1772, while Peder, who was born on 30^th June 1727, died there five months later on 2^nd February 1773. Two of their three daughters married their cousins, they being the two sons of James Collett (above) and his wife Karen Leuch.
	Their daughter Karen Elieson, who was known as Kaja, was born at Christiania on 24^th March 1760 and she married Peter Collett (Ref. 24L1), while another daughter, Marthine Christine Sophie Elieson, who was known as Tina, was born at Hafslund, Sarpsborg on 15^th December 1764 and she married Peter’s brother John Collett (Ref. 24L2).
24K14	Johan Collett was born on 12^th February 1734. He married Else Elisabeth Jensen and they had eleven children, one of which, Johan was born in Denmark, when he may not have been the only child of theirs to be born there. Upon the death of his brother Peder Collett (above) in 1763, Johan bought the farm at Ronnebaeksholm but sold the property fourteen years later in 1777. Else Jensen was born on 19^th December 1746 and died on 10^th March 1788, while Johan Collett died on 22^nd May 1806.
	24L3		Peter Collett		Born in 1767
	24L4		Mathias Collett		Born in 1768 and died in 1768
	24L5		James Collett		Born in Oct 1769; died in Jan 1778
	24L6		Anne Cathrine Magdalene Collett		Born on 16.11.1770; died on 14.12.1777
	24L7		Jonas Collett		Born in 1772
	24L8		Johan Collett		Bapt on 27.12.1773; died on 26.02.1774
	24L9		Johan Collett		Born during 1775 in Denmark
	24L10		Karen Mathia Collett		Born in Aug 1776; died on 31.12.1777
	24L11		Ulrikke Cathrine Mathia Collett		Baptised on 02.11.1778; baby death
	24L12		James Collett		Baptised on 06.08.1787; baby death
	24L13		Ditlevine Dorothea Elisabeth Collett		Baptised on 29.08.1787; baby death
24K16	Mathia Collett was born on 28^th May 1737. She married (1) Morten Leuch of Bogstad Gard who was born on 15^th April 1732 and who was only thirty-six when he died on 24^th January 1768. And it was at Bogstad Gard that Mathia lived all her married life - see photographs below taken during the 2009 Reunion visit.
	It is of interest to note that Mathia’s grandfather James Collett (Ref. 24I1) had married Karen Leuch of Bogstad Gard in 1686, and that her older brother James Collett (above) married another Karen Leuch around 1755 who was very likely the sister of Mathia’s husband Morten. Following the death of her husband Morten, Mathia married (2) Bernt Anker and continued to live at Bogstad Gard, the property then being taken over by the Anker family. What is of particular note, is that during a dinner party Bernt presented John Collett, the son of Mathia’s brother James and his wife Karen Leuch, with the deeds of Ulleval Gard, a large farmland just outside Oslo. Bernt Anker was born on 22^nd November 1746 and he died on 22^nd April 1805, just less than four years after Mathia died on 21^st July 1801. There were no children arising from either of Mathia’s marriages.
24K17	PETER COLLETT was born on 14^th April 1740. He married (1) Maren Kirstine Holmboe who was born on 4^th February 1745 and with whom he had two children before she died on 21^st March 1769. Prior to the wedding Peter had already purchased Buskerud Gard in 1762 where he had his family lived.
	Following the death of his first wife, Peter then married (2) Johanne Henriche Ancher with whom he had a further nine children, with one of them born at Drammen, where others may also have been born. When Peter died on 16^th March 1785 the property at Buskerud Gard passed to his eldest son Peter Collett (Ref. 24L14) and was later passed down to two of his sons. The property was eventually sold by Albert Peter Severin Collett around 1833 and since then it has become a vocational high school. This photograph was taken during the 2009 Reunion.
	The Collett plaque on the family tomb at the Nykirke Church near Buskerud Gard includes the three family inscriptions ‘Maren Christine Collett fodt Holmboe * 4 2 1745 + 21 3 1769’, her daughter Maren Kristine Collett * 1775 + 1775’, and her husband Peter Collett herre til Buschrud Gaard * 14 4 1740 + 16 3 1785’. Only the year givens given for the birth and death of daughter Maren conflict with the actual dates.
