PART
FORTY-THREE
The
Staffordshire Line to Kentucky and Michigan 1870 to 2014
This
is the second of two sections of this family line
Updated November 2024
43P59
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John Robert Thomas
Collett, who was
known as Robert, was born in Missouri on 11th December 1871 and
this probably happened at Millard where his father Robert Collett died in May
1880 when John was just eight years old.
Also, at the time of the US Census in June 1880, Robert was recorded
as being eight years old, when he was living with his widowed mother
Elizabeth and the rest of his family at Pettis in Adair County in Missouri. A little while later, during that same
year, Robert was recorded as boarding with his mother and sister Katie (above)
at the Atchison home of his uncle John Collett. According to the census return, eight years
old Robert had been born in Missouri and was attending the school in
Atchison. He was described as nephew
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Robert
married May Edna Hoolan in the early 1920s with whom he had a daughter. The date of birth for their daughter may
suggest that May was much younger than Robert, since he would have been 55
when the child was born. The
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Two
years earlier Robert was living at St Louis when he heard the news that he
and his brothers and sisters were to share in a considerable amount of money
left to them by their grandparents back in England. The full details were printed in the San
Antonio Express on 4th February 1925 and are re-produced in
Appendix One at the end of this family line.
Joan, as their daughter was better known, was a librarian and was very
keen on genealogy and is believed to have spent some time researching her
family roots. Robert Collett died at
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43Q92 |
Mary Joan
Collett (known as Joan) |
Born in 1927 |
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Helen Maude Collett, who was sometime referred to as Ellen
Maude but more commonly as Nellie, was born in Missouri on 4th May
1874. That may have taken place at
Millard where her father died or at Pettis where Helen was living with her
family in 1880. The 1880 Census for
Pettis in Adair County listed Nellie as being five years of age. Later that year Nellie’s mother was living
with Nellie’s uncle John Collett at Atchison in Kansas with her older
siblings Katie and Robert (above).
That meant Nellie and her sister Minnie, and brothers Arthur and
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In
1916, Helen was living at 608 West Craig Place in San Antonio. Family legend tells the story that Nellie
attempted to take her own life using a pair of scissors. Apparently, she was a patient at the State
Mental Hospital in Kerrville, near San Antonio in Texas where she died in
1919. The real tragedy of this story
is that six years after she had died, she would have been one of the
beneficiaries to the estate of her English grandparents, the parents of her
mother Martha Elizabeth Simons, which had been placed in trust at Leicester
in England since 1894. |
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William Francis
Collett was born in Missouri on 19th August 1877. He was the son of Robert Collett of Colwich
and Martha Elizabeth Simmons of Essington and was born eleven years after his
family had emigrated to America from England.
It seems likely that he was born at Millard in Missouri where it is
known his family was living at the time of the death of his father Robert,
when William was only one or two years old.
The US Census of 1880 for Pettis in Adair County, Missouri simply
recorded that ‘Willie Collett’ was two years old and born in Missouri. On that occasion he was living with his
widowed mother Elizabeth and five of his older siblings, they being Arthur,
Minnie, Katie, Robert, and Nellie. |
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It
is not clear exactly what happened to his family following the death of his
father, except that later that same year his mother, together with his sister
Katie and brother Robert were living as boarders with his father’s brother
John Collett and his family at Atchison.
Where William and his other ‘missing’ siblings were on that occasion
has still not been resolved, or what happened to them over the following
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Sometime
later and possibly before the end of the century, William left Missouri and
moved south into Texas where he met Maje L Townsend whom he eventually
marriage in 1906. The couple’s
marriage certificate confirmed that the wedding took place on St Valentine’s
Day in 1906 in Maverick County, Texas.
The document was drawn up in the registrar’s office in the town of
Eagle Pass. Maje L Townsend was born
in Texas around 1885. This photograph of her may have been
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Over
the next four years William and Maje lived over the border in Mexico where
their first child was born, before returning to settle in Texas where their
remaining children were born. It is
established that it was at Crystal City in Texas that his son William was
born, and it may have been there also that his second daughter was born. By 1st January 1920 (the US
Census Day) the family of five was living at Alpine in Brewster County in
Texas and was recorded as follows: |
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William
F Collett of Missouri was 42, his wife Maje was 35, and their three children
were Margaret of Mexico who was 13, William, who was seven, and Martha who
was four years and eleven months old, both of Texas. Shortly after the census the family left
Alpine and move to San Antonio, where the couple’s last child was born. In 1925 William and his family were living
at 104 Haynes Avenue in San Antonio from where he worked for the Southern
Pacific Railroad. It was on 4th
February 1925 that the San Antonio Express (newspaper) published an article
about William and his four surviving siblings inheriting a shared fortune of
$200,000. The full transcript of the
article is re-produced in Appendix One at the end of this family line. |
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By
the time William died at Houston in Texas in 1943 he was 65 and had been
separated from Maje for several years due to his busy work schedule and had
been staying in a boarding house. Maje
survived her husband by twenty-two years when she died at San Antonio in
Texas during 1965. |
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Margaret Frances Collett |
Born in 1908
at Mexico |
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43Q94 |
William Bruns Collett |
Born in 1912
at Crystal City, Texas |
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43Q95 |
Martha Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1915
at Alpine, Texas |
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43Q96 |
Mary Belle Collett |
Born in 1921
at San Antonio, Texas |
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Dorothy Louise Collett, who was known as Lulu, was born at
Aughton Park in Ormskirk, Lancashire on 3rd June 1858. Around the time she was ten years old her
family emigrated to America and by 1880 they were living in Atchison. The census that year listed Dorothy as 22 when
she was working at home, where she was supporting her mother
Mary. Seven years later she married
James Waters McKelvey, who was known as Jim, on 13th April 1887 at
Merriam Park in St Paul in Minnesota.
Jim was a ‘scotch tinner’ and their marriage produced four children
for Lulu and James who were all born at Atchison in Kansas. |
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Dorothy
Louise McKelvey nee Collett died whilst at Kansas City on 23rd
January 1925 and was buried at Mount Vernon Cemetery in Atchison in Kansas on
25th January 1925. Her
husband James (although referred to as John in Lulu’s obituary) died eighteen
months later, on 19th June 1926, at Kansas City and was buried
with his wife in Atchison. An obituary
in the Atchison Globe newspaper read: |
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“Mrs.
Dorothy Louise McKelvey, wife of John W. McKelvey, Kansas City, formerly of
Atchison, dies Friday in Kansas City after a long and painful illness. Mrs. McKelvey was a sister of William
Barrow Collett. She spent most of her
girlhood and many years of her married life in Atchison. She was stricken with the illness which
caused her death several years ago, since when she has been almost entirely
helpless. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Collett who lived in
Atchison for years. Her father died a number of years ago, but her mother survives and lives
in Richards with another daughter, Mrs Uberrein formerly of Atchison. Besides
her husband, mother and brother and sister, Mrs McKelvey is survived by four
children: John McKelvey, who is editor of a paper in a town in Kansas, James
McKelvey of St. Louis, Mrs. Bessie Mair of Sioux City, and Mrs. Florence
Ellis of Kansas City. Mrs. McKelvey
was a staunch Episcopalian and was instrumental in the building of St.
Andrew's Chapel in West Atchison and it was hoped the funeral might take
place from the chapel. But the main
entrance to the chapel is too small for the casket to be taken through, so
the funeral will take place at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the Hawin &
Douglas Chapel” |
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Their
children were John (Jack) Francis McKelvey born on 21st July 1888
and died on 24th December 1967, James Brook McKelvey born during
1890, Florence McKelvey born in 1900 who died on 3rd February 1925,
and Elizabeth (Bessie) McKelvey born during 1902. |
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Elizabeth Copeland
Collett was born at
Eastham, across the River Mersey from Liverpool, on 15th June
1859. By 1870 Elizabeth and her family
had emigrated to America, and by 1880 they were living at Atchison where
Elizabeth was twenty-one years of age.
It was much later in her life that she married banker Karl Ueberrhein
on 19th December 1901 in Atchison, who was many years younger than
Elizabeth. She was an accomplished
water-colour artist and she died on 14th January 1927 and was
buried in Whites Cemetery near Richards Township. The cause of death was pneumonia with
influenza. Following the death of his
wife, Karl is understood to have married Della and the couple lived at 528
West Lee, Nevada in Missouri. He was
the Secretary and Treasurer of the Vernon County National Farm Loan
Association of Nevada, Missouri and, after Elizabeth died, he continued to
manage Edgewood Farm at Richards which was still owned by the Collett family. |
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Robert William Barrow
Collett was born at
Liverpool on 31st July 1860.
He sailed to America with his mother and younger sister Eliza (below)
when he was just eight years old, his father and two older sisters having
gone on ahead a couple of years earlier.
The crossing from Liverpool was on board the sailing ship ‘City of
Baltimore’ which arrived in New York on 24th April 1867. Once in America, the family made their home
at Atchison, Kansas. And it was there
that they were living at the time of the US Census of 1880. This recorded that William aged 20 and from
England, was still living at the family home from where he was working as a
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He
later married Annie Heermance the daughter of Henry Philip Heermance and
Elizabeth Fonda. Annie was five years
older than William, having been born at Glenco, New York on 26th
February 1855 and baptised there five months later on
31st July 1855. William and
Annie remained at Atchison after they were married, and it was there that
their three children were born. It was
on becoming a naturalised American citizen at the age of 55 on 11th
January 1916, that William Barrow Collett (the first) chose to drop his
initial name of Robert. William Barrow
Collett died on 1st September 1930 at Cleveland in Ohio, and was
buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery in Atchison where his wife was also buried
following her death nearly seven years later, on 2nd February
1937. The Atchison Daily Globe carried
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"Funeral services
for the late William Barrow Collett, 70, former Atchison insurance man who
died Monday morning at his home in Cleveland, Ohio were held this
afternoon. The body arrived at the
Burlington station at 1.33pm and was taken from the train to Mount Vernon
Cemetery, where the Rev. Early Poindexter, Rector of the Trinity Episcopal
Church conducted a short service at the grave. Pallbearers were Martin Jensen, John Kaff,
Herb Mine, Wirth Hetherington, and Arthur and Ed Lukens. Hawin and Douglas were in charge. Mr. Collett first went into the insurance
business in Atchison in 1887 with Dick Selts as partner. They engaged in the fire insurance business
until 1893 when Mr. Collett became the fourth district agent appointed in the
state of Kansas for the North-Western Mutual Life Insurance Co. Together with Mr. K.W. Poindexter, Swift,
and P.M and E.H. Anderson, Mr Collett formed the Kansas "Old Guard"
of the North-Western Company. Mr.
Collett took part in various civic and public enterprises in Atchison. He was appointed receiver of the Atchison
Coal Company and closed up its affairs. Together with the late Dr. E. T. Shelly and
others, he helped to organise the Committee of Forty, and was instrumental in
organising the Atchison YMCA and the Rotary Club. Mr. Collett's illness began in 1919 with an
attack of intestinal flu. From 1922 to
1924 he lived in Fort Scott, Kansas in order to be
near his farm interests. He returned
to Atchison in 1924, which he always claimed as his home, and lived here until
1929 when he went to Cleveland. At the
time of his death Mr. Collett was still listed as an active agent by the
North-Western Mutual Life Insurance Company.
His son, William Barrow Collett Jr is now production manager of the
company in the Detroit, Michigan." |
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a Collett
daughter (stillborn) |
Born on
16.09.1887 at Atchison |
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43Q98 |
Mary Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1888
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43Q99 |
William Barrow Collett II |
Born in 1895
at Atchison |
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Eliza Collett was born in 1861 and very likely at
Liverpool where her brother William (above) was born two years
earlier. When she was only a couple of
years old her father John Collett sailed to America with her two oldest
siblings Dorothy and Elizabeth. The
remainder of the family, comprising Eliza and William and their mother Mary,
followed in due course, when they sailed out of Liverpool on the ship ‘City
of Baltimore’ which sailed into New York harbour on 24th April
1867. The ship’s passenger list
included the names of Mary E Collett aged 36, and her two children William
who was eight, and Eliza who was six.
Whether it was the sea voyage or the one-thousand-mile trek across
America that caused the death of Eliza is not known, but she appears not to
have survived the journey since she was not listed with the family when it
settled at Atchison in Kansas and where they were living in 1880. |
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Mary Ellen Collett, who was known as Ella, was born at
Ashby-de-la-Zouch at the end of 1860 and in the April census of 1871 she was
living at The Castle Inn with her parents and was ten years old. Ten years later Mary’s father was still the
inn keeper at The Castle when Mary was 20 years old and working as a draper’s
assistant. The marriage of Mary Ellen
Collett and John Hollis was recorded at Burton-on-Trent (Ref. 6b 82) during
the first three months of 1884 and took place on 3rd February. John, who was known as Jack, was born in
1858 and was 25 and the son of Edward Hollis, and from Ashby-de-la-Zouch,
while Mary Ellen was 23, the daughter of William Collett, and was residing at
23 High Street in Burton. By 1891 the
couple and their two children were living at Burton Road in
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where solicitor’s clerk was John Hollis was 33, Mary E
Hollis was 30, Charles Reginald Hollis was six, and Mabel Alice
Hollis was four years of age. Visiting
the family that day was Mary’s sister Kate Elizabeth Collett (below)
who was 16. According to the next census
in 1901, every member of the Hollis household had been born at
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, when in 1901 they were residing at Ashby Road in Packington
just south of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. John
Hollis was 43 and a solicitor’s clerk, Mary Ellen Hollis was 40, Charles
Reginald Hollis was 16, and Mabel Alice Hollis was 14. |
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It
was a similar situation in 1911, when John was again working as a clerk for a
local solicitor at the age of 53. Mary
Ellen was 50, son Charles Reginald was 26, and daughter Mabel Alice was
24. John’s income from his work was
sufficient for him to employ a domestic male servant, sixteen-year-old George
Arthur Walker. Thirteen years later,
the family was still living in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where John Hollis died on
22nd March 1924 at the age of 65, where he was also buried. |
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Annie Collett was born at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1862
and, in the census of 1871, she was living at The Castle Inn with her parents
and was nine years old. Ten years
later Annie was nineteen and with no specified occupation it seems likely she
was working with her mother looking after their large family. Around the mid-1880s the family left
Ashby-de-la-Zouch when they swapped The Castle Inn for The Albion Hotel in
Burton-on-Trent where they were living in 1891 when Annie was 28. |
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Charlotte Collett was born at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1863
and was missing from the family home at The Castle Inn in 1871 when she would
have been six years old. Her sister
Alice (below) was also absent at that time, although both featured in
later census returns. However, the
census for Burton-on-Trent in 1871 included Charlotte Collett, aged eight
years, as living with her aunt and uncle, Margaret
and Richard Geddes. Charlotte was 17
in 1881 and had returned to the family home at The Castle Inn and, like her
sister Annie, she too was listed as having no occupation. During the next ten years Charlotte’s
father took over as proprietor of The Albion Hotel in Burton-on-Trent, which
was where the family was living in 1891.
Charlotte was still living with her parents at that time when she was
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Curiously
in the census of 1901, Charlotte was recorded as being 32 while she was still
unmarried and was still living with her parents at The Albion Hotel on
Shobnall Road. Her actual age would
have been nearer 37, so perhaps it is an error in transcription. Ten years later she was a 47-year-old
spinster still living with her parents at The Albion Hotel where she was
assisting her father in the hotel business.
Charlotte Collett of The Albion Hotel died in Burton-on-Trent on 15th
December 1926. She was a spinster and
it was through the office in London that probate was completed on 12th
March 1927 when her sister Agnes Collett (below) was named as the sole
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Alice Collett was born at Ivanhoe Road in
Ashby-de-la-Zouch on 27th October 1865 and, just like her sister
Charlotte (above), Alice was also missing from the family home in
April 1871. That was perhaps a
temporary arrangement because of overcrowding or some other reason, since
both sisters appeared in subsequent census records. By 1881 Alice was 15 and was the oldest
child in the family that was still attending school while still living with
her family at The Castle in Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Alice has not been found with her family in
the census of 1891 since, by then she was married to Arthur Crofts Blant who
was born on 16th November 1870.
Alice and Arthur would appear to have been married around 1889 and,
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They
were Gladys Ellen Blant (born 22.10.1890), Alice Maud Blant (born
04.02.1892), Agnes Elizabeth Blant (born on 26th September
1894), Charlotte Mildred Blant (born on 27th November
1895), John Samuel Blant (born on 19th November 1897), Henry
Edward Blant (born on 18th September 1900) and Gerald
Charles Blant (who was born on 6th October 1902). And it was their youngest child Gerald who,
with his wife Hilda Gladys Gee, was the father of David Blant who made
contact in 2013 and kindly provided all the new information regarding this
branch of the Collett family. |
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Lottie Collett may have been born around 1866 at
Ashby-de-la-Zouch where all twelve of her siblings were born. Her non-appearance with her large family in
any census return might indicate that she suffered an infant death before 1871. However, it seems highly likely that she
was the Lottie Winifred Selbey, a married woman, who was granted
administration of the personal estate of her brother Richard Edward Collett (below)
in 1962, when she would have been in her early nineties. |
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Agnes Collett was born at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1867
and was three years old by April 1871 when she was living with her family at
The Castle Inn at Ashby-del-la-Zouch.
Agnes was 13 in 1881 and was still at school and still living at The
Castle Inn. By 1891 Agnes’ parents
were living at Burton-on-Trent, although by then she was not living with them
at The Albion Hotel. It is not clear
where Agnes was in 1901, but by April 1911 she was once again living with her
parents at The Albion Hotel. The
census that year recorded that she was unmarried at the age of 43, when she
was assisting with the family business.
Agnes was still a spinster in 1927 when she was the sole executor for
the Will of her sister Charlotte Collett (above). Agnes Collett was 78 when she died at
Burton-on-Trent in 1946, her death being recorded at the Burton register
office (Ref. 6b 325) during the month of June that year. |
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William Henry Collett was born at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in
1869. At the time of the census for
Ashby in 1871 William was two years of age and was living at The Castle Inn
with his family, while ten years later he was still there at the age of
eleven. He was 21 in 1891 by which
time he had moved with his parents from Ashby-de-la-Zouch to Burton-on-Trent,
where the family was living in The Albion Hotel of which William’s father was
the proprietor. It was towards the end
of the decade, when the marriage, by the reading of banns, of William Henry
Collett and Emily King was recorded at Burton register office (Ref. 6b 127)
during the first quarter of 1899. The
wedding ceremony took place at St Paul’s Church in Burton-on-Trent on 26th
February 1899, when William was recorded as residing in the St Johns
Horninglow area of Burton. Emily King
had been born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
Shortly after that, Emily presented William with a son, by which time
the family of three was settled in Burton.
The census in 1901 listed them as William H Collett, a licenced
victualler aged 32 and from Ashby-de-la Zouch, his wife Emily who was 25, and
their son William M Collett who was just seven months old. At that time in his life William was the
landlord of the British Oak Inn at 36 Byrkley Street in Burton-on-Trent. Helping the family was servant Alice E
Bradley who was 17 and from Burton. |
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Four
years after that the couple added a daughter to their family, but sadly when
she was around four years of age her father died. The family was residing at 35 Derby Street
in Burton when William Henry Collett passed away on 14th August
1910 at the age of 41. His Will was
proved at Lichfield on 7th September 1910, when his widow Emily
was named as the administrator of his estate of just £100. Six months after his death Emily Collett
from Ashby-de-la-Zouch was 34 and had living with her in Burton her two
children. They were William Mark
Collett, who was 10, and Eveline Martha Margaret Collett who was five years
old. The family was still living at 35
Derby Street, where they were supported by servants Elsie May Topliss who was
13, while visiting the family was Alfred Alexander Gray who was 26. |
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William
Mark Collett |
Born in 1900
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Eveline
Martha Margaret Collett |
Born in 1905
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Frederick Charles
Collett was born at
The Castle Inn in Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1870 just prior to the census of 1871
in which he was recorded as being under one year old. At that time, he was living at The Castle
Inn where his father William was the inn keeper. By 1881 he was ten years old. Around 1885 Frederick and his family took
over The Albion Hotel in Burton-on-Trent where they were living in April 1891
when Frederick was 20. By the time of
the next census in March 1901 Frederick was a married man living at 55-56
Worcester Street in Coventry. Fredk
Chas Collett from Ashby-de-le-Zouch was 30 and a grocer’s assistant. His wife Ellen was 39 and from Coventry,
and with her was her married daughter from her previous marriage. She was Lizzie Evelyn Stanton, aged 20, who
was married to John Stanton, a plasterer from Coventry who was 27, with whom
she had already had two grandchildren.
Evelyn Annie Stanton was one year old, while her unnamed brother was
only twelve days old. |
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After
another ten years Frederick Collett from Coventry (?) was 42 and employed as
the hall keeper at the Hippodrome in Coventry when residing at 46 Cope Street
in the city. Living there with him was
his wife Ellen Collett who was 50 and their daughter Doris Collett who was only
seven years old, having been born and baptised at Coventry on 22nd
July 1903 as Elma Doris Collett, daughter of Frederick and Helen Collett. It seems the family of three was residing
in the theatre, the census in 1911 also listing five other adults who may
have been performers or staff. The
death of Frederick C Collett was recorded at Birmingham register office (Ref.
6d 352) during the second quarter of 1924 when he was 54. |
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43Q102 |
Elma Doris
Collett |
Born in 1903
at Coventry |
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Robert Collett, who was known as Bob, was born at The Castle Inn in
Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1871 but after the census that year which was conducted
on second of April, and he was nine years old in the census of 1881 when he
was still living at The Castle with his family. About four years later the family left The
Castle Inn and moved to Burton-on-Trent where they set up home in The Albion
Hotel and where, in 1891, Robert was 17 years of age. It was ten year later when Robert Collett
married Martha Hyde during the second quarter of 1901, the event being
recorded at Burton register office (Ref. 6b 703) when the witnesses were
named as William James Orton and Amy Beatrice Shilton. |
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Their
marriage had produced three children by the time of the census in 1911 when
the family was living at 14 Mill Hill Lane in Winshill, Burton-on-Trent. Robert Collett from Ashby-de-la-Zouch was
38 and was working at a local brewery.
He had been married for ten years to Martha who was 37, while their
three children were May Collett who was nine, Katie Collett who was five, and
Robert Collett who was three. Only
three years later Robert Collett died at Burton at the age of 43, when his
death was recorded at the register office (Ref. 6b 553) during the first
three months of 1914. |
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May Collett |
Born in 1901
at Burton-on-Trent |
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Katie Collett |
Born in 1905
at Burton-on-Trent |
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43Q105 |
Robert John W Collett |
Born in 1908
at Burton-on-Trent |
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Kate Elizabeth Collett was born at The Castle Inn in
Ashby-de-la-Zouch early in 1875 (Ref. 7a 62), where she was also baptised on
21st February 1875, who was still living with her family in 1881
at the age of six years. Ten years
later, Kate was no longer living with her parents, instead she was a visitor
at the home of her older married sister Mary Ellen Hollis nee Collett at
their home on Burton Road in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, when Kate E Collett was 16
with no stated occupation. Kate was back
living with her family on Shobnall Road at The Albion Hotel in 1901 when she
was 25, again with no stated occupation, and was there also, ten years later
at the age of 36 when she was still an unmarried lady who was assisting her
father with the running of hotel. Within
six months of the census Kate E Collett married Charles M Robinson, the event
recorded at Burton-on-Trent register office (Ref. 6b 142) during the third
quarter of 1911. No record of any
children has been found. |
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John Barrow Collett was born in 1877 at The Castle Inn in
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where he was baptised on 6th April 1877, the
eleventh child of William Collett and Ellen Miller, whose birth was recorded
at Ashby-de-la-Zouch (Ref. 7a 109) during the first quarter of 1877. He was four years old in the Ashby census
of 1881 when he was still living at The Castle Inn with his family. Four years later John and his family gave
up The Castle Inn to take on The Albion Hotel on Shobnall Road in
Burton-on-Trent where, in 1891, they were living and where John was 14 and
still at school. Just after the end of
the century, John was working as a brewer’s number taker and in 1901 was 23
years old and still living with his parents at The Albion Hotel. It is understood within the family that
John’s father was a brewer of ‘Burton Beer’ so it is likely that John, and
his brother Richard (below), were both working for or with their
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It
is also known from his great granddaughter (see below) that he was working
for the Davenport Brewery Company in Birmingham during the early 1900s, as
illustrated in a family photograph. It
was just over six months after that census day in 1901 when John Barrow
Collett married (1) Clara Agnes Jones, with their marriage recorded at
Burton-on-Trent register office (Ref. 6b 764) during the last quarter of
1901. The birth of Clara Agnes Jones
was registered at Burton-on-Trent (Ref. 6b 393) during the first quarter of
1881. It was also at Burton-on-Trent
where the couple set up home, and where births of their two children were recorded. The birth of Ivy Eileen Collett was
recorded at the register office (Ref. 6b 438) during the second quarter of
1902. Tragically, Clara died during
the birth of their second child, at which time her two children were taken
into the care of their grandparents at The Albion Hotel, where they were
recorded in error in April 1911 as Ivy Ellinor Collett who was nine, rather
than Ivy Eileen Collett, and John Edwin Collett who was six years old, both
having been born in Burton-on-Trent. |
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Following
the death of his first wife, John Barrow Collett was married for the second
time during the autumn of 1908 to either (2) Louise Lovett OR Lucy Elizabeth
Perrins, with the event recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 973). It was also at Coventry that the couple’s
first child was born, although the birth was not registered there, perhaps
because the child was born not long after their wedding day. By April 1911 that second marriage had
already produced a further two children, whose birthplaces were confirmed in
the census that year as Coventry and Birmingham respectively. The birth of the second of those two
children was recorded at Aston register office (Ref. 6d 223) during the
second quarter of 1910. Nine months
later, it just was John and the two children who were living as boarders at 7
Emmeline Street within the Bordesley area of Birmingham, the home of cabinet
maker Frederick William Spilsbury and his family. John Barrow Collett from Ashby-de-la-Zouch,
a married man, was a motor steerer at the age of 34, who had been married for
three years, during which time he and his wife had given birth to two
children, both living. They were
recorded as Leonard Collett who was two and born at Coventry, and Florence
Collett who was one year old and born in Birmingham. What happened to his second wife is not
confirmed, but it seems likely that she had died after the birth of her
daughter, although no obvious recorded of her death has been found. |
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No
record of a Leonard Collett who was born at Coventry has been found, while it
is likely he was born on 9th March 1909 and died in 1983, his
passing as Leonard Wilfred Collett recorded at Staffordshire register
office. If so, then his birth as
Leonard Wilfred Collett was recorded at Kings Norton register office (Ref. 6c
451) during the second quarter of 1909.
