PART FORTY

The Hereford Line

This line commences with John Collett (Ref. 5M8)

whose earlier family feature in Part 5 – The Tewkesbury Line

Updated July 2016

This is the family line of Joan Cowdell (see Ref. 40O3) and

Beverley Allen, whose grandfather is mentioned under Ref. 40O1

40M1	JOHN COLLETT (Ref. 5M8) was born at Tewkesbury on 9^th March 1763 where he was baptised six years later on 10^th December 1769, one of the sons of Joseph Collett and Jane Lysom. It would appear that he had no ties when he left Tewkesbury and decided to settle in Herefordshire, either before or around the turn of the century. On 17^th August 1807 he married Mrs Oriana Evans at Fownhope-with-Fawley in Herefordshire. Oriana’s maiden name prior to her first marriage had been Pritchard. Fownhope is a village some six miles south-east of the town of Hereford. Oriana Pritchard was baptised at Fownhope-with-Fawley on 6^th August 1775, being twelve years younger than her second husband John Collett, when it was only her mother’s name recorded in the baptism record, Elizabeth Pritchard. Therefore it is possible that she was base-born and conceived out of wedlock.
	The marriage is known to have produced three children for John and all of them were born at Fownhope before his untimely death there in 1813 when he was fifty years old. Following the death of her husband Oriana married James Powell in 1814 with whom she had a further two sons William Powell and Henry Powell.
	40N1	John Collett	Born in 1807 at Fownhope
	40N2	Thomas Collett	Born in 1810 at Fownhope
	40N3	JOHN COLLETT	Born in 1812 at Fownhope
	40N4	William Powell	Born in 1815 at Fownhope
	40N5	Henry Powell	Born in 1817 at Fownhope
40N1	John Collett was born at Fownhope in 1807 and was baptised at Fownhope-with-Fawley on 1^st November 1807 when the baptism record confirmed that he was the son of John and Oriana Collett. Tragically he was only two years old when he died in 1809.
40N2	Thomas Collett was born at Fownhope in 1810 and was baptised at Fownhope-with-Fawley on 11^th June 1810, another son of John and Oriana Collett. However, there no record of him from that time onwards has been found so far, therefore it may be the case that he too was subject to an infant or childhood death like his older brother John (above).
40N3	JOHN COLLETT was born at Fownhope in 1812 and was baptised at Fownhope-with-Fawley on 30^th May 1813. Twenty-two years later, on 17^th December 1835, he married Ann Fletcher of nearby Hereford and they had eight children who, it is believed, were all born while the family was living at Fownhope. In the first national census on 6^th June 1841 John and Ann were living at Lower Nash in Fownhope with their daughter and their son. John Collett was 29, his wife Ann was 26 and the two children were named as Jessy Collett who was five and John Collett who was two years of age.
	Over the next ten years a further four children were added to the family. So by 1851 the family comprised John aged 36 and Ann aged 35 and their children Jessie aged 14, John aged 11, Myra who was eight, Emma who was five, Reuben who was two and baby Charles who was under one year old. Ten years later in 1861 the family had increased in size again by the addition of a further two children, by which the family had left Fownhope and were then living in the City of Hereford. John was 47 and his wife Ann was 46. Of their eight children, five of them were still living with their parents and they were daughters (Myra) Elizabeth aged 18 and Grace who was six, and their sons Reuben aged 11, Charles who was nine and Ebenezer who was eight years old. The three missing children had already left home and were living and working elsewhere. Daughter Jessie was 24, Emma was 15, and John was 21.
	Twenty years later John’s occupation was that of a stonemason and in the 1881 Census he was 68, his wife Ann was 66 and the only member of their family still living with them was their youngest daughter Grace A Taylor aged 25, together with her husband and their six months old son Walter. At that time they were living at 4 Tanbrook Place off Widemarsh Street in the All Saints district of Hereford. Living just a short distance away from John and Ann, at 1 Tanbrook Place, was their son Ebenezer and his young family.
