PART
FIFTY-FIVE
The
Ackworth, Wakefield,
Leeds Line
from 1663 to 2010
Updated March 2022
This is the family line of Peter Collett
Turnbull (Ref. 55S1) of Keighley, who was
instrumental in putting it together, the
line being denoted by the names in capitals.
It is also the family line of Michael
Richard Collett (Ref. 55S2) of Wiltshire
which is denoted by the names that are
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It may be significant that during 2011 the baptism record for a
member of the Collett family was found in Wakefield. It recorded that Ann Collitt was
baptised at All Saints Church in the town on 25th January
1665. She was the daughter of Edward
Collitt, but tragically died eighteen months later on 26th
August 1666. Where this family might
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Prior to 2022, this
family line was thought to emanate from Part 36 – The Barwick-in-Elmet
(Leeds) Line, whose line of descendants goes back to 1610. However, where previously the Richard who
starts this line was named as the son of William Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet
and his wife Margaret Berry of Featherstone Moor, their son Richard raised
his family in Nottingham and certainly not Wakefield. The source of this vital information is the
1743 Will of the aforesaid William Collett, in which son Richard Collett was
“of Nottingham” and a query raised by David Thompson in 2022. |
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Following further
research work in 2022, ably assisted by David, who generously provide his
time, together with lots of parish records, it is now believed that the family
of Richard Collett who starts this line of the Collett family, is a child of Robert
Collett and Jennet Taylor (Ref. 36J4) as in Part
36 – The Barwick-in-Elmet (Leeds) Line. |
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55K1 |
RICHARD
COLLETT was born at Barwick-in-Elmet around
1663, where he was baptised on 21st February 1664,
the second child of Robert and
Jennet Collett. Later in
his life, as Richard Collett of Ackworth, he was married by licence to
Margaret Dawson from Ackworth which was granted on 29th November
1687. Their wedding day was 30th
November 1687, the service conducted at St Olave’s Church in York, for
Ricardus Collett and Margaretta Dawson. Margaret Dawson was christened in Fishlake,
South Yorkshire, on 7th September 1665, the daughter of John
Dawson, hence why the couple’s first-born child was named John. He was born at Ackworth, where the family
lived and where all of their five known children were born and raised. |
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Ackworth is less than twenty miles
due south of Barwick and six miles south-east of Wakefield. By 1703, and on
the occasion of the baptism at Ackworth of his third child, Richard Collett
was described as a pauper, while it was around the time of the birth of his
last child that Richard died and was buried at Ackworth on 16th
January 1706. Five year after being
made a widow, Margaret Collett discovered she was with-child, followed by the
subsequent birth, baptism and death of that child, Anne Collett, who was
buried at Ackworth near the end of June that year. It was just over three years later that Margaret
Collett died in 1714 and was also buried at Ackworth with her husband on 22nd
October 1714 when she was described as the widow Margaret Collett (Bishop’s
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55L1
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John
Collett |
Born in 1691 at Ackworth |
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Margaret Collett |
Baptised on 23.04.1695 at Ackworth |
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RICHARD COLLETT |
Born in 1703
at Ackworth |
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Frances Collett |
Baptised on 26.03.1706 at Ackworth |
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55L5
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Anne
Collett |
Born in 1711 at Ackworth |
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55L1 |
John Collett was born at Ackworth, either towards
the end of 1690 or early in 1691, and was baptised there on 18th
March 1691, the first-born child of Richard Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet and
Margaret Dawson of Ackworth. It was
around 1713/1714 that he married Anne, with whom he had nine children, all of
them born at Ackworth. For the births
registered from the first child, up until the seventh child, the occupation
of John Collett was recorded as that of a butcher. Two years after the birth of his last
child, John died and was buried at Ackworth on 4th October
1736. Fifteen years later, and at the
age of 56, Anne Collett, the widow of butcher John Collett, died at Ackworth
and was buried there with her late husband on 24th April 1752. |
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55M1
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1715 at Ackworth |
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55M2
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Elizabeth Collett |
Baptised on 19.09.1717 at Ackworth |
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55M3
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Anne (Margaret)
Collett |
Baptised on 06.05.1719 at Ackworth |
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55M4
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John
Collett |
Born in 1721 at Ackworth |
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55M5
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Richard
Collett |
Born in 1724 at Ackworth |
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55M6
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Margaret Collett |
Baptised on 11.01.1727 at Ackworth |
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55M7
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Robert
Collett |
Born in 1729 at Ackworth |
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55M8
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Frances Collett |
Born in 1731 at Ackworth |
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55M9
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Richard
Collett |
Born in 1734 at Ackworth |
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Richard Collett
was born at Ackworth in 1703,
where he was baptised on 15th December 1703, the son of Richard
and Margaret Collett of Ackworth. According
to the parish register, on the occasion of his baptism in 1703, his father
Richard Collett senior was a pauper and died there in 1706 around the time
that Richard’s only known sibling was born.
Tragically, Richard and his younger sister Frances were made orphans
in 1714, on the death of their mother that year. Richard later married Mary Healey of
Wakefield on 3rd June 1734 at All Saints Church in Wakefield, where Mary Healey, the
daughter of Matthew (Matt) Healey was baptised on 30th January 1709. After they were married the couple made
their home in Wakefield, where all of their children were born and baptised. It is worth
noting, that all of the children of Richard and Mary were baptised with the surname
recorded as Collit, whereas for the following generations, the more
traditional spelling of the name was used, which is also used throughout this
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55M10
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Mary
Collett |
Born in 1735 at Wakefield |
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55M11
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Hannah
Collett |
Born in 1736 at Wakefield |
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55M12
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Catherine Collett |
Baptised on 08.10.1738 at Wakefield |
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55M13
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John Collett |
Born in 1740 at Wakefield |
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55M14
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Frances
(Fanny) Collett |
Baptised on 01.11.1742 at Wakefield |
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55M15
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Ann
Collett |
Born in 1744 at Wakefield |
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55M16
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Richard
Collett |
Born in 1748 at Wakefield |
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55M17
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Robert
Collett |
Born in 1750 at Wakefield |
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55M18
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William Collett |
Baptised on 09.10.1752 at Wakefield |
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55L5 |
Anne Collett was the base-born daughter of widow
Margaret Collett and was born at Ackworth five years after Margaret’s
husband, Richard Collett, died there at the start of 1706. However, three days after Anne was baptised
at Ackworth on 21st June 1711, the daughter of Margaret Collett,
the record of her burial at Ackworth on 24th June 1711, confirmed
that Anne was the bastard daughter of Margaret Collett. Her mother died towards the end of 1714, so
it is possible that mother and daughter were buried together. |
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55M4 |
John Collett was born at Ackworth in 1721 and was
the eldest son of butcher John and Anne Collett and their fourth child. John was baptised at Ackworth on 28th
March 1722 and it was the record of his marriage which suggested he was born
in the previous year (Bishop’s Transcript). The marriage of John Collett and Ann Hanley
took place at Ackworth on 22nd November 1742 and is known to have
produced seven children. Ann Hanley
had been born in 1715 and, being older than John, she passed away on 22nd
July 1785, at the age of seventy, and was buried at Ackworth on 24th
July 1785, when she was described as the spouse of John Collett, a farmer of
Ackworth. Just less than two years
after being widowed, John Collett died on 26th May 1787 and was
buried at Ackworth with Ann on 29th May 1787, when he was 66. |
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55N1
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Mary
Collett |
Born in 1743 at Ackworth |
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55N2
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Elizabeth
Collett |
Born in 1744 at Ackworth |
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55N3
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Ann
Collett |
Born in 1747 at Ackworth |
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55N4
