PART
TWENTY-SEVEN
The
Harewood Yorkshire
Updated April 2022
With the April 2011 update of this file
and that of Part 36,
this family line can now be traced back
to William Collett of Featherstone in 1496.
This family line therefore has its
origins in Part 36 – The Barwick-in-Elmet (Leeds) Line
and it was there that Richard Collett
was born, the eldest of the three known
children of Richard Collett (Ref. 36J5).
This is the family line of the late John
Robert Collett (Ref. 27S17) of New South Wales
in Australia, whose family line is depicted
in capitals,
and Christina Hammond nee Collitt (Ref.
27R15) of Hitchin in Hertfordshire
whose family line is identified by the
names underlined.
This family line has its origins in Part
36 – The Barwick-in-Elmet (Leeds line
and it was there that Richard Collett
was born, the eldest of the three known
children of Richard Collett (Ref. 36J5).
It is also worth noting
that some of the early records give the
spelling of the name as
Collitt (or Collit) and one branch of the family has
retained this to the
present day, as used by the ancestors of Christina Collitt.
The new version of this family line,
produced in 2018, includes details generously provided
by Robyn Frances Collett (Ref. 27S34) of
Woody Point in Queensland, whose family line is in italics.
36K11
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RICHARD COLLETT was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in
1667 where he was baptised at All Saint’s Church on 6th February 1668,
the eldest of the three known children of Richard Collett. In the early
1690s Richard married Hannah with whom he had eight children. During his life he was known as Richard
Collitt of Weeton, which was a hamlet midway between Harrogate to the north
and Leeds to the south, lying within the parish of Harewood. He was also known as Richard Collett of
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It was also at All Saint’s Church in Harewood (pictured on the
right) that all of his children were baptised, although it is highly likely
that they were born while the family was living at Weeton. That is because St Barnabas Church in Weeton was not built until
1851, when its construction was financed by the Earl of Harewood. |
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Hannah Collett died at Weeton, five miles east of Otley, in
October 1710, and was followed fourteen years later by her husband Richard
Collett, who died at Weeton during the first two weeks of April in 1724 and
was buried in the grounds of All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 12th
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27L1
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Ann Collett |
Born in 1695
at Weeton |
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27L2
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Ralph Collett |
Born in 1696
at Weeton |
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27L3
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Hannah Collett |
Born in 1698
at Weeton |
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27L4
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Richard Collett |
Born in 1700
at Weeton |
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27L5
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THOMAS
COLLETT |
Born in 1701
at Weeton |
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27L6
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Margaret Collett |
Born in 1703
at Weeton |
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27L7
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John Collett |
Born in 1705
at Weeton |
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27L8
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Charles Collett |
Born in 1707
at Weeton |
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27L1
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Ann Collett was born at Weeton in 1695, the eldest
of eight children of Richard and Hannah Collett. She was baptised at All Saint’s Church in
Harewood on 20th September 1695, when her name was recorded as Ann
Collett. Sadly, she was only a few
days old when she died. |
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27L2
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Ralph Collett was born at Weeton in 1696 and was the
eldest son of Richard and Hannah Collett.
He was baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 26th
September 1695 when his name was recorded as Ralph Collett. The only detail
of Ralph’s life known at this time is that he died at Weeton on 6th
June 1710, when he was around 15 years old.
His youngest brother Charles (below) died fifteen months later. |
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Hannah Collett was born at Weeton in 1698 and was
baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 24th June 1698 as
Hannah Collett, the daughter of Richard Collett. It is understood that she married John
Vicars at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 11th September 1718 and
died at Dunkeswick, midway between Weeton and Harewood, during February 1769. |
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27L4
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Richard Collett was born at Weeton in 1700 and was
baptised at All Saint’s in Harewood as Richard Collit on 19th
January 1701, the son of Richard Collit.
Richard was another infant fatality, when he died at Weeton, either in
January that same year, or the following year. |
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27L5
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THOMAS COLLETT was born at Weeton in 1701 and was
baptised at All Saint’s in Harewood as Thomas Collit on 12th March
1701, the son of Richard Collit. He later
married Priscilla Waite a Just over four years
after they were married, Priscilla’s father died, and his Will proved on 20th
October 1729 included the following. Joseph Waite, yeoman of Swindon, in
the parish of Kirkby Overblow, do give to my son-in-law, Thomas Collitt and his wife Priscilla Collitt, Two Shillings and
Six Pence each. To my grandchildren Richard Collitt, Joseph Collitt, and
Mary Collitt, Ten Shillings to
be shared amongst them. Also, Ten
Pounds shared amongst them when they reach 21.t All Saint’s Church in Kirkby Overblow on 27th
May 1724, where Priscilla was born during 1703, the daughter of yeoman farmer
Joseph Waite. Kirkby Overblow is situated four miles north of
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The
contents of the Will provided further confirmation that Thomas’ son John had
died prior to that time, and that his daughter Ann was born between the
making of the Will and the death of Joseph Waite, with no opportunity to
amend the document to include her name.
Unfortunately, the baptism records for most of the children simply
record the parents’ names as Thomas Collett and Mrs Thomas Collett. Thomas Collett
died at Weeton during the month of March in 1787 and was buried at All
Saint’s Church in Harewood on 30th March 1787. At the time of his death, he was referred
to as a farmer. His wife Priscilla had
died over twenty-four years earlier, when she passed away at Weeton and was
buried at Harewood during February 1763. |
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The Land Tax records
for Thomas Collett for the years from 1785 to 1786 state that he was the occupier
of land at Weeton owned by Edwin Lascelles, with payable tax of Seven Pounds
Ten Shillings. After Thomas died in
1787, the next Land Tax schedule for 1789, showed the occupier as John
Collett (his son) with tax on Seven Pounds Nineteen Shillings and Three Pence. That was the largest sum of money paid by
any tenant farmer in Weeton. The name
of John continued to appear in the Land Tax records, right up to his death in
1811. Thomas’ son John Collett, who
lived all of his life at Weeton, could not therefore for be John Collitt of
Middle Field. |
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27M1
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Richard Collitt |
Born in 1725
at Weeton |
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27M2 |
Joseph Collitt |
Born in 1726
at Weeton |
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27M3 |
John Collitt |
Born in 1727
at Weeton |
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Mary Collitt |
Born in 1728
at Weeton |
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27M5
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Ann
Collitt |
Born in 1729
at Weeton |
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27M6
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Hannah
Collitt |
Born in 1730
at Weeton |
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27M7
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Margaret Collitt |
Born in 1732
at Weeton |
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27M8
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Thomas Collitt |
Born in 1734
at Weeton |
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27M9
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Elizabeth Collitt |
Born in 1738
at Weeton |
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27M10
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Hugh Collitt twin |
Born in 1740
at Weeton |
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27M11
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Joshua Collitt twin |
Born in 1740
at Weeton |
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27M12
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JOHN
COLLITT |
Born in 1742
at Weeton |
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27L6
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Margaret Collett was born at Weeton in 1703 but was
baptised as Margaret Collett at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 30th
March 1704, the daughter of Richard Collett.
She was around seven years of age when she died at Weeton on 7th
March 1711. |
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27L7
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John Collett was born at Weeton in 1705, the second
youngest son and seventh child of Richard and Hannah Collitt. It was as John Collett that he was baptised
at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 7th February 1705, the son of
Richard Collett. It was also at All Saint’s Church that, as John Collett,
he married Susan Mallory (Susannah Mallorie) on 30th August
1726. The couple had eight children
while they were living at Dunkeswick, and all of them were baptised at
All Saint’s Church in Harewood. See
also Ref. 27M11 for another Collett/Mallory marriage. John Collett was
a farmer living at Dunkeswick, near Harewood, at the end of 1778 when he
died, following which he was buried at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 3rd
January 1779. It was just a few weeks
later that his wife Susan died at Dunkeswick during February 1779. |
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27M13
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John Collett |
Born in 1727
at Dunkeswick |
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Ralph Collett |
Born in 1729
at Dunkeswick |
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27M15 |
Susannah Collett twins? |
Born in 1731 at Dunkeswick |
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27M16 |
Ralph Collett twins? |
Born in 1731
at Dunkeswick |
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27M17
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Ellen Collett |
Born in 1732
at Dunkeswick |
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27M18
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William Collett |
Born in 1735 at Dunkeswick |
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27M19
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Thomas Collett |
Born in 1737
at Dunkeswick |
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Susannah Collett |
Born in 1742
at Dunkeswick |
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Charles Collett was born at Weeton in 1707 and was
baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood as Charles Collett on 23rd
March 1707, the youngest of the eight children of Richard and Hannah
Collitt. Charles was only four years
old when he died on 3rd November 1711. |
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27M1
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Richard Collitt was born at Weeton on 11th
March 1725 and was baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 25th
March 1725 (1724/25),
the eldest child of Thomas Collitt. It
was as Richard Collitt that he was a beneficiary under the terms of the 1729
Will of his maternal grandfather Joseph Waite, when he received one third
share of Ten Shillings, and one third of Ten Pounds should he reach the age
of twenty-one. |
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Joseph Collitt was born at Weeton and baptised at All
Saint’s Church in Harewood on 11th March 1726 (1725/26), the son of Thomas
Collitt. It was as Joseph Collitt that
he was a beneficiary under the terms of the 1729 Will of his maternal
grandfather Joseph Waite, when he received one third share of Ten Shillings,
and one third of Ten Pounds should he reach the age of twenty-one. Joseph Collitt was around twenty-four years
of age when he died at Weeton on 21st June 1750. |
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27M3 |
John Collitt was born at Weeton but was baptised at
All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 6th May 1727 (1726/27), the son of
Thomas Collitt. Sadly, he only
survived for eleven months when, he died at Weeton and was buried at All
Saint’s Church on 30th March 1728, hence the reason why he was not
mentioned in the 1729 Will of his grandfather maternal Joseph Waite. On the day that he was buried, his sister
Mary (below) was baptised. |
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27M4
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Mary Collitt was born at Weeton in 1728, following
which she was baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 30th
March 1728 (1727/28),
the eldest daughter of Thomas Collitt.
It was as Mary Collitt that she was named as a beneficiary under the
terms of the 1729 Will of her maternal grandfather Joseph Waite, when she
received one third share of Ten Shillings, and a further one third of Ten Pounds,
on condition that she reached the age of twenty-one. |
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27M5
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Ann Collitt was born at Weeton in 1729 and was baptised
at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 6th February 1729 (1728/29), a daughter
of Thomas Collitt. It seems highly
likely that she was born fairly close to the time of the death of her
maternal grandfather Joseph Waite, whose Will was proved on 20th
October 1729, but without any reference to Ann or Hannah, the daughter of his
son-in-law Thomas Collett. Tragically, she only for two
years when she died at Weeton, following which she was buried at Harewood on
8th March 1730. |
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27M6
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Hannah Collitt was born at Weeton on 6th
April 1730 and was baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 31st
December 1731 (1730/31),
another daughter of Thomas Collitt. Hannah
Collett later married John Knapton at Harewood on 1st November
1750. John may have been related to
Elizabeth Knapton who married Benjamin Collett (Ref. 36M6) at
Barwick-in-Elmet in 1768. Hannah
Knapton nee Collett had lived a relatively long life, when she died at Wescoe
Hill in Weeton during November 1794. It
was during the following year that John Knapton died, after which his Will
was proved on 12th August 1795.
By that time in
their lives, Hannah had given birth to three known children, and they were John
Knapton, William Knapton, Mary Knapton, and Sarah
Knapton, both daughters identified by their married name of Taylor.
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The
Will of John Knapton, farmer of Wescoe
Hill in the parish of Harewood, included the following: “My half share of
the copyhold estate, devised to me by my brother Richard Knapton, at Felliscliffe, to my two sons John Knapton and William Knapton. To my son John I give £30. To my
daughter Mary Taylor I give
£150. To my daughter Sarah Taylor I give £90. To my grandchildren Hannah Smith, Priscilla Smith, and William Smith, I give to each £5. To my granddaughter Hannah I give a further £5 two years after my death. The residue of my personal effects I give
to my son William”. The witnesses to the signing of the Will
were J Barrett, John Collitt, and
Elizabeth Smith. It is therefore very
likely that the witness John Collitt was in fact Hannah’s younger brother
John Collett (below). |
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Margaret Collitt was born at Weeton in 1732 and was
baptised on 9th March 1733 (1732/33) at All Saint’s Church in Harewood, the daughter
of Thomas Collitt. |
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27M8
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Thomas Collitt was born at Weeton in 1734 and was baptised
at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 23rd March 1735 (1734/35), the son of
Thomas Collett. Thomas Collitt was 33
when he died at Weeton during November 1768. |
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27M9
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Elizabeth Collitt was born at Weeton in 1738 but was baptised
at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 19th January 1739 (1738/39), the daughter
of Thomas Collitt. However, she died
during the following year. |
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Hugh Collitt was born at Weeton in 1740, the son of
Thomas Collitt. He was baptised in a
joint ceremony at All Saint’s Church in Harewood with his twin brother Joshua
(below) on 22nd May 1741 (1740/41).
What is known is that Hugh Collett died at Weeton during March 1765,
when he would have been nearly 24 years of age and was buried at All Saint’s
Church in Harewood on 31st March 1765. |
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Joshua Collitt was born at Weeton in 1740 and was baptised
at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on
22nd May 1741 (1740/41),
the son of Thomas Collitt, in a joint ceremony with his twin brother Hugh
Collitt (above). Joshua was around
thirty-five years of age when he married Elizabeth Mallory (Mallorie) at
Harewood on 12th September 1775, which raises the questions; (a)
did he marry late in his life, (b) was that his second marriage, and (c) was
Elizabeth related to Susan Mallory who married Joshua’s uncle John Collett
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Elizabeth
Mallory (Mallorie) was born around 1754 and so was about fourteen years
younger than Joshua. It is possible
that Joshua and Elizabeth settled in Weeton, near Harewood, where his father
Thomas is known to have lived. The
first five children were born at Healthwaite Hill, near Weeton, while the
last two children were born at South Stainley, five miles north of Harrogate. |
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Details
for six of the couple’s seven children are known, as they were born at
Healthwaite Hill and baptised at Harewood.
However, nothing is known about the unnamed daughter, although the
continuation of this family line is through their son John. The only other detail so far known about
Joshua Collitt is that he died on 26th January 1826, and was
buried at St Robert’s Church in Pannal, two miles south of Harrogate. Elizabeth Collitt was 88 when she died and
was buried at Pannal on 10th January 1842. |
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John
Sugdon, a stone-cutter of Pannal, near Harrogate, left a Will proved on 23rd
February 1777 in which there is a reference to property with the name ‘The
Garth’ which was purchased from Joshua Collitt, the property being inherited
by his widow Grace Sugdon. |
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27N1
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Sally Collett |
Born in 1776
at Healthwaite Hill |
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Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1777
at Healthwaite Hill |
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27N3 |
a Collett
daughter |
Born circa
1779 at Healthwaite Hill |
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Priscilla Collett |
Born in 1781
at Healthwaite Hill |
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John Collitt |
Born in 1782
at Healthwaite Hill |
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Sarah Collett |
Born in 1786
at South Stainley |
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27N7 |
Hannah Collett |
Born in 1790
at South Stainley |
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27M12 |
JOHN
COLLITT was born
at Weeton in 1742 and was baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 28th January 1743
(1742/43), the youngest child of tenant farmer Thomas Collitt of
Weeton. Despite what was previously written here regarding his
marriage to Sarah Birks (or Bicks), it is now believed that John remained
unmarried throughout his life. It
would appear that he worked on the land alongside his father at Weeton,
eventually taking over the farm when Thomas died in 1789. That situation continued until John passed
away at Weeton and was buried at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 24th
November 1811. The parish register at
Harewood described him as John Collett of Weeton who was 68, a bachelor and a
farmer. During his tenancy from 1789
until 1811, the Land Tax for occupier John Collett was Seven Pounds Nineteen
Shillings and Three Pence. Between
those two years, John Collett was recorded as one of the three witnesses to
the signing of the Will of John Knapton, the husband of John’s older sister
Hannah Collett (above), the Will having been proved on 12th August
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Around 1790-91, John Collitt, while continuing the
tenancy inherited from his father, became an owner of property leased to Hugh
Barrett who paid land tax of Six Shillings and Six Pence. By 1794, Hugh Barrett had moved on, leaving
John Collitt to became both the owner and occupier of the land. Many years later, in the tax records, it is
clear that the property comprised 'house and land', so perhaps, it was where John
made his home. The history of the plot
can be traced back to 1781 and 1782 when it was owned by Joshua Waite and
occupied by Joshua Collitt (above). Joshua Collett had moved out by 1783, when
he took his family to live in South Stainley. |
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Although it is confirmed that John
Collitt, farmer and bachelor, died in 1811, the rented property continued to
be held in the name of John Collitt until around 1815. The likely reason for that is that Joshua's
son John Collitt (above) and born in 1782, had taken over the tenancy. He had married Hannah Atkinson in 1808, and
the couple were living at Weeton when their first three children were born in
1808, 1810 and 1812. Although the
tenancy agreement ended around 1815, the owner/occupied plot continued to be
occupied by John and Hannah until 1831. |
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27M13
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John Collett was born at Dunkeswick in 1727 and was
baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 7th June 1727, the
eldest child of John Collett and Susan Mallory. He was later referred to as John Collett of Middlefield Farm, with
John followed by his son Thomas, and his son Robert (John’s grandson) to continue
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The above revelation, unveiled in
2022 regarding John Collett (above), means the identity of the John Collett
who married Sarah Birks (or Bicks) of Leeds at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on
13th February 1758 has now been re-assessed. What is known is that Sarah was 23 when she
married John, who was recorded as being 28, his age likely reduced because of
the eight-year difference in their ages.
To support this, there is a very weathered headstone in the graveyard
at All Saint’s Church in Harewood that bears the inscription “Sarah
Collett wife of John Collett died ...... aged 65 years”. With Sarah being 23 in 1758, her year of
birth could have been 1735, giving the year of her death as 1800. Then, to validate all of this, the parish
registers at Harewood include the record that Sarah Collett was buried there
on 7th June 1800, and that she was the widow of John Collitt,
farmer of Middlefield. And it was
thirteen years earlier that John Collett, a farmer of Middlefield, Harewood,
passed away during February 1787 at the age of 59. |
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Middlefield Farm, on the north side of
Harewood Avenue, was situated just two miles due east from the centre of
Harewood. As a result of their close
proximity to the town, all of the children of John and Sarah were said to
have been born at Harewood, where they were very likely baptised at All
Saint’s Church. In each case the
father of the child was described as John Collett of Middlefield. What is interesting is that, according to
the census of 1881, Middlefield Farm was still being managed by a member of
the Collett family, John’s grandson Robert Collett (Ref. 27O13), the eldest
son of John’s son Thomas - who was in charge of Middlefield Farm up until his
death in 1853, when it was taken over by Robert until he passed away in 1884. |
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27N8
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William Collett |
Born in 1761 at Middlefield,
Harewood |
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27N9
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Born in 1763 at Middlefield,
Harewood |
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27N10
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Sally Collett |
Born in 1764 at Middlefield,
Harewood |
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27N11
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Susannah Collett |
Born in 1766 at Middlefield,
Harewood |
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27N12
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1767 at Middlefield,
Harewood |
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27N13
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Edward Collett |
Born in 1769 at Middlefield,
Harewood |
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27N14
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Ann Collett |
Born in 1771 at Middlefield,
Harewood |
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27N15
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THOMAS
COLLETT |
Born in 1772 at Middlefield,
Harewood |
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27N16
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Robert Collett twin |
Born in 1774 at Middlefield,
Harewood |
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27N17
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Hannah Collett twin |
Born in 1774 at Middlefield,
Harewood |
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27M14 |
Ralph Collitt was born at Dunkeswick around 1729 and
was baptised as Ralf
Collitt at Harewood on 1st May 1730 (1729/30), another son of John Collitt,
who sadly he died there the following day. |
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27M15 |
Susannah Collitt was born at Dunkeswick in 1730 but
was baptised as Susannah Collett at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 20th
March 1731 (1730/31),
the eldest daughter of John Collitt and Susan Mallory. Susan only survived for less than nine months
after that, when she died at Dunkeswick on 2nd September 1731. |
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27M16 |
Ralph Collett was born at Dunkeswick 1731 and
baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 1st May 1731, the
son of John Collett and Susan Mallory.
The closeness of the
date of his baptism, with that of his soon to be deceased sister Susannah
(above), may be an indication that they could have been twins. |
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Ellen Collett, who was Ellinge Collett, was born at
Dunkeswick in 1732 near Harewood, the daughter of John Collett and Susan
Mallory. It was as Ellen Collett that she was baptised at All Saint’s Church
on 25th August 1732 (1731/32). Ellen would
appear to have lived all her life at Dunkeswick, where she died in September
1797. |
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William Collett was born at Dunkeswick around 1735
and it was at Harewood, in All Saint’s Church, that he was baptised on 9th
July 1736 (1736/37),
the son of John Collett and Susan Mallory. It was also at Dunkeswick where William died
in May 1779. |
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27M19
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Thomas Collett was born at Dunkeswick around 1737,
the youngest son of John Collett and Susan Mallory. Like all of his siblings, Thomas was also
baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood, and that took place on 9th February 1739
(1738/39). |
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27M20 |
Susannah Collett was born at Dunkeswick in 1742, the
youngest and last child of John Collett and Susan Mallory. She was baptised as Susannah Collett at All
Saint’s Church in Harewood on 9th April 1742 (1741/42). Susan Collett was around twenty-two years
old when she married Elijah (?) Kershaw on 10th October 1764. However, it was less than five years later,
during April 1769, that Susan Kershaw died at Dunkeswick, possibly during
childbirth. |
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27N1
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Sally Collett was born at Healthwaite Hill on 25th
September 1776 and was baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 11th
October 1776, the eldest child of Joshua and Elizabeth Collett. Sally was in her very late forties when she
married William Ware on 17th July 1825. |
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27N2 |
Elizabeth Collett was born at Healthwaite Hill on 7th
October 1777 and was baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 2nd
November 1777, the daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Collett. Elizabeth married William Wright on 14th
January 1805 at the Church of St Robert in Pannal, near Harrogate. |
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27N4 |
Priscilla Collett was born at Healthwaite Hill on 8th
April 1781 and was baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 2nd
May 1781, the daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Collett. Priscilla was twenty-eight years old when
she died on 3rd May 1809. |
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27N5
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John Collitt
was born around 1782,
the only son of Joshua Collitt and his wife Elizabeth Mallory. Unlike his three known sisters, no baptism
record has so far been found for him at All Saint’s Church in Harewood. It was also at Harewood that John married
Hannah Atkinson on 5th December 1807, at a time when Hannah was
already pregnant with John’s child, which was born less than five months
after they were married. The witnesses
at the wedding ceremony were John Whitaker and C B Brooke, when the couple
were both described as being ‘of this parish’. Hannah had been born around 1786. |
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John
and Hannah had a total of eleven children over the years following their
wedding. The early ones, up to 1814
were born at Weeton
and baptised at Harewood, while the later ones were born after the family
moved to Ainderby Steeple, near Northallerton. Certainly, the parish record for the birth
of their daughter Priscilla, confirmed the family was residing at Weeton. The reason for that is, upon the death in 1811 of land owner and
occupier John Collitt, farmer and bachelor of Weeton, and John’s uncle (the
younger brother of Joshua Collitt), John and Hannah took over the tenancy
of the farm until after the birth of the couple’s fourth child. Although the tenancy agreement ended around
1815, the owner/occupied plot (the same plot that John's father Joshua had
occupied from around 1775) continued to be occupied by John and Hannah until
1831. By 1832, although still owned by
them, it was then occupied by J Gill.
