PART TWENTY-FOUR

The Norwegian Line – 1810 to 1890

This is the second 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

Part 25 (The Danish Line) & Part 26 (The Swedish Line) stem from this line

see Ref. 24M35 and Ref. 24N16 respectively

24M14	Cathrine Karen Mathia Collett, who was known as Caja, was born on 16^th April 1812. She never married and died on 21^st May 1880.
24M15	Jonas Tinus Collett was born on 14^th February 1814. He was a protocol secretary at the Supreme Court in Hoiesterett before he died on 22^nd February 1858. He never married.
24M16	Peter Collett was born on 28^th November 1818 and was a medical student before he died on 22^nd November 1848. He never married.
24M17	Eugenie Thora Octava Collett was born on 16^th April 1825 at Christiania. She never married and died on 31^st October 1851.
24M18	Tom John Collett was born at Sandaker, Lier in Buskerud on 9^th September 1804 and was the first-born child of Johan Collett and Thomasine Christiane Birgitte de Stockfleth. He was a student in 1822 and followed in his father’s public office footsteps by becoming a Secretary of Justice in Akershus. It was in Christiania that he married his cousin Marthine Christine Sophie Collett (Ref. 24M10) on 8^th June 1832. Tragically, they were only together for thirty-two months, When Tom John Collett died in hospital at Christiania on 1^st February 1835. For the continuing story of his family go to 24M10 (above).
24M19	Hanna Elisea Collett, who was known as Lisa, was born at Sandaker in Lier on 7^th March 1806, the eldest daughter of Johan and Thomasine Collett. Tragically, she was only ten years of age when she died at Huseby, Lier in Buskerud on 6^th November 1816.
24M20	Holger Gustav Collett was born at Sandaker in Lier on 17^th October 1807, another son of Johan and Thomasine Collett, who later became a Master of Chambers (a Kammerherre). He never married and it was in Christiania that he died on 17^th June 1870.
24M21	Sophie Augusta Collett was born at Lier, Buskerud, on 20^th October 1809, another daughter of Johan Collett and Thomasine Christiane Birgitte de Stockfleth. Tragically, she only survived for a few months when she died at Lier on 12^th April 1810.
24M22	Sophie Augusta Collett was born at Huseby in Lier on 9^th February 1811, and was named after her recently deceased sister (above). It was on 2^nd April 1835 at Kongsberg that she married her second cousin Peter Severin Steenstrup, who was born at Kongsberg on 29^th November 1807, the son of Eidsvollmannen Poul Steenstrup and Thea Collett (Ref. 24L22). In addition to his work within the Norwegian Parliament, Peter founded the important shipbuilding company of Akers Mekaniske Verksted in Christiania. Coincidentally, Peter Collett (Ref. 24P44) was chairman of the company in the 1980s when the last ship was built by the company. That was the Norwegian Conqueror. Peter Steenstrup died at Aker in Christiania on 17^th February 1863, while his wife Sophie died nine years later at Lillefoss in Aker on 4^th May 1872. To honour the work he did for his country, an area in Christiania was given the name Steenstrups Gate in 1879, and it still there today in Oslo.
	During their life together, Sophie presented Peter with seven children. Pauline (Polly) Bernhardine Steenstrup was born on 26^th November 1835 at Kongsberg and died on 4^th May 1901 in Christiania. Johanne Christiane Steenstrup was born on 30^th January 1838 at Stavern and died on 8^th March 1926 in Oslo. Martine (Tina) Jeanette Collett Steenstrup was born on 15^th February 1840 at Stavern and died on 1^st April 1928 in Oslo. Hilda Steenstrup was born on 11^th December 1842 at Christiania and died on 27^th October 1927 in Oslo. Peter Steenstrup was born on 28^th January 1845 at Aker and died on 20^th November 1891 in Christiania. Hjalmar Steenstrup was born on 10^th July 1847 in Oslo and died on 31^st October 1915 in Moss. Sophie Augusta Collett Steenstrup was born on 20^th April 1850 at Vestre Aker and died on 2^nd December 1936 Oslo.
24M23	Peter Jonas Collett was born at Huseby in Lier on 12^th September 1813. Peter was a lawyer and a literary critic and it seems very likely that he was the author of a book entitled ‘Norwegian Family Justice’ written by P J Collett. During the period from 1839 to 1840 he travelled to Italy and other European countries, on a scholarship, as part of a course of study. It was upon his return from his travels that, on 14^th July 1841 at Eidsvoll Church in Akershus, he married Jacobine Camilla Wergeland. She was born on 23^rd January 1813 at Kristiansand and was always referred to as Camilla. Her father was also an Eidsvollmannen, as was Peter’s father.
	The record of their wedding day was written as follows. “Doctor juris Peter Jonas Collett, 28 years old and Miss Jakobine Camilla Wergeland, 28 years old, 14/7. The Best Men were Pastor Ole Severin Olsen and Cand. jur. Harald Wergeland.” In their early years together, when the marriage was fresh and romantic, Camilla presented Peter with four children. However, presumably after the birth of their last child, their relationship situation changed, as often portrayed in the writings of Camilla Collett – see below.
	Camilla Collett later became a passionate champion of women’s right and established herself as a well-known and accomplished writer of many works. In the 1850s Camilla wrote several books on the subject of women’s liberation. Her novel ‘The Magistrate’s Daughters’ written in 1855 is notable for its sympathetic portrayal of young women trapped by stultifying convention. ‘Through the Long Nights’ written in 1862 is a depiction of childhood scenes. In her other books, she wrote about her own life experiences and these included ‘The Life and History of Camilla Collett’, ‘The Story of a Woman’s Heart’, and ‘Memories and Personal Statements’. A street in Oslo, Camilla Collett Veien, is named in her honour.
	In one of her books, “The District Governor’s Daughters” from 1854, Camilla writes about her own unhappy marriage and, in the Aftenposten newspaper of 17^th November 2016, it was reported that a present-day Norwegian female author had written a book about her own unhappy marriage, which the newspaper journalist compared to the earlier work by Camilla Collett. Peter and Camilla Collett’s two eldest sons also took up writing and became established authors in Norway. Their son Robert Collett was very interested in animals and birds, while Alf Collett was the author of several books on the subject of the Collett family in Norway and the history of Christiania.
	Peter Jonas Collett died at Christiania on 18^th December 1851, so Camilla was a widow for forty-three years until she also died there on 6^th March 1895. The records of Scandinavians visiting Italy also include a reference to Jacobine Camilla Collett who visited Rome in 1862. The entry states she was an author and the purpose of her visit was cultural. That visit, and that of her husband twenty-two years earlier, are the only Collett entries in the records. Another entry in the records that may be of interest relates to Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland born 1815 who is likely to be Camilla’s brother. He was listed as being an officer on a course of study and visited Italy in 1853.
	In January 2013, Norway celebrated the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Camilla Collett, champion of women’s right and well-known writer on the subject of women’s liberation. To commemorate the event Queen Sonja laid a bouquet of flowers at the statue of Camilla Collett in the park outside the Castle in Oslo and at the end of the year when the newspaper Dagbladet published the highlights of the year on 30^th December 2013 they included a photograph of the Queen placing the flowers at the foot of the statue. In the Aftenposten newspaper on Saturday 7^th December 2019, there was an article about Camilla Collett, regarding how she would have reacted to the modern literature of the day. The following year, on 9^th September 2020, the newspaper Budsikka in Bærum, just outside Oslo, included a notice about a theatrical performance at a local theatre about Camilla Collett (1813-1895), the champion of women’s rights and author of many books on female liberation. All of these articles continue to demonstration the affection the Norwegian people have with Camilla.