	24L14		PETER COLLETT		Born in 1766 at Christiania
	24L15		Anne Cathrine Collett		Born in 1768 at Christiania
	The following are the children of Peter Collett by his second wife Johanne Henriche Ancher:
	24L16		Christian Ancher Collett		Born in 1771
	24L17		Maren Kirstine Collett		Born on 11.10.1772; died on 09.03.1773
	24L18		Christopher Collett		Born in 1773
	24L19		John Collett		Born in 1774
	24L20		Karen Magdalene Collett		Born in 1776
	24L21		Maren Christine Collett		Born in 1777
	24L22		Mathia Bernhardine Collett		Born in 1779 at Drammen
	24L23		James Henrik Collett		Born in 1781
	24L24		Otto Collett		Born in 1784
24L1	Peter Collett was born at Christiania on 18^th August 1757, the eldest of two sons of James Collett and Karen Leuch. Sadly, just after his first birthday his mother died, having given birth to his brother John (below), just a week earlier. He married his cousin Karen (Kaja) Elieson, whose sister Tina married his brother John Collett (below). After the death of her husband at Christiania on 25^th March 1792, Karen was married for a second time to Poul Peter Lindemann. Karen, who had been born on 24^th March 1760, died at Holleby, Tune on 20^th March 1823, and was the daughter of Anna Collett (Ref. 24K13) and Peder Elieson.
	24M1		Karen Christiane Collett		Born in 1784
	24M2		James Collett		Born in 1787
	24M3		Martine Johnette Collett		Born in 1789
	24M4		Anna Mathia Ditlevine Collett		Born on 15.10.1791; died on 19.11.1791
24L2	John Collett was born at Akershus, Christiania on 22^nd September 1758, the same day that he was baptised there, the second son of James Collett and his wife Karen Leuch who tragically died eight days after he was born. It is known that he later worked in London at the company of Collett and Gram. However, in 1794, and following the death of his father James Collett, John returned home to Norway to become head of the family business in Christiania. A little while later, when the London company was experiencing financial difficulties, it was taken over by Boulton and Pelly. The same company also acquired a great deal of the Collett family estate in Norway as part of the transaction.
	It was in Christiania on 5^th February 1783 that John Collett married his cousin Marthine Christine Sophie Elieson, who was known as Tina, and it was her sister Kaja Elieson who married John’s brother Peter Collett (above). Sadly, the marriage of John and Tina did not produce any children of their own. However, the couple did adopt two children from within the immediate Collett family. The first of them was John’s much younger cousin Otto Collett (Ref. 24L24), who was only six months old when his father died in March 1785. The second, seven years later, was John’s niece Martine Johnette Collett (Ref. 24M3), the youngest surviving daughter of John’s older brother Peter (above) following his death in March 1792 when Martine was only two years of age. What is very interesting is that Otto later married Martine his niece in 1808.
	During his life, John Collett was a well-known figure, both in England and Norway, and it is noted in Norwegian history that he was the man that brought new farming methods into the country from England. He owned a large number of farms including one at Ulleval Gard, plus the estate at Flateby purchased by his father James Collett at which he often held parties during the 1790s. In 1799 a British professor in history and political economy, Thomas Malthus, made a journey to many European countries. He stayed for one month in Norway, at Ullevål Gard in Christiania, where he talked to Tina Collett. She told him that living conditions for the people in Norway was improving. People were not so unclean as before and, because of that, the child-death rate was not so high.
	John’s father James, bought the estate at Flateby in Enebakk and it was there that John was well-known for holding a great many parties after the death of his father in 1794. It is therefore very interesting, that in 2017, the Enebakk History Association published an article relating to the legal pirate businesses during the Napoleon wars around 1800 in which John Collett took an active part. This involved Danish and Norwegian ships capturing British commerce ships to offload their cargo, which was then sold, with the British sailors being set free. The same article included a stock label from Collett’s company “Christiania Caper Compagnie” which was dated 30^th April 1808 and signed by John himself. That company was set up solely for his legal pirate business. The article concluded by stating the John Collett had a farm called Flateby Estate in Enebakk.
