PART FORTY-THREE

The Staffordshire Line to Kentucky and Michigan 1870 to 2014

This is the second of three sections of this family line

Updated January 2025

43P61		John Robert Thomas Collett, who was known as Robert, was born in Missouri on 11^th December 1871 and that 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-year-old Robert had been born in Missouri and was attending the school in Atchison. He was described as nephew to head of the household John Collett.
		In 1900 Robert Collett was 29, a single man who was working as a loco fireman, and was in a boarding house in Thayer Township, Oregon County, Missouri. At the end of the following decade, Robert J Collett was 38 and a roomer at Old Manchester Road in St Louis Township, from where he was employed by the railroad as an axel supervisor. It was around 1923 when Robert Collett married Mary Edna Hoolan in the early 1920s with whom he had a daughter Mary Joan Collett who was born in St Louis during 1927.
		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 4^th February 1925 and are re-produced in Appendix One at the end of this family line.
		The census return completed in 1930 for St Louis, Missouri, revealed that Robert Collett was 55 (sic) who had married Mary when he was 47, while Mary H Collett was 40 and was 33 years old on their wedding day. Robert was a fuel agent on the railroad who was residing in rented accommodation with his wife and three-year-old daughter Mary Joan Collett, all of whom were born in Missouri. They were still living in St Louis City in 1940, again in a rented property, and still employed as a fuel agent with the Steam Railroad. Robert was 60 (sic), Mary H was 48, and Mary Joan was 13. Robert appeared to be embarrassed with the big difference in their ages since, he would have been 58 in 1930 and 68 in 1940.
		It was a similar situation in 1950, except that the family was living at Clayton in St Louis County, Missouri, by which time Robert had retired and was recorded as being 75 years of age. Mary H Collett was 55, and that day their daughter was Joan Mary Collett who was 23. It is established that, from around that time, their daughter was known as Joan, who was a librarian and was very keen on genealogy and is believed to have spent some time researching her family roots. It seems that she never married, with the death of 65-year-old Mary Joan Collett recorded at Missouri Township in December 1991, and was buried there on 29^th December 1991. Robert Collett died at St Louis in Missouri during the month of April in 1954 and was buried at Calvary and Mausoleum there.
		43Q95			Mary Joan Collett	Born in 1927 at St Louis, Missouri
43P62		Helen Maude Collett, who was sometime referred to as Ellen Maude but more commonly as Nellie, was born in Missouri on 4^th 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 William must have been looked after by another family, possibly in Missouri.
		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.
43P63		William Francis Collett was born in Missouri on 19^th 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.
		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 years.
		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 taken around the time of her marriage.
		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 1^st January 1920 (the US Census Day) the family of five was living at Alpine in Brewster County in Texas and was recorded as follows:
		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 4^th 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.
		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.
		43Q96			Margaret Frances Collett	Born in 1908 at Mexico
		43Q97			William Bruns Collett	Born in 1912 at Crystal City, Texas
		43Q98			Martha Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1915 at Alpine, Texas
		43Q99			Mary Belle Collett	Born in 1921 at San Antonio, Texas
43P64		Dorothy Louise Collett, who was known as Lulu, was born at Aughton Park in Ormskirk, Lancashire on 3^rd 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 13^th 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.
		Dorothy Louise McKelvey nee Collett died whilst at Kansas City on 23^rd January 1925 and was buried at Mount Vernon Cemetery in Atchison in Kansas on 25^th January 1925. Her husband James (although referred to as John in Lulu’s obituary) died eighteen months later, on 19^th June 1926, at Kansas City and was buried with his wife in Atchison. An obituary in the Atchison Globe newspaper read:
		“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”
		Their children were John (Jack) Francis McKelvey born on 21^st July 1888 and died on 24^th December 1967, James Brook McKelvey born during 1890, Florence McKelvey born in 1900 who died on 3^rd February 1925, and Elizabeth (Bessie) McKelvey born during 1902.
43P65		Elizabeth Copeland Collett was born at Eastham, across the River Mersey from Liverpool, on 15^th 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 19^th December 1901 in Atchison, who was many years younger than Elizabeth. She was an accomplished water-colour artist and she died on 14^th 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.
43P66		Robert William Barrow Collett was born at Liverpool on 31^st 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 24^th 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 clerk.
		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 26^th February 1855 and baptised there on 31^st 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 11^th January 1916, that William Barrow Collett (the first) chose to drop his initial name of Robert. William Barrow Collett died on 1^st 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 2^nd February 1937. The Atchison Daily Globe carried the following obituary on 3^rd September 1930:
		"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."
		43Q100			a Collett daughter (stillborn)		Born on 16.09.1887 at Atchison
		43Q101			Mary Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1888 at Atchison
		43Q102			William Barrow Collett II		Born in 1895 at Atchison
43P67		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 24^th 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.
43P68		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 3^rd 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.
		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 22^nd March 1924 at the age of 65, where he was also buried.
43P69		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.
43P70		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 26 years old.
		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 15^th December 1926. She was a spinster and it was through the office in London that probate was completed on 12^th March 1927 when her sister Agnes Collett (below) was named as the sole executor of her personal effects amounting to £217 6 Shillings.
43P71		Alice Collett was born at Ivanhoe Road in Ashby-de-la-Zouch on 27^th 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 16^th November 1870. Alice and Arthur would appear to have been married around 1889 and, over the following thirteen years, they had seven children.
		They were Gladys Ellen Blant (born 22.10.1890), Alice Maud Blant (born 04.02.1892), Agnes Elizabeth Blant (born on 26^th September 1894), Charlotte Mildred Blant (born on 27^th November 1895), John Samuel Blant (born on 19^th November 1897), Henry Edward Blant (born on 18^th September 1900) and Gerald Charles Blant (who was born on 6^th 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.
43P72		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.
43P73		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.
43P74		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 26^th 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.
		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 14^th August 1910 at the age of 41. His Will was proved at Lichfield on 7^th 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.
		43Q103			William Mark Collett				Born in 1900 at Burton-on-Trent
		43Q104			Eveline Martha Margaret Collett				Born in 1905 at Burton-on-Trent
43P75		Frederick Charles Collett was born at The Castle Inn in Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1871, when his birth was registered there (Ref. 7a 95) during the first three months of that year, a son of William and Ellen Collett. He was only a few weeks old in the census of 1871 when he was living at The Castle Inn where his father was the inn keeper. It was during the following year that Frederick Charles Collett was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Ashby-de-la-Zouch on 7^th July 1872. By 1881 he was ten years old and 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. Nine years later, the marriage of bachelor Frederick Charles Collett and widow Ellen Kirk took place in Coventry on 25^th March 1900 and was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 1002) during the second quarter of the year.
		By the time of the next census twelve month later, Frederick was a married man living at 55-56 Worcester Street (Well 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.
		After another ten years Frederick Collett from Coventry (sic) 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 in the summer of 1903 as Elma Doris Collett, daughter of Frederick and Ellen Collett, recorded as Helen Collett. It seems the family of three was residing in the theatre, when the census in 1911 also listing five other adults who may have been performers or staff.
		It is possible that at some time during his life, he served with the Grenadier Guards because in 1913, Frederick Charles Collett of Ashby-de-la-Zouch and born there in 1871, received a military pension. 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. He should not be confused with another of the same name and also born in 1871, because he was born at Wolvercote in Oxfordshire and died there in 1954.
		43Q105			Elma Doris Collett		Born in 1903 at Coventry
43P76		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-upon-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.
		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-upon-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. Another son was added to their one year later and, just two years later, Robert Collett died at Burton-upon-Trent at the age of 43, when his death was recorded at the Burton register office (Ref. 6b 553) during the first three months of 1914.
		The births of all four children were recorded at Burton-upon-Trent, when the births of the following three were registered during the second quarter of the year. They were May Elizabeth Collett in 1902 (Ref. 6b 468), Katie Collett in 1906 (Ref. 6b 476), and Walter Collett in 1912 (Ref. 6b 782) when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hyde.
		43Q106			May Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1902 at Burton-upon-Trent
		43Q107			Katie Collett		Born in 1906 at Burton-upon-Trent
		43Q108			Robert John W Collett		Born in 1908 at Burton-upon-Trent
		43Q109			Walter Collett		Born in 1912 at Burton-upon-Trent
43P77		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 21^st 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.
43P78		John Barrow Collett was born in 1877 at The Castle Inn in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where he was baptised on 6^th 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 father.
		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 Eleanor 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 April 1911 as Ivy Eleanor Collett who was nine, and John Edwin Collett who was six years old, both having been born in Burton-on-Trent.
		It was previously written here that, “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 973-320).” In November 2024 it was discovered that Percy Harold Howe had married Louise Lovett with whom he was living at Nuneaton in 1911 and with whom he had a son Percy H Lovett whose mother’s maiden-name was Lovett. Therefore, it was the marriage of John Barrow Collett and Lucy Elizabeth Perrins that was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 973–92) during the fourth quarter of 1908, where the first of their two children was born, although the birth was not registered there, perhaps because the child was born not long after their wedding day. The birth of their second child was recorded at Aston register office (Ref. 6d 223) during the second quarter of 1910.
		Nine months later, in the census of 1911, it was just 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 known, but it seems likely that she had died after the birth of her daughter, even though no obvious recorded of her death has been found.
		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. 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.
		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.
		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 28^th 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 subsequentially made a widow
		43Q110			Ivy Eleanor Collett		Born in 1902 at Burton-on-Trent
		43Q111			John Edwin William Collett		Born in 1904 at Burton-on-Trent
		The following are the two children of John Barrow Collett by his second wife (see above):
		43Q112			Leonard Wilfred Collett		Born in 1909 at Coventry
		43Q113			Florence Collett		Born in 1910 at Birmingham
		The following is the only child of John Barrow Collett by his third wife Elizabeth Tolladay:
		43Q114			Irene May Collett		Born in 1915 at Birmingham
43P79		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).
		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.
		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.
43P80		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.
43P81		James Henry Collett was born at Wolverhampton on 6^th 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 17^th 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 15^th 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 in 1901.
		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 family had only just moved into the dwelling at Lyndon End.
		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.
		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 23^rd August 1938, following which her Will was proved in Birmingham on 17^th October 1938. The Probate Service confirmed that Clara Collett of 204 Coventry Road at Yardley in Birmingham, a widow, died on 23^rd 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.
		43Q115			Elizabeth Ruth Collett		Born in 1897 at Sheldon, Birmingham
		43Q116			Georgina Mary Collett		Born in 1899 at Sheldon, Birmingham
		43Q117			Dorothy Mabel Collett		Born in 1901 at Sheldon, Birmingham
		43Q118			Gladys Clara Collett		Born in 1902 at Solihull
		43Q119			Norman Noel Collett		Born in 1903 at Shirley, Solihull
		43Q120			Phyllis May Collett		Born in 1906 at Small Heath, Birmingham
43P82		Frederick John Collett was born at Birmingham on 19^th 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 20^th 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 also recorded at Solihull register office (Ref. 6d 713).
		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 25^th 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.
		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 19^th 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 1^st 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.
		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.
		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 of the British Army.
		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 (Vol. 96 862) in 1952.
		43Q121			Cyril Frederick Collett		Born in 1894 at Sparkhill
		43Q122			Phyllis Mary G Collett		Born in 1896 at Stechford
		43Q123			Howard Collett		Born in 1898 at Solihull
		43Q124			Gordon Victor Collett		Born in 1899 at Solihull
		43Q125			Margery Martin Collett		Born in 1900 at Solihull
43P83		Mary Georgia Collett was born at Birmingham on 14^th 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.
43P84		Rosa Polly Collett was born at Birmingham on 27^th 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 30^th May 1932.
43P85		Nellie Mabel Collett was born at Erdington on 4^th 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.
		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.
43P86		Hilda Ann Collett was born within the Olton district of Birmingham on 11^th 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 11^th 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.
43P87		Alfred Shawcross Collett was born at Salford, Manchester, on 7^th 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 18^th 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).
43P88		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 20^th November 1882, when Peter the son of John Collett was 19, and Mary Jane was 18 and the daughter of James Carroll.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		43Q126			Mary Jane Collett		Born in 1883 at Ancoats, Manchester
		43Q127			Peter Collett		Born in 1886 at Ancoats, Manchester
		43Q128			Herbert Collett		Born in 1888 at Ancoats, Manchester
		43Q129			Martha Collett		Born in 1890 at Ancoats, Manchester
43P89		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.
43P90		Georgina Collett was born at Manchester on 5^th 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 1^st 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.
		Just over two years later, on 28^th 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 9^th March 1869, the son of William Holt, of Prescot near St Helens in Lancashire, and Anne Moore of Hampshire.
		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.
		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 6^th July 1943, following which he was buried at Philips Park in Miles Platting on 10^th July 1943. Sometime during the fourteen years following her husband’s death, Georgina moved to the Crumpsall area of Manchester where she died on 2^nd June 1957. She too was buried at Philips Park in Miles Platting four days after her passing on 6^th June 1957.
		43Q130			Alfred Collett		Born in 1886 at Salford; died in 1887
43P91		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 family home at 9 West Charles Street in Salford.
		Eight years later, Alfred was married at Christ Church in Salford on 21^st 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 before the census in 1891, however she was not with her parents that day.
		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.
		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 28^th 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.
		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.
		43Q131			Mary Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1891 at Salford, Lancs.
		43Q132			Elizabeth Ann Collett		Born in 1895 at Salford, Lancs.
		43Q133			Emily Collett		Born in 1897 at Salford, Lancs.
		43Q134			Alice Collett		Born in 1899 at Salford, Lancs.
		43Q135			Sarah Ellen Collett		Born in 1902 at Salford, Lancs.
		43Q136			James Collett		Born in 1905 at Salford, Lancs.
		43Q137			Elsie Collett		Born in 1907 at Salford, Lancs.
		43Q138			Alfred Collett		Born in 1913 at Salford, Lancs.
43Q1		Oliver Otto Collett was born at Keokuk in Iowa in 1887. He settled in Wapello County in Iowa where his father died in 1912 and where his son was born in 1920. And it was at Wapello that Oliver Otto Collett senior died in 1976.