John and Hannah left Weeton and moved to Ainderby Steeple around 1816,
after which, the Land Tax schedule continue to register John Collitt as the occupier
up until 1831. |
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At
the time of the first national census in June 1841 John and his family were
living at Swalefield House in Ainderby Steeple (Swalefield House, East
Gilling). John and Hannah were
both recorded with a rounded age of 55, while still living with them were six
of their children, the four eldest also having rounded ages. Joshua Collitt and Thomas Collitt were both
30, Priscilla Collitt and John Collitt were both 25, Ralph Collitt was 15,
and Sarah Collitt who was 14. The
couple’s missing youngest child, Isabella Collitt, was recorded at Leake
within the Thirsk & Knapton, living with John Meek, aged 56 and from
Morton-on-Swale, and his wife Elizabeth Meek who was 54. It therefore seems highly likely that
Isabella was either staying with relatives or had already entered into
domestic service. |
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It
was also at Ainderby Steeple, nine months later, that John Collitt died on 26th
March 1842, where he was also buried. Nine
years later his widow Hannah Collitt was 65 when she was living in Morton-on-Swale
near Northallerton with three of her children. They were Ralph Collitt 27, Sarah Collitt
25, and Isabella Collitt who was 22. Also
listed as a visitor was Hannah’s older son William who was 29, together with
four others; John Stapleton 30, Frances Peart 25, William Woodward 18, and
Robert Dixon 17. |
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Hannah was still alive in 1861 at the age of 75, when she had
living with her at Northallerton her granddaughter Sarah Jane Collitt who was
14. She was the daughter of Hannah’s
son John Collitt. Still living with her, and her
granddaughter, was her unmarried youngest son William Collitt. Hannah Collitt nee Atkinson died almost one
year later when she passed away on 19th February 1862, following
which she was buried in the churchyard at Ainderby
Steeple. |
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Joshua Collitt |
Born in 1808 at Weeton, nr Harewood |
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27O2
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Thomas Collitt |
Born in 1810 at Weeton, nr Harewood |
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27O3
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Priscilla Collitt |
Born in 1812 at Weeton, nr Harewood |
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27O4
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John Collitt |
Born in 1814 at Weeton, nr Harewood |
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27O5
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Mary Collitt |
Born in 1816
at Ainderby Steeple |
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27O6
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Hannah Collitt |
Born in 1818
at Ainderby Steeple |
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27O7
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Richard Collitt |
Born in 1820
at Ainderby Steeple |
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27O8
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William Collitt |
Born in 1822
at Ainderby Steeple |
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27O9
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Ralph Collitt |
Born in 1824
at Ainderby Steeple |
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27O10
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Sarah Collitt |
Born in 1825
at Ainderby Steeple |
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27O11
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Isabella Collitt |
Born in 1829 at Ainderby
Steeple |
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27N6 |
Sarah Collett was born at South Stainley, midway
between Ripon and Harrogate in 1786, and it was there that she was baptised on
11th January 1787, the daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Collett. |
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27N7 |
Hannah Collett was born at South Stainley in 1790,
and it was there that she was baptised on 4th April 1790, where
she sister Sarah (above) had been baptised less than three years
earlier. What is curious about the
baptism record though, and different from Sarah’s, was that the parents were
named as Joshua and Hannah Collitt, rather than Joshua and Elizabeth Collett,
which may simply be a genuine error.
There may have been illness within the family around seventeen years
later, since both Sarah and Hannah died in 1807, within five months of each
other. Hannah Collett died on 25th
October 1807. |
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27N8 |
William Collett was born at Harewood on 16th
August 1761 and was baptised there six days later 22nd August 1761,
the son of John Collett and Sarah Birks.
William was thirty years old when he died in 1792. |
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27N9
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John Collett was born at Harewood on 18th
July 1763, where he was baptised on 19th August 1763, the son of
John and Sarah Collett. |
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27N10
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Sally Collett was born at Harewood on 28th
September 1764 and was baptised there on 2nd November 1764 the
daughter of John and Sarah Collett. |
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27N11
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Susannah Collett was born at Harewood on 3rd
July 1766. Just over one month later
she was baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 13th August 1766,
the daughter of John and Sarah Collett. |
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27N12
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Mary Collett was born at Harewood on 15th
December 1767 where she was baptised on 20th January 1768, the
daughter of John and Sarah Collett. |
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27N13
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Edward Collett was born at Harewood on 25th
October 1769, and it was there that he was baptised on 6th
December 1769, the son of John and Sarah Collett. |
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27N14
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Ann Collett was born at Harewood on 15th
January 1771 and was baptised there on 20th February 1771, the
daughter of John and Sarah Collett. |
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27N15 |
THOMAS
COLLETT was born
at Harewood on 12th October 1772, where he was baptised on 13th
November 1772, the son of John and Sarah Collett. He married Alice Bickerdike at Harewood on
16th December 1802 and it is very likely that all of their
children were born at Harewood. Alice was baptised at Otley on 9th September 1778,
the daughter of Robert and Ann Bickerdike. When his father died, it may have been
Thomas who took on Middlefield Farm in Harewood, because, by June 1841,
Thomas and Alice were living at ‘Middle Field Farm’ with some of their
children. Farmer Thomas Collett had a
rounded age of 65 and his wife’s rounded age was 60. Their children on that occasion were Robert
and Thomas, who both had rounded ages of 30, John who was 25 and William who was
20. Living nearby was their daughter
Mary, whose age had been rounded up to 25, while their youngest child
Catherine, aged 18, was staying at the home of her uncle Thomas Bickerdike,
her mother’s brother, at Hollin Hall in Harewood. |
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Ten
months later Thomas’ wife, Alice Collett nee Bickerdike of Middlefield, died
on 21st April 1842 at the age of 64 and was buried in the grounds
of All Saint’s Church in Harewood. In
1851 William was a widower at the age of 78, the age also coinciding with the
year he was born. The census return
confirmed that he was still living at Middlefield Farm in Harewood with his
unmarried ‘farmer’s sons’ Robert Collett, aged 45, and William Collett, aged
33, and his unmarried daughter Catherine Collett who was 29 and a farmer’s
daughter. Thomas Collett was described
as a farmer of 157 acres, employing four labourers. Living with the family was seventeen-year-old
William Mason from Newton in Yorkshire who was a servant and an agricultural
labourer. |
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Thomas
Collett of Middlefield died there during May 1853, at the age of 80, and was
buried with his wife Sarah in the churchyard of All Saint’s Church in
Harewood. The single headstone that
marks the plot is rather weathered and is difficult to read, although some
parts of the inscription are clear enough to identify it as the grave of
Thomas and Alice Collett of Middlefield (Farm). Upon his death, Middlefield Farm was passed
onto his eldest son Robert. |
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Hannah Collett |
Born in 1803
at Harewood |
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27O13
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Robert Collett |
Born in 1806
at Harewood |
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27O14
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Ann Collett |
Born in 1807
at Harewood |
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27O15
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Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1809
at Harewood |
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27O16
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Thomas Collett |
Born in 1811
at Harewood |
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27O17
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1813
at Harewood |
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27O18
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JOHN
SCARR COLLETT |
Born in 1815
at Harewood |
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27O19
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William Collett |
Born in 1817
at Harewood |
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27O20
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1819
at Harewood |
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27O21
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Catherine Collett |
Born in 1822
at Harewood |
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27N16
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Robert Collett was born at Harewood on 24th
July 1774 and was one half of a set of twins born to farmer John Collett and
his wife Sarah. He was baptised at All
Saint’s Church in Harewood on 5th October 1774 in a joint ceremony
with his twin sister Hannah (below).
The only other fact known about Robert is that he died at Otley on 17th
December 1838 at the age of 63, following which he was buried in the
churchyard of All Saint’s Church in Harewood.
The headstone that marks the grave contains only a reference to
Robert, perhaps indicating that he never married. |
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Hannah Collett was born on 24th July 1774
at Harewood and was a twin sister to her brother Robert (above). The twins were baptised together in a joint
ceremony on 5th October 1774, when their parents were confirmed as
John and Sarah Collett. |
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27O1
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Joshua Collitt was born at Weeton on 24th
April 1808, but was baptised at Harewood on 22nd May 1808, the
eldest child of John Collitt and Hannah Atkinson. Joshua was around five or six years old
when his family moved to Northallerton, where they settled in the village of
Ainderby Steeple. Joshua Collitt died
on 14th September 1844.
Just over three years earlier Joshua Collitt had been living with his
parents at Swalefield House in Ainderby (Swalefield House, East Gilling). |
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Thomas Collitt was born at Weeton on 22nd
August 1810 and was baptised at All Saint’s Church in Harewood on 30th
September 1810, the son of John Collitt and Hannah Atkinson. By the time he was four years old he and
his family were living at Ainderby Steeple, just outside Northallerton. Thomas later
married Mary Flower around 1850 and they had four children who were all
originally thought to have been born at Ainderby Steeple. Mary was baptised at Ainderby Steeple on 1st
September 1816, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Flower. It now seems very likely that the children of
Thomas and Mary Collitt were actually born while the couple was living at
Morton-on-Swale, where the family was residing at the time of the March
census in 1851 and again in 1861. That
may also have been the reason why the couple’s second child had the middle
name Morton, which appears to have been used by him much later in his life
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Not long after they were married the childless couple were
recorded in the 1851 Census as living at the Morton-on-Swale home of Thomas’ widowed
mother-in-law Mary Flower who was 72. Thomas Collitt was 40 and his wife Mary
Collitt was 34. Mary was with-child on the day of the
census and the couple’s first son was born almost exactly three months
later. During the next seven years
Mary presented Thomas with a further three children so, by 1861, the family still
living at Morton-on-Swale comprised Thomas Collitt, aged 50, his wife Mary who
was 44, and their three sons John Collitt who was nine, Thomas Collitt who
was eight, and Joshua Collitt who was two years old. |
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The
missing child, their daughter Mary Hannah Collitt, who would have been six
years old, had died just five days before the census that year, on her actual
sixth birthday. Still living with the
family was Thomas’ mother-in-law Mary Flower who was then 82. The house must have been of a considerable
size, because there were seven other people living there in 1861. They were Thomas’ brother Ralph Collitt
(below), who was 37, Louisa Wass 16, Ann Flower 14, Ann Dennis 24, William
Johnson 19, James Bennison 21, and James Young 14. |
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In
1866 Thomas Collitt was implicated in a bribery investigation concerning a
general election scandal. Apparently,
he was seen at The Harewood Arms in Northallerton, where his brother John
Collitt (below) was the publican, and his involvement resulted in the
election being declared null and avoid. The official statement issued following
conclusion of the investigation determined ’That Charles Henry Mills, Esq., is not duly elected a Burgess to
serve in the present parliament for the Borough of Northallerton, and that
the last Election for the said Borough, is a void Election’. |
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By
the time of the census in 1871, Joshua was the only child of Thomas and Mary
still living with them in Morton-on-Swale.
The census return that year listed the family as Thomas Collitt, aged
60, Mary Collitt, who was 55, and their son Joshua Collitt who was 12 years
old. Their son Thomas Collitt was 18
and was living nearby in Northallerton but, by then, the couple’s eldest son
John Collitt, who was 19, had left Northallerton and was recorded as living
in the Richmond area of Yorkshire. It
was later that John made the big leap, when he moved to London, where he was
married. |
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It
was during the following year that Mary Collitt nee Flower passed away sometime
in 1872 leaving Thomas as a widower.
In the census of 1881, he was still listed as being a married man and
by that time in his life Thomas Collitt, aged 70 and formerly a farmer from
Morton-on-Swale, was an inmate at the Northallerton Union Workhouse. Two years later, while he was still residing
at the Northallerton Union Workhouse, Thomas Collitt died on 2nd
March 1883 at the age of 72. |
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27P1
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John Collitt |
Born in 1851
at Morton-on-Swale |
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27P2
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Thomas Collitt |
Born in 1852
at Morton-on-Swale |
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27P3
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Mary Hannah Collitt |
Born in 1855 at
Morton-on-Swale |
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27P4
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Joshua Collitt |
Born in 1858 at
Morton-on-Swale |
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27O3
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Priscilla Collitt was born at Weeton on 2nd October 1812,
the daughter of John Collitt and Hannah Atkinson. It was at nearby Harewood where Priscilla Collitt
was baptised on 1st December 1812 but, by the time she was two
years old, her family was living at Ainderby Steeple. |
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27O4
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John Collitt was born at Weeton on 3rd March 1814, but was later
baptised after the family had moved to Ainderby Steeple, to the immediate
west of Northallerton, and it was there, on 3rd July 1814, the son
of John and Hannah Collitt was baptised. In was during the third quarter of 1843
(Ref. 24 261) that John Collitt married Isabella Fox, of Coxwold in
Yorkshire, at Easingwold, midway between Thirsk and York. The first of their children was born during
the following year, and it was at the baptism of the children that the surname
was recorded as Collitt. The first two
children were born at Morton-on-Swale and baptised at Ainderby Steeple, and the next one born at Kirby
Wiske, which lies five miles south of Northallerton. With the exception of daughter Isabel
Collitt, the later children were born and baptised at Northallerton. |
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According
to the census in 1851, John and his family were living at Ingram Gate in
Thirsk. John Collitt was described as
an annuitant aged 36, from Ainderby Steeple. His wife Isabel was also 36, and their three
children at that time were Mary H Collitt who was six, Sarah J Collitt who
was four, and one-year-old Isabel Collitt.
By the end of
that census year, the family was living at Northallerton, where the couple’s
fourth child was born, and where the next two children were also born.
It may have been a problem of
over-crowding, that resulted in John’s daughter Sarah Jane Collitt going to
live with her widowed grandmother Hannah Collitt, in Northallerton in 1861. The rest of the family, at that time, was living
at The Harewood Arms on the High Street in Northallerton, where John Collitt
from Morton-on-Swale was 46 and the inn keeper. His wife Isabella Collitt was also 46 and
from Coxwold, and their five children were Mary H Collitt aged 16, Isabel
Collitt aged 11, John W Collitt who was nine, Joshua Collitt who was seven,
and Priscilla Collitt who was four years old.
On that day, the family employed a domestic servant, Mary A Pearson
who was 17. |
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Just
over four years later John Collitt died on 29th June 1865, so his
widow Isabella Collitt, aged 56, was living alone at Morton-on-Swale near Northallerton
in 1871, with just her youngest child for company, that being 14 years old
Priscilla A Collitt. Isabella’s
occupation at that time in her life was recorded as a licenced
victualler. Living not far away was
her son Joshua Collitt who was 18. It
would also appear that Isabella died shortly after that, because no record of
her has been found in the census of 1881. |
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Sadly,
it was later that same year that Isabelle Collitt died. During his life John Collitt was a
prominent character in Northallerton, where he was the publican at The
Harewood Arms Inn on Northallerton High Street, which still exists today as a
Grade II Listed Building, but under its new name of The Tickle Toby Inn. It should be noted that farm John Scarr
Collett (below) was the landlord of The Harewood Arms on the Harrogate Road
in Harewood during 1861. |
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27P5
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Mary Hannah Atkinson Collitt |
Born in 1844
at Ainderby Steeple |
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27P6
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Sarah Jane Collitt |
Born in 1846
at Ainderby Steeple |
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27P7
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Isabel
Collitt |
Born in 1849
at Kirby Wiske |
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27P8
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John William Collitt |
Born in 1851
at Northallerton |
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27P9
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Joshua Collitt |
Born in 1853
at Northallerton |
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27P10
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Priscilla Anne Collitt |
Born in 1856
at Northallerton |
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27O5
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Mary Collitt was born in 1816 and was baptised at
Ainderby Steeple on 3rd March 1816 as Mary Collet, the daughter of
John and Hannah Collet. Mary later
married J Metcalfe. |
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27O6
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Hannah Collitt was born in 1818, and it was at
Ainderby Steeple that she was baptised on 3rd June 1818 as Hannah
Collet, the daughter of John and Hannah Collet. It was around the time that Hannah was aged
21 that she died on 13th April 1839. |
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27O7
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Richard Collitt was born in 1820 and was baptised at
Ainderby Steeple on 15th May 1820, the son of John and Hannah Collitt. It was originally understood that Richard
married Sarah, and that at the age of 43, he died in 1863. Two years earlier the childless couple of
Richard and Sarah Collitt was living in the Richmond area of Yorkshire, where
was Richard was 41 and his wife Sarah was 40.
However, it now appears that he was a different Richard to the one
born at Ainderby Steeple. |
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New
information received during 2012 from Christina Hammond, as supplied by Kate
Wilson, indicates that Richard Collitt married the much older Eliza Parker from
Gainsborough in Lincolnshire around the end of the middle of 1840s. By 1851 the marriage had produced a son,
when the family of three was still residing in Gainsborough, where Richard
Collitt, aged 30, was working as a chemist and a druggist. That was a profession later followed by his
son William and his nephew William Silvester Collitt, the eldest son of
Richard’s brother William (below). At
that time in 1851 Eliza Collitt was 39, while their son John Collitt was
three years old. |
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During
the mid-1850s a further son was added to the family, although the possibility
of other children being born to the couple in the years in between cannot be
ruled out at this time. In the
Gainsborough census return for 1861 the age of Richard and his youngest son
are not clear, in addition to which the shorting of Richard’s christian name
has been transcribed as Robt, which may have been Rich, while the family’s
surname was recorded as Collett. |
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Richard
would have been 40, his wife Eliza Collett was 48, and their two sons were
listed as John Sobby Collett, which was an error for John Selby Collitt, who
was 14, and William Collett who would have been around five years of age. Richard Collitt died during the 1860s,
following which his widow was still living in Gainsborough by herself in
1871, at the age of 58. No record of
her two sons has been found anywhere in England on that occasion. |
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By
1881 Eliza’s eldest son was married with a family of his own and was living
in the city of Lincoln, while her youngest son had returned to the family
home and was living with Eliza at 14 Bridge Street in Gainsborough. Once again, the pair of them were recorded
in the census return as Collett. Eliza
was 69 and her place of birth was confirmed as Gainsborough, and by that time
in her life she was living off the interest from property. Her son William, aged 25 and also born at
Gainsborough, was a chemist and a druggist carrying on the business created
by his father. Employed by the two of
them was Mary E Illingworth, aged 25, a general domestic servant from
Ollerton in Nottinghamshire. |
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After
a further ten years Eliza Collitt was 79 and was still living in
Gainsborough, although on that occasion she was living in the house of her
son William. It is also known that it
was later that same year that she died.
In addition to the two known children of Richard and Eliza Collitt, it
is understood by the aforementioned Kate Wilson that, prior to their marriage,
Richard was the father of a base-born son John Collitt Wilson who was born at
Normanton on 29th November 1845.
The child’s baptism record simply provides the details that he was
John Collitt Wilson, the son of Hannah Wilson, while on the birth certificate
he was recorded as John Wilson, the son of Richard Collitt. From all accounts he never used the name of
Collitt and was always known as John Wilson, and he was the great great grandfather of the husband of Kate Wilson. |
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John Collitt
Wilson |
Born in 1845
at Normanton |
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John Selby Collitt |
Born in 1848 at Gainsborough |
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William Collitt |
Born in 1855
at Gainsborough |
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William Collitt
was born at Ainderby
Steeple on 10th March 1822, the son of John Collitt and Hannah
Atkinson, although he was baptised there on 28th March 1822 as
William Collett. His father died in
1842, and by 1851 he had left the family home, but on the occasion of the
census that year he was recorded as a visit at his mother’s home in
Morton-on-Swale near Northallerton, when he was 29 and described as a grocer
not in business. During the next ten
years, William returned to live with his elderly mother in the Northallerton
area, where he was 38 in the census of 1861.
Ten years later in 1871, William Collitt was 49 and was still living
in Northallerton, but living with him on that occasion was his nephew Joshua
Collitt (Ref. 27P9) who was 18. |
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He
remained a bachelor for almost another four years until, in January 1875, he
married Luciana Silvester, when he was 53 and she was only 26. Luciana was baptised
at Barnby Dun to the north of Doncaster on 21st January 1849, the
daughter of John and Sarah Silvester. The
marriage produced five daughters and one son for William and Luciana, and all
of them were born at Northallerton. By
the time of the census in 1881 the family was living at the High Street in
Northallerton, where William was a grocer employing two apprentices. |
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On
that occasion he was 59 and he gave his place of birth as Morton-on-Swale,
which is near Bedale and ten miles south-west of Northallerton. The rest of his family at that time
comprised his wife Luciana 31, and their five children, the fifth child
having just been born and had not been named on the day of the census on the
third of April. The other four
children were Amy H Collitt who was five, Luciana H Collitt, who was four,
William S Collitt, who was three, and Mary G Collitt who was two. The unnamed baby was two weeks old, and she
was eventually given the names Florence Hannah. The two apprentices that William employed
also lodged with the family and they were William Dawson who was 18 from
Kirby Knowle, and Walker Rudd who was 15 and from Kirby Sigston. In the addition to them, the family also
employed a general servant Annie Dodds, who was 15, and a monthly nurse, Mary
Robson who was 45. |
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According
to the Northallerton census in 1891, the Collitt family was residing at
Station Road, where William Collitt from Morton-upon-Swale was 69 and
described as a retired grocer, while his wife Luciana was 42 and had been
born at Barnby-upon-Don. Living there
with the couple were their five children, Ann H Collitt was 15, Luciana S
Collett was 14, Mary G Collitt was 12, Florence H Collitt was 10, and Selina
R E Collitt was just three years old, all of them born at Northallerton. |
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Just
over one year later, William Collett died on 18th April 1892 and
was buried at Northallerton Cemetery. Following
a change of address and just after the start of the new century his widow,
Luciana Collitt from Barnby-upon-Don was 52 and living on her own means at
South Parade in Northallerton with all of her five unmarried daughters. They were Amy H Collitt 25, Luciana S
Collitt 24, Mary G Collitt 22, Florence H Collitt 20, and Selina R V Collitt
who was 13. All of the girls were
confirmed as born at Northallerton, but it was only Luciana and Florence who
were in employment. Luciana was a
private school governess, while Florence was a draper’s cashier. |
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By
the time of the Northallerton census in April 1911, Luciana still had three
of her daughters living with her, having suffered the loss of Mary Gertrude
who died in 1908. Luciana was 62 and
surviving on private means, her daughter Luciana Sarah Collitt was 34 and
still working as a school mistress at a nearby private school, Florence
Hannah Collitt was 29 and a draper’s bookkeeper and cashier, and Selina Rose
Victoria Collitt was 23 years old, with no occupation, so was very likely
helping her mother with domestic duties.
By then her eldest daughter was married and two years later her
daughter Florence was married. It was
nearly twenty-two years after that census day when Luciana Collitt died on 26th
February 1933. |
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The
family’s headstone in the graveyard at Northallerton reads as follows: “In loving memory of William Collitt, died
18th April 1892 aged 70 years.
Also Mary Gertrude, third daughter of the above died 19th October
1908. Also Luciana Sarah, second
daughter of the above died 24th November 1929. Also Luciana, widow of the above died 26th
February 1933. Also Selina, youngest
daughter of the above, died 18th August 1944” |
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Amy Helena Collitt |
Born in 1875
at Northallerton |
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27P15
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Luciana Sarah Collitt |
Born in 1876
at Northallerton |
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27P16
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William Silvester Collitt |
Born in 1877
at Northallerton |
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27P17
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Mary Gertrude Collitt |
Born in 1878
at Northallerton |
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27P18
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Florence Hannah Collitt |
Born in 1881
at Northallerton |
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27P19
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Selina Rose Victoria Collitt |
Born in 1887
at Northallerton |
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Ralph Collitt was born at Ainderby Steeple in 1824,
where he was baptised on 15th November 1824 as Ralph Collett, the
son of John and Hannah Collett. In
1851 Ralph was 27 and was still living with his widowed mother, following the
death of his father in 1842. It would
seem that Ralph never married and in 1861, when he was 37, he was living in
Morton-on-Swale at the home of his older brother Thomas Collitt (above). At the time of the next census in 1871,
Ralph Collett, aged 47, was living in the area of Yarm, to the south of
Stockton. It was six years later that
Ralph Collett died on 2nd June 1877. |
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Sarah Collitt was born at Ainderby Steeple in 1825
and was baptised there on 4th December 1825 as Sarah Collett, the
daughter of John and Hannah Collett.
Sarah was 25 and unmarried in 1851, when she was still living with her
mother at Ainderby Steeple. Just over
seven years later Sarah Collett died on 4th December 1858. |
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Isabella Collitt was born at Ainderby Steeple on 6th
January 1829 and it was there also that she was baptised on 2nd
February 1829 as Isabella Collett, the youngest of eleven children of John
and Hannah Collett. Her father died in
1842, so by the time of the next census, Isabella was still living with her widowed
mother at Ainderby Steeple in 1851, when she was 22 years old. Eight years after that day, the marriage of Isabella Collitt and Job Ormston took place at Ainderby Steeple on 27th
December 1859, and was recorded at Northallerton (Ref. 9d 856). It was also at Ainderby Steeple, in a
property named Mount Etna, where the couple was living in 1861, when Job from
Scruton, Yorkshire, was 32 and a farmer of eight acres. His wife Isabella was also 32 and of
Ainderby Steeple, as was their baby daughter Sarah E Ormston
who was not yet one year old. Twenty
years later the family had grown, when by were then living in
Morton-on-Swale, just west of Ainderby Steeple. That census day Isabella Ormston, aged 52, gave her place of birth as
Morton-on-Swale. Job Ormston was 51 and a farmer of 88 acres, while their
children were Sarah Collitt Ormston who was
20, Robert Ormston who was 17, William Ormston who was 14, all of them born at Ainderby
Steeple prior to the move to Morton-on-Swale.
