PART THIRTY-SIX

The Barwick-in-Elmet (Leeds) Line

This is the first of two sections of the Collett family of Yorkshire

Section Two is The Birstall, Heckmondwike, Batley Line (also Part 36)

Section Three is The (Leeds) Armley, Wortley, Drighlington, Morley Line (Part 73)

Updated June 2023

All Saints Church at Barwick-in-Elmet (pronounced Bar-rick)

lies within the Church of England Diocese of Ripon & Leeds, to the east of Leeds.

Four settlements to the south of Barwick are Whitkirk, Garforth, Swillington & Oulton,

all within close proximity to each other, and places where the Collett are known to have lived

New information has been received from Christina Hammond nee Collitt [Ref. 27R11],

following her meeting with Joyce Hidden nee Collett [Ref. 36S14] in the autumn of 2010 during

which she was shown a family tree produced by Keith Walker relating to the Featherstone Colletts.

The brief details contained therein indicate that this family line has its origins with

William Collett in 1496, who possibly came from Featherstone.

This discovery, although unverified, takes this family line back a further four generations

from Ralph Collett [Ref. 36I1] to the said William Collett in 1496.

This is also the family line of Joyce Collett [Ref. 36S14] whose line is denoted by the names underlined,

And it was Mark Patrick Blackburn (in Part 73) who was instrumental in contact being made with the

publisher of the magazine The Barwicker which included two articles on the Collett blacksmiths of