The later birth of Florence Collett was recorded at Aston register
office (Ref. 6d 223) during the second quarter of 1910. Before the First World War, John Barrow
Collett married (3) Elizabeth Bruce, a widow, with the event recorded at
Birmingham register office (Ref. 6c 559) during the last three months of
1914. Elizabeth Bruce was the former
Elizabeth Tolladay/Tolliday. It was
early in the following year, when the birth of their only child was recorded
at Birmingham register office, when the mother’s maiden-name was recorded as
Tolliday. |
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The
later Electoral Roll for the Yardley area of Birmingham in 1939 recorded John
Barrow Collett as residing at 8 Everton Road in Birmingham, where he had been
living since 1927. It was twelve years
after the start of the Second World War that the death of John Barrow Collett
was recorded at Birmingham register office (Ref. 9c 292) during the third
quarter of 1951 when he was 74. His
third wife spent the last nineteen years of her life as a widow, when the
death of Elizabeth Collett (born on 28/2/1881) was recorded at
Birmingham register office (Ref. 9c 1010) during the third quarter of 1970. |
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In
November 2022, thanks to Kelly Plant, a great granddaughter of John Barrow
Collett, we now know a little bit more about him, and his third wife. John and his father William, were both inn
keepers during their lives, with Kelly pursuing the same career path in the
twenty-first century, and not far from the family roots in Ashby-de-la-Zouch. She informs us that her great grandmother
was Elizabeth Tolliday from Hackney Wick in London, who later lived within
the Aston area of Birmingham. Kelly
also provided the two photographs (above) of John Barrow Collett, and
John and Elizabeth Tolladay. |
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Recent
research reveals that Elizabeth Tolliday was the daughter of Thomas Tolliday,
a bricklayer in 1881, and his wife Elizabeth, when the three of them were
residing at Prince Edward Road in Hackney where Elizabeth had been born one
month prior to that census day on 28th February 1881. Her birth, as Elizabeth Tolladay, was later
registered at Hackney (Ref. 1b 588) during the second quarter of 1881. By 1901 she was still living with her
family, but at Osborne Road in Hackney, when Elizabeth Tolliday was 20 and
working as a confectionary packer.
Under one year later, she married James George Bruce, their wedding
day recorded at Hackney register office (Ref. 1b 701) during the first three
months of 1902. She was
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43Q106 |
Ivy Eileen
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Born in 1902
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43Q107 |
John Edwin William Collett |
Born in 1904
at Burton-on-Trent |
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43Q108 |
Leonard Wilfred
Collett |
Born in 1909
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43Q109 |
Florence
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Born in 1910
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is the only child of John Barrow Collett by his third wife Elizabeth
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43Q110 |
Irene May
Collett |
Born in 1915
at Birmingham |
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43P77
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Richard Edward Collett was born at The Castle Inn in
Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1878 where his father was the inn keeper. The census of 1881 recorded that Richard
was two years old while living at The Castle Inn with his family. A few years after the census day, the
Collett family left Ashby-de-la-Zouch and made their new home at The Albion
Hotel in Burton-on-Trent. That was
confirmed by the census of 1891 when Richard was twelve years of age. Richard was still living there ten years
later in March 1891 when he was 21 and was employed as a brewer’s number
taker with his brother John Collett (above). |
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At
the end of the next decade Richard Edward Collett was a brewery employee and
was still living with his parents at The Albion Hotel where he was recorded
as being unmarried, 33 years of age, and employed by the brewery. Shugborough Hall at Great Haywood, and four
miles from Stafford, is today a museum which includes a brewery. Four letters written in 1895 to Richard E
Collett are held there. They came from
the
Midland Railway Telegraph Department, Superintendent's Office in Derby and
were addressed to Mr Richard E. Collett at The Albion Hotel, Shobnall Road in
Burton-on-Trent and relating to a job of work. |
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It
is possible that he never married, and it was in 1962 that Richard Edward
Collett of 324 Shobnall Street in Burton-on-Trent died while a patient at
Andressey Hospital in the town. He was
82 and his death was recorded at the Burton register office (Ref. 9b 75) in June
1962. Administration of his personal
effects amounting to £488 9 Shillings was granted to Lottie Winifred Selby, a
married woman. |
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43P78
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Walter Collett was born at The Castle Inn in
Ashby-de-la-Zouch in either December 1880 or January 1881 with the birth
recorded in the town (Ref. 7a 101) during the first three months of
1881. Furthermore, Walter was included
in the census of 1881 as being just three months old. The next census in 1891 listed Walter as
being 10 years of age when he was living with his family at The Albion Hotel
in Burton-on-Trent. Upon leaving
school, it seems Walter helped his father by working with him at The Albion
Hotel since, in the census of 1901, Walter was 20 and his occupation was that
of a hotel proprietor’s assistant.
Whether it was an accident or through illness is not known at this
time, but the death of Walter Collett was recorded at Burton-on-Trent (Ref.
6b 253) during the last three months of 1906 when he was only 25 years old. |
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James Henry Collett was born at Wolverhampton on 6th
November 1868, the eldest child of James Collett and Sarah Georgia
Hopkins. He was 11 years of age in
April 1881 when he was living with his family at Canterbury Villa on the
Warwick Road in Solihull. Ten years
later he was still living with his family at Warwick Road in Solihull when he
was 21 and employed as a brass founder.
It was on 17th April 1897 when James Henry Collett aged 27
married Clara Luckman aged 30 at St Giles Church in the Parish of Sheldon in
Birmingham. James was confirmed as the
son of James Collett, while Clara, who was born in Birmingham on 15th
May 1866, was named as the daughter of William Luckman. Over the following decade the marriage
produced six children for James and Clara, the first three being born at
Birmingham, before James and his family returned to the Solihull area of
south-east Birmingham within the, where they were residing on the census day
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On
that day James’ occupation was that of a canvasser as confirmed in the census
return, when he was living with his family at Lyndon End off Coventry Road, Bickenhill, north-east of
Solihull. On that occasion he
was recorded as Henry J Collett aged 32, who had been born at Birmingham
rather than Wolverhampton. That may
have been stated as a direct result of the fact that he and his parents only
lived in Wolverhampton for a few months after he was born, following which
the family moved to Birmingham, where all his younger siblings were
born. The remainder of his family in
1901 were listed as his wife Clara who was 35 and from Birmingham, and their
three daughters Ruth E Collett who was three years of age, Georgina M Collett
who was one year old, and baby Dorothy M Collett who had just been, although her birth had not
yet registered. All three
children were described as having been born in Birmingham, indicating the
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Staying
with the family on that census day at the end of March in 1901 was James’
younger brother Frederick John Collett, another canvasser from Birmingham,
who was separated from his wife, pending his decree absolute which was
granted three months after. The next two
children of James Henry Collett and Clara Luckman were born at Solihull and
Shirley, with their last
child born at Small Heath in Birmingham, who birth was recorded at Aston
register office. By April 1911,
the family was once again living back at Shirley, to the west of Solihull, and
comprised James Henry Collett who was 41 and a steam and automobile engineer,
who was said to have
been born at Penn Fields in Wolverhampton, his wife Clara who was 44 and born at Alcester Street in
Birmingham, and their six children.
They were Ruth who
had been born at Alum Rock/Alum Rock Road in the Glebe Farm area of East Birmingham
and was 13, Georgina who was 11 and said to have been born at Lyndon End at Bickenhill (sic), where
Dorothy aged ten years had
been born, Gladys who was eight and born at Solihull, Norman who was seven and born at Shirley, and
Phyllis who was five years old and born at Small Heath. |
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The
death of James H Collett was recorded at Solihull register office (Ref. 6d
820) during the second quarter of 1936 when he was 66. It was just over two years later that his
wife passed away on 23rd August 1938, following which her Will was
proved in Birmingham on 17th October 1938. The Probate Service confirmed that Clara
Collett of 204 Coventry Road at Yardley in Birmingham, a widow, died on 23rd
August 1938 at Lyndon on Queslett Road in Streetly, Staffordshire. The executors of her estate valued at £1,143
11 Shillings and 8 Pence were her eldest daughter Elizabeth Ruth Cetti,
Norman Noel Collett a pattern maker, and Elizabeth’s husband Albert Victor
Cetti, a stockbroker’s clerk. |
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43Q111 |
Elizabeth Ruth Collett |
Born in 1897
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43Q112 |
Georgina
Mary Collett |
Born in 1899
at Sheldon, Birmingham |
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43Q113 |
Dorothy
Mabel Collett |
Born in 1901 at Sheldon, Birmingham |
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43Q114 |
Gladys
Clara Collett |
Born in 1902
at Solihull |
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43Q115 |
Norman
Noel Collett |
Born in 1903
at Shirley, Solihull |
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43Q116 |
Phyllis
May Collett |
Born in 1906
at Small Heath, Birmingham |
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Frederick John Collett was born at Birmingham on 19th
July 1870. His age was given at being
nine years in the census of 1881 which might suggest the year of birth was
1871 rather than 1870, since he was 19 years old ten years later, by which
time he was working as a merchant’s apprentice while he was still living with
his family at Warwick Road in Solihull.
It was on 20th January 1894 that Frederick married spinster
Ada Marian Lea at the Wesleyan Chapel in Sparkhill, Solihull, where he may
have been working at that time, and where Ada, who was known as Marian, had
been born in 1873. The marriage was
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Ada
was six months pregnant on the day of their wedding and gave birth to a son
just three months after. That child
was followed by three more, two of whom had died by the summer of 1899, with
the death of the third child oddly recorded at Birmingham register office
only weeks after his birth was recorded at Solihull. It was in June 1900 when Ada Marian
Collett, formerly Lea, filed for divorce from her husband on the grounds of
his adultery and cruelty. It was at
the High Court of Justice, Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division on 25th
June 1900 that the petitioner was named as Ada Marrian Collett of Solihull,
the wife of Frederick John Collett.
The report confirmed that Ada Marrian Lea, spinster was, on the
twentieth day of January 1894, lawfully married to the Frederick John Collett
at Sparkhill Chapel near Birmingham.
It continued that, after her marriage, the petitioner lived and
cohabited with her husband at Sparkbrook in Worcester and at other
places. The same report also listed
the names and dates of birth of their four children two of whom, Howard and
Gordon, were described as already deceased, while it also stated that the
petitioner, who was now pregnant with the couple’s fifth child, had been
assaulted by her husband within one month of their wedding day. |
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Six
months after filing for divorce, the High Court of Justice sitting at the
Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand, London, issued the decree nisi on 19th
December 1900. The President, the
Right Honorable Sir Francis Henry Jeune KCB, having taken the oral evidence
of the Petitioner and of the Witness produced on her behalf in support of the
Petition filed in this cause, and having heard Counsel thereon, the
Respondent not defending the Suit at the hearing, pronounced that the
Petitioner had sufficiently proved the contents of the said Petition. It was also at The
Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand that the decree absolute was
granted on 1st July 1901 when it was stated that the marriage was
dissolved on the grounds of the adultery, coupled with cruelty, towards the
Petitioner, called Marrian Collett, by Frederick John Collett. |
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Three
months earlier, at the time the census was conducted in 1901, Ada M Collett
from Solihull was 27 when she and her three surviving children were residing
at the Grocer’s Shop on the High Street in Solihull, the home of her mother
Mary A Lea. Mary was a widow of 64, a
grocer and a shopkeeper who had her own account. Supporting her as assistant grocer was her
son Howard P Lea who was 30, and her daughters Jessie M Lea aged 26 and Elsie
B lea who was 23. The three children
of Ada Collett were recorded as Cyril F Collett who was six years old and
born at Sparkhill, Phyllis M G Collett who was four and from Stechford near
Yardley, and Margery M Collett who was just five months old and born at
Solihull. |
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On
that same day the children’s father, Frederick J Collett who was 29 and from
Birmingham and whose occupation was that of a canvasser like his older
brother James (above), was staying at his brother’s home at Lyndon End
off Coventry Road in Solihull. That
was the last known record of Frederick John Collett who died five years later
during 1906 by which time, it is thought, he may have been a serving member
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By
the time of the census in April 1911 Ada Marian Collett was 37 when she was
still living with her mother at the grocer’s shop on the High Street in
Solihull. The census return confirmed that Ada was divorced and that she was
working as a monthly nurse
with her own account. The form also
confirmed that she had given birth to five children, only one of which had
survived, that being eldest child Cyril.
Ada’s mother Mary Ann Lea was 74 and was still a grocer and a
shopkeeper, while still living with her were Ada’s two younger sisters Jessie
May Lea who was 34 and Elsie Beatrice Lea who was 32, both with no occupation
but described as at home. Three years later, Ada
received the news that her only surviving child had been killed in France,
with the later death of Ada Collett aged 79 recorded at Warwickshire register
office (Ref. 96 862) in 1952. |
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Cyril Frederick Collett |
Born in 1894
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Phyllis Mary G Collett |
Born in 1896
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43Q119 |
Howard
Collett |
Born in 1898
at Solihull |
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43Q120 |
Gordon Victor Collett |
Born in 1899
at Solihull |
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43Q121 |
Margery Martin Collett |
Born in 1900
at Solihull |
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Mary Georgia Collett was born at Birmingham on 14th
March 1872. When she was seven years
of age her family moved out of Birmingham and made a new home in Solihull
where they lived until the end of the century. The census of 1881 confirmed that the
family was residing at Canterbury Villa in Warwick Road in Solihull where
Mary G Collett was eight years old.
She was 18 in 1891 and was still living with her parents at the
property in Warwick Road, Solihull.
During the next decade Mary married John Arthur Young who was born in
1868. Following the death of her
mother in 1899 Mary’s father moved to Newport in South Wales with Mary’s
three sisters (below) as confirming by the census of 1901. Mary also moved to Newport at some time and
she and John are known to have lived at 40 Summerhill Avenue in the town. |
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Rosa Polly Collett was born at Birmingham on 27th
April 1874. By April 1881 her family
were living at Canterbury Villa on Warwick Road in Solihull where Rosa was
six years old. She was also recorded
as Rosa P Collett in the census of 1891 when she was 15 and still attending
school when she was still living at Warwick Road in Solihull with her
family. However, after her mother died
in 1899, her father took Rosa and her two younger sisters (below) to
live with him at Newport in South Wales where her mother had been born and
where she may have been buried.
According to the Newport census of 1901 she was recorded as Rosie
Pollie Collett aged 25 and from Birmingham.
The only other fact known about Rosie within the family is that she
died at Hereford on 30th May 1932. |
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Nellie Mabel Collett was born at Erdington on 4th
August 1877, her birth being recorded at Aston register office (Ref. 6d 403)
during the third quarter of that year.
By the time of the census in 1881 she was living with her family at
Canterbury Villa on the Warwick Road in Solihull at the age of three. She was still there at Warwick Road ten
years later in 1891 when she was 13 and still at school. Following the death of her mother in 1898
her father moved to Newport in Monmouthshire, taking his three youngest
daughters with him including Nellie M Collett from Erdington who was 23 in
1901. |
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Seven
years later Nellie Mabel Collett married Edwin Hubert Harrison, their
marriage being recorded at Newport register office (Ref. 11a 379) during the
second quarter of 1908, when the witnesses were Maggie Brankley and Albert
Edward Walkley. Tragically they were
not married very long when Nellie Mabel Harrison nee Collett died during 1915
when the couple was living at White Cross in Hereford. It may also be significant that Nellie’s
sister Rosa Polly Collett (above) died in Hereford during 1932. |
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Hilda Ann Collett was born within the Olton district of
Birmingham on 11th September 1881, which is rather strange since
her family was living at Warwick Road in Solihull in both 1881 and 1891. By the time of the census in 1891 Hilda A
Collett from Olton was nine years old.
Her mother died when Hilda was around 18 years of age and, when the
census was conducted in March 1901, she and her two older sisters were living
with their widowed father in Newport, when Hilda Ann Collett from Olton in
Birmingham was recorded 21 rather than 19. If she was born on 11th September
1880, as previously stated here, there is still the mystery as to where she
was in early April 1881 to cause her absence from the census that month. It is also established that she later
married A G Harrison who was born around 1876 and that the couple spent some
years living in India before returning to England to live at Church Road in
Minehead in Somerset. |
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Alfred Shawcross Collett
was born at Salford,
Manchester, on 7th December 1860, his birth recorded there (Ref.
8d 132) during the first quarter of 1861, who was only four months old in
1861. He was the base-born son of unmarried
Georgiana Collett of Stafford and Rugeley, and his father was very likely John
Shawcross who never married his mother even though they had three more
children together. Oddly, when Alfred
was baptised at St Stephen’s Church in Salford, there was no reference to the
Shawcross name. Instead, Alfred
Collett, the son of John Collett and Georgiana Collett took place on 18th
January 1865. His baptism was arranged
as a matter of some urgency because of his failing health, and it was also
during the first three months of 1865 that he died, the death of Alfred
Collett recorded at Salford (Ref. 8d 12). |
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Peter Collett was born at Salford in 1863, his birth
recorded there (Ref. 8d 157) during the second quarter of the year, the
second son of Georgiana Collett who appears not to have been married. Life was difficult for Peter, with first
the premature death of his older brother, and then the imprisonment of his
mother during the following year. Consequently,
no record of any many of his family has been located for 1871. After a further ten years, Peter Collett from
Salford was 18 years old and working was a machine grinder with the company
of E & M. It was towards the end
of the following year that the marriage by banns of Peter Collett and Mary Jane
Carroll took place at St Andrew’s Church in Ancoats, Manchester, on 20th
November 1882, when Peter the son of John Collett was 19 and Mary Jane was 18
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Both
were recorded as residing at 16 William Street in Salford, from where Peter
was employed as a grinder, the same occupation as his father John Collett
(aka John Shawcross), when Mary Jane’s occupation was that of a doubler. Interestingly, both Peter and his sister
Mary Collett (below) made their mark in the marriage register as groom
and second witness, with Mary Jane signing her own name, as did first witness
Robert Crawshaw. By the time of the
1891 Census the family living at Washington Street in Manchester comprised
Peter who 29 and a tool grinder, Jane from Scotland who was 25, and their
four Manchester born children. They
were Mary Jane Collett who was eight, Peter Collett who was four, Herbert
Collett who was two, and baby Martha Collett who was not yet one year
old. |
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Also
in the census of 1891, Peter’s younger married sister Georgiana Holt, aged
22, was living nearby in Tame Street, with her husband William Ernest Holt,
also 22, and their one-year-old daughter Georgiana Holt. Three other members of the extended family
were living at the same address, and they were William’s younger brother
Frederick Holt, aged 17, fifty-year-old Georgiana Collett, a shirt maker and
William’s mother-in-law, the widowed mother of Peter Collett (1862-1899), and
William Lowe aged 10 who was a cousin.
He was the son of Fanny Lowe, formerly Fanny Collett (Ref. 43O17), and
Thomas Lowe. |
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Almost
exactly eight years later tragedy struck the family, when the death of Peter
Collett was recorded at Manchester register office (Ref. 8d 135) during the
second quarter of 1899, at the age of only 37. Two years after her loss, widow Jane
Collett and her four children were still living in Manchester, but at Harding
Street, where Jane Collett was 35 and had no stated occupation, but was
taking in paying lodgers. Her four
children were recorded as Mary J Collett aged 17, Peter Collett aged 14,
Herbert Collett aged 12, and Martha Collett who was 10. Every member of the household was said to
have been born in Manchester. Jane Collett later married a gentleman by
the name of Cadman and he may have been William, Henry, or John. That was confirmed by the census of 1911 in
which Jane Cadman who was born in Manchester was still living there and was
46 years of age. On that same day, her
youngest child, 20-year-old Martha Collett was a live-in domestic servant and
housemaid at the home of Joseph Lionel O’Kelly in Manchester. During the war years Jane was living at 62
Junction Street in Ancoats, and it was there in September 1915 she received
the sad news that her son Peter had been killed while serving King and
country in France. |
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Mary Jane Collett |
Born in 1883
at Ancoats, Manchester |
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Born in 1886
at Ancoats, Manchester |
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43Q124 |
Herbert Collett |
Born in 1888
at Ancoats, Manchester |
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43Q125 |
Martha
Collett |
Born in 1890
at Ancoats, Manchester |
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43P88 |
Mary Collett was born at Manchester in 1868 and was
12 years old in 1881. Near the end of
the next year, Mary was one of the witnesses at the wedding of her older
brother Peter Collett (above). By
1891 she was 21 and was living at Regent Road in Salford. |
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43P89 |
Georgina Collett was born at Manchester on 5th
June 1869, her birth recorded there (Ref.8d 322) during the third quarter of
the year. At the time of her birth,
Georgina’s mother was Georgiana Shawcross, the assumed wife of John Shawcross,
although no marriage for the couple has been found. However, the fact the child was given her
mother’s maiden-name might suggest that Georgina was not a product of her
marriage to John Shawcross. No census
record for Georgina has been found in either 1871 or 1881, perhaps indicating
that she had been removed from the family, while it is certainly confirmed
that her mother was living with two of her Shawcross siblings at Salford in
1881. After a further five years, when
Georgina Collett was seventeen years old, she gave birth to a son, with the
birth of Alfred Collett recorded at Salford register office (Ref. 8d 210)
during the third quarter of 1886. He
must have been a poorly child, since he was later privately baptised at 24
Muslin Street in Salford on 1st June 1887, arranged by the vicar
of Salford Christ Church, at the home of mother, the spinster Georgina
Collett. Not long after the ceremony,
the death of Alfred Collett was recorded at Salford (Ref. 8d 92) during the
second quarter of 1887. |
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Just
over two years later, on 28th September 1889, Georgina Collett married
William Ernest Holt at St Andrew’s Church in Manchester, the event recorded
at Manchester (Ref. 8d 229). It is
interesting that the marriage certificate initially shows the father of the
bride to be John Shawcross, but the name was subsequently crossed out,
perhaps resulting from an objection from her mother. William E Holt was born at
Chorlton-on-Medlock in Manchester on 9th March 1869, the son of
William Holt, of Prescot near St Helens in Lancashire, and Anne Moore of
Hampshire. |
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The
marriage produced twelve children for the couple, all of whom were born in
Manchester, the first group while the couple were living at
Chorlton-on-Medlock and the latter ones at Miles Platting. Only six of them are named below. In the 1891 Census, eighteen months after
they were married, the couple had their first child living with them at Tame
Street in Manchester. Georgina was
listed as being 22, as was her husband William E Holt, with their daughter
being one-year-old Georgiana Holt.
Staying with the family was William’s brother Frederick Holt aged 17,
and his mother-in-law 50-year-old Georgiana Collett and her nephew William
Lowe who was 10 years old and the child of Fanny Lowe nee Collett. Ten years on, in 1901, the much larger
family was living at Fawcett Street in Manchester when William E Holt was
aged 32 and was working as a stonemason’s labourer. Georgiana Holt was 31, her daughter Georgiana
Holt was eleven, Annie Holt was nine, John William Holt was
seven, Mary Holt was five, and Alfred Holt was still under one
year old. Still living with the family
was widow and shirt maker Georgian Collett who was 62, who passed away
shortly thereafter. |
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One
more child was born into the family after that census day, and she was Edith
Holt born in 1913, when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Collett. It would appear that Georgina
and George lived all of their life together in the Manchester area. And it was in the Ancoats district of the
city that George Collett died on 6th July 1943, following which he
was buried at Philips Park in Miles Platting on 10th July
1943. Sometime during the fourteen
years following her husband’s death, Georgina moved to the Crumpsall area of
Manchester where she died on 2nd June 1957. She too was buried at Philips Park in Miles
Platting four days after her passing on 6th June 1957. |
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43Q126 |
Alfred
Collett |
Born in 1886
at Salford; died in 1887 |
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43P90 |
Alfred Thomas Collett was born at Salford in 1868, his birth
recorded there (Ref. 8d 179) during the first three months of the year. He was the base-born son of Fanny Collett
and in 1871 the pair of them were living with Alfred’s grandmother, 60-year-old
Mary Collett in her home at 12 Corporation Square in Salford. Alfred was three years old at that
time. Following the marriage of his
mother Fanny to Thomas Lowe in 1878, Alfred changed his name to Alfred Thomas
Lowe, as confirmed in the 1881 Census when he was 13 and was living in the
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Eight
years later, Alfred was married at Christ Church in Salford on 21st
December 1889, when the groom was named as Alfred Thomas
Collett Lowe, aged 20 and a grinder and a bachelor of 4 West Elizabeth Street
in Salford. The bride was Elizabeth
Ann Barlow, 19 and a jack-tenter and a spinster of 15 West Elizabeth Street
in Salford. The groom's father was
described as Thomas Lowe (deceased), a spinner, while the bride's father was
John Barlow, a maker-up. The witnesses
at their wedding were William Ernest Holt, the groom’s brother-in-law (above),
and Fanny Lowe, the groom’s mother.
