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This
is the family line of Paul Collett (Ref. 45S5) of Towcester in
Northamptonshire and Adrian Collett (Ref. 45S7) of Aldershot in
Hampshire. Initially it started with
Thomas Collett (Ref. 45N2) but, following further research, undertaken during
2018, the new start date has been moved back by three more generations.
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The
update of this file in November 2021 saw the removal of four children (in Appendix
One) from the family of Alfred John Collett (Ref. 45q8) and Minnie Dyer,
because they were the children of Alfred Collett (Ref. 11P36) and Gertrude
Annie Dyer who feature in Part 11 – The Welford-on-Avon Line. This error was revealed by Richard Alan
Collett, the grandson of the aforementioned Alfred and Gertrude.
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JOHN COLLETT, who was possibly born around 1720, was
married to Hannah and their children were baptised at Naunton Beauchamp, nine
miles east of Worcester, near to the villages of Abberton and Bishampton,
when their surname was recorded as Collet.
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Elizabeth Collett
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Born in 1745
in Worcestershire
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John Collett
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Born in 1747
in Worcestershire
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THOMAS COLLETT
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Born in 1750
in Worcestershire
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Richard Collett
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Born in 1752
in Worcestershire
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Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Naunton Beauchamp on 5th
June 1745, the daughter of John and Hannah Collett. Tragically, she was just two years old when
she died of 14th August 1747, one month after her brother John (below)
was born.
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45M2
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John Collett was baptised at Naunton Beauchamp on 17th
July 1747, another child of John and Hannah Collett.
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THOMAS COLLETT may have been born and baptised at
Naunton Beauchamp around 1750, like his three assumed siblings which, if
confirmed, would place him as another child of John and Hannah Collett. Thomas was married to Elizabeth around 1775
and all of their children were baptised at Naunton Beauchamp, and all with
the Collet spelling of the surname.
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John Collett
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Born in 1777
in Worcestershire
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THOMAS COLLETT
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Born in 1780
in Worcestershire
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John Collett
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Born in 1783
in Worcestershire
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Hannah Collett
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Born in 1785
in Worcestershire
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Luke Collett
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Born in 1788
in Worcestershire
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Richard Collett was baptised at Naunton Beauchamp on 20th
February 1755, perhaps when he was quite a few years old, the youngest child
of John and Hannah Collett. It is
therefore possible, although not proved, that he may have been the Richard
Collett who married Elizabeth White in 1765, whose family details can be
found in Appendix One, whose youngest son married a girl from the village of
Abberton. However, upon further
investigation, it would appear that Richard was the son of William and
Elizabeth Collett, born at Wickhamford near Broadway in 1741.
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John Collett was born east of Worcester in 1777,
the eldest of the five known children of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett, who
was baptised on 19th December 1777 at Naunton Beauchamp. It seems highly likely that he died before
reaching five years of age, since the couple’s third son was also given the
name of John.
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THOMAS COLLETT was born to the east of Worcester in
1780, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett. It was at Naunton Beauchamp that he was
baptised on 25th December 1780.
When he attained full-age he married Robina (Rebecca) who was a few
years younger, having been born around 1783, with whom he had at least the
seven children listed below. On the
day their first child was baptised at Naunton Beauchamp, the family’s surname
was spelt with just one t, but thereafter the name was recorded with two. By the time of the Droitwich &
Worcester census conducted in June 1841 Thomas Collett was 59 and his wife
Robina (Rebecca) was 57, when they were residing at Little Park Street in the
parish of St Peter Worcester. The only
children still living there with them at that time were their two youngest
children Christeven Collett who was 19 and Jane Collett who was 14. Thomas Collett senior died later that same
year at Worcester, where he was buried on 14th October 1841.
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Thomas Collett
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Born in 1802
at Worcester
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45O2
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Mary Ann Collett
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Born in 1806
at Worcester
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45O3
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Stephen Collett
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Born in 1809
at Worcester
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45O4
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George Collett
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Born in 1811
at Worcester
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45O5
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Caroline Collett
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Born in 1816
at Worcester
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CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN COLLETT
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Born in 1823
at Worcester
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Jane Collett
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Born in 1827
at Worcester
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John Collett was born to the east of Worcester in
1783 and was baptised at Naunton Beauchamp on 26th January 1783,
another son of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett.
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Hannah Collett was born to the east of Worcester,
possibly in the village of Naunton Beauchamp, where she was baptised on 19th
June 1785, the only known daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett.
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Luke Collett was born to the east of Worcester in
1788 and was the last of the five known children of Thomas and Elizabeth
Collett. It was at Naunton Beauchamp
that Luke was baptised on 9th November 1788.
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Thomas Collett was born at Worcester of 12th
December 1802 and was baptised at the Nonconformist Chapel of the Countess of
Huntingdon on Birdport Street in Worcester on 2nd January 1803,
the eldest of the seven children of Thomas and Rebecca Collett.
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Mary Ann Collett was born at Worcester on 20th
September 1806 and was baptised at the Chapel of the Countess of Huntingdon
on 12th October that same year, the eldest daughter of Thomas and
Rebecca Collett. Her baptism was the
first occasion in the family line when the surname was recorded as Collett,
thereafter used in every subsequent record.
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Stephen Collett was born at Worcester on 6th
November 1809 and was baptised one month later on 10th December at
the Birdport Street Nonconformist Chapel of the Countess of Huntingdon.
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George Collett was born at Worcester in 1811, where
he was baptised on 29th August 1811, another son of Thomas and
Rebecca Collett.
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Caroline Collett was born at Worcester on 6th
April 1816 and was baptised on 30th June that same year at the
Chapel of the Countess of Huntingdon on Birdport Street.
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CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN
COLLETT was born
within the Worcester parish of St Helens on 23rd April 1823. The registration of his birth confirmed
that he was Christopher Stephen Collett, the son of Thomas and Rebecca
Collett, as did his baptism on 27th July 1823. It would appear that during the early years
of his life he was referred to as Christopher. During his life he worked as a currier and
a leather-stainer and in June 1841 when he was 19 years old and he was living
with his parents and younger sister Jane (below) at Little Park Street
near Fort Royal Park within the Worcester parish of St Peter. On that occasion he was recorded at Chris
Steven Collett. Later that same year
Christopher Stephen Collett married Eliza Matthews on 22nd
November 1841 at Whittington, on the eastern outskirts of Worcester, the
event recorded at Pershore (Ref. 18 547).
Eliza may well have been expecting the birth of the first of her three
children with Christopher on their wedding day, since those three children
were born in quick succession.
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By
the time of the next census in 1851, Christopher Collett from Worcester was
30 years of age, whose occupation was that of a shoemaker, when he was living
at Court 2 on Suffolk Street in the St Thomas parish of Birmingham. Recorded there with him were his two eldest
children, Clara Collett was 10 years old, and Mary Ann Collett was eight
years of age, both of then also born at Worcester. On that same day, Christopher’s wife and
son Richard, where staying with Eliza’s parents at George Street in the St Martins
parish of Worcester. Richard Matthews
was 53 and a baker, and his wife Sarah Matthews was 67. Their daughter, described as Elizabeth
Collett, was 25, married and a baker’s assistant from Worcester St Andrew,
while her son Richard Collett from Worcester St Peter was seven years old. It is rather curious that no further record
of Eliza or Elizabeth Collett, or her two daughters, Clara and Mary Ann, have
been found after 1851, nor has any record of the birth of the two daughters
been identified.
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During
the next decade, Christopher began using his second name and it was as
Stephen Collett, aged 40 years, that he was a lodger at the home of the
Taylor family at Park Street in Kidderminster, from where he was working as a
currier – a specialist in the leather processing industry. By that time, it would appear that Stephen
and his wife were separated, although there is a possibility that she may
have died. However, it is known that
their son Richard was 17 in 1861 when he was living and working with the
Ponting family at the High Street in Worcester, where he was a grocer’s
apprentice with William Ponting. Also,
in 1861, there was an Elizabeth Collett, aged 35, who was living at Priest
Lane in Holy Cross within the Pershore registration district, but she was the
wife of Thomas Collett from Beckford near Tewkesbury, an agricultural
labourer aged 43. Living with them
were their three Pershore born children Thomas 13, Jane 10 and William
Collett who was nine.
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Sometime
after 1861 Stephen Collett left Worcestershire and moved north to
Staffordshire where, around the middle of the decade, he entered into a
relationship with Jane Spriggs. Jane
was considerably younger than Stephen, having been born at Duncalf Street in
Walsall towards the end of 1850, the eldest daughter of William and Sarah Spriggs
who were living at Freer Street in Walsall in 1861. The later events in the lives of Stephen
and Jane cast doubt as to whether they were ever actually married, since Stephen’s
first wife Eliza may have still been alive.
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Either
way, the relationship between Stephen, who would have been around 45 when he
met Jane aged 17, appears to have produced three children for the couple, all
three having been born while they were living at Walsall. According to the Walsall census of 1871, head
of the household Stephen Collett from Worcester was 49 and a porter working
for a grocer, while his unmarried housekeeper was Jane Spriggs aged 21. Living at the same address was Stephen C Spriggs,
who was two years of age and described as the son of the housekeeper, his
middle name very likely Collett. Certainly,
the boy’s birth certificate gave his father’s name as Stephen Collett, a
currier. It is also likely that Jane
was also with-child on that census day, since their second child was born
there that same year, and was followed by a further two children within the
next four years.
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After
the birth of their fourth child, Stephen again found work in the leather
industry, which resulted in him taking his family to Kidderminster. On the day of the census in 1881, every
member of the household was recorded under the Collett surname when they were
inmates at the Kidderminster Workhouse situated within the parish of
Kidderminster Foreign, comprising the hamlets of Trimpley and Lower Habberley
on the east bank of the River Severn. Stephen
Collett was 56, an unmarried leather stainer from Worcester, and Jane Collett
from Walsall was 30, single and a domestic servant. Their four Walsall born children were listed
as Stephen Collett who was 12 and still attending school, Alice Collett who
was nine, Alfred Collett who was seven years old and Sarah A Collett who was
five years old. At that time the
Kidderminster Workhouse was home to twenty-five adults and children,
including Eliza Collett who was 39 and from Neen Savage in Shropshire. She was the daughter of William Collett
(Ref. 67M2) and his wife Sarah Deuce. See
Part 67 – The Collett Family of Cleobury Mortimer
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By
1891 Stephen Collett, at the age of 69, was still working as a leather
stainer when he was again still living at the workhouse in Kidderminster
Foreign, as an inmate. The November
1891 marriage certificate of Stephen’s and Jane’s eldest son Stephen Collett
gave his father’s name as Stephen Collett and his occupation as that of a
leather-stainer. After a further ten
years, he was again recorded as an inmate in the census of 1901, when he was
80 and continuing to work as a leather stainer. The census return that year once again confirmed
his birthplace as being Worcester. Around
eighteen months later, the death of Stephen Collett was recorded at
Kidderminster register office (Ref. 6c 124) during the last quarter of 1902,
when he was 81 years old.
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Clara Collett
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Born in 1841 at
Worcester
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Mary Ann
Collett
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Born in 1842
at Worcester
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Richard Stephen Collett
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Born in 1843
at Worcester
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The following
are the children of Christopher Stephen Collett and his second wife Jane
Spriggs:
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STEPHEN SPRIGGS COLLETT
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Born in 1868
at Walsall
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Alice Collett
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Born in 1871
at Walsall
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Alfred Collett
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Born in 1874
at Walsall
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Sarah A
Collett
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Born in 1876
at Walsall
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Jane Collett was born at Worcester where she was
baptised on 26th August 1827, the last child born to Thomas and
Rebecca Collett. At the age of 14,
Jane Collett was living with her family at Little Park Street near Fort Royal
Park within the Worcester parish of St Peter.
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Richard Stephen Collett was born in 1843 and was baptised at the
Church of St Peter-the-Great in Worcester on 29th November
1843. The baptism record confirmed
that he was the son of Christopher and Eliza Matthews. It was during the first few weeks of 1844
that his birth was recorded at Worcester (Ref. 18 567). By 1851 Richard was seven years old when he
and his mother Elizabeth were living at the home of Richard’s maternal
grandparents Richard and Sarah Matthews at George Street in Worcester St
Martin. Ten years later in 1861,
Richard S Collett of St Peters in Worcester was 17 and was working as a
grocer’s apprentice with William Ponting, while living at the Ponting family’s
home at 62 High Street in Worcester St Nicholas in the parish of St Swithins.
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William
Ponting from Wells in Somerset was 39 and a grocer employing three young men
and two boys. Richard Collett was the
most junior of the three young men, the other two being assistant grocers
Delabee Walker 23, and Frederick Jenkins who was 21. William Ponting and his wife Ann, who was
30, had a one-year-old son Theophilus Ponting and they were supported by two
servants, Elizabeth Allen aged 22, and Ann Bradley who was 15.
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By
that time in 1861 it would appear that the marriage of Richard’s parents had
broken down, since his father Stephen was living in Kidderminster, while his
mother was possibly living in Pershore.
Richard’s father later moved north to Walsall where he entered into a
new relationship from which was born three further children. It was just over four years later that Richard
Stephen Collett married Matilda Mary Harris, the event recorded at Cheltenham
(Ref. 6a 829) during the last three months of 1865. Matilda had been born at Chertsey in
Surrey, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 4 37) during the third quarter of
1838. That means that she was around
five years older than Richard, something that was never reflected in all of
the following census returns. Once
married, the couple initially settled in the Bordesley area of Birmingham and
it was there that the couple’s first two children were born, where one of
them was also baptised.
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After
the birth of their second child, the family left Birmingham and returned to
Cheltenham, where the remainder of Richard’s and Matilda’s children were born,
which was also where they were baptised in a joint ceremony with the couple’s
oldest child. By 1871 the family was
recorded as living in Cheltenham where it comprised Richard S Collett from
Worcester who was 27 and a shopman working in a grocery store, his wife
Matilda Collett from Chertsey who said she was 30, rather than 32, together
with their four children. Archibald
Collett was four years old and Millicent E Collett was three, both born at
Birmingham, Blanche M Collett was two and Emily B Collett was not yet one
year old, both of them born after the family had moved to Cheltenham.
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No
further children were added to the family so, according to the census of
1881, the family of six was living at 71 Upper Regent Street in the hamlet of
Barton St Mary within the parish of Gloucester St Mary de Lode. The census confirmed that Richard Collett
was 37 and a grocer from Worcester, and that his wife Matilda M Collett was
40 and from Chertsey in Surrey. The
four children were listed as Archibald R M Collett who was 14, Millicent E
Collett who was 13, Blanche M Collett who was 12 and Emily B Collett who was 10
years old. Staying with the family was
fourteen-year-old Henry W Harbour of no occupation, who was from the Isle of
Wight and simply described as a visitor.