	24N5		Robert Collett		Born during 1842 in Christiania
	24N6		Alf Collett		Born during 1844 in Christiania
	24N7		Oscar Collett		Born during 1845 in Christiania
	24N8		Emil Collett		Born during 1848 in Christiania
24M24	Marthine Jeanette Collett, who was known as Tina, was born at Huseby in Lier on 29^th September 1815 and it was at Frediksvern that she died before reaching her twenty-first birthday on 17^th March 1836.
24M25	Johan Christian Collett was born at Huseby in Lier on 23^rd July 1817, another son of Johan and Thomasine Collett. He was twenty-nine years of age when he married his second cousin Johanne Christiane Collett (below) on 4^th June 1846 at Gulskogen. Johanne, who was known as Hanne, was born in Denmark on 19^th February 1822, and gave Johan two children. Just after they were married, Johan was appointed to the position as Chancellor of the Order of St Olav, a post he held from 1847 to 1854. After that he was an Amtmann for Oppland from 1854 to 1859, and then for Akershus from 1859 to 1895. Also, at some time, he was Head of the Geographical Area of Akershus. Hanne died on 4^th February 1914, while Johan died at Homansbyen, Christiania on 29^th April 1895. That situation was confirmed by the census in 1910, when the widow Johanne Christine Collett was living at Skovveien 50 in Christiania. Also living at that same address was Professor Robert Collett (Ref. 24N5), the nephew of Johanne Christine.
	24N9		Anna Christiane Collett		Born in 1847
	24N10		Emma Collett		Born in 1850
24M26	Caroline Collett was born at Huseby in Lier on 11^th September 1819, where she died shortly after on 17^th September 1819, another daughter of Johan Collett and Thomasine Christiane Birgitte de Stockfleth.
24M27	Carl Emil Collett was born at Huseby in Lier on 19^th July 1821, another son of Johan and Thomasine Collett. He was student in 1839 and became a secretary at the university. He never married and it was on 30^th March 1898 that he died when he was at Homansbyen, Christiania.
24M28	Elise Caroline Collett was born at Huseby in Lier, Buskerud, on 8^th August 1823, the last child born to Johan Collett and Thomasine Christiane Birgitte de Stockfleth. Sadly, like some of her sibling, she too died there when she was only a few months old on 21^st March 1824
24M31	Elisabeth Christine Collett, who was known as Lisa, was born on 31^st March 1798. She never married and died on 30^th January 1879.
24M32	Peter Collett was born on 14^th February 1799 and he later became a Customs Officer at Drammen. He married Christine Stillesen. Tragically the couple died within a week of each other. Christine, who was born on 17^th January 1803, may have died of a broken heart on 8^th January 1875, following the death of her husband on 1^st January 1875. Either that or it may have been an illness that affected them both.
	24N11		Jonas Peter Severin Collett		Born in 1830
	24N12		Christen Stillesen Collett		Born in 1831
	24N13		Alfred Collett		Born in 1840
24M33	Anne Cathrine Hedvig Collett was born on 13^th January 1801. She married Lorentz Henschien a solicitor at law from Akershus and they had one son and three daughters. Lorentz was born on 2^nd February 1786 and he died on 11^th August 1857 four months before his wife Anne, who died on 19^th December 1857.
24M34	Ulrikke Charlotte Wilhelmine Collett, who was known as Rikka, was born on 19^th December 1802. She never married and died on 7^th November 1874.
24M35	Bernt Anker Collett (Collet) was born on 8^th August 1803. He married Emilie Henriette Christense Rorbye and they had two children. It was Bernt who is credited with taking the Collett name into Denmark and in order to distinguish it from the Norwegian family he decided to drop the last t in the surname. Bernt Collet died on 2^nd February 1857, while his wife Emilie passed away on 17^th April 1868.
	This is the start of the Danish Collett family which forms Part 25 – The Danish Line
24M36	JOHN COLLETT was born on 2^nd September 1807 and at some stage in his life he became the owner of the property at Buskerud Gard which he sold in 1869. The property had originally been purchased by Peter Collett (Ref. 24K17) in 1762 and had been handed down through his son Peter Collett (Ref. 24L14). Today the property at Buskerud is used as a vocational high school and the original farm buildings are still well maintained into the twenty-first century.
	John Collett married Johanne Antonette Smith who was born on 15^th December 1811. Johanne died on 15^th October 1874, while John lived on into his eighties and died on 13^th April 1891. The Collett plaque on the family tomb at the Nykirke Church near Buskerud Gard includes the two family’s inscriptions ‘Godseier John Collett * 2 9 1807 + 13 4 1891’ and ‘Fru Johanne Antonette Collett fodt Smith * 15 12 1811 + 15 10 1874’. The plaque also includes the name of their granddaughter Johanne Antonette Collett (Ref. 24O15), the child of their son Albert P S Collett, who was only one month old.
	24N14		Cathrinus Nicolai Arbo Collett							Born in 1841
	24N15		ALBERT PETER SEVERIN COLLETT							Born in 1842
	24N16		Karen Elise Theodora Collett							Born in 1844
24M37	Theodora Christiane Collett, who was known as Dora, was born on 16^th November 1809. She married Carl Peter Fredrik Drejer a proprietor of Viborg and they had one daughter and one son. Carl, who was born on 3^rd March 1808, died on 11^th July 1871, followed by Dora who passed away on 24^th March 1887.
24M38	Peter Nicolai Arbo Collett, who was known as Nikken, was born on 4^th November 1811. He married Nicoline Johanne Marie Nagel who was born on 24^th December 1815. Peter died at the age of thirty-nine on 27^th February 1850, while Nicoline survived him by a further half century before her death on 10^th January 1900.
	24N17		William Collett			Born in 1840
24M39	Otto Collett was born on 5^th April 1813. He married Henriette Vedastine le Normand de Bretteville at Bretteville in Normandy, France and they had five children. Henriette was born at Champagné, Pays de la Loire in France on 3^rd December 1822, the daughter of Charles Eugene le Normand de Bretteville and Amalie Justine Ritter. Otto Collett died on 12^th July 1902 and was survived by his wife for five years, when she passed away on 23^rd June 1907.
	24N18	Adele Collett						Born on 23.04.1848; died 05.04.1854
	24N19	Eugene Beauharnais Ferdinand Collett						Born during 1849 in France
	24N20	Lucie Collett						Born on 08.12.1851; died 18.04.1854
	24N21	Marie Collett						Born in 1855
	24N22	Charles Otto de Bretteville Collett						Born in 1859
24M41	Johanne Benedicte Collett was born on 14^th January 1802. She married Biskop Peter Christian Hersleb Kjerschow and they had seven children of which only two sons and three daughters survived. Peter was born on 29^th June 1786 and he died on 24^th November 1866. He outlived his wife by fifteen years, Johanne having died on 3^rd December 1851. Their son Christian Collett Kjerschow, who was born on 23^rd August 1821, died on 10^th April 1890 and was buried at Tromso Gravlund.