	A further article, published by the Enebakk History Association during the spring of 2018, focused on the Collett family’s hunting lodge and farmstead, Flateby Estate. This was described as an important informal social meeting place for the Norwegian elite from the second half of the 18^th century until the 1820’s. The actual design of the lodge, built around 1756, has been unknown since it was demolished sometime between 1845 and1855. Previous unknown archival material now shows that the building was typical of the European hunting lodge tradition. The different rooms were decorated with English, French and Chinese furniture, and on the walls hang a lot of great paintings of the Collett family members. Flateby should be the most expensive and most delicate house on the Norwegian country-side.
	It is understood that John established the Akers Sogneselskap on 4^th June 1807, the 200^th anniversary of which was celebrated in 2007 and, the following year, the 250^th anniversary of the birth of John Collett was celebrated in 2008. Upon the death of John Collett, the family business was taken over by his adopted son, his cousin Otto Collett, who also became the owner of the estate at Flateby. John Collett died at Christiania on 3^rd February 1810, while Tina, who was born at Hafslund, Sarpsborg, on 15^th December 1764, the daughter of Anna Collett and Peder Elieson, died sixteen years later while in Christiania on 21^st August 1826.
	The close family association between cousins John and Otto is reflected in the fact that they, together with John’s wife Tina all share the same grave in the grounds of the Old Aker Church in Oslo, which was restored in 2007, and where a single metal cross on a stone base is engraved with their three names. Of further interest is the later engraving on the stone base. The epitaph there reads: “Martine Janette Collett født Collett født d. 27 August 1789, død d. 25 Marts 1865” the translation of which is, Martine Janette Collett nee Collett born on 27^th August 1789 died on 25^th March 1865. It is believed that the cross was purchased by Martine after her husband Otto died in 1833, and it was when she died over thirty years later that her name was added to the stone base.
	The property at Ulleval Gard was a gift to John Collett from Bernt Anker, the second husband of Mathia Collett (Ref. 24K16) of Bogstad Gard. The family story states that, as John was sitting down to dinner, he found a document on his plate which was the deeds to the property. Featured below on the left is the main Collett House at Ulleval Gard, now a school, while on the right is a smaller house on the Ulleval estate. Both photographs were taken during the 2009 Collett Reunion visit.
24L3	Peter Collett was baptised on 4^th July 1767. He married (1) Margrethe Caroline Holm who was baptised on 25^th July 1766, but she died shortly after the death of their only daughter. Peter then married (2) Christine Sophie Constance von Wickede but they had no issue. Christine was born on 22^nd December 1777 and died on 2^nd July 1830, Peter already having passed away seven years earlier on 21^st April 1823.
	24M5		Christine Elise Caroline Collett		Baptised on 22.11.1799; died in 1800
24L7	Jonas Collett was born on 25^th March 1772 and died on 3^rd January 1851. He married his cousin Maren Christine Collett (below), who was known as Tina, and they had twelve children, one of which was certainly born at Kongsberg, where others may have been born. Tina, who was born on 25^th May 1777 and died on 6^th November 1860, was the daughter of Peter Collett (Ref. 24K17) and Johanne Ancher. Jonas Collett of Buskerud, and his brother Johan (below), were two of twenty-one men who met on 16^th February 1814 to draw up a Constitution for Norway, which was eventually signed at Eidsvoll on 17^th May 1814 by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly, that day now being celebrated in Norway as Constitution Day.
