PART THIRTY-SIX

The Birstall, Heckmondwike, Batley (Yorkshire) Line

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

Section One is The Barwick-in-Elmet (Leeds) Line

Updated June 2023

	The members of the Collett family recorded in this file were found during the research into Part 36 – The Barwick-in-Elmet (Leeds) Line. The earliest records so far found initially centre on Birstall which lies two miles north-west of Batley and two miles north of Heckmondwike in the Dewsbury area of Yorkshire. Members of the family eventually migrated to each of those three towns. For all of the records in the 1700s the name was written as Collit or Collitt, but once into the new century the spelling switched to the more commonly used form of Collett, and it is this which is used throughout this file.
36m1	John Collett was born around 1730 and he married Elizabeth Gill at Birstall on 30^th April 1754. It seems highly likely that Elizabeth was with-child on their wedding day since, less than seven months later she presented John with the first of their two known children, their son John whose brother was born the following year. It is assumed that his first daughter suffered an infant death for John’s second daughter to be given the same name two years later. The last three known children were all baptised at Birstall on the same day, so the order in which they were born is not known.
	The marriage of John and Elizabeth was the first marriage between members of the Collett and Gill families. The second such wedding took place one hundred years later during the spring of 1853 when Thomas Collett (Ref. 36p7) married Ruth Gill at Heckmondwike two miles south of Birstall.
	36n1	John Collett	Born circa 1754 at Birstall
	36n2	Samuel Collett	Born circa 1757 at Birstall
	36n3	Sarah Collett	Baptised on 16.04.1760 at Birstall
	36n4	Sarah Collett	Baptised on 11.04.1762 at Birstall
	36n5	Elizabeth Collett	Baptised on 25.02.1773 at Birstall
	36n6	James Collett	Baptised on 25.02.1773 at Birstall
	36n7	William Collett	Baptised on 25.02.1773 at Birstall
36n1	John Collett was baptised at Birstall on 15.10.1754, the eldest son of John and Elizabeth Collett. He was still living at Birstall when his son was born.
	36o1	John Collett	Baptised on 07.10.1775 at Birstall
36n2	Samuel Collett was baptised at Birstall on 3^rd March 1757, the son of John Collett and Elizabeth Gill, and he married Frances (Fanny) Preston at Birstall on 2^nd December 1777. Exactly nine months after they were married the couple’s first child was baptised at Birstall and, as with the next two baptisms, the parents were confirmed at Samuel and Frances Collett. However, the fourth child listed below may or may not be the son of Samuel since, as yet, no birth or baptism record has been found.
	36o2	James Collett	Born circa 1778 at Birstall
	36o3	Mary Collett	Baptised on 17.09.1780 at Birstall
	36o4	Susanna Collett	Baptised on 23.01.1785 at Birstall
	36o5	George Collett	Born circa 1790 at Birstall
36o2	James Collett was baptised at Birstall on 2^nd August 1778, the son of Samuel Collett and Frances (Fanny) Preston. He married Elizabeth Hinsliff (Hinscliffe) on 21^st September 1801 at St Peter’s Church in Leeds, where their first child was baptised, although it would appear that the couple later settled in Birstall where their son Thomas was baptised. Although yet to be unearthed, it seems very likely that the marriage of James and Elizabeth produced more than just the two children listed below.
	36p1	Samuel Collett	Baptised on 21.03.1802 at Leeds
	36p2	Thomas Collett	Baptised on 24.05.1807 at Birstall
36o5	George Collett was born at Birstall around 1790, the likely son of Samuel Collett and Frances Preston, although no actual birth or baptism record has so far been discovered for him. This means that he may have been a brother or a cousin to James Collett (above) who was born before the end of 1778. George Collett married (1) Mary Fawcett at Birstall on 25^th December 1810 and it would appear that Mary was with-child on the day of the wedding since, just five months later, their first child was born and baptised at Birstall. It would appear from the later records that Mary may have died during the years after the birth of their son to allow George to subsequently marry the much younger (2) Jane Collinson at Birstall on 7^th November 1819. Jane Collinson was the daughter of William and Ann Collinson who was baptised at Middleham in Yorkshire on 17^th January 1800.
	That second marriage for George produced at least eight children who were all born at Heckmondwike, although they were baptised at Birstall. No record of George Collett has been located in the June census of 1841, and the reason for that is he had died during the first quarter of that year, his death recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 22 26). However, on that census day in 1841, his widow and his family were recorded residing at Shaver Hill in Heckmondwike, but with the census enumerator writing the family’s surname as Collitt. Jane Collett was 45, John Collett was 20, Thomas Collett was 15, George Collett was 13, Hannah Collett was 10, Jeremiah Collett was eight, and Jonathan Collett was four years of age.
	By the time of the next census in 1851, Jane Collett, age 56 and a widow, was still living at Shaver Hill in Heckmondwike with her daughter Hannah who was 20, and sons Thomas who was 25, Jeremiah who was 18, and Jonathan who was 14. Also living with the family that day was Mary Collett who was 20 and born at Heckmondwike, who was described as the niece of Jane Collett. It has still to be determined, how she was related to the family. Ten years later Jane was 65 and a blanket whipper in the census of 1861 when she still had daughter Hannah, aged 30, and son Jonathan, aged 24, living with her at a dwelling on the High Street in Heckmondwike.
	It was seven years later that the death of Jane Collett was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 339) during the first quarter of 1868, when she was said to be 72 years old. Her death also meant that her unmarried daughter Hannah Collett became an inmate at the Dewsbury Moor Union Workhouse, where she later died.
	36p3	James Collett	Baptised on 09.06.1811 at Birstall
	The following are the children of George Collett by his second wife Jane Collinson:
	36p4	John Collett	Born in 1820 at Heckmondwike
	36p5	Joseph Collett	Born in 1822 at Heckmondwike
	36p6	Mary Collett	Born in 1824 at Heckmondwike
	36p7	Thomas Collett	Born in 1826 at Heckmondwike
	36p8	George Collett	Born in 1828 at Heckmondwike
	36p9	Hannah Collett	Born in 1830 at Heckmondwike
	36p10	Jeremiah Collett	Born in 1833 at Heckmondwike
	36p11	Jonathan Collett	Born in 1837 at Heckmondwike
36p4	John Collett was probably born at Heckmondwike within six months of the marriage of his parents which took place at Birstall on 7^th November 1819. He was then baptised at Birstall on 2^nd April 1820, the first child of George Collett and Jane Collinson. After his father died during the first few months of 1841, 20-year-old John was living with his widowed mother and the rest of his family at Shaver Hill in Heckmondwike. He later married Eliza Heald from Batley, their wedding recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 22 6) during the second quarter of 1848, with whom he had at least the six children listed below. According to the census in 1851 the family was living at Stanningley in Heckmondwike when John Collett from Heckmondwike was 31 and an engine tenter (in a rag factory), Eliza from Batley was also 31, and their two sons on that day were George who was two and John Wm Collett who was only nine months old.
	The family was almost completed during the next decade when three more children were added to their family, which was still living in Heckmondwike in 1861, but at Church Lane. John and Eliza were both 41, with John’s occupation being that of an engineer in a woollen factory, George was 12, John W Collett was 10, Joseph was nine, Elizabeth A Collett was seven and Mary was five. The couple’s last child was born during the following year, and was eight years old when her father died. The death of John Collett aged 50, was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 466) during the summer of 1870. Following her loss, his widow Eliza Collett was 51 in 1871, when she and all of her six children were still residing in Heckmondwike. George was 22, John William was 20, Joseph was 19, Elizabeth Ann was 17, Mary was 15, and Eliza was eight years old.
	Sometime during the following decade Eliza left Heckmondwike and returned to her home town of Batley, where she was living with some of her children in 1881. The census return that year placed Eliza Collett aged 61, as living at Bunkers Lane in Batley with her three of her six children. They were John William Collett who was 30 and sisters Mary and Eliza Collett who were 25 and 18 respectively, who were both working as blanket weavers. Five years later the death of Eliza Collett was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 388) during the third quarter of 1886 when she was 66.
	36q1	George Collett	Born in 1848 at Heckmondwike
	36q2	John William Collett	Born in 1850 at Heckmondwike
	36q3	Joseph Collett	Born in 1852 at Heckmondwike
	36q4	Elizabeth Ann Collett	Born in 1854 at Heckmondwike
	36q5	Mary Collett	Born in 1856 at Heckmondwike
	36q6	Eliza Collett	Born in 1862 at Heckmondwike
36p5	Joseph Collett was born at Heckmondwike in late 1821 or early in 1822, and was baptised at nearby Birstall on 22^nd January 1822, the son of George Collett and Jane Collinson. By the time he was around twenty years of age, Joseph had left the family home at Shaver Hill in Heckmondwike.
36p6	Mary Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1824 and was baptised at Birstall on 11^th April 1824, the daughter of George and Jane Collett. Like her brother Joseph (above), Mary too was no longer living with her widowed mother in June 1841.
36p7	Thomas Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1826 and was baptised at Birstall on 30^th April 1826. His father died when Thomas was 15 years old and was that age in June 1841 when he was living with his family at Shaver Hill in Heckmondwike. Ten years later Thomas and his family were still residing at Shaver Hill when he was listed in the census of 1851 as being 25 years old and a bachelor living in Heckmondwike, where he was working as a blanket slubber. It was during the second quarter of 1853 that the wedding of Thomas Collett and Ruth Gill was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 586), and their marriage produced two sons and three daughters who were born at Heckmondwike but, whose births were recorded at Dewsbury. The next census in 1861 listed the family living at Goose Hill in Heckmondwike where Thomas was 35 and a woollen spinner, his wife Ruth who was also 35, and their daughters Sarah who was four years of age and Jane who was one year old. Three members of the family were confirmed as having been born in Heckmondwike, while daughter Sarah’s place of birth was recorded as Millbridge, a hamlet within the parish of Birstall. It is not clear where their son Joshua was on that occasion, although he was living with his family in 1871.