24M42	Tharald Einar Anker Collett was born on 23^rd November 1805. He was a lieutenant and married (1) Maren Georgina Tandberg with whom he had one daughter. Maren, who was baptised on 26^th February 1801, died on 4^th July 1844, following which Tharald married (2) Anne Margrethe Larsdatter. Tharald died on 26^th April 1875 and Anne passed away during November 1887.
	24N23		Einarda Margrethe Pernille A Collett				Born circa 1840
24M44	Karen Martine Christine Collett, who was known as Kaja, was born at Bergen on 4^th February 1812. She never married and died on 10^th October 1891.
24M47	Herman Christian Collett was born on 14^th March 1807 and later worked in a bank as an administrator. He married (1) Louise Arveschoug who was born on 18^th July 1808 with whom he had four children before she died on 3^rd March 1843. He later married (2) Elisabeth Helene Holter with whom he had another three children. Elisabeth was born on 12^th May 1821 and she died on 8^th January 1852, following which she was buried that same day at Stromso Cemetery in Drammen. Herman Christian Collett died many years later on 24^th February 1878.
	24N24		Anna Cathrine Elisabeth Collett						Born in 1832
	24N25		Wilhelmine Louise Collett						Born in 1834
	24N26		Christopher Collett						Born in 1835
	24N27		Christiane Louise Collett						Born in 1837
	24N28		Louis Wilhelm Collett						Born in 1846
	24N29		Margrethe Wilhelmine Collett						Born in 1849
	24N30		Elisabeth Helene Collett						Born in 1852
24M50	Nicoline Cathrine Collett was born on 2^nd December 1818 and never married, and died on 13^th October 1900. During her life she moved from Lunby Gaard to Gulskogen Gard by Drammen, which today is a museum.
24M51	Peter Collett was born on 30^th May 1820, the second child of John Collett and his wife Marie Christiane Rosen. He was a Master of Chambers (a Kammerherre) and a Minister at the Foreign Office in Stockholm. He was later accredited to Instanbul where he died at just forty years of age on 2^nd August 1860, the cause of death possibly being an appendicitis.
24M52	Johanne Christine Collett, who was known as Hanne, was born at Kjøbenhavn on 19^th February 1822. She married her second cousin Johan Christian Collett – see Ref. 24M25 (above) for their family details.
24N1	Frederik Jonas Lucian Bothfield Collett was born at Christiania on 25^th March 1839. He was an accomplished artist from Lillehammer and was well-known for his landscape paintings. He never married and in 1901 he was residing at Jernbanegaten 167 in Lillehammer, where he died four years later on 19^th April 1914. Below is one of his oil-on-canvas paintings, completed in 1884. As recently as January 1997 a book about Frederik was written by Ingrid Blekastad and this refers to paintings on exhibition at the Kuntsmuseum in Lillehammer.
24N3	Johanne Collett was born at Christiania on 4^th May 1833, the eldest of the two child of Tom John Collett and his cousin Marthine Christine Sophie Collett. Her father sadly died three months before Johanne celebrated her second birthday. It was in Christiania on 12^th December 1863 that she married Jens Theodor Paludan Vogt a civil engineer and they had six children. Jens was born at Eiker on 23^rd September 1830 and he died on 25^th October 1892, while Johanne died in Christiania on 22^nd July 1906, when she was described as a forfatter (an author and writer). In addition to their first child Nils (below), they also had four other children born at Christiania. They were Valborg Martina Vogt born on 30^th May 1866, who died on 6^th September 1877, Petra Marie (Maya) Vogt born on 23th April 1869, who died in Paris on 5^th June 1940 Paris, Johanne Eleonora Collett Vogt born on 20^th December 1870, who died in 1931, and Tom John Collett Vogt who was born on 27^th August 1872 and died on 16^th February 1935. No details are known regarding the couple’s missing youngest child.
	Their son Nils Collett Vogt, a honeymoon baby, was born at Christiania on 23^rd September 1864. He was a student in 1884 and, like his mother, also became an established author and, at the age of twenty-eight, he was in Italy on a course of study, visiting Rome and Sicily. Two year later he returned to Sicily where he stayed between 1894 and 1895. It was at Sicily on 25^th August 1894 that he married Siri Marie Thyselius who had been born in Sweden on 23^rd April 1854. Five years later, in 1899, when they had two children, they returned again to Italy where they lived until 1904, after which they settled in France. However, it was at Lillehammer where Nils Collett Vogt died on 23^rd December 1937, his older wife having previously passed away on 30^th November 1936.
24N4	Thomas Collett was born at Christiania on 6^th January 1835, just one month prior to the death of his father Tom John Collett, his widowed mother being Marthine Christine Sophie Collett, his late father’s wife and cousin. In 1855 he was a medical student and by 1862 he was living and working in Modum to the west of Christiania. Two years later the marriage of Thomas Collett and Sine Kobro took place at Manger near Bergen on 19^th September 1864. The following day was Sine’s nineteenth birthday, having been born at Hitra on 20^th September 1843. Thomas was a doctor of medicine at Lindås, north-east of Manger, and later at Lilleby, Innlandet. Thomas Collett died on 29^th January 1898, so by the time of the Norway census in 1910, his widow Sine Collett was living alone at Omstedgaten 4 in Drammen when, ten years after she died on 19^th June 1920.
	24O1		Jonas Martin Collett			Born in 1865 at Lindås
	24O2		Isak Kobro Collett			Born in 1867 at Lindås
	24O3		Ervine Collett			Born in 1868 at Lindås
	24O4		Tom John Collett			Born in 1871 at Lindås
24N5	Robert Collett was born at Christiania on 2^nd December 1842, the eldest son of lawyer and literary critic Peter Jonas Collett and his wife, the authoress Jacobine Camilla Collett. He was a professor of zoology and was an author like his mother and his brother Alf Collett (below). When in his early thirties he wrote a book entitled ‘From the World of Insects’, and later wrote three volumes on ‘The Birds of Norway’.
	According to the ‘The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals’ Professor Dr Robert Collett (1842-1913) was a Norwegian zoologist. He started his working life as an Assistant Curator in 1871, rose to Curator, and finally became Director of the Christiana Museum, a post he held from 1882 until his death. He was also Professor of Zoology at Christiana University from 1884. His main interest was ichthyology.
	One of his work colleagues was a Mister Thomas who, in 1904, wrote in one of his original citations, “I have named this specifies Dusky Rat (Rattus colletti) in honour of my friend Dr Robert Collett, of Christiana, the author of the chief paper on the mammals in the region in which it occurs. Collett described a number of Australian mammals including Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus lumholtzi.
	Doctor Robert Collett also has an Australian snake named after him (Pseudechis colletti). The rat is found in the Northern Territory of Australia, while the snake can only be found in Central Queensland. Today they are a popular snake among zoos, exotic snake keepers, and snake collectors generally.
	Robert Collett never married and died on 27^th January 1913. Three years earlier, according to the census in 1910, Professor Robert Collett was living at Skovveien 50 in Christiania with his widowed aunt Johanne Christine Collett (Ref. 24M25). At Svalbard, in Haakon 7 land, there is a mountain named Mount Collett which in Norwegian is ‘Colletthøgda’, and this is named after Professor Robert Collett (1842-1913), the Norwegian zoologist at University of Oslo.
