PART TWENTY-NINE

The Cirencester to Australia Line

(including the Turkdean to Wales Line)

Updated August 2018

	Within the 1996 Supplement to The Collett Saga by Margaret Chadd there are details on pages 29 and 30 of the Gloucestershire - Perth Collett family. This branch of the family was reproduced for the Collett Family History website in 2006 using the details provided therein. However, a chance record found during an investigation into an update for Part 5 - The Tewkesbury Line in 2012 revealed an error in the details of the Gloucestershire to Perth family. This relates to William Collett (Ref. 29n5) of Turkdean, the son of William Collett (Ref. 29m4) of Turkdean, a stonemason, and his wife Hannah Deane. William, the son, was a shoemaker who raised his family in Charlton Kings, and who eventually took his family to live in Wales. Whereas the William Collett who married Susan James at Cirencester in 1859 was born at Cirencester in the same year as William the shoemaker, hence the confusion.
	This means that the mention of William entering the army and becoming a sergeant with the 66^th Gloucestershire Foot Regiment during the Crimean War does not relate to William Collett, the shoemaker. Instead, he is believed to be William Collard Collett, aka William Collett (Ref. 29N1) of Cirencester, which has brought about a change of name for this family line. However, in order to avoid a major re-write of this family line, a new appendix has been included at the end of this file which provides the details of the family of shoemaker William Collett of Turkdean, Charlton Kings, and later of Wales.
	The Coln Rogers Connection to Cirencester and Australia
29K1	John Collett was married to Susannah Rodway at All Saints Church in Preston, near Cirencester, on 31^st May 1765. Once they were married John and Susannah settled in Coln Rogers where all of their children were baptised over the next seventeen years.
	29L1	John Collett	Born in 1766 at Coln Rogers; infant death
	29L2	Sarah Collett	Born in 1767 at Coln Rogers
	29L3	John Collett	Born in 1772 at Coln Rogers
	29L4	Thomas Collett	Born in 1774 at Coln Rogers
	29L5	William Collett	Born in 1776 at Coln Rogers; infant death
	29L6	William Collett	Born in 1778 at Coln Rogers
	29L7	Anne Collett	Born in 1778 at Coln Rogers
	29L8	Susannah Collett	Born in 1779 at Coln Rogers
	29L9	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1782 at Coln Rogers
	29L10	Francis Collett	Born in 1782 at Coln Rogers
29L1	John Collett was a honeymoon baby born in 1766 at Coln Rogers, where he was baptised in St Andrew’s Church on 13^th February 1766. As the first child of John Collett and Susannah Rodway, it would appear that he did not survive and, although no record of his death has found, the couple’s third child was also named John.
29L2	Sarah Collett was born at Coln Rogers and was baptised there on 30^th July 1767, the eldest daughter of John and Susannah Collett.
29L3	John Collett was born at Coln Rogers, the third child of John and Susannah who was named after the couple’s deceased first child. It was at the Church of St Andrew in Coln Rogers where he was baptised on 2^nd January 1772. It is possible, although not proved, that he married Frances Smith at nearby Chedworth on 2^nd November 1808
29L4	Thomas Collett was born at Coln Rogers where he was baptised on 20^th May 1774, another son of John and Susannah Collett.
29L5	William Collett was born at Coln Rogers in 1776 and was baptised there on 21^st August 1776. Just over two years later another son of the same name was born to John and Susannah Collett, most likely because of the premature death of this William Collett.
29L6	William Collett was born at Coln Rogers in 1778 two years after his namesake was born there, who did not survive, William being named in his honour. He too was baptised at Coln Rogers on 26^th December 1778, in a joint ceremony with his sister Anne (below) who may, or may not, have been his twin sister.
29L7	Anne Collett may have been a twin with her brother William (above), as they were both baptised at Coln Rogers on 26^th December 1778, the children of John and Susannah Collett.
29L8	Susannah Collett was baptised at Coln Rogers on 18^th July 1779, the eighth known child of John and Susannah Collett. Like her brother John (above) and her sister Elizabeth (below), Susannah may have married Thomas Hawker at Chedworth on 7^th November 1805.
29L9	Elizabeth Collett may have been born around 1781 but was baptised with her younger brother Francis (below) at Coln Rogers on 29^th June 1782. Like two of her older siblings John and Susannah, Elizabeth married Joseph Scrivey at Chedworth on 9^th October 1806.
29L10	Francis Collett was baptised at Coln Rogers on 29^th June 1782, the same day that his sister Elizabeth (above) was also baptised there. Francis was the last child of John Collett and Susannah Rodway. Sixty years after he was born, Francis Collett from Coln Rogers and his wife Sarah were residing in a property on Cricklade Street in Cirencester. With them on the day of the census in June 1841 was their unmarried daughter Elizabeth Collett who had with her, her base-born son William Collett who was three years old. Francis Collett was 58, his wife Sarah was 57, while daughter Elizabeth had a rounded age of 25. Ten years later the same four members of the family were still living at Cricklade Street, when Francis Collett was described as having been born at Coln Rogers and was a pauper at the age of 68, who was receiving parochial relief. His wife Sarah Collett from Cirencester was 66, their unmarried daughter Elizabeth Collett was 34 and her son was 13 years of age, both of them also born at Cirencester. It was later that same year, when the death of Francis Collet was recorded at Cirencester (Ref. 11 173) during the third quarter of 1851. He was followed six years later by his wife, when the death of Sarah Collett was also recorded at Cirencester (Ref. 6a 193) during the third quarter of 1857.