	Two more children were added to the family over the next decade while the family was still in Heckmondwike and by 1871 the family was made up of Thomas, aged 45, who was still a woollen spinner, Ruth who was also 45, Joshua who was 17, Sarah who 14, Jane who was 11, Elizabeth who was nine and George who was seven years old. Six years later the death of Thomas Collett, at the age of 51, was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 410) during the second quarter of 1877. As a result of her loss, Ruth was a widow in the census of 1881 when, at the age of 55, she was described as being ‘formerly a weaver’. Her four youngest children were still living with her at the family home on Commercial Street in Heckmondwike where they were all recorded as having been born. Ruth’s three daughters were all employed as woollen blanket weavers. Sarah was 24, Jane was 21, and Elizabeth was 19, while Ruth’s son George was a butcher at the age of 17, as was his older brother Joseph in 1881.
	Ten years later widow Ruth Collett was 65 and still had living with her at Heckmondwike her daughter Elizabeth Collett who was 29 and her son George Collett who was 27. Also listed with the three of them was Ruth’s granddaughter Mary Collett who was nine years old, who may have been the base-born daughter of Ruth’s youngest daughter Elizabeth. Either way she was still listed as Mary Collett from Heckmondwike in the next census in 1901 when she was 19.
	36q7	Joshua Gill Collett	Born in 1853 at Heckmondwike
	36q8	Sarah Collett	Born in 1856 at Heckmondwike
	36q9	Jane Collett	Born in 1859 at Heckmondwike
	36q10	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1862 at Heckmondwike
	36q11	George Collett	Born in 1864 at Heckmondwike
36p8	George Collett was born at Heckmondwike during 1828 and was baptised at Birstall on 22^nd June 1828, the son of George and Jane Collett. He was 13 in 1841 when living with his widowed mother and hi siblings, at Shaver Hill in Heckmondwike, following the death of his father earlier that same year. Just over seven years later the marriage of George Collett and Nancy Goodall was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 22 12) during the last three months of 1848 and by the day of the census in 1851 they had two children. The census return for Heckmondwike that year recorded the family as George Collett who was 23, Nancy was 22 and sons George and John were two years and one year respectively. Ten years later only the couple’s youngest son was still living with them in 1861, which may indicate their eldest son had suffered an infant death shortly after 1851. George was 31, Nancy was 30 and John was 11, and, on that day in 1861, Nancy was expecting the birth of her last child, with her daughter born later that same year.
	So for the census in 1871 the family was listed as George and Nancy Collett, who were both 42, and living with them in Heckmondwike was their son John who was 21 and their daughter Martha who was nine. By 1881 George Collett from Heckmondwike was 52 as was Nancy who was also born at Heckmondwike when they were living at Milton Square in Heckmondwike with their unmarried daughter Martha H Collett who was 19 and a woollen blanket weaver as was her mother. George was described as a woollen yarn spinner. Around one year after that census day, the death of George Collett was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 402) during the second quarter of 1882, when he was 53. That sad event left his widow Nancy, at the age of 60 in 1891, living at Milton Square in Heckmondwike where she was being visited by her son John and his eldest child, Nancy’s grandson George Collett, who was nine years of age. Just under twelve months after that, the death of Nancy Collett was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref.9b 438) during the first three months of 1892, when she was 62.
	36q12	George Collett	Born in 1848 at Heckmondwike
	36q13	John Collett	Born in 1850 at Heckmondwike
	36q14	Martha Hannah Collett	Born in 1861 at Heckmondwike
36p9	Hannah Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1830 and was baptised at Birstall on 31^st October 1830 the daughter of George and Jane Collett. Her father died in early 1841 and so one the day of the census that year, in June, Hannah Collett was 10 years old and living with her family at Shaver Hill in Heckmondwike, as she was in 1851 when, at the age of 20, she was working as a blanket whipper. According to the census in 1861 Hannah was 30 when she was living with her mother and brother Jonathan at the High Street in Heckmondwike. On that occasion she had no stated occupation, while it was her mother who was a blanket whipper. However, it was Hannah who was again working as a blanket whipper in 1871 although, at the age of 40, she was an inmate at the Dewsbury Moor Union Workhouse, where she most likely died just over eighteen months after that census day. The death of Hannah Collett was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 415) during the final quarter of 1872 when she was 42.
36p10	Jeremiah Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1833 and was baptised as Jeremiah Collitt at Birstall on 12^th May 1833, the son of George and Jane Collett. Following the death of his father in early 1841, eight-year-old Jeremiah was living with his widowed mother and other members of his family at Shaver Hill in Heckmondwike. Ten years later in 1851, when Jeremiah was 18, he was working as a woollen card cleaner, one of four children still living with their widowed mother Jane Collett, aged 56, at Shaver Hill. Four years after that, Jeremiah Collett married Emma Wilson, the wedding recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 561) during the last three months of 1855. For some reason, at the birth and baptism of their five children, and in all the later census returns, Jeremiah’s wife’s name was recorded as Elizabeth. By the time of the first of those census days in 1861 Elizabeth had already presented her husband with their first two children. At that time in their lives the family was living at Cook Lane in Heckmondwike. Jeremiah was 28 and a woollen over-looker (an inspector), his wife Elizabeth was 26, and their children were George H Collett who was four and Mary J Collett who was two years old. All four members of the family were recorded as having been born at Heckmondwike.
	Three more children were added to the family during the following decade at Heckmondwike, the middle one of which did not survive, with the last of them being born just prior to the next census in 1871, his birth recorded during the second quarter of that year. On that occasion the family was still living in Heckmondwike and comprised Jeremiah Collett who was 38 and a woollen machine over-looker, Elizabeth Collett who 36, George H Collett who was 14, Mary J Collett who was 12, John F Collett who was nine, plus baby John Collett who was only a few days old. According to the next census in 1881 the family was living at King Street in Heckmondwike from where Jeremiah was again working as a woollen over-looker at a nearby woollen mill. He was 48 and his place of birth was confirmed as Heckmondwike, where every member of the household had also been born. His wife Elizabeth was 46 and all four of their children were still living with them. George H Collett was 24 and a moulder at the local iron works, Mary J Collett was 22 and a woollen weaver, while the couple’s 19-year-old son John Collett was a fettler at the woollen mill and their youngest son John Collett was 10 years of age and was still attending school.
	Over the next few years the two eldest sons left the family home, leaving just the couple’s youngest son, John Collett aged 20, still living with his parents at Ings Road in Heckmondwike in 1891. By that time, Jeremiah had already finished working at the woollen mill and, at the age of 58, was described as a retired woollen over-looker, when his wife Elizabeth was 56. Staying with the family that day was their married daughter, her husband, and their only known child. Son-in-law William Law was 37, Mary J Law was 32, and their son Percy Law was only seven months old. Sometime during the next decade, the couple’s youngest son also left the family home, leaving Jeremiah and Elizabeth still living at Ings Road Heckmondwike, with the three members of the Law family. The census return in 1901 listed the five occupants of the property as Jeremiah, who was 68 and a retired spinning foreman, Elizabeth who was 66, William Law who was 47, Mary J Law who was 42, and Percy Law who was 10. Also living on Ings Road in 1901, was the family of Jeremiah’s son John Fawcett Collett. It was six months later that the death of Jeremiah Collett, aged 68, was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 415) during the final three months of 1901.
	The next census in April 1911 confirmed that Elizabeth Collett, age 76, was a widow living in Heckmondwike, and still had living there with her, her son-in-law William Law, her daughter Mary Jane Law, and her grandson Percy Law. Elizabeth survived for a further six years, when the death of Elizabeth Collett was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 776) during the second quarter of 1917 when she was 82.
	36q15	George Henry Collett	Born in 1857 at Heckmondwike
	36q16	Mary Jane Collett	Born in 1859 at Heckmondwike
	36q17	John Fawcett Collett	Born in 1861 at Heckmondwike
	36q18	Joseph Collett	Born in 1865 at Heckmondwike
	36q19	John Collett	Born in 1871 at Heckmondwike
36p11	Jonathan Collett was born at Heckmondwike early in 1837 and was baptised at Birstall on 19^th February 1837, the last child of George Collett and Jane Collinson. He was only four years old when his father died, after which the family was recorded at Shaver Hill in Heckmondwike, when Jonathan Collett from Heckmondwike was four years old. He was still living at Shaver Hill with his widowed mother Jane at the time of the Heckmondwike census of 1851 when he was 14. He was still living with his mother Jane and sister Hannah (above) in 1861 when he was 24, and by which time the family home as on the High Street in Heckmondwike. His occupation that year was that of a fettler in a woollen mill. It was during the first quarter of 1869 that Jonathan Collett married Hannah Bentley from Paddock, Huddersfield in Yorkshire, the event recorded at Huddersfield (Ref. 9a 464). The couple was blessed with the birth of two children in quick succession and by the day of the census in 1871 the family of four was living in Heckmondwike where their two children had been born. Jonathan was 34, Hannah was 32, Mary J Collett was over one year old and John B Collett was under one year old. However, just over nine months later the family suffered the loss of their son during the first quarter of 1872 and it seems that whatever ailment he may have had also took the life of his older sister Mary, as she too was missing from the family in 1881.
	It may have been the trauma caused by their loss which resulted in Jonathan and Hannah returning to Hannah’s place of birth, to perhaps even her parents’ home, since it was at Paddock that their next child was born. No more children were added to their family after that and, by the time of the next census in 1881, the family was living at Thornton Road in Huddersfield, where Jonathan Collett was 44 and an over-looker (an inspector) working in a woollen and textile factory. His wife was recorded as Hanna Collett from Paddock who was 42, and their daughter Laura Collett from Paddock was eight years old and was attending school.
	It was a similar situation ten years after that, except the family of three had left Huddersfield and was recorded residing within the Castleton area of Rochdale. Jonathan was 54, Hannah was 52 and Laura was 18. No record of any member of the family has been identified in the next census of 1901. The birth of the couple’s first child was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 571) as Mary Jane Collett during the last three months of 1869, and it was there also that her death was recorded (Ref. 9b 491) during the first three months of 1875, when she was five years of age. The birth of their youngest daughter was also recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 654) during the fourth quarter of 1872, despite being born at Paddock, perhaps at the home of Hannah’s mother. The baptism of Laura Collett took place at Birstall on 23^rd February 1873, when her parents were confirmed as Jonathan and Hannah Collett.