24N6	Alf Collett was born at Eidsvoll Vicarage in Akersus, on 8^th August 1844, another son of Peter and Camilla Collett. Upon the death of his father, when Alf was only seven years of age, his mother took him and his younger brother Emil to live in Copenhagen. It was there that he was educated and, on returning to Norway, Alf attended the Cathedral School in Christiania from 1857. On completing his education, he was employed in the Navy & Postal Marine Department, from where in 1885, he transferred to the Ministry of Defence. Prior to that, it was on 14^th December 1871 in Christiania, when he married Mathilda Sophie Kallevig who was born at Arendal on 31^st August 1845, the daughter of Waldemar Kallevig and Hanne Juel. Their marriage did not produce any children and, at the time of the census in 1910, Alf and Mathilda Sophie Collett were living at Inkognitogaten 11 in Christiania. Mathilda Collett died five years later on 27^th April 1915, with Alf dying four years after that, on 12^th June 1919.
	During his life, Alf Collett was a lawyer, historian and genealogist, and was a prominent civil servant and a significant cultural personality with many different interests. He wrote several books on the subject of the Collett family of Norway, the first covering the period from 1655 to 1872, which was published in 1883 and entitled ‘An Old Christiania Family’. That was followed in 1889 by ‘The Collett Family’ and ‘Life in Christiania’ and ‘Pictures of Christiania’ in 1893. He wrote his last book in 1915, round the time of the death of his wife Mathilda. He was honoured with the Knight’s Cross of the 1^st Class of the Order of St Olav, one of many honours that he received.
	Alf Collett’s work on the Collett Family in Norway was later brought up to date by Peter Collett (Ref. 24P44) who commenced his research in 1957, culminating in the publication in 1983 of the ‘Familien Collett 1655 to 1983’. All of the additions to this family tree since 1983 have also been generously supplied by Peter. A further study in 2021/22 by Erik Tondevold, in Oslo, into the 114 Eidsvollmen who help set up the first Norwegian Parliament, produced even more information of those many members of this Collett who were involved in that process in the years leading up to and after 1814. Our sincere thanks go to Erik for sharing with us a major part of his soon to be published work.
24N7	Oscar Collett was born at Christiania on 23^rd December 1845 and was the first Archive Secretary at the Foreign Office in Stockholm. He was also a Master of Chambers (a Kammerherre). He never married and died on 20^th June 1911.
24N8	Emil Collett was born at Christiania on 30^th August 1848, the fourth and last child of Peter Jonas Collett and Jacobine Camilla Wergeland. He was seventy-eight years old when he married Johanne Andrea Brodtkorb Conradi at Storen on 30^th August 1876. She was known as Hanne and was born at Vardo on 2^nd June 1850. Emil was an over engineer working on the railway and he died at Christiania on 12^th October 1904. By the time of the census in 1910, widow Johanne Andrea Collett was living alone at Thomas Angells Gate 10b in Trondhjem, and she survived her husband by over three decades when, as Andrea Collett, she passed away on 12^th March 1936, and was buried at Vår Frelsers Gravlund in Oslo.
	24O5		Margrethe Collett			Born in 1877 at Eidsvoll
	24O6		Camilla Collett			Born in 1878 at Eidsvoll
	24O7		Jonas Georg Johan Collett			Born in 1883 at Eidsvoll
24N9	Anna Christiane Collett was born at Christiania on 30^th March 1847, the eldest of the two daughters of cousins Johan Christian Collett and Johanne Christine Collett. She married Karsten Tank Lorange in Oslo on 21^st May 1874. He had been born at Halden on 15^th April 1838, and he and Anna gave birth to seven children, five sons and two daughters. Karsten Tank Lorange died at Nesodden on 27^th August 1929, when he was described as an oberstløytnant. After less than four years as a widow, Anna Christiane passed away in Oslo on 29^th May 1933, at the age of 86.
	The couple’s seven children were all born in Christiania, and they were: Johan Christian Lorange was born on 18^th December 1875 and died in 1956; Anne Cathrine Lorange was born on 30^th March 1878 and died on 8^th March 1955; Carsten Tank Lorange was born on 5^th December 1879 and died on 7^th March 1947; Georg Robert Lorange was born on 2^nd August 1881 and died in 1967; Aage Lorange was born on 22^nd March 1883 and died 29^th November 1962; George Otto Lorange was born on 25^th April 1885 and died on 10^th January 1951; and Johanne (Hanne) Christine Ambrosia Lorange was born on 31^st October 1887.
24N10	Emma Collett was born in Christiania on 14^th July 1850, the second daughter of Johan and Johanne Collett. The marriage of Emma Collett and Professor Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou was recorded at Christiania on 23th November 1876. Oscar was also born in Christiania on 16^th July 1845 and he and Emma had three sons. Oscar Platou died on 7^th January 1929, followed five years later by Emma who died in Oslo on 7^th April 1934.
	The three children were born in Christiania and they were Harald Fredrik Stoud Platou who was born on 29^th October 1877 and died on 18^th July 1947, Olaf Johan Stoud Platou who was born on 21^st March 1879 and died in Sweden on 15^th June 1963, and Eilif Oscar Stoud Platou who was born on 18^th March 1886 and died in Oslo on 26^th August 1954.
24N11	Jonas Peter Severin Collett was born on 10^th May 1830 and he was a telegraph superintendent. He married (1) Anna Marie Due who was born on 11^th April 1839, but who died on 21^st April 1873. He then married (2) Sofie Haslund who was born on 30^th September 1847, but she died shortly after they were married on 13^th January 875. Neither of these marriages produced any children for Jonas. Following the death of his second wife Jonas then married (3) Johanne Hanna Haberdorph Brock with whom he had two children. Johanne was born on 13^th May 1854 and in 1910 she was a widow living alone at Løvenskioldsgate 12 in Christiania when she was recorded as Johanne Haberdorph Collett. Her husband Jonas had died just over five years earlier, when he had passed away on 2^nd December 1904. However, she lived to be almost ninety, when she passed away on 13^th March 1944.
	24O8		Christine Collett			Born in 1881
	24O9		Peter Collett			Born in 1887
24N12	Christen Stillsen Collett was born on 7^th August 1831 and he was a telegraph inspector. He never married and died on 12^th June 1880.
24N13	Alfred Collett was born on 11^th July 1840. He never married and died on 2^nd November 1870.
24N14	Cathrinus Nicolai Arbo Collett was born on 30^th March 1841. He was a railway engineer and is considered to be the founder of the Swedish branch of the Collett family. He married Josephine Lucie Holmsen who was born on 27^th October 1853. Cathrinus died on 12^th April 1921 and was followed four years later by Josephine who died on 28^th June 1925.
	This is the start of the Swedish Collett family which forms Part 26 – The Swedish Line
24N15	ALBERT PETER SEVERIN COLLETT was born on 15^th September 1842. When he was only twenty-three years old, he was asked by Christiania Bank & Kreditkasse to travel to Nord Trøndelag to examine the possibility to save the bankrupt company at Salsbruket. He was a hard worker and soon started buying land and exporting timber products to England, having set up his own company producing wood pulp at Salsbruket and Bangdalsbruket.
	He married Nanna Höegh and they had ten children. Albert’s investments in forestry over the years meant that he owned more than 130,000 hectares in Nord Trondelag (more than 500 square miles or 320,000 acres) by the time he died at Nord Trondelag on 25.06.1896. Albert’s delightfully written letter of 20^th August 1873 to Nanna, in which he proposes marriage, can be founded displayed upon the website.