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During
the next decade Archibald left the family home to make his way in the world
although, by 1891, he was still living within the Gloucester area, not far
from his family who were still living at Barton St Mary in the South Hamlet
registration district of the city. On
that occasion grocer Richard was 47 and Matilda was 50 – instead of 52, and
still living with them at Regent Street were their three daughters Millicent
E Collett who was 23, Blanche M Collett who was 22, and Emily B Collett who
was 20. By around the middle of the
next decade Richard’s eldest daughter Millicent had left home to be married,
following which she settled in Gloucester, where she and her husband raised a
family of their own.
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By
March 1901 the family was living at Heathville Road in Gloucester, which runs
between London Road and Denmark Road, and had been reduced to just Richard S
Collett of Worcester who was 56 and still working as a grocer, his wife
Matilda M Collett from Surrey who was 58 – rather than 62. Still living with them were their two
unmarried daughters Blanche, a schoolteacher, and Emily who. While the census return correctly gave the
girls’ place of birth as Cheltenham, their age in each case was incorrectly
recorded as 28 and 26, when they would have actually been 32 and 30
respectively. Visiting the family was
Florence Teague from Cheltenham who was 26.
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Later
that same year, the death of Matilda Mary Collett nee Harris was recorded at
Gloucester (Ref. 6a 201) during the last three months of 1901, when the
registrar was informed that she was 61 and not her actual age of 63. That situation was confirmed in the
Gloucester census of 1911, in which widower Richard Stephen Collett was 67
and the manager of a grocer’s shop, and once again the stated ages of his two
unmarried daughters were incorrect.
Blanche Matilda Collett was 34 instead of 42, and Emily Beatrice
Collett was 32 instead of 40. The
death of Richard S Collett was recorded at Gloucester register office (Ref.
6a 311) during the third quarter of 1912, when he was 68.
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Archibald Richard Matthews Collett
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Born in 1866
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Millicent Eliza Collett
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Born in 1867
at Birmingham
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Blanche Matilda Collett
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Born in 1869
at Cheltenham
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Emily Beatrice Collett
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Born in 1870
at Cheltenham
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STEPHEN SPRIGGS COLLETT was born at John Street in Walsall on
24th December 1868, his birth recorded there (Ref. 6b 630) during
the first weeks of 1869. He was
original known as Stephen Spriggs, being the son of the unmarried Jane
Spriggs, and was listed as such in the 1871 Census for Walsall. At that time, he was three years old and
was living with his mother. It has not
been confirmed that his father was Stephen Collett, although there is a
strong possibility that he was. And certainly,
it would appear that he and Jane had two further children over the next few
years.
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So,
by April 1881, Stephen was listed in the census return as Stephen Collett,
aged 12, who was living at the Kidderminster Workhouse with his mother Jane
Collett, his likely father Stephen Collett, and his two younger siblings
Alice Collett and Alfred Collett.
Stephen later joined the army and may have been stationed at garrison
in Aldershot in the late 1880s, since it was there that he married Eliza East
on 18th December 1891.
Eliza was born at Feltham in Middlesex, probably in 1862 making her
six younger older than her husband.
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Eliza
East of Feltham was living there with her mother Elizabeth East in the census
of 1871 and was eight years old. Ten
years later she was 18 and was working as a domestic servant at the home of
grocer Harry Atkins at Uplands Road in Camberwell. Her place of birth was again confirmed as
Feltham. Ten years after that she was
located in the 1891 Census as was living in Farnham in Surrey, just to the
south-west of Aldershot. Her age at
that time was 28. However, nearly nine
months later, at the time of her marriage to Stephen at Aldershot she gave
her age as 27, perhaps because she was conscious that she was older than her
husband.
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It
would appear from the birthplace of their first child that Stephen and Eliza
stayed at Aldershot only for a short while before being posted to India for three
years where, at Meerut, their next three children were born, two of whom were
twins. The family then returned to
England before the end of the century and may have been visiting members of
Stephen’s family in Staffordshire when their fifth child was born. By the time of the 1901 Census Eliza was 36
(another reduced age) and was living back at Farnham with her five children.
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Her
children were Stephen, who was eight and born at Aldershot, who was a
honeymoon baby, Albert who was six years old, the twins Alfred and Florence
who was four and confirmed as having been born at Meerut in India, and Mabel
who was two years old and born at Wade in Staffordshire. No record of Stephen has been found in
either 1891 or 1901, so he is likely to have been abroad and possibly taking
part in the Boer War for the latter date, which started on 10th
October 1899. What is known about him
is that he was a private with the Fifth Dragoon Guards when his second son
was born in 1894 and had been promoted to the rank of corporal by the time
the twins were born in 1896. It is
also well established that the Fifth Dragoon Guards were led by Lieutenant
Colonel Robert Baden-Powell and were part of the besieged force at Ladysmith
in January 1900.
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Two
further children were born into the family over the four years after the turn
of the century and both were born while they were living in the Farnham area
of Surrey. By the time of the census
of April 1911 Stephen had returned from his travels and was back living with
his family at Farnham. Two members of
the family were notable by their absence, and they were daughters Florence
and Mabel. The remainder of the family
was Stephen who was 44 and born at Walsall, his wife Eliza 45 and from
Feltham, and their children Stephen, aged 19 who was born at Aldershot,
Albert who was 17 and Alfred who was 15, who were both born in India, Henry
who was nine and born at Farnham, and Winifred who was seven years old and
born at Cove near Farnborough.
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STEPHEN STANLEY COLLETT
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Born in 1892
at Aldershot
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Albert Victor Collett
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Born in 1894
at Meerut, India
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Alfred Ernest Collett twin
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Born in 1896
at Meerut, India
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Florence Ruth Collett twin
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Born in 1896
at Meerut, India
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Mabel E Collett
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Born in 1898
at Wade, Staffordshire
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William Henry Collett
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Born in 1901
at Farnham, Surrey
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Winifred Maud Collett
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Born in 1904
at Cove, Farnborough
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Alice Collett was born at Walsall in 1871 and was
the daughter of Stephen Collett and Jane Spriggs. Around the middle to late 1870s Alice and
her unmarried parents, together with her two brothers Stephen (above)
and Alfred (below), moved to Kidderminster. Times were obviously very hard then, and
the five of them could only find accommodation in the Kidderminster
Workhouse. Alice was just nine years
old and her birthplace was confirmed as Walsall. Living conditions in the workhouse would
not have been ideal for a young girl and it seems very likely that during the
next few years Jane Spriggs removed herself and her three children from the
Kidderminster Workhouse.
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By
1891 when Alice was 20 years old, she was living and working in the Kings
Norton registration district five miles to the south of the centre of
Birmingham, while her brother Alfred was not far away at Harborne with Kings
Norton. Ten years later it would
appear from the overview of the census of 1901 that both Alice, who was then
30, and her brother Alfred, were still living in Kings Norton. However, ten years after that, in 1911 it
is known that Alfred was married, and since no record of Alice Collett has
been found, it may be assumed that she too was also married by then.
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Alfred Collett was born at Walsall in 1874 and was
the son of Stephen Collett and Jane Spriggs.
Not long after he was born, Alfred and his family left Staffordshire
and moved south of Birmingham to Kidderminster Foreign where, in 1881, they
were inmates at the Kidderminster Workhouse.
According to the census return, Alfred was just seven years old and
his parents were not listed as being married.
That may have been a contributing factor to the future break-up of the
family since, by 1891, the family had separated, with each of the five
members going their own way in life.
That year his father Stephen was 69 and still living at the Kidderminster
Foreign Workhouse, where he was again in 1901 at the age of 80. The whereabouts of Alfred Collett from
Staffordshire still has not been discovered.
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However,
it would appear that in was in 1909 that Alfred Collett married Minnie Baker,
their wedding recorded at the Staffordshire West Bromwich register office
(Ref. 6b 1326) during the second quarter of that year. Minnie was born at Richmond Street in
Walsall early in 1877, the daughter of Frederick Baker, an outdoor beerhouse
licence holder, and his wife Maria. On
the day of the census in 1911, the couple was recorded at Olton, just
north-west of Solihull, where Alfred Collett from Staffordshire was 35 and a
constructional engineer working in the steel-roof and girder industry. His wife Minnie Collett from Walsall was
34, who was expecting the birth of their first, and perhaps, only child. The birth of their son was recorded at
Solihull register office, as was the later death of Alfred Collett, which was
recorded there (Ref. 6d 893) during the first three months of 1935, when he
was 59.
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Harold L Collett
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Born in 1911
at Olton, nr Solihull
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Archibald Richard
Matthews Collett was
born in Birmingham on 9th September 1866, his birth recorded at
Aston (Ref. 6d 235) as Archibald R M Collett during the last quarter of 1866.
That may have taken place at Bordesley, where his sister Millicent (below)
was born during the following year.
For some reason Archibald was not baptised there and at that time like
his sister, but was baptised when he was five years old in a joint ceremony
with his two youngest sisters. When
Archibald was two years old, and just a few months after his sister Millicent
was baptised in Bordesley, his parents left Birmingham and moved south to
Cheltenham where his two youngest sisters were born.
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By
the second of April in 1871 the Collett family was complete and was living in
Cheltenham where Archibald was four years old. Five months after the census day the
baptism of Archibald and his two sisters took place at Christ Church in
Cheltenham on 6th September 1871 when the children’s parents were
confirmed as Richard and Matilda Collett.
During the next ten years the family moved into the city of Gloucester
where they were living in 1881 when Archibald R M Collett of Birmingham was
14 and was living with his family at 71 Upper Regent Street in the hamlet of
Barton St Mary within the parish of Gloucester St Mary de Lode.
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It
would appear that Archibald never married and at the age of 24 in 1891 he had
left the family home in Barton St Mary, although he was still living and
working in the Gloucester parish of St John the Baptist, within central area
of the city, at that time. It was at
Northgate Street, the home of chemist John Sadler and his wife Mary, that
Archibald was working with John as a chemist’s assistant. Over the next ten years Archibald left
Gloucester and acquired a job in Coventry.
The position as assistant chemist to Thomas Sellors also came with
accommodation. So, by March 1901,
Archibald Collett from Birmingham was 33 years old when he was living at 7
Cross Cheaping, near the centre of Coventry, the home of chemist and druggist
Thomas Sellors, aged 58, and his wife Catherine.
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Cross
Cheaping lies within the parish of Holy Trinity and number seven may well
have been a pharmacy as well as being a residential property. In addition to employing Archibald Collett,
Thomas Sellors was also employing 26 years old Thomas Lancaster at that time,
who was also described as a chemistry drug assistant. Also listed as supporting the household,
was Ann Keys who was 50 and the cook, and servant girl Margaret Court who was
16.
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Archibald
was still a bachelor ten years later in April 1911 when he was still living
in Coventry at Cross Cheaping although, by then, it was with chemist and
optician Charles Henry Welton that Archibald Richard Matthews Collett aged 44
was again employed as a chemist’s assistant.
Twenty-two years after that census day, the death of Archibald Collett
was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 603) during the third
quarter of 1933 when he was 66 years old.
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Millicent Eliza Collett was born at Birmingham in 1867, her
birth recorded at Aston (Ref. 6d 256) during the month of October, following
which she was baptised at the Church of St Paul in Bordesley on 6th
November 1867. The baptism record
confirmed that she was the daughter of Richard and Matilda Collett. Shortly after that her parents travelled
south from the Birmingham area and settled in Cheltenham, where Millicent E
Collett was listed as being three years old in the census of 1871. Sometime during the next decade, the
Collett family left Cheltenham and moved again, that time to the county town
of Gloucester where, in 1881, they were living at 71 Upper Regent Street in
the Barton St Mary district of the city.
The census recorded that Millicent E Collett had been born in
Birmingham and that she was 13 years old.
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The
family was still living at Regent Street in Barton St Mary within the South
Hamlet registration district in 1891, but by then the family’s only son
Archibald (above) had left the family home to make his own way in the
world. The census return that year
recorded the unmarried Millicent E Collett as being 24 and a school governess. It was around five years later that
Millicent married Albert William Healey with whom she had five children
during the following ten years and all born in Gloucester. Albert Healey was a carriage builder who
was born in Gloucester in 1868 and who was still living there with his young
family in 1901.
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The
census that year confirmed that Albert William Healey was 32, and that his
wife Millicent Eliza Healey was also 32 and born in Birmingham. Living with them were the first three of
their five known children. They were
Albert who was three, Millicent who was two, and Charles who was not yet one
year. The remaining two children were
born during the next few years, so by 1911 the Gloucester family comprised
Albert William Healey 42, his wife Millicent Eliza 43, and their five
children Albert Reginald Collett Healey 13, Millicent Christine Healey 12,
Charles Norman Healey 10, Basil Archibald Collett Healey who was nine, and
Victor Lionel Collett Healey who was five years old. It is not known why three out of the five
children were given the Collett-Healey name, when the other two were not.
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Albert Reginald Collett Healey
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Born in 1897 at Gloucester
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Millicent Christine Healey
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Born in 1898 at Gloucester
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Charles Norman Healey
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Born in 1900 at Gloucester
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Basil Archibald Collett Healey
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Born in 1901 at Gloucester
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45R5
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Victor Lionel Collett Healey
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Born in 1905 at Gloucester
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Blanche Matilda Collett was born in Cheltenham on 29th
January 1869, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 6a 452). She was also recorded as being two years old
in the Cheltenham census of 1871. Five
months after the census day, Blanche, her brother Archibald (above)
and her sister Emily (below), were all baptised in a joint ceremony in
Cheltenham. That took place on 6th
September 1871 at Christ Church on Malvern Road in Cheltenham, at its
junction with Christ Church Road, when all three youngsters were confirmed as
the children of Richard and Matilda Collett.
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Ten
years later in 1881 Blanche and her family were living at 71 Upper Regent
Street in the hamlet of Barton St Mary just south of Gloucester city centre,
when Blanche M Collett was 12 years old and her place of birth was confirmed
as Cheltenham. And it was also there,
at Regent Street, that the family was still living ten years later in 1891
when Blanche M Collett was 22 and working as a school mistress, perhaps
working alongside her older sister Millicent (above). By March 1901 Blanche and her sister Emily
were still living in Gloucester, at Heathville Road, with their parents
Richard S Collett of Worcester and Matilda M Collett of Surrey.
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It
seems rather strange that on the day of the census that year, both of the
sisters’ ages were incorrectly recorded, when school teacher Blanche M
Collett from Cheltenham said she was 28, instead of 32, leading to Emily say
she was two years younger than her sister.
Just a few months later that same year, Blanche’s mother died, leaving
her and her sister to look after their widowed father, which she did until
his death in the summer of 1912.
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The
family of three was still living together in Gloucester in April 1911, when
Blanche again gave an incorrect age.
At that time, she was recorded as Blanche Matilda Collett from
Cheltenham, who had no occupation, whose aged was listed as being 34, when in
actual fact she was 42, and yet again her sister Emily was recorded as being
two years younger than Blanche.