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Frances
Collett |
Born in 1749 at Ackworth |
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55N5
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Fanny
Collett |
Born in 1751 at Ackworth |
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55N6
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Margaret
Collett |
Born in 1756 at Ackworth |
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55N7
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Hannah
Collett |
Born in 1757 at Ackworth |
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55M5 |
Richard Collett was born at
Ackworth in 1724, where he was baptised on 16th September
1724. Sadly, his was only six years
old when he died and was buried at Ackworth on 25th December 1730,
the fifth child of John and Anne Collett |
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55M7 |
Robert Collett was born at Ackworth in 1729 and was
baptised there on 8th June 1729, another child of John Collett, a
butcher, and his wife Anne (Bishop’s Transcript). |
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55M9 |
Richard Collett was born at
Ackworth in 1734, the second child of John and Ann Collett to be given that
name following the death of his namesake, who died four years before he was
born, at the age of six years. He was
the nineth and last child born to John and Ann and, unlike some of his older
siblings, no record of his baptism has been found. The later wedding of Richard Collett and
Elizabeth Spencer took place at Wistow, north-east of Ackworth, on 3rd
April 1758, although their children were born and baptised at Ackworth, with
the births of all of the children listed below attributed to Richard and
Elizabeth. The move to Ackworth would
have covered the couple’s embarrassment at their first child being born just
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Following
the marriage of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Spence, there
is a suggestion within the Family Search LDS records that a further marriage
took place in Ackworth, and that relates to Benjamin Collett (Ref. 55M9a)
and Ann Benson on 29th November 1761, Benjamin having been born
around 1740. However, no such
marriage appears within the Ackworth Parish Registers, so where the marriage
took place is not known. Furthermore,
it is still not known who Benjamin was or to which branch of the Collett
family he was connected. |
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55N8
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Sarah
Collett |
Born in 1758 at Ackworth |
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55N9
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Mary
Collett |
Born in 1760 at Ackworth |
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55N10
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Hannah
Collett |
Born in 1761 at Ackworth |
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55N11
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John
Collett |
Born in 1763 at Ackworth |
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55N12
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Richard
Collett |
Born in 1766 at Ackworth |
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55N13
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Ann
Collett |
Born in 1767 at Ackworth |
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55M10
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Mary Collett was born at Wakefield where she was
baptised at All Saints Church on 26th March 1735, the eldest child
of Richard Collett and Mary Healey. It
was also at All Saints that Mary married Joseph Smirthwaite on 30th
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55M11
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Hannah Collett was born in Wakefield towards the end
of 1736, where she was baptised at All Saints Church on 4th
January 1737, the second daughter of Richard and Mary Collett. Hannah was around twenty-two years of age
when she married John Scholey at All Saints on 27th February
1759. The
marriage resulted in the birth of twelve children and they were:
Mary
Scholey
(1759-died before 1766); Charles Scholey (1762-who may have died at
Wakefield in 1835); Agnes Scholey (1763-); John Scholey (1764-); Mary Scholey (1766-1802) - married Thomas Land; Sarah Scholey
(1767-1768); Fanny Scholey
(1769-); Henry Scholey
(1770-); Thomas Scholey
(1772-); Sarah Scholey
(1773-); Richard
Scholey
(1775-); and Ann Scholey (1778-). It was Sarah Scholey who
married William Thompson in 1792 who were the 4 x great grandparents of David
Thompson who, in 2022, confirmed his 6 x great grandfather was Richard
Collett, the husband of Mary Healey. |
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One significant and
validating factor for David Thompson was the registration of the marriage
Sarah Scholey, born in 1773, and William Thompson, which included the
witnesses as John Scholey, born in 1764, Sarah’s brother, and Thomas Land her
brother-in-law, the husband of Sarah’s sister Mary Land nee Scholey, born in
1766. |
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55M13
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John
Collett was born at Wakefield in 1740, where he was baptised at
All Saints Church on 6th October 1740, the eldest son of Richard
and Mary Collett. When in his
mid-twenties, John married Mary Punton at the parish church of St Peter’s in
Leeds on 13th January 1766.
Once married the couple settled in Leeds
where all of their children were born, and all bar one of them was baptised
at St Peter’s Church. It was their
fourth child who was baptised at All Saints Church in Wakefield. |
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55N14
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Richard Collett |
Born in 1766
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1769
at Leeds |
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55N16
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Fanny Collett |
Baptised on
14.03.1772 at St Peter’s Leeds |
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55N17
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Richard
Collett |
Born in 1774
at Leeds |
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55N18
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1779
at Leeds |
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55N19
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John Collett |
Born in 1781
at Leeds |
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55M15
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Ann Collett was born at Wakefield in 1744 and was baptised
there at All Saints Church on 27th September 1744. She later married Andrew Silcock on 17th
November 1768, and that also took place at All Saints in Wakefield. |
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55M16
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Richard Collett
was born at Wakefield
where he was baptised at All Saints Church on 30th January 1748,
and it was there also that he married Betty Newton on 9th January
1780. Richard
and Betty continued to live in Wakefield after they were married, where their
children were born and baptised. |
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John Collett |
Born in 1782
at Wakefield |
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55N21
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Richard Collett |
Born in 1784
at Wakefield |
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55N22
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Mary Collett |
Baptised on
25.05.1786 at Wakefield |
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55N23
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Elizabeth
Collett |
Baptised on
17.08.1789 at Wakefield |
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55M17
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Robert Collett was born in 1750 at Wakefield and it
was there that he was baptised at All Saints Church on 11th
December 1750, the eighth of the nine children of Richard Collett and Mary
Healey. It is not exactly clear what
happened to Robert, but it is believed that he was married and that his
marriage produced a son for Robert who was born at Wakefield around 1785. |
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Robert Collett |
Born circa
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55N1 |
Mary Collett was born
at Ackworth in 1743, where she was baptised on 15th May 1743, the
eldest of the seven daughters of John Collett by his wife Ann Hanley. It is believed that she was around twenty
years of age when she married David Unwin during 1763. |
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55N2 |
Elizabeth Collett was born at Ackworth in 1744 and was baptised there on 1st
April 1745, another daughter of John and Ann Collett. She was a spinster when she
died on 6th October 1784 and was buried at Ackworth on 9th
October 1784, when she was thirty and confirmed as the daughter of John and
Ann, who were both still alive. |
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55N3 |
Ann Collett was born at
Ackworth in 1747, where she was baptised on 4th October 1747, when
she was described as a daughter of John Collett, a butcher. |
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55N4 |
Frances Collett was born at Ackworth in 1749 and baptised there on 6th
April 1750, where she was also buried on 23rd February 1751,
having died of fever. |
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55N5 |
Fanny Collett was born
at Ackworth near the end of 1751, where she was baptised on 14th
February 1752, just under a year after the infant death of her sister Frances
(above). The later marriage of Fanny
Collett and James Brinnen was conducted at Ackworth on 3rd October
1778, |
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Margaret
Collett was born at Ackworth on
15th January 1756 and was baptised there on 26th
February 1756, another daughter of John the butcher and his wife Ann. Margaret was twenty-three years of age when
her marriage to Richard Cuttle took place at Ackworth
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Hannah Collett was the
last of the seven children of John Collett and Ann Hanley. She was born at Ackworth on 9th
December 1757 and a month later was baptised there on 6th January
1758, when she was described as the daughter of butcher John Collett. |
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55N8 |
Sarah Collett was born at
Ackworth on 23rd August 1758, within five months of her parents
wedding day at Wiston, North Yorkshire.
