PART
THIRTY-TWO
The
Updated November 2024
Harbour Buffett, which features strongly in
this family line, was established in 1854 and, ten years later, it was home to
only ten families in the St. Mary's district of Long
Island on the inner Placentia Bay.
Harbour Buffett was initially established as a Way Office, where the
first Waymaster was Thomas E Collett (Ref. 32M3). It was changed to a Post Office on 30th
May 1891 and was only served by the Canadian
National Railway
in 1953.
This family line starts in Part Two –
The Secondary
can be traced back through Part One –
The Main
It is the family line of Jonathan Caleb
Collett (Ref. 32R72) of St John’s in Newfoundland,
the line being denoted by the names in
capital letters. It is interesting that
earlier research
undertaken by his late father indicated
the family had originally come from Lower Slaughter
in Gloucestershire, with a Richard
Collett who was born in 1626 and who died in 1715.
This would be Richard Collett (Ref.
2H22) who was baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1627
It is also the family line of Janelle
Collett (Ref. 32S13) of Edmonton in Alberta,
of Bonnie Brown (Ref. 32R5) and Maxwell
Collett (Ref. 32Q90) of Placentia Bay,
and Natasha Young (see Ref. 32Q68) of
Pasadena in Newfoundland
More so than any other family line that
I have ever had the pleasure to construct (with
information kindly supplied by
32L1 |
JOHN COLLETT (Ref. 2L23) was baptised at
Bromsgrove in Worcestershire on 10th July 1775 where, in 1778 his
father Richard Collett was the churchwarden at St John the Baptist Church. Another source gives his date of birth as 10th
July 1775. It was also at Bromsgrove on
17th November 1796 that John Collett married (1) Mary Harman, the
daughter of James Harman and Sarah Paget, who was born on 21st
July 1774. The same source suggests
that the family surname was Norman rather than Harman. The marriage definitely produced the six
children listed below, all of whom were born and baptised at Bromsgrove. Tragically, Mary Collett nee Harman (or
Norman) died on 4th March 1813, at which time her youngest child
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What
may be of interest is that during the five-year period between the birth of
her son James in 1808 and her death in 1813 there were two children born in
Worcester to parents John and Mary Collett.
There were Henry Collett, who was baptised on 8th April
1810 at the Church of St Helen, and Mary Collett who was baptised at All
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Shortly
after the death of his first wife, John Collett married (2) Mary Susanna
Ridlington Freer on 19th September 1814 at Holy Trinity Church in
Stratford-on-Avon. That may have taken
place when John was Major John Collett with the North Worcestershire
Volunteers, residing at Hagley, where their three children were born and baptised.
Mary S R Freer was the eldest daughter
of John Freer Esq of Oakham, the county town of Rutland. It is highly likely that it was during the
years prior to his marriage to Mary Freer, that Major John Collett had spent
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What
is now known for sure, is that it was the children from John’s first marriage
who settled in Newfoundland in 1815, following the death of their mother, and
after which their father was married for a second time. It is possible that it was John’s knowledge
of Newfoundland that resulted in him assisting his children to leave England
for Canada. It was during the birth of
the couple’s fourth child that Mary Susanna Ridlington Collett died at
Stratford-on-Avon on 24th April 1820, where she was buried with
her unnamed baby. Over the following
eight years, the three earlier children of John and Mary also passed away and
were buried with their mother in a vault within Holy Trinity Church in
Stratford-on-Avon. Although no record of the death of John Collett has been
found so far, it is understood that he too was buried with his wife and young
family at Stratford-upon-Avon’s Holy Trinity Church. |
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A
memorial plaque inside Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-on-Avon carries the
following inscription. “Mary
Susanna Ridlington Collett, wife of John Collett Esq. and daughter of John
Freer Esq. with her infant child lie buried in the vault beneath. They departed this life on 24th
April 1820. Eliza Ridlington Collett
died 13th April 1825.
Barbara Ann Collett died 21st April 1826. Daughters of the above John and M S R
Collett. Edward Freer Collett died 7th
April 1828. Son of John
and M S R Collett” |
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32M1 |
John Paget Collett |
Born in 1797 at
Bromsgrove |
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32M2 |
James Richard Collett |
Born in 1799 at
Bromsgrove |
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32M3 |
THOMAS EDWARD COLLETT |
Born in 1800 at
Bromsgrove |
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32M4 |
Mary Susanne Collett |
Born in 1802 at
Bromsgrove |
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32M5 |
Richard Collett |
Born in 1803 at
Bromsgrove |
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32M6 |
James Harman (or Norman) Collett |
Born in 1808 at
Bromsgrove |
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The following
are the children of John Collett by his second wife Mary Susanna Ridlington
Freer: |
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32M7 |
Eliza Ridlington Collett |
Born in 1815 at Hagley,
Worcester |
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32M8 |
Edward Freer Collett |
Born in 1816 at Hagley,
Worcester |
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Barbara Ann Collett |
Born in 1818 at
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a Collett child |
Born in 1820;
died in 1820 at Stratford |
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32M1 |
John Paget Collett was born at Bromsgrove on 10th
November 1797, where he was baptised in a joint ceremony with his brother
James (below) on 16th August 1799, the eldest child of John
Collett and Mary Harman. He died in
Newfoundland on 31st July 1824, but was buried at Bromsgrove on 6th
August 1824. His Will was proved at
Bromsgrove on 30th December 1824, in which he was he was referred
to as John Pagett Collett, Gentleman of Bromsgrove. |
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32M2 |
James Richard Collett was born at
Bromsgrove on 27th February 1799 and was baptised at Bromsgrove on
16th August 1799 with his older brother John (above). He was the second child of John and Mary
Collett and sadly he was still only two years old when he died at Bromsgrove
on 7th August 1801, following which he was buried there three days
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32M3 |
THOMAS EDWARD COLLETT was born at
Bromsgrove on 7th December 1800 where he was baptised on 1st
January 1801, the third child of John and Mary Collett. When he was only fifteen years old, he
moved to Newfoundland with his family.
It was at Petty Harbour on Long Island that he took up the occupation
of printer for a government official and met and married a local girl, Anne
Marshall. She was born at Petty
Harbour on 25th July 1804 and was the daughter of George Marshall
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The
wedding took place on 17th August 1823 at Anglican Cathedral in St
John’s, following which they had a total of thirteen children. After an initial period living at Petty
Harbour, where the first seven children were born, the family set up home at
Harbour Buffett on Long Island in Placentia Bay, where Thomas E Collett was
the first waymaster in 1854, and later a magistrate. Before that, judging from the birth of their
son James and the christenings of siblings Anne and Emma, the family spent a
short while at Burk’s Cove and Collett’s Cove in Placentia Bay, before their
final move to Harbour Buffett. |
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It
was at Harbour Buffett that Thomas Edward Collett died on 7th May 1874,
while Anne had died there eighteen months earlier on 7th December 1872. The Harbour Grace Standard Times newspaper
reported that Anne had died leaving eight children, fifty-seven grandchildren
and fifty great grandchildren. Perhaps
because they lived in small close-knit communities, it is interesting to note
that the resulting families of two of Thomas Edward Collett’s children,
Richard John Collett and his sister Phoebe Collett, were later linked back
together through Anita Maude Best who was born at Merasheen in 1948. The
connection is as follows; Anita’s father's grandmother was Lillias
Collett, the daughter of Richard John Collett, while her grandfather's mother
was Richard's sister Phoebe Collett. |
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It
is well documented that in May 1836 Thomas E Collett, a resident of Long
Island before he moved to Harbour Buffet, wrote to Archdeacon Wix asking whether he
could help ‘in any way toward building a small Church at Harbour Buffet’. He said that James Butler had consulted the
people and had found that they were very eager to help. Thomas went on to say that he was sending
his letter via Alexander Chambers ‘who hopefully agrees with us, and has
kindly promised to see you upon the subject’. He thanked him for the books and said he was
able to start a ‘small loan library on the island’. It was later that same year that Thomas and
his family left Petty Harbour and settled in Harbour Buffet. |
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Once he was living at Harbour Buffet and
towards the end of 1836 Thomas wrote a letter to the Board of Education in
Placentia in which he said that ‘at a meeting of the inhabitants of that
place it was determined to erect a School House there’. As a result of the Education Act
established in 1836 Thomas E Collett was given ten dollars per annum to be
the schoolmaster at Harbour Buffet.
The school building was completed in May 1837 and on 1st
August that same year Thomas Collett began teaching at the first school in
the Harbour Buffett. This he did for
the first year without receiving any payment although the Board of Education
later gave him ten dollars in recognition of his ‘praiseworthy conduct’. He taught at the school until a successor
arrived in 1840 and, during that time, he also read the morning and evening
prayers. |
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In addition to the Harbour Beaufette Society
being established under the leadership of Thomas Edward Collett, to bring the
aims of worship and education to reality, he was a prominent figure in other
ways. In 1845
his father was glad to hear that he and his large family were ‘so well and so
happy’. That was a contrast to back in
England where it was difficult for even the most industrious man to make a
living because of taxes and large payments.
In Harbour Buffett Thomas was appointed a Justice of the Peace by
Governor Le Marchant in 1849. He was
also a Road Commissioner and became a Way Master in 1853 when his boat was
hired to carry special mail from Little Placentia and St. John’s, which also
carried freight. In his private life
it was said that he had animals for meat, a regular supply of milk, and a
horse named Jack. |
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32N1 |
Mary Anne Collett |
Born in 1824 at
Petty Harbour |
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32N2 |
Richard |
Born in 1826 at
Petty Harbour |
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32N3 |
Eliza Collett |
Born in 1828 at
Petty Harbour |
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32N4 |
John Edward Collett |
Born in 1830 at
Petty Harbour |
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32N5 |
George William Collett |
Born in 1831 at
Petty Harbour |
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32N6 |
Anne Collett |
Born in 1833 at
Petty Harbour |
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32N7 |
Emma Collett |
Born in 1835 at
Petty Harbour |
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32N8 |
James Collett |
Born in 1837 at
Collett’s Cove |
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32N9 |
THOMAS EDWARD COLLETT |
Born in 1838 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32N10 |
Phoebe Collett |
Born in 1841 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32N11 |
Eleanor Collett |
Born in 1843 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32N12 |
Lucy Collett |
Born in 1845 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32N13 |
Henry Holyoake Collett |
Born in 1847 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32M4 |
Mary Susanne Collett was born at
Bromsgrove on 10th February 1802 and was baptised there on 27th
May 1802, the eldest daughter of John Collett and his first wife Mary Harman. |
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32M5 |
Richard Collett was born at Bromsgrove on 8th
November 1803 and it was there also that he was baptised on 6th
June 1804, the fifth child of John and Mary Collett. He was the first of their sons who was born
after the death of their older son, after whom Richard was named. He was twelve years old when he moved with
his family to Newfoundland in 1815, but some years later, perhaps as a
soldier like his father, he was in Africa where he died on 6th
November 1824 at Loango. |
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32M6 |
James Harman (or Norman) Collett was born at
Bromsgrove on 26th January 1808 and it was later that same year
that he was baptised at Bromsgrove on 30th September 1808, the son
of John Collett and Mary Harman.
James, who was also named in honour of his late brother and his mother’s
family, was seven years old when his father took the family to Newfoundland
in 1815. It was there, at Petty
Harbour, that he married Mary Chafe on 9th November 1833. Mary (or Maria) who was born during 1810,
died in 1894. James Harman Collett died
earlier at Pokeham Path in St John’s on 26th June 1877. It has not been determined if their
marriage produced any children. |
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Eliza Ridlington Collett was born in
Worcestershire in 1815 and was baptised at Hagley on 16th July
1815, the eldest of the three known children of John Collett and his second
wife Mary Susannah Ridlington (Freer).
Her mother died at Stratford-upon-Avon when she was only five years
old and sadly it was there also that Eliza Ridlington Collett died and was
buried in 1823. |
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32M8 |
Edward Freer Collett, who may also
have been known as Edward Frederick Collett, was born in Worcestershire
during 1816 and was baptised at Hagley on 15th September 1816, the
son of John and Mary Collett. He was
only four years of age when his mother died at Stratford-upon-Avon, where she
was buried in 1820, and where Edward Freer Collett died and was buried in
1828 when he was around 12 years old. |
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Barbara Ann Collett was born in Worcestershire during 1818
and was baptised at Worcester on 30th August 1818, when her
parents were confirmed at John Collett and his wife Mary Susannah Ridlington
Collett. It was only eight years after
the death of her mother in 1820, when Barbara was barely two years old, that
she too passed away at Stratford-upon-Avon where she was buried in 1826. |
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32N1 |
Mary Anne Collett was born at Petty Harbour on 26th
November 1824 where, she was baptised on 11th December 1824, the
first child of Thomas Edward Collett and Anne Marshall. She married John Luther Haddon at Placentia
on 14th November 1845. John
was originally from England, where he was born on 27th March 1823
at Harpenden in Hertfordshire. He was
also an Anglican school teacher at Harbour Buffett and, by 1864, he was a
school inspector at Long Pond. Mary
Anne Haddon, nee Collett, died during 1904. |
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32O1 |
James Norris Haddon |
Born in 1846 |
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32O2 |
Thomas Collett
Haddon |
Date of birth
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32O3 |
Eliza Jane Haddon |
Born in 1849 |
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32O4 |
Emily Jones Haddon |
Born in 1851 |
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32O5 |
William Laurence
Haddon |
Date of birth
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32O6 |
Mary Smith
Haddon |
Born in 1858 |
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32O7 |
John Luther
Haddon junior |
Born on
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another Haddon
child |
Born in 1866 |
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32O9 |
Ann Haddon |
Date of birth
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32O10 |
Martha Gill Haddon |
Date of birth
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32N2 |
Richard |
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There
are further links between the Collett and the Upshall families based in and
around Harbour Buffett, as well as other links between these two families and
those of the Masters and Shave families perhaps indicating that it was a
tightly knit community. |
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32O11 |
Margaret Collett |
Date of birth
unknown at Harbour Buffett |
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32O12 |
Thomas Edward Collett |
Born in 1849 at
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32O13 |
Rebecca Moore Irene Collett |
Born in 1852 at
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32O14 |
Emma Phoebe Collett |
Date of birth
unknown possibly 1854 |
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Born in 1856 at
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32O16 |
Lillias Collett |
Born in 1858 at
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32O17 |
Annie Collett |
Born in 1860 at
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32O18 |
Malcolm Collett |
Date of birth
unknown possible 1862 |
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32O19 |
Richard Collett |
Born in 1866 at
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Eliza Collett was born at Petty Harbour on 4th
August 1828 and was baptised on 1st December 1831, another
daughter of Thomas and Anne Collett.
She married Samuel Masters on 24th October 1847 at Harbour
Buffett. Samuel was eleven years older
than Eliza having been born in 1817. It
seems likely that the couple lived all of their married life at Harbour
Buffett, where William was a planter, as it was there where all of their
children were born and where Eliza and Samuel were buried. Eliza Masters nee Collett died on 22nd
January 1909, with Samuel having passed away four and a half years earlier on
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32O20 |
Emma Julia Masters |
Born in 1849 |
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32O21 |
Eliza Ann Masters |
Born in 1850 |
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32O22 |
William Henry Masters |
Born in 1853 |
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32O23 |
Thomas Edward Masters |
Born in 1854 |
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32O24 |
Samuel Masters |
Born in 1858 |
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32O25 |
James Masters |
Born in 1859 |
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32O26 |
Phoebe Masters |
Born in 1861 |
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32O27 |
Mary Masters |
Born in 1863 |
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32O28 |
Frederick Masters |
Born in 1867 |
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32O29 |
George Masters |
Date of birth
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John Edward Collett was born at Petty Harbour on 25th
April 1830, another son of Thomas and Anne Collett. He married Mary Ann Jarvis on 9th
December 1851 at St Thomas Anglican Church in St John’s. Mary was born in 1835 and tragically,
shortly after they were married, John Edward Collett died in 1853. It is not clear whether that sad event
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Born in 1853 at
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32N5 |
George William Collett was born at
Petty Harbour on 3rd October 1831, another child of Thomas and
Anne Collett. Sometime around the early
1860s George married Susan Upshall who was born in 1841 at Harbour
Buffett. Susan was the younger sister
of George Upshall, who married George William’s sister Anne Collett in 1856,
and Sarah Upshall who married George William’s older brother Richard |
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32O31 |
Emily Collett |
Date of birth
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32O32 |
Ellen Collett |
Born in 1864 at
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32O33 |
Frederick Lewis Collett |
Born in 1867 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32O34 |
Lewis M Collett |
Born in 1875 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32O35 |
Margaret Alice Collett |
Born in 1878 at
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32O36 |
Charles Collett |
Born in 1880 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32O37 |
Hubert Collett |
Born in 1881 at
Harbour Buffett |
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Born in 1882 at
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32O39 |
Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1886 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32O40 |
Sarah Collett |
Date of birth
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Anne Collett was born at Petty Harbour on 29th April 1833
and was a daughter of Thomas and Anne Collett. It was over three years later that she was
baptised on 7th September 1836 at Burk’s Cove in a joint ceremony
with her sister Emma. Anne married
George Upshall on 11th September 1856 at the Wesleyan Parsonage in
Harbour Buffett. George was born in
1829 at Harbour Buffett and was the brother of Sarah and Susan Upshall who
married Anne’s brothers Richard |
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32O41 |
Margaret Anne Upshall |
Born in 1856 |
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32O42 |
George William
Upshall |
Born in 1858 |
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32O43 |
Josiah Wilson
Upshall |
Born in 1859 |
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32O44 |
Emma Julia Upshall |
Born in 1860 |
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32O45 |
Josiah Andrew
Upshall |
Born in 1862 |
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32O46 |
Archibald Alexander Upshall |
Born in 1864 |
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32O47 |
Elizabeth Ellen
Upshall |
Born in 1866 |
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32O48 |
Lillian Upshall |
Born in 1868;
died in 1868 |
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32O49 |
Richard Collett Upshall |
Born in 1869 |
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32O50 |
Nelson Peter Upshall |
Born in 1870 |
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32O51 |
Sarah Jane Upshall |
Born in 1872;
died in 1872 |
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32O52 |
Thomas Edward Collett Upshall |
Born in 1874 |
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32O53 |
Walter Henry Upshall |
Born in 1876 |
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32N7 |
Emma Collett was born at Petty Harbour on 17th May 1835
and was baptised at Burk’s Cove on 7th September 1836 along with
her sister Anne, two of the children of Thomas and Anne Collett. She tragically died on 17th
January 1854, before reaching her twentieth birthday. |
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James Collett was born at Collett’s Cove in
Placentia Bay on 3rd April 1837, where he died a few days later on
8th April 1837. He was
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32N9 |
THOMAS EDWARD COLLETT junior was born at Harbour Buffett on 18th
April 1838, the son of Thomas Edward Collett senior and his wife Anne
Marshall. It was also at Harbour
Buffett that he later married Martha Gilbert during 1869. Martha was almost ten years younger than
her husband, having been born in 1847.