Blanche never married and it was during the second quarter of 1923
that her death was recorded at Gloucester register office (Ref. 6a 337), at the
relatively young age of 54. At the
time of her death the home of spinster Blanche Matilda Collett was ‘Ripples’
on Elmbridge Road in Gloucester, although prior to that she had been admitted
into Sherborne House Nursing Home in Gloucester, where she died on 26th
May 1923. Her estate of £315 was
subject to probate in Gloucester on 12th June that year, when the
money was presented to her married sister Emily Beatrice Foxlow (below).
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Emily Beatrice Collett was born at Cheltenham on 29th
January 1871, her birth recorded there (Ref. 6a 423). and was two months old by the time of the
census that year. Emily was just seven
months old when she was baptised at Christ Church in Cheltenham on 6th
September 1871 in a joint baptism with her brother Archibald who was five
years old and her sister Blanche (above) who was two and a half years
old. How long her family lived in
Cheltenham is not known, but during the following few years the family moved
into the city of Gloucester where they were living in 1881. Emily’s father was grocer Richard Collett
and the whole family was living at 71 Upper Regent Street in the Barton St
Mary part of the city.
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Emily
B Collett was ten years old and the census confirmed that she had been born
at Cheltenham. Ten years later the
family was still living in Barton St Mary at Regent Street where, by early
April in 1891, she was listed as Emily B Collett aged 20, who had no
occupation. Another family move saw
Emily and her parents residing at a property on Heathville Road in Gloucester
on the day of the next census in 1901.
Although a full ten years after the previous census, Emily’s age was
stated as being only 26, instead of 30, and once again she had no stated
occupation. So, it is possible that
she helped her father in his grocer’s shop.
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With
the death of her mother towards the end of that same year, Emily and her
sister Blanche remained unmarried and continued to live with their widowed
father in Gloucester until his death around six months after March 1911. According to the census that year, Emily
Beatrice Collett from Cheltenham informed the census enumerator that she was
only 32, when she was actually 40 years old.
On that occasion both she and her older sister had no occupation
while, completing the household was their father Richard, domestic servant Florence
Tylor who was 15, and visitor Annie Elizabeth Spark from London.
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Only
weeks after the census day in 1911, Emily Beatrice Collett married Anthony
Frank Foxlow, the event recorded at Gloucester register office (Ref. 6a 637)
during the second quarter of 1911. Upon
the death of her unmarried sister Blanche in the spring of 1923, it was as
Emily Beatrice Foxlow, the wife of Anthony Frank Foxlow, that she was the
sole beneficiary of her estate, which amounted to £315.
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STEPHEN STANLEY COLLETT was a honeymoon baby born at Aldershot
on 10th September 1892, almost nine months after his parents were
married there. His birth was
registered at Farnham that same month and the following month he was baptised
at the Church of All Saints in the garrison at Aldershot on 7th
October 1892. That took place prior to
the family of three leaving England for a period of military service in
India. The family lived at Meerut in
Bengal for around five years where Stephen’s father was a private and then a
corporal with the 5th Dragoon Guards.
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On
their return to England the family settled in Farnham near Aldershot where
they lived for a short while before moving to Cove near Farnborough where
they were living in early 1904. Stephen
of Aldershot was listed as being aged eight in the census of 1901 and was
nineteen in the April census of 1911 when he was living with his family in
the Farnham registration district of Surrey.
It seems highly likely, according to the story told by his son Albert
Collett, that it was around that time when Stephen was working at Farnborough
aerodrome, where he is believed to have been helping the American aviator
Samuel Franklin Cody with his early attempts at flying. Stephen was also working at Farnborough
when the Royal Flying Corps was established there on 13th April
1912. Sadly, Cody was killed in a
flying accident at Farnborough on 7th August 1913.
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It
was on 4th October 1912 that Stephen Stanley Collett was enlisted
directly into the RFC with the service number 415, two months after his
brother Albert (below) signed-up.
It is also interesting to note that on 3rd October 1912,
and given the service number 413, was Charles Ingles Collett (Ref.
57A/P9). Stephen was still based at
Farnborough on 31st May 1914 when he married Mary Pearl Stewart at
the Church of Our Lady Help of Christians in Farnborough. Whether by coincidence or not, Mary was
born at Muttra in India on 8th September 1895, so may have been a
longstanding family friend. Following
the outbreak of war just two months later on 28th July 1914, air
mechanic Stephen was posted to France and less than a month after that he was
based there at 1AM Aircraft Park on 14th August.
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He
only served for a further eighteen months when, on 4th February
1916 he was discharged from duty for reasons of sickness. He time with the RFC earned him the Silver
War Badge No. 69432. During his
war-years his wife lived in Aldershot where all of the couple’s seven
children were born. Following his
departed from the RFC Stephen was employed as a bus driver with the Aldershot
and District Traction Company and later became a driver for the Royal
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME).
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It
would appear that the couple lived all their life at Aldershot, and it was
there where Stephen Stanley Collett died on 5th October 1950. Less than eight years after the death of
her husband Mary Pearl Collett nee Stewart also died at Aldershot on 22nd
May 1958.
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45R6
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Stephen John Collett
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Born in 1915
at Aldershot
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45R7
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Stanley Roland Collett
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Born in 1917
at Aldershot
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45R8
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Ernest Henry Collett
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Born in 1919
at Aldershot
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45R9
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RICHARD LOUIS COLLETT
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Born in 1921
at Aldershot
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45R10
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Lawrence William Collett
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Born in 1923
at Aldershot
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45R11
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Albert Dennis Terence Collett
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Born in 1927
at Aldershot
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45R12
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Ralph Thomas James Collett
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Born in 1930
at Aldershot
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45Q6
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Albert Victor Collett was born at Meerut in the Bengal area
of India on 7th October 1894 at a time when his father Stephen
Collett was a private with the 5th Dragoon Guards. In both 1901 and 1911 he was living with
his family in the Farnham registration district of Surrey, when he was seven
years of age and 16 years old respectively.
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During
the following year, and under two years before the outbreak of World War One,
Albert joined the Royal Flying Corps on 12th August 1912, shortly
after it was formed in mid-April that same year. He was based at Farnborough
near to where his family was living at that time and his service number was
289, indicating that he was one of the early recruits. By the spring of the following year he was
assigned to No. 2 Squadron based at Montrose in Scotland.
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When
the war in Europe was declared on 28th July 1914 Albert
volunteered for flying duty and was posted to Farnborough, from where he flew
to France on 13th August in a BE2a flown by Lieutenant Emmett a
pilot from South Africa. Albert’s
description of the flight was recorded in the book ‘The Forgotten Ones’ as
follows: “My armament consisted of a short-butt Lee-Enfield rifle with 150
rounds, and a Webley Mark 4 pistol and fifty rounds of ammunition. We landed first at Shoreham to refuel, then
took off for Dover. On coming into land,
the engine cut out and we crashed badly on landing. The pilot’s right thumb was broken and I
was seriously injured and taken to Dover Cliff Hospital.
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On
being discharged from hospital later that year, Albert was posted to C Flight
of No. 7 Squadron based at Longreach near Dartford in Kent. He later joined A and B Flights at
Netheravon, where Clive Franklyn Collett (Ref. 62O36) from New Zealand was
based in the summer of 1915. From
Netheravon he flew to France on 3rd April 1915 and was based at St
Omer 1AM Aircraft Park with No. 7 Squadron.
He was promoted to sergeant (aero-rigger) on 1st August
1916, and was listed as a Sergeant Mechanic in the 1918 RAF Muster Roll. He
served at two aircraft depots in France and finished his involvement in the
war in very unhappy circumstances.
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He
had been invalided back home to England owing to an attack of poisoning and,
because he had gained a wide experience of engines and aircraft during his
years of service, he was posted to No. 1 School of Military Aeronautics at
Reading upon being discharged from hospital.
Of this he states: “I tried my damnedest to avoid this
posting. Every technical NCO was
scared stiff of being posted there because we knew how strict it was, and
that for the least thing you would be placed on a charge. I stopped four reprimands in one month for
crimes I didn’t know I had committed.
Three officers were relieved of their duties while I was there, and
there were two suicides.”
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It
would appear that it was during the war that he met and married Hannah Pam
who was born at Philadelphia in North America in 1897. Hannah was referred to as Nan by the
family. In 1918 Albert and Nan were
living at Reading where their first child was born. It was also in 1918 that the Royal Flying
Corps became amalgamated into Royal Air Force. Five years after the war Albert was still
in the air force and, at the time of the birth of the couple’s second child,
he was stationed at RAF Halton near Wendover in Buckinghamshire, the child
having been born in the RAF Hospital there.
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Five
years later in 1928 Albert had achieved the rank of Flight Sergeant and on 12th
August 1930 he was made a Warrant Officer SM2 while he was serving in India,
for which he was awarded the Indian General Service Medal and Clasp. Thirty years later, and upon his
retirement, Albert and Nan were living in Blackpool in 1960. It was four years later that Albert Victor
Collett died during March 1964 and was followed four years after by Nan who
died in 1968.
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Leslie Edward Collett
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Born in 1918
at Reading
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45R14
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Frederick Maurice Collett
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Born in 1923
at Halton, Bucks
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45Q7
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Alfred Ernest Collett was one half of a set of twins born on
14th November 1896 at Meerut in the Bengal area of India. In the two years since the birth of his
older brother his father had gone from a private to a corporal with the 5th
Dragoon Guards. Alfred was baptised at
Meerut on 16th December 1896 in a joint christening with his twin
sister Florence (below). Not
long after that the family returned to England, initially to Staffordshire,
but ultimately back to Farnham near Aldershot, and three years later to Cove
near Farnborough.
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In
the Farnham census of 1901, he was four years old and ten years later, still
living with his family in the Farnham registration district, he was 15. The only other facts known about Alfred are
that he married Doris, who was born in 1911, and that he died in June
2002. It is not established if he ever
had any children from his marriage to Doris.
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Florence Ruth Collett was the other half of the twins born
on 14th November 1896 at Meerut in Bengal. And it was also there, just over a month
later that she was baptised in a joint ceremony with her twin brother Alfred (above)
on 16th December 1896. As
Florence L Collett she was listed living with her family at Farnham in Surrey
in 1901 at the age of four years, although curiously there is no record of
her in the census of 1911 when she would have been fourteen. This then raises the question as to whether
or not she had died during the first decade of the new century.
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Mabel E Collett was born after the family had returned
from their time in India and was born at Wade in Staffordshire in 1898. Apart from her inclusion in the census of
1901 at the age of two years, no further record of her has so far been
located. It might therefore be assumed
that she died while still a child and may have been subject to the same fate
as that which resulted in the absence of her older sister Florence (above)
from the same census.
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William Henry Collett was born at Farnham in the second half
of 1901, where his family was living on the thirty-first of March of that
year. By the time of the census of
1911 William was aged nine and living with his parents within the Farnham
registration district in Surrey, although he was recorded as being Henry
Collett. William never married and was
a member of the Royal Air Force. He
also worked as a conductor with the Aldershot & District traction Company
and, at some time, worked at the War Service Royal Aircraft Establishment at
Farnborough. During his life he was
referred to as Bruiser Collett, which might indicate he was a boxer or just
handy with his fists. The only other
detail so far known about him is that he died in 1970.
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Winifred Maud Collett was born at Cove near Farnborough on 4th
January 1904. She was referred to as
Rus within the family and was listed as being seven years old in the census
of 1911 when his place of birth was confirmed as being Cove in
Hampshire. She later married George
Gordon who was born on 21st January 1901 and was a Regimental
Sergeant Major with the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders.
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The
marriage produced four children for the couple. Their eldest son married Francis lives in
Keynsham near Bristol, the second child lives in Canada, the third child
married Gwenda and remained living at Farnborough, where he worked at the
Royal Aircraft Establish, and their youngest child was Jean Gordon. George Gordon died during June 1979 and was
followed almost immediately by Rus Gordon nee Collett who died on 13th
July 1979.
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Harold L Collett was born at Olton, near Solihull, in
1911 and it was at Solihull that his birth was recorded (Ref. 6d 635) during
the second quarter of the year, the only known child of Alfred Collett and
Minnie Baker. He was nearly thirty,
when the marriage of Harold L Collett and Regina M Cooper was recorded at
Nuneaton register office (Ref. 6d 1598) during the first quarter of
1941. After only twenty-three years
together, the death of Harold L Collett was recorded at Birmingham register
office (Ref. 9c 289) during the first three months of 1964, when he was
52. As far as can be determined, they
never had any children.
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Stephen John Collett was born at Aldershot on 13th
April 1915, the eldest child of Stephen Stanley Collett and Mary Pearl
Stewart. His birth was recorded at
nearby Farnham register office (Ref. 2a 209) during the second quarter of
that year. Stephen attended East End
Boys School and later married Violet Ivy P Leach in 1942. Violet was born on 18th January
1915 and also at Aldershot, and was known as Vi within the family. Their marriage was recorded at Aldershot
register office (Ref. 2c 675) during the second quarter of 1942 and produced
two children for the couple. The first
of them was born while they were living in Aldershot and the second when they
were living in Farnborough. As well as
being born within a few months of each other in 1915, Stephen and Vi died
within a month of each other. Violet
Ivy Collett nee Leach died first on 5th August 1963 and was
followed by Stephen John Collett who passed away on 6th September
1963, his death recorded at the South-Western Surrey register office (Ref. 5g
774) during the third quarter of that year when he was 49 years old.
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Patrick Rowland Collett
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Born in 1944
at Aldershot
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Janet Stephanie Collett
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Born in 1947
at Farnborough
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Stanley Roland Collett was born at Aldershot on 28th
March 1917 and his birth was recorded at Farnham register office (Ref. 2a
204) during the second quarter of that year.
He was one month old when he was baptised at St Joseph’s Church in
Aldershot on 29th April 1917.
He too attended East End Boys School and later enlisted with the Royal
Navy at the outbreak of the Second World War, but was discharged on medical
grounds. He died shortly after that on
3rd February 1940, the cause of death being certified as
pneumonia. As with his older brother (above),
the death of Stanley R Collett was recorded at the South-Western register
office (Ref. 2a 1326) during the first quarter of 1940, when he was just 22
years of age. He never married.
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Ernest Henry Collett was born at Aldershot on 19th
March 1919, with his birth also recorded at Farnham register office (Ref. 2a
179). Like his two brothers before
him, Ernest was also a pupil at East End Boys School. He was a soldier with the 2nd
and 4th Battalion Hampshire Regiments who saw action in Europe
during the Second World War. What is
known is that it was during the early 1940s in Austria that he met and
married Sophie Herzog, who was born at Klagenfurt in Austria in May
1917. Their first child was born in
Austria during the war, while their second child was born at Aldershot, where
the couple had settled during the latter part of the 1940s. It was also during that time in his life
when Ernest worked for F W Woolworth.
Sometime later in their lives Ernest and Sophie moved to Cambridge
where Ernest died in November 1969, his death recorded at Cambridge register
office (Ref. 4a 695). Sophie continued
to live in Cambridge after the death of her husband but eventually moved to
Wigan in Lancashire, where her son was living, and where she died on 12th
December 2010 at the age of 93.