Completing the family was Edmund Ormston
who was 12 years old, who had been born after the family moved to
Morton-on-Swale. |
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Job Ormston
passed away during the following decade, leaving widowed Isabella, aged 62,
described as a farmer at Morton-on-Swale, where she was still living with
four of her children. They were Sarah,
Robert, William, and Edmund. It was a
very similar situation in 1901, except that by then 73-year-old Isabella only
had three children living with her at Morton-on-Swale, Sarah 40, William 34 a
farmer, and Edmund 32 another farmer. Isabella eventually gave up the farm and
moved to Northallerton with her daughter, where they were residing in
1911. At that time in her life,
Isabella was 82 and living on private means, who was being looked after by
50-year-old Sarah Collitt Ormston, who was also
living on private means. Both ladies
were confirmed as having been at Ainderby Steeple. Twenty months later Isabella Ormston was 83 years of age when she died at Ainderby Steeple
on 26th November 1912, where she was buried, with her death
recorded at Northallerton register office (Ref. 9d 815). |
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Hannah Collett was born at Harewood on 26th
November 1803 and was baptised there at All Saint’s Church on 22nd
January 1804, the eldest child of Thomas Collett and Alice Bickerdike. |
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Robert Collett was born at Harewood on 6th
January 1806 and was baptised there on 16th February 1806, the
eldest son of Thomas Collett and Alice Bickerdike. Robert’s grandfather John Collett was a
farmer at Middlefield Farm in Harewood, and the property was inherited by
Robert’s father at the time of the death of his grandfather. The census of 1841 listed Robert living at ‘Middle
Field’ with his parents and three younger brothers, when Robert had a rounded
age of 30, instead of his actual age of 35.
During the next decade Robert’s mother died, so by 1851 he was still
living at Middlefield Farm in Harewood, with his widowed elderly father, his
brother William and his unmarried sister Catherine. Robert Collett was described as being 45
and a farmer’s son from Harewood, most likely one of the four men employed on
his father’s 157-acre farm. |
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With
the death of his father during 1853, Robert took over ownership of the farm
at Middlefield and, it was during the following year, he married Sarah Clayton. Rather confusingly, two conflicting records
of their marriage exist. The first of
them was recorded at York (perhaps Yorkshire, rather than the city) on 2nd
November 1854, when Robert Collett’s age was incorrectly recorded as 36,
while his bride Sarah was 40. The
other, less detailed record, place the wedding of Robert and Sarah as having
taken place at Scarborough, where the event was recorded (Ref. 9d 587) during
the last quarter of 1854. In addition
to all of that, the Harewood census of 1861 is very interesting since, on
that day, Robert Collett of Harewood, aged 55 and a farmer of
197 acres, employing three servants and three labourers, and his wife Sarah Collett from
Bradford, aged 48, were staying at The Harewood Arms on the Harrogate Road in
Harewood, opposite the entrance to Harewood House. Also recorded at the inn was Robert’s
younger brother, farmer John Scarr Collett, the temporary landlord, and his
wife and their seven children. |
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Living
with the couple in 1861 was Sarah’s nephew Joseph Charlesworth who was 10
years of age and born at Bradford, like Sarah, featured later in Sarah’s life
– see below. By 1871 the childless
couple was still living at Middlefield Farm in Harewood, where farmer Robert
Collett of Harewood was 65 and Sarah Collett from Bradford was 58. The farm at Middlefield was described as
being 197 acres and on which Robert, with no sons of his own, needed to
employ three men and two boys to help him manage it. Living with the couple at that time were
three male farm servants, they being Joseph Brunton of Knaresborough aged 25,
James Child aged 16 and John Lawson aged 15, both of them from East Keswick,
and Margaret Bullock from East Keswick who was a general domestic servant. |
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Listed
immediately after Robert and Sarah Collett in the 1871 census return were two
further Collett families, they being the families of Robert’s younger brother
John Scarr Collett at Burns Farm, and William Collett at Biggin Farm (below). Ten years later, according to the census in
1881, Robert Collett was listed as being 75 and a farmer of 180 acres
employing four labourers. The census
return confirmed that he was born at Harewood and that he was married to
Sarah who was 69 and from Little Horton, a district of Bradford. The only people listed with them in April
1881 were as follows: Mary Hirst, an unmarried visitor and independent lady
aged 55 and born at Seacroft to the east of Leeds; Harriet Smith, an 18-year-old
domestic servant from East Keswick and her younger sister Florrie aged 13 from
nearby East Rigton; and two ‘indoors’ farm labourers Christopher Kemp 23 of
Grimston in York and Thomas Newland 15 of Harewood. |
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Robert
survived for a further three years, when the death of Robert Collett of
Harewood was recorded at nearby Wetherby (Ref. 9a 89) during the third
quarter of 1884, when he was 78. In
the churchyard of All Saint’s Church in Harewood is the grave of Robert
Collett and his wife Sarah. The
headstone confirms that Robert died during 1884, while Sarah died on 25th
March 1888 at the age of 75, her death also recorded at Wetherby (Ref. 9a
91). The Will of Sarah Collett, widow
of Harewood, was proved at Wakefield on 2nd May 1888 by Joseph
Charlesworth of Heaton near Bradford, a merchant and nephew of the deceased,
the sole executrix. Joseph was a wool
merchant who had been born at Bradford in 1850, the son of Charles Charlesworth
(born at Birstal in 1817) and his wife Hannah, who was born at Bradford in
1829. |
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Ann Collett was born at Harewood on 22nd
September 1807 and was baptised there at All Saint’s Church on 8th
November 1807, the daughter of Thomas and Alice Collett. It would appear that she never married,
since it was as Ann Collett that she died at Middlefield Farm, four years
after her mother and six years before her father. The headstone that marks her grave in
Harewood’s All Saint’s Church, states she was the daughter of Thomas and
Alice Collett of Middlefield, and that she died on 11th November 1846
at the age of 39. |
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Elizabeth Collett was born at Harewood on 13th
May 1809, where she was baptised exactly three months later on 13th
August 1809, the daughter of Thomas and Alice Collett. |
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27O16
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Their
wedding day may have been around 1849 since, by the time of the census in
1851, they had a daughter who was three months old, who had been born at
Thorner, near Leeds, where the three of them were living on the day the
census was conducted, although the birth was registered at Tadcaster in
January 1851. Thomas Collett from
Harewood was 41 and his occupation was that of a tinner, while his while Jane
was 23. Curiously no later record of
the family has been found after that day. |
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27P20
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Alice Collett |
Born in 1831
at Thornham, Lancs. |
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27P21
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Christiana
Collett |
Born in 1851
at Thorner, near Leeds |
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27O17
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Mary Collett was born at Harewood in 1813 and was
baptised there on 16th May 1813, another daughter of Thomas and
Alice Collett of Middlefield Farm. |
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27O18 |
JOHN
SCARR COLLETT was
born at Harewood on 26th July 1815, where he was baptised on 3rd
September 1815, the son of Thomas Collett and Alice Bickerdike. In the first census of 1841 John Collett
was still living with his family at Middlefield Farm in Harewood at the age
of 25. Four years later John married
Mary Hardcastle at Thorner, near Leeds, on 11th November 1844,
when they were both described as being on full age. Mary had been born at
Stockton-on-the-Forest, near York, where she was baptised on 4th
November 1821, the daughter of Thomas and Jane Hardcastle. By the time of the census in 1851 their
marriage had been blessed with three children, with the couple’s eldest
daughter Alice being given her grandmother’s maiden-name. |
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The
Harewood census that year listed that family as John aged 35 from Harewood, a
farmer of 95 acres employing one labourer, his wife Mary aged 29 from
Stockton, and their three Harewood born children. Alice was four, William was two years old,
and Ann who was under six months of age.
Visiting the Collett family that day was farmer’s wife Mary A Hardcastle
from Thorner, who was 30, with her infant son Arthur Hardcastle. Mary was John’s sister-in-law, being the
wife of Thomas Hardcastle, his wife’s brother. Two servants were included with the family
in that census return and they were Joseph Holmes who was 21 and perhaps the
farm labourer employed by John, together with Sarah Whitehead who was 17. |
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Ten
years later the family had been completed by the addition of a further five
children, all of them born at Harewood.
In 1861 John S Collett from Harewood was 45 and a farmer, employing
one man, and the landlord of The Harewood Arms in Harewood, where he and his
family were recorded that day. Mary
Collett, his wife from Stockton, was 39, and their seven children were Alice
14, William 12, Annie 10, Catherine who was eight, Mary who was five, Jane E
Collett who was two years old and Betsy who was under one-year old. In service with the family on that day were
two servants, Thomas Metcalf aged 20 and Mary Allenby who was 18. |
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Tragedy
struck the family five years later, when the death of Mary Collett aged 44
was recorded at Otley (Ref. 9a 91) during the fourth quarter of 1866. After that sad event, John and his five
youngest daughters continued to live at Harewood, where the family was
recorded in the census return for 1871. By that time widower John Scarr Collett from
East Keswick was 55 and a farmer Burns Farm, which was situated in the census
return between the farms of Middlefield Farm, owned by John’s older brother
Robert, and Biggin Farm, owned by his younger brother William. The census that year described Burns Farm
as being 104 acres, on which widower John Scarr Collett employed one man and
one boy. Living there with him were
his five daughters, Ann P Collett who was 20, Catherine Collett who was 18,
Mary Collett who was 15, Jane E Collett who was 12, and Betsy Collett who was
ten years old. |
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A
possible error on the census form indicated that the whole family had been
born at East Keswick, the family being part of a list of seven names dittoed
from the name of James Child of East Keswick, a farm servant employed by
William’s brother Robert Collett at Middlefield Farm. The one boy employed on the farm was
live-in farm servant Francis Wells aged 15 and from Knaresborough. |
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John
Scarr Collett was only fifty-seven when, eighteen months later, he died at
Harewood on 30th July 1872, his death recorded at Wetherby (Ref.
9a 88) during the third quarter of the year.
He was buried in the churchyard of All Saint’s Church, where a
headstone marks the grave. Eight years
after his passing his two youngest daughters sailed to America to start a new
life there. It is also known that
John’s eldest daughter Alice married James Young Teale around 1870 and,
possibly under the terms of his Will, Alice and her husband took over
ownership and management of the bulk of Burns Farm in Harewood, as confirmed
by the census in 1881. |
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27P22 |
Alice Bickerdike Collett |
Born in 1846
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27P23 |
WILLIAM
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Born in 1848
at Harewood |
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27P24 |
Ann P Collett |
Born in 1850
at Harewood |
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27P25 |
Catharine Collett |
Born in 1852
at Harewood |
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27P26 |
Mary Collett |
Born in 1856
at Harewood |
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27P27 |
Jane Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1858
at Harewood |
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27P28 |
Betsey Collett |
Born in 1861
at Harewood |
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William Collett was born at Harewood in 1817 and was
baptised there on 15th June 1817, the son of Thomas and Alice
Collett. At the time of the June
census in 1841, William had a rounded age of twenty when living with his
family at Middle Field Farm in Harewood.
Ten years later in 1851 William was 33 years old and was still a bachelor
living with his widowed father Thomas at Middlefield in Harewood, together
with his brother Robert (above), and his sister Catherine (below). The
occupation of both brothers was that of a farmer’s son, presumably working on
their father’s 157-acre farm. So far,
no record of William has been found in the census return for 1861, although
it must have been shortly after that when he married Betsy Smith of Harewood
who was listed with him at Harewood in 1871, together with their only
child. William was 53, Betsy was 43,
and their daughter Alice Eliza was just six years old and had been born at
nearby East Keswick. |
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It
seems highly likely that William and Betsy had inherited Biggin Farm in
Harewood, the property previously having been owned by Betsy’s late
father. Biggin Farm comprised 173.5
acres and William needed to employ two men and one boy to help with the
running of it. Living with the family
of three at Biggin was William’s widowed mother-in-law, sixty-five years old
Eliza Smith, a former farmer’s wife. According
to the Harewood census of 1881, William Collett was 63, while his wife Betsy,
also of Harewood, was fifty-three. The
census recorded the couple as living at Biggin Farm in Harewood where William
was a farmer of the same 173 acres who, at that time, was employing one
labourer and two boys. Living with
them was their unmarried daughter Alice Eliza Collett who was 16, who had
been born at East Keswick, the next village to the east of Harewood, and
Betsy’s mother Eliza Smith aged seventy-five of Seacroft, who was listed as
an annuitant. The family was support
by sixteen-year-old Alice Dalby who was a domestic servant, and the two boys
employed by William to work on the farm were John Wharvill aged eighteen from
Leeds and Frederick Hodgson who was fourteen and from Shadwell. |
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Alice Eliza Collett |
Born in 1865
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Mary Collett was born at Harewood in 1819, the
daughter of Thomas and Alice Collett.
On the occasion of the first national census in June 1841 Mary was
still living in Harewood but not with her family which was living nearby at
Middlefield Farm. Mary was unmarried
at the rounded age of 25, although she would have only actually been 21 or
22. |
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Catherine Collett was born at Harewood in 1822 but, for
some reason, was not baptised until she was around four years of age. The baptism of Catherine Collett took place
at Harewood on 2nd July 1826, the youngest child of Thomas Collett
and his wife Alice Bickerdike. She was
18 years old on the day of the census in 1841, when she was living at Hollin
Hall in Harewood with uncle Thomas Bickerdike, her mother’s brother. Following the death of her mother,
Catherine returned to Middlefield Farm to keep house for her elderly father
and two older unmarried brothers Robert and William (above), where she was 29
and a farmer’s daughter in 1851, Catherine was unmarried and was living with
her widowed father at Middlefield in Harewood and her two brothers Robert and
William (above). Following the death
of her father, the farm at Middlefield was inherited by her brother Robert
who also became a married man one year later.
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was those changes that may have prompted Catherine to leave Harewood because,
by the time of the next census in 1861, she was 37, a single lady from
Harewood and a fundholder, who was residing in a property on Main Street in the
village Sicklinghall, midway between Kirkby Overblow and Wetherby, the home of
William Mountain aged 45 from Boston Spa.
Just over two
years after that census day, the marriage of Catherine Collett may have
become a married woman, although it is not clear whether it was Seth Fewsdale
Elsworth or Joseph Midgley. The married
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John Collitt was born at Morton-on-Swale near
Northallerton on 26th June 1851, and was baptised at nearby
Ainderby Steeple on 27th July 1851, the eldest of the four children
of Thomas Collitt and Mary Flower. The birth of John Collitt was
register at Northallerton (Ref. xxiv 575) during the second quarter of 1851. Just three months before he was born, his
parents were living in Morton-on-Swale and it was there also that the family
was still living at the time of the census of 1861, when John Collitt was
nine years old and his place of birth was confirmed as Morton-on-Swale. However, on leaving school, John left the
family home and in 1871 he was 19 and was living and working within the Leeds
St Marys area of Yorkshire, where he was described as a student under
training as a draper’s apprentice, one of six young apprentices on the same
course. His place of birth was
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Sometime
after that he made the long journey down to London where John Collitt married
Jane Elizabeth Fine (or Fyne) towards the end of that decade, possibly in
1879. Jane was baptised as Eliza Jane
Finn at Great Chart, near Ashford in Kent, on 26th March 1857, the
daughter of Reuben and Eliza Mary Finn (or Fyne) of Wapping. Their marriage produced a total of five
children for the couple, with all of them born at Walthamstow, with their births recorded at West Ham,
Essex. The couple’s first child
was born at the home of Eliza Mary Fine just prior to the next census in
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By
that time John and his young family were staying at Hoe Street in Walthamstow,
in the West Ham district of Essex, the home of John’s sixty-one-year-old
widowed mother-in-law Mary Fine, who still had living there with her, her daughter
Margaret Fine aged 17 and a milliner. The
Collitt family was listed as John Collitt, aged 29 and a commercial traveller
from Steeple in Yorkshire, a reference to Ainderby
Steeple near Northallerton, his wife Jane Collitt aged 23 from Middlesex, and
their daughter Mary Collitt who had been born that nine months earlier. Living not far away, in the same West Ham
area, was John’s younger brother Thomas (below) who had also travelled down
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Over
the next ten years a further three children were added to John’s and Jane’s
family, and by 1891 they were residing at Albert Road in Walthamstow, within the West Ham
registration district of Essex.
Commercial
traveller John Collitt was 39, Jane Elizabeth Collitt was 33, and
their four children on that occasion were listed as Mary Eliza Collitt who was
ten, John F Collitt who was seven, Stanley T Collitt who was three, and
Ernest H Collitt who was one year old.
Not long after
that census day, Jane Collitt fell pregnant with the couple’s fifth and final
child, who was born at the start of the following year. However, just seven years after the birth,
John Collitt was 47 when he died at Walthamstow, when his death was recorded
at West Ham register office (Ref. 4a 160) during the last three months of 1899. |
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In
March 1901 his widow Jane was recorded in the census return as Jane E Collett
aged 43 from Wapping, when and the only children still living with her at
that time were her eldest daughter Mary E Collett, aged 20, her eldest son
John F Collett who was 17 and a junior commercial clerk, and her youngest son
Percy F Collett who was nine years old.
Of the other members of her family, only son Ernest has been
positively identified and he, at eleven years of age, was attending a
boarding school somewhere in Surrey. |
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Also
living with Jane and her three children at 45 Warren Road in Leyton on that
occasion, was her elderly mother Eliza M Fine, aged 80, who was also from
Wapping. Tragically, it was later that
same year in 1901 that Jane Elizabeth Collitt nee Fine (or Fyne) died when
she was still only 45. |
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Eliza Collitt |
Born in 1880 at Walthamstow |
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John Fine Collitt |
Born in 1883 at Walthamstow |
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Stanley Thomas Collitt |
Born in 1887 at Walthamstow |
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Ernest Harold Collitt |
Born in 1889 at Walthamstow |
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Percy Frank Collitt |
Born in 1892 at Walthamstow |
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Thomas Collitt was born at Morton-on-Swale near
Northallerton during the
summer of 1852, his birth was registered at Northallerton (Ref. 9d 391) during
the third quarter of 1852. He was then
baptised at nearby Ainderby Steeple on 24th October 1852. He was the second child of Thomas Collitt
and his wife Mary Flower. In the
Morton-on-Swale census of 1861, Thomas Collitt was eight years old, when he and his family were
residing at Swale Field. He had
left the family home by 1871 but was still living not far from his
parents. Thomas Collitt, aged 18 and
from Morton-on-Swale, was an apprentice draper living and working with draper
George Oxendale at his home in Station Road in Northallerton. |
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By
1881 he was still a bachelor at the age of 27, by which time he had moved
south to Oxfordshire, where he was living and working in the picturesque
Cotswold town of Burford. At that time
in his life Thomas Collett was a draper and an outfitter living on the main
High Street through the centre of the town.
Once again, he gave his place of birth as Morton-on-Swale. |
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Sometime
during the remainder of 1881 Thomas emigrated to Australia, and it was there
that he married Anne Marion Jones on 30th January 1882 at St
Paul’s Church in Geelong near Melbourne, Victoria. Their marriage indicated that they were
both residing in Geelong at the time of the wedding, and that Thomas was a
draper and Annie a milliner. Annie was
born at Bath in 1854, the second daughter of George Gee Jones, a
coachman/gentleman, and his wife Mary Bayford, although her parents were
married at the Church of England Cathedral in Ripon, Yorkshire on 5th
February 1843. Thanks to her
occupation as a high-class milliner, Annie and her mother sailed to Australia
with an assisted passage paid for by some benefactor. It may also be of interest that mother and
daughter made the journey around the time that Thomas left England for a new
life. |
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To
go with that new life in Australia, Thomas adopted the name of the village of
his birth as a second forename, the same name being given to one his
sons. It would appear that he and
Annie were only together for ten years, when Thomas Morton Collitt died at
Alfred Hospital in Melbourne on 4th July 1892, at the age of 39,
the cause of death being an of apoplexy (a stroke). However, during those years Annie presented
Thomas with three children when the family was living within the Prahran
district of Melbourne. |
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With
three young children to support, Annie later married Thomas Fowell Buxton
during 1894. It was thirty-two years
later that Anne Marion Buxton died from diabetes on 26th October
1926 and was buried at St Kilda Cemetery along with her first husband Thomas
Morton Collitt and her mother Mary Jones. |
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During
the ten years that they were married Thomas and Annie were recorded in the
various Melbourne Directories in the following way. In 1883 Mrs Annie M Collitt was residing at
110 Chapel Street in Prahran, while her husband Thomas Collitt was recorded
at Athol Street in Prahran. The
following year Thomas Collitt and his wife Mrs Annie M Collitt were living at
122 Chapel Street in Prahran, as they were in 1885 and 1886. From 1887 to 1889 Mr T Collitt was a silk
mercer living with his family at 118 Chapel Street in Prahran. Just after that there was an entry for a T
Collitt, a land agent, residing at 6A Green Street in Prahran, which may or
may not have been Thomas Morton Collitt. |
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In
1890 and 1891 Mr T Collitt, a silk mercer, and his wife Mrs Annie Collitt
were living with their family at 118A Chapel Street in Prahran, but that was
the last mention of Thomas. Upon his
death in July 1892 Annie left Prahran when she travelled the short distance
south to settle in the St Kilda district of Melbourne, where she was recorded
in both 1892 and 1893 prior to her change of name to Buxton. The entries for both those years listed her
as Mrs Annie Collitt, a milliner at 12 Royal Arcade, Bourke Street in St
Kilda. |
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Elsie Marion
Collitt |
Born in 1883
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Thomas Morton Collitt |
Born in 1884
at Prahran |
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Herbert
Bayford Collitt |
Born in 1886
at Prahran |
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Mary Hannah Collitt was born at Morton-on-Swale early in 1855, her birth
registered at Northallerton (Ref. 9d 415) during the first two months of that
year. It was at Ainderby Steeple that
she was baptised on 9th March 1855, the only daughter of
Thomas Collitt and Mary Flower. By the
time of the Morton census in 1861, which was conducted on the seventh day of
April, Mary Hannah Collitt had died two days earlier, and had been buried at Ainderby
Steeple on 5th April 1861 at the age of just six years. |
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Joshua Collitt was born at Morton-on-Swale near
Northallerton on 24th July 1858, the youngest child of Thomas
Collitt and Mary Flower. His
birth was registered at Northallerton (Ref. 9d 413). In the Morton-upon-Swale census of 1861, he
was two years old when
he and his family were residing at Swalefield. By 1871, he was 12
years of age, attending
school, and was still living with his family which, at the time, was living in Northallerton. After another ten years, Joshua Collitt had
made his way south to London, following in the footsteps of his older brother
John (above). According to the census
in 1881 he was working as a draper’s assistant at the age of 23, when he was
living at the home of his employer, draper William Cheyne from Scotland, at
Bay Lodge on The Green in West Ham. Joshua’s
place of birth was simply recorded as Yorkshire. Six years later, the marriage of Joshua Collitt, aged 29 and of Linthorpe
Road in Middlesbrough, the son of Thomas Collitt, and Mary Ann Curry, also 29
of Northallerton and the daughter of George Curry, took place at St John’s
Church in Middlesbrough on 15th October 1887. This followed the reading of banns at
Northallerton on 25th September 1887. |
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Two children were then born to the
couple before the next census day in 1891, both of them born after the couple
had set up home in Northallerton. From
the census that year, it is established that the family was living on the
High Street in Northallerton when Joshua Collitt (again born in Yorkshire,
as was every member of the household) was a married man aged 31 (sic),
whose occupation was that of a draper’s assistant.
His wife Mary Ann Collitt was 32, son Sydney Thomas Collitt was two
years of age, and daughter Mary R Collitt was one-year old. Living with the family was Hannah J Evans who was 20, and Barbara H
Hodgson who was 17, both most likely domestic servants. |
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During
the next decade, Joshua ceased to be a draper’s assistant when, according to
the census conducted in 1901, he was a draper aged 42 who had been born at
Ainderby Steeple, who was still living and working at Market Row, High Street in
Northallerton with his wife and their two children. Mary Ann Collitt aged 42 was a milliner, and
their children Sydney T Collitt was 12 years old, and Mary R Collitt was 10
years of age, all three of them were confirmed as having been born at
Northallerton. The family was earning extra income by letting out
rooms, with two boarders staying there that day. They were Edith A Holland who was 21, and Clara
Boocock who was 19, both of them working with Mary Ann Collitt as milliner’s
assistants. Once again, the family had
a live-in domestic servant, Mary H Young from Northallerton who was 24. |
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The four members of the family were
still together ten years later in 1911, by which time they had moved to the
Chorlton-cum-Hardy census registration district of Manchester, when they were
recorded at Whalley Range in South Manchester, two miles south-west of the
city centre. Joshua Collitt from
Ainderby Steeple was 53 and a drapery warehouseman, Mary Ann Collitt from
Northallerton was 50 and employed by the local electrical power supply
company, Sydney Thomas Collitt from Northallerton was 22, and Mary Rebecca
Collitt also from Northallerton was 20.
