PART
FORTY-SIX
The
Charlton-on-Otmoor (Oxon) Area
Updated July 2023
This is the second of two sections of
this family line
George Thomas Collett was
born at Crawley Road in the hamlet of Hailey near Witney in May 1850, the only
son of William Collett and Harriet Hunt.
It was also at Crawley Road where George T Collett was only ten months
old on the day of the census in 1851, while it was simply as George Collett
aged 10 years that he was recorded as the only child still living with his
parents at Hailey on the day of the census in 1861. George was only seventeen when his mother
died in 1867, after which his father re-married during the first three months
of 1868. A few months later, teenager
George Collett married Fanny Stone at Bicester (Ref. 3a 899) during the
second quarter of 1868. They were
married by banns at the parish church in Bicester on 13th April
1868 when the witnesses were named as John Faunt and Rebecca Faunt, both of
whom were listed as husband and wife in the Bicester Market census returns in
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Fanny Stone was a spinster of 28 years
who had been born in Bicester, the daughter of labourer William Stone. Neither George nor Fanny signed the
register in their own hand, while bachelor George, who was around ten years
younger than his bride, stated he had already attained the full age of
21. His occupation was that of a
labourer and it was the fact that he confirmed he was the son of carter
William Collett that has enabled his family to be relocated in Appendix Two
at the end of this file. The place of
residence for both the bride and the groom on their wedding day was recorded
as Bicester M2. Once married the
couple settled in Bicester and it was there also where all of their children
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Around fifteen months after their
wedding day, Fanny gave birth to Elizabeth Jane Collett whose birth was
registered at Bicester (Ref. 3a 618) during the third quarter of 1869. Three months later, the death of Elizabeth
Collett was also recorded at Bicester (Ref. 3a 426) during the last quarter
of the same year, after which there was an inquest, with the following
outcome. “On Tuesday last, an inquest was held
at The Crown Inn, by W Brunner Esq., County Coroner, touching the death of an
infant child named Elizabeth Collett, three months old, daughter of George
Collett, a brewer’s labourer. Fanny Collett, mother of the deceased, said her child
was not healthy. She took her to bed
on Saturday night, as usual, and she laid on her right arm, between herself
and her husband, and she went to sleep with the child in that position. Her face was to her breast. It was half-past twelve when they went to
bed, and she (the witness) did not wake until after six in the morning. The child was then lying on her arm, as
when she went to sleep, and quite dead.
She had not heard the child move or make any noise during the
night. Her husband was not lying close
to the child. She called one of her
neighbours immediately. Clementina
Hudson, wife of John Hudson, labourer, the neighbour alluded to, was called
and corroborated the evidence of the mother.
The jury returned a verdict of death from suffocation.” |
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The census in 1871 confirmed that the
young family was living at Market End in Bicester, immediately adjacent to
the Rose & Crown Inn, where George may have been working as a brewer’s
labourer. George Collett from Witney said
he was 25 instead of 21, his wife Fanny Collett was 32, and their son and
first child James Collett was eight months old. Four further children were added to their
family during the next decade, so by 1881 the family comprised George Collett
from Witney who said he was brewer’s labourer at the age of 34, his wife
Fanny was 42, while their children were named as James Collett who was 10,
Lucy who was nine, Emily who was seven, Julia who was four and Thomas who was
one year old. By that time the family
was residing in Water Lane in Market End.
Lodging with the family was out-of-work ostler and widower Thomas
Shrewsbury of Bicester who was infirmed at the age of 63. |
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It would appear that no more children
were added to the family which by 1891 was still living in Bicester, but at
Church Lane. On that occasion the
family was listed as George who said he was 46 instead of 41, while Fanny was
52, James T Collett was 20, Lucy E Collett was 19, Emily J Collett was 17 and
a general servant, Julia S Collett was 14 and Thomas was 11 years of age. Boarding with the family was William Grundy
of Bicester who was also a brewer’s labourer, presumably working with George
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According to the next census in 1901
all of their children bar one had left the family home, leaving just George
who was said he was 53, rather than 51, who was still employed as a brewer’s
labourer while he was still living on Church Lane in Market End
Bicester. On that day it was rather
curious that his wife gave her name as Sarah Collett who was 62 and from
Bicester. The only one of their
children still living there with them was their eldest married daughter who
was using her second name of Ellen Walduck.
The census return was completed by the inclusion of Ellen’s husband
Henry Walduck and two of George’s and Fanny’s grandchildren. They were Herbert Collett who was two years
old and Louisa Walduck who was one, the two children of their daughter Lucy
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It was the order in which the six
individuals were recorded in the census return in 1901 which indicates that
Herbert Collett was very likely the base-born son of Lucy Ellen Collett prior
to her marriage to Henry Walduck, with whom she subsequently had three
children, although only one appears to have survived. It was also a similar situation ten years
later. The Market End Bicester census
in April 1911 recorded the household as George Collett from Witney who said
he was 64 and not 61, his wife of forty-three years, Fanny Collett who was
72, and their grandson Herbert John Collett who was 11. Also, still living with them in the
dwelling at 2 Church Lane was the couple’s daughter Lucy Ellen Walduck, her
husband Henry and their sole surviving child, their daughter Doris May
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George Thomas Collett, a brewer’s
labourer, was said to be 69 when he died on 5th November 1917 at 2
Church Lane in Bicester in the presence of his married daughter L E Walduck,
who probably did not know that he was actually 67. The cause of death was chronic rheumatic
arthritis, coupled with bronchitis and cardiac failure. Throughout his married life George had
never given his actual age, presumably out of embarrassment that his wife was
around ten years older than him. His
widow, Fanny Collett nee Stone, who was born at Bicester around 1839, died in
1921 at the age of 82, following which her death was recorded at Bicester
register office (Ref. 3a 1210) during the first three months of that year. |
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46P113 |
Elizabeth Jane Collett |
Born in 1869 at Bicester |
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James Thomas Collett |
Born in 1870 at Bicester |
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Lucy
Ellen Collett |
Born in 1871 at Bicester |
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Emily
Jane Collett |
Born in 1874 at Bicester |
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Julia
Susan Collett |
Born in 1877 at Bicester |
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46P118 |
Thomas
Collett |
Born in 1879 at Bicester |
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Walter Wentworth Collett
was the base-born
child of Charlotte Collett and was born at Fencott in 1857. Being born out of wedlock, no baptism
record for him has been found. In 1861,
Walter W Collett was three years old and was living at Fencott with his
unmarried mother and younger brother Thomas (below). Although all of his subsequent siblings
were believed to be fathered by Thomas Cooper, it is possible that his father’s
name may have been Wentworth. The
premature death of Walter Wentworth Collett was recorded at Bicester (Ref. 3a
451) during the last three months of 1870, when he was 13 years of age. He died at Fencott and was buried at St
Mary’s Church in Charlton-on-Otmoor on 11th December 1870. |
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Thomas Cooper Collett was born at Fencott in 1859, his birth
recorded at Bicester (Ref. 3a 555) during the second quarter of that year, as
simply Thomas Collett. He was the
second of the eight base-born children of unmarried Charlotte Collett, his
father very likely being bachelor Thomas Cooper. It would also appear that during all of his
life Thomas Cooper Collett was referred to as Tom and, from the time he was
born until 1911, he lived in Fencott.
In 1861, as Tom Collett, he was two years of age, and by 1871 he had
finished his schooling, when Tom Collett was 11 years old and already working
as an agricultural labourer. On that
census day, his unmarried mother was living with Thomas Cooper at Fencott. It was as Tom Cooper Collett that he was
recorded in 1881 when he was 22 and, still was working as an agricultural
labourer like his father, Thomas Cooper, while living with his unmarried parents
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Ten
years later in 1891, Tom Cooper was 30 and again employed as an agricultural
labourer but, by March 1901, he was once again listed simply as Tom Collett
of Fencott. He was still a bachelor at
40 years of age, and his occupation at that time, was that of a hay
binder. On that occasion he was still
living at Fencott with his elderly unmarried parents Thomas Cooper and
Charlotte Collett. Following the death
of his father, seven years later, Tom Cooper was 51 in April 1911, when he
was the only member of his family living with his ‘widowed’ mother Charlotte
Cooper who was 76, when both of them having been born in Fencott. The death of Thomas Cooper, who was born in
1859, was recorded at Chipping Norton register office (Ref. 3a 1886) during
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Charlotte Georgina
Cooper Collett was
born at Fencott, the third child and base-born daughter of Charlotte
Collett. The birth was recorded at
Bicester (Ref. 3a 552) under the name of Charlotte Georgina Collett, during
the first three months of 1862. Her
father was more than likely Thomas Cooper, who never married her mother,
although her mother, and all of her siblings, lived with him. In the Fencott census of 1871, she was
simply recorded with her family, with Thomas Cooper, as Georgina Collett aged
eight years. It was the same situation
ten years later when, according to the 1881 Census, Georgina Cooper Collett
of Fencott was 19 and was working as a domestic servant, while living with
her family at the Fencott home of Thomas Cooper. Shortly after that census day, Georgina
gave birth to a daughter, who was initially looked after by her parents. However, a year after giving birth, the
marriage of Georgina Cooper (formerly Charlotte Georgina Collett) and Henry
Probets took place on 13th August 1883 at the parish church of St
Mary the Virgin in Charlton-on-Otmoor.
The marriage register confirmed that her father was Thomas Cooper,
while the event was recorded at Bicester (Ref. 3a 1119) during the third
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Prior
to 1891, Georgina presented her husband with their first three children, as
confirmed by the census form completed that year. Henry Probets was 28 and a groom, living at
Brill, between Oxford and Aylesbury, with his wife Georgina Probets who was
29, their two daughters Beatrice Probets and Caroline Probets,
aged seven and three respectively, and their son Abraham Probets who
was one year old. All three children
were born after the family had settled in Brill. On that same say, Georgina’s base-born
daughter Ellen Collett from Fencott was eight years of age, when she
was still living at Fencott with her grandmother Charlotte Collett and her
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By
the end of the century Henry and Georgina Probets had seven children living with
them at Thame, when Henry from Brill was 38 and working as a domestic groom
and gardener. Georgina was 39 and gave
her place of birth as Charlton-on-Otmoor.
Their family comprised Caroline Probets who was 13, Richard Probets
who was 12, Thomas William Probets who was nine, all born at Brill,
and Charles Probets who was eight, Mary Probets who was five, Fred
Probets who was three, and Frank (Francis Buller Dundonald) Probets
who was one year old, and all of them born after the family had moved to
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The
family was still residing in Thame in April 1911, by which time they had two
grandchildren living with them. Henry
was 47 and was employed at a nursery as a gardener, Georgina was 48, and
their four children still living with them were Graham (Richard) who was 21,
Thomas who was 19, Frederick (Frederick Toddy) who was 12, and Buller (Frank)
who was 11. The two grandchildren were
granddaughter Ellie Probets who was nine, and grandson Berie (Barry) who was
eight, both born at Thame. The only
time during her life, that is, other than at the registration of her birth,
that she was described as Charlotte Georgina Probets, was upon the
registration of her death. She died on
18th March 1948 while she was living at 23 Hollybush Lane in the
Hampton area of Twickenham. She was 86
years of age at that time and the informant was E Yates, ‘daughter of the
deceased’, who was the aforementioned Ellie Probets. The death of Charlotte G Probets was
recorded at Middlesex South register office (Ref. 5f 42) in London at the end
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The
birth of Henry Probets was recorded at Thame (Ref. 3a 535) during the first
quarter of 1863, the son of James and Elizabeth Probets of Brill, where he
was born. The death of Henry Probets
was recorded at Headington register office (Ref. 3a 889) in Oxford during the
third quarter of 1926, when he was 63.
Thomas William Probets, the third son of Georgina Collett and Henry
Probets, was the great grandfather of Jackie Eldridge who kindly provided the
details regarding the life of Georgina Cooper Collett. Thomas William Probets’ wife died shortly
after giving birth to their daughter Irene, following which the child was
brought up and cared for by her grandmother Charlotte Georgina Probets. Irene Probets was therefore the grandmother
of Jackie Eldridge. |
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Barry Cooper Collett was born at Fencott in 1865, his birth
recorded at Bicester (Ref. 3a 606) during the second quarter of 1865, when he
was simply named as Beeri Collett. He
was listed as Berea Collett aged six years in the 1871 Census and in 1881, Beeri
Cooper Collett was 15, when he was working as an agricultural labourer, while
living with his mother Charlotte Collett at the home of Thomas Cooper in
Fencott. He was still living at
Fencott with his family in 1891 at the age of 25. However, even with no obvious record of him
in either 1901 and again in 1911, the death of Berri Collett was recorded at
Bicester register office (Ref. 3a 1007) during the second quarter of 1919
when he was 54 years of age. |
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Abigail Cooper Collett was born at Fencott in 1867 but was
listed as Dorcas Collett aged three years in 1871. Ten years later she was still living with
her mother Charlotte Collett at the home of Thomas Cooper when she was 13 and
was an agricultural labourer like his older brother Barry (above). No trace of Abigail has been found in the
census of 1891, by which time she may have been married. |
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Jonah Cooper Collett was born at Fencott in 1869 and was
one year old in 1871 when he was recorded in the census as Jana Collett. It was ten years later, when he was 11,
that he was listed as Jonah Cooper Collett, following which he was 21 in
1891. It would appear from the 1901
Census for Charlton-on-Otmoor that Jonah, by then a married man with a
daughter, had dropped the Collett from his name and was simply Jonah Cooper,
aged 31 and a carter on a farm from Fencott.
His wife was Henrietta Cooper who was 24 and their daughter was Beatrice
E Cooper who was three years old and born at Charlton as her mother had
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That
was also the situation in the next census of 1911, by which time two further
children had been added to the family.
The census return listed the family as Jonah Cooper from Fencott who
was 42 and a hay binder, Henrietta Cooper who was 34, Beatrice Cooper who was
13, Cecil Richard Cooper who was seven, and Christopher Jonah
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Richard Cooper Collett was born at Fencott in 1871, but after
2nd April, and he was nine years old at the time of the 1881 when
he was living with his unmarried mother Charlotte Collett at the home of
Thomas Cooper. The only other record
of him was in 1891 when he was 18, after that he may have left England since
there was no record of him in 1901 or 1911. |
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Anne Cooper Collett was born at Fencott in 1876 and was
four years old in 1881. She was the
last of the eight children of unmarried mother Charlotte Collett who had
earlier taken up living with bachelor Thomas Cooper, the father of seven of
the eight children. Anne was 14 in
1891 but no further record of her has been found after that time, most likely
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William Collett was born in 1866 with the birth
registered when his parents were living at Waterloo Road in Lambeth, while it
was originally thought that it may have been at that address where he was
born. In 1871 William, at the age of
four, and his parents, were still living at Waterloo Road although during the
next ten years the family of three left Lambeth and was living at
Featherstone Larches in Norwood by 1881, where William was still attending
school at the age of 14. The census on
the occasion gave his place of birth as Lambeth. However, in both the 1891 and 1901 census
returns William gave his place of birth as being Brill in Buckinghamshire,
not far from his father’s Oxfordshire roots.
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The
marriage of William Collett and Louisa Gates, who was born at Southgate in
North London, was recorded at Edmonton (Ref. 3a 367) during the third quarter
of 1886. It seems very likely it was
at Southgate that the couple was married, since it was there that they
settled and where all of their children were born. By the time of the 1891 Census the family was
living at Chase Road in Southgate and comprised just William Collett from
Brill who was 26 and working as a carman, Louisa Collett who was 28 and their
son William Collett who was three years old.
Both of them had born at Southgate, within the Edmonton registration
district of London. While the age
difference between William and Louisa was correct, the ages they gave were in
error. Completing the family that
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Ten
years later the family was still living at Southgate, but at Avenue Road, and
had been extended by the addition of a further four children. Therefore, the census for Southgate in 1901
listed the five Collett children as William who was 14, Percy who was nine,
Sidney who was seven, Eva who was five, and Horace who was one year old. Louisa was 36, while her husband was two
years younger at 34. Once again William
was listed as being from Brill, and at that time his occupation was recorded
as being that of a domestic gardener.
Living with the family that day was Louisa’s brother George Gates who
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Two
more children were added to the family after 1901 and, again, they were born
while the family was still living at Southgate. And it was at Southgate in Edmonton that
the family was still living in April 1911.
William Collett from Brill was 45 and still a domestic gardener,
Louisa was 48, and their children were William (Percy William) aged 20, Sidney aged 18, Eva aged 17, Horace who
was nine, Victor who was eight and Ivy who was six. The couple’s eldest son had left home by
then and was living and working in the St Marylebone area of London, while
the family have a boarder staying with them, George Eater who was 41 and also
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William George Collett |
Born in 1887
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Percy William Collett |
Born in 1891
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Sidney Richard Collett |
Born in 1893
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Ena Winifred Collett |
Born in 1895
at Southgate |
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Horace Collett |
Born in 1900
at Southgate |
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Victor Collett |
Born in 1901
at Southgate |
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Ivy Gwendoline Collett |
Born in 1905
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Emily Collett was born at Daventry in 1864 where she
was baptised on 16th December 1864, the eldest of the nine
children of Albert Collett of Fencott and his wife Elizabeth from
Daventry. In the census of 1871, she
was seven years old, and in 1881 she was 17 with no occupation, living at 24
Sheaf Street in Daventry with her family.
Emily was married in London during 1890 to Alfred Durbin. Although no record of the couple has been
found in 1901 it is established from the census in 1911 that they already had
a daughter who born seven years after they were married. In 1911 the three of them were living in
the Norwood area of Uxbridge, where Alfred Durbin was 45, his wife Emily Durbin
from Daventry was 47 and their daughter Ruby Durbin was 13. |
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Mary Ann Collett was born at Daventry in 1865 and was
baptised there on 18th October 1865, the daughter of Albert and
Elizabeth Collett. Although she was
known by the family as Polly, it was as Mary A Collett, aged five years, that
she was listed in the Daventry census of 1871 when she was living with her
family. On leaving school she entered
into domestic service and, according to the census in 1881, she was once
again recorded as Mary Ann Collett from Daventry who was 16. She was employed as a general domestic
servant at the home of retired bank manager Thomas Willoughby from
Northampton and his wife Margaret Elizabeth from Daventry, where their two
children had also been born. It was at
1 Wellesley Terrace, Higher Wellesley Road in Tormoham-with-Torquay, Devon
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By
1891 Mary A Collett was recorded in that year’s census as unmarried at the
age of 25, while she was living and working in the Wandsworth & Putney
registration district of London. It
was around six years after that when Mary Ann Collett was married to Joseph
John Jenkins from Barnsbury in London and, although it is known to have taken
place in 1897, no details are currently available. Their daughter was born at Fulham, where
the family was living in March 1901.
Joseph Jenkins was 28 and was working as a messenger at London
University, his wife Mary Jenkins from Daventry was 34 and their daughter
Nora Jenkins was not yet one year old.
By the time of the next census in 1911 the family of three was
residing in the Brentford district of London, where Joseph John Jenkins was
38, Mary Ann Jenkins from Daventry was 45 and Nora Ethel Jenkins was
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Elizabeth Ann Collett was born at Daventry in 1868, and it
was there that she was baptised on 12th December 1868, the
daughter of Albert and Elizabeth Collett.
The Daventry census return for 1871 included Elizabeth, aged two
years, living there with her parents, but ten years later, when he was
recorded as Eliza Collett, aged 12, she was already working as a general
domestic servant at the home of draper William Edgar and his family at 25
Sheaf Street in Daventry. It was also
either next door to, or across the street from, the Edgar family that
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Elizabeth
Ann Collett married butcher George Sharp at Daventry in 1890, the wedding
recorded at Daventry register office (Ref. 3b 224) during the third quarter
of the year. That was confirmed by the
Daventry census of 1891, when the childless couple was listed as George Sharp
aged 25, and Elizabeth A Sharp who was 22.
However, the marriage resulted in the birth of five children at
Daventry before her tragic death just after the census day in 1901, possibly
during the birth of a sixth child. In
the Daventry census conducted on 31st March 1901 the family was
recorded as George Sharp aged 35, who was a butcher and a manager, his wife
Elizabeth Sharp aged 33, and their five children. Albert George Spencer Sharp, who was
known as Bertie, was nine, Harry Sharp and Dorothy Emily Sharp
(see below), Arthur Sharp was three and Hubert Sharp (sometimes
called Herbert) was two years of age. |
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In
all probability Elizabeth was not very well on that day, since two of her
older children, Harry and Dorothy, were staying nearby with Elizabeth’s
parents in Daventry. The two absent
children were living with their grandparents at The Plume of Feathers Inn on
Chapel Lane in Daventry, where they were recorded as Harry Sharpe who was
five, and Dorothy Sharpe who was four.
Not long after that the death of Elizabeth Ann Sharp nee Collett was
recorded at Daventry register office (Ref. 3b 62) during the second quarter
of 1901 when she was only 33 years of age.
The cause of death was tuberculosis, which she had suffered for the
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A
further tragedy struck the family a year after when, Elizabeth’s daughter
Dorothy, died in 1902 from complications with whooping cough, and she was
followed in 1903 by the death of her father George Sharp, who also died from
tuberculosis. Those two tragic events
left the four sons as orphans who, were initially taken in for a short while
by their grandparents. However, none
of them were living with the elderly couple in 1911. Perhaps because of their grandparents
advancing years or their failing health, it is established that Arthur Sharp
was sent away to Canada, most likely as Barnado boys. It was on board the ship Dominion, of the
Dominion Line, that the passage of Arthur Sharp, aged just eight years, was
recorded when the vessel sailed out of Liverpool on 2nd August
1906, bound for Quebec. It was around
1960 that Arthur Sharp and his wife visited England from their home in
America, when they were reunited with other members of their extended family. |
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It
is now known that the name of Harry Sharp, the son of George Sharp and
Elizabeth Ann Collett, appears on the Daventry War Memorial who died of his
wounds on 11th August 1917, his body being laid to rest in Etaples
cemetery. Six years earlier, according
to the census in 1911 Harry Sharp was 15 years old when he was living as a
boarder in Croydon where he was training as a telegraphist with the General
Post Office. It was a few years later
that he enlisted with the Royal Engineers and served in a signals
company. Upon joining the army, Harry
gave his next-of-kin as Bertie Sharp who, he said, was a farmer in Ontario,
together with his uncle Will Collett (Ref. 46P10) of Daventry (below). |
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This
information also confirms that Harry’s brother Albert George Spencer Sharp
(aka Bertie) was also sent away to Canada, and that the final brother Hubert
Sharp was also living in North America later in his life – all as confirmed
by Jan Dennis, who kindly provided all these new details in 2015. |
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Edith Collett was baptised at Daventry on 17th
July 1871, the fourth daughter of Albert and Elizabeth Collett. In the census earlier that year, she was
recorded as being under one year old which, very likely, means that she was
born during 1870. Although absent from
the family home in Daventry in 1881, she was back with her parents by 1891
when she was 20. It was a few months
after that census day, when the marriage of Edith Collett and Tom Harris was
recorded at Daventry (Ref. 3b 210) during the third quarter of 1891. Their wedding day was 10th September
1891 when Tom was 23 and a mineral water manufacturer, the son of Thomas
Harris, while Edith’s father was confirmed as Albert Collett, a
gardener. At the time of the census in
1901, the couple was living in the Norwood area of North London, when Tom
Harris from Northampton was 33 and employed as a porter at a local chemical
works, his wife Edith Harris from Daventry was 30, and their one-year-old
daughter Evelyn Harris had also been at Daventry. Boarding with the family was Thomas J Green
from Leatherhead who was 21. |
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Ten
years later the family of three was still residing in Norwood, Middlesex, by
which time Thomas Harris was 43 and a factory hand working at a margarine
manufacturer. His wife Edith Harris
was 40 and their daughter Evelyn Harris was 11 years of age. The present-day family member, Janet Dennis,
recalls that Evelyn was referred to as Eva, and that she had a brother-in-law
by the name of William Harris. It
seems likely that Evelyn was not their only child since, at Daventry in 1906,
the birth of Lillian May Harris was recorded, with her death recorded
there during the following year. Their
only surviving child was born on 22nd June 1899, the daughter of
Tom and Edith Harris of High Street in Daventry, from where her father was a
provisions merchant. |
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46P6
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Spencer Collett was born at Daventry in 1872, the
eldest of four sons of Albert and Elizabeth Collett, and was baptised at
Daventry on 23rd October 1872.
In 1881 he was eight years old and attending the local school when he
was living with his family at 24 Sheaf Street in Daventry. He was still living with his parents in
Daventry ten years later when he was 18 in 1891, although it was eight years
later during the summer of 1899 that Spencer Collett married Isabella Kate
Simpson of Daventry and the following year their only known child was born at
Daventry. Their marriage was recorded
at Daventry register office (Ref. 3b 263) during the third quarter of the
year in front of the witnesses John William C Elliott and Judith Alice
Harris. |
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The
young family was residing at a property that was 76 Warwick Street in
Daventry in 1901, when Spencer Collett was 28 and a clothier with his own
account, his wife Isabella Kate Collett was also 28, and their daughter Edith
Simpson Collett was just six months old.
According to the next census in 1911 Spencer Collett of Daventry was
38, as was his wife Isabella Kate Collett, and living with them at Daventry
was their daughter Edith Simpson Collett who was 10. |
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Spencer
Collett was 88 when he died at Daventry where his death was recorded (Ref. 3b
498) during the last three months of 1960.
After all those years he was still living at 76 Warwick Street in
Daventry when he passed away on 4th November 1960. His Will was proved at Oxford on 1st
February 1961 when Alfred John Paxman, a surveyor, and John Waters, a
chartered accountant, were named as the executors of his personal estate of
£6,943 7 Shillings. His wife Isabella
K Collett had passed away three years earlier when her death was recorded at
Daventry on 26th July 1957 at the age of 84 (Ref. 3b 400). |
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The
Will of Isabella Kate Collett named her husband as Spencer Collett of 76
Warwick Street, who was a joint executor with the aforementioned surveyor
Alfred John Paxman. Her estate was
valued at £2,859 11 Shillings and 6 Pence, while Spencer Collett’s occupation
was stated as being that of an outfitter.
It should be noted here that Alfred John Paxman was the couple’s
son-in-law, having married their daughter Edith in 1937. |
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Edith Simpson Collett |
Born in 1900
at Daventry |
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46P7
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Clara Collett was born at Daventry in 1874 and was
baptised later that year on 28th November 1874. It is possible she was born at 24 Sheaf
Street in Daventry, which is where she was living with her family in 1881
when she was six years old. At the age
of 16 she was still living in Daventry with her parents, as she was ten years
later in March 1901 when she was 26.
By that time in her life her father Albert was the landlord at The
Plume of Feathers Inn at Chapel Lane in Daventry and although Clara was not
listed in the census as having an occupation, it seems likely that she was
helping her parents manage the public house.
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It
may have been in the middle of the next decade that she married William
Biddel of Daventry, and by 1911 the marriage had produced two children for
the couple. William Biddel was 38, when
he was described as a licence victualler’s clerk and boot manufacturer, his
wife Clara Biddel was 36 and helping with her husband’s licence victualler’s
business, and their two children were Ida Collett Biddle who was three
years old, and Emily Mary Biddel who was eleven months old, born girls
having been born at Daventry. Six
years later, and at the age of 44, William Biddel died on 17th
March 1917 with his death recorded at Daventry register office (Ref. 3b 162)
during the first quarter of the year.
The Will of William Biddel was proved at Northampton on 11th
April 1917, when the main beneficiary was named as Clara Biddel. |
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46P8
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Edwin Collett was born at Daventry, either late in
1876 or early in 1877, since his birth was recorded there (Ref. 3b 116)
during the first quarter of 1877. It
was also at Daventry that he was baptised on 3rd March 1877, the
son of Albert and Elizabeth Collett.
By 1881 he was already attending the local school in Daventry where he
was living with his family at 24 Sheaf Street in the town. In the census of 1891, he was simply
described as ‘Ed Collett’ while he was still living with his parents in
Daventry at the age of 14. During the
last quarter of 1899, Edwin Collett married Emily Katherine Smith, the event
recorded at Daventry (Ref. 3b 247), where the childless couple was living on
the day of the census in 1901, t Chapel Lane.
Edwin was 24 and working as a boot clicker and Katherine was 25, both
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Two
years after that, the couple was still living in Daventry when their first
child was born but, shortly after that, the family moved to Uxbridge, in
Middlesex, where they were living in April 1911. It was at Uxbridge that their second child
was born, although no further children for them have been found. According to the census that year, Edwin
Collett from Daventry was 34 and a greengrocer living in the parish of
Norwood, with the Uxbridge registration district. Living there with him was his wife
Katherine Collett, also from Daventry, who was 35, and their two daughters
Bertha Kate Collett who was eight years old, and Ivy Collett who was three
years old. |
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As
regards their daughters, the birth of Bertha Kate Collett was recorded at
Daventry register office (Ref. 3b 98) during the second quarter of 1903. She was then baptised there on 6th
April 1903, when her parents were confirmed as Edwin and Emily Katherine
Collett. There are two marriages for
Bertha K Collett at Uxbridge, the first at the end of 1921 to Robert C
Pickford, the second at the end of 1930 to Frederick D A Mason. The birth of younger daughter Ivy Collett
was recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 53) during the third quarter of 1907. Her marriage to Ronald Sellars was also
recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 381) during the third quarter
of 1937. |
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46Q9
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Bertha Kate
Collett |
Born in 1903
at Daventry |
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46Q10
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Ivy Collett |
Born in 1907
at Uxbridge |
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46P9
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Arthur Albert George
Collett was born at
Daventry in 1878 to parents Albert and Elizabeth Collett, and it was the
Bishops Transcripts’ which confirmed he was baptised at Daventry on 27th
March 1879. The baptism recorded also confirmed that he
was the son of Albert and Elizabeth Collett of Sheaf Street and that his
father was a groom. It was at 24 Sheaf
Street in Daventry where the family was living in 1881 when Arthur Collett
was two years old. It was as Arch A G
Collett that he was listed in the next Daventry census in 1891 when he was
11, but it was as Arthur Collett that he was recorded in 1901 when he was 22
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At
that time, he was one of only three children still living with his parents at
The Plume of Feathers Inn at Chapel Lane in Daventry, the others being Clara (above)
and William (below). There were
however, two other children living at the public house on that occasion and
they were two of the three children of Arthur’s older married sister
Elizabeth Ann (above), Harry and Dorothy Sharpe. |
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Just
over three years later Arthur married Agnes Annie Smith at All Saints Church
in Wellingborough on 1st August 1904. Three years earlier, Agnes Annie Smith,
aged 22 and a milliner from Northampton, was living in a Daventry boarding
home on Warwick Street, where Arthur’s future sister-in-law Edith Walling was
also staying who, married his brother William (below) in 1906. Agnes was baptised at Northampton on 21st
November 1880, the daughter of Alexander and Agnes Annie Smith, whose birth
was recorded earlier that year in Wellingborough. |
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The
marriage of Arthur and Agnes produced just one child for the couple by the
time of the census in 1911, when the family was living in Daventry, where the
child had also been born. Arthur
Collett was 32 and a pianoforte tuner, his wife Annie Collett from Wellingborough
was 30, and their daughter was Marjorie Collett was three years old. Arthur was 90 years old when he died at
Brixworth, his death recorded at Northampton register office (Ref. 3b 599)
around Easter in 1969. |
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46Q11
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Marjorie Agnes Collett |
Born in 1908
at Daventry |
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46P10
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William Collett was born at Daventry in 1882, the
youngest of the nine children of Albert Collett of Fencott and his wife
Elizabeth Tooby from Daventry. His
birth was recorded there (Ref. 3b 122) during the second quarter of that
year. The year before he was born his
family was living at 24 Sheaf Street in Daventry, so there is a possibility
that it was there also that he was born.