		43R1			Oliver Otto Collett junior		Born in 1920 at Wapello County, Iowa
43Q5		Preston Collett was born at Leslie County, Kentucky during April 1876, 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. Fourteen years later, the marriage of Preston Collett and Sarah Asher took place on 14^th October 1894 at Jans Hutching in Bell County, Kentucky. The witnesses were Nathan Collett and Wilkerson Asher, with Nathan being Preston’s uncle, the older brother of his father John William Collett. Wilkerson was probably Sarah’s father, whose name was given to the couple’s eldest son. After a further six years Preston Collett was living at Upper Red Bird (visitation #9) 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, whose wife’s age on the census form was not recorded, while their son was recorded in error as William and not Wilkerson Collett who was two years old in 1900. Living close by, at #7 in Upper Red Bird, was Preston’s younger married brother Ambrose Collett (below).
		Staying with the young family that census day in 1900 was Preston’s widowed mother and two younger sisters; Katie Collett was 46 and born in January 1854, Marie Collett was 14 and born in September 1885, and Daisie Collett was five years of age and born in October 1894. It was also at Upper Red Bird, in Precinct 7, visitation #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.
		Those seven children were listed as sons Wilkie Collett 13 (William aged two in 1900), Willie Collett 10 (William in 1920), 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 aged 55, her daughter Cattie Collett who was 18, and Cattie’s daughter Pur Collett who was two years of age. Two other members of the wider Collett family were recorded nearby at Upper Red Bird with, at visitation #27 was his brother Ambrose Collett (below) who was 24, and at #29 was Thomas Collett (Ref. 43P39) who was 33 with his larger family.
		In the census of 1920, conducted on 21^st February, the family was again recorded at Upper Red Bird, but on the road up to Blue Hole Creek. On the road that year were three Collett farms adjacent to one another, farms #2, #3 and #4. The middle of the three properties was owned and farmed 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. At farm #2 was Preston’s younger brother Silas Collett (below) with his family who, in the same 1920 census, but on a different day in February, was a neighbour of Joseph Collett (Ref. 43Q86) on the road up to Lick Fork in Red Bird at Upper Red Bird. At farm #4 was Wilkie Collett Preston’s recently married eldest son.
		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 rented property was the couple’s son Willie (William) Collett and his family, and further along Blue Hole Creek Road was Preston’s eldest married son Wilkie (Wilkerson) Collett with his family and his mother-in-law.
		Preston Collett was 67 years old when he died on 23^rd September 1941 at Leslie County in Kentucky. Upon the death of his three youngest children, and certainly in 1925, Preston and Sarah were residing in Roark with their family, where daughter Norma was married that year, and where daughter Myrtle suffered an infant death. Also, for the much later deaths of daughters Pearl and Malvie, their place of birth was recorded as Ashers Fork, Roark in Clay County.
		Ashers Fork is near Bright Shade in Clay County, while Big Creek is a waterway running down through Leslie County and into the Red Bird River in Clay County.
		The following are the confirmed children of Preston Collett and Sarah Asher:
		43R2			Wilkerson Collett		Born in 1898 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird
		43R3			William Collett		Born in 1901 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird
		43R4			Tolman Collett		Born in 1902 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird
		43R5			Nanna Collett		Born in 1904 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird
		43R6			Addie Collett		Born in 1906 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird
		43R7			Ollie Collett		Born in 1907 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird
		43R8			Norma Collett		Born in 1909 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird
		43R9			Anna Collett		Born in 1911 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird
		43R10			James Collett		Born in 1913 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird
		43R11			P L Collett		Born in 1915 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird
		43R12			Pearl Collett		Born in 1918 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird
		43R13			Diane Collett		Born in 1920 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird
		43R14			Malvaria Collett		Born in 1922 at Roark, Clay County
		43R15			Myrtle Collett		Born in 1925 at Roark, Clay County
43Q8		Ambrose Collett was born at Leslie County on 1^st December 1882 and was another son of John and Kittie Collett. On completing the subsequent census forms he gave different ages, making the year of his birth range from anything between 1880 and 1886. His parents had thirteen children and, up to November 2024, only seven of them had been discovered. It was during December 2024 further work was carried out to find the missing children, one of whom is believed to be Ambrose who was living near his brother Preston in 1910. Sadly, no record of the family has been found in 1891 and by the census day in 1900 their father had died earlier that year, with Preston and Ambrose both married by that day.
		With no record found for any member of his family in 1890, Ambrose Collett said he was 17 years old in the Upper Red Bird, Clay County, census of 1900 when he and his wife Bettie, aged 20, were staying with Bettie’s Asher farming family at visitation #7. Her parents were Wilkinson and Pollie Asher and, in addition the Bettie’s siblings, completing the household was single male J C Collett who was 30 and a farm labourer, an employee of Wilkinson Asher. The census return stated he was born during December 1869 but, other than that, nothing is known about him. Also in 1900, Ambrose’s older married brother Preston Collett (above) was living at #9 Upper Red Bird, who had living with him their widowed mother Katie (Kittie) Collett. All three were still residing there in 1910.
		For the census of 1910 the two brothers Preston and Ambrose were recorded at #25 and #27 Upper Red Bird, Bright Shade in Clay County respectively. That year Ambrose Collett was 24 (sic) and a farmer with his own account, whose wife of nine years was Lizzie Collett who was 30, who had already given birth to four children. They were Emily Collett who was nine, Bige Collett (Abijah Collett in 1920) who was eight, Preston Collett who was seven, and daughter Mallie Collett who was one-year-old. Shortly after that census day Lizzie, also known as Bettie, gave birth to another daughter Lottie Collett born at Bright Shade that same year. Two more known children were added to the family, Allen Collett in 1917, and Martha in 1919, before Bettie was made a widow in 1920.
		For the first time, in the census of 1920, Ambrose Collett was recorded with his most accurate age of 40 when he was still living on the road up to Blue Hole Creek in Upper Red Bird, Clay County, where he was a general farmer. His wife Betsy was 38, and their seven children were Abijah Collett who was 16 and a labourer on the home farm, Preston Collett junior was 14, Mallie Collett was 12, B Golden Collett was ten years four months and described as deformed and dumb, Lottie Collett was six years four months, Allen Collett was four years two months, and Martha Collett was six months old.
		Ambrose Collett was 39 when he died on 5^th August 1920 at Ashers Fork in Clay County and was buried at Collett Cemetery in Clay County. The burial record stated he had been born on 1^st December 1880, the same year in which his older sister had been born.
		43R16			Emily Collett		Born in 1901 at Bright Shade, Clay County
		43R17			Abijah Collett		Born in 1903 at Bright Shade, Clay County
		43R18			Preston Collett		Born in 1905 at Bright Shade, Clay County
		43R19			Mallie Collett		Born in 1908 at Bright Shade, Clay County
		43R20			Golden Collett		Born in 1910 at Bright Shade, Clay County
		43R21			Lottie Collett		Born in 1912 at Bright Shade, Clay County
		43R22			Allen Collett		Born in 1917 at Bright Shade, Clay County
		43R23			Martha Collett		Born in 1919 at Bright Shade, Clay County
43Q9		Silas Collett was born in Leslie County on 6^th November 1884 and was one of the seven surviving children of John and Catherine Collett. The marriage of Silas Collett and Mahala Collett took place at the Bell County home of R W Asher, the Minister who issued the licence, and the Deputy County Court Clerk of Bell County, on 21^st March 1902 when the witnesses were William Collett and Sarah Asher. By 1910 the childless couple was living at Burn’s Spring Precinct, part of Straight Creek in Bell County, when Silas Collett was 27 and a farm labourer married for eight years to Mahala who was 23. Living in, and working the adjoining farm, was the family of Nathan Collett and his wife Mahala Collett, whose family details can be found in the new Part 43 – Other Colletts of Kentucky.
		On completing the WW1 Draft Registration Card on 12^th September 1918, Silas Collett was 33, his date of birth 6^th November 1884, and was employed in mining with the Pioneer Coal Company when living at Kettle Island in Bell County. He signed the form with the mark of a cross and named Halie Collett as his nearest relative, which was very likely a shortened version of his wife’s name Mahala.
		By 1920 the family had increased in size with the birth of two daughters, when they were residing at a rented farm #2 on the road up to Blue Hole Creek in Upper Red Bird in Clay County. Silas Collett was 36 and a farmer with his own account, Mahaley was 30, and their two girls were Hettie Collett who was 12, and Elizabeth Collett who was 10. Rather than recorded as daughter, they were described as sister, were they were, and in 1910 Nettie Collett aged two was the niece of Samuel and Annie Slusher from Kentucky, living at Seymour in Baylor County, Texas.
		Their next-door-neighbour at #3 was Silas’ eldest brother Preston Collett (above) with his wife Sarah and their eight children, and at #4 was the just-married young couple of Wilkie (Wilkerson) Collett (Ref. 43R2) with his wife Phronie, who was Preston’s eldest child. Curiously, two days after the family of Silas Collett was record at Blue Hole Creek, the same family, but with very slightly different ages was also recorded as living at #16 on the road up to Lick Fork of Red Bird, possibly indicating that Silas was operating/managing two farms. A neighbour at #21 was Joseph Collett (Ref. 43Q86).
		No record of the family has been found after 1920, apart that is, from the death of Silas Collett which was recorded at Bell County on 28^th January 1960 when he would have been 75 years old. Afterwards, he was buried at the Upland Cemetery in Blackmont in Bell County.
		43R24			Hettie Collett – adopted		Born in 1908 at Upper Red Bird
		43R25			Elizabeth Collett - adopted		Born in 1910 at Upper Red Bird
43Q11		Catherine Collett, who was known as Cattie, was another of the seven surviving children of John William Collett and his wife Catherine (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.
		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.
		43R26			Pur Collett		Born in 1908 at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird
43Q14		Thomas John Collett was born on 25^th July 1874 at Leslie Collett, Kentucky, the first-born child of John Collett and Nancy Roark who was four years old in the Hayden census in 1880. Thomas married Lucy Mae Asher just prior to the end of the century, and they are believed to have had ten children. However, in the previous version of this family line, those ten children were credited in error to another Thomas J Collett, he being Thomas Joel Collett (Ref. 43P39) born in 1878 who married Maggie Redman/Redmond at Pineville in Bell County on 26^th December 1900, when their wedding ceremony was conducted at the home of Farmer Collett, Thomas’ brother, with the witnesses being brothers Farmer Collett (Ref. 43P37) and Letcher Collett (Ref. 43P36).
		In 1900 Thomas Collett was 25 and a farmer living at Bad Creek in Leslie County with his wife of three years Lucy Collett aged 22 who had already given birth to two children. They were Bertha who was two years of age, and Grant who was four months old, who did not survive. Living next door to the family was Thomas’ parents, John and Nancy Collett, together with four of the five younger siblings of Thomas, being John Collett, Lucy Collett, Bradley Collett, and Harrison Collett.
		It was at #29 Upper Red Bird in Bright Shade, Clay County, that Thomas Collett and his family were living in 1910. He was 33 and a farmer with his own account who had been married to his wife Lucy for thirteen years. During that time, they had given birth to six children, five of whom were still alive in 1910. Lucy Collett was 26, Bertha Collett was 12, Chester Collett was 10, son Goldie Collett was seven, Hazel Collett was six, and Mitchell Collett who was seven months. Two of his neighbours that year were members of the extended Collett family, being the brothers Preston Collett (Ref. 43Q5) residing at #25 Upper Red Bird, and Ambrose Collett (Ref. 43Q8) at #27.
		By the time of the census in 1920 the family was recorded at Lothair Precinct in Perry County where Thomas Collett was 45 and a carpenter working at a local coal mine. His wife Lucy was 42, and their six children were confirmed as Goldie Collett who was 18, Hazel Collett who was 13, Mitchell Collett who was 10, De Witt Collett who was eight, Edna Collett who was five, and Thomas Collett junior who was three years old. One more child was added to their family over the next three years. Also living at Lothair, in Perry County, was the couple’s recently married son Chester Collett.
		The next census in 1930 revealed that Thomas had been first married at the age of 21, when Lucy was 18. It was at Laurel County in Kentucky that the family was then living. Thomas J Collett was no longer a carpenter, but was a farmer at the age of 56. Lucy was 52 and the five children still living with the couple were named as Mitchell Collett who was 20 and a coal miner, Dee Collett who was 18 and also employed as a coal miner, Edna Collett who was 15, Thomas Collett who was 14 and Joe C Collett who was seven years of age.
		The census in 1940 reported that the family was living at London, Laurel County in 1935, and it was in 1938 that Thomas and Lucy left Kentucky to live in Miami County, Ohio. That happened after married son Mitchell Collett moved there around 1935, and where he was living with his family in 1940 and 1950. Once there, the elderly couple settled in Casstown, Lost Creek Township, Miami County, where Thomas J Collett from Kentucky was 65 and a labourer on farmland, when his wife Lucy Mae Collett was 63.
		Lucy Mae Collett, the daughter of James Asher and Phoebe Howard, died in hospital at Casstown on 26^th December 1948 at the age of 70, her death certificate confirming they had lived in Casstown for ten years. Her date of birth was confirmed as 8^th May 1878, the wife of Thomas Collett aged 74. The informant of her passing was her son Mitchell Collett of Covington, Ohio, following which she was buried at Casstown Cemetery on 30^th December 1948. Three years after being widowed, Thomas J Collett was 76 when he died in the Stouder Memorial Hospital in Troy, Miami County, on 21^st January 1951, when his home address was Main Street in Casstown, Lost Creek Township. He had been a carpenter with Howard Brothers (his late wife’s family business), and was confirmed as the son of John Collett and Nancy Roark and was buried with his wife at Casstown Cemetery.