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Karen Collett
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Born in 1943
in Austria
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Stephen Collett
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Born in 1950
at Aldershot
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RICHARD LOUIS COLLETT was born at Aldershot on 28th
March 1921 and it was there that he was baptised on 8th May 1921,
the fourth child of Stephen Stanley Collett and his wife Mary Pearl
Stewart. His birth, like that of his
siblings, was recorded at Farnham register office (Ref. 2a 260) during the
second quarter of the year. However,
unlike his older brothers, he was educated at Farnborough Grammar School, and
upon leaving school he went to work for F W Woolworth where he spent his
entire working life. During World War
Two he served with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps at Agra in India and was
Warrant Officer R L Collett No. 10538126.
It was during the early years of his military service that he met his
future wife, whom he married a year after the end of the hostilities.
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Eileen
Mary Lenehan was born on 19th September 1920 at Carbury in County
Kildare in Ireland and she were married Richard at St Joseph’s Roman Catholic
Church in Aldershot on 13th July 1946, following which they had
two children. Whilst he was employed
by F W Woolworth, Richard moved regularly round the country living in
Farnham, Portsmouth, Ely, Cirencester and Upminster, finally achieving the
position of Senior Head Office Manager.
He retired early in 1977 following heart problems and retired to the
village of Helmdon in Northamptonshire.
Richard Louis Collett died at Helmdon on 2nd February 1987,
from lung cancer, and it was also there that he was buried a week later on 9th
February 1987. Many years later, after
thirty-five years as a widow, and at the grand age of 101, Eileen Mary
Collett, nee Lenehan, passed away peacefully at home in Horsmonden, Kent, on
8th January 2022.
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PAUL ANTHONY COLLETT
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Born in 1947
at Farnborough
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Catherine Ann Collett
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Born in 1950
at Farnham
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45R10
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Lawrence William Collett
was born at Aldershot
on 18th June 1923 and was quickly baptised three days later on 21st
June 1923 due to a defect at birth.
His birth was later recorded at Farnham register office (Ref. 2a 231)
during the third quarter of that year.
However, despite being brain damaged from birth, he survived for over
twenty-nine years when he died at Aldershot on 11th November 1952.
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Albert Dennis Terence
Collett was born at
Aldershot on 1st June 1927, his birth recorded at Farnham register
office (Ref. 2a 275). As with other
male siblings of his family he was educated at East End Boys School. He later entered service with REME where he
was trained as a motor mechanic. On 4th
June 1955 Albert married Maureen Mitchell just after her twentieth birthday,
she having been at Aldershot on 22nd June 1935. Once married the couple remained living in
Aldershot where, it was previously believed that, all four of their children
were born. However, the registration
of the birth of the couple’s eldest daughter, Frances, took place at
Huntingdon, where the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Mitchell. And it was at Aldershot that Albert Dennis
Terence Collett died from cancer on 17th October 1999 and where he
was buried on 29th October 1999.
The cause of death was cancer.
Curiously the death of Albert Dennis T Collett was recorded at West
Surrey register office (Vol. 7611e).
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Adrian Paul Collett
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Born in 1958
at Aldershot
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Frances Teresa Collett
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Born in 1965
at Huntingdon
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Sarah Louise Collett twin
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Born in 1966
at Aldershot
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Christopher Collett twin
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Born in 1966
at Aldershot
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Ralph Thomas James
Collett was born on
20th May 1930 at 4 Lynford Villas off Highland Road in Aldershot
and his birth, like that of all of his older siblings, was recorded at nearby
Farnham register office (Ref. 2a 291) when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Stewart. Ralph was
baptised at St Joseph’s Church in the town on 29th June 1930, the
last child born to Stephen Stanley Collet and his wife Mary Pearl
Stewart. On leaving school he joined
the Royal Navy and later become a police inspector. At some stage in his early working life he
moved to Dorset and initially settled in Weymouth where he married Patricia
Ann Lawrence at St Joseph’s Church on 24th July 1954. It was also while the couple were living at
Weymouth that the first of their two daughters were born.
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His
wife was less than three weeks difference in age from Ralph, and had been
born on 8th June 1930 at Dorchester where the family was living
when the couple’s second daughter was born.
During the later years of their life together Ralph and Patricia left
Dorchester and moved the 23 miles east to Wimborne Minster where Ralph Thomas
James Collett died on 8th July 1986 and where he was buried. It was at Wimborne that Patricia Ann
Collett nee Lawrence also passed away.
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Carole Susan Collett
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Born in 1957
at Weymouth
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45S12
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Janet Christine Collett
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Born in 1960
at Dorchester
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Leslie Edward Collett,
the eldest of the two children of Albert Victor Collett and Hannah Pam,
and was born at Reading on 29th August 1918. The birth was recorded at Reading register
office (Ref. 2c 619) during the third quarter of 1918, when his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Pam. Leslie was
married twice during his life, the first time when he married (1) Anne
Theresa Reynolds from Omagh in County Tyrone, the event recorded at Plymouth
register office (Ref. 5b 1184) during the third quarter of 1940. That marriage produced two daughters, whose
birthdays were recorded at Blackpool and Plymouth when, in each case, the mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Reynolds.
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It was also back at Reading, when Leslie E Collett later
married (2) Marjorie Kathleen Joyce Brooks during the second quarter of 1960,
where the event was recorded (Ref. 6a 265).
Marjorie was born on 6th August 1929, her birth recorded at
East Stonehouse in Devon (Ref. 5b 400).
The first of the couple’s three children was born at Reading, before
the family moved to High Wycombe where the second child was born. Within the next couple of years, the family
moved again, on that occasion back to Blackpool where their third and last
child was born. In all three cases the
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Brooks.
Leslie Edward Collett died on 23rd December 1988, his death
recorded at Blackpool and Fylde register office (Ref. 40 871). It was many
years later that his widow Marjorie passed away on 25th May 2012.
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45S13
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Patricia Mary Collett
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Born in 1941
at Blackpool
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Carmel Theresa Collett
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Born in 1944
at Plymouth
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The following
are the children of Leslie Collett by his second wife Marjorie Brooks:
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Simon F Collett
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Born in 1961
at Reading
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Andrew Edward Collett
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Born in 1963
at High Wycombe
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45S17
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Christopher John Collett
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Born in 1965
at Blackburn
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Frederick Maurice
Collett was born at
the Royal Air Force Hospital at RAF Halton near Wendover in Buckinghamshire
during 1923. His birth was recorded at
Aylesbury register office (Ref. 3a 1662) during the first quarter of that
year, the son of Albert Collett and his wife Hannah Pam - whose maiden-name
was included on the register. It was
during the third quarter of 1944 that Frederick M Collett married Lorna
MacPherson who was born at Port Sunlight in Cheshire during 1922, their
wedding recorded at Wirral register office (Ref. 8a 1213). The couple spent almost sixty-five years
together before Lorna passed away in June 2006 at the age of
eighty-four. Her husband, a retired
mathematics schoolteacher, was also an official of the Youth Hostels
Association and founder of the Kendal Athletic Club and, upon his retirement,
he pursued his hobby of collecting playing-cards, which eventually became a
business for him and Lorna.
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The
following item appeared in The Times newspaper on Thursday 21st
June 2012 and related to the progress of the Olympic Torch on its journey
around the British Isles, on its way to London for the 2012 Olympic Games at
the end of July. The article, under
the headline, ‘Day 33 York to Carlisle - Torch Bearers’ Day in the Sun’ read
as follows:
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“As with the Diamond
Jubilee, the question I ask myself about the Olympic Torch Relay is
this: why are so many people so
excited? No use denying that they are,
even though, viewed dispassionately as a product the Torch Relay doesn't
amount to much. You stand for an hour
yesterday, thankfully in the sun, then a few coppers turn up on motorbikes,
followed by a few sponsor vans, followed by a rather forlorn figure in a
white track suit carrying the flame.
Kids cheer, matrons wave their Union Jacks, cameras click, the show
moves on. That's it. And yet everyone
loves it. Mediocre product, massive
popularity. The Torch Relay is
actually a lot like Coca-Cola, its most celebrated sponsor. Why?
Because in places like Layburn and Aysgarth Falls and Richmond, all in
North Yorkshire, the relay is as close as anyone will get to the Games in the
flesh. Because ‘It's history isn't
it? I won't see it again in my
lifetime.’ Because it's something to
do. Because it's a morning off
school. Because the passage of the
Torch is as much a celebration of a place and a people right here and now as
it is a celebration of a gathering of millionaire athletes in far-off London
at the end of next month. And also I
think because, contrary to the received wisdom in sceptical media circles,
the British remain a fundamentally uncynical bunch.
Yesterday, on a bridge
over Aysgarth Falls in Wensleydale, Maurice Collett, 89, a retired maths
teacher from Kendal, handed over to Caroline Curtis, 32, a Scout leader from
London. The event was witnessed (sort
of) by Eleanor Hurn, six weeks old, from Dublin. Mr Collett's daughter, Jurdy Brewer, had
flown over from her home in Malaysia to witness her dad's big moment. Ms Curtis is half-Malaysian. In their exchange, something of the
original, and still enduring, international spirit of the Olympics could be
discerned. Mr Collett, who was born
not long before the Chariots of Fire games in 1924, has a right arm withered
by childhood polio. Nonetheless, he
devoted much of his life to amateur and school athletics. What does the flame represent to him,
someone asked? A modest man, Mr
Collett said nothing. ‘It's a recognition
of a lifetime of achievement’ his daughter answered proudly. Indeed so.
You'd have to be a fairly hardened cynic to deny a man such as Mr
Collett his day in the sun.
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Six
years later, Maurice died on 12th July 2018 at the age of 95, with the
following obituary published in the Westmorland Gazette on 26th
July 2018. “FREDERICK MAURICE COLLETT - Passed away peacefully on 12th July aged
95 yrs. Husband of the late Lorna and
loving father of Jurdy, Paul and Sally.
Grandfather to Adam Collett and Paris Collett. He will be sadly missed by all the
family. The funeral service will take
place at Beetham Hall Crematorium (South Lakeland) on Friday 3rd August at
11.00am. Family flowers only please, donations if desired, to either the RSPB
or the British Polio Foundation”
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Maurice’s
long-term friend, Roddy Somerville (Past Chairman of the IPCS and Past Master
of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards of the City of London),
produced the following tribute, which was printed in the Journal of the
International Playing-Card Society (IPCS) under the headline:
Frederick
Maurice Collett (1923-2018) - reflections on a long life lived to the full
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“Some 30 years ago, when
Maurice Collett was 65, he told me not to be surprised if he did not survive
much longer as he had reached the average age attained by most members of his
family. Well, he proved everyone wrong! Those last 30 years were to be as
fulfilling as the rest of his life had been.
When he retired from teaching mathematics, he was able to devote
himself to collecting playing cards (notably Dondorf packs) and to give more
time to running what was less of a business and more of a service to fellow
collectors, namely Kendal Playing Card Sales.
This he did with great enthusiasm and efficiency from his home near
Kendal in the English Lake District, building up a band of loyal customers,
thanks to his regular sales lists. The
fact that he had the full use of only one arm was not a deterrent, as he was
ably assisted by his (late) wife Lorna, especially when it came to packing
parcels. Sales of playing cards were
boosted by their having a presence in a local shop and hotel in Kendal. How many tourists who bought playing cards
as souvenirs later became avid collectors?
The Lake District was also the setting for Maurice and Lorna’s other
passion in life, orienteering. Both
took part in competitive events over many years, with Maurice still competing
in his late 80s! In recognition of the
fact that he co-founded and chaired the Westmorland Schools Athletic
Association, it was fitting that, at the age of 89, he was given the honour
of carrying the Olympic Torch at Aysgarth (North Yorkshire). Age did not prevent Maurice from travelling
to many parts of the world to visit friends and relatives. He was all set to visit his daughter in
Malaysia before Christmas 2016 when illness forced him to cancel the trip. Maurice Collett was a founding member of
the IPCS, serving as its first Chairman, then Secretary and later
Vice-President, before becoming President in 1991. Were there to be an IPCS “Hall of Fame”,
Maurice would surely be one of the first inductees.”
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Susan Jurdy Collett
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Born in 1947
at Blackpool
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45S19
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Paul Andrew Collett
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Born in 1950
at Westmorland
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45S20
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Sally Ann Collett
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Born in 1959
at Westmorland
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45S1
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Patrick Rowland Collett was born at Aldershot in 1944, where
his birth recorded (Ref. 2c 504) during the first three months of that year,
when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Leach. He married Carol Lesley Gregory in 1964
with whom he had two children while the couple were living at Farnham in
Surrey. Tragically he died in a drowning
incident in 1976 when he was only 32 years old.
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Tracy Jane Collett
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Born in 1966
at Farnham, Surrey
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45T2
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Gavin Patrick Collett
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Born in 1968
at Farnham, Surrey
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Janet Stephanie Collett was born at Farnborough on 22nd
October 1947, although her birth was recorded at Aldershot register office
(Ref. 6b 65) during the last three months of that year. She married (1) Barry Michael Finch on 12th
July 1969. Barry was born at
Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex and was the father of Janet’s two
children. After they were married the
couple initially settled in Shoreham and it was during that time that their
first child was born and baptised at Shoreham.
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Less
than two years after the birth of the child the family moved five miles west
of Shoreham to Worthing where their second child was born. The family remained living at Worthing for
the next twenty years and it was there on 11th July 1992 that
Janet married (2) Leonard Roy Rogers.
Leonard was ten years older than Janet having been born in London on
19th May 1937 and was baptised at Dulwich just over a month later
on 27th June 1937.
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45T3
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Jason Thomas
Finch
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Born on
04.01.1970 at Shoreham
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Benjamin Nicholas Finch
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Born in 1972
at Worthing
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Karen Collett, the child of Ernest Henry Collett
and Sophie Herzog, was born in Austria during 1943. It was in London during the 1960s that she
married (1) Mr Haley, but the marriage produced no children and the couple
were later divorced. She later
returned to Austria where she married Adolf Schreiber with whom she had a
son, who was born in Austria during 1976.
She still lives in Austria, as does her unmarried son, while her
husband Adolf died in 2010.
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Stephen Collett was born at Aldershot in 1950 and was
another child of Ernest and Sophie Collett.
He married Miss Tennant during the early 1970s with whom he had two
children, both of them being born in Wigan, when he and his wife were still
living in 2013.
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45T5
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Emma Collett
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Born in 1978
at Wigan
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45T6
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Ian Collett
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Born in 1983
at Wigan
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PAUL ANTHONY COLLETT was born at Farnborough in Hampshire
on 18th February 1947 and was baptised there that same day, the
eldest of the two children of Richard Louis Collett and Eileen Mary
Lenehan. He attended school at
Presentation College in Reading from 1957 to 1963 and, upon completing his
education he was employed by W H Smith.
It was while he was working for them in Liverpool that he met his
future wife Angela Mary Holden who was born at Farnworth in Lancashire on 7th
October 1948.
The
couple were married at Farnworth, north-west of Manchester, on 30th
August 1969, and once they were married it was Paul’s work which took the
couple south to Hornchurch in Essex, where their first two sons were born at
Rush Green Hospital.