	40O1	Jessie Collett	Born in 1836 at Fownhope
	40O2	John Collett	Born in 1839 at Fownhope
	40O3	Myra Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1842 at Fownhope
	40O4	Emma Collett	Born in 1846 at Fownhope
	40O5	Reuben Thomas Collett	Born in 1848 at Fownhope
	40O6	Charles Henry Collett	Born in 1851 at Fownhope
	40O7	Ebenezer Collett	Born in 1853 at Fownhope
	40O8	Grace Ann Collett	Born in 1855 at Fownhope
40N4	William Powell was born at Fownhope in 1815 and he later married Elizabeth Apperley who was born at Fownhope where the couple were married in 1840. It was also at Fownhope that all of their children were also born. By 1861 the marriage had produced five children for William aged 45 and Elizabeth who was 46. Twenty years later most of the children had left the family home at Parkers Pitch in Fownhope, leaving just William, an agricultural labourer aged 66, his wife Elizabeth also 66, and their two unmarried sons William and Charles who were 29 and 27 respectively, both of them working as labourers. William Powell appears to have spent his whole life living in Fownhope since that was where he died not long after the census day in 1881.
	40O9	Anne W Powell	Born in 1843 at Fownhope
	40O10	Henry Powell	Born in 1845 at Fownhope
	40O11	William Powell	Born in 1851 at Fownhope
	40O12	Charles Powell	Born in 1853 at Fownhope
	40O13	Frederick Powell	Born in 1855 at Fownhope
40N5	Henry Powell was born at Fownhope in 1817 and was baptised at Fownhope-with-Fawley on 4^th April 1817, the son of James Powell and Oriana Collett.
40O1	Jessie Collett was born at Fownhope in 1836 and in June 1841 she was five years of age and at the end of March 1851 she was 14 years old. By the time of the next census in 1861 Jessie was living within the Cripplegate district of East London, where she was recorded as being aged 24 and of Fownhope, when she was working as a barmaid at the Brown Bear Inn in Aldersgate. It seems very likely that she had moved to London with her brother John (below) who was also living and working there in 1861.
	It was during the following year that Jessie Collett married Henry Charles Pittock at St Margaret's Church in Stoke Newington on 2^nd August 1862. Their marriage produced three children for the couple, and all of them were born while they were living at Bethnal Green. The three children were Grace Pittock who was born in 1864, Ann Myra Pittock who was born on 25^th September 1868 and Walter Charles Pittock who was born during 1870. Not long after the birth of her son Jessie Pittock nee Collett died during the first three months of 1871 at the age of 34, when she and her family were living at 14 Stamford Road in the Tottenham area of London.
	The census which followed shortly after her passing, simply listed the family as Henry Charles Pittock, who was 30, Grace Pittock who was six, Annie Mira Pittock who was four and Walter Charles Pittock who was one year old. It was around five years after the death of his wife that Henry Charles Pittock was married for a second time although, by the time of the next census in 1881, no trace of him has been found anywhere in Great Britain or in any census thereafter.
	As regards his three children, it is known that Grace Pittock married but never had any children, while Walter Pittock later became a married man, the marriage producing two sons, one of which died in infancy. The surviving son never married. Jessie’s and Henry’s other daughter, Ann Myra Pittock, who was always known as Annie, married Alfred Harris and their tenth child out of a total of eleven children was the grandfather of Beverley Allen, who kindly provided the details of the short life of Jessie Collett. Annie Myra Harris nee Pittock died on 12^th March 1944.
40O2	John Collett was born at Fownhope in 1839 where he was baptised on 28^th July 1839, the eldest son of John and Ann Collett. According to the census records for Fownhope, he was two years of age at the time of the census in 1841 and was 11 years old in 1851. Sometime before 1861 his family left Fownhope and moved the short distance into the City of Hereford. John was not living with the family at the time of the census that year, but had travelled to London to seek work, probably with his sister Jessie (above). According to the census return in 1861 John Collett from Fownhope was 21 and was living in the Westminster area of London where he was employed as biscuit maker. Apart from being a witness at the Holmer wedding of his sister Myra (below) in 1865, no other record of John has been found in England after that time.