Neither of them had an occupation recorded against the name, so maybe
it was Sydney who was working with the electricity board. |
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27Q9
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Sydney
Thomas Collitt |
Born in 1888
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Mary
Rebecca Collitt |
Born in 1890
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27P5
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Mary Hannah Atkinson
Collitt was born at
Morton-on-Swale during the spring of 1844 and was baptised at nearby Ainderby
Steeple on 11th June 1844, the eldest child of John and Isabella
Collitt. The birth of Mary Hannah Atkinson Collitt was
registered at Northallerton (Ref. xxiv 427) during the second quarter of
1844. Sadly, she was only nineteen
years of age when she died, following which she was buried at Ainderby
Steeple on 20th July 1864, when she was simply recorded as Mary
Hannah Collitt. The Yorkshire Gazette,
published on 25th July 1863, included an obituary for Mary Hannah
Collitt, the daughter of John Collitt, who was born in 1844. |
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Sarah Jane Collitt was born at Morton-on-Swale in 1846, her birth registered at
Northallerton (Ref. xxiv 456) during the third quarter of 1846. It was at Ainderby Steeple where she was
baptised on 27th July 1846, the daughter of John and Isabella
Collett. Sarah was four years old in
the Thirsk census of 1851, and with three further children added to her
family during the next ten years, it was Sarah who made room by living with
her grandmother Hannah Collitt, nearby in Northallerton. Sarah Jane Collitt was 14 by the time of
the census in 1861, when it was confirmed that she was living with
seventy-five- year-old Hannah Collitt and her son William at Northallerton. |
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When
Sarah Jane was around twenty years old, she married John Handley who was a
butcher from Middleham in Yorkshire, where he was born in 1843. By the end of the century, Sarah and her
family were living in Middleham within the Leyburn registration district as
recorded in the March census of 1901. John Handley, aged 57, was a butcher with
his own account, his wife Sarah J Handley was 54, and living with them were
seven of their children. They were
Mary H Handley, aged 34, who was a milliner, Fred Handley, aged 27, who was a
butcher, Harry Handley, aged 23, who was a Post Office assistant, Priscilla
Handley who was 22, Alfred Handley, aged 19, who was a solicitor's law clerk,
George Handley who was 16, and Edith Handley who was 13. |
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The
next census in 1911 confirmed that John Handley, aged 67, and his wife Sarah
Jane Handley, aged 64 and from Morton-on-Swale, had been married for
forty-five years. John from Middleham,
was described as a retired and living on his private means. Still living with the couple was their son
unmarried Harry, aged 34, and their unmarried daughter Edith who was 23, both
having been born at Middleham. |
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It
was just over one year later that John Handley died during the second quarter
of 1912, his death recorded at the Leyburn register office. The extension of this family line leads to
Jim Woollison of Stagsden in Bedford who, in 2010, kindly provided details of
his family from his great grandmother Sarah Jane Collitt to the present day. |
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Isabel Collitt was possibly born at Kirby Wiske, five
miles south of Northallerton, since that was given as her place of birth at
the time of her marriage. Her birth was registered at Thirsk
in Yorkshire (Ref. xxiv 633) during the second quarter of 1849, but with the
name Isabel Collitt. No baptism
record has been located for her but, in the Thirsk census of 1851, again as Isabel Collitt
one-year-old, she was living there with her parents at Ingram Gate in Thirsk. Her place of birth was confirmed as Kirby
Wiske, while her parents were John Collitt and his wife Isabella, who was
expecting the birth of the couple’s fourth child Collitt and was one year old
in the Thirsk census of 1851. Ten
years later she was living with her family at The Harewood Arms on the High
Street in Northallerton when she was 11.
By the time of the census in 1871 her father had died and Isabel
Collitt was 21 and living and working in nearby Ripon. |
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It
was four years later during 1875, that Isabella Collitt married Chilton
Fawcett at Stockton-on-Tees, the son of William and Elizabeth Fawcett. Chilton was born at Thirsk in 1852, where
he was baptised on 13th June 1852, the son of William and
Elizabeth Fawcett. By 1881, joiner and
inn keeper Chilton Fawcett, was living with his family at The Masons Arms in
Northallerton. Isabel was 31 and her
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At
that time Isabel had two young children, Chilton Fawcett who was one years
old, and Harold Fawcett who was only one month old. Supporting the family was nurse Mary
Middleton 67, and Lily Fowler who was a servant aged 15 and from
Northallerton, as was the nurse. On
that occasion Isabella’s first-born child, Bessie Fawcett aged three years,
was living at Whitworth with Isabella’s younger married sister Priscilla A
Milner nee Collett (below), while she cared for her new born son. |
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Also
living with the family, was Polly Fawcett aged 24 and a dressmaker, who was
Chilton’s cousin from Morton-on-Swale. Chilton
Fawcett died just over ten years later on 2nd June 1892 and was
buried at Northallerton Cemetery. Isabel
Collitt Fawcett,
who was born in 1849, had survived her husband by forty years, when she died
on 22nd November 1932 and was buried in the churchyard of All
Saint’s Church in Northallerton, as pictured here. |
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Members
of the family of Isabella Fawcett nee Collitt are listed on a headstone as
follows: In memory of Robert Fawcett
who was killed in action in France on 22nd August 1918 aged 33
years. In loving memory of Isabel,
wife of Chilton Fawcett, died 11th November 1932 aged 83
years. In loving memory of Isabel
Collitt, daughter of Chilton and Isabel Fawcett of Northallerton, born 15th
July 1887, died May 1889. Also, Tom,
their son, born 4th March 1890, died April 8 1893. |
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In
the same graveyard is the headstone marking the grave of Chilton Fawcett and
his parents. The epitaph reads as
follows: “In affectionate remembrance
of Elizabeth, wife of William Fawcett of Northallerton who died 18th
January 1879 aged 59 years. Her end
was peace. Also Chilton FAWCETT, son
of the above who died 2nd June 1892 aged 40 years. Also the above named William FAWCETT who
died 20th January 1894 aged 73 years. Also Eliza Jackson, widow of the above
William FAWCETT who died 10th July 1914 aged 80 years” |
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John William Collitt was born at Northallerton in 1851,
where he was baptised on 9th November 1851, the son of John and
Isabel Collitt. His birth was registered at
Northallerton (Ref. xxiv 573) using the Collett spelling of his name, during
the last three months of 1851. During
the fourth quarter of that same year, the birth of John Collitt was also recorded
there, but he was the son of Thomas and Mary Collitt. In 1861 John was nine years old when he was
living with his family at Northallerton, but it is not known where he was in
1871, when he would have been 19.
Perhaps he was in military service with the army or the navy. When he was 30 years old, John W Collitt
was a bachelor and a boarder at the home of labourer Robert Hare at 5 Golden
(Colden) Street in Stockton-on-Tees.
His place of birth was confirmed as Northallerton and his occupation
was that of a grocer’s assistant. Also
living in Stockton-on-Tees at that time was John’s married younger brother
Joshua Collitt (below). Sadly however,
less than one year later the death of John William Collitt took place at Northallerton,
following which he was buried at Northallerton Cemetery during the month of
January in 1882. |
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Joshua Collitt was born at Northallerton in 1853, where his birth was recorded
(Ref. 9d 418) during the second quarter of the year. It was there also that he was baptised on
14th August 1853, the youngest son of John and Isabella
Collitt. Joshua was seven years old in
the Northallerton census of 1861, when he was living there with his
family. Joshua was still in
Northallerton in 1871, when he was 18 and living with his uncle William
Collitt (Ref. 27O8), not far from where his widowed mother Isabella and his
youngest sister Priscilla were living at that time. |
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During
the middle of the 1870s, Joshua became a married man in Stockton-on-Tees. According to the census in 1881, he was
recorded as Joshua Collett, head of the house and married, while living at 3
Mill Lane in Stockton-on-Tees, by which time he was a general shop manager at
the age of 27. Joshua’s wife was
Eleanor Collett aged 30 and from Stockton, and by that time the marriage had
produced three children for the couple.
They were Eleanor A Collett who was four, Joshua R Collett who was
three, and Miriam Collett who was one year old, all three having been born at
Stockton. The Collett family was
supported by two servants, and they were Ellen Mitchell 18, and Margaret A
Mellanby 17 who was a cook. It was
later revealed that the R is their son’s name was for Rose, which may have
been Eleanor’s maiden-name. |
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Something
happened during the latter half of the 1880s which resulted in the couple’s
three oldest children being absent from the family home in Stockton family,
as confirmed by their absence on the day of the census in 1891. It is possible that they were simply being
housed with other members of the family, to make room in the dwelling for
four new arrivals. One year earlier,
the Kelly’s Directory for Stockton-on-Tees included the following
information. Joshua Collitt, of 3 Mill
Lane, was a hardware merchant, in addition to which there was a
cross-reference to the company of Richardson & Collitt, hardware
merchants of Prince Arthur Street. |
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The
Collitt family listed at 3 Mill Lane in the census of 1891, comprised Joshua
aged 37, Eleanor aged 40, with Florence H Collett who was nine, Lilian
Collett who was five, James Edwin Collett who was three, and William Henry
Collett who was one-year old. No
record of absent son Joshua has been found, while daughters Eleanor and Miriam were staying with
Joshua’s married sister Priscilla Anne Milner Hawes on the River Ure, in
North Yorkshire. However, those
same three children were once again back living with the family by the time
of the next census in 1901, but at East Hartburn, a suburb of Stockton in County
Durham. |
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The
census return recorded the family as Joshua Collett who was 47 and from
Northallerton, a general merchant in fancy goods, his wife Eleanor who was
50, together with their six children.
They were Eleanor A Collett aged 24 and an artist and musician, Joshua
R Collett aged 23 and an assistant general merchant working with his father,
Miriam Collett aged 21 and a dressmaker, Florence Collett aged 18 and a clerk
working for her father, Lillian who was 14, and James who was 12, both of
them still at school. It would appear from
the absence of the couple’s youngest son William Henry Collett, that he may have
suffered an infant death, since he would have been ten years old in 1901. |
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Ten
years later, in April 1911, the family still living in the Stockton area was
made up of Joshua 57, Eleanor 60, plus three of their children, they being
Florence Isabella Collett 28, Lillian Collett 24, and James Edwin Collett
23. Also living with Joshua and
Eleanor, was their grandson Stanley Rose Collet who was five years old and
born at Stockton-on-Tees. It is now known that Stanley
was indeed the son of Joshua Rose Collitt whose wife Harriet, whom he had
married in 1904, had just given birth to their second child fifteen miles
north of Stockton at Hesleden in County Durham. The later death of Joshua Collett, aged 71,
was recorded at Middlesbrough register office (Ref. 9d 768) during the first
three months of 1925. Two years prior to his passing, his eldest and
unmarried daughter Eleanor died in 1923 and her Will proved in 1924 named
Joshua Collitt as the sole executor of her estate. |
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Eleanor Amelia Collitt |
Born in 1876
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Joshua Rose Collett |
Born in 1878 at
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27Q13
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Miriam Collett |
Born in 1879
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27Q14
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Florence Isabella Collett |
Born in 1881
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27Q15
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Lillian Collett |
Born in 1885
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27Q16
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James Edwin
Collett |
Born in 1888 at
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27Q17
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William Henry
Collett |
Born in 1890
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27P10
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Priscilla Anne Collitt was born at Northallerton in 1856, the
youngest child of John and Isabella Collitt, her birth registered at Northallerton (Ref. 9d 455)
during the second quarter of the year.
She was four years old in 1861 when she was living with her family at The
Harewood Arms on the High Street in Northallerton and, following the death of
her father, she was 14 in 1871 when she was Priscilla A Collitt, the only
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It was at the start of 1881 when Priscilla
Annie Collitt was residing at Spennymoor, the banns of marriage were read on
30th January, followed by her wedding to draper Christopher Milner
at Askrigg, North Yorkshire on 13th February
1881. Just a few weeks later, at the time of the
census that year, the couple was living at 18 Clyde Terrace in Whitworth,
Durham, where Priscilla A Milner from Northallerton was 24 and a dressmaker. On that occasion her husband Christopher
Milner was 28 with no stated occupation.
Staying with the couple was Frances Johnson who was 19, and Bessie
Fawcett who was three years old, a likely relative of Chilton Fawcett who
married Isabella Collitt, Priscilla’s older sister (above). |
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Sometime after that, the couple moved
to Hawes in North Yorkshire, where Christopher continued his work as a
draper. The census in 1891 identified
the couple residing at Bridge Street (over the River Ure) as
Christopher Milner who was 38, and his wife Priscilla Annie Milner who was
34. By then Priscilla had given birth
to three sons, and they were Cyril George Milner who was nine, Percy
C Milner who was six, and Carl Dugdale Milner who was four. All five members of the family were noted as
having been born in Yorkshire. Staying
with the family that day, were two nieces of Priscilla Anne Collitt, and they
were Eleanor Amelia Collitt, aged 14, and Miriam Collitt who was 11. They were from Stockton-on-Tees and two of
the seven children of Priscilla’s older brother Joshua Collitt and his wife
Eleanor (above). |
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John Selby Collitt was born at Bridge Street in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, at the start of 1848,
the first child born to Richard Collett and his wife Eliza Parker, with his birth registered at
Gainsborough (Ref. xiv 352) during the first two months of that year. It was also in Gainsborough, at Holy
Trinity Church, where he was baptised on 5th March 1848. He was three years of age at the time of
the Gainsborough census of 1851, when the three members of the family were
still living on Bridge Street in Gainsborough, where his father was a chemist
and a druggist. He was 14 in 1861 and,
by the time of the census in 1871, John’s father had died and John Selby
Collitt, aged 23 and from Gainsborough, was the only one of that surname, still
living in the City of Lincoln. Eighteen months after that
census day, the marriage of John Selby Collitt and Margaret Miller Blair was
recorded at Louth in Lincolnshire (Ref. 7a 890) during the third quarter of
1872. |
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Just
a few years later John married Margaret from Louth in Lincolnshire and the
marriage produced at least six children, although not all of them
survived. The first five children were
all born while the family was still living in Lincoln, with the last child
born when the family was temporarily living at Boston in Lincolnshire. On the occasion of the census in 1881, John
S Collitt from Gainsborough was 33 and was living at 115 Portland Street within the parish of St Peter
at Gowts in Lincoln, from where he was a managing
engineer with the company of E & M Maker.
His wife Margaret M Collitt was 35, and their three children were
Edith E Collitt who was five (who had been baptised at the Lincoln Church of St Peter at Gowts), Arthur Collitt who was three, and
Bernard Collitt who was one-year-old.
Perhaps coincidentally, the family employed a servant Emma Parker from
Little Garthorpe who was 19 and who may have been a relative of John’s
mother. Tragically, the
couple’s first-born child had died and was buried within days of being
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During
the 1880s three further children were born into the family which, after their
short time in Boston, had settled near John’s brother William (below) in
Gainsborough. The census in 1891 recorded the family living at
Tennyson Street as John Selby Collitt who was 43 and a draughtsman working for
a mechanical engineering company, Margaret M Collitt who was 44, Edith
E Collitt who was 15 and
a pupil teacher, Bernard Collitt who was 11, Maud H Collitt who was
eight, Sydney Collitt who was six, and William Collitt who was three years
old. There were two other people at the dwelling, the first
being Margaret’s elderly widowed mother Rachel Blair from Yorkshire who was
76 and living on her owns means, the other being Eliza A Elviss,
aged 17 and a general domestic servant. Missing son Arthur had suffered an infant
death in 1882. |
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By
March 1901 the family was reduced further with the absence of son
Bernard. The remainder of the family were
still living in Gainsborough, but at Eastbourne Terrace on Trinity Street. John Selby Collitt was a mechanical
engineer’s draughtsman at the age of 53, Margaret M Collitt from Louth was
54, Edith E Collett was 25 and a schoolteacher, Maud H Collitt was 18 and a
pupil teacher, Sydney Collitt was who was an apprentice to an engine fitter
at the age of 16, and William S Collitt who had been born at Boston and was 13 and still
at school. The birthplace of the older children was confirmed
as Lincoln. |
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At
the end of the following decade, it was just John and Margaret’s two
unmarried daughters who were the only offspring still living with them at All Saints Gainsborough. John Selby Collitt was 63 and still working as a
draughtsman, but for an agricultural mechanical engineer, Margaret
Miller Collitt was 65, Edith Eliza Collitt was 35 and still employed as a teacher, as was Maud
Helen Collitt who was 28. Fourteen years later, John
Selby Collitt was 77 when he died at Gainsborough, his passing recorded at
Lincolnshire register office (Ref. 7a 679) during 1925. His Will was proved at Lincoln on 3rd
December 1925, which confirmed he died on 28th August 1925, and
that the two beneficiaries were William Selby Collitt, and Edith Eliza
Collitt. John was buried at
Gainsborough on 31st August that year. It was during the following year that
John’s widow passed away, when Margaret Miller Collitt was buried at
Gainsborough on 18th October 1926, when she was 81. Her Will was proved at Lincoln on 7th
April 1927 when the sole beneficiary was her daughter Edith Eliza
Collitt. The probate documentation
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It may be of interest
that there was another Collitt family living at 10 Hawksworth Street in
Gainsborough in 1891 and that was the family of chain-maker Uriah Collitt who
was born at Dudley in 1856 and his wife Johanna Ashman. Their details, and those of their ten
children can be found in the appendix to Part 48 – The Dudley West Midlands
Line under Ref. 48/o1. |
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Florence Margaret Collitt |
Born in 1873 at Lincoln |
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Edith
Eliza Collitt |
Born in 1875
at Lincoln |
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Arthur
Collitt |
Born in 1877
at Lincoln |
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Bernard
Collitt |
Born in 1879
at Lincoln |
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Maud Helen
Collitt |
Born in 1882
at Lincoln |
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Sydney
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Born in 1884
at Lincoln |
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Born in 1888 at Boston |
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William Collitt was born at Gainsborough in 1855 where
his birth was recorded (Ref. 7a 620) during the third quarter of that
year. It was also shortly after he was
born that he was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Gainsborough on 15th
August 1855, the son of Richard and Eliza Collitt nee Parker. The Gainsborough census of 1861 is not
clear enough to confirm his age when he was living in the town with his
family. Following the death of his
father during the next decade no trace of William has been discovered in
1871. However, ten years later in
1881, he was once again living with his widowed mother at 14 Bridge Street in
Gainsborough, from where his occupation was that of a chemist and a druggist
like his father before him. He was 25
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His
mother was still living with him at Bridge Street in Gainsborough in April
1891 when chemist William Collitt was 35 and Eliza Collitt was 79, while it
was later that same year that she passed away. Working for the two of them was domestic
servant Alice E Blakey aged 21.
Following the death of his mother it would appear that he never
married and in 1901, when he was 45, he was still working as a chemist and a
druggist when residing at Hickman Street in Gainsborough. Also listed at the same address were three
other people, and they were two domestic servants Elizabeth J Johnson who was
29 and Sarah E Burkinshaw who was 16.
The other person was 10-year-old Lilian I Kirk from Everton in
Nottingham, who was described as a visitor.
On that occasion his place of birth was confirmed as Gainsborough,
where he was still living in 1911 at the age of 55. |
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It
was thirty-seven years later when the death of William Collett was recorded
at Claro register office (Ref. 2c 87) during the last three months of 1948 at
the age of 93. The Claro Rural
District Council was dissolved a few years after his passing, when it was
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Amy Helena Collitt was born at Northallerton on 28th
August 1875, following the marriage of her parents William Collitt and
Luciana Silvester at the start of that same year. In 1881 Amy was five years old when living
at the High Street in Northallerton with her grocer father and the rest of
her family. Ten years later she was
recorded in error as Ann H Collitt who was 15, and the following year her
father died in 1892. Nine years after
that, in March 1901, she was still unmarried at 25 and was still living with
and supporting her widowed mother with her four sisters. However, during the
following year she married James Rust Sturdy with whom she had had two
children by the time of the census in 1911.
The family at that time was still living in Northallerton and was made
up of James Rust Sturdy, who was 35, Amy Helene Sturdy, who was also 35,
Marjorie Silvester Sturdy, who was seven, and Amy Eileen Sturdy who was
five. It was on 10th August
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Luciana Sarah Collitt was born at Northallerton on 8th
August 1876, the second child of William and Luciana. It was as Luciana H Collitt, who was four
years old, that she was recorded in the census of 1881, but was correctly
shown as Luciana S Collitt aged 14 and 24 respectively, in the Northallerton
census returns for 1891, and 1901, when she was living at the family home
Station Road and South Parade. At the
time of the latter, her occupation was that of a governess at a private
school. She was still unmarried in
April 1911, when she was one of three sisters who were still living with her
widowed mother at Northallerton. On
that occasion she was recorded as Luciana Sarah Collitt at the age of 34 who
was a school mistress at a private school.
Luciana was only 53 when she died on 24th November 1929. |
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William Silvester
Collitt was born
at Northallerton on 10th August 1877, the only son of William
Collitt and Luciana Silvester. His birth was registered at
Northallerton (Ref. 9d 642). When
he was three years old, and as William S Collitt, he was living with his
family at the High Street in Northallerton where his father ran a grocer’s
shop. Ten years later his family was
still living in Northallerton, while 13 years old William S Collitt was a
chorister attending Ripon Cathedral School, fourteen miles to the south of
Northallerton. During the following
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Around
the end of the century William travelled to London from Yorkshire when he
initially settled in the Chelsea area, where he was living in 1901 at Kings Road, aged 23,
from where he was working as a chemist’s assistant. He later left London when he moved to
Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, although it was at Tendering register office (Ref. 4a 732), just
north of Clacton, where his marriage to Elsie Agate Harris was recorded,
Elsie having been born in 1883. The
marriage took place on 26th March 1906, after which the couple was in the Teddington
area of Middlesex where their first two children were born, with a
third added just prior to the census in 1911. By that time the family was living at
Clacton, within the Tendring registration district, where their daughter was
born. |
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The
census return listed the family of five as William Silvester Collitt aged 33
and from Northallerton who
was a retail chemist, his wife Elsie Agate Collitt who was 27 and from
Strand in Middlesex, their two Teddington born sons were Stanley Silvester Collitt who was
four, and Kenneth William who was three years old, and their daughter Phyllis
Mary Collitt who was just one month old.
Elsie Agate Collitt nee Harris died on 26th February 1940,
while her husband William Silvester Collitt survived for a further fifteen
years when he died on 10th January 1955, his death recorded as Essex register office
(Ref. 4a 625), when he was 77 years old. |
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Stanley Silvester Collitt |
Born in 1906 at Teddington |
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Born in 1907 at Teddington |
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Phyllis Mary Collitt |
Born in 1911
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Mary Gertrude Collitt was born at Northallerton in 1878 and
was two years old in the census of 1881 when she was living with her parents
in the High Street at Northallerton.
At the age of 13, in 1892, her grocer father William Collitt died and,
by 1901, Mary G Collitt, aged 22 with no occupation, was one of four
daughters of the widow Luciana Collitt still living with their mother at
South Parade in Northallerton.
Tragically on 19th October 1908, at the age of 29, Mary
Gertrude Collitt died at Northallerton, where she was buried in the family
grave with her father. The medical
records confirm that she died in the North Riding
lunatic asylum. Furthermore, the
Borthwick Institute for Archives in York has stated that, on being admitted,
she was described as an imbecile, having very likely suffered brain damage at
birth or some similar affliction. |
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Florence Hannah Collitt was born at Northallerton on 24th
March 1881. On the third of April in
1881, the day of the national census, the daughter of William and Luciana
Collitt had not been named and was simply recorded in the census return as
unnamed daughter of two weeks, when she was actually only ten days old. Florence H Collitt was ten years old in
1891 and sadly, during the following year, her father died. As a result of that tragedy, Florence was
recorded as living with her widowed mother in 1901, at South Parade in
Northallerton when she was 20 and a draper’s cashier. It was a similar situation again in 1911,
when she was 29 and described as a draper’s bookkeeper and cashier. It was two years after that census day when
Florence H Collitt married Wilfred Glynn Burton (aka Wilf), the event
recorded at Northallerton register office (Ref. 9d 1383) during the second
quarter of 1914. Her granddaughter
Agneta Burton, from Hertfordshire, made contact in the autumn of 2016. |
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Selina Rose Victoria
Collitt was born at
Northallerton on 14th April 1887, the youngest child of William
Collitt and Luciana Silvester. She and
her family were recorded at Station Road in Northallerton on the day of the
census in 1891 but, one year after, when Selina R V Collitt was just four
years old, her father died at Northallerton in 1892. Over the following two decades Selina
remained living with her mother at Northallerton which, in 1901, was at South
Parade when she was 13, and again in 1911 when was 23 with no occupation. It seems that she never married since, it
was as Selina Rose Victoria Collitt that she died on 18th August
1944 at the age of 57, following which she was buried in the family grave at
Northallerton. |
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Alice Collett was born in 1831 in the civil parish
of Thornham. Alice married George
Firth of Pilsworth which, like the township of Thornham, was dissolved in
1894 and became part of Bury.