The couple’s first child was born at 2 Heaps Court in Salford just days
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According
to the Salford census that year the young married couple was staying at the
St Stephen Place, Salford, home of Alfred’s mother-in-law Jane Barlow who was
49 and his younger brother-in-law William Barlow who was eight years of
age. Alfred T Collett was 23 was a
grinder and a glazier and Elizabeth A Collett was 18. It is possible their daughter was in
hospital on that census day who, despite being baptised a month later died later
that same year. Just after the turn of
the century the March census of 1901 recorded Alfred Thomas Collett as 33 and
a machine grinder, and Elizabeth Ann Collett as 28, when they were living at
15 Market Street in Salford with their daughters, Elizabeth Collett, who was
six, Emily Collett, who was four, and Alice Collett who was one year
old. Also living with the family on
that occasion was Alfred’s widowed mother Fanny Lowe who was 53, and her son
William Lowe who was 20. |
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Three
further children were added to the family over the next six years, and it was
at Salford that the family was still living in April 1911, although by then
the couple had suffered another loss with the death of their daughter Sarah
Ellen. Alfred Thomas Collett was 43
and a grinder at an ironworks, and his wife Elizabeth Ann was 38. Their three eldest daughters were confirmed
as Elizabeth Ann Collett, 16, Emily Collett, who was 14, and Alice Collett
who was 11, while the two new arrivals were listed as James Collett who was
six, and Elsie Collett who was three years old. On the occasion of the registration of the
birth of his son James, Alfred’s occupation was that of an electrical
engineer’s labourer. His youngest child
Alfred was only five years old when the death of Alfred Thomas Collett was
recorded at Salford register office (Ref. 8d 136) following his passing at
Salford on 28th July 1918 at the age of 50, following which he was
buried at the Weaste Cemetery in Salford.
He was survived by his widow, with Elizabeth Ann Collett passing away
in Salford in 1837. |
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Over
the years, the Collett family appear to have moved a great many times, but all the
known addresses were within the Trinity area of Salford and, in addition to
those already mentioned above, the other addresses included Cobbett Street in
1895, Arlington Court in 1905, Rigby Street in 1907, 15 Market Street in
1911, Corporation Square in 1913, and Brewery Street in 1923. |
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43Q127
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Mary Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1891
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43Q128
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Elizabeth Ann Collett |
Born in 1895
at Salford, Lancs. |
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43Q129
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Emily Collett |
Born in 1897
at Salford, Lancs. |
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43Q130
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Alice Collett |
Born in 1899
at Salford, Lancs. |
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43Q131
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Sarah Ellen Collett |
Born in 1902
at Salford, Lancs. |
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43Q132
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James Collett |
Born in 1905
at Salford, Lancs. |
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43Q133
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Elsie Collett |
Born in 1907
at Salford, Lancs. |
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43Q134
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Alfred Collett |
Born in 1913
at Salford, Lancs. |
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43Q1
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Oliver
Otto Collett was born at Keokuk in |
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43R1
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Oliver
Otto Collett junior |
Born in 1920
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43Q5 |
Preston Collett
was born at Leslie County, Kentucky in 1874, the eldest of the three known children
of John William Collett and his wife Kittie.
He was seven years old in the census of 1880 when he and his family
were residing at District 3, Marrowbone, in Leslie County, where his father
was a farmer. After another twenty
years Preston Collett was living at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird in Clay County
and had been married to Sarah (Asher) for five years, with the result being
the birth of just one child. Preston
was a farmer of a rented property who gave his age as 25 (sic), whose wife’s
age on the form was not recorded, while their son William Collett was one
year old in 1900. The marriage of
Preston Collett and Sarah Asher took place on 14th October 1894 at
Bell County, Kentucky. |
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Staying with the young family that
day were other members of the wider family including Preston’s mother Katie
Collett aged 46 and a widow who had given birth to seven children, all of
whom were still alive. With Katie were
two of Preston’s sisters, 14-year-old Marie Collett, and five-year-old Daisie
Collett. It was also at Upper Red Bird,
in Precinct 7 – Visitation number 25, that the enlarged family was
living in 1910 when farmer Preston was 36 and Sarah was 28 who had been
married for 14 years and had given birth to seven children, all living. |
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Those seven children were listed as sons
Wilkie Collett 13 (absent ten years earlier in 1900), Willie Collett 10, Thomas
Collett seven, Ella Collett five, daughters Addie Collett four, and Ollie
Collett three, and Norma Collett one-year-old. Still living with the family was Preston’s
mother Kittie Collett 55, her daughter Cattie Collett 18, and Cattie’s
daughter Pur Collett who was two years of age. Other Colletts were recorded at
Visitation numbers 27 and 29. At 27
was farmer with his own account Ambrose Collett 24, his wife of nine
years Lizzie who was 20 and had already given birth to four children: Emily
Collett nine; Bige Collett eight; Preston Collett seven;
and daughter Mallie Collett one-year-old. At 29 were Thomas and Lucy married
for 13 years parents of six children, five living. Thomas Collett was 33 another farmer
with his own account, Lucy Collett was 26, Bertha Collett was 12, Chester
Collett was 10, son Goldy Collett was seven, Hazel Collett was
six, and Mitchell Collett who was seven months. |
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It is now known
that the other Preston Collette, son of Ambrose Collette, who was born in
1904, died at Ashland on 26th January 1929 at the age of 24, with
his death recorded at Roark in Clay County when he was confirmed as a married
farmer who was buried at the head of Blue Hole Creek. The death record was unusual in that no
date of birth was included, nor the name of the informant, or the name of his
wife if she was alive. |
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In the census of 1920, the family was
again recorded at Upper Red Bird, but on the road up to Blue Hole Creek. On that road that year there were three
Collett farms adjacent to one another, Farms 2, 3 and 4. The middle of the three was owned and
managed by Preston Collett aged 46, where Sarah Collett was 40, William Collett
was 18, Thomas Collett was 16, Ella Collett was 15, Addie Collett was 13, Norma
Collett was 11, James Collett was seven, P L Collett was five, and Pearl
Collett was three. Farm 2 was rented
by Silas Collett aged 38, whose wife was Mahaby Collett aged 32, whose
daughters were Hettie Collett 18, and Elizabeth Collett 11, and
Farm 4 was rented by Walker Collett aged 21 and his wife Yvonne
Collett aged 18. |
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After a further ten years Preston
Collett was 56 and residing at Blue Hole Creek Road in Magisterial District 8
of Clay County in rented property which he farmed as a general farmer in 1930. His wife Sarah was 51 who had been married
at the age of 15, when Preston was 26.
Their sons James Collett and P L Collett were 18 and 16, when
daughters Diane Collett and Malvaria Collett were 11 and six years old. Living in the next property, which was also
rented, was Willie Collett aged 26 who married Lourenia (Lindima Ferrell on
their wedding day) Collett aged 24, when he was 18 and she was 16, whose two
children were Ford Collett who was five, and Helen Collett who was two years
old. Living further along Blue Hole
Creek Road was Preston’s other married son Wilki Collett 32 who was married
when he was 20 to Dhronie Collett who was 28 and married when she was
17. Their children were Mallie Collett
who was eight, Walden Collett who was five, Aslin Collett who was two, and
Clarence Collett who was three months.
Staying with the family was Wilkie’s widowed mother-in-law 60-year-old
Josia (surname not clearly written). |
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Preston
Collett was 67 years old when he died on 23rd September 1941 at
Leslie County in Kentucky. Upon the
death of at least two of his children, including Pearl and Malvaria, their
place of birth was recorded as Ashers Fork, Roark in Clay County, which was
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Born in 1898 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird |
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William Collett |
Born in 1901 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird |
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Thomas Collett |
Born in 1902 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird |
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43R5
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Nanna Collett |
Born in 1904 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird |
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Addie Collett |
Born in 1906 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird |
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Ollie Collett |
Born in 1907 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird |
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Norma Collett |
Born in 1909 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird |
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Anna Collett |
Born in 1911 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird |
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43R10
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James Collett |
Born in 1913 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird |
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P L Collett |
Born in 1915 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird |
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Pearl Collett |
Born in 1918 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird |
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Diane Collett |
Born in 1920 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird |
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Malvaria Collett |
Born in 1922 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird |
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Myrtle Collett |
Born in 1924 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird |
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Catherine Collett,
who was known as Cattie, was the fifth of the six surviving children of John
William Collett and his wife Katie (Kittie) Collett. She was born at Leslie County, Kentucky in
1892, but was not with her family in 1900 just after her father had
died. Instead, as 18-year-old Cattie
Collett she had already given birth to a daughter Pur Collett who was two
years old in the census of 1910. On
that day Cattie and her widowed mother Kitty Collett were staying at the home
of Cattie’s eldest married sibling, her only brother Preston Collett (above)
at Upper Red Bird, in Precinct 7. |
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What
happened to daughter Pur is not known while, it was within the next four
years that Catherine Collett married Hence Stewart, who already had a
daughter from his first wife, who were living in District 8, Otter Creek in
Clay County for the census in 1920.
That year Hence Stewart
was 35 a farm labourer having his own account, Mary Stewart
was 28, when the three children listed with them were Margaret
Stewart who was 15, Rosie Stewart who was eight, and Ada
Stewart who was four years and seven months old. Completing the family was Hence’s widowed
mother-in-law Kitty Collett, with all members of the household born in
Kentucky. Hence’s eldest daughter
Margaret was the grandmother of Michelle Hubbard Smith who
kindly provided this information in August 2014. |
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Arthur Collett was born at Leslie County in Kentucky
on 10th October 1894, the son of Ingrim Collett and his first wife
Renio Cope. Arthur was eight years old
in the census of 1900 when he and his family were living at Marrowbone in Bad
Creek, Leslie County in Kentucky.
Shortly after 1906 his mother died and his father married the much
younger Sarah who was only one year older than Arthur, as confirmed in the
Bad Creek census of 1910 when Arthur Collett was 18. He served with the US Infantry in 1917 and
1918, when his military records gave his date of birth as 10th
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It
is also established that Arthur married Frances Morgan, known as Francy, and
that their son Troy, the couple’s seventh child, was born during the same
year that Arthur died at Asher. His
death certificate confirmed that he died on 24th July 1926 and
that he was the son of Ingram Collett and Renio Cope. An earlier son of Arthur and Frances,
Troy’s older brother Corbett, also had a son with the same name. After the death of Arthur Collett, his
widow remarried, and it was Frances and Willie Brock who raised the Collett
children. In 1950 William Brock aged 53 and a farmer, and
his wife Frances Brock, who was 52, were living immediately adjacent to
Francy’s son Corbett at Blue Hole Water, Red Bird in Leslie County. |
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43R17
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Fred Collett |
Born in 1917
at Asher, Leslie County |
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43R18
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Emanuel Collett |
Born in 1918
at Asher, Leslie County |
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43R19
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Corbett Collett |
Born in 1920 at Asher, Leslie County |
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43R20
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Troy Collett |
Born in 1926
at Asher, Leslie County |
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43Q24
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Shelby Collett was born at Bad Creek in Leslie County
during 1906, the youngest child of Ingrim Collett and Renio Cope, who was
four years old in the Bad Creek census of 1910. He married Martha around the middle of the
1920s and by 1930 she had given birth to their first two children when the
family was living at Marrowbone in Leslie County. Shelby Collett was 24, Martha Collett was
21, their son Huy (Dewey) Collett was four and their daughter Gracy (Grace)
Collett was two years old, every member of the household having been born in
Kentucky. |
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Three
more children were born into the family during the next decade but tragically
the last of them died three years before the Leslie County census of
1940. According to the census return
that year Shelby and Martha Collett were both 35, and their four surviving
children were recorded as Dewey Collett who was 15, Grace Collett who was 13,
Rufus Collett who was nine and Sternel Collett who was seven years old. |
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43R21
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Dewey Collett |
Born in 1926
at Leslie County |
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43R22
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Grace Collett |
Born in 1928
at Leslie County |
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43R23
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Rufus Collett |
Born in 1931
at Leslie County |
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43R24
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Sternel
Collett |
Born in 1933
at Leslie County |
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43R25
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George
Collett |
Born in 1936
at Leslie County; died 1937 |
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43Q28 |
Nancy Ann
Collett was the
fourth child of John Robinson Collett and his first wife Jennett Reed, who was born at
Leslie County on 16th May 1896. She was later Nancy Ann Brock who died as a
widow on 9th November 1962 in Red Bird Hospital at Beverly in Clay
Co, and was buried at Bad Creek Cemetery in Asher on 11th November
1962, after residing at Hyden in Leslie County. |
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43Q38 |
Carolyn Ethel Collett
was the last of the fourteen known children of John Robinson Collett, and the
only child by his third wife Nettie Whitehead. She was born at Asher in Leslie County on 31st October
1941 and, upon being married, she became Carolyn Ethel Lewis, who died on 12th
September 2005 at Hyden, Leslie County, Kentucky. |
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43Q39
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Robert Collett was born at Bad Creek in Leslie
County, Kentucky in 1895, the son of Pleasant Lee and Rusho J Collett, who
was five in the Bad Creek census of 1900 when he and his family were living
at Marrowbone. Like his two younger
brothers (below) and his father, Robert was residing within Clay
County by the time of the census in 1920, by which time he was married with a
son. Robert Collett was 23, his wife
Dora Collett was 19, and their son P L Collett who was two years and two
months and named after Robert’s father.
Staying with the family was Mary Jane Brock who was 18. |
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43R26
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Pleasant Lee
Collett |
Born in 1918
at Clay County, Kentucky |
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43Q40
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Ingrim Collett was born at Bad Creek in 1897, the son
of Pleasant Lee and Rusho J Collett.
He was three years old in the Bad Creek census in 1900 when he and his
family were residing at Marrowbone. It
was just prior to 1920 that Ingrim married Sallie and within the census that
year Ingram Collett was 22 and Sallie Collett was 19 when they were living
not far away from his brother Dewie (below) and his father in Clay
County. |
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43Q42
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Dewie Collett was born at Bad Creek in 1900, the son
of Pleasant Lee and Rusho J Collett.
By the time he was 20, Dewey Collett was living at Clay County,
Kentucky in 1920 with his father P L Collett and his possible stepmother
Lottie Collet. He was still unmarried
ten years later in the Bad Creek census in 1930 when he was listed at the
family home as Dewie Collett aged 30.
Shortly after 1930 he became a married man and his wife presented him
with two daughters. However, in the
Leslie County census of 1940 Dewie and his two girls were without their
mother, when they were living at the home of their grandfather Pleasant Lee
Collett. Dewie Collett was 40, while
Dorothy Collett was five and Leitha Collett was four. |
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43R27
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Dorothy
Collett |
Born in 1935
at Leslie County |
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43R28
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Leitha
Collett |
Born in 1936
at Leslie County |
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43Q59
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Joseph Collett Griffin was born at Clay County in Kentucky on
14th March 1874, the only son of Theophilus Garrard Collett and
wife Lucy J Brumley.
Where the Griffin surname came from is still being investigated. What is known is the Joseph Collett Griffin
died at Clay County on 11th March 1954, a few days before his
eightieth birthday. |
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43Q61
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George William Collett was born in Kentucky on 17th
September 1873, the first child of John W Collett and his older wife Rebecca Jane Whitehead. It was at Leslie County that he was living
with his family in 1880 when George W Collett was six years of age. In 1893 George married Elizabeth Chappel of
Bad Creek in Leslie County where the couple was living at Marrowbone when the
census was conducted in 1900. George
was 26 and a farmer who had been married to Elizabeth for seven years. His wife, Lizzie Beth Collett was 24 and
had given birth to four children, all still living. They were Emily Collett who was six, Bertha
Collett who was four, Shelby Collett who was three, and Wilson Collett who
was four months old. It was also at Bad Creek that
George’s parents were still living in 1900, together with his youngest
brother Elias Collett. |
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Four
more children were added to the family during the next decade but sadly by
the time of the Bad Creek census in 1910 two of the couple’s eight children
had died. The surname was recorded as
Collette, with farmer George being 36 and married to Elizabeth for sixteen
years. She was 33, while their
surviving six children were listed as Emily who was 15, Bertha who was 13,
son Shelby who was 11, Sarah Jane who was six, Birchell who was four and
Reuben who was thirteen months old. |
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The
US Army draft record completed on 12th September 1918 described
him in the following way. George
Collett, serial number 296, had blue eyes, dark hair, was tall and of medium
build. He was 44 years old and a
resident of Roark in Leslie County where he was farming. His nearest living relative was Elizabeth
Collett of Roark, who was most likely his wife, while the name of his
employer was George Collett, perhaps indicating he was self-employed. The form was signed by the registrar
McKinley Asher. |
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Less
than two years later the census in 1920 listed the family still living at Bad
Creek as farmer George aged 46 who owned the property in which they were
living, his wife Lizzie B who was 45, Shelby who was 21, Sarah J who was 15,
Bertchel who was 12, Reuben who was nine, Charley who was six, and Mary who
was four. A few dwellings from the
family were tenant farmer James
Collett (#43q56) aged 40 and
his wife Sinthly (?), also 40, and their daughter Martha Collett (#43r14)
who was four months old. Who they
were, is not known at this time. |
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After
a further ten years George and his reduced family was still residing in Bad
Creek at Bowens Creek Road, although their ages were at variants to the ages
stated ten years earlier in 1920.
George Collett was 60 and still managing the farm, his wife Betsey
Collett was 56, unmarried son Shelby Collett was 34, Reuben Collett was 23,
Charlie Collett was 18 and Mary was 15.
The two younger sons were both labourers and unemployed Shelby was
suffering with bad health. Once again,
the census return confirmed that George had been first married at the age of
twenty-one, while in the case of his wife it was seventeen. |
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During
the following years George was widowed by the death of Elizabeth, after which
he married Martha. According to the
Bad Creek census in 1940, farmer George was 66 and still living on Bowens
Creek Road, Martha was 65, Shelby Collett was 42 and Mary Collett was
25. Living next door was George’s
married son Reuben Collett who had living with him his wife Mary and their
first four children. Another family
living on Bowen Creek Road comprised farmer Wiley Collett (#43q57), aged 56, his wife Chloe Collett, aged 63,
Mollie Collett (#43r15), aged 35,
WPA labourer Harrison Collett (#43r16),
aged 34, farmer Ballard Collett (#43r17),
aged 25, Lucy Collett (#43r18),
aged 20, Elizabeth Collett (#43r19),
aged 14, Opal Collett (#43r20),
aged 10, Joe Collett (#43r21) who
was eight, and Ada Collett (#43r22)
who was seven years of age. |
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George
William Collett died on 27th March 1948 at Essie in Leslie County,
Kentucky, and was buried at Bowens Creek Cemetery. |
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43R29
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Emily Collett |
Born in 1894
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R30
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Bertha
Collett |
Born in 1896
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R31
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Shelby
Collett – died in 1969 |
Born in 1897
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R32
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Wilson
Collett – infant death |
Born in 1900
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R33
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a Collett
child – infant death |
Born in 1902
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R34
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Sarah Jane
Collett |
Born in 1904
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R35
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Birchell Collett |
Born in 1906
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R36
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Reuben Collett |
Born in 1909
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R37
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Charley
Collett |
Born in 1914
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R38
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1916
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43Q62
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Joseph Collett was born at Kentucky in 1876 and was
four years old in the Leslie County in 1880.
He was around eighteen years old when he married Dorcas (aka Dorkus) with whom
he had one child, who sadly did not survive.
That situation was confirmed in the Bad Creek census of 1910 when two of the four known sons of
John Collett and Rebecca Jane Whitehead were living and farming on land
immediately adjacent to their parents.
They were Elias (below) right next door to his parents, with
brother Joseph next door to him. Joseph
Collett was 34, a general farmer having his own account who had been married
for 16 years, during which time his wife Dorkus Collett aged 38, was
confirmed as having given birth to just one child, no longer alive. |
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43Q64
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Elias Collett ($) was born in Kentucky, at Leslie County
on 2nd January 1880, the fourth and last son of John W Collett and
Rebecca Jane Whitehead. He was just five months old in the June
census of Leslie County that year after which no record of him has been found until, 1910 when he
was still living in Leslie County, at Bad Creek, and married for ten
years. The census that year revealed
that Elias was married to Carla Howard who already had a daughter from a previous
marriage. Elias Collett was a farmer
at the age of 30, his wife Carla Collett was 31 and had given birth to a
total of four children, one of whom had already died. Elias’ stepdaughter was Martha Ann Collett
aged 15, and the couple’s two children were named as Elmer Collett who was
four, and John Collett who was two years of age. Living on either side of the family were two other parts Elias’ Collett family, but whose
surname was recorded as Collette. They were Elias’ parents John
and Jane Collette, and Elias’ older brother Joseph Collette (above) with
his wife Dorkus Collette. |
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According
to the next census in 1920 the family was living on Bowens Creek Road in Bad Creek Precinct, Leslie
County, where Elias aged 39 was general farmer and a renter on the property. Carla Collett was 43 and her daughter
Martha Ann had left the home by then.
Her place in the house had been filled by a third child for Elias and
Carla. Elmer Collett was 14 and
helping his father on their farm, as was John Collett who was 12, while the
newest addition to the family was daughter Della Collett who was nine years
of age. Still living and working their
farm next door was Elias’ parents John W Collett aged 66 and Jane Collett who
was 76. Further along Bowens Creek
Road were two more Collett families, living adjacent to one another. They were L M Collett 27 with his wife
Delora 23 and their daughter Martha Collett two years and two months, and the
larger family of farmer Manford Collett (below). |
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In the 1930 census for Bowens Creek
Road in Bad Creek, three members of this family were recorded in three
adjacent farms. Carla Collett (as
Carty) was 55 who was married to the absent Elias when she was 25, a farmer,
who had widower John W Collett (Ref. 43P45) lagged 74 living with her who was
described as brother, when he was actually her father-in-law. Carla was residing at 74 Bowens Creek Road
that year, when at 73 was son Elmer with his family, and at 75 was son John C
Collett with his wife and their first child.
By the day of the next census in 1940, the couple’s son John L Collett
was a married man living in the adjacent property on Bowens Creek Road, when
Elias Collett was 60 and a farmer, and curiously his wife of the correct age
was named as Elizabeth Collett aged 64. |
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The
US Army draft record completed on 27th April 1942 described him in
the following way. Elias Collett of
Essie Town in Leslie County was 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 180 pounds,
with black eyes, a fair complexion and grey hair. He had been born in Leslie County and was
62 and farming at home. His
next-of-kin was named as Carly Collett, also residing at Essie, his
wife. The draft form for the Medical
Board at Hyden was signed by registrar John L Collett. The earlier draft record for 1917-1918
confirmed his date of birth and also stated he was born at Roark. The death of Carly Howard, nee Collett, on 1st December
1947 happened at Essie in Leslie County. The death certificate confirmed she was the
daughter of Johnie W Howard and Linda Pennington, and the wife of 68-year-old Elias Collett. She was 71 years old and had been born at
Leslie on 24th August 1876.
Sometimes, she was recorded at Carty. |
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Not long
after being widowed, Elias Collett died at home in Essie, Leslie County on 13th
February 1948 at the age of 68 and was buried at Bowens Creek Cemetery, the
son of John W Collett and (Rebecca) Jane Whitehead, while the informant of
his passing was recorded by his son John L Collett. Could he be the same John L Collett, the
Medical Board registrar in 1942. Recorded
in official US Social Documents dated May 1937, his date of birth was
confirmed as given above, with his birthplace recorded as Stinnett in Leslie
County, a son of John W Collett and Rebecca Jane Whitehead. |
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43R39
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Elmer
Collett |
Born in 1905 at Bad Creek,
Leslie County |
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43R40
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John L Collett
($) |
Born in 1907 at Bad Creek,
Leslie County |
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43R41
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Della
Collett |
Born in 1911 at Bad Creek,
Leslie Cty |
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43Q65
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Manford Collett was born at Leslie County in Kentucky
on 12th December 1877 and was two years old in the Leslie County
census of 1880 when he was living there with his parents William Collett and Alice Elizabeth Caldwell and
his younger baby sister Lucy. In 1892,
with Alice still his wife, his father took a second much young wife. Six years later, in 1898, Manford Collett
married Nancy (Nanie) Sizemore as confirmed by the Leslie County census in
1910 which stated the couple had been married for twelve years. On that census day he, his wife and their
children were residing at Bad Creek Precinct.