		43R27			Bertha Collett		Born in February 1898 in Leslie County
		43R28			Grant Collett		Born in 1900 in Leslie County
		43R29			Chester Collett		Born in 1901 in Leslie County
		43R30			Goldie Collett		Born in 1902 in Leslie County
		43R31			Hazel Collett		Born in 1907 in Leslie County
		43R32			Mitchell Collett		Born in 1910 in Leslie County
		43R33			De Witt Collett		Born in 1912 in Leslie County
		43R34			Edna Collett		Born in 1915 in Leslie County
		43R35			Thomas Collett		Born in 1917 in Leslie County
		43R36			Joseph C Collett		Born in 1922 in Leslie County
43Q15		Wiley Collett was born on 20^th October 1879 at Hayden in Leslie County, where he was living with his family in 1880 at the age of seven months. He was another son of John and Nancy Collett, and he married Chloe/Clare Napier around the end of the century and, according to the Bad Creek census in 1910, his wife had given birth to five children, all living. That year Wiley was recorded at farm #64 as Wiley Collett junior who was 35 (sic), married for eleven years and a general farmer with his own account. His wife Chloe Collett was 34 (sic), and the five children were Maude Collett who was 10, Woodard Collett who was eight, Berga Collett who was seven, Stella Collett who was five, and Mallie Collett who was two years of age.
		At Bad Creek farm #65 in 1910 was the family of Will Collett, his wife Emily, and seven of their eight children. Ten years later, the same family was living one property away from Wiley and Chloe at Bad Creek - see below.
		After another ten years Wiley Collett was 39 and a general farmer with his own account, and the owner of his farm at #36 Bad Creek, Precinct No. 6 in Leslie County in 1920. His wife Clare Collett (nee Napier – see below) was 41, and their seven children were Maudie (Maude) Collett aged 19, sons Wardon (Woodard) and Burgie (Berga) Collett were 18 and 15, Stella Collett aged 14, Mallie Collett aged 10, Harrison Collett who was eight, and Ballard Collett who was six years old. The couple’s four eldest children were recorded as labourers working on the family farm. At farm #38 in Bad Creek in 1920 once again, was the family of Will Collett, his wife Ella, with their five children, who were next-door-neighbours in 1910. Their details can be found in the new Part 43 – Other Colletts of Kentucky.
		Ten children were living with Wiley and Clare at #26 Jacks Creek Road in Bad Creek on the day of the census in 1930, while next door at #25 was the large family of Robert and Millie Collett. Wiley was 48 (sic) and renting the family home but still a farmer with his own account. Chloe was 52 who was 24 when she married Wiley when he was 20. Nine children were living with the couple that day, and they were unmarried Mallie Collett was 22, Harrison Collett was 19, Ballard Collett was 16, twins (?) Lucy and Henry Collett were 10, twin-sisters (?) Elizabeth and Golda Collett were four years of age, with twin-sisters (?) Obel (Opal) and Lela Collett being twelve months old.
		That 1930 census return raises a query regarding Chloe’s advanced years; were the four youngest children living with them more grandchildren of Wiley and Chloe Collett? Certainly, the 1940 Census for the couple’s daughter Maudie Bowling, married for a second time during the previous year, revealed she had living with her, her son Henry Collett who was 18 and a farm hand. He was described as the stepson of Bristo Bowling and, since Henry appeared to be the twin-brother of Lucy Collett in 1930, both them, and some of their four younger siblings, may have been the children from Maudie’s first marriage. The following census in 1940, when Chloe was 63, again had very young children living with the family for whom she could not have been the mother.
		That year (1940), the enlarged family was residing at #112 Bowens Creek Road in Bad Creek, where Wiley was 56 and the owner of his farm, with his own account. Chloe was 63 when, listed as their children were Mallie Collett who was 35, Harrison Collett who was 34 and a labourer with the W P A Roads, Ballard Collett was 25 and working with his father on the farm, Lucy Collett who was 20, Elizabeth Collett who was 14, Opal Collett who was 10, Joe Collett who was eight, and Ada Collett who was seven years of age. Living close by at #110 Bowens Creek Road was the couple’s eldest married son Woodard Collett with his wife and their family. Ten years later, the two families were living together as next-door-neighbours.
		On 27^th April 1942 a Draft Registration Card was completed at Hayden in Leslie County for Wiley Collett, referred to as Little Wiley Collett aged 64 residing at Roark, who signed the form with the mark of a cross. Once again Wiley’s closest relative was his wife Chloe Collett of Roark, but curiously his date of birth was incorrected stated as 25^th January 1879. Wiley Collett was 91 when he died at Roark, Leslie County, on 4^th April 1971 and was buried at Bowens Creek Cemetery in Essie, Leslie County. His burial recorded provided his date of birth as 20^th October 1879.
		It is the census for Leslie County conducted on 20^th April 1950 that provides the real details for the grandchildren of Wiley and Chloe. Previously named as Collett and described as their sons and daughters, the census that day revealed their surname to be Barrett, the same as the maiden-name of the couple’s eldest daughter-in-law, the wife of Woodard Collett. Of their own family, only one daughter was still living with Wiley and Chloe on their farm at #93 in Leslie County, and that was unmarried Mallie Collett who was 41, when Wiley was 67 and still farming, and Chloe was 72. Their grandchildren were recorded as Elizabeth Sizemore 24, Joe Barrett 18, Ada Barrett 16, Wiley Barrett who was five, Harrison Barrett who was three, and Bernice Barrett who was one year old. Next door as #92 was their son Woodard with his larger family and, on the other side at #94 was farmer George Baily aged 24, and his wife Opal Baily nee Collett aged 21, with their first child David Baily who had been born in December 1949.
		43R37			Maude Collett			Born in 1900 at Leslie County
		43R38			Woodard Collett			Born in 1902 at Leslie County
		43R39			Bergie Collett			Born in 1904 at Leslie County; died 13.12.26
		43R40			Stella Collett			Born in 1906 at Leslie County
		43R41			Mallie Collett			Born in 1908 at Leslie County
		43R42			Harrison Collett			Born in 1911 at Leslie County
		43R43			Ballard Collett			Born in 1913 at Leslie County
43Q18		Bradley Collett was born at Leslie County on 29^th April 1894 and was another child of John and Nancy Collett who were living in Bad Creek in 1900 when Bradley was eight years of age. Towards the end of the following decade Bradley moved out of the family home with his younger brother Harrison (below) and in 1910 the pair of them was staying with the Thompson family at Big Creek in Leslie County where they were employed as farm labourers. He served with the military from 20^th May 1918 until 15^th February the following year after which Bradley became a married man to a much younger wife, Mary Ellen Revis. As a consequence of their ten-year age difference, he lowered his age in the subsequent census returns, most likely to reduce the embarrassment. One member of the Revis family of Big Creek in 1910 was George Revis a farmer whose live-in farmer labourer was Gordon Collett. With no link yet found to this family line, his details, and those of near neighbour Johnnie Collett, can be found in the new Part 43 – Other Colletts of Kentucky.
		It was at Gilberts Creek in Big Creek for the census of 1920 that Bradley Collett said he was 24, rather than 27, with his wife Mary Ellen Collett being only 17. During the next ten years, Mary Ellen gave birth to five children who were all living with the couple in rented accommodation 1930 in Clay County, where Bradley was 36 and a labourer at a coal mine. The census return stated that 28-year-old Mary had married at the age of seventeen, when Bradley was 25. Their five children were John aged nine, Gracie aged seven, Melvin aged six, Rose who was four, and Hans who was two years and two months old.
		Over the following years, the family returned to a rented property at Gilberts Creek in Leslie County where Bradley was a farmer with his own account in 1940 and, by which time, a further five children had been added to his family. Bradley was 47, Mary Ellen was 38, John was 19 and a farmer, Grace was 17, Mel was 16 and a farmer, Rose was 14, Harris was 12, Jean was eight, Neil was six, Stanley was four, Myrtle was three, and Joyce was one year old. The census returned confirmed that the family had been living at the same address in 1935.
		The WW2 Draft Registration Card for Bradley Collett was completed at Hyden on 27^th April 1942 and confirmed the following details. He was 49 and born on the day stated above, he was a farmer at home in Marcum, Leslie County, and his wife was Mary Ellen Collett. Sadly, she died later that same year around the time of the birth, or just after, the birth of the couple’s last child. Those two events were recorded in the next census of 1950. Widower Bradley Collett aged 58 was continuing to work as a farmer, when he had ten of his eleven children still living with him, together with a Collett grandson.
		John was 30 and a coal loader at a coal mine, Gracie was 28 and keeping house, Mel was 24 and another coal loader, as was Harris aged 22, Jean was 20, Neil was 17, Stanley was 15, Myrtle was 12, Joyce was 10, and Jimmy was eight years old. Bradley’s grandson was six-year-old Bobbie Collett. Nineteen years later Bradley Collett died in Lesle County on 26^th October 1969, when his age was recorded in error as 77, after which he was buried at the John Sizemore Cemetery in Marcum.
		43R44			John Collett				Born in 1920 at Marcum, Kentucky
		43R45			Grace Collett				Born in 1922 at Marcum, Kentucky
		43R46			Melvin Collett				Born in 1924 at Marcum, Kentucky
		43R47			Rose Collett				Born on 04.04.1926 at Marcum, Kentucky
		43R48			Harris Collett				Born in 1928 at Marcum, Kentucky
		43R49			Jean Collett				Born on 31.05.1931 at Marcum, Kentucky
		43R50			Neil Collett				Born in 1933 at Marcum, Kentucky
		43R51			Stanley Collett				Born in 1935 at Hyden, Leslie County
		43R52			Myrtle Collett				Born in 1937 at Leslie County
		43R53			Joyce Collett				Born on 09.04.1939 at Marcum, Kentucky
		43R54			Jimmy Collett				Born in 1941 at Marcum, Kentucky
43Q19		Harrison G Collett was born on 16^th September 1895 at Buck Fork in Leslie County and was the sixth and last child of John Collett and Nancy Roark. At the age of 15 years, he was living at Bad Creek, Leslie County in 1910, when Harrison and his brother Bradley (above) were lodging with the Thompson family, from where they were working as farm labourers.
		It was on 5^th June 1917 at Clay County that Harrison’s WW1 Draft Registration Card revealed he was 21 and born at Buck Fork on 16^th September 1895. At that time he was a self-employed farmer living at Marcum in Clay County. The reason for his claim of exemption from military service was because he had a wife and two children to support. Harrison then signed the form with the mark of a cross. Three years later the family had increased to four children when they were living in Big Creek, Clay County. Head of the household Harrison was 24 and a general farmer with his own account renting the property. His wife Lillie was 29, and their four children were Cornelia Collett who was nearly six, Cornell Collett who was four years and ten months, Clarence who was two years and two months, and Laura Collett who was eleven months old.
		During the following decade Harrison purchased a farm in Clay County where the family was living in 1930. The census return gave a value of $300 for the new family home where farmer Harrison Collett having his own account was 35 and married when he was 18. Lillie Collett was 40 and was 23 years old on the day of their wedding. By 1930 the family had grown to eight children with Cornelia aged 16, Cornell who was 14 and working with his father on the farm, Clarence was 12, Laura was 10, Hamp was eight, Nancy was six, Haze (Hayes) was five, and Cassie was three years of age.
		It was at Goose Rock on Red Bird River in Clay County that Harrison and Lillie were reported to be living in the census of 1940. Harrison was 44 was a farmer on his own farm, Lillie was 49, son Cornell was 23 and a lineman with the electric company, Laura was 20, Hamp was 18 and a labourer on his father’s farm, Nancy was 16, Haze was 14, and Cassie was 12. Living with the family that day were two of their married children; daughter Cornelia Ledford with husband Arthur Ledford and their three children, and son Clarence Collett and his wife Malva Collett.
		The WW2 Draft Registration Card for Harrison Collett was completed at Laurel County in Kentucky on 27^th April 1942 when he was 46 and residing at Whitley (Street) in London, Laurel County. The other details confirmed his date of birth, as above, that he was a self-employed farmer, whose wife was Lillie Collett. Unlike the earlier WW1 Draft Card, on this occasion he signed the form in his own hand.
		By the time of the census conducted in 1950 the reduced family was again residing in Laurel County, where Harrison G Collett was continuing to work as a farmer at the age of 54. His wife, as Lillie N Collett was 59 and a farm helper. The couple’s two youngest sons, Hamp and Hayes, had return home after becoming marriage men, with them both employed by the electric company as electric linemen. Hamp Collett was 28 and a widower, and Hayes Collett was 24 and separated from his wife. Also living with the family that day was the couple’s youngest child, married daughter Cassie H Hampton who was 22. With her was her husband Lawrence Hampton 29 and a foreman lineman with the electric company, and their daughter Gloria J G Hampton who was three, and son Philip C Hampton who was one year old.
		Harrison Collett was 86 when he died in Laurel County on 10^th September 1980 and was buried at Collett Cemetery in Crab Orchard, Laurel County. The name and dates on his headstone referred to him as Harrison G Collett. However, whoever was the informant of his passing incorrectly gave his date of birth as 16^th October 1894.
		43R55			Cornelia Collett				Born in 1914 at Marcum, Clay County
		43R56			Cornell Collett				Born in 1916 at Marcum, Clay County
		43R57			Clarence Collett				Born in 1917 at Marcum, Clay County
		43R58			Laura Collett				Born in 1919 at Marcum, Clay County
		43R59			Hamp Collett				Born in 1921 at Marcum, Clay County
		43R60			Nancy Collett				Born in 1924 at Marcum, Clay County
		43R61			Haze Collett				Born in 1925 at Marcum, Clay County
		43R62			Cassie Collett				Born in 1928 at Clay County
43Q22		Arthur Collett was born at Asher, Leslie County in Kentucky on 10^th October 1894, the son of Ingram Collett and his first wife Serena Catherine Cope (aka Rena/Renio). Arthur was eight years old in the census of 1900 when he and his family were living at Marrowbone in Bad Creek in Leslie County. Shortly after 1906 his mother died and his father married the much younger Sarah who was only a couple of years older than Arthur, as confirmed in the Bad Creek census of 1910 when Arthur Collett was 17, with Sarah being 19.
		It was around 1916 when Arthur Collett married Frances Morgan, known as Francy, and just after, he served with the US Infantry in 1917 and 1918, when his military records confirmed his date and place of birth as stated above. It was also during 1917 that the couple’s first of their seven children was born, as reported in the Leslie County census of 1920. On that day the family was living at #15 Bad Creek Road in Bad Creek, when farmer Arthur Collett was 22 (sic), his wife Frances Collett was 21, their daughter Bettie Colett was four years and three months, and son Manuel was 13 months old.
		It is also established 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 24^th 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.