It was also at Daventry that William Collett, the son of Albert and
Elizabeth, was baptised on 24th May 1882. Nine year later, in the census of 1891,
William was entered on the census return as Wm Collett who was eight years
old and born at Daventry. Ten years after
that day, he was gainfully employed at a draper’s shop in the town and was
described as William Collett aged 18 and from Daventry, whose occupation was
that of a draper’s assistant. Also, at
that time, in 1901, he was still living with his parents who were running The
Plume of Feathers Inn at Chapel Lane in Daventry. |
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It
was just over five years following that census day when William Collett
married Edith Walling, the wedding recorded at Towcester (Ref. 3b 39),
thirteen miles from Daventry, during the third quarter of 1906. Edith was born in Northampton on 1st
April 1882, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Walling who, in 1891, were
residing at Brackley Road in Towcester.
By 1901, the census that year placed Edith Walling from Northampton as
working in Daventry as a dressmaker, while staying at a boarding house on
Warwick Street at the age of 19. What
is very intriguing about that particular census return is that, also a
boarder at the same address was Agnes Annie Smith, aged 22, who three years
later married William’s brother Arthur Albert George Collett (above). It therefore seems highly likely that Edith
and Agnes were friends and perhaps even worked together. |
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One
year after their wedding day, Edith gave birth to the first of their two
known Daventry born children, although an alternative source suggests there
was a third child, a son Peter, even though no such birth record has been
found. The Daventry census in 1911
recorded the family as William Collett of Daventry who was 28 and employed at
a men’s outfitters, his wife Edith Collett was 29 but said she had been born
at Towcester, and their daughter Margaret Elizabeth Collett was three years
old and born at Daventry. Her birth
was recorded at Daventry (Ref. 3b 89) during the third quarter of 1907, while
the birth of the second daughter was also recorded there (Ref. 3b 165) during
the third quarter of 1916, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Walling. No other children with a
Walling mother have been found. |
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However,
within this particular family there was talk about William and Edith having a
son who was known as Peter, although that may not have been the name used
when the birth was registered or when he was christened. The name of William Collett of Daventry was
one of the next-of-kin of his orphaned nephew Harry Sharp when he enlisted
with the Royal Engineers at the start of the Great War. Harry was a child of William’s older sister
Elizabeth Ann Sharp nee Collett (above). |
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Margaret
E Collett married Maurice H Smith, their wedding recorded at Daventry (Ref.
3b 277) during the third quarter of 1928.
No such record has been found for daughter Florrie, who continued to
live with her parents in Daventry up until 1975, when the death of Edith
Collett nee Walling, was recorded at Daventry register office (Vol. 7 1909)
during the summer of that year. For
the last eleven years of her life, Edith had been a widow, following the death
of William Collett at Daventry (Ref. 3b 583) during the first three months of
1964 when he was 81. |
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Margaret
Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1907
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Florrie J
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Born in 1916
at Daventry |
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46P11
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Mary Elizabeth Collett was born at Peckham in 1868, the
eldest child of David Collett and his much older wife Eliza Stennett, whose
birth was recorded at Camberwell in south London (Ref. 1d 648) during the second
quarter of that year. And it was at
Peckham that Mary E Collett was two years old in the census of 1871. During the following years, the family
moved to Maidstone in Kent, which was where the complete family was residing
in 1881 at 55 Peel Street, where Mary Collett was 12 years of age. Unmarried Mary Elizabeth Collett was 23 in
the Maidstone census of 1891, by which she was still living with her parents,
but at Earl Street, when she was not credited with any occupation. It was just over three years later that
Mary Elizabeth Collett married Sidney Horace Lane at Tunbridge Wells on 23rd
September 1894. As far as can be
determined, the married produced just one child, their daughter Hilda M Lane,
who was born at Tunbridge Wells in 1896. |
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Shortly
before the next census in 1901, Mary’s father died in Maidstone, after which
her mother Eliza Collett joined Mary and Sidney at their home on Newton Road
in Tunbridge Wells. Sidney Lane was 35
and a grocer’s assistant from East Malling in Kent, Mary E Lane from Peckham
was 32 and Hilda M Lane was five years old.
Completing the household was widow Eliza Collett, who was 69 and
living on her own means. After the
death of her mother, it was simply the family of three that was again living
in Tunbridge Wells in 1911, when Sidney was 45 and a grocer, Mary Elizabeth
Lane was 42 and Hilda Mary Lane was 15. |
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Margaret Grace Collett was born at Peckham in 1870, the
younger of the two daughters of David and Eliza Collett, her birth recorded
at Camberwell (Ref. 1d 704) during the first three months of 1870. One the day of the Peckham census the
following year, Margaret G Collett was one year old and living there with her
family. Sometime after that, the
family travelled to Maidstone and, in 1881, they were recorded in the census
that year at 55 Peel Street, when Margaret Collett was 11. On just reaching the age of twenty,
Margaret Grace Collett married Albert George Mannering, aged 25, the event
recorded at Hollingbourne in Kent (Ref. 2a 1215) during the second quarter of
1890. The wedding actually took place
at Boxley parish church near Maidstone on 11th May 1890, when
Margaret’s father was confirmed as David Collett and Albert’s father was
named as Albert George Mannering, the groom having been baptised at Sandhurst
in Kent on 21st August 1864, the son of Albert and Ann Mannering. |
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In
1891, the childless couple was living in Maidstone where Albert was 37 and
Margaret was 24. That was because just
a few months earlier their baby son Albert George Mannering had died,
his death recorded at Maidstone (Ref. 2a 461) during the last three months of
1890. On the day of the next census in
1901, they were residing at Union Street in Maidstone, with just Albert’s
younger brother was staying with them.
Albert George Mannering was 38, Margaret G Mannering was 31 and John
Henry Mannering was 25. Thereafter the
marriage seems to have failed and Albert appears to have left his wife, who
had a relationship with his brother.
This conclusion has been made from the fact that no record of the
death of Albert George Mannering of the right age has been found and that
Margaret Grace Mannering, aged 41 and from Peckham, had been married for 20
years during which time she had given birth to one child, who had not
survived. She was also described as
the sister-in-law of head of the household John Henry Mannering, aged 35 and
from Boxley, in the Maidstone census of 1911. |
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Fourteen
years after that day, and presumably after being divorced, the marriage of
Margaret G Mannering and John H Mannering was recorded at Tonbridge register
office (Ref. 2a 2036) during the second quarter of 1925. They were only married for five years, when
the death of John H Mannering, aged 53, was recorded at Hastings register
office (Ref. 2b 34) during the third quarter of 1930. Probate was conducted at Lewis in East
Sussex on 31st October 1930 in favour of his widow Margaret Grace
Mannering, his home being at 75 Cavendish Avenue in Eastbourne. The notice also confirmed that John had
died at Buchanan Hospital in St Leonard-on-Sea on 12th August 1930,
and had left an estate valued at £1,298 3 Shilling and 9 Pence. After a further nineteen years, when his
widow Margaret was 79, the death of Margaret G Mannering was recorded at the
Eastbourne Sussex register office (Ref. 5h 174) during the third quarter of
1949. |
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Sidney Slater Collett was born at Wimborne Minster in Dorset
in 1874, his birth recorded at Wimborne (Ref. 5a 278) during the second
quarter of that year. He was six years
old in 1881 when he was living with his parents at Leigh Road in Wimborne
Minster. Upon leaving school he joined
his father in the transportation and delivery business. By 1891 Sidney Collett of Wimborne was 16
and was living and working in the Christchurch registration district of
Bournemouth while the remainder of his family was still living at Wimborne. When in his early twenties, Sidney married
Marion Jessie Crosby in 1897 and by the start of the next century the couple
had been blessed with two children, with a third following shortly after the
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Although
listed as being married in March 1901, Sidney at the age of 26, was recorded
on the census day as staying with his widowed father Philip in Wimborne where
he was also working with his brother Edgar (below). Both were described as motorcar drivers and
it was very likely that they were working in the family business set up by
their father. |
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Sidney’s
wife and his children were then living at Holly Park Road in Hanwell,
Middlesex, on that same day. Marion J
Collett was 23 and was born at Hanover Square in London. The couple’s two children were Ethel
Collett, who was two, and Olive Collett who was not yet one year old, both of
them born at Southall just a couple of miles to the east of Hanwell. |
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Living
with Marion and the girls was Marion’s maiden aunt Juliana Wheeler of Hatcham
in London who was 45. Shortly after
the census day in 1901 the family was reunited and, together, they moved to
Boscombe near Christchurch, where Sidney had been just over ten years
earlier. Upon the death of his father
in 1909, Sidney and his brother Edgar took over the management of the family
motorcar business and closed the business in Wimborne, to re-open at new
premises in Salisbury. |
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By
April 1911 Sidney and Marion and their children had left the Bournemouth area
and were living at 88 Exeter Street in Salisbury in Wiltshire, where Sydney S
Collett was 37 and a motor agent with a garage. Once again, his place of birth was
confirmed as being Wimborne in Dorset.
The census also confirmed that the couple had been married for
thirteen years and that Sidney’s wife was Marion I Collett, aged 33, of St
Georges London. Their three children
were Ethel Collett who was 12, Olive M Collett who was 10, and Edward Collett
who was eight years old, the two daughters having been born at Hanwell, while
their son had been born at Boscombe, near Bournemouth. And, as ten years earlier, Marion’s maiden
aunt Juliana Wheeler, aged 55 and from Hatcham in Surrey, was still living
with the family. |
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The
death of Sydney S Collett was recorded at Salisbury register office (Ref. 5a
202) during the second quarter of 1932.
Probate of his personal effects was granted at Winchester on 8th
July 1932 to Edward Crosby Collett, an engineer’s assistant. The same document included his full name as
Sydney Slater Collett of Mount Pleasant, Elm Grove
Road in Salisbury, that it was on 22nd June 1932 that he died at
home. |
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Ethel Collett |
Born in 1899
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Olive May Collett |
Born in 1900
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46Q16
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Edward Crosby Collett |
Born in 1903
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46P15
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Reginald Philip Collett was born at Wimborne Minster in 1876
and was four years old in April 1881 while he was living with his family at
Leigh Road in Wimborne Minster. Ten
years later at 14 years of age, he was stilling living at the family home in
Wimborne with his widowed father Philip.
On reaching adulthood it would appear that he left Dorset to seek his
fortune in Derbyshire and it was at Derby that the marriage of Reginald
Philip Collett and Louisa Harrison was recorded (Ref. 7b 1167) during the
second quarter of 1898. Louisa was the
daughter of Herbert T Harrison and his wife Sarah and was in an advanced
state of pregnancy, her son born just a few months thereafter. Following their wedding day, the couple
settled in Belper where their only known child was born, his birth recorded
during the second quarter of that same year. |
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According
to the census of 1901, Reginald Collett from Wimborne said he was 29, perhaps
to make him one year older than his wife ‘Louie’ Collett, who was 28 and born
at Stonebroom in Derbyshire. In
reality Reginald was actually 24 years of age. His occupation at that time in his life was
that of the manager at a men’s outfitters, when the family of three was staying
with Louisa’ parents in Belper. Listed
with the couple at Belper was their two-year old son Bertie who had been born
there, plus Mary Ann Harrison aged 48, a widow living on her own means and
the sister-in-law of farmer and head of the household Herbert T Harrison, who
employed four servants. |
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Five
months later on 9th September 1901 Reginald Philip Collett died
(or was killed), although the exact circumstances behind that tragic event
have still to be determined. What is
known is that his death was recorded at Christchurch register office in
Hampshire (Ref. 2b 452) during the third quarter of 1901, when he was only
24. It is established that his body
was returned to Wimborne, where he was buried in the same grave as his
mother, who had died just nineteen years earlier. The details of the headstone epitaph can be
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Having
lost her husband so early in their life together, it would also appear that
their only child was not in the best of health, perhaps even suffering with
whatever had taken her husband from her.
That assumption has been made, based on the fact that son Herbert was
no longer living with Louisa in 1911.
Instead, Louisa Collett was still living with her parents at Belper,
where she was described as a widow of 37 years of age who was working as a
dairy housekeeper on her father’s farm.
That same day her son was a patient at Westminster Hospital in London,
at the age of 12 years. He was,
however, reunited with his mother at Belper, upon being discharged from
hospital. |
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Nine
years later, following the death if her son in London towards the end of
1919, Louisa Collett nee Harrison married James Longden, the event recorded
at Belper (Ref. 7b 2031) during the third quarter of 1920. |
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Herbert Philip Collett |
Born in 1898
at Belper |
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46P16
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Edgar William Collett was born at Wimborne Minster in 1877
where he was living with his family a few years later. The 1881 Census confirmed the address as
Leigh Road in Wimborne Minster and that Edgar was three years old, and he was
still living there ten years later when he was 13. Edgar followed his older brother into their
father’s family delivery business, so by 1901 he was 23 and his occupation at
Wimborne was that of a motorcar driver like his brother Sidney (above). |
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Shortly
after the 1901 Census Edgar’s father died, at which point, Edgar and Sidney
took over the motorcar business. The
two brothers and their sister Louisa (below) then left Wimborne and
took over garage premises at 88 Exeter Street in Salisbury, where they
continued to work in the motor trade. |
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Also,
during the first half of the first decade of the new century, Edgar married
Mabel and their marriage produced a daughter for the couple, who was born
after they had made the move to Salisbury.
All of which was confirmed by the census of 1911, which listed the
family living at Salisbury as Edgar William Collett, aged 33 and from
Wimborne, his wife Mabel Collett, aged 35, and their daughter Evelyn Collett
who was six years old. Her birth was
recorded at Salisbury (Ref. 5a 164) during the third quarter of 1904 and she
married Reginald F Jenkins at Salisbury (Ref. 5a 529) at the end of 1938. |
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Edgar
and Mabel were residing at 6 Burford Avenue in Salisbury during the Second
World War although, with Edgar in his sixties, it was at the Glenfulen
Nursing Home that he was a patient when he died on 18th November
1941. His Will was proved at
Winchester on 5th January 1942 when his widow Mabel Collett was
named as the sole executor of his estate of £4,716 17 Shillings and 4 Pence. |
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46Q18
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Evelyn
Collett |
Born in 1904
at Salisbury |
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46P17
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Edith Louisa Collett was born at Wimborne in July 1880 and
was nine months old at the time of the census. It seems very likely that she was born at Leigh
Road in Wimborne Minster where the family was living in April 1881 and again
in 1891 when she was 10 years old. No
record of her has yet been found in 1901, even though she was still unmarried
when her father passed away in March 1909.
Spinster Edith Louisa Collett was named in his Will, which was proved
at Blandford on 13th May 1909. |
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46P18
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Louisa Collett was born in July 1882 and probably
born at Leigh Road in Wimborne Minster.
However, it was her birth that caused the tragic death of her mother,
after whom she was named. In 1891 she
was eight years old and was still living with her family at Wimborne. By 1901 Louisa was 18 and was living with
her widowed father Philip at Wimborne where she acted as his
housekeeper. Upon the death of her father
in 1909, her brothers Sidney and Edgar took over the motor car business that
had been established by her father. |
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Her
two brothers also moved the family business from Wimborne to Salisbury around
that time, as confirmed by the census of 1911 which identified the Collett
garage at 88 Exeter Street in Salisbury where brother Sidney lived with his
family. Edgar was also living in
Salisbury with his family at that time.
According to the Salisbury census record, Louisa was also living there
and was described as a spinster, aged 28, who had been born at Wimborne. |
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46P19 |
Albert Spencer Collett was born at South Stoneham near
Southampton in 1876, his birth recorded at South Stoneham (Ref. 2c 67) during
the third quarter of that year. He was
baptised at Christ Church in the Freemantle district of Southampton on 8th
October 1876, the eldest child of Spencer Collett and Alice Gubbins. On the day of the census in 1881, Albert S
Collett was four years of age, when he and his family were living at 5
Osborne Road Hill in Millbrook, Southampton.
On leaving school, he joined the General Post Office as a telegraph
messenger when, at the aged of 14, he was still living with his family at
Blechynden Terrace in central Southampton in 1891. |
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No
record of Albert has been identified within the census of 1904, while it was
three years later that the marriage of Albert Spencer Collett and Clara Jane
Dixon was recorded at the Lancashire Lancaster register office (Ref. 8e 1497)
during the third quarter of 1904.
Clara was a Lancashire lassie, the daughter of William and Anne Dixon,
who was baptised at Broughton-in-Furnace on 2nd March 1878. Once again, no trace of Albert, or his wife
Jane, have been found in the census of 1911, while it was on 11th
May 1925 that Albert Spencer Collett arrived at Southampton Docks on the
Arundel Castle, of the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company, which had sailed
from Durban in South Africa. It is not
clear whether, or not, his wife accompanied him on the voyage, while his later
death was recorded in South Africa. |
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46P20
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Auten William Collett was born at Freemantle, Southampton, on
23rd July 1877 and was baptised at Christ Church in the Freemantle
on 25th November 1877, the second son of Spencer and Alice Collett. His birth was recorded at South Stoneham
(Ref. 2c 69) during the third quarter of that year. In 1881 he was living with his parents at 5
Osborn Road Hill in the Millbrook district of Southampton, where Auten
William Collett was three years old. Over
the following years the family left Millbrook when they moved from Millbrook
to Blechynden Terrace in Southampton, where Auten W Collett was 13 and still
at school in 1891. By 1901 the family
was residing in the Shirley area of Southampton, from where Auten W Collett
was 23 and a barman, most likely working alongside his father who was a
licenced victualler. By that time,
Auten’s mother had died and his father had remarried. |
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It
was just twelve months after that when Autin (Auten) William Collett married
Rose Eldridge, their wedding recorded at Southampton register office (Ref. 2c
28) during the second quarter of 1902. Rose had been born on 9th October
1878 and she gave birth to three children, two of them born prior to the next
census and one afterwards. The census
of Southampton in 1911 recorded the family living within the Parish of
Shirley as Auten (Autin) Collett from Freemantle, Southampton, who was 33 and
a shipping clerk and his wife Rose Collett, from Marchwood in Hampshire, who
was 31. Their daughter Winifred
Collett was eight years old and their son Donald Collett was two years of
age. |
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In
1915, Auten William Collett was 39 when he enlisted with the Royal Engineers,
service number 175999. His military
record confirmed that he was residing at 7 Handel Terrace in the Polygon area
of Southampton and had been married at St Lukes Church in Southampton on 30th
April 1902. At the time in his life
his family was recorded as wife Rose and their three children, Winifred Alice
Caroline Collett who was 12, Donald Stewart Collett who was seven and John
Spencer Collett who was two. |
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Auten
survived the First World War, while it was just after the Second World War
that the death of Autin W Collett was recorded at the Hampshire New Forest
register office (Ref. 6b 299) during the second quarter of 1947, when he was
69. Later that year, on 21st
June 1947, his Will was proved in Hampshire, with the beneficiaries named as
Rose Collett and Donald Stewart Collett.
In the 1939 Register Autin W Collett was working as a freight and
customs shipping clerk, was married to Rose, who had their son John still
living with them. |
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46Q19
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Winifred Alice C Collett |
Born in 1903
at Southampton |
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46Q20
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Donald Stewart Collett |
Born in 1908
at Freemantle |
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46Q21
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John Spencer Collett |
Born in 1913
at Southampton |
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46P21
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Ernest Wilfred Collett was born at Southampton in 1879 and
probably at the family home at 5 Osborn Road Hill in the Millbrook, where he
was one year old in 1881. He was
baptised at Freemantle on 22nd June 1879, another son of Spencer
and Alice Collett, and his birth was recorded at South Stoneham (Ref. 2c 64a)
during the second quarter of that year.
As Ernest W Collett he was 11 in 1891, by which time he and his family
were residing at Blechynden Terrace in Shirley. At the age of 21 he had left the family home
in Shirley and was a boarder at Radcliffe Road in the St Mary parish of
Southampton from where he was employed by the London South Western Railway
Company as a ticket collector. Two
years after that, the marriage of Ernest Wilfred Collett and Alice Marguerite
Hobbs was recorded at Southampton register office (Ref. 2c 4) during the
second quarter of 1903. Alice was born in Southampton in 1880 but, on being
married, she and Ernest settled in Eastleigh, to the north of Southampton,
where their children were born. |
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It
was very likely Ernest’s work on the railway that resulted in the move to
Eastleigh, where the family was still living in 1911 and where Ernest Wilfred
Collett from Southampton was a railway signalman aged 31. His wife Alice Marguerite Collett was 30
and their four daughters were Elsie Marguerite Collett who was five, Violet
Hilda Collett who was four, Lily Alberta Collett who was three and Ivy Amy
Collett who was one year old. |
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Two
more daughters were added to the family, with the birth of the first five
girls recorded at South Stoneham register office, as follows. Elsie Marguerite Collett (Ref. 2c 65)
during the second quarter of 1905, Violet Hilda Collett (Ref. 2c 66) during
the fourth quarter of 1906, Lily Alberta Collett (Ref. 2c 67) during the fourth
quarter of 1907, Ivy Amy Collett (Ref. 2c 102) during the fourth quarter of
1909 and Daisy E Collett (Ref. 2c
202) during the first quarter of 1913, when her mother’s maiden-name
confirmed as Hobbs. The birth of the
couple’s last child was recorded at Southampton (Ref. 2c 95) during the
second quarter of 1919 when, once again, the mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Hobbs. It appears Ernest
lived all his life in Hampshire, since it was at Southampton register office
that his death was recorded (Ref. 6b 628) during the first quarter of 1960,
when he was 80 years old. |
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Although so far thought
to be unrelated, a certain Gwendoline Collett, the widow of the late Bert Collett (Ref. 46q1), died at
South Stoneham on 26th April 2002 and was buried at South Stoneham Cemetery, Mansbridge
Road in Southampton on 2nd May. Announcements in the local newspaper
included those from: her son David
Collett (Ref.
46r1) and his
wife Margaret; her son Brian Collett (Ref. 46r2), his wife Vita and their daughters Lisa Collett (Ref. 46s1) and Clair
Collett (Ref.
46s2); her son Barry Collett (Ref. 46r3); her daughter Margaret (Collett)
(Ref. 46r4) and
husband Jeff; her daughter Karen
(Collett)
(Ref. 46r5) and son
Tyrone and Brian; her daughter Violet
(Collett)
(Ref. 46r6) and
husband Alfie; and her daughter Paula
(Collett)
(Ref. 46r7) and her
husband Mark. |
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46Q22
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Elsie Marguerite
Collett |
Born in 1905
at Eastleigh, Hampshire |
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46Q23
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Violet Hilda
Collett |
Born in 1906
at Eastleigh, Hampshire |
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46Q24
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Lily Alberta
Collett |
Born in 1907
at Eastleigh, Hampshire |
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46Q25
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Ivy Amy
Collett |
Born in 1909
at Eastleigh, Hampshire |
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46Q26
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Daisy E
Collett |
Born in 1913
at Eastleigh, Hampshire |
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46Q27
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Iris M B
Collett |
Born in 1919
at Southampton |
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46P22
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George Robert Collett was born at Shirley in 1881, his birth
recorded at South Stoneham (Ref. 2c 71) during the last three months of that
year. He was nine years old in the
Shirley census of 1891, when George R Collett was living at Blechynden
Terrace with his family. He was still
living with his family at Shirley in 1901 when, at the age of 19, he was
working as a picture frame maker. Four
years later, the marriage of George Robert Collett and Alice Frances L Drew
was recorded at Southampton register office (Ref. 2c 47) during the second
quarter of 1905. The marriage appears
to have resulted in the birth of two daughters, although the first of them
did not survive. It was in the All
Saints district of Southampton that the family was recorded in the census of
1911, when George R Collett was 29 and working as a picture frame maker
alongside his brother Arthur (below), his wife Alice Frances Leah
Collett was 30 and from Southampton and first daughter Kathleen Mary Leah
Collett was just ten months old. |
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The
birth of Rose Eileen Collett was recorded at Southampton (Ref. 2c 3) during
the third quarter of 1908, with her death also recorded there (Ref. 2c 4)
during the same quarter of 1908. Two
years after that sad event, Alice gave birth to their second child, with the
birth of Kathleen M L Collett being recorded at Southampton register office
(Ref. 2c 51) during the third quarter of 1910. At the end of his life, George was residing
in Winchester, where the death of George R Collett was recorded (Ref. 2c 192)
during the last months of 1937, when he was 56 years of age. Nine years prior to his passing, George
Robert Collett was one of the two beneficiaries under the term of his
father’s Will. |
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46Q28
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Rose Eileen
Collett |
Born in 1908
at Southampton; died 1908 |
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46Q29
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Kathleen Mary
Leah Collett |
Born in 1910
at Southampton |
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46P23
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Arthur Sydney Gubbins
Collett was born at
Shirley on 19th November 1883, his third forename being his
mother’s maiden-name. His birth was
recorded at South Stoneham (Ref. 2c 82) during last three months of that
year. It was as Arthur S G Collett,
aged seven years, that he was living with his family at Blechynden Terrace in
1891. He was still living there in
1901, by which time, he was 17 and still living at the family home from where
he was working with his older brother Ernest (above) as an apprentice frame
maker. Six years later the marriage of
Arthur Sydney G Collett and Florence Mary Ransom was recorded at South
Stoneham register office (Ref. 2c 110) during the second quarter of
1907. Mary, as she was known, was born
at South Stoneham on 27th January 1883, the daughter of John and
Elizabeth Ransom. One year after they
were married Mary presented Arthur with a son, who appears to have been their
only child. By 1911 the couple was
still residing in the Shirley of Southampton, when Arthur Collett was 27 and
a picture frame maker, like his older brother (above), with whom he
was most likely working. His wife Mary
Collett was 28 and also from Southampton, as was their son George Collett,
who was two years of age. |
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Around
the start of the Second World War the couple was living at 12 Blechynden
Terrace in Southampton, from where Arthur was a licenced victualler at The
Railway Tavern and Florence was an unpaid domestic servant. Tragically,
during the war, Arthur and Florence were both inside the Railway Tavern in Blechynden
Terrace when it was razed to the ground during a bombing raid, resulting in
the death of the couple. That happened
on 22nd June 1941 when Arthur was 57 and Florence was 58,
following which the couple were buried at Southampton County Borough
Cemetery. The death of Arthur S G
Collett was recorded at Southampton register office (Ref. 2c 70) during the
second quarter of 1941, when Arthur’s father was confirmed as Spencer
Collett. |
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Florence
Mary Collett nee Ransom’s Will was passed through the probate office at
Southampton on 24th October 1941, when the two beneficiaries were
named as Arthur Sydney Gubbins Collett and Bertie Harold Ransom. Four days later, at Llandudno,
administration of the personal effects of Arthur Sydney Gubbins Collett was
processed in favour of his son George Henry Spencer Collett, the value being
£2,619 19 Shillings and 6 Pence. |
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46Q30
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George Henry Spencer Collett |
Born in 1908
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46P24 |
Alice Elsie Collett was born in 1885 at Shirley, her birth
recorded at South Stoneham (Ref. 2c 71) during the last quarter of 1885. It was at Blechynden Terrace in Southampton
where the family was living in 1891, when Alice E Collett was five years
old. Following the death of her
mother, her widowed father returned with his family to Shirley where, in
1901, Alice was recorded in error as Elsie A Collett aged 15 in the census
that year. Having left the family
home, Alice Elsie Collett from Southampton was living and working in Bristol
in 1911, where she was unmarried, aged 25, and employed as a draper’s
assistant. That appears to have been a
temporary arrangement since, two years later, the married of Alice E Collett
and John D Storrie was recorded at Southampton (Ref. 2c 75) during second
quarter of 1913. |
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46P25
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Harold Philip Collett was born at Shirley on 26th
October 1889 and was one year old in 1891 when he was living at Blechynden
Terrace, where he may have been born. His
birth was recorded at Southampton (Ref. 2c 31) during the fourth quarter of
1889. Towards the end of the following
decade his mother died and it was with his widowed father that he was living
in Shirley in 1901, when Harold was eleven years old. His father remarried just after that census
day and, after a further ten years, he was living in lodgings within the All
Saints parish of Southampton. By then
he was simply named as Harold Collett from Southampton who 22 years old. |
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Just
over three years later, Harold entered the first of his two marriages, with
the marriage of Harold P Collett and (1) Nellie A Martin recorded at
Southampton (Ref. 2c 60) during the third quarter of 1914. Nellie was born on 24th November
1889. They were married for forty
years, when the death of Nellie A Collett was recorded at Southampton
register office (Ref. 6b 545) during the last three months of 1954, when she
was 65. Around eighteen months after
being widowed, the marriage of Harold P Collett and Ada J Anderson was
recorded at Southampton (Ref. 6b 1058) during the second quarter of 1956. In the end, it was also at Southampton
register office that the death of Harold P Collett was recorded (Ref. 6b 711)
during the fourth quarter of 1963, when he was 74. |
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According
to the 1939 Register, Harold P Collett was a wine, spirits and beer retailer
living at 141 St Marys Street with his wife Nellie A Collett, an unpaid
domestic servant. Following the death
of Harold Philip Collett at Southampton on 21st December 1963,
probate was proved at Winchester on 16th January 1964. |
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46P26 |
Hilda Winifred Collett was born at Milford Place in
Southampton in 1897, the last child of Spencer Collett and his first wife
Alice Gubbins. Her birth was recorded
at Southampton (Ref. 2c 38) during the first three months of 1897. In 1901 Hilda W Collett was four years of
age and in 1911 as Hilda Winifred Collett she was 14 when she was living with
her family in Southampton, where she was already employed as a draper’s
apprentice. |
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46P27 |
Reginald Frank Collett was born at Millbrook in Southampton in
1903, the first of the two children of Spencer Collett and his second and
much younger wife Amy Thomas, whose birth was recorded at South Stoneham
(Ref. 2c 106) during the second quarter of 1903. Under his full name he was seven years old
in the Southampton census of 1911.
Nineteen years later the marriage of Reginald F Collett and Margery
Judd was recorded at Southampton (Ref. 2c 83) during the third quarter of
1930. Their two children were born at
Southampton during the next five years.
Just after the Second World War, the death of Reginald F Collett, aged
43, was recorded at Southampton register office (Ref. 6b 462) during the
third quarter of 1946. |
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46Q31
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Pauline M Collett |
Born in 1933
at Southampton |
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46Q32
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David Spencer Collett |
Born in 1935
at Southampton |
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46P28 |
Amy Isabel Collett was born at Southampton in 1906, the
last child of Spencer and Amy Collett.