40O3	Myra Elizabeth Collett was born at Fownhope in 1842 and was baptised there on 7^th July 1844. Her parents appear to have used her second named on some occasions, while it was as Myra Collett that she was living with her parents at Fownhope in the census of 1851. During the next ten years the family moved to Hereford where she was recorded as Elizabeth Collett aged 18 years in 1861. Myra married Albert William Hart at Holmer in Hereford on 15^th October 1865, when she was recorded as Mira Collett, the daughter of mason John Collett. The marriage register also confirmed that Albert was the son of Samuel Hart, both masons, while the witnesses at the wedding were Emma Collett (Myra’s sister below) and John Collett (her brother above). Albert had been born at Sevenhampton in Gloucestershire around 1844, the son of Samuel and Sarah Hart, where his family was still living in 1851 when Albert W Hart was seven years old.
	The first sixteen years of their married life together produced nine children for Myra and Albert. The first child was born during the year following their marriage when the couple was living in the City of Worcester but shortly thereafter the family settled back at Holmer in Hereford where they were living in 1871. The census that year recorded the family as Albert Hart who was 27 and a mason, his wife Mira Hart also 27, Ebenezer Hart who was five, Charles Hart who was three, Arthur Hart who was one and Ada Hart who was only a few months old. Sometime around 1875 the family made another move, most likely because of Albert’s occupation as a mason, when they settled in the village of Abberley. And it was while they were living at Abberley that their next three children were born. Abberley is approximately five miles south-west of Stourport-on-Severn.
	By the time the 1881 Census was conducted Albert Hart was 36 and still working as a mason. He and his family were living at Home Lodge in Abberley at that time and the family comprised his wife Mira Hart who was 37 and from Hereford, their sons Albert Hart who was 14, Charles Hart who was 13, Arthur Hart who was 11, Frederick Hart who was eight, Thomas Hart who was two, Henry Hart who was one year old, and their daughters Ada Hart who was 10, Alice Hart who was six and Leah Hart who was four. Two further children were added to the family during the next five years, and they were Jessie Margaret who was born in 1883 and Annie Amelia (1886-1966). This was confirmed in the next census of 1891, by which time the Hart family was residing at Coles Place in the village of Pensax just north-west of Abberley.
	According to the 1891 census return only seven children were still living with Albert and Mira, both 46, were Arthur 21, Ada 19, Leah 14, Thomas 12, Henry 11, Maggie who was eight, and Annie who was five. Sometime during the next decade Albert retired from being a stonemason and became the landlord at the Nag’s Head Inn at Lindridge, north-west of Worcester. According to the census in March 1901 Albert Hart aged 56 was a publican in Lindridge where living with him was his wife Myra, also 56, and their three unmarried children. They were Arthur who was 31, Leah who was 24 and Annie who was 15. By that time their daughter Ada Hart had married and was Ada Allcott – see below. Seven years later Annie Amelia Hart married George Albert Francis, the event recorded at Tenbury register office (Ref. 6c 405) during the final three months of 1908, and they were the great grandparents of Sam Francis in Bristol who made contact in 2016.
	Myra Elizabeth Collett and Albert William Hart were the great grandparents of Joan Cowdell whose first husband’s mother (Mildred Alice Jones nee Allcott) used to refer to her grandmother Myra as ‘a nice old lady’. It was Myra’s eldest daughter Ada Hart, who was born at Holmer in early 1871, who married local school teacher Charles Allcott at Marley in Worcestershire during the last three months of 1893. The census of 1901 confirmed that Charles Allcott, aged 34 and from Abberley, was a ‘certified head schoolmaster’ living at Brimfield with his wife Ada from Hereford. At that time the marriage had produced the first three of their six children, and they were Ada Margaret Allcott who was six, Constance Annie Allcott aged four and Dorothy Leah Allcott who was one year old. All of the couple’s six children were born at Brimfield, where they were still residing in 1911. The additional three children that year were named as Charles Henry Allcott aged eight, Mildred Alice Allcott aged five and Frederick Albert Allcott who was three.