The couple’s youngest child was only thirteen years old when Thomas Edward Collett died on 11th
January 1899 and was buried at Harbour Buffett. After twenty-two years living as a widow,
Martha Collett was still residing in Harbour Buffett in 1921, although it was
only two years later that she passed away at Harbour Buffett on 26th
June 1923. |
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According
to the Harbour Buffett (Placentia Bay - St Mary’s) census of 1921, Martha
Collett of Harbour Buffett was a widow at the age of 75. At that time in her life, she was living at
No. 45 with her married son George Collett aged 41 and also born at Harbour
Buffett, who was a servant employed by his eldest brother John Collett who
lived next door at Harbour Buffett at No. 44.
George’s wife was Jessie Collett aged 40, and their Harbour Buffett
born children were Irene Collett who was eleven, Adie Collett who was eight,
Thomas Collett who was seven and Queenie Collett who was five years of
age. The family living in the adjacent
property, comprised John Collett who was 48 and a general merchant, his wife
Bertha Collett who was 47 and born at Sound Island, and their domestic
servant Annie Dicks, who was 16 years old. |
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32O54 |
Lillias B Collett |
Born in 1870 at Harbour Buffett |
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32O55 |
John Thomas Collett |
Born in 1872 at Harbour Buffett |
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32O56 |
Samuel Collett |
Born in 1873 at Harbour Buffett |
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32O57 |
Albert Edward Collett |
Born in 1876 at Harbour Buffett |
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32O58 |
GEORGE MOORE COLLETT |
Born in 1879 at Harbour Buffett |
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32O59 |
Ann Collett |
Born in 1885 at Harbour Buffett |
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32N10 |
Phoebe Collett was born at Harbour Buffett on 28th
March 1841, the daughter of Thomas and Anne Collett. Phoebe was a schoolteacher at Spencer’s
Cove in 1871, and it may have been around that time when she married William
Best, with whom she had a son Albert Best who was born in 1879. Just less than twenty years later Albert
Best married Winifred Best, the daughter of William Best and Lillias Collett,
the niece of Phoebe Collett, she being the daughter of her brother Richard
John Collett (above). In the
Census of 1921, Phoebe Best was living with her son Albert and his wife
Winifred at their home in Merasheen, and it was during the following years
that Phoebe Best nee Collett died in August 1922. |
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32N11 |
Eleanor Collett was born at Harbour Buffett on 3rd
February 1843, another child of Thomas and Anne Collett. She married William Coady who was born in
1840 and who died in 1909. Eleanor Coady
nee Collett died on 24th September 1926. Their marriage produced five children. Eunice Coady, who was born in 1866, and
married Fred Grassier, Frederick Alfred Coady was born in 1868 and
died in 1932, Lillith Coady, who was born in 1872, and married William
Shaw, Edward Albert Coady, who was born in 1874 and married Anne, and Henry
Coady was born in 1876. |
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32N12 |
Lucy Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett on 23rd April 1845, the twelfth child and the
youngest daughter of Thomas and Anne Collett.
She later married Edward Collins who was the son of William
Collins and his wife Harriet Andrews.
Their marriage produced at least on child before Lucy Collins nee
Collett suffered a premature death during
1879 at the age of 34. That child was William
Thomas Collins who married Lilly Anne Turner, the daughter of John
Johnson Turner and Elizabeth Jane Bursey of Lower Island Cove. In the autumn of 2016 the great great great
grandson of Lucy Collett, James Legere, supplied this information, together
with his direct line of descent via the following. The daughter of William and Lilly Collins
was Georgina who married Robie DeMont (the son of Dennis Douglas DeMont and
Julia Marie Lyons of Nova Scotia). Their
daughter Noreen Beryl DeMont married Edwin MacPhee (the son of George Albert
MacPhee and Annie Catherine Smith of Pictou County, Nova Scotia), while it
was their daughter, Georgina Louise MacPhee, who married Larry John Legere (the
son of Donald Joseph Legere and Vera Rose McLellan of Amherst, Nova Scotia),
the parents of James Legere. |
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32N13 |
Henry Holyoake Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett on 16th January 1847, the last child of Thomas
Edward Collett and Anne Marshall. Tragically, he died there ten months later
on 28th November 1847. |
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32O1 |
James Norris Haddon was born at Harbour Buffett in
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32O3 |
Eliza Jane Haddon was born at Harbour Buffett in 1849
and she married Reginald Heber Earle. |
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32O4 |
Emily Jones Haddon was born at Harbour Buffett in 1851
and she married Thomas Congdon Duder. |
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32O9 |
Ann Haddon was born at Long Pond around 1868 and she married
Reginald Heber. |
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32O10 |
Martha Gill Haddon was born at Long Pond around 1870,
and she married Frederick A Gear. |
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32O11 |
Margaret Collett, whose date of birth is not known
but may have been around 1848, was first child of Richard John Collett and
Sarah Upshall. She married George
Bonnell and is known to have had two sons.
One of them was Richard Bonnell who married Ella, and the other
one was William Bonnell who was born in 1889 and died twenty years
later in 1909. Margaret A Bonnell, nee
Collett, was 59 years of age when she died from a heart failure at Cupids in
Newfoundland on 1st August 1909, coincidentally the same year that
her son suffered a premature death. |
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32O12 |
Thomas Edward Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett on 7th October 1849 and was baptised on 5th
June 1850 at St Thomas Anglican Church in St John’s. He was the son of Richard and Sarah
Collett. It was on 30th
December 1880 that he married Jemima Kirby Pike, the daughter on Emanuel
Pike, who was born St Lawrence in 1862.
Thomas’ brother Peter J Collett (below) married Jemima’s
younger sister Susannah Kirby Pike.
Upon the birth of his children, Thomas’ occupation was that of a
fisherman. According to the Harbour
Buffett census in 1921, Thomas Collett was 71 and not working by then, Jemima
Collett was 57, Arthur Collett was 23, Alice Collett was 19, and Mabel
Collett was 17. Having only just
married, the couple’s eldest son William, and his wife Effie were also living
at the family home, at No. 47 Harbour Buffett. Apart from their eleven children, the only
other known fact is that Thomas Edward Collett died at Harbour Buffett on 9th
September 1926. In April 2013 more
details were found about the children of Thomas Edward Collett and Jemima
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32P3 |
William Collett |
Born in 1883 at
Harbour Buffet |
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32P4 |
Ernest Lewis Collett |
Born in 1885 at
Harbour Buffet |
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32P5 |
Maude Collett |
Born in 1887 at
Harbour Buffet |
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32P6 |
Annie Laura Collett |
Born in 1889 at
Harbour Buffet |
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32P7 |
Ethel Belle MacLean Collett |
Born in 1891 at
Harbour Buffet |
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32P8 |
Lillias Kingwell Collett |
Born in 1893 at
Harbour Buffet |
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32P9 |
Frederick Alfred Collett |
Born in 1895 at
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32P10 |
Arthur Shorter Collett |
Born in 1898 at
Harbour Buffet |
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32P11 |
Mack Collett |
Born in 1900 at
Harbour Buffet |
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32P13 |
Mabel Collett |
Born in 1904 at
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32O13 |
Rebecca Moore Irene Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett on 25th November 1852 and was baptised on 30th
May 1853 at St Thomas Anglican Church in St John’s. She was the third child of Richard and
Sarah Collett, who later married John James Kingwell, who was born in
1849. Rebecca Kingwell, nee Collett, died
on 11th March 1930, at the age of 77, when her parents were
confirmed as Richard Collett and Sarah Upshall. Her husband John had passed away
twenty-four years earlier, in 1906. |
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Lillias Ann Kingwell |
Born in 1875 |
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John Wilson Cleverly Kingwell |
Born in 1877 |
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32P16 |
Richard Aubrey Kingwell |
Born in 1878;
died in 1944 |
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32P17 |
Malcolm George Crane Kingwell |
Born in 1885 |
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Sarah Eva
Kirkland Kingwell |
Born in 1887;
died in 1895 |
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32O14 |
Emma Phoebe Collett was possibly born at Harbour
Buffett around 1854, another daughter of Richard and Sarah Collett. Emma married Albert Boutcher and there were
other links with the Boutcher family, when Walter James Upshall (Ref. 32P81),
the son of Nelson Peter Upshall (Ref. 32O50), married Hannah Boutcher around
1917 and his sister Ada Beatrice Upshall (Ref. 32P87) married Neil Kenneth
Masters (Ref. 32Q40) the son of Kenneth Masters (Ref. 32P33) and Annie
Boutcher. Emma presented Albert with
four children. Lily Boutcher
who was born in 1881 and who died in 1910, Albert Boutcher who was
born in 1888 and married Elsie, Peter Upshall Boutcher who was born in
1891 and married Hannah, and Archie Boutcher who was born in 1893. Emma Boucher was 68 in the census of 1921,
when she was living at Kingwell with three of her sons. Head of the household was Peter Boucher,
aged 30, and his wife Hannah who was 24.
Their children were Elsie and Evelyn, four and two years
respectively. Emma other two,
unmarried sons, were Albert 33 and Archie 28. |
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32O15 |
Peter J Collett was born at Harbour Buffett during
August 1856, the son of Richard and Sarah Collett. He married Susannah Kirby Pike who was born
in 1864, the daughter of Emanuel Pike.
Peter’s older brother Thomas Edward married Susannah’s older sister
Jemima Kirby Pike in 1880. However, by
the time of the census in 1921, Peter Collett, a fisherman aged 64, was
already a widower living at Harbour Buffett.
It was there also, where he was residing on the day of census
conducted in 1935. On that occasion, Peter
Collett was 77 and a widower, who was living off his income, when he was
living with his nephew William Collett (Ref. 32P3), the eldest son of his older
brother Thomas Edward Collett (above).
Peter J Collett at
Harbour Buffett died on 5th January 1941, the cause of death being
paralysis. |
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32O16 |
Lillias Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in
1858, the daughter of Richard and Sarah Collett.
Around 1880 she married William
(Samuel) Best who was born in 1851. Tragically,
Lillias Best, nee Collett, died during childbirth at Merasheen, Placentia St
Mary’s, on 14th February 1895, the birth of the couple’s last
child. Widower William Best survived
his wife by almost thirty years, before he died in 1924. In total William and Lillias had eight
children. Winifred Best, Sarah
Best, Richard Collett Best (who was born at Merasheen, Placentia
Bay on 4th June 1885), Lucy Best (who was born at
Merasheen, Placentia Bay on 25th July 1887), Maude Best who
married Charlie Brinston, Ada Best married to become Ada Abbott, Annie
Best, and Lillias Best – named in honour of her mother - was born
in February 1895, and she married Isaac Wakely. According to the registration of the births
for Richard Collett Best and Lucy Best, the parents were named as Samuel Best
and Lillias Collett Best. |
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Of
their children, it was their eldest child, Winifred Best who was born in
1881, who was still in
her mid-teenage years when she married Albert
Best who was born in 1879. Albert’s
mother, according to the 1921 Census for Merasheen, was Phoebe Best who was
very likely the former Phoebe Collett (Ref. 32N10) who had married William
Best. This would mean that Albert Best
and Lillias Best nee Collett were first cousins, making his marriage to
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The marriage of Winifred Best (1881-1949) and Albert
Best produced eleven children for the couple between the years 1897 and
1919. One of them, George Frederick
Best, born in 1914
married Elsie Reid who was born in 1925 at Tack’s Beach. She was the daughter of Ernest Reid and
Sarah Jane Beck. It was the eldest
child of George and Elsie, Anita Maude Best, who was born at Merasheen in
1948, who kindly provided the complex information linking two branches of the
Collett and Best family. |
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Anita
Maude Best later married Pius William Power junior who was born at Clattice
Harbour during 1945, who died during May in 1996. Their marriage produced one child,
Katherine Sarah Power, who was born at Southeast Bight via St. Clare’s on 3rd
May 1979. |
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Annie Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in 1860,
the eleventh child of Richard and Sarah Collett. Sadly, she was only 28 when she died during 1888. Prior to that, Annie had married Benjamin J
Squire and gave birth to a son Richard Benjamin Squires in early 1887. There was believed to be another child born
to the couple either later that same year or during the first weeks of the
following year. That child did not
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32O19 |
Richard
Collett was born at Harbour Buffett during 1864, the last child of Richard
John Collett of Petty Harbour and Sarah Upshall of Harbour Buffett. He never married and, as Rich Collett, he
was said to be 55 years of age in the Harbour Buffett census of 1921, when he
was one of two servants at the home of general merchant Isaac Wakely and his
wife Lilly and their four young children.
Living in the adjacent property, on his own, was Richard’s older
brother Peter Collett (above). It was during the following year that
he passed away at Arnold’s Cove on 21st October 1922 |
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32O20 |
Emma Julia Masters was born at Harbour Buffett on 29th
September 1849 and was baptised there on 31st March 1850 by Rev. W
K White. |
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32O21 |
Eliza Ann Masters was born at Harbour Buffett on 8th
December 1850 and was baptised there at the Methodist Church on 19th
October 1851. |
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32O22 |
William Henry Masters was born at
Harbour Buffett on 28th February 1853 and was baptised at the
Methodist Church there on 13th October 1853, the third child and
eldest son of Samuel Masters and Eliza Collett. |
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32O23 |
Thomas Edward Masters was born at
Harbour Buffett in May 1854, and it was there that he died on 14th
September 1935. In between these dates
he married Matilda Hollett who was born in September 1856, the daughter of
John Hollett and Elizabeth Bendle, and she died on 22nd June 1929. All of their children were born at Harbour
Buffett. For other links between the
Hollett and Bendle families see reference 32O25 and 32O31. |
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32P32 |
Willis Masters |
Date of birth
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32P33 |
Kenneth Master |
Born in January
1875 |
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32P34 |
John Samuel
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Born in 1876;
died in 1959 |
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32P35 |
Annie Eliza Masters |
Born in 1891;
died in 1959 |
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32P36 |
Tryphena Masters |
Born in 1896;
died in 1912 |
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32P37 |
Thomas Duey
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Born in April
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32O24 |
Samuel Masters was born at Harbour Buffett in May
1858. He married Priscilla Drake on 26th
December 1885 at St John’s. Priscilla
was the daughter of Thomas Drake and died in 1911. It
seems likely that the couple lived all their life at Harbour Buffett. They had four children and they were Eliza
Masters (1886-1968), Bessie Masters (born in 1891), Walter Charles Masters
(who was born in July 1894 and who died on 20th September 1972),
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Samuel
Masters’ oldest child, Eliza Masters, married John Marshall around 1908 and
in 1909 she gave birth to a daughter, Jessie Beatrice Marshall, who married
Austin Lewis Collett (Ref. 32P65) around 1927. Eliza Masters and John Marshall’s third
child was David Hedley Marshall born in 1915.
He married Catherine Upshall and their son, Leo George Marshall born
in 1935, married Gwendolyn Mae Hann, the second chid of Augusta Blanche
Collett (Ref. 32P68) and Eric Hann. |
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Masters’ oldest son, Walter Charles Masters, married Eva Florence Reid in
November 1914 at Harbour Buffett. Eva
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32O25 |
James Masters was born at Harbour Buffett in
1859. He married Emma Bendle who was
born at Harbour Buffett in May 1854.