She was four years of age in the Southampton census of 1911. |
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46P29
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Albert Edward Collett was born at Lambeth in 1878, where is
birth was recorded (Ref. 1d 349) during the first couple of months of that
year. He was baptised at the Church of
St Andrew in Lambeth on 3rd March 1878, the eldest child of Auten
Collett and Elizabeth Maria Allsop who were married there nine months earlier. In 1881, when he was three years of age,
and again in 1891, when he was 13, Albert was living with his family at 14
Hinton Road in Brixton. His father
established a fruiterer’s and greengrocer’s business which Albert took over
around the end of the century, when the family was living in Tunbridge Wells. That happened around that same time that Albert
Edward Collett married Clara Mary Dartnell, the wedding recorded at Tunbridge
Wells (Ref. 2a 1485) during the fourth quarter of 1900. A few months later, the couple was living at
Camden Road in Tunbridge Wells, not far from Albert’s parents, his father
then working as a licenced victualler.
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On
that census day in 1901 Albert Collett from London was 23 and his occupation
was confirmed as a fruiterer, while his London born wife was 21 years of age
and named as Edith. She was already
expecting the birth of their only child, the birth of Albert Walter Collett
being recorded at Tunbridge Wells register office (Ref. 2a 806) during the
third quarter of 1901. Tragically, one
year later, the death of Albert E Collett was recorded at Tunbridge Wells
(Ref. 2a 400) during the third quarter of 1902, when he was only 24 years of
age. No further record of mother and
son has been found after that time, possibly because Albert’s widow remarried
and her son took up her new husband’s surname. |
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46Q33
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Albert Walter
Collett |
Born in 1901
at Tunbridge Wells |
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Arthur Ernest Collett was born at 14 Hinton Road in Brixton
in 1883, his birth recorded at Lambeth (Ref. 1d 502) during the third quarter
of that year, and it was at that address he was living with his family in
1891 when he was seven years of age. By
1901 he and his family were living at Upper Grosvenor Road in Tunbridge Wells,
from where Arthur E Collett from Brixton was working as a carpenter at the
age of 17. It was about two years
later that he married Catherine with whom he had two children during the
following four years, when they were still living in Tunbridge Wells. It has not been determined if the family
was added to after 1911 but, by April 1911, the family of four was living at
Hornsey, not far from where Arthur was born.
Arthur E Collett from Brixton was 27 and an assistant working in an
off-licence, Catherine Collett from Brighton was 28, their daughter Ivy Collett
was six, and their son Arthur Collett was four years old. |
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Arthur
was thirty when war was declared, at which time he joined the Queen’s Royal
West Kent regiment where he was Private Collett 25936. Sadly, Arthur Ernest Collett died on 4th
October 1918, possibly from the injuries he sustained during the Great
War. At the time of his death his wife
Catherine Lillian Collett was living at 97 Sydney Road in Hornsey. She was named as his next-of-kin in his
military records, where he was also described as the son of A & E Collett
of 41 High Road in Wood Green in London, they being Auten and Elizabeth. |
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The
birth of Ivy Catherine Collett was recorded at Tonbridge register office
(Ref. 2a 857) during the first three months of 1905, while the birth of
Arthur Collett was also recorded there (Ref. 2a 863) during the third quarter
of the following year. Arthur Claude
Collett served with the military sometime between 1921 and 1941. The marriage of Ivy Catherine Collett and Leslie
L Luxford was recorded at Edmonton register office (Ref. 3a 2136) during the
third quarter of 1929. |
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Ivy Catherine
Collett |
Born in 1905
at Tunbridge Wells |
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46Q35
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Arthur Claude
Collett |
Born in 1906
at Tunbridge Wells |
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Mary Maude Collett was born at 14 Hinton Road at Brixton
in 1885, the eldest daughter and third child of Auten and Elizabeth Collett. That was how her named was recorded at
Lambeth (Ref. 1d 534) during the first quarter of 1885, whereas in some
census returns her two forenames were reversed. She and her family were still living at 14
Hinton Road in 1891, when Mary M Collett was five years old, while ten years
later Maude Mary Collett was the family has settled in Upper Grosvenor Road
in Tunbridge Wells. At sixteen years
of age, Maude M Collett, from Brixton, had no stated occupation. |
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46P32
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Winifred Collett was born at 14 Hinton Road at Brixton,
possibly at the end of 1889 or early in 1890, another daughter of Auten and
Elizabeth Collett. Her birth was
recorded at Lambeth (Ref. 1d 545) during the first three months of 1890. She was one year old in the Brixton census
of 1891, when the family was still residing at 14 Hinton Road. However, during the following years the
family temporarily moved to Reading before settling in Tunbridge Wells where
in 1901 the family was recorded at Upper Grosvenor Road in the town, when
Winifred Collett from Brixton was 11. |
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46P33
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Harry Austin Collett was born at Brixton in 1894, possibly
at 14 Hinton Road where his family had been living in 1881 and 1891. His birth was recorded at Lambeth (Ref. 1d
491) during the second quarter of 1894, the youngest son of Auten and
Elizabeth Collett. At the age of six
years, Harry A Collett from Brixton was living with his family at Upper
Grosvenor Road in Tunbridge Wells, after the family had moved there from
Reading. By the time of the next
census in 1911, he was listed as Harry Austin Collett, aged 18, who was a
boarder living and working at Wandsworth within the London Borough of
Balham. On that occasion, in error, he
gave his place of birth as Reading, where his youngest sibling (below)
had been born. |
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Just
over three years later, the marriage of Harry A Collett and Rachel Hindes was
recorded at Barnet register office (Ref. 3a 952) during the third quarter of
1914. Although no issue has been
found, the marriage seems to have last thirty-five years, when Harry Collett
died at Edmonton within the London Borough of Enfield on 1st March
1949, following which his body was buried at the Edmonton Federation of Synagogues Cemetery. |
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46P34 |
Florence Beatrice
Collett was born at
Reading in 1896, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 2c 353) during the second
quarter of the year. Not long after
she was born, her family settled in Tunbridge Wells, where Florence B Collett
was four years old in 1901, at Upper Grosvenor Road. Another family move took place during the
first decade of the new century, which resulted in Florence and her parents
only, living at Wood Green, between Muswell Hill and Tottenham in 1911, when
Florence Beatrice Collett from Reading was 15 with no occupation. She may have been helping her parents with
the off-licence they ran. |
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46P35
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Eleanor Mary Collett was born at Hampton in 1872, the
eldest child of Thomas and Frances Collett.
According to the census in 1881, Eleanor Mary Collett was living with
her parents at 9 Wolsey Road in Hampton, within the Teddington area of
Middlesex, when she was eight years old.
Upon leaving school, and up until she was married, Eleanor was
employed as a servant at Hampton Court, where she lived with her Granny
Muckle at her ‘grace and favour’ apartment.
It was during the 1890s that Eleanor married Arthur George Pipe from
Suffolk, and by March 1901 she had presented George, as he was known, with a
daughter who was born at Bermondsey in London. |
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Arthur
George Pipe was the son of a police inspector and was born at Wesselton in
Suffolk. He trained as a schoolmaster,
but then moved to work at Butler’s Wharf, near the Tower of London, where he
was chief clerk. After he retired, he
supplemented his pension by preparing financial accounts for various local
doctors and by venturing. The census
in 1901 recorded the family living in the St Margaret & St John district
of London, where Eleanor M Pipe from Hampton Hill was 28, and her daughter Ivy
E Pipe, who had been born on 6th November 1900, was one year
old. Eleanor’s husband on that
occasion was a wharf clerk working in Bermondsey, where he was recorded as
Arthur G Pipe, aged 28, from Suffolk. |
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Ten
years later the family was living in East Dulwich, within the borough of
Camberwell in London, where Arthur George Pipe was 38, his wife Eleanor Mary
Pipe (known as Nell) was also 38, and their daughter Ivy Evelyn Pipe
was 11. Ivy Evelyn
Pipe later married Jim Whiteway and they had two children, Daphne and
Dick. Daphne Whiteway died soon after
the Second World War from tuberculosis of the stomach, while Dick and his
wife Barbara were still living in East Dulwich up to 23rd June
2011, when Dick passed away at the age of 82. |
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46P36
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Elizabeth Frances
Collett was born at
Hampton on 4th October 1874 and was six years old in the census of
1881 when she was living with her family at 9 Wolsey Road in Hampton. Upon leaving school Elizabeth entered into
domestic service, and by the time of the next census in 1891, she was
described as Elizabeth Frances Collett, aged 16, who had left the family home
to be living and working at Godalming in Surrey. By the time of the March census of 1901,
she was recorded as Elizabeth F Collett, aged 26 and from Hampton and
unmarried, who was still living and working in Godalming, where she was
employed as a domestic housemaid. |
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It
was while she was at Godalming, that she met William Henry Colpus, the son of
George and Elizabeth Colpus of Manor Road in Godalming. And it was sometime during the first decade
of the new century that they were married at Godalming, and where the childless
couple were living in April 1911.
According to the census on that occasion, William Henry Colpus was 37,
and his wife Elizabeth Frances Colpus was 36.
It is also established that the marriage did not produce any children
for the couple, and that William suffered shell-shock in the First
World War, became a semi-invalid, and died at Brookwood sometime before the
start of the Second World War. |
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Following
the death of her husband, Bess, as she was more commonly known, let out her
big front room to railway workers for some time. Her house at Farncombe in Surrey, also
provided a country refuge and holiday base for various younger members of the
family, whilst Dick and Daphne Whiteway, the children of Ivy Evelyn Pipe and
Jim Whiteway, were evacuated there in the early part of the war. In addition to all of this, it was from
that same house in Farncombe that Bess’ niece Isabel Doris Collett, the
eldest daughter of Bess’ younger brother Andrew Ralph Collett (below) was
married on 14th December1940.
Later on, in her life, Bess Colpus moved to 107 Crystal Palace Road,
East Dulwich to live with her sister Nell Pipe nee Collett and her husband
Arthur Pipe, and outlived both of them. |
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46P37
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William Thomas Collett was born at Hampton in 1875 and was five
years old in 1881 while he was living at 9 Wolsey Road in Hampton with his
family. Sometime towards the end of
the 1880s William’s parents left the Teddington area when they moved to
nearby Hanworth, where they were living in 1891 when William was 15. The census confirmed he had been born at
Hampton and that, by then, he was working as a florist’s assistant, while
living in the Hounslow Road, next to the Jolly Sailor Inn. |
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Once
into his twenties, William continued his occupation as a florist while he was
still living at Hounslow Road in Hanworth.
The census in March 1901 recorded that William Collett was a bachelor
at 25 and that he was still living with his parents. The census also confirmed his place of
birth as Hampton Hill. It was during
the summer of the following year when the marriage of William Thomas Collett
and Amelia Louisa Faulkner was recorded at Holborn register office (Ref. 1b
1409) during the third quarter of 1902.
She was born at Marylebone during 1882, the daughter of Thomas and
Amelia Faulkner of St Pancras.
Although no record of the couple has been positively identified within
the census of 1911, it is established that William eventually returned to
Hanworth, since it was there that he bought land and set up his own market
garden. That location was also
confirmed within his military records, below. |
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William
Thomas Collett of Hanworth in Middlesex served with the 10th
Battalion of East Surrey Regiment in 1916, service number 23092, when he was
39 and born at Hampton in Middlesex.
Four years after that, he was 44 in 1920 when he was with 737th
Armourers Crew Company of the Labour Corps, service number 375606. The death of William T Collett was recorded
at the Middlesex South register office (Ref. 5f 68) during the second quarter
of 1950, when he was 74. Upon his
death, the land at Hanworth was inherited by his children, and it was his two
daughters who each had a house built on their plot, where they both continued
to live next door to each other, right up to 2010. |
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46Q36
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Maisie Collett |
Born in 1911 |
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46Q37
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Bert Collett |
Date of birth
unknown |
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46Q38
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Mabel J Collett |
Born in 1926
at Staines |
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46P38
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Frances Jane Collett was born at Hampton in 1876. She was four years old in the Hampton
census of 1881, but by 1891, she and her family were living at Hounslow Road
in Hanworth. Frances J Collett from
Hampton was 14 and had left school but was not credited with an
occupation. Frances was still
unmarried by March 1901 when she was aged 24 and was living in nearby Feltham
where she was working as a servant.
Her place of birth was listed as Hampton Hill. However, within the next year she married
Daniel Wild. |
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Daniel
Wild was a charcoal burner from the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. He and Frances had three children prior to
the census in 1911, by which time the family was living at Hanworth. On that occasion the Wild family was
recorded as Daniel who was 30, Frances Jane who was 34, and their three
children Thomas George Wild who was eight, Eleanor Elizabeth Wild
who was six, and Wilfred Victor Wild who was two years old. |
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One
of the later recollections of Edith Collett, the daughter of Andrew Ralph Collett
(below), was that she only knew of three Wild cousins, and they were Bessie,
Wilfred, and Bertha who was born around 1913.
For about four months during 1923, and around the time when she was
four years old, Edith Collett was staying with Granny Collett (Frances
Isabella Collett nee Muckle) at The Rectory in Hanworth, where she was
helping to look after two visiting missionaries. Edith recalls during that same time, she
was taken for walks by her older cousin Bertha who would have been about 15
years old and living nearby in the Feltham area. |
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46P39
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Isabella Muckle Collett was born at Hampton in 1877 and was
three years old in 1881 when living with her family at 9 Wolsey Road in
Hampton. By 1891 the family was living
at Hounslow Road in Hanworth when Isabella M Collett, aged 13 from Hampton,
was still attending the local school.
Ten years later, the census in 1901 placed her as Isabel Collett, aged
23, still living at Hanworth where she was working as a domestic housemaid,
while living with her brother William (above). Each of them gave their place of birth as
Hampton Hill. At some time in her life
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46P40
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Andrew Ralph Collett was born at Hampton on 31st
August 1880 and was seven months old on 3rd April 1881, the day of
the national census, when he and his family were living at 9 Wolsey Road in
Hampton. Some years later his family
moved the short distance to Hanworth where, in 1891, he was 10 years old and
attending school, while living there at Hounslow Road with his family. |
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By
the time of the next census in 1901, Andrew Ralph Collett was in South Africa
as part of the British Territorial Army fighting in the Boer War. Andrew was under age when he enlisted but
managed to convince the army that he was a few years older. He
was with the 20th Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry City of
London Yeomanry, which was more commonly referred to as ‘Rough Riders’, a
name adopted from the United States cavalry regiment that fought in the
Spanish-American War. The 20th
Battalion was disbanded in 1901 and was replaced by the 22nd
Battalion of the City of London Imperial Yeomanry (Rough Riders). On
his return to England, Andrew married (1) Edith Austin, a widow who already
had a daughter, Irene Edith Austin, from her first marriage. He also took up work in London as
a horse bus driver with Thomas Kellings, before switching to trams as a
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Edith
Austin had been born at Bushey in Hertfordshire as Edith Narroway, the
daughter of William Narroway and his wife Ellen. William was a City of London Missioner
working amongst the poor of the city.
By the time of the census in March 1901 Edith was married and was
recorded living in the Camberwell area as Edith Austin, aged 21. |
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By
the time of the census in April 1911, the couple had their first two
children. The family at that time was
living at East Dulwich in the Camberwell area of London, where Andrew Ralph
Collett from Hampton was 30. His wife
Edith Collett from Bushey was 31, and their two children were Thomas Ralph
Austin Collett who was two years old, and Isabel Doris Collett who was only
seven months old. Also living with the
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Three
more children were added to the family during the next eight years, the first
two being born before Andrew saw action in the Great War with the Royal
Artillery, the third being born just nine months after his return from the
campaign. Having survived through the
war years, the young family was devastated when Edith died during the birth
of the couple’s last child in December 1919.
Edith’s daughter from her first marriage, who was
known as Rene, had taken the name Irene Edith Austin Collett, although it was
to her maternal grandparents that she went to live, following the death of
her mother. At that time, she was
around 15 years of age. However, her
departure from the family home at that critical time apparently caused a
split in the family. |
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The children
of Andrew Ralph and Edith Austin did occasionally visit their maternal
grandparents after that time, and a few years later Andrew’s eldest daughter
Isabel Doris Collett was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her half-sister Rene
Austin Collett and even attended her funeral shortly after she had given
birth to a son. The cause of death was
tuberculosis, which had already taken her father around 1907. Contact was lost with her husband and his
son during the Second World War and, it is feared that they may have both
perished in the London Blitz. |
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It
was two years after the death of his wife Edith, that widower Andrew Ralph
Collett married (2) Mabel Farmer, their wedding recorded at Camberwell (Ref.
1d 1383) during the second quarter of 1921.
Mabel was a war widow who had two daughters from her previous
marriage, Dorothy Farmer and Winifred Farmer.
That second marriage for Andrew produced five children, the birth of
all of them recorded at Camberwell register office when, in each case, the
mother’s maiden-name was recorded as Norwood and not Farmer. Tragically, only one of the five survived,
the last of the five Joan. The house
in London, in which the Andrew and his family were living at the start of the
Second World War, was destroyed during the London Blitz which took place
between September 1940 and May 1941. |
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Andrew
Ralph Collett died at Dulwich Hospital on 28th March 1953 aged 72,
and was buried at the Camberwell New Cemetery, while his first wife Edith was
buried in 1919 at The Old Cemetery in Camberwell which was also destroyed by
a direct hit during the London Blitz of 1940-1941. |
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46Q39
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Irene Edith
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Born in 1904 |
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46Q40
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Thomas Ralph Austin Collett |
Born in 1909
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46Q41
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Isabel Doris Collett |
Born in 1910
at East Dulwich |
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46Q42
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Olive May Collett |
Born in 1913
at East Dulwich |
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46Q43
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Mabel Eileen Collett |
Born in 1915
at East Dulwich |
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46Q44
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Edith Collett |
Born in 1919
at East Dulwich |
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46Q45
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Arthur H A Collett |
Born 1922 at
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46Q46
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Stanley G B Collett |
Born 1923 at
Camberwell; died 1923 |
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46Q47
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Eric C
Collett |
Born 1924 at
Camberwell; died 1928 |
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46Q48
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George F N
Collett |
Born 1925 at
Camberwell; died 1925 |
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46Q49
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Joan Kathleen Collett |
Born in 1926
at Camberwell |
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Arthur M Collett was born at Hanworth in 1890, when his
family was living at Hounslow Road in Hanworth, where his parents had moved
from Hampton. He was the youngest
child of Thomas Collett and Frances Isabella Muckle, and was only five months
old in the Hanworth census of 1891.
However, no record of him has been located after 1891, when it perhaps
can be assumed that he suffered an infant death. Certainly, it was known within the family
that his brother Andrew Ralph Collett (above) was the youngest member of the
family to survive. |
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46P42
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Henry Herbert Collett was born at Newbold-on-Avon in
Warwickshire in 1873. In 1881 he was
seven years old and was with living his parents and younger sister Anne at
Church Terrace in Harbury in Warwickshire.
Sadly, his mother died around four years later, following which his
father Henry remarried. Upon leaving
school it would appear that he left the family home and moved to the Holy
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Within
the next decade he left Warwickshire and headed for the industrial north to
find work. By the time of the 1901 Census,
he was still a bachelor and was working as a stone miner while living at
Woolley in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
His place of birth was confirmed as Newbold-on-Avon although he gave
his age as 24 rather than 27. So far,
the whereabouts of Henry Herbert Collett of Newbold-on-Avon has not been
discovered in the census of 1911, although his stepmother Eliza Collett was a
widow by then and was living in the Warwickshire village of Knightcote, where
members of the Kirtlington line of the Collett family were living. See Part 49 – The Kirtlington to California
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46P43
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Anne Maud Mary Collett was born at Hillmorton in 1876 even
though at the turn of the century she stated she had been born at
Harbury. It was at Church Terrace in
Harbury that she was living with her parents Henry and Charlotte Collett in
1881 when she was listed as four years old Anne Marie M Collett who had been
born at Hillmorton. Her mother died
during the mid-1880s and her father then married for a second time around
1886. It was simply as Maud Collett
aged fourteen that she listed with her father and stepmother at Harbury in
1891, and ten years after that she was described as spinster Ann Maud Mary
Collett, aged 24 of Harbury, who was still living at Harbury with her family,
when her occupation was that of a domestic servant. |
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Eliza Anne Collett was born at Harbury in 1888, the only daughter
of Henry Collett and his second wife Eliza Burgess. Her baptism as Harbury Church in 1889,
confirmed that her father was a police constable. And it was at Harbury that she was living
with her parents in 1891 at the age of two years. She was still living there with her parents
ten years later in March 1901 when she was 12. She was not married ten years after that
and was referred to in the 1911 Census for Atherstone as Eliza Annie Collett
aged 22 and of Harbury. No other
Collett was living at Atherstone at that time. |
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Frederick William Clark
Collett was born at
Horton-cum-Studley in 1868 but was baptised at Piddington where his parents
had been married during the previous year.
He was baptised as Frederick William Clark Collett on 29th
November 1868, the first child born to William Collett, a labourer of Horton
and his wife Emma Parker from Piddington.
By the time he was two years old he and his parents were living at
Fencott which was also named as his place of birth from that time
onwards. He was 12 years old in the
Fencott census of 1881 when he was still attending school but to date no
record of him has been found in 1891. |
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By
the turn of the century, he was married to Alice who was born at Worminghall
in Buckinghamshire and, in the census of 1901, Frederick was 32 and Alice was
25. At that time in their lives, they
were living at Glympton with their first two children where Frederick was
working as a carpenter. The couple’s
two sons were recorded as Thomas, who was six and born at Charlton, and
Albert who was one year old and born after the family had settled in
Glympton. During the next six years a
further three children were added to the family while they were still
residing in Glympton. |
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According
to the next census in April 1911 the family was still living at Glympton and
confirmed the births of the additional children. Head of the household Frederick Collett of
Fencott was 42, Alice Collett was 35, and their children were Thomas W
Collett, aged 17, Albert Edward Collett, aged 11, Edward G Collett who was
eight, Lucy Collett who was six, and George Collett who was three. It is possible, although not proved, that
after the death of his father in 1918 Frederick’s widowed mother lived with
him and his family at Glympton, and later at Woodstock, where she died in
1937. |
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46Q50 |
Thomas W
Collett |
Born in 1894
at Charlton-on-Otmoor |
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46Q51 |
Albert Edward Collett |
Born in 1899
at Glympton |
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46Q52 |
Edward
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Born in 1902
at Glympton |
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46Q53 |
Lucy Collett |
Born in 1904
at Glympton |
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46Q54 |
George
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Born in 1907
at Glympton |
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46P46 |
Ellen Rebecca Collett was born at Fencott at the end of 1872
and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 23rd February 1873. She was recorded as Ellen R Collett in the
Fencott & Murcott census of 1881 when she was eight years old. On leaving school she also left the family
home in Charlton-on-Otmoor and by 1891 when she was 19 Ellen Rebecca Collett
was living and working in Bicester.
She was still there ten years later when she was living at Market End
in Bicester where she was listed as being a 28 years old spinster who was
working as a domestic servant. Around
the time of the census in 1901, or just before or just after, Ellen had an
affair which resulted in the birth of a base-born son towards the end of the
year. Ten years later in April 1911,
Ellen Collett was 38 and was still unmarried when she was living within the
Headington registration area of Oxford, while her son was living with Ellen’s
parents at Charlton-on-Otmoor. |
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46Q55 |
Jack Collett |
Born in 1901
at Charlton-on-Otmoor |
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46P47 |
Annie Elizabeth Collett was born at Fencott during 1875 and
was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 15th August 1875, the
daughter of William and Emma Collett.
It was as Anne E Collet, aged five years, that she was living with her
family in Fencott in 1881. Like her
sister Ellen (above), on leaving school she entered into domestic service and
in 1891 at the age of 15 she was already living and working within the
Headington area of Oxford. She would
have been approaching 21 when she married Joseph Marriott, a brewer’s drayman
from Bicester at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 18th March 1896. On that occasion she was described as
spinster Elizabeth Anne Collett, aged 21 of Charlton, the daughter of
carpenter William Collett, while bachelor Joseph was recorded as being 27 and
a mason’s labourer, the son of carter William Marriott. The witnesses were Annie’s sister Ellen
Collett, and William Mouring. |
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By
March 1901 their marriage had given the couple four children, all born at
Bicester, with a further two being added to their family during the first few
years of the next decade. Annie and
Joseph were living at Market End in Bicester at the time of the census, but
only had three of their four children living with them on that day. The missing child was staying with her
grandparents William and Emma Collett at Charlton-on-Otmoor, the reason
possibly being that Annie had just given birth to the couple’s fourth child. However, that absence child, Ellen
Marriott, aged three years, was no longer alive in 1911, so she may have
been poorly in 1901 and was being nursed by her grandmother. |
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According
to the census return for 1901 Joseph Marriott was 27, Annie E Marriott was
26, Joseph William Marriott was four, Beatrice May Marriott was
two, and Arthur Edwin Marriott was only a few weeks old. Ten years later the enlarged family was
still living at Market End in Bicester, when Joseph and Annie Elizabeth were
both 37, Joseph William was 14, Beatrice May was 11, Arthur Edwin was 10, Frederick
Marriott was eight, and Florence Elizabeth Marriott was six years
old. |
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46P48 |
Edwin Charles Collett was born at Fencott in 1877 and was
baptised on 8th July 1877 at the parish church in
Charlton-on-Otmoor, the son of William and Emma Collett. He was recorded as Edwin Collett aged three
years in 1881 and, in the census of 1981, he was listed in error as Edward
Collett who was 13. Ten years later,
at the age of 24, Edwin was still living in Charlton-on-Otmoor where he was
working as a yardman on a farm. It was
during the final three months of 1904, when the marriage of Edwin Collett and
Rose May Ransom was recorded at Westminster St Margaret in London (Ref. 1a
1073). She was the daughter of Charles
and Mary Ransom of Great Yarmouth. By
1911, Edwin Charles Collett from Fencott was 33 and was working as a general
labourer in the building industry, when he was living at Finchley in London
with his wife Rose May Collett from Great Yarmouth who was 27, together with
their first child Edwin Collett who was four years old and born after the
couple had settled in Finchley. Sadly,
the couple had already suffered the loss of their second child, who had died
around the age of two years in 1910.
However, Rose was already pregnant with the couple’s third child on
that census day. |
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46Q56 |
Edwin Collett |
Born in 1906
at Finchley |
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46Q57 |
Rose May Collett |
Born in 1908
at Finchley |
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46Q58 |
Mary C Collett |
Born in 1911
at Finchley |
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46Q59 |
William Collett |
Born in 1913
at Finchley |
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46Q60 |
Charles Collett |
Born in 1915
at Finchley |
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46Q61 |
Henry Collett |
Born in 1919
at Finchley |
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46P49 |
William Collett was born at Fencott in September 1880
and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 24th October 1880, the
son of William and Emma Collett. His
birth, as Willie Collett, was recorded at Bicester (Ref. 3a 703) during the
last three months of 1880. It was at
Charlton-on-Otmoor that William was 20 and an under carter working on a farm,
when he was still living there with his family. After a further ten years, unmarried
William Collett was 30 and a farm labourer living and working with the Kirby
family at Charlton-on-Otmoor. Three
years later, he enlisted as Private Collett 12223 with the 6th Battalion
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at the outbreak of the Great
War, but tragically William Collett died, aged 36, on 5th
September 1916 just a few weeks after the death of his younger brother Arthur
(below). |
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46P50 |
Louisa Collett was born at Fencott in 1883, her birth
recorded at Bicester (Ref. 3a 800) during the second quarter of the
year. She was baptised
on 27th May 1883 at Charlton-on-Otmoor Parish Church and was
living at Charlton with her family in 1891.
She had left the family home in Charlton by 1901, when Louisa Collett
from Fencott was 19 (sic) and a kitchen maid at a dwelling in Kings End,
Bicester. Six weeks later, she was
married at Bicester Parish Church on 18th May 1901 to bachelor
Albert Pitts of that parish, aged 24, a mason and the son of labourer William
Pitts. Louisa was 20 and a spinster of
the parish, the daughter of carpenter William Collett. The witnesses were Louisa’ brother Edwin
Charles Collett, and Mary Ann Pitts. |
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During
the following decade, Louisa presented Albert with six children, all of them
born at Bicester. The family of eight
was residing at Market End in Bicester in 1911 and was recorded as Albert
Pitts aged 34 and a house painter working in the building industry, Louisa
Pitts 27, Louisa Pitts who was nine, Ethel Pitts who was six, Nellie
Pitts who was five, Albert Pitts who was three, Bertha Pitts
who was two, and Frances Pitts who was under one year old. |
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46P51 |
Arthur John Collett was born at Charlton-on-Otmoor during
1885, his birth recorded at Bicester (Ref. 3a 781) during the third quarter
of the year. It was also at Charlton where
he was baptised on 1st November that year, the son of William and
Emma Collett of Charlton-on-Otmoor. He
was five years old in 1891 and by March 1901, at the age of 16, he was
working as a yardman on a farm in Charlton.
