PART
TWENTY-NINE
The Cirencester to
Australia
(including the Turkdean to Wales Line)
Updated March 2024
Within the 1996 Supplement to The Collett Saga
by Margaret Chadd there are details on pages 29 and 30 of the Gloucestershire -
Perth Australia 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 related 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 66th 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-writing
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
JOHN
COLLETT [29K1] was married to
Susannah Rodway at All Saints Church in Preston, near Cirencester, on 31st
May 1765. Once they were married John
and Susannah settled in Coln Rogers, seven miles north-east of Cirencester,
where all their children were baptised over the next seventeen years
29L1 – John Collett was born in 1766 at
Coln Rogers
29L2 – Sarah Collett was born in 1767 at
Coln Rogers
29L3 – John Collett was born in 1772 at
Coln Rogers
29L4 – Thomas Collett was born in 1774 at
Coln Rogers
29L5 – William Collett was born in 1776 at
Coln Rogers
29L6 – William Collett was born in 1778 at
Coln Rogers
29L7 – Anne Collett was born in 1778 at
Coln Rogers
29L8 – Susannah Collett was born in 1779 at
Coln Rogers
29L9 – Elizabeth Collett was born in 1782 at
Coln Rogers
29L10 – FRANCIS COLLETT was born in 1782 at
Coln Rogers
John
Collett [29L1] was
a honeymoon baby born in 1766 at Coln Rogers, where he was baptised in St
Andrew’s Church on 13th February 1766. As the first child of John Collett and
Susannah Rodway and, although no record of his death has found, it seems he did
not survive since the couple’s third child was also named John
Sarah
Collett [29L2] was
born at Coln Rogers and was baptised there on 30th July 1767, the
eldest surviving child of John and Susannah Collett
John
Collett [29L3] 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 2nd
January 1772. It is possible, although
not proved, that he married Frances Smith at nearby Chedworth on 2nd
November 1808
Thomas
Collett [29L4] was
born at Coln Rogers where he was baptised on 20th May 1774, another
son of John and Susannah Collett
William
Collett [29L5] was
born at Coln Rogers in 1776 and was baptised there on 21st 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
William
Collett [29L6] 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 26th
December 1778, in a joint ceremony with his sister Anne (below) who may
have been his twin sister
Anne
Collett [29L7] may
have been a twin with her brother William (above), since they were
baptised in a joint ceremony at Coln Rogers on 26th December 1778,
the children of John and Susannah Collett
Susannah
Collett [29L8] was
baptised at Coln Rogers on 18th July 1779, the eighth known child of
John and Susannah Collett. Like her
brother John (above) and her sister Elizabeth (below), Susannah’s
wedding also took place in nearby Chedworth, she married Thomas Hawker on 7th
November 1805
Elizabeth
Collett [29L9] may
have been born around 1781 but was baptised with her younger brother Francis (below)
at Coln Rogers on 29th June 1782.
Like two of her older siblings John and Susannah (above), when
Elizabeth Collett married Joseph Scrivey on 9th October 1806 it took
place at Chedworth
FRANCIS COLLETT
[29L10]
was baptised at Coln Rogers on 29th June 1782, the same day that his
sister Elizabeth (above) was also baptised there. Francis was the tenth and 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 four years old. Francis Collett was 58, his wife Sarah was
57, while daughter Elizabeth had a rounded age of 25. No record of the marriage of Francis and
Sarah has been found but, assuming they were married in their twenties, their
daughter Elizabeth may not have been the couple’s only child
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, by which time, he was a
pauper at the age of 68, who was receiving parochial relief. His wife Sarah Collett was 66 and born at
Cirencester as were their unmarried daughter Elizabeth Collett who was 34 and working as an agricultural
labourer, and their grandson William Collett who was 13 years of age and attending school. It was later that same year, when the death
of Francis Collet was recorded at Cirencester (Ref. xi 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 was born in 1816 at Cirencester
ELIZABETH
COLLETT [29M1]
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 stated that Elizabeth was an unmarried woman who had given birth
to a son at Cirencester in 1837 who, in 1851 was employed as an agricultural labourer at the age of 34. Seven years after the census in 1851, at a
time when her son had made his own way into the world, and following the deaths
of both of her parents, Elizabeth Collett was married at Cirencester to Charles
Fletcher on 1st May 1858. Her
marriage was short-lived, when the burial of Elizabeth Fletcher, who was born
in 1816, was undertaken at Iron Acton, north-east of Bristol, at the Church of
St James the Lesser on 23rd February 1862
29N1 – WILLIAM COLLARD COLLETT was born in 1837 at
Cirencester
WILLIAM COLLARD
COLLETT [29N1]
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 unmarried daughter Elizabeth Collett. It was at Cricklade Street in Cirencester
that four-year-old William Collett and his unmarried mother were living with
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 66th Gloucestershire Foot
Regiment and, after the war, he worked as a prison warder
It was still as William Collett that he married
Susan James in Cirencester on 15th 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 1st
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 12th
April 1864. It may have been the fact
that William had no obvious family in England, that was instrumental in his
decision to seek a new life for his young family in Australia, which they did in
Perth, and where Susan presented William with four more children, although only three are listed
below
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 29th 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, which may have been his father’s surname
29O1 – Francis William Collett was born in 1860 at
Cirencester
29O2 – FREDERICK COLLETT was born in 1862 at London
29O3 – Thomas Alfred Collett was born in 1865 at
Perth
29O4 – Alice Maria Collett was born in 1867 at
Perth
29O5 – James Henry Collett was born in 1872 at
Perth
Francis
William Collett [29O1] was born at Cirencester on 13th September 1861,
the eldest child of William Collard Collett and Susan James, whose birth was registered
at Cirencester Rural District Council (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 (below) was born. Just after he was born, the family sailed
from London to Australia in early 1864 on board the sailing ship 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 for the couple
FREDERICK
COLLETT [29O2] was
born in London on 7th
December 1862 and his birth was recorded at Westminster St Margaret
(Ref. 1a 305) during the first three months of 1863.