	36q20	Mary Jane Collett	Born in 1869 at Heckmondwike
	36q21	John Bentley Collett	Born in 1870 at Heckmondwike
	36q22	Laura Collett	Born in 1872 at Paddock
36q1	George Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1848, his birth recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. xxii 37) during the third quarter of 1848, the eldest child of John Collett from Heckmondwike and his wife Eliza Heald from Batley. Upon his baptism at Birstall on 8^th October 1848, he was confirmed as the son of John and Eliza Collett. He was two years old in 1851 when he and his family were living at Stanningley in Heckmondwike. In the next two Heckmondwike censuses George was 12, and already employed as a factory labourer when living with his family at Church Lane in Heckmondwike, and 22 and a spinner when he was still living with his family at Heckmondwike in 1871. However, by 1871, his father had passed away following which his widowed mother returned to live in Batley with three of George’s five sibling after 1871. It was also shortly after 1871 when George Collett married (1) Mary Firth from Gomersal with whom he settled in Heckmondwike, where their three children were born. Their marriage was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 944) during the last three months of 1871.
	By 1881 the couple and their three children had left Heckmondwike and were residing at Common Side in Soothill near Batley. According to the census that year George was 32 and was employed as a woollen spinner over-looker (an inspector), his wife Mary was 31 and his three children were James Collett who was eight, Fred Collett who was six and Betsy E Collett who was two years old. No more children were added to their family as George’s wife suffered a premature death at the age of 33, perhaps even during the birth of a fourth child, who also did not survive. The death of Mary Collett was recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 378) during the first quarter of 1883. Following the death of his wife, George married (2) Sarah Ann Kilburn, the event recorded at Dewsbury (Ref.9b 646) during the first three months of 1885.
	That was confirmed in the census return for Batley in 1891 when George Collett was 42 and working as a shoddy manufacturer, while living on Longlands Road in Staincliffe, midway between Batley and Dewsbury. His new wife Sarah Ann Collett was 38, and his three children were James who was 18, Fred who was 16 and Betsy E Collett who was 12. Sometime during the latter half of the 1890s George’s eldest son had left home to be married and was living nearby in Batley in 1901 when he was presumably still working for, or with, George. On that occasion George and his reduced family were living at 11 Longlands Road in the hamlet of Staincliffe.
	The Collett household in 1901 comprised George 51 from Heckmondwike who was still employed as a shoddy manufacturer, his wife Sarah Ann from Liversedge near Heckmondwike was 47, and George’s two children were Fred who was 26, and Betsy who was 22. It is interesting that the family employed an unmarried servant girl by the name of Edith Collett who was 24 and from Batley, although it is currently unclear how she may have been related. Ten years later George was 62 and Sarah was 58 and the only people recorded with them at Batley were George’s unmarried son Fred Collett who was 35, his unmarried daughter Betsy E Collett who was 32, and domestic servant Alice Mary English from Burford in Oxfordshire.
	The death of George Collett was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref.9b 776) during the first three months of 1914 when he was 65.
	36r1	James Collett	Born in 1872 at Heckmondwike
	36r2	Fred Collett	Born in 1874 at Heckmondwike
	36r3	Betsy Eliza Collett	Born in 1878 at Heckmondwike
36q2	John William Collett was born at Heckmondwike and baptised at Birstall on 28^th July 1850, the second son of John and Eliza Collett. He was nine months old on the day of the census in 1851 when he was named as John Wm Collett. On that occasion he and his family were living in the Stanningley area of Heckmondwike. Ten years later John W Collett was recorded in the Heckmondwike census at Church Lane with his family at the age of ten years. By that time he had left school and was already working as a labourer in a factory, most likely the woollen factory where his father was an engineer. After the death of his father, John was still living with his mother and the rest of his family in Heckmondwike, where they were living in 1871 when John William Collett was 20 and his occupation was that of a tenter.
	Another family move happened during the 1870s when his mother took some of the family to nearby Batley where John was 30 in 1881 and an engine driver in a rag factory. Living at Bunkers Lane in Batley that day with John and his mother were his two youngest sisters. John was still unmarried in 1891 when he was 40 and working as a stationary engine driver who was staying at the home of his younger married sister Elizabeth (below) at Halifax Road in Batley, the brother-in-law of Ephraim Hirst. Six years after that day, the death of John William Collett was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 356) during the second quarter of 1897, when he was 46.
36q3	Joseph Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1852 and was the third child of John and Eliza Collett. His birth was registered at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 456) during the first three months of that year and he was nine years old in the census of 1861. Joseph was eighteen when his father died in 1870, after which he was still living with his widowed mother at Heckmondwike when he 19. It was at nearby Liversedge that he met his future wife Eliza Parker of Liversedge, whose later wedding day was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 904) during the last quarter of 1877. By 1881 they had two sons living with them at Brighton Street in Heckmondwike. Joseph Collett was 29 and a butcher, the same trade as his younger cousin George (below). Eliza was 27 and their two Heckmondwike born sons were named as Horace Collett who was two, and Harry Collett who was one year old.
	While other members of Joseph’s family had settled in Batley prior to 1881, Joseph and Eliza were recorded at 109 Mill Road in nearby Dewsbury by the time of the census in 1891. That move had taken place after the birth of the couple last known child at Heckmondwike. Recorded in the census in error under the surname Callett every member of the family was confirmed as having been born at Heckmondwike. Joseph was 39 and a butcher, Eliza was 36, Horace was 12, Harry was 10, Louis was six, and Reginald was three years of age. Employed by the family was 15-year-old domestic servant Lucilla Roebuck from Sheffield.
	During the summer of 1892, Eliza gave birth to a fifth son whose birth was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 690) and who was baptised on 7^th September 1892 at Batley Carr, midway between Batley and Dewsbury. The record of his baptism confirmed that he was the child of Joseph and Eliza Collett. Tragically, he did not survive, with the death of Arthur Collett also recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 395) during the last three months of 1892. Whether Eliza never recovered after that sad event, she was only 45 years of age when her death was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 421) towards the end of 1899.
	Mostly, heart-broken by the loss of his wife and their baby son, it would appear that Joseph was unable to continue caring for his still relatively young family which, by 1901 was living in the family home in Dewsbury where the head of the household was Joseph’s son Harry Collett. On that census day, his eldest son Horace, was making his own way in the world. Just over seven years after the census was conducted in 1901, the death of Joseph Collett aged 56 was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 736) during the fourth quarter of 1908.
	36r4	Horace Collett	Born in 1878 at Heckmondwike
	36r5	Harry Collett	Born in 1880 at Heckmondwike
	36r6	Louis Collett	Born in 1883 at Heckmondwike
	36r7	Reginald Collett	Born in 1887 at Heckmondwike
	36r8	Arthur Collett	Born in 1892 at Dewsbury; died 1892
36q4	Elizabeth Ann Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1854, with her birth registered at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 627) during the first quarter of the year. She was the fourth of the six children of John Collett and Eliza Heald, and was baptised at Birstall on 7^th May 1854. Elizabeth Ann was 23 when she married Ephraim Hirst at Staincliffe, Dewsbury, on 10^th January 1878. The bride’s father was recorded as John Collett, while Ephraim was 22 and the son of John Hirst. It was also at Dewsbury where their wedding was recorded (Ref. 9b 765). The couple’s first child Ethel Hirst was born in the summer of 1880 so, on the day of the census in 1881, the three members of the family were recorded at Wakefield and Halifax Turnpike Road in Batley. Ephraim from Batley was 25 and a salesman in cotton warps, Elizabeth Ann was 27, while baby Ethel was nine months old, having been baptised at Staincliffe in Dewsbury on 10^th July 1880.
	The family was again living on Halifax Road in 1891 when the family was listed as Ephraim Hirst aged 35 and employed as a foreman in charge of cotton spinning and doubling, Elizabeth Ann was 37, Ethel Hirst was 10, Hilda Hirst was seven, Haydn Hirst was six, and Tom Hirst was one year old. In addition to the domestic servant, Evelyn Birkby aged 16, the only other member of the household was Elizabeth’s older unmarried brother John William Collett (above) who died there six years later. One more child was added to the father, who was recorded with them in 1901.
	It was at Leeds Road in Birstall that the family was living at that time. Head of the household Ephraim was 45 and a cotton spinner, Elizabeth was 47, Ethel was 20 and a cotton warper, Hilda was 17 and a cotton winder, Haydn was 16 and a manager of cotton warpers and winders, Tom was 11, and Beatrice May Hirst was eight years old. Th e entire family was still living together in 1911, but at Heckmondwike, when every member of the family had been born at Batley. Ephraim at 55 was a cotton warp manufacturer, Elizabeth was 57, Ethel was 30 but had no job of work, so was very likely helping her mother with household duties, Hilda 27 and a cotton winding manageress involved in the business of cotton warp making, Haydn was 26 and the manager in the cotton doubling department, Tom was 21 and a traveller in the business of cotton warp making, and Beatrice was 18 and a student at Leeds University.
	For the last eleven years of her left Elizabeth was a widow, following the death of husband Ephraim Hirst, which was recorded at Yorkshire register office (Ref. 9b 392) during 1924, when he was 69. For whatever reason, he was buried at Harlow Hill Cemetery in Harrogate. Elizabeth Ann Hirst, nee Collett, died during 1935 and was buried with her late husband at Harlow Hill Cemetery in Harrogate, a place presumably that was close to their hearts.