According to the 1921 Census for St John’s James’ wife was listed as a
widow indicating he had died prior to this date. The
marriage produced four children all of whom were born at Harbour
Buffett. Nothing very much is known
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32P38 |
Reginald Masters |
Born in 1885 |
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32P39 |
William Lambert Masters |
Born in 1891 |
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32P40 |
George Wesley Masters |
Born in 1896 |
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32P41 |
Thomas Masters |
Date of birth
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32O26 |
Phoebe Masters was born at Harbour Buffett in July
1861. She married Charles Knight, the
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Mary Masters was born at Harbour Buffett in May 1863, where she
married William A Gabriel on 14th April 1879. He was the son of the Reverend Alfred E
Gabriel and was born in Devon in England during July 1857. Mary died on 9th April 1940 at
Corner Brook and was buried at the Anglican Church Townsite Cemetery, while
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During
their life together Mary presented William with thirteen children, although
only five survived. They were Florence
Irene Gabriel - born on 22nd March 1880, Edmund Llewelyn Gabriel -
born on 10th June 1884, Frederick Samuel Gabriel - born on 19th
November 1887, Henrietta Maud Gabriel - born on 6th September
1898, and Effie Belle Gabriel who was born on 12th August
1904. Frederick Samuel Gabriel was the
grandfather of Gordon Gabriel of Sydney in Nova Scotia who kindly provided
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Mary’s
other children were recorded as Ada Blanche Gabriel - born on 6th
October 1890 at Amherst Cove and baptised at the Bonavista Anglican Church on
10th December 1891, Alfred Alexander Gabriel - born at Middle
Amherst Cove on 20th January 1891 and baptised at the Anglican
Church on 5th November 1891, and Belle Gabriel who was born at
Lark Harbour during August 1894. The
couple later adopted Mary Sheppard who was born at Lark Harbour on 1st
May 1912 and, it is interesting that, when Florence Irene Gabriel was married,
she became Florence Irene Sheppard. |
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32O28 |
Frederick Masters was born at Harbour Buffett on 1st
August 1867. He married Elizabeth
Cleason, the daughter of Henry Cleason, who was born in August 1868 at
Come-By-Chance. All of their children
were born at Harbour Buffett and it was there, on 23rd May 1931,
that Frederick died and was buried, as was Elizabeth who died four years
later on 3rd August 1935. |
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Louisa Mae Masters |
Born in 1894 |
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32P43 |
Henry Lewis
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Born on
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32P44 |
Lillias Beatrice Masters |
Born in 1897 |
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32P45 |
Charles Oakley Masters |
Born in 1899 |
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32P46 |
Alice Masters |
Born in 1902 |
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32P47 |
Ethel Masters |
Date of birth
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32P48 |
Eliza Masters |
Born in 1906 |
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Ethel Masters |
Born after 1906;
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32O29 |
George Masters whose date of birth in not known is
likely to have been born around 1870.
In the early 1890s he married Mary Ann Shave who was born in
1871. However, George died very young
and was buried at Harbour Buffett in 1894 around the time that his only son
William Samuel Masters was born. It
seems very likely that Mary Ann Shave was the older sister of Annie Shave who
married Lewis M Collett (below), both girls being the daughters of
Thomas Shave and Margaret Anne Upshall (Ref. 32O41). Sometime after the death of her husband,
Mary Ann married (2) Walter Henry Upshall (Ref. 32O53), with whom she had a
further two children. Tragically Mary
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32P50 |
John Collett |
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32O31 |
Emily Collett was the first-born child of George William Collett
and Susan Upshall, whose date of birth is not known, but who was born and
died at Harbour Buffett. She married
Albert Hollett, possible in 1884, Albert being the son of John Hollett and
Elizabeth Bendle, who was born in September 1862 at Harbour Buffett. Albert was the brother to Matilda Hollett
who married Thomas Edward Masters (Ref. 32O23). It also seems very likely that Albert’s
mother was in some way related to Emma Bendle who married James Masters (Ref.
32O25). Emily and Albert are known to
have had two children. Their daughter
Elizabeth Hollett was born at Harbour Buffett on 14th April
1885. She married (1) William Gregory
and later, in the early 1930s, she married (2) Malcolm Henry Peach who was
born in 1874. Both Elizabeth and
Malcolm were buried at Arnold’s Cove, Malcolm having died there on 11th
April 1943. |
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and Albert’s son James
Hollett was born on 29th December 1886 at Harbour Buffett and he
married Ann Marie Gilbert whose parents were John Gilbert and Elizabeth
Gregory, yet another connection with the Gregory family. |
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Albert
Hollett died on 18th October 1929 and was buried at Harbour
Buffett, where his wife Emily was also buried. The Collett family had later links to the
Gregory family when Pearl Eleanor Collett (Ref. 32P80), the niece of Emily
Collett, married Douglas John Gregory (Ref. 32P42). It is therefore very likely that |
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32P51 |
Elizabeth
Hollett |
Born on
14.04.1885 at Harbour Buffett |
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32P52 |
James Hollett |
Born on
29.12.1886 at Harbour Buffett |
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32O32 |
Ellen Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in 1864,
the second child of George and Susan Collett.
She married William Tulk who was born on 16th September 1858,
also at Harbour Buffett. Ellen Tulk
nee Collett died on 9th May 1931 at Harbour Buffett, while her
husband William died many years later on 30th January 1958 at
Coffin’s Cove less than eight months short of his 100th birthday. Together they had five children all born at
Harbour Buffett. They were Cleverly
Joseph Tulk (born 1885 who died on 10th April 1968), Alice
Tulk (born on 24th December 1889 and died in February 1989), Elsie
Moore Tulk (born on 6th September 1895 and died on 15th
March 1995 at Scio Township in Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA), Ethel
Tulk (dates unknown); and Ada Tulk (born on 6th August
1900, who died on 7th November 1990 at Bay Roberts). |
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32O33 |
Frederick Lewis Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett during November 1869, the eldest son of George and Susan
Collett. It was on 19th
September 1898, at Harbour Buffett, when Frederick Lewis Collett married Isabella
Burton, who was born in August 1874. The
marriage register stated that Frederick was 29, that Isabella was 24, both
single, and that the witnesses were siblings Lily (Lillias) B Collett (Ref.
32O54) and Samuel Collett (Ref. 32O56), Frederick’s cousins. Their early married life was scarred by the
tragic loss of three of their first five children, either during the birth or
within the first few months of their lives, with their last child also
suffering an infant death. Their
absence from the family was confirmed within the census of 1921, when they
were living at Harbour Buffet. Fred
Collett was 52 and a fisherman with Wakelys Service, his wife Bella Collett
was 47, Evelyn Collett was 21, Neil Collet was 19 and working with his father
as a fisherman with Wakelys Service, Gordon Collett was ten and at school, as
were twin Douglas Collett and Ethel Collett, who were eight years of
age. In the property next door was the
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Fred
and Isabella were living at Harbour Buffett in 1935 where, still living with
them, were three of their surviving children.
The family was living at No. 148, where Fred Collett was 67, a home
owner, and a labourer at a mercantile premise. His wife Isabella Collett was 60 and a
home-maker, while their three children were Gordon Collett, a sailor on SS
John Cabot, who was 23, Douglas Collett who was 22 and also a labourer at a mercantile
premise, and Ethel Collett who was 22 years old with no occupation. Residing at No. 147 was another Collett
family, that of Arthur Shorter Collett (Ref. 32P10). Two years later, first Frederick Collett died
at Harbour Buffett on 25th November 1937, from dysentery, when he
was 70, and ten days later, Isabella Collett, nee Burton, died from
meningitis on 5th December 1937, aged 67. |
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32P53 |
Evelyn Caldwell Collett |
Born in 1900 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P54 |
Neil Charles Collett |
Born in 1902 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P55 |
Gladys Grace
Collett |
Born in 1903;
died in 1903 at Harbour Buffett |
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32P56 |
Freeman George
Collett twin |
Born in 1905;
died in 1905 at Harbour Buffett |
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32P57 |
George Maxwell
Collett twin |
Born in 1905;
died in 1905 at Harbour Buffett |
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32P58 |
Arthur Gordon Collett |
Born in 1911 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P59 |
Ethel Collett twin |
Born in 1913 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P60 |
Douglas Collett
twin |
Born in 1913 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P61 |
Effie Frances
Collett |
Born in 1917;
died in 1918 at Harbour Buffett |
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32O34 |
Lewis M Collett was born at Harbour Buffett during
October 1875, the fourth child of George and Susan Collett. Around the end of the nineteenth century, he
married Annie Shave, the daughter of Thomas Shave and Margaret Upshall (Ref.
32O41), who was born in September 1877.
They, and their ten children, may have been residents of Harbour
Buffett, as that was where they were living in 1921 and 1935. In the first of those two census years, the
large family was recorded as follows. Lewis
Collett aged 46 was a fisherman, Annie Collett aged 44, Austin Collett aged
18 and a fisherman working for his father, Mary Collett aged 15, Reginald
Collett aged 12, Augusta Collett who was nine, Charlie Collett who was six, and
Florence Collett who was two years old. Also living with the family was widow Susan
Collett aged 74, the mother of Lewis Collett, and Roland Hann, nephew who was
16 and a fisherman working for his uncle.
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By
1935, Lewis and Annie had just two of their younger children still living
with them. The Harbour Buffett census
that year listed the four members of the family at No. 155 as: Lewis Collett
aged 58 and a fisherman, home owner and owner of his own cod fishery
business; Annie Collett who was 57, home maker; and unmarried daughters
Augusta Collett, who was 23 and a saleslady at a dry goods store, and
Florence Collett who was 16, but with no occupation. Working at the same dry goods store with
Augusta, was Thomas Collett who lived at No. 157, while at No. 156 was Lewis’
son Reginald Collett. |
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According
to the census in 1945, Lewis Collett was living new door to his married son
Austin at Harbour Buffett. However,
instead of saying he was 68, his age was recorded as 72, when he was still
working as a lobster fisherman. His
wife Ann Collett was recorded as being 69, instead of 67, and the only child
still living with them was youngster child, Florence who was 26 and a
waitress at the army base. Six years
later, Lewis M Collett was 74 when he died on 2nd August 1951,
with his widow surviving him by fourteen years, with Annie Collett, nee
Shave, passing away on 16th June 1965, at the age of 88. Annie
Shave was the sister to Mary Ann Shave who married George Masters (Ref.
32O29). |
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32P62 |
Jessie Beatrice
Collett |
Born in 1900 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P63 |
Mae Collett |
Born in 1901 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P64 |
Malcolm T
Collett |
Born in 1902 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P65 |
Austin Lewis Collett |
Born in 1903 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P66 |
Mary Edwina
Collett |
Born in 1906 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P67 |
Reginald Gordon Collett |
Born in 1909 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P68 |
Augusta Blanche Collett |
Born in 1912 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P69 |
Charles Collett |
Born in 1915 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P70 |
Lillian Collett |
Born in 1917 at
Harbour Buffett; died 1917 |
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32P71 |
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Born in 1919 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32O35 |
Margaret Alice Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1878, another daughter of George and Susan Collett. She married Christopher Hepditch, the son of
Richard Hepditch, who was born in 1870 and died in 1924, with his wife
Margaret having died nine years earlier in 1913. In the Harbour Buffett census of 1935, the
couple’s second child, Richard Hepditch was a bachelor at 36 and a teacher,
who was staying with the Collett family of Austin Lewis Collett (Ref. 32P65)
at 164 Harbour Buffett. |
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They
had five children Otto Cecil Hepditch (born in 1897), Richard
Hepditch (born in 1899), Effie Shorter Hepditch (born in 1901), Alexandria
Hepditch (who was born on 22nd July 1904), and Vera
Hepditch (born in 1906).
Alexandria later married to become Alexandria Carpenter and in her
later life she lived at North Olmsted in Cuyahoga County of Ohio, where she
died as a widow on 22nd June 1992 at the age of 87. She was the grandmother of Rhonda Worcester
of Oberlin in Ohio, who kindly provided a copy of her death certificate on
which it was confirmed she was the daughter of a Hepditch father and a
Collett mother. The certificate also
recorded that during her life she was a homemaker and that she had been a
student and a volunteer. |
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32O37 |
Hubert Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in 1881,
a son of George and Susan Collett. He is known to have married Sarah
Peach, who was also born at Harbour Buffett, but in September 1886. Hubert Collett died just before the census
was conducted in 1921, leaving his widow staying at the Wild Cove home of her
cousin Henry Peach and his wife Beatie Peach.
Sarah Collett was 35 and was working the company of J Marshall,
fisherman. |
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It was at No. 85 Harbour Buffett, a dwelling owned
by Peter, that the family was residing in 1935, where Peter Collett was 50
and a labourer at a mercantile premise, Susan Collett was 47 and a home maker,
Pierce Collett was 25 and working with his father, Gladys was 21 with no
occupation, Stan was 19 and also working with his father, Otto was 15 with no
occupation, Susan was 12, and Pearl Collett was seven years old. It is likely that Peter passed away at
Coffin’s Cove, although the death of Peter Collett was
recorded at Harbour Buffett [Entry 13] following his passing on 9th
January 1939 at the age of 50, the cause of death being heart disease. |
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Sometime
during the next six years, widow Susan Collett married (2) George H Hollett,
with whom she was living at No. 88 Harbour Buffett in 1945. George H Hollett was 60 and a fisherman of
cod and herring, who was the owner of his home, his wife Susy Hollett was 56,
and living with them were two of Susan’s children. They were Otto Collett, aged 25, and Pearl
Collett who was 17. |
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32P72 |
George Fred
Collett |
Born in 1906 at Coffin’s
Cove; died b/f 1921 |
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32P73 |
Wallace K
Collett |
Born in 1908 at Coffin’s
Cove |
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32P74 |
Percy (Pierce) Collett |
Born in 1910 at Coffin’s
Cove |
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32P75 |
Gertrude Collett |
Born in 1912 at Coffin’s
Cove |
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32P76 |
Gladys Collett |
Born in 1913 at Coffin’s
Cove |
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32P77 |
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Born in 1916 at Coffin’s
Cove |
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32P78 |
Otto Freeman Collett |
Born in 1919 at Coffin’s
Cove |
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32P79 |
Susan Collett |
Born in 1923 at Coffin’s
Cove |
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32P80 |
Pearl Eleanor Collett |
Born in 1927 at Coffin’s
Cove |
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32O39 |
Elizabeth Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in 1886,
a daughter of George and Susan Collett.
She married (1) George Charles Fearn who was considerably older than |
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32O40 |
Sarah Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the last child
born at Harbour Buffett to George William Collett and Susan Upshall. Sarah was married twice during her life,
the first time to (1) Thomas Messiah Hann, who was born in 1877. Thomas was the brother of Susan Hann who
married Sarah’s brother |
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32O41 |
Margaret Anne Upshall was born in 1856
and she married Thomas Shave who was born in 1852 and who died in 1939. Their first child, Annie Shave was born in
1877 and died at Harbour Buffett on 16th June 1965. She married Lewis M Collett (above)
who was born in 1875. As
with another such case described later (see Ref. 32P74), Lewis Collett and
Annie Shave share the same ancestry, in that Lewis’ grandfather was Thomas
Edward Collett (Ref. 32M3), who was also the great grandfather of Annie. |
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This anomaly can be accounted for in the following
way. Thomas Edward Collett’s offspring
were George William Collett (Ref. 32N5) born in 1831 and Anne Collett (Ref.
32N6) born in 1833. Anne was married
in 1856 and her first child was Margaret Anne Upshall (Ref. 32O41) born that
same year, while George William did not marry until the early 1860s having
son Lewis some fifteen years later in 1875.
In the interim, Margaret Anne Upshall married Thomas Shave and gave
birth to Annie Shave in 1877, hence the reason for the apparent generation
gap. |
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Margaret
Anne and Thomas Shave’s other children were: Lucy Mary Shave (born in 1879
and died in 1953); George Shave (born in 1881); Emma Shave (born in 1883);
Thomas Edward Shave (born in 1886 and died in 1935); Martha Shave (born in
1887); Lillias Collett Shave (born in 1892); Walter Alfred Shave (born in
1893); and Barbara Shave (dates unknown).
Their youngest child, Barbara, went on to marry David Tulk with whom
she had three children between 1907 and 1913 before David died and she
remarried. David Tulk was very likely
a relative of William Tulk who married Ellen Collett (Ref. 32O32) and a
cousin to their children. |
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32O44 |
Emma Julia Upshall was born in 1860 and she married
James Geddes who was born in 1867.
Emma died in 1942 followed three years later by James in 1945. The couple had six children: Annie Katherine Geddes (born in 1892 and
died in 1958); Henry George Geddes (born in 1893 and died in 1963); Ida
Geddes (born in 1895 and died in 1968); Ernest Alfred Geddes (born in 1896);
Hilda Elizabeth Geddes (born in 1899); and James Harold Geddes (born in 1901
and died in 1925). |
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32O46 |
Archibald Alexander Upshall was born in 1864
and he married Ellen Shave who was born in 1863. Ellen may have been the older sister of
Elizabeth Ann Shave who married Archibald’s brother Nelson Peter
Upshall. The date of birth of these
two girls would seem to indicate that they were probably cousins to the
children of Thomas Shave and Margaret Upshall (Ref. 32O41). Archibald and Ellen both died in the same
year, that being 1908. |
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32O49 |
Richard Collett Upshall was born in 1869
and married Mary Denty who was born in 1870.