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Following
a change in his occupation, Paul and his family later moved to Towcester in
Northamptonshire during 1975, and it was while they were living there that
the couple’s third son was born at the Barrett Maternity Hospital in
Northampton. In 2012 Paul and Angela
are still living in the Towcester area of Northamptonshire, and it was Paul
who kindly provided the information that has enabled this family line to be
constructed.
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Footnote: Paul and his cousin Adrian Collett (Ref.
45S7), together with Brian Collett of Brixworth in Northamptonshire, attended
the opening of the Royal Flying Corps Museum at Farnborough on 12th
April 2012 to celebrate the centenary of the formation of the RFC, one of
their early recruits being the cousins’ grandfather Stephen Stanley Collett
(Ref. 45Q5).
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45T7
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Richard Paul Collett
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Born in 1970
at Hornchurch, Essex
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45T8
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Simon Anthony Collett
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Born in 1972
at Hornchurch, Essex
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45T9
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Timothy Edward Collett
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Born in 1978
at Northampton
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Catherine Ann Collett was born on 2nd May 1950 at
Farnham in Surrey where she was baptised on 18th June 1950. She was a schoolteacher and it seems likely
that it was through her work that she met fellow teacher Malcolm Cramp who
was born at Chatham in Kent on 15th January 1949. Catherine was thirty-three when she married
Malcolm at Maidstone in Kent on 23rd December 1983. And it was whilst the couple was living at
Maidstone that their two children were born.
Malcolm Cramp, the husband of Catherine Ann Collett, died on 31st
August 2015 at Loose Village in Kent, the cause of death being a brain
tumour.
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45T10
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Lucy Cramp
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Born on
25.10.1986
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45T11
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Joseph Cramp
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Born on
06.08.1989
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45S7
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Adrian Paul Collett was born at Aldershot on 30th
March 1958, the eldest of the four children of Albert Dennis Terence Collett
and his wife Maureen Mitchell. His
birth was simply recorded as Adrian Collett at Aldershot register office
(Ref. 6b 11) during the second quarter of 1958, when his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Mitchell. It was in
his teenage years, when he was confirmed, that Adrian took the saints name
Paul. Upon leaving school he began a
career in food retail management with MacFisheries, and later with Mac Market
supermarkets. He was a MacFisheries
shop manager at 21 and a supermarket manager by the time he was 22.
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On
giving up his career in retail during 1980 Adrian became involved in local
politics and successfully stood for election to various local councils on nineteen
occasions between 1980 and 2011. It
was on 30th March 1989 that, as Adrian P Collett, he married
Pamela Mary Baldock nee Birkett at the Aldershot register office, Pamela
having been born at Mitcham in Surrey on 14th July 1948.
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Just prior to becoming a married man
Adrian became the youngest Council Leader in the country, a post he held from
1986 to 1988. Since then he has stood
for Parliament five times, as a Liberal Democrat for Aldershot Constituency,
getting closer to winning each time but never quite getting there. On 12th June 2012 he was chosen
as Chair of Hampshire Police Authority.
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Pamela
has two children, Emma and Robert Baldock, from her previous marriage, and
the two children of his step-daughter Emma (Tabitha and Molly) both refer to
Adrian as ‘Granddad’.
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Adrian, together with his cousin Paul
Collett (Ref. 45S5) and webmaster Brian Collett, attended the opening
ceremony of the Royal Flying Corps Centenary Exhibition at Farnborough on 12th
April 2012. Adrian is shown standing
in front of the displays, which includes his grandfather Stephen Collett and
others members of the wider Collett family.
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Frances Teresa Collett was born at Huntingdon on 30th
March 1965, the base-born daughter of Maureen Mitchell, who was separated
from her husband Albert Dennis Terence Collett at that time in their married
life. The birth of Frances Teresa
Collett was recorded at Huntingdon register office (Ref. 4b 839) during the
second quarter of 1965, where her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Mitchell. Shortly after the birth,
both mother and daughter were reunited with Albert and their son Adrian back
at Aldershot. Sometime after that
Frances was adopted into the family of Albert and Maureen Collett. It was at Aldershot register office (Vol.
495-1144) on 15th July 1999 that the marriage of Frances Teresa
Collett and Raymond John Crooke took place, the event brought forward by a
year so that Frances’ poorly father could attend. Frances and Raymond were only married for fifteen
years, when Raymond died suddenly on 25th September 2014. Just over three years later, when Frances
was only 52 years of age, she suffered with septicaemia and died on 14th
December 2017 at St George's Hospital in Tooting, following which her funeral
was held at Aldershot Park Crematorium on Monday 8th January 2018.
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Sarah Louise Collett was the other half of a set of twins
born at Aldershot on 14th September 1966, where her birth was
recorded (Ref. 6b 94). Thirty years
later she married Ratahi Maciopa Watene in New Zealand on 20th
December 1996. He was known as Ra, and
he and Sarah have two children, Jordan Watene born at South Auckland on 26th
January 2002 and Lana Kiri Watene born on 30th March 2004.
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Christopher Collett was one half of a set of twins born at
Aldershot on 14th September 1966.
His birth, as with that of his twin sister (above), was
recorded at Aldershot register office (Ref. 6b 95) when their mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Mitchell. He lived
all his life at Aldershot where he married Gwenn Bartrop on 3rd
July 1993 at the Aldershot register office.
Tragically he died less than two months before his thirty-sixth
birthday on 21st July 2002 at Aldershot, where he was buried on 1st
August 2002. For some reason his death
was recorded at West Surrey register office (Ref. 7611c), rather than at
Aldershot, while the birth of their son was recorded at the Surrey
North-Western register office (Ref. 7582b), the mother’s maiden-name given as
Bartrop.
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Damien
Collett
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Born on 21.12.1993
at Aldershot
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Carole Susan Collett was born at Weymouth on 20th
October 1957 and was baptised there the following year on 16th
February 1958. She married (1) Kenneth
Edwards but later married (2) Colin Jarvis on 24th September 1983
at Wimborne in Dorset where her parents were living at that time. Colin was born at St Austell in Cornwall on
26th July 1952 where he was baptised five years later on 8th
May 1957. The marriage produced two
children for Carole and Colin, and both were born at Poole Hospital although
the couple were living at Wimborne where the two children were later
baptised.
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Paul Stephen
Jarvis
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Born on
02.05.1986; baptised on 03.08.1986
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Sarah
Michelle Jarvis
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Born on
15.05.1988; baptised on 31.07.1988
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Janet Christine Collett was born at Dorchester in Dorset on 20th
November 1960 and it was there that she was baptised during the following
year. She married Keith Michael
Hickling at Wimborne on 12th June 1993. Keith was born in Birmingham on 1st
May 1959. At the time of the birth of
their two children, Janet and Keith were living at Frimley Park just north of
Farnborough.
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Katie Jane
Hickling
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Born on
14.10.1994
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Lucy Ann
Hickling
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Born on
11.02.1997
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Patricia Mary Collett was thought to have been born at
Plymouth, like her sister Carmel (below). However, the birth of Patricia M Collett
was recorded at Blackpool register office (Ref. 8e 1286) during the second
quarter of 1941, the eldest child of Leslie Edward Collett and Annie Reynolds
from Northern Ireland. Her father
later on, was re-married in Reading in 1960, while Patricia may still have
been living with her mother and sister at Plymouth in 1961. By the time the marriage of Patricia M
Collett and Frank Davies was recorded at Totnes register office in Devon
(Ref. 7a 1439) during the fourth quarter of 1961, Patricia’s younger sister
was already married. Nine months
later, Patricia gave birth to a daughter Susan A Davies, whose birth was also
recorded at Totnes (Ref. 7a 934) during the third quarter of 1962, when the
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
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Carmel Theresa Collett was the second child of Leslie Edward
Collett by his first wife Annie Reynolds.
Her birth was recorded at Plymouth (Ref. 5b 406) during the first
three months of 1944, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Reynolds. With her father later
marrying Marjorie Brooks in the spring of 1960 at Reading, it seems highly
likely that Carmel was still living with her mother in Plymouth in 1961,
where she was married under eighteen years of age. The marriage of Carmel T Collett and Graham
B Harford was recorded at Plymouth register office (Ref. 7a 1580) during the
third quarter of that year. It was one
year later that the birth of Catherine A Harford was also recorded at
Plymouth register office (Ref. 7a 728) when the child’s mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Collett.
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Simon F Collett was born at Reading on 1st
May 1961, the son of Leslie Edward Collett by his second wife Marjorie
Kathleen Joyce Brooks. His birth was
recorded at Reading register office (Ref. 6a 123), when his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Brooks. Like his
father, Simon was also married twice.
The first time was to Elaine Margaret Hardwick, who was born at
Chesterfield on 30th March 1960, the couple being married on 1st
August 1981 at Ashover, midway between Matlock and Clay Cross in Derbyshire. The births of their two sons also took
place in Derbyshire and were recorded at Chesterfield, when the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Hardwick. However,
Simon and Elaine were later divorced.
It was on 21st October 2017, when Simon Collett married (2)
Gemma Marie Connolly, who was born in Leicester on 30th January
1981.
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45T17
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Adam Gregory Collett
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Born in 1987
at Chesterfield
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45T18
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Alex Benjamin Collett
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Born in 1989
at Chesterfield
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45S16
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Andrew Edward Collett was born at High Wycombe in 1963, the
second son of Leslie and Marjorie Collett, whose birth was recorded at
Wycombe register office (Ref. 6a 988) during the first three months of the
year. His mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Brooks. Within two years
of his birth the family had move north and was living in Blackpool. It was there that Andrew met Janet
Bickerstaffe during the 1980s, the subsequent marriage of Andrew E Collett
and Janet Bickerstaffe recorded at Blackpool & Fylde register office (Vol.
40 421) on 25th September 1988.
Janet was born in the village of Wesham, midway between Blackpool and
Preston in Lancashire on 7th December 1966 and she died on 10th
November 2013. Their daughter’s birth
was recorded at the Preston and South Ribble register office (Vol. 5881c
c66c), when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bickerstaffe.
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Rebecca Megan
Collett
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Born on
15.10.1996 at Preston
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Christopher John Collett was born at Blackburn on 26th
December 1965 and was the youngest of the three sons of Leslie and Marjorie
Collett. His birth was recorded at
Blackburn register office (Ref. 10b 698) during the first quarter of the
following year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Brooks. He later married (1) Janet F Bradbury, who
was born at Chester on 11th November 1966, the marriage recorded
at Vale Royal register office in Cheshire (Vol. 35 670) on 9th
September 1989. Nine years later, they were divorced on 11th
December 1998, after which Christopher married (2) Jackie Clarke on 24th
June 2007. Jacqueline Ann Clarke was
born at Burnley on 1st June 1973.
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Susan Jurdy Collett was the eldest child of Maurice
Collett and his wife Lorna MacPherson and was born on 29th
November 1947. Her birth was recorded
at Blackpool (Ref. 10b 722) when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
MacPherson. Jurdy, as she is known,
was originally listed here as having been married four times during her life,
the first time to Mr Burford, on the second occasion to Mr Pearce, the third
was Mr Forrest and the fourth was Mr Collins.
Her first three husbands were all still living in 2008 so, on each occasion,
the separation was the subject of a divorce.
Sometime prior to 2012 it was reported that Jurdy had married Richard
Brewer from Peterborough -see item below.
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In June 2012 her father,
Maurice Collett, was a torch bearer for the 2012 Olympic Games in London and,
when he was interviewed by The Times newspaper (see Ref. 45R14), his daughter
Jurdy Brewer from Malaysia was with him at Aysgarth Falls in Wensleydale.
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Paul Andrew Collett was born on 14th March
1950, the second child Maurice and Lorna Collett, his birth recorded at the
Westmorland South register office (Ref. 1b 837), when his mother’s maiden-name
was conformed as MacPherson. At some time
in his life, he travelled north to Scotland where, in Aberdeen, he met and
married Ms Robertson. She was born in
Aberdeen on 7th June 1957 and their wedding took place on 1st
November 1986. The couple’s first
child was born while they were still living in Aberdeen. However, their second child was born after
the family had moved to Singapore.
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45T20
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Adam Paul
Collett
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Born on
29.11.1988 at Aberdeen
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Paris Taylor
Collett
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Born on
07.11.1994 at Singapore
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Sally Ann Collett was born on 12th February
1959, the youngest child of Maurice and Lorna Collett. Like her brother Paul (above), the
birth of Sally A Collett was also recorded at Westmorland South register
(Ref. 1b 856). She first married (1)
Arun H Sahni who was born at Pinner near Harrow on the outskirts of north
London, their marriage recorded at Kendall in Westmorland (Vol. 1 0448)
during the spring of 1979. A divorce
followed some years later, following which the marriage of Sally A Sahni and
(2) John S Soady was recorded at Sheffield register office (Vol. 3 1505)
during the summer of 1993.
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Tracy Jane Collett was born at Farnham in 1966 and was
the first-born child of Patrick Rowland Collett and Carol Lesley
Gregory. Tracy later married Nigel
Davies and their marriage produced three children for the couple, and they
were Natalie Davies, Matthew Davies, and Zoe Davies.
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Gavin Patrick Collett was born at Farnham in 1968, the
younger of the two children of Patrick Rowland Collett and Carol Lesley Gregory.
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Benjamin Nicholas Finch was born at Worthing on 2nd
March 1972 and baptised at Shoreham-by-Sea, the son child of Barry Michael
Finch and Janet Stephanie Collett. He
married Victoria Jane Bolingbroke at Lewes in East Sussex on 4th
January 1997. Victoria was born on 23rd
September 1970 at Brighton, where she was also baptised. The marriage produced two children for the
couple, Maria Finch born in November 1998 and Peter Thomas Finch who was born
at Worthing on 11th November 2004.
Tragically Benjamin Nicholas Finch, the son of Janet Stephanie
Collett, died in a car accident in Chichester on 29th November
2014.
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Emma Collett was born at Wigan in
1978 and was the eldest of the two children of Stephen Collett and his wife, the
former Ms Tennant. Emma studied
Spanish at Aberystwyth University in Wales and left Wigan in 2003 to travel
the world, spending four years teaching English to children in China and
Spain. She now lives in Brisbane,
Australia, and was married in 2007, her husband was born in 1980 and
originally from New South Wales. Their
first child, a daughter, was born in Brisbane during 2012, while the couple’s
second child, their son, was also born in Brisbane, Queensland, in the autumn
of 2014.
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Ian Collett was born at Wigan during 1983, the son
of Stephen Collett and his wife – whose christian name is not known. It was also in Wigan where he was still
living in 2013 with his fiancée, who is also from Wigan.