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. Frederick was nearly twenty
years of age when he was married on 29th October 1882 to Harriett Ann Budd who was born in Perth during
1862, the daughter of George and Fanny Budd.
Their marriage provided them with eight children, six of whom were still
living when both Harriett and Frederick died within three months of each
other. Later in his life, Frederick owned
property in the suburbs of Perth, and were residing at 76 Suburban Road in
South Perth when they died. Harriett Ann
Collett died on 9th December 1942 at the age of 80, while she was in
St Margaret’s Hospital, after which she was buried in a new grave at Karrakatta
Cemetery. It was in the re-opened grave
at Karrakatta Cemetery that Frederick Collett was laid to rest with Harriett
following his passing on 1st March 1943, also while attending St
Margaret’s Hospital
It was
the couple’s youngest son Norman James Collett who made all the arrangement for
their funeral and burial, as confirmed on funeral director’s two order forms,
both signed off by Normal. The detailed
information on both forms was very similar, bearing in mind the short time
between their passing. Each order form
confirmed the basic details, including the parents’ names, home address, when
and where they died, etc. The additional
information on Frederick’s form confirmed he was 80 years old, was a widower,
retired, had lived in Western Australia for 77 years, and was married in Perth
at the age of 20. Both order forms also
listed the names of their six surviving children, and they were Frederick
William George Collett 59, Ernest Budd Collett 57, Lionel Edgar Collett 55,
Harold Reginald Collett 49, Hilda Maria Collett 46, and Norman James Collett
who was 44
29P1 – Frederick
William George Collett was born in 1884 at Perth
29P2 – Ernest Budd
Collett
was born in 1886 at Perth
29P3 – Lional Edgar Collett was born in 1888 at
Perth
29P4 – Ethel Collett was born in 1891 at
Perth
29P5 – Arthur Collett was born in 1893 at
Perth
29P6 – HAROLD REGINALD
COLLETT
was born in 1894 at Perth
29P7 – Hilda Maria Collett was born in 1896 at
Perth
29P8 – Norman James Collett was born in 1898 at
Perth
Thomas
Alfred Collett [29O3] 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
Alice
Maria Collett [29O4] was
the fourth child of Gloucestershire born William Collard Collett and Susan
James, and was born in 1867 at Perth, three years after her parents had settled
in Western Australia. All that is
currently known about her, is that she later married Fred Parkes
Frederick
William George Collett [29P1] was the eldest of the eight children of
Frederick Collett from England and Harriett Ann Budd of Western Australia. He was born at Perth on 23rd 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 2nd
Depot Battalion Australian Imperial Force and was subject to a court martial on
3rd January 1916, followed a month later by a second one on 1st
February 1916. History repeated itself
during the Second World War when again Private V/29393 Frederick William
Collett of the Training Battalion of 1st Australian Army Service
Corp was court-martialled on 11th August 1944. Frederick never re-married and was a widower
for the fifty years of his life up until his death on 14th July 1963
29Q1 – Arthur Frederick Collett was born in 1913 at
Perth
Ernest
Budd Collett [29P2] was
born at Perth in 1886. He married
29Q2 – Helen Collett may have been born around
1910
29Q3 – Marcia Collett may have been born around
1912
29Q4 – Norman Budd Collett was born in 1914 at
Perth
29Q5 – Malcolm Ernest Collett was born in 1922 at
Perth
Lionel Edgar Collett [29P3] was another son of
Frederick and Harriett Ann Collett who was born at Perth in 1888. All that known about him at this time, is
that he passed away during 1967 when approaching his eightieth birthday. It was during the funeral arrangement for his parents that his full
name was revealed as Lionel Edgar Collett, as also applied to his two younger
sibling Hilda and Norman (below)
Ethel
Collett [29P4] was
the fourth child and eldest daughter of Frederick and Harriett Collett. She was born at Perth in 1891 and died in
1914 when she was around twenty-five years of age. For that reason, she was not listed as one of the six surviving
children following the death of her parents in 1942 and 1943
Arthur Collett [29P5] was the fifth child of
Frederick and Harriett Collett and was born during 1893 at Perth in Western
Australia. All that is known for sure about him, is that upon the
death of his elderly parents in 1942/43, the name of son Arthur Collett was not
included on the list of the names of the couple’s six surviving children
HAROLD
REGINALD COLLETT [29P6] was born at Perth on 26th September 1894 and was
the fifth of the eight children of Frederick and Harriett Collett. It was during the year after the end of the
First World War, in which Harold saw active service, that Harold Reginald
Collett, aged 24,
married Hilda Muriel Tipping, aged 25, at Bunbury in Western Australia. The record of their wedding day in 1919,
confirmed that the groom’s parents were Frederick Collett (Fred) and Harriett
Ann Budd, and the bride’s parents were George Tipping and Edith Elizabeth
Howell. Harold’s entry in the
Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirms that he was born at Perth, where he
enlisted, 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 9th
April 1949, and thirty years later was followed by Harold Reginald Collett who
died on 1st January 1980
29Q6 – Douglas Harold Collett was born in 1920 at
Perth
29Q7 – Clive Hepburn Collett was born in 1923 at
Perth
29Q8 – GEORGE SELWYN COLLETT was born in 1924 at
Perth
29Q9 – Ernest Lindsay Collett was born in 1927 at
Perth
Hilda Maria Collett [29P7] was another daughter of
Frederick and Harriett Collett and was born in Perth during 1896. Apart from that, and the inclusion of her full name on the list of the
six surviving children when both her parents passed away during WW2, the
only other fact known about her is that she died in 1978
Norman James Collett [29P8] was born at Perth around
1898 and was the last child born to parents Frederick Collett and Harriett Ann
Budd. Apart from being the organiser of the arrangements for
his parents’ funerals within three months of each other in 1942 and 1943,
the only other detail known about his life, is that he married Ivy
Arthur
Frederick Collett [29Q1] was born at Perth on 1st January 1913, the only
child of Frederick William George Collett and Ethel Butler. Tragically, it was during his birth, or very shortly thereafter, that
his mother died, and his father never re-married. That very sad event may mean that Arthur was
raised by his paternal grandparents.