Sarah was then baptised at Ackworth on 2nd October 1758,
the first-born child of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Spence (Bishop’s
Transcript). Sarah was nearly
twenty-six years of age when she married John Denton at Ackworth on 25th
November 1784. |
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55N9 |
Mary Collett was born
at Ackworth on 11th September 1760 and was baptised there on
October 15th 1760, another daughter of Richard and Elizabeth
Collett (Bishop’s Transcript).
Within the parish records at Ackworth is the marriage of Mary Collett,
born in 1760, and William Cope which took place there
on 6th July 1783. |
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55N10 |
Hannah Collett was born at
Ackworth in 1761, another daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Collett. On the occasion of the marriage of Hannah Collett and John Gill at Ackworth on
23rd October 1787, she was also twenty-six years old like her
older sister Sarah (above) when she was married. John was described as a yeoman of Brearley,
while he and Hannah had a least one child, when John Collett Gill
junior was born at Ackworth in 1789.
By 1809, John Gill, the husband of Hannah, was the occupier of land owned
by the heirs of Richard Collett, Hannah’s late father. |
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According to the Ackworth
(Pontefract) census in 1841, their son John Collett Gill aged 52 was a
butcher living at High Ackworth with wife Ann Gill, 48, and their son John
Gill who was 23. Ten years later, at
the age of 62, John was a widower and a farmer of eighteen acres in High
Ackworth. Still living there with him
was his son John Gill an unmarried butcher aged 34, who had been born at
Ackworth. Visiting the two men that
day, were 33-year-old Hannah Gill from Fenwick in Yorkshire and William
Rayner from Rothwell in Yorkshire who was 50, neither of them credited with
an occupation. Head of the household
John Collett Gill employed a house-servant Mary B Lakey who was 14. Five years later the death of John Collett Gill
was recorded at Pontefract (Ref. 9c 41) during the first quarter of 1856. |
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55N11 |
John Collett was born
at Ackworth on 13th February 1763, where he was baptised on 27th
March 1763, the eldest son of Richard and Elizabeth Collett (Bishop’s
Transcript). His farmer father
died in 1804, followed two years after by the death of John’s mother. It is not known whether or not John Collett
was alive at that time, nor has any marriage been found. |
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55N12 |
Richard Collett was born at Ackworth on 9th April 1766, another son of
Richard and Elizabeth, whose baptism at Ackworth was conducted there on 20th
April 1766 (Bishop’s Transcript).
Richard was a similar age to his eldest sister Mary (above) when he
became a married man, with the wedding of Richard Collett, of Pontefract, and
Elizabeth Lamb recorded at Wragby in Yorkshire on 23rd June 1788. On that day, Elizabeth was well into the
pregnancy for the couple’s first child, who was born at Pontefract very
shortly after their wedding day. That
sensitive and embarrassing situation may have been the reason why, to
save their blushes, the couple headed
west from Ackworth to Nostell Priory, in the grounds of which is the Church
of St Michael & Our Lady, the parish church of Wragby. It
is possible that their first child did not survive when, sixteen years later,
another John Collett, followed two years after by a George, were born at
Pontefract. The baptisms for all three
children were confirmed by the Bishop’s Transcripts. |
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John Collett |
Baptised on 14.09.1788 at Pontefract |
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John Collett |
Baptised on 24.06.1804 at Pontefract |
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55O3
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George Collett
Wharlton Collett |
Baptised on 16.03.1806 at Pontefract |
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55N13 |
Ann Collett was born
at Ackworth in 1767, the youngest of the five children of Richard Collett and
Elizabeth Spencer. Ann was
twenty-years old when she married James Waite (or White) at Ackworth of 11th
May 1788. |
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55N14
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Richard Collett was born at Leeds in 1766 and was the
eldest child of John Collett and Mary Punton.
He was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 12th
January 1767, although it seems highly likely that he died while he was still
in his infancy. |
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55N15
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Mary Collett was born at Leeds in 1769 and was
baptised at St Peter’s Church on 24th June 1769 but, like her
brother Richard (above), she too did not survive beyond infancy. |
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55N17
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Richard
Collett was born at Leeds in 1774 and, unlike all of his
siblings, he was baptised at All Saints Church in Wakefield on 3rd
December 1774. It was however, at St
Peter’s Church in Leeds where he married Mary Bulmer on 26th May
1800. Mary was more than four years
older than Richard, having been born at Leeds on 4th January 1770,
where she was baptised on 11th February 1770, the daughter of
Richard Bulmer. Richard and Mary continued to live in Leeds after they
were married, and it was there that all of their children were born and
baptised at St Peter’s Church. At the
time of the birth of their son Alfred, Richard was referred to as ‘of
Briggate’ which was a street running through the heart of central Leeds. |
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55O4
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Charles Edwin Collett |
Born in 1802
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55O5
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Newton Collett |
Born in 1804
at Leeds |
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55O6
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Alfred
Collett |
Born in 1806
at Leeds |
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55O7
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John Collett |
Born in 1808
at Leeds |
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55O8
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Elizabeth Mary Collett |
Born in 1810
at Leeds |
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55N18
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Mary Collett was thought to have been born at Leeds
in 1779, while it was certainly there, at St Peter’s Church, that she was
baptised on 6th April 1779.
However, with her marriage to John Williams at St Peter’s Church on 18th
January 1796, when she would have been sixteen, there is a strong possibility
that she may have been baptised when she was anything up to three years old. |
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John Collett was born at Leeds in 1781 and was
baptised at St Peter’s Church on 8th December 1781, the youngest
child of John Collett and Mary Punton.
He married Maria Laycock at St Peter’s Church on 14th
August 1809 and at the end of the following year the couple’s only child was
born. When
their son was four years old, John Collett died at Leeds during 1815. |
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William Collett |
Born in 1810
at Leeds |
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55N20
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John Collett was born at Wakefield in 1782, where
he was baptised at All Saints Church on 22nd April 1783, the
eldest son of Richard Collett and Betty Newton. John Collett was only 15 years old when his
death was recorded at Wakefield on 6th
February 1798, when he was confirmed as the son of Richard and Collett. |
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55N21
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Richard Collett
was born at Wakefield
in 1784 and was baptised there at All Saints Church on 6th
December 1784, the second son of Richard Collett and Betty Newton. Just prior to his twentieth birthday,
Richard married Sarah Shepherd at All Saints in Wakefield on 12th
April 1803. Sarah
was baptised at Leeds on 12th February 1778 and was the daughter
of William Shepherd of Wakefield. She
was also the sister of Mary Shepherd who married James Tute of Pontefract in
the Parish of Wakefield in 1818 in the presence of William Shepherd (her
father), Sarah Collett (her sister), and Ann Simpson. Richard and Sarah had a total of seven
children, six of them born at Leeds, and one at Thornes in Wakefield. Those six were baptised at the Church of St
Peter’s in Leeds. |
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However, the couple’s youngest daughter was baptised at
Wakefield on 3rd March 1819, when the child’s parents were
confirmed as Richard and Sarah Collett.