	29M1	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1816 at Cirencester
29M1	Elizabeth Collett was born at Cirencester around 1816, although no record of her birth or baptism has so far been located. It is the two census records for Cirencester, in 1841 and 1851, which establish that she was the daughter of Francis Collett from Coln Rogers and his wife Sarah from Cirencester. Both of those completed census returns state that Elizabeth was an unmarried woman who had given birth to a son at Cirencester in 1837. Seven years after the census in 1851, at a time when her son had made his own way in life and following after the deaths of both of her parents, Elizabeth Collett was married at Cirencester to Charles Fletcher on 1^st May 1858. Her marriage was short-lived, when the burial of Elizabeth Fletcher, who was born in 1816, was undertaken at Iron Acton, south-west of Cirencester, at the Church of St James the Lesser on 23^rd February 1862.
	29N1	William Collard Collett		Born in 1837 at Cirencester
29N1	William Collard Collett was born at Cirencester in 1837 and initially lived his early years at the Cirencester home of his paternal grandparents Francis and Sarah Collett, having been born out of wedlock to their only child Elizabeth Collett. It was at Cricklade Street in Cirencester that four-year-old William was living with his unmarried mother and her parents in 1841 and again in 1851 when he was 13 and still at school. Upon completing his schooling, just a year or so later, William joined the army and is known to have fought in the Crimean War between 1854 and 1856. He eventually reached the rank of a sergeant with the 66^th Gloucestershire Foot Regiment and after the war he worked as a prison warder.
	It was as William Collett that he married Susan James in Cirencester on 15^th May 1859 and, on that occasion, William was recorded as a labourer of Prices Row in Cirencester while Susan, who was born in 1830 and whose father William James was a farmer, was of Cricklade Street in Cirencester. The couple’s first two children were born in England while plans were being made for the family to travel to the southern hemisphere. After the birth of their first child at Cirencester, William’s work took the family to London, where their second child was born. Rather curiously, no record of William and Susan has been found in the census of 1861, which was conducted just before the birth of their first child. It was shortly after the birth of their second son that the two boys were baptised together at St Mary’s Church in Lambeth, London, on 1^st March 1863. The baptism record confirmed that William Collett was a (prison) warder who was residing in the St Johns area of Westminster.
	When the couple’s second son was approaching his first birthday, William’s employing body sent him and his wife and their two boys on a sea journey as the warden in charge of a group of convicts being transported to Perth in Australia. Their sailing ship, ‘The Clara’, arrived at Fremantle in Western Australia on 12^th April 1864. It may have been the fact that William had no family in England that persuaded the young family to seek a new life in Australia, which they did in Perth, where Susan presented William with four more children.
	Following the birth of their last child, the family moved to Fremantle where, from 1875 to 1881, William was a prison warder at the Fremantle Gaol. He later joined the Pensioner Force of the police department as sergeant-in-charge of the station at Roeburne and was later the recipient of a grant of land in Newcastle Street in Perth. A few years later and, upon his retirement from the police force, where he had been employed from 1884 to 1889, William was working in the service of Government House as a clerk and tax collector back in Perth. Towards the end of his life he acquired further property in Perth at Palmerston Street. William Collett died in Perth on 29^th July 1906 and was followed two years later by his wife Susan who died in 1908. Where, and when, he used the second forename of Collard has so far not been discovered.
	29O1	Francis William Collett		Born in 1860 at Cirencester
	29O2	FREDERICK COLLETT		Born in 1863 in London
	29O3	Thomas Alfred Collett		Born in 1865 at Perth
	29O4	Alice Maria Collett		Born in 1867 at Perth
	29O5	James Henry Collett		Born in 1872 at Perth
29O1	Francis William Collett was born at Cirencester on 13^th September 1861, the eldest child of William Collard Collett and Susan James, his birth recorded at Cirencester (Ref. 6a 318) during the third quarter of 1861. Within the next year, the work of his father, as a prison warder, resulted in the family of three travelling to London, where Francis’ brother Frederick was born. Just after he was born, the family sailed from London to Australia in early 1864 on board The Clara. Francis later married Mary Cooper in 1888 and during his life he was a pharmacist, a coroner, a justice of the peace and a freemason. It seems likely that the couple lived in Perth, where Francis died in 1921. To date it has not been determined whether the marriage produced any children.
29O2	FREDERICK COLLETT was born in London on 7^th December 1863 and his birth was recorded at Westminster St Margaret (Ref. 1a 305) during the first three months of that year. The following year he sailed to Australia with his parents during 1864. He was educated at the Perth Boys Church of England School and later became a cabinet maker, and later a building inspector. He married Harriett Budd on 29^th October 1882, and later in his life he owned property in the suburbs of Perth. And it was there, in Perth, that Frederick Collett died on 1^st March 1943.
	29P1	Frederick William George Collett			Born in 1884 at Perth
	29P2	Ernest Budd Collett			Born in 1886 at Perth
	29P3	Lionel Collett			Born in 1888 at Perth
	29P4	Ethel Collett			Born in 1891 at Perth
	29P5	Arthur Collett			Born in 1893 at Perth
	29P6	HAROLD REGINALD COLLETT			Born in 1894 at Perth
	29P7	Hilda Collett			Born in 1896 at Perth
	29P8	Norman Collett			Born in 1898 at Perth
29O3	Thomas Alfred Collett was born at Perth in 1865, following his parents’ arrival in Australia the previous year. During his life he worked as a pearler and as a farmer. It is not known whether he ever married, but it is known that he died in Perth during 1955.
29O4	Alice Maria Collett was born at Perth in 1867, where she married Fred Parkes.