Barwick-in-Elmet, the information from which has now been incorporate

into this family line as Appendices 1 to 3

36E1	WILLIAM COLLETT was born in 1496, and possibly at Featherstone. He is believed to have married Isabel Dearden who was born in 1499.
	36F1	WILLIAM COLLETT					Born in 1518 at Featherstone
36F1	WILLIAM COLLETT was born at Featherstone in 1518, the son of William Collett and Isabel Dearden. William later married Elizabeth of Featherstone around 1540, with whom he is known to have had at least two children, before he died in 1591, also at Featherstone. His wife Elizabeth had been born at Featherstone around 1521 and died three years before William, when she passed away at Featherstone on 15^th September 1588. It is understood that, in addition to the four children listed below, two further children were added to the family in 1550 and 1554, although no precise details are known at this time. At the time of the death of William Collett in 1591, only his two eldest children were still alive.
	36G1	WILLIAM COLLETT					Born in 1541 at Featherstone
	36G2	Edward Collett					Born in 1543 at Featherstone
	36G3	Isabel Collett					Born in 1545 at Featherstone
	36G4	George Collett					Born in 1548 at Featherstone
36G1	WILLIAM COLLETT was born at Featherstone in 1541, the eldest son of William and Elizabeth Collett. William was twenty-two years old when he married Isabel Shilito at Featherstone on 14^th November 1563. William was still alive in 1591, when his father died during that year.
	36H1		John Collett			Born in 1569 at Featherstone
	36H2		Thomasine Collett			Born in 1572 at Featherstone
	36H3		EDWARD COLLETT			Born in 1573 at Featherstone
36G2	Edward Collett was born at Featherstone in 1543, the second son of William Collet and Elizabeth Shilito. On 26^th August 1565 Edward Collett married (1) Agnes Greenwood at Featherstone, and so far, their only known child is their son Edward, who was born around eight years later. Other children may have been born into the family, and it may have been during the birth of one of them, around 1775 that Agnes died. Following her passing, Edward Collett married (2) Agnes Nockytt (Nockett?) at Featherstone on 3^rd November 1577. Edward was still alive in 1591, when his father died during that year.
	36H4		Thomas Collett			Born in 1569 at Featherstone
	36H5		William Collett			Born in 1571 at Featherstone
	36H6		Edward Collett			Born in 1574 at Featherstone
36G3	Isabel Collett was born at Featherstone in 1545, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Collett. It is believed that she was around thirty years of age, when she died at Featherstone in 1575.
36G4	George Collett was born at Featherstone in 1548, the third son of William and Elizabeth Collett. It is understood that he may have died around 1591, the same year that his father passed away.
36H1	John Collett was born at Featherstone in 1569, and it was there also that he was baptised on 9^th October 1569, the son of William Collett.
36H2	Thomasine Collett was born at Featherstone in 1572, where she was baptised on 26^th October 1572, the daughter of William Collett. She only survived for just over one week, when she was buried on 6^th November 1572.
36H3	EDWARD COLLETT was born at Featherstone in 1573, the son of William Collett and Isabel Shilito. He was baptised at Featherstone on 1^st January 1574, when it was only his father’s name that appear on the baptism record. It was around twenty-four years later that Edward married (1) Frances of Featherstone in 1598. It seems likely that Frances died around the turn of the century, perhaps during childbirth, since on 18^th October 1601 at Normanton, just west of Featherstone, Edward Collett married (2) Mary Roebuck. Edward Collett had only been married to Mary for twelve years, when he died at Featherstone in 1613.
	36I1		RALPH COLLETT			Born circa 1610 at Featherstone
36H4	Thomas Collett was born at Featherstone in 1569, but was baptised at Ackton near Normanton on 3^rd July 1569, under the name of Thomas Collytt, the son of Edward Collytt of Ackton.
36H5	William Collett was born at Featherstone in 1571, and was baptised at Ackton near Normanton on 21^st October 1571, the son of Edward Collett and Agnes Greenwood. He later married Katherine Laborne at Featherstone on 16^th December 1589 and the first of their six known children was born within six months of the day of their wedding.
	36I2		William Collett		Born in 1590 at Featherstone
	36I3		Anne Collett		Born in 1593 at Featherstone
	36I4		Robert Collett		Born in 1594 at Featherstone
	36I5		John Collett		Born in 1597 at Featherstone
	36I6		Thomas Collett		Born in 1598 at Featherstone
	36I7		Robert Collett		Born in 1599 at Featherstone
36H6	Edward Collett was born at Featherstone in 1574, although he was baptised at Ackton near Normanton on 13^th March 1574, the son of Edward Collett and Agnes Greenwood. It would appear that his mother may have died during the birth of a subsequent child, since his father was married for a second time in 1577. At the time of the baptism of his children, Edward was referred to as Edward Collet of Ackton, and it is understood that his wife was Mary, although her name does not appear in any of the baptism records.
	36I8		Thomas Collett		Born in 1601 at Featherstone
	36I9		Edward Collett		Born in 1605 at Featherstone
	36I10		Mary Collett		Born in 1612 at Featherstone
36I1	RALPH COLLETT was born around 1610, and very likely at Featherstone near Pontefract, since that was where his father Edward Collett died in 1613. It was on 13^th February 1631 that, with a licence from the Court, Ralph married Anne Vevers at Barwick-in-Elmet, which was presumably where Anne was living at that time, and where she may have been born. After they were married the couple appear to have lived the rest of their lives together at Barwick, where their seven known children were born, and where Ralph and Anne both died. Anne Collett nee Vevers died at Barwick in 1663, and was followed by Ralph who died there seven years later in 1670.
	The Vevers family of Scholes and Potterton originally came from Evre (Iver in Buckinghamshire) in the 14^th Century. They were yeoman farmers and tenants of the lord of the manor and landowners in the parish of Barwick-in-Elmet, although very secondary to the Gascoigne family who owned the Manor and after whom the current village inn is named ‘The Gascoine Arms’. William Vevers lived at Scholes Hall, but also owned land in Morwick and Potterton. His cousin Stephen Vevers owned Morwick Hall. Although the male line of this branch died out in 1767, the eldest son, and to a lesser extent the second son, was always married off as well as possible. The daughters and younger sons mostly married within the local area, although the head of the house tended to try and check whether their choice of spouse was worthy of the family.
	Over two-hundred-years after Ralph married Anne Vevers, another Collett/Vevers marriage took place in Wakefield during 1855. That is only sixteen miles from Barwick-in-Elmet, and the couple involved was Alfred Collett [Ref. 55P6] and Marie Vevers, whose details can be found in Part 55 – The Wakefield & Leeds Line.
	36J1		William Collett			Born in 1632 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36J2		RALPH COLLETT			Born in 1634 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36J3		Edith Collett			Born in 1637 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36J4		Robert Collett			Born in 1639 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36J5		Mary Collett			Born in 1643 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36J6		Richard Collett			Born in 1646 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36J7		Jane Collett			Born in 1650 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36I2	William Collett was born at Featherstone during January 1590, and it was there also that he was baptised on 3^rd May 1590, the eldest child of William Collett and Katherine Laborne. It is not evident from his children’s baptism records as to who his wife was, since they only gave the father’s name. However, the marriage of William Collett and Margaret Bouth, which took place at Featherstone on 9^th December 1617, corresponds perfectly with the birth of the couple’s first child who was born nine months after their wedding day.
	36J8		Edward Collett		Born in 1618 at Featherstone
	36J9		Mary Collett		Born in 1620 at Featherstone
	36J10		Mary Ann Collett		Born in 1627 at Featherstone
	36J11		Isabel Collett		Born in 1628 at Featherstone
36I3	Anne Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 20^th August 1593, the daughter of William and Katherine Collett. Tragically, she only lived for a short of few months, when she died and was buried at Featherstone on 16^th December 1593.
36I4	Robert Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 10^th October 1594, the son of William and Katherine Collett. He only survived for less than four years, when he died at Featherstone on 26^th July 1598, where he was buried.
36I5	John Collett was born at Featherstone around 1597, to William and Katherine Collett. The name of his later wife is not known since, it was simply John’s name that was recorded as the father of their sons. However, there is a record at Featherstone which states that John Collett died there on 3^rd January 1648.
	36J12		Edward Collett		Born in 1618 at Featherstone
	36J13		George Collett		Born in 1620 at Featherstone
36I6	Thomas Collett was born early in 1598 and was baptised at Featherstone on 25^th June 1598, another child of William and Katherine Collett.
36I7	Robert Collett was born at the end of 1598 and was baptised at Featherstone on 1^st January 1599, the last child of William Collett and Katherine Laborne.
36I8	Thomas Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 12^th November 1601, the first of the three known children of Edward and Mary Collett, although it was only his father’s name that was recorded in the parish birth record.
36I9	Edward Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 28^th September 1605, the second son of Edward Collett of Ackton and his wife Mary. He may have been living at Featherstone, since it was there in April 1660 that an Edward Collett died, and this may have been the father or the son.
	36J14		Edward Collett		Born in 1625 at Featherstone
36I10	Mary Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 17^th February 1612 and was named after her mother, the only daughter of Edward and Mary Collett.
36J1	William Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet around 1632. It was also there that he was baptised at All Saints Church on 11^th November 1632, the eldest son of Ralph Collett and Anne Vevers. Sadly, he died during the following year.
36J2	RALPH COLLETT was born around 1634 at Barwick-in-Elmet where he was baptised at All Saints Church on 7^th May 1635, the second son of Ralph Collett and Anne Vevers. He later married Elizabeth with whom he had two known sons before he died, when the youngest child was only two years old. Ralph Collett died at Barwick in 1670, while his wife Elizabeth survived him by over thirty years, when she died at Barwick in 1701.
	36K1		Ralph Collett			Born in 1664 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36K2		WILLIAM COLLETT			Born in 1668 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36J3	Edith Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1637 and was baptised there at All Saints Church on 5^th November 1637, the eldest daughter and third child of Ralph Collett and Anne Vevers. She was around twenty years of age when she married James Hopwood at Barwick on 28^th May 1657. Over the next twelve years Edith presented James with five children, and all of them born while the family was still living at Barwick. However, in each case the baptism record at All Saints Church in Barwick gave only the father’s name, which was David Hopwood. The five children were Mary Hopwood (baptised on 14^th March 1662), Jennet Hopwood (baptised on 7^th August 1664), Christopher Hopwood (baptised on 11^th March 1666), Isabell Hopwood (baptised on 8^th March 1668) and Elizabeth Hopwood (baptised on 13^th February 1670).
36J4	Robert Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1639. He was baptised at All Saints Church on 2^nd April 1640, the son of Ralph Collett and Anne Vevers. Robert was twenty-one when he married Jennet Taylor at Barwick on 18^th November 1661, Jennet having been baptised there on 2^nd October 1636. Their marriage certainly produced nine children, although the couple possibly had a son within twelve months of their wedding day, even though no birth and/or baptism has been found for their first-born child Ralph Collett. As regards the eight children born between 1663 and 1678, all of them were born while the family was living in Barwick. The youngest of their children, Thomas, was only eighteen years old when both his parents died during the same month of the same year. Tragically, Robert Collett was 57 and his wife Jennet was 60 when they died during November 1696. During his life Robert Collett was a churchwarden in 1673 and was an overseer of the poor in 1673 and 1689.
	36K3		Ralph Collett			Born in 1662 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36K4		Richard Collett			Born in 1663 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36K5		Robert Collett			Born in 1665 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36K6		William Collett			Born in 1667 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36K7		John Collett			Born in 1669 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36K8		Anne Collett			Born in 1671 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36K9		Mary Collett			Born in 1673 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36K10		Matthew Collett			Born in 1676 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36K11		Thomas Collett			Born in 1678 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36J5	Mary Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1643, the daughter of Ralph and Anne Collett. All that is known about Mary is that she married John Taylor on 6^th November 1666 at All Saints Church in Barwick, and they had four children who were born while Mary and John were still living at Barwick. And they were John Taylor (baptised on 27^th August 1667), Thomas Taylor (baptised on 16^th November 1671), William Taylor (baptised on 15^th October 1673), and Ann Taylor (baptised on 23^rd May 1677).
36J6	Richard Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1646, the youngest son of Ralph Collett and Anne Vevers. Later in his life Richard married Margaret, and he and his wife had three children. Margaret Collett died at Weeton during September 1705 and was followed four years later by her husband Richard Collett who died at Weeton in 1709, after which, he was buried at All Saints Church in Harewood on 23^rd November 1709.
	36K12		Richard Collett			Born in 1667 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36K13		Ann Collett			Born in 1670 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36K14		Ralph Collett			Born in 1673 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36J7	Jane Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1650, the youngest child of Ralph Collett and Anne Vevers. She was born during the time of the English Republic established between 1649 and 1653 which followed the execution of King Charles I on 30^th January 1649, this being referred to as ‘The Commonwealth Period’. Jane Collett was twenty-three when she married David Tuke at Barwick on 6^th August 1673.
36J8	Edward Collett was the honeymoon baby of William Collett and Mary Bouth, who was born at Featherstone, where she was also baptised on 30^th August 1618.
36J9	Mary Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 1^st November 1620, the second of the four children of William and Mary Collett.
36J10	Mary Ann Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 12^th September 1627, the second daughter of William Collett to be given the name Mary, so it may be assumed the earlier one had died before this Mary was born. It would appear that Mary Ann Collett later married Robert Hall at Featherstone on 24^th June 1649. Robert Hall was born at Monk Fryston where he was baptised on 14^th May 1627, the son of Lancelot Hall and his wife Katherine Richardson. The married produced at least four children for the couple, they being Frances Hall (born in 1650), Prudence Hall (born in 1653), Mary Hall (born in 1655), and Ellen Hall (born in 1659). All four daughters were born and baptised at Featherstone.
36J11	Isabel Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 23^rd November 1628 and was the last child born to William Collett and his wife Mary Bouth.
36J12	Edward Collett was born at Featherstone in either 1617 or 1618, where he was baptised on 6^th January 1619, the son of John Collett. His brother George (below) was fifteen months old when he was baptised, so maybe Edward was over one year old when he was baptised. If so, then Edward may have been approaching his second birthday when he died at Featherstone on 18^th March 1619.
36J13	George Collett was born at Featherstone in March 1619, and was baptised there on 6^th July 1620, the son of John Collett. A George Collett of Ackton near Normanton married (1) Elizabeth in 1653 and around two years later their daughter was born and died at Featherstone the following year. It would seem that George’s wife also died not long after their daughter, since on 8^th November 1659 George Collett married (2) Grace Marsden at Featherstone.
	36K15		Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1655 at Featherstone
36J14	Edward Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 9^th December 1625, the only known son of Edward Collett. Although it is established that Edward married Anna Yates, at the baptism of his three known children, only the name of Edward Collitt appeared in the parish records.
	36K16		Ann Collett		Born in 1649 at Featherstone
	36K17		Edward Collett		Born in 1650 at Featherstone
	36K18		Margaret Collett		Born in 1652 at Featherstone
36K1	Ralph Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet around 1664 and was the eldest son of Ralph and Elizabeth Collett. He was baptised at Barwick on 9^th February 1665, and it was also at Barwick that Ralph married Hannah Breatcliffe on 17^th November 1686. Their marriage resulted in the birth of four known children, and they were all born at Barwick where they were also baptised, and where two of them are known to have died while still very young. Ralph Collett died at Barwick-in-Elmet, where he was buried on 9^th January 1727.
	36L1		Jane Collett			Born in 1689 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L2		Mary Collett			Born in 1691 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L3		John Collett			Born in 1693 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L4		Matthew Collett			Born in 1695 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36K2	WILLIAM COLLETT was born at Barwick-in-Elmet around 1668, and it was there also that he was baptised on 3^rd June 1668, the son of Ralph and Elizabeth Collett. It now seems highly likely that William of Barwick-in-Elmet was around twenty-two when he was first married by licence to (1) Margaret Briggs at Barwick on 18^th December 1690, when he was referred to as “William Collett of Oulton”. That first union produced three children over the next five years, as listed below, who were all baptised at Barwick where the father’s name was confirmed as William Collett. Margaret Collett nee Briggs would appear to have died in 1695, perhaps during the birth of her third and last child. What is known is the William Collett later married (2) Margaret Berry of Featherstone Moor at Featherstone on 7^th February 1696. Once William and Margaret Berry were married, the couple settled in Barwick-in-Elmet, where ten of their eleven children were born and baptised. For the baptism of the first six of those eleven children William was recorded as Guillaume Collet. The eleventh and last child was added to the family after they had left Barwick and following a move to Leeds, and it was also at Leeds that William Collett died nearly thirty years later in 1748.
	The Will of William Collett was made on 7^th May 1743 and proved on 17^th June 1749. In that document there is reference to his four surviving sons Thomas, Richard, Benjamin, and Arthur, and his three surviving daughters Margaret Collett, Sarah Hebden and Elizabeth Pitt (see Will in Legal Documents). It is also from his Will that we learn that William Collett of Leeds was a schoolmaster. Other records for Barwick confirm that he was a schoolmaster and churchwarden in the village in 1692, and that in 1699 and 1700 he was a constable.
	36L5		Mary Collett			Born in 1691 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L6		Jane Collett			Born in 1693 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L7		William Collett			Born in 1695 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	The following are the children of William Collett by his second wife Margaret Berry:
	36L8		Sarah Collett			Born in 1697 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L9		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1698 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L10		Margaret Collett			Born in 1699 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L11		Margaret Collett			Born in 1700 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L12		John Collett			Born in 1702 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L13		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1704 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L14		Thomas Collett			Born in 1707 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L15		Richard Collett			Born in 1710 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L16		Benjamin Collett			Born in 1712 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L17		Joseph Collett			Born in 1715 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36L18		Arthur Collett			Born in 1719 at Leeds
36K3	Ralph Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet and would have been named after his paternal grandfather, in the same way that the eldest daughter in the family was named after their paternal grandmother. He was very likely the eldest child of Robert Collett and Jennet Taylor who were married in November 1661. That could therefore mean that Ralph was born during 1662. As was the case, in common with many other parishes across the country, no parish registers exist for the period 1642-1662 due to the Civil War and the subsequent interregnum. Which is perhaps why no record of his birth or baptism has been found. In addition to which, two of his father’s brothers, Ralph and Richard, had sons named Ralph, so why not Robert.
	It is worth acknowledging that Ralph Collett (Ref. 35K1) above, married Hannah Breatcliffe on 17^th November 1686 at Barwick-in-Elmet, where they were both born, and where their four children were also born and baptised, therefore discounting Hannah as the wife of Ralph Collett (Ref. 35K3). This is despite the youngest daughter being name Hannah.
	Ralph Collett is known to have fathered at least the nine children listed below, with the first five born at first two of which may have been born Wakefield, with the first-born child being baptised at Swillington (with Latin spelling of forenames) when he was five years old, and where the family was residing from 1688 to 1694, after which the last four child were born in Wakefield between 1695 and 1704. It was at Northgate in Wakefield where the family was living at the time of the baptisms of the two youngest daughters in 1699 and 1704, and where they were still living when Ralph’s daughters Mary Collett and Hannah Collett died in 1722 and 1723. It was just prior to Mary’s death, when Ralph Collett, a butcher, died and was buried at Wakefield on 23^rd November 1721. It is interesting that Swillington and Oulton lie on the opposite banks of the River Aire, less than two miles apart, with Ralph’s eldest surviving son Robert Collett, later referred as being “a yeoman of Oulton quarries”. This very likely means the reference to Mary Collett as being “the daughter of Ralph Collett of Oulton” relates to Robert’s father Ralph.
	The inclusion of a son Richard has not been proved, although the years between 1699 and 1704 could well accommodate another child of Ralph Collett, since a later marriage of a Richard Collett took place in Wakefield during 1734. More research into this is required to ascertain where he may be related in some way to this, or another Collett family line.
	36L19		Ralph Collett			Born in 1686 at Swillington, nr Leeds
	36L20		Robert Collett			Born in 1688 at Swillington, nr Leeds
	36L21		Anna Collett			Born in 1691 at Swillington, nr Leeds
	36L22		William Collett			Born in 1693 at Swillington, nr Leeds
	36L23		Martha Collett			Born in 1695 at Wakefield
	36L24		Mary Collett			Born in 1698 at Wakefield
	36L25		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1699 at Northgate in Wakefield
	36L26		Hannah Collett			Born in 1704 at Northgate in Wakefield
36K4	Richard Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet, perhaps during 1663, where he was baptised on 21^st February 1664, another son of Robert Collett and Jennet Taylor. Later in his life, as Richard Collett of Ackworth, he was married by licence to Margaret Dawson from Ackworth on 30^th November 1687, the licence being granted the previous day. Their wedding ceremony was conducted at St Olave’s Church in York, for Ricardus Collett and Margaretta Dawson. Margaret Dawson was christened in Fishlake, South Yorkshire, on 7^th September 1665, the daughter of John Dawson, and it was also at Ackworth were they lived and where their six known children were born and raised. Ackworth is less than twenty miles due south of Barwick and six miles south-east of Wakefield. For the continuation of this family go to Part 55 – The Ackworth-Wakefield-Leeds Line
36K5	Robert Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet towards the end of in 1665, and was baptised at All Saints Church in Barwick on 9^th January 1665/66, the son of Robert and Jennet Collett. Later on in his life, it would appear that he was the first member of his family to make the move to the village of Kippax, to the east of Leeds and south of Barwick, where his younger brother Thomas (below) raised his family from 1708 onwards. Within the parish records at Kippax is the marriage of Robert Collett and Elizabeth Pearson on 1^st January 1695/96, with Elizabeth being the older sister of Susanna Pearson who married Robert’s brother, the aforementioned Thomas. After being married to Elizabeth for sixteen years, the burial of Rob Collett took place at Kippax on 23^rd July 1712.
	They had no issue, with widow Elizabeth Collett, seventeen month later, marrying Thomas Chambers at Kippax on 24^th December 1713, with whom she had a daughter Susanna Chambers who was baptised at Kippax on 5^th October 1715 and confirmed as the daughter of Thomas. Elizabeth Pearson was baptised at Kippax on 4^th October 1775, and lost her second husband when he was buried at Kippax on 24^th August 1720.
36K6	William Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1667, and was baptised there on 2^nd October 1667, the third son of Robert Collett and Jennet Taylor.
36K7	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1669, and was baptised at All Saints Church in the village on 17^th December 1669, the son of Robert Collett and Jennet Taylor.
36K8	Anne Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1671, where she was baptised on 14^th March 1671, the eldest daughter Robert Collett and Jennet Taylor. She survived for just over ten months, when she died on 26^th January 1672.
36K9	Mary Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet towards the end of 1673, and it was there at All Saints Church that she was baptised on 23^rd February 1674, the youngest daughter of Robert Collett and Jennet Taylor.
36K10	Matthew Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1676, where he was baptised on 6^th September 1676, the son of Robert Collett who died in 1696.
36K11	Thomas Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1678, the youngest child of Robert Collett and Jennet Taylor. Thomas was baptised at All Saints Church in Barwick on 7^th August 1678. Thanks to David Thompson, in 2022 and 2023, it is now established that this Thomas was responsible for the brand new branch of the family which ultimately clarified the position within the family of another later Thomas Collett (1741-1798) of Kippax. Prior to receiving this new information, the previous version of this file had placed the aforementioned Thomas of Kippax, alongside Thomas Collett (Ref. 35M3) of Barwick-in-Elmet (1736-1794), whose wife was Agnes Thompson, only because of the similarities in their time on this planet. Therefore, the full story can now be told.
	Thomas Collett (son of Robert Collett – Ref. 35J4 and born at Barwick in 1678) married Susanna Pearson (daughter of William Pearson) with whom he had six children as listed below. Susanna was baptised on 22^nd October 1688 and came from a very large family of over twelve children, her mother being Susanna Harrison who was 19 when she married William Pearson, aged 25, on 28^th February 1669 at Kippax. By the time Susanna’s father made his Will, her husband Thomas Collett may have been in poor health because the Probate document for William Pearson (1644-1720) of Kippax, proved on 28^th July 1721, included provision for the private tuition of his only surviving grandson at that time, William Collett, Thomas’ eldest son.
	Interesting footnote: Thomas’ older brother Robert Collett (above) was married at Kippax in 1696 to Elizabeth Pearson, who was more than likely a sister of his own wife Susanna, where both couples settled and where brother Rob Collett died in 1712.
	36L27		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1708 at Kippax
	36L28		William Collett			Born in 1710 at Kippax
	36L29		Robert Collett			Born in 1712 at Kippax
	36L30		Mary Collett			Born in 1715 at Kippax
	36L31		Susanna Collett			Born in 1717 at Kippax
	36L32		John Collett			Born in 1722 at Kippax
36K12	Richard Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1667 where he was baptised on 6^th February 1668, the eldest of three known children of Richard Collett. In the early 1690s Richard married Hannah with whom he had eight children. During his life he was known as Richard Collitt of Weeton, which was a hamlet midway between Harrogate to the north and Leeds to the south, lying within the parish of Harewood.
	The continuation of this family line is provided in Part 27 – The Yorkshire Line
36K13	Ann Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1670 and was baptised there at All Saints Church on 26^th May 1670, the only known daughter of Richard Collett. It seems very likely that Ann married Stephen Barrett in 1691, when she would have been twenty-one years old. The IGI records confirm that Stephen Barrett of Healthwaite Hill in Weeton married Ann Collett at Harewood on 5^th November 1691. It was also at Healthwaite Hill that Stephen and Ann raised their family. Ann was 72 years old when she died at Healthwaite Hill in Weeton in September 1743.
36K14	Ralph Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1673, the youngest of the three known children of Richard Collett. Ralph was baptised at All Saints Church in Barwick on 7^th May 1673, and it was there also, that he married Anne Glover on 3^rd August 1715. A certain Ralph Collett died at Barwick-in-Elmet, where he was buried on 9^th January 1727, although there were others of that name in Barwick, so it cannot be categorically stated that he was the one born in 1673. There is also a record of a Ralph Collett who died at Weeton in November 1689, where Ralph’s sister Ann (above) raised her family.
36K15	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 6^th May 1655, the daughter of George Collett of Ackton and his first wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth was around fifteen months old when she died at Featherstone on 19^th August 1656, and was followed by her mother who died sometime during the next couple of years.
36K16	Ann Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 26^th May 1649, the daughter of Edward Collett and his wife Anna Yates. Although not actually confirmed as this Ann Collett, someone of that name married Thomas Turner at Featherstone on 6^th June 1681.
36K17	Edward Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 24^th December 1650, the son of Edward Collett and his wife Anna Yates. It is not clear to whom he was married, since the baptism record for his two known children only included the father’s name. Although not confirmed as this Edward Collett, a seaman of that name from Featherstone made his Will on 28^th September 1703 while on board Her Majesty’s ship Windsor. Within the document a brother, William Collett an apothecary, received twenty pounds to cover seventeen pounds that was owing to him which, in the case of the death of his brother, was to be paid to an uncle Edward Collett of Featherstone. At the moment no brother or uncle of this Edward Collett born around 1650 has been identified. Of course, Edward Collett [Ref. 36K18] may well be the uncle. See Will in Legal Documents
	36L33		Judith Collett		Born in 1688 at Featherstone
	36L34		Kenneth Collett		Born in 1690 at Featherstone
36K18	Margaret Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 29^th April 1652, the last child of Edward Collett and Anna Yates.
36L1	Jane Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1689, the eldest of the four children of Ralph Collett and Hannah Breatcliffe. It was at All Saints Church in Barwick that Jane Collett was baptised on 20^th March 1689.
36L2	Mary Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1691, where she was baptised on 25^th May 1691, the daughter of Ralph and Hannah Collett.
36L3	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1693, the eldest of two sons of Ralph Collett and Hannah Breatcliffe. John was baptised at All Saints Church on 17^th May 1693, but sadly he died when he was around three years old.
36L4	Matthew Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1695, the youngest of the four children of Ralph and Hannah Collett. He was baptised on 20^th August 1695, but died just one year after his brother John (above), when he passed away in 1697.
36L5	Mary Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1691, where she was baptised on 25^th October 1691 when her father was named as Will. Collett. On the day of his wedding to Margaret Briggs, ten months earlier in December 1690, Mary’s father was referred to ‘William Collett of Oulton’ (five miles south-east of Leeds), and in 1692 his occupation was that of a schoolmaster at Barwick, where he was also a churchwarden. Mary may have died prior to 1743, since she was not named in her father’s Will which was proved in 1749.
36L6	Jane Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1693 and was baptised there on 23^rd February 1693, the second daughter of William Collett from his first marriage to Margaret Briggs. As with her sister Mary (above) and brother William (below), Jane was not named in her father’s Will made in 1743 and proved six years later.
36L7	William Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1695 and it was there also that he was baptised on 3^rd July 1695, the son of William Collett. The boy’s mother was William’s first wife Margaret Briggs who, it is assumed, did not survive the ordeal of the birth of the couple’s only son, who may have also died at that time, since he too was not mentioned in his father’s Will of 1743.
36L8	Sarah Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1697, the eldest child of schoolmaster William Collett of Barwick and his second wife Margaret Berry from Featherstone. Sara Collett was also baptised at Barwick on 23^rd December 1697, the daughter of ‘Guillaume Collett’. When she was twenty-years-old, Sarah and her family left Barwick and moved to live in Leeds. And it was in Leeds, at the age of twenty-four, that Sarah Collett married Thomas Hebden on 11^th April 1721. Twenty-seven-years later, and following the death of her father in 1748, Sarah was named as a beneficiary under the terms of his Will as follows “Unto my daughter Sarah, the wife of Thomas Hebden of Leeds, butcher, I give the sum of Five Pounds”.
36L9	Elizabeth Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1698 where Elizabetha Collett was baptised on 18^th April 1698, another daughter of Guillaume Collett by his second wife Margaret Berry. It has been assumed that, with another Elizabeth being added to the family in 1704, that this second daughter of William Collett and Margaret Berry died sometime between 1700 and 1704.
36L10	Margaret Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 8^th November 1699 and was baptised there on 28^th August 1670 as ‘Margareta Collett, the daughter of Guillaume Collet’. At that time in his life, William Collett was a schoolmaster in Barwick, who had also taken on additional duties as a police constable, which he performed during 1699 and 1700. Like her older sister Elizabeth (above), it seems highly likely that Margaret suffered an infant death, as the next child born into the family was also named Margaret.
36L11	Margaret Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1700 and was it there at All Saints Church on 28^th August 1700 that she was baptised as Margareta Collett, the daughter of Guillaume Collet by his second wife Margaret Berry. When she was nearly seventeen years old her family moved to Leeds, taking Margaret and her other surviving siblings with them. It would appear that Margaret never married, since in the 1743 Will of her father William Collett, which was proved in 1749, she was named as a beneficiary in the following way. “Unto my daughter Margaret Collett, servant to Sir Basil Dixwell, I give the sum of Five Pounds”.
	Her employer, Sir Basil Dixwell, was the Second Baronet of Broome House in Kent, and he died during 1750, so what became of Margaret after his death is not known, unless she was retained by Sir Basil’s sister Elizabeth Oxenden (see historical note below). The Baronetcy of Dixwell of Broome House, Kent was created on 19^th June 1660 for Basil Dixwell the great nephew and heir of Sir Basil Dixwell of Tirlington, from whom he inherited the Broome House estate. His son, the aforementioned Sir Basil Dixwell, the Second Baronet, was Governor of Dover Castle and Member of Parliament for Dover from 1689 to 1690, and from 1699 to 1700. The Broome House estate then passed to his sister Elizabeth Oxenden.
36L12	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in late 1702 and, as Johannes Collet the son of Guillaume Collet, he was baptised there on 13^th January 1703, another son of schoolmaster William Collett and Margaret Berry. He was not alive when his father made his Will in 1743.
36L13	Elizabeth Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1704 and was very likely named in memory of her older sister who had just recently died. It was at All Saints Church in Barwick that Elizabetha Collet, the daughter of Guillaume Collett, was baptised on 14^th April 1705. Around 1717 her parents took the family to live in Leeds, and it was there, seven years later when Elizabeth was twenty, that she married John Pitt on 28^th May 1724. All of the seven children were born while Elizabeth and John were living in Leeds.
	The seven children were Margaret Pitt (born on 17^th March 1725; bapt 22^nd March 1725), Joseph Pitt (born in 1727; died on 11^th February 1730), Elizabeth Pitt (born on 15^th March 1729; bapt 31^st March 1729), Benjamin Pitt (born on 5^th February 1730; bapt 11^th February 1730), John Pitt (born on 3^rd March 1733; bapt 22^nd March 1733), William Pitt (born on 2^nd May 1736; bap 20^th May 1736), and Thomas Pitt (born on 9^th September 1738; bapt 26^th September 1738).
	Elizabeth’s husband, John Pitt, died when the couple’s youngest child was only eighteen months old, when he passed away at Leeds on 5^th March 1740. As a result of that event, Elizabeth was referred to in her father’s Will of 1743 as “my daughter Elizabeth Pitt, widow” who received Eight Pounds and her father’s bed and all the rest of his household goods.