Richard Collett had a grocer’s shop in the centre of Leeds, situated
at the South End of the Bridge, where he was a grocer and a tea dealer. It was later recorded in the Leeds Mercury,
that Richard had filed for bankruptcy.
Within the Leeds burial records, there are two for Richard Collett,
both in 1828, the first on 20th September and the second on 7th
October. A third burial of another
Richard Collett took place at Wakefield on 4th October 1828, but
he was the son of Robert Collett. |
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Following the death of her husband, and according to the census
in 1841, Sarah Collett was living at South Row, Skinner Lane in Leeds when
she had a rounded age of 60 years.
Head of the household at the address was Sarah’s brother William
Shepherd, aged 65, who also had living there with them, their married sister
Mary Tute who also had a rounded age of 65, and Jane Child who was 20. She later travelled to London to live with
son Charles and his wife. And it was
there, at 12 Upper Brunswick Terrace in Islington that she was living with
them in 1851 at the age of 73, when she was described as an annuitant. She subsequently returned to Leeds, where
her death was recorded during the last three months of 1859, and where she
was buried at St Mark’s Church in the Woodhouse area of Leeds. The notice of her death
gave her last address as Cobourg Street in the city centre of Leeds. |
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The very large burial-stone at St Mark’s Church includes not
only the sisters Mary Tute and Sarah Collett, but also Maria Collett,
daughter of William Collett (below) and granddaughter of Sarah Collett, nee
Shepherd. It also confirms that
William died in Rio de Janeiro, after the Leeds Mercury marriage
announcements reported in 1846 that William Collett aged 21 and the son of
grocer and tea dealer Richard Collett was in Africa. The full inscription on the burial-stone reads
as follows: |
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“IN MEMORY OF Mary wife of James Tute Esq of
Pontefract who died 19th of April 1858 aged 85 Also of Sarah Collett sister of the
above Mary Tute who died December 24th 1859 aged 81 years Also of Maria daughter of the late
William Collett of Leeds and Rio de Janeiro And granddaughter of the above Sarah
Collett born 19th September 1851 died 7th February 1876 |
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55O10
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Charles Collett |
Born on
08.11.1806 at Leeds |
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55O11
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John Shepherd Collett |
Born on
10.03.1808 at Leeds |
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55O12
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Henry Collett |
Born on
22.03.1810 at Leeds |
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55O13
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Sarah Collett |
Born in 1813
at Leeds |
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55O14
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Sarah Collett |
Born in 1815
at Leeds |
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55O15
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Maria Collett |
Born in 1819
at Thornes in Wakefield |
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55O16
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William Collett |
Born in 1825
at Leeds |
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55N24
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Robert Collett was born at Wakefield around 1785, the
only son of Robert Collett. All that
is known about him is that he married Elizabeth and that the marriage
produced five children for the couple, and that all of them were born at
Wakefield and baptised at All Saints Church.
From the registration of the births of his children it is known he was
a joiner. |
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55O17
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John Collett |
Born in 1814
at Wakefield |
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55O18
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Ann Collett |
Born in 1816
at Wakefield |
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55O19
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Charles
Collett |
Baptised on
16.06.1819 at Wakefield |
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55O20
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Robert
Collett |
Baptised on
19.02.1825 at Wakefield |
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55O21
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Thomas
Collett |
Baptised on
12.01.1827 at Wakefield |
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55O4
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Charles Edwin Collett was born at Leeds in 1802 but was
baptised at All Saints Church in Wakefield on 1st May 1802, the
eldest child of Richard Collett and Mary Bulmer. Around the age of twenty-one, Charles
married Elizabeth Wainwright at Kirkheaton on 24th February 1823,
with whom he had three children. It is likely that all three children were born while the
couple were living in Leeds, as it was there at St Peter’s Church that they
were baptised. By the time of the
first national census in 1841 Charles may well have died, since his son
Richard was a visitor at the North Leeds home of his brother Alfred (below). In addition to not locating Charles, no
record of his wife Elizabeth has also been identified. However, their eldest daughter Eliza
Collett, aged 15, was living and working in the West Leeds area. |
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Richard Henry Collett |
Born in 1822
at Leeds |
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55P2
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Eliza Mary Collett |
Born in 1825
at Leeds |
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55P3
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Juliana Collett |
Born in 1828
at Leeds |
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55O5
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Newton Collett was born at Leeds in 1804 and was
baptised at St Peter’s Church on 5th March 1804, the son of
Richard and Mary Collett. Sadly, it is
believed, that he died while he was still in his infancy. |
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55O6
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Alfred
Collett was born at Leeds on 14th November 1806, and
it was there he was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 19th April
1807, the son of Richard and Mary Collett.
He was twenty-one when he married Elizabeth Liversedge at St Peter’s
Church on 10th July 1826 and, together they had three children who
were all born while the family was living in Leeds. All three children were baptised at the
same parish church of St Peter in Leeds, with the couple’s two sons being
christened in a joint ceremony on the same day in March 1831. On that occasion the family was recorded in
the parish register as living at Meadow Lane in Leeds, from where the boys’
father, Alfred Collett, was working as a grocer. |
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The complete family of five was recorded in the June census of 1841 as residing
at Blezard Fold, off Meadow Lane, in Leeds.
The census return on that occasion, listed the family under the
spelling of the surname with just one t.
Alfred Collett was 30, his wife Elizabeth Collett was 35, and their
three children were Richard Collett aged 12 years, Alfred Collett who was 10,
and Mary Collett who was eight years old.
Staying with the family at that time was visitor Richard Henry Collett
who had a rounded age of 15, when he was actually nearer 18 years of age. Although no relationships were included in
that early census, if they had, he would surely have been described as the
nephew of Alfred Collett, Richard being the only known son of his older
brother Charles Edwin Collett (above). |
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At the time of the census in 1851, Alfred and Elizabeth were living
in Queen Square in the Little London district of Leeds with their three
children. Alfred Collett was 44 and
his occupation was that of a book-keeper, while Elizabeth Collett was 47. Their son Richard Collett was 21 and a
clerk and book-keeper at a woollen warehouse, son Alfred Collett was 20 and
was working as a printer, while daughter Mary Collett was 17. Ten years later in 1861, it was only their
son Richard who was still living in Leeds with Alfred and Elizabeth, who were
recorded under the name of Collitt. By
that time in their life, the family was residing at 6 Marlborough Street in
Leeds, where Alfred Collett aged 54, was working as an insurance agent,
Elizabeth Collett was 57, and their son Richard Collett was 31. All three of them were confirmed as having
been born at Leeds. |
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The couple’s last appearance in any census was in 1871 when,
Alfred Collett was 64, and his wife Elizabeth was 67, when they were recorded
in the West Leeds registration district, while their unmarried son Richard
Collett aged 40, was listed in the Wortley & B |
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55P4
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Richard Collett |
Born in 1829
at Leeds |
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55P5
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Alfred
Collett |
Born in 1831
at Leeds |
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55P6
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Mary Emily Collett |
Born in 1833
at Leeds |
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55O7
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John Collett was born at Leeds in 1808, and he was
baptised at St Peter’s Church on 24th June 1809, the youngest son
of Richard Collett and Mary Bulmer. |
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55O8
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Elizabeth Mary Collett was born at Leeds on 5th
December 1810 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 28th April
1811, the youngest child of Richard Collett and Mary Bulmer. New information received from Julie
Couchman in 2013 confirmed that she was the actress
Eliza Mary Collett who took up with the comedian William McCarthy, although
it is understood they never married.