	Of the children of Ada Hart and Charles Allcott, their eldest daughter Ada Margaret was married, to become Ada Margaret Probert, Constance Annie Allcott never married and was a school teacher like her father, Dorothy Leah Allcott died while still very young, while it was Mildred Alice Allcott who married Albert Jones, and their eldest child was Roger Jones the first husband of Cowdell.
40O4	Emma Collett was born at Fownhope in 1846 and it was there that she was baptised on 15^th March 1846. In the 1851 Census she was five years of age when she was living with her family in Fownhope. Sometime after that the family left Fownhope and settled in the City of Hereford where they were recorded as living in the census of 1861. By that time Emma had left the family home and was employed in domestic service in Hereford where, at the age of 15, she was working as a servant, her place of birth confirmed as Fownhope. In October 1865 Emma and her brother John (above) were the witnesses at the marriage of their sister Myra (above) at Holmer in Herefordshire. Less than six years later, on the occasion of the census in 1871, Emma Collett was still a spinster and, at the age of 24, she was a visitor at the Fownhope home of her aunt Emma Daw. It was during the following year that she married James Snead at Holmer, just north of Hereford. However, no record of the couple has been found after that date.
40O5	Reuben Thomas Collett was born at Fownhope in 1848, and was baptised at Fownhope-with-Fawley on 1^st October 1848, the son of John and Ann Collett. He was two years old in the March census of 1851 and by 1861 he was 11 years of age when he was living with his family who, by then, had moved from Fownhope to Hereford. Like his father John Collett, Reuben was also a stonemason and he married Jane Nicholl of Tettenhall in Staffordshire around 1871 when Jane was just twenty years of age. The wedding may have taken place at Hereford since that was where the couple’s first child was born.
	Sometime around 1875 it would appear that Reuben and Jane, together daughter Minnie, left Hereford to move the four miles north to live in the village of Marden, where their next two children were born. The marriage may have produced further children for the Reuben and Jane, but that has not been confirmed at this time. Ten years after they were married the couple was still living in the village of Marden, at somewhere referred to as ‘Wyatt’. For example, that may have been Wyatt House, Wyatt Lane, etc. That year’s census revealed that stonemason Reuben was 32, his wife Jane was three years younger at 29, and their three children Minnie, Ernest and Frank, who were aged eight, six and three years respectively.
	By the time of the next census in 1891 Reuben Collett, a stonemason, was 42 and Jane Collett was 39, by which time they were residing at Burghill, within the parish of Sutton St Michael, just to the north-west of Hereford. There were also two additions to the family in the form of Abel Collett who was eight and William Collett who was four years of age, together with the couple’s two older sons Ernest Collett who was 16 and Frank Collett who was 13, listed as having been born at Sutton.
	Just after the start of the new century Jane, aged 49, had become a widow and was living at Withington, just north-west of Hereford. The 1901 Census stated she was born in Staffordshire, but at Stonebridge rather than Tettenhall, as stated twenty years earlier. In order to support herself and her family, Jane was then working as a grocer and shopkeeper in Withington. Living with her at Withington were her two sons Frank Collett who was 23 and born at Sutton (St Nicholas near Hereford) and William Collett who was 14 and born at Withington. Both of them were working as carpenters at that time. Ten years later in April 1911, Jane was still living at Withington, near Hereford, and was 59 years of age. The only member of her family still living with her was her son Frank.