	24M6		Henriette Collett		Born in 1799
	24M7		Johan Collett		Born in 1800
	24M8		Caroline Petrea Collett		Born on 11.03.1802; and died in 1804
	24M9		Caroline Petrea Collett		Born in 1804
	24M10		Marthine Christine Sophie Collett		Born in 1805 at Kongsberg
	24M11		Elisabeth Collett		Born in 1806
	24M12		Peter Jonathan Collett		Born in 1808; and died in 1809
	24M13		Karen Mathia Octava Collett		Born in 1810; and died in 1811
	24M14		Cathrine Karen Mathia Collett		Born in 1812
	24M15		Jonas Tinus Collett		Born in 1814
	24M16		Peter Collett		Born in 1818
	24M17		Eugene Thora Octava Collett		Born in 1825
24L9	Johan Collett was born in Denmark on 2^nd March 1775, the son of Johan Collett and his wife Else Elisabeth Jensen. He married Thomasine Christiane Birgitte de Stockfleth at Kongsberg on 23^rd September 1803, and they had eleven children. Christiane, as she was known, was born on 3^rd July 1782 at Stromso, Drammen in Buskerud, and died on 22^nd April 1829 at Huseby, Lier in Buskerud where most of the couple’s children were born. Johan entered higher education in 1791, which he completed in 1793.
	From 1802 to 1814, together with his brother Jonas Collett (above), Johan was an active participant in the process of creating the Norwegian Constitution at Eidsvoll, which was finalised between 11^th April and 17^th May 1814. He was a Stortingsmann in 1814, 1818, and again from 1824 through to 1827, that is a Member of the Storting in Oslo, the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. He represented Buskerud as an Eidsvollmannen Amtmann from 1814 until his death on 18^th June 1827 in Christiania, following which he was buried on 23^rd June 1827 at Vår frelsers Gravlund in Christiania. Johan Collett was one of 112 Eidsvollmen of that time and, in 2022, Erik Tøndevold of Nesøya in Norway is in the process of compiling the comprehensive details of those pionerring Norwegian statesmen. In the Oslo VG newspaper on 10^th May 2014, the president of the Norwegian Parliament, Olemic Thommesen, stated that Johan Collett, who participated at Eidsvoll in 1814 and gave Norway a constitution, is one of his ancestors.
	24M18		Tom John Collett		Born during 1804 at Sandaker, Lier
	24M19		Hanna Elisea Collett		Born during 1806 at Sandaker, Lier
	24M20		Holger Gustav Collett		Born during 1807 at Sandaker, Lier
	24M21		Sophie Augusta Collett		Born during 1809 at Lier, Buskerud
	24M22		Sophie Augusta Collett		Born during 1811 at Huseby, Lier
	24M23		Peter Jonas Collett		Born during 1813 at Huseby, Lier
	24M24		Marthine Jeanette Collett		Born during 1815 at Huseby, Lier
	24M25		Johan Christian Collett		Born during 1817 at Huseby, Lier
	24M26		Caroline Collett		Born during 1819 at Huseby, Lier
	24M27		Carl Emil Collett		Born during 1821 at Huseby, Lier
	24M28		Elise Caroline Collett		Born during 1823 at Huseby, Lier
24L14	PETER COLLETT was born on 8^th August 1766. He married Eilerine Severine Bendeke and they had eleven children. Eilerine was born on 7^th October 1777 and died on 7^th December 1857. He was still very young when he inherited the family estate at Buskerud Gård, following the death of his father Peter Collett (Ref. 24K17) in 1785. When Peter died on 27^th July 1836 the property may have passed to his eldest son Peter Collett (Ref. 24M32), but what is known for sure is that Peter’s son John Collett (Ref. 24M36) was the owner at some stage, most likely after the death of his older brother Peter (Ref. 24M32). The Collett plaque on the family tomb at the Nykirke Church near Buskerud Gard includes the two family’s inscriptions ‘Hoiesterets Assessor Peter Collett * 8 8 1766 + 27 7 1836’ and ‘Enkefru Eilerine Severine Collett fodt Bendeke * 7 10 1777 + 7 12 1857’. The plaque also includes the name of their son John Collett (Ref. 24M36) and his wife Johanne.