		The census for Roark, Leslie County, in 1940 identified six of Arthur’s children, five of whom were living with their mother Frances Brock aged 42 and their stepfather William Brock who was 44. However, only Arthur’s daughter Elva was named Collett, her four brothers as Brock. Manuel was 21, Corbett was 19, Elva was 17, Clarence was 16, and Troy was 14. Frances’ eldest son Fred was married by then and had two young children who were living with his wife immediately next door, at visitation #151, the remainder of his family was #150. At #148 was Arthur’s cousin Theo (Theophallus) Collett (Ref. 43Q31) and his family. 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 Collett at Blue Hole Water, Red Bird in Clay County.
		43R63			Fred Collett	Born in 1917 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R64			Emanuel Collett	Born in 1918 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R65			Corbett Collett	Born in 1920 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R66			Elva Collett	Born in 1922 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R67			Clarence Collett	Born in 1924 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R68			Troy Collett	Born in 1926 at Asher, Leslie County
43Q23		Wiley James Collett was born at Leslie County on 2^nd April 1896, another son of Ingram and Serena Collett. He weas four years old in the 1900 census for Marrowbone, Bad Creek in Leslie County. It was also at Bad Creek that Wiley Collett was again living with his family in 1910 at the age of 15. Four years later, Wiley Collett married Emily Asher during the month of March in 1914 when he was almost 18 years of age and she was nearly 17, with Emily having been born on 12^th May 1897. On 5^th June 1917 the WW1 Draft Registration Card completed for Wiley Collett at Leslie County provided the following information. His date of birth (as above), age 21, married, residing at Asher with his wife and two children, a farmer working for himself, who was claiming exemption due to having a wife and family to support.
		The couple gave misleading ages when interviewed for the subsequent censuses, the first of them in 1920 for Bad Creek when they and their two children were living at Bad Creek Road, when farmer Wiley Collett (as Willy Callett) was 22 (sic) having his own account for the farm. Emily was recorded as Ellie Callett who was 21 (sic), when their two children were Shelby Collett (as Shelley Callett) aged five, and McKinley Collett who was two years and two months old. That was on 2^nd January 1920 and just over five weeks later Emily gave birth to the couple’s only daughter Millie, who was followed by the birth of another two sons to complete their family.
		All five children were recorded with their parents at Bad Creek Road in Bad Creek, Leslie County, in 1930 with Wiley, the owner of his own farm, claiming he was 38 (sic). Emily was 34 and stated she 19 when she married Wiley, who said he was 21, both incorrect. Their five children, whose births had been recorded at Leslie County, were Shelby Collett who was 15, McKinley Collett who was 13, Millie Collett who was 11, Richard Collett who was nine, and Charlie Collett who was seven.
		By 1940 daughter Millie was married and had left the family home which, by then, was at Beech Fork in Leslie County. The remainder of the family was still together when Wiley Collett (as Wylie) was 42 (sic) and renting the property where they were residing and where he was a labourer working on a farm. Emily Collett was 39, Shelby Collett was 25, McKinley Collett was 23, Richard Collett was 18, and Charles Collett was 15. All four son were working as labourer in farming, perhaps even working alongside their father. Shortly after that their two youngest sons were married but were divorced by 1950, when they were sharing the same accommodation in Harlan County, Kentucky
		The WW2 Draft Registration Card, completed at Helton in Leslie County on 27^th April 1942, confirmed Wiley James Collett of Asher was residing at Helton and that he had been born on 2^nd April 1896. At that time in his life, he was 46 and employed by Bill Caldwell of Louellen, and the relative’s name he gave was Millie Sandlin of Chavies, Leslie County, his married daughter. The card also stated he was missing a thumb on his right hand. No record of Wiley and Emily has been found in the next census for 1950, when they would have been 54 and 53 respectively.
		It was twenty-eight years later, when Wiley Collett, aged 82, died on 23^rd June 1978 with his passing as recorded at Knox County, Kentucky. However, on being buried at Scalf Howard Cemetery in Barbourville, Knox County, he was acknowledged as Wiley J Collett. Five-and-a-half years after being widowed, Emily Asher Collett, aged 86, died at Bimble in Knox County on 27^th December 1983, and was buried with her husband at Barbourville.
		43R69			Shelby Collett	Born in 1915 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R70			McKinley Collett	Born in 1918 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R71			Millie Collett	Born in 1920 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R72			Richard Collett	Born in 1922 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R73			Charlie Collett	Born in 1924 at Asher, Leslie County
43Q26		Shelby Collett was born at Bad Creek in Leslie County on 25^th April 1905, the youngest child of Ingram Collett and Serena Catherine Cope, who was four years old in the Bad Creek census of 1910. It was previously written here that it was assumed Shelby married Martha around the middle of the 1920s. However, it can now be revealed that they were both married to other people and were therefore unable to be married until much later, after all their children had been born, making their married their second wedding. By 1930 Martha had given birth to the couple’s first two children when the family was living at Big Branch Road, Beech Fork, Marrowbone in Leslie County. Shelby Collett was 24 and a farmer of a general farm, Martha Collett was 21, their son Dewey Collett (as Huy) was four, and their daughter Grace Collett (as Gracy) was two years old, every member of the household having been born in Kentucky.
		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 living at Asher with their four surviving children, having lost son George who was born at Asher on 1^st April 1937, who died on 19^th November 1937 from broncho-pneumonia. They were recorded as Dewey Collett who was 15, Grace Collett who was 13, Rufus Collett who was nine, and daughter Sternel Collett who was seven years old.
		That same year, the WW2 Draft Registration Card completed at Hyden, Leslie County on 16^th October 1940, provided Shelby’s date of birth and confirmed his wife was Martha residing at Asher, and that at the age of 35, Shelby was unemployed. By the time of the next census in 1950, the family’s home was in Louellen, Harlan County, in a dwelling facing Fugitt Creek, “on the road leading into the new mine”. That day, 7^th April 1950, Shelby Collett was at home to assist the census enumerator to complete the form, and this is what was recorded, all under the name Callett. Shelby was 48 and a widower, Martha was 49, Dewey was 23, Rufus was 21, Grace was 19, Sternal was 15, Polly was eight, and Ruby was six years old.
		A slightly different story was told to the census enumerator on the following day, on 8^th April 1950, by 42-year-old Martha Collett who was the head of the household and a widow, clearing the way for her to marry the absent Shelby. Living with her were just four of her children, Rufus who was 20 and a coal loader at the local mine, Sternal who was 15, Polly who was nine, and Ruby who was five. Daughter Sternal was born at Asher on 4^th July 1934 and died there on 5^th May 2005 at the age of 71, and was buried at Bowens Creek Cemetery in Essie, Leslie County.
		Five years later the marriage of Shelby Collett and Martha Collett was conducted at Essie in Leslie County on 14^th June 1955 when they were both described as divorced and residing at Asher. Shelby was 49 and a farmer, the son of Ingram Collett and Rena Cope, while Martha’s parents were Billy Collett and Nancy Brock. Shelby was 64 when he died on 15^th October 1969 and was buried at Bowens Creek Cemetery in Essie.
		43R74			Dewey Huy Collett			Born in 1925 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R75			Grace Collett – married Troy Brock			Born in 1928 at Asher Leslie County
		43R76			Rufus Collett			Born in 1930 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R77			Sternal Collett			Born in 1934 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R78			George Collett			Born in 1937 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R79			Polly Collett			Born in 1941 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R80			Ruby Collett			Born in 1945 at Asher, Leslie County
43Q28		Leander Morton Collett was the second child of John Robinson Collett and Jennett Reed (Jeanette Reed) and was born at Hyden, Leslie County, Kentucky, on 5^th May 1892. As Lee Collett he was eight years of age in the Bad Creek census of 1900, and was a married man with a wife and daughter by 1920. However, three years earlier the WW1 Draft Registration Card revealed that he was 25 and born at Asher, who was living at Spring Creek in Kentucky where he had a dual occupation as a farmer “for himself” and a teacher. The reason he claimed exemption from the draft was because he had a wife to support who had physical disabilities.
		It was in 1915 when Leander Collett married Delora Langdon who was simply recorded as L M Collett in the two census returns for 1920 and 1940. His wife was often referred to as Laura and recorded as Lora. In 1920 Leander was 27 years old and Delora was 23, whose daughter Martha Collett was twenty-six months old. That year, their next-door neighbour at Bowens Creek in Bad Creek Precinct was Manford Collett (Ref. 43Q73) and his family. When their son Clarence was born at Manchester in 1925, his birth was recorded at Clay County.
		By 1930 the family was living at Artemus Road in Artemus, Knox County, Kentucky, where Lee M Collett was 34 and a teacher at a public school, as was his wife Lora who was 30. Lee was 23 when he married Delora, who was 19. Their children were Mattie Collett who was ten, Roy Collett who was eight, Marie Collett who was six, Clarence Collett who was four, and Gladys Collett who was twenty months old.
		Ten years later, husband and wife were teachers at a public school at Hyden in Leslie County when they were 47 (L M Collett), and 43 (Lora Collett) and residing on Rock House Highway 80. Described as a new worker was their son Roy Collett who was 19, whose twin sister Marie Collett was 19 and perhaps looking after household duties. The couple’s other children were Clarence Collett who was 12, Gladys Collett who was 10, L M Collett junior who was nine, and Mahlon Collett who was five years of age. At the start of the following year Leander Morton Collett submitted a Social Program Application in February 1941 which confirmed his date of birth (as above) and that his parents with John Collett and Jeanette Reed.
		During the next year the WW2 Draft Registration Card provided the name and date of birth of Leander M Collett who was 49 and born on 15^th May 1892 in Leslie County. His wife was confirmed as Lora L Collett when they were living at Hyden, where Leander was employed as a teacher by the Board of Education for Leslie County. Tragically, it was later that same year when Leander Morton Collett died at Marcum in Clay County, Kentucky, on 29^th November 1942, at the age of 50, and was buried at Langdon Cemetery in Marcum. Between the spring of 1998 and the end of 2007, L M Collett junior was living at 434 East Oak Street in Louisville, Jefferson County in Kentucky.
		43R81			Martha Collett	Born in 1918 at Leslie County
		43R82			Roy Burton Collett	Born in 1921 at Bowens Creek, Leslie County
		43R83			Marie Collett	Born in 1922 at Bowens Creek, Leslie County
		43R84			Clarence Ray Collett	Born in 1925 at Manchester, Clay County
		43R85			Gladys Collett	Born in 1936 at Hyden, Leslie County
		43R86			Leander Morton Collett junior	Born in 1931 at Hyden, Leslie County
		43R87			James Mahlon Collett	Born in 1934 at Hyden, Leslie County
43Q30		Nancy Ann Collett was the fourth child of John Robinson Collett and his first wife Jennett Reed, who was born at Leslie County on 16^th May 1896. She was later Nancy Ann Brock who died as a widow on 9^th November 1962 in Red Bird Hospital at Beverly in Clay Co, and was buried at Bad Creek Cemetery in Asher on 11^th November 1962, after residing at Hyden in Leslie County.
43Q31		Theophallus Collett, who was known as Theo, was born at Leslie County on 5^th May 1898, another son of John and Jennett Collett who was 12 years old in the Bad Creek census of 1910. On 12^th September 1918 the WW1 Draft Registration Card was completed Hyden in Leslie Collett for Theo Collett of Asher, Leslie County, when his date of birth was confirmed as stated above. His occupation was in farming and his father was confirmed as John R Collett, his nearest relative. The same form also recorded that he had broken his right arm below the elbow. Just before 1920 he married Susie Whitehead and, in the Bad Creek census that year, he and Susie were living right next door to his uncle Ingram Collett’s farm at #16 Bad Creek Road. Theo Collett was 21 and a farmer living at #17 Bad Creek Road with his wife Susie Collett who was 26, while at #20 Bad Creek Road was Theo’s parents, with three of his siblings.
		During the next decade father and son moved into adjacent farms, again on Bad Creek Road in Asher, where Theo and Susie were 32 in 1930. By that time they had three sons, Frank Collett who was nine, Ray Collett who was seven, and Charlie Collett who was five. Theo’s visitation was #88, his father’s was #89, and at #86 was the family of P L Collett and his wife Lottie (Ref. 43P32) his father’s younger brother.
		Two more children were added to the family during the following years, with all five children listed with the couple living in Roark, Leslie census in 1940. Theo Collett was 42 and employed as a labourer with the W P A [Road Program], his wife Susie was 44, and the five children were Frank aged 21, Ray aged 17, Charlie aged 14, Jeanette Collett who was seven, and Theo Collett junior who was four years old. That day the family was recorded at #148, when two of his nearest three neighbours were members of the Collett family. At #150 was Frances (Francy) Brock, former widow of Arthur Collett (Ref. 43Q22) who was Theo’s cousin, and next door to them, and at #151, was the family of Fred Collett (Ref.43R49), the eldest children of Arthur and Francy Collett, and therefore Theo’s nephew. Less than two years after that day, the US Draft Registration Card for WW2 was completed at Hyden on 16^th February 1942 for Theo Collett of Asher, working for the W P A at Corbin, whose wife was Susie.
		After a further eight years, Theo Collett was 52 and residing in Leslie County when he was a mill worker with a lumber manufacturing company. Wife Susie was 51, and only their two youngest children were still living with them; Jeanette Collett as Nettie was 16 and Theo Junior was 14. That family group was at visitation #253. While at #254 was the couple’s married son Ray, whose wife Dorothy had given birth to their first child in February 1950. Theo Collett died at Hazard in Perry County, Kentucky, on 20^th February 1955 and was buried at Bowens Creek Cemetery in Essie, Leslie County.
		The couple’s eldest child, Frank Collett was born on 18^th May 1920, was 21 and a farmer, the son of Theo Collett of Asher, when his WW2 Draft Registration Card was completed at Hyden, Leslie County on 4^th July 1941. The only other known fact about him, is that he died on 2^nd April 1978 aged 57 and was buried at Bowens Creek, Essie, Leslie County.
		Theo and Susie’s son Charles, was born at Asher on 24^th August 1926 and died in Clay County on 29^th February 1976, but was buried at Bowens Creek Cemetery, in Essie, where his name was recorded at Charlie T Collett aged 49. On 9^th September 1944 his WW2 Draft Registration Card was completed at Hyden when he was 18 and unemployed and residing in Essie, the son of Theo Collett of Asher.