Richard died in 1929. |
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32O50 |
Nelson Peter Upshall was born in 1870
and he married Elizabeth Ann Shave who was also born in 1870. Elizabeth, who died in 1953, may have been
the sister Ellen Shave who married Nelson’s brother Archibald Upshall. In 1911 the family was living at Corney’s
Cove. Nelson and Elizabeth had eight
children. The first of them was Walter
James Upshall who married Hannah Boutcher who was born in 1897. Their daughter Ada Beatrice Upshall married
Neil Kenneth Masters (Ref. 32Q40) who was the son of Kenneth Masters (Ref.
32P33) and Annie Boutcher. |
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There is an earlier link to the Boutcher family when
Emma Phoebe Collett (Ref. 32O14) married Albert Boutcher. Nelson’s second son Charles Cleverly
Caldwell Upshall married Mary Dowden who was born in 1905 and whose son,
Llewelyn Brenden Upshall born in 1936, married Loretta Collett who was born
in 1940 the daughter of Percy Collett (Ref. 32P74). This again indicates what a close-knit
community it was. |
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32P81 |
Walter James
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Born in 1895 |
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32P82 |
Charles Cleverly |
Born in 1898 |
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32P83 |
Llewelyn Earle
Upshall |
Born in 1900 |
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32P84 |
Ella Grace
Upshall |
Born in 1902 |
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32P85 |
Emma Ann Upshall |
Born in 1905 |
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32P86 |
Nelson Stanley Upshall |
Born in 1909 |
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32P87 |
Ada Beatrice Upshall twin |
Born in 1911 |
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32P88 |
Hilda Upshall twin |
Born in 1911 |
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32O52 |
Thomas Edward Collett Upshall was born in 1874
and he married Sarah with whom he had a son George Edward Upshall born in
1909. Thomas died in 1940. Their
son George married Adelaide Dicks who was born in 1911 and they had five
children born between 1935 and 1950.
Of these Ronald George Upshall born in 1942 is the most noteworthy as
he married Marie Alice Collett (Ref. 32Q87) the daughter of Austin Lewis Collett
(Ref. 32P65) and Jessie Marshall.
Another of Thomas’ and Sarah’s sons, Frank Archibald Upshall born in
1939 and died in 2002, married Selina Hodder.
They in turn had a daughter Roxanne Marie Upshall born in 1967 who
married Leeland Wareham. |
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32O53 |
Walter Henry Upshall was born in 1876
and he married (1) Mary Ann Masters nee Shave the widow of George Masters
(Ref. 32O29). Mary Ann, who was born
in 1871 and who died in 1908, entered the marriage with her two or three-year
old son William Samuel Masters. That
second marriage for Mary Ann produced a further two children Rita Ann Upshall
and Laura Churchill Upshall born in 1900.
Following the death of Mary in 1908 Walter married (2) Rachel Newhook
and later died in 1934. Walter’s youngest daughter Laura
Churchill Upshall married Stephen Knight the son of Phoebe Masters (Ref.
32O26) and Charles Knight. |
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32O54 |
Lillias B Collett was born at Harbour Buffett on 10th
December 1870, the eldest child of Thomas and Martha Collett. As simply L B Collett, she was a witness at
the wedding of her brother John (below) in 1897 and, during September
of the following year, Lily and her brother Samuel (below) were the
witnesses at the marriage of Frederick Lewis Collett (Ref. 32O33) and
Isabella Burton at Harbour Buffett.
Three years later, at the age of thirty, she married Lambert Laughlin
on 8th January 1901, but tragically it was just over twenty years
after that happy day that she died on 9th February 1921. Their marriage produced two children, William
Hancock Laughlin, and Jennie Laughlin. |
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32O55 |
John
Thomas Collett was born at Harbour Buffett on 28th March
1872, the second children and eldest son of Thomas Edward Collett and Martha
Gilbert. He was twenty-five when, on
16th November 1897, he married Bertha Stacey from Sound Island,
Placentia Bay, who was born in 1874. John Collett was a bachelor and
working as a clerk, whose stated religion was Church of England, with Bertha
being a spinster and a Methodist. The
two witnesses at their wedding were John’s eldest sister L B Collett (above)
and Azariah Stacey. In 1921, John was 48 and a general merchant
living at 44 Harbour Buffett, his wife Bertha Collett was 47 and born at
Sound Island, and their domestic servant Annie Dicks, who was 16 years
old. Living in the adjacent property
(No. 45) was John widowed mother Martha
Collett and his younger John (below).
While John and Bertha had no
children of their own, they did take in the orphaned children of his aforementioned
brother George, following his death in 1924 and then the death of his wife in
1925. It is interesting to note that
Bertha was the great aunt (on her maternal side) of Iris Jean Crocker, who
married Thomas David Collett (32Q134) in 1967. |
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The
orphaned children of George Moore Collett and Jessie Metcalf were Irene
Metcalf Collett born in 1909, Ethel Adelaide Collett born 1912, Thomas
Collett born 1914 and Queen Collett born 1916. Ten years after taking in his nephew and
three nieces, John Collett was recorded in the Harbour Buffett (Placentia Bay
- St Mary’s) census of 1935, as being 63 years of age and born in
Newfoundland, whose occupation was that of a retail merchant at a general
store, the owner of his own family home.
His wife Bertha Collett was 63
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Less than four years after that census day, Bertha
Collett, aged 64, died on 13th January 1939, at Harbour Buffett
[Entry 14], the cause of her death being heart disease, when her place of
birth was confirmed as Sound Island.
She was then buried at the Church of England Cemetery in Harbour Buffett. Four days prior to her passing, the death
of Peter Collett (Ref. 32O38) [Entry 13]
took place on 9th January 1939 at the age of 50 and then, on 24th
January 1939, Rupert Ryan Collett (Ref. 32Q29) [Entry 15] died, the first of them
from heart disease, the second of them born at Trinity who died there from
dysentery aged one year. |
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Widowed
fisherman John Collett was 73 in the Harbour Buffett census of 1945, when his
place of birth was recorded at Placentia West. He was also described as being of Scottish
descent and a home owner, plus the census return also stated that he was the
father of the children living there with him.
The first of them was Adelaide Collett from Placentia West who was 33, single and in domestic work, who
was described as his niece, she being the second child of John’s brother
George, aforementioned. The next was Thomas Collett aged 31
and born at Placentia West, who was of English descendants and the brother of
Adelaide Collett. Thomas was the
husband of Rita Collett, also of Placentia West and of English descent who
was 27. With them were their two
children David Collett who was three and Kevin Collett who was two years of
age, both born at Placentia West. |
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Living
in the adjacent dwelling in 1945, was the Wareham family, who had living with
them unmarried Douglas Collett (Ref. 32P60) aged 32 years, while further down the same census
sheet was William Collett (Ref. 32P3), a widower aged 63 from Burin Peninsula, the father
of single Alice Florence Collett (Ref. 32Q2) who was 21 and born at
Placentia West.
John Collett, the husband of Bertha Stacey, died at Harbour Buffett
(Burin Peninsula) on 16th August 1954 and was buried with his late
wife at the Church of England Cemetery in Harbour Buffett. |
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32O56 |
Samuel Collett was born at Harbour Buffett on 22nd
September 1873, the son of Thomas and Martha Collett. It was on 10th January 1901, two
days after his sister Lillias (above) was married, that Samuel married
Cecilia Laughlin, the sister of Lambert Laughlin, who married Samuel’s sister
Lillias Collett (above).
Tragically Samuel Collett was only thirty-two when died on 13th
December 1905, as the result of a drowning accident, so was not alive at the
time of the birth of his third child. |
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32P89 |
Grace Collett |
Born in 1901
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32P90 |
Warrick Collett |
Born in 1903
at Harbour Buffett |
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32P91 |
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Born in 1906
at Harbour Buffett |
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32O57 |
Albert Edward Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett on 21st August 1876, another son of Thomas and
Martha Collett. He married Susannah
Burton on 25th March 1901.
Susannah was born during June 1879 and presented Albert with five
children. On the day of the census in
1921, the family was residing at 83 Pleasant Street in St John’s West. Albert was 44 and was working as a
carpenter, his wife Susannah was 42, Thomas was 19, Henrietta was 16, Charles
was 14, Stuart was 13 and Muriel was 11 years of age. Albert Edward Collett
died on 3rd April 1947 and was buried at the Anglican Cemetery in
St John’s, Avalon Peninsula. After
nearly twenty years as a widow, Susannah Collett, nee Burton, passed away
during 1966. |
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32P92 |
Thomas Edward Collett |
Born in 1902 at Harbour
Buffett |
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32P93 |
Henrietta Bridden Collett |
Born in 1903 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P94 |
Charles Samuel Collett |
Born in 1905 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P95 |
Frank Stewart
Collett |
Born in 1908 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P96 |
Lillian Muriel Collett |
Born in 1910 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32O58 |
GEORGE MOORE COLLETT was born at
Harbour Buffett on 16th December 1879, the son of Thomas Edward
Collett and his wife Martha Gilbert.
It was on 7th January 1909 when he married Jessie Metcalf
who was born in 1881. In the census of
1921, George Collett,
aged 41 and born at Harbour Buffett, was a servant employed by his eldest
brother John Collett (above)
who lived in the dwelling next door at Harbour Buffett. George’s wife was confirmed as Jessie
Collett who was 40, and their Harbour Buffett born children were recorded as
Irene Collett who was eleven, Adie Collett who was eight, Thomas Collett who
was seven, and Queenie Collett who was five years of age. Living with the family was George’s elderly
mother Martha Collett. |
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Tragically, three years
later, George Moore Collett died at
Harbour Buffett on 18th October 1924 at the age of only 44. Perhaps from the shock of losing her
husband, or maybe as a result of the same illness, just six months later,
Jessie Collett, nee Metcalf, passed away on 5th May 1925, when she
was also 44, following which she was buried with her husband. With the premature deaths of both of their
parents, the four young children, aged eight years to fifteen years, were taken into the home of childless couple, John and
Bertha Collett, George’s eldest brother and his wife. In 1945, the three youngest of those four
children, were still living with widowed John Collett at Harbour Buffett. |
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32P97 |
Irene Metcalf Collett |
Born in 1909 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P98 |
Ethel Adelaide Squires Collett |
Born in 1912 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P99 |
THOMAS COLLETT |
Born in 1914 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P100 |
Queen (Queenie) Collett |
Born in 1916 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P3 |
William Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in 1883,
the eldest child of Thomas Edward Collett and Jemima Kirby Pike. The marriage of William Collett and Effie Elizabeth
Bugden took place at St John’s on 14th January 1921, when the
witnesses were Stanley and Ethel Coffin, Ethel being William’s younger sister
(below). William was 39 and a
master mariner, while Effie was 24 and a clerk, born at St John’s. All of their five children were born at
Harbour Buffett, where the very recently married couple was living with
William’s parents on the day of the census in 1921. On that day, William was 38 and a ship’s
captain and Effie was 25. Either
during the birth of the couple’s last child, or at some time during the
following seven years, Jemima Collett, nee Pike, died at Harbour
Buffett. That situation was confirmed
in the census of 1935, by which time William Collett was a widower. He was also a cooper, at the age of 53,
when he was living at No. 162 Harbour Buffett, which he owned. Living there with him, were his four
surviving children, Alice Collett who was ten, Mabel Collett who was eight,
John Collett who was seven, and Effie Collett was six years of age. Also staying with the family was Peter J Collett
(Ref. 32O15) who was 77 and William’s uncle.
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According
to the next census in 1945, William Collett was said to be 63 and from Burin
Peninsula, while living at No. 82 Harbour Buffett with his four surviving
children. They were his unmarried
daughters Alice Collett who was 21, Mabel Collett who was 19, both of them
presumably keeping house for their widowed father, and Effie Collett who was
16 and working as a saleslady.
Completing the household was William’s son John Collett who was 18 and
a schoolteacher. |
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32Q1 |
Erna Ward
Collett |
Born in 1923;
died 1923 at Harbour Buffett |
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32Q2 |
Alice Florence Collett |
Born in 1924 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q3 |
Mabel Loreen
Collett |
Born in 1926;
died 1949 at Harbour Buffett |
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Born in 1927 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q5 |
Effie Collett |
Born in 1928 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P4 |
Ernest Lewis Collett was born at Harbour
Buffett on 16th August 1885, the registration of his birth
confirming that his parents were Thomas and Jemima Collett. One month later, Ernest Lewis Collett, son
of master mariner Thomas Edward Collett, was baptised at Harbour Buffett on
20th September 1885. He
married Rosie Waters and died in 1945.
At some time in his life, when he was a residing at Harbour Buffett,
Ernest was a mariner and purchased a fishing boat, which he named Ethel
Collett, presumably after his sister Ethel Belle MacLean Collett. The vessel was built in 1892 and was first registered
in Lunenburg during that year. It was
a two-masted schooner measuring 67 feet long x 21 feet wide with a gross
tonnage of 61, net 55. It was
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The
reason the vessel is notable is because it was sunk in a collision with
another ship on 9th June 1934 while still in the ownership of
Ernest Collett of Harbour Buffett. On
that particular day the boat was being manned by five Newfoundland men; Martin Ford,
master, John Curtis, Marshall Wells, and Walter Collins, all from Hare Bay, and
Michael Beidgeman of St. Brendan’s, who were all drowned. A charge of negligence was brought against
Captain Edmund Vardy, skipper of the SS
Silver City, following a Marine Court of Enquiry held in St John’s on 13th
June 1934, further details of which can be found in the Appendix One at the
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In addition to this, the events of that fateful night
have been dramatised in the book ‘The Last Farewell – The Loss of the
Collett” by Gary Collins, the rider to which reads as follows. “In 1934, North America
lay stripped of its riches by a great depression. When the land refused to yield its bounty
and the sea grew stingy, everyone in the Western World found it harder to
survive, especially those in the isolated outports of Newfoundland. The
Last Farewell tells the true story of a crew of logger-sailors who
left their home port of Hare Bay aboard a two-masted schooner in early June
of that year. Along her route to St.
John’s, the crew of the Ethel
Collett tell each other stories of life and death on the sea. They relive some of Newfoundland’s richest
historical moments, from shipwrecks and sealing disasters, to political
strife and financial ruin. But little
do they know that they are heading toward one of the most astonishing tales
of them all: their own.” |
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32Q6 |
Alma Collett
married Mr Carter |
Date of birth
unknown |
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32P5 |
Maude Collett was born at Harbour Buffett around
1887 and was the first daughter of Thomas and Jemima Collett. At the age of nineteen, she gave birth to a base-born
daughter, Ella Collett, who was born in 1905.
Shortly after the birth of the child, Maude Collett died in 1907, and
what became of the child is not known. |
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32Q6x |
Ella Collett |
Born in 1905 |
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32P6 |
Annie Laura
Collett was born at Harbour Buffett during 1889, the daughter of Thomas and
Jemima Collett. It was in 1916 at
Halifax in Nova Scotia that she married Ozro Fitch Reeves who was born at St
Laurence in Newfoundland during 1890, the son of Thomas and Adelaide
Reeve. The registration of their
marriage on 11th January 1916 indicated that Ozro F Reeves was 26,
while his bride Annie L Collett was 27 and the daughter of Thomas and Jemima
Collett. |
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It was as Laura Reeves nee Collett that she died in 1932, and was
followed one year later by her husband who died in 1933. Prior to that they had seven children and
they were Arthur Frederick Reeves (1916-1994) who married Myrtle
Bredeen, Lillian Maude Reeves (born 1918) who married Ken Clarke, Maxwell
Thomas Reeves (born 1919), Cecil Edward Reeves (born 1920) who
married Edna Bullock, Stanley Robert Reeves (born 1921), Gladys Mae
Reeves (born 1923), and Gertrude Alice Reeves (1925-1969) who
married Robert Roddy. |
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Annie Laura Reeves nee Collett was the great grandmother of Liam Joseph
Reeves Murphy of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, who made contact in September
2017. The information received from
Liam, reveals that her son Cecil Edward Reeves was around twelve years old
when she died. That therefore places
her death somewhere near 1932 when she was 63 years of age. Liam also reports that his grandfather
Cecil is still alive and enjoying a healthy life in 2017, at the age of 97. |
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32P7 |
Ethel Belle MacLean Collett was born at Harbour
Buffett on 18th December 1891, the daughter of Thomas and Jemima
Collett. It was there also, one month
later, that she was baptised as Ethel Belle MacLean Collett on 21st
January 1892, the daughter of master mariner Thomas Ed and Jemima
Collett. Later, at St John’s, on 10th
December 1916, Ethel Collett married Hugh Stanley Coffin, who was born at
Haystack on 11th September 1890, the son of George and Eleanor
Coffin. The couple’s four children
were Roy Coffin, Eleanor Coffin (born 1917) who married Walter
McConkey, Lloyd Tetford Coffin (born 1919) who married Wilda Trounten,
and Patricia Coffin born after 1921.