Their relationship produced a daughter Agnes McCarthy, who was
born at Bishops Auckland near Durham, who also later became an actress. Agnes was baptised at St Andrews Church on
25th February 1838, the daughter of William McCarthy. |
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By the time of the census in 1841 the three on them were
recorded within the Birmingham parish of St Martin where Eliza McCarthy was
29, William McCarthy was 28, and their daughter Agnes McCarthy was three
years old. Living in the property next
door was the East family of William East aged 45, his wife Sarah who was also
45, and their daughter Ann East who was 10.
It may be of interest that in 1861, unmarried mother of two children
Mary Ann Collett (Ref. 41o7) and from Ickenham, was living with Thomas East
and his wife Ellen at their Hillingdon home while, within a few years, Mary
Ann married William Weatherley, the brother of John Weatherley who is
mentioned below. |
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No record of the family had been found in 1851 until it was
noticed by Julie Couchman that the family was incorrectly recorded under the
surname Macontley. The family of three
on that occasion were visitors at the home of William and Hannah Nash in
Birmingham Road in West Bromwich.
William McCarthy (Macontley) was 39 and a comedian from Leeds, his
‘wife’ Eliza also from Leeds was 40, and their daughter Agnes from Durham was
described as a comedienne at the age of 13.
By 1871 Eliza was living with her daughter Agnes who, by then was
married to George Edenden. |
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The marriage of Agnes McCarthy and George W Edenden was recorded
at Whitstable in Kent during 1870 when Agnes was stated as being 29 and from
Bishops Auckland and the daughter of Elizabeth McCarthy. Rather oddly and an obvious error, the
marriage record named Nottinghamshire as the county for Bishops
Auckland. The daughter of Agnes and
George Edenden was Grace Edenden and she married John Weatherley whose
Weatherley & Collett families are featured in Part 41 – The Middlesex
Ickenham & Ruislip Line. Both in
1891, when she was 49, and again in 1901 when she was 60, Agnes Edenden was
still living in Whitstable with her husband, while it was in 1891 when she
said she was born at Bishops Auckland, but in 1901 she gave her county of
birth as Nottinghamshire. So, it would
appear that it was Agnes who was confused about her place of birth. |
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New information was received in February 2014 from Gemma Dales
of the Collett & Weatherley families in Part 41 reveal that Eliza had
given birth to a son prior to the birth of her daughter Agnes who did not
survive. Owen McCarthy was born
in 1834, when Eliza was 24, and was buried at Liverpool on 2nd
March 1834. The burial record
confirmed that he was the son of Elizabeth and William McCarty, with the
father’s profession as that of a musician. |
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55O9
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William Collett was born at Leeds in 1810 where he was
baptised on 25th December 1810, the only son of John Collett and
Maria Laycock. When William was around
the age of five years his father died in 1815. Seventeen years later he married Sarah Dufton
who was also born in Leeds around 1810.
The marriage took place at St Peter’s Church
in Leeds on 15th February 1832, and over the following years the
couple were blessed with the birth of five daughters. All of them were born while William and
Sarah were living in Leeds, with the first two girls having been
baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds. Sadly, the couple’s third child did not
survive beyond her infant years as see was listed with her family in 1841,
but was not there in 1851. |
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In June 1841 the family was living at Union Street within the Leeds
& North Leeds registration district, when William and his wife Sarah both
had a rounded age of 30. Their four
daughters on that occasion were Maria Collett who was eight, Sarah Collett
who was five, Emma Collett who was one year old, and Ellen Collett who was
only a few months old. Ten years later
the family was recorded in the 1851 census for Leeds & West Leeds as
William Collett and Sarah Collett, both 41, with four of their five daughters
being Maria Collett aged 18, Sarah Collett aged 15, Ellen Collett who was 10,
and Mary Collett who was under one year old.
Absent daughter Emma Collett of Leeds was 12 years old, had already
left school and was working as a house servant, the youngest of three
domestic servants at the Headingly home of the Dawson family at the Cardigan
Arms on Kirkstall Road in Leeds. Head
of the household was inn keeper and farmer William Dawson from Wakefield, who
was 60. No record of any member of the
family has been found after 1851. |
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What is very interesting about the Leeds census of 1841, is that
visiting the Dawson family, was three-year-old Thomas William Collett from
Leeds, who was born around 1847. His
life, after 1841, is well-documented in Append 4 of Part 36 – The Barwick-in-Elmet
(Leeds) Line, but what happened to him and his parents after he was born is
still shrouded in mystery. |
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55P7
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Maria Collett |
Born in 1832
at Leeds |
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55P8
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Sara Ann Collett |
Born in 1835
at Leeds |
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55P9
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Emma Collett |
Born in 1838
at Leeds |
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55P10
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Ellen Collett |
Born in 1840
at Leeds |
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55P11
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1850
at Leeds |
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55O10
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Charles Collett was born at Leeds on 8th
November 1806 and was baptised there on 3rd December 1806, the
eldest son of Richard Collett and Sarah Shepherd. Charles married (1) Charlotte Machin at St
James’ Church in Westminster, London on 5th April 1835. Charlotte was
born at Swynnerton in Staffordshire around 1794 and was about twelve years
older than Charles. It would appear
that Charles and Charlotte continued to live in London after they were
married, since it was there during the fourth quarter of 1853 that Charlotte
died. Two years earlier, the census in
1851 placed Charles and Charlotte living at 12 Upper Brunswick Terrace in the
Islington district of the city.
Charles, at 44 and from Leeds, was a London City Missionary. His wife Charlotte from ‘Swinnerton’ was
56, and living with the couple at that time was Charles’ widowed mother Sarah
Collett who was 73 and an annuitant from Leeds. The three of them were supported by a
general servant, Mary A Brown who was 18 and from the Bramley area of Leeds. |
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Eight years after the death of Charlotte, widower Charles
married (2) widow Mary Lomas at the Church of St John the Evangelist in
Notting Hill on 29th October 1861, Mary being the former wife of
Henry L Lomas. Seven years later, the
electoral roll for the Brentford Ward of Middlesex identified Charles Collett living
at Ealing Grove within the Ealing district of London, while after a further
three years Charles and Mary were again recorded residing in Ealing. Charles Collett from Leeds was 64 whose
income came from property, Mary Collett from Littlebury in Essex was 61, and completing
the household was servant Sarah Mills from Brentford who was 16. According
to the next census in 1881, Charles of Leeds was 74 and a retired missionary
when he and Mary, aged 71 and of Littlebury, were living at 7 Windsor Terrace
in Ealing, where they employed a general servant, seventeen-years-old Anne
Slackwood who had also been born at Littlebury. Like her husband, ten years earlier, Mary
was obviously a well to do lady, when she was described as “her income coming
from house property”. Just two years
after, the death of Charles Collett at Ealing was recorded at Brentford (Ref.