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 6th
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 and enlisted
there, that his military service number was 46950; and that his wife and
next-of-kin was June Collett. It was
during the war when 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 Frederick Collett 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 6th 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 – The author of The Collett Saga published in 1989. Three years after being made a widow, Junie
Collett nee Markland died during 1992
29R1 – Harvey Peter Collett was born in 1953 at Perth
29R2 – Kate Harriet Collett was born in 1958 at Perth
Helen Collett [29Q2] was one of the two daughters
and four children of Ernest Budd Collett and his wife Kathleen Mary, and may
have been their eldest child if born in Perth around 1910. It is established that on being married she
became Helen Gibbs
Marcia Collett [29Q3] was another daughter
of Ernest and Kathleen Collett who may have been born in Perth around 1912. Once again, the only detail known about her
was that after being married she was Marcia Muir
Norman
Budd Collett [29Q4] was
the older of the two sons and one of the four known children of Ernest Budd
Collett and Kathleen Mary. He was born
at Perth on 12th 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 12th February 1914, that 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
Malcolm
Ernest Collett [29Q5] was born at Perth on 2nd March 1922, the
youngest child of Ernest Budd Collett and his wife Kathleen Mary. Like his brother Norman Budd Collett (above),
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 22nd 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 2nd
March 1922, that he enlisted at Adelaide, and his next-of-kin was Ernest
Collett – his father. The Commonwealth
War Graves Commission recorded his death as follows. Flying Officer Malcolm Ernest Collett, the son
of Ernest Budd Collett and
Douglas
Harold Collett [29Q6] was born at Perth on 25th June 1920 and was the
eldest of the four sons of Harold Reginald Collett and Hilda Muriel
Tipping. He played an active part in the
Second World War, and his entry in the Service Records of the National Archives
of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirmed that he was
born at South Perth and enlisted at Adelaide, his service number was 27144, and
his father and next-of-kin was Harold Collett.
Douglas Harold Collett married Mary on 20th May 1950, Mary
having been born on 16th 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 was born in 1953 at
Western Australia
29R4 – Wendy Ann Collett was born in 1955 at
Western Australia
29R5 – John Scott Collett was born in 1958 at
Western Australia
29R6 – Charles Collett was born in 1963 at
Western Australia
Clive
Hepburn Collett [29Q7] was the second child of Harold and Hilda Collett and born
at Perth on 5th July 1923. He
was involved with the armed forces during the Second World War, confirmed by his
entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au). This
states that he was born at Perth, 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 3rd June 1944, Jean having been born on 1st
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 was born in 1946 at
South Australia
29R8 – Peter James Collett was born in 1947 at
South Australia
29R9 – Bruce Phillip Collett was born in 1950 at
South Australia
29R10 – Susan Jean Collett was born in 1952 at
South Australia
29R11 – Sally Anne Collett was born in 1958 at
South Australia
GEORGE
SELWYN COLLETT [29Q8] was born on 16th August 1924, another son of
Harold and Hilda Collett. On completing
his education, he worked as a merchant seaman and he later married Margaret
(Peg) Jean Andrew who was born on 10th November 1921. It is known that, at some time 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 was born in 1950 at
South Australia
29R13 – Diana Rosemary Collett was born in 1955 at
South Australia
Ernest
29R14 – David John Collett was born in 1949
29R15 – Jeffrey Lindsay Collett was born in1950
29R16 – Barbara Anne Collett was born in1952
Harvey Peter Collett [29R1] was the first-born
child of Arthur Frederick Collett and his first wife June Nellie Howard, and
was born on 28th September 1953 at Perth
Kate
Harriet Collett [29R2] was born at
Perth on 17th November 1958, the younger of the two children
of Arthur and June Collett. Kate later
married David Hammett who was born in 1956 and with whom she had a daughter Collette
Estelle Hammett who was born on 9th July 1986
Ian
Dennis Collett [29R3] was born in 1953, the eldest of the four children of Douglas
Harold Collett and his wife Mary. The
later marriage of Ian Dennis Collett and (1) Mary Beamish took place on 30th
May 1980, with whom he had two children.