36q7	Joshua Gill Collett was born at Heckmondwike near the end of 1853, the eldest child of Thomas Collett and Ruth Gill, whose birth was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 438) during the first quarter of 1854. For some reason, Joshua was not with his family on the day of the 1861 census, when he would have been seven or eight years old. However, Joshua was living at the family home in 1871 when, at the age of 17 he was a fireman at a nearby mill. Nine years after that census day, the marriage of Joshua Collett and Ruth Sharp was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 674) during the second quarter of 1880, with their first child born at the end of the year. According to the census in 1881, the three members of the family were residing at Walkley Lane in Heckmondwike, where Joshua Collett – incorrectly recorded at Joseph, was 27 and an engineer at the E & M woollen mill. His wife Ruth was 24, and their daughter Helah was three months old, all three of them were confirmed as having been born at Heckmondwike.
	During the following decade their marriage produced three more children who were all born at Heckmondwike like their first-born child. The census for Heckmondwike in 1891, recorded the family living at Lobley Street where Joshua Collett was 37 and working on the railway as a stationary engine tenter (meaning a tender of machinery), Ruth who was 33, Ella who was 10, Thomas who was eight, Joseph who was six, and Edith Annie who was only one year old. Ruth was very likely expecting the birth of the couple’s fifth child, who was born later that same year.
	In total, three more children were added to the family during the next six years. Their father Joshua died before the end of the century, with his death recorded at Bradford (Ref. 9b 61) during the last three months of 1898, when he was 44. Whether it was his death that forced the family to move to Bradford is not known but, by March 1901 the family was living at 8 Oakwood Street in Bradford, where Ruth Collett was 44 and a widow. With no occupation she was reliant on the income from her two of her three eldest children, following her son Thomas having already left the family home by then. Ruth’s daughter Ella was 20 and was working as a stuff weaver, while her son Joseph was 15 and working as a worsted spinner’s bobbin sorted. Ruth’s four youngest children were listed as Edith who was 11, Fred who was nine, Arthur who was five and Agnes who was three.
	It was around twelve months after that census day that the death of Ruth Collett, nee Sharp, was recorded at Bradford register office (Ref. 9b 71) during the second quarter of 1902, at the age of 45. Following the death of their mother, Ruth’s three youngest children were looked after by her eldest daughter Ella Collett, who was eventually married in 1906 who had two children of her own by 1911, when her three younger Collett siblings were still living with Helah and her husband in Batley.
	36r9	Helah (Ella) Collett	Born in 1881 at Heckmondwike
	36r10	Thomas Collett	Born in 1883 at Heckmondwike
	36r11	Joseph Collett	Born in 1885 at Heckmondwike
	36r12	Edith Annie Collett	Born in 1889 at Heckmondwike
	36r13	Frederick Collett	Born in 1891 at Heckmondwike
	36r14	Arthur Collett	Born in 1895 at Heckmondwike
	36r15	Agnes Collett	Born in 1897 at Bradford
36q10	Elizabeth Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1862 the youngest daughter of Thomas and Ruth Collett. At the age of nine years she was living with her family in Heckmondwike and during the next decade her father passed away. It was at Commercial Street in Heckmondwike that Elizabeth, age 19, was still living with her widowed mother, as she was ten years later when she was 29. On that occasion in 1891 nine-year old Mary Collett from Heckmondwike was living at the same address who, it has been assumed, was Elizabeth’s base-born daughter, although it is also possible she was the base-born child of one of Elizabeth’s two older sisters. By 1901 Mary Collett was 19 when she was employed as a blanket weaver in Heckmondwike where she was living, and by which time Elizabeth may have been married. Where Elizabeth was in 1901 has not been discovered although, in 1911 she was recorded in the census that year as living in Dewsbury as Eliza Collett from Heckmondwike who as 48.
	36r16	Mary Collett	Born in 1881 at Heckmondwike
36q11	George Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1864, the youngest child of Thomas and Ruth Collett. He was seven years of age in 1871, was 17 in 1881 by which time he was working as a butcher while still with his widowed mother at Commercial Street in Heckmondwike, and was 27 in 1891 when he was only one of two siblings still living in Heckmondwike with his mother. Within a couple of years he married Elizabeth who was also born in Heckmondwike and by the time of the census in 1901 they had completed their family with the birth of two daughters
	It was at Heckmondwike where the family of four was still living in March 1901 when George was 37 and a dyer’s labourer, his wife Lizzie was 34, while their daughters were Rhoda Collett who was five and Ethel Collett who was still under one year old. Ten years later it was a similar situation with George 47, Elizabeth 44, Rhoda 15 and Ethel who was 10.
	36r17	Rhoda Collett	Born in 1895 at Heckmondwike
	36r18	Ethel Collett	Born in 1900 at Heckmondwike
36q13	John Collett was born at Heckmondwike around 1850 the surviving son of George Collett and Nancy Goodall, both of Heckmondwike. During the latter years of the 1870s John married Susan Wood of Heckmondwike, the daughter of George Wood a grocer and warehouseman. By the time of the census in 1881 the childless couple was living with widower George Wood at his home in Nunroyd, Heckmondwike. John Collett, his son-in-law, was 31 and a carpet weaver, while his wife Susan was 26 with no occupation as she very most likely acting as housekeeper for the two men. Susan was expecting the couple’s first child, when their son was born later that same year, with their second son being born during the following year.
	According to the next census in 1891 for the Dewsbury & Liversedge registration district John was visiting his elderly mother at her home and had taken his eldest son with him, while Susan was at their own home with the couple’s youngest son. John Collett was 40 and son George was nine years old, while Susan was 36 and son Jeremiah was eight years old. It would seem likely that John Collett died before the end of the century, since the census in March 1901 only recorded Susan Collett who was 47 and her son Jeremiah who was 18 still living in Heckmondwike. By that time Susan’s eldest son was living in nearby Dewsbury. During the first decade of the new century Jeremiah left home to make his own way in the world, leaving Susan Collett nee Wood living alone at Liversedge near Heckmondwike in 1911 at the age of 56. By that time her two sons were both married and living in the Doncaster area.
	36r19	George Collett	Born in 1881 at Heckmondwike
	36r20	Jeremiah Collett	Born in 1883 at Heckmondwike
36q14	Martha Hannah Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1861, the daughter of George Collett and Nancy Goodall. Her birth was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 457) during the third quarter of 1861, following which she was baptised at Birstall on 20^th April 1862, the daughter of George and Nancy. She was nine years old in the census of 1871 and, at the age of 19 in 1881, Martha was still living with her parents at Milton Square in Heckmondwike, from where she was working as a woollen blanket weaver, like her mother. Just over four year later the marriage of Martha Hannah Collett and John Henry Mortimer was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 819) during the third quarter of 1885.
	Five years into their marriage, the Mortimer family was residing at Beck Lane in Heckmondwike where, in the census of 1891 the family was made up of Henry who was 29 and working as a teamer, his wife Martha Ann who was also 29 and working as a washerwoman, Henry’s mother Martha and his sister Mary. During the next five years Martha gave birth to two children who were living with the couple at Blanket Hall Street in Heckmondwike at the end of March in 1901. John H Mortimer was 39 and a hay dealer, Martha Mortimer was 39, daughter Annie Mortimer was nine, and son Sam Mortimer was five. Staying with the family on that census was Martha’s nephew George Collett, who was described as a labourer working for a hay dealer – his uncle John Mortimer. George was the younger of the two sons of Martha’s older brother John Collett (above).
	Something happened to the young family during the next decade, because the census in 1911 revealed that the wife of John Henry Mortimer, aged 49 and a scavenging carter, was named as Charlotte Ellen Mortimer who was 48 and born at Heckmondwike. Completing the household were Martha and John’s two children, Annie Mortimer who was 19 and an Axminster carpet weaver, and Sam Mortimer who was 16. The death of Martha H Mortimer, nee Collett, was recorded at Bradford (Ref. 9b 187) during the first quarter of 1941.
36q15	George Henry Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1857 and baptised at Birstall on 31^st May 1857, the eldest son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth Collett. He was four years old in 1861 and was 14 in the census of 1871. By 1881 he and his family were living at King Street in Heckmondwike when bachelor George was 24 and his occupation was that of a moulder at the local iron works. Almost immediately after the census day in 1881 George married Emily who was also born at Heckmondwike but in 1857. Over the following twenty years the marriage produced four children for the couple and all of them born at Heckmondwike, where the family was living in 1901.
	George Henry Collett was 44 and was still working as an iron moulder but, on that occasion, he was employed at an engine works. His wife Emily was 43 and their four children were Walter who was 19 and an iron moulder at an engine works, Norman who was 13 and a telegraph messenger, Hilda who was eight and Edna who was five years old. The same family of four was still together and living in Heckmondwike in April 1911 when George Henry was 54, Emily was 52, Walter was 29, Norman was 23, Hilda was 18, and Edna was 15.
	36r21	Walter Collett	Born in 1881 at Heckmondwike
	36r22	Norman Collett	Born in 1887 at Heckmondwike
	36r23	Hilda Collett	Born in 1892 at Heckmondwike
	36r24	Edna Collett	Born in 1895 at Heckmondwike
36q16	Mary Jane Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1859, the only daughter of Jeremiah Collett and Elizabeth Wilson, and was baptised at nearby Birstall under her full name on 24^th April 1859. She may have been born at Cook Lane in Heckmondwike, where her family was living in 1861, when Mary J Collett was two years of age. She was still living with her parents in the next two census returns; Mary J Collett was 12 in 1871 and in 1881 she and her family were living at King Street in Heckmondwike from where Mary J Collett was 22 and a woollen weaver. Mary married William Law from Batley, the son of Benjamin and Maria Law. Their marriage resulted in the birth of only one child, son Percy Law, who was born at the Ings Road home of her Mary’s parents in Heckmondwike, where she was living in 1891 and again 1901.
	In the census of 1891 Mary Jane Law was 32, William Law from Batley was 37 and a cloth dresser, and Percy Law had only just been born, and it was the same situation in 1901 when William was 47 and a cloth percher, Mary was 42 and Percy was 10. After the death of Mary’s father, she and her family remained living with her widowed mother in Heckmondwike, and it was there they were recorded in 1911. William Law from Batley was 57 and a cloth stumper, Mary Jane was 52 and son Percy was 20. Percy Law married Edith Kitchinman and they had two sons Arthur and Raymond. It was Raymond’s son Stephen Law who made contact at the end of 2018 to provide some information about the Law family. Stephen’s wife is Carol Hinchliffe and they have two sons Robert and Mitchell, and the family still live in Yorkshire.