According to the 1881 Census, Alice Firth aged 49 and George Firth
aged 56 were living at Stakehill in Thornham.
Living with them was niece (sic) Alice Collett nee Wild aged 29 who
was actually the wife of Alice’s cousin William (below), and with her were
her two sons Robert Collett aged five, and John Collett who was four, both of
them born at Thornham. |
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Alice Bickerdike Collett was born at Harewood in 1846, the
first child of farmer John Scarr Collett and Mary Hardcastle, her birth
recorded at Otley (Re. 23 471) during the last three months of that
year. Alice was living at Harewood
with her parents in 1851 at the age of four years, and again ten years later
when she was 14, although on that day the family was staying at the Harewood
Arms. Alice later married James Young
Teale of Harewood around 1870, with whom she had five children before April
1881. Also, by that time, her father
had been dead for nearly eight years, following which Alice and James Teale
had inherited part of the farm holding previously owned by him up until his
death in 1872. |
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The
census return for Harewood in 1881 confirmed that Alice Bickerdike Teale was
34 and from Harewood and that her husband James Young Teale was 41 and also
from Harewood. It also confirmed that
James was a farmer of 75 acres at Burns Farm, employing one labourer. Burns Farm had previously been recorded as
104 acres when under the ownership of John Scarr Collett, so it is likely
that the residual acreage may have been passed to another member of his
family at the time of his death. |
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All
of the children of Alice and James Teale, apart from the eldest child, had
been born at Harewood, and they were James Teale who had been born at
Leeds who was nine, Alice Teale who was seven, Mary Teale who
was six, Jane Teale who was four, and baby Young Teale who was
just four months. Living in the
adjacent property at Biggin Farm was Alice’s uncle William Collett, the
younger brother of her father, and close by also was Middlefield Farm which
was still owned and managed by her uncle Robert Collett, William’s older
brother. |
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WILLIAM
COLLETT was born
at Harewood in 1848, the second of seven children and the only son of John
Scarr Collett and Mary Hardcastle, whose birth was recorded at Otley (Ref. 23
565) during the second quarter of 1848. It was at Harewood that he was living with
his family in 1851, when he was said to be two years old, and again in 1861
at the age of 12, but at the Harewood Arms, where his father was the landlord. Sometime during the following few years his
mother died and by the time of the census of 1871 he had left the family home
at Middlefield in Harewood, where his widowed father and his younger sisters
were still living. Although no trace
of William has been found in the census of 1871, it was shortly after that when
he married Alice Wild at Middleton near Rochdale in Greater Manchester,
possibly around 1873. Alice Wild was
born at Thornham in 1851 and was baptised at Shaw on 27th April
1851, the daughter of Joseph Wild and Sarah Greenwood. It was also at Thornham that the two sons
of William and Alice were both born.
On the birth certificate of his second son John in 1877, William’s
occupation was stated as being that of a farm bailiff. |
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Whatever
happened to William in either 1871 or 1881 or thereafter, is not known but,
by the time of the census in 1881, his wife was described as being married,
rather than a widow. His absence in
each case may indicate that he was a soldier and was serving with the army
overseas. The census of 1881 listed
Alice Collett and her two sons as living at the family home of farm labourer
George Firth and his wife Alice, at Stakehill in Thornham. Alice Firth was formerly Alice Collett who
was born at Thornham in 1831, the daughter of Thomas Collett of Harewood
(Ref. 27O16), and the cousin of William Collett. |
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William’s
wife Alice Collett was 29 and her sons Robert and John were five years and
four years old respectively, all three confirmed as having been born at
Thornham. Alice was working as a
preparer at the local bleach works and, rather curiously, she was referred to
as being the niece of the head of the household, while her two sons were
described as nephews. That may have
been a simple way of explaining that Alice Collett was the wife of George
Firth’s cousin-in-law William Collett.
Seven years later the Leeds
Mercury newspaper published the following announcement on 24th
March 1888. “WILLIAM COLLETT, son
of John Collett, late of Burns Farm, Harewood near Leeds, communicaeo with
Messrs. Ward and Sons, Solicitors, he will hear something to his
advantage.” However, history will
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Three
years later William Collett was again absent from the family group, as
confirmed in the census return for 1891.
By that time ‘married’ Alice and her two sons were still living at
Thornham at the Stakehill home of her brother Jonathan Wild from Thornham who
was 32, who had three young children with him. The census return that year incorrectly
recorded the age of Alice Collett as 28 instead of 38, although by then she
was described as the domestic housekeeper for her widowed brother. Listed with her were her two sons who were
described as the nephews of Jonathan Wild, and they were Robert Collett who
was 15 and John Collett who was 14, both of them employed as labourers at the
nearby bleach works. After a further
six years, another announcement was printed in the Leeds Mercury on Saturday 31st July 1897 which read as
follows: “If WILLIAM COLLETT, son of John Scarr Collett formerly of Burns
Farm in Harewood, near Leeds, or his children will communicate with Messrs.
Wards and Sons, Solicitors, Leeds, they will hear of something to their
advantage. The said William Collett is supposed to have lived at Blue Pits, at
Manchester about fourteen years ago and was last heard of in Leeds.” It is not known if William ever
contacted the firm of solicitors. |
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During
the next twelve months Alice’s youngest son John left the family home at
Stakehill when he enlisted with the British Army in 1898 at the age of 21 and
was later married. Within his military
records his parents were both named as his next-of-kin and living at 124
Stakehill in Castleton near Manchester.
So, by the time of the census in 1901 Alice Collett from Thornham was
49 and was still living at the Middleton home of her brother Jonathan
Wild. On that occasion she was not
recorded as married or widowed, when she was described as a worker, while
still living there with her was her eldest son Robert who was 25 and also
from Thornham, a carter at the local bleach works. Also staying at the same address was
Alice’s granddaughter, the first-born child of her son John, one-year old
Jessie Collett. During the next decade
Alice’s son Robert was married and by 1911 she was still living at the home
of her widowed brother and his five adult children in Middleton. Alice was 58 and still acting as the
housekeeper for her brother’s family.
It was at Oldham where Alice Collett died and where her passing was
recorded (Ref. 8a 1401) during the first three months of 1927 when she was
75. |
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FOOTNOTE:
The non-appearance of William, with his wife in any census during
their married life, may indicated that the marriage had failed after their
two sons had been born. The newspaper
announcement in 1897 saying that he was last heard in the Leeds area, coupled
with Alice being married in 1891 and a widow in 1911, may point towards the
death of William Collett at Bramley in Leeds being the husband of Alice
Collett nee Wild. His death was
recorded at Bramley register office (Ref. 9b 254) during the second quarter
of 1904. |
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Robert Collett |
Born in 1875
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JOHN
COLLETT |
Born in 1877
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27P24 |
Ann P Collett was born at Harewood in 1850, her
birth recorded as simply Ann Collett at Otley (Ref. 23 559) during the third
quarter of that year. It was at
Harewood where Ann was living with her parents in 1851, when under one-year
old, but in 1861 it was at the Harewood Arms that she and her family were
recorded in the Harewood census that year, when Annie Collett was 10 years
old. Sometime after April 1861 Anne’s
mother, Mary Collett nee Hardcastle, passed away while she was still in her
early forties, perhaps even during the birth of a further child for the
family. At that time the family was
living at Burns Farm in Harewood and it was there that Anne was still living
with her widowed father John Scarr Collett in April 1871. |
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The
census that year confirmed Ann P Collett was 20 years old and the eldest unmarried
daughter of John Scarr Collett, the farmer of 104 acres at Burns. Possibly by the enumerator’s error on the
census form, Anne’s place of birth, like that of all of her four sisters
(below) and her father, was stated as being the adjacent village of East
Keswick, rather than Harewood, as indicated in the previous census returns
and her father’s baptism record. Just
eighteen months after the 1871 census day Anne’s father died, at which point
she became head of the house and presumably took over the care of her younger
sisters. Anne Collett was married six
years later and by 1881 Burns Farm had been taken over by Anne’s eldest
sister Alice Bickerdike Teale and her husband. |
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It
was on 29th September 1878 at the Parish Church of St Peter in
Leeds that spinster Anne Collett, aged 30 and from Chapeltown, was married by
banns to widower, and father of one son, John Kehoe. Chapeltown is a suburb in the north-east
part of Leeds, while John’s address was given as Nile Street in Leeds. John was born at County Carlow in Ireland
during 1840 and would have been around ten years older than Anne. However, their marriage certificate gave
his age as 37, while his occupation was that of a groom. His father was named as Michael Kehoe, a
farrier – having previously been a coachman in 1870, while Anne’s father was
confirmed as farmer John Scarr Collett.
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John
Kehoe had first married Sarah Kellett in Leeds on 7th June 1870 by
whom he had a son James William Kellett Kehoe who was born in 1872. At the time of the census in 1871, the
childless couple was living at Chapeltown (Chapel Allerton) where John was 31
and Sarah was 35. Tragically, Sarah
Kehoe nee Kellett died in Leeds during the first three months of 1877. It is interesting to note that a certain
Atkinson McEllroy from County Tyrone in Ireland was a witness at both of the
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By
the time of the census in 1881, Ann and John were living at 6 Providence
Place in the Chapel Allerton district of Leeds, and just five miles south of
Harewood. During the two and a half
years they had been married Anne had added to John’s family with the birth of
a daughter and his second son. The
full family comprised John Kehoe, aged 39 from Ireland, who was a labourer
working on highways, Anne Kehoe, aged 29 from Harewood, John’s eldest son
from his first marriage James Kehoe aged nine years from Leeds, Catherine
Kehoe who was two, and baby John Kehoe who was just nine months
old. Both of Ann’s children had been
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It
was the same situation ten years later when the family was still living at
Chapel Allerton. John Kehoe was 50, Annie
Kehoe was 38, and the three children were James William Kellett Kehoe, who
was 19, Catherine Kehoe, who was 12, and John Kehoe who was 10. After a further ten years the census of
1901 recorded only two children living with the couple at Chapel Allerton. By that time in his life John Kehoe, aged
58 and from Ireland, was employed as a coachman, Annie from East Keswick was
50, James W K Kehoe was 29 and a postman, while Catherine Kehoe was 20. Both she and her half-brother were listed
as having been born at Moor Town.
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According
to the April census in 1911 John and Annie Kehoe were residing at 5
Providence Square in Leeds. Living
there with them was Ann's sister Mary Collett (below) who was unmarried at
the age of 54 and was working as a cook.
By that time Annie’s son John was a married man living in York with
his wife Louise Kehoe nee Spencer from Ipswich in Suffolk. The childless couple, at that time, were
both recorded as being 29. John Kehoe
had married Violet Louise Spencer in Ipswich in 1910, and it was in 1914 that
their son John William Kehoe was born.
John was a gardener at Middlethorpe Lodge in the Dringhouses area of
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His
older half-brother James William Kellett Kehoe was 39 in 1911, by which time
he was married to Minnie (Jefferson), aged 34, and had three children. Kathleen Sarah was four, Esme was three,
and Ronald Jefferson Kehoe was just ten months old. The family was living in Leeds not far from
James’ father John and his stepmother Annie.
Tragically both James and his father passed away less than a year
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Catharine Collett was born at Harewood in 1852 and her
birth was recorded at Otley (Ref. 9a 118) during the third quarter of the
year. She was eight years old at the
time of the Harewood census of 1861, when the whole family was staying at the
Harewood Arms. Shortly after that, it
would appear that her mother passed away, so by the time of the census in
1871, Catharine and her four sisters were living with their widowed father at
Burns Farm in Harewood where Catharine was 18 years old and described as a
farmer’s daughter. During the month of
July in the following year Catharine’s father died leaving her and her four
sisters at Burns Farm. However, that
arrangement may have only existed for a few years since, by 1881, the
occupants/owners of the Burns Farm was Catherine’s older married sister Alice
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It
was at the parish church in Headingley, Leeds, on 2nd June 1877
that Catharine Collett, spinster of 24 and from Headingley, was married by
banns to bachelor and gamekeeper, George Gregory. George was also 24, the son of William
Gregory who was also a gamekeeper.
Catharine’s father was recorded in the parish register as farmer John
Scarr Collett. The witnesses at the
ceremony were Catharine’s younger sister, Jane Elizabeth Collett, and Edmund
Wainwright. The bride and groom, and
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Once
they were married, Catharine presented George with a son while the couple was
still living in Leeds. The birth of Herbert
Scarr Gregory was recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 610) during the second
quarter of 1878. It was in the
following year that most likely George travelled to America alone, ahead of
his wife and son who both sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to New York on
board the ship Britannia during 1880.
The ship’s passenger list included the name of Cath Gregory aged 30
from England. The family of three then
settled in Rochester, New York County, where further children were added to
their family. In 1892 English born
Catharine Gregory aged 39 and her son Herbert S Gregory aged 14 were recorded
in Rochester City, Ward 09 ED 04, together with New York born Osmond
Gregory who was 11, Maude Gregory aged nine, and Florence
Gregory who was five years of age.
At that same time Catharine’s husband was George Gregory from England
was 42 and recorded at Elmira City, Ward 04, ED 02. |
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The
next census in 1900 included the whole family living together within Election District 2, Rochester City, Ward 10, Monroe County, New
York. George Gregory was 47 and had
been married to Catharine for 22 years.
She was also 47 and her birth was stated as being July 1853, while her
husband’s birth was recorded as May 1853.
The census return also confirmed the couple had given birth to four
children, all of them still living with George and Catharine. They were Herbert S Gregory aged 22, Osmond
G Gregory aged 19, Maude Gregory 18 and Florence who was 14 and born in July
1886. |
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Eldest
son Herbert left the family home during the next few years and was not living
with his family in 1905. That year the
home was still at Rochester where George was 52 and Catharine was 51, Osmond
G Gregory was 24, Maude was 22 and Florence E Gregory was 19. The next family record that has been found
was the military draft record of 1917 for George Osmond Gregory from
Rochester whose date of birth was recorded as 24th October
1881. Three years later the census in
1920 included Catharine Gregory, aged 56, still living at Rochester with just
two of her children. They were Osmond
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It
would appear that widow Catharine Gregory nee Collett passed away during the
next five years, since the Rochester census of 1925 listed Osmond as the head
of the household when just sister Maude was living there with him. Unmarried Osmond and Maude were still
living together at Rochester in 1940 when Maude was described as head of the
household at the age of 56, while her brother was named simply as George
Gregory who was 58. The death of Maude
Gregory was recorded at Rochester on 3rd February 1960 at the age
of 76. |
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Mary Collett was born at Harewood, perhaps towards
the end of 1855, but it was at Otley (Ref. 9a 112) where her birth was
recorded during the first three months of 1856. In the Harewood census of 1861 she was
living with her family at the Harewood Arms at the age of five years. Sadly, her mother died while she was still
in her early years and so, by 1871, she was living at Burns Farm in Harewood
with her widowed father John Scarr Collett and four of her five sisters, when
she was 15 years old. Towards the end
of the following year her father died, and eventually Burns Farm was taken
over by Mary’s eldest sister Alice and her husband James Young Teale. By 1881 Mary would have been twenty-five
and her absence from the census that year as Mary Collett initially led to
the conclusion that she may have been married by then. However, it is now established that Mary
never married and in April 1911, as Mary Collett aged 54, she was living with
her married sister Annie Kehoe (above) at 5 Providence Square in Leeds, from
where she was working as a cook. |
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Jane Elizabeth Collett was born at Harewood in 1858, her
birth registered at Otley (Ref. 9a 118) during the third quarter of
1858. She was two years old in 1861
when she was living with her family at the Harewood Arms in the village. Over the next few years her mother died, leaving
Jane in the care of her widowed father and her sisters. According to the census in 1871 Jane E
Collett was 12 years old and attending the local village school, while living
with her four sisters and her father at Burns Farms in Harewood. The census return that year incorrectly
gave her place of birth as nearby East Keswick, when all the earlier records
stated it was at Harewood. |
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Eight
years after the death of her father John Scarr Collett, during the summer of
1872, Jane and her younger sister Betsey (below) sailed to America on the
ship Republic, which arrived in New York in 1880. The passenger list confirmed that Jane E
Collett was 22. Three years earlier
Jane Elizabeth Collett was a witness at the Headingley Parish Church wedding
of her sister Catharine Collett (above) to George Gregory on 2nd
June 1877. |
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Betsey Collett was born at Harewood either at the
end of 1860 or early in 1861, since her birth was registered at Otley (Ref.
9a 105) during the first quarter of 1861.
She was the last child born to John Scarr Collett and Mary Hardcastle
and may have been born while her family was staying at the Harewood, where
they were recorded in 1861, when Betsey was only a few months old. Betsey was only a couple of years old when
her mother died at Harewood, following which she was looked after by her
widowed father and her four older sisters (above) until her father died in
September 1872 when Betsey was just 11 years old. |
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Eighteen
months prior to the death of her father, Betsey was living with him and her
sisters at Burns Farm in Harewood and at the age of ten she was attending the
village school. It is assumed that
Betsy was looked after by her older sisters when their father passed away,
although it was in 1880 that she sailed into New York on the ship Republic
with her older sister Jane (above) when she was 20 years of age. |
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Alice Eliza Collett was born in 1865 at East Keswick which
is only two miles east of Harewood.
She was listed as unmarried and aged 16 in the Census of 1881 and was
still living with her parents at Biggin Farm in Harewood. |
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Mary Eliza Collitt, who was known as May, was born at Walthamstow in East London
on 25th June 1880, the eldest child of John Collett and his wife
Jane Elizabeth Fine. Her birth was registered at
West Ham, Essex (Ref. 4a 144) during the third quarter of the year. At the time of the census in 1881, Mary and
her parents were living at Hoe Street in Leyton,
the home of her widowed grandmother (Eliza) Mary Fine. On that occasion she was correctly recorded
as Mary Collitt who was only nine months old. |
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Ten
years later she and her family were living at Albert Road in Walthamstow, where May Eliza
Collitt was 10 years old. At the age
of 20, May E Collett, was living with her widowed mother Jane, at 45 Warren
Road in Walthamstow,
following the death of Mary’s father just before the start of the new century. According to the census return in 1901, Mary’s
place of birth was Walthamstow, the same as her two younger brothers John and
Percy (below). Still living with the
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It
was during the following year that as Mary Eliza Collitt she married Frederick John Appleford, their wedding recorded at West
Ham register office (Ref. 4a 474) during the second quarter of 1902. Their two sons were Cyril John Appleford
who was born early in 1903, and Dorothy Olive Appleford who was born
on 7th April 1906. By the time of the next census
in 1911, the family of four was living in Croydon, Surrey, where Frederick
John Appleford from Hackney was 32 and working as a general clerk at a cycle
and motor accessory dealership. His
wife May Eliza Appleford from Walthamstow was 29, when the two children were
Cyril John who was eight, and Dorothy Olive who was five. Living with the family on that occasion was
Mary’s younger brother, Percy Frank Collitt (below) who was 19 and working with
Frederick Appleford at the same cycle and motor accessory dealership. Just over thirteen years after that census
day, Mary Eliza Appleford, nee Collitt, was only forty-four years old when
she died on 16th September 1924, her death recorded at the Surrey register office (Ref.
2a 276). |
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John Fine Collitt, who was known as Jack, was born at Walthamstow in 1883,
the second child and eldest son of John Collitt of Northallerton and Jane
Elizabeth Fine of Wapping. His birth was registered at
West Ham (Ref. 4a 194) during the last quarter of the year. It was as John F Collitt that he was living
with his family at
Albert Road in Walthamstow on the day of the census in 1891, when he
was seven years old. Ten years later,
and following the death of his father at the end of 1899, John F Collett, aged
17 and from Walthamstow, was a junior commercial clerk living with his
widowed mother Jane E Collett at 45 Warren Road in Walthamstow. |
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John
was the only member of the family listed as having an occupation, the other
members of the household being his older sister May E Collett (above), his
brother Percy F Collet (below), and his grandmother Eliza M Fine. So far, no obvious record of John or Jack
has been found in 1911. However, it is
established that he married Amy Currey with whom he had two sons who both
born in England, possibly somewhere in London, although the younger son,
named after his maternal grandmother, is known to have emigrated to New
Zealand in 1951. |
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On
2nd July 1937 a John Frederick Collett of 113 Park Road in Leyton
died there, although it took until 24th February 1939 to resolved
the administration of his personal effects of £71 14 Shillings and 7 Pence in
London. On that occasion his widow was
named as Alice Doris Collett, who may have been his second wife, if at all he
was in fact the John F Collitt of Leyton or Walthamstow. With his son carrying the family name of
Fine or Fyne, it is possible that John F Collitt was in fact John Fine or
Fyne Collitt, and therefore the above information would not apply here. |
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Dennis Percival John Collitt |
Born in 1920
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Donald Fine or Fyne Collitt |
Born in 1922
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Stanley Thomas Collitt was born at Walthamstow in 1887, the son of John Collitt
and Jane Elizabeth Fine. His birth was registered at
West Ham (Ref. 4a 283) during the second quarter of the year. He was recorded in the census of 1891 living with his family at
Albert Road in Walthamstow as Stanley T Collitt aged three years, his place of birth confirmed
as Walthamstow. Following the
death of his father just before the end of the century, it is curious that no
obvious record of Stanley Collitt has so far been located within the 1901
Census, when his widowed mother and three of his siblings were living at 45
Warren Road in Walthamstow. However, ten years later in 1911, he was
simply Stanley Collitt from Walthamstow aged 24, unmarried, and living and
working in the Wandsworth area of London. He was described as a soldier and driver who was a visitor at the
home of the Earl family comprising Fredrick Earl aged 47 and a stoker at the
local gas works, his wife Kate who was 44, and their two unmarried daughters
Emily aged 21, and Phyllis aged 14, both general domestic servants. By that time in her life, daughter Emily
Earl was already looking forward to her marrying Stanley Collitt. |
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Within nine months of the
census day in 1911, the marriage of Stanley Thomas Collitt was recorded at
Walthamstow register office (Ref. 1d 1212a) during the last quarter of the
year. His marriage to Emily Carl
resulted in the birth of two daughters. According to Kelly's
Directory and the Post Office directory, Stanley was managing a public house
in Islington in 1934 and four years later in 1938 he was residing at 164
Barnsbury Road in Islington. By the
time of his death, twenty-three years later, he was living at Bucklow in
Cheshire in 1961, not far from Warrington, where his eldest daughter died in
1998. The death of Stanley Thomas Collitt, at the age of 74,
was recorded at Cheshire register office (Ref. 10a 127) |
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Ivy Emily E Collitt |
Born in 1913 at Walthamstow |
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Born in 1920 at Walthamstow |
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27Q4
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Ernest Harold Collitt was born at Walthamstow on 18th October 1889,
the son of John Collitt and Jane Elizabeth Fine. His birth was recorded at West Ham register office (Ref. 4a 276). He was one-year-old in the Walthamstow
census of 1891, when he
and his family were living at Albert Road, and was around ten years
old when his father died. In the
Beddington census in 1901, Ernest H Collitt from Walthamstow was eleven years
of age when he was attending the Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers School at
Purley in Surrey. That was a
charitable institution for the orphans of those formerly involved in the
drapery trade, as Ernest’s father had been prior to his death. Today, the school is the Royal Russell
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Ten
years after that, Ernest was listed in the census of 1911 as Ernest Collitt
aged 21 from Leytonstone,
who was living and working in the Bethnal Green area of London, when he was an assistant drapery
warehouseman. He married
Dorothy Adelaide Louise Garwood on 24th June 1920, with whom he
had two children, the first of them being a honeymoon baby. Dorothy had been born on 24th
August 1890. During the Second World
War Ernest took his family from London to the relative safety of
Holland-on-Sea near Clacton. It is
understood that he was unaware that his ‘one-step removed’ uncle William
Silvester Collitt (Ref. 27P16) had moved to Clacton many years before the
First World War. It was a surprise
therefore, to both families, when following the wedding in 1949 of Ernest’s
daughter Edna to Kenneth William Collitt (below), they discovered they were
related. Ernest Harold Collitt was 65
years of age when he died on 22nd March 1955, his death recorded at Essex
register office (Ref. 4a 660). It was almost exactly sixteen years later
that his widow passed away on 17th March 1971 at the age of 80, the death of
Dorothy Adelaide Louise Collitt was recorded at register office (Ref. 4a
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Edna Doreen Collitt |
Born in 1921
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Born in 1924
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27Q5
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Percy Frank Collitt was the fifth and last child of John Collitt and Jane Elizabeth Fine
and he was born at Walthamstow, his birth recorded at West Ham register office (Ref. 4a 322) during
the first three months of 1892.