36L14	Thomas Collett was the son of William Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet and Margaret Berry of Featherstone Moor. He was born at Barwick-in-Elmet, perhaps in 1707, where he was baptised on 22^nd August 1707, the son of schoolmaster William Collett. When he was around ten years old his parents left Barwick when they went to live in Leeds, presumably for work reasons. However, unlike most of his siblings, Thomas appears to have returned to Barwick after a few years in Leeds. As an adult he married Elizabeth Watkinson at Barwick on 23^rd February 1730 and they subsequently had seven children of their own, all of whom were also born and baptised at Barwick. Elizabeth was recorded as being from Wighton, which may be a reference to Wigton Moor near Harewood.
	At the time of the writing of his father’s Will in 1743, William Collett referred to his eldest surviving son as “Thomas Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet, butcher” who received Five Pounds. That was also the previously known occupation of Thomas’s youngest son Benjamin Collett of Barwick, so very likely handed down father to son. In addition to the aforementioned Five Pounds left to him by his father, a later clause in his Will bequeathed Thomas Collett and his brother Richard Collett (below) a further Three Pounds each.
	A headstone in the churchyard of All Saints Church marks his grave, with the inscription “Sacred to the Memory of Thomas Collett of this town, who died the 27^th day of January 1792, aged 85 years. Also of his son Thomas Collett of Garforth, who died the 13^th day of January 1794 aged 57. This stone was erected by William Collett of Garforth [Ref. 36N7], the son of the last-named T Collett, the 4^th day of March 1817”.
	Thomas Collett died at Barwick-in-Elmet on 27^th January 1792, when he was probably 85 years of age. He was made a widower ten years earlier when his wife, Elizabeth Collett of Barwick, died there on 2^nd February 1782 at the age 79 and was buried at All Saints Church in Barwick on 4^th February 1782.
	36M1		Ralph Collett			Born in 1732 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36M2		William Collett			Born in 1734 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36M3		Thomas Collett			Born in 1736 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36M4		James Collett			Born in 1740 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36M5		Betty Collett twin			Born in 1745 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36M6		Sarah Collett twin			Born in 1745 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36M7		BENJAMIN COLLETT			Born in 1749 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36L15	Richard Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1710, where he was baptised on 1^st May 1710, and was the eighth child of schoolmaster William Collett and his second wife Margaret Berry. Richard was twenty-one years old when his marriage to Fortune Davis was conducted at the Church of St Nicholas in Nottingham on 20^th April 1731. Their marriage produced four children for the couple during the following decade, all born in Nottingham and all of them baptised at St Nicholas’ Church. Not long after the birth of their daughter, their eldest son died, with the body of William Collett, aged ten years, buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas’ Church on 19^th March 1742. It was on 12^th January 1732 that he was baptised, the son of Richard and Fortune Collett. What happened to the couple’s other two sons is still not known, as no record of them has been found in Nottinghamshire after their baptisms.
	Richard senior was possibly still alive when his father wrote out his Will, with the Will of William Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet, a school teacher in Leeds, made on 7^th May 1743. The Will included the names of seven of William’s eleven children by his second wife, with the second in the order of names being his son, who was described as “Richard Collett of Nottingham, a framework knitter”. Richard was bequeathed two separate sums of money and an equal share with his siblings of the residual money arising from the various debts owed to his father’s estate. However, by the time the Will was proved on 17^th June 1749, Richard had already died and his widow Fortune Collett had already married Samuel Miller at the Church of St Nicholas on 27^th March 1749. Samuel was possibly born at Skegby near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire around 1699, and had been married Anne Barnes at Barton-in-Fabis to the south-west of Nottingham.
	Anne Miller the wife of Samuel Miller died at Nottingham in 1746 and was buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas’s Church on 3^rd December 1746. It is interesting that at the time Samuel married Anne, that he was also described as a framework knitter of Nottingham. His second wife Fortune Miller nee David, died in the Mansfield area of the county in 1790 when she was 80 years old, following which she was buried there. So far, no burial record has been found for her husband Samuel, who may well have been some years older than his wife.
	For the fifty years up to the end of the century there would appear to be no other records of people having the Collett surname in Nottingham, that is until the birth of Thomas Collett in 1802, the son of Thomas Collett and wife Eliza, of Mary Collett in 1822, the daughter of framework knitter John Collett and wife Judith who, three years later, gave birth to Richard Collett in 1825, recorded as the son of lacemaker John and Judith. The two fathers, Thomas and John may have been related, even father and son, and perhaps even descendants of one or both of Richard’s sons Benjamin and Richard listed below.
	36M8		William Collett			Born in 1732 at Nottingham
	36M9		Benjamin Collett			Born in 1734 at Nottingham
	36M10		Richard Collett			Born in 1737 at Nottingham
	36M11		Fortune Collett			Born in 1741 at Nottingham
36L16	Benjamin Collett was born in 1712 at Barwick-in-Elmet where he was baptised on 3^rd September 1712, the son of William and Margaret Collett. At the time of writing his Will in 1743, Benjamin’s father referred to his son Benjamin Collett as “of the Excise Office in London” for which he received Five Pounds.
36L17	Joseph Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1715 the son William Collett and Margaret Berry, who was baptised at All Saints Church in Barwick on 3^rd August 1715. Sadly, he only survived for a short while, when he died later that same year.
36L18	Arthur Collett was born at Leeds on 13^th February 1719 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on one month later on 12^th March 1719, the youngest child of schoolmaster William Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet and Margaret Berry of Featherstone. Arthur was twenty-nine years old when his father died in Leeds and his Will, made in 1743 and proved in 1749, indicates that Arthur had remained in Leeds when his family returned to Barwick-in-Elmet. Being the youngest son, “Arthur Collett of Leeds”, only received Four Pounds under the terms of the Will.
36L19	Ralph Collett was born at Swillington east of Leeds, possible around 1686, and was probably the first-born son of Ralph Collett and his unknown wife. He may therefore have been baptised over a year after he was born, with Ralph junior being baptised at Swillington on 25^th January 1688, perhaps with failing health, when he was recorded as Radulphus Collett, the son of Radulphi Collett. One month later, and also at Swillington, he died on 24^th February 1688, when again he was recorded as Radulphus Collett, the son of Radulphi Collett.
36L20	Robert Collett was another son of Ralph Collett who was also baptised at Swillington on 30^th January 1688, when he was confirmed as the son of Ralph Collett. That took place just five days after the baptism there of his brother Ralph (above) who died one month later. Around 1695, the family left Swillington, when they moved to Wakefield, where his four youngest siblings were born. Fifteen years later, it was at Whitkirk, two miles north-west of Swillington, that the marriage by licence of Robert Collett and Elizabeth Brooke took place in 1710, when Robert was described as being of Wakefield. Upon the death of his wife in 1748, and being buried at Rothwell, she was described as the wife of Robert Collett of Oulton. Eleven years later, Robert Collett, a yeoman of Oulton quarries, died during 1759.
36L21	Anna Collett was born at Swillington in 1691, where she was baptised on 7^th May 1691, the eldest daughter of Radulphi Collett
36L22	William Collett was born at Swillington and it was there also that he was baptised on 9^th March 1693, another son of Ralph Collett, recorded as Gulielmus Collett, son of Radulphi Collett. It was early in 1694 that he died aged ten months.
36L23	Martha Collett was born at Wakefield in 1696, where she was baptised on 30^th December 1696, possibly one of the few surviving children of Ralph Collett.
36L24	Mary Collett was born at Wakefield in 1698 and was baptised there at All Saints Church on 14^th February 1698, another daughter of Ralph Collett. According to information received from Wendy Howard in 2019, and previously forming an appendix in Part 55 – The Wakefield and Leeds Line, stated that Mary Collitt, who was baptised on 14^th February 1698, married blacksmith Oswald Hanson at the same church on 5^th April 1722. Oswald was described as a ‘gentleman of means from Sandal’ and he died in Wakefield where he was buried on 24^th June 1763. He was the son of Thomas Hanson of Sandal Magna who was baptised there on 24^th March 1706. His marriage to Mary produced nine children, although only eight are listed below, who were all baptised at All Saints Church in Wakefield. They were Martha Hanson (bap 30.09.1723), Hannah Hanson (bap 13.03.1727), Betty Hanson (bap 06.01.1729, died 06.01.1730), Ann Hanson (bap 07.12.1730), Catherine Hanson (bap 15.01.1733, died 15.03.1817), William Hanson (bap 10.07.1736), Mary Hanson (bap 14.07.1739), and Ralph Hanson (bap 23.01.1742) the ninth and last child.
	According to at least one of children’s baptism records, the family was recorded as residing within the Northgate area of Wakefield, where possibly Mary had been born, and where certainly her two younger Collett sisters (below) were born, and with their father referred to as “a butcher of Northgate”. In addition to this, Mary’s missing child may well be Elizabeth Hanson, with a reference in the Hanson Pedigree recording that Mary the mother of Elizabeth Hanson, was the daughter “of Ralph Collett of Oulton”. It is interesting that the Land Tax Registers for Northgate in Wakefield, confirm that Oswald resided there in 1752, 1757, and 1758, which was also the place of birth of son William in 1736 and his younger siblings thereafter.
	Oswald Hanson remains a man of mystery, not least of which was his questionable age when he married Mary Collett which, taking the date of his baptism only, would make him only sixteen years of age. However, for whatever reason, he may (?) have been some years old when he was baptised, as sometimes happened. What is known, is that his father Thomas Hanson was credited with having at least two other children at Sandal Magna, and they were Esther Hanson in 1705 and George Hanson in 1707. The two-year age gap between his two siblings, could be an indication that Oswald was born around 1703, or possibly even earlier than that. Sandal Magna is a suburb of Wakefield, also known as simply Sandal and, it seems highly likely that the death of Thomas Hanson at Wakefield on 29^th October 1710 related to Oswald’s father. Furthermore, there is still concern about which Mary Collett married Oswald simply because, when her younger sister Hannah (below) died in 1722 she was described as the daughter of widow Collett, the same given to a Mary Collett who also died there three months after.
	For the reissue of this file in 2022, information kindly received from David Thompson included Mary born and baptised as above, but also indicated that Mary was twenty-two years old when she died which, according to Wendy Howard, was when she was married. In fact, with Mary having married Oswald one month before the May 1722 burial of Mary Collett (daughter of widow Collett) - who by then would have been Mary Hanson, means that it would have been another Mary Collett who died that month, OR another Mary Collett who became the wife of Oswald Hanson.
36L25	Elizabeth Collett was born at Wakefield in 1699 and baptised there on 7^th June 1699, the seventh child of Ralph Collett of Northgate in Wakefield, where she was most likely born. Apart from her eldest sister Martha (above), about whom nothing is known, Elizabeth was the last surviving member of the family when she was buried at Wakefield during April 1737.
36L26	Hannah Collett was born at Wakefield in 1704, where she was baptised on 29^th May 1704, the last child of Ralph Collett, a butcher of Northgate, Wakefield. Just over three months after the death of her father, Hannah Collett passed away and was buried at Wakefield during February 1722, when she was described as the daughter of widow Collett.
36L27	Elizabeth Collett was the first of the six children born to Thomas Collett and Susanna Pearson, who was baptised at Kippax on 18^th August 1708.
36L28	William Collett was born and baptised at Kippax on 5^th March 1710, the eldest son of Thomas and Susanna Collett. At the age of eleven, and following the death of his maternal grandfather William Pearson of Kippax, provision was made in his Will of 1721 for the education of his grandson William Collett. It was at Kippax on 26^th May 1736 when William Collett married Elizabeth Thompson. Their two sons were both baptised at Kippax, the first of them on 2^nd March 1737, ten months after the couple’s wedding day, and then on 4^th March 1741. Their baptism records confirmed that they were the sons of William Collett
	Just a very few years later, the two boys were made orphans, with first the death of their mother, who was buried at Kippax on 28^th February 1745, and almost one year later their father died and was buried with his wife on 15^th February 1746. William Collett left a Will, which was proved during March 1746.
	36M12		William Collett			Born in 1737 at Kippax
	36M13		Thomas Collett			Born in 1741 at Kippax
36L29	Robert Collett was possibly born around 1712, although no baptism record for him has been found at Kippax where most of his sibling were born/baptised, another son of Thomas Collett.
36L30	Mary Collett was born at Kippax in 1714, where she was baptised on 11^th February 1714, the fourth child of Thomas and Susanna Collett. She would have been just three years of age when she died, and was buried at Kippax on 23^rd November 1717, when she was confirmed in the parish register as the daughter of Thomas Collett.
36L31	Susanna Collett was born at Kippax around 1718, the youngest daughter of Thomas and Susann Collett. No record of her birth or baptism has been found, but it is known that she later married John Wadsworth. The wedding of Susanna Collett and John Wadsworth took place at Kippax during 1741.
36L32	John Collett was the sixth and last child of Thomas Collett and Susanna Pearson, who was baptised at Kippax on 30^th April 1722 at Kippax. The baptism record confirmed he was a son of Thomas Collett.
36L33	Judith Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 7^th November 1688, the first of the two children of Edward Collett by his currently unknown wife, since it was just the father’s name that was recorded in the parish register.
36L34	Kenneth Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 22^nd August 1690 the son of Edward Collett.
36M1	Ralph Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet during 1731, the first-born child of Thomas Collett and Elizabeth Watkinson who were married there near the start of 1730. Ralph was nearly thirty years of age when he married Mary Nicholson at Harewood on 2^nd February 1761. Mary was baptised at Harewood on 29^th August 1736 and was the daughter of William and Beatrice Nicholson of Weardley. Once married, Ralph and Mary settled in Weardley, one mile west of Harewood, where four of their children were born and baptised at Harewood. Another child was born at Eccup, nearly two miles south of Weardley, within the parish of Adel, with his baptism conducted at the Adel Parish Church. On the occasion of the birth and baptism of their last child at Barwick, Ralph was described as a farmer of Barwick. Prior to April 2022, Ralph, his wife, and their six children, were included in error in Part 27 – The Harewood Yorkshire Line. However, thanks to information received from David Thompson in March 2022, the error has now been corrected.
	36N1		Beatrix Collett			Born in 1761 at Weardley, Harewood
	36N2		Thomas Collett			Born in 1764 at Weardley, Harewood
	36N3		William Collett			Born in 1766 at Weardley, Harewood
	36N4		Mary Collett			Born in 1770 at Weardley, Harewood
	36N5		Ralph Collett			Born in 1774 at Eccup, Adel
	36N6		John Collett			Born in 1781 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36M2	William Collett was born in 1734 and was baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet on 29^th December 1734, the second child of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett.
36M3	Thomas Collett was born in 1736 and was baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet on 26^th May 1736, another son of Thomas Collett, a butcher, and his wife Elizabeth Watkinson. Thomas (junior) died at Garforth, south of Barwick, on 13^th January 1794 at the age of 57 and was buried at All Saints Church in Barwick in the same grave used for his father Thomas (senior) of Barwick, who was a butcher in the village, who died there exactly two years earlier in January 1792.
	The headstone that marks the joint grave was erected on 4^th March 1817 by William Collett of Garforth, the son of Thomas Collett (junior). That provides the confirmation that Thomas Collett (junior) was a married man, while the double reference to the town of Garforth is also an indication that it was there that the Collett family lived at some time during their life. Thomas Collett, a butcher, married Agnes Thompson, spinster, at Barwick-in-Elmet on 21^st February 1757 when he was nearly 21 years of age, both of them confirmed as being of the parish of Barwick. Agnes was the daughter of William Thompson of Barnbow, within the parish of Barwick, where she was baptised on 29^th December 1732. Three years after their wedding day, Agnes gave birth to their daughter Sarah, who was baptised at Garforth on 15^th May 1760. Confirmation of the earlier birth of son William has yet to be found, although his later death indicates he may have been born close to nine months after his parents were married.
	The Barwick Register of Burials for 1816 included Agnes Collett, widow, aged 83, of Garforth, who was buried at Barwick on 18^th February 1816, where a gravestone marks her grave. That entry in the burial records is the only Agnes Collett leading up to 1816 for the preceding eighty years, in addition to which her age and the fact that she lived at Garforth, all indicate that she was the former wife of Thomas Collett.
	Interesting footnote: Twenty years before the marriage of Thomas Collett and Agnes Thompson, the wedding of William Collett (Ref. 35L28) and Elizabeth Thompson took place at Kippax.
	36N7		William Collett			Born in 1757 at Garforth
	36N8		Sarah Collett			Born in 1760 at Garforth
36M4	James Collett was born in 1740 and was baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet on 25^th August 1740, another son of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett. He survived for another two months, at which time he died and was buried at All Saints Church in Barwick on 9^th October 1740.
36M5	Betty Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1745 and was baptised there on 28^th April 1745, the fifth child and one of the twin daughters of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett. It was just less than twelve months later that Betty and her twin sister died, with them being buried at Barwick on 26^th March 1746.
36M6	Sarah Collett was the twin sister of Betty (above) who was born and baptised with her sister at Barwick-in-Elmet on 28^th April 745, another daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett. Sadly, neither twin survived, with the day they were buried at All Saints Church in Barwick being 26^th March 1746.
36M7	BENJAMIN COLLETT was baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet on 7^th June 1749 and was the last child born to Thomas Collett and Elizabeth Watkinson. Benjamin married Elizabeth Knapton at Barwick on 2^nd May 1768 and the couple were named as the parents of their sons Thomas Collett in 1768 and John Collett in 1777. It was at the time of the registration of the birth of their son William Collett at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1771 that Benjamin was confirmed as being a butcher. In addition to the couple’s four confirmed children listed below, it would be realistic to assume that there were other children born to Benjamin and Elizabeth and that one of these may have been Richard Collett who originally started this line when it was first compiled. However, no further information about Benjamin or his wife Elizabeth, or any other children is available at this time, although it is hoped that this might be resolved in the future
	36N9		Thomas Collett						Born in 1768 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36N10		William Collett						Born in 1771 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36N11		Elizabeth Collett						Born in 1774 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36N12		John Collett						Born in 1777 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36N13		Sarah Collett						Born in 1784 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36M8	William Collett was born at Nottingham in 1732 and was ten years old when he died there in 1742. He was the first of the four children of Richard Collett and Fortune Davis.
36M9	Benjamin Collett was born at Nottingham in 1734 and was baptised at the Church of St Nicholas on 8^th December 1734, another son of Richard and Fortune Collett.
36M10	Richard Collett was born at Nottingham in 1737 and it was there that he was baptised on 20^th August 1737, the third of the four known children of Richard and Fortune Collett.
36M11	Fortune Collett was born in Nottingham, mostly likely during the first six months of 1741. She was the fourth and last child of Richard Collett and Fortune Davis and was baptised at St Nicholas’ Church in Nottingham on 1^st July 1741. She was married four times in her life, on the first occasion she was 18 years old when her marriage to (1) James Wood was conducted at St Nicholas’ Church in Nottingham on 29^th April 1759. Fortune gave birth to six children, five of them were baptised at the Church of St Mary, with just son James baptised at St Nicholas’ Church on 28^th December 1761, although he was later buried at St Mary’s Church on 25^th June 1766. The children were Isaac Wood born in 1760, James Wood (1761-1766), John Wood (1764-1764), John Wood born in 1765, Joseph Wood born in 1770, and Richard Wood born in 1772. It therefore seems highly likely that James Wood (senior) may have died just prior to the birth of his last child.
	Widowed, and with four surviving children to care for, Fortune Wood then married (2) Cornelius Wharton at St Mary’s Church in Nottingham on 30^th November 1772, with whom she had another three children. They were all baptised at the Nottingham Castle Gate Meeting of Protestant Dissenters, and were Mary Wharton born in 1777, Thomas Wharton born in 1779, and Lucy Wharton who was born in 1781. The couple’s youngest child was eight years of age when Cornelius died and was buried at St Peter’s Church in Nottingham on 4^th January 1789. Six months after being made a widow for the second time, Fortune Wharton married (3) James Wardley on 30^th June 1789 at St Mary’s Church in Nottingham. They were only together fifteen years when James died prior to 1805 when, that year, the marriage by licence of Fortune Wardley and (4) Christopher Shaw took place at the Nottingham Church of St Mary on 10^th August 1805. After a further thirteen years Fortune Shaw, formerly Collett, died in Nottingham, and was buried at St Mary’s Church on 12^th January 1819.
36M13	Thomas Collett was born at Kippax in 1741, where he was baptised on 4^th March 1741, the younger son of William Collett. He was four years old when his mother Elizabeth Collett nee Thompson died and almost exactly one year after, Thomas’ father died, both of them buried together at Kippax. Thomas was thirty-one years old when he married Ann Wilson on 14^th April 1772 at Aberford, near Garforth and just north of Kippax. Ann was the daughter of Matthew Wilson of Halton and his wife Mary, Halton being only one mile west of Whitkirk, where Thomas and Ann were living when their fifth child was born. However, during the early years of their marriage the couple lived at Garforth where their son William was born and baptised, when his father’s occupation was that of a carpenter. Not long after he was born, the family was living in nearby Kippax, three miles south of Garforth, where the next four children were born and baptised at the Church of St Mary, before spending a short time at Whitkirk, three miles north-west of Kippax. All three locations lie east of Leeds, and south of Barwick-in-Elmet
	Although the couple’s last two children were recorded as having been born and baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet, the Barwick parish baptism records for both daughter Sarah and son John stated that their father Thomas was a wheelwright of Brown Moor, which lies just west of Garforth. Furthermore, the census in 1851 included the statement that John Collett’s place of birth was Brown Moor. It was just nine years after the birth of son John that Thomas Collett of Garforth died and was buried at Kippax on 17^th October 1798, the husband of Ann Collett.
	36N14		William Collett			Born in 1775 at Garforth
	36N15		Ann Collett			Born in 1777 at Kippax, near Garforth
	36N16		Susannah Collett			Born in 1779 at Kippax, near Garforth
	36N17		Thomas Collett			Born in 1781 at Kippax, near Garforth
	36N18		Susannah Collett			Born in 1783 at Kippax, near Garforth
	36N19		Mary Collett			Born in 1785 at Whitkirk
	36N20		Sarah Collett			Born in 1787 at Brown Moor, Barwick
	36N21		John Collett			Born in 1789 at Brown Moor, Barwick
36N1	Beatrix Collett was born at Weardley, just west of Harewood, on 30^th September 1761, and was baptised at Harewood on 8^th October 1761, the eldest child of Ralph Collett and Mary Nicholson. Beatrix (Beatrice) later married Martin Moore at Harewood on 29^th October 1787.
36N2	Thomas Collett was born at Weardley on 9^th September 1764, while it was at Harewood that he was baptised on 21^st October 1764, the eldest son of Ralph and Mary Collett.
36N3	William Collett was born at Weardley on 16^th November 1766 and was baptised at Harewood a month later on 19^th December 1766, another son of Ralph and Mary Collett.
36N4	Mary Collett was born at Weardley on 20^th February 1770, the youngest daughter of Ralph and Mary Collett
36N5	Ralph Collett was born in 1774 at Eccup, within the Leeds parish of Adel, a few miles south-west of Harewood. He was one of the six children of Ralph and Mary Collett, whose older children were born at Weardley, just west of Harewood. He was the only one of his six siblings not to be baptised at Harewood, when he was baptised at Adel on 24^th July 1774. During the next few years the family settled in Barwick-in-Elmet where Ralph was seven years old when he died on 8^th April 1781, and where he was buried on 10^th April 1781, a son of Ralph Collett, a farmer of Barwick.
36N6	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 3^rd November 1781, where he was baptised on 30^th November 1781, the last child born to Ralph Collett, a farmer of Barwick, and his wife Mary Nicholson. An additional note on the FreeReg Parish Registers website confirms that Ralph was a descendent of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett of Wighton, and that Mary was a descendent of William and Batricks Nickelson (Beatrice Nicholson) of Weardley.
36N7	William Collett was likely born near the end of 1757 at Garforth, the first-born child of Thomas Collett and Elizabeth Watkinson, who were married in February that year. Unlike his sister Sarah who was born at Garforth in 1760, no record of his birth or baptism has so far been found. His inclusion as their son stems from the fact that it was son William Collett of Garforth who paid a tribute to his father Thomas, and grandfather Thomas, by arranging the installation of a headstone on their shared grave at All Saints Church in Barwick-on-Elmet on 4^th March 1817. William said he was 25, rather than 27, when he was married by licence to 18-year-old Mary Batley on 19^th October 1785 at Whitkirk, not far from Garforth. Between 1786 and 1807 Mary gave birth to six children, as listed below, when their father was confirmed as William Collett a butcher, and as William Collett a butcher of Halton, for the baptism of the couple's first two children. Halton is one mile west of Whitkirk, where the first three children were baptised.
	It was also at Barwick where William died in 1832 and was buried in the churchyard of All Saints Church on 2^nd December 1832, when he was said to be 76, instead of 74. Probate for the personal estate of William Collett of Garforth was completed in the month of June in 1833. Five years prior to his passing, the death of his wife, aged 61, was reported in the Leeds Mercury on 17^th November 1827, as follows: “A week yesterday, after a long and severe illness, Mary, wife of William Collett a farmer of Garforth, died on 9^th November 1827 at Barwick”.
	They were buried in the grounds of All Saints Church, where a memorial headstone marks their grave with the following inscription: “In Memory of Mary, the wife of William Collett, of Garforth, who died Nov 9th, 1827, age 61 years. Also the above William Collett, who died Nov 26th, 1832, aged 76 years. Also of Thomas Collett, of Leeds, son of the above, who died Aug 30th, 1849, aged 55 years”
	36O1		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1786 at Whitkirk (Halton)
	36O2		William Collett			Born in 1788 at Whitkirk (Halton)
	36O3		Thomas Collett			Born in 1793 at Whitkirk
	36O4		Maryann Collett			Born in 1796 at Garforth
	36O5		Mary Collett			Born in 1800 at Garforth
	36O6		Ann Collett			Born in 1807 at Garforth
36N9	Thomas Collett was born around 1768 and was baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet on 9^th September 1768, the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Collett. The marriage of Thomas Collett and Martha Vary also took place at Barwick, on 3^rd December 1793. By the time of the first census in June 1841 Thomas was living at Barwick-in-Elmet with his wife Martha. That year’s census gave a rounded age of 70 for, Thomas, with his wife being slightly older at 75. Still living with them was their unmarried son William who was incorrectly recorded as being 25 years of age, instead of 31.
	Their son Thomas was baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1799, when the records confirmed the child’s parents were Thomas and Martha Collett. Nine months after their wedding day, Martha gave birth to first of the couple’s six known children, all of whom were born and baptised at Barwick-on-Elmet. In each case, the Collett name was recorded with just one T and the parents were confirmed as Thomas and Martha. The couple and their youngest son were recorded at Barwick-in-Elmet in both 1841 and 1851. In the first of them, Thomas had a rounded age of 70, Martha’s rounded age was 75, and son William was 25, all of them confirmed as having been born within the county of Yorkshire. By 1851 retired Thomas Collett was 82 and had no occupation, his wife Martha was 85, when their unmarried son William Collett was 39 and working as a labourer. The birthplace of all three was confirmed as Barwick-in-Elmet. It was within the next twelve months, that the death of Thomas Collett was recorded at nearby Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 40) during the first quarter of 1852, his son also residing in the Tadcaster area.
	36O7		Mary Collett			Born in 1794 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36O8		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1797 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36O9		Thomas Collett			Born in 1799 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36O10		John Collett			Born in 1803 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36O11		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1805 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36O12		William Collett			Born in 1809 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36N10	William Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1771 and it was there that he was baptised on 3^rd November 1771, the son of butcher Benjamin Collett and his wife Elizabeth. William did not follow into the trade of his father instead he became a blacksmith and was the first of many in the family. His occupation as a blacksmith was first confirmed in 1796 when he married Frances Pool, who was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1761. After they were married, William and Frances lived in Potterton Lane, where their two sons were born. In June 1841, William was 65, his wife Frances was 75 and, living with them was their grandson John Collett who was 15, the oldest son of William Collett and Elizabeth Dalby. Even though the house address was not stated in the census, it is thought their home was at, what was later, 70 Main Street, close to where their son William was living, at what was later, 50 Main Street. William was affectionately referred to as William Collett the First (blacksmith of Barwick-in-Elmet) and was followed in the family business by his son William Collett (the Second), his grandson John Collett, and then by his great grandson William Richardson Collett (the Third).
	Frances Collett nee Pool died in 1846, when her death was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. xxiii 470) during the second quarter of that year. William followed nine years later, when the death of William Collett was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 367) during the first quarter of 1855. Four years earlier, in the census of 1851, William Collett from Barwick was 78 and a widower who was a proprietor of houses, when he was a visitor at the home of Sarah Walker and her two daughters from Oulton in Yorkshire.
	36O13		John Collett			Born in 1797 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36O14		William Collett			Born in 1799 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36N12	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 10^th June 1777 and was baptised there on 13^th July 1777, the son of Benjamin Collett and Elizabeth Knapton.
36N13	Sarah Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 31^st December 1784, and it was there also that she was baptised 23^rd January 1785, when she was confirmed as the daughter of Benjamin Collett and Elizabeth Knapton.
36N14	William Collett was born on 4^th November 1775 at Garforth, two miles to the south of Barwick-in-Elmet, and just a short distance from Aberford, where his parents were married just over two years earlier. William was baptised at Garforth on 7^th November 1775, the son of Thomas Collett, carpenter, and Ann Wilson. Not a great deal was previously known about William however, now thanks to Alison Reid of Tapitallee near Nowra in the New South Wales, Australia, we know more about him, with Alison being his great great great granddaughter.
	It appears that he first married (1) Elizabeth Morret at All Saints Church in Wakefield on 10^th February 1800. So far, the only record of any children seems to be Thomas Collett, named after William’s father, who was born at Wakefield in July 1807, where he was baptised during the following month. The baptism also took place at All Saints Church, when the boy’s parents were named as William and Betty Collett. Following the death of his first wife, he married (2) Hannah Stringer at St John’s Church in Wakefield on 2^nd January 1814. And it was also there, later that same year, that their daughter Betty Collett was born. She was apparently named in honour of William’s late wife.
	William’s second wife Hannah was baptised at All Saints Church in Wakefield on 1^st November 1788, the fifth child of Richard Stringer and his wife Mary Teal, and although she was may have been in her late twenties when she married William, her two daughters are the only children from the marriage that have been found to date. Upon the occasion of the marriage of his youngest daughter Sarah in July 1837, William Collett was recorded on the marriage certificate as having the occupation of a joiner. According to the first census in 1841, William had a rounded age of 60, while his wife Hannah had a rounded age of 50, and at that time in their life the two of them were living in the Hunslet area of Leeds. It was also within the same area that William’s son Thomas Collett and his family were living in 1841 and 1851.
	By the time of the 1851 Census William Collett aged 58 (sic) and Hannah Collett aged 63 were still living at Hunslet, where William Collett from Garforth was a wheelwright. However, it is understood that he died during the following year, so by the time of the next census in 1861 his widow Hannah Collett, aged 73 and from Wakefield, was still living in Hunslet, where she was recorded as a beer house keeper in Hillidge Road. By 1871 Hannah Collett nee Stringer was living at the home of her married daughter Sarah Grant.
	36O15		Thomas Collett			Born in 1807 at Wakefield
	The following are the two children of William Collett by his second wife Hannah Stringer:
	36O16		Elizabeth (Betty) Collett			Born in 1815 at Wakefield
	36O17		Sarah Collett			Born in 1817 at Wakefield
36N15	Ann Collett was born in 1777 and baptised at St Mary’s Church in Kippax, to the south of Garforth, on 27^th October 1777, the second child of Thomas and Ann Collett. She was 26 years old when she died, when the burial record at nearby Swillington in 1803 stated that she was the daughter of Thomas Collett.
36N16	Susannah Collett was born in 1779 and was baptised at Kippax on 3^rd September 1779, another daughter of Thomas and Ann Collett. She was just seventeen months old when she died at Kippax on 6^th February 1781, following which the next daughter born to her parents at Kippax was given the same name.
36N17	Thomas Collett was born at Kippax in 1781, where he was baptised in St Mary’s Church on 15^th August 1781, another son of Thomas and Ann Collett.
36N18	Susannah Collett may have been born at the end of 1782 or early in 1783, as she was baptised at Kippax on 13^th February 1783, the third daughter of Thomas and Ann Collett. Shortly after she was born the family moved the short distance to Whitkirk, where her sister Mary (below) was born before moving to Barwick-in-Elmet. Tragically, whether through illness or injury, Susannah aged six and her sister two-year-old sister Sarah (below), were buried together at All Saints Church in Barwick-on-Elmet on the same day on 11^th February 1789, the daughters of Thomas Collett of Brown Moor, where the family had been living for about just over two years.
36N19	Mary Collett was born in 1785 and baptised on 14^th August 1785 at Whitkirk, just north-west of Kippax, and may have been only one year old when the family moved to Barwick-in-Elmet. She was the fifth child of Thomas and Ann Collett, her father described as ‘Thomas of Brown Moor, a labourer'. Mary was thirteen years of age when she died, following which she was buried with her later sisters Susannah and Sarah in the churchyard at St Mary’s Church in Kippax on 29^th November 1798. The burial record confirmed she was a daughter of Thomas Collett ‘of near ye engine’.