29P1	Frederick William George Collett was born at Perth on 23^rd July 1884 and he married Ethel Butcher who was born in 1883. Ethel died at the time of the birth of their first and only child in 1913. It was perhaps the trauma of losing his wife that caused Frederick to react badly when in the service of the army during the First World War. He was Private 7755 with F Company of 2^nd Depot Battalion Australian Imperial Force and was subject to a court martial on 3^rd January 1916, followed by a second one month later on 1^st February 1916. History repeated itself during the Second World War when again Private V/29393 Frederick William Collett of the Training Battalion of 1^st Australian Army Service Corp was court-martialled on 11^th August 1944. Frederick never re-married and was a widower for the fifty years of his life up until his death on 14^th July 1963.
	29Q1	Arthur Frederick Collett		Born on 01.01.1913 at Perth
29P2	Ernest Budd Collett was born at Perth in 1886. He married Kathleen Mary, possibly at Perth, where it is known their two sons were born. In 1944, at the time of the death of their son Malcolm during the Second World War, Ernest and Kathleen were living at Burnside in South Australia. Sometime after they left Australia to live in South Africa, where Ernest died n 1970.
	29Q2	Helen Collett – married Mr Gibbs		Date of birth unknown
	29Q3	Marcia Collett – married Mr Muir		Date of birth unknown
	29Q4	Norman Budd Collett		Born on 12.02.1914 at Perth
	29Q5	Malcolm Ernest Collett		Born in 1922 at Perth
29P3	Lionel Collett was born at Perth in 1888 and he died in 1967.
29P4	Ethel Collett was born at Perth in 1891 and she died in 1914.
29P6	HAROLD REGINALD COLLETT was born at Perth on 26^th September 1894 and he married Hilda Muriel Tipping shortly after the First World War in which Harold saw active service. His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirms that: he was born at Perth; he enlisted at Perth; his service number was 855; and his father and next-of-kin was Fred Collett. Hilda Collett nee Tipping, who originally lived in Victoria but later moved to Western Australia, died on 9^th April 1949 and thirty years later was followed by Harold Reginald Collett who died on 1^st January 1980.
	29Q6	Douglas Harold Collett		Born on 25.06.1920 at Perth
	29Q7	Clive Hepburn Collett		Born on 05.07.1923 at Perth
	29Q8	GEORGE SELWYN COLLETT		Born on 16.08.1924
	29Q9	Ernest Lindsay Collett		Born on 21.04.1927
29P7	Hilda Collett was born in 1896 and she died in 1978.
29P8	Norman Collett was born around 1898 and he married Ivy.
29Q1	Arthur Frederick Collett was born at Perth on 1^st January 1913. He played an active role in the Second World War as confirmed by his military record, although his army record stated that his date of birth was 6^th January 1913. His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirmed that: he was born at Perth; he enlisted at Perth; his service number was 46950; and his wife and next-of-kin was June Collett. He married (1) June Nellie Howard around 1945 with whom he had two children, but from whom he was later divorced. It was in 1977 that Arthur married (2) Mrs June (Junie) Mildred Blitz nee Markland.
	Arthur had many interests and was a champion sports car driver and was an advertising agent and was involved with vintage cars. He won his first race in 1949 in an MG TC and was still racing at the age of 75 years. His second wife Junie was a talented craftsperson and together the couple built their own studio at Kalamunda. They were both clay-potters, painters and gardeners, while Junie was skilled in embroidery and making porcelain dolls. On 6^th March 1989, Arthur and Junie attended the Family Dinner at the Mansion House given by Sir Christopher Collett The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of London and the father of Margaret Chadd. Three years later Junie Collett nee Markland died in 1992.
	29R1	Harvey Peter Collett		Born on 28.09.1953
	29R2	Kate Harriet Collett		Born on 17.11.1958
29Q4	Norman Budd Collett was born at Perth on 12^th February 1914 and he played an active part in the Second World War with the Royal Australian Air Force. He was married before the start of the war, although to date no name has been attributed to his wife. His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirmed that: he was born at Perth on 12^th February 1914; he enlisted at Adelaide; his service number was 416091; and his next-of-kin was E Collett - this may have been his father Ernest but is more likely to be his wife about whom nothing is known.
29Q5	Malcolm Ernest Collett was born at Perth 2^nd March 1922. Like his brother Norman Budd Collett he too took an active part in the Second World War. Judging by his military service number he enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force after his brother. His service number was 416414 and at the time he was killed on 22^nd May 1944 at the age of 22, he was a Flying Officer. His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirmed that: he was born at Perth on 2^nd March 1922; he enlisted at Adelaide; his service number was 416414; and his next-of-kin was Ernest Collett. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission recorded his death as follows: Flying Officer Malcolm Ernest Collett, the son of Ernest Budd Collett and Kathleen Mary Collett of Burnside in South Australia, died on 22^nd May 1944 and was buried at Caserta War Cemetery.
29Q6	Douglas Harold Collett was born at Perth on 25^th June 1920 and he played an active part in the Second World War. His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirmed that: he was born at South Perth; he enlisted at Adelaide; his service number was 27144; and his father and next-of-kin was Harold Collett. Douglas Harold Collett married Mary on 20^th May 1950, Mary having been born on 16^th January 1929 in Victoria who later moved to Western Australia. There is some uncertainty about the Christian names of the first two of their four children.
	29R3	Ian Dennis Collett		Born in 1953
	29R4	Wendy Ann Collett		Born on 03.09.1955
	29R5	John Scott Collett		Born on 17.01.1958
	29R6	Charles Collett		Born on 03.09.1963
29Q7	Clive Hepburn Collett was born at Perth on 5^th July 1923 and he was involved with the armed forces during the Second World War. His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirmed that: he was born at Perth; he enlisted at Adelaide; his service number was 416654; and his wife and next-of-kin was Jean Collett. It was towards the end of the war that he married Jean Howie on 3^rd June 1944, Jean having been born on 1^st September 1922. Together with his brothers, Clive managed the Collett family vineyard at Douglas Gully Road in McLaren Flat in South Australia, which operated under the name Woodstock Winery & Coterie. In the mid-1990s, Clive lived on Clipper Street in Victor Harber in South Australia.