36q17	John Fawcett Collett was born at Heckmondwike, although his birth was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 517) during the second quarter of 1861, following which he was baptised at Birstall on 25^th August that year, the son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth Collett. The name Fawcett was a reference back to Mary Fawcett who was the first wife of John’s grandfather George Collett, whom he married at Birstall near Heckmondwike in 1810. John Fawcett Collett married Annie Ledgard from Mirfield, to the south-west of Dewsbury, their wedding recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 788) during the third quarter of 1885, shortly after which their first child was born. As far as can be ascertained, their marriage appears to have given the couple at least three children. In 1891 John and Annie already had the first two children with them when the family was living at Battye Street in Heckmondwike. John F Collett was 29 and a spinner at a woollen mill, his wife Annie from Mirfield was 26, their son Arthur L Collett was five years old and their daughter Clara was not yet one year old.
	Midway through the next decade the couple’s third known child was born, again at Heckmondwike like the first two, and possibly at Ings Road, where the family was living in 1901. The census that year confirmed the family had five members, and they were John Fawcett Collett aged 39, his wife Annie Collett aged 36, and their two daughters Clara, ten, and Ethel, four, were attending school. Completing the family was son Arthur L Collett who was already working as woodcarver for a cabinet maker at the age of 15. Head of the household, John Fawcett Collett, from Heckmondwike, was employed as a carding over-looker (an inspector) at a local mill.
	The same family group was still together in 1911, when the census that year listed them as John Fawcett Collett aged 49 and a scribbling overlooker at a woollen factory, Annie Collett aged 46, son Arthur Ledgard Collett aged 25, and daughters Clara Collett who was 20 and Ethel Collett who was 14, both of them not having a job or work, or attending school in the case of Ethel. John appears to have spent all his life in Heckmondwike, since the death of John F Collett was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 1257) during the first quarter of 1929 when he was 67.
	36r25	Arthur Ledgard Collett	Born in 1885 at Heckmondwike
	36r26	Clara Collett	Born in 1890 at Heckmondwike
	36r27	Ethel Collett	Born in 1896 at Heckmondwike
36q18	Joseph Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1865 and was baptised at Birstall on 27^th August 1865, the son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth Collett. Tragically he did not survive, died during the next few years.
36q19	John Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1870, the youngest child of Jeremiah and Elizabeth Collett, who was baptised at Birstall on 9^th April 1871, but whose birth was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 594) during the last three months of 1870. He was under one year old in the census of 1871 and was attending school at the age of 10 in 1881, when John and his family were residing at King Street in Heckmondwike. John was still living with his parents at Ings Road in Heckmondwike in 1891, when he was 20 and working as a brussels carpet weaver. It was on 10^th March 1900 at Batley, where John Collett aged 29 and the son of Jeremiah Collet, married Hannah Milner aged 24 and the daughter of Matthew Milner. One year later the couple was residing at Peel Street in Heckmondwike, when John Collett from Heckmondwike was 30 and a carpet weaver, and his wife Hannah Collett, also born at Heckmondwike, was 25 and a rag weaver, according to the census return completed in 1901.
	Four years later Hannah gave birth to a son at Heckmondwike, where the family of three was living in April 1911. John Collett was 40 and still employed as a carpet weaver, Hannah Collett from Pudsey was 35, and their son Harry Collett was six years old. The birth of their son was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 617) during the second quarter of 1905. As far as can be determined, Harry was the one and only child born to John and Hannah. The death of John Collett was recorded as Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 961) during the first three months of 1933, when he was 62 years of age.
	36r28	Harry Collett	Born in 1905 at Heckmondwike
36q21	John Bentley Collett was born at Heckmondwike on 31^st December 1870, the son of Jonathan and Hannah Collett, who birth was recorded at nearby Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 608) during the first quarter of the following year. John Bentley Collett was baptised at St Peters Church in Birstall on 9^th April 1871 when once again his parents were named as Jonathan and Hannah Collett. However, it was less than one year later that the death of John Bentley Collett was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 429) during the first three months of 1872.
36r1	James Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1872 and was eight years old at the time of the census in 1881 when he and his family were living at Common Side in Soothill in Batley. His mother, Mary Firth, died during 1883, after which his father re-married in 1885. In 1891 James was 18 and was working for his father while he was still living at the family home. Towards the end of the 1890s James married Edith from Liversedge near Heckmondwike and by the time of the census in 1901 the marriage had produced the couple’s first child.
	At that time James was still working for his father and was living in Batley close to where his father and stepmother were living. James was 28 and was working as a traveller for his father George Collett who was a ‘cotton’ shoddy manufacturer. James’ wife Edith was 25 and their daughter Mary was still under one year old in March 1901. Two more children were added to the family during the first ten years of the new century. So, by April 1911, the family at Batley was made up of James Collett who was 38, Edith Collett who was 35, Mary Collett who was 10, Kathleen Collett who was six and George Collett who was one year old. It is possible that further children may have been added to the family over the following years.
	36s1	Mary Collett	Born in 1901 at Batley
	36s2	Kathleen Collett	Born in 1906 at Batley
	36s3	George Collett	Born in 1910 at Batley
36r2	Fred Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1874 and that was how his name was recorded throughout his life. The birth of Fred Collett was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 672) during the last quarter of 1874. It was almost a year later the Fred Collett was baptised at Birstall on 10^th October 1875, the son of George and Mary Collett. In 1881 Fred and his family were living at Common Side in Soothill, near Batley, when he was six years of age. His mother died in 1883, after which his father married Sarah Ann Kilburn in 1885, and it was with them that 16-year-old Fred, a warehouse assistant, and his sister Betsy (below) were living in 1891 but at Longlands Road in Staincliffe, between Batley and Dewsbury. They were still living there in 1901 when the address was confirmed as 11 Longlands Road, from where unmarried Fred, at the age of 26, was a rag dryer. By 1911 Fred, aged 35, and his father were working together as shoddy manufacturers, that is, after the family had moved to Batley.
36r3	Betsy Eliza Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1878, her birth recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 679) during the fourth quarter of that year, the third and last child of George Collett and his first wife Mary Firth. It is possible that she was born at Common Side in Soothill, near Batley, where Betsy E Collett was two years old in 1881, when living there with her family. Following the premature death of her mother, and the subsequent re-marriage of her father, it was with her father and stepmother Sarah Ann, plus her older brother Fred (above), that she was living at Longlands Road in Staincliffe in 1891 when Betsy E Collett was 12 years old. It was same situation in 1901 when Betsy was 22 and still living at the family home at 11 Longlands Road. By April 1911 the same family group was living in Batley, where Betsy Collett was 32, with no occupation. It is now known that she never married, but lived a long life in Yorkshire. The death of Betsy E Collett was recorded at Spen Valley (Dewsbury) register office (Ref. 2d 407) during the last three months of 1952 when she was 73.
36r4	Horace Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1878, the eldest of the five sons of Joseph Collett and Eliza Parker, whose birth was registered at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 682) during the last three months of the year. Shortly after he was born, he was baptised at Birstall on 27^th October 1878 when he was confirmed as the son of Joseph and Eliza Collett. He may have been born at the couple’s home on Brighton Street in Heckmondwike where Horace was two years old in 1881. Sometime in the months after 1887 the family moved to Dewsbury and 109 Mill Road where they were residing in 1891 when Horace was 12. A major tragedy hit the family during the following year, when the last of Horace’s siblings was born and died within a few weeks. That sad event was followed by the death of Horace’s mother just prior to the start of the new century. Whether before or after the death of his mother, Horace left Yorkshire when he pursued a career with the General Post Office which initially took him to Cambridgeshire.
	That move south was confirmed in the next census of 1901 when Horace Collett from Heckmondwike was living as a boarder at the home of the large Gaunt family at Cambridge Street in St Neots. By then he was 22 years of age and was employed as a post office sorting clerk and telegraphist. Six years later the marriage of Horace Collett and Mary Ethel Marshall took place at Caistor in Lincolnshire on 18^th April 1906. Horace was 27 and confirmed as the son of Joseph Collett, while Mary was 21, the daughter of Frederick Marshall. It was also at Caistor register office (Ref. 7a 1671) that their wedding was recorded, a year after which their son was born. During that intervening year, the couple had settled in Fairfield, near Buxton, in Derbyshire where in 1911, Horace Collett from Heckmondwike was 32 and still working as a post office clerk with the GPO. His wife Mary Ethel Collett from North Kelsey in Lincolnshire was 25, and son Neil Collett was three years of age and born at Fairfield. The birth of Neil Collett was recorded at Chapel-en-le-Frith register office (Ref. 7b 917) at the start of the second quarter of 1907.
	No further children were born into the family, while it is established that Horace Collett was Pioneer 288317 with the Royal Engineers and was involved in the East African campaign against the German. It was towards to end of the fighting that Horace was killed, or died on his wounds, on 22^nd February 1918, nine months before peace was declared. Horace was buried at the Dar Es Salaam War Cemetery and his name is included on a brass plate in St Hildeburgh’s Church at Hoylake in Cheshire. It was originally in Holy Trinity Church in Hoylake until it was demolished in the 1970s.
	The Will of Horace Collett was proved in Suffolk on 7^th June 1918, when the main beneficiary was his widow Mary Ethel Collett.
	36s4	Neil Collett	Born in 1907 at Fairfield, near Buxton
36r5	Harry Collett was born at Brighton Street in Heckmondwike during 1880, the son of butcher Joseph Collett and his wife Eliza. His birth, as Harry Collett, was registered at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 694) during the second quarter of that year. It was also at Brighton Street that he and his family were recorded in 1881 when Harry was one year old. By 1891 the family had left Heckmondwike and was settled in a dwelling at 109 Mill Road in Dewsbury where Harry was 10. During the next year Harry’s youngest brother was birth but suffered an infant death, his loss to the family was following seven years later by the death of Harry’s mother. The subsequent location for his father has not been determined within the census of 1901, although his later death was recorded at Dewsbury in 1908.