36N20	Sarah Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 12^th March 1787, where she was also baptised on 8^th April 1787 the daughter of Thomas Collett and Ann Wilson. The parish record at Barwick stated that her father Thomas was a wheelwright of Brown Moor, a village situation between Whitkirk and Garforth just south of Barwick-in-Elmet. This may mean that she was actually born at Brown Moor, where her younger brother John (below) said he was born on the day of the census in 1851. Sarah was only two years old when she was buried at Barwick-in-Elmet with her six-year-old sister Susannah during the month of February 1789.
36N21	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 16^th September 1789, and it was there too that he was baptised on 1^st November 1789, the youngest child of wheelwright Thomas Collett of Brown Moor, and his wife Ann Wilson. Before settling in Barwick John’s parents had lived at Garforth, Kippax, Whitkirk, and Brown Moor midway between Whitkirk and Garforth, all within a few miles of each other to the south of Barwick. On the occasion of the census in 1851, John reported to the census enumerator that he had been born at “Brown Moor, Leeds”. John Collett was twenty-one when he married Mary Kitson from Norwich on 2^nd June 1811, with whom he had at least seven daughters and one son who were all baptised at St John’s Church in Wakefield. According to the 1848 marriage record for their daughter Elizabeth, John Collett was a millwright, as also confirmed in the census returns for both 1841 and 1851.
	By the time of the first national census in 1841, millwright John Collett had a rounded age of 50 when he and his family was living in Wakefield between Providence Place and Thornes Avenue on a short street containing only four dwellings. Living with John was his wife Mary Collett with a rounded age of 45, son Henry Collett who was 13 and daughter Jane Collett who was nine years of age. Living and working in the first of the four dwellings was John and Mary’s daughter Mary Collett who was 25 and a domestic servant at the home of widower Jonathan Senior aged 40 and his two children Elizabeth who was ten and Thomas who was seven. On that day Mary may well have been pregnant with Jonathan’s child.
	Although absent from the family home in 1841, it was during the following year that John’s daughter Susan Collett became a married woman. It was at Thornes Lane in Alverthorpe-with-Thornes that the family was recorded in the next census of 1851. By then John Collett, aged 62, was a retired millwright whose place of birth was recorded as Brown Moor. His wife Mary Collett was 59 and from Norwich, while the only members of their family still living with them were their youngest child Emma Collett who was 21, a dressmaker who had been born at Thornes Lane. Also living with John and Mary was their granddaughter Mary Senior who was nine years old and the daughter of Mary Collett and Jonathan Senior who had also been born at Thornes Lane.
	Apparently ten years later John and Mary, from Norwich, were still residing in Thornes Lane although the census return for 1861 remains undiscovered. After a further seven years John Collett was 79 when he passed away, his death recorded at Wakefield (Ref. 9c 37) during the first three months of 1868. Following his death, and accompanied by her unmarried daughter Maria, Mary went to live with her married daughter Emma and her Speak family at Alverthorpe-with-Thornes. Perhaps it was her son-in-law who completed the census return in 1871 since, on that occasion, her place of birth was recorded in error as Wakefield, when Mary Collett was 80 years old. Mary Collett nee Kitson from Norwich was 86 when she died, her death recorded at Wakefield (Ref. 9c 54) during the last three months of 1878.
	Footnote: the first five children listed below had previously been credited in error to John Collett of Wakefield (Ref. 55N7), but this was rectified in the file update of June 2016.
	36O18		Sarah Collett					Born in 1812 at Wakefield
	36O19		Mary Collett					Born in 1814 at Wakefield
	36O20		Ann Collett					Born in 1816 at Wakefield
	36O21		Elizabeth Collett					Born in 1818 at Wakefield
	36O22		Susan Collett					Born in 1821 at Wakefield
	36O23		Henry Collett					Born in 1826 at Wakefield
	36O24		Maria Collett					Born in 1828 at Wakefield
	36O25		Emma Jane Collett					Born in 1832 at Wakefield
36O1	Elizabeth Collett was the first of the six children of William Collett, a butcher of Halton, and his wife Mary Batley. She was born at Halton in 1786, but was baptised at nearby Whitkirk on 24^th September that year.
36O2	William Collett was born at Halton near Whitkirk where he was baptised on 3^rd August 1788, another child of butcher William Collett of Halton and his wife Mary.
36O3	Thomas Collett was baptised at Whitkirk on 1^st September 1793, the third child of William and Mary Collett. Very little is known about him, apart from the fact that he died at the age of 55 on 30^th August 1849, and was buried the following day at All Saints Church Barwick-in-Elmet, all as confirmed by his gravestone, which also includes the passing of mother in 1827 and his father in 1832.
36O4	Maryann Collett was born on 6^th November 1796 and was three weeks old when she was baptised at Garforth of 27^th November 1796, the fourth child of William and Mary Collett. Sadly, she was only ten months old when she died and was buried at All Saints Church in Barwick on 13^th September 1797.
36O5	Mary Collett was born on 26^th September 1800 and named in honour of her late older sister. She was four weeks when she was baptised at Garforth on 26^th October 1800, another daughter of William and Mary Collett.
36O6	Ann Collett was the last child of William Collett, a butcher and a farmer of Garforth, and his wife Mary Batley. Ann was also named after her deceased older sister and was born on 14^th December 1807 and was baptised at Garforth on 10^th January 1808.
36O7	Mary Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 11^th August 1794 and was baptised there on 7^th September 1794, the first-born child of Thomas Collett and Martha Vary.
36O8	Elizabeth Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 29^th January 1797, and less than two months later was baptised there on 5^th March 1797, the daughter of Thomas and Martha Collett. Although her premature death has not been confirmed, nor any record of such an event been found, a subsequent daughter of Thomas and Martha was also named as Elizabeth.
36O9	Thomas Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 24^th September 1799, where he was baptised on 3^rd November 1799, the eldest son of Thomas Collett and Martha Vary. He was 26 when he married Elizabeth Hawksworth, their wedding recorded at Spofforth in North Yorkshire on 17^th February 1823. Elizabeth was the daughter of Joseph and Susanna Hawksworth and was baptised at Brotherton on 21^st May 1799. By 1841, the pair of them were still living at Barwick-in-Elmet, where all but their first child had been born. It seems likely that Elizabeth had returned to her parents’ home in Brotherton to have her first child. Four of their six known children were still living with Thomas, who was 40, and his wife Elizabeth who was 45. They were, George Collett who was 13, Richard Collett who was 10, Ann Collett who was seven and Emma Collett who was three years old. The two absent children on that census day were the couple’s first-born child Mary and their second son Thomas, who had been baptised only seven weeks before son Richard, perhaps indicating that they were twins.
	In 1851 Thomas Collett was 52 and was living in Barwick with his wife who was recorded as Bessy Collett aged 57. Living with them was their eldest son George Collett who was 23. By that time their two youngest daughters, Ann Collett aged 17 and Emma Collett who was 13, had left the family home and were working and living together in Bingley. Ten years after that, in 1861, Thomas was 61 and a labourer, his wife Elizabeth was 67 and from Brotherton and, on that day, their granddaughter Martha Collett, who was seven years old and born at Bingley, was living with them. That would place her as the base-born daughter of Ann Collett. The couple’s address on that census day was recorded as William the Fourth, possibly an inn.
	After a further ten years, the elderly couple was recorded as Thomas Collett of Barwick, a farm labourer aged 72, and Betty Collett from Brotherton who was 77. Two members of the family were with them on that census day in 1871 and they were their daughter Mary Collett aged 45 and born at Brotherton and granddaughter Elizabeth Collett aged nine years and born at Bingley. According to the census of 1881 agricultural labourer Thomas Collett, aged 81 and born at Barwick, was living at Potterton Lane in Barwick. The only person living with him at that time was his wife Elizabeth Collett who was 87 and from Brotherton, just north of Pontefract. With no record of them after that time, it must be assumed that they both died at Barwick during the 1880s.
	36P1		Mary Collett			Born in 1825 at Brotherton
	36P2		George Collett			Born in 1827 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P3		Thomas Collett			Born in 1830 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P4		Richard Collett			Born in 1830 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P5		Ann Collett			Born in 1833 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P6		Emma Collett			Born in 1837 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36O10	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 13^th March 1803 and was one month old when he was baptised there on 1^st May 1805, another son of Thomas and Martha Collett.
36O11	Elizabeth Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 19^th July 1805, following which she was baptised there on 18^th August 1805, the second child of Thomas and Martha Collett to be named Elizabeth. It is therefore assumed that her older sister, of the same name, died between 1797 and 1804.
36O12	William Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 22^nd March 1809, and was baptised there on 7^th May 1809, the last of the six children of Thomas Collett and Martha Vary. At the time of the first national census in June 1841 William was still living with his parents in Barwick, where he was recorded as unmarried at the age of 25, when in fact he was 32. Ten years later he was still living with his elderly parents at Barwick when, on that occasion, he gave his age as 39 rather than 42, when he was working as a labourer who had been born at Barwick. Following the death of his parents during the next decade, William Collett was 46 (sic) a bachelor and a woodman who was head of the household at Barwick in 1861.
	In the next Barwick census of 1871, he was recorded as being 60 years old, when he was still unmarried and again working as a woodman. However, by 1881, he was curiously described as a widower who was 70, a pauper and a former agricultural labourer from Barwick, when he was living at the Tadcaster Union Workhouse in West Tadcaster, about five miles north-east of Barwick. A search for a suitable William Collett married during the 1870s has produced nothing. He was still in Tadcaster when he passed away in 1888, his death recorded there (Ref. 9c 92) during the first three months of that year, when he was said to be 76.
36O13	John Collett was born at the family home in Potterton Lane in Barwick-in-Elmet on 12^th December 1797, and was baptised in the village on 7^th January 1798. He was the eldest son of blacksmith William Collett and Frances Pool, but it seems likely that he may not have survived beyond childhood, as it was his younger brother who is known to have taken over the family blacksmith business. Therefore, the death of John Collett on 21^st February 1807 may well be the son of William Collett and Frances Pool.
36O14	William Collett was born at the family home in Potterton Lane in Barwick-in-Elmet on 5^th November 1799, and was baptised at Barwick on 1^st December 1799. He was the son of blacksmith William Collett and Frances Pool. He married (1) Elizabeth Dalby of Barwick-in-Elmet at the parish church there on 1^st January 1821 and their first child was born in November that same year, but tragically did not survive and died in 1823. In addition to that child William and Elizabeth are known to have had eight further children and all of them were born and baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet.
	By 1841 the family living at Barwick-in-Elmet was complete and comprised parents William and Elizabeth, both aged 40, with six of their children. They were sons George, who was 15, Joseph who was 13, Benjamin who was five, and Thomas who was two, and daughters Ann who was 11 and Emma who was nine years old. The couple’s eldest son John Collett was living in Barwick-in-Elmet at that time, but with his grandfather William Collett, perhaps because of overcrowding in his own home. Also missing from the family was their son William, who had been born in 1834, but who had died shortly after.
	Although the census in 1841, being the first national census, is rather vague in the exact location of dwellings, it is believed that the family at that time was living at 50 Main Street or very close thereto. William’s parents were also believed to be living just a few doors away at No 70. Just over two months after the census day in 1841, William’s wife Elizabeth died in the August of that year leaving William, aged 42, with a young family to look after. However, he wasn’t a lone parent for long as just two doors away was thirty-five years Isabella Groves who was working as a servant to the elderly couple of Edward and Jane Wales.
	William married (2) Isabella Groves at the parish church in Leeds, rather than at Barwick, and that may have been out of deference for his late wife and her family. Isabella was the daughter of linen weaver Joshua Groves, and had been born in Northumberland. It seems more than likely that the marriage may have been made out of necessity and perhaps because of propriety, or an attempt to protect the reputation of his new wife, the marriage does not appear to have produced any children for William and Isabella.
	Although William’s father William Collett did not die until 1855, in the census of 1851, William junior was living with his family at 70 Main Street, the house previously occupied by his father. Living with blacksmith William, aged 51, was his wife Isabella from Northumberland who was 45, together with William’s sons George Collett who was 24, Joseph Collett who was 21, Benjamin Collett who was 15 and Thomas Collett who was 11 years old. Living right next door in the adjoining cottage at 72 Main Street was William’s eldest son John aged 25 who was still a bachelor but who was married shortly thereafter.
	In early April in 1861, the family living at Barwick had reduced in size. William Collett was 61 and still working as a blacksmith, Isabella Collett was 56 and from Hedly in Northumberland, and still living with them was William’s youngest son Thomas Collett who was 21. Also, back living at the family home was William’s youngest unmarried daughter Emma Collett, who was 28. By the end of that decade the Barwick census in 1871 recorded William and Isabella living alone together, when William was 71 and was continuing his occupation as a blacksmith and Isabella was 66.
	Isabella Collett died five years later, her death recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 477) during the fourth quarter of 1876, when she was 74. Having been made a widower for a second time, William also retired from his life-long work as a blacksmith, as confirmed in the Barwick census of 1881, when William Collett was 81 and still living on Main Street in the Up-Town part of Barwick-in-Elmet. His place of birth was simply stated as Potterton and the only person listed with him was his housekeeper, Ann Dearlove from Huddersfield who was 66. It was during the second quarter of that same year, when the death of William Collett was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 451) when he was 81.
	During his life William was a staunch Methodist and played a very active role in the church. A typical Sunday would be spent at communion in the parish church, with Sunday School at 9.00 am followed by Chapel at 10.00, a further service at 1.30 in the afternoon, following by a second Sunday School session from 2 to 4 p.m. Such was William’s standing in the local community that the following obituary was written by the prominent Barwick Methodist minister William Varley and was printed in the Methodist 'Book of Obituaries' and quoted in Arthur Bantoft's 'A Greater Wonder - A History of Methodism in Barwick'.
	‘William Collett of Barwick was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Society for upwards of 60 years. He filled the office of class leader and Sunday School Superintendent and was regular and efficient in the discharge of his duties until compelled to resign on account of deafness and failing health. During his latter days in great suffering and weakness he gave clear testimony to the sustaining power of divine grace - in fact he lived in anxious expectation of the Master's coming and in constant readiness for it’
	36P7		John Collett			Born in 1821 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P8		John Collett			Born in 1823 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P9		George Dalby Collett			Born in 1825 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P10		Joseph Collett			Born in 1828 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P11		Ann Collett			Born in 1830 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P12		Emma Collett			Born in 1832 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P13		William Collett			Born in 1834 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P14		Benjamin Collett			Born in 1836 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P15		Thomas Collett			Born in 1840 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36O15	Thomas Collett was born at Wakefield on 9^th July 1807, and was baptised there at All Saints Church on 15^th August 1807, the son of William Collett and his wife of seven years Elizabeth Morret. The church register listed the names of his parents as Wm and Betty Collett. Thomas would have been around twenty-one years of age when he married Mary Fletcher, their wedding conducted at St Peter’s Church on Church Street in Liverpool on 29^th March 1929. Mary was born at Widnes, near Liverpool, and was a year younger than Thomas. Their marriage produced six children for the couple, the first of them born when the they were still living in Liverpool. From Liverpool, the family returned to Yorkshire and settled at Jack Lane in Hunslet, Leeds, where they were recorded in the Leeds census of 1841. Thomas Collett had a rounded age of 30 (when he was 34), and his wife Mary was said to be 28, whereas she was 33. Living them were five children, they being Elizabeth who was 11, Harriet who was nine, William who was six, Joseph who was three and Ann who was one year old.
	The baptism records for the couple’s eldest daughter took place at St Peter’s Church in Liverpool, while the baptism of the couple’s next three children was conducted at St Peter’s Church in Leeds, even though the later census returns gave their place of birth as Hunslet. One more child was added to the family shortly after 1841 but, by the time of the next census in 1851, Thomas’ youngest daughter Ann, who would have been eleven, was missing from the family. It is possibly that she had died while still very young, presumably as the result of a childhood illness. In addition, no baptism record for her has been found.
	In March 1851, the family was residing at a property in Branston Street in Hunslet from where Thomas Collett, aged 45 and from Wakefield, had the occupation of a crown glass maker. It seems highly likely that he and his two sons were all employed at the renowned Hunslet Crown Glass Manufactory which operated out of premises in Jack Lane and Joseph Street between 1814 and 1861, making bottles and window glass. The two sons who were also Crown Glass Makers were William, who was 16, and Joseph, who was 14, both of them born at Hunslet. Thomas’ wife was listed as Mary Collett, aged 44 and from Widnes, while the remaining children were Elizabeth Collett, aged 20 and a flax spinner from Liverpool, Harriet Collett, aged 18 and from Hunslet who was also a flax spinner, and John Collett who was a scholar aged six years and from Hunslet. To date, no baptism record for son John has been found, even though his birth was recorded at Hunslet, while it was not long after the census in 1851, that Thomas Collett passed away.
	The death of Thomas Collett was recorded at Hunslet (Ref. xxiii 223) during the third quarter of 1851. Almost ten years after losing her husband, Mary Collett was a widow in the Hunslet census of 1861 when, at the age of 53, she was a charwoman who was still living at Branston Street. With her, on that occasion, were her two youngest sons Joseph Collett who was 23 and John Collett who was 15, plus her married daughter Harriet Howden and son-in-law George Howden, with their first child Thomas Howden. Completing the household, was Mary’s eldest married daughter Elizabeth Wright, with her husband Joseph John Wright and the couple’s first two children, Mary Ann Wright and John Wright.
	After a further ten years, Mary Collett, aged 64 and a widow, was living at the Leeds home of her married daughter Harriet Howden, together with her youngest son, John Collett who was 25. Ten years later, Mary Collett ’s age had increased further by the time of the census in 1881. On that occasion she was living and working at 26 Merrion Street in Leeds, the home of 76 years old widow Sarah Russell. The premises appear to have been a boarding house, where Mary Collett, aged 75 and from Widnes, was employed as a general domestic servant. Just over eight years later, the death of Mary Collett was recorded at Hunslet (Ref. 9b 213) during the last three months of 1889, when she was 80.
	36P16		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1830 at Liverpool
	36P17		Harriet Collett			Born in 1832 at Hunslet, near Leeds
	36P18		William Collett			Born in 1835 at Hunslet, near Leeds
	36P19		Joseph Collett			Born in 1837 at Hunslet, near Leeds
	36P20		Ann Collett			Born in 1839 at Hunslet, near Leeds
	36P21		John Collett			Born in 1845 at Hunslet, near Leeds
36O16	Elizabeth Collett was born in 1815 at Wakefield, where she was baptised on 20^th May 1815 when she was referred to as Betty Collett, the daughter of William and Hannah Collett. It seems that Betty was named after her father’s first wife, Betty (Elizabeth) Morret.
36O17	Sarah Collett was born in 1817 at Wakefield where her parents were married in 1814, and where she was baptised on 7^th February 1818, the daughter of William and Hannah Collett. It was before reaching her twenty-first birthday that Sarah was married by banns to Joseph Claughton (pronounced Clafton) Grant on 10^th July 1837 at St Peter’s Parish Church in Leeds. The marriage certificate for the couple reflected that Joseph was of full age, and a clothier from Bramley in Leeds, while his bride was recorded as a minor. Joseph’s father was named as Stephen Grant, who was also a clothier.
	Sarah and Joseph had a daughter Ann Grant who was born in 1856, and she married David Bennett Smith. Their daughter Beatrice Irene Smith married Lawrence James Blackburn and their son was Lawrence Gerald Blackburn who married Dorothy Eastwood. The aforementioned Alison Reid is their daughter. Lawrence and Dorothy emigrated to Australia in 1967 through the ‘ten-pound poms’ assisted passage and, in 2011, their daughter Alison Reid nee Blackburn, who kindly provided her family details, lives on the south coast of New South Wales at Tapitallee. This photograph of Sarah Grant, nee Collett, and supplied by Alison Reid, was possibly taken around 1882, the year before the birth of her first of six grandchildren by her daughter Ann Smith.
	It was a few years after the photograph was taken, when Sarah was living with Ann and David Smith at their home in Arkholme-with-Cawood in Lancashire that she died in 1891. A tape recording provided by Alison Reid, which was made in 1982 by her grandmother Beatrice Irene Blackburn nee Smith, aged 85, in conversation with her daughter Margaret, reveals that Sarah Claughton nee Collett was known as Lockie Collett, because of her very curly locks of hair. It also reveals that Sarah Claughton ran the Punchbowl Inn on Stocks Hill in Bramley. Stocks Hill and Bramley was destroyed during the blitz in the Second World War, and today the Stocks Hill has been renamed Town Street, part of the A657.
36O18	Sarah Collett was born at Wakefield on 16^th May 1812 just eleven months after her parents were married. She was later baptised at St John’s Church in the town on 13^th September 1812, the eldest child of John Collett and his wife Mary Kitson. It is assumed that Sarah was married prior to 1841 since no record of her using her maiden-name has been found.
36O19	Mary Collett was born at Wakefield during 1814 and was baptised there at St John’s Church on 30^th October 1814, the second daughter of John and Mary Collett. Mary was still a spinster in June 1841 when she was 25 and working as a domestic servant at the home of forty-year-old widower Jonathan Senior. He had two children, Elizabeth who was ten and Thomas who was seven, and lived just two dwellings from Mary’s parents in a Wakefield thoroughfare between Providence Place and Thornes Avenue. On that same day Mary may well have been pregnant with Jonathan’s child who was born later that year and ten years later was being looked after by Mary’s parents. Mary Senior aged nine years and born at Thornes Lane was living with her grandparents John and Mary Collett at Thornes Lane in Alverthorpe-with-Thornes.
36O20	Ann Collett was born at Wakefield in 1816, where she was baptised at the Church of St John on 1^st September 1816, the third daughter of John and Mary Collett. It is assumed that she was married by 1841 since no record of her as Ann Collett has been found.
36O21	Elizabeth Collett was born at Wakefield around 1818, and it was at the Church of St John that she was baptised on 11^th April 1819, the fourth daughter of John and Mary Collett. It was at St James’ Church in the Chapelry of Thornes, one mile south of Wakefield, that Elizabeth Collett married Elias Goodall on 5^th November 1848. Their respective fathers were named as John Collett, a millwright, and John Goodall, a baker. The witnesses were John Norbury and Thomas Putt. Elias Goodall was born at Old Basford within the city of Nottingham, but at the time of his marriage he was living in the parish of St. Lukes, Horsforth.
	Eight years later the couple had a son, Elias Goodall, who was born at Horsforth on 30^th November 1856 to parents Elias Goodall and Elizabeth Goodall, formerly Collett. Elias Goodall (senior) died while in the Lunatic Asylum at Stanley-with-Wrenthorpe in Wakefield on 5^th March 1867 aged 43 years, the cause of death being phthisis. However, it is believed that he was actually 46 when he died. Also living in Stanley-with-Wrenthorpe prior to that sad event was Elizabeth’s married sister Susan Megson (below).
	Following the loss of her husband, Elizabeth Goodall married William Pettinger on 29^th November 1869 at Leeds. The marriage register confirmed that William Pettinger was 55 and a widower, and that Elizabeth Goodall was 51 and a widow. The fathers were named respectively as William Pettinger, an Inland Revenue Officer, and John Collett, a millwright. The witnesses on that occasion were William Parsons and Maria Collett. Elizabeth’s son Elias Goodall eventually married Emma Leavens and they had a son, John Collett Goodall, who was born at Horsforth on 29^th June 1893.
36O22	Susan Collett was born at Wakefield in 1821, where she was baptised on 25^th November 1821 at St John’s Church, another daughter of John Collett and his wife Mary Kitson. It was during the third quarter of 1842 (Ref. xx11 441), around the time of her twenty-first birthday, that Susan Collett married Longley Megson at Wakefield on 4^th August 1842. He was the son of David and Margaret Megson and was also born during 1821 but at Sheffield. In June 1841 David Megson was still living with his family at Stanley in Wakefield where all of his children with Susan were born. By the time of the census in 1851 Susan and Longley had three children living with them at Stanley Green in the hamlet of Stanley-with-Wrenthorpe in Wakefield. Longley Megson was 30 and a journeyman carpenter, his wife Susan was also 30, and their three children were Julia Megson who was eight and baptised on 26^th March 1843, Edward Megson who was five and baptised on 8^th November 1846 and Clement Megson who was three years of age and baptised on 1^st July 1849.
	Tragically, two other children, John Megson who was also baptised on 26^th March 1843 and Alfred George Megson who was baptised on 22^nd September 1844, had not survived. A further son was added to the family during 1853, when the baptism of Albert Megson, the son of Longley and Susan Megson, was recorded at Stanley in Wakefield on 3^rd April 1855. The last known child was born around 1863 and that was Margaret Megson. Where the family was in 1861 has not yet been discovered, but sadly Longley Megson died at the age of 44, just two years after the birth of their last child, with his death recorded at Wakefield (Ref. 9c 45) during the second quarter of 1865. Susan, on the other hand, lived a very long life and went on to become a grandmother, then a great grandmother.
	According to the census in 1871 the widow Susan Megson was 49 and a laundress living in Wakefield with three of her surviving children. They were Edward Megson who was 25, Albert Megson who was 17 and Margaret Megson who was just seven years old. Twenty years later the census in 1891 listed Susan as 68 and still earning a living as a laundress when she was residing at Russell Street in Wakefield with her just youngest child Maggie Megson who was 26. By that time Susan’s eldest daughter Julia was a grandmother following the birth of a granddaughter Florrie Dyson who was born at Mirfield in 1889. Susan Megson was still alive in 1912 when she attended the wedding of her youngest great granddaughter Florrie Dyson who was married at Mirfield. That happy event took place just two and a half years before Susan Megson nee Collett died at the end of 1914 at the age of 93. It is therefore quite likely that Susan may have lived long enough to hold and admire her first great-great-grandchild.
36O23	Henry Collett was born at Wakefield around 1826 or 1827, the only known son of John and Mary Collett who also had seven known daughters. Whilst no baptism record for the child has been found, Henry Collett aged 13 years was living with his parents in Wakefield between Providence Place and Thornes Avenue in 1841 when there was no indication as to whether he was still attending school or in employment. No further record of Henry Collett from Wakefield has been unearthed after that time.
36O24	Maria Collett was born at Wakefield in 1828 and was baptised at Wakefield on 25^th December 1828, the penultimate child of John and Mary Collett. On leaving school, Maria entered domestic servant and in 1851, when she was 22 years old, she was described as an unmarried house servant in the census that year while employed at the Wood Street Wakefield home of London born Percival Phillips and his large family. It was a similar situation ten years later, with the census in 1861 identifying Maria Collett from Thornes in Wakefield as a spinster aged 31 who was the servant and domestic cook at the home of Thomas and Katherine Folzambe at Thornes Village in Alverthorpe-with-Thornes in Wakefield. Upon the death of her father in 1868, Maria returned to look after her elderly widowed mother. However, by 1871 both unmarried Maria Collett, aged 39 and from Wakefield, and her mother Mary were staying with Maria’s younger sister Emma Speak (below) at Alverthorpe-with-Thornes in Wakefield.
36O25	Emma Collett, who may have been Emma Jane Collett, was born at Wakefield most likely in 1831. However, it was simply as Emma Collett that she was baptised at Thornes-by-Wakefield on 2^nd December 1832 when her parents were confirmed as John and Mary Collett. The census conducted in June 1841 identified her as Jane Collett aged nine years living with her parents between Providence Place and Thornes Avenue in Wakefield. In the next census of 1851 Emma Collett was 21 and a dressmaker who was still living with her parents who, by then, were residing at Thornes Lane in Alverthorpe-with-Thornes. Curiously, the census return that year gave her place of birth as Thornes Lane.
	Sometime during the mid-to-late 1850s Emma Collett married the much younger Thomas Speak from Sheffield who was a cocoa mat weaver. Over the following years Emma gave birth to an undefined number of children but by 1871 she and Thomas were living at Alverthorpe-with-Thornes in Wakefield with just two surviving children. Thomas Speak was 32, Emma Speak was 42, Adelaide C Speak was 10 and John H Speak was one-year-old, both born in Wakefield. Staying with the family was Emma’s widowed mother Mary Collett who was 80, together with Emma’s sister Maria Collett (above). The death of Thomas Speak at the age of 46 was recorded at Wakefield (Ref. 9c 10) during the first quarter of 1884, while his wife survived him by fifteen years. The death of Emma Speak nee Collett was also recorded at Wakefield (Ref. 9c 43) during the second quarter of 1899 at the age of 69.
36P1	Mary Collett was born at Brotherton 1825 and was baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet on 6^th November 1825, the eldest child of Thomas Collett and Elizabeth Hawksworth. Her mother was also born at Brotherton so, as her first child, Elizabeth may have given birth while in the care of her own mother. On the day of the census in June 1841, Mary was not living with her family in Barwick, nor has she been located in 1851 and 1861. However, she had returned to live with her elderly parents by the time of the Barwick census in 1871. That year, Mary Collett was still a single lady at the age of 45, her place of birth confirmed as Brotherton. She was also described as a domestic servant, probably for her own parents. Completing the family group was nine-year-old Elizabeth Collett from Bingley, who was the granddaughter of Mary's parents. The birth of Elizabeth Collett was recorded at Keighley (Ref. 9a 152) during the third quarter of 1861. There is, therefore, speculation that Elizabeth was in fact, the base-born daughter of Mary Collett. Interestingly, both of Mary’s younger sister also had children out of wedlock.
	36Q1		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1861 at Bingley
36P2	George Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1827 and was baptised there on 4^th November 1827, the eldest son of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett. He was recorded as being 13 years old in the Tadcaster & Aberford registration district in 1841, which included Barwick, while ten years after that, at the age of 23, he was still living at Barwick with his mother and father in 1851. What exactly happened to George after that time is currently not known, since the only George Collett from Barwick born around the same time was George Collett, the son of William and Elizabeth Collett. However, despite having not identified him within the census returns for 1861, 1871, and 1881, there is recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 378) during the third quarter of 1881 the death of George Collett who was 56, which does not correspond with his year of birth, or his age in the two earlier census returns.
36P3	Thomas Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1830 where he was baptised on 9^th September 1830, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett, although curiously he was not listed with his family in the census of 1841. He may have been a twin brother to Richard Collett (below) who was baptised nearly two months after Thomas.
36P4	Richard Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1830, where he was baptised on 30^th October 1830, another son of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett. He was very likely the twin brother of Thomas Collett (above).
36P5	Ann Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1833, where she was baptised on 28^th November 1833, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett. She was seven years old in the census of 1841 when she and her family with living within the Tadcaster & Aberford registration district which, at that time, included the village of Barwick. Ten years later in 1851, Ann and her sister Emma, had left the home of their parents and were living and working together in the Keighley & Bingley registration district, when Ann Collett was 17. Two and a half years later Ann gave birth to a base-born daughter at Bingley, when the birth of Martha Ann Collett was recorded at Keighley (Ref. 9a 126) during the last three months of 1853. In 1861 Martha Collett from Bingley was seven years of age when she was living with her paternal grandparents Thomas and Elizabeth Collett at Barwick-in-Elmet. With no further evidence of her in the following census of 1871, it is possible the death of Martha Collett was recorded at Bramham (Ref. 9c 389) during the second quarter of 1864.
	36Q2		Martha Ann Collett			Born in 1853 at Bingley
36P6	Emma Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet during the summer of 1837, and was baptised there on 20^th August 1837, the youngest child of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett. Her birth was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. xxiii 437) during the third quarter of 1837. Emma was three years old at the time of the census in 1841 when she and her family were living within Tadcaster & Aberford registration district which, at that time, included the village of Barwick. Upon leaving school Emma joined her older sister in seeking work, and by 1851 Emma, aged 13, was living and working with her sister Ann (above) within the Keighley & Bingley registration district, when Ann Collett was 17. With no record of her, found in the next census of 1861, it was twenty years later that unmarried Emma Collett from Barwick-in-Elmet was 33 and a charwoman, living in Keighley with her two daughters Ann E Collett for was four and born at Bradford and Martha Collett who was one year old and born after Emma settled in Keighley.
	The birth of Ann Elizabeth Collett was recorded at Bradford (Ref. 9b 80) during the last quarter of 1864, while the birth of Martha Collett was recorded at Keighley (Ref. 9a 182) during the second quarter of 1870. According to the next census in 1881, Emma Collett was residing at Bower Street in Horton, near Bradford, when she was 44, whose occupation was that of a sweets and confectioner shopkeeper, who confirmed she had been born at Barwick-in-Elmet. Curiously on that occasion, Emma described herself as a widow. Her two daughters were again living there with her, and they were Ann E Collett from Bradford who was 16 and Martha Collett from Keighley who was 11. Lodging with the family was Peter Fetherstone who was 40 and from Sheffield.
	It was at Cotewall Road in the Bowling parish of Bradford that Emma Collett and her daughter Martha were living in 1891. Martha Collett was 21 and a worker at a local cotton mill, where she was a worsted drawer. Her mother was described simply as Emma Collett, born in England, who was 52 (sic) and a charwoman. Once again she said she was a widow, most likely to cover any embarrassment of being an unmarried mother with a base-born daughter.
	36Q3		Ann Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1864 at Bradford
	36Q4		Martha Collett			Born in 1870 at Keighley
36P7	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1821, where he was baptised on 12^th November 1821, the eldest son of William and Elizabeth Collett. It would appear, from the name given to the couple’s next child, that John died within the same year.