	40P1	Minnie S Collett	Born in 1872
	40P2	Ernest William Collett	Born in 1874
	40P3	Frank S Collett	Born in 1877
	40P4	Abel Collett	Born in 1882
	40P5	William Collett	Born in 1886
40O6	Charles Henry Collett was born at Fownhope in 1851 and was baptised at Fownhope-with-Fawley on 24^th August 1851, the son of John and Ann Collett. Charles was nine years old at the time of the census in 1861 when he was living with his family within the Hereford City registration area.
40O7	Ebenezer Collett was born at Fownhope in 1853 and was baptised at Fownhope-with-Fawley on 10^th July 1853, the baptism register confirming that he was the son of John and Ann Collett. He was a joiner and he married Agnes Stones on 13^th October 1877 at Hereford, where she had been born. The marriage register confirmed that the bride’s father was William Stone and the groom’s father was John Collett. Shortly after they were married the couple moved to Newport in South Wales, where their first child was born. However, Ebenezer and Agnes then moved back to live in Hereford just after birth of the child and in time for the birth of their second child. That child was born while they were living at 1 Tanbrook Place, off Widemarsh Street, in the All Saints district of Hereford, which was only three doors from where Ebenezer’s father John Collett was living at that time.
	The census return for 1881 listed the family as Ebenezer Collett aged 27 from Fownhope who was a joiner, his wife Agnes from Hereford who was 26, and their two children Gertrude Collett who was two years old and born at Newport, and Frederick W Collett who was just three months old and born at Hereford. The family was not long at Hereford because, by the time of the birth of Ebenezer’s and Agnes’ third child, they had moved once again. On that occasion they were living at Colwich in Staffordshire where all of their remaining children were born. According to the Colwich census of 1891 the family comprised Ebenezer Collett who was 38, his wife Agnes who was 37, and their children Gertrude who was 12, Frederick who was 10, Charles who was eight, Grace who was seven, Alec who was four and Cecilia who was under one year old.
	Just after the turn of the century in March 1901, Ebenezer was 46 and was still working as a joiner, while Agnes was also 46, and living with them at Colwich were just four of their six children. They were their sons Frederick, Charles and Alexander aged 20, 17 and 13 respectively, and their daughter Cecilia who was referred to as Cissie who was 10. The couple’s eldest daughter Gertrude had already left the family home and was living and working at Allerton in Lancashire. Missing daughter Grace had already entered into domestic service and was living and working at a house in Weddington, near Nuneaton.
	It would appear that during the first ten years of the new century Agnes Collett nee Stones died, leaving Ebenezer as a widower by April 1911. He was still living at Colwich on that occasion at the age of 57, and still living there with him were three of his six children. They were Frederick, Alexander, and Cecilia.
	It should be noted that from 1881 onwards there were two Collett sisters living at Colwich. They were spinster Mary Ann Collett who was born at Bloxwich near Walsall in 1829 and her married and widowed sister Elizabeth Hopkins who had been born at Great Haywood near Colwich in 1838. Both ladies died while they were living at Colwich; Elizabeth first in 1899 and Mary twelve years later in 1911. Further details of that branch of the Collett family can be found in Part 43 – The Staffordshire Line in which Mary Ann Collett (Ref. 43O6) and Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 43O10 are two of the children of John Collett and Mary Elizabeth Barrow. It is possible that there is some connection between the two family lines but so far no direct link has been found.
	Ebenezer Collett of Colwich died on 8^th April 1923, while his Will was proved shortly after at Lichfield on 30^th April. His estate of £2,008 1 Shilling was passed to his three unmarried daughters Gertrude Collett, Grace Annie Collett and Cecilia Agnes Collett.
	40P6	Gertrude Collett	Born in 1878
	40P7	Frederick William Collett	Born in 1881
	40P8	Charles Collett	Born in 1882
	40P9	Grace Annie Collett	Born in 1883
	40P10	Alexander Collett	Born in 1886
	40P11	Cecilia Agnes Collett	Born in 1890
40O8	Grace Ann Collett was born at Fownhope in 1855 and she married William Taylor who was born at Whitechapel in London in 1856. From the age of their first child, the marriage may have taken place during 1879 and possibly at Hereford where the child was born during the third quarter of 1880. William was a telegraph electrician and in early April 1881 he and his wife Grace and their son Walter F E Taylor were living at 4 Tanbrook Place off Widemarsh Street in Hereford All Saints. That was the home of Grace’s parents John and Ann Collett. No record of Grace, or her husband William, or her son Walter has been found after 1881.