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Richard Paul Collett, who is referred to as Alf, was born at the Rush Green Hospital
in Hornchurch in Essex on 5th August 1970, the eldest of the three
sons of Paul Anthony Collett and his wife Angela Mary Holden. He was baptised at Our Lady of Lourdes
Roman Catholic Church at Farnworth in Lancashire, where his mother was born and
where his parents were married. He was
educated at Sponne School in Towcester, to where his parents moved in 1975,
and at the University of West England in Bristol, from where he graduated
with a BSC (Hons) in November 1994. He
later studied for a Post Graduate Certificate in Education at the same
university, and then took up a teaching post at Bangkok in Thailand during
2000.
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It
was two years later that Richard married (1) Alice Ruth Orton at Edinburgh
Registration Office on 21st December 2002. Alice was born on 1st March 1978
at Woolwich in the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies. The witnesses at their wedding were
Richard’s brother Simon Anthony Collett (below) and Kirsty Orton,
Alice’s sister. That marriage ended in
November 2011, whilst it was nearly ten years later when Richard married (2)
Ruth Veronica on the island of Bali in Indonesia on 23rd July 2021.
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45T8
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Simon Anthony Collett was born at the Rush Green Hospital in
Hornchurch on 4th January 1972 and was baptised at nearby
Upminster in St Joseph’s Church. He
later met Lucy Jayne Jones who was born at Pembury in Kent on 19th
December 1978 and with whom he now has a son and a daughter who were both
born at Milton Keynes Hospital.
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Louis Owen
Maximus Collett
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Born on
20.02.2007 at Milton Keynes
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45U2
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Darcey Rebeca
Collett
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Born on
23.07.2009 at Milton Keynes
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45T9
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Timothy Edward Collett was born at the Barrett Maternity
Hospital in Northampton on 25th May 1978, and was baptised at St
Thomas Moore’s Roman Catholic Church in Towcester. Tim met Sarah Barrett who was born at
Weymouth on 14th December 1969 whom he married at Towcester
Register Office on 22nd August 2009. They now have two daughters who were both
born while the couple was living in Hammersmith, the first child having been
born at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in London.
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45U3
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Megan Rose
Collett
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Born on
15.12.2006 at Hammersmith
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45U4
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Matilda Mae
Collett
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Born on
25.05.2009 at Hammersmith
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45U5
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Hazel Erin
Collett
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Born on
29.08.2012 at Hammersmith
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45T17
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Adam Gregory Collett was born on 29th May 1987,
the eldest of the two son of Simon F Collett and Elaine Margaret
Hardwick. His birth was recorded at
Chesterfield in Derbyshire (Ref. 6 165), where his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Hardwick. It was on 27th
May 2017 when Adam married Amy Taylor, who was born on 24th
September 1988.
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Alex Benjamin Collett was born on 1st August
1989, the second son of Simon and Elaine Collett. His birth also was recorded at Chesterfield
(Ref. 6 39) and again, his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Hardwick. He later married Emma Price
on 31st January 2015 at Ashover in Derbyshire, Emma having been
born on 3rd June 1989.
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APPENDIX
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The
Collett Family of Abberton, near Naunton Beauchamp
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William Collett and his wife Elizabeth lived at
Wickhamford on the main road between Broadway and Evesham in Worcestershire,
where their four known children were baptised.
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45m1
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William Collett
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Born in 1730
at Wickhamford
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45m2
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William Collett
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Born in 1735
at Wickhamford
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45m3
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John Collett
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Born in 1737
at Wickhamford
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45m4
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Richard Collett
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Born in 1741
at Wickhamford
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William Collett was born at Wickhamford in 1730 and
was baptised there during the month of July that year, the eldest son of
William and Elizabeth Collett. It
would seem, following the birth of the next son born to the couple and also
named William, that the first born-son suffered an infant death.
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William Collett was born at Wickhamford in 1735 where
he was baptised on 6th May 1735, the second child of that name for
William and Elizabeth Collett. It was
also at Wickhamford where William Collett married Mary White on 6th
June 1772. It is interesting to note
that William’s brother, Richard Collett (below), married Elizabeth
White, who was possible Mary’s sister.
The married of William and Mary may have only survived a few years
because, at Wickhamford on 9th December 1778, Mary Collett married
Samuel Cox.
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John Collett was born at Wickhamford in 1737 and it
was there also that he was baptised on 16th February 1737, another
son of William and Elizabeth Collett.
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Richard Collett was the son of William and Elizabeth
Collett who was baptised at Wickhamford near Broadway on 4th June
1741. The marriage of Richard Collett
and Elizabeth White took place at Broadway in 1765.
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45n1
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Mary Collett
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Born in 1771
at Broadway
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45n2
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Robert Collett
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Born in 1780
at Broadway
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45n3
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Robert Collett
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Born in 1781
at Broadway
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45n4
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Elizabeth Collett
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Born in 1783
at Broadway
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45n5
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Richard Collett
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Born in 1785
at Broadway
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45n1
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Mary Collett was born at Broadway in 1771 where she
was baptised on 7th October 1771, the eldest child of Richard
Collett and Elizabeth White.
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Robert Collett was born at Broadway in 1780 and was
baptised there on 27th September 1780, another son of Richard and
Elizabeth Collett, who sadly, did not survive, with the couple’s next child
being given the same name.
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Robert Collett was born at Broadway in 1781 and was
baptised there on 25th December 1781, the second son of that name
of Richard and Elizabeth Collett.
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45n4
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Elizabeth Collett was born at Broadway in 1783 where she
was baptised on 26th October that year, another daughter of
Richard and Elizabeth Collett.
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Richard Collett was born at Broadway, where he was
baptised on 7th August 1785, the son of Richard and Elizabeth
Collett. It was at the Church of St
Michael-in-Bedwardine, on Burleigh Road in Worcester, on 6th
February 1816 that Richard Collett married the much younger Sarah
Willis. Sarah was baptised at Abberton
on 13th January 1793, the daughter of Thomas and Nancy
Willis. Following their wedding day,
Richard and Sarah settled in the village of Abberton, twelve miles east of
Worcester, where all of their children were born.
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Sometime
later, Richard and Sarah moved to nearby Bishampton, between Abberton and
Pershore, which was where they were residing in 1841, by which time their
daughter Ann was married and their youngest son John was still living and
working in Abberton. The census that
year recorded the couple as Richard Collett, with a rounded age of 60, Sarah
Collett, with a rounded age of 50, who still had living with them, their eldest
unmarried son Thomas Collett who was 24.
Completing the household was Sarah’s widowed mother Ann Willis who was
70. It was exactly the same situation
in 1851, when Richard was 66 and a labourer, Sarah was 58, son Thomas was 30
(sic) and also a labourer, and Nancy Willis was 80. The census return stated that Richard had
been born at Wick (Wickhamford), that Sarah and Thomas had been born at
Abberton, and that Richard’s mother-in-law had been born at Crowle near
Worcester.
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The
death of Richard Collett was recorded at Pershore (Ref. 6c 231) during the
fourth quarter of 1857. However, his
widow, and their unmarried son, were still living in Bishampton, according to
the census conducted in 1861. Sarah
Collett, from Abberton, was 70 and recorded in a dwelling on Principal
Street. The son living with her was
said to be 45 years old, the right age for son Thomas, but was recorded as
John Collett from Abberton, who was an agricultural labourer. By that time, Sarah’s older son Thomas had
become a married man three years earlier.
The third member of the household that day was four-year-old Maria
Brooks from Sheriffs Lench near Evesham, who was described as the
granddaughter of Sarah Collett. She
was the daughter of Sarah’s only known daughter Ann Collett. Three years later, the death of Sarah
Collett was recorded at Pershore (Ref. 6c 291) during the first quarter of
1864.
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Thomas Collett
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Born in 1816
at Abberton
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Ann Collett
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Born in 1817
at Abberton
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John Collett
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Born in 1819
at Abberton
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Thomas Collett was born at Abberton in 1816 and was
baptised there on 4th August that year, the first child born to
Richard Collett and Sarah Willis. He
was 24 years old in the census of 1841, when he was the only child still
living with his parents who, by then, had moved to Bishampton. Thomas was a labourer and still not married
in the Bishampton census of 1851 when, once again, he was living with his
parents, but where his age was recorded in error as only 30, instead of 34.
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It
was over six years after that census day when Thomas Collett married Jane
Page on 27th November 1857 at St Nicholas’ Church in Peopleton,
just north of Pershore where the marriage was recorded (Ref. 6c 600). Jane, who already had a base-born son,
William Page aged eight years, was an inmate at the Union Workhouse in Holy
Cross, north of Catshill, in 1851 when she was 25. How she came to be alone and twenty miles
north of where she was born near Worcester, remains an unsolved mystery, as
does the fact that her son was born in Gloucestershire, forty miles south of
Holy Cross just one year later. After
giving birth to her son at Stanley Pontlarge, Jane crossed the county
boundary back into Worcestershire to eventually marry Thomas Collett at
Peopleton. Their marriage resulted in
the birth of at least the three children listed below, when Thomas and Jane
were residing in Peopleton, where the couple and their first child were
recorded in the census of 1861.
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Agricultural
labourer Thomas Collett from Abberton was 45, his wife Jane from Grafton
Flyford was 35, and their son Richard Collett was one year old. Thomas’ stepson, William Page from Stanley
Pontlarge in Gloucestershire was eight years of age. It was again at Peopleton that the family
was living in 1871, when both Thomas and Jane were said to be 50 (sic), while
by that time two more children had been added to their family, although
William Page was no longer living with them.
Thomas was still working as an agricultural labourer, while the
couple’s three children were recorded as Richard Collett who was ten, Thomas
Collett who was seven, and Mary Ann Collett who was four, all born at
Peopleton.
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Over
the next decade the couple’s eldest son left home to join the army and the
family left the Pershore area of Worcestershire which, by 1881, was recorded residing
at Nursery Grove in the Aston area of Birmingham on the day of the census. Thomas Collett from Abberton was 60 and
working as a gardener, Jane from Grafton was 54, son Thomas was 17, and
daughter Mary A Collett was 10 years old and still attending school. Both of the children were confirmed as
having been born at Peopleton. No
record of the family has been found after 1881.
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The
birth of William Humphris Page at Stanley Pontlarge was recorded nearby at
Winchcombe (Ref. 6a 331) during the last three months of 1852, his second
forename perhaps the surname of his unknown father. The births of the couple’s three Collett
children were registered at Pershore: Richard Collett during the summer of
1859; Thomas Collett during the spring of 1863; and Mary Ann Collett (Ref. 6c
355) was born during the third quarter of 1867.
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45p1
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Richard
Collett
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Born in 1859
at Peopleton
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45p2
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Thomas
Collett
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Born in 1863
at Peopleton
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45p3
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Mary Ann
Collett
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Born in 1867
at Peopleton
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Ann Collett was born at Abberton in 1817, where
she was baptised on 21st September 1817, the daughter of Richard Collett
and Sarah Willis. Ann was of full-age
when she married Mark Brooks who was baptised at Bishampton on 28th
April 1816, the son of Joseph and Mary Brooks. The wedding was recorded at Pershore (Ref.
18 437) during the third quarter of 1839 and may have been conducted at
Bishampton to where Ann’s parents had moved before 1841. It was also at Bishampton that Mark and Ann
Brooks were living in 1841, not far from Ann’s parents and brothers Thomas
and John. Mark and Ann were both aged
24, while with them was their first child Elizabeth Brooks who was one year
old.
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A
second daughter was added to their family when they were still living in
Bishampton prior to a move, the short distance to nearby Church Lench, where
they were residing in 1851. However,
some time in between, the couple’s third daughter was born at Sheriffs
Lench. The five members of the family
in 1851 were confirmed as Mark Brooks, a carpenter of 33 years from
Bishampton, Ann Brooks who was also 33 and from Abberton, Elizabeth and Marie
Ann Brooks, both from Bishampton, who were 11 and 9, Emily Brooks who was
four years of age. On that day Ann was
already expecting the birth of the couple’s next child, their son Charles
Brooks who was baptised at Church Lench on 21st September 1851.
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The
baptism of the couple’s daughter Mary Ann Brooks took place at Bishampton on
19th September 1841, with daughter Emily Brooks baptised at Church
Lench on 21st February 1847.
One more child was born into the family at Church Lench and that was
Maria, who was born in 1856. Rather
curiously no record of the family has been found within the census of 1861,
although the couple’s youngest child, Maria Brooks aged four years, was
staying with her grandmother Sarah Collett at Principal Street in Bishampton,
when her place of birth was recorded as Sheriffs Lench, like her older sister
Emery Brooks who was born there in 1847.
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Despite
their absence in 1861, Maria was reunited with her family during that decade
and was living with them and her brother Charles at Sheriffs Lench in
1871. Mark and Ann Brooks were both
53, son Charles was 19 and daughter Maria was 14, with all four of them
described as a labourer. The death of
Ann Brooks, nee Collett, was recorded at Evesham (Ref. 6c 210) during the
last three months of 1871 when she was 54.
Twenty years later, according to the census in 1891, Mark Brooks was
73 and a carpenter, when he was residing at Badgers Hill in Church Lench, the
home of his married daughter Maria.
Head of the household was her husband Job Haines aged 36, Maria being
34, who also had staying with them Job’s niece Myra M Tyler who was 11. After a further eight years, the death of
Mark Brooks was recorded at Evesham (Ref. 6c 201) during the first quarter of
1899, at the age of 81.
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John Collett was born at Abberton in 1819 and it
was there also that he was baptised on 19th December 1819, the
last known child of Richard Collett and Sarah Willis. By the time of the census in 1841 John
Collett had left school and was living at the Abberton home of Giles
Checketts, perhaps where he was a domestic service or an agricultural
labourer. Giles Checketts would have
given the census enumerator John’s age, which was incorrectly recorded as 15
to 19 years. No record of him has been
discovered in 1851 but, in 1861, John had returned to the family home to be
with his widowed mother Sarah. On that
day, the age of John Collett from Abberton was again given in error, as 45,
when he was an agricultural labourer residing at Principal Street in
Bishampton, the home of his elderly widowed mother Sarah Collett, aged 70
years. Staying with them that day was
Sarah’s granddaughter Maria Brooks, the daughter of John’s married sister Ann
(above).
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Bishampton,
in Worcestershire, was just over two miles west of the village of Church
Lench, where John’s future wife was born.
Mary Anne Harrod was born in 1844 and, on leaving school, she entered
into domestic service, but gave birth to a base-born daughter when she was
barely sixteen. Mother and daughter
were together as inmates at the Evesham Workhouse in Hampton, just west of
Evesham, on the day of the census in 1861, when unmarried Mary Anne Harrod
was 16 and a former general servant and Lucy Harrod was one year old and had
been born at Inkberrow, to the north of Church Lench. It seems likely that Lucy did not survive
beyond a few months, with the only death of a Lucy Harrod recorded at Witney,
across the county boundary in Oxfordshire, during the third quarter of 1861.