Ten years later, in April 1911, unmarried Arthur John Collett was 26
and a farm labourer who was still living with his parents at
Charlton-on-Otmoor. His father William
was 73 and his mother Emma was 63 and, living with them, was the couple’s
grandson Jack Collett who was nine years of age and born at Charlton. He was the base-born son as Arthur’s older
sister Ellen Rebecca Collett (above). |
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During
the First World War he joined the Middlesex Regiment as Private Collett
G/4765. Tragically Arthur John Collett
was killed while on active service on 18th August 1916 at the age
of 31, and his name appears on the Thievpal Memorial. His death was the first of two in the
family, his brother William’s death being reported back to their family just
three weeks later. |
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46P52 |
Beatrice Collett was born at Charlton-on-Otmoor in
1888, the youngest daughter of William Collett of Headington and his wife
Emma from Piddington, who was baptised at Charlton on 14th October
1888. Her birth was recorded at
Bicester (Ref. 3a 793) during the third quarter of that year. In 1891 Beatrice was two years old and was
living with her carpenter father and the rest of her family at Charlton. Beatrice was 12 years old in 1901 and was
still living with her family in Charlton-on-Otmoor. Ten years later, she was living and working
at St Aldates, within the City of Oxford, at the age of 23, when her place of
birth was confirmed at Charlton-on-Otmoor, and when she was a general
domestic servant at the home of Amos and Mary George. |
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46P54
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Albert Collett was born at Murcott in 1874 and his
birth was recorded at Bicester (Ref. 3a 634) during the third quarter of the
year. He was the eldest child of Lewis
Collett and Selina Harris. At the age
of six years, he was living with his family at South Street in Farthinghoe in
Northamptonshire. Apart from his
appearance with his family in the census of 1891, at Edgcote just to the
north of Banbury, when he was 16 and an agricultural labourer from Market
Street, no other record of Albert has so far been located. However, in 1911, an Albert Collett from
Oxford was 36 and a domestic groom, living at Woodford-cum-Membris in the
Daventry area of Northamptonshire, with his family. They were his wife Rachel Collett who was
32 and from Swerford, near Chipping Norton, Aubrey Charles Collett
(Ref. 46Q61a) who was four and born at Paulerspury in Northamptonshire, Muriel
Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 46Q61b) who was two and born at Towcester and Leah
May Collett (Ref. 46Q61c) who was under one year old and born at
Woodford. |
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46P55
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Edith Elizabeth Collett was born at Farthinghoe in 1876, her
birth recorded at Brackley (Ref. 3b 10) during the first three months of the
year. She was four years of age in
1881 when she was living at South Street in Farthinghoe with her family, and
as Edith E Collett she was 14 in 1891, when she and her family were living nearby
at Edgcote. Just after the turn of the
century unmarried Edith Elizabeth Collett from Farthinghoe was 24 and a
domestic housemaid at the home of the Shatton family in the village of Turweston,
which lies just north of Brackley on the county boundary between
Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. |
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46P56
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Lewis Spencer Collett was born at Farthinghoe in 1879 and
was just two years old in April 1881 when living at Farthinghoe with his
family. They later moved to Edgcote
when, in 1891, Lewis S Collett was 12 years of age. He followed in his father’s footsteps and
in 1901 was recorded as being a carter on a farm while still living with his
parents at Edgcote. The 1901 Census
confirmed he was 21 and that he had been born at Farthinghoe, but was listed
under the name of Spencer Collett on that occasion. After a further ten years, Spencer Collett
from Farthinghoe was a bachelor of 31, who was a labourer of a farm in Towcester,
when he was living with elderly couple Reuben and Ann Brice, Reuben being a
retired shoemaker. |
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Twelve
months later, the marriage of Lewis S Collett and Florence Hobbs was recorded
at Towcester register office (Ref. 3b 51) during the second quarter of
1912. Once they were married, the
couple settled in the Daventry area of Northamptonshire, where the births of
their six children were recorded. In
each case, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hobbs. The death of Lewis S Collett was recorded
at Northampton (Ref. 3b 621) during the fourth quarter of 1961, at the age of
82. |
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46Q62 |
Lewis Henry Collett |
Born in 1913
at Daventry |
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46Q63 |
George William Collett |
Born in 1915
at Daventry |
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46Q64 |
Marjorie Collett |
Born in 1918
at Daventry |
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46Q65 |
Arthur R Collett |
Born in 1921
at Daventry |
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46Q66 |
Derrick Peter Collett twin |
Born in 1923
at Daventry |
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46Q67 |
Spencer Collett twin |
Born in 1923
at Daventry |
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46P57
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Autine Collett was born at Farthinghoe in 1881 but
after the census which took place at the start of April that year. By the time of the next census in 1891, Austin
was nine years old and was living with his family at Edgcote near
Banbury. A further ten years, he was
still living in the family home at Edgcote where he was described as Antin
Collett from Farthinghoe who was 19 and working as a groom. |
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46P58
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Mary Kate Collett was born at Farthinghoe in 1885,
while her birth was recorded at Brackley (Ref. 3b 4) during the third quarter
of the year. As Mary K Collett, aged
six years, she was listed in the 1891 Census for Edgcote, to where her family
had moved after a short spell living in nearby Croughton. After a further ten years, she had
completed her schooling and had entered into domestic service, but was still
living in Edgcote, just a short distance from where her family was still
living. On the census day in 1901, she
was described as Kate Collett from Farthinghoe who was 15 years old and employed
as a domestic housemaid, one of nine servants at the home of Aubrey
Cartwright from London. During the
following decade Mary left Northamptonshire, when her work resulted in a move
south to Crowthorne in Berkshire.
According to the census return completed by her employers, sisters
Florence and Frances Blair from Lancashire, unmarried Mary Emily Kathleen
Collett from Farthinghoe was 27 in 1911, when she was the cook and one of
five servants looking after the elderly sisters. |
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46P59
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George H Collett was born at Croughton south-west of
Brackley in 1887 where he and his family only stayed for a short while. By 1891 the family had moved the eight
miles north to Edgcote where George was three years old. Ten years later he was still there when he
was 13 and had not yet started work.
Sometime early in the new century the family left Northamptonshire and
moved across the county boundary to live in Buckinghamshire. The census of 1911 recorded George Collett
as being 23 and still living with his family. |
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46P60
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Frances Eliza Collett was born at Edgcote in
Northamptonshire in 1890 and was under one year old by April 1891. It was as Fanny Collett that she was listed
with her parents at Edgcote in 1901 when she was 10 years old. However, it was as Francis Eliza Collett from
Edgcote, aged 20 years and a single lady, that she was living and working at
the Lillingstone Lovell, Buckinghamshire, home of George and Ellen Robinson,
where she was described as a general domestic servant. She eventually married Walter Beal at Great
Gaddesden in Hertfordshire on 16th June 1926, when Frances Eliza
Collett was 35 and the daughter of Lewis Collett, and Walter was 38 and the
son of Thomas Beal. Walter was born at
Buckingham in 1887 and died in 1968, his death recorded at the North Bucks
register office. |
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46P61
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Arthur Collett was born at Edgcote in 1892 and was
eight years old in the Edgcote census of 1901. By 1911 he was 18 and was living with his
family in Buckingham. |
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46P62
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William H Collett was born at Edgcote in 1895 and was
the youngest son of Lewis and Mary Collett.
In 1901 he was still living at Edgcote with his family and was five
years old. By 1911 he was 15 and was
living with his family who had moved to the Buckingham area. Around three years later, at the outbreak
of World War One, William enlisted with the 547th Agricultural
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During
the war he transferred to the 3rd Battalion Oxfordshire and
Buckinghamshire Light Infantry with whom he saw active service as Corporal
11239. Tragically it was as the
campaign was drawing to a close that William H Collett died on 28th
October 1918 at the age of 23. It
would appear that he was not married, since his next-of-kin were named as
Lewis and Selina Collett of Lillingstone Lovell in Buckinghamshire. His mother Mary had used her alternative
christian name of Selina since just before the turn of the century. The fact that he was buried at Lillingstone
Lovell very likely indicates that he died from injuries he sustained in action
and that it was in England that he passed away. |
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46P63
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Minnie Collett was born at Edgcote in 1898 and was
two years of age in the Edgcote census of 1901. By 1911 she was 12 and was living with her
family in Buckingham. |
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46P64
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William Collett was born at Horton-cum-Studley in
1888, his birth recorded at Headington (Ref. 3a 767) during the first three
months of that year, the only known child of William Collett of Murcott and
his second wife Charlotte Steggall from London. He was two years old in 1891 and was a
scholar aged 12 years in 1901 when, on each occasion, he was living with his
parents at Horton-cum-Studley. It was
during the first quarter of 1911, when William Collett married Annie
Elizabeth Buckle, the event recorded at Headington (Ref. 3a 1292). Annie’s birth was recorded at Headington
during the last three months of 1890, the daughter of William and Rasehan
Buckle. Shortly after their wedding
day, William Collett was 23 and a wheelwright, working with his father at the
family home in Horton in 1911. Living
there with him was his wife Elizabeth Collett, who was 20 years of age with
no stated occupation or job of work. On that census day, Elizabeth was already
expecting the birth of the couple’s first child, who was born within the next
six months. |
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Two
more children followed, both of born at Horton-cum-Studley during the war
years, with the birth of all three children recorded at Headington register
office, when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Buckle. The details of their eldest child can be
found later on in this file, while the birth of Annie E Collett, most likely
named Annie Elizabeth after her mother, was recorded at Headington (Ref. 3a
1951) during the last quarter of 1914.
The birth of her younger brother Alfred was recorded there (Ref. 3a
1775) during the last three months of 1916.
It may be that Alfred never married, and it was at Oxford register
office (Ref. 6b 1243) that his death was recorded during the first quarter of
1951, when he was 34. |
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William G Collett |
Born in 1911
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46Q69 |
Annie E Collett |
Born in 1914
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46Q70 |
Alfred S Collett |
Born in 1916
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46P65 |
Alfred Collett was born at
Murcott near the end of 1893, his parents Alfred Collett and Alice Amelia Veary
having been married earlier that same year, and recorded at Bicester during
the second quarter of 1893. His birth
was also recorded at Bicester register office (Ref. 3a 827) during the last
quarter of the year. Alfred was six
years of age in the Murcott census of 1901, when living there with his
parents and younger sister Kate (below), both of them having been born
at Murcott, together with half-brother Fred Veary, aged nine. While no record of Alfred Collett junior
has been located anywhere in the census of 1911, it was later that year when
the death of 17-year-old Alfred Collett was recorded at Bicester register
office (Ref. 3a 1088) during the last three months of 1911. |
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46P66
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Kate Elizabeth Collett was born at Murcott during the summer
of 1895, the daughter of Alfred Collett and Alice Amelia Veary, her birth
recorded at Bicester register office (Ref. 3a 871) in the third quarter of
the year. As simply Kate Collett, she was
five years old in the Murcott census of 1901, when living there with her
parents, her brother Alfred (above), and her older half-brother Fred
Veary, the child from her mother’s first marriage. After leaving school, Kate entered into
domestic service and had left home by the time of the next census in
1911. At that time in her life, Kate
Collett from Murcott was 15 years old and a servant living at the Cowley home
of elderly widow Elizabeth Hutchins, aged 70, and her unmarried daughter
Elizabeth Mary Hutchins, aged 38, both born in Oxford and both living on
private means. |
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46P67 |
Walter John Collett was born at Murcott in 1892, his birth recorded at
Bicester (Ref. 3a 858) during the third quarter of the year, the eldest of
the four children of Walter Collett and Ellen Busby. It was simply as John Collett that he was
eight years of age and 18 years old and a trunk maker in the Hendon census
returns in 1901 and 1911, when he was living there with his family. |
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46P68 |
Florence May Collett was born at Murcott in 1895, her birth recorded at
Bicester register office (Ref. 3a 881) during the second quarter of that
year. Not long after she was born, her
father’s work resulted in the family moving to Hendon in Middlesex where they
were living in 1901 and 1911, when Florence M Collett from Murcott was six
years old and Florrie Collett was 16 and working as a waitress. |
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46P69
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William Collett was born at Hendon in 1898, the son of
Walter Collett and Ellen Busby, whose birth was recorded at Hendon register
office (Ref. 3a 263) during the first quarter of that year. He was three years old and 13 years of age
when he was living with his family at Hendon in 1901 and 1911, and still
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46P70 |
Harry Collett
was the fourth and last child of Walter Collett and Ellen Busby. He was born at Hendon, where his birth was
recorded (Ref. 3a 276) during the fourth quarter of 1900. He was six months old in the Hendon census
of 1901 and was 10 years of age at school in 1911, when he and his family
were still residing in the Hendon area of north London. |
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46P71
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Lucy Ellen Collett was born at Elsfield in Oxfordshire in
1879. By 1881 her family had left
Oxfordshire and was living at Shootlands Farm in Wotton near Dorking where
her father Richard Collett was a farm bailiff. The census that year referred to Lucy as
Lucy Helen who was two. A few years
later the family moved again, that time to Ockley just south of Dorking where
they were living in 1891 and where Lucy E Collett was 11. During the next decade the family moved the
short distance to Capel in Surrey where in 1901, Lucy was 21 and was working
as a laundress. And it was at Capel
that Lucy was still living with her parents in April 1911. Lucy Ellen Collett, aged 31 was confirmed
as having been born at Elsfield near Oxford. |
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46P72
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Martha Alice C Collett was born at Ockley in Surrey in 1886
and was stilling living there with her family in 1891 aged four years. On that occasion she was listed as Martha A
B Collett whereas in subsequent census records the B was replaced by C. At the start of the next century the family
of four was living in the village of Capel, two miles to the east of Ockley. And, in the Capel census of 1901, Martha was
recorded as Martha A C Collett, aged 14, who was still attending school. Upon leaving school or sometime thereafter,
Martha returned to Oxfordshire, where in April 1911 she was living at
Charlton-on-Otmoor with her eighty years old grandmother Lucy Collett. She
was 24 years old and was listed as Martha Alice C Collett of Ockley in
Surrey. Also living at the same
address were two of Martha’s aunties, they being Esther Collett and Beatrice
M Collett. |
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Lucy Ruth Collett, who was known as Ruth, was born at
Boarstall during the first quarter of 1897.
She married Charles Edgington and they had a son Gerald. Lucy Ruth Edgington nee Collett died at
Abingdon-on-Thames around 1980. |
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Annie Elizabeth Collett was born at Boarstall during the
fourth quarter of 1899. She later
married Frederick Shirley by whom she had three children, Colin who died in
2004, Mary who died in 2005 and Margaret.
Annie Elizabeth Shirley nee Collett died at Witney in 1985 where she
was buried. |
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Mary Margaret Collett was born at Old Arngrove in Boarstall
between July and September in 1901.
She later married James Honour, the marriage producing two children
for the couple being Mary Ellen Honour and John Honour. See early references to connections between
the Collett and Honour families. Mary
Margaret honour nee Collett died at Bicester sometime after 1980. |
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46P78
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Hilda Maud Collett
was born at Boarstall
on 4th October 1902 at Old Arngrove in Boarstall. She later married Horace Busby at
Charlton-on-Otmoor on 25th November 1926. Horace was the son of James
Percival Jones and Helen Franklin, who were not married. After Albert Edward Busby married Helen
Franklin on 29th December 1903, Albert informally adopted Horace,
who was henceforth known as Horace Busby.
The marriage of Hilda Collett and Horace Busby
produced two children for the couple, they being Dorothy Maud Busby
born in 1927, and John Horace Busby born in 1934. |
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Horace
Busby died at Culworth on 2nd February 1977 and was buried there
six days later. His widow survived him
by nearly fourteen years when Hilda Maud Busby nee Collett died at Banbury on
8th December 1993 and was later buried with Horace at Culworth on
17th December. Culworth (in
Northamptonshire) lies close to the Edgcote Battle site mentioned earlier in
this family line. And it was the
aforementioned John Horace Busby’s son Stephen John Busby of Findhorn in
Scotland, who kindly provided the details of his family line which has made
it possible for this branch of the Collett family to be developed. |
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Lillian Edith Collett was born at Old Arngrove in Boarstall
on 19th November 1908. In
1937 she married Henry William Haynes at Charlton-on-Otmoor with whom she had
three children. Henry was the son of
William Haynes and Ann Franklin. Their
children were William Haynes who was born in 1938 at Redhouse Farm on
Panshill in Boarstall who later married Betty Shurrock in 1953, Angela
Haynes who was born in 1944, and Susan Haynes who was born in
1949. Lillian Edith Haynes nee Collett
died on 29th April 1995 and was buried at Charlton-on-Otmoor. |
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46P82
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William Collett was born at Clew Hill Farm in Arncott
in 1889 and was recorded as living there with his parents in the 1891 Census
aged just one year. Ten year later,
following the deaths of his sister Lillian (below) and his mother, the
family had moved to Boarstall where, at the age of 11, William was living
with his widowed father and younger brother Richard (below). However, while William’s two younger
brothers, Richard and Hubert (below), were both living and working
with their father at his farm in Brill in 1911, no such census record has so
far been found to locate the whereabouts of William Collett at that time in
his life. |
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46P83
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Lillian Esther Collett was born at Clew Hill Farm in Arncott
during the fourth quarter of 1891, the birth being registered at
Bicester. Sadly, she survived for less
than three years when she died at Boarstall in April 1894 where she was
buried aged two years. |
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46P84
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Richard J Collett was born in 1892 at Clew Hill Farm in
Arncott. Two years after he was born
his sister Lillian (above) died at Arncott and her death was followed
by Richard’s mother before the end of the century. Possibly as a result of those tragic events
the family left Arncott and moved to Boarstall. By March 1901 Richard was eight years old
and was living with his widowed father and older brother William (above)
at Boarstall. Around 1906 Richard’s
father was married for a second time and that may have coincided with a move
to the nearby village of Brill, where the family was living in 1911. The census that year confirmed that Richard
J Collett of Arncott was 17 and that he was living with his family at Panshill
Farm in Brill where he and his brother Hubert (below) were both
working on the farm with their father. |
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46P85
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Hubert Walter Collett was born at Clew Hill Farm in Arncott
during 1895 but tragically, it would appear, his mother died during the
ordeal of his birth. With two older
brothers to look after, baby Hubert was taken in by his father’s younger
unmarried sister Edith Bessie Collett who had him living with her up until
his father re-married in 1906. So,
within the census conducted in March 1901, six-year-old Hubert W Collett from
Clew Hill was a visitor at The Limes in Tetsworth, three miles south of
Thame, where his maiden aunt Edith was employed as the housekeeper by James
Griffin, a 76-year-old widower.
However, by the time of the next census in April 1911 Hubert was once
again living with his father and his step-mother, who had settled at
Brill. On that occasion Hubert W Collett
from Arncott was working on the family’s farm at Panshill, alongside his
father and his older brother Richard (above). Many years later Hubert Walter Collett, a
farmer, was named as one of the joint executors of the Will of his aunt Edith
Bessie Harding nee Collett (Ref. 46O41) who died in 1939. |
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46P87
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Murray James Collett was born at Murcott on 12th
December 1896 and was living at nearby Arncott with his parents at the time
of the 1901 Census. His birth was
registered at Bicester during the first three months of 1897, the first child
of James Bottrell Collett and his wife Ellen Martha Cox. Murray would have only been a few years old
when his family left Oxfordshire and moved to Warwickshire, since it was
within the Rugby area that they were living in April 1911. Murray James Collett of Murcott was 14 at
that time. It was twelve years later,
when the marriage of Murray James Collett and Kathleen Mary Coles was
recorded at Lutterworth (Ref. 7a 16) during the second quarter of 1923. The births of both of their known children
were recorded at Leicester, the first of them during the third quarter of
1928 (Ref. 7a 332), and the second also during the third quarter, but in 1934
(Ref. 7a 318). On each occasion, the
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Coles.
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At
some time later, Murray and Kathleen moved down to the West Country, and it
was at Launceston in Cornwall, that the death of Murray J Collett was
recorded (Ref. 7a 171) during the early months of 1970, when he was 73. Murray had already been a widower for three
years when he passed away, the death of Kathleen M Collett also recorded at
Launceston (Ref. 7a 64) during the first three months of 1967, when she was
70. |
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46Q71
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Geoffrey K
Collett |
Born in 1928
at Leicester |
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46Q72
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Pamela C
Collett |
Born in 1934
at Leicester |
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46P88
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Cyril |
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46Q73
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Joy M R Collett |
Born in 1928
at Rugby |
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46Q74
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Godfrey D C
Collett |
Born in 1932
at Daventry |
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46P89
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Rowland Thomas Collett was born at Willoughby in Warwickshire
during 1904, the third son James and Ellen Collett. By April 1911 Rowland Thomas Collett was
seven years old when he was living with his family in the village of
Willoughby. It was during the first
three months of 1930, when Rowland T Collett married Gladys Frost, the event
recorded at Daventry register office (Ref. 3b 143). Over the next ten years, Gladys presented
Rowland with two sons. Rowland Thomas
Collett lived a long life and died on 16th December 1998 aged 94. |
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46Q75
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Roy Allan
Collett |
Born in 1934
at Northampton |
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46Q76
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Brian Rowland Collett |
Born in 1941
at Brixworth |
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46P90
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Basil Dean Collett was born at Willoughby in 1906 and was
four years old at the time of the Willoughby census of 1911 when he was
recorded as Bazil Dean Collett from Willoughby. He was the youngest son of James and Ellen
Collett and his birth was recorded at the Rugby register office (Ref. 6d 626)
during the third quarter of 1906 under the name Basil Deane Collett. He was twenty-two when he married Olive M
Goode at Rugby, the event being recorded at the Rugby register office (Ref.
6d 1649) during the second quarter of 1929.
Olive Mary Goode was born in 1909 and was the daughter of Charles and
Judith Mary Goode and over the eight years following their marriage she
presented Basil with three children.
The only other known fact at this time, is that the death of Basil
Dean Collett was recorded at Warwick (Ref. 9c 1246) during the last quarter
of 1957 when he was 51. |
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46Q77
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Gordon Dean Collett |
Born in 1931
at Rugby |
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46Q78
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Eileen R
Collett |
Born in 1933
at Rugby |
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46Q79
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Alice M
Collett |
Born in 1937
at Rugby |
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46P91 |
Margery Lucy C Collett was born on 20th October 1914 and her birth
was recorded at Rugby register office (Ref. 6d 1505) during the final three
months of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Cox. She was the last child of James Bottrell
Collett and his wife Ellen Martha Cox.
Margery never married, and her death was recorded at Rugby (Ref. 7701
68d) during the summer of 1996 when she was nearly 82. |
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Winifred Eva Beatrice Collett was born in 1891 at Blackthorn, just
south-east of Bicester, where her birth was registered (Ref. 3a 834) during
the last three months of that year.
She was the eldest of the four children of Walter George Collett and
Ellen Parker. At the age of nine
years, Winifred Eva was living at Tiddington near Waterstock in Oxfordshire
with her recently widowed father and her three younger siblings. Looking after the four children was for
their father, while he was at work, was unmarried aunt Esther Collett, their
father’s younger sister. Her father
was re-married in 1904 and, by 1911, Winifred was working as an elementary
schoolteacher employed by the Oxford Education Committee. On that census day she was described using
her full name as being 19 years old, born at Blackthorn, and a boarder at the
Marston, North Oxford, home of elderly married couple John and Selina Honour. |
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Just
over five years later, the marriage of Winifred E B Collett and Henry J Broughton
was recorded at Thame register office (Ref. 3a 2109) during the last three
months of 1916. Winifred gave birth to
two children whose births were recorded at the Headington register office
when, on both occasions, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Collett. The first of them was Henry
Walter Broughton who was born on 25th June 1918, who died in
Oxford at the end of 1996. The birth
of their daughter Jean H Broughton was recorded during the third
quarter of 1923 (Ref. 3a 1796). |
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46P93 |
Walter Cecil F Collett was born at Blackthorn on 22nd February 1893,
the eldest son of Walter and Ellen Collett, his birth was curiously recorded
at Henley register office (Ref. 3a 819) during the second quarter of the
year. Two weeks before his seventh
birthday, his mother died giving birth to the fourth child in the
family. It was at Tiddington, near
Waterstock, that Walter C F Collett was eight years of age in the census of
1901. Three years after that census
day, his father was re-married and on the day of the next census in 1911, Cecil Collett aged 18 and
from Pyrton near Thame in Oxfordshire was a boarder at the Oxford Summerton
home of Richard Clinkard, a gardener and a florist, from where Cecil was
working as a grocer’s assistant. Also
a boarder at the same address was his younger brother Percy Collett. It is established that Walter Cecil F
Collett later married Edith Balchin in Sussex during the summer of 1927, the
event recorded at Petworth register office (Ref. 2b 857). |
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Once
they were married, the couple travelled north and settled in Buckinghamshire,
the births of their four children recorded at the Wycombe register office
and, in each case, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Balchin. Their youngest child was only fifteen years
old when Edith Collett nee Balchin passed away at Aylesbury (Ref. 6a 284)
during the fourth quarter of 1955, at the age of 59. Many years after being widowed, the death
of Walter Cecil F Collett was recorded at Buckinghamshire register office (Vol.
19 1450) during the 1979, at the age of 86. |
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46Q80
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John F
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Born in 1928
at Wycombe |
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46Q81
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Margaret M
Collett |
Born in 1931
at Wycombe |
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46Q82
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Peter M
Collett |
Born in 1936
at Wycombe |
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46Q83
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Roger J
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Born in 1940
at Wycombe |
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46P94
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Percival James Collett was born on 13th September 1894 at the village
of Southmoor, within the Berkshire parish of Kingston Bagpuize. He was another son of Walter George Collett
and Ellen Parker who died giving birth to his youngest sibling. His birth was recorded at the
Abingdon-on-Thames register office (Ref. 2c 280) during the last quarter of
1894. In 1901, when he was six years
old, he and his three siblings were recorded with their widowed father at
Tiddington, near Waterstock, when the housekeeper for the family was Esther
Collett, his father’s youngest sister. After a further three years, his father was
married for a second time, with only the youngest child of Walter George
Collett still living with him in 1911.
On the census day
that year, the three older siblings were living and working in the in Oxford,
to the north of the city centre. It
was at Summertown that Percy, together with his older brother Cecil, were
staying at the same boarding house, when Percy Collett from Kingston Bagpuize
was 16 and a domestic gardener.
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the time war in Europe had started, Percy would have been twenty years of
age, and ready to serve King and Country.
The information extracted from his completed military record in 1920,
confirmed that Percival James Collett had been a member of the 7th
Battalion of the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, service
number 13789. His place of birth was stated as being
Kingston Bagpuize, where he was born in 1894, and that his place of residence
in 1920 was Wheatley. |
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Twelve
years later, Percival
James Collett aged 37, a garage proprietor at Waterstock, and the son of farm
bailiff Walter George Collett, married Mabel Earl aged 36 and the daughter of
hotel proprietor Albert John Earl, on 9th January 1932 at the
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Mill Lane, Iffley, south Oxford. The witnesses were Hannah Earl and Walter
George Collett. Their marriage was
recorded at Headington register office (Ref. 3a 2087) during the first three
months of 1932. Mabel Earl was born in
Oxford, her birth also recorded at Headington early in 1896, the daughter of
Arthur John Earl of Oxford and his London born wife Hannah. After being married for just less than fifteen
years, the death of Percival J Collett was recorded at the Bicester Ploughley
register office (Ref. 6b 828) during the second quarter of 1947, when he was
52 years of age. His Will was proved at Oxford
on 28th August 1947, when the sole beneficiary was his widow,
Mabel Collett. The probate documents
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As far as can be determined, Percy
and Mabel never had any children.
However, for clarity sake, the child Angela R Collett, whose birth was
recorded at Ploughley register office (Ref. 6b 1348) during the second
quarter of 1952, when the mother’s maiden-name was recorded as Earl, was the
eldest child of Ronald E Collett (Ref. 38Q51) and his wife Maureen E Earl
whose earlier marriage was recorded at Oxford register office (Ref. 6b 1774)
during the last three months of 1948. |
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Interesting Footnote: Prior to the wedding of Percy and Mabel Earl,
the marriage of William Joseph Collett (Ref. 38Q25) and Elsie Earl was
also recorded at Headington register office in 1918, with a later marriage of
Ronald Eldred Collett (Ref. 38Q51) and Maureen E Earl also conducted
at St Mary the Virgin on Mill Lane in Iffley, Oxford in 1948. Which raises two questions. Were the Earl girls related, and were the
two branches of the Collett family known to each other, with two of them having
a connection with the same church. |
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46P95 |
William John Collett was born at Waterstock in 1901, the last of the four
children of Walter George Collett and his first wife Ellen Parker, who
tragically died during the birth. His
birth was recorded at Thame register office (Ref. a 935) during the first
quarter of that year. He was around
three months old, when William J Collett from Waterstock was living with his widowed
father at Tiddington village, adjacent to Waterstock. At the age of 10 years, schoolboy William
Collett of Waterstock was the only child still living with his father at
Waterstock, who had remarried when William was four years of age. Up to then, and following the premature
death of his mother, William and his older siblings had been cared for by
their aunt Esther Collett, their father’s slightly younger unmarried sister. |
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He
was 28 years old, when William J Collett married Margaret A Dennis during the
fourth quarter of 1929, the event recorded at Thame register office (Ref. 3a
2652). Maggie Alice Dennis was born at
Wheatley at the end of 1903, the daughter of farmer William Dennis and his
wife Ada of Wheatley Farm. Over the
next five years, Maggie presented William with two daughters. The birth of Ann Collett was recorded at
Headington register office (Ref. 3a 1850) during the second quarter of 1932,
while the birth of Wynn Collett was recorded at Ploughley register office
(Ref. 3a 1756) during the last three months of 1934. On both occasions, the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Dennis. |
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46Q84
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Ann Collett |
Born in 1932
at Headington |
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46Q85
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Wynn Collett |
Born in 1934
at Bicester |
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46P96
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Herbert Collett, who was known as Bert, was the son of
Herbert Spencer Collett of Fencott and his wife Mary from Fencott. It seems likely that Bert was born at
Murcott where his parents were residing in April 1911, perhaps indicating
that he was born later that same year.
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46P98
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Elsie Victoria Collett was born at Ludgershall, just before the end of March
1901, with her birth recorded at Aylesbury register office (Ref. 3a 843)
during the second quarter of 1901, the second of the three known children of
Herbert James Collett and Emma Kilby.
Elise was living with her farming family at Ludgershall in the census
of 1901 and was baptised there just over one year later, on 8th
April 1902. The only possible record
of her, in the census of 1911, was as granddaughter Eton Collett aged 10
years, when she was living with her widowed father Herbert Collett at the
Fencott home of his parents Thomas and Annie Collett. It would appear that Elsie never married,
with the death of Elsie Collett recorded at North Buckinghamshire register
office (Vol. 19 1323) just after the start of 1980. |
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46P101 |
Edith Margaret Collett was born at Piddington in 1895, with her birth recorded
at Bicester (Ref. 3a 869) during the second quarter of 1896, the eldest child
of Albert John Collett and Maud Agnes Cox who were married at Upton-on-Severn
in Worcestershire within the six months prior to her birth. In 1901, Edith M
Collett was five years old when she and her family had a farm at Tubney,
north of Abingdon-on-Thames. Not long
after that census day, the family travelled north to Shotteswell near Banbury,
where her father took over Edgehill Farm, and it was there that Edith
Margaret Collett from Piddington was 16, when she was described as a farmer’s
daughter working at home. |
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Cecil John Collett was born in 1898 at Piddington,
south-east of Bicester, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 3a 897) during the
second quarter of that year. He was
the second child of Albert and his first wife Maud Cox. By the time of the census in 1901 Cecil,
aged three years, was living with his family on their farm at Tubney. Cecil was around eight years old when his
mother died during childbirth, after which his father remarried. Her death may have also prompted the next
move for the family, since they were living at Shotteswell near Banbury in
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Cecil
was twice married, the first of them recorded at Woodstock (Ref. 3a 1593)
during the first three months of 1926, when he married (1) Josephine Edith
May Hedges. That marriage produced
four known children and, at the time of the birth of their first child at
Oddington, east of Woodstock and south of Bicester, where the birth of their
first child was recorded. It was there
also that the birth of the couple’s second child was recorded, with the third
child’s birth at Woodstock, by which time the family had taken on the family
farm at nearby Hampton Poyle. During
his life Cecil was a tennis umpire at Wimbledon and members of the family
often played tennis with the grandparents of Tim Henman. Around ten years after the end of the
Second World War Cecil was living in the Brighton area. That move very likely followed the sale of
the farm at Hampton Poyle which had been inherited by Cecil from his uncle
John Collett (Ref. 46O57), where previous generations of the family had
worked up until it was sold during the late 1940s. |
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Although only four
children are shown below, it is possible that there were others, including
Cyril, Thomas and Richard about whom nothing is known. The birth of William A Collett in 1927 and
Edith P Collett in 1928, took place at Henley and, in both cases, the
mother’s maiden-name was Hedges.