		As regards their daughter ‘Jeanette’, in the Social Program Application dated June 1952, she was described as Nettie Jean Collett, born on 30^th June 1933 at Asher, the daughter of Theo Collett and Susie Whitehead. The records also provided the information that she died on 8^th July 1996 as Nettie J Wilson, when she had been residing at Helton in Leslie County. It was on 13^th December 1955 that she married divorcee Orville Wilson aged 34 and a coalminer, at Bletsoe in Harlan County, the son of Theo Wilson and Flora Howard, when she was 22 and her parents were confirmed as Theo Collett and Susie Whitehead.
		It was also the Social Program records that provided the information regarding the couple’s youngest child. He was named as Junior John Collett, born at Asher on 21^st August 1935. The first of two applications made on his behalf, and dated October 1952, also referred to him in the same way, while the later one, on 23^rd November 1984, simply addressed him as Junior Collett the son of Theo Collett and Susie Whitehead. Finally, at the end of his life, he was curiously described as John R Collett who died on 30^th September 2002, with his burial at Bowens Creek Cemetery, Essie, recorded s John R Collett “Junior”.
		43R88			Frank Collett			Born in 1920 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R89			Ray Collett			Born in 1923 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R90			Charlie Collett			Born in 1926 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R91			Nettie Jean Collett			Born in 1933 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R92			Junior John Collett (aka Theo Jnr)			Born in 1935 at Asher Leslie County
43Q33		Sherman M Collett was the seventh child of John Robinson Collett and Jennett Reed, and was born on 30^th April 1901 at Asher, Bad Creek in Leslie County, where he was living with his family in 1910 aged nine years. At the age of 17 he served as a private 1^st Class 573491 with Company F of 39^th Infantry in France in September 1918. It was in his WW2 Draft Registration Card, completed at Hyden on 16^th February 1942, that he was referred to as Sherman M Collett, the son of John R Collett of Warbranch, Kentucky, who was born at Asher on 30^th April 1901. At that time in his life, he was 41 and residing in Asher, where he was employed by the Frontier Nursing Service. Eight years later, bachelor Sherman Collett, aged 49, married his father’s widow Nettie Whitehead, aged 34, on 21^st March 1950 in Harlan County, although both were recorded at living in Asher. Sherman was a farmer and the son of John R Collett and Jeanette Reed, when Nettie’s parents were named as Levi Whitehead and Mahala Brock.
		Two months after their wedding day the pair of them was living at Leslie County with nine children and one grandson, all with the Collett surname. The four eldest children, most likely from Nettie’s first marriage were daughter Haley Collett 19, son Junior Collett 15, Juanita Collett 13, and Annie Collett who was 11. The next three were the children of John Robinson Collett and his third wife Nettie Whitehead, and therefore the half-sisters and brother of Sherman. They were Carolyn (Ethel) Collett aged eight, John R Collett (junior) aged six, and Bettie F Collett who was born around the time her father died. The parents of two youngest children were most likely Sherman M Collett and Nettie Whitehead, and were Johnny L Collett between one and two years old, and Evelyn Collett who had been born during January 1950. It is not known which of the older children was the mother of the just-born unnamed grandson born in May 1950.
		Sherman M Collett died at Wallins Creek in Harlan County on 8^th December 1969 at the age of 68 and was buried at Bowens Creek Cemetery in Essie, Leslie County. His daughter Evelyn was born at Hyden on 30^th January 1950 and as Evelyn Collett Hensley she died in Harlan County on 6^th June 2019 and two days later her obituary was published.
		43R93			Johnny L Collett	Born on 24.06.1948 at Asher, Leslie County
		43R94			Evelyn Collett	Born in 1950 at Hyden, Leslie County
43Q43		Carolyn Ethel Collett was the last of the fifteen 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 31^st October 1941 and was 22 when she married (1) Rufus Collett (Ref. 43R76) who was 33, at Jonesville, Lee County in Virginia, on 23^rd March 1964. He was the former husband of Martha Blevins, a divorced lady to whom he was first married in 1953 aged 22 and the third child of Shelby and Martha Collett of Essie, Leslie County. Carolyn and Rufus (1930-2003) must have been divorced because, later on in her life, Carolyn married (2) David R Lewis. And it was as Carolyn Ethel Lewis that she died on 12^th September 2005 at Hyden in Leslie County.
43Q46		Robert Lee Collett was born at Bad Creek in Leslie County, Kentucky on 7^th March 1894, the son of Pleasant Lee and Rusho J Collett, who was five in the census of 1900 when he and his family were living at Bad Creek Precinct in Lesle County. Like his two younger brothers (below) and his father, Robert was residing at Upper Red Bird in 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 his grandfather. Staying with the family was servant Mary Jane Brock who was 18. Robert was the owner of a general farm, as were his parents next door, and Robert’s brother Ingram next to them.
		Over the following decade Robert and Dora gave birth to four children, and by 1930 the enlarged family was living on Red Bird Road in Clay County. That day Robert Collett ,aged 35, was a general farmer who was 19 when he married Dora Roberts, aged 28, who was 16 on the day of their wedding. The children recorded with the couple were P L Collett who was 12, Boyd Collett who was 10, Pearl Collett who was seven, Matthew Collett who was four, and Margie Collett who was one year old.
		During the next ten years Dora presented Robert with a further four children who were still living with the couple of the day of the census in 1940. Head of the household at Red Bird River, Clay County, was Robert L Collett aged 44 and a mail carrier, his wife Dora was 40, and their children were Boyd Collett who was 20, Margorie Collett who was 14, Matthew Collett who was 11, Mabel Collett who was eight, Jewel Collett who was six, Bobbie Collett who was three, and Daisy Collett who was six months old. Still living with the family was the couple’s eldest daughter Pearl, who was married by then, and a mother to her first child.
		On that day in 1940, the family was living at #56 Red Bird River with another Collett family living close by at #58 Red Bird River, and that was the family of coalminer Joe (Joseph) Collett (Ref. 43Q84). On the 22^nd April 1942 Robert, as Robert Lee Collett, completed a WW2 Draft Registration Card at Manchester in Clay County. He was 48 and self-employed, living at Roark, Clay County, with his date of birth confirmed as 7^th March 1894, when his wife was Mrs Dora Collett of Roark.
		After a further ten years, the family was living in the Blue Hole area of Red Bird River where Robert Collett was 54 and a farmer. Dora was 49 and the four children still living at the family home were Jewell Collett aged 15, Bobbie aged 13, Ruby was 10, and Roasie Collett was six years old. Just over twenty years later, Robert Lee Collett died on 16^th September 1971 at Clay County when he was 77, following which he was buried as Estep Cemetery in Leslie County. It is also established that his widow remarried to become Dora Gray.
		43R95			Pleasant Lee Collett	Born in 1917 at Clay County
		43R96			Boyd Collett	Born in 1920 at Clay County
		43R97			Pearl Mae Collett	Born in 1923 at Clay County
		43R98			Matthew Collett	Born in 1926 at Clay County
		43R99			Margorie Collett	Born in 1929 at Clay County
		43R100			Mabel Collett	Born in 1932 at Clay County
		43R101			Jewel Collett	Born in 1934 at Roark, Clay County
		43R102			Bobbie Collett	Born in 1937 at Roark, Clay County
		43R103			Daisy Collett	Born in 1939 at Roark, Clay County
43Q47		Ingram Collett was born at Asher, Bad Creek, on 12^th April 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 Ingram Collett married Sallie Asher at Webster, Clay County, on 12^th March 1919 when the groom was 23, the son of P L Collett and Lottie Reid, and the bride was 22 and the daughter of Joe Asher and Dora Lizenroie. They were both residing in Roark where Ingram was in farming. A year later the census in 1920 included the childless couple as Ingram Collett who was 22 (sic) and a general farmer, and Sallie Collett who was 19 when they were living at #5 in Upper Red Bird in Clay County. Next-door, at #6, was Ingram’s parents, and at #7 was his older brother Robert (above), not far from them was his younger brother Dewie (below).
		Ingram Collett died in the Middlesborough Hospital in Bell County on 13^th April 1950, the cause of death being heart failure, at a time in his life when he was living at Barbourville in Knox County. The informant of his passing was Stanley Collett who made an error when he gave his father’s date of birth as 12^th April 1899, confirming the parents of Ingram were P L Collett and Ruth Reid. Three days later he was laid to rest at Barbourville Cemetery.
		43R104			Nora Mae Collett	Born in 1921 at Upper Red Bird, Clay County
		43R105			Stanley Collett	Born in 1924 at Upper Red Bird, Clay County
		43R106			Asher Collett	Born in 1926 at Upper Red Bird, Clay County
43Q49		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 mother Lottie Collett. 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.
		43R107			Dorothy Collett	Born in 1935 at Leslie County
		43R108			Leitha Collett	Born in 1936 at Leslie County
43Q54		Minnie Jane Collett was born in Tennessee on 19^th June 1896 and was the first of the three known children of Farmer Collett and Nancy Redman. After her father died in 1944, Minnie Kirk was the head of the household at 657 South Limestone in Fayette County, Kentucky in 1950. By then she had been married and was a widow at 53, who had no stated occupation but was obviously taking in lodgers, there being three males staying there on that occasion. Recorded with her that day was her widowed mother Nancy Collett who was 75, and her younger brother Tommy (below). As Minnie Jane Collett Kirk, she died at Pineville in Bell County on 13^th June 1988, just six days before her 92^nd birthday, and was buried with her brothers at Pineville Cemetery.
43Q55		Edgar Robert Collett was born on 18^th June 1898 at Middlesboro, Bell County in Kentucky, the second child and eldest son of Farmer Collett and Nancy Redman. By the time he was two years of age, the family was living at Sims Fork Straight Creek Precinct. He was 63 when he died in Pineville Hospital, Bell County after an accident on 31^st October 1961, following which he was buried in Pineville Cemetery on 2^nd November 1961. Once again, he was confirmed as the son of Farmer Collett and Nancy Redmond, when the cause of death was the result of acute bromide poisoning. He had never married and lived his whole life in Bell County, when he worked as a barber.
		The WW1 Draft Registration Card for Edgar R Collett which was completed on 12^th September 1918 and stated he was 20 years of age and living at Pineville, his date of birth being 18^th June 1898, and his father being F Collett. The later Draft Card for WW2 confirmed the same date of birth for Robert Edgar Collett and was completed at Pineville on 16^th February 1942, by which time he was not working and was residing in Dorton Branch, near Pineville, Bell County. It was also at Dorton Branch that members of his extended Collett family were living in 1930 and 1940.
43Q56		Thomas Lee Collett, who was known as Tommy Collett, was born at Straight Creek in Bell County on 29^th April 1904, the last child of Farmer Collett and Nancy Redman. He was still living with his parents in 1920 and still at Straight Creek, when Tommie was 15 and coal miner, as was his father. His WW2 Draft Registration Card completed on 16^th February 1942 at Pineville provided his full name as Tommy Lee Collett, his age as 37, his date of birth as above, and his address as 214 Second Street in Pineville, from where he was employed as a purchasing agent for the Bell Company. The name and address of someone who would know his whereabout was Millard Johnson of 710 Tennessee Avenue, Pineville.
		During the next eight years Tommy was married and divorced, as confirmed in the census of 1950, when he was living with his widowed mother Nancy, at the home of his sister Minnie Kirk nee Collett (above). That was at 657 South Limestone, Fayette County in Kentucky where Tommy Collett was 45 and a barber at a nearby barber shop, as was his older brother Edgar (above). Thomas Lee Collett “Tommy” died on 26^th January 1978 and was buried at Pineville Cemetery.
43Q57		Edward Collett was born at Bell County on 13^th June 1904 and was the first-born child of Thomas Joel Collett and Maggie Redman, sometimes written/recorded as Redmond. Edward was 32 and a clerk when he married Edna Jump aged 25 at Newport in Campbell County, Kentucky on 8^th August 1936. He was the son of Thomas and Maggie Collett, and she was the daughter of Louis and Julia Jump. Shortly after the wedding, the couple moved to Cincinnati, Hamilton County in Ohio where Edna had been born and, where she gave birth to three children. On the day of the census in 1940 the family was residing at 1711 Elm Street in Cincinnati where Edward was 35 and a machinist with his own business, Edna was 29, Edward junior was three, and Shirley Ann was one year old.
		By 1950 the couple was still living in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, with their three Ohio born children. Edward senior was 45 and employed as a (security) guard at a milling machine factory, when Edna was 39 and also born in Ohio. The children were Edward Collett junior who was 13, Shirley Ann Collett who was 11, and Donald Collett who was eight years old. Later on, Edward was 78 years old and living in Montgomery, Hamilton County, Ohio, when he died on 10^th February 1983 and was buried at Vine Street Hill Cemetery.
		Edward Collett Junior, aka Edward Joseph Collett, was born on 5^th February 1937 in Cincinnati and died on 26^th July 2005 in hospital in Ohio, when his home address was 611 Sanoma Valley Court, Crestview Hills, Cincinnati. He was 68 and a widower, and was buried Erlanger in Kenton County, Kentucky, with his obituary published by the Kentucky Post at Covington.
		Daughter Shirley Ann Collett was born on 12^th February 1939 in Cincinnati and, in the summer of 1964, she was Shirley Ann Arcolino. Twenty-four years later, as simply Shirley Ann Collett aged 49, she suffered a premature death on 27^th April 1988, requiring an autopsy, and was buried at Vine Street Hill Cemetery in Cincinnati. Prior to the sad event, she was divorced and worked as a radiologic technician in a hospital.
		Youngest son Donald James Collett was born at Cincinnati on 9^th September 1941 and died there on 25^th April 1988, two days before his sister Shirley. He was 46 and a driver of heavy trucks, residing at North College Hill in Cincinnati.