	On the day of the census in 1901, it was Harry Collett, aged 21 and from Heckmondwike, who was named as the head of the three-roomed household at 13 Hillary Street in the hamlet of Staincliffe between Batley and Dewsbury, when he was described as a shoddy warehouseman, while living there with him were his two younger brothers Louis and Reginald (below). Acting as the housekeeper for the three brothers was domestic servant Annie Denton from Batley who was 40. While further records of his three brothers have been located in the next census of 1911 by that time, Harry had been a married to Kathleen for the past six years, with whom he and their daughter were living at Leeds in 1911.
	At that time in his life Harry Collett from Heckmondwike was 31 and working as a rag grinder for a cotton shoddy manufacturer. His wife was Kathleen Clara Collett from Dewsbury who was 30, and their Kathleen Marie Phyllis Collett was three years old and born after the couple had made their home in Leeds. The earlier marriage of Harry Collett and Kathleen Clara Kelly had taken place at Staincliffe on 2^nd February 1905, when Harry was 24 and confirmed as the son of Joseph Collett, and Kathleen was 23 and the daughter of Edward Kelly.
	Two more daughters were added to the family after that census day, the births of both of them recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 1046) Q3 in 1914 and (Ref. 9b 795) Q1 in 1917, when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed at Kelly. The birth of the couple’s first daughter was also recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 460) during the last quarter of 1907. It was just close to the end of 1936 that the marriage of Kathleen Marie Phyllis Collett and Clifford Watson was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 1301).
	The two younger sisters were separately baptised at Staincliffe, Mabel Annie on 26^th August 1914, and Dorothy Muriel on 7^th February 1917, when they were confirmed as the children of Harry Collett and Kathleen Clara Collett. When Dorothy was old sixteen years old, the death of her father Harry Collett, aged 53, was recorded at Yorkshire register office (Ref. 9b 636) in 1933. After a further eighteen years as a widow, Kathleen Clara Collett died, with her death also recorded at Yorkshire register office (Ref. 2d 353) in 1951 when she was 70 years old.
	36s5	Kathleen Marie Phyllis Collett	Born in 1907 at Leeds
	36s6	Mabel Annie Collett	Born in 1914 at Staincliffe, Dewsbury
	36s7	Dorothy Muriel Collett	Born in 1917 at Staincliffe, Dewsbury
36r6	Louis Collett was born at Heckmondwike during the summer of 1883 and that may have taken place at Brighton Street where his family had been living three years earlier. The birth of Louis Collett was registered at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 618) in the third quarter of 1883, another son of Joseph and Eliza Collett. When he was around four or five years of age his parents took the family to live at 109 Mill Road in nearby Dewsbury, where Louis was six years old in 1891. Two tragic events then took place within the family; the death of Louis baby brother, who was born and died in 1892, and the death of their mother in 1899, with no record of their father in 1901, who died in 1908.
	According to the census in 1901, Louis Collett was 17 and a rag machine joiner when he was living at 13 Hillary Street in Staincliffe, Dewsbury, where his older brother Harry (above) was the head of the household. After a further ten years, bachelor Louis Collett from Heckmondwike was 27 and a machine joiner working in the textile industry, who was boarding at the home of elderly cabinet maker Tom Wright at Batley on the day of the census in 1911.
	Just over five years later, the marriage of Louis Collett and Edith A Turton was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 1195) during the third quarter of 1916. After peace in Europe was declared, Edith presented Louis with a daughter, whose birth was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 1223) during the first three months of 1920, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Turton. Nora was therefore only a month or so old when she was baptised at Staincliffe on 4^th April 1920. Louis may have spent his whole life living in Yorkshire, since it was there that he was still living when he died in 1950 at the age of 66. The passing of Louis Collett was then recorded at Yorkshire register office (Ref. 2d 374).
	36s8	Nora Collett	Born in 1920 at Staincliffe, Dewsbury
36r7	Reginald Collett was born at Heckmondwike either near the end of 1887 or early in 1888, the youngest of the four surviving sons of butcher Joseph Collett and Eliza Parker. His birth was also registered at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 623) during the first quarter of 1888. Shortly after he was born his family left Heckmondwike and by the time Reginald was three years old in 1891, the census that year placed the family at 109 Mill Road in Dewsbury. Following the infant death of his youngest brother Arthur, and the later death of his mother, no trace of his father has been found in 1908, even though it is established that he died at Dewsbury in 1908. It was his older brother Harry (above) who was the head of the family at 13 Hillary Street in Dewsbury by 1901, when Reginald was only 13. By that time he had already left school and was an errand boy working for a local chemist.
	Sometime during the next decade, Reginald followed in his father’s footstep, when he took up the occupation of a butcher. According to the next census in 1911, Reginald Collett, aged 23 and from Heckmondwike, was still a bachelor, but a butcher, who was a boarder at the Shipley-cum-Heaton home of hairdresser William James Brunton, within the North Brierley registration district of the West Riding of Yorkshire. No record has been found to indicate that Reginald ever married, while the premature death of Reginald Collett aged just 32 was recorded at Wirral register office in Cheshire (Ref. 8a 486) during the last three months of 1919. He may have died after suffering with an injury sustained during the Great War.
36r9	Helah Collett was born at Heckmondwike near the end of 1880 the same year that her parents were married, possibly a honeymoon baby. The birth of Helahn Collett was registered at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 672) during the first three months of 1881, the first-born child of Joshua Gill Collett and Ruth Sharp. Throughout her life it would appear that she was known as Ella or Ellen, with just her birth and the census returns for 1881 and 1911 referring to her as Helah Collett. On the first of those occasions, Helah was three months old and living with her parents at Walkley Lane in Heckmondwike, where her father was an engineer at a woollen mill.
	However, it was as Ella Collett that she was 10 years old in 1891 when she was still living with her family in Heckmondwike at Lobley Street, not far from Walkley Lane. Her youngest sibling Agnes was born in 1897 and that happy event was shortly followed by the death of her father in 1898. It may have been his passing that was the reason why the family was no longer living in Heckmondwike, but had settled in Bradford by 1901. It was there, at 8 Oakwood Street, that Ella was supporting her widowed mother and the rest of the family as only one of two members of the family who were working at that time. Ella Collett was 20 when she was employed as a stuff weaver.
	During the next half-decade there were two major events in the life of Ella Collett, the first being the death of her mother in the spring of 1902, when Ella took over the care of her three youngest siblings, the latter being her wedding day. What is known is that it was during 1905 or 1906 that she married John Burton from East Dereham in Norfolk. One year later she gave birth to the first of two sons who were both recorded with Ella and John in 1911. Also by that time Ella’s three youngest siblings were living with her and her new family. John Burton was 31 and a coachsmith working for a coach building shop in Batley, when the family was recorded in a four-roomed dwelling at 87 Taylor Street in the town. Again as Helah Burton from Heckmondwike she was recorded as being 30 years of age, who had been married for five years, during which she had given birth to two children, both still living.
	Helah’s two children on that day were named as Lloyd Burton who was four, and Frank Burton who was six months old, both of them born after the couple had settled in Batley. Ella’s three siblings were Fred Collett, Arthur Collett, and Agnes Collett (see below for their details). It is possible that more children were added to the family in the years after 1911. Lloyd was born on 20^th February 1907, married Germaine Frank at Bradford in the spring of 1934, and died in 1996. The birth of son Frank Burton was recorded at Dewsbury during the autumn of 1910
36r10	Thomas Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1883, the son of Joshua and Ruth Collett. His birth, like those of his seven siblings, was registered at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 624) during the second quarter of that year. Thomas was eight years old when he was with his family at Heckmondwike in 1891 where seven years later his father died, with he and his family moving to live in Bradford. As one of the older children in the family Thomas had left home prior to the census of 1901, by which time he was 19 and working as a hall porter at a hotel on Albert Street in Low Harrogate. After a further ten years the census in 1911 recorded Thomas Collett from Heckmondwike as being unmarried at the age of 28, when he was a hotel porter employed by hotel manager George Phillip Wood from London, one of ten servants working at a grand hotel in Leeds.
	No positive record has been found to suggest that Thomas ever became a married man. What is more likely is that he was reunited with his brother Fred (below) who had moved to County Durham during the First World War. And it was at Durham register office (Ref. 10a 66) that the death of Thomas Collett aged 41 was recorded in 1924.
36r13	Frederick Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1891 but six months after the census day that year. His birth was registered at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 615) during the last quarter of that year, another child of Joshua and Ruth Collett. It would seem that he was more usually known as Fred. Two things occurred in the life of the young Fred; one was death of his father when he was seven years old, and the other – perhaps a result of the first – saw the family leave Heckmondwike and settle in Bradford. It was at 8 Oakwood Street in Bradford, a four-room property, that Fred Collett aged nine years and from Heckmondwike was living with his widowed mother and other members of his family in 1901.
	Following the death of his mother in the spring of 1902, Fred and his two younger siblings Arthur and Agnes were cared for by their eldest sister Ellen (above), who was later married in 1906. Five years later, the census in April 1911 recorded Fred Collett from Heckmondwike as being aged 19, who was employed as a domestic chauffeur, the brother-in-law of head of the household at 87 Taylor Street, he being John Burton the husband of Helah Burton nee Collett.
	It was during the following year when Frederick Collett, aged 20 and the son of Joshua Collett, was married to Emma Ann Terry, aged 23 and the daughter of Samuel Terry, at Hick Lane Chapel in Batley on 2^nd March 1912. In 1916 and at the age of 24, Frederick Collett from Heckmondwike was serving with the 62^nd Company of the Army Service Corps as C/2149, a resident of Batley. The first of the couple’s three children was born at Batley, with the birth of Elsie Collett recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 967) during the second quarter of 1915.