Manford Collett was 38 and a farmer, his wife Nannie Collett was 28, Judie Collett was 11,
Ruth Collett was eight, James F Collett was six, and Lucy was three years of
age. Staying with the family was
Manford’s younger brother Samuel
Collett who was 15 and a labourer on the farm. Curiously he was not living with Manford’s
family in 1900 when Samuel would have been five years old. |
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Another
Collett resident of Bad Creek Precinct, who was living next door to Manford’s
family, was James Collette (#43q61)
senior and his family. James was 44
and also working as a farmer. His
(second) wife Nancy was 24, and the only child from his previous marriage
still living with him was Chester
Collette (#43r27) who was 13. The
two youngest children of James and Nancy were Floyd Collette (#43r28)
who was two and Thomas Collette (#43r29) who was one month old. The census return confirmed that James and
Nancy had only been married for eighteen months. It is not currently known where this family
might have a connection with this family line, so the names have been
included here for completeness in the hope that a link may be found at a
later date. |
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Further
children were added to Manford’s family between 1910 and 1920 which was
living at Bowens Creek Road in Bad Creek Precinct on the census day in
1920. Manford Collett was 42 and a general
farmer with his own account, Nancy Collett was 38, James F Collett was 15 and
a farm labourer, as was Lucy Collett who was 12. The couple’s younger children were daughter
Cornella Collett who was nine, William Collett who was eight, son Billie
Collett who was three and a half, and son Berry Collett who was sixteen
months old. Living next door that year
was the unidentified family of L M Collett who was 27, whose wife Delora
Collett was 23, and whose daughter Martha Collett was two years and two
months. |
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On
the day the census was conducted at Bad Creek in 1930, farmer Manford Collett
was 53, Nanie Collett was 48, son Billie Collett was 14, son Berry Collett
was 11, Mary Collett was nine and Ruth Collett was six years of age. The census form also stated that Manford
was nineteen years old when he married, while Nancy was 15. The adjacent home that year was occupied by
farmer Charlie Collett (#43q62) who was 22, his wife Laura
Collett was 19 and their son Fred
Collett (#43r30) was eleven
months old. Charles had married Laura
when he was 20 and she was 17. |
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According
to the census in 1940 all their children had left the family home which, that
year, was at Little Creek in Clay County.
Manford Collett was 62 and Nanie Collett was 57 and the farm where
they were living was rented by them, not owned by them. Two years later, on 27th April
1942, a US Army draft registration form was completed for Manford which
included the following details. He was
5 feet 7 inches tall, weighed 140 pounds, with brown eyes, black hair, and a
dark complexion. He was 64 years of age
and his place of residence was Roark in Leslie County where Nanie was still
living with him. It seems he lived his
whole life in Leslie County, since it was there that his death was recorded
just over twenty years later, on 23rd February 1963 at the age of
85. |
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There
is a very sad story involving Manford’s youngest son Berry Collett. Just prior to being twenty years of age he
married Opha Cox, but tragically before reaching the age of maturity his
death was recorded at Beverly in Bell County, Kentucky, in 1939. The death certificate confirmed the name of
his spouse, together with the names of his parents, Manford Collett and Nanie
Sizemore. |
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43R42
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Judie
Collett |
Born in 1899
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R43
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Ruth Collett |
Born in 1902
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R44
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James F
Collett |
Born in 1904
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R45
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Lucy Collett |
Born in 1907
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R46
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Cornella
Collett |
Born in 1911
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R47
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William
Collett |
Born in 1912
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R48
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Billie
Collett |
Born in 1917
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R49
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Berry Collett |
Born in 1919
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R50
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1921
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R51
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Ruth Collett |
Born in 1924
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43Q66 |
Lucy Farmer Collett was born at Leslie County on 7th February 1880,
although an alternative source suggests she was born just south-west of Leslie
County at adjoining Bell County.
She was the second child of William and Alice Collett, and was four months old in the
in the Leslie County in June 1880, raising yet another county where she may
have been born. So far, the census for
1900 has not been located, by which time Lucy had a husband and had already
given birth to the couple’s first two children. Lucy F Collett was fifteen years of
age when she married Farmer Roark with whom she had five children, all
living, in the census of 1910. That
day, in addition to the seven members of the Roark family, staying with them
was Lucy’s younger brother Willie Collett who was 18. Head of the household Farmer Roark was 34
and a general farmer, Lucy was 30, Hobart Roark was 12, Charley L
Roark was 10, Martha E Roark was seven, Fannie was four,
and Mallie Roark had only been born and was under one month old. At that time in his life Farmer’s
brother-in-law Willie was probably helping his on the farm. Three more children were added to the
family during the next decade at Lesley County, and they were Luella Roark
born on 23rd October 1913, Annie L Roark born on 6th
October 1916, and Davis Roark who was born on 14th June
1920. |
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In March 1939, Social Program Application
correspondence referred to her as Lucy Collett Roark born on 7th
February 1800, also known as Lucy Farmer Roark, the daughter of Billie
Collett and Alice E Caldwell. Three
years later, the marriage of widow Lucy Collett Roark, aged 62 and living at
Brookside in Leslie County, and widower
(2) Lawrence L Blankenship, aged 65 and a farmer and a stonemason, took place
at Harlan County in Kentucky on 23rd May 1942, when her parents
were confirmed as Billy Collett, deceased, and Alice Caldwell, while the
groom’s parents were Thomas Blankenship, deceased, and Lucetta Mace. They were only married for just less than
seven years, when Lucy Farmer Collett died at Nicholas County in West
Virginia on 2nd May 1949 aged 69. |
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43Q67 |
James Farmer Asher Collett
was born at Roark in Leslie County on 19th May 1882 another son of
William and Alice Collett. As simply
Farmer Collett he was 18 years old in the census of 1900 when he was a farm
labourer, mostly working on his father’s farm. During 1903 Farmer married Rosa Lee and by
1910, when the couple was living at Bloomington Precinct No.5 in Magoffin
County, Kentucky, they already had three children. Head of the household F C, was 25 and a
general farmer, Rosa Lee was 23, Maggie Collett was five, Alice Collett was
three, and Herman Collett was one year old.
The census return confirmed the couple had been married for seven
years, during which time Rosa Lee had given birth to three children. |
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During 1916 Rosa Lee gave birth to a
still-born son described at Jefferson County as Freeling Stillbirth
Collett. The US Draft Registration
document in 1918 confirmed Farmer’s date of birth as detailed above, when he
was 36 and residing at Redway, Magoffin County, with the second page stating
that he had a broken collar bone. By
1920 the family was still living at Bloomington Precinct No.5 in Magoffin
County. Again, as just Farmer Collett,
he was 37 and a general farmer. His
wife Rosa Lee was 33, daughters Maggie and Alice were 15 and 13, and sons
Herman, Bee, and Allen, were ten, six, and twenty-five months. |
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It was at 167 Long Branch in
Salyersville, within the Magisterial District No. 1 of Magoffin County, that
the couple was recorded in 1940. At
that time in their life, J F Collett was 58 and still farming, when Rosalie
was 54. Living with them that day,
were four of their children, plus a grandchild. Eldest child Maggie Brock was 35 and a
widow from Knox County in Kentucky, and with her was her one-year-old daughter
Jean Fay Brock. Completing the
household were sons Allen Collett aged 22, Millard Collett was 15, and Ella
Collett was 12 years old. |
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Also
living at Long Branch in 1940 were three other Collett families, all one
after the other at 168, 169, and 170. The
first of them at 168 was Willie Collett (Ref. 43rX), who was 19
and a labourer working on a road project with the W P A [Works Progress
Administration]. His wife was Cellie
Collett who was 21, and their son Marshall Collett (Ref. 43sX) aged
two years and, as at November 2024, they have not been linked to this Collett
family line. Next door to them at 169
was James’ eldest son Herman Collett with his wife Maggie Collett, and their
four children, while at 170 Long Branch in Salyersville was Willie M Collett
(Ref. 43Q75) a farmer and his wife Sina Collett, and their seven children |
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Two
years later the US Draft for the Second World War dated 27th April
1942 included James Farmer Collett aged 59 and born at Roark on the date
above, who was residing at Gifford in Magoffin County, whose wife was Rosa
Lee Collett. Twenty-two years later, James
Farmer Asher Collett died while residing in Morgan County, Kentucky on 20th
March 1964, after which he was buried at Ollie May Cemetery, Salyersville in
Magoffin County. |
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Maggie Collett |
Born in 1904 at Bloomington, Magoffin County |
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43R53
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Alice Collett |
Born in 1907 at Bloomington, Magoffin County |
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43R54
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Herman Collett |
Born in 1910 at Bloomington, Magoffin County |
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43R55
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Bee Collett |
Born in 1914 at Bloomington, Magoffin County |
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43R56
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Allen Collett |
Born in 1918 at Bloomington, Magoffin County |
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43R57
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Millard Collett |
Born in 1925 at Gifford, Magoffin County |
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43R58
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Ella Collett |
Born in 1928 at Gifford, Magoffin County |
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43Q68
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JOHN COLLETT was born at Clay County in Kentucky
during May 1884, another son of William Collett and Alice Elizabeth Caldwell, who may have
been born at Otter Creek. John was
eight years of age when
his father took a second younger wife, and it was with his father and
his stepmother Catharine that sixteen-year-old John was one of seven children living
with them at Otter Creek in 1900. A
further seven siblings/half siblings were recorded with John’s mother Alice
at nearby Bad Creek. It was
four years after that when John married Dora Smith on 20th March
1904 at Otter Creek in Clay County, Kentucky when John was 21 and Dora was only
14. According to census in 1910 the
family of John Collett, aged 30, was still residing at Otter Creek in Clay
County, where his wife Dora Collett was 25, and their daughters were named as
Elsie (Elzie) Collett who was four and Bertha Collett who was two years
old. It is established that at least
three further children were born into the family during the next decade, as
confirmed by the next census in 1920.
On that occasion the family was living at Manchester in Clay County
when John Collett was 39, Dora Collett was 32, and their children were Elsie
(Elzie) Collett who was 16, Bertha Collett who was 12, Elbert Collett who was
nine, Cordelia Collett who was seven and Burchell Collett who was four years
of age. Every member of the household
had been born in Kentucky. |
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Just
two more children were added to the family, one just before and one just
after 1830. By the time of the census
that year the family was still living in Clay County, but in District 8, when
it comprised John Collett who was said he was 53 instead of 49, Dora Collett
who said she was 40 instead of 42, Elbert Collett who was 21, Cordelia
Collett who was 18, Burchell Collett who was 14 and most recent arrival Norma
Collett who was just two years old. It
was within the Magisterial District 2 in Bell County, Kentucky, that the
family was living in 1940. Head of the
household John Collett was 68 (who surely should have been nearer 58), his
wife Dora Collett was 51 (which more or less corresponds with her age in the
two previous census returns). Still
with the couple were their two youngest daughters Norma Collett who was 12
and Opal Collett who was eight.
Completing the household was their married son Burchell Collett and
his wife Della and their two children. |
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43R59
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Elsie Collett |
Born in 1905
at Otter Creek, Clay County |
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43R60
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Bertha
Collett |
Born in 1908
at Otter Creek, Clay County |
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43R61
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Elbert
Collett |
Born in 1911
at Otter Creek, Clay County |
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43R62
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Cordelia
Collett |
Born in 1913
at Clay County, Kentucky |
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43R63
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BURCHELL COLLETT |
Born in 1915
at Clay County, Kentucky |
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43R64
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Norma Collett |
Born in 1918
at Clay County, Kentucky |
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43R65
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Opal Collett |
Born in 1922
at Clay County, Kentucky |
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43Q69 |
Nathaniel Collett was born at Clay County in March 1886 and in 1900 and 1910 he was still
living with his family at Otter Creek at the age of 14 and 23 when he was
recorded at Nathan, a son of William and Alice Collett on whose farm he was
working. By that time in his life, he
had been married for two years, his wife being Mary Collett who was 18 years
old. It was two years earlier that the
wedding of Nathan Collett and Mary Slusher was conducted on 13th
August 1908. In 1920 the family of
Nathan and Mary were recorded at Banner Fork Precinct No. 6 in Harlan County,
by which time Mary had given birth to three children. Nathan was 34 and a coalminer with the
Banner Fork Coal Company, when his was Mary was 31. Martha J Collett was nine, Mack Collett was
five, and Axie Collett was four years and one month old. |
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It was in the coal mining community
at Frozen, within Magisterial District 2 of Harlan County, just east of
Banner Fork, that the family was residing in 1930. Coal-loader Nathan Collett, aged 45, was
still in rented accommodation and was 19 years old when he married Mary who
was 13 (sic). Mary Collett was 34
(sic) eleven years younger than her husband, where she was only three years
younger ten years earlier, and five years younger in 1910. None of their children was working, and
they were Mack Collett who was 17, Axie Collett who was 13, and Ethel Collett
who was six years old. |
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Their daughter Axie Collett was 18
when she married James Thomas who was 25 at Arjay in Bell County on 26th
March 1934. It was there also, just
over one month later, that their son Mack Collett 21 married May Taylor 19 on
2nd June 1934. In the end,
Axie Thomas, daughter of Nathan Collett and Mary Slusher, died at Pineville
Community Hospital in Bell County on 8th July 1961 and was buried
at Arjay. Earlier, the death of Nathan
Collett happened on 7th August 1945 at the age of 62 placing his
year of birth around 1883 an not 1886, as above. Furthermore, whilst his father was
confirmed as William Collett, his mother was recorded as Caroline
Howard. He was confirmed as born at
Clay County as was an employee of a coalmining company, when the informant of
his passing was his son Mack Collett.
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43R66
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Martha J Collett |
Born in 1911 at Otter Creek, Clay County |
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43R67
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Mack Collett |
Born in 1914 at Otter Creek, Clay County |
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43R68
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Axie Collett |
Born in 1916 at Harlan County, Kentucky |
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43R69
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Ethel Collett |
Born in 1924 at Harlan County, Kentucky |
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43Q71 |
Gilbert Collett
was born during May
in 1888 at Clay County, another
son of William and Alice Collett.
He was living with his family in 1900 and six years after was married to (1) Delia Patterson
on 12th May 1906 as recorded at Bell County, Kentucky. It seems likely that Delia died during, or just
after, giving birth to daughter Pearly, her name a memorial to her mother
having gone through the “pearly gates”
Three years later the marriage of Gilbert Collett aged 25 (sic) and (2) Ellen Collett aged 23 (sic) was
conducted at the home of William Collett in Clay County on 17th May
1911, where William Collett was one of the witnesses. The licence for them to be marriage was
approved on 13th May 1911 at Manchester in Clay County. On that day, Gilbert was not an honest man,
when the stated this would be his first marriage, as did his much younger
bride who was barely 18 years of age and certainly not 23, being 27 in 1920 –
below. |
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By 1920 the family was residing at Banner Fork in Harlan County, where Gilbert was 33 and
in rented accommodation while employed as a coalminer with the Banner Fork
Coal Company. His wife Ellen was
27, and their three children were Pearly Collett who was 12, Grace Collett
who was nine, and son Billie Collett who was seven years of age. |
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Gilbert Collett died on 19th
May 1925, with his death recorded at Harlan County, following which he was
buried at Highsplint Cemetery, not far from Closplint where his son Billie
was killed in a mining accident in 1950.
His daughter Grace Collett married (1) C W Smith, son of T F Smith and
Sarah J Smith at Baxter in Harlan County on 16th December
1933. Later on, Grace married (2)
Ballinger Howard son of Grannille (Granville?) Howard and Lucille
Callaway at Pineville in Bell County on 3rd May 1946. |
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43R70
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Pearly Collett |
Born in 1908 at Clay County |
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The following are the children of
Gilbert Collett by his second wife Ellen Collett: |
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43R71
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Grace Collett |
Born in 1911 at Clay County |
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43R72
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Billie Collett |
Born in 1913 at Harlan County |
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43Q73 |
Betsey J Collett
was most likely born at Otter Creek in Clay County, Kentucky in February 1890, a
daughter of William Collett by the first of his two Mormon wives Alice. While still married to Alice, his father
married Catharine Rader in 1892, and it was with them that Betsey was ten
years of age in 1900 at Otter Creek, when Betsey’s mother was living at Bad
Creek with a second set of seven children on William Collett. Fourteen years later Betsey J Collett
married Andrew Quillen on 5th May 1914, a double wedding with sister
Mollie Collett (below) and Joe Coleman, when parents William and Catharine
Collett were described as the father and mother of the girls who “are willing
with no objections”. While Molly
certainly was the daughter and second child of Catharine’s, Betsey was born
three years earlier. |
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43Q75 |
Willie M Collett
was born on 14th August 1892 at Roark in Clay County just after
his father William Collett married his second concurrent wife, the much
younger Catharine Rader. He was living
with his family in 1900, but ten years later it was as brother-in-law aged
18, that Willie Collett was staying with his married sister’s husband Farmer
Roark at Bad Creek within the Magisterial District No. 5 of Leslie
County. Farmer (his christian name)
was 34, Lucy F Roark was 30, and their five children. Boarding with the family next door was
James Collett who was 24 but with no occupation. Less than four years after that census day,
Willie Collett married Sina Caudill on 5th February 1914 at the
home of Abel Caudill in Magoffin County, when the groom’s parents were
confirmed as Billie Collett and Alice E Collett, while the bride’s parents
were named as Abel and Elizabeth Caudill. |
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The US Draft Registration for the
First World War included Willie Collett born on the date provided above, who
was 24 and living at Salyersville in Magoffin County, where he was a
self-employed farmer. The form also
confirmed he was a married man with one child, and claimed he had weak lungs
for exemption purposes. According to
the next census in 1920 for Gifford in Magoffin Willie was 25 and the owner
of his own general farm. His wife Sina
was 18, and their two daughters were Lena who was five, and Myrtle who was
two years of age. Boarding with the
family, and the owner of his own farm was John M May who was 66, perhaps
advising the much younger farm on best practice. |
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Willie Collett aged 36, was still the
owner of the farm in Gifford in 1930 purchased for $1200, the census form
confirming he was married to Sina when he was 23, when she was 16, now 32 and
recorded as Sudie (sic). Their eldest
daughter Lena, had either suffered and infant death or was just absent on
that day, with Myrtle being their eldest child at the age of 11 years. The other four children were Junie aged
eight, son Onley who was five, Carrie who was three, and Ella who was three
months old. |
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More children were added to the
family during the 1930s, which was residing at 170 Long Branch in
Salyersville in 1940, where Willie M Collett was 46 a farmer. His wife Sina Collett 43, and their children
that day were Myrtle Collett 21 a seamstress with the N Y A sewing project,
and Oland Collett 16 (Onley in 1930) a farmer. The couple’s five other children were
Claire Collett 14 (Carrie in 1930), Elsie Collett eight, Nolia Collett six,
Virginia Collett four, and Barbara Collett who was two years of age. Living at 169 Long Branch was Herman
Collett (Ref. 43R53), his wife Maggie, and their children, then at 168 was
Willie and Cellie Collett – still to be identified, while at 167 was Willie’s
older brother James Farmer (Asher) Collett (Ref. 43Q67), his wife Rosa Lee,
and their children. |
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Willie M Collett who was born at
Roark on 14th August 1892 was 57 when he died at Gifford in
Magoffin County on 29th April 1950. |
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43R73
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Lena Collett |
Born in 1915 at Salyersville, Magoffin County |
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43R74
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Myrtle Collett |
Born in 1917 at Gifford, Magoffin County |
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43R75
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Junie Collett |
Born in 1922 at Gifford, Magoffin County |
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43R76
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Ollen Collett |
Born in 1924 at Gifford, Magoffin County |
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43R77
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Clara Collett |
Born in 1925 at Gifford, Magoffin County |
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43R78
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Ella Collett |
Born in 1930 at Gifford, Magoffin County |
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43R79
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Elsie Mae Collett |
Born in 1932 at Gifford, Magoffin County |
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43R80
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Nolia Collett |
Born in 1934 at Gifford, Magoffin County |
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43R81
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Virginia Collett |
Born in 1936 at Gifford, Magoffin County |
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43R82
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Barbara Collett |
Born in 1938 at Gifford, Magoffin County |
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43Q76 |
Molly Collett
was probably born at Otter Creek in October 1893, the second child of William and Catharine following
the birth of a son soon after they were married in 1892. From William’s two concurrent marriages his
two wives, Alice and Catherine, a total of twenty children were born into
their family. In the Otter Creek
census of 1900, Molly was one of seven children living there with her father
and her mother and six other children, when her stepmother Alice was living
nearby at Bad Creek with another seven children of the family. On 5th May 1914 Mollie Collett
married Joe Coleman, the same day he half-sister Betsey (above) was
married with the approval of their parents. |
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43Q77 |
Samuel Collett
was born at Clay County, Kentucky, on 12th December 1895 and was
the son of William Collett and his wife Alice E Collett who, for some reason,
was not living with his family at Otter Creek in 1900. Instead, Samuel first appeared in the
Leslie County census of 1910, when he was fifteen years old and living with
his eldest married brother Manford and his family. That day Samuel was working as a labourer
on his brother’s farm, when it is still not known where he was in 1900 aged
five years. After 1910 Samuel Collett
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On 5th June 1917, Samuel
Collett aged 22 years and born at Roark completed a World War One Draft
Registration Card. By that day his
occupation was that of a farmer, when he was a married man, who claimed
exemption from the draft on grounds of needing to support his wife. He was described as being of medium height
and slender build, with light brown eyes and hair. |
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According to the census return in
1930, the family was residing in a rented property on Bowens Creek Road in
Bad Creek, Leslie County. Sam Collett,
a farmer, was 35 and had married when he was seventeen years of age. His wife Minnie was 31 and was 14 when she
married Sam. They and their five
daughters had all been born in Kentucky, and they were Pollie who was 12,
Edna who was nine, Ernesta who was six, Judie who was almost five, and Orna
who was one month old. Around the
middle of the next decade the family moved to Warbranch, West of Middle Fork,
in Leslie County, where their home was in 1935, and again in 1940. |
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Samuel Collett was a farmer aged 46,
Minnie Collett was 44 (sic), son Ernest Collett was 16 and a ‘new worker’.
Judie Collett was 14, Orna Collett was 11, when the latest arrivals were
Leonard Collett who was eight, Walter Collett who was five, and Farmer
Collett who was two years old. One
more child was added to the family and towards the end of the 1940s, the
couple’s eldest son Ernest became a married man, after which he and his wife
moved into the property next door to Sam and Minnie, which was how they were
recorded in the census of 1950, by which time Minnie’s widowed mother was
living with the family. Eight years
earlier, Warbranch, Leslie County, was the family address included on the
1942 Military Draft Registration Card for Sam Collett aged 47, whose date of
birth was as indicated above, and whose next-of-kin was his wife Minta
Collett. |
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Sam Collett was 56, when his wife was
recorded as Minta Collett 55 (sic) and just their three youngest children
were still living with them. They were
Leonard aged 18, Walter aged 14, Farmer who was 11, and daughter Lizzie
Collett was seven years of age. The
two older sons were already employed on their father’s farmer as farm
helpers. Completing the family that
day was Sam’s mother-in-law Martha Breck aged 84. Sam’s older son and daughter-in-law next
door were recorded as Ernest Collett who was 26 and a mill worker in lumber
manufacturing and his wife Edna M Collett who was 19. |
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Twenty-one years later, as Sam
Collett, he died on 1st September 1971 when he was at Essie living
in Leslie County, and was buried at Bowens Creek Cemetery. On that occasion, his death record stated
he had been born on 11th December 1894. |
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43R83
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Pollie Collett |
Born in 1918 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R84
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Edna Collett |
Born in 1921 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R85
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Ernesta/Ernest Collett |
Born in 1924 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R86
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Judie Collett |
Born in 1925 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R87
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Orna Collett |
Born in 1930 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R88
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Leonard Collett |
Born in 1932 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R89
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Walter Collett |
Born in 1935 at Roark, Leslie County |
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43R90
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Farmer Collett |
Born in 1938 at Roark, Leslie County |
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43Q78 |
Joseph Collett
was born at Clay County on
29th May 1896 and was another child of William Collett by
one of his wives. By 1920 he was living at Upper
Red Bird in Clay County when he was described as the son-in-law of Preston
Nolan, a general farmer, whose daughter was Ella Collett, and whose
granddaughter was Della Collett.
Joseph, another general farmer, and Ella, were both 20 years of age,
while their daughter was thirteen months old.
That family group was living at 21, not far from another Collett
family at 16, which comprising Silas Collett aged 36 and a farmer, his wife
Mahalby 30, daughters Nettie Collett 12, and Elizabeth Collett 10. The US Draft Registration on 27th
April 1942 confirmed he was self-employed and living at Asher Fork in Clay
County, when Joe Collett was 46 and his place of birth was Leslie
County. The name of his relative, for
notification purposes was Mrs Ellen Collett. Joseph, who was known as Joe, was 56
when he died at Asher Fork in Clay County on 28th September 1952
and was buried at Bear Creek Cemetery.