A decade later in his life, Ian married (2) Christina Margaret Chapman
on 18th August 1991
29S1 – David Collett was born in 1980
29S2 – Alexi Collett was born in 1983
John
Scott Collett [29R5] was
the third child of Douglas and Mary Collett and was born on 17th
January 1958. He later married and the
marriage produced two children for John and his wife. In 2018, Scott, as he is known, was the owner
of the Woodstock Winery,
McLaren Vale, Adelaide, and by 2024, it was Scott’s son who was the general
manager
29S3 – a
Collett son was born in
29S4 – Mary Ann Collett was born in
29S5 – Sophie Anne Laura Collett was born in 1995
Charles
Collett [29R6] was
born on 3rd September 1963 and he was the last of the four children
of Douglas Harold Collett and his wife Mary.
Charles later married Mary Warnest and they have a daughter
29S6 – Matilda Collett was born in 1992
Robert
John Collett [29R7] was
the first-born child of Clive Hepburn
Collett and Jean Howie, and was born on 7th July 1946 in
South Australia. The only other detail
that is known about him, is that he died in 1995
Peter
James Collett [29R8] was
another son of Clive and Jean Collett who was born in South Australia on 21st
June 1947 and was twenty-one years old when he married Rosemary Rutter on 28th
March 1969
29S7 – Angela Jean Collett was born in 1975
29S8 – Steven James Collett was born in 1980
29S9 – Katherine Jean Collett was born in 1981
Bruce
Phillip Collett [29R9] was the third of the five children of Clive and Jean
Collett. Bruce was born in South
Australia on 6th May 1950 and he was thirty-two years old when he married
Susan Graeber on 7th April 1982
29S10 – Thomas Giles Collett was born in 1987
Susan
Jean Collett [29R10] was
born on 19th August 1952 and is the older of the two daughters of
Clive and Jean Collett. Susan was
twenty-one when she married Charles Alexander Nilsen on 18th May
1974. The couple have two children Kristopher
Charles Magnus Nilsen, who was born on 16th April 1982, and Marina
Stephanie Nilsen, who was born on 20th September 1984
Sally
Anne Collett [29R11] was
the youngest child born to Clive Hepburn Collett and Jean Howie. She was born in South Australia on 7th
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 27th
April 1994
ANDREW
CLIVE COLLETT [29R12] was born on 8th August 1950 and was the eldest of
the two children of George Selwyn Collett and Margaret Jean Andrew. Andrew Clive then married Megan Hender and was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day
Honour’s List on 26th January 2014.
That honour was awarded for his significant service
to the law, as a supporter of Indigenous legal rights, and through
contributions to professional organisations
29S11 – HARRY HENDER COLLETT was born in 1990
29S12 – Darcy George Hender Collett was born in 1992
Diana
Rosemary Collett [29R13] was the daughter of George and Peg Collett, their youngest
child, who was born on 7th February 1955. Diana married Peter Tooth with whom she has
two children, Yvan Vithal Tooth, who was born on 25th January
1980), and Christie Siobhan Tooth who was born on 22nd August
1982
David
John Collett [29R14] was
born on 10th February 1949, the first of the three children of
Ernest Lindsay Collett and Iris Elaine Guthrie, and David married Judith Ann
Fowler who was born on 18th February 1949
29S13 – Claire Collett was born in 1976
29S14 – Simon Collett was born in 1978
29S15 – Louise Collett was born in 1981
Jeffery
29S16 – Christopher Mark Collett was born in 1977
29S17 – Nicholas Dean Collett was born in 1979
29S18 – Gregory Jason Collett was born in 1981
29S19 – Richard James Collett was born in 1982
Barbara
Anne Collett [29R16] was
the youngest of the three children of Ernest Lindsay Collett and Iris Elaine
Guthrie. Barbara Ann was born on 27th
November 1952 and she married Larry Wayne Podmore on 3rd January
1976. The marriage produced four
children, Naomi Dianne Podmore, who was born on 8th September
1979, Philip
David Collett [29S1] was born in Australia on
16th December 1980, the older of the two sons of Ian Dennis Collett
and his first wife Mary Beamish
Alexi Collett [29S2] was born in Australia
on 21st January 1983, the younger son of Ian and Mary Collett
a Collett son [29S3], whose name and date
of birth is not known, is the son and possibly eldest of the three children of
John Scott Collett and his wife, the owner of Woodstock Winery where, in 2024,
his son is the general manager
Mary Ann Collett [29S4] is the older daughter
of John Scott Collett of Woodstock Winery in Adelaide
Sophia Anne Laura Collett [29S5] is the youngest of the
three children of John Scott Collett and his wife, and was born on 24th
June 1995
Matilda Collett [29S6] was born in Australia
on 15th May 1992, the only child of Charles Collett and Mary Warnest
Angela Jean Collett [29S7] was born in Australia
on 19th October 1975, the first of the three children of Peter James
Collett and Rosemary Rutter
Steven James Collett [29S8] was born in Australia
on 15th April 1980, another child, but only son of Peter and
Rosemary Collett
Katherine Jane Collett [29S9] was born in Australia
on 21st October 1981, the last child born to Peter James Collett and
Rosemary Rutter
Thomas Giles Collett [29S10] was born in Australia
on 16th August 1987, the only child of Bruce Phillip Collett and
Susan Graeber
HARRY HENDER COLLETT [29S11] was born in Australia