However, they both conflict with the Bicester birth records in 1928
and 1929 of Bernard and Barbara Collett (below). It was understood, within the family, that
the children of Cecil John Collett had a very tough up-bringing, which may
have caused problems for them in their later life. |
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New
information was received in early 2017 from Cecil’s granddaughter Frances,
the daughter of his second son Gerald, which revealed that Edith eventually divorced Cecil because of his
womanising, following which he was married for a second time. The marriage of divorced Cecil J
Collett and (2) Kathleen M Cave was recorded at
Oxford register office (Ref. 6b 1773) during the second quarter of 1953. By the time their daughter was born, three
years later, Cecil and Kathleen were residing in Brighton, with the birth of
Susan Collett recorded at Surrey twenty years after the birth of Cecil’s
previous child. |
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46Q86 |
Bernard John Collett |
Born in 1928
at Oddington |
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46Q87 |
Barbara J Collett |
Born in 1929
at Oddington |
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46Q88 |
Gerald Albert Collett |
Born in 1931
at Hampton Poyle |
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46Q89 |
Cecily M Collett |
Born in 1936
at Hampton Poyle |
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46Q90 |
Susan Collett |
Born in 1956
at Brighton |
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46P103 |
Winifred Maud Collett was born at Piddington in 1900, with her birth recorded
at Bicester (Ref. 3a 8970) during the second quarter of the year, another
child of Albert and Maud Collett.
Almost immediately after she was born, her farming family took up a
short-term lease on a farm in Tubney and after that, made a more permanent
move to Edgehill Farm in Shotteswell near Banbury. She entered boarding school in the Neithrop
district of Banbury before 1911, where she was described as Winifred M
Collett aged 10 years from Piddington in the census that year. |
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Sixteen
years later, the marriage of Winifred M Collett and Thomas A Hedges was
recorded at Woodstock register office (Ref. 3a 2692) during the second
quarter of 1927. The marriage produced
three children for Thomas and Winifred whose births were all recorded at
Woodstock. They were Jean E M
Hedges (Ref. 3a 1800 in Qtr 2 1928), Thomas J A Hedges (Ref. 3a
1928 in Qtr 2 1930), and Olive M Hedges (Ref. 3a 1939 in Qtr3
1931). In each case, the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Collett. |
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Another
Winifred M Collett (Ref 46P103a), whose birth was recorded at Thame
register office (Ref. 3a 1908) during the third quarter of 1921 (mother’s maiden-name
Read), married Thomas W Ward. Their
marriage was recorded at the Bicester Ploughley register office (Ref. 3a
4557) during the second quarter of 1942, following which they had three
daughters. All three birth were
recorded at Ploughley, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Collett. Thy were Janet M Ward
(Ref. 3a 2769 in Qtr1 1944), Margaret Ward (Ref. 6b 1555 in Qtr3 1947)
and Dorothy Ward (Ref. 6b 1314 in Qtr3 1950). |
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Percy Thomas Collett was born in Warwickshire at Edgehill
Farm in Shotteswell, to the north of Banbury, in 1902, with his birth
recorded at the Warwickshire register office in Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6c
747) during the second quarter of the year.
Percy was four years old when his mother died giving birth to his
younger sister Maud, following which his father later remarried. By April in 1911 Percy who was nine years
old, together with his sister Edith who was sixteen, and brother Cecil (above)
who was 13, had moved north with their father and stepmother and were living
in the village of Shotteswell, just north of Banbury. |
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As
a young man Percy emigrated to America where he was a minister who travelled
widely across the country preaching the word of God. It is established that he became a married
man, and that the marriage produced at least one child for the couple. Percy’s known daughter was the grandmother
of Erica Robinson of Orient in Ohio who kindly provided the above details on
his life in America. Prior to that contact
with Erica, it was believed within the Collett family in England that Percy
was someone who had a dubious international reputation, whatever that
meant. The only other known detail
regarding Percy Thomas Collett, is that he died at Palm Beach in Florida. |
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46P105 |
Maud Agnes Cox Collett was born at Edgehill Farm in Shotteswell in 1906, with
her birth recorded at Shipston-on-Stour register office (Ref. 6d 752) during
the first quarter of the year, the last child of Albert John Collett by his
first wife Maud Agnes Cox Collett, who died shortly after the birth. It is now established that Maud junior did
survive after the death of her mother and that by 1911 she was no longer
living with her father and his second wife, perhaps because he blamed Maud
for the death of her mother. On that
occasion, Maud A C Collett from Banbury was five years old and the niece of
Fredrick C Ryder from Bicester, who was 46 and a life insurance agent, and
his wife Elizabeth H Ryder from Horton-cum-Studley, who were living with
their family at Great Malvern in Worcestershire. |
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It
was much later in her life when Maud A C Collett married Edward G Standhaft
at Upton-on-Severn during the second quarter of 1943 (Ref. 6c 489). The couple’s only child was born during the
following year, when the birth of Edward C P Standhaft was recorded at
Upton-on-Severn register office (Ref. 6c 333) during the third quarter of
1944, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. |
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46P106
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Robert
John Collett was born at Shotteswell near Banbury on 3rd
October 1911 after his father Albert John Collett had married Mary Edith
Stanger, who was his second wife. In
1947 Robert married Margaret Cossar who was born at Oxford in 1927 and with
whom he had four children. Just prior
to the couple’s thirtieth wedding anniversary Margaret passed away in 1976 and
was followed five years later by Robert John Collett who died during 1981
aged 79. During his life Robert
followed in the family tradition and was a farmer, as were many generations
of his family before him, and in 1951 he was farming at Henfield in Sussex,
having previously farmed land at Hampton Poyle, that farm being sold in the
late 1940s to Bill Rogers whose family farmed there until 2009. |
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46Q91
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Aubrey
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Born in 1949 |
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46Q92
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Stephen
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Born in 1951 |
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46Q93
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Rachel Collett |
Born in 1954 |
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46Q94
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Sarah Collett |
Born in 1963 |
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46P114 |
James
Thomas Collett was born at Bicester in 1870, the eldest child of George
Thomas Collett and Fanny Stone. It was
also at Bicester where his birth was recorded (Ref. 3a 624) during the second
quarter of 1870. It was simply as
James Collett that he was recorded with his parents at Market End in Bicester
in 1871 when he was eight months old.
The family home at that time was two doors from the Rose & Crown
Inn. Ten years later the family dwelling
was described as being situated in Water Lane at Market End where James
Collett, aged 10 aged years, and it was there also that he was still living
with his parents in 1891. On that
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Midway
through the next decade James met and married Emily Smith who was born at
Worthing in Sussex. They were married
at Horsham in Sussex with the event recorded at Horsham register office (Ref.
2b 675) during the last three months of 1896.
The witnesses at the wedding on 3rd October were George
Frogley and Minnie Parker. Once
married the couple settled in Cirencester, where their two sons were born
during the next four years. |
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According
to the next census in March 1901 the completed family was still living in
Cirencester at 7 Queens Street, where James T Collett from Bicester was 30
and a shoeing smith, his wife Emily Collett from Worthing was 26, William G
Collett of Cirencester was three and James F Collett, also of Cirencester,
was one year old. Living with the
family on that occasion were the two youngest sisters of James, they being
Emily J Collett who was 26 and Julia S Collett who was 24, both of whom were
working as laundresses and both of whom had been born at Bicester. Lodging with the family as a boarder was
George Webb who was 23 and a boilermaker with the Great Western Railway. |
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During
the following months the family moved to Emily’s home county of Sussex and in
1902 the couple’s third and last child was born at Chichester, after which
the family eventually settled in Horsham.
By April 1911 the family of four was residing at 4 Victoria Street in
Horsham, Sussex, when James Thomas Collett, aged 40 and from Bicester, was a
blacksmith. His wife Emily was 35 and
their two sons were recorded as William George Collett who was 13 and James
Frank Collett who was 11 years old, both confirmed as being born in
Gloucestershire. However, the same
census return also stated that James and Emily had given birth to three
children, with only the two eldest sons surviving. The
registration of the birth of the couple’s eldest son William George Collett
took place at the Cirencester register office (Ref. 6a 348) during the first
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The
photograph above was taken during 1945 and shows James with his wife Emily
holding their first great grandchild Peter Gwyn Collett, the child of John
James Peter Collett. One year after
the photograph was taken James and Emily celebrated their fifth wedding
anniversary, the event reported in the local newspaper, as follows: “When Mr and Mrs James Collett, 5 Trafalgar
Road in Horsham celebrate their Gold Wedding on Thursday, over 20 members of
the family will be present. Mr
Collett, who was born at Bicester, Oxon, married Miss E Smith at Horsham
Parish Church on October 3rd 1896.
Immediately after the marriage they went to live in Cirencester, Glos,
returning to Horsham seven years later.
For several years Mr Collett was employed by Messrs H & E Lintott
Ltd, and in 1930 he became blacksmith at the West Sussex County Council depot
at Horsham. He was forced to give up
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There are two sons, Mr
William Collett, who is an engine drive with the Southern Railway, and Mr
Frank Collett, a service representative of Hoovers. They also have a grandson, an Old
Collyerian who, until last year, was in the R.A.F. who is now at Queen’s
College, Cambridge, and one great grandson who is 14 months old. Mr Collett had one brother living in
Horsham who died several years ago from wounds inflicted during the 1914-18
war. His widow will be present at the
Gold Wedding celebrations. Mr and Mrs
Collett, both came from families of 13 children, are 76 and 73 years
respectively”. |
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It
was nine years later that James Thomas Collett died at the age of 85 while he
was living at Chanctonbury near Pulborough in West Sussex, where his death
was recorded (Ref. 5h 484) during December 1955. |
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46Q95 |
William George Collett |
Born in 1898
at Cirencester |
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46Q96 |
James
Frank Collett |
Born in 1899
at Cirencester |
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46Q97 |
Arthur Thomas Collett |
Born in 1902
at Chichester |
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46P115 |
Lucy
Ellen Collett
was born at Bicester in 1871, the
eldest daughter of George and Fanny Collett, her birth recorded at Bicester
(Ref. 3a 630) during the last three months of that year. As Lucy Collett she was nine years old in
1881 and it was as Lucy E Collett aged 19 in 1891 that she was working as a
dressmaker, while living at Church Lane, Market End in Bicester with her
parents. It seems highly likely that
she later entered into domestic service and secured a position at the Oxford
home of solicitor Frederick P Morrell, a member of the wealthy Morrell
Brewery family of Oxford. From 1871 to
1901 the family employed around five or six servants, one of which in the
latter half of the 1890s may well have been Lucy Ellen Collett. It is therefore believed that, when Lucy
gave birth to a base-born son in 1898, the father was Philip Edward Morrell
who was born at Oxford in 1870. |
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When Lucy realised that she was
with-child, she returned home to Bicester, where her son was born and where
he was raised by her parents. Even
after she was married, her son continued to be looked after by his paternal
grandparents. It was over one year
after giving birth, when Lucy Ellen Collett married Henry Walduck of Bicester
in 1900, the marriage being recorded at Bicester register office (Ref. 3a
1047) during the first three months of the year. The two witnesses were John Bates and
Florence Ellen Kirby. Once again Lucy
was already with-child on the day they married, as the couple’s daughter and
first child was born at Bicester not long after. |
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At the time of the census in 1901
Lucy, her husband and Lucy’s two children were living with Lucy’s parents at
Church Lane, Market End in Bicester.
On that occasion Lucy was described as Ellen Walduck from Bicester who
was 28, her husband Henry Walduck was 33 and a carter on a farm, her son was
Herbert Collett who was two, and her daughter was Louisa Walduck who was one
year old. It was over three years later
that Louisa Emily Walduck died at Church Lane on 6th
November 1904 aged four years, and the daughter of Henry Walduck, a farm
labourer, who was present when she passes away, the cause of death being
cerebral effusion. Her death was
subsequently recorded at Bicester register office (Ref. 3a 576) during the
last three months of 1904. That same
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The census in 1911 recorded the family
still living at 2 Church Lane, the Market End home of Lucy’s parents George
and Fanny Collett. The family was
recorded as farm labourer Henry Walduck who was 42, his wife Lucy Ellen
Walduck who was 38, and their daughter Doris May Walduck who was six
and also born at Bicester. Also
residing with the two families was Lucy’s base-born son Herbert John Collett
of Bicester who was 11 and described as being part scholar and part page boy. |
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That same census return also stated
that Lucy and Henry had been married for eleven years and that Lucy had given
birth to four children, of which only two were still alive, which would
perhaps indicate that she gave birth to another Walduck child around
1903. The birth of Doris May Walduck
was recorded at Bicester register office (Ref. 3a 1077) during the first
three months of 1905 and she later married Ernest Turner at Bicester during
the summer of 1927. It was twenty-two
years later that the death of Lucy E Walduck, nee Collett, was recorded at
the Bicester Ploughley register office (Ref. 6b 897) in the last three months
of 1949 when she was 78. Eight years
prior to that, the death of Henry Walduck was also recorded at Ploughley
register office (Ref. 3a 2215) during the fourth quarter of 1941, at the age
of 74. |
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46Q98 |
Herbert
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Born in 1898 at Bicester |
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46P116 |
Emily Jane Collett was born at Bicester in 1874, where
her birth was recorded (Ref. 3a 675) during the first quarter of the year, a
daughter of George Collett and Fanny Stone.
It was at Water Lane in Bicester that she was seven years of age,
while ten years later, she had left school and was a general servant of 17
years living with her family at Church Lane in Bicester. |
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46P117 |
Julia Susan Collett was born at Bicester in 1877 the
third daughter of George and Fanny Collett.
She was four years old in 1881 when Julia and her family were living
at Water Lane in the Market End area of Bicester and was 14 in 1891 when the
family was recorded at Church Lane in Market End. By March 1901 she was one of two sisters
living at 7 Queens Street in Cirencester, the home of their married brother
James. At that time in her life Julia
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It
was at Cirencester that Julia Susan Collett married Arthur Edwin Spackman,
their wedding being recorded at Cirencester register office (Ref. 6a 655)
during the first three months of 1902.
The marriage produced two sons for Julia and Arthur, both of them born
at Cirencester before the family moved to Coventry. The Coventry census of 1911 confirmed the
family as Arthur Edwin Spackman, who was 32, Julia Spackman from Bicester who
was 33, William George Spackman who was seven and Henry John Spackman
who was six, Cirencester being confirmed as the birthplace of both sons. |
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Thomas
Collett was born at Bicester in 1879, the
youngest of the five children of George Collett and Fanny Stone, his birth
recorded at Bicester (Ref. 3a 724) during the last three months of the
year. He was one year old in 1881 when
he was living at Water Lane in Market End Bicester with his family, and he
was still living with his family in 1891 when he was 11. No record of him has been found anywhere in
Great Britain in 1901, when he would have been 21. It was seven years later, that the marriage
of Thomas Collett and Ada Glossop was recorded at Sheffield register office
(Ref. 9c 1057) during the second quarter of 1908. As far as can be determined, they had three
daughters, of which only two survived.
Prior to being married, Thomas Collett was serving with the King’s
Yorkshire Hussars, when he was based in Yorkshire. It is therefore possible that his absence
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It was at Dronfield, midway between
Sheffield and Chesterfield, that the family of four was residing on the day
of the census in 1911, their youngest daughter having just been born there,
where she was baptised four months later.
On that day, Chesterfield registration district of Derbyshire listed
the family as Thomas Collett from Bicester who was 31 and a railway drayman
employed by the Midlands Railway Company, his wife Ada Collett was also 31
but born in Sheffield, and their two daughters were Nellie Collett who was
two years of age and Ida Collett who was two months old. Both daughters were recorded has having
been born at Dronfield. Tragically,
two years later, the couple’s second daughter died, her death, like the
children’s birth, was recorded at Chesterfield, and four years later their
third child was born. |
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It is evident that Thomas served King
and Country during the Great War of 1914-18, during which he was severely
wounded and made bedbound for the rest of his life. It was for that reason that Thomas, Ada and
daughters Nellie ad Edith, moved south to Horsham in Sussex, where Thomas’
eldest brother James Thomas was already living, and where Thomas and his
family could be supported by his brother.
And it was at Horsham in 1933, at the time of his death, that the
local newspaper there reported that Thomas Collett had died as a result of
the injuries sustained during the First World War. |
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46Q99 |
Nellie
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Born in 1908 at Dronfield |
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Ida Collett |
Born in 1911 at Dronfield |
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46Q101 |
Edith Mary Collett |
Born in 1915 at Sheffield |
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46Q1
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William George Collett was born at Southgate in Edmonton in
1887, his birth recorded at Edmonton (Ref. 3a 374) during the third quarter
of the year. As simply William, he was
three years old in the census of 1891, the only child living with his parents
at Chase Road in Southgate. Ten years
later he was recorded in the 1901 Census for Southgate as being aged 14, by
which time the family was residing in Avenue Road. During the next decade he left the family
home in Southgate and by April 1911 he was living and working in the St
Marylebone area of London. It was at
the home of Thomas Fran cis, the Earl of Lichfield that William Collett was
employed as a groom at the age of 23. Also living at St Marylebone that day, was
Dorothy Collett who was also 23,
an unmarried fashion artist born at Brixton.
She was living with her mother Alice Rolandi, aged 45 and born at
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Seven
years later the marriage of William G Collett and Gwendolen L Burnage was
recorded at Edmonton register office (Ref. 3a 1358) during the last three
months of 1918. It would appear that
they had no issue, with the death of William G Collett recorded forty years
later at Barnett (Ref. 5a 599) during the second quarter of 1958 when he was
70 years old. |
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Percy William Collett was born at Southgate in 1891 but
after the 5th April that year.
He was still living at Southgate in 1901, at Avenue Road, when he was
referred to as Percy Collett aged nine years.
In the census of 1911, there was no Percy Collett of the right age who
was born at Southgate but, as his older brother William had left home by
then, it would appear that he was referred to as William Collett, aged 20 of
Southgate, who was a nursery gardener still living there with his family. Rather curiously, Percy is the only child
of William Collett and Louisa Gates for whom no record of the birth has been
found, nor is it known what happened to him after 1911. |
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Sidney Richard Collett was born at Southgate in 1893, another
son of William and Louisa Collett, whose birth was recorded at Edmonton (Ref.
3a 395) during the fourth quarter of the year. He was seven years of age in 1901 when he
and his family were living at Avenue Road in Southgate. At the age of 18 in 1911, Sidney was still
living at the family home in Southgate, from where he was working as domestic
gardener. Ten years after that day,
Sidney R Collett married Annie Holmes, the event recorded at Edmonton (Ref.
3a 1648) during the third quarter of 1921.
Just over a year after they were married, Annie gave birth to a
daughter, the birth of Pamela B Collett was recorded at Edmonton (Ref. 3a
713) during the last quarter of 1922, when the mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Holmes. His daughter was
nearly thirty years old, when the death of Sidney R Collett was recorded at
Barnett register office (Ref. 5a 479) during the third quarter of 1952, when
he was 58. |
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46Q4 |
Ena Winifred Collett was born at Southgate on 23rd
September 1895, her birth recorded at Edmonton (Ref. 3a 392) during the final
three months of the year. Ena Collett
was five in the census of 1901 when living at Avenue Road in Southgate and
was 17 years of age in 1911 when she was still living with her family, by
which time she was working as a domestic servant. Just over eleven years later, Ena W Collett
married Harold E Hibbett, their wedding day recorded at Edmonton (Ref. 3a
1069) during the last three months of 1922. Their daughter Dorothy E Hibbett was
born eighteen months after the couple’s special day, her birth recorded at
Edmonton (Ref. 3a 1041) during the second quarter of 1924. The child’s mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Collett. It was at
Enfield in 1973 that Ena Winifred Hibbett nee Collett passed away, her death
recorded there (Ref. 5b 594) during the early months of the year. |
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Horace Collett was born at Southgate in 1900, one of
the sons of William Collett and Louisa Gates, his birth recorded at Edmonton
register office (Ref. 3a 464) during the last three months of that year. Horace Collett and Mary Egan were married
during 1929, the event recorded at Edmonton (Ref. 3a 1330) in the last three
months of the year. As far as can be
determined, there were no children and, at some time in their life, the
couple resided at 35 Chimes Avenue in Southgate, while the death of Horace
Collett was recorded at Edmonton in London (Ref. 5e 235) during the third
quarter of 1959 when he was 59. Horace
actually died in The North Middlesex Hospital on 16th July 1959,
when his home address was 28 Sutherland Road in Edmonton. Administration of his personal effects,
valued at £653 15 Shillings and 5 Pence, was granted to his widow Mary
Collett on 4th September 1959. |
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46Q6
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Victor Collett was born on 9th September
1901 at Avenue Road in Southgate, his birth recorded at Edmonton (Ref. 3a
511) during the fourth quarter of the year.
He was eight years old in 1911 when living in Southgate with his
family. No record of him ever becoming
a married man has been discovered, while the death of Victor Collett, aged
86, was recorded at Enfield (Vol. 12 440) during the first months of 1987. |
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46Q7
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Ivy Gwendoline Collett was born on 5th April 1905
at Southgate, possibly at Avenue Road, with her birth recorded at Edmonton
(Ref. 3a 610) during the second quarter of the year. It seems highly likely, as the two youngest
children of William Collett and Louisa Gates, that Ivy and her brother Victor
(above), may have shared the same accommodation throughout their lives. This is purely an assumption based on the
fact that neither of them was married and that their deaths were recorded at
Enfield within a year of each other.
The death of Ivy Gwendoline Collett was from there (Vol. 12 508)
during the first months of 1988, her brother having passed away one year
earlier. |
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Edith Simpson Collett was very likely a honeymoon baby born
at Daventry in 1900 following the marriage of her parents Spencer Collett and
Isabella Kate Simpson at Daventry during the summer of 1899. Edith was six months old in the Daventry
census of 1901 when she and her parents were living at 76 Warwick Street,
where her parents lived for all of their married life. She was 10 years old in 1911 although it
was not until 1937 that she eventually became a married woman. Her marriage to Alfred John Paxman was
recorded at Daventry register office (Ref. 3b 181) during the second quarter
of 1937. Alfred was a surveyor and was
named as a joint executor of the Will of his mother-in-law who died in 1957,
and again in 1961 following the death of his father-in-law. |
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46Q11
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Marjorie Agnes Collett was born at Daventry in
Northamptonshire on 27th January 1908, the only child of Arthur
Albert George Collett and his wife Agnes Annie Smith. Although her birth was recorded at Daventry
(Ref. 3b 91) during the first quarter of 1908, it was at Wellingborough where
she was baptised on 8th March 1908, when her parents were confirmed
as Arthur and Agnes Collett. That move
to Wellingborough was short-lived because, by 1911, three-year-old Marjorie
Collett was again living in Daventry with her parents. It was twenty-six years later when Marjorie
married John Hubert Reynolds in Daventry on 14th August 1937, and
it was her daughter Janet Reynolds, later Janet Dennis of Swindon, who
kindly supplied the latest information about the family of her great
grandfather Albert Collett (Ref. 46O3) in 2011. |
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46Q14
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Ethel Collett was born at Southall in 1899, the
eldest of the three children of Sydney Slater Collett and Marion Jessie
Crosby. Her birth was recorded at
Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 44) during the second quarter of the year. In 1901 Ethel and her family were residing
at Holly Park Road in Hanwell, Middlesex, when she was two years of age. On that census day, her father was visiting
Ethel’s grandfather. Sometime within
the next two years the family moved to Hampshire where Ethel’s brother was
born. That was confirmed in the next
census of 1911, when the family was living at 88 Exeter Street in Salisbury,
when 12-year-old Ethel was attending school. |
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46Q15
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Olive May Collett was born at Southall in 1900, her
birth also recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 89) during the
fourth quarter of the year. She was
only a few months old on the day of the census in 1901 at Holly Park Road in
Hanwell and was 10 years of age in 1911, by which time the family was
recorded at 88 Exeter Street in Salisbury. |
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46Q16
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Edward Crosby Collett was born at Boscombe, near
Bournemouth, on 23rd March 1903, the son of Sydney and Marion
Collett, who also had his mother’s maiden-name as a second forename. His birth was recorded at Christchurch
register office (Ref. 2b 661) during the second quarter of 1903. As simply Edward Collett he was eight years
old in the Salisbury census of 1911, while it was twenty-two years later,
that the marriage of Edward C Collett and Ruth Bowyer was recorded at
Southampton (Ref. 2c 32) during the second quarter of 1933. Their marriage produced four children for
Edward and Ruth and, during the previous year, following the death of his
father in June 1932, Edward Crosby Collett was named as the administrator of
his father personal effects of £294.
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births of the first three children were all recorded at Southampton, after
which the couple’s fourth child birth was recorded at the New Forest register
office. In every case, the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Bowyer. Over thirty
years later, the death of Edward Crosby Collett was recorded at Southampton
register office (Vol. 20 1256) towards the end of 1975. |
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a Collett
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Born in 1935
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a Collett
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Born in 1936
at Southampton |
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a Collett son |
Born in 1938
at Southampton |
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a Collett son |
Born in 1942
at New Forest |
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46Q17
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Herbert Philip Collett was born at Belper in 1898, where his
birth was recorded (Ref. 7b 647) during the third quarter of that year. He was living with his parents Reginald
Philip Collett and Louisa Collett nee Harrison at the Belper farm of his
maternal Harrison grandparents in 1901, when he was referred to as Bertie
Collett aged two years. It was just
five months later when his father died at the age of twenty-four, leaving
Bertie and his mother still residing in Belper. A little while later there appears to have
been a problem with his health since, on the day of the next census in 1911,
a poorly Herbert Collett aged 12 years and from Belper in Derbyshire, was a
patient at Westminster Hospital. The
hospital was situated by the Broad Sanctuary and on the northern side of the nave
of Westminster Abbey within the St George area of London. On that same census day Bertie’s widowed
mother was still living on her parents’ farm in Belper. After treatment, he eventually returned to
Belper, where the death of Herbert P Collett was recorded (Ref. 7b 744)
during the final three months of 1919, when he was 21. |
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46Q19
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Winifred Alice C Collett
was very likely a honeymoon
baby, having been born at Southampton, either at the end of 1902 or early in
1903, with her birth recorded there (Ref. 2c 33) during the first three
months of 1903. She was the eldest of
the three children of Auten William Collett and Rose Eldridge, who was eight
years old in the Southampton Shirley census of 1911. It was also at Southampton register office
that the marriage of Winifred A C Collett and Henry Bartlett was recorded
(Ref. 2c 112) during the third quarter of 1924. No record of any children has been found,
with the death of Winifred A C Bartlett recorded at Southampton (Ref. 6b 688)
during the fourth quarter of 1966, when she was 63. |
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46Q20
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Donald Stewart Collett was born on the 17th June
1908 at Freemantle in Southampton, like his father and, also like his father,
his birth was recorded at South Stoneham register office (Ref. 2c 92) during
the third quarter of the year. He was
two years old in the Shirley census of 1911, when living there with his old
sibling (above) and his parents Auten and Rose Collett. Donald did not move far from where he was
born, with his death recorded at the Hampshire New Forest register office
(Ref. 6b 1255) in early 1974. |
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46Q21
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John Spencer Collett was born at Southampton on 29th
January 1913, his second forename taken from his paternal grandfather. When his birth was recorded at Southampton
register office Ref. 2c 123) during the first quarter of 1913, his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed at Eldridge. In 1939 he
was still living with his parents, while working as the chief clerk with an
insurance company. Upon the death of
his father in 1947, John was not mentioned in his father’s Will proved later
that same year in favour of his mother Rose and his older brother Donald
Stewart Collett (above).
However, he was still alive, because the death of John S Collett took
place on 22nd March 1983, when he was residing at Redhill, off
Winchester Road in the Bassett district of Southampton. His Will was later proved in London on 15th
June 1983. |
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46Q30
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George Henry Spencer
Collett was born at
Southampton on 21st April 1908, his birth recorded at South
Stoneham register office (Ref. 2c 97) during the second quarter of the
year. He was the only known child of
Arthur Sydney Gubbins Collett and Florence Mary Ransom, with whom he was
living in Southampton in 1911 at the age of two years. It was in 1933 that she married, the
wedding of George H S Collett and Elizabeth Wood recorded at Southampton
(Ref. 2c 76) during the second quarter of that year. At least one child followed and, in 1941,
both of his parents were killed in the German air-raids on Southampton, and
it was George who was named as the sole beneficiary under the terms of his
father’s Will passed through probate on 28th October 1941. |
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The
birth of their daughter Anne was recorded at Southampton (Ref. 2c 134) during
the first three months of 1936, while it was sixty-four years later that the
death of George H S Collett was recorded at the Hampshire New Forest register
office in early 2000 (Vol. 4941a), when he was 91 years old. |
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Born in 1936
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46Q31
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Pauline M Collett was born at Southampton in 1933, the
eldest of the two children of Reginald Frank Collett and Margery Judd, her
birth recorded there (Ref. 2c 125) during the first three months of the year. It was during the first three months of
1956, when the marriage of Pauline M Collett and John R Aslin was recorded at
Southampton register office (Ref. 6b 1409). |
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46Q32
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David Spencer Collett was born at Southampton on 25th
October 1935, the son of Reginald and Margery Collett, his birth recorded
there (Ref. 2c 112) during the last three months of that year. He was still residing in Hampshire, when
the death of David S Collett was recorded at Southampton (Vol. 5001 e68) during
the summer of 1996, when he was 61. |
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46Q36
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Maisie Collett was born in 1911, but after the census
day that year, the eldest child of William Thomas Collett and Amelia Louisa
Faulkner. She later married Horace
with whom she had a son Geoff. Upon
the death of her father, Maisie and her sister Mabel (below) inherited
the land at Hanworth that he had used as a market garden. Both Maisie and her sister had a house
built on the land where they were still living in 2011 when Maisie Collett
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Each
day Mabel popped across the back garden to check that her older sister Maisie
was alright. Sadly, on Monday 11th
July 2011, Mabel discovered Maisie lying on the floor, having had a
stroke. She called the emergency
services but, by the time the paramedics arrived, Maisie had suffered a
second stroke. She was subsequently
rushed to hospital where she died later that same day. |
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46Q37
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Bert Collett, whose date of birth is not known,
later married Ethel from the West Country.
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46Q38
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Mabel J Collett was born at Staines in 1926, her birth
recorded there (Ref. 3a 25) during the second quarter of that year, her
mother’s maiden-name being Joyes. She
later married Cyril M Freeman, the marriage recorded at the Middlesex South
register office (Ref. 5f 43) during the first three months of 1949. The married produced two children for the
couple, they being Marion Freeman whose birth was recorded at Middlesex (Ref.