3a 267) during the second quarter of 1883, when he was 76 years old. Mary survived her husband for a little over
five years, when she too died at Ealing, following
which the death of Mary Collett was recorded at Brentford (Ref. 3a 46) during
the third quarter of 1888 at the age of 78.
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55O11
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John Shepherd Collett
was born at Leeds on
10th March 1808 and it was at St Peter’s Church that he was
baptised on 16th January 1809.
Just before his twentieth birthday John married (1) Mary Robinson at
St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 27th January 1828, with whom he had
three children who were all born in Leeds.
The premature death of Mary Collett at Leeds (Ref. xxiii 7) was
recorded there during the first quarter of 1838. After the loss of his wife, it would appear
that John moved to London, where his youngest son was recorded in 1851. Over ten years later, the marriage of John
Shepherd Collett and (2) Jane Flanders, a widow with a son John Flanders, was
recorded at Kensington in London (Ref. 1a 19) during the second quarter of
1863. Jane and her son were born at
Eaton Bray near Dunstable in Bedfordshire in 1810 and 1841 respectively, and
in 1861 were recorded with John at Brick Lane in Islington, Middlesex. |
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John
Collett from Leeds was 53 and a printer compositor, Jane Collett from Eaton
Bray was 51 and a midwife, and her son John Flanders was 20 and a Pickfords
van driver. The death of Jane Collett,
aged 61, was recorded at Lambeth (Ref. 1d 33) early in 1871. Immediately following
his loss, John left London and was reunited with his youngest married son and
his family on Portsea Island in Hampshire.
That situation was confirmed in the Portsea census of 1871, when John
S Collett from Leeds was 63 and a printer compositor, living with son John
William Collett from Leeds and his large family. Four years later, the death of John Shepherd
Collett was recorded at Portsea Island (Ref. 2b 139) during the quarter of
1875, when he was 67 years old. |
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55P12
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Henry Collett |
Born in 1828
at Leeds |
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55P13
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Richard Isaac Collett |
Born in 1830
at Leeds |
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55P14
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John William Collett |
Born in 1836
at Leeds |
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55O12
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Henry Collett was born at Leeds on 22nd
March 1810 and one month later he was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 18th
April 1810. It would appear that he
married the older Elizabeth before he was nineteen years old, since the first
of their three children was born at Leeds in 1829. All three children were baptised at St
Peter’s Church in Leeds. Whilst no record of Henry Collett has been found in any
census return, in 1829 he was living at Nile Street in Leeds where his
occupation was that of a labourer, all as confirmed on the St Peter’s Parish
Register for the birth of his son. In
1841 his wife Elizabeth, with a rounded age of 40, featured in the North
Leeds census that year, when she was living there with just her two daughters
Mary, who was 10, and Elizabeth who was seven. Where her son and husband were on that
occasion is not known, nor have they been identified at any time thereafter,
so it may be safe to assume that both of them had passed away before 1841. |
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Previously placed in error in this family was their assumed son
William Fenton Collett, while the son of Henry and Elizabeth Collett was
simply William Collett who was born at Leeds on 12th April 1829
and baptised at St Peter’s Church in the city on 10th May
1829. William Fenton Collett on the
other hand was born on 13th July 1824 and was baptised at St
Peter’s Church on 30th August 1824, the son of matting weaver
George Collett of York Street in Leeds and his wife Elizabeth. Further details of this ‘unplaced’ member
of another Collett family from Leeds can be found in Appendix Two. |
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55P15
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William Collett |
Born in 1829
at Leeds |
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55P16
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Mary Ann Collett |
Born in 1831
at Leeds |
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55P17
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Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1833
at Leeds |
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55O13
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Sarah Collett was born at Leeds in 1813, where she
was baptised on 11th June 1813 at St Peter’s Church, the daughter
of Richard and Sarah Collett. It has
been assumed that she died within the next year, since the third child born
into the family was also given the name Sarah. |
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55O14
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Sarah Collett was born at Leeds where she was
baptised on 15th May 1815 at St Peter’s Church, the daughter of
Richard Collett and his wife Sarah Shepherd.
Sarah was in her twenty-first year when she married James Barnett at
St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 1st September 1835. |
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55O15
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Maria Collett was baptised Thornes near Wakefield on
3rd March 1819, the daughter of Richard and Sarah Collett,
although in the parish register the surname was recorded as Collet. It seems rather curious that Sarah was
baptised at Thornes, while all of her siblings were born and baptised in
Leeds. Perhaps it was her father’s
work that took him and his family the few miles south to the Wakefield area
for just a short while, before returning to Leeds where his last child was
born. |
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55O16 |
William
Collett
was born at Leeds, where he was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 16th
August 1825, the youngest child of Richard Collett and Sarah Shepherd. Not much is known about him except that he
later married Emma Petty at Leeds on 17th August 1847 when they
were both 21 years of age, when it was reported in the Leeds Mercury that William
had been in Africa just prior to his wedding day. No record of the couple has been positively
identified within any census return, but in 1871, Emma Collett aged 46 and a
widow from Holbeck in Leeds, was living at Headingley-cum-Burley with her two
children who had born been born in Brazil.
Maria Collett was 19 and Caroline was 15, and completing the household
was elderly domestic servant Mary Robinson from Farnley in Yorkshire, who was
66. |
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55P18
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Maria Collett |
Born in 1851
at Leeds; died in 1876 |
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55P19
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Caroline Collett |
Born in 1855
at Leeds |
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55O17
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John Collett was born at Wakefield in 1814 and was
the eldest son of Robert and Elizabeth Collett. He was baptised at All Saints Church in
Wakefield on 10th September 1814 and he later married Mary Gardam
who was born at North Newbold near Market Weighton during 1817. The wedding took
place at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 21st June 1840 and the
marriage register contained the following information. John was a joiner, like his father, who was
residing at York Street in Leeds, and was of full age and the son of Robert
Collett. His bride Mary was the
daughter of William Gardam, a labourer, and was residing at Little Bridge
Street in Leeds. It was also at Leeds
that the couple’s five children were born between 1840 and 1854. |
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On the occasion of the first national census in 1841 John was
away from the family home in Leeds, so it was only his wife and their first
child who were recorded in the North Leeds census in June that year. Mary Collett was given a rounded age of 20,
when she was actually nearer 23, and her son Joseph was one year old,
although in all probability he was well under one year old since his parents
had only married exactly one year earlier.
Three more children were added to the family during the next decade,
as confirmed by the next census in 1851, when the family was living on Benson
Street in Leeds. John Collett was 36
and a joiner, his wife Mary was 33, and their four children were Joseph who
was 10, Maria who was six, Hannah who was four, and Jane E Collet who was two
years old. |
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During the next decade, the family moved the very short distance
from Benson Street, around the corner into Bristol Street, which forms a
crossroads with Benson Street within the Sheepscar area of Leeds. And it was there that the family was
recorded in the next census in 1861.