The St John’s West census of 1921 included the Coffin family, which
was made up of Stanley who was a sausage smoker having his own account, his
wife Ethel, and their two young children, Eleanor Coffin who was four and
Lloyd Coffin who was two. The family,
at No. 70 St John’s, was employing Evelyn Collett from Harbour Buffett who
was 20 and a servant. Staying at the
same dwelling was Ethel’s recently married younger brother Frederick (below)
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The
aforementioned Evelyn Collett, may have been Evelyn Caldwell Collett (Ref.
32P53), the daughter of Frederick Lewis Collett, even though she was also
recorded with her own family at Harbour Buffett in 1921. |
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32P8 |
Lillias Kingwell Collett was born at Harbour
Buffett on 11th November 1893, another daughter of Thomas and
Jemima Collett, who was baptised on 9th February 1894. She married Roy Grandy OBE (Bay L'Argent) and their three children were Joan Grandy,
who married Jack Watson, Hope Grandy, who married Douglas Glenn, and Shirley
Grandy. When she married, Shirley
became Shirley Vacheresse, whose daughter was Deidre who, in 2019, was
Diedre Clark. |
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32P9 |
Frederick Alfred Collett was born at Harbour
Buffett around 1895, a son of Thomas and Jemima Collett. Although no record of his wedding day has
been found, it is established that Frederick married Florence Waterhouse just
prior to the census in 1921. On the
day the census was conducted, Frederick and Florence were at the home of
Frederick’s older married sister Ethel Coffin, nee Collett (above), at
St John’s West. Frederick Collett was 26
and Florence Collett was 20 and from Halifax.
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32P10 |
Arthur
Shorter Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in 1898, another son of
Thomas and Jemima Collett. In 1921
Arthur Collett was 23 when he was still living with his family at No. 47 Harbour
Buffett, and was involved in some way with civil service - OHMS. Within two years he had married Ada Morash,
who was born in 1902, all of their children born at Harbour Buffett, where
the family was living in 1935, at No. 147.
Arthur Collett was 38
and a home-owner, a customs officer in Civil Service, and a member of the
Church of England. His wife Ada
Collett was 33 and a home-maker, and with the couple were their first eight
children. They were Dorothy Collett
who was 12, Laura Collett who was 11, Helen Collett who was nine, Maisie
Collett who was seven, Enid Collett who was five, Thomas Collett who was
four, Arthur Collett who was one-year- old, and Lloyd Collett who was two
months old. Next door, at No. 148, was
the family of Frederick and Isabella Collett (Ref. 32O33). |
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The
Harbour Buffett census in 1945 included details for ten members of the family
living at No. 26, and they were Arthur aged 48 who was still employed as a
customs officer, housewife Ada aged 44, Dorothy 22, Laura 21, Helen 19,
Maisie 17, Ina 15, Thomas 14, Arthur junior 11, Lloyd who was ten, Margaret
who was five and Rosalind who was three years of age. Living at No. 27 was the family of Reginald
Collett (Ref. 32P67), while at No. 29 was the family of Austin Lewis Collett
(Ref. 32P65), Reginald’s older brother.
Forty years after that day, Ada
Collett, nee Morash, died during
1985. The record of the death of her
husband has still to be located. |
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32Q21 |
Dorothy Cavell Collett |
Born in 1923 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q22 |
Laura Reeves Collett |
Born in 1924 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q23 |
Helen Pearl Collett |
Born in 1926 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q24 |
Maisie Armistice
Collett |
Born in 1928 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q25 |
Ina |
Born in 1930 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q26 |
Thomas Grandy Collett |
Born in 1932 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q27 |
Arthur Shorter Collett |
Born in 1934 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q28 |
Lloyd Parson Collett |
Born in 1935 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q29 |
Rupert Ryan Collett |
Born in 1938 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q30 |
Margaret Maxine Collett |
Born in 1940 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q31 |
Rosalind Collett |
Born in 1942 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32P12 |
Alice May Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in 1902,
another daughter of Thomas and Jemima Collett. In 1921 Alice Collett was 19 with no
occupation, when she was living with her family at No. 47 Harbour
Buffett. She later married Leo Whalen. |
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32P13 |
Mabel Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in 1904,
the last child of Thomas Edward Collett and Jemima Kirby Pike. She was 17 in 1921, when she was living at
No. 47 Harbour Buffett with her family.
She later she married Bruce Hann, who was born in 1902 and died in
1977 and was very likely a relative (possibly nephew) of Thomas Hann who
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32P14 |
Lillias Ann Kingwell was born in 1875
and she married William Henry Green.
Lillias Ann Green died in 1939. |
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32P15 |
John Wilson Cleverly Kingwell was born in 1877
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32P17 |
Malcolm George Crane Kingwell was born in 1885
and he married Nellie Gertrude Pride.
Malcolm Kingwell died in 1964. |
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32P33 |
Kenneth Master was born at Harbour Buffett in
January 1875. He married Annie
Boutcher who was born at Kingwell in January 1876. It would appear that most of their children
were born at Harbour Buffett. |
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32Q39 |
Stella Maude Masters |
Born in May 1899 |
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32Q40 |
Neil Kenneth Masters |
Born in November
1901 |
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32Q41 |
Matilda Masters |
Born in 1902; died
in 1996 |
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32Q42 |
Kathleen Masters |
Born in 1905;
died in 1996 |
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32Q43 |
Thomas Albert
Masters |
Born in 1908 |
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32Q44 |
Eva Masters |
Born in 1910;
died in 1996 |
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32Q45 |
Tryphena Ellen
Moore Masters |
Born in 1915 |
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32P35 |
Annie Eliza Masters was born in 1891 and she married
Frank Burton who was born in 1885.
Both Annie and Frank died in 1959.
The marriage produced ten children, the third of which was Elsie born
in 1913 who married Donald Richard Slade who was also born in 1913. Elsie and Donald had a son Baxter Slade,
who married Jean Collett Shave, but who tragically drowned. |
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32P38 |
Reginald Masters was born at Harbour Buffett in
September 1885. He never married and
died in the |
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32P39 |
William Lambert Masters was born at
Harbour Buffett in July 1891 and he also died in the |
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32P40 |
George Wesley Masters was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1896. He was
married and died on 7th
February 1957 at Harbour Buffett where he was buried and where his daughter
Annie was born. Annie Viola Masters
was born there on 1st January 1929 and she married Norman Masters
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32P42 |
Louisa Mae Masters was born at Harbour Buffett in
December 1894. She married John Robert
Gregory on 13th December 1915 at Harbour Buffett. John was also born at Harbour Buffett on 22nd
July 1891 and it seems likely that he was the brother of William Gregory who
married Elizabeth Hollett the daughter of Emily Collett (Ref. 32O31). Louisa died during July 1979 at Dunville
and was buried at Southeast Placentia, while her husband had died many years
earlier in 1951. |
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All
of their children were born at Harbour Buffett and they were Otto William
Gregory (born on 6th October 1916), Lillian Bertha Gregory (born
on 14th October 1918, died on 26th September 1934),
Charles Gregory (born on 17th November 1919, died on 17th
November 1919), Albert Frederick Gregory (born on 1st August 1921,
died in January 1926), Douglas John Gregory (see below), Alice Rose Gregory
(born on 27th September 1927), Frank Oliver Gregory (born on 10th
November 1929), and George Gregory (born on 7th November 1936,
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Of
particular interest is their son Douglas John Gregory who was born at Harbour
Buffett on 27th December 1924.
It was on 23th October 1946 that he married Pearl Eleanor Collett
(Ref. 32P80) who was born in 1927.
Douglas died at Harbour Buffett on 10th August 1951. |
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32P44 |
Lillias Beatrice Masters was born at
Harbour Buffett on 4th June 1897.
Her only son was fathered by Robert Bailey whom she may or may not
have married sometime after the child was born. However, tragically two months after her
twenty-ninth birthday Lillias died on 20th August 1926 at Harbour
Buffett where she was buried and from that day onwards her son was looked
after and brought up by her mother (his grandmother) Elizabeth Masters (Ref.
32P28). |
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32Q55 |
Norman Masters |
Born in 1919 at
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32P45 |
Charles Oakley Masters was born on 4th
June 1899 at Harbour Buffett and he married Elizabeth Gilbert in 1974. Elizabeth died on 24th February
1988 at North Harbour where she was buried while Charles died on 20th
September 1990 at Clarenville but was buried at North Harbour with his wife. |
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32P46 |
Alice Masters was born at Harbour Buffett on 15th
June 1902. She married Frank Earl
Hollett on 30th June 1942 at the Anglican Church in Topsail
NL. Frank was born on 28th
October 1904 at Harbour Buffett, the son of Albert Hollett and his third wife
Hannah Hollett nee Hynes, whose first wife was Emily Collett (Ref. 32O31). See also a later reference to the Hynes
family at 32Q114. Due to an accidental
fall while painting his house, Frank suffered a serious neck injury, which
resulted in his death on 11th August 1980 at the Walwyn Cottage
Hospital in the town of Come By Chance.
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Alice lived the next twenty-four years as a widow
before passing away at 2010 hours on Tuesday 29th June 2004 at the
Harbour Lodge Nursing Home in Carbonear.
The cause of death was simply stated as ‘old age’ and she was buried
at Little Harbour on 1st July 2004. The
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32Q56 |
Hannah Hollett |
Born on
29.12.1943; stillborn |
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32Q57 |
Alice Elizabeth Hollett |
Born on
21.01.1945 |
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32P47 |
Ethel Masters who date of birth is not known but
believed to be around 1904 must have died as a child since a subsequent
daughter to the family was also given the same Christian name. |
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32P48 |
Eliza Masters was born at Harbour Buffett on 30th
May 1906. From 1932 to the mid-1940s
she was involved in a relationship with Edgar Courtney. That happen while she was living at St
John’s and their relationship produced five children, all born at St
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and Edgar’s second child, Olive Lorraine Masters, was adopted by another
family shortly after the birth but was reunited with her siblings in
1995. Eliza died on 1st March 1985 at British Columbia but her
ashes were buried in the graveyard at Southeast Placentia alongside those of
her sister Louisa Mae Gregory (Ref. 32P42), nee Masters, who had died six
year earlier. In her later years Eliza
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five children of Eliza Masters and Edgar Courtney were Ruby Vivian Masters (born on 20th
December 1932), Olive Lorraine Masters (born on 12th April 1934),
Elizabeth Masters-Langer (born on 11th November 1939), Allister
Masters-Langer (born in June 1941, died on 16th June 1996), and
Anita Louise Masters-Langer (born on 9th February 1943). |
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32P50 |
John Collett was born at Famish Cove during August
1873, the only known child of George Collett and Mahala Crann. He married Sarah Higdon the daughter of
Thomas Higdon and Flora Butt. Sarah
was born in September 1878 at New Harbour and all of their children were born
at Famish Cove, today known as Fairhaven.
Harbour Buffett lies on Long Island on the west side of Placentia Bay,
while on the same northing and separate by only ten kilometres of water, lies
Fairhaven on the east side of Placentia Bay.
It is possible, although not proved, that John and Sarah took into
their family a child from a member of John extended family at Harbour Buffett
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In
the Famish Cove (Placentia Bay – St Mary’s) census of 1921, head of the
household was John Collett aged 48, a
lobster fisherman who gave his place of birth as Famish Cove. His wife Sarah Collett, from New Harbour, was 42, and their six Famish Cove born
children that day were George Collett aged19,
who was cod fisherman, Joe Collett aged 17,
who was another lobster fishman working alongside his father, Ernest Collett who was 14
and still at school, as were Llewelyn Collett who was 11
and Mary W Collett who was eight years of age. The couple’s youngest son was Stanley Collett, aged two years, while completing the family group was Sarah Upshall, aged 17 years and a domestic servant from Harbour Buffett,
who was described as daughter. The
marriage of Sarah Upshall, aged 19, and Samuel Smith, aged 23, was recorded
at Chance Cove on 19th October 1922, when the witnesses were Adam
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Thirteen
years later, according to the census in 1935, John and Sarah Collett were
still residing at Famish Cove. John
Collett was 57 and a fisherman working in the cod fisheries. His wife Sarah Collett was 55, when both of
them were simply described as having been born in Newfoundland. Living with the couple was their unmarried
son Stanley Collett who was 16 and their married son Llewelyn Collett, aged
24, together with his wife Irene Collett who was 22 and undertaking house
work. Llewelyn was very likely working
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By
the time of the 1945 Census, John and his wife were living at 15 Famish Cove,
with their immediate neighbours being the couple’s married sons. Home-owner John Collett was 69 and his wife
Sarah was 65. Six years later, John
Collett died at Fairhaven (formerly Famish Cove) on 16th May 1951,
where he was buried at the New United Church Cemetery, his headstone only
providing his name simply as John Collett. Just under two years later, he was followed
by his wife, who died at Fairhaven on 22nd March 1953, Sarah being
buried there with her late husband.
The interesting facts about this family are that they had close
connections with the Crann and Jarvis families, insofar as three of the
children married into the Crann family and the other three into the Jarvis family. The great granddaughter of John and Sarah
Collett is the wife of James (Jim) Millan who comes from Fairhaven on
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The
Bible shown here was owned by John and Sarah Collett, and the attached note
reads as follows: This
Bible was owned by my grandparents John and Sarah Collett of Famish Cove and
is well over one hundred years old, having been printed at the Cambridge
University Press, London in 1907 by the British and Foreign Bible Society
instituted in the year 1807. There
was a Collett Family Reunion in Newfoundland in July 2013 when this, and
other artefacts, were displayed. |
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Born in 1902 at
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32Q64 |
Joseph Collett |
Born in 1903 at
Famish Cove (Fairhaven) |
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32Q65 |
Ernest Collett |
Born in 1906 at
Famish Cove (Fairhaven) |
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32Q66 |
Llewelyn Collett |
Born in 1909 at
Famish Cove (Fairhaven) |
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32Q67 |
Mary Winnie Collett |
Born in 1913 at
Famish Cove (Fairhaven) |
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32P52 |
James Hollett was born at Harbour Buffett on 29th
December 1886. He married Ann Marie
Gilbert who was born at Haystack in 1892, the daughter of John Gilbert and
Elizabeth Gregory. It is interesting
to note that James’ sister Elizabeth Hollett (Ref. 32P51) married William
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four of the children were born at Harbour Buffett where James died on 14th
November 1961 and where he was buried.
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32P53 |
Evelyn Caldwell Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in May 1900, the first child of Frederick Collett and
Isabella Burton. Within the Harbour
Buffett census of 1921, Evelyn Collett was unmarried at the age of 21, and
with no occupation, when she was still living with her family. Curiously, an Evelyn Collett aged 20 years
and born at Harbour Buffett was working as a servant at the St John’s home of
Stanley Coffin and his wife, the former Ethel Collett (Ref. 32P7) in 1921. It is possible they are one and the same
person, particularly since no obvious solution has been found. She subsequently married William Coffin, who
was born in 1895, the son of William Coffin and his wife Mary Gilbert. Evelyn Caldwell Coffin, nee Collett, died
in 1959. |
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32P54 |
Neil Charles Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in December 1902, the eldest son of Frederick and Isabella
Collett. Upon leaving school, he
joined Wakelys Service, where he worked as a fisherman, like his father, as
confirmed in the Harbour Buffett census of 1921, when Neil Collett was 19
years old. It was around eight or nine
years later, when he married Alice Maud Hull. The marriage produced an uncertain number of
children, while the two children of couple listed with them in 1935 were
described as the niece and nephew of head of the household Harvey Hull for
England and his wife Lillian Hull from Labrador, with whom the family of four
was living that census day. The Seal
Islands, Labrador, census that year, recorded Neil Collett from Newfoundland
as 34 and a fisherman with his own account, Alice Maud Collett from Labrador
as 27, and their two children were Lillian Isobel Collett who was four and
Harvey Frederick Collett who was one year old, both of them born at
Labrador. The aforementioned Harvey
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Not
long after 1935, the family left Seal Islands, when they made a permanent
home at Daniel’s Harbour, within the St Barbe district of Newfoundland. Also, during that decade, three more
children were added to their family, as confirmed by the next census in 1945. By that time, the enlarged family comprised
Neil Collett from Harbour Buffett who was 40 (sic) and a logger working in
forestry, Alice Collett from Labrador who was 37, Lily Collett who was 14,
Frederick Collett who was 12, Edward Collett who was seven, Douglas Collett who
was five, and Effie Collett who was two years old, the three youngest
children having been born after settling in Daniel’s Harbour. Apparently one more child was added to the
family, shortly after 1945. Neil Charles Collett died at Daniel’s Harbour
in 1974 when he was 73, while after twenty-five years as a widow, Alice
Collett, nee Hull, died at Daniel’s Harbour in 1999, where she was buried
with her husband. |
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32Q73 |
Lillian Isobel
Collett |
Born in 1931 at
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32Q74 |
Harvey Frederick
Collett |
Born in 1933 at
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32Q75 |
Edward Collett |
Born in 1938 at
Daniel’s Harbour |
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32Q76 |
Douglas G Collett |
Born in 1940 at
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32Q77 |
Effie Collett |
Born in 1943 at Daniel’s
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32Q78 |
Grace Collett |
Born in 1946 at
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32P58 |
Arthur Gordon Collett, who was known
as Gordon, was born at Harbour Buffett during August in 1911, another child
of Frederick and Isabella Collett. It
was at Harbour Buffett that he was living with his family in 1921, when
Gordon was ten years old and attending school. He was again living with his parents in
1935, when Gordon Collett was 23 and a sailor with SS John Cabot. It is known that he married Rose Roy and
that he died during 1981. |
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32P59 |
Ethel Collett was one half of a set of twins born
at Harbour Buffett in August 1913, another daughter of Frederick Collett and
Isabella Burton. She was eight years
old in 1921 and was still living with her family at Harbour Buffett in 1935,
when she was 22 with no stated occupation.