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Four
years later, the marriage of John Collett and Mary Anne Harrod was recorded
at Evesham (Ref. 6c 461) during the third quarter of 1865. It was also at Evesham that the birth of
Mary Anne Harrod had been recorded twenty-one years earlier. Not long after they were married, the
couple was living in Bromsgrove when their first child was born, but later
settled in Feckenham, where their remaining children were born. That was confirmed in the Worcestershire
Feckenham census of 1871, when John Collett from Abberton was 51 and a road
labourer, his much younger wife Mary Collett from Church Lench was 27, and
their two daughters were Sarah Collett who was four and Emma Collett who was
one year old. Mary was well into the
pregnancy for her third child, who was born within a couple of months of that
census day.
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When
that child, their son Alfred, was one year old, he was baptised at the Church
of St John the Baptist in Feckenham on 26th May 1872, together
with his two older siblings in a joint ceremony. Towards the end of the following year, the
death of John Collett was recorded at Alcester (Ref. 6d 430) during the final
quarter of 1873, when he was said to be 52.
The body of John Collett was buried at St John the Baptist on 24th
November 1873. However, by then, Mary
Anne had conceived again and her fourth child by John Collett was born at
Feckenham within six months of losing her husband. Five years after being made a widow, Mary
gave birth to a second son at Feckenham, for whom no baptism record has been
found, so the father is not known. The
birth of that fifth child, as with the first four, was recorded at Alcester,
within whose registration district Feckenham was situated.
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According
to the next census in 1881, the family was residing on The Square in
Feckenham, where widow Mary Collett, aged 39 and from Church Lench, was
earning a living by working as a charwoman.
Her three Feckenham born children living with her that day were Alfred
Collett, Mira Collett and Albert Collett, aged nine years, seven years and
two years, respectively. Visiting the
family on that occasion was Mary’s younger married sister Elizabeth Large who
had with her, her very recently born son John Large.
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No
further record of Mary Anne Collett nee Harrod has been found in any census
return after that census day. Perhaps
she remarried or moved away from Feckenham during the 1880s. The only likely sighting of her is the
death of Mary A Collett whose passing was recorded at Bromsgrove register
office (Ref. 6c 261) during the final quarter of 1914, at the age of 70,
placing her year of birth as 1844.
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45p4
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Sarah Ann Collett
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Born in 1866
at Bromsgrove
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45p5
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Emma Collett
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Born in 1869
at Feckenham
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45p6
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Alfred John Collett
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Born in 1871
at Feckenham
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45p7
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Mira Jane Collett
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Born in 1874
at Feckenham
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45p8
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Albert Collett
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Born in 1879
at Feckenham
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45p1
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Richard Collett
was born at Peopleton, near Pershore in 1859, and it was at Pershore that his
birth was recorded (Ref. 6c 327) during the third quarter of 1859. He was the first of the three known
children of Thomas Collett and Jane Page, and was baptised at St Nicholas’ Church in Peopleton on
24th July 1859. In
the Peopleton census of 1861, Richard was one year old, and was still living
there with his family in 1871 at the age of ten years. On leaving school, he signed up and joined
the army, as confirmed in the next census in 1881. By that time in his life, Richard Collett
was a private with the army, in the Aldershot area of Hampshire at
Alverstoke, when he was 20 years of age and his place of birth was said to be
Pershore in Worcestershire. That same
day, his parents had already moved from Peopleton to Aston in Birmingham,
where they were living in 1881.
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On
being discharged from military service, Richard also settled in Birmingham,
where he was residing at Ellen Street.
Three months prior to the census in 1891, the marriage of Richard
Collett, aged 29 and the son of Thomas Collett, and Louisa Dudley aged 30 and
the daughter of Joseph Dudley, took place at All Saints’ Church in Birmingham
on 4th January 1891. On the
day of the census that year, Richard Collett from Worcestershire was 29 and
working as carter, from their home on Ellen Street, together with his wife
Louisa Collett from Staffordshire who was 30 with no stated job of work. Later that year Louisa revealed to Richard
that she was with-child, with their son born at Birmingham at the end of 1891.
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By the time their son William was
four years old, he was not in the best of help, with his baptism quickly
organised just before he died. No record of Richard and Louisa has been
found after that sad event, and it was five years after the census day in
1901 that the death of Louisa Collett, aged 48, was recorded at Birmingham
register office (Ref. 6d 82) during the second quarter of 1906. Although no positive record of the death of
her husband has been found, his military record provided the information that
Richard Collett of the
15th Brigade from Peopleton in Worcestershire, and born
there around 1860, was 18 on entry to the army, and that he received an army
pension in 1913, at the age of 54. In 1936 the death of Richard
Collett was recorded at Somerset register office (Ref. 5c 605) when he was
77, so he may have been Richard from Peopleton.
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William Richard Thomas Collett
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Born in 1891 at Birmingham
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Thomas Collett
was the second son of Thomas and Jane Collett and was born at Peopleton, near
Pershore. It was also at Pershore
where his birth was recorded (Ref. 6c 390) during the second quarter of 1863. In the Peopleton census of 1871, school boy
Thomas was seven years old, when the whole family was still living there. During the following years, the family
moved to Birmingham, where four of the five members were recorded in 1881. By that time in his life, Thomas had left
school and his occupation was that of a chandelier maker at 17 years of age who
was living at Nursery Grove in Aston (Birmingham) with his parents and
younger sister Mary. Two years later,
he entered military service.
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The
absence of Thomas Collett from the next census in 1891 may be accounted for
with the possibly he was serving with the military and out of the country,
particularly since a Thomas Collett from Worcestershire was listed in the
Chelsea Pensioners Service Records as being 19 when he signed up. After serving Queen and Country for five
years, it was at Birmingham on 5th June 1897 that Thomas Collett,
aged 33 and the son of Thomas Collett, and Harriet Florence White, aged 26
and the daughter of Charles William White, were married.
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In
1901 the couple was residing at Farm Street in the Hockley area of
Birmingham, and with them was the first of their six children. Thomas Collett was 38 and an iron tube
maker, Harriet was 32 (sic), and their two sons were Thomas Collett junior
who was two years of age, and infant Charles Collett. Over the next ten years four more children
were added to their family when they may have still been living at Farm
Street in Hockley. However, only three
of the four children were living in 1911, following the loss of six-month-old Dorothy five years
earlier. During those years
Thomas also had a change of job, with him being a railway porter aged 48 in
1911. Harriet was 40, Thomas junior
was 12, Charlie was 11, Violet was nine, Albert was four, and Florence was
three years old. On that census day
Harriet was awaiting the arrival of the couple’s last child, who was born
three months later.
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Just
under three years later, the death of Thomas Collett aged 51, was recorded at
Birmingham register office (Ref. 6d 394) during the first quarter of 1914. His widow Harriet may have re-married later
on, since no death of Harriet Florence Collett has been discovered. Very little is known about the couple’s
second son, except that the birth of Charles Henry Collett was recorded at
Birmingham register office (Ref. 6d 156) during the second quarter of 1900,
where his death was also recorded (Ref. 9c 376) during the last four months
of 1954 at the age of 54.
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Thomas William Collett
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Born in 1899
at Birmingham
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45q3
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Charles Henry Collett
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Born in 1900
at Birmingham
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45q4
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Lilian Violet Collett
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Born in 1902
at Birmingham
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45q5
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Albert Victor Collett
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Born in 1903 at Birmingham
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45q6
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Dorothy
Ivy Collett
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Born in 1905 at Birmingham
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45q7
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Florence May Collett
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Born in 1907
at Birmingham
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45q8
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Clara Amelia Collett
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Born in 1911
at Birmingham
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Sarah Ann Collett was born at Bromsgrove in 1866, with
her birth recorded at Alcester (Ref. 6d 557) during the last quarter of that
year after her parents, John Collett and Mary Anne Harrod, had moved to
Feckenham, in Worcestershire, shortly after she was born. Sarah Ann was five years of age when she was
baptised at the Church of St John the Baptist in Feckenham on 26th
May 1872, together with her two younger siblings Emma and Alfred
Collett. Fourteen months prior to
that, Sarah Collett from Bromsgrove was four years old in the Feckenham
census of 1871.
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Rather
strangely, Sarah and her sister Emma were not living with their widowed
mother at Feckenham in 1881. However,
just over nine years later, the wedding of Sarah Collett, aged 23, and widower
William Collins, aged 34, was conducted at Feckenham on 13th
November 1890. Father of the bride was
confirmed as John Collett, deceased, while the father of the groom was named
as William Collins. Attending the
wedding was William’s daughter from his first marriage, Beatrice M Collins,
who was three years of age. That was
also her age in the census which followed three months after the wedding
day. At that time the family of three
was residing at Bradley Green, just west of Feckenham, where Williams Collins
was 34 and a farm labourer and his wife Sarah Collins was 24 and a needle
splitter.
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Ten
years later, William’s daughter Beatrice was no longer living with the
couple, and had been replaced by the couple’s first three children, all three
of them born at Bradley Green within the Parish of Stock & Bradley. After 1896 the family moved the short
distance to Stock Green, still within the Parish of Stock & Bradley,
where they were living in 1901. William Collins was an agricultural labour
aged 47 who had been born at Bradley Green, Sarah Collett from Feckenham was
35, and their three children were William who was nine, Emma who was six and
Elsie Collins who was four years of age.
Daughter Emma Collins may not have survived, since she was not living
with the family by 1911. During the
following months, the family left Stock Green, when they moved to Park Berrow
in Worcestershire, where two more children were added to the family, before
then moving to Hanbury.
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By
that time in his life, according to the Hanbury census of 1911, William
Collins was 58 and a cowman, Sarah Collins was 44, and their family that day
was recorded as Will and Elsie Collins from Bradley Green who were 20 and 15
years respectively, George and Maggie Collins from Park Berrow who were eight
and six, and Elizabeth Collins who was two years old and born at Hanbury.
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Emma Collett was born at Feckenham in 1869, the
second child of John and Mary Collett, her birth recorded at Alcester (Ref.
6d 539) during the second quarter of the year. She was three years old when she was
baptised at Feckenham on 26th May 1872, with her older sister
Sarah (above) and younger brother Alfred (below). On the day of the Feckenham census in 1871,
Emma Collett was one year old but, by the time she was three, her father had
died. In 1881, no record of Emma
Collett and been found and in 1891 she was working as a general domestic
servant at Victoria Street in Redditch, the home of the David and Anne Ball
and their large family.
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45p6
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Alfred John Collett was born at Feckenham in 1871, just
after the census day that year, his birth recorded at Alcester (Ref. 6d 527)
during the second quarter of that year.
He was therefore one year old when he was baptised at Feckenham on 26th
May 1872 in a joint ceremony with his two older sisters, the children of John
and Mary Collett. Before he reached
his third birthday, his father died, leaving Alfred, aged nine years, and his
two younger siblings living with their widowed mother at The Square in Feckenham
in 1881.
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Alfred
John Collett married Emiline Rogers, the event recorded at Bromsgrove (Ref.
6c 743) during the final quarter of 1897.
No record of the couple has been positively identified in the census
of 1901, while the couple and their son were residing within the parish of
Upper Ipsley near Redditch in 1911. On
that day Alfred John Collett was 36 and working as a general labourer at a
local cycle works, when he confirmed that he had been born at Feckenham,
south-west of Redditch. His wife
Emiline Collett was also 36 and had been born in Redditch, like their son
Alfred John Collett who was nine years old.
The same census return stated that the couple had been married for
fourteen years.
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Alfred John Collett
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Born in 1902
at Redditch
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45p7
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Mira Jane Collett was born at Feckenham in 1874, her
birth recorded at Alcester (Ref. 6d 640) during the second quarter of the
year. It was later that same year when
she was baptised at Feckenham on 28th August 1874, another
daughter of Mary Collett by her late husband John, who had died six months
before Mira was born. On the day of
the next census in 1881, Mira Collett was seven years old when she was living
with her widowed mother at The Square in Feckenham. After finishing her schooling, Mira entered
domestic service and in 1891 was living and working in Feckenham at a
property on Cross Lane, the home of Joseph and Mary Shaw from Cheshire, when
Mira was 17 and a general servant.
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45p8
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Albert Collett was born at Feckenham in 1879, the
child of widow Mary Anne Collett nee Harrod, by an unknown father. Albert’s birth was also recorded at Alcester
(Ref. 6d 685) during the first three months of that year, where his four
older half-siblings were born and baptised.
Perhaps it is not unsurprising, having regard to his abnormal birth,
that no baptism record for Albert Collett has been found at Feckenham. He was two years of age in the Feckenham
census of 1881, when he was one of three children still living there with
their mother. By the time he was 13,
he had left school and was employed as a domestic servant at the Feckenham
home of elderly couple Henry and Ellen Handy.
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During
the next decade, Albert secured a better job working on the railway and, in
1901, was a railway engine stoker at the age of 22 when he was staying at a
boarding house on Lea House Road in Kings Norton. Seven and a half years later, the marriage
of Albert Collett and Annie Amy Jarvis was recorded at Aston register office
in Birmingham (Ref. 6d 359) during the fourth quarter of 1908. The wedding ceremony took place at Ashted,
within the parish of Aston, on 31st October 1908, when Annie was
27 and the daughter of Joseph and Mary Jarvis, with Albert simply recorded as
being 28 with no parent named. Joseph
was an iron worker of Dolmans Row in Sedgley.
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Once
married, the couple settled in the Aston district of Birmingham, where they
were recorded in the census of 1911, when Albert Collett from Feckenham was
31 and a railway engine fireman employed by the Midland Railway Company. His
wife Annie Collett from Bilston was recorded as 28 instead of 30. So far, it is not known whether their
marriage resulted in the birth of any children.
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William Richard Thomas
Collett was born at the
end of 1891 and was the only known child of Richard Collett and Louisa Dudley. He was four years old when he was
baptised at All Saints’ Church in Hockley, Birmingham on 12th
December 1895. His birth was recorded
at Birmingham register office (Ref. 6d 136) during the first three months of
1892 and his baptism was quickly arranged just prior to his young death at
the age of three years. It was also at
Birmingham register office that his death was recorded (Ref. 6d 147) during
the second half of December 1895.
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Thomas William Collett was born within the Hockley area Birmingham
in 1899, the eldest of the seven
children of Thomas Collett and Harriet Florence White. And it was at St Saviour’s Church in Hockley where he was baptised on
26th April 1899. It
is possible that he was born at Farm Street in Hockley where he and his
family were living in 1901, when Thomas Collett was two years old. The birth of Thomas W Collett was recorded
at Birmingham register office (Ref. 6d 149) during the second quarter of
1899. It was again at Hockley that the
enlarged family was residing in 1911 when, again simply as Thomas Collett, he
was 12 years of age and still attending school. Fifteen years later the marriage of Thomas
William Collett and May Owen was recorded at Birmingham South register office
(Ref. 6d 685) during the second quarter of 1926. Just less than seven years after their
wedding day, their only known child was born.
The later death of Thomas W Collett was recorded at Birmingham
register office (Ref. 9c 496) during the third quarter of 1963, when he was
64 years old.