		43R109			Edward Joseph Collett junior	Born in 1937 at Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio
		43R110			Shirley Ann Collett	Born in 1939 at Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio
		43R111			Donald James Collett	Born in 1941 at Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio
43Q58		Fannie Collett was born at Middlesboro in Bell County on 26^th February 1906, the eldest daughter ad second child of Thomas and Maggie Collett. By the time she was 14, Fannie and her family were living at Straight Creek in Belly County. Sometime after that day in 1920 and, on being married for the first time, she became Fannie Johnson. Much later, on 2^nd September 1949, Fannie Johnson married (2) John F Brooks at Wayne County in Indiana, and it was their application to be married that revealed Fannie’s date and place of birth, a housekeeper residing in Cincinnati, Ohio. John was also living in Cincinnati, where he was working as a car cleaner. Their marriage recorded confirmed that Fannie had been married once and was divorced in November 1945. Her parents were also confirmed as Tom Collett of Knox County, Tennessee (deceased), and Maggie Redmond of Knox County, Tennessee.
43Q59		Robert Collett was born at Middlesboro in Bell County on 9^th June 1908, another son of Tom and Maggie Collett. It was on 1^st March 1930 when Robert, the son of Tom, married Dorothy Wilson the daughter of Claude and Mary Wilson at Pineville in Bell County. They were both single, with Robert aged 22 and working in the mining industry, who was born at Dorton Branch near Pineville, and Dorothy aged 16 and born at Cary in Bell County, to the north of Pineville.
		Just over one month later the young couple was living immediately adjacent to Robert’s family at Dorton Branch, when he was 21 and a miner, and his bride was 16. By 1935 Robert and Dorothy were living at Coxton in Harlan County, with Dorothy having given birth to their first two children, with two more born before the end of that decade. The 1940 census for Coxton listed the family at New Camp, Brookside, when Robert was recorded as Bob Collett aged 31 and a miner at the coal mine. Dorothy was 26, and their four sons were Bobby Collett junior who was seven, Billy Collett who was five, Lindsay Collett who was three, and Phillip Collett who was one year old.
		It was at Harlan, on 16^th October 1940 that Robert (as Bob) completed the WW2 Draft Registration Card, which included the following details. He was 32, place and date of birth (as above), living at Brookside and employed by the Harlan Collieries Company at Brookside. The person named as someone who would always know his address was Maggie Collett, his mother, residing in Pineville, Bell County.
		One more son was added to their family, who was recorded with them in 1950, although by then son Billy was absent. Bob was still a miner at the age of 41, Dorothy was 36, Bobby junior was 17, Linza (previously Lindsay) was 13, Phillip was 11, and Claude Wayne was six years old. By the end of 1989, Robert was still residing in Brookside, and six years later the death of Bob Collett was recorded at Harlan County on 21^st July 1996 when he was 88.
		The marriage of Bob Collett junior and June Louise McKamey took place at Jonesville, Lee County in Virginia on 6^th June 1955, when he was 22 and his parents were Bob Collett and Dorothy Wilson, and she was 19 whose parents were Robert McKamey and Grace Childs.
		The second son of Bob and Dorothy Collett, Bill Edward Collett was born on 4^th October 1934 at Brookside where he was still living with his family in March 1951 when an application was made to the Social Program, which later confirmed the died that he died was 12^th August 2002, the son of Bob Collett and Dorothy Wilson.
		The marriage of Linza Ray Collett and Robbie Ellis took place at Jonesville, Lee County in Virginia on 4^th February 1956. The wedding record stated the groom was 19, a factory worker of Brookside, and the son of Bob Collett and Dorothy Wilson, with the bride being 18 and the daughter of Charlie Ellis and Nettie Miracle, also of Brookside.
		43R112			Bob Collett junior	Born in 1933 at Coxton, Harlan County
		43R113			Bill Edward Collett	Born in 1934 at Coxton, Harlan County
		43R114			Linza Ray Collett	Born in 1937 at Coxton, Harlan County
		43R115			Phillip Collett	Born in 1939 at Coxton, Harlan County
		43R116			Claude Wayne Collett	Born in 1944 at Coxton, Harlan County
43Q61		Clarence Collett was born at Pineville in Bell County on 7^th April 1913 and, by the time he was 17 in 1930, he and his large family were living in Dorton Branch where Clarence was working as a miner. Seven years after that day the marriage of Clarence Collett aged 23 and Bessie Depew aged 16, took place at Harlan in Harlan County on 26^th February 1937. Once again, the groom’s parents were recorded as Tom and Maggie Collett, with the bride’s parents named as Thomas and Martie Depew.
		The WW2 Draft Registration Card for Clarence Collett was completed at Harlan on 16^th October 1940, when his home address was 1821 Liberty Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. That day he was 27 and employed by the Nocum Creek Coal Company at Evarts in Harlan County. His date of birth was confirmed as stated above, while the person named as someone who would always know his address was his wife Mrs Bessie Depew Collett of Brookside, Harlan County.
		Ten years later, Clarence and Bessie were listed with their family in the 1950 census for Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, at 18 West Liberty Street, the home of his widowed mother Maggie Collett aged 64, who still had living with her three of Clarence’s younger unmarried brother, Albert, William, and Ernest who was divorced. Clarence was 37 and a cut-saw operator at a local wood sawmill, Bessie was 27, when the couple’s three eldest children had been born in Kentucky before the family moved to Ohio, where their two youngest had been born. They were daughters Eunice A Collett aged eleven, Magil F Collett aged ten, and Loretta F Collett who was nine, and sons Thomas J Collett who was six, and Darrell Collett who was one year old. It is highly likely that Thomas was named in honour of his grandfather Thomas Joel Collett.
		At the time of his death, at the age of 70, Clarence Collett was residing at Boone, Kentucky, when he passed away on 30^th April 1983, after which he was buried at Floral Hills Memorial Gardens in Taylor Mill, Kenton County, Kentucky. His wife Bessie had been born on 9^th October 1921 and was 88 years of age when she died on 5^th April 2020 at Edgewood, Douglas County, Nevada. Curiously, publication of her obituary was delayed until 6^th August 2020 and released in Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky.
		The details therein were as follows: Bessie Depew Collett, 88, died Monday, April 5, at Hospice of St. Elizabeth Healthcare, Edgewood. She was a homemaker and member of Boone County Senior Center. Her husband, Clarence Collett; daughter Loretta Hutchinson; and son Thomas Collett, died previously. Survivors include her daughters, Eunice Fletcher of Owensboro, Magiel Heinrich of Independence, Sharon Smith of Cincinnati, Linda Woods of Latonia, and Sandy King of Cleves, Ohio; son, Darrell Collett of Independence; brothers, Thomas Depew Jr. of Camden, Ohio and Henry Depew of Fairfield, Ohio; 16 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren and 14 great-great-grandchildren.
		43R117			Eunice A Collett – Eunice Fletcher						Born in 1939 at Coxton, Harlan County
		43R118			Magiel F Collett – Magiel Heinrich						Born in 1940 at Coxton, Harlan County
		43R119			Loretta F Collett – Loretta Hutchinson						Born in 1942 at Coxton, Harlan County
		43R120			Thomas Joel Collett						Born in 1944 at Cincinnati, Ohio
		43R121			Darrell Collett						Born in 1949 at Cincinnati, Ohio
		43R122			Linda Collett – Linda Woods						Born after 1950 at Cincinnati, Ohio
		43R123			Sandy Collett - Sandy King						Born after 1950 at Cincinnati, Ohio
43Q62		Nancy Marie Collett was born at Pineville in Bell County on 12^th October 1915 who, as Nannie Collett was nearly five years old in the Straight Creek census of 1920 and was 14 in the Dorton Branch census in 1930. It was later that she married Charles F Walsh and, upon her death at Park Ridge, Maine Township, Cook County in Illinois on 31^st July 1978, Marie Collett Walsh, the daughter of Thomas Collett and Maggie Redmond was confirmed as the former wife of Charles F Walsh. After her body was transported back to Ohio, it was laid to rest on 4^th August 1978 in Vine Street Hill Cemetery in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio.
43Q63		Albert Collett was born on 26^th February 1918 at Pineville in Bell County and was three years of age in the Straight Creek census of 1920 and was 12 years old in the Dorton Branch, Four Mile and Lone Jack, census in 1930. Just as with his older brothers, the WW2 Draft Registration Card for Clarence was completed at Harlan on 16^th October 1940. This confirmed his date and place of birth, as above, and that he was residing at 1711 Elm Street in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, care off Edward Collett, when his mother was Maggie Collett on Pineville, and when he was an employee of the Harlan Collieries Company of Brookside Kentucky, as was his brother Bob Collett (above) whose Draft Card was also completed at Harlan that same day.
		After his father Thomas Joel Collett died in 1947, Albert continued to live with his widowed mother Maggie Redman Collett at 18 West Liberty Street in Cincinnati, when he was 32 a repairer of furniture for a furniture company in 1950. He never married and thirty-six years later, at the age of 68, he died on 11^th January 1986 in Harlan County, but was buried in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Vine Street Hill Cemetery with his oldest brother Edward (1983) and his older sister Marie Collett Walsh (1978).
43Q64		William Paul Collett was born on 11^th February 1920 or 1921 at Pineville in Bell County, and was another son of Thomas and Maggie Collett. When he was 17, he or parents on his behalf, made an application for Paul Collett to the Social Program in October 1937. He may never have married as indicated when he enlisted in the US Army at Cincinnati on 7^th August 1942 and, three years after the death of his father, when he was still living in the family home at 18 West Liberty Street in Cincinnati in 1950. In the first of those records, he was William P Collett a 21-year-old semi-skilled mechanic and repairman, and in the second he was William P Collett aged 30 who was working as a clean-up man at a café, where his brother Ernest (below) was a bartender.
		Around 1990 he moved from Cincinnati, Ohio, back to Kentucky. William P Collett died on 14^th August 1994, just prior to which he had been living at 735 Johnson Road in London, Laurel County, which was possibly where he passed away at the age of 74. It was at that time his date of birth was recorded as 11^th February 1921, whereas it was his birth and the Social Program documents that gave it to be one year early.
43Q65		Ernest Collett was born at Pineville in Bell County on 7^th March 1923, the ninth child of Thomas and Maggie Collett. In 1940 he was 17 and a new worker on a farm, when he was still living with his family at His life is still a mystery, since it is established that he was married and divorced prior to 1950. In the census that year, Ernest was divorced after his failed marriage, when he was once again back home with his widowed mother at 18 West Liberty Street, Cincinnati in Hamilton County, Ohio. That day he was 27 and working in a local café as a bartender, where his brother William (above) was the clean-up man. After that, all we know is that he was 83 when he died on 21^st September 2006, which may have happened at 2267 Pompano Avenue, Reading in Hamilton County. However, the death certificate named his mother as Margaret Brown, the same name used at the birth of Ernest’s sister Maurine Coll (below).
43Q66		Maurine G Collett was born on 8^th July 1924 at Pineville, Bell County, another daughter of Tom and Maggie Collett. Rather curiously, at her birth her mother was referred to as Margaret Brown, the same name use upon the death of her brother Ernest (above). Upon being married to Carl A Nikirk at Newport, Campbell County in Kentucky, on 14^th December 1946, Maurine Collett was described as 21 and born at Pineville, the daughter of Thomas and Margaret Collett. Carl was 25 and the son of R S and Nellie Nikirk.
		By the day of the census in 1950 they had two children, with a third child to be born six months later that same year. Their home was on Cumberland Avenue in Middlesboro, Bell County, where Carl from Virginia was 27, Maurine was 24, daughter Patricia Nikirk was two, and son Michael Nikirk was one year old. Their third child was Deidra G Nikirk who was born at Middlesboro on 4^th October 1950.
43Q67		Mable J Collett was born on 3^rd September 1927 at Bell County another child of Tom and Maggie Collett. Her name was more often spelt as Mable, but it was as Mabel Collett that she was two years of age in the census of 1930 for Dorton Branch in Four Miles and Lone Jack, just south of Pineville where her older siblings were born. In 1940 she was Mable aged 12, the last occasion when she was with her family at Dorton Branch, and was not living with her parents at 18 West Liberty Street in Cincinnati, Ohio, when he father died in 1947, nor later at the same address where her widowed mother was still living in 1950.
		On that day in 1950 Mable J Collett was 22 and living in a dormitory at the Pacific Bible College at Portland in Oregon, where she had an income from undertaking housework for a private family. No obvious record for her has been found after that time.
43Q68		Betty Jane Collett was the last child of Thomas Joel Collett and Maggie Redman and was born on 18^th November 1929 at Pineville in Bell County. As Betty Jane she was four months of age in the Dorton Branch census of 1930 and was 10 years old in the Dorton Branch census of 1940. Eight years later, on 4^th June 1948 at Marshall, Indiana, Betty Jane Collett married Ballard G Parsons. He was born at Elkhorn, Kentucky on 3^rd February 1928, the son of James F Parson and Fannie Chappel, who was residing at Plymouth in Indiana, as was his bride, whose parents were confirmed as Thomas Collett and Margaret Redmond.
		Ballard Greer Parsons was living at Whitestown, Boone County in Indiana when he died on 5^th August 2015 at the age of 87, when he was buried at the Lincoln Memory Gardens in Whitestown.
43Q69		George William Collett was born in Kentucky on 17^th 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.
		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.
		The US Army draft record completed on 12^th 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.
		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 home that day was the home of tenant farmer James Collett and his wife and daughter, their details recorded in the new Part 43 – Other Colletts of Kentucky.
		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.
		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 #116 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 Bowens Creek Road at #112 was that of Wiley Collett (Ref. 43Q15) and his wife Chloe, and their eight children, and at #110 was their eldest son Woodard Collett (Ref. 43R38).
		George William Collett died on 27^th March 1948 at Essie in Leslie County, Kentucky, and was buried at Bowens Creek Cemetery.
		43R124			Emily Collett	Born in 1894 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R125			Bertha Collett	Born in 1896 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R126			Shelby Collett – died in 1969	Born in 1897 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R127			Wilson Collett – infant death	Born in 1900 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R128			a Collett child – infant death	Born in 1902 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R129			Sarah Jane Collett	Born in 1904 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R130			Birchell Collett	Born in 1906 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R131			Reuben Collett	Born in 1909 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R132			Charley Collett	Born in 1914 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R133			Mary Collett	Born in 1916 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
43Q70		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.
		In 1926 Arthur Collett (Ref. 43Q22) died leaving his wife with six young children, one of the youngest of which was two-year-old Clarence Collett (Ref. 43R67), who was taken in by Joseph and Dorkus. That situation was confirmed in the Bad Creek census of 1930 when Joe Collett was 54 and a general farmer, Dorkus Collett was 58, and Clarence Collett was six years of age, living at 63 Middle Four Road. Clarence was described as a third cousin.