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43Q81 |
George Dewey
Collett, who was known as Dewey, was born on 11th
September 1899 at Clay County, and was a son of William by one of his two
wives Alice – who died in 1901, or the much younger Catharine. As Dewey, he was 21 when he married Bertie
Bolling at Esserville, Wise County in Virginia on 17th January
1920. Bertie, possibly Roberta, was 17
years of age and born in Virginia, the daughter of Mollie Bolling. Curiously, Dewey’s parents were named as
Billy Collett and Allie Fair Collett? |
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Their daughter Ruth was born in 1925
and they were confirmed as her parents when she married Edward Brock at Big Glades
in Wise County on 15th August 1942. Edward was 21 and the son of Jesse Brock
and Martha Shook. Dewey’s son, and
namesake, was born at Esserville, Wise County on 12th September
1931 who, in November 1950, applied to the Social Program when he was
residing at Salyersville, Magoffin Count, Kentucky. It was much later when Dewey Earlen Collett
died on 23rd April 2000. |
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Tragically, the couple had another
daughter who was born at Robinson in Wise County on 2nd February
1935, who died that same day. Their
last child was another son, who was born on 3rd August 1946, and
he married Mary Frances Warren, aged 18, at Clintwood, Dickson County on 6th
September 1968, with the bride’s parents named as John Warren and Louise
Blanche. George Dewey Collett was at
Salyersville in Magoffin County when he died on 5th December 1967
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Born in 1925 at Wise County, Virginia |
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Born in 1931 at Esserville, Wise County |
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Lezia Collett |
Born in 1935 at Robinson, Wise County |
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Born in 1946 at Robinson, Wise County |
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43Q84 |
Shelby Collett
was born 20th February 1917 in Leslie County and was the twentieth
and last child of William Collett from his three wives, Shelby’s mother being
the much younger wife, Emma Asher. His
date of birth has been provided by two independent sources, the Second World
War Draft Registration completed at Louellen in Harlan County on 8th
October 1945, and again at the recording of his death on 15th
February 1983 at Lejunior in Harlan County.
Within the Draft Registration form his next-of-kin was named as Wily
Collett, his father. After he died in
1983 his body was laid to rest at Evarts Memorial Gardens at Kildav in Harlan
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Despite what is written above, it is known that
Shelby Collett became a married after the Second World War, when the wedding
of Shelby Collett, a bachelor, and Ruby Brock, a divorcee, which took place
at Wallins Creek in Harlan County on 9th February 1946. The witnesses were Nancy and Ben
Brock. After they were married, they
settled in Highsplint Mines where the childless couple was residing in 1950. Shelby Collett was 35, and Ruby Collett was
24, with Shelby employed as a coal loader for the Coal Mining Company. |
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43Q93 |
Margaret Frances
Collett, who was
known as Peggy, was born in Mexico in 1908 shortly after her parents were
married. The US Census of 1920 listed
Margaret as 12 and placed her and her family living at Alpine in Brewster
County in Texas. Five years later in
1925 Peggy was living with her family at 104 Haynes Avenue in San Antonio
when her father received the news that he and his brothers and sister were
heirs to a fortune of $200,000 left to them by a distant relative in
England. Following an interview with
the San Antonio Light, the newspaper ran the headline “Miss Peggy Collett
Elects to Get Education with Share of Fortune”. At that Peggy and her three siblings were
all students attending a local public school and Peggy expressed a desire to
enter a career in journalism.
Tragically she died only eight years later at San Antonio in Texas in
1933 when she was only in her mid-twenties, so never did realise her life’s
ambition. |
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43Q94 |
William Bruns Collett
was born at Crystal
City in Maverick County in Texas on 9th November 1912. His second christian name was apparently
the name of the medical attendant who assisted at his birth. According to the census of 1920, William
was seven years old and was living with his family at Alpine in Brewster
County in Texas. It would appear that
William was married twice, the first time to (1) Anna Ruth Strong with whom
he had a daughter. William later
married (2) Jimmie Evelyn Petersen just prior to the Second World War with
whom he had a further five children.
The first of them was born at Mississippi, while the next four were
all born in Texas. William Bruns
Collett was only fifty-four years of age when he died at Lubbock County in
Texas on 13th October 1966.
His wife Jimmie, who was born in Brazoria County on 8th
December 1921, died eighteen years after William, when she passed away on 24th
July 1984 at Lubbock. |
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Elizabeth Ann Collett |
Born in 1935
at San Antonio in Texas |
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William James Collett |
Born in 1941
in Mississippi |
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43R97
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Beverly Sue Collett |
Born in 1943
at San Antonio in Texas |
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43R98
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James Robert Collett |
Born in 1947
at McAllen in Texas |
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43R99
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Sandra Lea Collett |
Born in 1948
at Hidalgo in Texas |
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Sylvia Jean Collett |
Born in 1957
at Bellaire in Texas |
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43Q95 |
Martha Elizabeth Collett
was born at Alpine in
Texas on 26th January 1915 and was four years and eleven months
old at the time of the US Census of 1920.
At that time her parents, William F Collett and Maje Collett, were
living at Alpine in Brewster County in Texas.
Also listed were Martha’s two siblings Margaret 13, and William
7. Some years later Martha married
Clyde Edgar and the marriage resulted in the birth of one child for the couple,
Mary Patricia Edgar born at San Antonio in 1937. Martha was made a widow in 1976 when Clyde
died at San Antonio. Martha lived in
the original family home of her father William Francis Collett at San Antonio
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Her daughter
Mary Patricia Edgar married Richard G Weil in San Antonio from whom she is
now divorced, but not before the couple were blessed with three children,
Marsha K Weil, Richard G Weil, and Melinda E Weil. By the time she was 95, and due to her
physical limitations, Martha Elizabeth Edgar nee Collett was a resident at
Morningside Manor. However, in January
2011 she was taken from there to Nix Hospital in San Antonio where she died
on 30th January 2011, just four days after her 96th
birthday. Following her passing,
Martha was buried at San
Fernando III Cemetery in San Antonio on Wednesday
3rd February 2011. The
obituary that was displayed at the Mission South Funeral Home read as
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“Martha E. Edgar born on January 26, 1915 went to be with the Lord on
January 30, 2011 at the age of 96. She died peacefully, of natural causes,
surrounded by loving family. She is
preceded in death by her beloved husband Clyde Edgar, parents William and
Maje Collett, and siblings Peggy Collett, Bill Collett, and Mary Turner. Survivors include her loving and dedicated
only child Patricia Edgar Weil, grandchildren Marsha K. Williams (Steve),
Richard G. Weil (Elizabeth), Melinda E. Taylor, six great grandchildren Matt,
Ryan, Cole, Skye, Zeke, and Townsend, numerous nieces, nephews, and other
loving family members and friends.
Mrs. Edgar was born in Alpine, Texas.
She was the niece of E. E. Townsend, Father of Big Bend National
Park. She was a homemaker and a
caregiver of loved ones throughout her amazing life. She gave of her time and effort unconditionally
to those around her. She was a
lifetime member of McKinley Avenue United Methodist Church, where she had
many dear friends. She is also
survived by her loyal canine companion, Sugar.” |
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Martha
Elizabeth Collett was the sister of William Bruns Collett (above),
whose daughter Sue Flanagan provided the details of her aunt’s passing. It was also
Sue who kindly sent in the photograph on the right, showing Sue with her Aunt
Martha which was taken during her 95th birthday celebrations at
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43Q96 |
Mary Belle Collett was born at San Antonio in Texas in
1921. She married John Mack Turner and
they had two sons before John’s accidental death in 1955 at Hannibal in
Missouri. Mary Belle lived for almost
another forty years after her husband died, until her death around 1994. Both of her sons were married and
each presented Mary Belle with a grandchild.
John Mack Turner was born in 1953 and his son is Troy
Turner. Mark Townsend Turner
was born in 1954 and died at San Antonio in 2007 and his daughter was Katrina
Turner. |
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43Q98 |
Mary Elizabeth Collett was born at Atchison on 30th
July 1888. She initially attended a
public grade school in Atchison but went to high school at a private College
Preparatory School also in Atchison.
She entered Wellesley College in 1906 and graduated with an AB degree
in 1910 and she received her Master’s Degree from the University of
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After securing
a Fellowship in Biology at Clark University she took up a teaching post in
the School of Medicine at the University of Buffalo. In 1922/23 she was awarded a Fellowship by
the American Scandinavian Foundation for which she attended the Karolinska
Institute in Stockholm. On her
returned to America, she spent one year teaching at Tulane University in New
Orleans before completing thirty years teaching at Western Reserve University
in Cleveland, Ohio in 1954. Doctor
Mary Elizabeth Collett, a college professor, died on 28th June
1969 at Wellesley in Massachusetts and was buried with other members of her
family at Mount Vernon Cemetery in Atchison. |
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43Q99 |
William Barrow Collett (the second) was born in Atchison, Kansas on 2nd September
1895. When he was seventeen, he
attended Culver Military Academy in Indiana.
He later trained as an American Cadet with the Royal Flying Corps of
Canada and became a Second Lieutenant at Fort Worth in Texas on 14th
February 1918. During
the following week, he sailed to France with 139th Aero Squadron
where he learned to fly rotary engine Nieuports at Issoudon. The
trained had not been completed when volunteers were asked to form 12th
Aero Squadron, the second American squadron which was equipped with A5 Avion
Renaults. Four months later Lt.
Collett was relieved to the command of the Ferry Pilot Landing Field at
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Following
the Armistice, William was made officer-in-charge of field inspection, First
Aviation Acceptance Park at Orly near Paris.
Here he was offered the command of the Aeroplane Courier Service
between Germany and the Peace Conference, but he declined as he wished to
return to America. After the war he
returned to Nortonville, Kansas in the early spring of 1919 where he renewed
his work at the First National Bank where he had been employed in 1916. It was later that same year that he married
Vera Frances Groff on 3rd September 1919 at Nortonville. Vera was born on 13th July
1890. It was during William’s time at
the bank in 1916 that he had first met Vera.
The five years following their wedding saw the
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It was at that
same time in their life when William swapped banking for insurance. That happened between 1921 and 1925 when
William Barrow Jr worked alongside his father William Barrow senior in the
field of life insurance. At the end of
that time William Jr and his wife and family moved to 7310 Wyoming Street in
Kansas City, Kansas and the following year the family moved again, this time
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Less than four
months after the attack on Pearl Harbour, William returned to active duty as a Captain
in the Air Corps on 3rd April 1942 and was assigned to Dow Field,
Bangor, Maine as Post Intelligence Officer and Public Relations Officer. He was second in command at Dow Field which
was the principal embarkation point for all B-17 Flying Fortresses going to
Europe. In October 1942 he was
promoted to Major and was sent to England and returned three year later in
1945. He was discharged as Lt. Col.
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William Barrow
Collett died from a heart attack at Evanston, Illinois on 17th May
1956 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery – Section 3 Grave
2206A. Vera survived her husband by
nearly thirty years when she died on 22nd October 1985 at
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. She was
buried with William at Arlington. |
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Born in 1921
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Born in 1923
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Catherine Ann Collett |
Born in 1924
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43Q100 |
William Mark Collett was the only son and eldest child of William Henry
Collett and Emily King. He was born in
the British Oak Inn at 36 Byrkley Street in Burton-on-Trent, where his father
was the landlord, on 4th August 1900, where he was also baptised
on 3rd September 1900. On
the day of the census the following year, William M Collett was seven months
old. His father died in 1910 and in
the following year the three members of his family were living at 35 Derby
Street in Burton-on-Trent, when William Mark Collett was ten years of age,
his widowed mother Emily was 34, and his sister was Eveline was five. Just like his father, William also suffered
a premature death, with the death of William Mark Collett was recorded at
Burton register office (Ref. 6b 364) during the month of June 1927, at the
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43Q101 |
Eveline Martha Margaret Collett was born in 1905 at 36 Byrkley Street
in Burton-on-Trent, The British Oak Inn managed by her father William Henry
Collett and Emily King. Her birth was
recorded at Burton register office (Ref. 6b 117) during the last three months
of the year. During the next nine
years her father appears to have given up being the landlord of The British
Oak and in 1910 the family of four was residing at 35 Derby Street in Burton
where he died, when Eveline was only four years old. And it was at that same address that she
was living with her widowed and older brother William (above) in 1911
at the age of five years. The later marriage of Eveline Martha Margaret
Collett and Reginald H Payne was recorded at Burton-on-Trent register office
(Ref. 6b 24) during the third quarter of 1927. |
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43Q107 |
Robert John W Collett was born at Burton-on-Trent on 22nd
July 1908 where his birth was recorded (Ref. 6b 443) during the third quarter
of the year. He was 61 when he died in
1970, his death recorded at Lichfield register office (Ref. 9b 759) during
the second quarter of that year. |
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43Q107 |
John Edwin William
Collett was born at
Burton-on-Trent during 1904, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 6b 456)
during the third quarter of the year, the second child of John Barrow Collett
and Clara Agnes Jones. His mother
died, either during the birth or shortly after, and was six years old at the
time of the Burton census of 1911 when he and his older sister Ivy were being
raised by their paternal grandparents William and Emma Collett at The Albion
Hotel in Burton-on-Trent. It was under
his full name of John Edwin William Collett that on 20th August
1932 when he married Edith Aileen Harvey at Winshill in Derbyshire. John, who was 28 years of age and confirmed
as the son of John Barrow Collett, and Edith had only one child, their
daughter Aileen. John and Edith were
residing at of 57 Reservoir Road in Burton-on-Trent when John Edwin William
Collett died there on 7th September 1951 at the age of 47. His death was recorded at Burton-on-Trent
register office (Ref. 9b 23), following which his Will was proved in London
on 12th November 1951, and named the executors of his estate of £2,422 9 Shillings and 5 Pence as his widow
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Born in 1935
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43Q110 |
Irene May Collett was born in Birmingham in 1915, where her birth was
recorded (Ref. 6d 372) during the first three months of that year, and when
her mother’s maiden-name was recorded at Tolliday instead of Tolladay, the
daughter of John Barrow Collett. It
was during the summer of 1940 that Irene M Collett married Edgar Peacock,
with whom she had two sons. Their
wedding was recorded at Birmingham register office (Ref. 6d 1603) during the
third quarter of 1940. The birth of
the first of their two sons was also recorded at Birmingham register, as
follows: Robert J Peacock during the third quarter of 1949 (Ref. 9c
522) who, with Sandra Smith (born in 1955), had four children Kelly (now
Kelly Plant), Joanne, Lee, and Gina.
Three years after Robert was born, the birth of John K Peacock
was recorded at Meriden register office (Ref. 9c 1170) at the start of
1953. His is married to Sue and they
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43Q111 |
Elizabeth
Ruth Collett was born
at Alum Rock/Alum Rock
Road in Glebe Farm, east of Birmingham, during 1897, from where her family moved to
Sheldon, north of Solihull, where her next sister was born. She was the eldest child of James Henry
Collett and Clara Luckman and, as Ruth E Collett, she was three years old and
living with her family at Lyndon End, off the Coventry Road, in Bickenhill, north-east of
Solihull in 1901. Shortly after
the census day that year the family settled in the Shirley area of Solihull
where Ruth Collett was 13 years old in
April 1911. It was towards the end of 1927 that the marriage
of Elizabeth R Collett and Albert V Cetti was recorded at Solihull register
office (Ref. 6d 1726), although no record of any children has been found. Ten years later, at the time of the death
of her mother in 1936, Elizabeth Ruth Cetti, her husband Albert Victor Cetti
a stockbroker’s clerk, and her younger brother Norman (below), were
named as executors of her father’s personal effects valued at just over
£1,143. |
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43Q112 |
Georgina Mary Collett was born at Sheldon, Birmingham in 1899, with her birth recorded at
Solihull register office (Ref. 6d 627) during the last three months of that
year. She was one year old in
the census of 1901, by which time she and her family were living at Lyndon
End, Coventry Road, Bickenhill,
near Solihull, having been born in Birmingham. Ten years later, the Solihull census in 1911
incorrectly stated that Georgina May Collett aged 11 and attending school, had been born at Lyndon End in
Bickenhill, an obvious mix-up with her younger sister (below). |
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43Q113 |
Dorothy Mabel Collett was born at Lyndon End, Coventry Road in Bickenhill, north-east of Solihull,
during March 1901 and had only just been born on the day of that year’s
census. Her birth was later recorded
at Solihull register office (Ref. 6d 623) during the second quarter of the
year. It was at Lyndon End that
she and her two older sisters Ruth and Georgina (above) were living
with their parents James and Clara Collett that census day. By 1911, 10-year-old Dorothy Mabel was
attending school in Solihull, where she was living with her family, when he place of birth was
confirmed as Lyndon End, Bickenhill.
She never married and suffered a premature death of the age of 34,
when her passing as Dorothy M Collett was recorded at Warwickshire register
office (Ref. 6d 491) during 1935. |
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43Q114 |
Gladys Clara Collett was born at Solihull on 15th August 1902, another daughter
of James and Clara Collett. Her birth was recorded there
during the second quarter of the year (Ref. 6d 660). After living in nearby Shirley, and them
Small Heath, the family returned to Solihull where they were recorded in the
1911 Census, when Gladys Clara was eight years of age, and at school. Just over fifteen years after that census day, the marriage of Gladys
Clara Collett and Charles Dear was recorded at the Warwickshire Meriden
register office (Ref. 6d 1420) during the third quarter of 1926. The later death of Gladys Clara Dear was
recorded at Warwickshire register office (Vol. 32 1643) in 1982, at the age
of 79. |
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The first of the couple’s three children was born a
year later, when the birth of Dorothy Dear was recorded at Huntingdon
register office (Ref. 3b 326) during the summer of 1927. The family of three then returned to the
West Midland, where the births of the next two children were recorded; Olive
Dear at Solihull register office (Ref. 6d 1125) during the first three
months of 1932, and Charles D Dear at Birmingham register (Ref. 6d
489) in the first quarter of 1939. In
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43Q115 |
Norman Noel Collett was born at Shirley in Solihull on 11th December 1903, with his birth recorded at
Solihull register office (Ref. 6d 682) during the first three months of 1904. At the time of the census of 1911 Norman
was seven years old and at school when he was living with his family in
Solihull. He was later employed as a
wood and metal pattern-maker in the process of model-making for metal
castings. During the summer of 1932,
the marriage of Norman Noel Collett and Lilian B Evans
was recorded at Solihull register office (Ref. 6d 137). Lilian was born on 24th November
1910, with whom Norman had three sons.
Norman was still a pattern maker in 1936 when he was named as one of
the three executors of his father estate.
In 2009 contact was made with Norman’s son David Luckman Collett
(Ref. 43rz) who does not wish to provide any details relating to his
family or those of his two brothers, the names of whom have been removed. Norman Noel Collett died on 12th
June 1996, the his death recorded at the Solihull North register office. |
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43Q116 |
Phyllis May Collett was born at Small Heath, Birmingham on 3rd August 1906
and was the sixth and last child born to James Henry Collett and Clara
Luckman. Her birth was recorded at Aston register office (Ref.
6d 292) during the first quarter of the year. By the time of the census in 1911, Phyllis
May was their only child not attending school, when she was five years of
age, and confirmed as having been born at Small Heath, in Birmingham. She never married and was still living within the Birmingham area when
she died during November 1989. The
death of Phyllis May Collett was recorded at Birmingham register office (Vol.
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43Q117 |
Cyril Frederick Collett was born at Sparkhill in Solihull on
30th April 1894 following the marriage of his parents Frederick
John Collett and Ada Marian Lea on 20th January 1894. However, it was during the third quarter of
1894 that the birth was recorded at Solihull register office (Ref. 6d 521),
perhaps nearer nine months after the couple was married. Sadly, during the summer of 1900 Cyril’s
mother filed for divorce on the grounds of his father’s adultery and cruelty,
which was granted by the High Court in London during the summer of the
following year. At the time of the
earlier census in 1901 Cyril F Collett was six years old when he was living
with his mother and two younger sisters (below) at the Solihull High
Street home of his maternal grandmother Mary Ann Lea. Having already lost his two younger brothers
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Thanks to Stewart Simpson in September 2024, where
we did not previously know where Cyril was in 1911, he has now provided the
information that he
was serving as a Boy 1st Class in the Royal Navy aboard the armed cruiser HMS
Berwick of the 4th Cruiser Squadron which was at anchor off Gibraltar. He does not seem to have been in the navy
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After that he
joined the British Army and was a private, Service No. 13375, with the 2nd
Battalion of Worcestershire Regiment, when he was residing at Palmers Green
in London at the start of the First World War. Tragically, he was one of the early
casualties of war when he was killed in action on the Flanders Fields during
the First Battle of Ypres on 31st October 1914. His military record confirms that he was
born in Birmingham, that he enlisted at Oxford, whose name appears on the
Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres. His
death, at the age of twenty, meant that not one of the five children of
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By way of explanation, Stewart
revealed that he is not a family member, but an amateur military historian
with a particular interest in some of the early battles of the Great War, one
of which is the action at Gheluvelt on the 31st October 1914. It was here, on that day, that Cyril was
killed in action during the famous charge of the Worcestershire Regiment at
Gheluvelt Chateau that was instrumental in throwing the Germans back and, in
all probability, prevented the Germans from taking Ypres and the Channel
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43Q118 |
Phyllis
Mary Georgina Collett was
born at Stechford near Yardley, to the east of Birmingham, either towards the
end of 1896 or early in 1897, when her birth was recorded at Solihull (Ref.
6d 202) during the first three months of 1897. By the time of the census in March 1901,
her mother had separated from her father, pending their decree absolute,
which was granted three months later.
On the day of the census Phyllis M G Collett was four years of age and
living with her mother and two surviving siblings in the High Street of
Solihull, the home of her grandmother.
It was nearly nine months later that the death of Phyllis Mary G
Collett was recorded at Solihull register office (Ref. 6d 73) during the
final month of 1901, when she was five years old. It was also at Solihull, where Phyllis Mary
Georgina Collett was buried on 26th December 1901. |
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Howard Collett
was born at Solihull in 1898 and was the third child of Frederick and Ada
Collett, whose birth was
recorded at Solihull register office (Ref. 6d 634) during the second quarter
of the year. It was also during that
same three-month period that the death of baby Howard Collett was recorded at
Solihull (Ref. 6d 316). |
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43Q120 |
Gordon Victor
Collett was born at
Solihull in 1899, another son of Frederick and Ada Collett. His birth was recorded at Solihull register office (Ref. 6d 635)
during the third quarter of the year. Having
already suffered the loss of his older brother in the previous year, the
family may have temporarily moved to Birmingham just after Gordon was born,
because it was at Birmingham register office that the death of infant Gordon
Victor Collett was recorded (Ref. 6d 316) during the summer of that same year. |
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Margery Martin Collett was born on 8th November 1900, with her birth
recorded at Solihull register office (Ref. 6d 297) during either the last
three months of the year. She was the fifth
and last child of Frederick John Collett and Ada Marian Lea, who was baptised
at Solihull on 3rd December 1900.
Four months before she was born her mother filed for divorce from her
father for reasons of his adultery and his cruelty. Having separated from her father, Margery
was only five months old on the day of the census in 1901, she and her mother
and her two older surviving siblings were living with Margery’s grandmother,
Mary A Lee aged 64, on the High Street in Solihull. Sadly, she died one year later, when the
death of Margery Martin Collett was recorded at Solihull register office
(Ref. 6d 270) during the second quarter of 1902, following which she was laid
to rest in Solihull on 16th April 1902, aged seventeen months. |
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43Q122 |
Mary Jane Collett was born at Ancoats in Manchester in
1883, the eldest child of Peter Collett, formerly known as Peter Shawcross,
and his wife Jane. In the 1891 Census
she was living with her parents in Ancoats where she was eight years of
age. Ten years later, at the age of
17, she was working as a cardboard box maker while living with her mother and
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43Q123 |
Peter Collett was born at Ancoats in Manchester in
1886 and was living there with his family in 1891 and again in 1901 when he
was four years old and 14 years of age respectively. On leaving school he took up work as a
machine moulder, this being a similar occupation to that of his father who
was a machine grinder. Out
the outbreak of the First World War, Peter enlisted with the King’s Liverpool
Regiment and became Private Collett 20137.
Tragically, he was killed in action with D Company of the 12th
Battalion on 25th September 1915 aged 28 and the sad news was
reported to his mother Jane Cadman, formerly Collett, at her home at 62
Junction Street in Ancoats. He was
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43Q124 |
Herbert Collett was born at Ancoats in Manchester on
14th November 1888, following which his birth was recorded at
Manchester register office (Ref. 8d 220) during the last three months of that
year. It was at Ancoats that he was
living with his family in 1891, when he was two, and ten years later when he
was 12 years old. His father died
during the first decade of the new century and his mother was subsequently
married for a second time. By the time
of the census in April 1911 Herbert Collett, aged 22 and from Manchester, was
living and working at Hawarden in Flintshire to the west of Chester. He was still residing in the Manchester
area where the death of Herbert Collett was recorded during December 1976 at
the age of 88 years. |
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Mary Elizabeth Collett was born at Salford in Lancashire on
29th March 1891, the first child born to Alfred Thomas Collett and
his wife Elizabeth Ann Barlow. She was
born at 2 Heaps Court in Salford where her parents were living one week
later, as recorded in the census of 1891.