5f 37) during the third quarter of 1951 and Stuart Freeman whose birth was
recorded at Middlesex (Ref. 5f 64) during the third quarter of 1954. Following the death of her father, the
market gardener William Thomas Collett, Mabel and her sister Maisie (above)
were bequeathed the land, upon which the two sisters built two separate
dwellings, in which they were still living in 2011. It was Mabel who alerted the emergency
services on 11th July 2011, when she found her sister Maisie on
the floor of her home, having suffered the effect of a stroke, from which she
died in hospital later that day. |
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46Q40
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Thomas Ralph Austin
Collett, who was
known as Tom, was born within the
borough of Camberwell, London on 16th March 1909, the eldest child
of Andrew Ralph Collett and his first wife Edith. In the East Dulwich census of 1911, he was
two years and was living there with his family, which also included his
stepsister Irene Edith Austin, his mother’s daughter from her first
marriage. Thomas married Amy Maud
Arthey, but sadly the marriage produced no children for Thomas and Amy. When that happened, the couple adopted a
daughter. Thomas Ralph Austin Collett,
whose forenames derived from his grandfather, his father, and his mother,
died on 13th January 1990. |
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Tom’s
wife Amy survived him by just over ten years, when she died in July
2000. The funeral for Tom took place
at Forest Hill Methodist Church 24th January 1990, following which
his ashes were placed in his father’s grave at Camberwell New Cemetery. Following the passing of his widow, when
her ashes were also placed there, a memorial stone was erected on the grave,
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My Dear Husband Thomas R A Collett (Tom) who died on 13th Jan 1990 Aged 80 |
Amy Maud Collett who died 30th July 2000 Aged 95 |
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46Q41
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Isabel Doris Collett was born at East Dulwich on 27th
August 1910 and was seven months old in early April 1911. She was the eldest daughter of Andrew and
Edith Collett. Her mother died in
1919, following which her father remarried.
Isabel attended St John's NP School in Northcross Road, and then won a
scholarship to James Allen's Girls' School.
It was while she was at St John’s School that she fell out with her
stepmother, which resulted in her going to live with her aunt Nell Pipe
(formerly Eleanor Mary Collett Ref. 46P35) and her husband, uncle Arthur Pipe. And it was with them that she lived through
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On
leaving school she worked for Unilever and was a teacher of evening classes
at the Comptometer School where she had previously completed her
education. From the late 1930s to the
start of the Second World War, Isabel was involved with the Red Cross,
eventually working the night-shift at Dulwich Hospital. During that same time in her life, she
joined the St John’s Ambulance Brigade as a first-aider at Unilever House and
became engaged to her future husband in November 1939. |
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It
was also around that time when Isabel was staying at the Farncombe Surrey
home of widow Elizabeth (Bess) Frances Colpus nee Collett, her father’s older
sister, which was where she was living immediately prior to her wedding day. That took place on 14th December
1940, under a special licence from the Army, when Isabel Doris Collett
married Richard Alfred Wood at Compton in Surrey, just two miles from
Farncombe. Because of the war, Richard
had to return to camp the day after they were married. He was later posted to Ripon in Yorkshire
as an RSME Instructor, causing Isabel to request a transfer to the Unilever
office in Leeds. |
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The
marriage produced two children for Isabel and Richard, the first being Edith
Janet Wood who was born in 1942, while the couple were living at Ripon,
and Nigel Richard Wood who was born in 1946, after the family had
returned to London at the end of the war.
Sadly, Nigel died from cancer on 23rd September 1991 while
he was living at Bath. In May 1947 the
family moved again, that time to ‘Failand’ at 5 Bray Road in Stoke d’Abernon
near Cobham in Surrey. |
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Isabel
Doris Wood nee Collett died at Markfield near Leicester on 24th
January 2000, following a nasty fall on the night of 15th December
1999, from which she never recovered.
Her husband Richard Alfred Wood survived her by nearly five years,
when he passed away on 20th November 2004. It was Isabel’s daughter Janet Wood of
Hinckley, who first made contact to extend this branch of the Collett family,
and it was also Janet who arranged for contact to be made with her Auntie
Edie, Edith Ballard nee Collett (below). |
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Olive May Collett was born at East Dulwich on 1st
January 1913. She later married a
widower by the name of Nip West, who was a farm labourer. The wedding of Olive M Collett and Hubert F
West was recorded at the Surrey South-Western register office (Ref. 2a 1525)
during the third quarter of 1941. The
couple lived at Horley in Surrey and had five children, three boys and two
girls. In each case, the mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. Olive
later became a matriarch with both grandchildren and great grandchildren and
it was on 2nd September 2004 that Olive May West nee Collett
passed away. Her eldest child, Geoffrey
A West, was born in 1943, his birth recorded at Horsham Sussex register
office (Ref. 2b 438) during the second quarter of that year. He died on Saturday 24th August
2013 aged 70, when the cause of death was lung cancer following a short
illness, while he was staying at a hospice, having lived most of his life in
the town of Horley in Surrey. |
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The
other four children of Olive May and Hubert F West were: Derek W West
whose birth was also recorded at Horsham register office (Ref. 2b 400) during
the third quarter of 1945; Kathleen P West whose birth was again
recorded at Horsham register office (Ref. 5h 652) during the last quarter of
1946; Peter B West whose birth was recorded at the Surrey
South-Eastern register office (Ref. 5g 961) during the fourth quarter of
1948; and Audrey M West whose birth was also recorded at Surrey
South-Eastern register office (Ref. 5g 872) during the third quarter of 1950. |
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Mabel Eileen Collett was born at East Dulwich in 1915 and
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Edith Collett was born at East Dulwich on 16th
December 1919, the youngest of the five children of Andrew and Edith
Collett. Tragically, her mother died
during the birth, so for almost two years Edith and her siblings were looked
after by their father and their grandmother, until he remarried in 1921. Edith married Ernest James Ballard on 29th
November 1947 and their marriage produced two children for Edith and
Ernest. Colette Frances Ballard
was born in 1952, and Howard Andrew Ballard was born in 1959. Colette married Ronald James Cook with whom
she had two children Heather Louise Cook who was born in September 1985 and
Douglas Edward Cook who was born in November 1988. |
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Howard
Andrew Ballard married and had three children, Miriam Ballard born in 1992,
Joshua Ballard born in 1995 and Benjamin Ballard who was born in 1998. Sadly, it was between the births of those
latter two grandchildren that Ernest James Ballard passed away on 6th
September 1996 at the age of 81. In
the autumn of 2010 Edith Ballard, who is Auntie Edie to the aforementioned
Janet Wood of Hinckley, was living in the Chingford area of Essex, and it is
thanks to her and Janet that the story of their family can be told. At the age of 97, Edith Ballard nee Collett
passed away on 7th September 2017, having spent much of the last
year of her life in and out of hospital.
Such was her frailty, that her last few months were spent in a nursing
home in Upminster, close to her daughter Colette. Her funeral service was conducted just a
month and two days later at the South Chingford Methodist Church. |
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Joan Kathleen Collett was the last child of Andrew Ralph
Collett and his second wife Mabel Farmer and was born on 14th
October 1926, her birth recorded at the London Camberwell register office
(Ref. 1d 1038). It was also at
Camberwell that her marriage to Cyril Stanley Carr was recorded (Ref. 5c 513)
during the third quarter of 1947. It
was during the following year that their only child was born, with the birth
of Alan M Carr recorded at Lambeth register office (Ref. 5c 2078)
during the second quarter of 1948, when the mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Collett. Cyril Stanley
Carr was born on 14th October 1923 his birth recorded in London at
St George Hanover Square (Ref. 1a 616) during the third quarter of that year,
when his mother’s maiden-name was said to be Luxton. Sometime after the birth of their son, the
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In
their later years, Cyril and Joan were residing in the county of
Leicestershire, when the death of Cyril Stanley Carr was recorded at
Leicester register office (Vol. 6001a a17d) during the summer of 2005. Joan continued to live in the county after
losing her husband and nearly fifteen years later, during the night of 15th/16th
May 2019, she passed away at the age of 92.
Sadly, she had been bed-ridden since Christmas 2018 with carers going
in double handed, four times a day.
There was a slight delay in arranging the funeral due to the coroner having
to be involved since the last GP visit was conducted by a registered nurse
practitioner and not an actual doctor.
As a result, her funeral at Loughborough Crematorium was delayed until
Wednesday 5th June. It was also at Loughborough, in Leicestershire,
that her son Alan was also living in 2019. |
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Albert Edward Collett was born at Glympton during 1899, the
second of the five children of Frederick William Clark Collett and his wife
Alice. He was one year old and 11
years of age in the Glympton census returns for 1901 and 1911. Nothing more about him or his life is known
at this time except that it seems highly likely that the death of a certain
Albert Edward Collett at Reading was a reference to this particular
gentleman. |
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Albert
Edward Collett was 61 years old when he died on 13th March 1961,
his death being recorded at Reading register office (Ref. 6a 202) that same
month. Although it was in the Royal
County of Berkshire that he died, it was at Oxford that his Will was proved
on 11th July 1961. During
the probate process it was confirmed that Albert Edward Collett had died when
he was a patient at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, while his home
address recorded as 13 Wakemans at Upper Basildon in Berkshire. It was also confirmed that he died on 13th
March 1961 and that administration of his personal effects, amounting to £647
9 Shillings, was Edith Collett widow. |
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Jack Collett was born at Charlton-on-Otmoor in
1901, most likely at the home of his Collett grandparents, his birth recorded
at Bicester register office (Ref. 3a 967) during the last quarter of that
year. He was the base-born son of
Ellen Rebecca Collett and was baptised at Charlton on 10th
November 1901, when the only parent named was his mother, Ellen Collett. It was eight months later that he was
received into the congregation of the parish church in Charlton on 20th
July 1902. He later married Freda
Charlotte Anne Honour, aged 24, a spinster of Fir Tree House in Murcott, the
daughter of Herbert Edwin Honour, a hay-dealer. The wedding ceremony took place in the
Charlton parish church on 14th July 1926, when Jack was recorded
as being a bachelor of 24, who was a Metropolitan Police Constable of 58
Sirday Road in Notting Dale, W11.
Interestingly, the section where it usually states ‘the groom was the
son of’, was left blank. Notting Dale
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marriage of Jack and Freda produced four children, the births of which were
all recorded at Kensington register office between 1928 and 1936, when the
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Honour. |
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Montague A H Collett |
Born in 1928
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Theodore William H Collett |
Born in 1930
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46R9 |
Murray Noel Collett |
Born in 1933
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Kathleen R Collett |
Born in 1936
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46Q56 |
Edwin Collett was born at Finchley in London, the
first of the five children of Edwin Charles Collett and Rose May Ransom. His birth was recorded at Barnet (Middlesex)
register office (Ref. 3a 431) during the third quarter of the 1906. It was also at Finchley that he was the only
child living with his parents in 1911, following the death of his baby sister
during the previous nine months. Many
years later, an Edwin Collett, who may have been this particular Edwin
Collett, died on 3rd September 1948 at 143 Oxford Road in the London
area of East 17. He was married to
Florence Hannah Collett who was the administrator for his personal effects of
£366 3 Shillings and 2 Pence, his Will being proved in London on 26th
October 1948. The earlier marriage of
Edwin Collett and Florence Hannah Gibbs was recorded at Wandsworth register
office (Ref. 1d 1644) during the third quarter of 1930. |
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46Q57 |
Rose May Collett was born at Finchley in 1908 and was
named after her mother Rose May Ransom, the wife of Edwin Collett, from
Fencott. Her birth was recorded at
Barnet register office (Ref. 3a 461) during the second quarter of the year,
where her death was recorded two years later (Ref. 3a 169) during the second
quarter of 1910. |
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46Q58 |
Mary C Collett was born at Finchley in 1911 and was
the third child of Edwin and Rose Collett, her birth recorded at Barnet
register office (Ref. 3a 865) during the third quarter of the year, when her
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Ransom.
Mary was twenty-six when she married William L Robinson, the event
recorded at Barnet register office (Ref. 3a 1507) during the second quarter
of 1937. |
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46Q59 |
William Collett was born at Finchley in 1913, his
birth recorded at Barnet register office (Ref. 3a 782) during the last quarter
of the year, his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Ransom. It is possible, although not proved, that
William Collett married Ivy P Ginn, the event recorded at Hendon register
office (Ref. 3a 1468) during the second quarter of 1941. |
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46R11 |
Ray William Collett |
Born in 1943
at Hendon |
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46Q60 |
Charles Collett was born at Finchley in 1915, his
birth recorded at Barnet register office (Ref. 3a 705) during the final three
months of that year. |
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46Q61 |
Henry Collett was born at Finchley in 1919, his
birth recorded at Barnet register office (Ref. 3a 666) during the third quarter
of the year. He was the last child of
Edwin Collett and Rose May Ransom. It
is possible, although not proved, that Henry Collett married Ada F Bryant,
the event recorded at Hendon register office (Ref. 3a 1538b) during the third
quarter of 1941. |
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46Q62 |
Lewis Henry Collett was born on 6th July 1913,
the eldest child of Lewis Spencer and Florence Hobbs, his birth recorded at
Daventry register office (Ref. 3b 168) during the third quarter of the
year. No record has been found to
suggest that he was ever married, and the death of Lewis Henry Collett was
recorded at Northampton during the summer of 1993, when he was around 80
years of age. |
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46Q63 |
George William Collett was born in 1915 and his birth, like
those of his siblings, was recorded at Daventry (Ref. 3b 164) during the
first three months of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
as Hobbs. He was twenty-five years old
when he married Gwendoline Ashby, the event recorded at Northampton register
office (Ref. 3a 140) during the third quarter of 1940. No record has been found to indicate they
had any children. |
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46Q64 |
Marjorie Collett was born in 1918, her birth recorded
during the first quarter of the year at Daventry register office (Ref. 3a
124), when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hobbs. Marjorie would have been around twenty-two years
old when her marriage to Sidney G Ward was recorded at All Saints Church in
Brixworth (Ref. 3b 369) during the first quarter of 1940. |
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46Q65 |
Arthur R Collett was born in 1921 and his birth was
also recorded at Daventry (Ref. 3b 164) during the last quarter of the year,
his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Hobbs. |
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46Q66 |
Derrick Peter Collett was the twin
brother of Spencer Collett (below), whose births were recorded at Daventry
register office (Ref. 3b 144) during the third quarter of 1923.
He was born on 6th July 1923 and, although no record of him
being married has been discovered, his death recorded at Northampton towards
the end of 1990, reversed his forenames.
So, it was as Peter Derrick Collett, aged 67, that his passing was
recorded there (Vol. 7 2793). |
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46Q67 |
Spencer Collett was the last child of Lewis Spencer
Collett and Florence Hobbs. As the
younger twin brother of Derrick Peter Collett (above) his birth was
recorded at Daventry register office (Ref. 3b 144), during the third quarter
of 1923, just after the entry for his twin brother, when their mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Hobbs. |
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46Q68 |
William G Collett was born at Horton-cum-Studley after
the census day in 1911 and was a honeymoon baby who birth was recorded at
Headington register office (Ref. 3a 2114) during the third quarter of the
year. He was the eldest of the three
children of William Collett, a wheelwright, and his wife Annie Elizabeth
Buckle. The marriage of William G
Collett and Lillian L King was recorded at Oxford register office (Ref. 3a
3496) during the last quarter of 1935, and produced three children. It was also at Oxford where the births of
the three children were recorded, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
as King. The first during the second
quarter of 1936 (Ref. 3a 2099), the second during the third quarter of 1937
(Ref. 3a 2194) and the last during the third quarter of 1944 (Ref. 3a 2677). |
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46R12 |
William J Collett |
Born in 1936
at Oxford |
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46R13 |
Susan A Collett |
Born in 1937
at Oxford |
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46R14 |
Hazel Collett |
Born in 1944
at Oxford |
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46Q75
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Roy Allan Collett was born in 1934, his birth recorded at Northampton
(Ref. 3b 88) during the last three months of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Frost. Roy was around
thirty-three-years of age when he married Evelyn P West, the event recorded
at Solihull register office (Ref. 9c 2985) during the third quarter of 1968. The births of their son and daughter were
both recorded at Solihull (Vol. 34 605) during Qtr 3 in 1982 and (Vol. 34
720) during Qtr 2 in 1983, then their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
West. |
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46R15 |
Peter John Collett |
Born in 1982
at Solihull |
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46R16 |
Jane Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1983
at Solihull |
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46Q76
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Brian Rowland Collett was born in Northamptonshire during
the first quarter of 1941, the younger of the two sons of Rowland Thomas
Collett and Gladys Frost. His birth,
as Brian R Collett, was recorded at Brixworth (Ref. 3b 300), when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Frost.
Brian later married Susan A Coles, the wedding recorded at Towcester
register office (Ref. 3b 1583) during the first months of 1973. Their two sons were born in the village of
Moreton Pinkney, with their births recorded at Northampton register office (Vol.
7 2516) in Qtr 3 1978 and (Vol. 7 3213) during Qtr 2 1980. In September 2015, Brian and his wife Sue, were
still living in Northamptonshire when their son Martin made contact and
offered to provide information currently missing for this particular
family. All that is known at the
moment is that Martin lives in Forest Hill in London, while his older brother
Gary lives in the Clerkenwell area of the city. |
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46R17 |
Gary John Collett |
Born in 1978 at
Moreton Pinkney |
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46R18 |
Martin Brian
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Born in 1980 at
Moreton Pinkney |
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46Q77
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Gordon Dean Collett was born in Warwickshire on 27th
August 1931 and his birth was recorded at the Rugby register office (Ref. 6d
1093) during the last three months of that year. He was the eldest of the three children of
Basil Dean Collett and Olive M Goode.
Gordon was married in 1953 to (1) Gladys M Goode from whom he was
later divorced, but with whom he had four children. It was during the fourth quarter of 1953
that the marriage was recorded at the Rugby register office (Ref. 9C 1531),
when it would appear that his wife was related to a member of Gordon’s
mother’s family. Much later in his
life he married (2) Patricia Bidwell, that wedding taking place during July
1993 and recorded at the Mid-Warwickshire register office (Vol. 31 688). The children from his first marriage are as
listed below. |
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Gordon
was a colourful and well-respected, high-powered figure within the local
politics of Warwickshire for a great many years. He was twice the Leader of Warwickshire
County Council, from 1978 to 1987 and again from 1989 to 1995, while holding
the office of Mayor of Rugby in the year 1977/78. During that year his name was included on a
brass plate to mark the opening of St Andrews Garden in Rugby to commemorate
the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. He was a
champion for climate change and, in the council chamber, he was known for his
quips, often referred to as Collettisms, such as ‘a pig with one ear can't
walk straight’. He farmed at
Malvern Hall Farm in Broadwell, Warwickshire, up until the time he moved into
the town of Dunchurch. Gordon Dean Collett died at Rugby on 4th
November 2012. |
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The
following day the article below was published in the Rugby Advertiser
newspaper. “Gordon Collett has
sadly died aged 81. The former Rugby
borough councillor died yesterday (Sunday) after battling with cancer. Rugby MP Mark Pawsey led the tribute to Mr
Collett saying ‘I was very sad to hear the news about Gordon. It came as a shock. I was very involved on a couple of local
political issues. We have a lot to be
grateful to Gordon for. It’s a great
sadness.’ Mr Collett from Dunchurch
served as a borough councillor for 34 years. |
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Gordon, who was also a
Warwickshire county councillor, is chiefly remembered as one of the
forerunners who fought off plans to build a huge airport on two Rugby
villages. When Mr Collett stepped down
from his borough councillor role in May 2007 he said ‘It has been an
extraordinary experience. I took on
the role of councillor in 1973 to help ensure that people living in rural
parishes get a fair crack of the whip, and I hope I have achieved that. I came into the council as an independent
but later became a Conservative councillor.
But I have never been one to agree to things just because it was a
Conservative idea. The two biggest
things I will take away with me is being a small cog in a big wheel which
help resist the development of Rugby Airport, and helping to keep Leamington
Hastings School open against all the odds.” |
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46R19
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Valerie A Collett |
Born in 1955
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46R20
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Philip Gordon Collett |
Born in 1956
at Warwick |
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46R21
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David E
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Born in 1958
at Warwick |
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46R22
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Angela
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Born in 1966
at Warwick |
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46Q78
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Eileen R Collett
was born in 1933, her birth recorded at Rugby (Ref. 6a 1123) during the third
quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Goode. |
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46Q79
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Alice M Collett
was born in 1937 and her birth, like those of her two older siblings, was
recorded at Rugby register office (Ref. 6d 1164) during the first three
months of the year, where her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Goode. She was the youngest child of
Basil Dean Collett and Olive M Goode and was around eighteen years of age when
her marriage to John D Goode (a relative of her mother?) was recorded at
Rugby (Ref. 9c 2615) during the first quarter of 1956. |
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46Q80
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John F Collett
was born in 1928, his birth recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a
1541) during the third quarter of the year.
He was the eldest of the four children of Walter Cecil F Collett and
Edith Balchin. The marriage of John F
Collett and Mabel J Forbes was also recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref.
6a 1261) during the first three months of 1956. The births of their two daughters were
likewise recorded at Wycombe, where their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
a Forbes. |
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Shirley J Collett |
Born in 1959
at Wycombe |
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Amanda J Collett |
Born in 1961
at Wycombe |
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46Q81
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Margaret M Collett was born in 1931, another daughter of Walter and Edith
Collett, whose birth was recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1592)
during the first quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Balchin. She was twenty
years of age when her marriage to Terence F Williams was recorded at Wycombe
register office (Ref. 6a 1394) during the third quarter of 1951. Their two children were born during the
next eight years, the births of both of then recorded at Wycombe register
office, where their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed at Collett. Janet M Williams was born in 1955
Qtr 3 (Ref. 6a 653) and David J Williams was born in 1959 Qtr 4 (Ref.
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46Q82
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Peter M Collett
was born in 1936 and was the third child of Walter and Edith Collett. His birth, like those of his siblings, was
recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1699) during the last three
months of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed ad
Balchin. Peter M Collett was 31 when
his marriage to Nita Fodden was recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 6a
1746) during the third quarter of 1968. |
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46Q83
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Roger J Collett
was born in 1940, the last of the four children of Walter Cecil F Collett and
Edith Balchin. His birth was also
recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 2859) during the third quarter
of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Balchin. |
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46Q86 |
Bernard John Collett was born at Oddington on 23rd
May 1928, the son of Cecil John Collett and Josephine Edith May Hedges. It was at the Bicester register office
(Ref. 3a 1746) that his birth was recorded a little while later during the
start of the third quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Hedges. He later married
Mavis Heritage at the end of the 1940s with whom he had eleven children, the
first of them born prior to their wedding day. The couple’s seventh child Nicholas Mark
Collett was born on 23rd June 1960 at Banbury and he confirmed
that his father came from a farming background at Hampton Poyle. Bernard John Collett died on 27th
March 1980 at Weedon Bec in Northamptonshire. |
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His
son Nicholas recalls that he and his family lived at Culworth in
Northamptonshire for a short period before moving to Preston Fields Farm,
between nearby Preston Capes and Charwelton.
In addition to this, when the family was living at Preston Capes it
was known that the inn at Moreton Pinkney was managed by Brian Collett who,
in 2013, was a member of the Parish Council in Moreton Pinkney. He is Brian Rowland Collett (Ref. 46Q64), a
distant cousin of Bernard John Collett. |
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46R25 |
Maureen Jane Collett |
Born in 1948
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46R26 |
Penelope Louise Collett |
Born in 1953
at Bromsgrove |
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46R27 |
Catherine Collett |
Born in 1954
at Guildford |
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46R28 |
Diana Lesley Collett |
Born in 1956
at Guildford |
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46R29 |
David John
Richard Collett |
Born on 21.09.1957
at Banbury |
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46R30 |
Sally Ann Collett |
Born in 1959
at Banbury |
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46R31 |
Nicholas Mark Collett |
Born in 1960
at Banbury |
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46R32 |
Isabel Bernice Collett |
Born in 1961
at Banbury |
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46R33 |
Sarah Rose Collett |
Born in 1963
at Banbury |
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46R34 |
Michele Caroline Collett |
Born in 1964
at Banbury |
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46R35 |
Suzanne Josephine Collett |
Born in 1966
at Banbury |
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46Q87 |
Barbara J Collett was born at Oddington in 1929, her
birth recorded at Bicester (Ref. 3a 1825) during the third quarter of 1929,
when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hedges. She was the eldest of the two daughters of
Cecil and Josephine Collett. It was
also at Oxford register office that the marriage of Barbara J Collett and
Clifford H Austin was recorded during the third quarter of 1950 (Ref. 6b
2294), following which Barbara presented Clifford with a son and a
daughter. Philip J Austin was
born in 1952 and Rosemary J Austin was born eighteen months after in
1953, when the children’s mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett |
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46Q88 |
Gerald Albert Collett
was born at Oddington on 11th January 1931, the third of the four
children of Cecil Collett and Josephine Edith May Hedges. His birth as Gerald A Collett was recorded
at Woodstock register office (Ref. 3a 1816) during the first three months of that
year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hedges. The marriage of Gerald A Collett and (1)
Lillian Joyce Lester was recorded at Ploughley (Bicester) register office
(Ref. 6b 2297) during the first quarter of 1951. Later that same year their daughter was
born in her grandmother's cottage at Hampton Poyle, just north of Kidlington
in Oxfordshire. Four years later the
family moved north to Chacombe, just over the county boundary into south
Northamptonshire. It was while they
were living at Grange Farm in Chacombe that the couple’s remaining three
children were born, the first two of them actually born in the Neithrop
Hospital at Banbury, while the last of them was born in the Radcliffe
Infirmary in Oxford. |
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A
few years after the birth of their fourth child, Gerald left the family home,
when he moved to Aylesbury with another woman, leaving Lillian to bring up
her fourth children alone. It was also
at Aylesbury register office (Ref. 19 0909) that the marriage of Gerald A
Collett and (2) Deanna J James was recorded during the spring of 1974,
presumably following his divorce from Lillian. Deanne was much younger that Gerald, her
birth having been recorded in Oxford (Ref. 3a 3255) during the first three
months of 1940. Sometime after they were married, the couple travelled south
to Sussex on the south coast, where Gerald’s father had been living since the
1950s. The death of Gerald Arthur
Collett was recorded at the Brighton register office (Vol. 4521a a53a) during
the summer of 1996, aged 65. Although
not proved, it seems that before the end of that same year, Deanna J Collett
married Stephen A Osborne, the event possibly recorded in Hampshire. |
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46R36 |
Frances A D Collett |
Born in 1951
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46R37 |
Andrew J G Collett |
Born in 1956
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46R38 |
Peter T Collett |
Born in 1958
at Banbury (Chacombe) |
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46R39 |
Michael James Collett |
Born in 1968
at Oxford (Chacombe) |
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46Q89 |
Cecily M Collett was born at Hampton Poyle in 1936, the
youngest of the four known children of Cecil and Josephine Collett, whose
birth was recorded at Ploughley (Bicester) register office (Ref. 3a 1825)
during the last quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Hedges. It was during the
second quarter of 1961, also at Ploughley register office (Ref. 6b 1877),
that the marriage of Cecily M Collett and Richard W Kimber was recorded. Following that event, the couple moved to
Henley, although no children have been credited to the couple. Cecily M Kimber was |
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46Q90 |
Susan Collett was born at Brighton in 1956, the
daughter of Cecil J Collett and his second wife Kathleen M Cave. Susan’s birth was recorded at the Surrey
South-Western register office (Ref. 5g 1107) during the second quarter of the
year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Cave. She later married
Paul E Alexander during the summer of 1977, the marriage recorded at Reading
& Wokingham register office (Vol. 19 0408). The marriage produced two sons for the
couple who were thought to be living in Oxford during 2013. Their births were recorded at the Reading
& Wokingham register office, where their mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Collett, the first of them being Matthew James Alexander
(Vol. 19 446) during the first quarter of 1983, the other Michael David
Alexander (Vol. 19 413) during the second quarter of 1985. |
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46Q92
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Stephen
Collett was born at Henfield in Sussex during 1951, the youngest
of the two sons of Robert John Collett and Margaret Cossar. He
later married Christine Cole at Olney in Buckinghamshire in 1980, Christine
having been born at Bedford in 1956. The
marriage produced two children for Stephen and Christine while they were
living at Filgrave near Newport Pagnell, and both children were born at the
Barrett Maternity Hospital in Northampton. Stephen
had been a farmer like his father before him, but had retired by 2009, when
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In
June 2011 Stephen was hoping to write a book about his experiences
surrounding his attempts to secure the release of his sister, Rachel (below),
and her husband Paul, from Somali pirates who had kidnapped them in October
2009. However, by 2015 and after
giving up on the book, Stephen had established a company investing in solar
power. He and Chris love to travel and
recently visited Cuba and Vietnam, while Stephen and his son Oliver spent two
weeks cycling in Japan in the early 2015. |
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46R40
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Leah Collett |
Born in 1981
at Northampton |
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46R41
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Oliver Collett |
Born in 1983
at Northampton |
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46Q93
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Rachel Collett was born at Henfield in 1954, the
eldest of the two daughters of Robert John Collett and Margaret Cossar. She later married Paul Chandler and upon
their retirement they embarked on a sailing trip around the world. However, during October 2009, the couple
and their yacht were taken by Somali pirates off the coast of the African
continent. For thirteen months they
were held captive, until their release in November 2010, thanks to the
tremendous efforts of Rachel’s brother Stephen (above). Due for release in September 2011 is
Rachel’s account of their ordeal, which is entitled ‘Hostage – A Year at
Gunpoint with Somali Gangsters’.
Rachel and Paul are still sailing in 2015, but now in the safer waters
of the Caribbean, after having sailed much of the east coast of South America
down to Argentina. |
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46Q95 |
William George Collett
was born at
Cirencester in 1898 where his birth was recorded (Ref. 6a 348) during the
first quarter of 1898. He was the
eldest of the two sons of James Thomas Collett from Bicester and Emily Smith
from Worthing and was three years old in March 1901 when he and his family
were living at 7 Queens Street in Cirencester. However, by the time of the next census in
1911 the family was living at 4 Victoria Street in Horsham where William
George Collett was 13. It was at Wood
Green in Haringey, London where on 21st December 1918, he married
Gwendoline Lily Burage the daughter of William Burage, a house decorator,
Gwendoline having been born on 18th March 1897. At that time in his life William was a
locomotive fireman living at 13 Station Road in Wood Green, and his father
was confirmed as James Thomas Collett, a blacksmith. There is a strong indication that the
marriage produced no children for the couple. |
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In
April 1940 William was employed by the London & Brighton South Coast
Railway Company at Horsham, and it was at a property by the name of
‘Highlands’ on Highland Avenue in Horsham that William George Collett, aged
53, died on 24th October 1951, the death being recorded at Horsham
(Ref. 5h 507). His Will was proved in
London on 29th December 1951 when his widow Gwendoline Lily
Collett was the sole executor of his personal effects which amounted to £648
3 Shillings and 8 Pence. It was many
years later, during the first three months of 1965, that Gwendoline remarried
to become Gwendoline Lily Smithers, which was how she was recorded at the
time of her death at Crawley in West Sussex during March 1977 when she was 80
years of age. |
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46Q96 |
James
Frank Collett was born at Cirencester on 22nd December 1899,
the second son of James and Emily Collett.