By then the family was missing the couple’s only son, who was married
and living nearby, when head of the household John Collett from Wakefield was
46 and a joiner, his wife Mary from Newbold was 43, and their four daughters
were Maria Collett aged 16 who was a sewing machine hand, as was Hannah
Collett who was 14, Jane E Collett who was 12 and still attending school, and
Margaret A Collett who was six years old.
It was just over two years later when John Collett died at Leeds, his
death recorded there (Ref. 9b 34) during the second quarter of 1863. Four years after losing her husband, Mary
had to suffer the loss of her daughter Jane, who died when she was only
eighteen years old. |
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That situation was confirmed in the Leeds census of 1871, when
Mary Collett from North Newbold was a widow who was 53 and a dressmaker and,
the only member of her family still living with her, was her youngest
daughter Margaret A Collett who was 16 and working as a tailoress. After a further ten years, Mary Collett aged 63 and from Newbold, near
Chesterfield, was living with her eldest married daughter Mary M Lee and her
family at 26 Grant Place in Leeds in 1881.
Ten years later, the census in 1891, included Mary Collett still
living with her daughter’s family in Leeds, but a Grant View, when she was
73. Mary survived for just under a
further four years, when her death was recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 61) during
the first quarter of 1895, when she was 77 years old. |
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Joseph Collett |
Born in 1841
at Leeds |
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55P21
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Mary Maria Collett |
Born in 1844
at Leeds |
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55P22
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Hannah Gardam Collett |
Born in 1847
at Leeds |
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55P23
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Jane
Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1849
at Leeds |
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55P24
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Margaret
Ann Collett |
Born in 1854 at
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55O18
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Ann Collett was born at Wakefield where she was
baptised on 11th December 1816, the second child and eldest
daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Collett.
With the speculation that her older brother John (above) may have been
married at Leeds sometime before 1840, it is also considered possible that
the entry within the parish records for St Peter’s Church in Leeds of the
marriage of Ann Collett in 1836 relates to Ann from nearby Wakefield. If so, then Ann Collett married Thomas
Tomkinson on 16th July 1836. |
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55P1
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Richard Henry Collett was born at Leeds on 22nd
November 1822, the eldest son of Charles Edwin Collett and Elizabeth
Wainwright. He was baptised at St
Peter’s Church on 26th May 1824 when he was eighteen months
old. On the occasion of the North
Leeds census in 1841, Richard Collett, with a rounded age of 15, was a
visitor at the home of his uncle Alfred Collett at Blezard Fold in
Leeds. It was also in Leeds on 25th
December 1847 that Richard married Ann Wood who was born on 23rd
May 1824 in the village of Chapel Allerton, three miles north of Leeds Township. Entry no. 52 in the Baptism Register for
1824 at St Mathews Church in Chapel Allerton (aka Chapeltown) confirms
that Ann, the daughter of labourer John Wood and his wife Margaret, was
baptised there on 18th July 1824. |
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However, new information received from Peter Collett Turnbull in
2011, has verified that Richard and Ann already had two children by the time
they were married. The births of those two children were
never registered, nor did their parents have them baptised, although it is
established that Margaret Mary Collett arranged her own baptism when she was
nearly 17 and living apart from her family.
By the time of the Leeds North census in
1851, the depleted family was living at Haymount Place where Ann had
presented Richard with four children but, tragically their first-born son,
Richard Henry Collett junior-the-first, did not survived beyond a few
weeks. Furthermore, their eldest child
and base-born daughter, Elizabeth would appear to have never lived with her
parents. Instead, she was living with
her maternal grandparents in 1851. |
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The family recorded at Haymount Place in 1851 comprised Richard
Collett, aged 28 and a cloth presser from Leeds, his wife Ann Collett from
Chapeltown (Leeds), who was also 28 and described as a cloth presser’s wife,
together with just two of their four children. They were Margaret Collett who was three
years old, and Charles who was eleven months old. Their eldest daughter Elizabeth Collett,
aged four years, was described as a visitor, rather than a grandchild, when
she was staying at the Leeds North home of John and Margaret Wood. Even more interestingly, after Elizabeth
was married to Charles Nowland, they and their family were living at 24
Haymount Place in 1881. All of the
couple’s eight children were born while Richard and Ann were living in Leeds,
although sadly, only four of them lived long enough to be married. In 1858 their eighth and last child was
born but, by then, two of the earlier children had already passed away. |
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All of that was confirmed in the North Leeds census of 1861 when
Richard H Collett was 38 and a cloth press setter, Ann Collett from
Chapeltown in Leeds was 37, Charles E Collett was 10, Eva A Collett was
eight, Richard H Collett was five, and Eliza Collett was three years
old. By that time, the couple’s eldest
daughter Elizabeth Collett, aged 16, was no longer living with her
grandparents but was living and working not far away in the West Leeds
registration district. So far though,
no record of her younger missing sister Margaret has been found in 1861. Later that same year, Richard’s son and
namesake died and, three years after that, Richard and Ann had their two
youngest daughters baptised at Quarry Hill in Leeds when they were ten and
six years old respectively. |
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Six years after that event, it was just the two youngest
daughters who were still living with Richard and Ann in Leeds. According to the census in 1871, the
reduced family was made up of Richard Henry Collett who was 47 and a cloth
presser, who gave his place of birth as Huddersfield, Ann Collett from Leeds
who was 46, Eva A Collett who was 17 and a card-cutter, and Eliza Collett who
was 13 and still attending school. The
birthplace for the two girls also being recorded as Huddersfield. By that time, their son Charles was living
and working within the Walmgate district of the City of York, while both of
the couple’s two eldest daughters were married. |
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Seven years later, in 1878 the couple’s youngest daughter Eliza
died at home in Leeds at the age of 20, and it is curious that neither
Richard nor his wife Ann have been located three years later in the census of
1881. What is known is that it was at
Leeds that Richard Henry Collett died on 13th July 1889, following
which he was buried at Beckett Street Cemetery in Leeds, grave reference
7121. The death of Richard Henry
Collett was recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 231) during the third quarter of 1889,
when he was 65 years of age. The Will
of Richard Henry Collett was proved at York on 12th August 1889,
with his widow Ann named as the main beneficiary. However, less than two years later, widow
Ann Collett was 66 years old when she was living at 3A Nippet Place in Leeds
with her unmarried daughter Eva A Collett, the only person living there with
her. Eva was a worsted weaver at the
age of 37. Ann Collett nee Wood died
at Leeds five and a half years later, when she passed away on 9th
October 1896, following which she was reunited with her late husband in the
same grave at Beckett Street Cemetery.