Her absence from the family home on that day may indicate that she was
in hospital with some complication following the birth, while it was three
weeks after that census day when Mary Elizabeth Collett was baptised at St
Philip’s Church in Salford on 26th April 1891. However, it was later that same year that
the death of Mary Elizabeth Collett, who was under one year of age, was
recorded at Salford (Ref. 8d 56) during the last quarter of 1891. |
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Elizabeth Ann Collett was born at 4 Cobbett Street in
Salford on 19th January 1895, the second child of Alfred and
Elizabeth Collett. Elizabeth was six
years old in the census of 1901 when she and her family were residing at 15
Market Street in Salford. It was as
Elizabeth Ann that she was recorded in the Salford census of 1911 when she
was 16. It was also at 41 Brewery
Street in Salford that she was still living with her widowed mother in 1923
and from where she married John Kershaw at St Phillip’s Church, Salford, on
22nd December 1923. That
was also the same time and place that her sister Alice (below) married
Ernest Bebbington. John Kershaw was
also born in Salford during 1897, the son of James Owen Kershaw. Tragically, they were only married for
around eleven years when John died at Salford during 1934. |
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During
those eleven years together, Elizabeth presented John with three
children. Doreen Kershaw was
born in 1925, Joan Kershaw was born in 1927 and Edna Kershaw
was born in 1930. At the time of the
Second World War Elizabeth and her three daughters were living at a dwelling
in Shepherd Street in Salford which was hit by an incendiary bomb around 1941,
following which the family then moved to Tennyson Street in Salford. Elizabeth Ann Kershaw nee Collett had been a
widow for forty-five years when she died at Salford on 3rd August
1979. |
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Emily Collett was born at 15 Market Street in
Salford 1897 and was baptised at St Philip’s Church in Salford on 27th
June 1897. She was four years of age
in 1901 and was 14 in 1911 when she and her family were still living at 15
Market Street in Salford. She later
married Edward Turner at St Phillip’s Church in Salford on 20th
September 1919, with whom she had two children. On their wedding day, Edward’s and Emily’s
fathers were not in attendance, as the certificate described them as Alfred
Thomas Collett deceased, a brass polisher, George Turner deceased, a cabinet
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Also
on that day, Emily was 22 and a ticketer residing at 41 Brewery Street in
Salford, and Edward was 24 and a maker-up living at 10 Bath Street in
Salford. The second witness on their
wedding day was Elizabeth Collett, Emily’s mother. Edward Turner was born in Manchester during
1895 and he died in 1943. Emily Turner
nee Collett was living in Manchester when she died on 22nd April
1975. |
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Alice Collett was born at 15 Market Street in
Salford on 7th August 1899 and was baptised at St Philip’s Church
in Salford on 30th August 1899.
She was just one year old in the census of 1901 and was 11 years of
age in 1911 when she was still living at 15 Market Street with her
family. On 22nd December
1923 at St Philip’s Church in Salford, in a joint wedding ceremony with her
eldest surviving sister Elizabeth (above), Alice married Ernest
Bebbington. He was born at Salford on
7th September 1899 and together they had two sons Ernest and Eric
before his untimely death in Salford on 25th January 1935. Alice Bebbington nee Collett was still
residing in Salford when she passed away on 16th May 1973. |
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43Q131
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Sarah Ellen Collett was born at 2 River Place in Salford
during the last three months of 1902, with her birth recorded there (Ref. 8d
147). It was on 3rd
December 1902 that she was baptised at St Philip’s Church in Salford. Tragically, it was two years later, during
the last quarter of 1904, that the death of Sarah Ellen Collett was recorded
at Salford (Ref. 8d 119), the second of the eight children of Alfred Thomas
Collett and Elizabeth Ann Barlow. |
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43Q132
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James Collett was born at 3 Arlington Court in
Salford on 2nd March 1905 and was listed as being six years of age
in the Salford census of 1911 when he and his family were residing at 15
Market Street in Salford. It was
during the second quarter of 1932, at Christ Church in Salford, when he
married Emily Moss who was born at Salford on 10th June 1908. Their wedding was recorded at Salford
register office (Ref. 8d 24). James
and Emily had one child and appear to have lived all their life in Salford,
where their daughter was born, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 8d 105)
early in 1943 when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Moss, and where
James Collett died on 6th September 1976. He was followed exactly twelve years later
by his wife Emily Collett nee Moss, who passed away on 6th
September 1988. |
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Brenda
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Born in 1943
at Salford |
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Elsie Collett was born at 38 Rigby Street in Salford
in 1907, her birth recorded there (Ref. 8d 329) during the last quarter of
that year. She was three years old in
the April census of 1911, when she was the youngest child then living at 15
Market Street in Salford, the home of Alfred Thomas Collett and Elizabeth Ann
Lowe, her younger brother (below) born less than two years after. When Elsie was thirty-five years of age,
she gave birth to a base-born son in 1942, the birth of Norman Collett
recorded at Manchester register office (Ref. 8d 11) during the fourth quarter
of the year. Norman is understood to
have been adopted by an Italian family when he was around seven months old,
following the premature death of his mother.
Tragically, Elsie Collett died on 4th August 1943 while
living in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, where she was buried at the Southern
Cemetery. The death of Elsie Collett,
aged 35, was recorded at Manchester register office (Ref. 8d 41) during the
third quarter of the year. |
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Norman
Collett |
Born in 1942
at Manchester |
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43Q134
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Alfred Collett was born on 30th January
1913 at 5 Corporation Street in Salford, Lancashire, his birth recorded at
Salford register office (Ref. 8d 26) during the first quarter of the year,
when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Barlow. He was the youngest child of Alfred Thomas
Collett and his wife Elizabeth Ann Barlow.
He later married Elizabeth Ford and their only child was born just
over nine months after they were married, their wedding recorded at Salford
register office (Ref. 8d 122) during the second quarter of 1935. It was also while Alfred and Elizabeth were
still residing in Salford that he died in 1980, although his death was
recorded at Bury register office (Ref. 38 116) during the first three months6of
that year, following which he was buried at the Agecroft Cemetery &
Crematorium in Salford in 1st February 1980, at the age of
67. His son Allan is married but he is
the last of this family line, having no children. All the latest information was kindly
provided by John Holland in spring of 2014, whose links to the Collett family
are through his mother and his grandmother. |
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Born in 1935
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Barry
Oliver Collett |
Born in 1944
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43R2 |
Wilkerson Collett,
who was known Wilk or Wilkie, was born at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird in Clay
County on 12th April 1898 and was the first-born child of Preston
Collett and Sarah Asher. As Wilkie
Collett he was 13 years of age in the Upper Red Bird census in 1910. Although the record of his wedding has not
been found, it was the census in 1930 that provided the ages that they were married,
when Wilkerson Collett was 20 and his bride Phrona (aka Frona/Franie) Asher
was 17, which places the event around 1918/1919. No census record for the childless couple
has been identified in 1920. However,
the census return for District 8 of Clay County in 1930 identified Wilk as 32
and a general farmer, Phronia as 28, Mollie was eight, Warden was five, Arlin
was 2, and Clarence was one. Staying
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In 1940 for the census at District 4
in Clay County Wilk Collett was 43 and a timber cutter who was living on Blue
Hole Creek Road in the same house as in 1935.
His wife Franie was 38, Walden was 15, Arlen was 13, Clarence was 11,
Lousie was eight, Felcie was six, and Paul was three years old. Missing that day was the couple’s eldest
child Mollie, whose wedding had already taken place thirty months earlier. Two years later, the US Draft Registration
for the Second World War for 16th February 1942 included Wilk
Collett of Ashers Fork who had been born at Clay County on the date above,
whose next-of-kin was Franie Collett, his wife, at a time in his life when he
was employed by the Bledsoe & Ruth Lumber Company in Manchester. |
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According to the next census in 1950,
Wilk Collett was 58 and an employer whose firm was the Black Rolling Private
Company, where his two eldest children living at home that day were employed
without pay. In addition to them, Wilk’s
younger brother James (below) had his own timber cutting business,
which may have been a joint venture with Wilk’s eldest marriage son
Walden. On that day four members of
the Collett were residing at Blue Hole Water, Red Bird, Wilk at number 77,
Walden at 78, James at 79, and Willie (below) at 80. It was a similar story in 1930 and 1940,
when Blue
Hole Creek Road was the home of three related Collett families in the former,
and a different three Collett families in the latter. In 1930 the three were living in adjacent
properties, and they were Wilkerson (Wilk) and his two younger brothers
Willie, and James (Jim) (below), and in 1940 it was Wilk at number 245,
while at 241 and 242 were his father Preston, and his brother Willie. Wilkerson Collett, again as Wilk, was
78 when he died on 5th August 1976 at Ashers Fork in Clay County
and was buried in Collett Cemetery in Bell County, Kentucky. The couple’s eldest child, Mollie Collett, was 18
when she married Lawrence Jackson who was 21, their wedding registered at
Clay County on 27th November 1937, when her parents were confirmed
as Wilk Collett and Frona Asher.
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Born in 1922 at Ashers Fork, Clay County |
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Walden Collett |
Born in 1925 at Ashers Fork, Clay County |
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Arlen Collett |
Born in 1927 at Clay County, Kentucky |
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Clarence Collett |
Born in 1929 at Clay County, Kentucky |
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Lois Collett |
Born in 1932 at Clay County, Kentucky |
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Felcie Collett |
Born in 1935 at Clay County, Kentucky |
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Paul Collett |
Born in 1937 at Clay County, Kentucky |
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Dora Collett |
Born in 1940 at Clay County, Kentucky |
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William Collett,
who was known as Willie, was born at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird in Clay County
on 15th April 1901, the second child of Preston and Sarah
Collett. It was on 30th
November 1924, at Erose in Knox County, when 22-year-old Willie Collett, the
son of Preston and Sarah Collett, married Lindima (aka Loedema) Ferrell, the
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Five years after their wedding day, the
census in 1930 recorded the couple and their two children at 242 Blue Hole
Creek Road in Red Bird as Willie Collett who 26 and a general farmer, Loedema
(as Louvenia) Collett who was 24, Ford Collett who was five, and Helen
who was two years of age. Living right
next door in 1930, at 241, was Willie’s father, mother, and four of their
younger children, and further along the road at 245, was Willie’s older
brother Wilk Collett (above), his wife, four children, and his
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Ten years after that day, it was the
same four members of the family who were again residing at Blue Hole in Clay
County in 1940, by which time William Collett was 35 and a farmer, Loedema
Collett was 30 and their two children were 14 and 12. On either side of the family in 1940 were
brothers Wilk (above) and Jim (below). It was sometime later, during the 1940s,
that the couple adopted two young children to complete their family, perhaps
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In the 1950 census for Blue
Hole Water, Red Bird, Leslie County, Willie Collett was 48 and a farmer when his wife
was Sallie Collett who was 39. By then
Sallie two children from her previous marriage were described as the
stepchild of Willie Collett. They were
Jack Collett aged 11, and Christine Collett who was 10, whose original
surname of Eldayea had been scored through.
Again, as Willie Collett, he died in Bell County
on 8th July 1974 at the age of 73, and was buried at the Smith
Family Cemetery in Ashers Fork, Clay County.
Loedema
Ferrell Collett, who was born in 1908 at Leslie County, Kentucky, died in
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Their daughter Helen’s husband’s surname was Rose,
who were married between the late 1940s and later 1950s, since by October
1959, an application was presented to the Social Program for Helen Collett
Rose in Chicago, whose mother was incorrectly recorded as Ludemia Firral
(Loedema Ferrell). The application
confirmed that Helen was born on 31st March 1929 at Ashers
Fork. Fourteen years later, in October
1973, a second Social Program Application was submitted, but of that occasion
for simply Helen Collett, who may have been divorced or widowed by then. The later death of Helen Collett Rose was
recorded on 6th January 2002. |
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Born in 1935 at Red Bird, Kentucky |
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Helen Collett |
Born in 1937 at Red Bird, Kentucky |
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Born in 1938 at Kentucky |
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Born in 1940 at Kentucky |
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43R5 |
Nanna Collett
(aka Ella) was born at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird in 1904 and the later
marriage of Nanna Collett aged 22 and Thomas Slusher who was 45, was recorded
at Roark, Leslie County on 23rd May 1925, when the bride’s father
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Addie Collett
was born at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird in 1906 and was 18 when she and Sherman
Sizemore were married at Clay County on 13th November 1924. The record of their wedding confirmed that
Addie was the daughter of Preston Collett and Sarah Asher. Less than four months after that event, the
marriage of Addie Collett and William J Rutledge took place at Roark, Leslie
County on 5th March 1925 when, once again, she was recorded as the
daughter of Preston Collett.
Interestingly, on 1st March 1925, a plea was received by
the authorities from Mr & Mrs Preston Collett of Roark that said “Please
let W J Rutledge have a marriage licence for Addie Collett”. |
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43R8 |
Norma Collett
was born at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird in 1909, and it was as Norma Collett,
the daughter of Preston Collett and Sarah Asher that, at the age of 22, she
married Lewis Ferrell aged 24 the son of Will Ferrell and Nancy Gross, at
Erose in Knox County, Kentucky on 15th July 1930. |
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43R9 |
Anna Collett
was born at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird in 1911, another daughter of Preston
Collett and Sarah Asher. She was 22
years of age when Anna Collett married John Jackson on 3rd
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James Collett
was born in 1913 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird, another son of Preston and
Sarah Collett. Jim, as he was known,
appears to have been married as least twice in his life since Jim Collett
aged 25 (sic) was a farmer residing at Blue Hole Creek Road in Clay County in
1940, when his wife was Candida who was 23.
Living with the couple on the farm that they owned, was Jim’s widowed
mother Sarah Collett aged 65, who had with her, her younger son P L Collett (below)
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Two other Collett families were
renting the next two adjoining properties, the first of them being Jim’s old brother Willie Collett (above)
who was 35 and had living there with him his wife and their two Ford Collett
and Helen Collett. Next door to Willie
was the much larger family of older brother Wilk Collett (above) who
was 43, who had his wife and six children living with him. |
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Six years later, for the marriage of
33-year-old Jim Collett and (2) Mary Farrell at Manchester in Clay County on
11th May 1946, the bride was recorded as the daughter of Willie
Farrell and Nancy Simpson, when the
groom’s parents were confirmed as Preston Collett, deceased, and Sarah Asher. Four years after their wedding day James
and Mary Collett were 37 years of age, when James was the owner of a company
involved in the cutting of timber, perhaps even in partnership with his
nephew Walden Collett, 24, the eldest son of Wilkerson (Wilk) Collett, james’
eldest brother. Also, by that time
Mary had given birth to two children; Jaunita Collett who was eight, and
Preston Collett who was seven years old.
Living with the family in 1950, was Sarah Collett, aged 72, James’
widowed mother. |
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43R11 |
P L Collett, who is likely to be Pleasant
Lee Collett, was
born at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird on 6th July 1913 and died on 13th
October 1987 at Arjay in Bell County from where he made a Social Program
Application on 2st October 1975. On
each of those occasions he was confirmed as a son of Preston Collett and
Sarah Asher. |
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43R12 |
Pearl Collett
was born at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird on 1st April 1918 and was 59
when she died at Manchester in Clay County on 6th September
1977. It was as Pearl Collett Smith
that she died when her death record confirmed she was the daughter of Preston
Collett and Sarah Asher, had been born on the date above, but at Ashers Fork
a couple of miles to the west of Roark. |
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43R14 |
Malvaria Collett,
who was known as Malvie, was born at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird on 10th
August 1922. Her older brother James
(Jim) was married twice, with his second wife being a member of the Farrell
family, so when Malvaria became a married woman, she made another connection
with the same family. It was as Malvie
Farrell nee Collett that she died at Martin in Weakley County, Tennessee on 3rd
November 1999, when her parents were confirmed as Preston Collett and Sarah
Asher. The record of her passing, at
the age of 77, gave her place of birth as Roark in Clay County. |
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43R15 |
Myrtle Collett
was born at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird in Clay County on 20th May
1924. She was the last child born to
Preston Collett and Sarah Asher.
Tragically, only seven months later, the death of Myrtle Collett was
recorded at Clay County after she died at Roark on 8th October
1925. The informant of her passing was
the couple’s very recent son-in-law Thomas Slusher of Roark, the husband of
Nanna Collett. It is interesting that
the record of her infant death stated that her name had been changed from
Dora. However, it is worth pointing
out that no birth of Dora Collett, daughter of Preston and Sarah Collett
exists. |
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43R17
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Fred Collett was born at Asher in Leslie County,
Kentucky on 1st June 1917 and was the eldest child of Arthur
Collett and Frances Morgan, who are known to have had at least seven children, although only four
of the seven have so far been identified. During his life he was married to (1)
Nora Brock, (2) Polly Joyce Morgan, and (3) Etta Mae Cress and he died on 22nd
June 2010. |
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43R18
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Emanuel Collett was born at Asher in Leslie County on
31st December 1918, a son of Arthur and Frances Collett. The US Draft Registration on 16th October 1940 confirmed
he was still living with his mother in Asher, Leslie County, his next-of-kin
Mrs Frances Brock, when he was 21 and having no job of work. His father had died when Emanuel was eight
years old, after which his widowed mother had married William Brock. On the 8th April 1941 at Fort
Thomas, Newport County, Kentucky, he was an enlisted man having the rank of
private, his military record confirming he had attended grammar school and
having been a farm hand working on a general farm, and that he was single
without dependents. The Leslie County census in 1950
identified Emanuel Collett as being 31 years of age and married to Edna, with
whom he already had three children by then.
He was a farmer, when the couple’s three children were Edmond Collett
who was three years old, Alfred Collett who was two, and Dexter Collett who
had been born during July 1949, and was nine months old.
He was a veteran of the Second World War and died as Asher on 10th
September 1979 at the
age of 60, and was buried in Pleasant Collett Family Cemetery. |
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43S14
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Edmond Collett |
Born in 1947 at Asher, Leslie County |
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43S15
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Alfred Collett |
Born in 1948 at Asher, Leslie County |
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43S16
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Dexter Collett |
Born in 1949 at Asher, Leslie County |
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43R19 |
Corbett Collett
was another of the seven children of Arthur and Frances Morgan (known as
Francy) who was born Asher, Leslie County, on 16th March 1920, and
was six years old when his father died.
All records found for him so far having used the spelling of his
christian name as Corbit. By the time
he was 21 according to the WW2 Draft Registration Form he was still living at
Asher, although by that time, his next-of-kin was recorded as Francy Brock of
Asher, indicating that his widowed mother had remarried. The draft form confirmed his date of birth
as reported above, and also stated that he was missing two fingers of his
right hand. |
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One year after the end of the Second World War the marriage
of Corbett Collett, aged 25, and Oprah Muncy, aged 21, took place at Harlan,
Kentucky on 9th March 1946.
Corbett was confirmed as the son of Arthur Collett and Francy Morgan,
and Oprah as the daughter of R E Muncy and Nancy Griffith. By the day of the Leslie census of 1950,
Oprah had given birth to two daughters, Shari-Lynn Collett who was three, and
Joan who had been born during August the previous year, so was around eight
months old. Their father, Corbit
Collett, was 29 and had a farm, while his wife was incorrectly recorded as
Orpha Collett aged 22. In 1950
Corbett’s home was No. 43, when their immediate next-door neighbour was
William Brock, a farmer aged 53, whose wife was Frances (Francy) Brock aged
52 and the former husband and widow of Arthur Collett, Corbett’s parents. |
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It was at Asher that Corbett Collett died on 16th
April 1998 at the age of 78, with an alternative source claiming the same
date, but with his death recorded at Perry County in Kentucky, some miles to
the east of Asher. The informant of
his death perhaps did not know his date of birth, as it was recorded as 15th
November 1920. Another government
document reports that Corbett Collett (his son) was residing at Mozelle in
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Many other,
so far, unidentified members of the Collett were living close by the family
of Corbett Collett in 1950, at No. 43, and they were as follows: at No. 40 -
farmer Emanuel Collett (Ref. 43R18) with his wife and their three children; at No. 41 – Clarence
Collett 24, wife Nettie 19, daughter Janice Collett three, and sons Bobby
Collett one year old, and Clifford Collett who was three months old and born
in January 1950; Please note, this family
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at No. 42 –
farmer William Brock 53, wife Francy aged 52, the former Francy Collett nee
Morgan (Ref. 43Q20), Corbett’s widowed and remarried mother, the mother of
Emanuel (Ref. 43R18); at No. 50 – married
teacher Earl Collett (Ref. 43S16), the son of Elmer (below), and at No. 53 –
farmer Elmer Collett (Ref. 43R39) and his large family |
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43S17
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Shari-Lynn Collett |
Born in 1947 at Leslie County |
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43S18
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Joan Collett |
Born in 1950 at Leslie County |
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43S19
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Corbett Collett junior |
Born after 1950 |
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43R20
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Troy Collett was born at Asher in Leslie County on
1st April 1926, the seventh son of Arthur and Frances
Collett. As a result of the death of
his father when Troy was less than four months old and his mother’s
subsequent marriage to Willie Brock, Troy was raised by his mother and
stepfather until he was 15 years of age.
At that time in his life Troy was not honest about his actual age and
joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and worked on Mammoth Cave. He was still in his teenage years when he
married (1) Ruth Muncy and although that the
marriage produced a son Ross Collette who was born in 1944, soon after Troy
abandoned his wife and their son, when he took a second wife after arriving
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It
was there that he married (2) Opsie H Couch who was also born at Leslie
County. Once married the couple moved
back to Leslie County where their seven children were born, although only the
three listed below are known at this time.
Troy’s occupation at that time in his life was that of a
coalminer. Troy’s son Corbett was
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In
1964 Troy was crushed in the coal mine, resulting in a broken back and leg,
plus his left lung was punctured by one of his ribs. His fighting spirit helped him to recover
and even to regain his ability to walk using crutches despite being informed
that he would never walk again. He was
however, paralysed from the waist down and four years later the family moved
to London in Laurel County, Kentucky in 1968, where Troy lived until he
passed away on 19th February 2003.
Two years earlier in 2001, Troy Collett was residing at 2091 Somerset
Road in London, Kentucky. According to
one internet source he was related to Benjamin Collett who is most likely his
grandson Benjamin Wesley Collette, the son of Troy’s son Denver Collette, who
has been researching the family tree. |
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43S20
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Ross Collette |
Born in 1944
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43S21
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Corbett Leonard Collette |
Born in 1946
at Leslie County |
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43S22
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Mary Helen
Collette |
Born in 1948
at Leslie County |
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43S23
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Nancy Sue
Collette |
Born in 1950
at Leslie County |
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43S24
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Betty Collette |
Born in 1952
at Leslie County |
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43S25
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Dwayne
Collette |
Born in 1954
at Leslie County |
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43S26
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Denver Collette |
Born in 1956
at Leslie County |
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43S27
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Glenda Carol
Collette |
Born in 1959
at Leslie County |
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43R35
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Burchell Collett was born at Hayden, Bad Creek in
Leslie County during 1906 and as Birchell Collette was four years old in the
census of 1910 when living with his parents George and Elizabeth
Collett. He later married Mollie Asher
and their son was born at Harlan (to the south of Hyden) in Kentucky during
May 1929, all three of them living at Bad Creek in Lesley County in
1930. The census conducted on 3rd
April listed the family as: Burchell Collett, a farmer of 23, who was married
at 21 and was renting the family home at 5$ a month; his wife Mollie Collett
was 31 and first married at the age of 17, Burchell being her second husband;
and their son Junior Collett who was only eleven months old. Living six properties from that Collett
family was the family of farmer Lillie Bowling and his wife and their son Ed,
who employed 47 years-old widow Rachel Collett as a domestic servant, who had
first been married at the age of 21. |
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The
death of Burchell Collett took place at Covington in Kenton County, Kentucky
on 8th February 1959. His
death record confirmed that he was 53 years old and had been a welder, who
was born at Hyden and the son of George W Collett and Elizabeth Chappel. His wife Mollie Collett had already passed
away fifteen years earlier during 1944.
Whilst Burchell is an unusual christian name, it may
not be a coincidence that there were two other Burchell Colletts born in
Kentucky around the same time, thus raising the question that there was very
likely a common link somewhere. The
first of them, a cousin two steps removed, is included below, while the brief
details for the other ones are included in Appendix Three at the end of this
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43S28
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Junior
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Born in May
1929 at Harlan, Kentucky |
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43R36
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Reuben Collett was born at Bad Creek in Leslie County
during 1909, the son of George William Collett and his first wife Elizabeth
Chappel. He remained living with his
family at Bowen Creek Road through 1910, 1920 and 1930 when he was thirteen
months, nine years, and 23 years respectively. It was around 1933 when he married Mary who
was born around 1913. The Bad Creek
census of 1940 identified Reuben, aged 31 and a labourer with W P A, living
next to his father on Bowen Creek Road who, by then, had taken a second wife
following the death of Reuben’s mother a few years earlier. Mary Collett was 27 and by then she had
given Reuben four children. They were
Sallie Collett who was six, Martha Collett who was five, Walter Collett who
was three and Ruth Collett who was one year old. |
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43S29
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Sally Collett |
Born in 1934
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43S30
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Martha
Collett |
Born in 1935
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S31
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Walter
Collett |
Born in 1937
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S32
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Ruth Collett |
Born in 1939
at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R39 |
Elmer Collett
was born at Bad Creek, Leslie County on 24th July 1905 where he was still
living with his family in 1920 aged 14 when he was working with his father
Elias Collett on the family’s farm. He was the first-born of the
three known children of Elias and Carla Howard. Eight years later he married Delora and
they had a sizeable family by 1950.