He was one year old in the Cirencester census of 1901 when he and his
family were living at 7 Queens Street in the town, although the family later
moved to Horsham in Sussex, where James Frank Collett was 11 years old in the
census of 1911. During the early
months of 1918 James joined the Royal Flying Corps, where he served as an air
mechanic, having been a motor mechanic prior to enlisting. He later married Isabel Mary Pelling at
Horsham during the third quarter of 1922, the wedding being recorded at the
Horsham register office (Ref. 2b 788).
Their marriage produced a son and at some time later in their life
together Frank and Belle, as they were known, took over the running the Fox
and Hounds at Small Dole in Sussex, where Frank was the publican for a number
of years. James Frank Collett died at
Horsham on 30th May 1975. |
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John
James Peter Collett |
Born in 1924
at Horsham |
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46Q97 |
Arthur Thomas Collett
was born at
Chichester during July 1902, just after his family had moved there from
Gloucestershire. Not long after he was
born the family went to live in Horsham, and it was there that Arthur Thomas
Collett died at the age of five years during 1907. |
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Herbert John Collett was born at Bicester in 1898, the
base-born son of Lucy Ellen Collett, his birth recorded at Bicester (Ref. 3a
871) during the last three months of that year. His mother married Henry Walduck of
Bicester during 1900 and it was as Herbert Collett aged two years that he was
living at the Church Lane home of his grandparents with his mother, his
stepfather and his half-sister, on the day of the census in 1901. It was the same situation ten years later
when grandson Herbert John Collett, aged 10 (sic), was still living at 2
Church Lane in Market End, Bicester with his grandparents. At that time in his life the census return
indicated he was still attending school, whilst holding a part-time job as
page boy. |
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All
that is currently known about Herbert J Collett after 1911, is that he was a
young recruit when he signed up for service in the First World War. At the age of
eighteen, Trooper Herbert Collett was mentioned in despatches, with the
following item printed in the local press under the headline “Tpr H Collett gains a distinction – from letters
which have lately been received from the Front, it appears that Tpr Herbert Collett, of 2 Church Lane in Bicester, has
distinguished himself. An NCO of his regiment,
the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars (on active service in France &
Belgium, later to be part of the Royal Artillery) has written home as
follows: I am pleased to tell you that
H Collett, the son of Mrs Collett, has been mentioned for good work done at
our last affair, and was publicly thanked by the Company Commander. He is only 18 years of age.” |
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Three
years after the war, Herbert John Collett married Lillian Mary Ayris at
Bicester (Ref. 3a 16) during the third quarter of 1921, with whom he had four
children. The birth of Lillian Mary
Ayris was recorded at Bicester register office (Ref. 3a 28) at the end of
190, the daughter of James and Margaret Ayris of Market End in Bicester. It is also established that at some time in
his life Herbert John Collett was a groundsman for Bicester Sports
Association's playing fields, off Oxford Road. At the end of 2018, Herbert’s
great-granddaughter Karen Musilova nee Simons, through his daughter Joyce,
provided a valuable insight into the adult life of Herbert John Collett. Firstly, he died during the summer of 1939,
with a second world war looming in Europe.
The death of Herbert J Collett was recorded at the Bicester Ploughley
register office (Ref. 3a 1547) during the third quarter of the year. |
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Herbert
had been acting rather oddly prior to his death, possibly because he had
already seen active service during the First World War when, as a teenager he
had seen the horrors of war and did not wish to have fight again. For his time in the Great War, he had been
awarded a medal for courage/bravery, although it is not known what he did to
be honoured in that way. It is now
understood that it was his fear of being called up again that caused him to
commit suicide, as confirmed by his death certificate. This stated that “Herbert
John Collett, aged 40 and a groundsman, died on 4th July 1939
after self-inflicted injuries to the neck with a scythe whilst his mind was
temporarily unbalanced, caused by worry over his work”. An inquest was held on the 5th
July and the death registered the following day. |
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Five
years after being widowed, the second marriage of Lillian Mary Collett and
Wilfred S Rees was recorded at the Bicester Ploughley register office (Ref.
3a 3) during the second quarter of 1944.
The tragic death of Herbert John Collett, together with his health
problems, also apparently affected his son John, who is known to have been a patient at the Littlemore Mental Health Hospital in
Oxford, receiving treatment over many years, while John’s own son Gilbert
Desmond also took his own life when he was also forty-one like his
grandfather. |
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In
addition to this, Herbert’s daughter Joyce, was convinced that her
grandfather, the unknown man who had an illicit relationship with her
unmarried grandmother Lucy Ellen Collett when she was 27, was solicitor
Philip Edward Morrell, two years before she married Henry Walduck. Philip was the son of Frederic Morrell, a
solicitor of Black Hall, Oxford, by his wife Harriette Anne Winter, daughter
of the President of St John's College,
Oxford
and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, the Reverend Philip Wynter. The Morrell family had made its
fortune as brewers of beer, and Philip Morrell's
grandfather was a trustee of the family brewery. Philip was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, who eventually became
Liberal Member of Parliament for Henley and later Burnley. He was a notorious womaniser and is known
to have fathered many children before and after he married society hostess
Lady Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck.
Following his extramarital affairs, his wife often cared for his
illegitimate children. |
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46R43 |
Joan Mary Collett |
Born
in 1922 at Bicester |
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46R44 |
George Herbert Collett |
Born
in 1927 at Bicester |
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46R45 |
John William Collett |
Born
in 1928 at Bicester |
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46R46 |
Joyce Margaret Collett |
Born
in 1932 at Bicester |
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46Q99 |
Nellie Collett
was born at Dronfield
in Derbyshire on 24th July 1908, her birth recorded at
Chesterfield register office (Ref. 7b 896) during the third quarter of that
year. She was two years old in the
Dronfield census of 1911, and was one of two surviving daughters of Thomas
Collett and Ada Glossop, her sister Ida (below) suffering an infant death in
1913. After her father sustained a
serious injury in the war, Nellie’s parents made the move south to Horsham in
Sussex, where Nellie Collett married Frederick Alexander Worrall during
1931. Their only known child, Josephine
Worrall, was born at Horsham during 1934 when the child’s mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Collett. Nellie lived
a long life and was residing in North Yorkshire during 1999, where the death
of Nellie Worrall nee Collett was recorded at the age of 91. |
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The
marriage of Nellie’s daughter was recorded at the Surrey South-Western
register office (Ref. 5g 2076) during the third quarter of 1958, when
Josephine Worrall married Michael J Chadwick.
In 2019 Jo and Mike were 84 years old, and Mike has a photograph of
Thomas Collett, his wife’s grandfather, who was a member of the Yorkshire
Hussars stationed at York in 1908. |
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46Q100 |
Ida Collett
was born at Dronfield in January or February 1911 and was two months old in
the Dronfield census of 1911. She was
the second daughter of Thomas Collett from Bicester and Ada Glossop from
Sheffield and was baptised at Dronfield on 7th August 1911. Sadly, Ida Collett was only two years of
age when her death was recorded at Chesterfield register office (Ref. 7b 827)
during the second quarter of 1913. |
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46Q101 |
Ethel Mary Collett, who was known as Mary, was born at Sheffield on 16th
March 1915, the third child of Thomas Collett and Ada Glossop. The birth of Ethel M Collett was recorded
at Sheffield register office (Ref. 9c 1423) during the first three months of
the year, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Glossop. When she was still very young, Mary’s
family journeyed south to Horsham where her invalid father, injured during
the war, could be supported by her father’s older brother. It was also at Horsham that the marriage of
Ethel M Collett and Joseph Sutton was recorded during the second quarter of
1937 (Ref. 2b 721). Three years later
their son Thomas Sutton was born, his birth recorded at Horsham
register office (Ref. 2b 816) during the first quarter of 1940, when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. |
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46R7 |
Montague A H Collett was born at Kensington in 1928, his
birth recorded there (Ref. 1a 133) during the first quarter of the year, when
his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Honour. It was during the second quarter of 1950
that the marriage of Montague A H Collett and Myrtle W Adgie was recorded at
Kensington register office (Ref. 5c 2126).
Myrtle was born in the Chelsea area of London in 1927, and it seems
strange that the only child of the marriage was born after the couple had been
married for fifteen years. The birth of
Sarah J Collett was recorded at Hatfield (Ref. 4b 142) in Hertfordshire
during the last three months of 1965, when her mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Adgie. |
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46S1 |
Sarah J
Collett |
Born in 1965
at Hatfield |
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46R8 |
Theodore W H Collett was born at Kensington in 1930, his
birth recorded there (Ref. 1a 175) during the first quarter of the year, when
his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Honour. The marriage of Theodore W H Collett and
Elizabeth T Hopkinson took place at Hemel Hempstead in early 1958, the event
recorded there (Ref. 4b 196) during the first quarter of that year. As Bessie T Hopkinson her birth was
recorded at Hemel Hempstead (Ref. 3a 1423) during the second quarter of
1928. Six years prior to her marriage
to Theodore, it seems that Elizabeth had already marriage Colston G Luxton t
Hemel Hempstead in 1952 (Ref. 4b 128).
That arrangement did not last very long and, in early 1957, Colston G
Luxton married Doreen Benns at Watford in 1957, one year before Elizabeth
married Theodore. |
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Thanks
to Dave Considine we now know a little more about Theodore, who was known as
Ted by his colleagues in the government department of Customs & Excise,
where he held the position of OXC (Officer of Customs & Excise), a rank
used prior to a reorganisation in 1972.
He was appointed OCX in 1951 and served at Heathrow Airport in the
cargo clearance area (as opposed to the 'preventive' uniformed officers who
manned the terminals and dealt with passengers). Talk amongst his colleagues suggests that
Ted was ‘somewhat an eccentric boss’. Dave also confirmed that he had first
married Elizabeth T Hopkinson but that later on he married (2) Edith (Liz) M
T Phipps, nee Osborne, in 1981. They
were only married for nine years when Ted passed away in 1990 at Banbury in
Oxfordshire. It is also known that
Theodore’s nephew Ian Collett also worked for the same government department,
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46R9 |
Murray Noel Collett was born at Kensington in 1933, his
birth recorded there (Ref. 1a 164) during the first quarter of the year, when
his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Honour. Murray married Moya J Nimmo during the
second quarter of 1957, the event recorded at Kensington (Ref. 5c 1834). Within the next twelve months Moya
presented Murray with a son, the only child found with a mother whose surname
was Nimmo, this despite the suggestion that Murray and Moya had three
children. |
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46S2 |
Ian K Collett |
Born in 1958
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46R10 |
Kathleen R Collett was born at Kensington in 1936 and her
birth was recorded there (Ref. 1a 189) during the fourth quarter of that
year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Honour. She was still residing in the Kensington
area of London when she married William J H Davies, their wedding recorded
there (Ref. 5c 2583) during the first three months of 1959. |
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46R11 |
Ray William Collett was born at Hendon in 1943, where his
birth was recorded (Ref. 3a 1133) during the second quarter of the year, when
his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Ginn, his father being William
Collett. It was during the third
quarter of 1967, when the marriage of Ray W Collett and Janet K Short was
recorded at Hasting register office in Sussex (Ref. 5h 128). Janet was well into the pregnancy for their
only known child, whose birth was also recorded at Hasting (Ref. 5h 365)
during the last three months of 1967. |
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46S3 |
Andrew William Collett |
Born in 1967
at Hastings |
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46R19
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Valerie A Collett was born in 1955, the eldest of the
four children of Gordon Dean Collett and his first wife Gladys M Goode. Her
birth was recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 9c 1624) during the first
three months of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Goode. Valerie was around twenty-two
years of age when she married Thomas H Bostock, the event recorded at Rugby
register office (Vol. 31 0212) during the early months of 1977. |
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46R20
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Philip Gordon Collett was born in Warwickshire during 1956,
the eldest son of Gordon and Gladys Collett, his birth recorded at the
Warwick register office (Ref. 9c 1701) during the third quarter of that
year. Philip later married Wendy P
Hall during the third quarter of 1978 at Market Harborough (Vol. 6
2734). The marriage produced twin sons
for Philip and Wendy and their births were recorded at the Rugby register
office (Vols. 31 0390 and 31 0391) during the first three months of
1983. Following the death of his
father in November 2012, Philip drove his thirty-five-year-old classic Ford
4600 Tractor from John O’Groats to Lands’ End, during seven days in April
2013, to raise money for MacMillan Cancer Support which had cared for his
father during the last few weeks of his life.
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Collett twin |
Born in 1983
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Collett twin |
Born in 1983
at Rugby |
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46R21
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David E Collett
was born in 1958, his birth recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 9c
1737) during the third quarter of the year, where his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Goode. The marriage
of David E Collett and Jane C Phipps was recorded at Southam register office
(Ref. 31 0313) towards the end of 1981.
The birth of their son was recorded at the Warwick & Leamington
register office (Vol. 31 554) near the end of 1984, while the birth of
daughter Lydia was recorded at Rugby register office (Vol. 31 450) during the
early weeks of 1988. The mother’s maiden-name
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Daniel David
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Born in 1984
at Warwick |
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Lydia Jane
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Born in 1988
at Rugby |
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Angela Muriel Collett was born in 1966 and her birth was also recorded at
Warwick register office (Ref. 9c 2120) during the second quarter of that
year. She was the fourth and last
child of Gordon Dean Collett and Gladys M Goode, who were later divorced. |
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Shirley J Collett was born in 1959, her birth recorded
at Wycombe register office (Ref. 6a 865) during the second quarter of that
year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Forbes. She was the eldest of the two daughter of
John F Collett and Mabel J Forbes. Her
marriage to Brian Ricketts was recorded at the Chiltern and Beaconsfield
register office (Vol. 19 0684) during the early months of 1983. |
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Amanda J Collett was born in 1961, the youngest
daughter of John F Collett and Mabel J Forbes, her birth also recorded at
Wycombe register office (Ref. 6a 928) during the third quarter of 1961. The marriage of Amanda J Collett and Richard
D Lloyd was recorded at the Chiltern and South Bucks register office (Vol. 19
1539) during the summer of 1991. |
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46R25 |
Maureen Jane Collett was born at Brighton on 15th
November 1948, the first child of Bernard John Collett and Mavis Heritage who
were not married at the time of her birth.
The marriage of Maureen J Collett, aged 19, and Brian W Keeves was
recorded at Daventry (Ref. 3b 1555) during the first quarter of 1968. It was also during that same quarter of
1968 that Maureen gave birth to the couple’s first child, Susannah Jane
Keeves, whose birth was recorded at Northampton (Ref. 3b 959). Two more children were added to the family
at Northampton, and they were Michael James Keeves (Ref. 3b 2315) in
the spring of 1971 and Samantha Louise Keeves (Vol. 7 2860) in the
summer of 1977. The mother’s maiden-name
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46R26 |
Penelope Louise Collett was born at Bromsgrove in
Worcestershire on 18th February 1953, the daughter of Bernard and
Mavis Collett, whose birth as Penelope L Collett was recorded at Bromsgrove
register office (Ref. 9d 26), her mother’s maiden-name being Heritage. She was twenty-one when the marriage of
Penelope L Collett and Douglas J Woolliscroft was recorded at Daventry (Vol.
7 2694) during the summer of 1974. The
birth of their first child, Louise Mary Woolliscroft, was recorded at
Corby in Northamptonshire (Vol. 7 2115) during the first months of 1977,
while it was in Kettering that the birth of Victoria Jane Woolliscroft
was recorded during the spring of the following year (Vol. 7 2370). In both cases, the mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Collett. |
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46R27 |
Catherine Mary Collett was born at Guildford on 7th
December 1954, another daughter of Bernard and Mavis Collett. She later Michael J Belcher at Daventry (Vol.
7 2694) during the summer of 1974.
Fifteen year later their only known child, John Bernard Belcher,
was born at Banbury in early 1989, when his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Collett. |
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46R28 |
Diana Lesley Collett was born at Guildford on 25th
July 1956, the fourth child of Bernard and Mavis Collett. It was at Daventry where the marriage of
Diana L Collett and Robin Lewis was recorded (Vol. 7 2793) during the summer
of 1975. |
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46R29 |
David John Richard Collett was born on 21st September
1957, his birth recorded at Banbury register office (Ref. 6b 1238) during the
first three months of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
as Heritage. He was twenty-one years
old when the marriage of David J R Collett and Carol A Brown was recorded at
Daventry register office (Vol. 7 1725) towards the end of 1978. |
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46R30 |
Sally Ann Collett was born at Banbury on 11th
January 1959, the daughter of Bernard John Collett and his wife Mavis
Heritage. It was under her married
name of Sally Harris that she and her brother Nicholas Mark Collett kindly
provided details of her family during the summer of 2013. Sally has six children, including a set of
twins. The first of them was Daniel
James Collett who was born at Banbury on 7th May 1975, who sadly
died there just five days later on 12th May 1975. Sally’s second child was born at the
Barratt Maternity Hospital in Northampton, and that was Claire Louise Collett
who was born on 26th June 1976.
Her next child was Joanne Marie Lee who was born on 17th
February 1982, the father being Christopher John Lee. Just over two years later Sally Ann Collett
married Steven Michael Lister Scott on 8th September 1984, with
whom she had three more children. The
first of them was Isobel Ann Bernadette Scott who was born on 20th
December 1984, who tragically suffered a premature death when she died on 16th
October 2017. Sally’s last two
children were twins Stephanie Jayne Scott and Dianne Kayleigh Scott
who were born on 28th March 1986.
Sally and Steven were divorced in 2008, after which Sally Ann married
David William Harris in 2010. |
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Three
years later, by 2013, Sally had seven grandchildren who, with one exception,
were all born at the Barratt Maternity Hospital through four of her five
daughters: (a) Claire married Antony Bazeley and has three children, Owen
Nathan Bazeley (born 07.05.2000), Megan Joyce Bazeley (born 09.08.2001), Luke
Antony Bazeley (born 27.11.2003); (b) Joanne married Adam Clifford and has
one child, Grace Alice Persephone Clifford (born 10.10.2002); (c) Stephanie
married Daniel French and has one child, Jackson Raymond French (born at
Kettering on 07.09.2013); and (d) Dianne married Elliott Badger they have two
children, Willow Danielle Badger (born 25.0.2011) and Darcie Jayne Badger
(born 24.06.2013). |
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Daniel James
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Born in 1975
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Claire Louise
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Born on 26.06.1976
at Northampton |
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46R31 |
Nicholas Mark Collett was born at Banbury on 23rd
June 1960, the son of Bernard and Mavis Collett. One week short of his twenty-fourth
birthday he married Helen Zambo on 16th June 1984, following which
the couple settled in the Duston area of Northampton. Over the subsequent years Helen presented
Nicholas with three children, all of whom were born at the Barratt Maternity
Hospital in Northampton. It is thanks
to Nicholas that he and his family and his siblings have been added to this
family line. |
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Andrew Mark
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Born on 29.07.1986
at Northampton |
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Zoe Margaret
Rose Collett |
Born on
23.10.1988 at Northampton |
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Thomas
Nicholas Collett |
Born on
16.10.1998 at Northampton |
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Isabel Bernice Collett was born at Banbury on 5th
November 1961 and was the daughter of Bernard and Mavis Collett, and she
married James A W Wright at Daventry (Vol. 7 2821) during the summer of 1990. |
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46R33 |
Sarah Rose Collett was born at Banbury on 12th
July 1963, the daughter of Bernard and Mavis Collett, and she married Stanley
Yarlett at Northampton (Vol. 7 2506) in the spring of 1980. |
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46R34 |
Michele Caroline Collett
was born at Banbury
on 10th December 1964, another daughter of Bernard and Mavis
Collett. It is possible that she was
twice married, the first time to Mark T Stanyon, when the event was recorded
at Daventry (Vol. 7 2947) during the summer of 1987, and later, when she
became Michele Chapman. |
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46R35 |
Suzanne Josephine
Collett was born at
Banbury on 23rd September 1966, the youngest of the eleven
children of Bernard John Collett and his wife Mavis Heritage. She was twenty-two when the marriage of Suzanne
J Collett and Philip J Dunn was recorded at Daventry register office (Vol. 7
2391) during the spring of 1989. |
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46R36 |
Frances A D Collett was born at Hampton Poyle near
Kidlington in 1951, the first of the four children of Gerald Albert Collett
and Lillian Joyce Lester. Her birth
was recorded at Ploughley (Bicester) during the last three months of 1951
(Ref. 6b 1209) when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Lester. It was in 1970 when she married John Gilman, with whom she has four
children. They are: Michelle Gilman
who was born in 1971; Ann-Marie Gilman who was born 1972; Philip
Gilman who was born in 1981; and Clare Gilman born in 1984. From their four children, Frances and John
now have five grandchildren - two granddaughters and two grandsons. And it was Frances who made contact in early
2017, when she kindly supplied new details relating to her immediate Collett
family. The latest grandchild is Rose,
who was born on 11th August 2018, the daughter of Frances’
youngest child Clare. |
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46R37 |
Andrew J G Collett was born at
Neithrop Hospital in Banbury in 1956, when the family home was Grange
Farm in Chacombe, to the north-east of Banbury. It was also at Banbury that his birth was
recorded (Ref. 6b 1137) during the first quarter of the year, when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Lester.
The marriage of Andrew J G Collett and Terina E Nash was recorded at
Ploughley (Bicester) register office (Vol. 20 1660) during the early period
of 1984, following which Terina presented Andrew with two sons and two daughters.
The births of all four children were recorded at Oxford (Vols. 20
3586, 20 3141, 20 3287 & 20 3515) when their mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Forster on each occasion. |
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46S13
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Thomas
Edward Collett |
Born
in 1985 at Oxford |
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46S14
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Sally
Anne Collett |
Born in 1987 at Oxford |
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46S15
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Marcus
Peter Collett |
Born in 1990 at Oxford |
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46S16
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Francesca
Louise Collett |
Born
in 1991 at Oxford |
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46R38 |
Peter T Collett was born at
Neithrop Hospital, Banbury, in 1958, the third child of Gerald and Lillian
Collett of Grange Farm in Chacombe.
His birth was recorded (Ref. 6b 1164) during the last three
months of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Lester. Peter married
Susan B Forster towards the end of 1979, the event recorded at Oxford
register office (Vol. 20 1983). Today,
in 2017, Peter and Susan have three sons and seven grandsons. The births of their three sons were
recorded at Banbury (Vol. 20 2475) and at Oxford (Vols. 20 3436 & 20
3783), in each case the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Forster. |
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46S17
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Simon
David Collett |
Born
in 1982 at Banbury |
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46S18
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Richard
Peter Collett |
Born
in 1985 at Oxford |
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46S19
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Adam
John Collett |
Born
in 1988 at Oxford |
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46R39 |
Michael James Collett was
born at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, the last child of Gerald Albert
Collett and Lillian Joyce Lester of Grange Farm in nearby Chacombe. The birth was registered at Oxford register
office (Ref. 6b 1684), under his full name, during the third quarter of 1968,
when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Lester. Forty years later Michael has a son and two
daughters. |
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46S20
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a
Collett son |
Date
of birth unknown |
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46S21
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a
Collett daughter |
Date
of birth unknown |
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46S22
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a
Collett daughter |
Date
of birth unknown |
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46R40
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Leah Collett was born at Northampton Barrett
Maternity Hospital during 1981, the eldest of the two children of Stephen
Collett and Christine Cole of Filgrave near Newport Pagnell. She married Paul Mickleborough from
Attleborough in Norfolk on 19th September 2009. Once married they settled in Attleborough
and their son Maxwell Mickleborough was born on 18th March
2014 at Norwich Hospital. In 2015 Leah works for the local district council,
while her husband Paul works as a specialist within the insurance industry. |
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46R42 |
John
James Peter Collett was born at Horsham in 1924, the only child of James
Frank Collett and Isabel Mary Pelling.
He attended Collyer's School in Horsham where, it is understood, he
was Head Prefect. He then attended
Queen’s College Cambridge, serving with the Royal Air Force as an officer in
1944 and 1945 before returning to Cambridge after the war to complete his
studies. He subsequently took up
various teaching and further education posts and, at the time of his
premature death, he was the training officer for the Council of Ironfoundry
Associations. |
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It
was during the second quarter of 1944 that he married Iris Margaret Davies at
Hampstead where the marriage was recorded (Ref. 1a 1296). Over the following years Iris presented
John with four children prior to his death in Hertfordshire on 31st
May 1958 when he was only 34. That sad
event was recorded at Watford register office (Ref. 4b 238) during the month
of June that year. His Will was proved
in London on 23rd September 1958 when his widow Iris Collett of 3
Huntercrome Gardens, Watford was named as his sole executor of his personal
estate amounting to £1,530 6 Shillings and 8 Pence. |
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46S23 |
Peter
Gwyn Collett |
Born in 1945
at Hampstead |
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46S24 |
Jennifer Ann Collett |
Born in 1947
at Hampstead |
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46S25 |
David J W Collett |
Born in 1956
at Watford |
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46S26 |
Richard James Collett |
Born in 1957
at Watford |
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46R43 |
Joan Mary Collett was born at Bicester on 17th
September 1922, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 3a 1669) during the fourth
quarter of the year, the eldest child of Herbert and Lillian Collett, her
mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Ayris.
She later married James Kilbane, the event recorded at the Bicester
Ploughley register office (Ref. 3a 4311) during the third quarter of 1942. The pair of them eventually moved south to
London and settled in Surrey on the south side of the Thames River. The death of Joan Mary Kilbane was recorded
at Surrey register office (Vol. 15 0404) in 1981. Eight years later, the death of James
Kilbane was also recorded at Surrey South-Eastern register office (Vol. 17
1068) during February 1989. |
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George
Herbert Collett
was born at Bicester on 23rd
April 1927, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 3a 1739) during the second
quarter of 1927, the eldest son of Herbert John Collett and his wife Lillian
Ayris. George attended Crockwell
School on Field Street in Bicester and was eleven years old at the start of
World War Two and was seventeen when he joined the Oxford and Bucks Light
Infantry in 1945. He later served with
the King's Shropshire Light Infantry as a driving and transport instructor
and by the time he completed his military service he was a warrant officer
and had seen action in Japan and Korea, for which he was awarded the Korean
Medal and United Nations clasp. |
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On his return to England, he initially
worked as a crane driver and later became an insurance agent for the
Prudential. It was during 1960 that he
eventually returned to Bicester, by which time he was married with four sons. Once settled in Bicester he worked for Len
Hughes’ scrap metal and coal business, which he later bought. He then established his own company in
Bicester as a coal merchant which he expanded by purchasing S G Jones Coal
Merchants. He eventually sold off the
coal merchants and formed G H Collett Limited, a haulage company, which he
closed down in the late 1970s. From
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He
was a Chelsea and Oxford United football fan and during his life he became
involved in boys’ football and helped to found the Woodfield Boys under 11
football team in 1967-68. He was also
a supporter and contributor to Bicester and District Under 11 Boys League and
was qualified football referee. The
marriage of George Herbert Collett and his first wife Marion Jarrett has yet
to be found, while Jarrett was confirmed as the mother’s maiden-name for the
three eldest sons, from whom George was later divorced. There is a chance that his first marriage was
not conducted in Great Britain.
However, it was at Bicester Ploughley register office (Ref. 6b 2527)
that his second marriage to (2) Patricia J Godber was recorded towards the
end of 1973. Upon his retirement, he
spent his last years living with his son Graham, while it was his son Michael
who continued with the family business.
George Herbert Collett was 77 when he died at Bicester during the
first two months of 2005 after a short illness. |
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46S27 |
Michael
H Collett |
Born
in 1958 at North Cheam, Surrey |
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46S28 |
Martin
G Collett |
Born
in 1961 at North Cheam, Surrey |
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46S29 |
Graham
J Collett |
Born
in 1963 at Bicester |
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46S30 |
Andrew
David Collett |
Born
in 1966 at Bicester |
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46R45 |
John William Collett was born at Bicester on 14th
June 1928, with his birth recorded there (Ref. 3a 1748) during the third
quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Ayris. It was in 1962 that he married
Madeline Batts in Bicester, the wedding recorded at Ploughley register office
(Ref. 6b 2538) during the third quarter of the year. Nine months later the birth of the first of
the couple’s two sons was recorded at Brackley, across the county boundary in
Northamptonshire, and was the birth of their second child eighteen months
later. In both cases, the mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Batts.
The much later death of John William Collett was recorded during March
1998 at the Oxfordshire Bullingdon register office (Vol. 6991 22) to the east
of the city of Oxford, seven years prior to the suicide of his youngest son. |
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46S31 |
David John
Collett |
Born in 1963
at Brackley |
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46S32 |
Gilbert
Desmond Collett |
Born in 1964
at Brackley |
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Joyce
Margaret Collett was born in Bicester on 28th
February 1932 and it was there that her birth was recorded (Ref. 3a 1927)
during the second quarter of the year, the last of the four children of
Herbert John Collett and Lillian Ayris.
The later marriage of Joyce M Collett and William Burgess took place
at St Edburg's Church in Bicester on 26th March 1952, and was
recorded at the Bicester Ploughley register office (Ref. 6b 2108) during the
first three months of the year.
William was born on 17th March 1921 at Astwood near Newport
Pagnell in Buckinghamshire and died in Oxford on 9th May 1994. William and Joyce had three children, all
still living in 2022. Sixteen years
after losing her husband, Joyce Margaret Burgess was at home at 11 Stoneburge
Crescent, Bucknell Road in Bicester when she died during the month of
December 2010. The cause of death
being bowel cancer. Their three
children are John William Burgess in 1953, Susan J Burgess in 1955, and Sally
J Burgess in 1959. On each occasion,
the births were recorded at Ploughley register office, where the mother’s
maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. |
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46S2 |
Ian K Collett was born at Ealing in London during
1958, his birth was recorded there (Ref. 5e 323) in the first three months of
the year. Later on, in his life, Ian
working within Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs, where his uncle Theodore
William H Collett also worked in a senior position. It was during the spring of 1884, when Ian
K Collett married Isabel A Hendy, their wedding day recorded at
Richmond-upon-Thames in Surrey (Vol. 14 1250). The birth of their son five years later was
recorded at Kingston-upon-Thames register office (Vol. 13 2011) during the
early months of 1989, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hendy. |
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46T1 |
Samuel
Charles Collett |
Born in 1989
at Kingston-upon-Thames |
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46S21 |
Peter
Gwyn Collett was born at Hampstead during 1945, the eldest of the four
children of John James Peter Collett and Margaret Davies. A photograph of Peter as a baby is included
under the name of his great grandfather James Thomas Collett, and in the newspaper
report on his great grandparents golden wedding anniversary in October 1946,
baby Peter was referred to as being 14 months old. This would place his month of birth as
August 1945. |
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During
the third quarter of 1968, Peter Gwyn Collett married (1) Karen H Devlin, the
event recorded at Birmingham register office (Ref. 9c 1127), with whom he had
a son born in the previous year. When
that marriage ended in divorce, Peter married (2) Jennifer Wilkinson, which produced
two daughters for the couple. The
marriage of Peter G Collett and Jennifer Wilkinson was recorded at Manchester
register office (Vol. 38 1144) during the summer of 1977. Jennifer Collett nee Wilkinson passed away
in 2014. It was Peter’s daughter
Hannah who kindly provided the new details for the September 2015 update of
this family line. |
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46T2 |
Simon Patrick Devlin Collett |
Born in 1967 |
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46T3 |
Hannah
Rachel Collett |
Born in 1977
at Manchester |
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46T4 |
Rebecca
Louise Collett |
Born in 1979
at Colchester |
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46S22 |
Jennifer Ann Collett
was born at Hampstead
in 1947, the only daughter of John and Margaret Collett. It was during 1970 that Jennifer married
Phillip Taylor with whom she had three sons.