His father died at the end of 1899 and in the census of 1901, Percy F
Collett aged nine years and born at Walthamstow, was living with his widowed
mother at 45 Warren Road in Walthamstow, with his sister May and brother John
(both above). According to the next census
in 1911, Percy Frank Collitt from Walthamstow was 19 years old and was living at the Croydon home of his
married sister Mary Eliza Appleford (above), when he was working as a postal
despatch clerk, alongside his brother-in-law Frederick Appleford, at the same
cycle and motor accessory dealership in Croydon. |
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During
the First World War, Percy was Private G/16220 with the 12th
Battalion East Surrey Regiment. It was
on 30th June 1916 that Percy died from the injuries he sustained
on the frontline in Belgium, following which he was buried at the London
Rifle Brigade Cemetery at Comines-Warneton in Hainaut, Belgium. The headstone that marks his grave includes
his name as Percy Frank Collett, rather than how the family spelt it. However, according to his great niece
Christina Hammond in April 2014, the family will be changing the headstone to
read as Percy Frank Collitt. |
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Thomas Morton Collitt was born at Prahran in Melbourne
during 1884, the second of the three children of Thomas Collitt and his wife
Anne Marion Jones. It seems likely
that his second named derived from the place of birth of his father, that
being Morton-on-Swale in Yorkshire. Thomas
junior was only eight years old and was living with his family at 12 Royal
Arcade, Bourke Street in St Kilda, Melbourne, when his father died. Two years later his mother remarried, when
she wed Thomas Fowell Buxton in 1894.
Thomas Morton Collitt later married Amy Hilda Harrison, when he was
around 25, and that the marriage produced just one child. The couple were only married for around
sixteen or seventeen years when Thomas Morton Collitt died in Australia
during 1926, following which he was buried at Coburg Cemetery on 16th
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27Q9 |
Sydney Thomas Collitt was born at Northallerton near to the end of 1888, with his birth registered at
Northallerton (Ref. 9d 612) during the first month of 1889. Sydney Thomas Collitt, was the first-born
child of Joshua Collitt and Mary Ann Curry, and was baptised at Northallerton
on 13th January 1889.
He was living with his family in 1891, 1901, and 1911, for the latter
the family had left Northallerton, and instead was living at Whalley Range in South
Manchester, when he was 22 and an electrician working for the local power
supply company. It was not far from
South Manchester that the later death of Sydney Thomas Collitt was recorded
at Cheshire register office (Ref. 10a 104) during 1954, when he was 65 years
old. |
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27Q10 |
Mary Rebecca Collitt was born at Northallerton on 17th April 1890, where her birth was
recorded (Ref. 9d 638) during the second quarter of the year, the youngest
child of Joshua Collitt and Mary Ann Curry. When she was baptised at Northallerton on 2nd
May 1890 she was recorded as Mary Rebecca Collett, daughter of Joshua and
Mary Ann. However, that was the only
time her surname was spelt that way, when she was Mary R Collitt aged one
year at Northallerton High Street in 1891 and again as Mary R Collitt in 1901
at Market Row, High Street in Northallerton, at the age of ten years. After leaving school in the middle of the
following decade, Mary Rebecca Collitt from Northallerton had no job of work
when she was 20 years old in the census of 1911, by which time the family had
moved from Allerton and was living in the Whalley Range district of South
Manchester. |
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Much later in her life,
forty-one-year-old Mary was still living in the Manchester area of Lancashire
when she was married. The wedding of
Mary Rebecca Collitt and William H Harrison was recorded at the Manchester
South register office (Ref. 8d 257) during the second quarter of 1931. It is interesting that when her brother
Sydney Collitt (above) died in 1954, his death was recorded at Cheshire
register office, where the death of Mary Rebecca Harrison was also recorded
(Ref. 10a 346) during the quarter of 1970, when she was 80. |
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27Q11
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Eleanor Amelia Collitt was born at Stockton-on-Tees in 1876,
the eldest child of Joshua and Eleanor Collett. Her birth was registered at Stockton (Ref. 10a 66) during the last
three months of that year. In
1881, as Eleanor A Collett aged four years, she was living at 3 Mill Lane in
Stockton with her family, where her father was a general shopkeeper. Missing from the family home in Stockton in
1891 were Eleanor and her two siblings Joshua and Miriam (below). On that census day, sisters Eleanor and Miriam staying at the home of
their uncle Christopher Milner, aged 38 and a draper, at Bridge Street in
Hawes (in the centre of the North Yorkshire National Park) where
Eleanor A Collett was 14 years old and simply described as niece, as was
Miriam. Her uncle Christopher had a
fairly good standing within the local community, to such an extent that he
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However,
by the time of the census in 1901, all three children were back living with
their parents and the rest of the family, which had left Mill Lane and moved to East Hartburn in Stockton
by then. Eleanor A Collitt from
Stockton was 24 and was described as an artist and a musician. By 1911 Eleanor was married, but from the
great many of that name born in Stockton in 1876, it is not a simple task to
identify which married Eleanor was previously Eleanor A Collett. Eleanor Amelia Collett never married and she died at Stockton-on-Tees
on 10th November 1923 when she was only 46, following which her
Will was proved at Stockton on 10th March 1924, when her father
was named as the sole executor of her personal effects. |
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Joshua Rose Collett was born at Stockton in 1878, the eldest son
of Joshua and Eleanor Collett. His birth was recorded at
Stockton register office (Ref. 10a 76) during the second quarter of that year. He was three years of age in the census of
1881, when he was living with his family at 3 Mill Lane in Stockton. Ten years later in 1891, Joshua and his two
sisters Eleanor and Miriam were all absent from their parents’ house in
Stockton, most likely making space for four younger siblings born during the
1880s. While his two sisters have been
identified in the census that year, as staying at the Hawes (North Yorkshire) home
of their father’s married sister Priscilla Ann Milner, no such record
has been found for Joshua. However,
ten years after that, he was once again living with his parents and their
enlarged family, but at
East Hartburn in Stockton. On
that occasion in March 1901, Joshua R Collett, aged 23, was working with his
father who was a merchant in fancy goods, when Joshua was described as an
assistant general merchant. |
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Three years after that census day,
the marriage of Joshua Rose Collitt and Harriet Ann Roberts was recorded at
Stockton register office (Ref. 10a 151) during the third quarter of 1904, and by 1911 the couple had given birth
to two sons. According to the census
that year, Joshua Rose
Collitt from Stockton-on-Tees was 33 and an agent for an optician, who was
living at Wingate in County Durham.
With him was his wife Harriet Ann Collitt, also from Stockton-on-Tees,
who was 33 and working as a milliner, and their seven-month-old son
William Gordon Collitt, born
at Hesleden, to the east of Wingate, who was very likely named after
Joshua’s late brother who suffered an infant death. The couple’s older son Stanley was five years of age and staying with
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Joshua Rose Collitt died in 1928 when
he was fifty years old, his death recorded at Durham register office (Ref.
10a 101). His Will was proved on 28th
November 1928 at West Hartlepool register office, when the sole executor was
Stanley Rose Collitt. The probate
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Born in 1905 at Stockton-on-Tees |
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Born in 1910 at Hesleden, Cty Durham |
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Miriam Collett was born at Stockton in 1879, and that
may had taken place at 3 Mill Lane in Stockton where the family was living in
1881 when Miriam was one year old. By
the time she was 11, Miriam and her older sister Eleanor were staying with
their father’s older sister at Hawes in North Yorkshire. The census that year recorded her as Miriam
Collett. On completing her education,
Miriam returned to Stockton, and in 1901 she was once again living with her
family in the East Hartburn area of the town.
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A
couple of years later, Miriam married John Alfred Holmes Tweedy, following
which the couple moved to Hartlepool where they were living in 1911. During the previous years, Miriam had
presented her husband with two children, so the family was recorded as John A
H Tweedy 30, Miriam Tweedy, 31, Elsie Tweedy who was six, and John Alfred
Tweedy who was three years old. |
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Florence Isabella
Collett was born at
Stockton in 1881, but after the census day which fell on the third of April
that year. It is also very likely that
she was born at 3 Mill Lane in Stockton, where her family was living at the
time of the census. In 1891 Florence H
Collett was nine years old while living with her family in Stockton, and ten
years later she was 18. By that time
her family was living in the East Hartburn area of Stockton, and Florence was
working for her father. He was a
general merchant in fancy goods, and her occupation was recorded as a clerk
to a general merchant. According to
the next census in April 1911, Florence Isabella Collett was 28 and was still
unmarried and living with her parents in Stockton. It is possible that sometime after that she
married, although no details are currently known to confirm or deny this. |
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Lillian Collett was born at Stockton-on-Tees in 1885,
the daughter of Joshua and Eleanor Collett.
She was five years old in the Stockton census of 1891 when the family was residing
at 3 Mill Street, and was 14 in the East Hartburn (Stockton)
census in 1901, when she was still attending school and living with her
parents. By April 1911 Lillian Collett
was 24, when she was unmarried and was still living with her parents in
Stockton. |
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James Edwin Collett was born at Stockton-on-Tees on 2nd April 1888, the
youngest surviving child of Joshua and Eleanor Collett. His birth was recorded at Stockton (Ref. 10a 51) during the second
quarter of that year. He may have been
born at Mill Street in Stockton St Thomas, where James Edwin Collett was three
years of age. After a further ten
years, 12-year-old James E Collitt was recorded with his family, less his
younger brother William who had suffered an infant death. By 1901 the family was living within the
parish of East Hartburn in Durham when James was possibly still at school, as
he was not credited with a job of work.
In the following census of 1911, James Edwin Collett was 23 and a
harbour dealer, who was still living at the family home which, by then, was
once again in the St Thomas area of Stockton-on-Tees. |
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It was just over one year later that
the marriage of James Edwin Collitt and Evelyn Hannah Thomas was recorded at
Stockton-on-Tees register office (Ref. 10a 193) during the third quarter of
1912. Evelyn was also born at
Stockton-on-Tees, the daughter of William and Jane Thomas, whose birth
recorded there (Ref. 10a 71) during the second quarter of 1889. On completing her schooling, Evelyn entered
domestic service and, in 1911, at the age of 21, she was employed as a
housemaid, when she was staying with her aunt and uncle, Alice and Henry
Clark in Stockton-on-Tees. |
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As far as we know, Evelyn presented
James with two children while the couple was living within the Durham
South-Eastern area where their births were recorded, when their mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Thomas.
James Edwin Collett was living in Yorkshire when he died, his death
recorded there (Ref. 1b 2019) during 1970.
For the last twenty-two years of his life, he had been a widower,
following the death of Evelyn Hannah Collitt, nee Thomas, which was recorded
at Durham register office (Ref. 1a 590) in 1948 when she was 59, and eight
years after her two children were married within weeks of each other. |
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Born in 1916 at Stockton-on-Tees |
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Born in 1919 at Stockton-on-Tees |
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27Q18 |
Florence Margaret
Collitt was born at Lincoln towards the end of 1873,
the eldest of the seven children of John Selby Collitt and Margaret Miller
Blair. Her birth was registered there
(Ref. 7a 507) during the last three months of the year, where she was also
baptised on 7th November 1873. It was also during the last quarter of the
same year that her death was recorded there (Ref. 7a 301). Her tiny body was buried at Canwick Road, Old Cemetery in Lincoln on 18th
November 1873. |
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Edith Eliza Collitt was born at Lincoln in 1875, her birth registered there (Ref. 7a 512) during
the second quarter of the year. She
was then baptised at the Lincoln Church of St Peter at Gowts
on 18th July 1875, the eldest surviving child of John and Margaret
Collitt. She never married and was her
parents’ constant companion until her father died in 1925 and her mother
passed away during the following year.
Edith Eliza was the joint beneficiary under the terms of her father’s
Will, with her youngest brother William Selby (below), and was the sole
beneficiary under the terms of her mother’s Will which was only proved in
1927. During her life, Edith had lived
and worked at Tennyson Street in Gainsborough as a pupil teacher in 1891 at
the age of only 15, ten years later as an assistant elementary schoolteacher
at 25, and as an uncertified teacher when she was 35 at All Saints Church
School, where her sister Maud (below) was the head teacher. |
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27Q20 |
Arthur Collitt
was born at Lincoln in 1877, the third child and eldest son of John and Margaret Collitt. His birth was registered at Lincoln (Ref. 7a
537) during the first quarter of the year, and was baptised at Lincoln on 26th
May 1877. On the day of the census in
1881, the family was living at 115 Portland Street within the parish of St
Peter at Gowts in Lincoln, where Arthur was three
years of age. Tragically, just twelve
months later, Arthur died and his infant death was recorded at Lincoln (Ref. 7a
285) during the second quarter of 1882, after which he was buried on 6th
April 1882 at Old Cemetery on Canwick Road in
Lincoln. The Lincolnshire Chronicle
printed a death notice on the following day, confirming the sad event and
naming the child’s parents as John S Collitt and Margaret M Collitt. |
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Bernard Collitt
was born at Lincoln on
31st August 1879, where his birth was registered (Ref. 7a 547)
during the third quarter of the year. He
was the eldest surviving son of John Selby Collitt and Margaret Miller Blair,
who was baptised at Lincoln on 26th September 1879. Bernard was one year old in the Lincoln
census of 1881, when he and his family were residing at 115 Portland Street
within the parish of St Peter at Gowts in Lincoln. He was eleven years of age in 1891, by
which time he was attending school, with his family then living at Tennyson
Road in Lincoln. No record of him has
been found in Great Britain in 1901, but eight years later Bernard Collitt
emigrated to Canada, sailing across the Atlantic onboard the SS
Virginian. The passenger list included
his details as follows. Aged 29, the
reason for him travelling to Montreal in Quebec was for work purposes, having
been offered a position in a drug store.
His occupation in England was that of a chemist, which was to be the
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Ten years after his arrival in Canada,
Bernard Collitt from Lincoln in England was 39 and a lone traveller, when he
arrived at St Albans, Franklin County in Vermont, USA, from Montreal. His transit manifest confirmed that he was
a chemist, that his wife was Mabel Collitt, and their home address in Montreal
was 538 Dorchester Street West, having disembarked from the SS Sicilian at St
Johns on 30th December 1918. After a further two years, chemist Bernard
Collitt and the husband of Mabel Collitt, was 42 and was again the subject of
a transit manifest dated 6th September 1921. Once again, his port of arrival was St
John, when the onward destination was New York. Unfortunately, the document is of such a
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Another trip to New York was recorded
in 1926. However, on that occasion his
solo passage had started out from Liverpool in England onboard the SS
Franconia on 11th December 1926.
The passenger list provided his details as Bernard Collitt aged 47, a
chemist, a Canadian citizen born at Lincoln in England, whose permanent place
of residence was Montreal in Canada.
Thirty years later, when Bernard was 77, he was again visiting family
in England, with his return journey to Montreal recorded as follows. It was on the ship Carinthia of the Cunard
Line which departed from Liverpool on 31st August 1956. By that time in his life, he was retired
and his marital status was single (widower – see below). His final sea voyage across the Atlantic was
two years later, when he was on board the Canadian Pacific liner, Empress of
Britain, sailing out of the Port of Liverpool on 5th September
1958 for his return to home in Montreal.
His date of birth was confirmed on the passenger list as 31st
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Bernard Collitt from Lincoln in
England, died at Outremont, Montreal, Canada, on 28th December
1967, at the age of 88. Seventeen
years earlier, his wife Mabel Rose Collitt had also died at Outremont on 11th
June 1950, aged 75, and had been buried at Cimetière Mont-Royal Cemetery. Sixteen years earlier, Mabel Collitt, a
housewife, had made the journey from Liverpool on the SS Letitia of the
Anchor-Donaldson Line to Montreal, leaving the Port of Liverpool on 21st
September 1934, when she was 59 and her year of birth was recorded as 1875,
as it was on the day she died. |
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27Q22 |
Maud Helen Collitt was born at Lincoln in 1882, where her birth was registered (Ref. 7a 513)
during the last three months of that year. It was also in Lincoln that she was baptised
on 30th October 1882, another daughter of John and Margaret
Collett. She was around five or
six years old when her family moved to Gainsborough where, as Maud H Collitt,
aged eight years in the census of 1891, she and her family were living on
Tennyson Street in Gainsborough. On
completing her education, Maud became a pupil teacher, which was how she was
described in the Gainsborough census of 1901 when she was 18 and still living
with her family, but at Eastbourne Terrace on Trinity Street in the
town. After a further ten years, Maud
Helen Collitt was 28 and the head teacher at All Saints Church School in Gainsborough,
where her older sister Edith Eliza (above) was also a teacher. Both unmarried daughters were still living
with their parents within the Gainsborough parish of All Saints in 1911. Maud Helen Collitt never married and was only 48 years old when she
died, her death recorded at Lincolnshire register office (Ref. 7a 990) in
1931. |
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27Q23 |
Sydney Collitt
was born at Lincoln in 1884, his birth recorded there (Ref. 7a 557) during the third quarter of
the year. He was the sixth child of
John and Margaret Collitt and was baptised at Lincoln on 21st
September 1884. By the time he
was six years of age, he and his family were living at Eastbourne Terrace on
Trinity Street in Gainsborough. Upon
leaving school, and at the age of sixteen in 1901, Sydney Collitt was an
apprentice to an engine fitter who was still living at the family home which,
by then, was at Eastbourne Terrace, Trinity Street, Gainsborough. Where he was in 1911 has still to be determined, although three years
later Sydney Collitt married Alice Frow, their marriage recorded at Lincoln
register office (Ref. 7a 1355) during the second quarter of 1914. |
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It was also at Lincoln, near the end
of that same year, when Alice gave birth to a daughter, with the birth of
Margaret Edith Collitt recorded at Lincoln register office (Ref. 7a 911)
during the last quarter of 1914.
Margaret was subsequently baptised at Saxilby-with-Ingleby on 24th
April 1915, a few miles north-west of the City of Lincoln. Many years later, Alice Collitt nee Frow,
passed away on 5th April 1954 at the age of 62, and was buried at
the Kirton-in-Lindsey Cemetery in North Lincolnshire. Nineteen years after being widowed, Sydney
Collitt was still living in the town of Kirton-in-Lindsey, when he died on 23rd
June 1973 aged 88, and was buried with his later wife in the
Kirton-in-Lindsey Cemetery. |
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It was during the second quarter of
1937, that the marriage of Margaret Edith Collitt from Lincolnshire and
Frederick J Bateman (1911-1951) from Walsall was recorded at the
Staffordshire Wednesbury register office (Ref. 6b 1506). No record of any children has been found,
nor that of the death of Margaret Edith Bateman, although there is a chance
that she remarried after being widowed and married for only fourteen years. |
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27Q24 |
William Selby Collitt
was born at Boston in Lincolnshire during 1888 and was the last of the seven
children of John Selby Collitt and his wife Margaret Miller Blair. His birth was registered at Boston (Ref. 7a 463) during the second
quarter of the year, but only as William Collett, the Selby name added later. Shortly after he was born, his family
settled in Gainsborough where again in the census of 1891, he was recorded
with his family at Tennyson Street as simply William Collett from
Lincolnshire who was three years of age.
It may have been during his school days that Selby was included in his
name, since by 1901 William Selby Collitt had finished school and was 13 years
old when living with his family at Eastbourne Terrace, Trinity Street in
Gainsborough. He eventually travelled to London where he
secured the position of a civil servant with the office of the Union of South
Africa. It was there that he was
working in 1911 at the age of 23, when his place of birth was confirmed as
Boston in Lincolnshire, when he was living within the Lambeth area of
London. His later marriage to Lena C
Hadfield was recorded at the Godstone Surrey register office (Ref. 2a 525)
during the second quarter of 1922. No
children have been found, with William
being 76 years old when he died in 1964, the death of William Selby
Collitt being recorded at Sussex register office (Ref. 5h 18). |
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Stanley Silvester
Collitt was born at Teddington on 9th
July 1906, the eldest of three children of William Silvester Collitt and
Elsie Agate Harris. However, his birth was
recorded at Kingston-upon-Thames register office (Ref. 2a 507). It is
likely the birth took place while the couple were living within the London
area, and before the family moved to Clacton-on-Sea. And it was at Clacton that the family was
living in April 1911 when Stanley Silvester Collitt was four years old. It was fifty years later that the marriage of Stanley Silvester
Collitt and Louisa Beatrice Sanders was recorded at the Middlesex Wood Green
register office (Ref. 5f 1743) during the third quarter of 1961. They were only married for sixteen years,
when Stanley Silvester Collitt died during August 1977, with his death recorded at
Middlesex register office (Ref. 12 0502). |
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Kenneth William
Collitt was born at Teddington on 29th September 1907, the second
child of William Silvester Collitt and Elsie Agate Harris, whose birth was also recorded
at Kingston-upon-Thames register office (Ref. 2a 461) during the last three
months of the year. Just after
he was born his family left Teddington and moved south to settle in
Clacton-on-Sea, and it was there that his family was recorded at the time of
the census in 1911. The census return
included Kenneth William Collitt from Teddington, aged three years, living at Clacton with his
parents William and Elsie Agate Collitt, his brother Stanley Silvester
Collitt and sister Phyllis Mary Collitt. |
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It
was thirty-eight years later, on 24th September 1949 and unbeknown
to him at that time, that Kenneth William Collitt married Edna Doreen Collitt
(Ref. 27R5) who was the daughter of his cousin, one-step removed, Ernest
Harold Collitt (above). How that
happened, quite simply, stemmed from Ernest Harold Collitt losing his father
when he was ten years old and, as a result, he did not have any knowledge of
his wider family. The marriage
produced three children for Kenneth and Edna, and it was on 18th
August 2001 that Kenneth William Collett passed away, his death recorded at Essex register office
(Ref. 4651A A84C). His widow
Edna died seven years later on 7th December 2008. Kenneth’s and Edna’s two sons are both
married and have Collitt children of their own. |
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Trevor William Collitt |
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Phyllis Mary Collitt was born at Clacton-on-Sea on 6th
March 1911 the youngest of the three children of William Silvester Collitt
and Elsie Agate Harris. In the Clacton
census of 1911, Phyllis Mary Collitt was just one month old, while living
there with her family, and
was baptised there on 26th April 1911. Phyllis lived to celebrate her ninetieth
birthday in 2001, but sadly she died just five days later on 11th
March 2001. During her long life, she
had married Cyril Coles, who was affectionately called Tiny, with whom she
had a daughter. Angela Coles was born
on 30th March 1942 and she married Robin Studd in 1968. An alternative source gives Phyllis’
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Robert Collett was born at Thornham in 1875 and was
the first child from the marriage of William Collett and Alice Wild. It was at Oldham that the birth of Robert
Collett was recorded (Ref. 8d 706) during the second quarter of 1875. In 1881
Robert was five years old and was living with his mother Alice and his
younger brother John Collett (below) at the home of George Firth and his wife
Alice Firth nee Collett (Ref. 27P20) at Stakehill in Thornham. No trace of Robert’s father has been found
in any census after 1861, which may indicate that he was working abroad or
had passed away. By 1891 Robert
Collett of Thornham was 15 and a labourer at the nearby bleach works when he
was still living at Stakehill, with his mother Alice and his brother John
(below), at the home of Jonathan Wild his mother’s older brother, for whom
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Ten
years later in March 1901 Robert was still living with his mother at the
Stakehill, Middleton home of Jonathan Wild where Robert from Thornham was 25
and a carter at the local bleach works.
According to the next census in April 1911, Robert Collett was a
married man living at Middleton with his wife Mary Ann Collett. Robert was 36, while his wife was ten years
older at 46. On that occasion Robert’s
place of birth was recorded as Castleton.
For clarification, Castleton is an area of Rochdale, while nearby
Thornham and Middleton maybe one and the same place, since Thornham does not
exist today. The death of Robert
Collett was recorded at Middleton (Ref. 8d 670) during the second quarter of
1937 when he was 61. |
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JOHN
COLLETT was born
at Thornham on 17th March 1877, the second known son of William
Collett and Alice Wild, whose birth was recorded at Oldham (Ref. 8d 753)
during the second quarter of that year.