	A pamphlet published in 1948 by the Drammen Museum includes a short history of the Collett family and their life in Buskerud and their ownership of Buskerud Gård. The same document refers to Peter Collett (1766-1836) and his remarkable book collection which was left to the University in Christiania (Oslo) with exception of books on law, technology and finance which were left to the county of Buskerud. The university received 3,100 books while Buskerud 1,406 had catalogued books, many of them unique and of great value. Peter Collett served as a judge on the bench of the Supreme Court of Norway from 1814, when the court was created by the government of the new Norwegian state. In 1827 he was nominated as a candidate by Parliament to become Chief Justice to the Supreme Court. Another candidate, who was nominated by the King, was Norway's sharpest legal mind at that time, namely Christian Magnus Falsen (1782-1830). The King had the power to appoint the Chief Justice, but there was a state of armistice between the two and the King tried to avoid directly provoking Parliament.
	Mr Falsen had been one of the leading actors in the process that resulted in the signing of the Norwegian Constitution on 17^th May 1814. His contemporaries nicknamed him ‘The Father of the Constitution’. He had served two terms, having been elected three times, in the Norwegian Parliament after 1814, and been in public office in Norway since 1802 at the age of 20 years. Although there was no doubt about his dedication to work for Norway, his popularity had dwindled since 1814, resulting from his political activity where he had made a 180-degree turnabout on several issues which had been discussed in the Constitution. Gradually the farmers, the public servants, the priesthood and the Parliament had turned against him. In short, he was the most unpopular public servant in Norway. He wanted to become Chief Justice and was well qualified for the post, his qualifications recognised by the King. However, Parliament did all it could to block Falsen as Chief Justice when they found out that Peter Collett was both able and willing to take the post. Therefore, Parliament's list of candidates contained the name of Peter Collett and five others, but not Falsen.
	Closer examination of Peter's qualifications uncovered that he had been on the Supreme Court and had had 15 cases in the court where he had been a party. He had lost 13 of them and had been fined once for illegally attempting to block the other party from bringing the case to court. As a consequence, Peter Collett withdrew his candidacy and resigned from the court, his resignation accepted in January 1830. He was not very popular among the public, and Parliament refused to give him a pension. One member of Parliament considered him to be one of the least popular public servants of his time. Ironically it was later that same year in 1830 when Christian Magnus Falsen died of a stroke during one of his first meetings in court.
	If we travel forward in time to 1914, we discover the second marriage of Johan Collett, the great grandson of the unpopular Peter Collett, and Kathleen Ragnhild Falsen, the great granddaughter of the unpopular Christian Magnus Falsen. The union of these two great grandchildren of the most unpopular Norwegian public servants of the late 1820's resulted in the birth of three daughters, one of which was Kathleen Collett (Ref. 24P19) the mother of Johan Peter Hancke who kindly provided this new information.
	24M29	Petronelle Elisabeth Cathrine Collett			Baptised on 24.02.1796; died in 1797
	24M30	Mathia Collett			Baptised on 08.02.1797; died in 1797
	24M31	Elisabeth Christine Collett			Born in 1798
	24M32	Peter Collett			Born in 1799
	24M33	Anne Cathrine Hedvig Collett			Born in 1801
	24M34	Ulrikke Charlotte Wilhelmine Collett			Born in 1802
	24M35	Bernt Anker Collett			Born in 1803
	24M36	JOHN COLLETT			Born in 1807
	24M37	Theodora Christiane Collett			Born in 1809
	24M38	Peter Nicolai Collett			Born in 1811
	24M39	Otto Collett			Born in 1813
24L15	Anne Cathrine Collett, who was known as Thrine, was born on 19^th February 1768. She married Peter Nicolai Arbo and they lived at the Arbo family home at Gulskogen Gard where their marriage produced no children for the couple. Peter Arbo was born on 6^th November 1768 and he died on 16^th September 1827, while Thrine survived her husband by over eighteen years when she died on 27^th January 1846. The house and surrounding parklands at Gulskogen Gard are today part of the Drammen Museum, and the photograph below was taken during the Collett Reunion visit of 2009. This portrait of Thrine was painted by the Danish painter Jens Juel and can be seen in the house alongside a portrait of her husband which was also painted by Jens Juel.