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Dennis Thomas Collett
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Born in 1933
at Birmingham
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Charles Henry Collett was possibly born at Farm Street in
Hockley in 1900, where he and his parents were living in 1901. It was under his full name that he was baptised in Birmingham on 17th
May 1900, the second child of Thomas and Harriet Collett. It was as Charlie Collett aged 11 that he
was living with his family in Hockley in 1911. Not much more is known about Charles, except that he continued to
reside within the Warwickshire area of the country, where the death of Charles
Henry Collett was recorded (Ref. 9c 376) during 1954 at the age of 54. It is therefore possible that the marriage
of Charles H Collett and Lydia M Bayliss, which was recorded at
Stratford-on-Avon register office (Ref. 6d 1553) during the second quarter of
1932, was the wedding of Charles from Hockley in Birmingham.
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If Lydia was the wife of Charles
Henry Collett the son of Thomas and Harriet, then it is known that she gave
birth to two sons whose births were recorded at Stratford-on-Avon register
office. Both birth records confirmed
that the mother’s maiden-name was Bayliss.
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45r2
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Bernard
G Collett
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Born in 1934 at Stratford-on-Avon
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45r3
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Gordon
C Collett
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Born in 1935 at Stratford-on-Avon
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45q4
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Lilian Violet Collett was born at Farm Street in Hockley in January 1902, her
birth recorded at Birmingham register office (Ref. 6d 110) during the first
quarter of the year. She was the third
child of Thomas and Harriet Collett and was baptised at St Saviour’s Church in Hockley as
Lily Violet Collett on 26th January 1902. It was as Violet Collett that she recorded in
the Hockley, Birmingham, census of 1911 when she was nine years old. It was also simply as Violet Collett that
she married Frederick Miller towards the end of 1926, their wedding recorded
at Birmingham North register office (Ref. 6d 976) during the last quarter of
the year. Their marriage lasted only eleven
years, when the death of Violet Lilian Miller was recorded at Birmingham
(Ref. 6d 636) during the second quarter of 1938, when she was only 36. During those eleven years, Violet gave
birth to four children, the births of the first three recorded at Birmingham
North register office, the last at Birmingham register office. In all four cases, the mother’s maiden-name
confirmed as Collett. They were Violet
L Miller in 1927, Frederick C A Miller in 1928, Alice J Miller
in 1931, and Harriet F Miller in 1934.
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45q5
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Albert Victor Collett was born at Hockley to the west of Birmingham
on 23rd
September 1903, mostly at Farm Street, another son of Thomas and
Harriet Collett. His birth was recorded at Birmingham
register office (Ref. 6d 169) during the fourth quarter of 1903, while it was
at All Saints’ Church in Birmingham that he was baptised on 14th
October 1903. He and his family were
living in Hockley in 1911, when Albert Collett was seven years old. It was during the spring of 1931, when he
was 27 years of age, that the marriage of Albert V Collett and Lydia W Penn
was recorded at the Birmingham North register office (Ref. 6d 900) in the
second quarter of the year.
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Over the next twelve years Lydia gave
birth to two sons and a daughter, with all three births recorded at
Birmingham register office, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Penn. The later death of Albert Victor
Collett was recorded at Warwickshire register office (Ref. 9c 446) during
1952, when he was 48, and his daughter was only nine years of age.
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45r4
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Albert
W Collett
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Born in 1931 at Birmingham
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45r5
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Raymond
Victor Collett
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Born in 1934 at Birmingham
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45r6
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Lydia
F Collett
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Born in 1943 at Birmingham
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Dorothy Ivy Collett was born on 24th
October 1905 at Hockley in Birmingham, and was baptised in Birmingham on 8th
November 1905, another daughter of Thomas and Harriet Collett. She would have been around six months old
when she suffered an infant death, which was recorded at Birmingham register
office (Ref. 6d 91) during the second quarter of 1906.
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Florence May Collett was born at Hockley in Birmingham on
11th December 1907, with her birth recorded at Birmingham register
office (Ref. 6d 67) during the first three months of 1908. She was the fifth child of Thomas Collett
and Harriet Florence White, and was baptised on 1st January 1908. The family lived at Farm Street in the
Hockley, where three-year-old Florence Collett was the youngest member of the
family in 1911, when her mother was already expecting her last child. Twenty years later, the marriage of
Florence May Collett and Albert William Spalding was recorded a Birmingham
North register office (Ref. 6d 857) during the last three months of 1931. No children appear to have been born to the
couple, who both died when they were still living in Birmingham. The death of Albert William Collett was
recorded during the last quarter of 1978, while his widow survived him by
twenty-five years, when Florence May Spalding died on 15th August
2004.
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Clara Amelia Collett was born at Hockley in Birmingham on
13th July 1911, the last child of Thomas Collett and Harriet
Florence White. Her birth was recorded
at Birmingham register office (Ref. 6d 124) during the third quarter of the
year. Shortly after being born, the
baptism of Clara Amelia Collett was performed in Birmingham on 26th
July 1911. She was twenty-five years
old when the marriage of Clara A Collett and William L Olver was recorded at
Birmingham register office (Ref. 6d 356) in the last three months of
1936. Just like her older sister
Florence (above), no children for Clara and William have been found,
perhaps because William was fourteen years older than his wife, having been
born in Birmingham in 1897. He was 70
years old when he died, his death recorded at Birmingham register office
(Ref. 9c 424) during the third quarter of 1967. Just after the end of the century,
93-year-old Clara Amelia Olver died at Birmingham on 6th November
2004.
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Alfred John Collett was born at Redditch on 19th
April 1902, the only known child of Alfred John Collett and Emiline
Rogers. On the day of the following
census in 1911, Alfred and his parents were living at Upper Ipsley near
Redditch, when he was nine years of age.
It was at Bromsgrove register office (Ref. 6c 461) that the marriage
of Alfred John Collett and Minnie Dyer, was conducted on 19th December 1925,
was recorded during the last quarter of 1925.
Minnie was the daughter of Arthur George and Mary Jane Dyer and was
born at The Tanyard in Alvechurch, her birth recorded at Bromsgrove (Ref. 6a
367) during the second quarter of 1906.
Interestingly, her father was born at Ipsley, so may have been a link
to the Collett from an earlier time.
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It was originally believed that
Minnie presented Alfred with six children, with the births of the first four
recorded at Pershore register office, the last two at Bromsgrove. However, it is now confirmed that the four
Pershore born children were the issue of Albert Collett (Ref. 11P36) and his wife
Gertrude Annie Dyer. In every case,
the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Dyer, resulting in the error, and
leaving Alfred and Minnie only having twin sons. Many years later
Alfred John Collett was 78 when he died towards the end of 1980, with his
death recorded at Bromsgrove register office (Ref. 29 0008).
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45r7
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Michael I Collett twin
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Born in 1934
at Bromsgrove
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45r8
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Brian M I Collett twin
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Born in 1934
at Bromsgrove
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45r1
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Dennis Thomas Collett was born in 1933 at Birmingham, the
only known child of Thomas William Collett and May Owen. His birth was recorded at Birmingham
register office (Ref. 6d 620) during the first three months of 1933, when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Owen.
As Dennis T Collett he later married Sheila M Hanley at Solihull,
where their wedding was recorded during the fourth quarter of 1955 (Ref. 9c
1827). The births of their three
children were all recorded at Solihull register, when their mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Hanley. Sheila
Margaret Collett was born at Halifax on 3rd November 1937 and was
living in the Leagrave area of Luton when she died on 14th
December 2007 at the age of 70, her passing recorded at Luton register
office. Dennis may have still been
alive at that time, as no record of his death prior to 2007 has been found.
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45s1
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Jonathan C Collett
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Born in 1958
at Solihull
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45s2
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David O Collett
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Born in 1959
at Solihull
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45s3
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Jennifer M Collett
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Born in 1963
at Solihull
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45r2
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Bernard G Collett was born in 1934 when
his birth was recorded at Stratford-on-Avon register office (Ref. 6d 1236)
during the first three months of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Bayliss. It is possible
he was the older of the two sons of Charles Henry Collett and Lydia W
Bayliss. Bernard was 26 when his
marriage to Gillian M Dyer was recorded at Stratford-on-Avon register office
(Ref. 9c 1919) in the spring of 1960.
During the summer of the following year Gillian presented Bernard with
the couple’s only child.
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45s4
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Alison
J Collett
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Born in 1961 at Stratford-on-Avon
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Gordon C Collett was born in 1935 with
his birth also recorded at Stratford-on-Avon register office (Ref. 6d 1310)
during the second quarter of the year.
His mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bayliss, and was another son
of Charles and Lydia Collett. The
wedding of Gordon C Collett and Pauline M Lilley in 1960 was recorded at
Stratford-on-Avon register office (Ref. 9c 2409) during the first three
months of that year. Nine months later
the first of the couple’s two daughter was born, and was followed four years
after by the birth of the second child.
For both events, the mother’s maiden-name was recorded as Lilley.
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45s5
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Susan
D Collett
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Born in 1960 at Stratford-on-Avon
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45s6
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Julia
M Collett
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Born in 1965 at Warwick
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Albert W Collett was the first of
the three children of Albert Victor Collett and Lydia W Penn, whose birth was
recorded at the Birmingham North register office (Ref. 6d 655) during the
third quarter of 1931.
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45r5
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Raymond Victor Collett
was born in Birmingham in 1934 where his birth recorded (Ref. 6d 746) during
the summer of that year, another son of Albert Victor and Lydia Collett. Raymond was 32 when he was married, with the
wedding of Raymond V Collett and Maureen Halton was recorded at Birmingham
register office (Ref. 9c 166) during the first three months of 1966. No record of any children has been found.
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Lydia F Collett was named after
her mother, with her birth recorded at Birmingham register office (Ref.6d
397) during the first three month of 1943.
She was the third and last child of Albert Victor Collett, who died
when Lydia was nine years old, and his wife Lydia W Penn. The later marriage of Lydia F Collett and
Oliver P Kane was recorded at Birmingham register office (Ref. 9c 1386)
during the fourth quarter of 1966.
Three children were born to the couple, and they were Sarah Jane
Kane who was born near the start of 1967 (Ref. 9c 541), Adele Louise
Kane who was born early in 1969 (Ref. 9c 785), and Stuart Jeffrey Kane
who was born at the start of 1979 (Vol. 32 1722). All three births were recorded at
Birmingham register office, with their
mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Collett.
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Michael I Collett was the twin brother of Brian (below),
his birth recorded at Bromsgrove register office (Ref. 6c 270) during the
third quarter of 1934, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Dyer. Although not proved, it is possible that
Michael did not survive, because it was his twin brother who was referred to
as Brian M I Collett when he was married in 1956.
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Brian M I Collett was the twin brother of Michael (above),
although his birth was recorded at Bromsgrove register office (Ref. 6c 270A)
during the third quarter of 1934 under the name Brian M Collett. He and his twin brother were the youngest
children of Alfred John Collett and Minnie Dyer. Upon his marriage to Valerie P Hall, it was
as Brian M I Collett that he was named, having taken part of his
twin-brother’s name following his assumed premature death. The wedding was recorded at Bromsgrove
register office (Ref. 9d 33) during the fourth quarter of 1956. Their son was also named after Brian’s late
brother, who also suffered an infant death shortly after he was born.
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45s7
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Michael Collett
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Born in 1962
at Bromsgrove
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45s8
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Lisa K Collett
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Born in 1965
at Bromsgrove
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Jonathan C Collett was born in 1958 the eldest of the
three children of Dennis Thomas Collett and Sheila Margaret Hanley. His birth was recorded at Solihull register
office (Ref. 9c 1728) during the first three months of the year, when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hanley. It was also as Jonathan C Collett that his
later marriage to Susan Dowler was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour register
office (Vol. 31 240) early in 1984. The
birth of Susan Dowler had been recorded at Shipston (Ref. 9c 1718) during the
second quarter of 1959. Once they were
married the coupled settled in Cheltenham, where the births of their three
children were recorded, with the mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Dowler. The birth of Edward was recorded during the
first months of 1989, Helena towards the end of 1990, and Katrina just after
the start of 1993.
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Edward Michael Collett
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Born in 1989
at Cheltenham
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Helena Rose Collett
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Born in 1990
at Cheltenham
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Katrina Alice B Collett
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Born in 1993
at Cheltenham
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45s2
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David O Collett was another son of Dennis and Sheila
Collett whose birth was recorded at Solihull register office (Ref. 9c 1555)
during the last three months of 1959. Her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Hanley. The same as his older brother (above),
David also married a girl at Shipston-on-Stour, where the wedding of David O
Collett and Margaret T Evans was recorded during the summer of 1985 (Vol. 31
550). Margaret was born at Leicester
where her birth was recorded during the second quarter of 1961 (Ref. 3a 858). The births of the couple’s two children
were recorded at the Mid-Warwickshire register office, Thomas during March in
1987 (Vol. 31 607), and Laura in September 1989 (Vol. 31 830). On both occasions the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Evans.
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Thomas James Collett
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Born in 1987
at Mid-Warwickshire
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Laura May Collett
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Born in 1989
at Mid-Warwickshire
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Jennifer M Collett was the only daughter and third and
last child of Dennis Thomas Collett and Sheila Margaret Evans. Her birth was recorded at Solihull register
office (Ref. 9c 2123) during the first three months of 1963, where her
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hanley.
It was during June 1994 that Jennifer M Collett and Timothy J Alcock
were married, their wedding recorded at South Warwickshire register office
(Vol. 773 0379). Their two children
were born in 1995 and 1997, their births recorded at the Mid-Warwickshire
register office, Harry James Alcock in April and Georgina Amy
Alcock in July. In each case, the
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
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45s4
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Alison J Collett was the only
child Bernard G Collett and Gillian M Dyer, whose birth was recorded at
Stratford-on-Avon register office (Ref. 9c 1943).during the third quarter of 1961.
It was also at Stratford-on-Avon
register office that the marriage of Alison J Collett and Stephen J Goodman
was recorded (Vol. 31 0453) in the second quarter of 1983, when she was 22. Just prior to the end of the century the
couple were blessed with the birth of a son, with the birth of Jon-Luke
Goodman recorded at the Mid-Warwickshire register office (Vol. 7751c c6a) in
the summer of 1999. The mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
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Susan D Collett was born in 1960,
with her birth recorded at Stratford-on-Avon register office (Ref. 9c 1839)
during the last quarter of the year.
Her mother’s maiden-name was recorded as Lilley, being the eldest
child of Gordon Collett and Pauline Lilley.
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Julia
M Collett was born in 1965 and her birth was recorded at Warwick
register office (Ref. 9c 2394) the first three months of the year, the younger of the two
daughters of Gordon C Collett and Pauline M Lilley.
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Michael Collett was born in 1962, the first-born
child of Brian M I Collett and Valerie P Hall. His birth was recorded at Bromsgrove
register office (Ref. 9d 66) during the last three months of the year. It was also during that same quarter of the
year that the death of Michael Collett was recorded at Bromsgrove (Ref. 9d
34).
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Lisa K Collett was born in 1965, the daughter of
Brian and Valerie Collett. Her birth,
like that of her brother Michael (above) was recorded at Bromsgrove
register office (Ref. 9d 1) during the second quarter of the year, when her
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hall.
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