on 19th October 1990, the older of the two son of Andrew Clive
Collett and Megan Hender
Darcy George Hender Collett [29S12] was born in Australia
on 15th July 1992, the youngest son of Andrew and Megan Collett
Claire Collett [29S13] was born in Australia
on 14th June 1976, the first of three children of David John Collett
and Judith Ann Fowler
Simon Collett [29S14] was born in Australia
on 28th December 1978, the son and second child of David and Judith
Collett
Louise Collett [29S15] was born in Australia
on 5th June 1981, the last child of David John Collett and Judith
Ann Fowler
Christopher Mark Collett [29S16] was born in Australia
on 16th August 1977, the first-born child of the four children of
Jeffrey Lindsay Collett and Ruth Ann Hutchinson
Nicholas Dean Collett [29S17] was born in Australia
on 14th February 1979, the second child of Jeffrey and Ruth Collett
Gregory Jason Collett [29S18] was born in Australia
on 24th January 1981, another son of Jeffrey and Ruth Collett
Richard James Collett [29S19] was born in Australia
on 29th November 1982, the fourth and last child of Jeffrey Lindsay
Collett and Ruth Ann Hutchinson
APPENDIX
The Turkdean to Wales Line
The family line of William
Collett the shoemaker
JOSEPH
COLLETT [29l1]
was possibly born around 1765. He was
married by banns to Susannah (Hannah) Price on 16th November 1786 at
Turkdean in Gloucestershire, 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 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 was born in 1788 at
Turkdean
29m2 – Hester Collett was born in 1790 at
Turkdean
29m3 – Jane Collett was born in 1796 at
Turkdean
29m4 – WILLIAM COLLETT was born in 1800 at
Turkdean
Henry
Collett [29m1]
was baptised at Turkdean on 6th May 1788, the first-born child of
Joseph Collett and Hannah (Susannah) Price.
He married Elizabeth Ransford at Notgrove on 17th 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, when 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
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. For more information of Thomas Collett and
Mary Ransford go to Part 14 – The John
Kyte Collett Line, and Ref. 14M24
29n1 – Maria Collett was born in 1815 at
Notgrove
29n2 – Sarah Collett was born in 1818 at
Turkdean
29n3 – Priscilla
Collett
was born in 1820 at Turkdean
Hester Collett [29m2] was born at Turkdean
in 1790 and was baptised there on 6th July 1790 , the eldest
daughter of Joseph and Hannah Collett
Jane
Collett [29m3]
was born at Turkdean and was baptised there on 26th June 1796, the
third child of Joseph Collett and Hannah Price.
It was previous understood that she married John Austin at Notgrove on 2nd
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
WILLIAM
COLLETT [29m4]
was born in 1799 and was baptised at Turkdean on 23rd February 1800,
the last known child of Joseph Collett and Hannah Price, who was more commonly
known as Hannah Collett, and certainly the name that she was recorded as for
the baptism of all four of hr children.
It was also at Turkdean where William Collett married Hannah Deane on 6th
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 it appears that both Hannah and her eldest son passed
away, perhaps during the birth of a third child for Hannah, who also did not
survive
According to the next census in 1851, it was
just William Collett of Turkdean, who was 51 and a stonemason, and his Turkdean
born son William Collett who was 13 and 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 13th April 1852
29n4 – Henry Collett was born in 1833 at
Turkdean
29n5 – WILLIAM COLLETT was born in 1837 at
Turkdean
Maria
Collett [29n1]
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 13th August 1815 and it was there where she was raised. 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 2nd 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 Ann Lawrence who
was four, and Eli Lawrence who was one year old
Three more children were added to their family
during the 1840s and by 1851, the family living at Lower Turkdean comprised Thomas Lawrence from Reading in Berkshire who
was 40 and an agricultural labourer, Maria Lawrence from Turkdean who
was 36 and another
agricultural labourer, Ann Lawrence who was 13 and an agricultural labourer, Eli Lawrence
who was 11 and an
agricultural labourer working with his parents, as was nine-year-old Samuel
Lawrence, Emma Lawrence who was four and attending school, and Priscilla Lawrence
who was two years old. Staying with the family as a
lodger was agricultural labourer Thomas Wearing aged 19 and from Coln St Dennis. It is possible that Maria Lawrence nee
Collett died shortly after 1851, because by 1861 Thomas Lawrence was a widower
living in Turkdean when he
was 49 years old and an agricultural labourer. Only four of his children were still living
with him, and they were Violetta Ann Lawrence who was 23 and a dressmaker, Eli
Lawrence who was 21 and an
agricultural labourer, as was Samuel Lawrence who was 19, and Priscilla
Lawrence who was 11 and still
at school
Sarah
Collett [29n2]
was born at Turkdean in 1818, another daughter of Henry and Elizabeth
Collett. It was also at Turkdean where
she later married Caleb Merchant on 7th 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. xi 350) during the second
quarter of 1838, following which Emma Elizabeth Merchant was baptised at
Turkdean on 17th June 1838.