24L16	Christian Ancher Collett was born on 30^th April 1771. He married Anna Karine Bie and they had five children. Bergraad Christian was the director of a silver mine at Kongsberg. His wife Anna was born on 7^th May 1775 and died on 3^rd February 1856, while Christian died twenty-three years earlier on 10^th January 1833.
	24M40		Mariane Collett		Born on 10.11.1800; died on 11.01.1822
	24M41		Johanne Benedicte Collett		Born in 1802
	24M42		Tharald Einar Anker Collett		Born in 1805
	24M43		Karen Marthelene Collett		Born circa 1807-09; buried 05.08.1809
	24M44		Karen Martine Christine Collett		Born in 1812
24L18	Christopher Collett was born on 2^nd October 1773 and he became a lieutenant first class. He married Anne Cathrine Elisabeth Arbo and they had five children. Anne was born on 17^th September 1775 and was the brother of Peter Nicolai Arbo who married Christopher’s sister Anne Cathrine Collett (above). Christopher died on 17^th December 1815 and Anne died on 1^st November 1833.
	24M45		Peter Nicolai Arbo Collett		Born in 1803 and died on 02.01.1806
	24M46		Peter Nicolai Arbo Collett		Born on 21.05.1806; died on 04.10.1811
	24M47		Herman Christian Collett		Born in .1807
	24M48		Johan Henrik Collett		Born on 24.09.1808; died on 07.02.1809
	24M49		Otto Martinus Collett		Born on 09.01.1811; died on 04.05.1812
24L19	John Collett was born on 22^nd December 1774. He married Marie Christiane Rosen who was born on 30^th April 1796 and the couple had three children. Marie was twenty-two younger than John so when he died on 29the September 1824 she lived a widow’s life for the next sixty-two years, dying just thirteen days before her ninetieth birthday.
	24M50		Nicoline Cathrine Collett			Born in 1818
	24M51		Peter Collett			Born in 1820
	24M52		Johanne Christine Collett			Born in 1822
24L20	Karen Magdalene Collett, who was known as Kaja, was born on 25^th April 1776. She married Caesar Laesar Boeck and they had three sons and one daughter. Tragically both Caesar, who was born on 13^th May 1766, and Kaja died on the same day, that being 16^th June 1832. The circumstances of their deaths are not known at this time. One of their sons, Christian Peter Bianco Boeck, married his second cousin Elisabeth Collett (Ref. 24M11).
24L21	Maren Christine Collett, who was known as Tina, was born on 25^th May 1777. She married her cousin Jonas Collett – see Ref. 24L7 (above) for their family details.
24L22	Mathia Bernhardine Collett, who was known as Thea, was born at Drammen on 13^th January 1779, a daughter of Peter Collett and his second wife Johanne Henriche Ancher. It was on 26^th October 1806 at Kongsberg when Thea married Poul Steenstrup, who had been born in Denmark on 10^th December 1772. They had nine children, one of which, Peter Severin Steenstrup married Sophie Augusta Collett (Ref. 24M22). Mathia Bernhardine Steenstrup died at Kongsberg on 9^th October 1847, while her husband Poul also passed away in Kongsberg, exactly seventeen years later, when he died on 9^th October 1864. Poul Steenstrup was an Eidsvollmann and an sølvverkdirektør, and a stortingsmann in 1814 and 1824, that is a Member of the Storting in Oslo, the supreme legislature of Norway.
24L23	James Henrik Collett was born on 12^th July 1781. He never married and died relatively young in 1811 when he was 30.