36P8	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet and this most likely took place at the end of 1823 or very early in 1824, as it was there that he was baptised on 21^st January 1824. At the time of the June census of 1841 John was 15 and was living with his grandparents William and Frances Collett at their home in Potterton Lane in Barwick-in-Elmet. It was probably while he was there that he was trained to be a blacksmith like his father and his grandfather. Ten years later John was aged 25 and was the sole occupant of 72 Main Street when living in the adjoining cottage to his father who lived at 70 Main Street at that time. The marriage of John Collett and Elizabeth Richardson was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 813) during the last quarter of 1856, and around one year later their first child was born at Barwick. Elizabeth was nine years younger than John, having been born at Leeds in 1832. The next census, in 1861, confirmed that John and Elizabeth were living at Potterton Lane in Barwick-in-Elmet. Blacksmith John was 36, his wife was 26, and living with them were their three children, William who was four, Emma who was two, and Ann who was not yet one year old.
	All of the couple’s eleven children were born at Barwick-in-Elmet and by April 1871 the whole family was still living there in Potterton Lane. They comprised blacksmith John Collett, aged 45, his wife Elizabeth Collett, aged 35, and their children, William Richardson Collett who was 14, Emma Collett who was 12, Ann Collett who was 10, Albert Batty Collett who was seven, John Thomas Collett who was five, Benjamin Collett who was three and Charles Collett who was one year old.
	According to the next census in 1881, the family had moved the short distance to Potterton, just north of Barwick, where John was 58 and a blacksmith like his father William and also his brothers George and Thomas. A least three of John’s sons also continued in that profession. John’s wife was Elizabeth who was 49 and born at Leeds and since the previous census, a further four children had been added to her family. The full list on that occasion was William Collett aged 24 who was a blacksmith, John Collett who was 15, Benjamin Collett who was 13, Charles Collett who was 11, George Collett who was nine, Fred Collett who was six, Mary Collett who was three and Ernest who was one year old.
	In 1891 the family living at Barwick was reduced to John, aged 68, Elizabeth, aged 56, and living with them were their sons John T Collett who was 25, Charles Collett who was 21 and Ernest Collett who was 11, and their daughter Mary H Collett who was 13. John Collett, a blacksmith of Barwick-in-Elmet, was listed in the 1893 edition of Kelly’s Directory. The house and blacksmith’s shop were situated at 70 Main Street, the house having been built by the Collett family some two hundred years earlier.
	Both John and Elizabeth were still living in Barwick just after the turn of the century. According to the Barwick census in 1901, John was aged 77 and his wife was 68, although this may have been an error in transcription, since she was nearer 66 judging by most of the earlier census returns. Even at the age of 77 John’s occupation was still recorded as being a blacksmith.
	When John eventually retired from the family blacksmith business in Barwick, it was his eldest son William took it over. He was supported by his much younger brother Frederick who worked under William as an apprentice. The boys’ father John Collett died sometime during his eighties in the first decade of the new century. John Collett, blacksmith of Barwick-in-Elmet, died on 6^th March 1905 following which his personal estate valued at £90 18 Shillings 8 Pence was subject to administration at Wakefield on 25^th May 1905 in favour of his widow Elizabeth Collett. Six years later the census in 1911 recorded Elizabeth Collett from Leeds as a widow who was still living in Barwick-in-Elmet at the age of 75.
	36Q5		William Richard Collett			Born in 1856 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q6		Emma Collett			Born in 1858 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q7		Ann Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1860 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q8		Albert Batty Collett			Born in 1863 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q9		John Thomas Collett			Born in 1865 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q10		Benjamin Collett			Born in 1867 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q11		Charles Collett			Born in 1869 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q12		George Henry Collett			Born in 1871 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q13		Frederick Collett			Born in 1874 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q14		Mary Hannah Collett			Born in 1877 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q15		Ernest Collett			Born in 1879 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36P9	George Dalby Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1825 and his second name came from his mother’s maiden-name. He was baptised at Barwick on 4^th September 1825, the son of William and Elizabeth Collett. In 1841 he was 15 and was 24 years old at the time of the 1851 Census when he was working as a blacksmith, while living with his father and mother, and his younger brothers at 70 Main Street in Barwick. Seven years later, the marriage of George Collett and Ada Towler was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 777) during the last three months of 1858. Ada had been born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1832, a daughter of John and Mary Towler. Ada was well into the pregnancy of her first child on their wedding, with the child’s birth recorded at Tadcaster in the first few months of 1859. All of their children were born at Barwick-in-Elmet and the first two of them were present at the time of the 1861 Census. They were Edwin Collett who was two years old and Henry Collett who was under one year, while blacksmith George Collett was 34 and Ada Collett was 28. Their address that day was William the Fourth – see previous reference to this.
	Three more children were added to the family over the next decade, so by 1871 the family living at Potterton Lane in Barwick comprised blacksmith George 44 and his wife Ada 38, and their children Edwin who was 12, Henry who was 10, John who was eight, Joseph who was six and Alfred who was three years of age. In 1881 the family was still living at Potterton Lane in Barwick-in-Elmet, where many other members of this branch of the Collett family also lived at that time. The family then was made up of blacksmith George aged 53, his wife Ada 48, and five of their seven children. They were Edwin, aged 22, and John W Collett, aged 18, who were both blacksmiths working with their father, Alfred who was 13, George Arthur who was nine and Kate who was six years old.
	Just prior to the census in 1881, missing son Henry Collett died at Barwick, his death recorded at Tadcaster. The couple’s other missing son Joseph, was working as a farm servant in the Up-Town part of Barwick on that occasion. Sometime in the 1880s it would appear that George had ceased to be a blacksmith and, instead, had taken up being a farmer. It would appear that he moved ahead of his family in that venture, with George Collett aged 63 already installed as a farmer at Hill Top Farm in Keighley, where he was employing Rachel Maidens, aged 29, as a domestic servant, who had with her, her two-year-old son Thomas. On that same day in 1891, George’s wife Ada, aged 58, was still living at Town Street in Barwick, with her son John W Collett who was 28 and her daughter Kate Collett who was 16.
	After a further three years, the death of Ada Collett was recorded at Tadcaster register office (Ref. 9c 408) during the second quarter of 1894, when she was 61. Six years later, widower George Collett of Barwick was 73 years and was still living at Hill Top Farm in Hainworth, Keighley, where he was a farmer. On that occasion, the domestic servant was Nancy Moore who was 49, who had with her, her daughter Ethel who was 12 years of age. Also living in Keighley in April 1901 was George’s nephew Richard Collett and his family. Richard was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1852 and was the oldest son of George’s brother Joseph (below).
	36Q16		Edwin Collett			Born in 1858 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q17		Henry Collett			Born in 1860 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q18		John William Collett			Born in 1862 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q19		Joseph Collett			Born in 1865 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q20		Alfred Collett			Born in 1867 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q21		George Arthur Collett			Born in 1872 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36Q22		Kate Collett			Born in 1874 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36P10	Joseph Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1828, a son of William Collett and Elizabeth Dalby, who was baptised at Barwick on 2^nd March 1828. as confirmed by the 1841 Census in which he was listed as being aged 13 years and living with his parents in Barwick. By 1851 he was aged 21 and was living at 70 Main Street in Barwick where he was working with his father in the family blacksmith business. It was previously written here that, within six months of the census day in 1851, Joseph married Catherine who was a widow by 1861. She was dressmaker who was also born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1830. However, no record of their marriage has ever been found.
	In 2019, it was discovered that Catherine Collett was in fact Catherine Perkin, the daughter of Richard and Margaret, who, it is now known, married William Collett (not Joseph) during the third quarter of 1851, the event recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. xxiii 661). Catherine was baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet on 30^th May 1830 and, a year after marrying William, she gave birth to their only child, Richard Collett. In the Barwick census conducted in 1861, Catherine Collett from Barwick was 30 years old, a widow and head of the household at ‘William the Fourth’, where Thomas Collett [Ref. 36O13], his wife Elizabeth and, their granddaughter Martha Collett, were also recorded that same day.
	William’s son Richard was two years old when the death of William Collett was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 341) during the third quarter of 1854. Where Richard was in 1871, when he was 18 years of age, has not been discovered, perhaps overseas with the military but, shortly after that he became a married man. On the census day that year, widow Catherine Collett was 40 and still working as a dressmaker, when again she was the head of the household. Recorded at the same address that year was Henry Fawcett, aged 54 from Kippax, and Polly Tinsdale who was 15 and from Leeds.
	According to the next census in 1881, Catherine Collett was a widow aged 50 and was living alone at Potterton Lane in Barwick, where she continued with her work as a dressmaker. She was still living there in 1891, at Town Street when she was 60, while it was just over three and a half years later that the death of Catherine Collett was recorded at Tadcaster register office (Ref. 9c 461) during the last three months of 1894.
	Footnote: With no obvious William Collett, born in Barwick-on-Elmet around 1828, it might be assumed that perhaps it was Joseph who married Catherine, but did so using the name William, after his father and his brother William who died while still a child. No other explanation can be found at this time.
	36Q23		Richard Collett			Born in 1852 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36P11	Ann Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1830, where she was baptised on 14^th February 1830, the fifth child and eldest daughter of William Collett and Elizabeth Dalby. At the time of the first nation census in June 1841 Ann was living with her family in Barwick and was eleven years of age. Ten years late at the age of 21 Ann had left the family home and was working as a servant for Wesleyan minister Joseph Lawton at his home in Springfield Terrace in Leeds.
36P12	Emma Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1832 and was baptised there on 22^nd April 1832. She was aged nine years at the time of the June census in 1841 when living with her family at Barwick. Like her sister Ann (above), Emma also entered into domestic service and in 1851 when she was 19, she was working at 5 Elmwood Grove in Leeds, the home of forty-year-old widow Mary Ann Scarthe. After working away from home for some years, Emma had returned to Barwick by April 1861 and, at the age of 28, was once again living with her father and her stepmother, but with no stated occupation. The reason she had returned home, was that she was due to be married within the next six months. It was during the third quarter of 1861, that the marriage of Emma Collett and Richard Swales was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 677).
	By 1871 Emma had presented Richard with four children and they were Elizabeth Ann Swales who was seven, William Henry Swales who was five, Eliza Swales who was three, all born at Barwick, with the very latest arrival not yet being named on the day of the census, but simply referred to as baby Swales born at Thornhill. Richard Swales was a farm labourer at the age of 37 and Emma Swales was 30, the family residing at Thornhill. The next census confirmed the name of the youngest child as Mary Swales when the family was still living in Thornhill, at Walker Street. Following the death of her husband, just a few days before the next census, widow Emma Swales, aged 59, was living at Hanover Street in Dewsbury with her two youngest daughter Eliza and Mary. And it was there also that Emma was still living in 1901 with just unmarried daughter Eliza with her. Emma Swales, nee Collett, was still 69 when she died, her death recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 475) during the third quarter of 1901.
36P13	William Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1834 and it was there that he was baptised on 2^nd November 1834, the son of William and Elizabeth Collett. Tragically he died within a few weeks of being born.
36P14	Benjamin Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1836, where he was baptised on 21^st February 1836, and where he was five years old in June 1841. Ten years later at the age of 15, Benjamin had left school and was working with his father and older brothers as an apprentice blacksmith from their home at 70 Main Street in Barwick. At some point in his life before the end of the 1850s he left Barwick and moved to Gomersal near Cleckheaton, south-west of Leeds. The marriage of Benjamin Collett and Mary Wade was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 665) during the first three months of 1860. Mary had been there in 1836 and it was at Gomersal that all of their children were born, as confirmed by the census in 1861.
	That year, the Gomersal census recorded Benjamin Collett of Barwick as being 26 and was living at Holme Lane Road with his wife Mary Collett, aged 24, and their first-born child Joseph A Collett, who was under twelve months old on that day. In addition to leaving the family home, it would also appear that Benjamin stopped being a blacksmith and took up the trade of a painter, later becoming a master painter. By 1871 the family living at Gomersal comprised Benjamin, aged 35, his wife Mary who was 34, and their five children. They were Joseph A Collett who was ten, William H Collett who was nine, Alfred Collett who was seven, George H Collett who was four and Charles Collett who was under one year old. The family was established well enough to be able to employ a servant, Louisa Garside.
	In the census of 1881 master painter Benjamin of Barwick was 45, Mary his wife of Gomersal was 44, and with them at Oxford Road in Gomersal were four of their five children. They were Joseph A Collett who was 20, Alfred Collett who was 17, George Henry Collett who was 15 and Charles Collett who was 11. Benjamin’s eldest son Joseph was also a painter, presumably working with his father. Their missing eighteen-year-old son William was living nearby at Oxford Road in Gomersal. At that time in 1881, the family employed a domestic servant Hannah Millner from Knaresborough who was aged 13.
	Ten years later, Benjamin and Mary were still living at Gomersal where they were 55 and 54 respectively. Only two of their sons were still living with the couple and they were Joseph Collett who was 30 and William Collett who was 29. Just after the turn of the century, when Benjamin was 65, he was then working as a painter and paper-hanger, while still living at Oxford Road in Gomersal, with his wife Mary Collett who was 64. Still living at home and working with his father, was the couple’s eldest unmarried son Joseph A Collett who was 40 and also a painter.
	Also living in Gomersal in 1901 was Benjamin’s nephew, 33-year-old Benjamin Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet, the son of John Collett of Barwick and Benjamin’s older brother. According to the census in 1911, and following the death of his wife, Benjamin Collett from Barwick-in-Elmet was 75 years old and was still living at Gomersal, when he was described as a retired house painter in the building industry. On that occasion he had living with him, as his housekeeper, his granddaughter Lillie Collett from Barnsley who was 23 and the daughter of his late son Alfred Collett. It was one year earlier, that the death of Mary Collett had been recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 350) during the second quarter of 1910, when she was 73 years old. Six years after being widowed, the death of Benjamin Collett was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 712) during the second quarter of 1916, when he was 80.
	36Q24		Joseph Arthur Collett			Born in 1860 at Gomersal
	36Q25		William Henry Collett			Born in 1862 at Gomersal
	36Q26		Alfred Collett			Born in 1863 at Gomersal
	36Q27		George Herbert Collett			Born in 1866 at Gomersal
	36Q28		Charles Collett			Born in 1870 at Gomersal
36P15	Thomas Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet around 1840, even though he was said to be two years old in the Barwick census of 1841. Ten years later he was 11 when he living at 70 Main Street in Barwick with his father, stepmother, and his older brothers who were all blacksmiths at that time. By 1861 Thomas was 21 and was the only son still living at the family home in Barwick where he was working in the family blacksmith business with his father William Collett. It was towards the end of the 1867 that he married Ann Pretty who was born in 1839, but at Gosberton, north of Spalding in Lincolnshire. Their marriage was recorded at Bramley register office in Leeds (Ref. 9c 471) during the fourth quarter of that year.
	The records so far seem to reveal that Thomas and Ann only had the one son, who was born while the couple was still living in Bramley. However, by 1871 the family of three was living at Headingly-cum-Burley in Leeds where Thomas was 31 and a smith, Ann was 32 and Walter E Collett was not yet one year old. Ten years later according to the census of 1881 Thomas and Ann were living at Burley Village in Headingley-cum-Burley, just north of Leeds city centre. Both of them were 41 years of age, with Thomas’ occupation was that of a blacksmith. Living with them was Walter Collett who was 10 years old and born at Bramley. Ann Collett died in 1890, her death recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 400) during the first quarter of the year, at the age of 49. After a year as a widower, Thomas Collett, a blacksmith from Barwick, was an infirmed inmate either in Leeds infirmary or Leeds Union Workhouse, where he was recorded in error as being 48 and a single man.
	One year later, the death of Thomas Collett was recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 317) during the first three months of 1892, when he was said to be 50 years of age. He was survived by his son Walter, who was a married man with a family of his own, living in Leeds by 1901.
	36Q29		Walter Ewart Collett			Born in 1870 at Bramley in Leeds
36P16	Elizabeth Collett was born at Liverpool in 1830 and was baptised there at St Peter’s Church on 28^th April 1830, where her parents were confirmed as Thomas and Mary Collett. Sometime during the year after she was born her father’s work took the family to the Hunslet area of Leeds where Elizabeth was 11 years old in 1841. She was still living with her parents at Branston Street in Hunslet in 1851, by which time in her life she was working as a flax spinner with her sister Harriet (below). Elizabeth Collett was 20 and her place of birth was confirmed as Liverpool.
36P17	Harriet Collett was born at Hunslet, near Leeds in 1832, and was nine years old in the Hunslet census of 1841. Harriet was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 30^th December 1832, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Collett. Ten years later, when Harriet was 18, she was living with her family at Branston Street in Hunslet, from where she was employed as a flax spinner, alongside her older sister Elizabeth (above). It was during the fourth quarter of 1855 when the marriage of Harriet Collett and George Howden was recorded at Hunslet (Ref. 9b 253). On the day of the census in 1861, 31-year-old George Howden, a boiler maker, was staying at the Hunslet home of Harriet’s mother at Branston Street.
	According to the census in 1871, George and Harriet Howden were residing in Leeds with their family. George was 41 and a boiler maker, Harriet was 39, and their three children were Sarah Ann Howden who was eight, Joseph Howden who was six, and Mary Howden who was one year old. Every member of the family had been born at Hunslet. Staying with the family that day, was Harriet’s mother and youngest brother. Mary Collett from Widnes was 64 and a widow, the mother-in-law of George Howden. Her son John Collett from Hunslet was 24 and unmarried, who was very likely working with his brother-in-law, as he too was a boiler maker.
36P18	William Collett was born at Hunslet in 1835, and was named after his grandfather. It was at St Peter’s Church in Leeds that he was baptised on 18^th October 1835, the eldest son of Thomas and Mary Collett. In the Hunslet census returns for 1841 and 1851 William was recorded as being six years old and 16 years of age. By the time of the latter, he was working with his father and younger brother Joseph (below) as a crown glass maker, while he was still living with his family at Branston Street in Hunslet. What happened to William after that time is still a mystery, even though it is established that his father died during the 1850s and that his two younger brothers Joseph and John (below) were still living at Hunslet with their widowed mother in 1861. All three brothers would appear not to be living in England by 1881.
36P19	Joseph Collett was born at Hunslet in 1837, where his birth was recorded (Ref. xxiii 266) during the last three months of the year. He was baptised on 4^th December 1837 at St Peter’s Church in Leeds, the son of Thomas and Mary Collett. Joseph was three years old in the Hunslet census of 1841, and was 14 years of age in 1851 when he was living with his family at Branston Street in Hunslet. On leaving school he had joined his father and his brother William (above) who were both working as crown glass makers. Ten years after that, Joseph was only one of two children living with his widowed mother at Hunslet in 1861 when he was 23, but by 1871 he had left the family home in Hunslet to make his own way in the world. So far, no record of him or his younger brother John has been found after that time, which may be an indication that they travelled to one of the colonies like other members of their extended family.
36P20	Ann Collett was born at Jack Lane in Hunslet in 1839, the youngest daughter of Thomas and Mary Collett. Ann was one year old in the Hunslet census of 1841, but never reappeared in any later census, so it has been assumed that she suffered an infant death. Furthermore, unlike her older siblings, no record of her baptism has been found to date.
36P21	John Collett was born at Hunslet in 1845, where his birth was recorded (Ref. xxiii 300) during the third quarter of 1845. However, no record of his baptism, as the youngest child of Thomas Collett and Mary Fletcher Collett, has been found. John was six years old in 1851 and was attending school in Hunslet, while he was living with his family at Branston Street in the town. Following the death of his father during the next decade, John Collett aged 15 and a glass maker, was still living at Branston Street in Hunslet with his widowed mother and older brother Joseph in 1861. According to the next census in 1871, John Collett from Hunslet was 23 and an unmarried boiler maker, when he and his widowed mother were living at the Leeds home of John’s married sister Harriet Howden nee Collett (above). Nine years later, the premature death of John Collett was recorded at Hunslet (Ref. 9b 189) during the second quarter of 1880, when he was said to be only 34 years of age.
36Q5	William Richard Collett, who was later referred to as Bill, was born at Barwick-in-Elmet at the end of 1856 or early in 1857, the eldest child of blacksmith John Collett and Elizabeth Richardson. His birth, using his full name, was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 523) during the first three months of 1857. He was listed as William Collett when he was four, and as William Richardson Collett in 1871, by which time he was working with his father as a blacksmith. That year he and his family were living at Potterton Lane in Barwick. By 1881 and, at the age of 24, William R Collett was unmarried and a blacksmith who was still living at the family home which, by then, was one mile north of Barwick in the village of Potterton.
	It is understood that shortly after the census day William married Mary Hannah Todd at Barwick and, at some later date, the couple left Potterton and settled at Roundhay on the outskirts of Leeds where William continued his trade as a blacksmith. It would appear, from the odd birthplace of the couple’s first child, that the baby was born at Mary Hannah’s home in Thorner. After a few years living and working at Roundhay, William and his family returned to Potterton Lane in Barwick where they were living in 1891 when blacksmith William R Collett was 34 and Mary H Collett was 29. Their children were recorded as Ella R Collett who was nine, Annie I Collett who was five, Albert V Collett who was three, Hilda Collett who was one year old and Sarah who was under one year old. Completing the household was William’s younger brother Fred Collett (below) who was 16 and an apprentice blacksmith.
	By 1901 the family was residing at Town Street in Barwick, where William R Collett was 44 and still working as a blacksmith, with his younger brother Fred (below). His wife was listed in the census as Mary H Collett of Thorner aged 39. Living with them were seven children, daughters Annie I Collett aged 14, Hilda Collett aged 11, Sara Collett aged 10, Edith M Collett who was eight and Olive I Collett who was three, and their sons Albert V Collett who was 13 and William Ed Collett who was one-year-old. The two eldest daughters Ella and Lina had already left the family home by then, when all of the remaining children were said to have been born at Barwick. The marriage of William and Mary produced a total of eleven children, the last one being son Leslie who was born three years later in 1904. In addition to the blacksmith business William doubled as a horse doctor, while his wife Mary performed the role of a quack doctor for the village people. More information on this is provided in Appendix 4.
	William took over the family blacksmith business upon the death of his father in the first ten years of the twentieth century. In those early days William also employed his much younger brother Frederick Collett (below) as an apprentice blacksmith who had left the business by April 1911. This photograph was taken around 1909 and shows Bill Collett (on the right) outside the blacksmith’s shop with Sidney Plews who married Bill’s daughter Sally. The small boy in the picture is Bill’s youngest son John Leslie Collett.
	According to the census return for 1911, the family living at Barwick-in-Elmet at that time comprised blacksmith William Richard Collett who was 54, his wife Mary Hannah Collett who was 49, and their children, Lina Collett who was 26, Albert Victor Collett who was 23 and a blacksmith working with his father, Hilda Collett who was 21, Olive Irene Collett who was 13, William Edward Collett who was 11, and John Leslie Collett who was six years of age. Also living with the family was grand-daughter Marion Braithwaite Collett, who was two years old and the base-born daughter of Lina Collett, and boarder Walter Eccles who was 45 and from Barwick, as were all the others, except Mary Hannah Collett and William Edward Collett who were born at Thorner and Leeds respectively.
	YE OLDE SMITHY
	The building containing the blacksmith’s shop and smithy was originally built with a thatched roof (as seen in the photo above) and was attached to the back of two adjoining cottages that fronted Main Street. The two cottages were ‘Ye Attic Abode’ and ‘The Drop Inn’ – see previous article from the Leeds Mercury of June 1930. Early one morning in 1911 Bill Collett opened up the smithy in the usual way to light the forge for the day’s work, following which he returned to the house for his breakfast. All of a sudden, the thatched roof collapsed and fell in on the smithy, but fortunately, under the weight of the thatch, the fire was smothered.
	However, the structure of the smithy suffered severe damage and had to be demolished and a new workshop was built on the site. The two adjoining cottages were also demolished shortly after and they too were rebuilt. At that time the artists occupying ‘Ye Attic Abode’ moved to alternative premises at The Boyle in Barwick. The replacement buildings are still there today and the workshop is now used as a garage by the present occupants of number 70 Main Street. And it was the dwelling today known as 70 Main Street that had been built by the Collett family over two hundred years earlier and had remained in their ownership until 1966 when Hilda, the last daughter of blacksmith Bill Collett, died there.
	When William’s younger brother Fred died in 1910, the family business was left in the capable hands of Bill Collett until he died at Barwick in 1936. The death of William R Collett was recorded at Tadcaster register office (Ref. 9c 965) during the last quarter of 1936, when he was 79. At that time, with no further male members of the family to take it over the business, it passed out of the Collett family after nearly one hundred and fifty years. In June 1930 the Leeds Mercury ran a story with the headline “Blacksmith of 76 – The Oldest in Yorkshire”. The full transcript of the article can be found in Appendix 1 at the end of this family line.
	In a later article in the same newspaper printed in April 1932, Bill Collett recalls earlier times in his life in the village of Barwick and a copy of this is provided in Appendix 2. An article in The Barwicker Magazine in 2008 written by Joyce Hidden nee Collett of Frinton-on-Sea referred to this William Collett as William the Third (Collett blacksmith). Joyce’s great great grandfather was William Collett the Second and her grandfather was the aforementioned apprentice blacksmith Frederick Collett.
	36R1		Ella Richardson Collett			Born in 1882 at Thorner
	36R2		Lina Collett			Born in 1884 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36R3		Annie Isabel Collett			Born in 1886 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36R4		Albert Victor Collett			Born in 1887 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36R5		Hilda Collett			Born in 1889 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36R6		Sarah Collett			Born in 1890 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36R7		Edith Mabel Collett			Born in 1892 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36R8		unknown Collett			Infant death at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36R9		Olive Irene Collett			Born in 1898 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36R10		William Edward Collett			Born in 1899 at Leeds
	36R11		unknown Collett			Infant death at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36R12		John Leslie Collett			Born in 1904 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36Q6	Emma Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet during 1858, the second child and eldest daughter of John and Elizabeth Collett, whose birth was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 495) during the last three months of the year. In the census records of 1861 and 1871 she was listed as being two years of age and 12 years old and, on both occasions, she was living with her family at Potterton Lane in Barwick. Ten years later in April 1881 Emma Collett, aged 22 and of Barwick, was working as a domestic servant and housemaid at the home of the Reverend Vicar, William H Elliot at Blue Bell Road in Stainton, Middlesbrough.
	It was during the first three months of 1885 when Emma Collett was married at Tynemouth to the much younger Robert Henry Foster who was born at Stockton in County Durham around 1863. Robert was a blacksmith like Emma’s well-known uncle Bill Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet, so it may have been through her uncle that she met Robert Foster. Once they were married the couple settled in the town of Hebburn, to the east of Gateshead, and it was there that all of their children were born.
	By the time of the Hebburn census in 1891 Emma had presented Robert with their first five children, although on the day of the census Emma was not with her family in Hebburn, but was recorded a few miles south at Houghton-le-Spring where she was simply listed as Emma Foster, aged 32 from Potterton. The rest of her family was recorded as Robert H Foster, aged 28 from Stockton, Edith Foster who was eight, Rosa Foster who was four, Ivy Foster who was two, Albert Foster who was one and Alice Foster who was under one year old.
	Ten years later, a further son had been added to the family which comprised Robert H Foster, aged 36, who was a coach builder, his wife Emma Foster, who said she was 37 instead of her actual age of 42, and their children; Edith who was 18, Rosa who was 14, Ivy who was 12, Albert who was 11 and Harold Henry Foster who was two years old. It is assumed that their youngest daughter Alice had not survived beyond infancy. It was about six years later that Emma’s daughter Ivy Foster left the family home and often visited her Uncle Bill Collett in Barwick, where she became involved with the artists at the Attic Abode, next door to the smithy, one of whom, George Duxbury, painted her portrait. In 1909 she married George Ernest W Robson at Newcastle and they had a daughter Ivy Robson. By that time in her life Ivy had a flourishing theatrical career, and later progressed from being a dancer to a classical and acrobatic dancer performing in many countries in Europe and in India.
	Her stage name was Ivey Collette and in 1916 she took part in a production of ‘Theodore & Co’ at the Gaiety Theatre in London, the first production by Ivor Novello and Jerome Kern. The show, in which she played the part of Lady Diana Camden, ran for 503 performances, and in 1921 The Tatler magazine published a very glamorous photograph of her with the words “Miss Ivey Collette formerly of the Gaiety Theatre, is now delighting visitors at Spa in Belgium with her dancing in the ballroom”.
	When Ivy’s married failed sometime after that, she was remarried in 1926 at St George’s Church in Hanover Square to shipping businessman Thure F R Reuter. Sadly, during the 1960s Ivey died from asphyxia, when she fell asleep in bed while reading and smoking, the fallen cigarette causing the mattress to smoulder away. At that time her daughter, who had changed her name to Cynthia, went to live in Majorca with Ivey’s second husband. As regards her parents, in April 1911 Emma Foster nee Collett was 52, and was living in South Shields with her husband Robert Henry Foster, aged 47, daughter Rosa Foster, aged 24, and her sons Albert Foster, aged 21, and Harold Henry Foster who was 12.
36Q7	Ann Elizabeth Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1860 and was one year old in 1861 when living at Potterton Lane in Barwick with her family and ten years old in 1871. In 1881 at the age of 20 years Ann was working as a kitchen maid at Potterton Hall in Barwick, the home of Justice of the Peace and landowner Bathurst E Wilkinson who was born in India.
36Q8	Albert Batty Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1863, although his birth was recorded at Bramham (Ref. 9c 545) during the third quarter of that year. He was seven years old in the census of 1871, but no further record of him has been found in any subsequent census return, no has any record of his death been discovered.
36Q9	John Thomas Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1865, with his birth recorded at Braham (Ref. 9c 598) during the last quarter of the year. He was aged five years in the census of 1871 and 15 in 1881 when it was confirmed that he was living with his family at Potterton, just north of Barwick. Ten years later John T Collett aged 25 was continuing to work in the family business and was a blacksmith still living in Barwick with his parents. Around five years after that he married Annie from Bradford, and by March 1901 they had two children and were living with them in Barwick.
	On that occasion John T Collett was 35, his place of birth was confirmed as Barwick-in-Elmet and his occupation was that of a blacksmith. Living with him at Barwick was his wife Annie who was 40, and their two sons Norman Collett who was three, and Ackroyd Collett who was just one year old. Annie may well have been expecting the couple’s third child on the day of the census, since later that year she gave birth to a daughter while the family was still living at Barwick. And it was there that they were recorded in April 1911 when John Thomas Collett was 45 and a colliery blacksmith, Annie Collett was 50, Norman Collett was 13, Ackroyd Collett was 11, and Margaret Elizabeth Collett was nine years old.
	The death of John T Collett was recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 279) during the first quarter of 1943, when he was 77 years old.
	36R13		Norman Collett			Born in 1897 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36R14		Ackroyd Collett			Born in 1899 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36R15		Margaret Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1901 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36Q10	Benjamin Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet towards the end of 1867, his birth recorded at Bramham (Ref. 9c 636) during the fourth quarter of the year. He was three years of age in 1871 and was 13 years of age by 1881 when he was living with his family at Potterton near Barwick. He married Lucy Ann Broome of Huddersfield during the third quarter of 1888, the event recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 749). The witnesses were Ada Johnson and Walter Vollans. The marriage is known to have produced at least four children and once married the couple settled in Castleford where their first three children were born, before moving to Gomersal towards the end of the century where the fourth child was born.
	In 1891 Benjamin Collett was 23, Lucy A Collett was 24, and baby Amy E Collett was one year old, while the family was living at Castleford. Also living with them was Benjamin’s younger brother George H Collett who was 19. The Gomersal census of 1901 confirmed that Benjamin was 33 and Lucy Ann was 34, and their four children were Amy who was eleven, John who was nine, Harry who was seven, and George who was two years old. Benjamin’s occupation at that time was stated as being a gas meter inspector.