43Q72		Elias Collett ($) was born in Kentucky, at Leslie County on 2^nd 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 30 and a general farmer with his own account, his wife Carla Collett was 34 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 junior 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 his parents John and Jane Collette, and his older brother Joseph Collette (above) with his wife Dorkus Collette, both general farmers having their own account.
		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 the family of Manford Collett (below), and Leander Morton Collett (Ref. 43Q29).
		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) aged 74 living with her who was described as brother, when he was 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.
		The US Army draft record completed on 27^th 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 1^st 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 24^th August 1876. Sometimes, she was recorded at Carty.
		Not long after being widowed, Elias Collett died at home in Essie, Leslie County on 13^th 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.
		43R134			Elmer Collett	Born in 1905 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R135			John L Collett ($)	Born in 1907 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R136			Della Collett	Born in 1911 at Bad Creek, Leslie Cty
43Q73		Manford Collett was born at Leslie County in Kentucky on 12^th 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 next-door to James Collette senior – see Part 43 Other Colletts of Kentucky. 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.
		Further children were added to Manford’s family between 1910 and 1920 which was living at Bowens Creek Road in Bad Creek Precinct, Leslie County, 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 Leander Morton Collett (Ref. 43Q29) (as L M Collett) with his wife and their daughter.
		On the day the census was conducted at Bad Creek in 1930, farmer Manford Collett was 53 and residing on Jacks Creek Road with his family. 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 and his young family, and their details are provided in the new Part 43 – Other Colletts of Kentucky.
		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 27^th 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 23^rd February 1963 at the age of 85.
		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, only two months and three weeks after his twenty-first birthday he died at Red Bird Hospital in Beverly, Bell County on 12^th November 1939. The death certificate confirmed his date of birth as 21^st August 1918, the name of his spouse, together with the names of his parents, Manford Collett and Nannie Sizemore. At that time in their young life, Berry and Opha were living in Roark, Leslie County, where Berry was a farmer, and farm owner. The informant of his death was his father Manford Collett.
		The cause of death was a “gunshot wound – homicidal”, and a contributory fact, but not related to the principal cause, was acute alcoholism. The certificate included a brief report of the incident, as follows; “Date of injury 11^th November 1939 at home in Roark, during a drunken brawl, when he received a bullet through the chest, and another through the abdomen”.
		His older brother Willie Collett was born on 10^th January 1916 and he died on 24^th November 1985 at Jackson County, Kentucky, when he was 69. His younger sister Mary was born at Asher on 3^rd April 1921 and died at Bond, Jackson County in Kentucky on 11^th February 1981 as Mary Emily Collett Roark, when she was buried at Fee Cemetery in New Zion, Jackson County.
		The eldest child of Manford Collett and Nannie Sizemore, has been more difficult to trace, mainly because her name was interpreted as Judie/Judy Collett, for whom not entry has been found. Now it is known she was actually Sudie/Suda Collett who was born in Leslie County on 10^th March 1899. Upon her passing on 18^th January 1987, she was buried in the Fee Cemetery in Zion, Jackson County, with her sister Mary, when she was recorded as Suda Collett Fee.
		43R137			Sudie Collett	Born in 1899 at Leslie County
		43R138			Ruth Collett	Born in 1902 at Leslie County
		43R139			James Farmer Collett	Born in 1904 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R140			Lucy Collett	Born in 1907 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R141			Cornella Collett	Born in 1911 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R142			Willie Collett	Born in 1916 at Roark, Leslie County
		43R143			Billie Collett	Born in 1917 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R144			Berry Collett	Born in 1918 at Roark, Leslie County
		43R145			Mary Collett	Born in 1921 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R146			Ruth Collett	Born in 1924 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
43Q74		Lucy Farmer Collett was born at Leslie County on 7^th 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 23^rd October 1913, Annie L Roark born on 6^th October 1916, and Davis Roark who was born on 14^th June 1920.
		In March 1939, Social Program Application correspondence referred to her as Lucy Collett Roark born on 7^th 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 23^rd 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 2^nd May 1949 aged 69.
43Q75		James Farmer Asher Collett was born at Roark in Leslie County on 19^th 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.
		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.
		It was at visitation #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, and Millard Collett who was 15, and daughter Ella Collett who was 12 years old.
		Also living at Long Branch in 1940 were three other Collett families at #168, #169, and #170. The first of them at #168 was Willie Collett and his family whose details can be found in the new Part 43 – Other Colletts of Kentucky. Next door to them at #169 was James’ eldest son Herman Collett with his family, while at #170 was the family of farmer Willie M Collett (Ref. 43Q81).
		Two years later the US Draft for the Second World War dated 27^th 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 20^th March 1964, after which he was buried at Ollie May Cemetery, Salyersville in Magoffin County.
		43R147			Maggie Collett	Born in 1904 at Bloomington, Magoffin County
		43R148			Alice Collett	Born in 1907 at Bloomington, Magoffin County
		43R149			Herman Collett	Born in 1910 at Bloomington, Magoffin County
		43R150			Bee Collett	Born in 1914 at Bloomington, Magoffin County
		43R151			Allen Collett	Born in 1918 at Bloomington, Magoffin County
		43R152			Millard Collett	Born in 1925 at Gifford, Magoffin County
		43R153			Ella Collett	Born in 1928 at Gifford, Magoffin County
43Q76		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 20^th 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.
		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.
		43R154			Elsie Collett	Born in 1905 at Otter Creek, Clay County
		43R155			Bertha Collett	Born in 1908 at Otter Creek, Clay County
		43R156			Elbert Collett	Born in 1911 at Otter Creek, Clay County
		43R157			Cordelia Collett	Born in 1913 at Clay County, Kentucky
		43R158			BURCHELL COLLETT	Born in 1915 at Clay County, Kentucky
		43R159			Norma Collett	Born in 1918 at Clay County, Kentucky
		43R160			Opal Collett	Born in 1922 at Clay County, Kentucky
43Q77	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 as 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 13^th 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.
		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.
		Their daughter Axie Collett was 18 when she married James Thomas who was 25 at Arjay in Bell County on 26^th March 1934. It was there also, just over one month later, that their son Mack Collett was 21 when he married May Taylor aged 19, on 2^nd June 1934. In the end, Axie Thomas, daughter of Nathan Collett and Mary Slusher, died at Pineville Community Hospital in Bell County on 8^th July 1961 and was buried at Arjay. Earlier, the death of Nathan Collett happened on 7^th August 1945 at the age of 62, placing his year of birth around 1883 and not 1886, as reported 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.
		43R161			Martha J Collett	Born in 1911 at Otter Creek, Clay County
		43R162			Mack Collett	Born in 1914 at Otter Creek, Clay County
		43R163			Axie Collett	Born in 1916 at Harlan County, Kentucky
		43R164			Ethel Collett	Born in 1924 at Harlan County, Kentucky
43Q79	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 12^th 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 17^th May 1911, where William Collett was one of the witnesses. The licence for them to be marriage was approved on 13^th 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.
	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. Gilbert Collett died on 19^th 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.
	43R165				Pearly Collett	Born in 1908 at Clay County
	The following are the children of Gilbert Collett by his second wife Ellen Collett:
	43R166				Grace Collett	Born in 1911 at Clay County
	43R167				Billie Collett	Born in 1913 at Harlan County
43Q81	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 5^th 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.
43Q83	Willie M Collett was born on 14^th 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 5^th 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.
	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.
	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.
	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 who was 21 and a seamstress with the N Y A sewing project, and Oland Collett who was 16 (Onley in 1930) and a farmer. The couple’s five other children were Claire Collett who was 14 (Carrie in 1930), Elsie Collett who was eight, Nolia Collett who was six, Virginia Collett who was four, and Barbara Collett who was two years of age. Living at #169 Long Branch was the family of Herman Collett (Ref. 43R149), his wife Maggie, and their children, then at – still to be identified, and at #167 was the family of Willie’s older brother James Farmer (Asher) Collett (Ref. 43Q75). Finally, at #168 Long Branch was Willie Collett with his family, whose details are revealed in the new Part 43 – Other Colletts of Kentucky.
	Willie M Collett who was born at Roark on 14^th August 1892 was 57 when he died at Gifford in Magoffin County on 29^th April 1950.
	43R168				Lena Collett	Born in 1915 at Salyersville, Magoffin County
	43R169				Myrtle Collett	Born in 1917 at Gifford, Magoffin County
	43R170				Junie Collett	Born in 1922 at Gifford, Magoffin County
	43R171				Ollen Collett	Born in 1924 at Gifford, Magoffin County
	43R172				Clara Collett	Born in 1925 at Gifford, Magoffin County
	43R173				Ella Collett	Born in 1930 at Gifford, Magoffin County
	43R174				Elsie Mae Collett	Born in 1932 at Gifford, Magoffin County
	43R175				Nolia Collett	Born in 1934 at Gifford, Magoffin County
	43R176				Virginia Collett	Born in 1936 at Gifford, Magoffin County
	43R177				Barbara Collett	Born in 1938 at Gifford, Magoffin County
43Q84		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 5^th May 1914 Mollie Collett married Joe Coleman, the same day he half-sister Betsey (above) was married with the approval of their parents.
43Q85		Samuel Collett was born at Clay County, Kentucky, on 12^th 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 featured in all the following census returns, as detailed below.
		On 5^th 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.
		According to the census return in 1930, the family was residing in a rented property at #76 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.
		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.
		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.
		Twenty-one years later, as Sam Collett, he died on 1^st 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 11^th December 1894.
		43R178			Pollie Collett	Born in 1918 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R179			Edna Collett	Born in 1921 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R180			Ernesta/Ernest Collett	Born in 1924 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R181			Judie Collett	Born in 1925 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R182			Orna Collett	Born in 1930 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R183			Leonard Collett	Born in 1932 at Bad Creek, Leslie County
		43R184			Walter Collett	Born in 1935 at Roark, Leslie County
		43R185			Farmer Collett	Born in 1938 at Roark, Leslie County
43Q86		Joseph Collett, who was known as Joe, was born at Clay County on 29^th May 1896 and was another child of William and Catherine Collett. At the age of four Joseph and his family were living at Otter Creek in Clay County where he may have been born and ten years later it was Joe Collett who was 13 years of age in the Big Creek census of 1910 when living there with his family. Seven years later, on 13^th July 1917, Joseph Collett married Ellen Nolan with their wedding recorded at Clay County. By 1920 he was living on the road up Lick Fork of Red Bird at Upper Red Bird in Clay County on 23^rd February, 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 (as Ella) Collett. Joseph, another general farmer, and Ella, were both 20 years of age, while their daughter was thirteen months old. That day Joseph was living at #21 not far from another Collett family at #16, that of farmer Silas Collett (Ref. 43Q9) and wife Mahaley.
		It was at #197 Willard Road, Hazard in Perry County that the family was living in 1930, when the census that day described them as follows. Joe Collett was 42 and working as a labourer on a farm, Ella was 29 and was 18 years old when she married 31-year-old Joseph. Their children that day were Mae Collett (as Moe) who was 11, June Collett who was nine, Mabel Collett who was six, and Joe Collett junior who was three years and two months old.
		In 1940, when the family was living at #58 Red Bird River in Clay County, another Collett family was living close by at #56 Red Bird River and that was Robert (Lee) Collett (Ref. 43Q46), Joe’s cousin two-steps removed. That census day Joe Collett was 46 and a miner at a coalmine, his wife Ellen who was 40, and with them their four children and a grandson. Mae Collett was 22, June Collett was 19, Maggie Collett (previously Mabel) was 16 – when the three sisters were farm workers, Agnes Collett was four years old, and grandson J R Collett was three years old and the son of daughter Mae Collett.
		The WW2 Draft Registration Card of 27^th 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. Eight years later, the family was residing at Flat Creek Waters in Red Bird River where Joe Collett was 54, a farmer and owner, Ellen was 50, June was 30, Agnes was 14, and sons J R Collett who was 13, and J C Collett who was 11 years of age. After a further two years Joe Collett was 56 when he died at Asher Fork in Clay County on 28^th September 1952 and was buried at Bear Creek Cemetery.
		In 1950, living not far from Joe and his family, at Blue Hole in Red Bird River, was Ford Collett (Ref. 43S10), his wife and daughter, and his sister Helen (Ref. 43S11). One area of dispute with Joe and Ella’s family arose at the second wedding of their daughter Mae Collett, when it was recorded that she was born at Roark in Kentucky, which is in Leslie County.
		43R186			Della Collett (Ella)	Born in 1918 at Upper Red Bird, Clay County
		43R187			Mae Collett	Born in 1920 at Upper Red Bird, Clay County
		43R188			June Collett	Born in 1922 at Upper Red Bird, Clay County
		43R189			Maple Lee Collett	Born in 1924 at Upper Red Bird, Clay County
		43R190			Agnes Collett	Born in 1935 at Red Bird River, Clay County
		43R191			J R Collett	Born in 1936 at Red Bird River, Clay County
		43R192			Joe Curtis Collett	Born in 1939 at Gardner, Red Bird River
43Q89	George Dewey Collett, who was known as Dewey, was born on 11^th September 1899 at Otter Creek, 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 17^th 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?
		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 15^th 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 12^th 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 23^rd April 2000.
		Tragically, the couple had another daughter who was born at Robinson in Wise County on 2^nd February 1935, who died that same day. Their last child was another son, who was born on 3^rd August 1946, and he married Mary Frances Warren, aged 18, at Clintwood, Dickson County on 6^th 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 5^th December 1967 at the age of 68.
		43R193			Ruth Collett	Born in 1925 at Wise County, Virginia
		43R194			Dewey Earlen Collett	Born in 1931 at Esserville, Wise County
		43R195			Lezia Collett	Born in 1935 at Robinson, Wise County
		43R196			Ronnie Paul Collett	Born in 1946 at Robinson, Wise County
43Q96		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.
43Q97		William Bruns Collett was born at Crystal City in Maverick County in Texas on 9^th 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. William was married twice in his life, 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 13^th October 1966. His wife Jimmie, who was born in Brazoria County on 8^th December 1921, died eighteen years after William, when she passed away on 24^th July 1984 at Lubbock.