24L24	Otto Collett was born on 1^st September 1784. When his father died in March 1785, when Otto was six months old, he was adopted by his older cousin John Collett (Ref. 24L2). Seven years later, and following the death of John’s brother Peter, John and his wife Tina adopted their niece Martine Johnette Collett (Ref. 24M3). She was five years younger than Otto, the pair of them raised as the children of John and Tina Collett. However, it was during 1808 that Otto Collett married his niece and adopted sister Martine Johnette Collett who was born on 27^th August 1789. Sadly, their marriage, like that of their adoptive parents, produced no children for the couple. It was following the death of his cousin and adopted father John Collett in 1810 that Otto took over the family business and also took over ownership of the estate at Flateby. Otto Collett died on 14^th April 1833 and it was thirty-two years later that his wife passed away on 25^th March 1865. A single metal cross in the graveyard of the Old Aker Church in Oslo bears the names of John Collett, his wife Marthine Christine Sophie Collett, and that of Otto Collett which, it is understood was erected by Otto’s widow. Following her own death, the stone base was inscribed with the name of Otto’s wife Martine Janette Collett. An article published in the Oslo newspaper Afterposten on 26^th December 2014 told the story of the celebration of Christmas in 1814 held by Otto Collett at Estate Flateby, just outside Oslo, during which there was hunting, dancing and grand dining.
24M1	Karen Christiane Collett, who was known as Kaja, was born at Ellingsrud on 6^th September 1784. She married Iver Steen of Christiania with whom she had one daughter. Iver was born on 18^th September 1784 and died on 28^th September 1828. Kaja died twenty-eight years later on 26^th February 1856.
24M2	James Collett was born on 6^th June 1787, the son of Peter Collett and Karen Elieson. Tragically on 21^st July 1795 aged just eight years he died from drowning when visiting the family in the country. His portrait (on the right) was painted by Heinrich Christian Friedrich Hosenfelder and today hangs in the National Gallery. A Norwegian commemorative postage stamp was issued in 1979 featuring the picture.
24M3	Martine Johnette Collett, who was known as Tina, was born on 27^th August 1789 and she married her uncle and adopted brother Otto Collett (Ref. 24L24) above. On her grave stone her name was recorded as Martine Janette Collett.
24M6	Henriette Collett was born on 14^th August 1799. She married Frederik Riss of Stiftsamtman and they had one daughter. Frederik was born on 29^th January 1789 and he died on 22^nd October 1845. Henriette Riss nee Collett died on 19^th February 1857.
24M7	Johan Collett was born on 28^th December 1800 and he married (1) Marie Frederikke Thomason with whom he had one son. Marie, who was born on 4^th October 1810, died on 28^th March 1839 following which Johan married (2) Margrethe Louise Dirikis from Copenhagen. That second marriage also produced just one more son for Johan who died on 10^th October 1877. Margrethe was born on 1^st September 1801 and she died on 7^th September 1859.
	24N1		Frederik Jonas Lucien Bothfield Collett				Born in 1839
	24N2		Arthur Collett				Born 08.11.1845; died 20.05.1847
24M9	Caroline Petrea Collett, who was known as Nanna, was born on 23^rd January 1804 at Kongsberg. Unlike her sister of the same name who was born two years earlier at Kongsberg and who only survived for two years, Nanna lived into her eighties and died on 1^st March 1885. She never married.
24M10	Marthine Christine Sophie Collett was born at Kongsberg on 12^th October 1805, another daughter of cousins Jonas and Tina Collett. She married her cousin Tom John Collett (Ref. 24M18) in Christiania on 8^th June 1832, who had been born at Sandaker, Lier in Buskerud, on 9^th September 1804. They were blessed with just two children when they were living in Christiania, before the premature death of Tom John Collett, aged 30, who died there in hospital less than three years after their wedding day, on 1^st February 1835. Marthine remained a widow for a further fifty-four years before her death on 20^th March 1889 in Christiania.
	24N3		Johanne Collett		Born during 1833 at Christiania
	24N4		Thomas Collett		Born during 1835 at Christiania
24M11	Elisabeth Collett was born on 28^th November 1806. She married her second cousin Christian Peter Bianco Boeck who was a professor and a doctor. Christian was the son of Caesar Laesar Boeck and Kaja Collett (Ref. 24L20) and was born on 5^th September 1798. He died on 11^th July 1877 and was followed six years after by Elisabeth who died on 21^st August 1883.