By the time he was four years old, according to the Thornham census in
1881, John Collett from Thornham was living with his mother and brother Robert
(above) at the Stakehill home of farm labourer George Firth and his wife, the
former Alice Collett (Ref. 27P20). His
mother was described as the niece of George Firth, while her two sons were
referred to as his nephews. In 1891
John Collett of Thornham was 14 years old and a labourer at the local bleach
works, where his older brother Robert (above) was also employed. At that time, he was still living at
Stakehill with his mother Alice and brother Robert, but at the home of their
mother’s brother Jonathan Wild, a widower with three young children, every
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During
the early 1890s he joined the army as a single man, when he stated his
parents were his next-of-kin and living at 124 Stakehill in Middleton. It would appear he served a minimum term
because, by the time he became a married man he was working as a
blacksmith. It was on 23rd
July 1898 that John Collett married Eliza Shepherd at the Primitive Methodist
Church on Morton Street in Middleton, the event recorded at Oldham register
office (Ref. 8d 1230) during the third quarter of 1898. John was described as being a bachelor at
21, whose occupation was that of a journeyman blacksmith, residing at 124
Stakehill in Middleton, his father being William Collett (deceased) a farm
labourer. Eliza was 18 years of age, a
cardroom hand who was living at 2 Barrowfields in Middleton, the daughter of
Edward Shepherd (deceased), a general labourer. The witnesses were Robert Collett, John’s
older brother (above) and Ann Shepherd, Eliza’s sister. Again, on the day of the next census in
1901, John was working as a blacksmith and a farrier, while residing at
George Street in Gorton. John Collett
from Thornham was 24 and his wife Eliza Collett from Middleton was 21. Eliza had been born at Middleton in 1879,
the daughter of Edward and Lizzie Shepherd of 9 Taylor Street in
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It
was at Gorton, within the district of Manchester, where the couple was living
for the birth of their first four children and, on the day of the census in
1901, Eliza had already presented John with their first child and was already
carrying his second child, the birth of which was due shortly after. Possibly because of that impending event,
their one-year-old daughter Jessie Collett was staying with her grandmother
Alice Collett at nearby Stakehill in Middleton. Sadly though, the child may have been with
her grandmother because she was poorly since, it was at the end of that same
year, when she died. |
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According
to the next census in 1911, the family was residing at 13 Grasmere Street,
Longsight, near Gorton. That was the
first occasion when John Collett gave his place of birth as Middleton, when
he was 34 and an electric car driver, employed by Municipal Tramways. His wife of twelve years, and also from
Middleton, was 31 and it was confirmed that she had given birth to four
children, with one of them having died by then. Their three sons were recorded as Robert
Collett who was nine, James Collett who was seven and John Collett who was
three years of age, all three of them born at Gorton. Living with the family was Alice Firth, a
widow of 78 from Middleton, who was described as a great aunt, the former
Alice Collett (Ref. 27P20). Not long
after that, John and Eliza and their three sons emigrated to Australia, where
their family was added to, with the birth of another four children, twins
Ernest and Edward, daughter Doris and youngest son Frank. |
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It
was on 27th September 1912, that the SS Roscommon arrived in
Brisbane from Lancashire. The ship’s
passenger list included the Collett family as, John aged 35 and a tram
driver, Eliza aged 32, Robert aged 10, James who was eight and John who was
four years old. The family settled at
McConnell Street in Bulimba, a district of Brisbane, where John worked as a
drayman and, it was there also that the couple’s final four children were
born. At the time of the birth of
their last child, Frank, the family was still residing at McConnell Street,
when his birth certificate confirmed the father as John Collett, a labourer,
aged 43 years and 4 months from Manchester, England, and his wife Eliza
Collett nee Shepherd who was 42 years and 3 months from Middleton,
England. It was Eliza who was the
informant of the birth, which was registered at the Brisbane General Registry
Office on 13th November 1920, when her son was nine days old. The couple’s six previous children were
recorded as Robert 18, James 16, John 12, Ernest and Edward five years and
Doris Hazel who was one year old. |
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During
1925-26 the family moved to a banana farm at Bald Knob about seven kilometres
from Landsborough, up the Maleny Plateau Road. It was a hard life. Eldest son Robert (known as Bob) was an
apprentice jeweller and went to work and live in Sydney. Second son James (aka Jim), was an
apprentice watchmaker and went to Cairns to work for McDonnel jeweller. John (aka Jack) was an apprentice sailmaker
in Brisbane but went with the family to help work the banana plantation. The four youngest children attended the
Bald Knob State School. The health of
John Collett senior continued to decline, the farm was difficult, and crops
failed. Jack obtained work as a powder
monkey at the Blue Metal Quarry. That
left the twins, Ernest and Edward, aged only 14, to helped out where they
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It
was during the following year, when the twins were 15, that John Collett died
on 1st April 1930 while he was a patient at the Maleny Soldiers
Memorial Hospital in Maleny. The
following day he was buried at Witta in the Sunshine Coast Region of
Queensland. Whilst no home address was
indicated on the death certificate, the document does contain lots of useful
information about his family, as follows.
His age was recorded as 53 years and the cause of death was chronic
fibroid tuberculosis and chronic myocarditis, with which he had suffered for
the previous five years, plus circulatory failure for the last four days of
his life. His father was confirmed as
farmer William Collett and his mother was confirmed as Alice Wild. The death was recorded at Nambour, to the
north of Maleny, the nearest register office to where he had been
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The
death certificate also stated that John had been born at Middleton in
Lancashire, England, and that for the last 17 years of his life he had been
living in Queensland. His wife was
named as Eliza Shepherd to whom he had been married for 21 years. Finally, the certificate included the names
and ages of his seven surviving children.
The list comprised: Robert aged 28, James aged 26, John aged 22, twins
Edward and Ernest aged 15, Doris aged 11 and Frank who was nine. |
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When
John passed away, Eliza moved off the farm with Doris and Frank and into a
rented house in Maleny, where they attended the local school. Just over twelve years later, during the
month of May in 1942, widowed Eliza Collett (nee Shepherd) married local
farmer Friedrich W Fels of Levington Road in Eight Mile Plains. Eliza was 75 years old when she died in
1953, after which her ashes were placed with those of her daughter Doris, in
the family plot at Brisbane’s Mount Thompson Crematorium. The ashes of Eliza’s second husband, Fred
Fels, are also in the same family plot. |
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Jessie Collett |
Born in 1899
at Gorton, Manchester |
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27R17
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ROBERT COLLETT |
Born in 1901
at Gorton, Manchester |
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27R18
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James Collett |
Born in 1904
at Gorton, Manchester |
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27R19
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Born in 1907
at Gorton, Manchester |
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27R20
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Edward Collett twin |
Born in 1915
in Brisbane, Queensland |
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27R21
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Ernest Collett twin |
Born in 1915
in Brisbane, Queensland |
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27R22
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Doris Hazel Collett |
Born in 1919
in Queensland, Aus. |
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27R23
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Frank
Collett |
Born in 1920
in Queensland, Aus. |
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27R1
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Dennis Percival John
Collitt was born in
England in 1920 and probably in London, the son of John (Jack) Collett and
Amy Currey. All that is so far known
about Dennis is that he did not emigrate to New Zealand with his brother
Donald (below), and that around 1990 he was living on Canvey Island, which
would correspond with his death in Essex during 2003. |
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27R2
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Donald Fine or Fyne
Collitt was born in
London on 24th November 1921, the son of John (Jack) Collett and
his wife Amy Currey. His second
forename was derived from his maternal grandmother Jane Eliza Fine or
Fyne. The birth of Donald F Collitt was recorded at West Ham
register office (Ref. 4a 91 during the first three months of 1922, when his
mother’s maiden-name was recorded as Curry. His father died when Donald was only
fifteen years of age in 1937, and it was during the Second World War that he
married Joyce Lillian Lowman with whom he had two daughters. Their marriage was recorded at the Essex Rochford register office
(Ref. 4a 1657) during the third quarter of 1943, where the births of their
two children were also later recorded.
When their youngest child was around four years old, Donald had already
made plans for his family to emigrate to New Zealand. |
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Early in 1951, Donald made an advance
trip to New Zealand, to prepare for the day when his family would make the
same journey later on. It was as 29-year-old
draughtsman Donald F Collitt that he sailed out of the Port of London on
board RMS Rangitiki of the New Zealand Shipping Company Limited on 29th
January 1951, bound for Wellington, where he arrived on 4th March
1951. Six months later, his wife and
daughters sailed out of Southampton on 28th August 1951 aboard the
SS Arawa, when the passenger list included them as Mrs
Joyce L Collett who was 28, Miss Marian N Collett who was six years old, and
Miss Julia M Collett who was five years of age. |
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What
happened to the family after 1951 is not known at this time, but the records
in New Zealand state that Donald was made a widower upon the death of Joyce
Lillian Collitt nee Lowman in 1971 at the age of 49. Twenty-eight years later Donald Fyne
Collitt died in New Zealand during 1999, when his date of birth was confirmed
as 24th November 1921. In
2014, contact was made by Christina Hammond with one of Donald’s daughters,
so it is hoped to bring this branch up to date over the coming months. |
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27S1
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Marian
Norma Collitt |
Born in 1944 at Rochford, Essex |
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27S2
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Julia M
Collitt |
Born in 1946 at
Rochford, Essex |
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27R3
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Ivy Emily Earl Collitt was born at Walthamstow on 24th October 1913,
the eldest of the two daughters of Stanley Thomas Collitt and his wife Emily Earl, her birth recorded at
Walthamstow register office (Ref. 1d 1309), when her mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Carl. She never married
and was living in Cheshire when she died at the age of 85, the death of Ivy
Emily E Collitt recorded at Warrington register office (Ref. 3461B B58C) at
the end of December 1998. |
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27R4
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Joyce Beryl Collitt was born at Walthamstow on 8th February 1920, where her birth was recorded
(Ref. 1d 1847), when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Earl. She was the youngest daughter of Stanley
Collett and Emily Earl. Much later in her life, when she was 46 years of age,
she married David Watkin-Jones, their marriage
recorded at Islington register office (Ref. 5c 1768) during the third quarter
of 1966. They were married for twenty-two years, up
until her she passed away in Devon at the age of 68. The death of Joyce Beryl Watkin-Jones was recorded at Honiton
register office (Ref. 21 1294) during the summer of 1988. Her husband was six years younger, having
been born on 6th March 1926, and he was 70 when the death of David
Watkin-Jones was recorded at Sussex register office (Ref. 4541C C36E) in 1996. |
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27R5
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Edna Doreen Collitt was born at Hackney on 17th
March 1921, the daughter of Ernest Harold Collett and Dorothy Garwood. On 24th September 1949 she
married Kenneth William Collitt who, it was later revealed, was the son of
William Silvester Collitt her distant relation, although they did not know
they were related at that time. The
details of the continuation of this family can be found under Ref. 27Q25. |
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27R6
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Gordon John Collitt, who was known as John, was born at
Hackney on 2nd May 1924, the son of Ernest Harold Collett and
Dorothy Garwood. His birth was recorded at Barnet
register office (Ref. 3a 701) in Middlesex, when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Garwood. During
his life he emigrated to Canada, and it was there that he died on 21st
June 1996. |
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27R7
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Albert Collitt was born in Australia during 1911, the
son of Thomas Morton Collitt and his wife Amy Hilda Harrison. All that is currently known about his is
that he was a married man who had a son, and that he died in 1993. |
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27S3
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Geoffrey Wayne Collitt |
Born in 1945
in Australia |
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27R8 |
Stanley Rose
Collitt was born at Stockton-on-Tees on 10th
December 1905, the eldest child of Joshua Rose Collitt and Harriet Ann
Roberts, whose birth was recorded at Stockton register office (Ref. 10a 58) during
the first three months of 1906. In the
census conducted in 1911, five-year-old Stanley Rose Collett from Stockton was
staying with his grandparents Joshua and Eleanor Collett within the parish of
St Thomas in Stockton. On that same
day, Stanley’s parents and his younger brother William (below), were recorded
in the census for Wingate in County Durham, not far from Hesleden, where
William was born seven months earlier.
Seventeen years later, the marriage of Stanley Rose Collitt and Elsie
E Doyle was recorded at Stockton register office (Ref. 10a 231) during the
third quarter of 1928. It was at the
same time that year, when Stanley’s father died, although there was a chance
that he may have attended his son’s wedding celebration. |
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Two children were born to the couple
in the early years of their life together in Stockton-on-Tees, with a third
added later, after the family of four had moved north to Durham. In every case, the mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Doyle. Stanley was 79
years old when he died, the death of Stanley Rose Collitt recorded at
Yorkshire register office (Ref. 2 3261) in 1985. |
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27S4
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Jean
Rose Collitt |
Born in 1929 at Stockton-on-Tees |
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27S5
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William
David Collitt |
Born in 1933 at Stockton-on-Tees |
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27S6
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Marie
A Collitt |
Born in 1945 at Durham |
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27R9 |
William Gordon Collitt was born at Hesleden on 15th August 1910 and his birth was recorded
at the Easington register office in County Durham (Ref. 10a 517). He was seven months old in the Wingate,
County Durham, census of 1911, where he was living there with just his
parents, a couple of miles west of Hesleden.
His older brother Stanley (above) was fifteen miles to the south,
staying with his paternal grandparents at Stockton-on-Tees. The name of William Gordon Collitt, born in
1910, was a member of the Merchant Navy during the Second World War. It was three years after the war, when
William became a married man. The
marriage of William Gordon Collitt and Enda Ellerby was recorded at
Middlesbrough register office (Ref. 1b 1383) during the fourth quarter of
1948. Most likely, because of his
advanced years, the couple only had one child, their daughter Pamela A
Collitt, whose birth was recorded at Durham South-Eastern register office, when
her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Ellerby. William lived a long life and was 94 years
and 2 weeks of age when he passed away on 28th August 2004 at West
Hartlepool. The death of William
Gordon Collitt was recorded at Durham register office (Ref. 351/1 K66). |
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27S7
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Pamela
A Collitt |
Born in 1953 at Durham |
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27R10 |
Edwin Frank Collitt
was born at Stockton-on-Tees on 15th November 1916, the older of
the two children of James Edwin Collett and Evelyn Hannah Thomas, his birth
recorded at Stockton register office (Ref. 10a 144) during the last three
months of the year. Edwin was around
twenty-four-years of age when he married 20-year-old Kathleen Broadbent, the
event recorded at Durham South-Eastern register office (Ref. 10a 267) during
the last quarter of 1940, and not long after his sister Evelyn (below) was
married there. Kathleen Broadbent was
born on 7th July 1920, her birth recorded at Middlesbrough register
office (Ref. 9d 1321) during the third quarter of 1920. The births of their four children were also
recorded at the Durham South-Eastern register office, when their mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Broadbent.
Edwin lived his whole life in County Durham, and it was at Durham
register office (Ref. 3481F F47) that his death was recorded during 1994. Kathleen was 84 years old when she died in
Durham, where her death was recorded during 2004 (Ref. 350/L A16). |
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27S8
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Christine
Collitt |
Born in 1945 at Durham |
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27S9
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Pauline
Collitt |
Born in 1947 at Durham |
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27S10
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Edwin
Collitt |
Born in 1949 at Durham |
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27S11
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Kenneth
Collitt |
Born in 1951 at Durham |
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27R11 |
Evelyn Collitt
was born at Stockton-on-Tees on 17th October 1919 and her birth
was also recorded at Stockton register office (Ref. 10a 216) during the fourth
quarter of that year. She was the
daughter of James ad Evelyn Collett and the sister of Edwin (above). The two siblings were both marriage during
the same year, around a year after the start of the Second World War. The marriage of Evelyn Collitt and Charles
Leaper Wilson, born on 11th October 1916, was recorded at the
Durham South-Eastern register office (Ref. 10a 284) during the third quarter
of 1940. Her brother’s wedding took
place within the next few months. Evelyn gave birth to a son followed by a
daughter, the births of both of them were recorded at Durham South-Eastern
register office, when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collitt. They were David G Wilson (Ref. 10a
137) during the second quarter of 1942, and Barbara A Wilson (Ref. 1a
877) during the first three months of 1951.
Evelyn Wilson, nee Collitt, was recorded at Durham register office
(Ref. 1 1460) during 1990. The later
death of Charles Leaper Wilson was also recorded at Durham register office
(Ref. 3501B B13) during 2002. |
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27R13
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Stephen Kenneth Collitt was born at Colchester in Essex on 17th May
1953, the eldest of three children of Kenneth William Collitt and Edna Doreen
Collitt. His birth was recorded at Colchester register office
(Ref. 4a 725), when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collitt. Stephen was twenty-five when he married
Gillian Ruby Scrivener on 22nd May 1978, and they have two
children. Gillian was born on 11th
August 1956. In 2010 Stephen and
Gillian were living in Essex, and it is thanks to Stephen and his sister
Christina (below), that much of the detail regarding their family line has
been gathered and generously provided for inclusion here. |
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27S12
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Hannah Georgina Collitt |
Born in 1981 at Colchester |
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27S13
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Andrea
Beth Collitt |
Born in 1985 at Colchester |
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27R14
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Trevor William
Collitt was born on 11th November 1955, the second son
of Kenneth William Collitt and Edna Doreen Collitt, whose birth was also recorded at Colchester
register office (Ref. 4a 639), his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Collitt. Trevor married Julie Rose Blenko on 16th
December 1978, with whom he has three children, Julie having been born on 5th
June 1957. |
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27S14
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James William Collitt |
Born in 1980 at Colchester |
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27S15
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Zena Rose Collitt |
Born in 1982 at Colchester |
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27S16
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Tessa
Louise Collitt |
Born in 1992 at Colchester |
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27R15
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Christina Margaret
Collitt, who is known
as Nit, was born on 27th November 1960, the daughter of Kenneth
William Collitt and Edna Doreen Collitt, Kenneth and Edna being distantly
related. Christina’s birth was recorded at Colchester register
office (Ref. 4a 912), when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collitt. It was also at Colchester register office
that, thirty-one years later, the marriage of Christina and Roger Sidney
Hammond was recorded (Ref. 9 2314) for their wedding day on 27th
June 1992. Roger was born on 20th
April 1961 and they have three children, with the family at Hitchin,
Hertfordshire, in 2010. The children
are William G Hammond who was born on 2nd December 1993, Gabrielle
R Hammond who was born on 8th June 1995, and Lucinda (Lulu)
A Hammond who was born on 24th August 1998. |
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It
is thanks to the tremendous amount of information received from Christina
Hammond nee Collitt, and her brother Stephen Collitt (above), that the story
of her family from Ralph Collett (Ref. 36I1) and Anne Vevers in the 1600s can
be told in such detail. |
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27R16
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Jessie Collett was born at Middleton in Manchester in
1899, the eldest child of John Collett of Thornham and Eliza Shepherd of
Middleton. Her birth was recorded at
Oldham (Ref. 8d 705) during the last quarter of 1899. In March 1901, just before the birth of her
brother John (below), Jessie Collett was one-year old and was staying with
her grandmother Alice Collett at Stakehill in Middleton. Tragically, it was later that same year
that the death of Jessie Collett aged two years was recorded at Chorlton in
Lancashire (Ref. 8c 540) during the final quarter of 1901. Chorlton is today Chorlton-on-Medlock. |
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27R17
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ROBERT COLLETT, who was known as Bob, was born at
Gorton in Manchester during 1901, the eldest surviving child of John and
Eliza Collett. His birth was recorded
at Chorlton register office (Ref. 8c 843) during the last three months of
1901. Robert was nine years of age in
the Longsight Manchester census of 1911 when he and his family were
identified at 13 Grasmere Street just west of Gorton. He was eleven years old when he and his
family emigrated to Queensland in Australia, and it was there also where he was
an apprentice jeweller and went to work and live in Sydney. He later married Alice Lydia Dalley with
whom he had two children. |
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27S17
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JOHN ROBERT COLLETT |
Born in 1932
in Sydney |
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27S18
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Beverley Mary Collett |
Born in 1937
in Sydney |
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27R18
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James Collett, who was known as Jim, was born at
Gorton in Manchester in 1904, his birth recorded at Chorlton register office
(Ref. 8c 866) during the first quarter of 1904. He was seven years old in April 1911 when,
the census that month, placed him and his family living at 13 Grasmere Street
in the Longsight area of south Manchester and not far from Gorton, his
confirmed place of birth. Two years
afterwards, his parents emigrated to Australia, taking James and his two
brothers with them. On leaving school
and, from the family home at McConnell Street in Bulimba, Jim was an
apprentice watchmaker and went to Cairns to work for McDonnell jeweller. His family moved to Bald Knob in 1925,
following which, on 28th February 1927, Jim married Eileen May
Losberg, the half-sister of Kathleen Anastasia Boardman, who married Jim’s
brother Edward Collett (below). Their
marriage produced two children for Jim and Eileen, and it was on 7th
July 1988 that Eileen May Collett nee Losberg passed away. |
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27S19
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Yvonne Eileen Collett |
Born in 1927
at Townsville, Australia |
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27S20
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Marillyn
Collett |
Born in 1943 at
Brisbane |
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27R19
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John Collett, who was known as Jack, was born at
Gorton in Manchester in 1907, while his birth was recorded at Chorlton
register office (Ref. 8c 797) during the fourth quarter of that year. He was three years of age in the census of
1911 when he was living at 13 Grasmere Street in Longsight, Manchester. Within the next two years his parents
emigrated to Australia and settled at McConnell Street in Bulimba,
Queensland. In 1925 the family moved
to Bald Knob, where they had a banana farm.
Prior to the move, Jack was an apprentice sailmaker in Brisbane, but
accompanied his family to Bald Knob and helped with the work on the banana
plantation. He later worked as a
powder monkey at the Blue Metal Quarry and, three years after his father
passed away, John Collett married Gladys Huet on 6th October 1933. Gladys presented Jack with five children
when they were residing in Brisbane.
Gladys Collett nee Huet died at Gladstone in Queensland on 3rd
June 1980 and four years later John Collett also died in Gladstone on 29th
June 1984. |
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27S21
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Jack Collett |
Born in 1934
at Brisbane |
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27S22
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Mervyn Collett |
Born in 1936
at Brisbane |
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27S23
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Valerie Collett |
Born in 1938
at Brisbane |
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27S24
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Kevin Collett |
Born in 1939
at Brisbane |
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27S25
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Barry Collett |
Born in 1943
at Brisbane |
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27R20
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Edward Collett was born at Brisbane in 1915 after his
parents had emigrated to Australia from England towards the end of 1912. He and his twin brother Ernest (below) were
the sons of John and Eliza Collett. Upon
the death of his father, John Collett, in 1930, the age of the twins was
revealed as 15 years, confirming that they were born in 1915. It was during 1946 when Edward Collett,
known as Ed, married Kathleen Anastasia Boardman, who was the half-sister of
Eileen May Losberg who had married Edward’s older brother James Collett (above). Over the following five years Kathleen gave
birth to three children while the family was living in Brisbane. Kathleen Collett nee Boardman died in 1970
and, after twenty-nine years as a widowed, Edward Collett died at Currumbin
in Queensland during 1999. |
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27S26
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Edward Charles Collett |
Born in 1947
at Brisbane |
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27S27
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Stepheny Eliza Collett |
Born in 1949
at Brisbane |
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27S28
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Edwina Amanda Collett |
Born in 1951
at Brisbane |
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27R21
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Ernest Collett was known as Ern and was born at
Brisbane in 1915, one of twin sons born to John and Eliza Collett from
England. The year of birth of the
twins was revealed on their father’s death certificate in 1930, which stated
they were 15 years old. And it was in
Australia, during 1945, where he married Violet Grace Carlsen, who was known
as Grace. Their three children and later
family members were all born in Brisbane, where Grace died in 1992, followed
by Ernest, who passed away during 2003. |
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27S29
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Lorraine June Collett |
Born in 1946
at Brisbane |
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27S30
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Robert John Collett |
Born in 1948
at Brisbane |
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27S31
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Dianne Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1950
at Brisbane |
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27R22
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Doris Hazel Collett was born during 1918 at the family
home on McConnell Street in Bulimba and initially went to school at Bulimba. Later on, she attended Bald Knob and Maleny
state schools after her family had left Bulimba. She was 12 years old when her father died at
Maleny in 1930. After the death of her
father, the family moved to Eight Mile Plains, a suburb of Brisbane, where Doris
worked in the Post Office and the Clay family shop. It was at the latter where she met and
became good friends with Grace Carlsen (her brother Ern’s wife to be),
eventually sharing a house with Grace.
Doris contracted cerebral meningitis and passed away on 21st
August 1943 at 24 years of age. Her
ashes are in a family plot purchased by her older brother Jim Collett
(above). |
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27R23
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Frank
Collett was born at McConnell Street in Bulimba, Brisbane in
Queensland, Australia, on 4th November 1920, the son of labourer
John Collett aged 43 years and 4 months.