Later on, she married Peter Kasperait, with whom she is known to have
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32P60 |
Douglas Collett was one half of a set of twins born
at Harbour Buffett on 31st July 1913, the last two children of
Fred and Bella Collett. He was
baptised at Harbour Buffett on 4th August 1913, when his father
was a fisherman. Douglas Collett was
eight years old in 1921. By 1935, he
was working with his father as a labourer at a mercantile premise when he was
22 and still living with his parents at Harbour Buffett. After a further ten years, the census in 1945,
identified him as living at the Harbour Buffett home of Harry Wareham and his wife
Queen Wareham, formerly Queenie Collett (below). It was for that
reason, that unmarried Douglas Collett aged 32, was described as the cousin
of the Warehams. Not long after that,
he
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32P63 |
Mae Collett was born at Harbour Buffet in 1901, the second child
of Lewis M Collett and Annie Shave. She
had left the family home by the time of the census in 1921 and is known to
have married Raymond Gedusky. Together,
they had two children, a son Elwood Gedusky, and a daughter Linda
Gedusky, who married Edward Scott.
Mae Gedusky, nee Collett, died during 1991. |
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32P65 |
Austin Lewis Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett on 11th April 1903, the eldest son of Lewis and
Annie Collett. By 1921 he had finished
his education and was working for his father as a fisherman, at the age of
18. He married Jessie Beatrice
Marshall the daughter of John Marshall and Eliza Masters, Jessie having been
born during 1909. On the day of the
census in 1935, Austin Collett was 32 and a salesman at a department store,
living at No. 164 Harbour Buffett, with his family. They were Jessie who was 23, Charlie who
was four, Calvin (Kelvin) who was two, and Lewis who was one year old. Another four children were born into the
family during the following decade which, in 1945 was still residing at No.
29 Harbour Buffett, next door to the family of Arthur Collett at No. 26, and
Austin’s brother Reginald (below) at No. 29. Austin Collett was 41 and a labourer in the
cod fishery, Jessie Collett was 36 and a housewife, Charlie Collett was 13,
Calvin Collett was 12, Lewis Collett was 11, George Collett was nine, Frank
Collett was seven, Madonna Collett was five, and Marie Collett who was four
years old. The six older children were
all described as students. Austin L
Collett was six months short of his 100th birthday when he died at
St John’s on 11th October 2002, where he was buried. |
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32Q79 |
Austin Hubert
Collett |
Born in 1927;
died in 1928 |
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32Q80 |
Ruby Flora
Collett |
Born in 1931 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q81 |
Charles Watkins Collett |
Born in 1931 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q82 |
Calvin Sylvester Collett |
Born in 1933 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q83 |
Lewis |
Born in 1934 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q84 |
George Edward Collett |
Born in 1936 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q85 |
Frank Ambrose Collett |
Born in 1937 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q86 |
Madonna Ruby Collett |
Born in 1939 at
Harbour Buffett |
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32Q87 |
Marie Alice Collett |
Born in 1941 at
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32Q88 |
Irene Eliza Collett |
Born in 1952 at
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32P67 |
Reginald Gordon Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in May 1909, the sixth of the ten children of Lewis M Collett and Annie Shave, who
was 12 years old in 1921. In the early
1930s he married (1) Marion Mary Jarvis, who was born in 1914, with whom he
had six children, all of whom were born at Harbour Buffett, where the newly
married couple was living in 1935. By
that time in their life together Marion – who was known as Mary, had already
presented Reginald with their first child.
The census return recorded the family at No. 156, a dwelling owned by
Reginald, while living next-door at No. 55 was his father Lewis M Collett,
and at No. 157 was his orphaned cousins Thomas Collet and his sister Adelaide
Collett (Ref. 32P99 & 32P98). Reginald
Collett was 26 and working as a labourer at mercantile premises, his wife
Mary Collett was 21, and their daughter Sylvia Collett was only ten months
old. Staying with the young family on
that day, was Reginald’s maternal grandfather Thomas Shave, who was a widower
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Five
more children were added to their family which, in the next census of 1945,
was made up of Reginald Collett who was 36 and still working as a cutter in
the cod fishery trade, Mary Collett who was 31 and a housewife, Sylvia
Collett who was 11 and a student, as was Maxwell Collett who was seven,
Regina Collett who was two years old, and Ivy Collett who was just one month
old. The home at No. 27 Harbour
Buffett, was in the ownership of Reginald Collett, when his brother Austin (above)
was living at No. 29. Residing at No.
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Three
years after the birth of the couple’s last child, Marion Mary Collett, nee
Jarvis, died during 1958, after which Reginald married (2) Anne White. Annie Collett (nee White) was named as the
living grandmother of Vernon Reginald Collett, eldest child of Maxwell Robert
Collett, in his obituary of July 2008. |
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32Q89 |
Sylvia Ewing Collett |
Born in 1934 at Harbour
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32Q90 |
Maxwell Robert Collett |
Born in 1938 at
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32Q92 |
Monica Ivy Mahalla Collett |
Born in 1945 at
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32Q93 |
Barbara Lillian Collett |
Born in 1949 at
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32Q94 |
Marilyn Elsie Frances Collett |
Born in 1955 at
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32P68 |
Augusta Blanche Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in August 1912, another daughter of Lewis and Annie Collett,
who was nine in 1921. She was still
living with her parents at Harbour Buffett in 1935 when, simply as Augusta
Collett, she was 23 and a saleslady at a dry goods store, where her parents
neighbour Thomas Collett was a salesman.
She married her cousin Eric Hann, who was born in 1907, and who died
in 1969. Eric’s father was George
Hann, who was possibly related to Thomas Hann who married Sarah Collett (Ref.
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Their
eight children were Shirley Anita Hann (born in 1937), Gwendolyn
Mae Hann (born in 1938), Harold Winston Hann (born in 1940), Ronald
Hann (born in 1942), Ruby Florence Hann (born in 1945), Helen
Sheila Hann, Lois Pauline Hann (born in 1952), and Daniel Eric
Hann (born in 1955). Shirley Anita
Hann married Frank Oliver Gregory on 5th October 1956. He was the son of John Gregory and Louisa
Masters and was born on 10th November 1929 at Harbour
Buffett. The couple had two daughters Anita
Lillian Mae Gregory, who was born on 2nd February 1957, who
married Rex Roebotham, and Patsy Gregory who was born after 1957 who later
married Franklin Stockless. |
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Gwendolyn
Mae Hann married Leo George Marshall who was born in 1935. He was the son of David Marshall and
Catherine Upshall – see Ref. 32O24.
The marriage produced three sons, William Andrew Marshall, Ken Leo
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32P71 |
Florence Cecilia Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in September 1919, another daughter of Lewis and Annie, who
was two years old in 1921 and was still living with her parents at Harbour
Buffett on the day of the census in 1935, when Florence Collett was 16, but
not in employment. She was still
living at the family home in Harbour Buffett in 1945, the only child still
with her parents when, Florence Collett was 26 and employed as a waitress at
the local army base. It was a little
while after that, when she married Charles Earle and they had two sons Charles
Earle and David Earle. |
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32P73 |
Wallace
K Collett was born at Coffin’s Cove (Harbour Buffett) during October 1908, the
eldest surviving child of Peter Collett and Susanna (Susan) Hann. By the time of the census in 1921, Wallace
Collett aged 13 was the couple’s oldest children, who was working with his
father as a fisherman at Coffin’s Cove. Tragically, four years later, and recorded
as Wallace Mck Collett aged 17, he died at Harbour Buffett on 27th
December 1925. |
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Percy Collett was born at Coffin’s Cove on 4th
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Four years after that census day, a second son was
added to the family at Harbour Buffett.
Upon his death at St John’s Avalon Peninsula on 23rd July
1993, Percy was referred to as Percy Collett of Harbour Buffett. |
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32Q95 |
Molly Collett |
Born in 1937 at Grand Falls |
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32Q96 |
Sarah Loretta
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Born in 1938 at Grand
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32Q97 |
Verna E Collett |
Born in 1942 at
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32Q98 |
Mundon Percy Collett |
Born in 1944 at
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32Q99 |
Roy Peter Frederick Collett |
Born in 1949 at
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32P75 |
Gertrude Collett was born at Coffin’s Cove in
December 1912, another daughter of Peter
and Susan Collett, who was described as Gertie Collett aged nine years and at
school, in the Coffin’s Cove census of 1921.
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32P76 |
Gladys Collett was born at Coffin’s Cove in July 1914,
another daughter of Peter
and Susan Collett. She was seven years
old on the day of the census at Coffin’s Cove in 1921, when her age was
incorrectly recorded as being nine. Unlike her siblings, Gladys was recorded
as not attending school. In 1935,
Gladys was 21 and still living at home which, by then, was No. 85 Harbour
Buffett, where she was not credited with any job of work. Two years after that, she gave birth to a
base-born son before she was married to (1)
Edward Ronald Baker, the father of her son.
However, her illegitimate son was adopted by Llewelyn Hollett and his
wife Susan Collett (below), the younger sister of Gladys Collett. Gladys Baker later married (2) Daniel J
Baillie, who was also born during 1914. |
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32Q100 |
Wallace Edward Collett |
Born in 1937 at
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32P77 |
Stanley Collett was born at Coffin’s Cove during October 1916, a son of Peter Collett and Susan Hann, who was five years old in
1921, when Stanley and his family were still residing at Coffin’s Cove. By 1935, Stanley and his family was living
at No. 85 Harbour Buffett, where Stan Collett was 19 and a fisherman working for
his father. He later married Agnes,
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32Q101 |
Jeremiah Collett |
Date of birth
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32Q102 |
Elizabeth Collett |
Date of birth
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32P78 |
Otto Freeman Collett was born at Coffin’s
Cove October in 1919, another son of Peter
and Susan Collett, who was two years old in 1921. He was recorded as Otto Collett aged 15 and
with no occupation in 1935, when he and his family were residing at No. 85
Harbour Buffett. Ten years later, Otto
Collett was 25 and a lumberman, when he was living with his mother and
stepfather George H Hollett at No. 88 Harbour Buffett. He later
married Annie Frances Nicholl, who was born in 1925. |
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32Q103 |
Alec Freeman Collett |
Born in 1948 |
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32Q104 |
Bruce Collett |
Born in 1950 |
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32Q105 |
Ruth Alma Collett |
Born in 1951 |
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32Q106 |
Elaine Laura Collett |
Born in 1954 |
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32Q107 |
Amandio Eugene Collett |
Born in 1955 |
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32Q108 |
John Charles Collett |
Born in 1956 |
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32Q109 |
Jean Debra Collett |
Born in 1958 |
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32Q110 |
Cynthia Louise Collett |
Born in 1961 |
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32Q111 |
Ann Marie
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Born in 1962 |
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32Q112 |
Otto Boris Paul Collett |
Born in 1964 |
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32Q113 |
Mark Francis Collett |
Born in 1966 |
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32P79 |
Susan Collett was born at Coffin’s Cove in 1923,
a daughter of Peter and
Susan Collett, and was 12 years old when living with her family at No. 85
Harbour Buffett in 1935. She only seventeen when she married
Llewelyn Hollett (Ref. 32Q70), the son of James Hollett (Ref. 32P52) and Ann
Marie Gilbert, who was born in April 1914 at Harbour Buffett. Like many others in this family
line, Susan and Llewelyn share the same ancestry, in that Susan’s grandfather
was George William Collett (Ref. 32N5) who was also the great grandfather of
Llewelyn. That is the reason why there
is a ‘one-step’ difference in their generation references, which is explained
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32Q114 |
Muriel Gladys
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Born in 1941 |
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32Q115 |
Edna Irene
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Born in July
1943; died on 06.02.1944 |
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32Q117 |
Madeline Mary
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Born in 1946 |
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32Q118 |
Gordon James
Smallwood Hollett |
Born in 1948 |
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32Q119 |
Joan Juanita
Hollett |
Born in 1950 |
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32Q120 |
Calvin Douglas Hollett |
Born in 1952 |
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32Q121 |
Derek Walwin
Hollett |
Born in 1954 |
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32Q122 |
Deborah Ann
Hollett |
Born in June
1955; died on 06.01.1956 |
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32P80 |
Pearl Eleanor Collett was born at either
Coffin’s Cove or Harbour Buffett in 1927, the last child of Peter Collett and Susan Hann who, as
simply Pearl Collett, was seven years old in the census of 1935, when she and
her parents were residing at No. 85 Harbour Buffett. Pearl Collett was said to be 17 in 1945,
when she was undertaking domestic work who, together with her brother Otto
Collett (above), were living with their mother and stepfather George H
Hollett at No. 88 Harbour Buffett. It was during the following year, on 23rd
October 1946, when Pearl Eleanor Collett married Douglas John Gregory (Ref.
32P42), the son of John Robert Gregory and Louisa Mae Masters (Ref.
32P42). He was born at Harbour Buffett
on 27th December 1924 where he was buried, following his death on
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32P82 |
Charles Cleverly Caldwell Upshall was born in 1898
and he married Mary Dowden who was born in 1905. Of interest here is that their son Llewelyn
Breeden Upshall married Sarah Loretta Collett (Ref. 32Q104) who sadly passed
away in 2009. |
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32Q123 |
Susan Upshall
married Fred Ingram |
Born in 1925 |
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32Q124 |
Nelson Stanley
Upshall |
Born in 1929 |
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32Q125 |
Hilda Elizabeth
Upshall |
Born in 1930 |
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32Q126 |
John Upshall |
Born in 1932 |
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32Q127 |
Llewelyn Breeden Upshall |
Born in 1936 |
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32Q128 |
Clotilda E M
Upshall married J D Wareham |
Born in 1938 |
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32Q129 |
Frances E E
Upshall married P Pearson |
Born in 1943 |
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32Q130 |
Harry S R
Upshall married C Keating |
Born in 1946 |
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32P86 |
Nelson Stanley Upshall was born in 1909
and he died on 1st October 1969.
He married Susannah Bella Trowbridge who was born in 1913 and who died
on 16.05.1990 at Little Harbour East.
The couple had two children, Sheila Lillian born in 1949 who married
Clifford Williams, and Harvey Nelson who was born in 1952 and who married
Beaulah Upshall the daughter of Henry and Hilda Upshall. |
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32P87 |
Ada Beatrice Upshall was one half of a set of twins
born at Corney’s Cove in 1911. She
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32P88 |
Hilda Upshall was one half of a set of twins born
at Corney’s Cove in 1911. She married
Uriah Gilbert who was born in 1910 and who died in 1995. The marriage produced three children,
Freeman Lewis born in 1943, Ada Elizabeth born in 1946, and Rita Ann born in
1952 who died in 1968. Their eldest son Freeman Lewis Upshall
married Florence Hann who was also born in 1943. |
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32P89 |
Grace Collett was born at Harbour Buffett on 13th
October 1901, the eldest of the three children of Cecilia Laughlin and Samuel Collett who suffered a premature death by
drowning. |
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32P90 |
Warrick Collett was born at Harbour Buffett on 31st
October 1903, the second child of Samuel and Cecilia Collett. He was only two years of age, when his
father drowned. |
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32Q131 |
Edith Collett
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Born in 1938 |
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32Q132 |
Carolyn Collett |
Born in 1943 |
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32P92 |
Thomas Edward Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett on 5th March 1902, the eldest child of Albert
Edward Collett and Susannah Burton. He
was a confectioner by 1921, when he was 19 and still living with his family
at 83 Pleasant Street in St John’s West.
He later married Dorothy Louise Davis, the daughter of Thomas Davies
and Kathie Martin who was born in Newfoundland on 14th May
1904. It was at Kelowna in British
Columbia that Dorothy Louise Collett nee Davies died on 20th June
1974, when her husband was confirmed at Thomas Edward Collett. |
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32P93 |
Henrietta Bridden Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1903, the daughter of Albert and Susannah, with whom she
was living in 1921 at Pleasant Street in St John’s West, by which time she
was 16 and was a saleslady at West End, where she was working with her
brother Charles (below). She
married Austin McKenzie Butler who was born in 1901. Henrietta Butler, nee Collett, died during
1988. |
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32P94 |
Charles Samuel Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1905 and, at the age of 14 in the census of 1921, he had
finished his schooling, when he was working as a messenger at West End, where
his sister Henrietta (above) was also employed, while still living at
the family home in 83 Pleasant Street in St John’s West. Sometime later he married Gwendolyn, who
was known as Winnie and, on the day of the census in 1935, the pair of them
were recorded at 992 Howley Avenue in St John’s West, where Charles Collett
was 30 and an engineer with the telephone company, while housewife Gwendolyn
was also 30 years of age. The house in
which the childless couple was living, was owned by Charles and valued at
3,000 dollars. It was the same
situation in 1945, by which time Charles was 40, as was Gwendolyn, when they
were living at 11 Howley Avenue, where Charles Collett was a plant
superintendent with the telephone company. |
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32P95 |
Frank
Stewart Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in 1908, another son of
Albert and Susannah Collett. He was
recorded at Stuart Collett in the St John’s West census of 1921 when he was
13 and attending school, when living with his family at 83 Pleasant
Street. Frank Stewart Collett was only
26 when he died at Harbour Buffett on 12th April 1934, following
which he was buried at St John’s Forest Road Anglican Cemetery in Avalon
Peninsula. |
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32P96 |
Lillian Muriel Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in 1910, the last
child of Albert Edward Collett and Susannah Burton. It was as Muriel Collett, aged eleven, that
she was living at 83 Pleasant Street in St John’s West with her family in
1921. She married Sam Randall and they
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32P97 |
Irene Metcalf Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett on 16th October 1909, the first-born child of
George Moore Collett and Jessie Metcalf.