	The census return for Gomersal in 1911 recorded the family residing near the gas works, where Benjamin Collett, aged 43 and from Barwick, was a gas works fitter employed on the manufacture of gas. His wife Lucy Ann was also 43 and their four children were Amy Elizabeth Collett who was 21, John Elvin Collett who was 19, Harry Collett who was 17 and George Albert Collett who was 12. At the time of the announcement of the death of their son Harry Collett in May 1916, Benjamin and Lucy Ann were again living at The Gasworks in Gomersal. It may have been there also, that they were still residing in February 1917 when they received notification from the War Office that their eldest son John Elvin Collett had been killed at Flanders. The death Benjamin Collett was recorded at Bradford register office (Ref. 9b 212) during the first three months of 1927 at the age of 59, just two years before the marriage of his youngest and only surviving son.
	36R16		Amy Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1889 at Castleford
	36R17		John Elvin Collett			Born in 1891 at Castleford
	36R18		Harry Collett			Born in 1893 at Castleford
	36R19		George Albert Collett			Born in 1898 at Gomersal
36Q11	Charles Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in the summer of 1869, his birth recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 630) during the third quarter of the year. He was one year old in 1871 and was 11 years of age in 1881 when living with his family at Potterton near Barwick. According to the Barwick census in 1891, when he was 21 and an agricultural labourer, he was unmarried and still living with his family at Town Street in Barwick. After a further ten years, and at the age of 30, Charles Collett was still living with his parents at Town Street, from where he was working as a thrashing traction engine driver.
	Not long after that Charles married Florence Barker at Barwick, where the couple’s two children were also born. Their wedding was recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 917) during the second quarter of 1902. And it was at Barwick-in-Elmet that the family was still living at the time of the census in 1911. The census return on that occasion listed the family as Charles Collett from Barwick-in-Elmet who was 41 and a traction engine driver, his wife Florence Collett who was 40 and also born at Barwick, their son Stanley Collett who was six and their daughter Violet Collett who was four years of age.
	36R20		Stanley Barker Collett			Born in 1904 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36R21		Violet Collett			Born in 1906 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36Q12	George Henry Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1871, his birth recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 659) during the third quarter of the year, a son of John and Elizabeth Collett. He was aged nine years in the census of 1881 when he and family were living at Potterton, near Barwick. Ten years later at the age of 19, George H Collett was living at Low Oxford Road in Castleford, the home of his older brother Benjamin Collett (above) and his family. At that time in his life, George was 19 and was a gasworks labourer. No record of George has been found in the next census of 1901 and after a further ten years he was living at Featherstone. At that time in his life unmarried George Henry Collett was 39 and a servant at the home of George and Elizabeth Priestley. On that occasion he gave his place of birth s Potterton, to the north of Barwick-in-Elmet. He was 72 years old, when the death of George H Collett was recorded at Pontefract (Ref. 9c 135) during the second quarter of 1943.
36Q13	Frederick Collett, who was referred to as Fred, was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1874, the ninth child of blacksmith John Collett and his wife Elizabeth. In fact, his birth was recorded using the name Fred Collett at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 766) during the fourth quarter of 1874. He was six years of age in the April census of 1881 and upon leaving school Fred became an apprentice blacksmith, working with his older brother William and his father John Collett in the family business at Potterton Lane. In the Barwick census of 1891, he was actually living with the family of his brother William Collett (above) at Potterton Lane where, as Fred Collett, he was 16 and an apprentice blacksmith.
	Around 1898 he married Mary Ellen Burnett, who was known as Polly, and who was also born at Barwick. The marriage resulted in the birth of five children for Fred and Mary, some born at Barwick, while John was born at Garforth. Tragically, however, the first two children both suffered infant deaths. By the time of the census in March 1901, the couple’s first child had been born and passed away. Therefore, Fred and Mary were recorded as a childless couple living at Bow Hill Road in Barwick, where blacksmith Fred Collett was 26 and while his wife Mary E Collett was 25.
	Fred’s father died during the first ten years of the new century, at which point he continued to work as a blacksmith at Potterton with his brother William for a short time. During that decade Mary presented Fred with their next four children. It was also around this time that Fred left the family business and took up a blacksmith’s job at a local coal mine, where he looked after the pit ponies. When that happened, the family blacksmith business passed solely into the hands of his brother William Richard Collett (above).
	Sadly, in 1907, one year after the death of his second child, Fred was taken ill and suffered attacks. Over the following years he was cared for in a home, but was final admitted into hospital in 1910. The hospital in question was the Wakefield Lunatic Asylum at Stanley, just to the north of Wakefield. It was a year later, during the first three months of 1911 that Frederick Collett died, with his death being reported to the Wakefield register office (Ref. 9c 38) when he was described as being only 35.
	The census in April 1911 recorded that Mary Ellen Collett from Barwick, was living at the Barwick home of her brother Edward Burnett, together with her two young sons. Mary Ellen was 35 and a widow, and her two sons were John (later known as Jack) who was four and born at Garforth, and Ernest who was two years old and born at Barwick. It is not clear where Mary’s daughter Florrie or Florence was at that time.
	Edward Burnett was 31 and was married with three children of his own by then. He later established himself as the celebrated ‘Maypole Master’ of Main Street in Barwick-in-Elmet. It is also interesting to note, that possibly following the death of his father, the aforementioned John (Jack) Collett, the son of Fred and Mary Ellen, lived with his uncle Dick Burnett at The Boyle in Barwick, prior to settling down to live in Main Street and almost next door to his uncle Edward Burnett.
	36R22		Wilfred Collett			Born in 1899; died in 1900 at Barwick
	36R23		Fred Collett			Born in 1902; died in 1906
	36R24		Florence Collett			Born in 1904 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36R25		John Collett			Born in 1906 at Garforth
	36R26		Ernest Collett			Born in 1908 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36Q14	Mary Hannah Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1877, her birth recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 772) during the third quarter of the year. She was three years old in April 1881 and 13 in 1891. Just after the turn of the century she was not married and was still living with her parents at the family home at Town Street in Barwick was she was 23 and working in domestic service.
36Q15	Ernest Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1879 and was one year old in the census of 1881, his birth having been recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 773) during the third quarter of 1879. He was 11 years old in 1891, when living with his family at Town Street in Barwick. Eight years later, Ernest married Lily Neal and it was with her family at Elland Road in Castleford that the couple was living in 1901, just a few months after giving birth to the first of their two children. The census that year described the three of them as son-in-law Ernest Collett, who was 21 and a general cart man, Lily Collett was 24, daughter of Alfred and Jane Neal, and Harry Collett who was three months old was their grandson.
	The following year their daughter was born while Ernest and Lily were still living in Castleford. Tragically, the premature death of Ernest Collett, aged 24, was recorded at Hemsworth register office (Ref. 9c 112) during the fourth quarter of 1903, after less than four years as a married man. His widow later married Sam Smith Sawyer, their wedding recorded at Pontefract (Ref. 9c 227) during the third quarter of 1908. By 1911, Lily had given birth to two more children. For some reason though, her son Harry Collett was placed in the care of the Duckinson family in Castleford, where he was living in 1911. Lily kept her daughter Annie Collett living with her after she remarried, when the Sawyer family were also living in Castleford, where Lily Sawyer was 34 and Annie Collett was eight years old. Sam Smith Sawyer was 39 and a colliery labourer, and his two children by Lily Collett were William Sawyer who was two and Sam Sawyer, not yet one year old.
	36R27		Harry Collett			Born in 1900 at Castleford
	36R28		Annie Collett			Born in 1902 at Castleford
36Q16	Edwin Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet, just after his parents were married there, with him being born before the end of 1858 or early in 1859, with his birth recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 529) during the first quarter of 1859. He was two years old in the Barwick census of 1861 and 12 in the next one in 1871, the eldest of the family’s five children on that day. On leaving school, Edwin joined his father as a blacksmith, as confirmed in the Barwick census of 1881, when Edwin was 22 years of age and still living at the family home on Potterton Lane. On that day, his younger brother John (below) was also working with Edwin and their father. His life was cut shortly six years later, when the death of Edwin Collett was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 480) during the quarter of 1887, at the age of 28.
36Q17	Henry Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1860, his birth recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 521) during the last three months of 1860. He was living in Barwick with his family in 1861 and 1871 but, tragically he died shortly before the next census. The death of Henry Collett from Barwick-in-Elmet was also recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 461) during the first three months of 1881.
36Q18	John William Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet at the end of 1862 or a little after, with his birth recorded at Bramham (Ref. 9c 574), near Tadcaster, during the first quarter of 1863, as were his younger siblings. As John Wm Collett, he was eight years old in the Barwick census of 1871 and in 1881 he was still living there at Potterton Lane, the age of 18, when he was working as a blacksmith with his father and older brother Edwin (above) in the family business. Something rather strange happened to his family during the next decade, since by 1891 his father George Collett had left Barwick and was living in Keighley. John W Collett was 28, and was still living in Barwick at that time, with his mother Ada Collett 58, and his youngest sibling Kate Collett who was sixteen.
	Within three years John’s mother had died, at which time he took over the dwelling on Town Street and was where he was living, as head of the household, in 1901. John W Collett of Barwick was 38 and a general labourer. Where he was in 1911, has still not been determined, while it was on 14^th September 1920 that John W Collett died, at the age of 59.
36Q19	Joseph Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1865, when his birth, like that of his older brother and younger siblings, was recorded at Bramham (Ref. 9c 645) during the second quarter of that year. He was listed as being six years old in the census of 1871. By the time he was 15 years old, in April 1881, he was employed as a farm servant on the 140-acre-farm belonging to widow Sarah Wilkinson in the Up-Town district in Barwick. In 1891 he was 23 and still working on a farm, but at Shadwell Lane in Wigton, near Wetherby, where he met his future wife. It was on 27^th December 1892, at Walton, near Wetherby, that Joseph Collett, the son of George Collett, married Mary Pawson, the daughter of James Pawson. Mary had been born at Little Ribston, to the north of Wetherby.
	Just after the turn of the century, Joseph was recorded as being 35 when he was living at Manor Road in Holbeck, where his occupation was that of a flock mill drayman. The census confirmed that he was born at Barwick and that he was married to Mary, who was 36 and born at Little Ribston. Living with the childless couple on the day of the census in 1901, was Mary’s younger brother Edward Pawson. Ten years later, the census in 1911, identified Joseph Collett from Barwick as being married, aged 44, and living and working at Armley-with-Bramley, where he was employed as a foreman in a shoddy mill. On that day he was at the lodging house of Emily Salt from Barwick who was 56.
	The death of Joseph Collett from Barwick-in-Elmet was recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 673) during the first quarter of 1934, when he was 68. It now seems likely that, just after the census in 1901, his wife Mary was expecting the birth of their first child and returned to her parents’ home in Wetherby to have the child. That sadly, did not happen, and it was at Wetherby register office (Ref. 3a 91) that the death of Mary Collett was recorded during the second quarter of 1902, when she was 37. Therefore, it may have been an enumerator error that her husband was recorded as a married man in 1911.
36Q20	Alfred Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1867, the son of George Dalby Collett and his wife Ada Towler. His birth was recorded at Bramham (Ref. 9c 636) during the last quarter of that year. Alfred was three years old age in 1871 and by 1881 he was still living at the family home in Potterton Lane in Barwick when he was 13 and still attending school. Sometime during the latter half of the 1880s he met his future wife (1) Eliza Buckborough who was born at Harewood seven miles from Barwick, to the north of Leeds. They were eventually married at Harewood on 17^th October 1888, when Alfred’s father was confirmed as George Collett and Eliza’s father was named as George Buckborough. It would appear that the first years of their married life was spent at Harewood, where their two known children were born. By 1891 Eliza, who was 25, had presented Alfred with two daughters, Kate Collett who was two and Lucy Collett who was one year old. The family of four, at that time, was residing at Lamb Hill in Armley, from where Alfred Collett, aged 23 and from Barwick, was working as a brewer’s drayman.
	However, no further children appear to have been added to their family, possibly resulting from the death of Eliza a little while later. Following the death of his wife Alfred married the much younger (2) Sarah Jane Ibbetson from Knaresborough on 22^nd February 1898, the wedding taking place at Christ Church in Harrogate. On that occasion Alfred was 30 and a brewer, living in Armley, whose father George Collett was deceased, while Sarah’s father was named as Christopher Ibbetson. The wedding was recorded at Knaresborough register office (Ref. 11a 112) during the first three months of 1898.
	By the time the census was conducted in March 1901, Alfred had fathered a son and a daughter with Sarah, when the family was residing at 5 Gledhow Street in the Armley area of Leeds. The census return described the family as Alfred Collett who was 33 and born at Barwick who was employed as a beer brewer, Sarah J Collett who was 20, Kate Collett who was 12, Lucy Collett who was 11, both born at Harewood, Arthur Collett from Harrogate who was one year old, and daughter Bertha Collett who was seven months old and born in Leeds, presumably at 5 Gledhow Street.
	One more child was added to their family three years later but, tragically, after a further four years, the death of Alfred Collett was recorded at Bramley register office (Ref. 9b 254) during the first three months of 1908 when he was 40. Not too long after being made a widow, Sarah Jane Collett married William Turner from Belfast, and moved to Keighley to live with him, taking with her just her daughter Bertha. Just prior to the next census in 1911, Sarah presented her second husband with a son, Joe Turner who was not yet one year old. Sarah Jane Turner from Knaresborough was 31 and her daughter Bertha Collett was 10 years of age. It has been determined that Alfred Collett’s eldest daughter Kate, was married by then, while no trace of daughter Lucy has been found. As regards the two absent children of Alfred and Sarah Jane, Arthur Collett and Eveline Collett had been taken into the care of their uncle and aunt Albert Robinson and his wife Sarah Annie Robinson at 3 Jacksons Court on Park Lane in Leeds. Sarah Annie had been born at Knaresborough, thus making the family connection with Arthur and Eveline’ mother, albeit she was twenties older than Sarah Jane. On that day in 1911, Arthur Collett from Harrogate was 11 years old and Eveline Collett from Leeds was six years of age, both of them attending school.
	36R29		Kate Collett			Born in 1889 at Harewood
	36R30		Lucy Collett			Born in 1890 at Harewood
	The following are the children of Alfred Collett by his second wife Sarah Jane Ibbetson:
	36R31		Arthur Collett			Born in 1899 at Harrogate
	36R32		Bertha Collett			Born in 1900 at Armley, Leeds
	36R33		Eveline Collett			Born in 1905 at Armley, Leeds
36Q21	George Arthur Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1872, his birth recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 677) during the second quarter of 1872. In 1881 George Arthur was nine years old and was living with his parents George Dalby Collett and Ada Collett at Potterton Lane in Barwick. On leaving school, George entered into domestic service and eventually left Yorkshire, when he travelled south to Devon. By the time of the census in 1891, George A Collett from Yorkshire was 20 and a footman at a large house at Higher Terrace in the Tormoham area of Torquay. No record of George has been found in 1901, while it was during third quarter of 1906 that George Arthur Collett married Caroline Amelia Pengilley, their wedding recorded at the Buckinghamshire Eton register office (Ref. 3a 1710). Caroline was born at Tilehurst, the daughter of Isaac and Emily Pengilley, her birth recorded during the last three months of 1877. During the first four years of their live together, Caroline presented George with two daughters, both of them born after the couple settled in White Waltham near Maidenhead.
	According to the census in 1911, George Arthur Collett was 39 and a licenced victualler who was living with his young family at White Waltham in Berkshire. His wife was confirmed as Caroline Amelia Collett who was 33 and born at Tilehurst, near Reading. On that day their two children were named as Constance Emily Collett who was three and Florence Sybil Collett who was one year old. George employed two servants, presumably to help in his work. The couple’s last child was born only a few weeks later and her birth, like those of her older sisters, was recorded at Maidenhead register office.
	The birth of Constance Emily Collett on 9^th July 1907 was recorded during the third quarter of 1907 (Ref. 2c 395, that of Florence Sybil Collett during the first quarter of 1910 (Ref. 2c 378), and that of Frances L M Collett during the second quarter of 1911 (Ref. 2c 388). Constance never married and died at the end of 1983, while still living in the Maidenhead area.
	36R34		Constance Emily Collett			Born in 1907 at White Waltham
	36R35		Florence Sybil Collett			Born in 1909 at White Waltham
	36R36		Frances L M Collett			Born in 1911 at White Waltham
36Q22	Kate Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1874, the last child of George and Ada Collett, whose birth was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 757) during the third quarter of the year. It was at Potterton Lane in Barwick that she and her family were living in 1881, when Kate was six years old. By 1891, her father, a former blacksmith in Barwick, had become a farmer in Keighley, when Kate, aged 16, was still living with her mother and brother John (above) at Town Street in Barwick. Over eight years after that day, and following the death of her mother, Kate married George Spencer, the event recorded at Wetherby (Ref. 9a 243) during the last quarter of 1899. Less than two years later, the childless couple was residing on Manston Lane in Barwick, where George was 22, and a horseman working on a farm, and Kate Spencer was 26.
36Q23	Richard Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1852, the only children of William Collett who died in 1854 and his wife Catherine Perkin. The birth of Richard Collett was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 465) during the third quarter of that year. He was eight years of age in the Barwick census of 1861, where he was living with his widowed mother. No trace of his has been found in 1871, while it was two years after that the marriage of Richard Collett and Ann Cockshott was recorded at Keighley (Ref. 9a 234) where she was born, during the first three months of 1873. It was also at Keighley that all of their children were born. In 1881, the family was living at 18 Orleans Street in Keighley, where Richard’s occupation was that of a carter. Both he and his wife were 28 and their children were, Jane Collett who was eight, Hiram Collett who was six and Harry who was nine months old.
	Over the following years, the marriage produced two more children, both born at Keighley and, again in 1891, the completed family was still living on Orleans Street in Keighley, where Richard was 38 and still employed as a carter. His wife Ann was also 38 and their five children were, Jane who was 18, Hiram who was 16, Harry who was 10, John who was seven, and Willie Collett who was three. The family was still living at Keighley in 1901, but at Devonshire Street, where the only change being that daughter Jane was married by then and was also living in Devonshire Street with her young family. Richard Collett, aged 48, was then working as a coal carter, Ann Collett was 48 and the remaining children still living in the family home were Hiram Collett who was 26, Harry Collett who was 20, John Collett who was 17 and Willie Collett who was 13.
	Over the next few years all of the couple’s children left the family home, with some of them still living within the Keighley area in 1911. As a result, the census that year revealed that Richard and Ann Collett were both 58 and living alone in Keighley, when Ann’s place of birth was once again confirmed as Keighley. The main difference from ten years earlier, was that Richard’s occupation in 1911 was that of a farmer who was dairy farming. Just less than eleven years later, the death of Richard Collett was recorded at Keighley register office (Ref. 9a 267) during the first quarter of 1922.
	It was at 27 Braithwaite Road, in the Braithwaite district of Keighley, that the widow of Richard Collett died on 28^th February 1929, the death of Ann Collett recorded at Keighley register office (Ref. 9a 356) during the first three months of that year. During the probate process for her Will, which was proved in London on 24^th April that year, no member of her family was named as executor. Instead, they were recorded as Samuel Dixon Wood, a farmer, and Samuel Clapham, a solicitor, when her personal effects amounted to £815 16 Shillings.
	36R37		Jane Collett			Born in 1873 at Keighley
	36R38		Hiram Collett			Born in 1875 at Keighley
	36R39		Harry Collett			Born in 1880 at Keighley
	36R40		John Collett			Born in 1884 at Keighley
	36R41		Willie Collett			Born in 1888 at Keighley
36Q25	Joseph Arthur Collett was born at Gomersal in 1860, his birth recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 440) during the third quarter of the year. As Joseph A Collett, he was included with his family in the Gomersal census of 1871, when he was 10, and again in 1881 when he was 20 and a painter, living with his family at Oxford Road in Gomersal, and working with his father, a master painter. Joseph was 30 years old by the time of the census in 1891 and was still working with his father at Gomersal. It was the same situation ten years later in March 1901, when Joseph was 40 years old and was still living at Gomersal where he was still employed by his father and was working as a painter.
	Five years later, Joseph Arthur Collett became a married man at the age of 45, his wife being the much younger Eveline Haigh. Their wedding day was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 1233) during the third quarter of 1906. Two children were born to the couple before 1911 when, on the day of the census that year, Joseph A Collett was 50 and still living at Gomersal, where he was a labourer working at a worsted mill. His wife Eveline Collett was 32 and from Barnsley, and their two Gomersal born children were Mary Ellen Collett who was four and Archibald Collett who was two years old. It is quite possible that there were further children born to the couple after 1911. The birth of their daughter was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 563) during the first quarter of 1907, although she may have been born at the end of 1906. The death of Joseph A Collet was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 828) during the first quarter of 1934, when her was 73.
	36R42		Mary Ellen Collett			Born in 1907 at Gomersal
	36R43		Archibald Collett			Born in 1909 at Gomersal
36Q26	William Henry Collett was born at Gomersal in 1862, his birth recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 490) during the second quarter of the year. He was nine years of age in the Gomersal census of 1871 and in 1881, at the age of 18, he was working as a servant and butcher at the Oxford Road home in Gomersal of 23-year-old butcher John Ellison of Gomersal. That was very near to William’s own family who also lived in Oxford Road in Gomersal. John Ellison’s elderly father Joseph Ellison, a builder, lived in the adjacent property next door to the two young men. It is interesting, that by 1891, William H Collett was 29 and a butcher who was still living at Oxford Road, but with the family of elderly Joseph Samuel Ellison when William was described as his son-in-law, Hannah Maria Ellison being his wife, who was 37 and also born at Gomersal.
	Curiously, it was two years earlier, when the marriage of William H Collett and Hannah Maria Allott was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 959) during the third quarter of 1888. It is therefore very likely that she had been widowed by the death of her previous husband. Hannah presented William with their only child in 1892 while the couple were still living in Gomersal. That was confirmed in the next census of 1901, by which time the family had moved to Liversedge, midway between Cleckheaton and Heckmondwike, where they were residing at Walker Lane. William H Collett was 39 and a butcher, Hannah M Collett was 47 and their daughter Annie Collett was eight years old. And it was at Liversedge that the family was still living ten years later in April 1911 when William Henry Collett was 48, a butcher and meat purveyor, his wife Hannah Maria Collett was 55, and their daughter Annie Collett was 18, both described as assisting with the family business.
	The birth of their daughter was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 622) during the fourth quarter of 1892. She later married Walter Gledhill, their wedding recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 1877) during the second quarter of 1920. Their daughter, Marie Gledhill was born in 1923, her birth recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 914) during the second quarter of the year. The death of William H Collett was recorded at Spen Valley (Ref. 2d 345) during the third quarter of 1946, when he was 84.
	36R44		Annie Collett			Born in 1892 at Gomersal
36Q27	Alfred Collett was born at Gomersal and possibly at the end of 1863 or early in 1864, because his birth was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 514) during the first three months of the later. He was seven years old in 1871 when he was living there with his family in Gomersal. Ten years later, he was 17 with no stated occupation, when he and his family were living on Oxford Road in Gomersal. By 1891 Five years later the marriage of Alfred Collett and Jane Alexander was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 806) during the third quarter of 1896. Jane born at Devizes in Wiltshire during 1859. Shortly after they were married, Alfred and Jane initially settled in Barnsley, where their daughter was born, before moving to Wakefield, where their son was born.
	By the time of the census in 1891, the young family of four was residing at Beamsley Street in Manningham, near Bradford, where Alfred Collett was 27 and a grocer’s assistant. His wife Jane Collett from Wiltshire was 32, and their two children were Lillie Collett who was three and George L Collett who was two years old. Although no record of his death has been found within the next few years, after a further five years, the marriage of Jane Collett and John William Roebuck was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 1150) during the last quarter of 1896. John himself had also recently been widowed and already had a daughter when he married Jane.
	That situation was confirmed in the next census of 1901, when John W Roebuck from Swillington was 37 and a tram engine driver and Jane from Devizes was 41. The couple was living at Bradford Road in Gomersal with three children. They were Winnie Roebuck from Batley who was eleven years old, Lillie Collett from Barnsley who was 13 years old and working as a domestic nurse and George L Collett from Wakefield who was 12 years of age and still attending school.
	Ten years later in April 1911, both of Jane’s two older Collett children had left the Roebuck household. Her daughter Lillie Collett was living in Gomersal with her grandfather, whereas it is not known what happened to her son George, since no record of him has been found in that year’s census when he would have been 22. However, Jane Roebuck - formerly Collett, aged 52 and from Devizes, was still living in Gomersal with her second husband John William Roebuck who was 47, together with his daughter Winnie Roebuck aged 21.
	36R45		Lillie Collett			Born in 1887 at Barnsley
	36R46		George Lancelot Collett			Born in 1888 at Wakefield
36Q28	George Herbert Collett was born at Gomersal in 1866, his birth recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 548) during the second quarter of the year. He was four years old and 15 years of age in the censuses of 1871 and 1881, while living at Oxford Road in Gomersal with his family. On both occasions he was simply named as George H Collett. By 1891 he had left the family home and was a boarder living at Station Road in Featherstone when unmarried G H Collett was 25 and a book-keeper. Ten years after George H Collett was still a bachelor living in Pontefract at Southgate as a boarder at the home of Reuben and Rachel Moody. The census in March 1901 confirmed that he was 34 years of age and born at Gomersal, and that he working as a colliery book-keeper. Just over one month later George Herbert Collett married Mary Elizabeth Smith on 11^th May 1901 at All Saints Church in Pontefract. The groom’s father was confirmed as Benjamin Collett, while the bride’s father was named as John Smith, deceased. Once married, they settled in Pontefract where, a year later, the first of their two known children was born.
	By April 1911 the family of four was still living at Tanshelf in Pontefract, where George Herbert Collett from Gomersal was 44 and still working as a colliery clerk and his wife Mary Elizabeth Collett was 40 and from Shipley. The couple’s two daughters were both confirmed as having been born at Pontefract, and they were Mary Lilian Dawson Collett who was eight and Margery Collett who was six years old. Many years later, the death of George H Collett was recorded at Pontefract register office (Ref. 2c 702) during the first quarter of 1955, when he was 88.
	36R47		Mary Lilian Dawson Collett			Born in 1902 at Pontefract
	36R48		Margery Collett			Born in 1904 at Pontefract
36Q29	Charles Collett was born in 1870 at Gomersal, his birth recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 612) during the second quarter of the year. He was under one year old in the census of 1871. The family was living at Oxford Road in Gomersal in 1881 when Charles was 11 years of age. Nine years later, the marriage of Charles Collett and Emma White was recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 599) during the third quarter of 1890 although, rather strangely, no record of the couple has been found six month later in the census of 1891. However, during the next decade and a half, Emma presented Charles with at least five children, all of them born while the couple was living in Leeds. Charles had followed in his father’s footsteps and became a house painter, as was his older brother Joseph (above).
	By March 1901 the family, living at Raglan Place in Leeds, was made up of Charles who was 30 and from Gomersal who was working as a house painter, his wife Emma from Leeds was also 30, and sons Harry Collett who was seven, Charles W Collett who was four and Archie Collett who was two years of age. Emma may have been with-child on the census day, since she gave birth to the couple’s only daughter later that same year. A fifth child was added to the family two years later, but tragically just a few months after the birth, Charles and Emma suffered the loss of their second son Charles, whose death was recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 317) during the quarter of 1903, when he was six years of age. The birth of Charles William Collett had also been recorded there (Ref. 9b 465) during the last three months of 1896. That loss to the family was confirmed by the census in 1911 when the remainder of the family was living at 150 Woodhouse Street in Leeds.
	The census also confirmed that house painter Charles Collett from Gomersal was 40, like his wife Emma, and that their four children were Harry Collett aged 17, Archie Collett aged 12, Elsie who was nine and Fred who was seven years old. By the time son Harry had left school and was working with his father as a painter. The later death of Charles Collett was recorded at Lower Agbrigg register office (Ref. 9c 202) during the last quarter of 1939, when he was 69 years old.
	36R49		Harry Collett			Born in 1893 at Leeds
	36R50		Charles William Collett			Born in 1896 at Leeds
	36R51		Archie Collett			Born in 1898 at Leeds
	36R52		Elsie Collett			Born in 1901 at Leeds
	36R53		Fred Collett			Born in 1903 at Leeds
36Q30	Walter Ewart Collett was born at Bramley in Leeds in 1870, his birth recorded at Bramley (Ref. 9b 349) during the second quarter of the year. He was under one year old in 1871 and was ten years of age in 1881. For the latter he was living with his parents at Burley Village, just north of Leeds, in the Headingley-cum-Burley area of the city. His mother died nine years later and his father was taken ill and placed in an infirmary, leaving their son as head of the household in 1891. On that census day, Walter Collett was 20 and a cloth cutter living alone in Burley Village. It was in the middle of the following year that the marriage of Walter Collett and (1) Sarah Ellis was recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 838) during the third quarter of 1892. Sarah was born in Leeds and, by 1901, she had presented Walter with a daughter, who was also born at Leeds.
	That was confirmed in the census that year, when Walter E Collett and his wife were both 30 years of age and their daughter Florence E Collett was two years old, when they were residing at Ashton Mount in Potter Newton. At that time in his life, Walter’s occupation was that of a tailor’s cutter, as it was in 1911. No further children were added to the family, which later moved to the Wigan area, where they were living in 1911. The census that year listed the family as Walter Ewart Collett aged 40, Sarah Collett aged 41, and their daughter Florrie Ellis Collett who was 12.
	Walter Ewart Collett was still alive and living in Leeds with his wife when she died in 1924. Sarah Collett nee Ellis died at the family home at 19 Burley Lodge Road on 1^st December 1924, and her Will was proved in Wakefield three weeks later on 24^th December that same year. Under the terms of her Will, it was her husband Walter Ewart Collett, a tailor’s cutter, who was the sole beneficiary, inheriting £195 3 Shillings 2 Pence. Less than three after being widowed, Walter E Collett married (2) Christina Wilson, their wedding recorded at Leeds North register office (Ref. 9b 1098) during the third quarter of 1927. That second marriage lasted just seven years, when the death of Walter E Collett was also recorded as Leeds North register office (Ref. 9b 347) during the fourth quarter of 1934.
	36R54		Florence Ellis Collett			Born in 1898 at Leeds
36R1	Ella Richardson Collett was born at Thorner in 1882, where her mother had been born in 1861, with her birth recorded at Wetherby under her full name during the second quarter of 1882 (Ref. 9a 126). Thorner is approximated two miles from Barwick-in-Elmet where her father was born and where Ella lived for most of her formative years. It was at Potterton Lane in Barwick that she was living with her family in 1891, when she was nine years old. According to the next census in 1901, Ella R Collett was 19 when she working as a general domestic servant at Vernon Street in Leeds, the home of Martha Burnett and her sister Alice Burnett, both born in Scotland. Eight years later the Ella married Ernest Goodall, the event recorded at Tadcaster register office (Ref. 9c 1545) during the second quarter of 1909. By 1911, their daughter had been born at Barwick, where the family was living in 1911. Ernest Goodall was 26 and a blacksmith, Ella Collett was 29 and daughter Florence Goodall was one year old. later married and became Mrs Ella Goodall, following which she presented her husband with a son Reg Goodall.
	Two years after that census day, Ella gave birth to a son, when the birth of Reginald Goodall was recorded at Tadcaster register office (Ref. 9c 2079) during the second quarter of 1913. The birth of the couple’s next child was also recorded there (Ref. 9c 1840) during the third quarter of 1916, for son Stanley Goodall. Ella Richardson Goodall, nee Collett, was residing within the Wharfdale area of Yorkshire when she died at the age of 59, her death recorded there (Ref. 9a 454) during the third quarter of 1940.
36R2	Lina Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet, possibly at the end of 1884 or early in the following year, as her birth was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 817) during the first quarter of 1885. She was six years old in the census of 1891 when, on that occasion, she was a visitor at the home of Joseph Braddock and his married sister Elizabeth Tattle and her son Joseph. Also living at the dwelling on Stockton Street in Moss Side, Manchester, was Annie H Dyson aged 31, another visitor and very likely Lina Collett’s travelling companion. In 1901, Lina Collett from Barwick-in-Elmet was 16 years old and back living in Yorkshire, when she was listed in the Headlingley-with-Burley area of Leeds as a domestic servant at the Victoria Terrace home of Horace and Mary Ellis.
	It may be of interest to note, that also living at Burley in 1901 were two other, seemingly unrelated, Colletts. They were (a) George H Collett who was born at Barnstaple in 1880 and who is featured in Part 34 – The Appleford Line [Ref. 34Q10], and (b) Clara A Collett nee Elliott, a 26 years old photographer born at Moorthorpe in Yorkshire in 1874 and the daughter of Richard and Barbara Elliott who was aged 6 in 1881. So far, no details are forthcoming about this family.