Their first census together in 1930 recorded the young family at 73
Bowens Creek Road in Bad Creek where Elmer Collett was a farmer renting a property
at the age of 24. Delora Collett was
only 16 and married two years earlier at 14.
The couple’s first two children were Earl and Elias who were two years
old and three months old respectively. Living at 74 Bowens Creek Road was Elmer’s
mother Carla with her father-in-law John W Collett, while at 75 Bowens creek
Road was Elmer’s younger brother John C Collett with his wife and their first
child. |
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Ten years later, the enlarged family was residing as
129 Loer Bad Creek, where farmer Elmer Collett was 34. Delora, as Lora, was 26, who was looking
after her six children who were Earl aged 10, Pauline who was nine, Edith who
was seven, Kenneth who was five, Susie who was three, and Fern Marie who was
ten months old. By the time of the
Leslie census in 1950 the couple’s eldest son was married and employed as an
elementary school teacher, when Earl Collett was 21 and his wife Rose Nell
Collett was 15, who we recorded at No. 50. |
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A few properties away, at No. 53, was Earl’s family,
headed by Elmer Collett who was 41 (sic) was still farming. His wife Delora was 36, and their nine
children that day were Edith Collett 17, Kenneth Collett 15, Susie Collett
13, Fern Marie Collett 10, John Collett eight, Marcus Collett six, Joyce
Collett three, Paul Collett one, and unnamed baby daughter Collett – just
born. |
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43S33
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Earl H Collett |
Born in 1928 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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Elias Collett |
Born in 1930 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S35
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Edith Collett |
Born in 1933 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S36
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Kenneth Collett |
Born in 1935 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S37
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Susie Collett |
Born in 1937 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S38
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Fern Marie Collett |
Born in 1939 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S39
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John Collett |
Born in 1942 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S40
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Marcus Collett |
Born in 1944 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S41
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Joyce Collett |
Born in 1947 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S42
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Paul Collett |
Born in 1949 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S43
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Born in 1950 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R40 |
John L Collett
($) was born at Bad Creek, Leslie County, on 27th November 1907, the second of
the three children of Elias and Carla Collett and Carla Howard. The later census return
in 1920 recorded his name as John C Collett which may simply have been an
error from poor handwriting, or a transcription mistake. Certainly, his great-grandson Derrick
Collett confirmed in 2024 that he was known in the family as John L Collett. |
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He was certainly John C Collett in the Bad Creek
census of 1920 when living at 75 Bowens Creek Road, with his mother living at
No. 74 and his older brother Elmer (above) at No. 73. John C Collett was 22 and had married when
he was 18, a farmer, whose wife was Phrona who was 19 and to whom he was
married when she 16 years of age. On
that day their son Sheldon Collett was twenty-six months old. At 76 Bowens Creek Road was Sam Collett
another farmer who was 35 and married with five children, who was Samuel
Collett (Ref. 43Q77). |
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In the US Census in 1940 John and his
family were residing at Bad Creek Precinct, Leslie County, where John L
Collett was 32 and a salesman living on Bowens Creek Road in the property
next to his parents’ farm. With him
was his wife Phronia Collett, formerly Morgan, who was 28, together with
their six children. They were Sheldon
Collett who was 12, Mary Collett who was 10, Vernon Collett who was eight,
Elias Collett who was six, Eugene Collett who was four years of age, and daughter
Gladys Collett who was one year old.
Two years later the Medical
Board registrar in 1942 was named as John L Collett who signed his father’s
completed US Army draft record on 27th April 1942, and six
years after that it was John L Collett who was informant of his father’s
death in 1948. |
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By 1950, John was 42 and a stone mill worker employed
in manufacturing stone, Phronia was 39, son Vernon was working with his
father at 18, as was son Elias aged 15, Eugene was 13, Gladys was 11, when
the two new arrivals in the family were Helen Collett who was four, and
Laretta Collett who was two. Living
right next door was their married son Sheldon with his wife Vina. When John L Collett died on 23rd
December 1992 he was living at Essie in Leslie County, and was buried at the
Bowens Creek Cemetery, at the age of 85.
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43S44
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Ernest Sheldon Collett
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Born in 1927 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S45
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1930 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S46
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Vernon Collett |
Born in 1932 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S47
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Elias Collett |
Born in 1934 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S48
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Eugene Collett |
Born in 1936 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S49
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Gladys Collett |
Born in 1939 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S50
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Helen Collett |
Born in 1946 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43S51
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Laretta Collett |
Born in 1948 at Bad Creek, Leslie County |
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43R41 |
Della Collett
was born at Bad Creek in Leslie County on 9th September 1911 the third and
last child of Elias Collett and Carla Howard.
A Social Program
Application dated on 26th February 1973 at Hoskinston in Leslie
County named Della’s parents as Elias Collett and Carty Howard. However, twenty-three years later the death
of Della Morgan nee Collett was recorded on 12th April 1996. |
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43R52 |
Maggie Collett
was born at Bloomington Precinct No. 5 in Magoffin County, Kentucky on 6th
May 1904 and was five years of age in the census of 1910, the eldest of the
five children of James Farmer Asher Collett and Rosa Lee May/Calloy. Just prior to the census in 1920 the marriage
of Maggie Collett, daughter of J F Collett and Rosa Lee May and aged 16, and
Alfie Caldwell aged 21 and the son of J Caldwell and Nancy Brock was
conducted at Magoffin County on 2nd April 1920. Alfie Caldwell was very likely related to
Alice Elizabeth Caldwell the wife of William Collett, Maggie’s grandfather. |
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Around start of the Second World War,
Maggie gave birth to a daughter and may have already been made a widow just
prior to the birth following the death of Alfie. Maggie therefore returned to live with her
parents at 167 Long Branch in Salyersville, within the Magisterial District
No. 1 of Magoffin County, where she was recorded in the census of 1940. Curiously, it was as Maggie Brock, rather
than Maggie Caldwell, that she 35 and a widow from Knox County in Kentucky,
who had with her, her one-year-old daughter Jean Fay Brock After a second marriage, it was on 21st
February 1966 that, as Maggie L Heilman she made a Social Program Claim when
she was confirmed as the daughter of Farmer J Collett and Rosa Lee May, born
on the date provided above.
Twenty-five years after that, Maggie L Heilman died on 13th
October 1991. |
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43R54 |
Herman Collett
was born at Bloomington Precinct No. 5 on 3rd July 1910, the third
child of James and Rosa Lee Collett, who was one year old in the 1910 and was
ten years of age in 1920, both time at Bloomingdale. It was on 29th June 1929 that
the wedding of Herman Collett and Maggie Alice Patton was recorded at
Magoffin County when Herman was 20 and a farmer, the son of J F Collett and
Rosa Lee Collett, and Maggie was 19 and the daughter of W M Patton and
Cynthia Patton. One of the witnesses
was Herman’s cousin Willie Collett (Ref. 43R3). Once married the couple settled at Gifford
Precinct in Magoffin County, where they were recorded in the census of 1930
as owners of their own home, for which they had paid $600. |
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That year, before starting their
family, it was just Herman Collett who was 20 and a general farmer, and wife
Maggie Collett who was 19 and preparing for the birth of their first
child. Also at that time, living immediately
adjacent to their Collett farm was a much larger farming Collett family, that
of Frank aged 48 and Rosa Collett.
Their seven children were Walter 18 and helping on the farm, Mary
aged 16, Albert aged 14, Billie aged 12, Lennard who was
ten, Sam who was eight, and Ella Collett who was six. Where that family links into this
family line has still to be discovered if, in fact it does. Over the next decade Maggie gave
birth to two daughters and then two sons, with the six members living at 169
Long Branch within the Magisterial District No. 1 of Magoffin County in
1940. Herman Collett was 29 and a road
project labourer with the W P A, his wife Maggie Collett was 23, and their
four children were Genevia (sic) Collett aged nine, Reva Collett aged six, J
W Collett was three, and Layne Collett was one year old. Living either side of the Collett family
were the families of Willie and Cellie Collett at 168 – not yet identified,
and Willie M Collett (Ref. 43Q75) at 170, a younger brother of Herman’s
father James Farmer (Asher) Collett who was living at 167 Long Branch. |
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The US Draft Registration for the Second World War
placed Herman Collett, born at Magoffin, still living at Salyersville on 16th
October 1940, whose date of birth was as stated above, an employee of the W P
A, and the husband of Maggie Collett.
Just after that, Herman and Maggie moved to Indiana, most likely
accompanied by their eldest daughter who was later married there, and where
Herman died on 1st December 1943, his death recorded at Clark
County. |
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43S52
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Geneva Collett |
Born in 1931 at Gifford, Magoffin County |
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43S53
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Reva Collett |
Born in 1934 at Gifford, Magoffin County |
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43S54
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J W Collett |
Born in 1937 at Long Branch, Magoffin County |
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43S55
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Layne Collett |
Born in 1939 at Long Branch, Magoffin County |
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43R55 |
Bee Collett
was born at Bloomington Precinct No. 5 in 1914 another son of James Farmer
and Rosa Lee Collett. Bee was six
years old in the Bloomington census of 1920, and it was on 8th
March 1930, when he was 16, that he married Estill Adous who was 17 and the
daughter of Abbott Adous and Molina Cook.
Bee was described as a farmer and the son of J F Collett and Rosa Lee
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Allen Collett
was born at Bloomington Precinct No. 5 in 1918 and was two years and one
month old in the census of 1920, the fifth children of James Farmer Asher
Collett and his first wife Rosa Lee May. It was just after the Second World War, on
11th March 1946 at Garrett in Meade County, that 28-year-old
bachelor and farmer Allen Collett married war-widow Cindy Whitt who was
26. The groom was confirmed as the son
of Farmer Collett and Rosa Lee May Collett, when the bride was the daughter
of John Morgan Whitt and Nancy Scott Whitt.
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Millard Collett
was born at Gifford, Magoffin, Kentucky on 22nd November 1925 and
was 15 years old in the census of 1940 when he was still living with his
family at 167 Long Branch, Salyersville, within the Magisterial District No.
1 of Magoffin County. The following
year a Social Program Application was made out in the name of Millard Collett
by his parents J P Collett and Rosa L May.
Towards the end of the next year Millard Collett was 17 years old when
he married Beatrice James 16 at Inez, Martin County near the state boundary with
West Virginia, on 7th November 1942. That day, the record of their wedding day
confirmed that Millard was a son of J F Collett and his wife Rosella aka
Rosalie, Rosa Lee. Beatrice was the
daughter of Jasper W James and Addie James.
When he died on 6th September 2001 he was recorded as Sam M
Collett, son of J P Collett and Rosa L May who had been born at Gifford in
Magoffin County. Prior to that he had
been living at Phoenix, Arizona, and was known as Sam Mil Collett and simply
Sam Collett. |
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BURCHELL COLLETT was born at Clay County in Kentucky
on 5th March 1915, the fifth known child of John Collett and Dora
Smith. When Burchell was four years
old he was living with his family which was then living at Manchester in Clay
County. After a further ten years he
was 14 years of age and was still at the family home which was in District 8
in Clay County. Within the next few
years Burchell Collett married Della and by 1940 Della had presented him with
their first two children. The census
that year recorded the family of four living at the home of Burchell’s
parents in Magisterial District 2 in Bell County, Kentucky. Burchell Collett was 24, his wife Della was
20, and their two children were Lee Collett who was five and Leonard P
Collett who was two years of age. It
is possible that further children may have been added to the family after
1940. However, it was during June 1980
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seems likely that one of the later children of Burchell Collett was Lindy Collett (#43s58) whose death
was recorded at Pineville in Bell County, Kentucky, in 1943 when her parents
were named Burchell Collett and Ella Slusher, who may also have been known as
Della. |
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Born in 1935
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Born in 1937
at Clay County, Kentucky |
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Billie Collett
was the only known son of Gilbert Collett and his second wife Ellen Collett,
who was born at Harlan County during 1914. Six years after his father died, the marriage
of Billie Collett and Margaret Honey was conducted at White Star and recorded
at Harlan County on 13th February 1932 when Billie was said to be
21 (sic) and Margaret was 18. Tragically, he was killed while working as a coalminer
when the area in which he was working underground collapse. That happened on 8th November
1950 at Closplint in Harlan County when his age was more correctly recorded
as 38, after which he was buried at Jenson Cemetery on 11th
November. The death certificate
confirmed that the cause of death was a crushed skull due to a slate fall in
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Myrtle Collett
was the second child of Willie M Collett and Sina Caudill but ended up as the
couple’s eldest daughter when her old sister suffered a childhood death. She was born at Gifford, Magoffin County on
26th November 1917 and was still living with her parents in 1940
at Magisterial District No. 1 in Magoffin County, where she was a
seamstress. Eight years later, as Mrs
Myrtle Blevins, she and her husband George Blevins, a farmer, were the
witnesses at the wedding of her only brother Ollen Collett (below). Their son George Lawson Blevins was
born at Salyersville, Magoffin County on 10th November 1950 when
his birth was registered at Magoffin County.
The later death of Myrtle Blevins was recorded at Montgomery County in
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43R76 |
Ollen Collett
was born at Gifford, Magoffin County on 11th December 1923 and was
recorded in various census returns with different names being with O. He was the only son in the family of ten
children of Willie Collett and Sina Caudill.
He was 18 years old when he completed the US Draft Registration Form
at Magoffin on 30th June 1942 and was inducted for military
service on 21st May 1943 at Huntington in West Virginia, for the
duration of the war, plus six months.
Her entered with the rank of private, and his military record
confirmed that he had received a grammar school education, was a farm hand on
his father general farm. What happened
after the war is a little curious. First, on 16th
September 1946, the marriage of bachelor Ollen Collett and spinster Marie
Collins took place at Paintsville in Johnson County, when one of the
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Then two years later, when Ollen
Collett was nearly 25, he married Marie Collins, who was 21, at Elsie in
Magoffin County on 5th November 1948, and confirmed as the son of
Willie and Sina Collett nee Caudill Collett.
Elsie was the daughter of Beecher Collins and Josie Stacy. Despite their young ages, both were stated
to be divorced, making each of them entering their second marriage. The witnesses were the former Myrtle
Collett, Ollen’s sister, Myrtle Blevins, and her husband Gorgie Blevins. |
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Just after that strange recording, and within the
two weeks after his twenty-eighth birthday, the marriage of Ollen Collett,
son of Willie Collett and Sina Caudill Collett, and Etta Fay Caudill,
daughter of Bill Caudill and Lisa Williams Caudill, was conducted at
Salyersville, Magoffin County on 23rd December 1951. Ollen was recorded in error as being only
27, while Etta was just 21, and once again, Ollen’s sister Myrtle Blevins was
one of the witnesses. |
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Ollen Collett was two weeks short of his sixty-third
birthday when he died on 29th November 1986 with his death recorded
at Fayette County in Kentucky, prior to which he had been living at
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Clara Collett
was another child of Willie and Sina Collett who was recorded in census
returns with different names; as Carrie aged three in 1930, and as Claire
aged 14 in 1940, placing her year of birth around 1926-1927. However, as Clara she was born at Gifford
on 6th April 1925, another daughter for Sina Caudill Collett, with
her birth registered Magoffin County five days later. It was at Salyersville that Clara Collett
married Earl Collins on 30th April 1945 in the presence of Rex
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Clara applied to the Social Program
on 1st November 1973 when she was residing in Salyersville and was
confirmed as the child of Willie Collett and Sina Caudill. After a further twenty-three years, Clara
Collins died at Lexington in Fayette County, Kentucky on 3rd
December 1996. |
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Elsie Mae Collett
was born at Gifford, Magoffin County on 9th March 1928, the
daughter of Sina Caudill, did not feature with her family in 1930, but was
eight years old and was living with her family at 170 Long Branch in
Salyersville for the census in 1940. When
Elsie Mae Collett married Rex Collins on 13th April 1945 at
Salyersville she was 18 and Rex was 20.
Whilst the bride was described as a daughter of Willie Collett and
Sina Caudill, the groom’s parents were interestingly recorded as Millard
Collins and Mattie Caudill. The
witnesses were Myrtle Collett, Elsie’s older sister (above) and Earl
Collins. The known son of Rex and
Elsie was Rex Collins who was born on 20th March 1947. Elsie Mae Collett Collins died at
Paintsville in Johnson County, Kentucky on 26th May 2001 when she
was 73, and was buried at Highland Memorial Park Cemetery in Staffordsville,
Johnson County. |
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Virginia Collett
was born on 30th May 1936 at Salyersville, Magoffin County,
another daughter of Willie and Sina Collett.
It was as Virginia Ward that she died on 10th August 2002,
while thirty years earlier she applied to the Social Program in August 1971
when she was residing in Salyersville and confirmed as the child of Willie
Collett and Sina Caudill. Also, as
Viriginia Collett Ward, the wife of Raymond Ward, she gave birth to two
daughters: Debra A Ward, on 6th August 1957, and Patricia
Lynn Ward, and two sons: Phillip R Ward on 14th
December 1960, and Willie Earl Ward on 23rd September 1966,
the births registered at Johnson County, Kentucky, the latter of whom died on
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Elizabeth Ann Collett, who is known as Ann, was born at San
Antonio in Texas on 22nd August 1935, the only child of William
Bruns Collett and Anna Ruth Strong.
She married Roger (Buddy) Kondoff on 20th April 1957 with
whom she had three children who were all born at San Antonio. They were Keith Brian Kondoff who was born
on 20th July 1958, Karen Elaine Kondoff who was born on 14th
October 1959 and Kevin Wayne Kondoff who was born on 16th October
1960. |
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William James
Collett, who is known as Bill, was born at Mississippi on 24th
November 1941. He was married,
although none resulted in the birth of any Collett children. In 2008 Bill
participated in the Collett DNA Project managed by Barry Collett of Iowa
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Beverly Sue Collett, who is known as Sue, was born at San
Antonio in Texas on 25th March 1943. She married (1) Buford Ray Flanagan on 9th
April 1963 with whom she had two children.
They were Laura Lynn Flanagan born on 9th February 1966,
who died on 7th November 2011, and Daniel Ray Flanagan who was
born on 24th June 1970. Sue and Buford were divorced in 1976. Buford was born at Marion County in Alabama
on 26th July 1941 and he died at Garza County in Texas in
1984. Sue married
(2) Jerry Donald Collier on 16th February 1984 and they were
divorced six years later in 1990, following which Sue resumed using the
surname Flanagan. This
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James Robert Collett, who was referred to as Bobby, was born
at McAllen in Hidalgo County, Rio Grande Valley in Texas on 27th
September 1947. He was a banker and,
in his leisure time, he created beautiful Faberge style eggs. One such egg
was gifted to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Museum where it is displayed to
this day. Bobby never married and he
sadly died at the age of just forty-three years and six months at Homestead
in Florida on 9th March 1991. This photograph of Bobby was taken
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Sandra Lea Collett was born at Hidalgo in Texas in the
Rio Grande Valley on 20th October 1948. Towards the end of the 1960s Sandra married
William Charles Peters with whom she had two sons. Today Sandra is employed as a mitigation
specialist working with defence lawyers on murder cases at Lubbock in Texas. |
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Bryan Scott Peters |
Born in 1969
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Jeffrey Lee Collett formerly Peters |
Born in 1970
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Sylvia Jean Collett was born at Bellaire in Texas on 17th
February 1957. Sylvia married Darrell
Wilson in 1986 and the marriage produced one child for the Sylvia and
Darrell. In May 1999 Sylvia married
Robert Kyle and today they live at Hockley County in Texas. Their son Taylor Ryan Wilson was born on 3rd
May 1987. |
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William Barrow Collett
III was born in
Atchison, Kansas on 7th August 1921 when his parents were living
at 319 T Street. He graduated from
Central High School in St Joseph Missouri and started college at Westminster
College where Winston Churchill made one of his famous war-time
speeches. He transferred to the US
Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland shortly before the US joined World War
II. He graduated in 1943 and married
Dorothy Alyce Butler, who was known as Stormy, at Annapolis in September 1943
just before he was assigned to sea duty on the US cruiser Nashville. Dorothy was
the daughter of retired US Navy Captain Willard/William Cornwallis Butler and
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is interesting to note that in 1944 a Japanese kamikaze pilot crashed his
plane into the cruiser Nashville with the loss of 138 lives. The long separation was too much for them
and they were divorced soon after William's return to the States. He then entered flight school and
became a naval pilot and was transferred to Ottumwa in Iowa where he met his
second wife Corrine Phillips who was born there in 1920. It was on 29th May 1948 that
William married (2) Corinne at West Orange, New Jersey and the couple
originally settled in Florida before moving to Washington in 1951, where
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William used
to fly with the navy, just at weekends, in order to retain his pilot’s
rating. It was during one of those
flights that he was tragically killed on 13th January 1952 at
Wayne City when the plane crashed into the frozen over Detroit River. He was buried at Arlington National
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His obituary
appeared in the Ottumwa newspaper and read as follows: Corrine Phillips’ Husband Dies in Navy
Plane Crash. Lt. William B Collett
III, U. S. Navy, was killed in a plane crash near Detroit on Sunday afternoon
when flying a navy Beechcraft patrol plane from Washington to Detroit. He was the son-in-law of Mr and Mrs Howard
Phillips of 1805 North Court Street.
His wife, the former Corinne Phillips, was at home with their baby
daughter in Washington, D. C. when she learned of the accident. Lieutenant Collett was a flying officer in
the navy but for the past year he has been stationed in Washington, D. C. in
intelligence duty. However, he
maintained his flight status by flying regularly. It was on one of these routine flights that
he was killed. Following
the death of her husband, Corrine was remarried first to Bob Long and then to
Dick Smith. |
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Groff Collett was born at Atchison on 8th
May 1923. In 1926 the family moved to
Detroit, Michigan where he attended Cooke School in Rosedale Park. In 1935 they moved to St. Joseph, Missouri. On 29th June 1946 Groff married
Lila Grace Wiggin who was born at Pittsburgh on 6th April
1923. This took place at Oak Park in
Cook City in Illinois. It
was in Ohio four years earlier in 1942 that Groff had first met Lila. He was attending Kenyon College in Gambier
in Ohio, while Lila was attending Dennison College in Granville, Ohio. They
had four children. This
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His college was interrupted by World War II
and after teaching for a short period he joined the Navy where he became an
Electronic Technician. It was when he
was discharged from the navy in June of 1946 that he and Lila were married,
following which they and then moved to Gambier, Ohio where Groff finish his
degree in mathematics at Kenyon College.
In 1947 they moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where Groff entered
graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Master’s degree in Business
and Engineering Administration in 1949.
They moved to Appleton, Wisconsin in 1949 where Groff joined an
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In 1954 Groff joined Consolidated Papers in
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin and became a Vice president in 1966. He retired in 1988 when he and Lila were
still living in Wisconsin Rapids and, in 2020 their married daughter Leslie
Moss moved her elderly parents to near where she and her family were living
in DePere, Wisconsin. It is thanks to
Groff’s generosity in kindly providing the details of his family that has
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Just after the
start of 2022, Groff’s daughter Leslie informed us of the sad news that he
had passed away on 28th December 2021. She also provided a copy of his obituary,
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“Groff Collett, 98, recent resident of De Pere, Wisconsin,
and long-time resident of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, passed away on
December 28, 2021. He was born on May
8, 1923, in Atchison, Kansas, to Vera Groff Collett and William Barrow
Collett Jr. Groff attended Central
High School, St Joseph, Missouri; Kenyon College and Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He was a member of the
Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. Groff
married Lila Grace Wiggin on June 29, 1946, in Oak Park, Illinois. Groff had a successful career in the paper
industry. In 1988, he retired from
Consolidated Papers, Inc, as a Vice President in charge of Paperboard
Products Division, #13 Board Machine, Stevens Point Specialty Papers Division
and Castle Rock Container Corporation.
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Groff
was extremely active in community affairs.
He served as the director on various boards including the American Red
Cross, the Wisconsin Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce, Rotary of Wisconsin
Rapids, the South Wood County Y.M.C.A., the Wood County Unit of the Wisconsin
Heart Association and the Riverview Hospital Association. He also served as Vice Chairperson of the
Jobs Task Force of the South Wood County Economic Development
Corporation. Groff was named the 1990
Citizen of the Year by the Wisconsin Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce. He worked extremely hard and was very
active in his leisure time. He was
intellectually curious and stayed abreast of and researched numerous topics
including current affairs, finance and family genealogy. He loved the outdoors and shared this love
with his wife and children. He also
enjoyed travelling in his motorhome and numerous sports including skiing,
golf, football, racquetball and camping. His quieter hobbies included playing
bridge and reading. |
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He
is survived by his wife, Lila Wiggin Collett, with whom he was married for 75
years and shared a wonderful life together.