	29R7	Robert John Collett		Born on 07.07.1946
	29R8	Peter James Collett		Born on 21.06.1947
	29R9	Bruce Phillip Collett		Born on 06.05.1950
	29R10	Susan Jean Collett		Born on 19.08.1952
	29R11	Sally Anne Collett		Born on 07.12.1958
29Q8	GEORGE SELWYN COLLETT was born on 16^th August 1924 and was a merchant seaman. He later married Margaret (Peg) Jean Andrew who was born on 10^th November 1921. It is known that at sometime in their life the family lived in Adelaide. By the mid 1990s George was living on Old Coach Road in Urrbrae in South Australia.
	29R12	ANDREW CLIVE COLLETT		Born on 08.08.1950
	29R13	Diana Rosemary Collett		Born on 07.02.1955
29Q9	Ernest Lindsay Collett was born on 21^st April 1927 and he later married Iris Elaine Guthrie who was born on 24^th February 1927.
	29R14	David John Collett		Born on 10.02.1949
	29R15	Jeffery Lindsay Collett		Born on 11.05.1950
	29R16	Barbara Anne Collett		Born on 27.11.1952
29R2	Kate Harriet Collett was born on 17^th November 1958. She married David Hammett who was born in 1956 and with whom she had a daughter Collette Estelle Hammett born on 9^th July 1986.
29R3	Ian Dennis Collett was born in 1953 and he married (1) Mary Beamish on 30^th May 1980, with whom he had two children. He later married (2) Christina Margaret Chapman on 18^th August 1991.
	29S1	David Collett		Born on 16.12.1980
	29S2	Alexi Collett		Born on 21.01.1983
29R4	Wendy Ann Collett was born on 3^rd September 1955 but suffered a premature death, when she died on 2^nd November 1982, aged just 27.
29R5	John Scott Collett was born on 17^th January 1958. He later married and the marriage produced two daughters for John and his wife. In 2018, Scott, as he is known, was the owner of the McLaren Vale winery.
	29S3	Mary Ann Collett		Date of birth unknown
	29S4	Sophia Anne Laura Collett		Born on 24.06.1995
29R6	Charles Collett was born on 3^rd September 1963 and he later married Mary Warnest.
	29S5	Matilda Collett		Born on 15.05.1992
29R7	Robert John Collett was born on 7^th July 1946 and he died in 1995.
29R8	Peter James Collett was born on 21^st June 1947 and he married Rosemary Rutter on 28^th March 1969.
	29S6	Angela Jean Collett		Born on 19.10.1975
	29S7	Steven James Collett		Born on 15.04.1980
	29S8	Katherine Jane Collett		Born on 21.10.1981
29R9	Bruce Phillip Collett was born on 6^th May 1950 and he married Susan Graeber on 7^th April 1982.
	29S9	Thomas Giles Collett		Born on 16.08.1987
29R10	Susan Jean Collett was born on 19^th August 1952 and she married Charles Alexander Nilsen on 18^th May 1974. The couple had two children Kristopher Charles Magnus Nilsen, who was born on 16^th April 1982, and Marina Stephanie Nilsen, who was born on 20^th September 1984.
29R11	Sally Anne Collett was born on 7^th December 1958 and she later married John Rayner. The married produced one daughter for the couple, that being Phillipa Kate Rayner who was born on 27^th April 1994.
29R12	ANDREW CLIVE COLLETT was born on 8^th August 1950 and he later married Megan Hender. He was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honour’s List on 26^th January 2014 for significant service to the law, as a supporter of Indigenous legal rights, and through contributions to professional organisations.
	29S10	HARRY HENDER COLLETT		Born on 19.10.1990
	29S11	Darcy George Hender Collett		Born on 15.07.1992
29R13	Diana Rosemary Collett was born on 7^th February 1955 and she married Peter Tooth with whom she had two children Yvan Vithal Tooth, who was born on 25^th January 1980), and Christie Siobhan Tooth who was born on 22^nd August 1982.
29R14	David John Collett was born on 10^th February 1949 and he married Judith Ann Fowler who was born on 18^th February 1949.
	29S12	Claire Collett		Born on 14.06.1976
	29S13	Simon Collett		Born on 28.12.1978
	29S14	Louise Collett		Born on 05.07.1981
29R15	Jeffery Lindsay Collett was born on 11^th May 1950 and he married Ruth Ann Hutchinson on 16^th December 1972 who was born on 30^th April 1952.
	29S15	Christopher Mark Collett		Born on 16.08.1977
	29S16	Nicholas Dean Collett		Born on 14.02.1979
	29S17	Gregory Jason Collett		Born on 24.01.1981
	29S18	Richard James Collett		Born on 29.11.1982
29R16	Barbara Anne Collett was born on 27^th November 1952 and she married Larry Wayne Podmore on 3^rd January 1976. The marriage produced four children, Naomi Dianne Podmore, who was born on 8^th September 1979, Philip Lindsay Podmore, who was born on 14^th May 1981, Anita Beth Podmore, who was born on 2^nd March 1983, and Karina Ann Podmore who was born on 27^th October 1984.