Daniel Phillip J Taylor was born in 1973, Benjamin Robert
Taylor was born in 1975, and Joel Thomas Taylor was born in
1980. Tragically, the youngest child
was only four years old when Jennifer Ann Taylor nee Collett died in 1984. |
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46S23 |
David J W Collett
was born in 1956, his
birth recorded at Watford (Ref. 4b 515) during the second quarter of the
year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Davies. It was also there, that his younger brother
Richard (below) was born during the following year. David J Collett married Deborah E Pitt in summer
of 1993, the event recorded at the Mid-Warwickshire register office (Vol. 31
847), following which they have a daughter Charlotte. It is possible that Deborah was his second
wife since, at the Warwick & Leamington register office (Vol. 31 0738) in
the summer of 1979, the marriage of David J W Collett and Jacqueline A
Morrissette was recorded there. |
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46T5 |
Charlotte
Collett |
Born in 1995 |
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46S24 |
Richard James Collett
was born at Watford
in 1957, the youngest of the four children of John James Peter Collett and
Margaret Davies. His birth was
recorded at Watford (Ref. 4b 533) during the last quarter of 1957, when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Davies.
He married Janina Surma during 1988 and they had a daughter. Sadly, the marriage failed and, after their
divorce, Janina moved to Australia with her daughter Ella, whose birth was
recorded at Coventry (Vol. 33 244) during the spring of 1989. Tragically, Richard James Collett committed
suicide in 2003. |
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46T6 |
Ella Surma
Collett |
Born in 1989
at Coventry |
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46S25 |
Michael Herbert Collett, who is known as Mike, was born at North Cheam in Surrey
in 1958, the eldest of the four children of George Herbert Collett and Marion
Jarratt. His birth, as Michael H
Collett was recorded at the Surrey Mid-Eastern register office (Ref. 5g 295)
during the third quarter of 1958. In
2020, Mike made contact to provide new details regarding his immediate
family, confirming that he was one of four children. At that time in his life, he was living in
Wansford near Peterborough where, living close by was neighbour Jonathan
Collett, who it is hoped will be identified in due course. In addition, it was a Simon Collett who
recommended that Mike visit the collettfamilyhistory
website. |
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46S26 |
Martin George Collett was also born at North Cheam, but in 1961, with his
birth recorded at the same register office as his older brother Michael (above)
during the second quarter of the year (Ref. 5g 341), when his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Jarratt. He was the
second of the four children of George Herbert Collett of Bicester and Marion
Jarratt. His brother Andrew David
(below) was married at Brackley in 1987, so it is perhaps reasonable to
assume that the Brackley marriage of Martin G Collett and Beverley A Whittle,
a year earlier was that of the Martin G Collett who had been born at North Cheam
in 1961. That wedding was recorded
during June 1986 (Vol. 7 2092). The
marriage produced two children for the couple, both births recorded at nearby
Banbury register office, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Whittle. |
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46T7 |
Ryan Martin
Collett |
Born in 1988
at Banbury |
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46T8 |
Roxanne Milly
Collett |
Born in 1990
at Banbury |
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46S27 |
Graham J Collett
was born in 1963 when his birth was recorded at the Bicester Ploughley
register office (Ref. 6b 1844) during the first three months of that
year. Like his two older brothers, the
record of his birth confirmed that his mother’s maiden-name was Jarratt. The
later marriage of Graham J Collett and Josephine F M Hirst was also recorded
at Ploughley (Bicester) register office (Vol. 703 0063) during August 1995,
and resulted in the birth of a son Daniel Lewis Collett shortly thereafter. His birth was however, recorded at Oxford
register office (Vol. 7021a a104d) in March the following year. |
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46T9 |
Daniel Lewis
Collett |
Born in 1996
at Oxford |
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46S28 |
Andrew David Collett was possibly the fourth and last son of George Herbert
Collett by his first wife Marion Jarrett.
Curiously, after leaving Surrey and moving to Bicester in Oxfordshire,
the child’s birth was recorded at Woolwich register office (Ref. 5e 1319)
during the third quarter of 1966, where his mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Jarratt. Having been
raised at Bicester, it seems highly likely that the marriage of Andrew David
Collett and Bonita R Williams recorded at nearby Brackley register office in
Northamptonshire (Vol. 7 2748), was the Andrew whose birth was recorded at
Woolwich. The wedding at Brackley was
recorded during August 1987. |
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46S29 |
David John Collett was in 1963 and was the first-born child of John W
Collet and Madeline Batts. His birth was
recorded at Brackley register office (Ref. 3b 782) during the second quarter
of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Batts. |
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46S30 |
Gilbert Desmond Collett was on 18th December 1964, with his birth
recorded at Brackley register office (Ref. 3b 774) in early 1965, the second son
of John W Collet and Madeline Batts, whose mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
as Batts. It was also at Brackley
register office that the death of Gilbert Desmond Collett was recorded after
he died on 24th May 2005 at the age of 41. It is confirmed by a family member that he
committed suicide, as did his grandfather Herbert John Collett (1898 to 1939)
when he was the same age as Gilbert. |
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46T2 |
Simon Patrick Devlin
Collett was born in 1967, the son of Peter Gwyn Collett by his
first wife Karen Devlin. In 1999 Simon
Patrick Collett married Kate Bareham (formerly Kate Allston) and, although
they have had no children together, Kate has children from her previous
marriages. |
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46T3 |
Hannah
Rachel Collett was born in 1977, the first of the two daughters of Peter
Gwyn Collett by his second wife Jennifer Wilkinson. Her birth was recorded at Manchester (Vol.
38 1965) during the summer that year, her parents also marriage there during
the same period of that same year.
Hannah married Andrew Taylor during 2010, but has retained her maiden-name
of Collett. The couple, who live in
Leicestershire, have two daughters, Matilda Eliza Taylor who was born
in 2012 and Edith Daisy Jennifer Taylor who was born in 2014. The September 2015 update of this family
line is, for the most part, largely due to the new information kindly
supplied by Hannah. |
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46T4 |
Rebecca Louise Collett was born in 1979, her birth recorded at Colchester
register office (Vol. 9 3273) during the first weeks of 1979, when her
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Wilkinson. It would appear that Rebecca was still a
teenager when the marriage of Rebecca L Collett and Douglas J Parker at
Oxford register office (Vol. 702 0221) early in 1996. |
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Prior
to the update of this family line in July 2022, three of the four sons of
George Herbert Collett (Ref. 46R44), were incorrectly listed as, David
Martin Collett, Graham Francis Collett, and Philip John Collett, all of whom
have now been replaced by his actual children, thanks to information received
from Rita Cothier. Those three
brothers, and their sister Elizabeth were, in fact, the four children of Francis Leon Collett and
his wife Ann Raiswell whose marriage was recorded at Oxford register office
(Ref. 6b 1541), with the
wedding conducted at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Mill Lane in Iffley,
on 27th December 1954. On
that day, Francis Leon Collett was a soldier at the age of 25, with Ann being
22 and born in Wrexham during the summer of 1932. In the recording of the children’s names at
Oxford register office – for the first two, and for the other two at the
Bicester Ploughley register office, their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
as Raiswell. David’s birth was
recorded (Ref. 6b 1286) during the first quarter of 1955, Elizabeth’s (Ref.
6b 1268) during the first quarter of 1957, Graham’s (Ref. 6b 1612) during the
second quarter of 1960, and Philip’s (Ref. 6b 1943) during the third quarter
of the year. Philip John Collett was
twenty-two years of age when the marriage of Philip J Collett and Theresa L
Downey was recorded at Ploughley register (Vol. 20 1397) at the start of
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David Martin
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Born in 1955
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Elizabeth Ann
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Born in 1957
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Graham
Francis Collett |
Born in 1960
at Bicester |
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Born in 1966
at Bicester |
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is possible that Francis L Collett was a son of Francis Bertie Collett (Ref.
37P33) by his second wife Ethel Hermann, and was born in Oxford at the start
of 1929, who was later laid to rest at Kidlington Parish Burial Ground on 19th
June 2006. |
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One - Marriages |
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Sarah Collett of Charlton-on-Otmoor was married by banns to William
Hutton of Oddington on 18th July 1822 at the Church of St Mary the
Virgin in Charlton-on-Otmoor. The
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Susanna Collett of Charlton-on-Otmoor was married by banns to Henry Goven
of Oakley on 19th February 1824 at the Church of St Mary in
Charlton-on-Otmoor. The witnesses were
William Goven and Alice Cooper.
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Two – Burials |
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Sharma Collett of
Fencott was born in
1825 and was buried at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 9th September 1827
aged just two years. |
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Anne Collett of Fencott was born in 1820 and was buried at
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Maria Collett of Fencott was born on 2nd July 1842
and was buried at St Mary’s Church in Charlton-on-Otmoor on 24th
July 1842 aged 22 days and was possibly the daughter of Anne Collett (above)
who died one week earlier. |
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Henry Shirley Collett of
Murcott was born in
1857 and was buried at St Mary’s Church in Charlton-on-Otmoor on 9th
September 1857. |
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Jessie Collett of
Murcott was born in
January 1858 and was buried at St Mary’s Church in Charlton-on-Otmoor on 31st
January 1858 aged two weeks. |
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Caroline Collett of
Fencott was born in
April 1860 and was buried at St Mary’s Church in Charlton-on-Otmoor on 16th
July 1860 aged three months. |
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Thomas Collett was born at Fencott around 1841 where
he married Sarah, and it was there also that the couple’s two known children
were born. No further records of this
family have so far been located, so the brief details have been included here
in the hope they might eventually be placed within one of the many Collett
families of Oxfordshire. |
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James Thomas
Collett |
Born in 1871
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Sarah Collett |
Born in 1873
at Fencott |
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Four – Other Collett Families |
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Charles Collett was born around 1816 and was married
to Emma. In 1841 Charles was 24 and
Emma was 23. Living with them in the
Bicester, Brackley, Buckingham and Woodstock registration district were their
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Ann Collett |
Born in 1838 |
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Emma Collett |
Born in 1840 |
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William Collett was a labourer and was married to
Mary and they lived at Murcott where their son was born, although he was
baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor. The
baptism for the child in the parish records gave the parents simply as William
and Mary. |
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William
Collett |
Baptised on
20.07.1845 |
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Arthur Collett was born at Murcott in 1854 and in
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Elizabeth Collett was born at Murcott in 1855. Upon leaving school she left Oxfordshire
and moved to London. In 1881 she was a
spinster of 25 years and was working as a cook and domestic servant at Guys
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Within
the census of 1881 the family was recorded in error under the surname of
Collot. According to the census return
John Collot, aged 55 and from Boarstall, was an agricultural labourer, and
his wife Catherine Collot of Brill was 56 when they were living on the Thame
Road in Brill with just their two sons.
They were William Collot who was aged 17 and James Collot who was 13,
both of them working as agricultural labourers by that time. Where their two daughters were has not been
determined, if indeed they were still alive.
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Ten
years later John was 65 and Catherine was 66, and it was only their son
James, aged 23, was still living with them at Brill. |
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Emily Collett |
Born in 1861
at Brill |
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46A4/5/2 |
William
Collett |
Born in 1863
at Brill |
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Jane Collett |
Born in 1865
at Brill |
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James Collett |
Born in 1867
at Brill |
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James Collett was born at Brill in 1867, the son of
John and Catherine Collett. In 1871 he
was three years old and was 13 in 1881 when he was living with his family at
Thame Road in Brill. He was 32 and a
brickyard labourer in 1901 when he was the only child living at Brill with
his elderly widowed mother. It was
probably later that same year that he married Sarah Anne, and by 1911 their
marriage had produced five children.
The family recorded in the Brill census that year was made up of James
aged 43, Sarah Anne aged 36, George who was eight, Sarah Anne who was five,
Cyril John who was three, and twins Edith Kathleen and Fred who were one year
old. All occupants of the household,
with the exception of James’ wife Sarah, were born at Brill. |
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George
Collett |
Born in 1902
at Brill |
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Sarah Anne
Collett |
Born in 1905
at Brill |
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Cyril John Collett |
Born in 1907
at Brill |
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Edith
Kathleen Collett twin |
Born in 1910
at Brill |
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Fred Collett twin |
Born in 1910
at Brill |
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Two
other Colletts living in Charlton-on-Otmoor in 1901 were Susannah Collett, aged 49 from Shillingford, and her son Charles W T (William Thomas) Collett of Fencott who was 11. Ten years later in April 1911, the widow
Susannah Collett was 59 and was still living with her was her son Charles W T
Collett who was 21 but, on that occasion, they were living at Fencott. |
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The
village of Beckley lies on the south side of Otmoor, less than five miles
north-east of the centre of Oxford and close to the Headington district of
the city. The earliest residents found
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Richard Collett and his wife Grace Collett, whose
daughter Elizabeth Collett was
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John Collett and his wife Elizabeth Collett, whose
son John Collett was baptised
there on 30th October 1768, and whose daughter Mary Collett was baptised there on 22nd
March 1772. |
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Sarah
Collett, who was 80 in June 1841, was the widow of Thomas Collett whose two known children were Mary Collett who was baptised at Beckley on 17th
October 1784 and John Collett who
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In
addition to these there was a Richard
Collett and his wife Ann, whose daughter Ann Collett was baptised at Beckley on 11th April
1787, following which there are baptisms for Grace Collett on 23rd November 1788 and Elizabeth Collett on 5th
January 1791, the two daughters of Richard
Collett and his wife Elizabeth Collett.
This raises the question, was Elizabeth the second wife of Richard,
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Richard Collett, who was 55 in 1841, was baptised at
Beckley on 28th April 1784, the son of Richard Collett and his wife and Mary Collett. In 1841 Richard had living with him his son
Robert Collett (below) who was 14 years old, but with no mentioned of his
wife Ann. Robert Collett was baptised
at Beckley on 1st June 1827, the son of Richard and Ann
Collett. Seven years earlier Ann had
presented Richard with a daughter Ann, who was baptised at Beckley on 21st
May 1820. Two other daughters and
another son were added to the family, although it would appear that it was
only their son Robert who survived.
They were Elizabeth, who was baptised on 1st May 1825,
Sarah who was baptised on 28th August 1830, and Charles who was
baptised at Beckley on 14th August 1836. |
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Ann Collett |
Born in 1820
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Elizabeth
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Born in 1825
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Robert Collett |
Born in 1827
at Beckley |
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Sarah Collett |
Born in 1830
at Beckley |
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Charles
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Born in 1836
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Robert Collett was born at Beckley in 1827, and
baptised there on 1st June 1827, the only surviving child of
Richard and Ann Collett. Robert later
married Hannah, with whom he had a son Robert who was baptised at Beckley on
30th April 1848. In 1851
Robert, aged 23, and Hannah, aged 24, were living in Beckley with their
daughter Elizabeth who was one year old, which may indicate that their son
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Robert
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Born in 1848
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Elizabeth
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Born in 1850
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Richard Collett may have been the younger
brother-in-law of Sarah Collett (above). He married Elizabeth and in 1794 their
marriage produced a son William who was baptised at Beckley. Although very likely, it has not been confirmed
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William Collett |
Born in 1794
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William Collett was baptised at Beckley on 22nd
April 1794, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Collett, and it was there also
that he later married Mary Cave on 6th September 1819. Their children included Mary and William
who were both baptised on 24th March 1822, John who was baptised
on 5th October 1823, Elizabeth was baptised on 20th
November 1825, Jane baptised on 9th March 1828, Charles baptised
at Beckley on 30th May 1830, Sophia baptised on 27th
April 1834, Emma baptised on 20th March 1836, Sarah baptised on 18th
March 1838, and a second John who was baptised on 18th July
1841. Even though there are records to
show that their eldest son William reached adulthood and had a family of his
own, it is curious that there is a second William baptised at Beckley on 8th
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1819
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William Collett |
Born in 1821
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John Collett |
Born in 1823
at Beckley |
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Elizabeth
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Born in 1825
at Beckley |
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Jane Collett |
Born in 1827
at Beckley |
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Charles
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Born in 1829
at Beckley |
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William
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Born in 1831
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Sophia
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Born in 1833
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Emma Collett |
Born in 1835
at Beckley |
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Sarah Collett |
Born in 1837
at Beckley |
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Born in 1840
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Mary Collett |
Baptised on
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Sarah
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Baptised on
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Emma Collett |
Baptised on
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Jane Collett |
Baptised on
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John Thomas Collett |
Baptised on
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Mary Collett was born at Beckley in 1819 and was
baptised in a joint ceremony with her brother William (below) at Beckley on
24th March 1822, the daughter of William Collett and Mary
Cave. She never married and in 1881
she was living at 12 Upper Street in Islip, where she was described as being
60 years of age and of independent means.
Twenty years earlier, in 1861, Mary Collett was 40 when she was listed
in the Headington & St Clement district, which includes Beckley, where
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William Collett was born at Beckley in 1821 where he
was baptised on 24th March 1822, the eldest son of William Collett
and Mary Cave. His older sister Mary (above) was also baptised on that same
day. In 1871 William, at the age of
50, was married to Ann who was 51 and they had a son John, age 19, when they
were living within the Headington & Wheatley registration district which
includes Beckley. No baptism record
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John Thomas Collett was baptised at Beckley on 8th
March 1846, the youngest known child of John and Decima Collett. His father died when he was very young, and
in 1851 John Collett age five years was living at Beckley with his widowed
mother and his three older sisters.
There were many John Colletts born at the same time and, so far, his
whereabouts in 1861 and 1871 have not been accurately placed. The following details were previously incorrectly
credited to John Collett (Ref. 46O16) who was born at Horton-cum-Studley. |
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However,
sometime during the second half of the 1870s he married the much younger Ann
from Northall near Leighton Buzzard in Buckinghamshire. By the time of the census in 1881 Ann had
presented John with a daughter after the couple had settled in Wolverton,
midway between Buckingham and Newport Pagnell. However, she was not living with the couple
at 452 Ledsam Street in Wolverton, nor has her
whereabouts been determined on that day.
Instead, the only occupants of the house were John T Collett, aged 35
and an engine driver from Beckley, his wife Ann Collett who was 24 and from
Northall, and a boarder Thomas Mobbs, aged 18, who was a labourer from
Syresham in Northamptonshire. |
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daughter Sarah returned to live with her parents after the census day and ten
years later she was still living with them at Wolverton within the Potterspury registration district of
Northamptonshire. |
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John Collett was born at Beckley in 1851, the only
known son of William and Ann Collett.
He was nine and 19 in 1861 and 1871 when he was still living with his
parents. It may have been during the
1870s that John left Oxfordshire and moved south to Sussex where he may have
met his future wife. In 1881 John
Collett from Beckley was 29, while his wife was Annie Collett, aged 34 and
from Hambledon in Hampshire. At that
time in their lives the childless couple was living at the Gardener’s Cottage
in Broyle near Lavant in Sussex. There time in Sussex was short-lived, since by 1891 the
pair of them were living in Annie’s home county of Hampshire. |
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The
census that year confirmed they were residing at Portsea, on Portsea Island,
when John Collett from Beckley was 39 and his wife Annie was 44. Ten years after that they were recorded at
Southwick in Hampshire where John Collett was 49 and from Beckley and in 1911
when he was 57 (sic) they were living at nearby Cosham within the Hampshire
registration district of Fareham.
John’s place of birth was again confirmed as Beckley in Oxfordshire,
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In
addition to the above, there were other Colletts living at Beckley in 1841
and they may have been more children of the aforementioned Richard and
Elizabeth. They were Ann Collett aged 35, Robert Collett aged 30, and Dorothy Collett aged 25, who may have
been Robert’s wife. With the three of
them were two daughters, Sarah Collett
who was two and Emma Collett who
was not yet one year old. All of them
were listed in the 1841 Census as living in the Abingdon, Bicester,
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Richard Collett was born at Beckley in 1818. It would appear that he married Ruth around
the mid-1840s, because by 1851 they had two children. The census that year recorded the family at
Stanton St John as agricultural labourer Richard Collett from Beckley, who
was 31, his wife Ruth, aged 24 and from Horton-cum-Studley, and their two
children Richard who was three and born at Horton, and Ann who was one year
old and born after the family settled in Stanton St John. During the next eleven years a further six
children were added to their family. |
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By
1861 Richard was 42 and Ruth was 36 and they were living at Beckley. Their marriage had produced seven children
by then, and they were Richard, age 13 from Horton, Ann, age 11, and John,
age nine who were both born at Stanton St John, William, who was six, Jane,
who was two, Walter, who was one, and Emma R Collett who was under one year
old. One further child was born into
the family two years after the census day, so ten years later in 1871,
Richard’s and Ruth’s eldest three children had left the family home, and it
would appear two of the younger children had died. The only children still living at Beckley
within the Headington St Clement registration district with Richard and Ruth
were William, aged 16, Jane who was 13, and Robert who was eight. |
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happened to Richard and Ruth and their three youngest children has not been
revealed in any of the census records from 1881 to 1901, so it is possible
that they had emigrated in the 1870s. |
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Richard Collett |
Born in 1847
at Horton-cum-Studley |
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Emma Ann Collett |
Born in 1849
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John Collett |
Born in 1851
at Stanton St John |
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William Collett |
Born in 1854
at Beckley |
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Anne Jane Collett |
Born in 1857
at Beckley |
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Walter
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Born in 1859
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Emma R
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Born in 1860
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Robert
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Born in 1862
at Beckley |
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46A5/10 /1 |
Richard Collett was born at Horton-cum-Studley near
Beckley in 1847, and was baptised at Beckley on 26th December
1847, the eldest child of Richard and Ruth Collett. In 1851 he was three years old, when living
at Stanton St John with his family, and by 1861 he was 13, by which time the
family had settled in Beckley. He married (1) Elizabeth of Appleton in Berkshire
(another Collett stronghold) and by 1881 the marriage had produced one son
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Their
son was born at Mottingham in Kent, which lies just south of Eltham, where
the family was living at Court Yard in 1881.
Richard’s occupation was that of a coachman. However, no trace has been found of
Richard’s daughter, although she was back living with the family in
1891. Furthermore, there would appear
to have been a possible death in the family, and that may have been the
passing of Richard’s wife Elizabeth since in 1891 his wife was listed as
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According
to the census in 1891 Richard was married to (2) Eliza and the family of four
was living within the Lewisham & Eltham area of Kent, and it was at
Eltham that Richard was presented with a second son. Richard was 43, Eliza was 42, son Charles
was 13, and daughter Bertha was 11, while Eliza was very likely expecting the
birth of Richard’s third child later that same year. Just after the turn of the century the
family were still living at Eltham where Richard was still working as a
non-domestic coachman at the age of 53 and son Bertie who was 10. His wife Eliza was 52 and her place of
birth was confirmed as West Raynham in Norfolk. |
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It
was at 23 Elizabeth Terrace in Eltham that Richard Collett died on 14th
March 1920. His Will was proved in
London on 20th April that same year when his widow Eliza Collett,
his eldest son Charles Richard Collett, an engineer, and his youngest son
Bert Collett, a solicitor’s clerk, were named as the executors of his
personal estate amounting to £756 17 Shillings and 6 Pence. |
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Charles Richard Collett |
Born in 1878
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Bertha
Margaret Collett |
Born in 1879
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Bertie Collett |
Born in 1891
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Emma Ann Collett was born at Stanton St John near
Beckley in 1849, the daughter of Richard and Ruth Collett. It was as Ann Collett aged just one year
that she was recorded with her family at Stanton St John in 1851. She was again simply Ann Collett aged 11,
in 1861 after her family had moved to Beckley. Twenty years later in 1881 she was
unmarried at the age of 31 and was a domestic servant at the home of widow
Louisa Cook a laundress and dairywomen living at 67 George Street in the St
Mary Magdalen district of Oxford city centre. |
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Around
the early 1870s he married Thirza Harvey who was born at Lezant
in Cornwall in 1850 and by 1881 the marriage had produced two children for
the couple, when the family was residing at 3 School Lane in Walgrave near
Henley in Berkshire. The two children
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Like
his older brother Richard (above), John Collett, aged 29, was a
coachman and domestic servant who, on that occasion said his place of birth
was Beckley rather than Stanton St John.
His wife Thirza H Collett was 30.
And he was still employed in that capacity over the next twenty years,
and during the next decade a further four children were added to his family
which had left the Henley area for South Wales. By 1891 the larger family was living at
Treflis in Brecknockshire (Brecon) and was recorded as John Collett from
Beckley who was 39, his wife T H Collett aged 40, Rosa A H Collett aged 16,
Jno H Collett aged 12, Fred G Collett who was nine, Wm R Collett who was
seven, Ethel M Collett who was four, and Florence M Collett who was one year
old. Sometime after 1891 the family
moved again, on that occasion to Stansted in Essex. |
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Their
second son William, who had been born at Wargrave, had left home and was
working and living in London. He was
18 years of age in 1901 and was a waiter in the Westminster St James area of
the city. No trace of the other two
children has so far been found. By
1911 John and Thirza had moved again, the very short distance to Takeley in
Essex, midway between Bishop’s Stortford and Great Dunmow. John Collett from Beckley was 60, as was
his wife Thirza Harvey Collett, while the only child still living with them
was Thomas Archibald Collett who was 18. |
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Rosa A
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Born in 1874
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John Henry Collett |
Born in 1878
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William R
Collett |
Born in 1882
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Ethel M
Collett |
Born in 1886
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Florence M
Collett |
Born in 1889
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Archibald Collett |
Born in 1892
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William Collett was born at Beckley in 1854 and was
another child of Richard and Ruth Collett.
He was six years old in 1861 and was 16 in 1871. He was still a bachelor in 1881 when he was
27 and was employed as a coachman, like his brother John (above), and
was a lodger at the house of widow Jane Beatty at 2 Pensons Gardens in the St
Ebbes area of Oxford city centre. |
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Anne Jane Collett was born at Beckley in 1857 and was
referred to as Jane who was two years old in 1861 and 13 years of age in 1871
when she was still living with her family at Beckley. As Annie J Collett aged 23, she was working
as a housemaid at 4 Bernards College in Woking in 1881 which was a school
managed by Schoolmaster and Clerk in Holy Orders Henry Sealy of India who was
a bachelor of 28 years. |
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Charles Richard Collett was born Mottingham in Kent during
1878, the eldest child of Richard and Elizabeth Collett, who were living at
Court Yard in Mottingham at the time of the census in 1881 when Richard was
three years old. During the next
decade he and his family moved to Eltham in Kent where they were residing in
1891 when Richard was 13. No traced of
Richard has been found anywhere in Great Britain on the occasion of the
census in both 1901 and 1911 and that is because he sailed to a new life in
South Africa when he was just 16. It
is believed that it was the adventure stories of H Ryder Haggard, such as
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It was during 1894 that he left his home at Mottingham and
headed for Johannesburg where he worked for a few months as elevator boy with
the Jumpers Deep Gold Mine Co. From
there he went to Cape Town and worked as a Customs Official until he joined
up with Earl Kitchener's Horse Regiment for action in the Boer War. After the war was over, he left for
Rhodesia where he worked for Penhalonga Proprietary Mines Limited, a
silver-lead mining company. There he
helped in the erection of a new concentrator and eventually became the shift
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In 1906 Charles returned to England to be married, returning
later that same year to Penhalonga Valley with his bride. However, after the birth of a son Mrs.
Collett was forced to return to England when she and her son were in poor
health. Eight years later, just before
the start of the First World War, Charles returned to England and became the
owner of the King's Head Hotel at Fakenham in Norfolk. At the outbreak of the Great War, when he
was 36, he joined the Ministry of Munitions, taking a mechanic's course and
eventually being appointed to the Ordnance Works in Coventry, where he served
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A short
time after the war Charlie, as he was known, returned to Africa and worked
for Abbontiakoon Mines Limited in Tarquah, British
West Africa. He held the position of
shift boss in the Cyanide Works of that company until 1924. Four years earlier he was named as one of the three executors of his
father’s Will in 1920, when he was recorded as Charles Richard Collett, an
engineer. In 1925
there was a major change in his life when he travelled to Canada where he
worked as a shifter in the cyanide department of the Hollinger Gold Mine at
Timmins in Ontario. In the spring of
1926, he left Ontario and travelled west to British Columbia where, in the
town of Trail, he was employed by the C M & S Company for a short
while. From Trail he was immediately
transferred to Kimberley where he started to work in the Testing Department
at the Concentrator. During that time,
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In 1927
his family joined him from England and together they made their home at
Chapman Camp in British Columbia. That
same year Charles and Tom Bray, who was an old friend from his African days,
together with a mining engineer, journeyed once more to Africa. On that occasion they went to Lagos in
Nigeria where the three of them prospected for tin for the Cominco
Company. However, Charles Collett was
recalled to Kimberley early in 1928 because of the illness and subsequent
death of his son, Richard. After that
he remained with Cominco until he left their employ in December 1946. Despite his adventurous nature, Charles
Richard Collett was a quiet man who was little known outside of the circle of
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Bertie Collett was born at Eltham in 1891 but after 5th
April that year. In 1901 he was still
living at Eltham with his parents and was ten years of age. Ten years later in 1911 he was 20 and was
living at Bromley in Kent. It was as
Bert Collett, a solicitor’s clerk, that he was named as the third executor of
his father’s Will in 1920, the other two being his widowed mother Eliza
Collett and his older brother Charles Richard Collett (above). |
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John Henry Collett was born at Wargrave near Henley in
Berkshire in 1878 and was two years old in the Wargrave census in April
1881. During the 1880s his father’s
work took the family to South Wales where Jno H Collett was 12 in 1891. In the 1890s the family returned to England
and settled at Mountfitchet in Essex, but by 1901 John H Collett from Henley
was 22 and was a grocer in Fulham.
Just over four and a half years later John Harry Collett married Annie
May Edwards at Fulham in London where the event was recorded (Ref. 1a 753)
during the last three months of 1905.
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Over
the next five years Annie presented John with two children, neither of whom
survived. In the census of April 1911,
the childless couple was recorded as John Henry Collett from Wargrave who was
33 and, his Leicestershire wife of six years, Annie May Collett who was
30. At that time, they were residing
within the Bromley registration area of Kent, when the census return also
confirmed they had two children, not living.
Whether any children were added to their family after 1911 is not
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Ann Collett was born at Beckley in 1837. By 1871 Ann was living in the Faringdon
area at the age of 34, while the census in 1881 confirmed that she was a
spinster at 43. At that time in her
life Ann was employed as the housekeeper for George F Rhodes, a farmer of 600
acres at Little Faringdon in Oxfordshire, six miles north-west of Faringdon
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Charles Collett was born at Beckley in 1840 and very
likely the brother of Ann Collett (above). He married Jane who was born in 1838 and in
1871 the couple were living in the Headington St Clement area of Oxfordshire. |
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