	Footnote: As far as can be determined there were no members of the Collett family living at Fownhope on 3^rd April 1881, the day the census was conducted. There were however four male Taylors and five female Taylors born at Fownhope who were recorded in the census of 1901, while the family of Grace A Taylor aged 43 and from Fownhope was listed in the St Owen parish of Hereford as William Taylor, also 43, Percy G Taylor who was 18 and Archie G Taylor who was 17. Ten years later Grace Annie Taylor was 53 when she was residing at 2 Peveril Villas in Portfield Street in Hereford. Living there with her was William Taylor 53 and their son Percy Graham Taylor a cider manufacturer. The census return confirmed that the couple had been married for thirty-two years, during which time Grace had given birth to three children, two of whom were still living.
40O12	Charles Powell was born at Fownhope in 1853 according to the earlier census records, although the later records suggest it may have been two years later. He was in his late twenties when he married Margaret Ann with whom he is known to have had a least five children. All of their children were born at Fownhope, where Charles and Margaret were living in 1891 aged 35 and 32 respectively. Listed with them in that year’s census was Emily Powell who was four, John Powell who was three, Ivan Powell who was two and Sarah Powell who was just five months old. Two years later their son Capel Powell was born at Fownhope in 1893, as confirmed by the 1901 Census in which he was recorded as living with his family at Fownhope. By that time Charles Powell was 45 and a widower, working as a quarryman, while living with him he had Emily aged 14, John aged 13 and Capel who was seven. It is possible that his wife Margaret had died during, or shortly after the birth of the last child.
40P1	Minnie S Collett was born at Hereford in 1872 and was recorded as being aged eight years in the census of 1881 when she was living with her family at Marden, just north of Hereford. She married Allen Pritchard at Withington in 1893 and by 1901 the couple was living with Allen’s father, 60 years old Jonathan Pritchard. The complete family at that time was Allen Pritchard aged 32 who was a rural postman, his wife Minnie Pritchard who was 29, and their two children Nellie Pritchard who was seven and Florence Pritchard who was four years old, both of whom had been born at Withington.
40P2	Ernest William Collett was born at Marden in 1874 and, although he was listed as living at Marden in 1881 at the age of six years and at Burghill within the parish of Sutton St Michael in 1891 aged 16, when his place of birth was recorded simply as Sutton. By the time Ernest was 36 he was a domestic groom and a chauffeur with a wife and three children living at Slade Villa in Sutton St Nicholas, Herefordshire, where he also said he had been born, Marden being just two kilometres to the north-west of Sutton. His wife was recorded as Johanna Collett from Ireland and their three daughters were Ellen Collett aged 12, Mary Collett who was 10 and Jane Collett who was eight years of age.
	During the following year Ernest William Collett enlisted with the army. His entry papers stated he was 38 and born at Seton Michaels in Herefordshire, a reference to Sutton St Michael. His regimental service number was 973 as a special reservist with the Army Service Corps. His family was recorded as Johanna Collett, wife, and their three children Ellen, Mary and Jane.
	It was many years after that when the death of Ernest W Collett was recorded at Hereford register office (Ref. 9a 15) during the first quarter of 1959 when he was 85. His widow Johanna Collett passed away at the end of that same year, with her death recorded at Hereford on 9^th December 1959. Her Will was proved in Gloucester three weeks later on 31^st December 1959 during which it stated that Johanna Collett of 41 Baysham Street in Hereford, widow, left personal effects valued at £297 14 Shillings 6d to Helena Davies, wife of Percy Bernard Davies. This was a reference to her eldest daughter Ellen.