	APPENDIX The Turkdean to Wales Line
	The family line of William Collett the shoemaker
29l1	JOSEPH COLLETT was possibly born around 1765. He was married by banns to Susannah Price on 16^th November 1786 at Turkdean, just a few miles from Bourton-on-the-Water. Joseph signed the marriage register in his own hand while Susannah made the mark of a cross. The two witnesses were William Price and Betty Morse, who both left their mark. All of their children were also born and baptised at Turkdean, where the mother’s name was recorded as Hannah. At the time of the first national census in June 1841 Hannah Collett, a widow of 85, was still living in Turkdean with just her unmarried daughter Jane Collett as her companion. Living close by was he married son William with his family.
	29m1	Henry Collett		Baptised on 06.05.1788 at Turkdean
	29m2	Hester Collett		Baptised on 06.07.1790 at Turkdean
	29m3	Jane Collett		Baptised on 26.06.1796 at Turkdean
	29m4	WILLIAM COLLETT		Baptised on 23.02.1800 at Turkdean
29m1	Henry Collett was baptised at Turkdean on 6^th May 1788, the first-born child of Joseph Collett and Hannah (Susannah) Price. He married Elizabeth Ransford at Notgrove on 17^th October 1814 and it was there that the couple initially settled and where their first child was born. Shortly thereafter, the family moved to Turkdean where the remainder of their children were born. Henry and Elizabeth were still living at Turkdean in 1841, where they were recorded in the census with the same rounded age of 50, residing at Ley Gore Farm. Ten years later it was the same situation except that by then Henry Collett of Turkdean was 62, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Elizabeth from Elkstone was 61. Five years later the death of Elizabeth Collett, nee Ransford, was recorded at Northleach (Ref. 6a 214) during the first quarter of 1856. By 1861, widower Henry Collett of Turkdean was still working as an agricultural labourer at the age of 72, when he was again living in the village of Turkdean. Just over ten years after losing his wife, the death of Henry Collett, aged 78, was recorded at Northleach (Ref. 6a 215) during the last quarter of 1866.
	29n1	Maria Collett		Born in 1815 at Notgrove
	29n2	Sarah Collett		Born in 1818 at Turkdean
	29n3	Priscilla Collett		Born in 1820 at Turkdean
	It may be interesting to note that in 1831, seventeen years after Henry married Elizabeth Ransford, that Thomas Collett married Mary Ransford at nearby Bourton-on-the-Water. See Part 14 – The John Kyte Collett Line, Ref. 14M24
29m3	Jane Collett was born at Turkdean and was baptised there on 26^th June 1796, the third child of Joseph Collett and Hannah Price. It was previous understood that she married John Austin at Notgrove on 2^nd September 1819. However, that may now be incorrect since, in the census of 1841, unmarried Jane Collett, age 45, was living with her widowed mother Hannah in Turkdean.
29m4	WILLIAM COLLETT was baptised at Turkdean on 23^rd February 1800, the last known child of Joseph Collett and Susannah Price, who was more commonly known as Hannah Collett. It was also at Turkdean where William Collett married Hannah Deane on 6^th April 1833 and where both their sons were born. That was confirmed within the Turkdean census of 1841 when William, aged 40, and Hannah, aged 35, were living there with their two sons Henry Collett who was seven, and William Collett who was three years old. What happened to the family after that time is not known, except that it would appear that both Hannah and her eldest son passed away, perhaps during the birth of a third child for Hannah, who also did not survive.
	Certainly, by the time of the next census in 1851, it was just William Collett of Turkdean, who was 51 and a stonemason, and his son William Collett, who was 13 and also of Turkdean, who was still attending school, who were the only members of the family still living in Turkdean. One year after that census day, the death of William Collett was recorded at Northleach (Ref. 6a 233) in April 1952, following which he was buried at Turkdean on 13^th April 1852.
	29n4	Henry Collett		Born in 1833 at Turkdean
	29n5	WILLIAM COLLETT		Born in 1837 at Turkdean
29n1	Maria Collett was born at Notgrove, the eldest child of Henry Collett and his wife Elizabeth Ransford. Just after she was born her parents moved back to her father’s village of Turkdean, where she was baptised at Turkdean on 13^th August 1815 and where she was brought up. It was therefore for that reason that, in her adult life, she always stated that she had been born at Turkdean. It was also at Turkdean that she married Thomas Lawrence on 2^nd November 1836, and by June 1841 the marriage had produced the couple’s first two children. On that occasion the family was living within the Northleach, Bibury & Chedworth registration district, where Thomas Lawrence was 30, Maria Lawrence was 25, and their two children were Violetta Lawrence, who was four, and Eli Lawrence who was one year old.
	Three more children were added to their family during the 1840s, so by 1851 the family living within the Northleach & Chedworth area comprised Thomas Lawrence, age 40, Maria Lawrence from Turkdean who was 36, Ann Lawrence, who was 13 – previously Violetta, Eli Lawrence, who was 11, Samuel Lawrence, who was nine, Emma Lawrence, who was four, and Priscilla Lawrence who was two years old. It is possible that Maria Lawrence nee Collett died shortly after 1851, because by 1861 Thomas Lawrence was a widower still living in the Northleach & Chedworth registration district but with just four of his children. They were Violetta Ann Lawrence, aged 23, Eli Lawrence, aged 21, Samuel Lawrence, aged 19, and Priscilla Lawrence who was 11.