	During their married life, Nanna lived in Christiania at Uranienborg Terrasse 11, to enable the children to go to school. It was an important job, all alone with her husband far away, and it was only during the summer that she travelled north the 800 km to Mo Gard by horse and buggy to be reunited with Albert. Following the death of her husband at the age of 54, when she was only 42, Nanna’s oldest son Johan, who was twenty-one, took over the responsibility not only of running the business activities, but also to help his mother to ensure the younger children received a good education.
	Albert Collett’s home at Mo Gard is today a well-known tourist resort and is renowned for good salmon fishing. Albert’s wife Nanna, who was born at Senjen on 4^th June 1854, died on 31^st January 1921. In 1910 the widow Nanna Collett was residing at Uranienborg Terrasse 11 in Christiania, with just three of her children still living there with her. They were Ove Gulberg Høegh Collett, Knut Ørn Høegh Collett, and Albert Jonas August Collett. The Collett plaque on the family tomb at the Nykirke Church near Buskerud Gard includes the name of Albert’s and Nanna’s daughter Johanne who died when only one month old. The inscription reads ‘Johanne Antonette barn av Brugseier Albert Peter Severine Collett og Hustru Nanna fodt Höegh * 28 4 1883 + 30 5 1883’.
	A headstone at the more recent multiple Collett grave in Vestre Gravlund near Vigeland Park in Oslo bears the inscription “Albert P S Collett F. 15 Sept. 1842 D. 25 Juni 1896”. Beneath this are the details for his son Albert and his wife Nanna, which read as follows: “Albert J A Collett F. 17 Dec. 1892 D. 12 Dec. 1918” and “Nanna Collett F. Höegh F. 4 Juni 1854 D. 31 Jan. 1921”.
	The following is an interesting extract from a book written by Sir Henry Pottinger in 1905 entitled “Flood, Fell and Forest”.
	“This hunting ground, comprising the districts round Mo and Oplo on the Indre Folden fiord, was a huge freehold estate belonging to that perfect gentleman, prince of timber merchants and kindest of landlords, the late Albert Collett of Christiania. His successor is his eldest son Johan Collett who now conducts the business on another immense family estate at Bangsund not far from Namsos. Mo and Oplo have been for some years deserted by the lumbermen as no more timber will I believe be felled in those forests for at least another generation.”
	24O10		Johan Collett		Born in 1874 at Trindhjem
	24O11		Emil Collett		Born in 1875 at Trindhjem
	24O12		Oscar Collett		Born in 1877 at Trindhjem
	24O13		Arthur Collett		Born in 1879 at Christiania
	24O14		Axel Collett		Born in 1880 at Christiania
	24O15		Johanne Antonette Collett		Born on 28.04.1883; died on 30.05.1883
	24O16		Ove Gulberg Höegh Collett		Born in 1885 at Christiania
	24O17		Dagny Karen Ann Collett		Born in 1888 at Christiania
	24O18		KNUT ORN HöEGH COLLETT		Born in 1889 at Christiania
	24O19		Albert Jonas August Collett		Born in 1892 at Christiania
24N16	Karen Elise Theodora Collett, who was known as Kaja, was born on 17^th August 1844. She married Ole Herman Johannes Krag who was born on 7^th April 1837 and they had one son and two daughters.
24N17	William Collett was born on 29^th March 1840 and married Beda Wilhelmine Sandelin from Kihlbom, who was born at Mariestad in Sweden on 27^th May 1839. Beda was born on 27^th May 1837 and William died on 24^th May 1915. Five years earlier William was a postmaster in Larvik, where he was living with his wife Beda at Storgate 28, according to the census of 1910.
24N19	Eugene Beauharnais Ferdinand Collett was born in France on 15^th July 1849. He married (1) Frida Wahlberg and adopted Charles Otto Lund who took the name Charles Otto Collett. Frida was born on 20^th May 1853 and she died on 7^th March 1898. Eugene lived on for another thirty-four years during which he married (2) Thea Lindholm who was born on 10^th March 1887 and who died during December 1922. Eugene died on 11^th November 1932. Eugene’s adopted son Charles Otto was the son of Eugene’s sister Marie Collett (below) and Anders Jacob Lund.
	During his life Eugene was the proud owner of the barque sailing ship ‘Pharos’. The vessel was launched on 8^th August 1898 by the Grangemouth Dockyard Company from their shipbuilding yard at Grangemouth in Scotland. It was a handsomely modelled steel barque of 1,300 tons, made to the order of Eugene Collett of Hamburg. On taking the water she was gracefully named the Pharos by Miss Olsen of Norway. A report of the event at that time stated that “The Pharos has been built to the highest class at Lloyd’s, under special survey, and is intended for the general carrying trade, and will be commanded by Captain Andersen who superintended her construction.
	24O20		Charles Otto Lund Collett			Born in 1878 at Christiania
24N21	Marie Collett was born on 24^th July 1855. She married (1) Anders Jacob Lund and they had four children, including a son Charles Otto Lund who was adopted by Marie’s brother Eugene Collett (above). Anders was born in 1818 and he died on 11^th June 1896. Following the death of her first husband, Marie married (2) Axel Leonard Sernquist who was born on 8^th April 1854 and he died on 10^th March 1914. That second marriage for Marie produced three daughters and one son. Marie’s first husband Anders Lund was an actor and their daughter Lucie Collett Lund (1873-1962) married mathematician and professor Axel Thue (1863-1922). The headstone for Axel and Lucie can be found in the Nordstrand Churchyard in Oslo.
24N22	Charles Otto de Bretteville Collett was born on 30^th May 1859. He married Valborg Sophie Mordt with whom he had one child. Valborg was born on 14^th April 1857. Charles died on 12^th November 1891.
	24O21		Charles Collett			Born in 1880
24N23	Einarda Margrethe Pernille Ankar Collett was born around 1840, and certainly sometime before 1844 when her mother died. It was on 2^nd October 1859 that she married Soren Christensen Munkholm with whom she had two sons and daughter.
24N24	Anna Cathrine Elisabeth Collett was born on 12^th June 1832. She married (1) Soren Daniel Schiotz but they had no children. Soren, who was born on 24^th December 1828, was a company surgeon. He died aged 35 on 7^th March 1864, following which Anna married (2) Christian Bors a consul born in 1823 who died on 16^th May 1905. Anna died ten years later on 31^st August 1915.
24N25	Wilhelmine Louise Collett, who was known as Mina, was born on 11^th May 1834. She married district doctor Morten Andreas Leigh Aabel with whom she had five daughters and five sons. Morten was born on 10^th February 1830 and he died on 9^th May 1901, while Wilhelmine died four months later on 14^th September 1901. Their ten children were: Guttorm Aabel born on 3^rd November 1858 and died in 1948; Christian Collett Aabel born on 16^th June 1860 and died in 1931; Ragnhild Aabel born on 21^st March 1862 and died on 11^th January 1954; Louise Margrethe Aabel born on 14^th January 1864 and died on 14^th November 1874; Astrid Aabel born on 16^th October 1865 and died on 10^th January 1952; Stein Peder Pavels Aabel born on 13^th May 1867 and died on 29^th November 1874; Hauk Erlendson Aabel born on 21^st April 1869 and died on 12^th December 1961; Olaf Andreas Wilhelm Aabel born on 11^th October 1872 and died in 1942; Anna Aabel born on 11^th June 1875 and died on 88^th June 1876; and Margit Aabel born on 11^th May 1877 and died on 8^th June 1951.