Tragically, it was at Turkdean on 1st March 1850 that she
died, her death recorded at Northleach (Ref. xi 319). In between those two events, the couple’s son
was born, the baptism of Reuben Henry Merchant taking place at Turkdean on 3rd
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. xi 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. xi 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. xi 407) during the third quarter of 1849
Priscilla
Collett [29n3] was
born at Turkdean during the first few weeks of 1820, and it was there that she
was baptised on 26th 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
still living, and was recorded as being 20 years of age when she was living and
working in the nearby
village of Hampnett just south of Turkdean at the home of Thomas Wells and his
large family. 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. It is possible that the wedding of Priscilla Collett that was recorded
at Cheltenham during the third quarter of 1847 (Ref. xi 257) was for Priscilla
from Turkdean and Hampnett, since the latter lies within the Cheltenham
registration district
Henry
Collett [29n4] was
born at Turkdean in 1833 where he was baptised on 17th 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
William
Collett [29n5] the shoemaker, was born at Turkdean
on 24th August 1837, the second son of William Collett and Hannah
Deane, whose birth was registered at Northleach Rural District Council (Ref. xi
246) during the third quarter of 1837.
It was also at Turkdean that he was baptised on 10th
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 30th May 1860, following which all their children
were born and baptised at Charlton Kings
The census return 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 recorded at 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 no additional 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 still 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 and 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 53. Only five of their children were still living
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, nor 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, with her death recorded at Pontypridd register
office (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
was
born in 1862 at Charlton Kings
29o2 – William Henry Collett
was
born in 1866 at Charlton Kings
29o3 – Arthur Collett was born in 1868 at
Charlton Kings
29o4 – Lily Anne
Collett was
born in 1868 at Charlton Kings
29o5 – Ada Collett was born in 1872 at
Charlton Kings
29o6 – Christopher
Henry Collett was
born in 1874 at Charlton Kings
29o7 – Frederick Ernest
Collett was
born in 1876 at Charlton Kings
29o8 – Alice Kate Collett
was
born in 1878 at Charlton Kings
Minna
Julia Collett [29o1] was
born at Charlton Kings in 1862, the first child of William Collett and Sarah
Ann Browning Hall, whose birth was registered 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
William
Henry Collett [29o2] was
born at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings during 1866, with his birth registered 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 28th 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
Arthur
Collett [29o3] was
born at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings in 1868, when his birth was registered at
Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 385) during the first quarter of the year. He was baptised at Charlton Kings on 29th
March 1868 and was 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, near Cheltenham. It
may have been through his work that he met and started 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 married William Turtle, with the event recorded at
Cheltenham, with whom she had a son born the following year. 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. The family was devastated by the premature
death of William Turtle just after the census day in 1891, when his death was recorded
at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 305) during the second quarter of that year at the age
of only 29. Three years after losing her
husband widow Verina Louisa Turtle married Arthur Collett, with their wedding
recorded at Cheltenham register office (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 were born at
Leckhampton and the fourth at Winchcombe where the family was recorded in the census
that year. 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 recorded as 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 and 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 was 21 and an insurance agent. Also, by then, Arthur and Varina were both
43, with Arthur working as an auxiliary postman with the General Post Office 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
During
her life, his wife’s name was often recorded at Varina, as it was in 1911 and
again at the time of her passing. The
notice of the death of Varina Louisa Collett was reported in the
Gloucestershire Echo on 24th March 1939, which stated that she had
died in Cheltenham on 23rd March 1939 at the age of 72, the widow of
Arthur Collett. It was as Varina Louisa
Ballinger that her birth was registered at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 364) during the last
three months of 1864, but it was as Verina Louisa Ballinger aged six years in
1871, and 16 in 1881, that she was the youngest of the children living with her
parents at Leckhampton on both those census days
29p1 – Arthur Charles
Turtle (Collett)
was born in 1889 at Cheltenham
29p2 – Wilfred Arthur
Collett
was born in 1895 at Leckhampton
29p3 – Verina Beata
Collett
was born in 1896 at Leckhampton
29p4 – Muriel Gratia
Collett
was born in 1898 at Leckhampton
29p5 – Beata Minna
Collett
was born in 1900 at Winchcombe
29p6 – Ivy Ada Collett was born in 1907 at
Ashchurch
Lily Anne
Collett [29o4] 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 registered at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 401) during the last
three months of 1868. It was at Charlton
Kings where she was baptised on 30th January 1869, another daughter
of William Collett and his wife Sarah Ann.
Lily A Collett was two years old in the census of 1871 when she and her
family were still residing in Mill Lane, 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
Ada
Collett [29o5] was
born at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings in 1872 when her birth also registered at
Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 471) during the first quarter of the year. She was later baptised at Charlton Kings on
28th 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 on 8th 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
Christopher
Henry Collett [29o6] was
born at Mill Lane in Charlton Kings in 1874 and, as with all his older
siblings, his birth was registered 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 29th March
1874. Curiously, in the Charlton Kings
census of 1881, he was named as Christopher T E Collett aged seven years. After his family’s subsequent move to South
Wales and, upon leaving school, Christopher took up work as a coalminer. That was confirmed in the Pontypridd census
of 1891 when Christopher 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 from
Charlton Kings was 27 and 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 married and living with her
family
The two parts of the family were then reunited at
Rhondda, Tylorstown, on the day of the census in 1911, with
unmarried Christopher was still working as a collier lamp-man, working on the
surface, at the age of 37, living with his elderly retired father as head of
the household, and his brother Frederick (below). Staying with them was Alice Kate
Alexander, nee Collett (below) and her husband and son, when Alice was
acting as the housekeeper for the three men.