29n2	Sarah Collett was born at Turkdean in 1818 where she later married Caleb Merchant on 7^th June 1837. By the time of the June census in 1841 Sarah had presented her husband with a daughter. At that time the family of three was residing within the parish of Turkdean, where Caleb Merchant was 25, his wife Sarah was 20, and their daughter Emma Merchant was three years old. Her birth was recorded at Northleach (Ref. 11 350) during the second quarter of 1838, following which Emma Elizabeth Merchant was baptised at Turkdean on 17^th June 1838. Tragically, it was at Turkdean on 1^st March 1850 that she died, her death recorded at Northleach (Ref. 11 319). In between those two events, the couple’s son was born, the baptism of Reuben Henry Merchant taking place at Turkdean on 3^rd April 1842. He was confirmed as the son of Caleb and Sarah Merchant but sadly he passed away when he was just one year old, his death recorded at Northleach (Ref. 11 255) during the second quarter of 1843. More tragedy struck the family seven years later, when the death of Caleb Merchant was recorded at Northleach (Ref. 11 320) during the first three months of 1849 and later that same year Sarah Merchant nee Collett passed away, her death also recorded at Northleach (Ref. 11 407) during the third quarter of 1849.
29n3	Priscilla Collett was born at Turkdean during the first few weeks of 1820, and it was there that she was baptised on 26^th March 1820, the third daughter of Henry Collett and his wife Elizabeth Ransford. By June 1841 Priscilla had left her family home in Turkdean, where her parents were both still living, and was recorded as being 20 years of age, while she was still living and working in the same village. Both of her sisters (above) were married by then and her own absence from the next census very likely indicates that she too was married by 1851.
29n4	Henry Collett was born at Turkdean in 1833 where he was baptised on 17^th November 1833, the eldest son of William Collett and his wife Hannah Deane. Henry was seven years old in the Turkdean census of 1841, but he appears to have died during the next few years, as did his mother, since he was not living with his widowed father and younger brother in 1851.
29n5	William Collett, the shoemaker, was born at Turkdean on 24^th August 1837, the second son of William Collett and Hannah Deane, whose birth was recorded at Northleach (Ref. 11 246) during the third quarter of 1837. It was also at Turkdean that he was baptised on 10^th September 1837, the son of William and Hannah Collett. In the Turkdean census of 1841 William was three years old, while it was during the following decade that both his mother, and his older brother Henry (above), died. That double tragedy meant that it was just William, aged 13, who was still attending the village school, who was living with his widowed father William Collett, a mason, at Lower Turkdean in 1851. To supplement his income, this father had taken in two boarders, mother and son Mary Perry and William Perry, both of Turkdean. Nine years later William Collett from Turkdean married Sarah Ann Browning Hall at Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham, on 30^th May 1860, following which, all of their children were born and baptised at Charlton Kings.
	The census return that they completed at Charlton Kings around ten months later confirmed that William Collett from Turkdean was 22 and his wife Sarah Ann Collett from Cheltenham was 23, although their surname was recorded in error as Callett. On that occasion Sarah was not yet pregnant with the couple’s first child, who was born around nine months later, to be followed by a further three children, all of them born at Charlton Kings before the end of the decade. That day in 1861 William and Sarah were residing at Mill Lane where William was a shoemaker. According to the census in 1871, Turkdean shoemaker William Collett and his wife Sarah A Collett were both 33 years old and again living in Mill Lane. With the couple that day, at Charlton Kings, were their four children, Minna J Collett who was nine, William H Collett who was four, Arthur Collett who was three, and Lily A Collett who was two years old. The four-year age gap between their first and second child might indicate that there had already been an infant death in the family, although birth, baptism or death has been identified for the family.
	The family was then extended by a further three children during the 1870s and by 1881 the family residing at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings was made up of boot and shoemaker William Collett from Turkdean, who was 43, his wife Sarah Ann Collett, aged 42, a dressmaker from Cheltenham, and their eight children. They were Minnie J Collett who was 19 and a dressmaker working with her mother, William H Collett aged 14 and an errand boy, Arthur Collett aged 13 and another errand boy, Lillie Annie Collett who was 12 and still attending school, Ada Collett who was eight, Christopher T E Collett who was seven, Frederick C Collett who was four, and Alice Kate Collett who was two years old.
	Not long after that, the family moved out of Charlton Kings and headed west into Wales, where they settled and where they were living in 1891. The census for Ystradyfodwg, near Pontypridd, recorded the family living at East Road when the surname was recorded as Collet. Head of the household was William Collett from Turkdean in Gloucestershire, who was 53 and a shoemaker, while his wife Sarah Ann Collett was also 33. Only five of their children were still living there with them and they were Arthur Collett who was 23, Lily Annie Collett who was 22, Chris Henry Collett who was 17, Frederick Ernest Collett who was 14, and Alice Kate Collett who was 12. Visiting the family was William Davies, aged 24, who may have been a relative since, ten years later, another Davies was living with the family. Lodging with the family that day were two coalminers, John W Sheepway, aged 17, and George F Adams, also 17 and from Charlton Kings. No record of their eldest son William Henry Collett has been found anywhere on the day of the census in 1891 and again in 1901 and 1911, although he was involved in the First World War.
	Just two sons were still living with the couple ten years later, in March 1901, when the family was still living at East Road in Ystradyfodwg. The occupation of William Collett from Turkdean was once again confirmed as being that of a working shoemaker. His wife Sarah A Collett from Cheltenham was 63 like her husband and the sons were Christopher N Collett, aged 27 and a colliery lamp-man, and Frederick E Collett, aged 24, who was a coalminer and hewer. Living with the family was Sarah A A Davies who was eight years of age and born at Tylorstown in Glamorgan, who was described as niece. It is interesting that also living in that same area and working as a coal hewer, was William Henry Collett (Ref. 5P9) from Malvern, who features in Part 5 – The Tewkesbury Line.