		43R197			Elizabeth Ann Collett					Born in 1935 at San Antonio in Texas
		43R198			William James Collett					Born in 1941 in Mississippi
		43R199			Beverly Sue Collett					Born in 1943 at San Antonio in Texas
		43R200			James Robert Collett					Born in 1947 at McAllen in Texas
		43R201			Sandra Lea Collett					Born in 1948 at Hidalgo in Texas
		43R202			Sylvia Jean Collett					Born in 1957 at Bellaire in Texas
43Q98		Martha Elizabeth Collett was born at Alpine in Texas on 26^th 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 and, at the age of 93 has three grandchildren.
		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 30^th January 2011, just four days after her 96^th birthday. Following her passing, Martha was buried at San Fernando III Cemetery in San Antonio on Wednesday 3^rd February 2011. The obituary that was displayed at the Mission South Funeral Home read as follows:
		“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.”
		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 95^th birthday celebrations at Morningside Manor on 26^th January 2010.
43Q99		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.
43Q101		Mary Elizabeth Collett was born at Atchison on 30^th 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 Pennsylvania to which she returned in 1917 for her PhD.
		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 28^th June 1969 at Wellesley in Massachusetts and was buried with other members of her family at Mount Vernon Cemetery in Atchison.
43Q102		William Barrow Collett (the second) was born in Atchison, Kansas on 2^nd 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 14^th February 1918. During the following week, he sailed to France with 139^th Aero Squadron where he learned to fly rotary engine Nieuports at Issoudon. The trained had not been completed when volunteers were asked to form 12^th 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 Gamaches on the Somme near Dieppe and Abbeville.
		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 3^rd September 1919 at Nortonville. Vera was born on 13^th 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 couple blessed with three children, all of whom were born in Atchison.
		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 to Detroit, Michigan.
		Less than four months after the attack on Pearl Harbour, William returned to active duty as a Captain in the Air Corps on 3^rd 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. Collett at the end of that year.
		William Barrow Collett died from a heart attack at Evanston, Illinois on 17^th 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 22^nd October 1985 at Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. She was buried with William at Arlington.
		43R203			William Barrow Collett III					Born in 1921 at Atchison, Kansas
		43R204			Groff Collett					Born in 1923 at Atchison, Kansas
		43R205			Catherine Ann Collett					Born in 1924 at Atchison, Kansas
43Q103		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 4^th August 1900, where he was also baptised on 3^rd 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 age of only 27.
43Q104		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.
43Q105		Elma Doris Collett was born at 52 Stoney Stanton Road in Coventry on 22^nd June 1903, the only child of Frederick Charles Collett and Ellen Kirk, whose birth was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 573) during the third quarter of 1903 and was seven years of age in the Coventry census of 1911. She was baptised at St Mark’s Church in Coventry on 22^nd July 1903. It was there also that the marriage of Elma Doris Collett aged 19, and Joseph W Rowe was recorded (Ref. 6d 1569) during the third quarter of 1922. Their marriage produced just one child, their son Ronald R Rowe whose birth was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 1260) during the first three months of 1923, a honeymoon baby, whose mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. Elma was 85 when the death of Elma Doris Rowe was recorded at Warwickshire register office (Vol. 33 244) in 1989.
43Q108		Robert John W Collett was born at Burton-on-Trent on 22^nd 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.
43Q111		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 20^th 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 7^th 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 12^th November 1951, and named the executors of his estate of £2,422 9 Shillings and 5 Pence as his widow Edith Aileen Collett and her brother Leonard Arthur Harvey, a civil servant.
		43R206			Aileen Collett					Born in 1935 at Burton-on-Trent
43Q112		Leonard Wilfred Collett was born at Coventry in 1909 the youngest known son of John Barrow Collett and the eldest of the two children from his second marriage to Lucy Elizabeth Perrins. They were married at Coventry at the end of the previous year when Lucy was already with-child. No record of his birth has been found at Coventry, so it seems highly likely that the couple left the city shortly after he was born, perhaps from the embarrassment of the event so soon after they wedding day. What is known is that he was born in Coventry on 9^th March 1909, but with his birth later recorded at Kings Norton register office (Ref. 6c 451) during the second quarter of that year. While it is possible that he first became a married man prior to the Second World War, a much later record confirms that Leonard W Collett married Gwendoline Wallbank early in 1961, as recorded at Sutton Coldfield register office (Ref. 9c 2425) during the first three months of that year Twenty-one years later he died at the age of 74, with the death of Leonard Wilfred Collett recorded at Staffordshire register office in 1983.
43Q114		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 have three children Ben, Richard, and Marie Anne.
43Q115		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.
43Q116				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).
43Q117				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 her 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.
43Q118				Gladys Clara Collett was born at Solihull on 15^th 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.
				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 all three cases, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
43Q119			Norman Noel Collett was born at Shirley in Solihull on 11^th 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 24^th 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. 43R207) 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 12^th June 1996, with his death recorded at the Solihull North register office.
43Q120				Phyllis May Collett was born at Small Heath, Birmingham on 3^rd 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. 32 727) when she was 83.
43Q121			Cyril Frederick Collett was born at Sparkhill in Solihull on 30^th April 1894 following the marriage of his parents Frederick John Collett and Ada Marian Lea on 20^th 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 to infant death, both of Cyril’s sisters died within the next twelve months.
				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 for very long, having only enlisted in 1910 and being discharged in 1911.
				After that he joined the British Army and was a private, Service No. 13375, with the 2^nd 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 31^st 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 Frederick John Collett survived to carry on the family line.
				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 ports and perhaps even winning the war.
43Q122			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 26^th December 1901.
43Q123				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).
43Q124				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.
43Q125			Margery Martin Collett was born on 8^th 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 3^rd 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 16^th April 1902, aged seventeen months.
43Q126			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 brothers and sister in Manchester.
43Q127			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 12^th Battalion on 25^th 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 buried at Estaires Communal Cemetery. Estaires is a town in northern France which was held by the British army from 15^th October 1914 and was the subject of fierce fighting and staunch resistance by the allied forces over the following years of the war, finally falling into German hands, on 10^th April 1918.
43Q128			Herbert Collett was born at Ancoats in Manchester on 14^th 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.
43Q131			Mary Elizabeth Collett was born at Salford in Lancashire on 29^th 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 26^th 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.
43Q132			Elizabeth Ann Collett was born at 4 Cobbett Street in Salford on 19^th 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 22^nd 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.
			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 3^rd August 1979.
43Q133			Emily Collett was born at 15 Market Street in Salford 1897 and was baptised at St Philip’s Church in Salford on 27^th 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 20^th 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 maker.
			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 22^nd April 1975.
43Q134			Alice Collett was born at 15 Market Street in Salford on 7^th August 1899 and was baptised at St Philip’s Church in Salford on 30^th 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 22^nd 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 7^th September 1899 and together they had two sons Ernest and Eric before his untimely death in Salford on 25^th January 1935. Alice Bebbington nee Collett was still residing in Salford when she passed away on 16^th May 1973.
43Q135			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 3^rd 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.
43Q136			James Collett was born at 3 Arlington Court in Salford on 2^nd 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 10^th 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 6^th September 1976. He was followed exactly twelve years later by his wife Emily Collett nee Moss, who passed away on 6^th September 1988.
			43R208		Brenda Collett					Born in 1943 at Salford
43Q137			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 4^th 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.
			43R209		Norman Collett					Born in 1942 at Manchester
43Q138		Alfred Collett was born on 30^th 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 1^st 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.
		43R210			Allan Collett		Born in 1935 at Salford, Lancashire
43R1		Oliver Otto Collett junior was born in 1920 at Wapello County in Iowa. He married around the time of the Second World War and his son was born at Jefferson County in Iowa. Oliver was still living in Iowa when he died at Polk County in 1997 at the age of 77.
		43S1			Barry Oliver Collett		Born in 1944 at Jefferson County, Iowa
43R2		Wilkerson Collett, who was known Wilk or Wilkie, was born at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird in Clay County on 12^th April 1898 and was the first-born child of Preston Collett and Sarah Asher. He was recorded as William aged two years in 1900, and was Wilkie Collett in 1910 when was 13 years of age and with his family at Upper Red Bird. 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. That situation was confirmed in the Upper Red Bird census for 1920, when Wilkie Collett, aged 21, was a general farmer with his own account and renting a property on the road up to Blue Hole Creek, Farm #4 with his wife Phronie Collett who was 18. As the eldest child in the family, that day Wilkie and Phronie were living immediately next to his father’s family at Farm #3.
		Ten years later, the census return for District 8 of Clay County in 1930 identified Wilki Collett residing at #245 Blue Hole Creek Road, where his married brother Willie (below) was living at #242 next door to their parents at #241. Wilki was 32 and a general farmer, Phronia as 28, Mollie was eight, Warden was five, Arlin was 2, and Clarence was one. Living with them was Wilkie’s mother-in-law, 60-year-old Josie Fenimore (?).
		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 16^th 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.
		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 had his own timber cutting business, which may have been a joint venture with Wilk’s eldest married son Walden. On that day four members of the Collett family were residing at Blue Hole Water, Red Bird; Wilk at #77, son Walden at #78, brother James (below) at #79, and brother 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 #245, while at #241 was his father Preston, and at #242 his brother Willie. Wilkerson Collett, again as Wilk, was 78 when he died on 5^th 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 27^th November 1937, when her parents were confirmed as Wilk Collett and Frona Asher. Lawrence was the son of George Jackson and Mollie Mills.
		43S2			Mollie Collett		Born in 1922 at Ashers Fork, Clay County
		43S3			Walden Collett		Born in 1925 at Ashers Fork, Clay County
		43S4			Arlen Collett		Born in 1927 at Clay County, Kentucky
		43S5			Clarence Collett		Born in 1929 at Clay County, Kentucky
		43S6			Lois Collett		Born in 1932 at Clay County, Kentucky
		43S7			Felcie Collett		Born in 1935 at Clay County, Kentucky
		43S8			Paul Collett		Born in 1937 at Clay County, Kentucky
		43S9			Dora Collett		Born in 1940 at Clay County, Kentucky
43R3		William Collett, who was known as Willie, was born at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird in Clay County on 15^th April 1901, the second child of Preston and Sarah Collett. It was on 30^th 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 daughter of W M Ferrell and Ellen Ferrell who was 18. William was the first of four Collett siblings to marry into the Farrell/Ferrell family, the other three being sisters Norma and Malvie, and brother Jim (below).
		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 River 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 Wilki Collett (above), his wife, their four children, and his mother-in-law.
		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 Ford who was 14, and Helen who was 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 after their own children had left home.
		In the 1950 census for Blue Hole Water, Red Bird River, Willie Collett was 48 and a farmer when his wife was Sallie Collett who was 39, when their married son Ford was living nearby. On that day, the two adopted children were described as the stepchildren 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 8^th 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 1947 at Blue Hole in Clay County.
		43S10			Ford Collett		Born in 1926 at Red Bird River, Kentucky
		43S11			Helen Collett		Born in 1929 at Red Bird River, Kentucky
		43S12			Jack Collett – adopted		Born in 1938 at Kentucky
		43S13			Christine Collett - adopted		Born in 1940 at Kentucky
43R4		Tolman Collett was born at Big Creek, Upper Red Bird, between 1901 and 1903 but, at the time of his death on 4^th April 1956 in Harlan Hospital, he was described as the son of Sarah Asher Collett, whose date of birth was 5^th March 1901. That must have been an error, since his brother William (above) was born on 15^th April 1901. Furthermore, in the Upper Red Bird census returns in 1910 and 1920, he was named in error as Thomas Collett aged seven and 16 years, when living there with his parents Preston Collett and Sarah Collett nee Asher.
		Tolman Collett, a miner, married Gladys Gatliff at Highsplint, Harlan County on 9^th March 1926 when he was recorded as 22 with Gladys being only 17 and the child of Jesse and Myrtle Gatliff. The marriage register confirmed he was the son of Preston and Sarah Collett, when one of the witnesses was his older married brother Willie Collett. By 1930 the couple was living at Highsplint where 23-year-old Tolman was a track layer with the local coal mining company, and Gladys was 17 who had already given birth to their first two children, James D Collett aged three, and Ancil M Collett who was one year old. The same census record also stated that Tolman was 18 on their wedding day, and Gladys was 13.
		Ten years later the census in 1940 recorded the couple with six children living and working at Kettle Island Camp in Bell County, where Tolman Collett was 35 and a miner with the coal mining company. Gladys was 27, son Jack was 13, Moses was 11, Kathleen was eight, Roy was three, and Jimmie was one year old. Four more children were added to their family during the following decade, with one of them failing to survive beyond three days. He was Oscar Collett, born at Highsplint, Harlan County on 17^th December 1947, who died on 20^th December from congenital heart disease. His death certificate named his parents as Tolman Collett and Gladys Gatliff, with Tolman being the informant of his tragic end of life.
		The Highsplint census in 1950 listed the family as follows. Tolman was 48 and employed as a trackman in the business of coal mining, his wife Gladys was 37, when their six children were Kathleen 18, Roy L Collett 13, Jimmie 11, Richard G Collett who was eight, David W Collett ho was six, and Thomas E Collett who was four years of age.
		Six years after that day, and upon his passing in April 1956, his death certificate revealed that he was a former trackman with a coal mining company living at Highsplint, who was then buried at Ridgeway-Creech Cemetery in Ridgeway, Harlan County.
		43S14			James Douglas Collett		Born in 1927 at Highsplint, Harlan County
		43S15			Ancil Moses Collett		Born in 1928 at Highsplint, Harlan County
		43S16			Kathleen Collett		Born in 1932 at Kettle Island, Bell County
		43S17			Roy L Collett		Born on 09.07.1936 at Kettle Island
		43S18			Jimmy R Collett		Born in 1938 at Kettle Island, Bell County
		43S19			Richard Gerald Collett		Born in 1941 at Highsplint, Harlan County
		43S20			David W Collett		Born on 23.04.1943 at Kettle Island
		43S21			Thomas E Collett		Born in 1945 at Kettle Island, Bell County
		43S22			Oscar Glen Collett		Born in 1947 at Highsplint, Harlan County