24N26	Christopher Collett was born on 2th December 1835 and was a student when he died on 21.09.1864. It is likely he was living and studying in Drammen, since it was there that he was buried that same day at Stromso Cemetery.
24N27	Christiane Louise Collett was born on 12^th September 1837 and she married Paul Hoy Blich. Paul was born on 6^th May 1826 and he died on 23^rd October 1906. Together they had four sons of which only two survived beyond childhood.
24N28	Louis Wilhelm Collett was born at Drammen on 20^th May 1846 and he married Kirsten Elisabeth Pay who was also born at Drammen on 8^th November 1846, as were all of their children. Louis was a bank cashier at Drammen and in 1910 he was living at Øvre Storgate 51 in Drammen with his wife Kirsten and their eldest son Christian Collett. Louis Wilhelm Collett died nineteen years later on 23^rd June 1929, and was buried at Stromso Cemetery in Drammen on 26^th June 1929. His wife Kirsten passed away a few years later on 30^th November 1932 and was buried with her husband at Stromso on 6^th December 1932.
	24O22		Herman Christian Collett			Born in 1876 at Drammen
	24O23		Ernest Collett			Born in 1877 at Drammen
	24O24		Anna Bors Collett			Born in 1879 at Drammen
	24O25		Elisabeth Collett			Born in 1881 at Drammen
	24O26		James Collett			Born in 1886 at Drammen
	24O27		Louise Wilhelmine Collett			Born in 1891 at Drammen
24N29	Margrethe Wilhelmine Collett was born at Drammen on 30^th January 1849 and in 1910 she was living at Josefinesgate 40 in Christiania, where she died on 14^th February 1914.
24N30	Elisabeth Helene Collett, who was known as Elise, was born on 2^nd January 1852 and she married Skjalm Olaf Bang who was born on 9^th June 1845. They had two sons and two daughters. Skjalm died on 6^th August 1910 and while Elisabeth passed away on 14^th February 1914. T C Collett Bang died in 1957 and was buried at Stromso Cemetery in Drammen on 26^th March 1957, while Sofie Elisabeth C Collett Bang was buried there on 17^th September 1974. Whether that was his wife or his sister is not known at this time.
24O1	Jonas Martin Collett was born at Lindås on 14^th October 1865, the eldest of the four children of Thomas Collett and Sine Kobro. He attended college during 1890 but, tragically, two years later, he suffered a premature death, when he died on 18^th December 1892.
24O2	Isak Kobro Collett was born at Lindås on 19^th January 1867, the second child of Thomas and Sine Collett. He was a medical student from 1886 and became a doctor of medicine at Eidsvoll. Two years later his marriage to Jenny Augusta Arntzen took place at Grimstad on 10^th October 1896. Jenny was born there on 10^th March 1875 and presented Isak with six children before he died on 2^nd September 1911 at Eidsvoll. Just prior to his death Isak and his family were living at Fredheim in Eidsvoll, according to the Norway census conducted in 1910. On that occasion the family was listed as I Collett, Jenny Collett, Ingrid Collett, Thomas Collett, Rolf Collett, and Fredrik Collett. Jenny was one week short of her seventy-sixth birthday when she passed away at Grimstad on 17^th March 1951.
	24P1		Ingrid Collett	Born in 1897 at Eidsvoll
	24P2		Thomas Collett twin	Born in 1898 at Eidsvoll
	24P3		Louise Collett twin	Born on 23.12.1898; died on 29.01.1900
	24P4		infant Collett	Born in 1902 and died in 1902 at Eidsvoll
	24P5		Rolf Collett	Born in 1905 at Eidsvoll
	24P6		Fredrik Collett	Born in 1908 at Eidsvoll
24O3	Ervine Collett, who was known as Lilla, was born at Lindås on 27^th October 1868, another child of Thomas Collett and Sine Kobro. She married Aage Schavlan Blackstad at Eiker in Buskerud on 13^th April 1892. They had four children born at Drammen: Sigrun Collett Blackstad born on 17^th January 1893, Leif Blackstad born on 10^th June 1895, Trygve Blackstad born on 9^th March 1898, but died on 3^rd April 1899, and Finn Blackstad, who was born on 1^st April 1902. Aage was born in Oslo on 8^th June 1875 and he died on 16^th April 1926, while Lilla had passed away four years earlier on 26^th April 1922.
24O4	Tom John Collett was born at Lindås on 26^th August 1871. He was a lawyer in Narvik and married (1) Thrine Essendrop Kobro on 31^st August 1901 at Christiania, with whom he had five children. Thrine was born at Karlsø on 1^st May 1875 and she died at Narvik on 6^th February 1911. It was during the previous year that Tom and his family were listed in the census of 1910, living at King Haakons Gate in Narvik. Living there with Tom was his wife Trine and their three surviving children, who were Kaare Collett, Ragnild Collett, and Julie who was named as Julie Kobro Collett. Following the death of his first wife, Tom married (2) Alfnild Lilla Dovle on February 1912, and together they had one child. Lilla, as she was known, was born on 20^th July 1871 in Christiania and died on 4^th December 1952 and was buried at Vår Frelsers Gravlund in Oslo. Tom John Collett died twelve years earlier on 13^th September 1939, when he was buried at the Narvik Gamle Cemetery in Narvik.
	24P7		Jonas Collett	Born on 17.03.1903; died on 18.03.1903
	24P8		Tom John Collett	Born on 01.05.1904; died on 08.06.1904
	24P9		Kaare Collett	Born in 1905 at Narvik
	24P10		Ragnhild Collett	Born in 1908 at Narvik
	24P11		Julie Essendrop Collett	Born in 1910 at Narvik
	The following is the child of Tom John Collett by his second wife Alfnild Lilla Dovle:
	24P12		Lilla Collett	Born in 1915 at Christiania
24O5	Margrethe Collett was born at Eidsvoll on 13^th July 1877, the first-born child of Emil and Hanne Collett. It was during October 1912 when married Sir John Oliver Wardrop who was born in England on 10^th October 1864. Sir John Oliver Wardrop, KBE, CMG, was a British diplomat, traveller and translator, who was appointed British Consul in Bergen during 1914. Sir John died at Seven Oaks in Kent on 19^th October 1948, while it was twelve years after that when his widow Margrethe Wardrop died during 1960. The couple had two sons, whose births were recorded at Seven Oaks register office in Kent, and a daughter. They were James Collett Wardrop who was born at Chipstead during the summer of 1913, who died in 1974, Andrew Collett Wardrop who was born Chipstead on 3^rd November 1914 and died in 1992, and Nino Collett Wardrop who was born on 1^st November 1916, who died in Berkshire during 2004. On 15^th April 1950, unmarried Nino C Wardrop aged 33 of 49 Bixley Heath, Lynbrook, Long Island, New York, sailed from Southampton onboard the “Queen Elizabeth” bound for New York.