	No long after, the family travelled north to County Durham where the two other children were born their births recorded at Darlington register office (Ref. 10a 4) in the summer of 1917 and (Ref. 10a 5) at the start of 1925. On all three occasions, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Terry. Frederick Collett was 70 years old when his death was recorded at Durham register office (1a 204) during 1961. Two years after being made a widow, the death of Emma Ann Collett, nee Terry, aged 74, was also recorded at Durham register office (Ref. 1a 205) in 1963.
	36s9	Elsie Collett	Born in 1915 at Batley, near Dewsbury
	36s10	Ruth Collett	Born in 1917 at Darlington, Durham
	36s11	Alfred T Collett	Born in 1925 at Darlington, Durham
36r14	Arthur Collett was born at Heckmondwike on 3^rd June 1895, the youngest son of Joshua and Ruth Collett, who was named in the memory of his older departed brother. His birth recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 656) during the second quarter of the year, and when he was only three years old his father died. That sad event resulted in Arthur and his family leaving Heckmondwike, from where they moved to live in Bradford. The census in 1901 recorded Arthur living with his widowed mother and the family at 8 Oakwood Street. One year later his mother died so, at that sad time Arthur, his brother Fred (above) and sister Agnes (below) were placed in the care of their eldest sister Ella (Helah). On leaving school Arthur took up employment at a local manufacturing mill where he was involved in cloth finishing. In 1911, when was 15, he and his two youngest siblings were living with their recently married sister Ella Burton at 87 Taylor Street in Batley, where Arthur was described as the brother-in-law of John Burton, head of the household.
	The later marriage of Arthur Collett and Doris Smithson, probably at the end of 1920, was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref.9b 1314) during the first quarter of 1921. It was there also that the births of the couple’s six children were recorded, when the registrations confirmed the mother’s maiden-name as Smithson. The first four children were born at Mortimer Avenue in the Healey district of Batley, just north of Dewsbury, with the two youngest children born after the family had moved to 32 Mortimer Avenue. The much later death of Arthur Collett was recorded at Yorkshire register office (Ref. 2d 971) during 1971 when he was 76 years old when he was still living at 32 Mortimer Avenue in Healey.
	Doris Smithson was born at Batley on 29^th June 1901, and was baptised there on 11^th August 1901, a daughter of Joseph and Annie Smithson. Her birth was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 603) during the third quarter of 1901. On the day of the census in 1911, Doris’ father had already died, so nine-year-old Doris was one of five children living at Batley with their widowed mother who was 39 and a woollen cloth weaver. Completing the household were Albert Arthur Smithson 18 and a shop assistant, Elsie Smithson 16 and another woollen cloth weaver, Sarah Elizabeth Smithson who was seven, and Gertrude Smithson who was five. Twelve years after the death of her husband, the death of Doris Collett, nee Smithson, was recorded at Dewsbury (Vol. 4 1089) during the second quarter of 1983 at the age of 82. Right up until that time, she had remained living at 32 Mortimer Avenue in Healey.
	36s12	Jessie Collett	Born in 1921 at Healey, Batley
	36s13	Frank Collett	Born in 1923 at Healey, Batley
	36s14	Joan Collett	Born in 1926 at Healey, Batley
	36s15	Cyril Collett	Born in 1928 at Healey, Batley
	36s16	Jack Collett	Born in 1932 at Healey, Batley
	36s17	Raymond Collett	Born in 1936 at Healey, Batley
36r15	Agnes Collett was born at Bradford in 1897 and was the last child born to Joshua Collett and his wife Ruth. It is possible that her father had died shortly before was born as the family had only recently settled in Bradford, having moved there from Heckmondwike. So by the time of the census in 1901 Agnes was three years of age when she was living with her widowed mother at 8 Oakwood Street in Bradford, together with her older siblings. Agnes was around ten years old when her mother died, after which she and her two siblings Fred and Arthur went to live at 87 Taylor Street in Batley, the home of her older married sister Ella Burton. At the age of 13 in 1911 Agnes from Bradford was already working as a rug maker at a nearby rug warehouse.
36r19	George Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1881, the eldest of the two sons of John Collett and Susan Wood. His birth was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 616) during the third quarter of 1881. He was nine years old in the census of 1891 but was not recorded with his mother and his younger brother Jeremiah (below). Instead, he and his father were visitors at the home of George’s grandmother Nancy Collett at Milton Square in Heckmondwike. In 1901 he was living and working with his uncle John Henry Mortimer in Heckmondwike, where 19-year-old George was a labourer to John who was a hay dealer, the Mortimer family living at Blanket Hall Street. During the following years George travelled to Doncaster, where his younger brother Jeremiah had already settled, and it was there where George was married and started a family. The marriage of George Collett and Gertrude Alice Swaby was recorded at Doncaster (Ref. 9b 1355) during the second quarter of 1909, and produced two children for the couple.
	According to the Doncaster census conducted in April 1911, George Collett from Heckmondwike was 29 and a steel wire galvaniser at the local Wire Works, who had been married to Gertrude Alice Collett, age 35 and from Hexthorpe in Doncaster, for two years. Living there with them in the 5-roomed dwelling at 11 Hirck Street was their seven-month-old son George Arthur Collett who was also born at Doncaster. One more son was added to the family before the tragic death of George Collett in 1915, whose death was recorded at Doncaster register office (Ref. 9c 1119) during the second quarter of that year, when George was only 34 years old.
	36s18	George Arthur Collett	Born in 1910 at Doncaster
	36s19	Leslie Collett	Born in 1914 at Doncaster
36r20	Jeremiah Collett was born at Heckmondwike, either at the end of 1882 or early in 1883, the youngest of the two sons of John Collett and Susan Wood, whose birth was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 636) during the first quarter of 1883. At the age of eight years he was living with his mother, his father and his older brother George (above) in Heckmondwike. With the death of his father during the last decade of the century, Jeremiah was still living with his mother at Heckmondwike in 1901 when he was 18 and employed as a dyer’s labourer. Sometime during the next five years, Jeremiah moved to Doncaster where his marriage to Edith Mary Maples was recorded (Ref. 9c 962) during the first three months of 1907. Once married, the couple settled within the Doncaster suburb of Balby-with-Hexthorpe, where their only known child was born, and where the family of three was living in 1911, not far from his brother George (above).
	The census in 1911 identified the three of them living at the home of Edith’s father, Henry Maples, who was 59 and from Nottinghamshire. Jeremiah Collett from Heckmondwike was 28 and a wire drawer, who was described as the son-in-law of Henry Maples. His wife Edith Mary Collett was 27, and their daughter Doris Collett was one year old. Edith’s place of birth was recorded as Adwick le Street, just north of Doncaster. The record of the birth of their daughter took place at Doncaster register office (Ref. 9c 853) during the first three months of 1910.
	36s20	Doris Collett	Born in 1910 at Balby-with-Hexthorpe
36r25	Arthur Ledgard Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1885, his birth recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 639) during the fourth quarter of that year. The very recent marriage of his parents, John Fawcett Collett and Annie Ledgard, had only just taken place, and recorded at Dewsbury, during the third quarter of that same year. It was also at Battye Street in Heckmondwike where he was living with his parents in 1891 when Arthur L Collett was five years old. By the time he was 15, in March 1901, Arthur L Collett had left school and was working as a woodcarver for a local cabinet maker in Heckmondwike while living with his family at Ings Road. He was still there ten years later in 1911 when he was 25, but recorded under his full birth name of Arthur Ledgard Collett, when his occupation was that of a mechanic. The married of Arthur L Collett and Bertha Furnace was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 1446) during the third quarter of 1913. Bertha was born in 1886 at Liversedge, to the east of Heckmondwike, the daughter of William Henry and Janet Furnace of Halifax Road. In 1911 Bertha was 24 and working as a stuff weaver, while still living with her parents in Liversedge.
	As far as can be determined, the marriage of Arthur and Bertha produced just the two children listed below, who may have been born at Liversedge even though their births were recorded at Dewsbury. Arthur’s daughter was only five years old when the death of Arthur L Collett was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 682) during the second quarter of 1924, when he was only 38 years old.
	36s21	William K Collett	Born in 1915, recorded in Dewsbury
	36s22	Ethel M Collett	Born in 1918, recorded in Dewsbury
36r26	Clara Collett was born at Heckmondwike in 1890, with her birth recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 643) during the third quarter of the year, the second of the third known children of John Fawcett Collett and Annie Ledgard. She was around six months old in the census of 1891 when she and her family were recorded at Battye Street in Heckmondwike, where she may have also been born. Ten years later Clara was 10 years of age when the family was still living in Heckmondwike, but at Ings Road. On leaving school during the first decade of the new century, Clara appears not to have taken up any occupation and was 20 years old in 1911, when she and her two known siblings were again living with their parents in Heckmondwike.
36s4	Neil Collett is believed to be the only child of Horace Collett and Mary Ethel Marshall. His birth was recorded at Chapel-en-le-Frith register office (Ref. 7b 917) at the start of the second quarter of 1907, having been born at Fairfield, near Buxton, in Derbyshire, on 4^th April 1907. Just over three weeks later he was baptised at Fairfield on 28^th April 1907, when he was confirmed as the son of Horace and Mary Collett. At the age of eleven years, his father was killed in action in East Africa serving with the Royal Engineers, a former employee of the General Post Office. His father’s Will named Neil’s mother as the main beneficiary.
	Neil was residing within the county of Nottinghamshire when he died in 1986 at the age of 79, with his passing recorded at Nottinghamshire register office (Vol. 8 1258).
36s12	Jessie Collett was born on 4^th July 1921 and was the first-born child of Arthur Collett and Doris Smithson. Her birth was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 1040) during the third quarter of that year, where her mother’s maiden-name was stated to be Smithson. She was nineteen when her marriage to James Sheard was recorded at the Dewsbury Spen Valley register office (Ref. 9b 1495) during the last three months of 1940. Their marriage produced four children, and they were Roy Sheard born in 1941 (Spen Valley), Patricia J Sheard in 1942 (Dewsbury), Ann Sheard in 1943 (Dewsbury), and Gillian Sheard in 1947 with her birth recorded at Yorkshire register office.