She was eleven years old in the Harbour Buffett census of 1921, but
tragically was orphaned three years later.
After a further eight years, the marriage of Irene M Collett and Frank
Wareham took place on 27th July 1932, Frank having been born 1904,
the son of Alberto Wareham. Based on
the date that they married it seems more than likely that they had more than
just the one known son, Bruce Alberta Wareham, who was born in 1943,
eleven years after their wedding day.
Apart from their proven son, one other Wareham child was born in the
late 1930s, and that was John Douglas Wareham, who was born in 1938
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According to the census in 1935, the recently married
couple was incorrectly recorded under the surname Washem, which may have been
an error in transcription. At that
same time, the childless couple was residing at Harbour Buffett in Placentia
West, where Frank was 32 and a merchant in the supply business, while his
wife Irene was 25. Staying with the
couple that day, was Irene’s younger unmarried sister Queenie Collett (below),
a schoolteacher at a Church of England School. Previously, there had been speculation that
Percy Maxwell Wareham, who was born in 1932, may have been an earlier child
of Irene and Frank, but that has now been disproved. In fact, Percy Maxwell Wareham, the second
husband of Alice Florence Collett (Ref. 32Q2), may well have been a member of
Frank’s extended family. Bruce Alberta
Wareham, the known son of Frank and Irene, later married Hilda Frances
Gregory, who was born in 1947, with whom he had two sons Alberto Wareham,
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There
must have been a good close relationship between the Colletts and the
Warehams as, in addition to this coupling, Irene’s brother Thomas Collett (below)
married Rita Elsie Daisy Wareham and her sister Queenie Collett (below)
married Harry Pafford Wareham, who was Rita’s brother. In addition to all of this, the first
husband of the aforementioned Alice Florence Collett (Ref. 32Q2) was Ralph
Arthur Wareham, who was born in 1915.
All that is known for sure about the Wareham family, is that the
father-in-law of Irene Metcalf Wareham (Collett), Alberto Wareham, was the
brother of W W Wareham, a fish drier in Harbour Buffett. Frank Wareham died on 21st
October 1969, while his wife Irene Metcalf Wareham, nee Collett, lived a
widow’s life for a further twenty years and died on 27th November
1990. |
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32P98 |
Ethel Adelaide Squires Collett, who was known as Adie, was born at Harbour Buffett on 11th
October 1912, the second child of George and Jessie Collett. Following the premature deaths of her
parents, when she was eleven years old, she and her siblings were taken in to
the home of their uncle John Collett (Ref. 32O55). By 1935, the Harbour Buffett census that
year recorded Adelaide S Collett was 23 and the housekeeper for her brother
Thomas Collett (below). Ten
years later, she was still single at the age of 33, when she was still living
with her uncle John Collett at No. 70 Harbour Buffett, where she was acting
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By
that time, her marriage to Percy Charles Shave had already been arranged, and
took place on 22nd January 1945.
Percy was born in 1916 and died on 23rd August 1955, just
after celebrating the couple’s tenth wedding anniversary. Ethel Adelaide Squires Shave, nee Collett,
died five years after her husband, on 22nd June 1960. By the time of their untimely deaths, Ethel
and Percy had left behind three young children. Their eldest daughter Jean Collett Shave,
who was born in 1948, was taken in by Thomas Collett (below) and his
wife Rita, Joan Glenda Shave, who was born in 1949, was cared for by
Queenie Collett (below) and her husband Harry Pafford Wareham, while
the couple’s son Harold Shave, who was born in 1951, went to live with
Irene Metcalf Collett and her husband Frank Wareham. |
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Jean
Collett Shave later married Baxter Slade and in 2013 they were still living
in Newfoundland. Like Jean, Baxter was
also another direct descendent from Thomas Edward Collett (Ref. 32M3), them
both sharing the same great great grandfather. Joan Glenda Shave went on to married David
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32P99 |
THOMAS COLLETT was born at Harbour Buffett during
1914, the son of George Moore Collett and Jessie Metcalf. Both of his parents had died by the time he
was ten years old, when he and his three siblings were taken into the care of
Uncle John Collett (Ref. 32O55).
Eleven years after being orphaned, and at the age of only 22, Thomas
Collett of Harbour Buffett was head of the household and owner of his home
No. 157 in Harbour Buffett, where he was a salesman at a dry goods
store. Living there with him, was his
older sister Adelaide S Collett (above) who was 23 and undertaking
house-work for her brother.
Interestingly, living in the next two dwellings were two other Collett
families, those of next-door neighbour Reginald Collett, and next-door to
him, Lewis Collett, while in the next dwelling was the family of George Hann,
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Six years after
that, it was on 20th August 1941 when Thomas Collett married his
sister-in-law, Rita Elsie Daisy Wareham, who was born in 1918. Following the birth of their two sons, at
No. 71 Harbour Buffett, the family of four was living there in 1945, next
door to the home of Thomas’ uncle John Collett, where Thomas’ sister Adelaide
was also living. At that time, Thomas,
aged 31 and born at Placentia West, was described as being of English
descendants. His wife Rita E
Collett, also of Placentia West and of English descent, was 27. Their two children were recorded as David
Collett who was three and Kevin Collett who was two years of age, both born
at Placentia West (Harbour Buffett). Three years after that census day, Thomas and Rita took into their home, one of
the three orphaned children of his sister Ethel Adie Shave, nee Collett, who
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Thomas had
enjoyed a long life when he died on 12th May 1987 at the age of
73, although Rita survived until she was 93, when she passed away on 25th
July 2012. Rita was the sister of
Harry Pafford Wareham who married Thomas’ sister Queenie Collett (below),
whilst it is understood that Frank Wareham, who married Irene Collett (above),
was Rita’s cousin. Further enquiries
are being made to determine how Ralph Wareham, who married Alice Florence
Collett (Ref. 32Q2), may be related to Rita and others of the same surname. |
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32Q133 |
THOMAS DAVID COLLETT |
Born in 1942 at
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32Q134 |
Kevin Harry Collett |
Born in 1943 at
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32P100 |
Queenie (Queen) Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett on 16th July 1916 and was the fourth and last
child of George and Jessie Collett.
She was only eight years when both of her parents died, after which
she and her sibling were placed under the care of their uncle John Collett. On completing her education, Queenie took
up the occupation of a schoolteacher with a Church of England School, as
confirmed in the Harbour Buffett census of 1935, when Queen Collett, aged 19,
was staying with her recently married sister Irene Metcalf Wareham. Two years later, on 12th October
1937, Queenie married Harry Pafford Wareham who was born in 1913, the brother
of Rita Wareham who, four years later, married Queenie’s brother Thomas
Collett (above). Queenie and Harry had three children,
and they were Phyllis Rita Wareham, who was born in 1939, who married
Jim Whatley, Patricia Rose Ann Wareham, who was born in 1943, who
married Jim Janes, and Harry Wareham, who was born in 1952, who
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32Q2 |
Alice Florence Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1924, the eldest surviving child of William Collett and
Effie Bugden. After the premature
death of her mother, when she was only three or four years old, she continued
to live with her father and, in 1935, Alice Collett was ten years of age,
living with her father and three younger siblings at No. 162 Harbour
Buffett. It was also at Harbour
Buffett that she was living with her widowed father William Collett in 1945,
when she was 21 and the eldest of his four children. She later married (1) Ralph Arthur Wareham
who was born in 1915 and with whom she had three children. Robert Wareham, Ralph Wareham
junior, and Elizabeth Wareham who married Mr Stuckless. From
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32Q5 |
Effie Collett was born Harbour Buffett in 1928,
the last child of William Collett and Effie Bugden. It seems likely that her mother died during
the birth, with the child being given her late mother’s name. In 1935, the motherless family was living
at No. 162 Harbour Buffett, when Effie Collett was six years old. After a further ten years, Effie Collett
was 16 and employed as a saleslady, when she was one of four children still
living at No. 82 Harbour Buffett with their widowed father. She later married Leeland Rodway, who was
born in 1927, and with whom she had three children: Judith Ann Rodway
was born in 1950 and married Kevin Dicks; Joyce Lillian Rodway was
born in 1951; and Kevin Frederick Rodway was born in 1957. |
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32Q21 |
Dorothy Cavell Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1923, the first child of Arthur Shorter Collett and Ada
Morash. She was 12 years old in the
census of 1935 and was 22 in 1945, by which time she had joined the air
force. Dorothy married Harold Roy
Gorman, just after that census, and in 1950 the family was residing at
Westmorland, Franklin Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, USA, the
home of Harold’s parents. Head of the
household was Ernest Gorman, a farmer aged 48, his wife Margaret who was 43,
and their two sons William who was 22 and a farm hand, and Lee who was only
six years of age. Married son Harold
was 25 and a gas station attendant, their daughter-in-law Dorothy was 26 and
from Newfoundland, and their grandson Larry E Gorman was one year old.
Apart from Dorothy, every member of
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32Q22 |
Laura Reeves Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1924, another daughter of Arthur and Ada Collett. She was 11 in 1935 and was 21 in 1945, when
Laura Collett was a saleslady still living with her family at Harbour
Buffett. Not long after that day, she
married John Frederick Stratton who was born in 1926 and with whom she had a
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32Q23 |
Helen Pearl Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in
1926, the third child of Arthur and Ada Collett. By 1935, Helen was nine years of age and,
ten years later, when she was 19, she was a schoolteacher who was still
living at Harbour Buffett with her family.
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32Q24 |
Maisie Armistice Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1928, another daughter of Arthur and Ada Collett. As simply Maisie Collett, in 1935, she was
seven years of age, and was 17 years old in 1945 when she was undertaking
domestic duties in Harbour Buffett, where she was still living with her
family. Unlike her unfortunate younger
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32Q26 |
Thomas Grandy Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1932, the fifth child, but first son, born to Arthur and
Ada Collett. He was four years old and
14 years of age in the Harbour Buffett censuses in 1935 and 1945, and he
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32R1 |
Myra Ada Collett
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Date of birth
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32R2 |
Sandra Elizabeth
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Date of birth
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32R3 |
Sharon Collett |
Date of birth
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32R4 |
Paul Arthur
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Date of birth
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32Q27 |
Arthur Shorter Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1934 and, having the same name as his father, was referred
to as Junior. He was another son of
Arthur Collett and Ada Morash. As
Arthur Collett, he was one-year-old in the census of 1935, while ten years
later, the Harbour Buffett census of 1945, recorded him with his family as
Junior Collett, who was 11 years old.
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32Q28 |
Lloyd Parson Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in
1935, just two months before the census day that year. By 1945, he was ten years old and living
with his family at Harbour Buffett. It
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32Q29 |
Rupert Ryan Collett was born Harbour Buffett in 1938
and was buried there following his death on 24th January 1939 [Entry 15] when it was
recorded that he had been born at Trinity and had died from dysentery, aged
one year. |
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32Q30 |
Margaret Maxine Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett on 3rd July 1940 and was five years old in the
Harbour Buffett census of 1945, when she was living there with her parents
Arthur Shorter Collett and Ada Morash.
She subsequently married Norman Pinhorn. Their daughter Donna Pinhorn made
contact in 2020 with a view to providing more accurate details about her
family, but sadly there has been no follow-up. Her mother passed away on 27th
July 2003 at the age of 63, when she was residing within the St John’s Avalon
Peninsula of Newfoundland, and was buried at Topsail Road Anglican Church. |
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32Q31 |
Rosalind Collett was born in 1942, the last child
of Arthur Shorter Collett and Ada Morash, with whom she was living in 1945 at
the age of three years. Upon being
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32Q39 |
Stella Maude Masters was born at
Harbour Buffett in May 1899 and she married Walter Gilbert who was born in
1890 at Haystack. The marriage
produced eleven children born 1917 and 1940.
Stella died at Arnold’s Cove in 1966.
The eldest of
their children was May Gilbert who was born at Haystack in 1917. She married Freeman Wareham who was born in
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32Q40 |
Neil Kenneth Masters was born in
November 1901 at Kingwell. He married
Ada Beatrice Upshall (Ref. 32P87) the daughter of Nelson Upshall and
Elizabeth Shave. Ada was born at
Corney’s Cove in 1911 and died at Arnold’s Cove in 1993 where Neil had
previously died in 1966 and where there were both buried. The couple had five children from 1928 to
1946 one of which was Neil Kenneth Masters born in 1930 at Harbour Buffett
who married Lillian Iris Upshall. |
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32Q41 |
Matilda Masters was born in 1902 and married Denis
Hann who was born on 8th October 1900 at Port Royal. Matilda died in 1996. The marriage produced twelve children all
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32Q55 |
Norman Masters was born at Harbour Buffett on 24th
August 1919 and he married his cousin Annie Viola Masters (Ref. 32Q46) who
was born at Harbour Buffett on 1st January 1929. |
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There were four children that resulted from the
marriage of Norman and Annie and all of them were born at Harbour
Buffett. These were David George
Masters (born on 24th October 1950), Ruby Marie Masters (born on
16th December 1952), Norma Louise Masters (born on 7th
March 1954), and Beatrice Pauline Masters (born on 25th October
1956). Norman Masters died at Burin on
23rd March 1994. The couple’s youngest daughter Beatrice Pauline Masters married Morley Wayne
Pike who was born at Burin on 30th January 1952. |
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32Q57 |
Alice Elizabeth Hollett was born at
Harbour Buffett on 21st January 1945. She married Percy Alvin Brown on 5th
August 1964 at Harbour Buffett. Percy
was born on 28th August 1941 at Kingwell, the son of Wilson Brown
and Mondella Allen. All of their
children were born at Little Harbour East. |
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32R5 |
Bonita Carol Brown |
Born on
21.12.1965 |
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32R6 |
Carolyn Marie Brown |
Born on
19.07.1968 |
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32R7 |
Alvin Frank Brown |
Born on
05.09.1969 |
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32R8 |
Roy Wilson Brown |
Born on
10.06.1975 |
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Ten
years later, the family was still living at 12 Famish Cove comprised
fisherman George Collett aged 43, Bertha Collett aged 37, (Mabel) Adelaide
Collett aged 13, Edgar Collett aged 11, H Leslie Collett who was nine years
old and E Sarah Collett who was six years of age. Once again, as in 1935, other Collett
families were living at Nos 14, 15, 16 and 17, and they were the families of
Stanley Collett, John Collett, Llewelyn Collett, and Joseph Collett. In 2014, on Facebook, photographs were
discovered taken at the Collett Family Reunion in Newfoundland during July
2013. They included one of a baby’s
cradle made by George Collett for his son Edgar, with a note that it was
utilised again many years later by George’s grandson Raymond Collett in 1955. |
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32R9 |
Mabel
Adelaide Collett |
Born in 1932
at Famish Cove |
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32R10 |
Edgar Collett |
Born in 1933
at Famish Cove |
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32R11 |
H Leslie
Collett |
Born in 1936
at Famish Cove |
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32R12 |
E Sarah
Collett |
Born in 1939
at Famish Cove |
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32Q64 |
Joseph Collett, who was known as Joe, was born at
Famish Cove in October 1903, another son of John and Sarah Collett. Joe Collett was 17 in 1921,
when the was a lobster fishman working alongside his father at Famish
Cove. He later married Jessie Jarvis, who
was born in July 1907. As mentioned
above, Joseph’s brothers Ernest Collett and Llewelyn Collett (below)
married Mildred Jarvis and Irene Jarvis, respectively. Therefore, this was a case of three Collett
siblings marrying three Jarvis siblings.
By the time of the Famish Cove census of 1935, the Collett family
living at No. 13 was made up of Joseph, who was 30, the owner of his home,
and a fisherman working in the cod fishery.