Frank was nine years of age when his father died on 1st
April 1930. The death of his father
subsequently resulted in the family moving to Eight Mile Plains, in Brisbane,
where, on finishing his schooling, Frank was employed as a truck driver by
the Clay family, delivering farm materials and groceries. His older sister Doris was already working
at the Clay family shop, so very likely arranged for her brother to join the
family business. He met his future
wife when the Klein family moved to a farm at Eight Mile Plains. However, before he became a married man,
Frank had enlisted with the army on 18th March 1941 when he was a
truck driver aged 20 years and three months.
His army record stated that he had been a member of the Citizen
Military Forces from 18th March 1941 until 29th
September 1942. The following day he
entered service with the Australian Imperial Force, with whom he served until
17th December 1945. |
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After
peace was declared and, upon being discharged from duty, his military records
contained the following personal details.
He was demobbed at Redbank, in Queensland, as a married man and was
discharged with nil disabilities, apart from a scar on his left palm. He was 5 feet 8½ inches tall, weighing 11
stone, with blue eyes, a fair complexion, and light brown hair. He had served a total of 1,736 days with
the AIF, 440 in Australia and 975 overseas, and had reach the rank of
sergeant, service number QX40603. |
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It
was during the war, when he was 23, that Frank Collett had married Doris
Hazel Klein at Murwillumbah in New South Wales and, after completing his
military service in New Guinea, he became a carpenter. It was through his newfound skills that
Frank built the family home, and the furniture, at 165 Ninth Avenue, St Lucia
in Brisbane. He was also a keen
gardener and had a marvellous vegetable patch. Frank also entertained family and friends,
playing the piano accordion and harmonica.
At the time of his death, on 18th February 2001, aged 80,
he and Doris were residing at 60 Agnes Street in the Birkdale district of
Brisbane. |
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The
marriage of Frank and Doris Hazel produced three children, as listed
below. And it was Robyn who contacted
Brian Collett through the website www.collettfamilyhistory.net in 2018. The information kindly supplied by Robyn
has enabled this family line to be extended to include her and her two
sisters, where nothing was known previously.
When Frank Collett died, on 18th February 2001, he was at
the Sylvan Woods Nursing Home in Birkdale, where the cause of death was
carcinoma of the lungs – five months, ischaemic heart disease – suffered for
the past 20 years, and dementia for one year.
The informant of his passing was his wife D H Collett of 60 Agnes
Street, Birkdale. His funeral was
conducted at the Mount Thompson Crematorium on 21st February 2001. |
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27S32
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Margaret Anne Collett |
Born in 1945 in
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Helen Dianne Collett |
Born in 1948
in Brisbane |
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27S34
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Robyn
Frances Collett |
Born in 1953
in Brisbane |
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27S1 |
Marian Norma Collitt was born in 1944, the older of the two daughters of Donald
Fine Collitt and Joyce Lillian Lowman.
Her birth was
recorded at the Essex Rochford register office (Ref. 4a 1005) during the third
quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Lowman. She was six years old when, as
Miss Marian N Collitt, her name was on the passenger list of the SS Arawa of the Shaw-Saville & Albion Company that sailed
out of Southampton on 28th August 1951, bound for Wellington in
New Zealand. She was accompanied by
her younger sister Julia (below) and their mother Mrs Joyce L Collett aged 28
and a housewife. |
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Julia M Collitt
was born in 1946 with
her birth recorded at Rochford, Essex, register office (Ref. 4a 1268) during
the first three months of that year, the younger of the two daughters of
Donald Fine Collitt and Joyce Lillian Lowman.
The record of her birth also confirmed that her mother’s maiden-name
was Lowman. She was five years old
when, as Miss Julia M Collitt, her name was on the passenger list of the SS Arawa of the Shaw-Saville & Albion Company that
sailed out of Southampton on 28th August 1951, bound for Wellington
in New Zealand. She was accompanied by
her older sister Marian (above) and their mother Mrs Joyce L Collett aged 28
and a housewife. |
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Geoffrey Wayne Collitt was born in Australia during 1945 and
was the son of Albert Collitt. No further
details are known about his mother, or whether he had any brothers or
sisters. He later married Anne
Constance Ide in 1970 with whom he had five children. It was his ex-wife Anne Glennie who first
contacted Christina Hammond in 2012 who put her in touch with Brian Collett,
and the new information that she kindly provided enabled this line to be
extended. |
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Collitt |
Born after
1970 |
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Christopher
Collitt |
Born after
1970 |
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Sharon
Collitt |
Born after
1970 |
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27T4
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Grant Collitt |
Born after
1970 |
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27T5
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Darren
Collitt |
Born after
1970 |
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27S4 |
Jean Rose Collitt was born at Stockton-on-Tees in 1929, where her birth
was recorded (Ref. 10a 137) during
the third quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Doyle. She was the first of the three
children of Stanley Rose Collitt and Elsie E Doyle. It was either at the end of 1949 or at the
beginning of 1950, when Jean R Collitt married Thomas W Thomas. The event was recorded at Durham South-Eastern
register office (Ref. 1a 1741) during the first months of 1950. The first of the couple’s three children was
born nine months after their wedding day, with the birth of Yvonne Rose Thomas recorded at Durham South-Eastern register
office (Ref. 1a 827) during the third quarter of 1950. Seven years later their second child was
born and five years after that the couple’s last child was added to the
family. In the case of those two
children, their births were recorded at Middlesbrough register office, when
the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collitt, as it was for the first
child. Adrian D Thomas was born
in 1957 (Ref. 1b 1112) during the second quarter of the year, and Rosanna M C Thomas in 1962 (Ref. 1) during the third quarter
of that year. |
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27S5 |
William David Collitt was born at Stockton-on-Tees in 1933, with his birth
recorded there during the second quarter of the year (Ref. 10a 107) and with his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Doyle. He was the only son of Stanley Rose Collitt
and Elsie E Doyle. It was during the
second quarter of 1961 that the marriage of William D Collitt and Jean Fox
was recorded at Cleveland register office (Ref. 1b 1019). Three children were
born to the couple over the following twelve years, one at Middlesbrough, the
births of the other two recorded at Cleveland register office, with their
mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Fox on all three occasions. |
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David William Collitt |
Born in 1963 at Middlesbrough |
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Jacqueline Collitt |
Born in 1966 at Cleveland, Yorks. |
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Richard Collitt |
Born in 1973 at Cleveland, Yorks. |
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27S6 |
Marie A Collitt was born at Durham in 1945 and it was at Durham
South-Eastern register office (Ref. 10a
110) during the first quarter of the year.
Her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Doyle, being the youngest
child of Stanley Rose Collitt and Elsie E Doyle. |
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27S7 |
Pamela A Collitt was born in 1953 her
birth recorded at Durham South-Eastern register office (Ref. 1a 920) during
the third quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Ellerby. She was the only child of
William George Collitt and Enda Ellerby, and she married Gerard O’Hare in
1981. Their wedding was recorded at
North Cleveland register office (Ref. 3 1873) during the last three months of
that year. No record of any children
has been found. |
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27S8 |
Christine Collitt was born at Durham in 1945, the eldest of the four children of Edwin F
Collett and Kathleen Broadbent. Like
all of her siblings, the birth of Christine Collitt was recorded at Durham
South-Eastern register office (Ref. 10a 112) during the last three months of
1945, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Broadbent. Towards the end of 1967, the marriage of
Christine Collitt and Brian Mooney was recorded at Durham South-Eastern
register office (Ref. 1a 1519) during the last three months of the year. The couple settled in the north-east of
England, with the births of their two children recorded at Teesside South
register, with the mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Collitt. Their first child was Stephanie Christine Mooney - possibly a honeymoon baby, whose birth was recorded
during the second quarter of 1968 (Ref. 1b 1091). Their son, Andrew Brian Mooney, had his birth recorded there during the fourth quarter of 1973 (Ref.
1b 2274). |
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27S9 |
Pauline Collitt was at Durham in 1947 another daughter of Edwin and Kathleen Collett,
her birth recorded at Durham South-Eastern register office (Ref. 1a 1001)
during the third quarter of the year. Her birth record also confirmed that her
mother’s maiden-name was Broadbent.
Pauline was twenty when she married James A Williams, their wedding
recorded at Durham South-Eastern register office (Ref. 1a 1693) during the
first quarter of 1968. Just over a
year after the couple’s wedding day, Pauline gave birth to Mark Williams, whose birth was recorded at Teesside register
office (Ref. 1b 2029) during the second quarter of 1969, when his mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Collitt. |
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Edwin Collitt was born
at Durham, most likely before the end of 1949, and was the first son and
third child of Edwin and Kathleen Collett. His birth was recorded at Durham
South-Eastern register office (Ref. 1a 924) during the first months of 1950,
when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Broadbent. |
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27S11 |
Kenneth Collitt was born at Durham in 1951, with his birth recorded at Durham
South-Eastern register office (Ref. 1a 778) during the final three months of
that year. He was the last child born
to Edwin F Collett and Kathleen Broadbent, his mother’s maiden-name confirmed
as such on his birth record. Kenneth
was just twenty years of age when his marriage to Jacqueline Smith was
recorded at Teesside register office (Ref. 1b 1547) during the last three
months of 1971. |
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27S12
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Hannah Georgina Collitt was born at Colchester in Essex on 17th July
1981, the eldest of two children of Stephen Kenneth Collitt and Gillian Ruby
Scrivener. Her birth was recorded at Colchester register
office (Ref. 9 338), when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Scrivener. Hannah married farmer Martin Speck and they
have two sons, Joshua Speck and William Speck. |
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27S13 |
Andrea Beth Collitt was born at Colchester on 5th February 1985, her birth recorded there (Ref.
9 3003) with her mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Scrivener. She was the younger of the two daughters of
Stephen Kenneth Collitt and Gillian Ruby Scrivener. |
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27S14
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James William Collitt
was born at Colchester on 2nd
July 1980, the eldest son of Trevor William Collitt and Julie Rose
Blenko. His birth was recorded at Colchester register office
(Ref. 9 3031) with his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Blenko. It was twenty-nine years later, on 25th
July 2009, when James William Collitt married Joelle Elizabeth King, who was
born on 22nd June 1983. Over the next decade, Joelle
gave birth to a daughter and two sons. |
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27T9
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Emily Rose
Collitt |
Born on
08.04.2013 |
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27T10
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Henry James
Collitt |
Born on
11.04.2015 |
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27T11
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George William Collitt |
Born on 02.10.2019 |
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27S15
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Zena Rose Collitt was born at Colchester on 27th September 1982,
the second of the three children of Trevor and Julie Collitt. The birth of Zena Rose was recorded at Colchester register office
(Ref. 9 3111) when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Blenko. It was on 29th August 2009 that
she married Jamie Sinclair Simcox.
Zena later presented her husband with a daughter, and she was followed
by the birth of a son, Peter David Simcox, who was born on 8th May 2014. |
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27S16 |
Tessa Louise Collitt was born at Colchester on 23rd November 1992, her birth recorded at
Colchester register office (Ref. 9 3053) where her mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Blenko. She was
the youngest of the three children of Trevor William Collitt and Julie Rose
Blenko. |
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27S17 |
JOHN ROBERT COLLETT of Murray Farm Road at Beecroft in New
South Wales was born in Sydney on 13th February 1932, the eldest
of the two children of Bob Collett and Alice Lydia Dalley. He was twenty-one when he married Esme
Hamilton in Australia on 12th April 1953. Their marriage produced a total of four
children, all born in Australia. John
and Esme attended the two Shepton Mallet Collett Reunions in 1996 and 2006
when, during the latter, John was involved in a tree-planting ceremony. This photograph of John was taken during
his visit to Somerset in 2006. |
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Esme
Collett nee Hamilton passed away during the first few days of December 2013
and it was John himself who confirmed the details to Margaret Chadd nee
Collett. After almost five years as a
widower, John Robert Collett of Beecroft in New South Wales died from cancer
on Thursday 8th November 2018, his death reported in the Sydney
Daily Telegraph. |
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27T12
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JAMES GREGORY COLLETT |
Born in 1959
in Australia |
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27T13
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David |
Born in 1962
in Australia |
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27T14
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Robert |
Born in 1967
in Australia |
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27T15
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Jennifer Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1970
in Australia |
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27S18
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Beverley Mary Collett was born in Sydney during 1937 and she
married Robert Jackson in 1982. She
was only married for twenty-eight years, when she died in 2010. |
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27S19
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Yvonne Eileen Collett, who was known as Bonnie, was born at
Townsville, south of Cairns in Queensland, on 15th June 1927, the
older of the two daughters of Jim and Eileen Collett. She was around twenty-three when she
married David Lowrie in 1950, with whom she had four children. They were married just less than twenty-five
years when David died on 30th January 1975. The eldest of their four children Cynthia
Eileen Lowrie, was born in Brisbane in 1953 and later married Des
Suttle. They had no children. Vanessa Lowrie was born at Ipswich,
south-west of Brisbane, in 1956 and she married Terry Bean and they had two
children, Jessica May Bean born 7th February 1986 and Caitlin Bean
born 18th February 1988.
The two youngest children of David and Bonnie are James David
Lowrie, born in 1959, and Nicholas Mark Lowrie, born in 1964, both
of them born in Brisbane. Nicholas
later married Vanessa Taylor. Yvonne
Eileen Lowrie was 84 when she passed away in 2011. |
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27S21
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Jack Collett was born in Brisbane during 1934, the
first of the five children of John (Jack) Collett and Gladys May Huet. He was twenty-one years old when he married
Joan Irene Pye in 1955. With no
children of their own, Jack and Joan eventually adopted two children Clive
and Janice, who were both born in Brisbane.
Jack Collett was 84 when he passed away at Adelaide in 2018. |
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27T16
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Clive John
Collett – adopted |
Born in 1960
in Brisbane |
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27T17
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Janice Marie
Louise Collett - adopted |
Born in 1961
in Brisbane |
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27S22
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Mervyn Collett was born in Brisbane during 1936,
another child of John and Gladys Collett.
He initially married Linda May Trenaman, with whom he had three
children, but from whom he was later divorced. now divorced. |
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27T18
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Robyn Narelle
Collett |
Born in 1961
in Brisbane |
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27T19
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Andrea Gayle
Collett |
Born in 1964
in Brisbane |
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27T20
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Wendy Collett |
Born in 1969
in Brisbane |
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27S23
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Valerie Collett was born in Brisbane during 1938, the
only daughter in the family of five children of John and Gladys Collett. She married Leo James Wallace who provided
her with a daughter and twin boys before they were divorced. All three children were born when the
family was living in Brisbane and they were Jill Rosemary Wallace,
born in 1959, and Barry James Wallace and Russell John Wallace who
were born in 1965. |
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27S24
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Kevin Collett was born in Brisbane during 1939, and
all that is currently known about him is that he died in Gladstone around
2008. |
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27S25
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Barry Collett was born in Brisbane during 1943, the
youngest of the five children of John (Jack) Collett and Gladys May
Huett. He was twenty-five when he was
first married to (1) Barbara Wool in 1968.
It was during that marriage that Barbara presented Barry with three
children. However, the couple was
later divorced, after which Barry married (2) Elaine Joyce Miller. |
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27T21
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Leanne Joy
Collett |
Born in 1969
in Brisbane |
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27T22
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Barry John
Collett |
Born in 1973
at Gladstone |
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27T23
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Julia May
Collett |
Born in 1974
at Gladstone |
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27S26
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Edward Charles Collett was born at Brisbane in 1947, the
eldest of the three children of Ed Collett and Kathleen Boardman. He was known within the family was Charlie
and, apart from that, the only other known detail is that he died in New
South Wales during 1969. |
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27S27
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Stephany Eliza Collett was born at Brisbane in 1949, the
middle one of the three children of Edward and Kathleen Collett. She was in her early thirties when
Stephany married Andrew Jamieson in 1980, with whom she had two
children. It was on Thursday Island,
in the Torres Strait, just north of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, that
the couple’s first child Elizabeth Anastasia Stepheny Jamieson was
born in 1985. Four years later the
family of three was residing in Cairns, where their son Stuart Edward
Andrew Jamieson was born in 1989. |
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27S28
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Edwina Amanda Collett was born at Brisbane in 1951 and was
the youngest child of Edward and Kathleen Collett. Edwina was in New Zealand when she gave
birth to Peter David Watkins who was born
on 2nd August 1969. It was
in 1985 that she married Eugene Joseph Brown and seven years later her son
Peter married Marlene on 25th December 1992 and they had three
children. Jaysa-May Watkins was born on
24th January 1994, Seth Thomas Watkins was born on 1st
February 1996 and Kayelle Amanda Watkins was born on 26th July 1997. |
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27S29
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Lorraine June Collett was born at Brisbane in 1946, the
eldest child of Ernest Collett and Violet Grace Carlsen. Lorraine later married Colin
James Brine in 1975, with whom she had two children. The first of them was Stephen James
Brine was born at Brisbane in 1978 and he married Deborah Elizabeth
MacKay during 2005. Their five
Brisbane born children were twins Stephen James Brine and Jessie Rose Brine
born in 2008, who sadly died at birth, Lucy Elizabeth Brine born in 2010, Toby
Maxwell Brine born in 2014 who also died at birth, and Amelia Kate Brine who
was born in 2015. Lorraine and Colin’s
second child was David Charles Brine who was born in 1981 and also in
Brisbane. |
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27S30
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Robert John Collett was born at Brisbane on 16th
September 1948, another child of Ernest and Grace Collett. Robert married Helen
Edmondstone during 1971 and they had three children, all of them born in
Brisbane. In 2019, when Robert made
contact, he was residing at Mutdapilly
in Queensland. |
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27T24
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Sharyn Louise Collett |
Born in 1971
in Brisbane |
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27T25
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Randall John
Collett |
Born in 1974 in
Brisbane |
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27T26
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Tanya Renee
Collett |
Born in 1978 in
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27S31
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Dianne Elizabeth Collett
was born at Brisbane in
1950 and was the youngest of the three children of Ernest and Grace
Collett. She was later married
to Ian Maslen in 1972 and their two children are Peter Ian Maslen, who
was born in Brisbane during 1976 and Nadia Lynn Maslen who was also
born at Brisbane, but in 1978. Peter
married Joanne Brown, who was born in 1974, and they had two children, Tahlia
Louise Mason (born 1999) and Kyden Mason Maslen who were both orphaned when
first their father died at Brisbane in 2009, aged 32, and then their mother
died in 2013, aged 38. Nadia married
Wayne Cook in 2011 and they have two children, Matthew Finn Cook who was born in 2011 and Isla Grace
Cook who was born in 2013. |
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27S32
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Margaret Anne Collett was born in Brisbane during 1945, the
eldest of the three daughters of Frank Collett and Doris Hazel Klein. It was in 1967 when Margaret married
James Roderick Alexander Ewing, following which they had two children. Their son Craig Andrew Ewing was born
at Brisbane in 1971 and he has two children of his own, born in Brisbane, Amelia
Grace Ewing who born there in 2007 and Jack Andrew Reginald Ewing who was born
in 2008. The daughter of James and
Margaret, Kylie Anne Ewing, was also born in Brisbane, in 1973 and she
married Scott Michael Lenahan on 8th September 2001. They also have two children, Jacob Riley
Lenahan who was born in 2003 and Caitlin Elizabeth Lenahan who was born in
2006 when the couple was living in Brisbane. |
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27S33
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Helen Dianne Collett was born in Brisbane during 1948,
another daughter of Frank and Doris Collett.
She married John Kingston Pizzey who was born on 5th
July 1945 and they had two children, both born in Brisbane, before John died
on 15th February 2015.
Their son Robert John Pizzey was born in 1967 and he married
Ondrea Kingston, with whom he had a daughter Ellen Louise Kingston Pizzey,
born at Cairns in 1992, but from whom he was later divorced. Helen and John’s daughter was Rowena
Elizabeth Pizzey and she was born in Brisbane in 1970. |
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27S34
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Robyn
Frances Collett was
born in Brisbane in 1953, the last of the three daughters of Frank and Doris
Collett. Robyn later married Ronald John
Fitzpatrick, who were subsequently divorced, but only after their daughter
was born. Kim Louise Fitzpatrick was born in
Singapore during 1973 and, with her partner Iain Rowley, has two Brisbane
born children Ava Rose Louise Rowley, born there is 2014, and Jack Murray
Rowley who was born in 2016. It was
Robyn who kindly provided all the new family details for a major update of
this family line in 2018. |
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27T6 |
David William
Collitt was born at Middlesbrough in 1963, where his
birth was recorded (Ref. 1b 1226) during the first three months of the year,
when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Fox. He was the first of the three children of William David Collitt and Jean Fox. Shortly after he was born, the family moved
to the Cleveland area of Yorkshire, where David’s two sisters were born. When he was twenty-eight years old his
marriage to Kay P Garth was recorded at East Cleveland register office (Ref.
3 2575) during the summer of 1991. Almost one years after they were married,
Kay gave birth to the first of two sons, whose birth was recorded at Central
Cleveland register office (Ref. 3 2455) during June 1992. Just less than
three years later, the birth of the couple’s second son was recorded at East
Cleveland register office (Ref. 3491 A7) during the month of May in
1995. The mother’s maiden-name for
both births was confirmed as Garth. |
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27U1 |
Steven David Collett |
Born in 1992 at Durham |
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Karl William R Collett |
Born in 1995 at Cleveland, Yorks. |
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27T7 |
Jacqueline Collitt
was born at Cleveland in 1966, her birth recorded there (Ref. 1b 845) during
the first quarter of the year, with her mother’s maiden-name confirmed as
Fox. She was the only daughter amongst
the three children of William David
Collitt and Jean Fox. |
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27T8 |
Richard Collitt
was born at Cleveland in 1973 where his birth was recorded (Ref. 1b 1555)
during the last three months of the year, his mother’s maiden-name also
confirmed as Fox. He was the youngest
child of William and Jean
Collitt. It was during the spring of
2004 that Richard Collitt and Sarah J Kent were married, the event recorded
at Amber Valley in Derbyshire (Ref. 392 1049). |
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27T12 |
JAMES GREGORY COLLETT was born in 1959, the eldest child of
John Robert Collett and his wife Esme Hamilton. He later married and had a son of his own. Tragically, it was during 2018 that he
suffered a premature death, just six weeks before his father passed away. |
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CHRISTOPHER JOHN COLLETT |
Born in 1990
in Australia |
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27T13
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David John Collett was born in in Australia on 24th March 1962,
the second son of John and Esme Collett. |
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27T14 |
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27U4 |
Emily Lauren
Collett |
Born on 27.02.1994 at Sydney |
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27U5 |
Danielle
Collett |
Born on 06.09.1996 in Sydney |
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27U6 |
Lachlan John Collett |
Born on 16.02.2001 in Sydney |
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27T15 |
Jennifer Elizabeth
Collett was born in
1970 and she married David Sorkovsky in 1996. Their marriage produced three children who
were born in Sydney, and they were Luke Sorkovsky who was born
on 14th February 1999, Mark Sorkovsky who was born on 24th
April 2002 and Tara Sorkovsky who
was born on 22nd August 2006. |
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27T24
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Sharyn Louise Collett was born in Brisbane in 1971, the
daughter of Robert John Collett and Helen Edmondstone. In 1994 she married Mark
Stieler and they had two sons, Ben Stieler and Ryan Stieler. |
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27T25
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Randall John Collett was
born in Brisbane in 1974, the only son of Robert and Helen Collett, and he married
Natasha Sandorp in 1996. During the
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27U7 |
Aiden Randall
Collett |
Born in 1997
in Australia |
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Tanya Renee Collett was
born in Brisbane in 1978, the third of the three children of Robert John
Collett and Helen Edmondstone. She was
married in Brisbane and has two children Emily and Preston. |
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27U3 |
CHRISTOPHER JOHN COLLETT
was born in New South
Wales on 9th May 1990, the son of James Gregory Collett. It was on 13th January 2012 when
he married Tess Pollard, with whom he has five children, including twins, by
2017. All of the new details included
in the July 2019 edition of this family line, were kindly provided by
Marillyn Collett (Ref. 27S20) who gathered the information after attending
the funeral of her cousin John Robert Collett (Ref. 27S17) in 2018, which was
then supplied by her cousin Robyn Frances Collett (Ref. 27S34). |
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27V1 |
Aden Collett |
Born on 15.11.2009
in Australia |
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27V2 |
Oliver
Collett twin |
Born on 14.10.2012
in Australia |
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27V3 |
Scarlett
Collett twin |
Born on 14.10
2012 in Australia |
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27V4 |
Willow
Collett |
Born on 29.05.2014
in Australia |
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27V5 |
Poppy Collett |
Born on 02.05.2017
in Australia |
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