	Sarah Ann Collett nee Browning Hall died seven years after that census, her death recorded at Pontypridd (Ref. 11a 447) during the first three months of 1908 at the age of 70 years. Her passing was reflected in the next census of 1911, when widower William Collett was 73 and a retired boot repairer from Turkdean who, by then, was living at Rhondda, Tylorstown. Still living with him were his two bachelor sons Christopher H Collett, aged 37, and Frederick Ernest Collett who was 34, together with William’s youngest daughter Alice who had returned to look after her elderly father following the death of her mother. With her, was her husband and their son. That arrangement only last for a further three years, when the death of William Collett, aged 77, was recorded at Pontypridd (Ref. 11a 766) during the last quarter of 1914, after which he was buried at Ferndale Cemetery in Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
	29o1	Minna Julia Collett		Born in 1862 at Charlton Kings
	29o2	William Henry Collett		Born in 1866 at Charlton Kings
	29o3	Arthur Collett		Born in 1868 at Charlton Kings
	29o4	Lily Anne Collett		Born in 1868 at Charlton Kings
	29o5	Ada Collett		Born in 1872 at Charlton Kings
	29o6	Christopher Henry Collett		Born in 1874 at Charlton Kings
	29o7	Frederick Ernest Collett		Born in 1876 at Charlton Kings
	29o8	Alice Kate Collett		Born in 1878 at Charlton Kings
29o1	Minna Julia Collett was born at Charlton Kings in 1862, the first child of William Collett and Sarah Ann Browning Hall, whose birth was recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 380) during the first quarter of the year. She was born at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings, where her parents had been living in 1861 and where the family was residing in 1871 and 1881, when Minna J Collett was nine and 19 years of age respectively. On that latter occasion she was working alongside her mother as a dressmaker. Minna’s family left Charlton Kings during the 1880s and moved to south Wales, although it seems highly likely that Minna remained living and working in the Cheltenham area of Gloucestershire. The reason for this assumption is that the marriage of Minna Julia Collett was recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 782) during the final quarter of 1886. The bridegroom was either Herbert Ramsey Fielden or Philip Henry Jones, and this has not been determined since no record of Minna has been identified after 1881.
29o2	William Henry Collett was born at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings during 1866, his birth recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 366) during October that year, the eldest son of William and Sarah Ann Collett, following which he was then baptised at Charlton Kings on 28^th October 1866. At the age of 14, he had left school and was working as an errand boy, while still living with his family at Mill Lane. No record of him ever marrying has been found and in 1914 he joined the army at the age of 43, when William H Collett from Charlton Kings was a member of the Cameronians Scottish Rifles, service number 18062. Two years after peace was declared, the death of William H Collett was recorded at Gloucester (Ref. 6a 274) during the third quarter of 1920 when he was 55.
29o3	Arthur Collett was born at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings in 1868, with his birth recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 385) during the first quarter of the year. He was baptised at Charlton Kings on 29^th March 1868, another son of William and Sarah Ann Collett, who was three years old in the census of 1871. He and his family continued to live at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings where Arthur was 13 years of age in 1881, by which time he had left school and was working as an errand boy. Not long after 1881 he and the family moved to East Road in Ystradyfodwg near Pontypridd, where Arthur was 23 and an agent for a building society in 1891.
	Not long after that census day, Arthur returned to Charlton Kings/Cheltenham and, perhaps it was through his work, that he entered into a relationship with a very recently widowed young mother Verina Louisa Turtle. Verina Ballinger had been born at Leckhampton in 1864, the youngest child of parish clerk Robert Ballinger and his wife Beata Lewis. It was only towards the end of 1888, when Verina had married William Turtle, the event recorded at Cheltenham, with whom she had a son. That family of three was living at North Place in Cheltenham in 1891, when William was 29 and a bootmaker, Verina was 25, and their son Arthur C Turtle was one year old. Sadly, that family was devastated by the premature death of William Turtle just after the census day in 1891, his death recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 305) during the second quarter of that year, when he only 29. Three years after losing her husband widow Verina Louisa Turtle married Arthur Collett, their wedding recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 864) during the last quarter of 1894.
	Four of the couple’s five known children were born prior to the next census in 1901, the first three of them at Leckhampton, the fourth at Winchcombe, where the family was recorded in that year’s census. Arthur Collett from Charlton Kings was 33 and a life insurance agent, living at Gretton Road in Winchcombe with his family. His wife Verina L Collett was also 33 and from Leckhampton, while their four children were Wilfred A Collett who was five, Verina B Collett who was four, Muriel G Collett who was two, and Beata M Collett who was not yet one year old. Also living with them was Verina’s son who was described as Arthur C Collett who was 11 years of age and from Cheltenham.
	Five years later the couple added their last child to the family but, by that time, the family had left Winchcombe and had settled in Ashchurch, two miles east of Tewkesbury. According to the next census in 1911, Arthur’s stepson had reverted to his birth name of Arthur Charles Turtle and he was 21 and an insurance agent, the job most likely arranged by his stepfather. Also, by then, Arthur and Verina were both 43, with Arthur working as an auxiliary postman at Ashchurch. Their five children were Wilfred Collett who was 15, Verina Beata Collett who was 14, Muriel Collett who was 12, Beata Collett who was 10, and Ivy Ada Collett who was four years old. Just over twenty years later, the death of Arthur Collett was recorded at Tewkesbury register office (Ref. 6a 739) during the first three months of 1933 when he was 65.
	Little is known about the six children listed below, in particular Arthur Charles. With the death of his father when he was only a few weeks old, it would appear that his birth was not register until he was two years old. No record of the birth of Arthur Charles Turtle has been found, whereas the birth of Arthur Charles Collett at Cheltenham was recorded there (Ref. 6a 433) during the second quarter of 1893. Twenty-one years after that, Arthur Collett from Cheltenham was living with his extended Collett family in Glamorgan when he joined the 3^rd Battalion of the South Wales Borders, service number 13067, when his ‘estimated’ date of birth was 1893.