	Lina was once again living in Barwick-in-Elmet in the latter half of the next decade, where she gave birth to a base-born daughter Marion. The father of the child was farmer Tom Braithwaite and, in the census of 1911, Lina and her daughter were living with her parents William Richard Collett and his wife Mary Hannah at Barwick. The census return that year, recorded Lina Collett of Barwick as 26 but with the married or single column of the form not completed, it being left blank. With her, was her daughter Marion Braithwaite Collett aged two years and also born at Barwick. One year on, the marriage of Lina Collett and Thomas Braithwaite was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 1597) during the second quarter of 1912, after which her daughter took her father’s surname.
	36S1		Marion Braithwaite Collett			Born in 1908 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36R3	Annie Isabel Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1886, her birth recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 791) during the second quarter of the year. She was five in the census of 1891 and was 14 in the 1901 Census, and on both occasions was living with her family at Town Street in Barwick. Less than a year after that, when Annie was only 15, her death was recorded at Tadcaster register office (Ref. 9c 536) during the first three months of 1902.
36R4	Albert Victor Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1887, his birth recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 773) during the third quarter of that year. He was three years of age and with his family at Potterton Lane in Barwick in 1891 and was 13 in 1901 when listed as still living with his family in Barwick. By April 1911 he was recorded in that year’s census as Albert Victor Collett, aged 23, a bachelor and a blacksmith working with his father William Richard Collett, while living in the family home in Barwick. He later became a farmer and lived at Main Street in Barwick, from where he was married in 1917. The marriage of Albert Victor Collett and Annie E Fletcher was recorded at Tadcaster register office (Ref. 9c 1583) during the second quarter of 1917 and produced four sons. They were married for thirty-seven years, when the death of Albert V Collett was recorded at Barkston Ash register office (Ref. 2d 585) during the quarter of 1954, when he was 66.
	The birth of all four son was recorded at Tadcaster register office and, in each case, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Fletcher. Allen Collett was the eldest (Ref. 9c 1717) during the first quarter of 1918, and second was George E Collett (Ref. 9c 2186) during the last quarter of 1919. The third child was Raymond Collett (Ref. 9c 1866) during the final quarter of 1920, with the birth of the couple’s fourth child Geoffrey Collett recorded (Ref. 9c 1775) there during the third quarter of 1924. When the death of Raymond Collett was recorded at Leeds in the summer of 1980, his date of birth was confirmed as 21^st November 1920.
	36S2		Allen Collett			Born in 1918 at Barwick
	36S3		George E Collett			Born in 1919 at Barwick
	36S4		Raymond Collett			Born in 1920 at Barwick
	36S5		Geoffrey Collett			Born in 1924 at Barwick
36R5	Hilda Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1889, her birth recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 6316) during the third quarter of the year. She was eleven years of age in the 1901 Census for Barwick where she was living with her parents. Ten years later she was still living with her parents at Barwick at the age of 21. Hilda never married and had her unmarried sister Olive Irene Collett (below) living with her for most of her life, at the house in Main Street in Barwick built by the Collett family two hundred years earlier. The death of Hilda Collett was recorded at Barkston Ash (Ref. 2d 473) during the second quarter of 1966, when she was 77. Upon her death, the Collett family house in Main Street was sold. As a result, it was the first time in its two-hundred-year history that it was not own and occupied by a Collett.
36R6	Sarah Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet at the end of 1890 or early in 1891, when her birth was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 833) during the first three months of the latter. She was under one year old by the time of the 1891 Census. In the Barwick census of 1901 when she was ten years of age, she was listed as Sara Collett, although she was also known as Sally. She was still unmarried in 1911, by which time Sarah Collett was 20 years of age and was working in domestic service at Ringwood in Hampshire home of the Pennington family from Garforth in Yorkshire. That day, the census return completed by her employer described Sarah as being from Potterton who was working as the domestic cook. There were three domestic servants at the house, one of which was Sarah’s younger sister Edith Mabel Collett (below). Seven years later, Sarah Collett was back in Barwick where she met Sidney Plews who worked with her father Bill Collett, the blacksmith. Their wedding ceremony took place in Barwick and was recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 1661) during the fourth quarter of 1918. After they were married, the couple left Barwick and moved to Collingham near Wetherby, and it was there that their son Laurie Plews was still living in 2008.
36R7	Edith Mabel Collett, who was known as Mabel, was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 10^th January 1893, her birth recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 581). She was eight years old in 1901 and, ten years later, Edith Mabel Collett was 18 when she was living and working in the Ringwood, Hampshire, with her older sister Sarah Collett (above). Edith never married and became a nursing sister and later in her life she ran a nursing home in Keighley. The death of Edith Mabel Collett was recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 2c 481) during the summer of 1977, when she was 84.
36R9	Olive Irene Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1898, while her birth was recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 565) during the first three months of the year. She was three years old in the Barwick census of 1901 and ten years later, at the age of 13, Olive was still attending the school in Barwick while living there with her family. Like two of her older sisters, Hilda and Edith Mabel (above), Olive never married and lived all her life with her unmarried sister Hilda in the Collett family home in Main Street in Barwick. The death of Olive I Collett was recorded at Barkston Ash register office (Ref. 2d 471) during the second quarter of 1963, at the age of 66.
36R10	William Edward Collett, who was referred to as Ted, was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 25^th May 1899. His birth was recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 578) during the third quarter of that year. At the time of the Barwick census of 1901, he was just one year old. In April 1911 he was eleven and was attending school in Barwick where he was still living with his family. Later in his life he established himself as a keen cricketer and billiards player. He was married to Gladys Atkinson, the event recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 1996) during the third quarter of 1924. They lived at Garforth, to the south of Barwick, where their three daughters were born. It was within the first few months of 1988 that he died, his death recorded at Leeds, when he was 88. The birth of all three girls was recorded at Tadcaster register office, when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Atkinson.
	36S6		Kathleen S Collett			Born in 1925 at Garforth (Qtr 1)
	36S7		Marjorie G Collett			Born in 1927 at Garforth (Qtr 3)
	36S8		Joan Dorothy Collett			Born in 1936 at Garforth (Qtr 2)
36R12	John Leslie Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 9^th October 1904 and was six years old at the time of the Barwick census in 1911 when he was listed with his family as John Leslie Collett, although it would appear that he was later referred to as Leslie. He later married Emily Dixon, their wedding recorded at Leeds North register office (Ref. 9b 641) during the fourth quarter of 1936. The marriage produced one son. The death of John Leslie Collett was recorded at Leeds (Vol. 5 0937) towards the end of 1981, when he was 77 years old.
	36S9		John A D Collett			Born in 1938 at Leeds
36R16	Amy Elizabeth Collett was born at Castleford on 26^th September 1889, the eldest child of Benjamin Collett and Lucy Ann Broome. It was at Gomersal that she was living with her family in 1901, at the age of 11, and again in 1911 when she was 21 and listed as Amy Elizabeth Collett. Four years later, the marriage of Amy E Collett and William Clegg was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 1575) during the second quarter of 1915. And it was as Amy Elizabeth Clegg that her death was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Vol. 4 1297) during the first months of 1985, at the age of 95.
36R17	John Elvin Collett was born at Castleford in 1891, the eldest son of Benjamin and Lucy Ann Collett, his birth recorded at Pontefract (Ref. 9c 141) during the third quarter of the year. He was then baptised at Castleford on 6^th September 1891. It was simply as John Collett aged nine years that he was living with his family in Gomersal in March 1901, but was recorded as John Elvin Collett, aged 19, in the Gomersal census of 1911, when he was a house painter. A second tragedy struck his family in 1917, following the death of his younger brother Harry (below) in 1916, when John Elvin Collett, Private 40682 with the Northumberland Fusiliers, was killed in action during the Great War on 11^th February 1917. The memorial at Ploegsteert bears his name. His military record confirms he enlisted with the army at Halifax, that he was attached to 23^rd Battalion of the Tyneside Scottish Regiment, and that he was killed at Flanders. A headstone marks his grave at the churchyard of St Mary the Blessed Virgin in Gomersal.
36R18	Harry Collett was born at Castleford in 1893, with his birth recorded at Pontefract (Ref. 9c 142) during the second quarter of that year. He was baptised at Castleford on 7^th June 1893, the son of Benjamin and Lucy Ann Collett. Not long after he was born his family moved to Gomersal where Harry was seven in 1901 and 17 in 1911, by which time he was a worsted spinner overlooker. He joined the Royal Navy and saw active service as Ordinary Seaman J/49879 with the torpedo-boat destroyer HMS Shark. Tragically he was killed on 31^st May 1916 when the Shark was sunk by German destroyers at the Battle of Jutland, the only major sea battle of the First World War. Only six of the original 91 officers and crew survived.
	The ship’s Commander Loftus William Jones lost a leg when under fire from the destroyers and was helped onto a life raft by a petty officer but died shortly after. His body was later washed up on the coast of Sweden where he was buried. As a result of his actions during the Battle of Jutland and the earlier ‘Scarborough Raid’, he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross medal. The name of Harry Collett appears amongst those listed on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial (reference 14) who lost their lives and of which only six of the original 37 crew members survived. A headstone marks his grave at the churchyard of St Mary the Blessed Virgin in Gomersal, where one was erected for his brother John (above) during the following year.
36R19	George Albert Collett was born at Gomersal on 2^nd August 1898, the youngest of the children of Benjamin Collett and his wife Lucy Ann Broome, his birth recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 637). George was two years old in the Gomersal census of 1901 and as George Albert Collett he was 12 years of age in 1911. It was on 5^th November 1929 that George Albert Collett married (1) Dorothy Houghton, the daughter of Thomas Houghton, at St John the Baptist Church in Wakefield. The event was recorded at Wakefield register office (Ref. 9c 127) when George Albert Collett was described as a civil servant of 10 Bond Street in Wakefield, while his bride, Dorothy Houghton, was a spinster of Manchester. The father of the groom was confirmed as Benjamin Collett, deceased, a former gas worker, with Dorothy’s father described as Thomas Houghton, deceased, a former clothier.
	As far as is currently known, George and Dorothy had three children, the first of whom was born in Doncaster, the second born within the same year but after the family had settled in Wakefield, where the couple’s third child was born. George Albert Collett was living within the Leeds area when he died in 1982 at the age of 83, following which his death was recorded at Leeds register office (Vol. 05 0220) during the first quarter of that year. In April that same year his son Peter wrote a letter which confirmed his father had very recent passed away and that he and his sister Pauline had travelling to Leeds to be with their stepmother, thus indicating that George’s wife Dorothy had died at an earlier time, and that he had remarried following her death. Go to Anthony Peter de Houghton to see a copy of that letter.
	36S10		John Albert de Houghton Collett							Born in 1931 at Doncaster
	36S11		Anthony Peter de Houghton Collett							Born in 1931 at Wakefield
	36S12		Pauline Yvonne de Houghton Collett							Born in 1935 at Wakefield
36R20	Stanley Barker Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1904, the older of the two known children of Charles Collett and Florence Barker, his birth recorded at Tadcaster register office (Ref. 9c 963) during the last three months of the year. As simply Stanley Collett, he was living with his parents in 1911 at the age of six years. He was around twenty-five years old when the marriage of Stanley B Collett and Ethel Margery Robinson was recorded at the Wirral register office (Ref. 8a 96) during the fourth quarter of 1929. The wedding ceremony was conducted at Eastham in The Wirral. Ethel was the daughter of William Robinson, while Stanley was confirmed as the son of Charles Collett. The couple’s only known child was Beryl Collett whose birth was also recorded at the Wirral register office (Ref. 8a 611), during the second quarter of 1930, following which she was baptised at Eastham on 11^th May 1930.
	36S13		Beryl Collett			Born in 1931 at the Wirral, Merseyside
36R24	Florence Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1904, the only daughter of Fred Collett and Mary Ellen Burnett, her birth recorded at Tadcaster (Ref. 9c 997) during the third quarter of that year. Rather curiously, no record of her has been found in the census of 1911, when her mother and two brothers were living in Barwick and, also, no record of her death during those intervening years has been found.
36R25	John Collett who was known as Jack, was born at Garforth in 1906, the eldest surviving son of blacksmith Fred Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet and Mary Ellen Burnett. The year he was born, also was the year his brother Fred died, and by the time of his fifth birthday his father had died while only 35. At the time of the census in 1911, John was four years old, and he and his widowed mother and younger brother Ernest were living at Barwick with his uncle Edward Burnett, his mother’s brother.
	As a child he lived with his other uncle, Dick Burnett, at The Boyle in Barwick. Later in his life, he also lived at Main Street in Barwick, just two doors from (uncle) Edward Burnett the celebrated Maypole Master, with whom he was living at the time of the census in 1911.
	In 1929 Jack Collett married Gladys Avison at Westgate Hill in Bradford. Gladys was the eldest daughter of Walter and Martha Ann Avison, and was born within the Bramley, Leeds area. The marriage produced five children for Jack and Gladys, and all of them very likely born at Bradford. The family photograph here, was taken at the 70^th Wedding Anniversary celebration in 1999.
	Seated on the left is Jack Collett (senior) and between him and his wife Gladys, is their son Jack. Standing behind are (from the left) daughters Sheilagh, Edith, Gloria, and Joyce. Jack Collett was still living in Bradford in 2003, when he died at the age of 97.
	36S14		John Collett			Born in 1930 at North Bierley, Bradford
	36S15		Joyce Collett			Born in 1932 at North Bierley, Bradford
	36S16		Gloria Collett			Born in 1937 at North Bierley, Bradford
	36S17		Edith Collett			Born in 1942 at Bradford
	36S18		Sheilagh Collett			Born in 1946 at Bradford
36R26	Ernest Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1908, the youngest son of Fred and Mary Ellen Collett. In 1911, the year his father died, Ernest was three years of age and was living with his mother and brother John at the Barwick home of his uncle Edward Burnett. It is known that Ernest was married during his life, and that he had a son who provided him with two granddaughters who were still alive in 2010. Like his sister Florrie (above), Ernest Collett also died during the first half of the 1990s. The marriage of Ernest Collett and Annie Jackson and that their wedding was recorded at the Bradford North Bierley register office (Ref. 9b 21) during the second quarter of 1931, the birth of their only known child was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 96) during the last three months of that same year, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Jackson. It was the same, when their daughter’s birth was recorded at the Bradford North Bierley (Ref. 9b 90) during the first quarter of 1934, for the birth of son John at Bradford register office (Ref. 9b 39) during the first three months of 1938, and there also where son Derek was born.
	36S19		Brian Collett			Born in 1931at Dewsbury
	36S20		Beryl Collett			Born in 1934 at North Bierley
	36S21		John Collett			Born in 1938 at Bradford
	36S22		Derek Collett			Born in 1943 at Bradford
36R27	Harry Collett was born at Castleford on 1^st December 1900, his birth recorded at Pontefract register office (Ref. 9c 149) during the first quarter of 1901. He was baptised at Castleford on 27^th January 1901, the first of the two children of Ernest Collett and Lily Neal. In the Castleford census of 1901, Harry was three months old, when he and his parents were staying with his maternal grandparents Alfred and Jane Neal. His sister Annie was born during the following year, and at the end of the next year their father died or was killed in an accident at work. After that, Harry and his sister were split up, with Harry Collett aged 10 years and from Castleford was living with the Duckinson family in Castleford, where he was described as the nephew of Albert and Alice Duckinson. Nothing else is known about his life, except that the death of Harry Collett was recorded at Pontefract register office (Vol. 5 974) during the summer of 1987.
36R28	Annie Collett was born at Castleford in 1902, where she was baptised on 28^th September 1902, the second child of Ernest Collett and Lily Neal. Her birth, like that of her brother (above), was also recorded at Pontefract register office (Ref. 9c 145) during the fourth quarter of 1902. She was one year old when her father died, following which, four years later, her mother remarried Sam Smith Sawyer at Castleford, and it was with them that Annie Collett, aged eight, was living at Castleford in 1911.
36R29	Kate Collett was born at Harewood in 1889, the eldest child of Alfred Collett and Eliza Buckborough. By 1891, when Kate was two years of age, she and her family were living in the Wortley & Bramley district of Leeds. Before she was ten years old, her mother died and her father remarried and, at the time of the next census in 1901, when Kate was 12, she was living at 5 Gledhow Street in Armley with her father, her stepmother Sarah, her sister Lucy (below), and her two half-siblings Arthur and Bertha Collett. Her father passed away in 1908 and shortly after that Kate married Walter Ernest Henson. In the census of 1911, the childless couple was living in Wharfedale where Walter was 27 and Kate from Harewood was 22.
36R30	Lucy Collett was born at Harewood in 1890 and was one year old in the Wortley & Bramley census of 1891 and was 11 years of age by the time of the census in 1901. By that time her mother had died and her father had remarried, the new family then residing at 5 Gledhow Street in Armley, Leeds. Her father died less than seven years later and no record of Lucy Collett has been found in 1911 after it is evident that family was broken up.
36R31	Arthur Collett was born at Harrogate in 1899, the son of Alfred Collett and his second wife Sarah Jane Ibbetson. His birth was recorded at Knaresborough register office (Ref. 9a 106) during the third quarter of 1899. He was one year old in March 1901 when he and his family were living at 5 Gledhow Street in Armley, Leeds. Upon the death of his father in the first few months of 1908, he and his younger sister Evaline (below) were taken into the family of drayman Albert Robinson and his wife Sarah Annie Robinson at their three-roomed home at 3 Jacksons Court, Park Lane in Leeds. They had been married for twenty-two years, during which time they had given birth to two children, James Wear Robinson who was 18 and Mary Ann Robinson who was 16. Arthur Collett, aged 11 years and from Harrogate, was described as nephew to Albert Robinson, whose wife had been born at Knaresborough twenty years before Arthur’s own mother Sarah Jane had been born there.
	On reaching the eligible age for military service, Arthur Collett from Harrogate was based in Liverpool at the age of 17, when he was assigned to the 72^nd Battalion of the Training Reserve. That was in 1917, and two years late, after peace had been declared, he was still in Liverpool with the 1^st Provisional Company of the King’s Liverpool Regiment, service number 111672. Although not yet verified, there is a chance that the Arthur Collett who married May Price at Liverpool in 1925, was the son of the late Alfred Collett and Sarah Jane Ibbetson. That married was recorded at Liverpool register office (Ref. 8b 155) during the third quarter of that year.
	The two daughters from that marriage were Thelma M Collett, whose birth was recorded at Liverpool register office (Ref. 8b 361) during the second quarter of 1926 and Cecily A Collett whose birth was also recorded there (Ref. 8b 303) but during the third quarter of 1933. In both cases, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Price.
	36S23		Thelma M Collett			Born in 1926 at Liverpool
	36S24		Cecily A Collett			Born in 1933 at Liverpool
36R32	Bertha Collett was born in 1900 at 5 Gledhow Street in Armley, her birth recorded at Bramley register office (Ref. 9b 399) during the third quarter of the year. She was the daughter of Alfred and Sarah Jane Collett who was seven months old in the Armley census of 1901. After the death of her father in 1908, her mother married William Turner from Belfast, with whom Bertha and her mother were living in 1911. On that occasion Bertha Collett from Leeds was 10 years old and attending school, while being described as the stepdaughter of William Turner at his home in Keighley, his wife being Bertha’s mother Jane who by then had given birth to Joe Turner, Bertha’s half-brother. Seventeen years after that, the marriage of Bertha Collett and Arthur Slater was recorded at Keighley register office (Ref. 9a 445) during the third quarter of 1928.
36R33	Eveline Collett was born at 5 Gledhow Street in Armley in 1905, the last know child of Alfred Collett and his second wife Sarah Jane Ibbetson. Her birth was recorded at Bramley register office (Ref. 9b 343) during the second quarter of that year. She was around three years old when her father died, which appears to have resulted in a break-up of the family. By April 1911 Eveline Collett from Leeds was six years old and the niece of Albert and Sarah Annie Robinson with whom she and her brother Arthur (above) were living at 3 Jacksons Court in Park Lane, Leeds
36R37	Jane Collett was born at Keighley in 1873, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 9a 182) during the second quarter of that year. She was the first child of Richard Collett from Barwick-in-Elmet and Ann Cockshott from Keighley and was eight years old in 1881, when living with her family at Orleans Street in Keighley. On leaving school, Jane worked as a worsted weaver, as confirmed by the next census return, when Jane and her family were still residing at Orleans Street. Six years later, the marriage of Jane Collett and William Pickles, from Bradford, was recorded at Keighley register (Ref. 9a 372) during the fourth quarter of 1897. Jane gave birth to two children, who were living with the couple on Devonshire Street in Keighley, where her parents were also living in 1901. William Pickles was 30 and a chair maker, Jane Pickles was 28, Edgar Pickles was three and Harry Pickles was one year old.
	More children were added to their family during the next decade, with the family still living in Keighley in 1911. William was 40, Jane was 38, Edgar was 13, Harry was 11, Ernest Pickles was nine, Annie Pickles was five and Norman was two years old. Staying with the Pickles family and described as the brother-in-law of William Pickles, was Jane’s unmarried brother Hiram Collett (below).
36R38	Hiram Collett was born at Keighley in 1875 and was six years old at the time of the 1881 Census when he was living with his parents at 18 Orleans Street in Keighley. He was aged 16 in 1891 although his name was recorded as Edwin Collett. By 1901 Hiram was 26 and was still a bachelor living with his family at Keighley where his stated occupation was that of a cabinet maker. He was still not married after a further ten years, when cabinet maker Hiram Collett from Keighley was 36 in the Keighley census of 1911. On that occasion, he was living the family of his married sister Jane (above). No record to suggest that he ever married has been found. The death of Hiram Collett was recorded at Keighley register office (Ref. 9a 342) during the first quarter of 1937.
36R39	Harry Collett was born at Keighley in July 1880 and was recorded as being nine months old on 3^rd April 1881. All of his early years were spent at the family home at 18 Orleans Street in Keighley where he was aged 10 years in 1891 and was 20 in 1901 by which time he was working as a grocer’s assistant. Seven years later, the marriage of Harry Collett and Clara Harrison was recorded at Keighley register office (Ref. 9a 362) during the third quarter of 1908. By the time of the next census in 1911, Clara had presented Harry with their first two children, both of them born in Keighley where the family was still living in April that year. Harry Collet from Keighley was 30 and the manager of a grocer’s shop for the Co-operative Society. His wife Clara Collett from Bacup, midway between Burnley and Rochdale, was 32, and their two daughters were Catherine Collett who was one year old, and Alice Collett who was just five months of age. The birth of Catherine Collett was recorded at Keighley register office (Ref. 9a 188) during the third quarter of 1909, while it was there also that all their remaining children’s birth were recorded.
	Just over a year after that first birth, the birth of Alice Collett was recorded at Keighley (Ref. 9a 173) during the fourth quarter of 1910. Four more children were born into the family at Keighley over the next eight years and, in each case, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Harrison. There were Edith A Collett (Ref. 9a 292) during the third quarter of 1912, Mary Collett (Ref. 9a 266) during the fourth quarter of 1916, John Collett (Ref. 9a 224) during the last quarter of 1917, and Ellen Collett (Ref. 9a 215) during the first quarter of 1919.
	36S25		Catherine Collett			Born in 1909 at Keighley
	36S26		Alice Collett			Born in 1910 at Keighley
	36S27		Edith A Collett			Born in 1912 at Keighley
	36S28		Mary Collett			Born in 1916 at Keighley
	36S29		John Collett			Born in 1917 at Keighley
	36S30		Ellen Collett			Born in 1919 at Keighley
36R40	John Collett was born at Keighley on 23^rd August 1884, the son of Richard and Ann Collett. He was seven years old in the Keighley census of 1891, and ten years later in March 1901 he was 17 when he was working as a milk seller, while still living with his parents in Keighley. It was almost five years after that when John married Blanche Letitia Jackson at Keighley in Yorkshire, following which the couple then emigrated to New Zealand where their two children were born. This new information has been obtained through John’s military records, which have been kindly supplied by Susan Jenkins in the Archives Office in New Zealand. Four years prior to their wedding day the census in 1901 identified Blanche L Jackson as still living in Keightley, where she had been born during the third quarter of 1880, when she was working as a wool drawer at the age of 20.
	To further confirm the details, Kelvin Parker in New Zealand kindly provided this additional information in the autumn of 2014. The marriage of John and Blanche was recorded at Keightley (Ref. 9a 322) during the final quarter of 1905, immediately after which they sailed out of Liverpool on board the ship Ayrshire, bound for Auckland in New Zealand. The couple arrived at Auckland on 8^th February 1906, the immigration records stating that John Collett was 22 years of age and a farmer, while his wife Blanche L Collett was 25. Just over four months later the couple’s first child was born in Auckland during the second week of June 1906.
	The family of three was still living in Auckland when their daughter was born fourteen months after the birth of their son. It was ten years later that John enlisted with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, completing the Attestation for General Service on 28^th February 1917. This confirmed his date of birth, the names of his parents in England, and the fact that he had lived in Auckland for eleven years. He was described as being 33, 5 feet 7½ inches tall, weighing 9 stone, with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a fair complexion. With no ailments declared at that time, he was signed off as being fit for duty.
	Also, at that time, he was employed by J J Craig of Auckland, when he was residing at Avoca House on St Georges Bay Road in the Parnell district of Auckland, which was his address on entry into service on 31^st May 1917. Curiously his wife and next-of-kin was listed as living at a different address. Mrs John Collett’s address was 46 Seafield View Road, Grafton in Auckland, just a short distance from Parnell. Private John Collett, service number 396/6315, had only been in service for three days when he was granted leave of absence without pay. That happened on 4^th June 1917 and followed him having a medical examination on 2^nd June at Trentham Camp in Wellington, during which it was discovered that he had severe flat feet. The decision of the Medical Board was that he was unfit for service.
	However, prior to all of this, on 23^rd July 1915, the following article was printed in the Auckland Star under the headline HER HUSBAND GAMBLED. “John Collett did not appear to answer his wife's complaint of ill-treatment, and her request for maintenance. Mr C E Matthews appeared for the complainant. Mrs Collett stated that she was married in 1905 in Yorkshire, and had two children. The trouble with her husband was that he lost his money by gambling. All she wanted was an allowance for her two children. She would not live with her husband again, as he had a very violent temper. She also stated that her husband had burnt her father's photo, also some of her books, as well as table cloths and other linen. Her husband was suspicious and jealous, but the whole trouble was that he would not give up his money. Mr Kettle made an order for separation, also giving the mother guardianship of the two children, and maintenance to the extent of £1 per week.”
	Then, just three weeks before John enlisted with the army the following item was published in the Auckland Star on 9^th February 1917. “John Collett was brought up from Christchurch, where he was earning a guinea a day, to appear this morning in answer to an action taken by his wife, Blanche Letitia Collett, for separation, maintenance and guardianship of two children. Mr Allan Moodie appeared for the complainant, who said her husband was a carter before he went away. They had been married in Yorkshire, and had come to New Zealand eleven years ago. The only money she had received from him for some time was £1, and this was increased by £40 she had collected on a fire insurance policy when her house was damaged. She had taken out separation orders against him before, but had allowed him to come back to her. The last time he left her was on December 22, and he had never returned. A young lady who stayed with complainant corroborated these statements in full. John Collett said he had nothing against his wife. As a carter in Auckland, he had been earning three guineas a week, but at Christchurch he had been earning upwards of a pound a day. He had left her only thrice, and each time in order to better himself. His Worship fixed the maintenance at 30/- a week gave guardianship of the children to the complainant, and adjourned the separation action sine die.” Def. sine die - without assigning a day for a further meeting or hearing.
	It was twelve years after that when the following legal notice appeared in the New Zealand Herald on 22^nd August 1929. “On the ground of adultery decrees nisi were made in the following cases.... which including. Blanche Letitia Collett (Mr Allan Moodie) against John Collett. John Collett was 76 years of age when he died in 1959, while his wife Blanche Letitia Collett, who never remarried after their divorce, died two years later in 1961 when she was 80.
	36S31		John Collett			Born in 1906 at Auckland
	36S32		Lillian (Lily) Collett			Born in 1907 at Auckland
36R41	Willie Collett was born at Keighley in 1888, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 9a 4) during the second quarter of the year. He was the youngest child of Richard Collett and Ann Cockshott and was three years old at the time of the census in 1891, when the family was living at Orleans Street, where he may have been born. He was 13 years old in 1901 and, on both occasions, he was recorded as Willie Collett when he living with his parents in Keighley where he was employed as a worsted doffer working in the cloth industry in 1901. It was seven years later, when the marriage of Willie Collett and Amelia Watkinson was recorded at the Lincolnshire Caister register office (Ref. 7a 1471) during the third quarter of 1908. Amelia was born in 1887 at Buslingthorpe, to the south of Caister. Their first child was born a year later, and named after Willie’s father, who was two years of age in the Keighley census of 1911. Willie Collett was 22 and employed as a farm labourer on a dairy farm, while Amelia was 24. Over the following seventeen years Amelia presented Willie with a further eight children, all of them born at Keighley, where their births were recorded and when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Watkinson.
	36S33		Richard Collett			Born in 1909 at Keighley (Qrt 1)
	36S34		Ann Collett			Born in 1914 at Keighley (Qrt 1)
	36S35		Fanny Collett			Born in 1916 at Keighley (Qrt 1)
	36S36		Fred Collett			Born in 1918 at Keighley (Qrt 1)
	36S37		Marie Collett			Born in 1920 at Keighley (Qrt 2)
	36S38		Dennis Collett			Born in 1921 at Keighley (Qrt 4)
	36S39		John Collett			Born in 1923 at Keighley (Qrt 4)
	36S40		Hiram Collett			Born in 1925 at Keighley (Qrt 1)
	36S41		Peter Collett			Born in 1928 at Keighley (Qrt 2)
36R43	Archibald Collett was born at Gomersal on 4^th May 1909, his birth recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 556) during the second quarter of that year. He was two years of age in 1911, when living at Gomersal with his parents Joseph Arthur Collett and Eveline Haigh and his older sister Mary Ellen. He was twenty-eight when he married Eva Davis, the event recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 1683) during the third quarter of 1936. Just under four years later their son Philip was born, with his birth recorded at Spen Valley register office (Ref. 9b 922) during the first three months of 1940, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Davis. The later death of Archibald Collett was also recorded at Dewsbury in the summer of 1980.
	36S42		Philip Collett			Born in 1940 at Spen Valley
36R45	Lily Collett was born at Barnsley in 1887, the daughter of Alfred Collett from Gomersal and his wife Jane from Devizes, her birth recorded at Barnsley (Ref. 9c 167) during the third quarter of 1887. Although born as Lily Collett, she was more usually known as Lillie Collett and it was as Lillie that she and her family were living at 147 Beamsley Street in Manningham, near Bradford, in 1891, where her father Alfred was working as a grocer’s assistant. Curiously, he seems to have left his family during the next couple of years, although no record of his death has been identified.
	Shortly after that, her mother Jane married widower John William Roebuck in 1896, with they were living at Bradford Road in Gomersal in 1901. By then Lillie Collett from Barnsley was 13 and was already working as a domestic nurse, when she and her brother George L Collett (below), were still living with their mother, Jane Roebuck, and their stepfather John W Roebuck and his daughter Winnie Roebuck from his first marriage.
	During the following years Lily left the Roebuck household, when she went to live with her elderly grandfather Benjamin Collett in Gomersal. That was confirmed by the census in 1911, when Lillie Collett from Barnsley, who was 23 and a dressmaker, was living at the house of 75-year-old widow Benjamin Collett, where she was performing the role of housekeeper. It was later that same year when Lillie Collett married John R Miller, the event recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 1488) during the third quarter of 1911. When their son was born, Lily named him after her father, the birth of Alfred Miller recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 1072) during the second quarter of 1914, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
36R46	George Lancelot Collett was born at Wakefield in 1888, the only son of Alfred and Jane Collett. His birth was recorded at Wakefield register office (Ref. 9c 77) during the last three months of that year. George L Collett from Wakefield was two years old in 1891 when he was living with his family at 147 Beamsley Street in Manningham. In the years after that day, it seems his father may have died, following in 1896 his mother re-married and settled at Bradford Road in Gomersal where the family was living in 1901. On that occasion George L Collett was 12, when he was living with his mother and sister Lillie (above) at the home of his stepfather John W Roebuck and his daughter Winnie Roebuck.
	Ten years after that day, George Lancelot Collett from Wakefield was 22 and a gas meter inspector and fitter in the Gomersal census of 1911. He was still living at the home of his mother Jane Roebuck, her husband John William and his daughter Winnie. Just less than one year later, the marriage of George L Collett and Elsie M Webster was recorded at Goole register office (Ref. 9c 967) during the first three months of 1912. Their daughter Kathleen was born during the following year, the birth of Kathleen Collett recorded at Goole register office (Ref. 9c 2048) in the third quarter of 1913, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Webster. .
	36S43		Kathleen Collett			Born in 1913 at Goole
36R47	Mary Lilian Dawson Collett was born at Pontefract on 5^th July 1902, and it was there, as Mary Lilian D Collett that her birth was recorded (Ref. 9c 128) during the third quarter of the year. On the occasion of her baptism at All Saints Church in Pontefract on 20^th August that same year, that she was recorded as being Mary Lilian Dawson Collett. It was also under her full name that she was living with her family at Tanshelf in 1911. Fourteen years after that census day, the marriage of Mary L D Collett and Robert L Weiss was recorded at Pontefract register office (Ref. 9c 289) during the last three months of 1925.
36R48	Margery Collett was born at Pontefract on 19^th December 1904, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 9c 123) during the first three months of 1905. It was at All Saints Church in Pontefract that she was baptised on 8^th February 1905, the daughter of George Henry Collett and his wife Mary Elizabeth, and was six years old in 1911, but at Tanshelf.