Children: Tama Mobisson, Chrisanne (Jeffrey) Waldo, Kent Collett, and
Leslie (Stephen) Moss. Grandchildren:
Shelley (Grant) Boulanger, Geoffrey (Donna) Mobisson, Kathrine (Katura)
Mobisson-Brown, Laura (Imo) Mobisson-Etuk, Jidenna Mobisson, Kori (David)
Burland, Michael Waldo, Kristin (Ryan) McClintock, Elizabeth (Edward)
Chaisson, Jamie (Fletcher, Jr.) Stovall, Roberta (Matthew) Neuwirth, Jefferey
(Chrissy) Collett, Gregory (Laura) Collett, Alexander (Rebecca) Moss, Laura
Moss, Samuel Moss, and 22 Great Grandchildren. Siblings: sister, Catherine Buck,
sister-in-law, Corinne Smith, niece and nephew: Dana Dunne and Parker E.
Wiggin, III.” |
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Tama Louise Collett |
Born in 1948
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Chrisanne Collett |
Born in 1949
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Kent Groff Collett |
Born in 1952
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Born in 1961
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Catherine Ann Collett was born at Atchison on 15th
November 1924. She graduated from
Central High School in St Joseph in Missouri in 1942. Four years later Catherine and her family
moved to Chicago where she was a teacher at a nursery school in Oak
Park. A little later she was an
assistant teacher at the Girl’s Latin School of Chicago. After a spell at a school in
Elgin, Catherine returned to Boston where she had undertaken her earlier
training and she graduated from Boston University with a degree in Nursery
School Education in 1950. She then
returned to Chicago to live with her parents.
On 10th May 1952 Kate, as she was called by the family,
married Robert (Bob) Louis Buck in Chicago.
Bob was born on 1st October 1921 at Lakewood in Ohio. In 1965 the couple moved to Barrington in
Illinois where Kate still lives today and where Bob died on 31st
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Aileen Collett was born at Burton-on-Trent where the
birth was recorded (Ref. 6b 25) during the first quarter of 1935, when her
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Harvey.
She was the only child of John Edwin William Collett and Edith Aileen
Harvey. She was just twenty-years-of
age when her first marriage to (1) Geoffrey C Hawkins was recorded at
Burton-on-Trent register office (Ref. 9b 86) during the second quarter of
1955. No children have been identified
for that first marriage, while the later marriage of Aileen Hawkins and
Ronald G Thomson was recorded at the East Staffordshire register office
during February 1989. Aileen was
understood to have still been alive in 2013, but no details have been
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Brenda Collett
was born at Salford on 13th March 1943 and was the only child of
James Collett and Emily Moss. She
never married but had a very full life and died on 12th January
2024 in Salford. Her birth as recorded
at Salford register office (Ref. 8d 698) when her mother’s maiden-name was
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43R107 |
Allan Collett
was born at Salford on 25th November 1935, the only child of
Alfred Collett and Elizabeth Ford. His
birth was recorded at Salford register office (Ref. 8d 32) during the first
three months of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Ford. As Alan Collett, aged 24, he
married Moira Botham, the event recorded at Salford register office (Ref. 10f
132) during the first quarter of 1960.
The couple did not have any children, while after sixty-three years
together, it was also as Alan Collett that he died on 18th March
2023. |
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Walden Collett
was born at Ashers Fork, in Clay County on 12th April 1926, the
second child and eldest son of Wilkerson Collett and Phrona Asher, - Wilk &
Franie. In the census of 1930
he was five years of age when he and his family were living at 245 Blue Hole
Creek Road and was 15 years old in the census of 1940, again at Blue
Hole. He was referred to as Walden Collett of
Arjay in Bell County when an application was made in 1943 to the Social
Program when his mother was confirmed as Franie Asher. Two years after that, when he was 19, Walden
married Pauline Roark, aged 16, at Rook in Bell County on 15th
December 1945. The groom was confirmed
as the son of Franie Collett, when the bride was the daughter of Lawrence
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By the time of the next census in 1950 four members
of his Collett family were living in four adjoining properties, with Walden
and his family living immediately adjacent to his parents, home. It was appear that, while his father had
his own business and store, Walden and his uncle and next-door neighbour Jim
Collett had opened up a timber cutting company in which they were both
described as employers. Walden Collett
was 24, his wife Pauline was 19, by which time they had three children living
with them at 78 Blue Hole Waters in Red Bird.
They were Suther aged three, a son, but with F in the gender column,
Esther May who was one, and Walden James who had been born there in March
that year. The census was on 1st
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Just less than forty-six years after that census day, when Walden Collett
was 70, he passed away on 1st January 1996, with his death
recorded at Bell County, after which he was buried at the Smith Family
Cemetery in Ashers Fork, Clay County.
For both the registering of his passing, and his burial, he was
referred to as Walden Collett senior, indicating that he and Pauline had a
son with the same name – as confirmed above.
The son’s second forename appears to be in honour of his uncle and
‘business partner’ James Collett. |
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Born in 1946, at Red Bird, Kentucky |
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Esther May Collett |
Born in 1948, at Red Bird, Kentucky |
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Walden James Collett |
Born in March 1950, at Red Bird, Kentucky |
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Edmond Collett, whose date of birth is not known,
was the son of Emanuel Collett and the grandson of Arthur and Frances
Collett. He was a successful
lawyer in Kentucky and was also one of the largest landowners in the
state. He was one of three men charged
and convicted of conspiracy in the use of false absentee ballots in the US
election of 1977. The case was
reported in the Kentucky newspaper on 29th October 1980, when the
three co-conspirators were each fined $5,000 and sentenced to four years in
prison. One of the men named with
Edmond was C Allen Muncey who may have been related to the wife of Troy
Collett, the younger brother of Edmond’s father Emanuel. The only other known fact about Edmond at
this time is that he has a
daughter Angela. |
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Angela
Collett |
Date of birth
unknown |
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Ross Collette was born at Leslie County in 1944, the
son of Troy Collett and his first wife Ruth Muncey. Sadly, his father left his mother for
another woman when Ross was still a baby and, in fact, Ruth also looked after
Ross’ half-brother for a short while.
Ross later married Sharon Kaye Caudill and it
was Ross and Sharon’s daughter, Angela Collette, who kindly provided details
of her family line from Sarah Collett (Ref. 43N2) and Dillion Asher, whose
children all retained the Collett surname. |
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Angela Collette |
Date of birth
unknown |
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Corbett Leonard Collette
was born at Leslie
County on 26th March 1946, the son of Troy Collett and his second
wife Opsie H Couch. Corbett was named
after his father’s brother and was referred to as Little Corbett. He attended college and later joined the
Coast Guard. Corbett went on to have
three children of his own, Joseph Troy, Stacy, and Debbie. He was only fifty years old when he passed
away on 3rd November 1996 at the age of 50. It was his daughter Debra Lynn Collett, now
Debbie Lee, of Richmond in Indiana, who made
contact in 2014 and supplied the latest details about her family. Joseph Troy Collett is her half-brother,
her father having been married twice. |
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Joseph Troy Collett |
Date of birth
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Stacy Collett |
Date of birth
unknown |
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Debra Lynn
Collett |
Date of birth
unknown |
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Denver Collett was born at Leslie County another son
Troy Collett and his second wife Opsie H Couch. All that is currently known about Denver is
that he is married to Melissa and that his son Ben has researched the Collett
family and was building a website in early 2014. The couple’s other son Dustin (Dusty)
Collett was born in 1982. Nothing has been heard from
Ben since 2014. |
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Benjamin
Wesley Collett |
Date of birth
unknown |
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Dustin Clay Collett |
Born in 1982
at Louisville, Kentucky |
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Ernest Sheldon
Collett ($) who was known as Sheldon, was born at Bad
Creek, Leslie County on 20th December 1927 and was the first-born
child of John L Collett and Phrona Morgan.
It would seem he lived his whole life in Kentucky, including places
like Stinnett, Essie, and 160 Daniel Branch Road in Essie where he was
residing during the summer of 1993. It
may have been there that he died on 27th May 2010, at the age
82. He was two years old in the Bad
Creek census of 1930, was 12 years old in 1940, and by 1950 Sheldon Collett,
aged 22 and a stone mill worker in the manufacturing of stone. His wife Vina Collett was 17 with the
recently marriage childless couple living next door to Sheldon’s parents. |
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Thanks to Sheldon’s grandson we know for sure the he
and Vina had a some Douglas who was born in the
1950s, although there may have been others in addition to Doug as he was
referred to by his son Derrick. |
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Douglas Collett
($) |
Date of birth unknown |
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Gladys Collett
was born at Bad Creek, Leslie County on 18th January 1939, the
sixth of the eight children of John L Collett and Phronia Morgan. She was one year old in the 1940 census
when living with her family at Bowens Creek Road. She was married four times during her life,
the second time on 6th June 1968 when, as Gladys Collett Roberts,
she became Gladys Collett Sizemore, the wife of Hughie Sizemore, when
Hughie’s mother’s name was Rebecca Collett, the wife of Willie Sizemore. It was on 8th September 1980
when the last marriage of Gladys Collett Sizemore and Ray Morgan, a possible
member of her mother’s family, took place at Lee County in Virginia. Ray was 49, the son of Dennis and Nerva
Morgan, while Gladys was 41 and the daughter of John L Collett and Phronia
Morgan. By the time Gladys passed away
on 21st May 2004, she also had another name she was known by, and
that was Gladys Partin applicable in 1978, presumably via her second
marriage. |
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Geneva Collett
was the eldest child of Herman Collett and Maggie Alice Patton and was born on
26th February 1931 at Gifford, Magoffin County in Kentucky. She was thirty-two when she married Dale
Hoke Coleman at Knox County, Indiana, on 26th June 1963, when she
was confirmed as the daughter of Herman Collett and Maggie Alice Patten. Dale was the same age as Geneva, having
been born on 11th March 1931. |
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Reva Collett
was born at Gifford, Magoffin County, in 1934 and was another daughter of
Herman and Maggie Collett. She was
very young when she married Warden Caudill at Magoffin County on 23rd
December 1947, when she was confirmed as the daughter of Herman Collett and
Maggie Alice Patten. |
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LEONARD P COLLETT was born at Knox County in Kentucky
on 2nd November 1937, the second child of Burchell and Della
Collett. He was two years of age in
the census of 1840 when he and his family was staying with his paternal
grandparents John and Della Collett at Magisterial District 2 in Bell County,
Kentucky. Leonard later married Lola
Cloud with whom he had a son after the couple settled in the town of Dowagiac
in Michigan. |
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MARK COLLETT |
Born in 1965
at Dowagiac, Michigan |
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Bryan Scott Peters was born on 24th July 1969
at the Carswell Air Force Base at Fort Worth in Texas. Today
Bryan lives in Wisconsin. |
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Jeffrey Lee Collett was born as Jeffrey Lee Peters on 18th
November 1970 at Carswell Air Force Base at Fort Worth in Texas. He is known as Jeff, and when he was
sixteen years of age, he legally changed his surname to his mother’s maiden
of Collett. Nowadays, Jeff lives at
Watford in Hertfordshire, England, with his wife Karen. Jeff works in the field of information
technology for a Boston based company, while Karen is a Special Educational
Needs Teacher. |
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Cosette Louise Collett was born in Florida on 28th
March 1949. Her father William Barrow
Collett (the third) died before she was three years old, following which her
mother remarried. By 1990 she was
living at Coon Rapids in Minnesota. |
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Tama Louise Collett was born in Boston, Massachusetts on
14th October 1948. She
attended public schools in Wisconsin Rapids and then entered Rockford College
in Illinois. While a student there she
developed a relationship with a foreign student and delivered a baby girl out
of wedlock. The father of the child
decided not to continue the relationship so it was agreed that the baby
should be offered up for adoption and was fortunate to be selected by an
outstanding family. Today the child of
Tama Louise is married with two children of her own, and both she and her husband,
currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, have a good relationship with the
Collett family. |
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Tama married
Oliver Udemmadu Ogbonnia Mobisson
on 4th October 1969 at Cambridge in Suffolk City. He was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and was born at Awo-Idemili,
Orlu in Nigeria on 23rd April 1943. The marriage produced four children for
Tama and Oliver, the first three born in Massachusetts and the fourth at
Wisconsin Rapids. They are Geoffrey
Emeka Mobisson born 10th May 1970 at Cambridge, Kathrine
Chinyere Mobisson born 10th June 1972 at Lynn, Laura Nneka
Mobisson born 10th March 1975 at Cambridge, and Jidenna
Theodore Mobisson who was born on 4th May 1985. |
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Tama and
Oliver Mobisson lived in Nigeria from 1985 until 1991, after which Tama
returned to Wisconsin Rapids. It was
during the following year that she joined Pilgrim Healthcare as a staff
accountant. Oliver was Professor Oliver Mobisson at the Enuga
State University, where he was a computer scientist at the forefront of
modern computer technology. When Tama
returned to America in 1991, he stayed on in Nigeria to carry on his
development work, but in March 1995 he suffered a stroke, at which time Tama
flew out to Lagos and returned with him to Boston. |
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Chrisanne Collett was born at Appleton, Wisconsin on 24th
December 1949. She married (1) Douglas
Harold Freund on 30th June 1979 at Wisconsin Rapids. Douglas was born at McHenry in Illinois on
14th May 1956, and his marriage to Chrisanne produced two
daughters for the couple. They were
later divorced and, on 24th July 1997, Chrisanne married (2)
Jeffrey Mark Waldo who brought two adopted Korean children into the
marriage. The four children from her
two marriages are Kori Elise Freund born 10th January 1982,
Kristin Ashley Freund born 24th February 1985, both at
Woodstock in Illinois, Michael Lee Waldo born 21st February
1984, and Elizabeth Ann Waldo who was born on 24th October
1988. |
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Kent Groff Collett was born at Appleton, Wisconsin on 13th
November 1952. He married Constance
Hagen on 22nd January 1972 at the Moravian Church in Wisconsin
Rapids. During the first six years of
their life together Constance presented her husband with four children,
including a set of twins. They were
later divorced. After high school Kent
attended Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and after his marriage he earned
his degree in marketing from the University of Wisconsin. In 2009 Kent was working as a
manufacturer's representative and was living in St. Louis, Missouri. |
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Jamie
Marie Collett |
Born in 1972
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Roberta Ann Collett |
Born in 1977
at Wisconsin Rapids |
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Jefferey Charles Collett |
Born in 1978
at Fond du Lac County |
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43T14
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Gregory
Groff Collett |
Born in 1978
at Fond du Lac County |
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Leslie
Wiggin Collett was
born Wisconsin Rapids on 17th August 1961. She attended public schools in Wisconsin
Rapids and later earned a degree in mathematics from the University of
Wisconsin in Platteville, Wisconsin.
It was at Wisconsin Rapids that on 1st October 1988 Leslie
married Stephen John Moss who was also born in Wisconsin on 23rd
March 1961. They have three children
and in 2009 were living in DePere, Wisconsin, where they were still living on
2021. Their three children were born
at Green Bay in Wisconsin and are Alexander
Stephen Moss born 30th
December 1990, Laura Kathrine Moss born 24th January 1994,
and Samuel Patrick Moss who was born on 11th April 1998. |
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Joseph Troy Collett was the son of Corbett Leonard
Collett, although his date and place of birth is not known. He is the half-brother of Debbie Lee,
formerly Debra Lynn Collett, who provided the details of his family. In 2014 Joseph was living in Alabama and
has a daughter Hailee Collett and a son Payton Collett. Through his marriage Joseph also has
another child, the daughter of his wife, who has also taken the Collett
family name, she now being known as Stacey Collett. |
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Hailee
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Born circa
1992 |
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Payton
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Born circa
2006 |
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Dustin Clay Collett was born at Louisville in Kentucky on
9th October 1982, a son of Denver and Melissa Collett. He was raised in Ohio and when his family
moved to Tennessee, Dustin remained in Ohio where he continued his
schooling. Known as Dusty, he was a
senior and a business management major at Northern Kentucky University, but
tragically passed away on 7th May 2005. |
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43T9 |
Douglas Collett
($), who is known as Doug, was born in the 1950s, a son of Ernest Sheldon
Collett and his wife Vina. |
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43U3
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Derrick
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Date of birth not unknown |
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MARK COLLETT was born at Dowagiac in Michigan on 19th
December 1965, the only known child of Leonard P Collett and Lola Cloud. |
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43U4
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Natalie Collett |
Born in 1989
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JASON COLLETT |
Born in 1990
at Dowagiac, Michigan |
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43T11 |
Jamie Marie Collett was born at Madison in Wisconsin on 16th
August 1972, the eldest of the four children of Kent Groff Collett and Constance Hagen, who were later
divorced. It is from her grandfather’s
obituary that we know, at the time of the death of Groff Collett, at the end
of 2021, Jamie was married to Fletcher Stovall junior. |
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Roberta Ann Collett was born at Wisconsin Rapids on 19th
May 1977. On 11th January
2003 she married Matthew Neuwirth at St Louis in Missouri with whom she has a
son Nicolas David Neuwirth who was born on 12th February 2008 at
the Missouri Baptist Medical Centre in St Louis. |
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Jefferey Charles Collett
was the twin brother
of Gregory (below), who was born at Fond du Lac in Fond du Lac County
on 3rd December 1978. He
married Christina (Chrissy) Brianne de Venney on 29th July 2006 at
the First Christian Church in Columbia, Missouri and has a son who was born
during the following year. |
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Born in 2007
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Gregory Groff Collett was born at Fond du Lac County on 3rd
December 1978, twin brother of Jefferey (above) and the youngest child
of Kent Groff Collett and Constance
Hagen who, sometime after he was born, were divorced. It is known that Gregory later married
Laura, with their names amongst those listed in the obituary of his
grandfather Groff Collett, who died at the end of 2021. |
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43U3 |
Derrick Collett ($) may have been
born in the 1970/80s, while it was in October 2024 that he made
contact with new information which has assisted in tracing his family
line back to 1620 in England. |
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43U4 |
Natalie Collett was born at Dowagiac in Michigan on
19th June 1989 and is the daughter of Mark Collett and Lola Cloud
of Dowagiac. She married Russell
Dilley, from whom she is now separated, while her son was born at Tucson in
Arizona in 2017 at the home of her father. |
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Ethan Jase
Collett |
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43U5 |
JASON COLLETT was born at Dowagiac in Michigan on 15th
August 1990, the son of Mark Collett of Dowagiac. It was Jason who kindly provided the
details relating to his sister Natalie (above) and his nephew
Ethan. In 2017 Jason and his father
Mark were residing in Tucson. |
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William Collett of 104 Haynes Avenue,
a travelling tariff inspector for the Southern Pacific Railroad will become
joint heir with four others to a fortune estimated at $200,000. The announcement terminates a search for
missing heirs carried out since 1894. Information of the legacy reached San
Antonio Tuesday morning in a letter to Chief of Police T O Miller asking him
to assist in finding Miss Helen Collett who lived at 608 West Craig Place in
1916. Inquiries developed the fact
that Miss Collett had died in 1919, but a brother William Collett lived on
Haynes Street. Collett was in Houston on a business
trip and Mrs Collett called at police headquarters and conferred with the
Chief of Police in establishing the identity of the heirs. The letter confirming the information
was sent by a law firm in Leicester, England and said that the estate had
been held in trust since 1894 for the heirs of Mrs Elizabeth M Collett. Mrs Collett died several years ago at
Moberly in Missouri. The family originally numbered six
children, and five of them are still living.
Beside William Collett of San Antonio the other participants are Miss
Minnie Collett of Moberly, Mo; Mrs Katherine Barker of Crystal City, Texas;
Robert Collett of St Louis; and Arthur Collett of Seattle, Wash. The letter did not have the legator
and members of the Collett family could give no indication of the benefactor
as several near relatives are known to be living in Leicester. The Collett family came to America
fifty years ago and settled in Missouri.
William Collett was born in that state. Later he spent several years in Mexico
before going with the Southern Pacific.
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Later
correspondence dated 18th May 1925 from Toller, Poohin &
Wright (Solicitors) at 2 Wycliffe Street in Leicester, England revealed the
amount of money in trust was in fact only £670 and that the benefactor was
Miss Catherine Mary Simons who died on 2nd April 1892. She was the sister of Elizabeth Martha
Simons (Mrs Elizabeth M Collett in the article above) who married Robert
Collett and who together with their first two children emigrated to America
in 1867. It was Robert and Elizabeth
who had the six children that are referred to in the newspaper article above. Robert
Collett is Ref. 43O10 and his six children were: Arthur
Collett born in England and of Seattle (Ref. 43P56); Minnie Collett aka Mary
Elizabeth born in England and of Moberly (Ref. 43P57); Katherine Louise Barker
nee Collett (Ref. 43P58); John Robert Thomas Collett of St Louis (Ref.
43P59); and William Francis Collett aka Willie of San Antonio (Ref. 43P61). The deceased sixth child was the
aforementioned Helen Maude Collett aka Nellie (Ref. 43P60) |
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APPENDIX TWO TWO COLLETT BAD BOYS – Cases 1 and 2 (go
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In
addition to bad boy Thomas Collett (Ref. 60N5 - previously Ref. 43o5), who
was arrested for burglary in 1821 and subsequently transported to Tasmania, there were
other members of the Collett family who suffered the same fate. This appendix includes two of them, not yet
identified as belonging to any of the known Collett family lines. The first of them is George Collett who
married Arabella Lawman at St Mary’s Church on St Marylebone Road in London
on 21st May 1803, who was baptised at St Bartholomew’s Church in
London on 2nd February 1783.
He was the likely son of Henry Collett and his wife Sarah, as referred
to under Ref. 43M13 in the main body of this family line. His eldest son is the first of our two bad
boys. Other bad boys, previously
detailed here can now be found in Appendix Two within Part 60 – The
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Henry Collett was married to Sarah and their son George was born
in London in either late 1782 or early 1783.
Following the marriage of George
Collett to Arabella Lawman in 1803, the couple initially settled at
Sacombe, just north-west
of Ware in Hertfordshire, where their first child was born and baptised. That child was followed by at least five
more, but only after the family had moved into the Putney area of London. |
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John Collett |
Baptised on
25.03.1804 at Sacombe, Herts. |
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Mary Anne Collett |
Born on 11.02.1806
at Putney |
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Sarah Ellen Collett |
Born on
21.01.1808 at Putney |
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Jane Weedon Collett |
Born on
28.03.1810 at Putney |
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Anne Agnes Collett |
Born on
21.09.1812 at Putney |
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George
Collett |
Baptised on
09.01.1815 at Putney |
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John Collett was baptised at Sacombe near Wareham
in Hertfordshire on 25th March 1804, the eldest of the six
children of George Collett and Arabella Lawman. John Collett was the great great great grandfather of
Carlene Smelt of Queensland in Australia.
It was in Surrey on 30th December 1822, at the age of
eighteen, that he was tried and convicted of housebreaking and, together with
his accomplices William Sawyer and John Perry, he was given a life
sentence. The three of them then
arrived in Australia during 1823 on the sailing ship ‘Commodore Hayes’ with
220 other convicts. |
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The following notice was published by
the Police Office in Hobart on 17th March 1825. Runaway John Collett, 5 feet 7 inches, with
dark brown eyes, dark brown hair, 22 years of age, a labourer, tried at
Surrey in December 1822, sentenced to life, arrived in this Colony per Commodore Hayes in
1823, native of Sandon (in Hertfordshire), scar on left cheek
bone and one on left side of upper lip, absconded from the Prisoners'
Barracks on December 21st 1824.
Reward £2. |
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John
later married Elizabeth Ives on 1st January 1832, Elizabeth having
been born in England during 1814.
Their daughter Sarah Roseanna Collett (1833-1919) was born in Tasmania
and she later married Richard William Thompson in Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land,
Tasmania, with whom she had seven children.
John Collett and Elizabeth Ives also had three other children before
he died at the age of 32, following which he was buried at St David’s Park in
Hobart, Tasmania, on 6th May 1837. |
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During his
married life John Collett, who was living at Oatlands during the autumn of
1834, was called as a witness in two cases of cattle stealing. In the first of them on 9th
December 1834 John Collett had been employed as a servant on the farm of Mr
Cawthorne for the previous six to seven years, when George Steel and Samuel Pullen Wells were charged with
stealing an ox belonging to Mr Riley which had been grazing on Mr Cawthorne’s
land. During the second court case on
10th March 1835, John Collett was living at Oatlands and lodging
there with him and his family was the accused James Goodwin, who was charged
with stealing four oxen from the Sutherland brothers farm in Launceston, some seventy miles away from
Oatlands. The presiding Judge ruled
that there was no evidence to convict the prisoner of stealing the beasts, in
as much, as the witness Collett had sworn that the
prisoner had not been away from his house, at any time, sufficiently long
enough to have gone to Mr. Sutherland's farm and return. Neither did it appear that he had received
the four bullocks with a guilty knowledge.
He therefore entered a verdict of not guilty. However, perhaps for some other reason, the
prisoner was still remanded to gaol. |
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Sarah Roseanna Collett |
Born circa
1832 in Tasmania |
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a Collett
child |
Born circa
1834 in Tasmania |
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a Collett
child |
Born circa
1835 in Tasmania |
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a Collett
child |
Born circa
1837 in Tasmania |
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Mary Anne Collett was born at Putney on 11th
February 1806 and was six years old when she was baptised at St Mary’s Church
in Putney on 18th October 1812 in a combined ceremony with her
three younger sisters (below). |
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Sarah Ellen Collett was born at Putney on 21st
January 1808 and was three years of age when she was baptised with her three
sisters on 18th October 1812 at the Church of St Mary in Putney. |
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