His wife Jesse was 28, son Charlie was eight, and daughter Marie and
Verna were six and one year respectively. |
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After
a further ten years, fisherman Joseph Collett was 41 and Jessie was 38, when
with then on that occasion were all five of their children. They were described as W Charlie Collett
who was 18, G Marie Collett who was 16, M Verna Collett who was 11, M Hilda
Collett who was eight, and L Ada Collett who was six years old. At time, the family was living at No 17
Famish Cove. Angie Collett made
contact in August 2010. She is the great
granddaughter of Joseph Collett, and it is hoped that, in due course, she
will provide details of her family that will extend it from Joseph to the
present day. |
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32R13 |
W Charlie
Collett |
Born in 1927
at Famish Cove |
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32R14 |
G Marie Collett |
Born in 1929
at Famish Cove |
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32R15 |
M Verna
Collett |
Born in 1934
at Famish Cove |
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32R16 |
M Hilda
Collett |
Born in 1937
at Famish Cove |
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32R17 |
L Ada Collett |
Born in 1939
at Famish Cove |
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32Q65 |
Ernest Collett was born at Famish Cove in
September 1906, another son of John and Sarah Collett. Ernest was 14 years old
and still attending school in Famish Cove in 1921, where he later married his
sister-in-law Mildred Jarvis, who was born in 1911. It was also at Famish Cove, where they were
living at the time of the census in 1935.
Mildred’s two sisters, Jessie Jarvis and Irene Jarvis, married
Ernest’s two brothers, Joseph Collett (above) and Llewelyn Collett (below). |
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32Q66 |
Llewelyn Collett was born at Famish Cove in
September 1909, another son of John and Sarah Collett, who was 11 years old in 1921. He married his sister-in-law, Irene Jarvis,
at Famish Cove, where she was born in 1912.
On the day the census was conducted in 1935, Llewelyn Collett, aged 24 and a
fisherman in the cod fishery, and his wife Irene Collett who was 22 and
undertaking house work, were living at 15 Famish Cove. According to the next
census for Famish Cove in 1945, Llewelyn Collett was 35, but with no stated
occupation. Living with him at 16
Famish Cove, and owned by him, was his wife Irene Collett aged 33, and their
daughter Margaret Collett, who was four years old. Other members of his family were living in
the four adjacent properties. |
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32R18 |
Margaret
Collett |
Born in 1941
at Famish Cove |
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32Q67 |
Mary Winnie Collett was born at Famish Cove in March
1913, the only daughter of John
Collett and Sarah Higden. In
1921, Mary W Collett was eight years when she was living with her family at
Famish Cove. It was also at Famish
Cove, where Mary married John “Jack” Crann who was born during December 1912
also at Famish Cove. John was the son of Robert and
Caroline Crann who were living at Famish Cove at the time of the 1921 Census
and were recorded as follows. Robert
Crann, was born in December 1889 at Harbour Buffett, his wife Caroline Crann,
was born in February 1895 at Haystack, and their sons John Crann, born in
December 1912, Earl Crann, born in November 1914, and Ronald Crann, born in
April 1920, while their daughter was Ira Crann who had been born in September
1916. All of the children were born at
Famish Cove. |
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Robert
and Caroline had another daughter Julia, who was born in the year after the
census, and it was she, who married Mary Collett’s brother Stanley Thomas
Collett (below). Minnie’s
husband John ‘Jack’ Crann died at Corner
Brook in 1999. |
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32Q68 |
Stanley Thomas Collett was born at
Famish Cove on 17th October 1918, the last child of John Collett and Sarah Higden. In 1921, as just Stanley Collett, he was
two years of age, and by 1935, he was the only child still living with his
parents at Famish Cove, at the age of 16.
Eight years later, he married Julia Blanche Crann on 5th
May 1943 at St John’s. Julia was also
born at Famish Cove on 17th September 1922 and was the daughter of
Robert and Caroline Crann (above).
By 1945, Stanley
Collett was a home-owner at 14 Famish Cove where, at the age of 26, he was a
fisherman, when his wife Julia Collett was 23. The first of their two known children had
been born by then, daughter Effie Collett being one year old. Julia
Blanche Collett nee Crann died on 14th November 2004 at Placentia
Bay and was buried at the graveyard of the United Church in Fairhaven, the
former Famish Cove. Four years after
losing his wife, Stanley Thomas Collett died in 2008 at the age of 89. |
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The
existence of a son, grandson and great grandson for Stan and Julia were only
discovered on Facebook in 2014, following photographs taken at the Collett
Reunion which took place in Newfoundland during July 2013. |
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32R19 |
Effie Collett |
Born in 1944
at Famish Cove |
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32R20 |
Roger Collett |
Born after
1945 at Famish Cove |
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Stanley Thomas Collett was the
grandfather of Natasha Young who, in 2007, was living at Pasadena in Newfoundland, who
kindly contributed details of her ancestors |
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32Q76 |
Douglas G Collett was born at Daniel’s Harbour in
1940, the fourth child of Neil Charles Collett and his wife Alice Maud Hull,
who was five years of age in the Daniel’s Harbour census of 1945. During a comprehensive review of this
family life in March 2020, it was discovered that Douglas G Collett was NOT
Douglas George Collett who was born around 1921, who died in 2010, all as
detailed below. In fact, Douglas G
Collett died where he was born, at Daniel’s Harbour, in 1997, where he was
buried at the Anglican Cemetery. |
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The full obituaries for Douglas George Collett
(1921-2010) printed in the Toronto Star newspaper on 28th May
2010, and that of his widow Grace Elizabeth Collett (1922-2014) published in the Toronto Star on 15th
January 2014, are reproduced below, in
the hope that they and their family can be identified at some time in the
future. |
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COLLETT, Douglas George
- (Charter Member of Central Baptist Church, Oakville and WWII Veteran)
Passed away on Thursday 27th May 2010 at the Oakville - Trafalgar
Memorial Hospital at the age of 89.
Beloved husband of Grace for 67 years. Loving father of Doreen and her
husband Grant Seiveright, Jim and his wife Trish, Ken and his wife Mary. Devoted grandfather of Jill Durrant
(John-Michael), Greg Seiveright (Sarah), Jayne, Jeffrey, Connor, Mitchell,
Sean, Ryan, Erin and Kristin Collett. Cherished great-grandfather of Joshua
and James Durrant, Gabriel and Madeleine Seiveright. Visitation will be held on Sunday from 2-4
and 7-9 p.m. at the Kopriva Taylor Community Funeral Home, 64 Lakeshore Road
West, Oakville (one block east of Kerr, 905-844-2600). A funeral service will be held at 11:00
a.m., Monday 31st May 2010 at Central Baptist Church, 340 Rebecca
Street, Oakville, ON L6K 1K3 with a reception immediately after the service
in the church hall. Interment will
follow the reception at Trafalgar Lawn Cemetery, Oakville. If desired, memorial contributions to
Central Baptist Church or to the Ontario Heart & Stroke Foundation would
be appreciated by the family |
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The
obituary for his widow Grace Collett was published in the Toronto Star
newspaper on 15th January 2014, which read as follows: |
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COLLETT,
Grace Elizabeth - (Charter Member of Central Baptist Church, Oakville) Passed
away on Monday 13th January 2014 at the Oakville -Trafalgar
Memorial Hospital at the age of 93.
Beloved wife of the late Douglas Collett (2010). Loving mother of Doreen and her husband
Grant Seiveright, Jim and his wife Trish, Ken and his wife Mary. Devoted grandmother of Jill Durrant, Greg
Seiveright (Sarah), Jayne, Jeffrey, Connor, Mitchell, Sean, Ryan, Erin and
Kristin Collett. Cherished
great-grandmother of Joshua and James Durrant, Gabriel, Madeleine and Rebekah
Seiveright. Visitation will take place
at the Kopriva Taylor Community Funeral Home, 64 Lakeshore Road West,
Oakville (one block east of Kerr, 905-844-2600) from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
Friday. A funeral service will be held
at 1:00 p.m. Saturday 18th January 2014 at Central Baptist Church,
340 Rebecca Street, Oakville, L6K 1K3. Reception to follow at the funeral
home before interment at Trafalgar Lawn Cemetery. If desired, memorial
contributions to Central Baptist Church or to the Ontario Heart & Stroke Foundation would be
appreciated by the family. |
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32R21 |
Doreen Collett |
Date of birth
unknown circa 1945 |
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32R22 |
James (Jim) Collett |
Date of birth
unknown |
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32R23 |
Kenneth (Ken) Collett |
Date of birth
unknown |
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32Q81 |
Charles Watkins Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1931, the eldest son of Austin Lewis Collett and Jessie
Beatrice Marshall, who was four years old in the census of 1935, when living
with his family at No. 164 Harbour Buffett.
Ten years later, it was at No. 29 Harbour Buffett that he and his
family were living, when Charlie Collett was 13. He was in his early twenties when he later
married Molly Collett (Ref. 32Q95) the daughter of
Percy Collett and Harriet Ann Dicks, who was born on 6th January 1937. It was as Charlie and Molly Collett that
the couple was named within the 2012 obituary of Charles’ brother George
Edward Collett (below). |
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Ken Collett, the son of Charles
Watkins Collett and Molly Collett made contact in October 2024, to inform us
of the passing of his father, who died on 12th October 2024. Ken also updated some other family details
previously provided by his daughter Janelle
Collett. |
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32R24 |
Donna Collett |
Born in 1956 |
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32R25 |
Kendall Collett |
Born in 1958 |
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32R26 |
Gerald
Collett |
Born in 1961 |
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32R27 |
Randall
Collett |
Born in 1965 |
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32Q82 |
Calvin Sylvester Collett was born Harbour
Buffett at in 1933, another son of Austin and Jessie Collett. It was as Kelvin Collett, aged two years,
that he was living at No. 164 Harbour Buffett in 1935, but was Calvin
Collett, aged 12, in 1945, still living with his parents at No. 29 Harbour
Buffett. He married Vera Rideout and,
apart from their three children, the only other mention of the couple was in
2012, when Calvin and Vera Collett were named in the obituary of Calvin’s
brother George (below). |
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32R28 |
Janet Jessie
Collett |
Born in 1955 |
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32R29 |
Patsy Marie Collett |
Born in 1959 |
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32R30 |
Dean Calvin Collett |
Born in 1964 |
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32Q83 |
Lewis John Collett was born at No. 164 Harbour Buffett
in 1934, the third child of Austin and Jessie Collett, who was living there
aged one year in 1935. By 1945, the
family home was at No. 29 Harbour Buffett, where Lewis was 11 years old. He married Placida Rossiter, who were still
alive in 2012, when they were named as Lewis and Passy Collett within the
obituary for Lewis’ brother George (below) who died that year. |
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32R31 |
Sandra Collett |
Born in 1961 |
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32R32 |
Mary Collett |
Born in 1962 |
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Born in 1965 |
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32R34 |
Austin Joseph
Collett |
Born in 1968 |
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32R35 |
Louie Collett |
Born in 1970 |
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32Q84 |
George Edward Collett was born at No.
164 Harbour Buffett in 1936, the fourth son of Austin and Jessie Collett, and
was nine years old in 1945, when he and his family were living at No. 29
Harbour Buffett. He married Eileen
Mosse, although the surname of George’s in-laws was recorded as Moss in 2012
– see below. All that is currently
known about George has been taken from his obituary published on the website
Your Life Moments, which reads as follows: “Sault Ste Marie, Ontario - He
passed away peacefully at home on 19th March 2012 at the age of
77, surrounded by his loving family.
Beloved husband of Eileen, cherished father of Bonita Dua and her
husband Wayne of Cambridge, and Blair and Jackie Collett on London (Ontario). Wonderful grandpa Rachelle Dua and Austin
Collett, Kayli and Zachary McGuffin.
George will be sadly missed his siblings Charlie and Molly Collett,
Calvin and Vera Collett, Lewis and Passy Collett, Frank and Irene Collett,
Madonna Hollett and Ed, and Irene Penny and Dave. Also missed by his in-laws Ivy and Llewelyn
Shears, Clifford and Linda Moss, and Ron Upshall. Predeceased by his parents Austin and
Jessie Collett and his sister Marie Upshall.” |
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32R36 |
Bonita Collett |
Born in 1963 |
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32R37 |
Blair Collett |
Born in 1966 |
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32Q85 |
Frank Ambrose Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1937, the fifth child of Austin and Jessie Collett. In the census of 1945, Frank Collett was
seven years old and living with his family at No. 29 Harbour Buffett. He married Irene Benson, with whom he had
three children. Frank and Irene
Collett were amongst the names of the siblings of George Edward Collett in
his obituary of 2012. |
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32R38 |
Stephen Collett |
Born in 1961 |
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32R39 |
Heather Collett |
Born in 1966 |
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32R40 |
Barbara
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Born in 1968 |
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32Q86 |
Madonna Ruby Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1939, the seventh child and first daughter of Austin and
Jessie Collett. Madonna Collett was
five years of age in 1945, when she was with her family at No. 29 Harbour
Buffett. She married Edward Hollett,
with whom she had two children. They
were Edward George
Hollett, who was born
in 1962, and Nancy Lynn Hollett, who was born in 1965 and, who later
married Roger Butt. In the 2012 obituary for Madonna’s brother
George (above) the names of Madonna Hollett and her husband Ed were
listed with her other siblings. |
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32Q87 |
Marie Alice Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in
1941, another daughter of Austin and Jessie Collett. Four-year-old Marie Collett was living at
No. 29 Harbour Buffett with her family in 1945. She later married Ronald George Upshall,
the son of George Upshall and Adelaide Dicks who was born in 1942. Their two sons were Paul George Upshall who was born in 1968 who later
married Leanne Barrett, and Andrew Ronald Upshall who was born in
1975. Sadly, by the time of the death of her older brother George in March
2012, Marie Alice Upshall nee Collett had already passed away, leaving her
widowed husband Ron Upshall named as one of George’s in-laws. |
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32Q88 |
Irene Eliza Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in
1952, the last child of Austin Lewis Collett and Jessie Beatrice
Marshall. She married David Charles
Penney with whom she had three children.
They were David
Nelson Penney who was
born in 1970, Karen Collette Penney who was born in 1972, and Jason
Lewis Penney who was born in 1978.
In 2012 it was as Irene Penny and
her husband Dave that they were named in the list of siblings of the later
George Edward Collett, Irene’s brother (above). |
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32Q89 |
Sylvia Ewing Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1934 and was ten months old on the day of the census in
1935, the first-born child of Reginald Gordon Collett and Marion Mary
Jarvis. Sylvia was 11 years old and a
student in the Harbour Buffett census of 1945. During the first half of the 1950s, Sylvia
married Allan Berkshire Hann, who was born in 1926, and their marriage
resulted in the birth of four children.
They were Doris
Eileen Hann, born in
1955, who married James Powers, Edna Barbara Hann born in 1957, who
married Bill Hyde, Mervin Walter Hann, born in 1965, and Gordon
Allan Hann who was born in 1967. |
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32Q90 |
Maxwell Robert Collett was born Harbour
Buffett in 1938 and was seven years of age in the Harbour Buffett census of
1945. He was the only son of Reginald
and Mary Collett and he married (1) Vera Taylor, (2) Molly Graves, and (3)
Brenda Keough. His first two children
were born out of his marriage to Vera, while the last three came from his
marriage to Brenda. In 2009 Max, as he
was known, was living at St John’s in Newfoundland, when he and Brenda were
just two of the many names listed in the obituary for his eldest son, Vernon,
at Toronto in July 2008. |
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32R41 |
Vernon Reginald Collett |
Born during
1963 |
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32R42 |
Vaughan Collett |
Date of birth
unknown |
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32R43 |
Robert Phillip Collett |
Date of birth
unknown |
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32R44 |
Paul Maxwell Collett |
Date of birth
unknown |
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32R45 |
Mary Beth Collett |
Date of birth
unknown |
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32Q91 |
Regina Pearl Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1943, where she was two years old in the Harbour Buffett
census of 1945. She later married
Patrick Gaulton, with whom she had four children, Patricia Gaulton, Barry
Gaulton, Byron Gaulton, and Rick Gaulton. Regina Pearl Gaulton, nee Collett, died
during 1993. |
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32Q92 |
Monica Ivy Mahalla Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1945 and, as Ivy Collett, was just one month old on the
day of the census in 1945. She was the
fourth child of Reginald and Mary Collett.
She went on to marry Raymond Cole, with whom she had two children, Tina
Cole and Raymond Cole junior. |
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32Q93 |
Barbara Lillian Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1949, another daughter of Reginald and Mary Collett. She was later married to William Kenway,
with whom she had two children, Bradley Kenway, and Beneta Kenway. |
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32Q94 |
Marilyn Elsie Frances Collett was born at
Harbour Buffett in 1955, the last child of Reginald Gordon Collett and Marion
Mary Jarvis. She married (1) Edward
Clarke and then (2) Robert Hartley. |
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32Q95 |
Molly Collett was born at Grand Falls, Harbour
Buffett, on 6th
January 1937, the first-born child of Percy Collett and Harriet Ann Dicks. She was eight years of age in the
census of 1945 when she and her family were residing at No. 37 Harbour
Buffett. Molly married Charles Watkins
Collett (Ref. 32Q81) who was born in 1931, the son of Austin Collett (Ref.
32P65) and Jessie Marshall. |
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32Q96 |
Sarah Loretta Collett was born at Grand
Falls on 5th October 1938, another daughter of Percy and Harriet Ann
Collett. It was at the family home at No. 37 Harbour Buffett in 1945, that Loretta
Collett was seven years
old. She later married
Llewelyn Breeden Upshall (below) who was born on 27th July
1936. Sarah Loretta Upshall nee
Collett died on 9th September 2009 when she was one month short of
her seventieth birthday. Her daughter Deborah
Ann Upshall was born in 1961 and is married to Matthew Dumais and
provided the new details about her parents. |
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