36R53	Fred Collett was born at Leeds on 3^rd August 1903, with his birth recorded there (Ref. 9b 519), the youngest of the four surviving children of Charles Collett and Emma White. It was at 150 Woodhouse Street in Leeds that he was seven years of age in 1911, when living there with his parents and three siblings. It was in the middle of 1927, when he married Mavis, the wedding of Fred Collett and Mavis Wilson recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 1028) during the third quarter of that year. He lived all his life in Leeds and his death there was recorded (Vol. 5 0132) during the summer of 1975, at the age of 72.
	36S44		Brian Collett			Born in 1929 at Leeds
	36S45		Doreen Collett			Born in 1930 at Leeds
36R53	Florrie Ellis Collett was born at Leeds in 1898, the only known child of Walter Ewart Collett and Sarah Ellis, whose birth was recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 534) during the fourth quarter of 1898. She was listed in the Leeds census of 1901 as Florrie E Collett who was two years of age, when living with her parents at Ashton Mount in Potter Newton. Ten years later, Florrie Ellis Collett was still attending school when she was 12 and still living with her parents who, by then had settled in Wigan. Eleven years after that, Florrie had returned to Leeds, where her marriage to George W Conroy was recorded (Ref. 9b 857) during the second quarter of 1922.
36S3	George E Collett was born in 1919, his birth recorded at Tadcaster register office (Ref. 9c 2186) during the last quarter of 1919, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Fletcher. The later marriage of George E Collett and Edna M Poucher was recorded at Yorkshire Pateley Bridge register office (Ref. 9a 121) during the fourth quarter of 1943, although no issue has been found.
36S5	Geoffrey Collett was born on 19^th August 1924 with his birth recorded at Tadcaster register office (Ref. 9c 1775) there during the third quarter of 1924. The subsequent marriage of Geoffrey Collett and Irene Sugden was recorded at Yorkshire Goole register office (Ref. 9b 83) during the second quarter of 1940. Less than three years later the birth of their daughter Margaret Collett was recorded at Wharfedale register office (Ref. 9a 220) during the first quarter of 1944, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Sugden. Geoffrey Collett was 68 years old when he died, his death recorded at Leeds register office during the summer of 1992.
36S9	John A D Collett, whose birth was recorded at Leeds North register office (Ref. 9b 366) during the last three months of 1938, was the son of John Leslie Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet and Emily Dixon. And it was John that had published in The Barwicker village magazine an article about his family that provided some of the details for this update, together with other information written for the same magazine by Joyce Hidden nee Collett (below). It was during the first three months of 1963, when the marriage of John A D Collett and Elaine J Duck was recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 2c 875). Three years later, the birth of Beverley Elaine Collett was also recorded at Leeds (Ref. 2c 679) during the second quarter of 1966, where also the birth of the couple’s second daughter was recorded. That was in 1969 (Ref. 2c 1422) during the second quarter of that year.
	36T1		Beverley Elaine Collett			Born in 1966 at Leeds
	36T2		Andrea Jean Collett			Born in 1969 at Leeds
36S10	John Albert de Houghton Collett was born in the Doncaster area where his birth was registered (Ref. 9c 1359) during the first few weeks of 1931, the eldest child of George Albert Collett and his wife Dorothy Houghton.
36S11	Anthony Peter de Houghton Collett was born after his family had settled in Wakefield where his birth was recorded (Ref. 9c 50) during the last few weeks of 1931, the same year that his brother John (above) was born. In 1982 Peter, as he was known, was residing at a property named ‘Dominoes’ on Cobham Way in East Horsley in Surrey and, at some time in his life, he was a director of the finance company of Piper Wheatley Associates and a director of The Rehearsal Orchestra.
	On 11^th April 1982 Anthony Peter de Houghton Collett wrote the following letter to Peter Collett [Ref. 24P47] in Oslo: Dear Mr Collett, Your name and address have been given to me by a business associate in Norske Shell who knows your cousin Ove Collett. In England I do not often meet people with the surname Collett and I have never come across anyone with both my christian name and my surname. My sister Pauline is likewise intrigued. Recently my father George Collett died in Leeds and last weekend my sister and I travelled from the London area where we both live to visit our stepmother. Because I had heard about you and that fact that you are celebrating this year the 300^th Anniversary of the arrival of James Collett from this country to Norway we both decided to start some research into our own Collett family history. We visited a village near Leeds called Barwick-in-Elmet which is famous for its very tall Maypole. We are told that over the last two hundred years a member of the Collett family has climbed this pole – about 30 metres high – to put a weathervane in the shape of a fox on the top of it. In the graveyard of the local church, we found a large family tomb of the Colletts dated back to 1820. We realise we know very little about my father’s family. On the other hand, my mother comes from a Lancashire family with a long traceable history. There was a television programme of interest to us a year ago on the subject of the Roots of England focusing on the Houghton family and its history from Saxon times. If we can help to carry out and further research for you in this country please let me know. I hope we can meet one day as I occasionally visit Oslo. I should be very interested to learn what celebrations you are arranging and when, and we wish you all success with them. Yours very sincerely, Peter Collett
36S12	Pauline Yvonne de Houghton Collett was born at Wakefield in 1935 and it was at Wakefield register office that her birth was recorded (Ref. 9c 59) during the last quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Houghton. She was the youngest known child of George Albert Collett and Dorothy Houghton.
36S14	John Collett who was known as Jack, was born at Bradford on 1^st January 1930, with his birth recorded at North Bierley register office (Ref. 9b 11), when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Avison). All that is current known about Jack, is that he died at Leeds during January 2006. It is possible, but not proved, that he was the John Collett who married Ann McLean, whose wedding was recorded at Bradford (Ref. 2b 139) during the last three months of 1962. If so, then they had three sons, as listed below. All three of them were born at Bradford and their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as McLean. The first of them married Angela Law at Bradford in 1997, while their second son tragically died later in the year he was born in Bradford.
	36T3		Paul D Collett – not proved			Born in 1963 at Bradford
	36T4		Jonathan David Collett – not proved			Born in 1967 at Bradford
	36T5		Mark Andrew Collett – not proved			Born in 1969 at Bradford
36S15	Joyce Collett was born at Bradford in 1932, the second of five children of Jack Collett and Gladys Avison of Bradford. Her birth was recorded at North Bierley register office (Ref. 2b 69) during the third quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Avison. She later married Norman F Hidden at Bradford in 1960, who died in 2006. In 2008 Joyce Hidden was living at Frinton-on-Sea and was instrumental in providing some details for this family line through an article she had published in The Barwicker magazine in 2008. In 2010, Joyce was still living in Frinton and, once again, provided important new details to enhance this family line. During the first week of December 2020, Joyce’s customary Christmas was received from her three sisters Gloria, Edith and Sheilagh (below), in which they said that Joyce was not very week. Since then, Sheilagh Dickinson has been in touch to say that Joyce Hidden, nee Collett, passed away on 21^st December 2020, at the age of 88.
36S16	Gloria Collett was born at Bradford in 1937, her birth recorded at North Bierley register office (Ref. 9b 6) during the fourth quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Avison. It was during the first quarter of 1962 that her marriage to Terence Abbott was recorded at Bradford (Ref. 2b 265).
36S17	Edith Collett was born at Bradford in 1942, her birth recorded there (Ref. 9b 212) during the third quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Avison. She later married Colin Bennett which was recorded at Bradford (Ref. 2b 211) during the fourth quarter of 1961.
36S18	Sheilagh Collett was born at Bradford in 1946, where her birth was recorded during the last quarter of the year and when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Avison. Her later marriage to (1) Christopher Bailey was recorded at the Worth Valley register office in Bradford (Ref. 2c 5) during the third quarter of 1970. The subsequent marriage of Sheilagh Bailey and (2) David G Dickinson was recorded at Bradford register office (Vol. 4 101) during the first three months of 1976.
36S19	Brian Collett, whose birth was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 96) during the last quarter of 1931, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Jackson, was the first child of Ernest Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet and Annie Jackson who were married in Bradford earlier in the same year. In his early teenage years, he and his family were living in Bradford, where his two younger brothers were born. Brian was around twenty-six years old when his marriage to Norma I Viner was recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 2c 66) during the quarter of 1958. He was still living in Leeds when Brian Collett died on 23^rd June 2010, when he was residing in the Weetwood area of north-west Leeds.
	36T6		a Collett daughter			Date of birth unknown
	36T7		a Collett daughter			Date of birth unknown
36S22	Derek Collett was born at Bradford, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 9b 21) during the second quarter of 1943, the youngest of the four children of Ernest Collett and Annie Jackson. He was twenty-three when the marriage of Derek Collett and Valerie Unwin was recorded at Bradford register office (Ref. 2b 120) during the quarter of 1966. The birth of their first child was recorded at Worth Valley, the next two at Bradford register office, all confirming the mother’s maiden-name as Unwin.
	36T8		Julie Collett	Born in 1969 at Worth Valley (Qrt4 - 2c 46)
	36T9		Dale Collett	Born in 1971 at Bradford
	36T10		Martin Collett	Born in 1976 at Bradford (Qrt 1 – 4 32)
36S31	John Collett was born in Auckland on 10^th June 1906, four months after his parents John Collett and Blanche Letitia Jackson had arrived in New Zealand, and around nine months after their wedding day. His birth was recorded under reference 1906/12833. Nothing further is known about John at this time, except that his death was recorded in New Zealand in 1981 (Ref. 1981/30122). However, there was a John Collett who applied to the City of Auckland No.1 Licensing Authority in February of 1927 to run a bus service between Sturdee Street, City to Lake Road, Ellerslie, that it is possible that he may well have been this John Collett.
36S32	Lillian (Lily) Collett was born at Auckland on 28^th August 1907, her birth recorded under the name of Lilian Collett (Ref. 1907/14683) to parents John and Blanche Letitia Collett. It may have been later in her life that she was known as Lily. When she was around eight years of age her parents separated leaving Lillian and her brother John (above) to be looked after mainly by her mother following their separation in 1915. After that there was a short reconciliation, followed by another separation in 1917, before their divorce in 1929. It is thought that the marriage reported below in the New Zealand Herald, on 18^th February 1931 relates to this Lillian Collett.
	“WILLSON—COLLETT: The marriage was celebrated at St Sepulchre's Church (Auckland) recently of Miss Lillian Collett, only daughter of Mrs L Collett, of Khyber Pass, to Mr Arthur Willson, of Wellington, third son of Mrs L. Willson, of Petone. The Rev. J. E. Draper performed the ceremony. The bride, who was given away by Mr G Smith, wore an ankle-length frock of white satin, with a tight-fitting bodice and flared tiered skirt. Her veil was of embroidered tulle, and she carried a sheaf of St Joseph's lilies, white carnations, roses and lily of the valley. In attendance as bridesmaid was Miss Ethel Ross, who wore an ankle-length, flared frock of coral pink satin georgette, with a pink tulle head-dress, edged with silver leaves. She carried a shower bouquet of pink sweet peas, carnations and blue delphiniums. The little flower girl, Jessie Best, wore an early-Victorian frock of pink crepe de chine, and carried a posy to tone. Mr M Brennen, of Hamilton, was best man. Mrs L Collett received her guests at the reception which followed, wearing a frock of beaded georgette over pink satin and silk fillet lace, and a hat to tone.
36S33	Richard Collett was born at Keighley in 1909, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 9a 287) during the first three months of the year, the first of the nine children of Willie Collett and Amelia Watkinson. Before he was twenty years of age, Richard was self-employed with carter business, which later developed into the major road haulage company of R Collett & Son. One of their current-day heavy haulage lorry was featured in the Collett Newsletter Issue No. 165 at the end of 2020. It was around the time his business was taking off, that he married Marjorie Sanderson, the event recorded at Keighley register office (Ref. 9a 94 during the last three months of 1929. All of the couple’s eight children were born at Keighley, the first shortly after their wedding day, her birth recorded during the same quarter of 1929. In every case the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Sanderson.
	36T11		Maureen Collett			Born in 1929 at Keighley (Qrt 4)
	36T12		Willie Collett			Born in 1931 at Keighley (Qrt 2)
	36T13		Marie Collett			Born in 1934 at Keighley (Qrt 4)
	36T14		Shirley Collett			Born in 1936 at Keighley (Qrt 4)
	36T15		Eunice Collett			Born in 1938 at Keighley (Qrt 2)
	36T16		Christine Collett			Born in 1941 at Keighley (Qrt 1)
	36T17		Richard Collett			Born in 1942 at Keighley
	36T18		Sandra Collett			Born in 1945 at Keighley (Qrt 2)
36S44	Brian Collett was born at Leeds in 1929, the eldest child of and Mavis Wilson, his birth recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 531) during the first three months of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Wilson. It was in 1958 when he married Norma I Viner, the event recorded at Leeds (Ref. 2c 627) during the last quarter of that year.
36S45	Doreen Collett was born at Leeds in 1930, her birth recorded there (Ref. 9b 538) during the second quarter of the year. Doreen was just 20 years of age when she was married, the wedding of Doreen Collett and Geoffrey Luker recorded at Leeds (Ref. 2c 465) during the second quarter of 1950.
36T9	Dale Collett was the second of the three children of Derek Collett and Valerie Unwin, his birth recorded at Bradford register office (Ref. 2b 104) during the fourth quarter of 1971. It was in the summer of 2001 that Dale married Sarah E Hamilton, the event recorded at Bradford register office (Vol. 081). The births of their two children were also recorded at Bradford, Samuel at the start of 2003 (Vol. 08 11e) and Oliver during the summer of 2006 (Vol. 08 11b). In both cases, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hamilton.
	36U1		Samuel Hudson Collett			Born in 2003 at Bradford
	36U2		Oliver James Collett			Born in 2006 at Bradford
36T14	Richard Collett was born at Keighley in 1942, his birth recorded there (Ref. 9a 107) during the third quarter of the year, the youngest son of Richard Collett and Marjorie Sanderson. He eventually joined his father in the road haulage business of R Collett & Son, where his owns son were later employed. It was at Worth Valley register office in Yorkshire that the marriage of Richard Collett and Patricia Gaines was recorded (Ref. 2c 75) during the final quarter of 1960. Nine months later the first of their five children was born. The births of the first two children were also recorded at Worth Valley, while the birth of the last three children were recorded at Halifax. In each case the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Gaines
	36U3		Richard Collett			Born in 1961 at Worth Valley (Qrt 2)
	36U4		David Collett			Born in 1962 at Worth Valley (Qrt 3)
	36U5		Lincoln Collett			Born in 1964 at Halifax (Qrt 1)
	36U6		Mark Collett			Born in 1965 at Halifax (Qrt 2)
	36U7		Michael Collett			Born in 1967 at Halifax (Qrt 3)
	Appendix 1 – Article printed in the Leeds Mercury in June 1930
	BLACKSMITH OF 76 – THE OLDEST IN YORKSHIRE [Ref. 36Q9] Who is the oldest working blacksmith in Yorkshire? At the age of 76 Mr William Richard Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet can lay claim to the title, for he still does every kind of blacksmith’s work, including shoeing horses. He carries on the business founded by his great great grandfather, and is very proud of the fact that his family has lived in Barwick longer than any other. He and his wife and two daughters live in a stone-built house which was built by his great great grandfather and which is over two hundred years old. At one time, the village blacksmith combined the duties of doctor and horse-doctor as well and, in the kitchen, there are still the various medicines for the blacksmith’s human patients. His veterinary medicines are kept in similar drawers in the smithy. Mr Collett remembers his grandfather being called in to stitch the head of a woman who had had a heated argument with her husband. When Mr Collett was speaking about the incident his wife broke in laughingly, “I bet he stitched it with a rusty needle and a piece of tar-band” In his youth Mr Collett had a great reputation as a runner and walker. The hardest work he ever did was when he and his brother made and fitted 68 shoes. There had been a heavy fall of snow on the previous night and an unusual number of horses had to be shod. Another interesting point about Mr Collett’s family is that the first iron harrow used in the Barwick district was made by his grandfather from a model he saw at the Great Yorkshire Show. Due to a shooting accident, in which he lost the use of the toes in his left foot, Mr Collett cannot move about so quickly but still is able to do every job a blacksmith is supposed to do. In these days of motor transport, he does not have to shoe as many horses as he did previously but he still does all that come to him. Four years after this article was published Bill Collett passed away aged 80.
	Appendix 2 – Article printed in the Leeds Mercury in April 1932
	THE BLACKSMITH OF BARWICK An insight into the early life of Bill Collett [Ref. 36Q9] A Family Tradition and a Look at Other Days Barwick-in-Elmet, where the Maypole stands, is the obvious place for a village blacksmith of ancient descent, and William Collett, now 74 years of age, represents the fifth generation of blacksmith of that name in this picturesque spot near Leeds. But even with the heyday of shoeing to look back on, and a craft handed down to him from great great grandfather’s time, it is not particularly upon horse-shoeing that Mr Collett looks back for his liveliest reminiscences. Rather do these concern the time when a colony of Leeds artists and writers made Barwick their week-end and holiday home, in two old thatched cottages, one called ‘Ye Attic Abode’ and the other ‘The Drop Inn’. These two cottages have long been done away with and most of the other thatched roofs in the village have gone but it is still easy to see why Barwick should have appealed to these young fellows of lively mind and artistic bent. Lying away from the main roads, it is a typical English scene. Its trees are of great beauty, it retains its old-world air and it has friendly inns. Ernest Forbes was a particularly lively member of a very lively party, and others in the colony were W Alban Jones the architect, J T Friedensen the black and white artist, Oliver Onions the novelist, Ospovat the most brilliant of them all, who died young, but some of whose work has been secured by the British Museum, and Edmund Bogg, with his great stride, writing his guides to the Yorkshire Dales; he must smile now at all this new ‘pother’ about hiking, as if men had never trusted to their two legs before. “Sometimes they had no money, and sometimes they had” said Mr Collett. “They were lively lads. They locked Mr Jones in a cubby hole and left him, and we had to let him out, but he got his own back by stealing their clothes in the night” These young chaps painted their cartoons on the doors and old-fashioned shutters, both sides, but when the cottage were pulled down, somebody cleaned and repaired the doors for another purpose, and has bemoaned the fact ever since. They made Barwick a lively place. “And no doubt they’ve all settled down now” said Mr Collett. ‘Ye Attic Abode’ adjoined Mr Collett’s smithy. There are not the horses to shoe now that there were, and there are no joiners in Barwick now to build carts and wagons, though there were three once, with all the work they could cope with. Before they could inherit the family smithy, Mr Collett and his father had both in their turn to turn out to work the smithy at Potterton. It was here that Mr Collett’s father used to send to him the awkward horses which he was too old to manage himself, and Mr Collett used to throw them to the ground on the green turf behind the smithy, rope their legs and then shoe them. Mr Collett never shod cattle, but his still has some of the thin, peculiarly-shaped plates which were used by his father and grandfather for that purpose. And as for the Maypole and Barwick Feast Sunday, Mr Collett recalls that these events made for more liveliness than they do now – or at least it seems they did. Certainly, there isn’t the great roasting of beef on jacks before the fire, with the Yorkshire pudding underneath to catch the drippings, that was the way of things on Barwick Feast Sunday long ago. Barwick then used to be so crowded with people and gigs and wagonettes that the vicar had ‘all on’ to make his way to the church.
	Appendix 3 - Village Blacksmith and Doctor
	As already mentioned in the Leeds Mercury article of June 1930, the duties of Doctor and Horse Doctor were shared by Bill Collett and his wife Mary Hannah Collett nee Todd. Bill looked after the horses while his wife, who was a strong character and didn’t waste much time of malingerers, doled out cure-alls from a cabinet of small drawers that hung in their kitchen. Eventually a ‘proper’ doctor from nearby Garforth set up the first surgery in Barwick in the parlour of the Collett’s house and initially used to see patients there on just one day each week. However, this weekly visit by the doctor still ensured that villagers often went ‘round t’ back’ for some of Mary Collett’s medicine.
	Appendix 4 – Displaced Families following the March 2019 update
Ap4/1	William Collett, who was born at Leeds in 1815, but was not the son of Richard Collett and Mary Bulmer, who were married at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 26^th May 1800. William was 25 years old in the 1841 Census and was living in the Leeds-Otley-Pontefract & Tadcaster registration district at that time. Around fifteen months later, the marriage of William Collett and Mary Wilson was recorded at Leeds (Ref. xxiii 51) during the third quarter of 1842. Mary is believed to have been born around 1817 to 1818 at Newbold near Chesterfield, while it was at Leeds that their only known child was born.
	Ap4/2		Thomas William Collett			Born in 1846 at Leeds
Ap4/2	Thomas William Collett was born at Leeds towards the end of 1846, where his birth was recorded (Ref. xxiii 38) during the last quarter of the year. He was the only known child of William Collett and Mary Wilson who was not living with his parents in 1851. Instead, three-year-old (sic) Thomas William Collett was a visit at The Cardigan Arms on Kirkstall Road in Leeds, the home of inn keeper and farmer William Dawson, a widower, and his family. Also employed at the inn was twelve-year-old housemaid Emma Collett [Ref. 55P9], one of the five daughters of William Collett and Sarah Dutton. Thomas William Collett later married Mary A Hewitt who was also born around 1847, but at Ossett-cum-Gawthorpe in Yorkshire, where she was baptised on 30^th May 1847, the daughter of Joseph and Alice Hewitt. It was at Dewsbury, where the wedding of Thomas William Collett and Mary Ann Hewitt was recorded (Ref. 9b 93) during the second quarter of 1869. Less than two years later, the couple and their first child were living at Earls Heaton (also known as Nether Soothill) within the parish of Dewsbury in 1871. Thomas W Collett from Leeds was 24 and a fine cloth drawer, his wife Mary A Collett from Ossett was also 24, and their son Joseph A Collett who was six months old.
	According to the 1881 Census Thomas was a cloth drawer living at 7 Oaks Road in Soothill near Batley. Living with him and wife Mary were their three children all born in Yorkshire, the first at Earls Heaton, the second at Ossett and the third at Hanging Heaton. Ten years later, the Soothill census in 1891, identified the family residing at France Street within the parish, where Thomas W Collett was 44 and a woollen cloth drawer and Mary A Collett was also 44. Still living there with them was their son Joseph A Collett who was 20 and a railway clerk, and their daughters Alice Collett who was 16 and a woollen weaver and Sarah A Collett who was 11 and attending school.
	According to the next census in 1901, the family was still together, although daughter Alice had already left home to be married. The family at that time was living at Soothill Upper and comprised Thomas W Collett and Mary A Collett both of them 54, Joseph A Collett who was 30 and Sarah A Collett who was 21, when Thomas was continuing his work as a cloth drawer. Thomas, Mary and daughter Sarah were still living at Soothill ten years later. By 1911 the three of them were living at Batley, where Thomas William Collett from Leeds was 64 and a fine cloth drawer working at a nearby woollen mill, his wife Mary Ann Collett from Ossett was also 64, when the only member of their family still living with the couple was their youngest unmarried daughter Sarah Ann Collett who was 31. However, living nearby in Soothill, was their married son Joseph with his family.
	Five after that day, the death of Mary Ann Collett was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 99) during the first three months of 1916 at the age of 69. Twenty years later, the death of Thomas William Collett was also recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 56) during the second quarter of 1936, when he was 89 years of age.
	Ap4/3		Joseph Arthur Collett			Born in 1870 at Earls Heaton
	Ap4/4		Alice Collett			Born in 1874 at Ossett
	Ap4/5		Sarah Ann Collett			Born in 1879 at Hanging Heaton
Ap4/3	Joseph Arthur Collett was born at Earls Heaton in 1870, his birth recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 364) during the last quarter of the year. He was therefore around six months old when Joseph A Collett was the only child listing with his parents in the Earls Heaton census of 1871. According to the following census in 1881, he was listed as being 10 years old when he was living with his parents at 7 Oaks Road in the Soothill area of Leeds. On leaving school, he secured the position of railway clerk, as confirmed by the census in 1891, when he was again living at the family home on France Street in Soothill. In the later census records of 1901, his place of birth was given as Soothill Nether (aka Earls Heaton). That year, he was still not married, at the age of 30, when he was still a railway clerk living with his family at Soothill Upper, where he was working as a railway clerk. Around eighteen months later, the marriage of Joseph Arthur Collett and Clara Hepworth, from Heckmondwike, was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 1260) during the last three months of 1903. Clara was already pregnant with their first child on their wedding day, their daughter born within the following six months.
	Just over three years later the couple’s second child was born, as confirmed by the Batley census in 1911. The family of Joseph Arthur Collett from Earls Heaton, who was 40 and still working as a railway clerk for the Midland Railway, comprised his wife Clara Collett who was 33 and born at Heckmondwike, and daughters Edith Hester Collett who was seven years old and also born at Heckmondwike, and Mary Collett who was three years of age and born at Batley. After a further twenty-two years, the death of Joseph Arthur Collett, aged 62, was recorded at the Leeds North register office (Ref. 9b 111) during the third quarter of 1933.
	The birth of Edith Hester Collett was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 623) during the first three months of 1904 while, three years later, the birth of Mary Collett was also recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 559) during the fourth quarter of 1907. It is possible that it was her death that was recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 2c 483) during three first quarter of 1954, when her age was estimated to be 48 years.
	Ap4/6		Edith Hester Collett			Born in 1904 at Heckmondwike
	Ap4/7		Mary Collett			Born in 1907 at Batley
Ap4/4	Alice Collett was born at Ossett, either at the end of 1874 or at the start of the following year, since her birth was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 39) during the first quarter of 1875. She was the second child of Thomas and Mary Collett, and was six years of age and living at 7 Oaks Road in Soothill in 1881. Having left school in 1891, Alice Collett was still living at the family home which, by 1891 was at France Street in Soothill, when she was 16 and a woollen weaver. Seven years after that, the marriage of Alice Collett and Thomas Edwin Clarke was recorded at register office (Ref. 9b 229) during the second quarter of 1898. Before the next census day, Alice gave birth to two daughters, although no obvious record of the family has been identified in 1901. By 1911, the family of four was residing in Bradford, where Thomas Edwin Clarke from Batley was 37 and a fuel economist erector and repairer in the engineering industry, Alice Clarke from Ossett was 36, Margaret Clarke from Wakefield was 11 and Arthur Collett Clarke from Soothill Upper was 10 years old.
Ap4/5	Sarah Ann Collett was born at Hanging Heaton in 1879, her birth recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 295) during the second quarter of the year. She was the third and last child of Thomas William Collett and Mary Ann Hewitt, and was one-year-old in 1881 when living at 7 Oaks Road in Soothill. Sarah’s place of birth in subsequent census records was stated as being Soothill Upper. By the time she was 11, the family home was on France Street in Soothill and, after a further decade, and at the age of 21, Sarah was still living with her family at Soothill Upper, where she was employed as an assistant school mistress. Sarah Ann Collett was still living with her parents at Soothill within the Dewsbury registration district in April 1911, when she was thirty-one and unmarried. Her place of birth at this time was given as Soothill. It is now known that she never married, with the death of Sarah Ann Collett recorded at Worth Valley register office (Ref. 2c 108) during the second quarter of 1959, at the age of 80.
Ap5/1	Mary Ann Collett was born at Leeds in 1829 and was baptised there at St Peter’s Church on 2^nd October 1829, but she was not the daughter of John Shepherd Collett and Mary Robinson, as previously believed.
Ap6/1	Robert Collett was born at Leeds in 1839, but was not the son of John Shepherd Collett and Mary Robinson, as previously believed. Previously written here, it was stated that Robert had married Elizabeth B Carr who was also born in Leeds around 1845. However, following a search of the Leeds records, the only marriage found for a Robert Collett, of the right age, was to Elizabeth Roberts, and that took place during the last three months of 1865 (Ref. 9b 6). It was at Leeds that all three of their children were born and by 1871 their family had been completed. By that time the family was living within the Holbeck registration district near the centre of Leeds. Robert Collett was recorded as having been born at Holbeck and was 24 years of age and working as a journeyman. His wife Elizabeth Collett from Leeds was 22, as was their eldest child Mary H Collett, who was four. The couple’s two younger children, Elizabeth A Collett who was two and Charles C Collett who was one year old, were both born at Holbeck.
	After a further ten years, according to the census conducted in 1881, every member of the family was recorded as having been born in Leeds. Robert Collett was 41 and an unemployed tinker, living at 7 Scarsdale Street in Leeds with his wife Elizabeth Collett who was 35, and three children. They were recorded as Mary Ann Collett who was 15, Alice Collett who was 13, and son C C Collett who was 11. Also listed living with the family was lodger J P Hubershaw, a widower aged 43 and from Sheffield, an unemployed spring forger.
	Over the next decade the couple’s two daughters were married, while one of them was recorded with her parents, together with her two children, according to the census in 1891. By that time, the pair of them was residing at Bowling Green Terrace in the Hunslet area of Leeds, where Robert Collett was 45 (an error) and working as a trimmer, and Elizabeth Collett was 43. Living with them was their unmarried son Charles Collett who was 21 and a wood pattern maker, their married daughter Mary Hannah Green who was a tailoress, and their two grandsons Charles Green and William Green, who were seven years and two years old respectively. Once again, their stated ages in 1900 were inconsistent with previous census returns, and did not match their years of birth. It was at Wortley, just west of Leeds, that Robert Collett from Leeds gave his age again in error, as 54, when his wife Elizabeth B Collett from Leeds was 52. No occupation was credited to either of them, while Robert was described as an invalid.
	Ap6/2		Mary Hannah Collett			Born in 1866 at Leeds
	Ap6/3		Elizabeth Alice Collett			Born in 1868 at Holbeck, Leeds
	Ap6/4		Charles Carr Collett			Born in 1870 at Holbeck, Leeds
Ap6/2	Mary Hannah Collett was born at Leeds in 1866, the first-born child of Robert Collett and Elizabeth Roberts, her birth recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 326) during the second of the year as Mary H Collett. Before she was two years of age, her father’s work took the family the short distance to the Holbeck area of Leeds, where her two younger siblings were born and where the family was living in 1871, when Mary H Collett was four years old. Ten years later, when she was 15, Mary Ann Collett and her family were living at Scarsdale Street in Leeds where, having left school, she had no occupation. She was still a younger teenager when the marriage of Mary Hannah Collett and Charles Green was recorded at Hunslet (Ref. 9b 84) during the second quarter of 1883. Over the next few years, Mary gave birth to three children, two of which, together with their mother, were staying at the home of the boy’s parental grandparents, Robert and Elizabeth Collett, at Bowling Green Terrace in Hunslet. Married Mary Hannah Green was 24 and a tailoress, and her two sons were Charles Green who was seven, and William Green who was two.
	Mary and her husband Charles were recorded together at nearby Wortley, in Leeds, in 1901. Charles Green from Leeds was 37 and an advertising cigar maker, Mary H Green was 35, Edith A Green was 14 and a mantle maker, William Green was 12, Lawrence Green was four, and Mary Winifred Green was three years old and the only one in the household who was born at Garston in Liverpool. One more child was added to the family around three years after that census day, which was recorded at Holbeck in the census of 1911. Mary Hannah Green was still a married lady at the age of 44, although her husband was absent from the family home that day, perhaps with some of the family’s missing children. The three children living with her were Lawrence Green who was 14 and already at work as a labourer for a bricklayer, Mary Winifred Green from Garston, Liverpool, who was 13 and an animal trap maker, and Alfred Gilbert Green who was six and born at Leeds. Many years later, the death of Mary H Green was recorded at Sheffield register office (Ref. 2d 44) during the last three months of 1949, when she was 83.
Ap6/3	Elizabeth Alice Collett was born at Holbeck, Leeds, in 1868 another daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Collett, her birth recorded at Holbeck (Ref. 9b 150) during the second quarter of the year. It was also at Holbeck where the marriage of Elizabeth Alice Collett and Herbert Alderson OR Samuel Turnpenney, although no later record of her has been found under either surname.
Ap6/4	Charles Carr Collett was born at Holbeck, Leeds in 1870, his birth recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 160) during the first three months of the year. He was the third and last child of Robert Collett and Elizabeth Roberts, with whom he was living in the Holbeck area of Leeds in 1871, when he was one year old. Ten years later in 1881, he and his family were living a 7 Scarsdale Street in Leeds when Charles was listed as C C Collett, aged 11. At the end of the next decade Charles Collett was 21, whose occupation was that of a wood pattern maker, when he was single and still living with his parents, but at Bowling Green Terrace in Hunslet, Leeds. Around two year after that, he married Annie, following which the couple remained living in Hunslet for at least the next twenty years, where their two children were born.
	By the time of the Hunslet census in 1901, head of the household Charles Carr Collett from Leeds was 31 and his occupation was that of an engineer’s pattern maker. His family comprised wife Annie aged 29 and from Darlington in County Durham, son Gilbert who was six and daughter Hilda who was five, both of whom had been born at Leeds. Ten years later, it was the same situation, with the family still residing in Hunslet, Charles Carr Collett was 42 and again working as a pattern maker with an engineering company and his wife Annie Collett from Darlington was 39. The couple’s two children were listed as, Gilbert Collett who was 16 and Hilda Collett who was 15. Charles Carr Collett was 63, when his death was recorded at Leeds South register office (Ref. 9b 103) during the first quarter of 1933.
	Ap6/5		Gilbert Collett			Born in 1894 at Hunslet, Leeds
	Ap6/6		Hilda Collett			Born in 1896 at Hunslet, Leeds
Ap6/5	Gilbert Collett was born at Hunslet, Leeds in 1894, when his birth was recorded at Hunslet register office (Ref. 9b 281) during the third quarter of the year. He was six years of age in the Hunslet census of 1901 and was 16 in the Hunslet census of 1911, when he was a clerk with a printing company, who was still living with his family. No further record of him has been found after 1911.
Ap6/6	Hilda Collett was born in 1896 at Hunslet, Leeds where her birth was recorded (Ref. 9b 188) during the first quarter of the year. She was five in 1901 and 15 in 1911, on both occasions living with her family in Hunslet. On leaving school, Hilda was employed as a button-hole maker (a sewer) with a tailor producing coats, referred to as a mantle maker in the census return on 1911. It may have been after the First World War, that Hilda married Harry Milner, their wedding day recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 127) during the third quarter of 1919.