	The birth of Wilfred Arthur Collett was recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 408) during the third quarter of 1895 and it was in 1938 that he married Barbara G Weare, the event recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 1069) during the second quarter of that year. Verina Beata Collett’s birth was also recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 388) during the fourth quarter of 1896. She died at the age of 27, when her death was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 410) during the third quarter of 1924. The birth of Muriel Gratia Collett was recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 411) during the third quarter of 1898. Beata Minna Collett’s birth was recorded at Winchcombe (Ref. 6a 425) during the third quarter of 1900 and the birth of Ivy Ada Collett was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 428) during the first three months of 1907.
	29p1	Arthur Charles Turtle (Collett)		Born in 1891 at Cheltenham
	29p2	Wilfred Arthur Collett		Born in 1895 at Leckhampton
	29p3	Verina Beata Collett		Born in 1896 at Leckhampton
	29p4	Muriel Gratia Collett		Born in 1898 at Leckhampton
	29p5	Beata Minna Collett		Born in 1900 at Winchcombe
	29p6	Ivy Ada Collett		Born in 1907 at Ashchurch
29o4	Lily Anne Collett was born at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings in 1868 within the same year that her brother Arthur (above) was born and, like her brother, the birth of Lily Annie Collett was also recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 401) during the last three months of 1868. It was at Charlton Kings where she was baptised on 30^th January 1869, another daughter of William Collett and his wife Sarah Ann. Lily A Collett two years old in the census of 1871 when she and her family were still residing on Mill Lane in Charlton Kings, where they were also again living in 1881, when Lily Annie Collett was 12. Ten years later Lily Annie Collett aged 22 was an unmarried domestic servant who was still living with her parents who, in the census of 1891, were living at East Road in Ystradyfodwg near Pontypridd in Wales.
29o5	Ada Collett was born at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings in 1872, her birth also recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 471) during the first quarter of the year. She was later baptised at Charlton Kings on 28^th December 1872, the daughter of William and Sarah Ann Collett. It was at Mill Lane that Ada, aged eight years, when still living with her family in 1881. Tragically, just over one year later, Ada Collett died at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings on 8^th June 1882 when she was only ten years old. It may well have been that sad event which prompted the family to leave Charlton Kings and set up a new home in Wales.
29o6	Christopher Henry Collett was born at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings in 1874 and, as with all of his older siblings, his birth was recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 409) during the first three months of that year. Again, like his siblings, he too was baptised at Charlton Kings on 29^th March 1874. Curiously, in the Charlton Kings census of 1881, he was named as Christopher T E Collett aged seven years. After his family moved to South Wales and, upon leaving school, Christopher took up work as a coalminer. That was confirmed in the Pontypridd census of 1891 when Chris. Henry Collett was 17 and living with his family at East Road in Ystradyfodwg. He was still living with his parents in 1901 at East Road, when Christopher H Collett was 27 and from Charlton Kings who, by then, was a collier lamp-man working above ground. Life changed for the family in 1908, when Christopher’s mother died and his father left East Road, to move to Rhondda, Tylorstown, where Christopher’s youngest sister was already living with her family. The two parts of the family were then reunited there on the day of the census in 1911, where unmarried Christopher was still working as a collier lamp-man, working on the surface, at the age of 37, when living with his father, brother Frederick (below) and married sister Alice and her family.
29o7	Frederick Ernest Collett was born at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings, perhaps at the end of 1876, the youngest son of William and Sarah Ann Collett, whose birth was recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 442) during the first three months of 1877. As Frederick E Collett he was four years old in the census of 1881, when once again his family was living on Mill Lane in Charlton Kings. Like his slightly older brother Christopher (above), Frederick also became a coalminer on completing his education and, at the age of 14, was also living with his family at East Road in Ystradyfodwg in South Wales in 1891. Ten years later he was still working as a coalminer and hewer when, as Frederick E Collett from Charlton Kings, he was 24 and still living with his family at East Road. Following the death of his mother in 1908, Frederick Ernest from Charlton Kings was still living with his father at East Road but at Rhondda, Tylorstown, when he had stopped working at the coalmine. Instead, his occupation in 1911 was that of a picture framer at the age of 34.
29o8	Alice Kate Collett was born at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings, possibly at the end of 1878, the last child born to William Collett and Sarah Ann Browning Hall. Her birth was also recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 448) during the first quarter of 1879. She was recorded in the Charlton Kings census of 1881 under her full birth name when living at Mill Lane. Not long after that date, her father took the family to the Pontypridd area of south Wales. It was at East Road in Ystradyfodwg that 12-year-old Alice Kate Collett was living with her family in 1891 and, seven years later, she married Frederick John Alexander the son of John and Leah Alexander of Trowbridge. The wedding was recorded at Pontypridd (Ref. 11a 552) during the first quarter of 1898.
	Once married, the couple settled in East Road, not far from Alice’s family, where she and Frederick were living in 1901. Frederick J Alexander from Trowbridge in Wiltshire was 28 and a collier hitcher working below ground and his wife Alice K Alexander was 22 and from Charlton Kings. One boarder was lodging with the couple that day, Charles Langford from Bath in Somerset who was 23. Around four years later, Alice presented Frederick with a son who was born at Tylorstown but, two years later and after the death of her mother, Alice returned to live with, and look after, her elderly father at Rhondda, Tylorstown. Frederick John Alexander was 38 and still working as collier hitcher underground, Alice Kate Alexander was 32 and Frederick William Alexander was five years old.