24O6	Camilla Collett was at Eidsvoll on 13^th August 1878 and was the middle of the three children of Emil Collett and Johanne (Hanne) Andrea Brodtkorb Conradi. The marriage of Camilla Collett and Harald Buch took place in Oslo on 23^rd March 1907. Harald was born at Trondheim on 1^st January 1872, with whom Camilla had three children. Harald Buch was 78 years old when he died on 27^th July 1950. Camilla Buch nee Collett died on 19^th September 1973 with her burial delayed for some reason, when she was buried at Vår Frelsers Gravlund in Oslo on 12^th October 1973.
	Their three daughters were (1) Ellisiv Andrea Buch who was born at Christiania on 4^th February 1908, a lecturer at Oslo University who married Sverre Steen at Oslo on 19^th April 1933. He was a Professor of History at Oslo and was born at Bergen on 1^st August 1898, and died in Oslo on 23^rd March 1983. His widow died in Oslo on 27^th October 2001. (2) Camilla Collett Buch who was born at Trondheim on 4^th July 1910 and who married Eidsvollmannens Fredrik Smith Wulfsberg at Oslo in 1934, and (3) Andrea (Ada) Buch who was born at Ljan in the Nordstrand area of Christianina on 19^th September 1914. Ada married London solicitor Alfred Laurence Polak on 14^th July 1948 (29^th August 1900 - 30^th March 1992 London). It was also in London where his widow passed away on 25^th October 2010.
24O7	Jonas Georg Johan Collett was born at Eidsvoll on 10^th May 1883, the third and last child of Emil and Hanne Collett. He was married twice, the first time on 21^st August 1909 to (1) Maalfrid Dobloug who was born at Christiania on 14^th August 1883, but the marriage produced no children and lasted less than three years. It was during 1912 that Jonas married (2) Eva Mathiesen, who was born on 29^th October 1893, but again there were no children. It was simply as Jonas Collett that he died on 2^nd February 1968, following which he was buried at Vestre Gravlund in Oslo. His first wife Maalfrid Collett nee Dobloug had died on 11^th December 1946 and was buried at Gamle Aker Kirkegård in Oslo, while Eva Collett nee Mathiesen survived her husband by five years, when she died on 16^th September 1973 and was then buried with him at Vestre Gravlund in Oslo.
24O8	Christine Collett, who was known as Kine, was born on 6^th June 1881. She married Jacob Johannes Brock Utne who was born on 18^th July 1867 and who died on 9^th February 1954. There were no children from the marriage and Kine died on 12^th April 1963.
24O9	Peter Collett was born on 23^rd December 1887. He married Ragnhild Halvorsen and they had one son and one daughter before Peter died on 5^th June 1926. Ragnhild lived the next fifty-five years as a widow until she died on 6^th November 1981.
	24P13		Karen Collett			Born in 1923
	24P14		Jonas Collett			Born on 29.10.1924; died on 14.01.1927
24O10	Johan Collett of Oslo was born at Trondhjem on 22^nd November 1874 and was the oldest of the ten children of Albert Peter Severin Collett and Nanna Hoegh. At the age of twenty-one he took over the running of the family company business of Albert Collett when his father died in 1896. The Norway census in 1910 included an entry for Johan Collett who was born on 22^nd November 1874, as residing at Observatoriegate 2b in Christiania, but not with any of his family living there with him. It would therefore appear that he was divorced from his first wife by then, and she most likely had their two children living with her. Johan was married three times; the first time to (1) Ellen Eger who was born on 23^rd April 1882 with whom he had two daughters. Ellen, from whom he was divorced, died in 1966. It was during 1915, and following his divorce from Ellen Eger, that Johan then married (2) Kathleen Ragnhild Falsen who was born on 4^th April 1894 and with whom he had a further three daughters.
	Kathleen, from whom Johan was also later divorced, died on 15^th August 1971. He then finally married (3) Rosa Louise Martens who was born on 27^th November 1902 and with whom he had another daughter. Johan Collett died on 2^nd June 1969 and Rosa Louise Collett nee Martens died on 13^th January 1994. A headstone at the multiple Collett grave in Vestre Gravlund in Oslo bears the inscriptions “Johan Collett * 22-11-1874 + 2-6-1969” and “Rosa L Collett FODT Martens * 27-11-1902 + 13-1-1994”.
	Kathleen Ragnhild Falsen, the grandmother of Johan Peter Hancke the son of Kathleen Collett (Ref. 24P19), was the great granddaughter of Christian Magnus Falsen (1782-1830), Norway's equivalent of Thomas Jefferson, who has been honoured by being called The Father of the Norwegian Constitution. His constitution draft and his intense drive to create the Constitution in 1814 and the new country of Norway were instrumental in achieving both goals. It is therefore very interesting that it is Christian M
	Falsen who is depicted in the famous painting hanging in the Norwegian Parliament building (above) reading aloud the new constitution at Eidsvoll on 17^th May 1814, the painting also including the brothers Jonas and Johan Collett (Ref. 24L8 and 24L9) who were also involved in the process.
	24P15		Rigmor Collett						Born in 1903
	24P16		Else Collett						Born in 1905
	24P17		Nanna Elisabeth Collett						Born in 1917
	24P18		Camilla Collett						Born in 1919
	24P19		Kathleen Collett						Born in 1921
	24P20		Rose Kathrine Agnes Collett						Born in 1948
24O11	Emil Collett was born at Trondhjem on 22^nd November 1875 and he was an engineer in Oslo. He was also an inventor and started the first production of fertiliser for Norsk Hydro in 1905 and he had a consulting company in Paris. He invented a punched card machine, and in 1932 started production of SanaSol, a popular vitamin product which was sold or produced on license in sixty-seven countries during the first 25 years of the company Collett & Co.
	He married Gudrun von der Lippe who was born at Eidsfors Jarlsberg on 14^th February 1890. At the time of the Norway census in 1910 Emil and Gudrun were was living at Villa Carlsro in Aker. Emil died on 9^th June 1940, while Gudrun was in Malaga when she passed away over twenty years later on 19^th November 1961. A headstone at the multiple Collett grave in Vestre Gravlund in Oslo bears the inscriptions “Emil Collett FODT 22-12-1875 DOD 9-6-1940” and “Gudrun Collett FODT von der Lippe 14-2-1890 DOD in Malaga 19-11-1961”.
	24P21		John Albert Collett			Born in 1911 at Aker
	24P22		Nanna Elise Collett			Born in 1913 at Aker
24O12	Oscar Collett of Oslo was born at Trondhjem on 9^th December 12.1877. He later became forest-candidate, and joined his brother Johan Collett (above) running the activities of the family company of Albert Collett. He started planting trees, and was honoured with the Kings’ St. Olav Medal for this new way of cultivation. He married Maria Iversen who was known as Mia, and who was born at Christiania on 26^th November 1887.
	The Norway census in 1910 is quite interesting, since it recorded the family living at Fagerholmen in Klingen, when it comprised Oscar and his wife Maria, together with their two daughters Ingeborg and Karen. However, also registered at that same address was Oscar’s mother Nanna, his eldest brother Johan (above) and his youngest brother Albert, even though they were all recorded elsewhere on that same day. Oscar Collett died on 9^th June 1950, while his wife Mia died twenty-five years after on 23^rd June 1975. A headstone at the multiple Collett grave in Vestre Gravlund in Oslo bears the inscriptions “Oscar Collett FODT. 9-12-1877 DOD. 9-6-1950” and “Maria Collett FODT. 26-11-1887 DOD. 23-6-1975”.