The census return indicated that there were only five people residing at
the address, so perhaps Alice’s husband, although listed, was still living at
his and Alice’s home also in Rhondda Tylorstown, to where Alice returned at the
end of 1914 after her father passed away
Frederick
Ernest Collett [29o7] 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 registered
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 and his father and
brother Christopher left East Road and moved to Rhondda Tylorstown,
to be close to married sister Alice (below) who acted as their
housekeeper. That situation was
confirmed in the Tylorstown census of 1911, by which time Frederick Ernest
Collett from Charlton Kings aged 34 had stopped working at the coalmine, and instead
was employed as a picture framer
Alice
Kate Collett [29o8] 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 registered 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. Their
wedding was recorded at Pontypridd (Ref. 11a 552) during the first quarter of
1898
Once married, the couple settled in East Road
in Ystradyfodwg, 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 and a coal miner. Around four years later, Alice presented
Frederick with a son who was born at Rhondda Tylorstown but, two years later
and after the death of her mother, Alice looked after her elderly father who
had also moved to Rhondda Tylorstown after being widowed. Head of the household in 1911 was 73-year-old
William Collett widower and retired boot maker, his two unmarried sons
Christopher and Frederick Collett, his daughter Alice Kate Alexander aged 32,
his grandson son Frederick William Alexander who was five years old, and
son-in-law Frederick John Alexander from Trowbridge who was 38 and again a
collier hitcher working underground
On that
census day in 1911, Alice was well advanced with the pregnancy of her second
child Kenneth Alexander, whose birth was recorded at Pontypridd register
office (Ref. 11a 541) during the second quarter of that same year. There then followed the births of a further
four children before the end of that decade, all recorded at Pontypridd, and
they were: Alice L Alexander in 1914 Qrt 1 (Ref. 11a 1468); Sarah A
Alexander in 1915 Qrt 1 (Ref. 11a 3573); Elizabeth Alexander in 1917
Qrt 4 (Ref. 11a 1133); and Mary B Alexander in 1920 Qrt 1 (Ref. 11a 1613). In every case, the mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Collett
Arthur Charles Turtle (Collett) [29p1] was born
at Cheltenham in 1889 and was the only son of Verina Ballinger and William
Turtle, whose father died just after the census day in 1891, in which Arthur C
Turtle was one year old and living at North Place in Cheltenham where his
father was 29 and a bootmaker, and his mother was 25. Just over fifteen months earlier, the birth of Arthur Charles Turtle
was registered at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 410) near the end of 1889. Arthur was almost five years old when his
mother married Arthur Collett of nearby Kings Charlton at Cheltenham during the
last three months of 1894, with whom he was living at Gretton Road in
Winchcombe in 1901. On that occasion the
census return recorded him as Arthur C Collett from Cheltenham who was 11 years
of age, when his stepfather Arthur Collett was an agent for a life insurance company. It was therefore very likely that on leaving
school it was his stepfather who secured young Arthur his first job because in
1911, Arthur Charles Turtle was 21 and an insurance agent, who was still living
with his Collett family but at Ashchurch, east of Tewkesbury
Two
years after that day, the marriage of Arthur C T Collett [presumably Arthur
Charles Turtle Collett] and Edith D Custance was recorded at Tewkesbury
register office (Ref. 6a 1016) during the summer of 1913. Edith Daisy Custance was born at Henstridge
in Somerset on 17th March 1890, the daughter of Arthur and Bessie,
who two years prior to her wedding day she was 21 and a general domestic
servant employed by the three Bains sisters of Cheltenham who living on private
means at their home in Prestbury, a north-east suburb of Cheltenham. Only one child appears to have been born to
the couple, with the birth of Eric Arthur Turtle Collett recorded at Tewkesbury
in the middle of 1914, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Custance
Although
not confirmed as the former Arthur Charles Turtle, the death of Arthur Collett
aged 69 was recorded at Gloucestershire register office (Ref. 7b 207) in 1957. Three years after he passed, his
granddaughter Valerie H Collett was married in the Ross-on-Wye area of
Herefordshire, where Arthur’s widow was living when she died ten years after
that wedding day. The death of Edith
Daisy Collett was recorded at Ross-on-Wye register office (Ref. 9a 180) during
the summer of 1970 at the age of 80
29q1 – Eric Arthur Turtle Collett was born in 1914 at Tewkesbury
Wilfred Arthur Collett [29p2] was born
at Leckhampton in 1895,the eldest of the five children of Arthur Collett and
Verina Louisa Turtle, nee Ballinger. His
birth was recorded at Cheltenham register office (Ref. 6a 408) during the third
quarter of 1895 and in 1901 he was five years old and living with his family at
Gretton Road in Winchcombe. After a
further decade, and having completed his schooling, Wilfred Collett from
Leckhampton was 15 years old and working as a cowman on a farm when he and his
family were living in Ashchurch near Tewkesbury in 1911. He was in his early forties when he became a
married man, when the wedding at Wilfred Arthur Collett and Barbara G Weare was
recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 1069) during the second quarter of 1938. Barbara was younger than Wilfred, having been born as Barbara Gertrude
Weare at Sparkhill in Birmingham during the summer of 1906, the daughter of William
and Emma Weare, whose birth was recorded at Solihull register office (Ref. 6d
637). Despite the difference in their
ages, the couple appear not to have had any issue
Verina Beata Collett [29p3] was born at
Leckhampton towards the end of 1896 with her birth recorded at Cheltenham
register office (Ref. 6a 388) during the fourth quarter of 1896. She was the eldest daughter of Arthur and
Verina Collett, with both her name, and her mother’s, sometime recorded as
Varina. As Verina B Collett she was four
years old in the census of 1901, by which time the family was residing at
Gretton Road in Winchcombe. In 1911,
after the family had settled near Tewkesbury, at Ashchurch, mother and daughter
were recorded at as Varina, when Verina Beata was 14 years of age, had left
school, and was employed as a nurse girl who was still living at the family
home. Thirteen years later the death of
Varina Beata Collett was recorded at Gloucestershire register office (Ref. 6a
410) in 1924 when she was 27 years old
Muriel Gratia Collett [29p4] was born at
Leckhampton on 28th
June 1898 when her birth was recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 411) during
the third quarter of 1898. She was
another daughter of Arthur and Verina Collett and was two years old in 1901,
when Muriel G Collett and her family were living on Gretton Road in
Winchcombe. After that census day, and
prior to the birth of her youngest sibling (below), the family left
Winchcombe when they moved to Ashchurch on the outskirts of north-east
Tewkesbury. And it was there in 1911
that Muriel Collett was 12 years old and still at school. Nine years later, the marriage of Muriel Gratia Collett and Arthur E
Jones was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6a 2057) during the third
quarter of 1920. The first of the
couple’s was born eight years after they were married, with all four births
recorded at Coventry register office.