	40Q1	Ellen Collett	Born in 1898
	40Q2	Mary Collett	Born in 1900
	40Q3	Jane Collett	Born in 1902
40P3	Frank S Collett was born at Marden in 1877 who was 13 years of age and living with his parents at Burghill in 1891. Following the death of his father before the end of the century, Frank – who was 23 - and his younger brother William (below) were living with their widowed mother at her home in Withington in March 1901, from where Frank was employed as a carpenter. Ten years later at the age of 33 Frank Collett was still a bachelor living with his mother Jane at Withington near Hereford.
40P4	Abel Collett was born at Marden in 1882 and was living with his parents at Burghill in 1891 at the age of eight years. However, just as with his brother Ernest (above), no record of him has been located in the census records for 1901 and 1911. It may therefore be assumed that he had moved to live abroad.
40P5	William Collett was born at Withington in 1886, the youngest child of Reuben Thomas Collett and Jane Nicholl. He was 14 years old and was working as a carpenter in 1901 when he was living with his widowed mother Jane and his older brother Frank who was also a carpenter. As with his brothers Ernest and Abel (above), no record of William has so far been found after 1901. However, by 1911 William Collett, aged 29 and from Withington in Herefordshire, was a widower and a boarder living at Central Lydbrook near Ross within the parish of West Dean in Monmouthshire where his occupation was that of a carpenter. Living with him, at the home of Godfrey and Clara Mongan and their three children, was his son Christopher Collett who was five years old.
	It is likely that William’s young wife was either Ethel May Collett who was buried at Lydbrook in 1910 or Sarah Louise Collett who was also buried there during the first three months of the following year. There is also a possibility that his wife died during, or shortly after, the birth of a daughter, who may have been either Ethel or Sarah. Only one other Collett burial has been recorded at Lydbrook, and that was Ernest Reuben John Collett who was buried in 1910 who, judging by his first two forenames was most probably another son of William Collett.
	40Q4	Christopher Collett	Born in 1905
	40Q5	Ernest Reuben John Collett	Born in 1908 possibly at Lydbrook
	40Q6	Ethel May or Sarah Louise Collett	Born in 1910 possibly at Lydbrook
40P6	Gertrude Collett was born at Newport in South Wales in 1878. Shortly after she was born, she moved with her parents to Hereford where they were living at 1 Tanbrook Place off Widemarsh Street in 1881. The census return confirmed that Gertrude’s place of birth was Newport and that she was two years old. Within the next ten years the family moved again, that time to Colwich in Staffordshire, as confirmed by the 1891 Census in which she was 12 years of age. By March 1901 Gertrude had left the family home in Colwich and was living and working at Allerton in Lancashire.
	In the census that year she gave her place of birth as Colwich, rather than Newport, probably out of ignorance of her actual place of birth, given that she was only there for a few short months after she was born and that most of her past twenty plus years having been spent living at Colwich. The census return recorded that Gertrude Collett was 25 and that she was employed as a domestic housemaid at an address within the Allerton registration district.
	It would appear that Gertrude never married and in 1923 she was referred to a spinster, along with her two sisters Grace and Cecilia (below), during the probate of her father’s personal estate following his death at Colwick on 8^th April that year.
40P7	Frederick William Collett was born in late December 1880 or early January 1881 at 1 Tanbrook Place off Widemarsh Street in the All Saints district of Hereford. He was recorded as being three months old in the April census of 1881 when he was listed as Frederick W Collett. Later that same year, or very early in the following year, he and his family move to Colwich in Staffordshire. By 1891 Frederick was 10 years old when he and his family were living at Colwich, midway between Stafford and Rugeley. Ten years later he was still living with his parents at Colwich aged 20 when his occupation was that of a joiner like his father and brother Charles (below).
	Sometime during the following decade his mother passed away. So by April 1911 Frederick was still a bachelor at the age of 29 when he was still living at Colwich, where he was still working with his widowed father Ebenezer Collett and his younger brother Alexander (below). Frederick was still alive in 1957 when he was granted administration of his younger sister Cecilia’s estate amounting to £1,261 13 Shillings 9d, by which time he was a retired coal merchant.