	24P23		Aase Ingeborg Collett			Born in 1909
	24P24		Karen Collett			Born in 1910
	24P25		Eva Collett			Born in 1914
	24P26		Carl Oscar Collett			Born in 1922
24O13	Arthur Collett was born at Christiania on 8^th May 1879 and was a doctor of medicine in Oslo specialising in childcare. He was responsible for among others the Princesses Ragnhild and Astrid and Crown Prince Harald. The soap manufacturer Lilleborg asked his permission to market ‘Dr. Colletts Barnesepe’ a soap for children. Arthur also performed the role of the doctor for all of the members of the family. He married Ingeborg Wedel Jarlsberg who was born on 17^th June 1889 and she died on 31^st March 1951, and was followed by Arthur who died on 2^nd August 1968. A headstone at the multiple Collett grave in Vestre Gravlund in Oslo bears the inscription “Ingeborg Collett F. Wedel Jarlsberg 1889 – 1951”. Beneath this are two further inscriptions, they being her husband Arthur Collett and son Robert, which read “Arthur Collett 1879 – 1968” and “Robert Collett 1914 – 1941”.
	24P27		Alice Collett			Born in 1913
	24P28		James Robert Collett			Born in 1914
	24P29		Nini Ingeborg Collett			Born in 1917
	24P30		Karen Harriet Collett			Born in 1923
24O14	Axel Collett was born at Christiania on 6^th August 1880 and was an engineer in Oslo having gained his diploma in Dresden. He eventually took over the technical responsibility of running the Albert Collett company. He married (1) Lucie Trozelli Krefting who was born on 4^th July 1896. In 1908 Axel became a partner in the company Albert Collett AS which had been set up by his late father. Two years later Axel was recorded in error in the census of 1910 as Askel Collett from Kolvereid who was born there on 6^th August 1880. At that time in his life, he was living alone at Salsbruket in Kolvereid.
	New information received during 2007 from Kaare Knutson, whose wife Bente is the daughter of Brita Lucie Collett and grandchild of Axel and Lucie, confirmed that the couple were divorced in 1933 and that Lucie died on 14^th September 1988. Over five years later, on 9^th January 1939, Axel married (2) Valborg Marie Oulie-Hansen who was born on 10^th February 1903. At some stage in his life Axel worked for the company of Albert Collett set up by his father (Ref. 24N15).
	Axel Collett died on 17^th January 1968 while his second wife Valborg Marie Collett nee Oulie-Hansen survived him by nearly thirty years when she died on 24^th April 1997. A headstone at the multiple Collett grave in Vestre Gravlund in Oslo bears the inscription “Axel Collett FODT. 6-8-1880 DOD. 17-1-1968” under which is the inscription for his second wife which reads “Valborg Collett FODT. 10-2-1903 DOD. 24-4-1997”.
	24P31		Martha Cathrine Collett							Born in 1916
	24P32		Brita Lucie Collett							Born in 1917
	24P33		Gurli Anne Margrethe Collett							Born in 1918
	24P34		Albert Peter Severin Collett							Born in 1921
	24P35		Jonas Rudolf Collett							Born in 1928
24O16	Ove Guldberg Höegh Collett of Oslo as born at Christiania on 22^nd January 1885. In 1910 he was one of three sons still living with his widowed mother at Uranienborg Terrasse 11 in Christiania. He later married Esther Somme who was born on 1^st March 1891. Ove later became a director of Collett & Co the family business originally established by his father Albert Collett (Ref. 24N15). In 1932 he also joined his brother Emil Collett (above) in starting the production of SanaSol, and was the driving force in marketing the product worldwide. Ove Guldberg Hoegh Collett died on 18^th June 1970 and fifteen years later, almost to the exact day, Esther died on 18^th June 1985. A headstone at the multiple Collett grave in Vestre Gravlund in Oslo bears the inscription “Ove Collett 22-1-1885 18-6-1970” followed by the inscription for his wife which reads “Esther Collett 1-3-1891 18-6-1985”.
	24P36		Grete Collett					Born in 1914
	24P37		Celine Esther Collett					Born in 1916
	24P38		Ove Guldberg Hoegh Collett					Born in 1922
24O17	Dagny Karen Ann Collett, who was known as Karen, as born at Christiania on 2^nd March 1888. She married Sigurd Fougner of Oslo who was born on 10^th September 1879 and who died on 18^th February 1959. Karen Fougner nee Collett died on 17^th August 1974. It may be of interest to note that Dagny’s niece Rigmor Collett (Ref. 24P15) married Finn Fougner (born 1901) who was possibly Sigurd’s younger brother. And that Aase Ingeborg Collett (Ref. 24P23) married Eiliv Fougner (born 1904) who was very likely Finn’s brother. The five children of Dagny and Sigurd Fougner were: Berit Fougner born on 8^th April 1910, who died during September 2008; Sven Fougner born on 25^th May 1911, who died in 2008; Arne Fougner worn on 8^th February 1913; Sissel Karen Ingeborg Fougner born on 16^th August 1916; and Knut Axel Backe Fougner born on 20^th January 1919 and died in 2008.
24O18	KNUT ORN HOEGH COLLETT, of Oslo, was born at Christiania on 11^th November 1889. Like his brother Axel Collett (above), Knut also studied in Dresden where he gained his diploma in engineering. And it was as a student that he was listed in the census of 1910 when he was one of three brothers still living with his widowed mother at Uranienborg Terrasse 11 in Christiania Following the death of his mother Nanna in 1921, he started up a company rebuilding automotive engines, producing pistons etc. He was also a chairman in Collett & Co.
	Knut married Wilhelmine Margrethe Bang who was born on 16^th May 1903. Knut was a civil engineer and became a director of Moller & Larsen. He died on 19^th February 1976 and was followed by Wilhelmine who died on 28^th June 1997. A headstone at the multiple Collett grave in Vestre Gravlund in Oslo bears the inscription “Knut Orn Hoegh Collett FODT. 11-11-1889 DOD. 19-2-1976”. Underneath this and on the same stone is the inscription for his wife which reads “Wilhelmine Collett FODT. 16-5-1903 DOD. 28-6-1997”.
	24P44		PETER COLLETT								Born in 1926
	24P45		Knut Orn Collett								Born in 1928
	24P46		Karen Cecilie Wilhelmine Collett								Born in 1932
24O19	Albert Jonas August Collett was born at Christiania on 17^th December 1892 and was the youngest of the ten children of Albert Peter Severin Collett and Nanna Hoegh. At the age of 18 he and two of his brothers, Ove and Knut (above), who were still living in the family home at Uranienborg Terrasse 11 in Christiania with their widowed mother Nanna Collett. When he was twenty-four years old Albert (John) Collett of Norway was listed as an immigrant to Australia, where at Isisford on 28^th October 1916, he was issued with an Alien Registration Certificate. Isisford at that time was a very a small township in the middle of Queensland.
	Sadly, just over two years later Albert died five days before his twenty-sixth birthday on 12^th December 1918. The cause of death was the Spanish flu pandemic which was sweeping around the world at that time. A headstone at the multiple Collett grave in Vestre Gravlund in Oslo bears the inscription “Albert J A Collett F. 17 Dec. 1892 D. 12 Dec. 1918” and is one the same headstone as his father Albert and mother Nanna.