They were Eileen Jones in 1928 Qrt 3 (Ref. 6d 1111), Doris L
Jones in 1930 Qrt 1 (Ref. 6d 1087), Beryl Jones in 1933 Qrt 4 (Ref.
6d 851), and Geoffrey J Jones in 1937 Qrt 2 (Ref. 6d 1283). All four records confirmed that the mother’s maiden-name was Collett
She may
have lived all her married life in Warwickshire, since it was at Warwickshire
register office (Vol. 33 0076) that the death of 78-year-old Muriel Gratia
Jones was recorded in 1976. Thirteen
years earlier, Muriel had been made a widow upon the death Arthur E Jones which
was also recorded at Warwickshire register office (Ref. 9c 20) in 1963 when he
was 69
Beata Minna Collett [29p5] was born in 1900 at Gretton
Road in Winchcombe after her family moved there from nearby Leckhampton. The birth of Beata Minna Collett was recorded
at Winchcombe register office (Ref. 6a 425) during the third quarter of 1900. The Winchcombe census the following year
included nine-month-old Beata M Collett living at Gretton Road with her family
which, during the following six years moved again, to the Ashchurch district of
Tewkesbury. Within the Tewkesbury census
of 1911 Beata Collett was a 10-year-old schoolgirl. No record of any kind for her after that day has been found in the
country of her birth
Ivy Ada Collett [29p6] was born on 8th January 1907
after her family arrived in Ashchurch on the outskirts of Tewkesbury, where her
birth was recorded (Ref. 6a 428) during
the first three months of 1907. In the
Ashchurch census for 1911, Ivy Ada Collett was four years of age and the last
child of Arthur Collett and Verina Louisa Ballinger. With some members of her extended family having connections with the
county of Herefordshire, it seems likely that the later marriage of Ivy Ada
Collett and Arthur Fowler recorded at Herefordshire register office (Ref. 6a
1060) in the first quarter of 1943, was the youngest child of Arthur and Verina
Collett. Furthermore, the later death of
Ivy Ada Fowler, nee Collett, was recorded at Herefordshire register office
(Vol. 29 287) in 1987, at the age of 80.
In between those significant events, Ivy gave birth to birth to two
daughters, Auriol I Fowler in 1948 (Ref. 9a 50) and Irene A Fowler
in 1951 (Ref. 9a 63) with the birth recorded at Herefordshire register office
when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett
Eric
Arthur Turtle Collett [29q1] was
born on 3rd June 1914 and was the only known child of Arthur Charles
Turtle Collett and Edith E Custance, whose birth was recorded at Tewkesbury
register office (Ref. 6a 794) when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Custance. He was 25 years of age when
the wedding of Eric A Collett and Beatrice M C Owen was recorded at Hereford
register office (Ref. 6a 2285) during the third quarter of 1939. Beatrice M C Owen was born on 20th
October 1915, with her birth recorded at Hereford register office (Ref. 6a
721). Just a few months after they were
married, Beatrice presented Eric with their only known children, when the birth
of Valerie H Collett was recorded at Hereford register office (Ref. 6a 1473)
during the final three months of 1939.
The child’s mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Owen
Around
the time of her twenty-first birthday, Valerie H Collett married Leonard A
Criddle, with their wedding day recorded at Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire (Ref.
9a 148) towards the end of 1960. Once
they were married, the couple resided in the Forest of Dean area of
Gloucestershire when the births of their three children were recorded at the
Forest of Dean register office. They
were David A Criddle in 1963 Qrt 1 (Ref. 7b 711), Ian J Criddle
in 1965 Qrt 3 (Ref. 7b 697), and Simon James Criddle in 1973 Qrt 3 (Ref.
7b 1373). For all three births, the
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
The later death of their grandfather, Eric Arthur T Collett, was
recorded at Herefordshire register office (Vol. 29 805) in 1992 when he was 78
years old. For the last year of his
life, Eric was a widower following the death of his wife Beatrice M Cavell
Collett which was also recorded at Herefordshire register office (Vol. 29 678)
in 1991
29r1 – Valerie H Collett was born in 1939 at Hereford