40P8	Charles Collett was born at Colwich in Staffordshire in 1882 where he was living with his family in 1891 aged eight years. Like his father and his brother Frederick (above) he worked as a joiner from the time he left school and in 1901 he was still living at Colwich with his family at the age of 17. A few years later, perhaps around 1908, he married Alice Betts who was born at Colwich in 1885. Shortly after they were married Alice presented Charles with their first child. According to the census in April 1911 the family of three was living at Little Haywood within the parish of Colwich when they were recorded as Charles Collett who was 27 and a joiner from nearby Colwich, his wife Alice Collett who was 25 and also born at Colwich, together with their son Lawrence Collett who was ten months old who was confirmed as having been born in Oxfordshire. However, this appears to be an error, since his birth was recorded at Stafford register office (Ref. 6b 15) during the second quarter of 1910.
	40Q7	Lawrence Collett	Born in June 1910 in Staffordshire
40P9	Grace Annie Collett was born at Colwich in 1883 and was seven years of age at the time of the 1891 Census. On leaving school she also left the family home in Colwich and entered into domestic service and it was around the turn of the century that she was employed as an under-house maid at a house in Weddington in Nuneaton, when she was 17 in March 1901. By April 1911 Grace Collett from Colwich was a lady’s companion to 57 years-old Mary Ann Brawn at her home at The Cottage in Sandhills, Shire Oak, Walsall. Curiously though, her age was only 23, perhaps an error for 28. It was as Grace Annie Collett, spinster, that she was named as one of the daughters of Ebenezer Collett at the time of his death in 1923. However, shortly after the death of her father Grace A Collett married Allan B Lane, the marriage recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 1548) during the second quarter of 1923.
40P10	Alexander Collett was born at Colwich in 1886. He was named as Alec Collett aged four years in the census of 1891, but was listed as Alexander Collett in 1901 when he was 14. On both occasions he was living with his family at Colwich, which was also recorded as being the place where he had been born. When he was around twenty years of age his mother died and by April 1911, at the age of 23, he was still living at Colwich with his widowed father and two of his siblings, Frederick (above) and Cecilia (below).
40P11	Cecilia Agnes Collett was born at Colwich between mid-1890 and March 1891 and was listed as being under one year old in the Colwich census of 1891. At the time of the next census for Colwich in 1901 she was 10 years old when her name was recorded as Cissie Collett. She was therefore the only daughter still living with her parents during the first decade of the new century, and was present at the later death of her mother Agnes. The next Colwich census in April 1911 recorded that Cecilia Collett was 19 and that she was still living with her widowed father and two of her brothers, Frederick and Alexander. Her father Ebenezer Collett of Colwich died on 8^th April 1923 and it was during the probate process that Cecilia was listed as Cecilia Agnes Collett, spinster, as were her two older sisters Gertrude and Grace (above). Cecilia never married and died on 10^th June 1957 while residing at Jasmine Cottage on Main Road in Colwich. Administration of her personal effects valued at £1,261 13 Shillings 9d was granted at Birmingham on 10^th July 1957 to her older brother Frederick William Collett, a retired coal merchant.
40Q1	Ellen Collett was born during 1898, the eldest daughter of Ernest William Collett and his Irish wife Johanna. Curiously no recorded of Ellen and her family has been identified within the census of 1901, but by 1911 they were living at Slade Villa in Sutton St Nicholas, Herefordshire, where Ellen Collett was 12 years old. It was in 1923 that she married Percy Bernard Davies, the marriage recorded at Hereford register office (Ref. 6a 1047) during the last three months of that year. Upon the death of her widowed mother in December 1959, it was as Helena Davies, the wife of Percy Bernard Davies that she was named as the sole executive of her mother’s estate of £297 14 Shillings 6d.