	Jessie was only 48 when she died, with the death of Jessie Sheard, nee Collett, recorded at Yorkshire register office (Ref. 2d 1368) during 1969. After another thirty years, the death of James Sheard, who was born on 17^th May 1920, was also recorded at the same register office (Vol. 0881b b40c) in 1999, when he was 79.
36s13	Frank Collett was born on 29^th August 1923 when his birth was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 886), another child of Arthur and Doris Collett. At the age of twenty, the marriage of Frank Collett and Barbara E Summerscales was also recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 2b 596) during the last three months of 1953. Barbara present Frank with a son in 1961, their only child, whose birth was recorded at Dewsbury during the second quarter of the year, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Summerscales. Frank Collett appears to have spent much of his life in the Dewsbury area of Yorkshire, where he died 20^th April 2008 at the age of 85.
	36t1	David A Collett	Born in 1961, recorded in Dewsbury
36s14	Joan Collett was born in 1926 with her birth recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 787) during the first quarter of that year, where her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Smithson. She was the third of the six children of Arthur and Doris Collett. Joan was thirty-two years old when her marriage to John K Rollison was recorded at Spen Valley register office in Dewsbury (Ref. 2d 695) during the second quarter of 1958. Their daughter and only child Ann Louise Rollinson was born in 1969, when her birth was recorded at Lancashire’s Southport register office (Ref. 10f 969) during the first three months of 1969.
36s15	Cyril Collett was born at on 11^th March 1928 and his birth was also recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 781) during the second quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Smithson. The later marriage of Cyril Collett and Anne Shirley Rayner was recorded at Spen Valley register office (Ref. 2d 805) during the last three months of 1967. Two years after their wedding day their daughter Nina was born at Batley with her birth recorded at Dewsbury register office, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Rayner. Cyril was around 67 years of age when he died, following which his passing was recorded at Yorkshire register office (Vol. 0881a c39c) in 1995.
	Daughter Nina tells us that her father was born at Mortimer Avenue within the Healey area of Batley, where his older siblings had been born. Not long after Cyril was born the family moved to a different house further up the road to 32 Mortimer Avenue, where his two younger brothers were born. Although Nina has no memory of her grandfather Arthur Collett, who died when she was only one year old, she does know that it was at 32 Mortimer Avenue when he passed away in 1971.
	Apparently during the Second World War, grandad Arthur steadfastly refused to leave the house during the air-raids for the shelter in the garden, to where grandma retreated with the children, when he would say, “if I’m going to get blown up, it will be in my own bed”. He was quite a character by all accounts! My nana Doris also stayed at 32 Mortimer Avenue in Healey until she died in 1983 . Nina continues, saying my dad Cyril built a bungalow in the late 1960’s, over the course of three years, with help from his friends. It was on Healey Lane that it was built and completed prior to me being born, only a few hundred yards south-east of Mortimer Avenue. It was there that my dad passed away in 1995, several years after which my mum Shirley and I moved to live in York.
	36t2	Nina Collett	Born in 1970 at Batley
36s16	Jack Collett was born on 19^th December 1931 with his birth recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 689) during the first three months of the following year, his mother’s maiden-name being Smithson. It was during the summer of 1958 when he was 26 years old that the marriage of Jack Collett and Janette Waring was recorded at Spen Valley register office (Ref. 2d 851). Janette Waring was born on 26^th January 1938 and her marriage to Jack produced just one child, with the birth of their son Jonathan also recorded at Spen Valley early in 1962. The death of Jack Collett, aged 62, was recorded at Yorkshire register office (Vol. 0881a a35c) in 1994. Two years later, the death of Janette Collett, nee Waring, was recorded at Yorkshire register office (Vol. 0881c c40c) in 1996.
	36t3	Jonathan Collett	Born in 1962, recorded in Spen Valley
36s17	Raymond Collett was born on 20^th October 1936 and his birth, like those of his five siblings, was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 694). He was the sixth and last child of Arthur Collett and Doris Smithson, whose mother’s maiden-name was confirmed in his birth record. He was 23 when the wedding of Raymond Collett and Joan Scott was recorded at the Dewsbury Spen Valley register office (Ref. 2d 790) during the first three months of 1960. Joan’s birth was also recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 815) at the start of 1938.
	During the decade following the couple’s wedding day Joan presented Raymond with two children who were born at Hillcrest Avenue in Healey, a district to the east of Batley and just north of Dewsbury. And it was at Dewsbury register office where their births were recorded, when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Scott. The birth of son Paul, either at the end of 1965 or at the start of 1966, was (Ref. 2b 528), and daughter Joanne during the spring of 1969 (Ref. 2b 1272). Raymond was only 57 years old when his death was recorded at Yorkshire register office (Vol. 0881a a35c) in 1994.
	36t4	Paul Collett	Born in 1966 at Healey, Batley
	36t5	Joanne Collett	Born in 1969 at Healey, Batley
36s18	George Arthur Collett was born at Doncaster towards the end of September 1910, the firstborn child of George Collett and Gertrude Alice Swaby. His birth was recorded (Ref. 9c 870) during the last three months of the year, and when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Swaby. He was recorded in the Doncaster census of 1911 as being just seven months when living with his parents at 11 Hirck Street. Although not yet proved, there is currently ongoing research into the fact that in 2016 there was an Englishman also named George Arthur Collett, who was married to Lise Marie Haugen, a hairdresser, who was working and residing in the small town of Sparbu in central Norway. The only brief details about that present-day George Arthur Collett is that he was born in 1979, has a younger sister - Camilla Collett Eriksen, a hairdresser in Levanger, and that his father was also George Arthur Collett, as was his grandfather, which could bring us back to George Arthur Collett born in 1910.
36s19	Leslie Collett was born at Doncaster in 1914, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 9c 1962) during the second quarter of the year, and when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Swaby.
36s21	William K Collett was born in 1915, possibly at Liversedge, his birth recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 9b 948) during the third quarter of 1915, when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Furnace. He may have been married at Liversedge, since it was at nearby Spen Valley register office (Ref. 9b 1463) that his marriage to Sarah H Cansfield was recorded in the last three months of 1945.
36s22	Ethel M Collett was born in 1918 and, although the birth was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 9b 750) during the last quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Furnace, it is possible she was born at Liversedge. It was during the second quarter of 1939 when Ethel Collett married Robert Todd, the wedding recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 863).
36t1	David A Collett was born in 1961, the only child of Frank Collett and Barbara Summerscales whose birth was recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 2b 467) during the second quarter of the year. He was twenty-seven when the marriage of David A Collett and Susan L Winterbottom was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Vol. 4 878) during the spring of 1988, whose birth was also recorded at Dewsbury (Ref. 2b 506) during the first three months of 1965. During the first seven years of the married life together, Susan gave birth to two children, with both births recorded at Dewsbury in the summer of 1992 (Vol. 4 1769) and during the autumn of 1995 (Vol. 0881a a57c). The two birth records confirm that the mother’s maiden-name was Winterbottom.
	36u1	Matthew Ethan J Collett	Born in 1992, recorded in Dewsbury
	36u2	Claire Louise Collett	Born in 1995, recorded in Dewsbury
36t2	Nina Collett was born at Healey Lane in Batley in 1970, the only child of Cyril Collett and Ann Shirley Rayner. Her birth was subsequently recorded at nearby Dewsbury register office (Ref. 2b 1443) at the start of 1970, with her mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Rayner. Several years after her father died at Batley in 1995, Nina and mum Shirley moved to York, where Nina married Nicholas French on 29^th April 2007, with their daughter Saskia French born two years later on 16^th April 2009. It is thanks to Nina that we now know a lot more about her and her family, as reflected in the June 2023 edition of this extended family line.
36t3	Jonathan Collett was born at the start of 1962 with his birth recorded at Dewsbury’s Spen Valley register office (Ref. 2d 662) when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Waring, being the only child of Jack Collett and Janette Waring. It was during June 1990, at the age of 28, that Jonathan married Diane P Bullock, their wedding day recorded at Staincliffe register office (Vol. 2 2136), Staincliffe being between the towns of Batley and Dewsbury. Initially, they gave birth to two children at the start of their married life together, who was followed twelve years later by a second daughter. On the recording of their births at Keighley register office, their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bullock.
	36u3	Jade Leanne Collett	Born in 1991, recorded in Keighley
	36u4	Adam John Collett	Born in 1992, recorded in Keighley
	36u5	Roxanne Marie Collett	Born in 2004, recorded in Keighley
36t4	Paul Collett was born at Healey in 1966 and was the first of the two children of Raymond Collett and Joan Scott. His birth was recorded at Dewsbury register office (Ref. 2b 528) during the first three months of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Scott. During the autumn of 2000, the marriage of Paul Collett and Freda M Marti was also recorded at Dewsbury (Vol. 088 0492). The couple’s son was born just over one year later, with his birth again recorded at Dewsbury register office (Vol. 0881c c73c) in November 2001. Another record suggests his full name may have been Joshua Ray Mart-Collett. In 2023, Paul, Freda, and son Joshua live in Brazil.
	36u6	Joshua Ray Collett	Born in 1991, recorded in Dewsbury
36t5	Joanne Collett was born at Healey in 1969 when her birth was recorded in Dewsbury register office (Ref. 2b 1272) during the spring of that year, with her mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Scott, the youngest child of Raymond and Joan Collett. Before the end of the century, unmarried Joanne had given birth to three Collett children, with all three births also recorded at Dewsbury when their mother’s name was confirmed as Collett. A later child named Rio Emmanuel Collett was born in Somerset, his birth recorded at Mendip register office in April 2006. However, there are two records for the child, perhaps before and after Joanne became a married woman or took up with a new partner, with the second of them for Rio Emmanuel Collett-Newell. In both cases, the mother’s maiden-name was Collett.
	36u7	Katie Ann Collett	Born in 1985 at Batley, Dewsbury
	36u8	Daniel Paul Collett	Born in 1987 at Batley, Dewsbury
	36u9	Jessie Collett	Born in 1994 at Batley, Dewsbury
	36u6	Rio Emmanuel Collett-Newell	Born in 2006 at Mendip, Somerset