Her death, at the age of 72, was recorded at Leeds register office
(Ref. 9b 354) during the fourth quarter of 1896. |
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The headstone marking the grave bears the inscription “In Memory of ELIZA COLLETT daughter of
Richard Henry and Ann Collett who died October 6th 1878 aged 20
years. Also the above named RICHARD
HENRY COLLETT who died July 13th 1889 aged 65 years. Also ANN wife of the above who died October
9th 1896 aged 72 years. Beneath
these are the names of members of the Jakeman family, the eldest daughter of
Elizabeth Nowland nee Collett, Ann Eliza Jakeman nee Nowland and three of her
five children. See full details under
Ref. 55Q1. |
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55Q1
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Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1846
at Leeds |
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55Q2
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Margaret Mary Collett |
Born in 1847
at Leeds |
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55Q3
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Richard Henry Collett |
Born in 1849
at Leeds |
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55Q4
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Charles Edwin Collett |
Born in 1850
at Leeds |
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55Q5
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Ann Eliza Collett |
Born in 1852
at Leeds |
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55Q6
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Eva Ann Collett |
Born in 1854
at Leeds |
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55Q7
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Richard Henry Collett |
Born in 1856
at Leeds |
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55Q8
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Eliza Collett |
Born in 1858
at Leeds |
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55P2
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Eliza Mary Collett was born in Leeds where she was
baptised at St Peter’s Church on 23rd November 1825, the eldest
daughter of Charles Edwin Collett and his wife Elizabeth Wainwright. By June 1841 Eliza Collett was 15 and was
living and working within the West Leeds registration district, while her brother
Richard (above) was staying with their uncles. Those two facts may indicate that their
parents had passed away by then. With
no later record of Eliza Mary Collett found in 1851, it may be safe to assume
that she was married by then. |
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55P3
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Juliana Collett was born in Leeds and was baptised
there on 7th April 1828 at the parish Church of St Peter, the
daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Collett.
No record of her has been found in the census of 1841 when she would
have been nearly 13, nor at any time thereafter. |
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55P4
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Richard Collett was born at Leeds in 1829 at Leeds,
the eldest son of Alfred Collett and Elizabeth Liversedge. It was two years later that he was baptised
at St Peter’s Church in Leeds, the same service on 17th March 1831
also including the baptism of his younger brother Alfred (below). In the June census of 1841 Alfred and
Elizabeth Collett and their family were living at Blezard Fold, off Meadow
Lane, in Leeds. The census return
listed the family under the name Collet, when Richard Collett was12 years of
age. Also living with the family was
another Richard Collett who had a rounded age of 15, the two boys being first
cousins. Ten
years later in 1851, Richard was 21 when he was working as a clerk and
book-keeper at a local woollen warehouse, while he was still living at the
family home with his parents at Queen Square, Little London in Leeds. After a further ten years Richard was the
only sibling still living in Leeds with his parents, and by that time they
were residing at 6 Marlborough Street in Leeds, where Richard Collett was 31
and employed as a press setter. He was
recorded living alone within the Bramley & Wortley area of Leeds in 1871
when he was 40, and it was seven years after that when unmarried Richard
Collett died during the last quarter of 1878, when he was 49, his death being
recorded at the register office in Leeds (Ref. 9b 425). |
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55P5
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Alfred
Collett was born at
Leeds on 1st January 1831.
He was ten weeks old when he was baptised in a joint ceremony with his
older brother Richard (above) at the Leeds parish Church of St Peter on 17th
March 1831, when their parents were confirmed as grocer Alfred Collett and
his wife Elizabeth who were residing at Meadow Lane in Leeds. By June 1841
Alfred and his family were living at Blezard Fold just off Meadow
Lane, when he was 10 years old. In 1851 Alfred was 20 and was still living
at the home of his parents at Queen Square in Little London, Leeds when his
occupation was stated as being that of a printer. |
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Alfred was twenty-four years old when he married (1) Maria
Vevers at the parish church in Wakefield on Monday 23rd April
1855. During the next fifteen years
Maria presented Alfred with three sons, the first two born while the couple
were living in Leeds, and the last after the family had moved to Broadbent
Street in Horton, Bradford. By the time of the census in 1861 the
marriage had produced two sons for Alfred and Maria. The census for West Leeds recorded the
family as Alfred Collett who was 30, Maria Collett who was 26, and their two
sons Henry P Collett who was three, and Charles Collett who was two years
old, both of them having been born at Leeds. |
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In
1871 the family was living within the North Leeds registration district where
Alfred Collett was 40, his wife Maria Collett was 36, and their three sons
were Henry Prince Collett, who was 12, Charles Collett, who was 11, and
Arthur Edward Collett who was two years of age, who had been born in the
Horton area of Bradford. The family
was still living in Leeds ten years later in 1881. The census that year recorded them residing
at 10 Blundell Street in Leeds, where Alfred Collett from Leeds was 50 years
old and described as a plumber and a painter.
Blundell Street is still there
today and lies between the A58(M) Inner Ring Road and the General
Infirmary. His wife Maria, also
from Leeds, was 47 and still living with the couple were two of their three
sons, Charles Collett who was 21, and Arthur Collett from Bradford who was 12
and still attending school. The
couple’s eldest son Henry was married by then. Also by that time, Alfred’s two oldest sons
had taken up similar occupations to their father and perhaps even worked
together. |
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Just over seventeen years after the birth of their third and
last child, Maria died on 27th December 1886 at the age of 52, she
having been born on 29th April 1834 and baptised at Leeds on 25th
December 1834. Two years later in 1888
Alfred was in Leeds where he married (2) Jane Hennries during the second
quarter of that year. Three years on
from their wedding day, Alfred and Jane were recorded together in the next
census in 1891 living in Hunslet. On
that occasion they were listed under the name of Collet, when Alf Collet was
60 and his wife Jane Collet was 58. It
was just over six years after that, and having only enjoyed nine years
together, when Alfred Collett died on 3rd August 1897. |
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Over two-hundred-years before Alfred married Marie Vevers,
another Collett/Vevers marriage took place at Barwick-in-Elmet during 1631,
only sixteen miles from Wakefield. The
details for that couple, Ralph Collett (Ref. 36I1) and Anne Vevers, can be
found in Part 36 – The Barwick-in-Elmet (Leeds) Line. |
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55Q9
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Henry Prince Collett |
Born in 1857
at Leeds |
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55Q10
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Charles Collett |
Born in 1859
at Leeds |
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55Q11
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Arthur Edward
Collett |
Born in 1869
at Horton, Bradford |
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55P6
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Mary Emily Collett was born at Leeds in 1833, the youngest
of the three children of Alfred Collett and Elizabeth Liversedge. She was around four years of age when she
was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 27th February 1837,
and was eight years old at living at Blezard Fold in Leeds with her family in
June 1841. She was listed simply as
Mary Collett again in 1851 when she was still living at the family home at
Queens Queen Square in Little London, Leeds
when she was 17. It was just over six
years after that when she was married by banns to widower Joseph Lynch
Crowther at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 13th May 1857. Mary Emily Collett of Park Square in Leeds
was 24 and the daughter of Alfred Collett, a gentleman, while Joseph was 28
and a woollen merchant, the son of Joseph Crowther. |
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55P7
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Maria Collett was born at Leeds in 1832, the eldest
child of William Collett and Sarah Dufton.
Maria was baptised at the Leeds parish Church of St Peter’s on 12th
August 1832. She was eight years old
in the Leeds census of 1841, and was 18 years of age by the time of the Leeds
census in 1851 when she was still living there with her family. |
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55P8
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Sara Ann Collett was born at Leeds in 1835 and it was
there at St Peter’s Church that she was baptised on 28th February
1836, the second child of William and Sarah Collett. It was simply as Sarah that she was
recorded living with her parents at Leeds in 1841, when she was five, and
again in 1851 when she was 15. |
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55P12
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Henry Collett was born at Leeds in late 1828, the
eldest child of John Shepherd Collett and Mary Robinson who were married
during January that same year. He was
baptised at St Peter’s Church on 26th December 1830 in a joint
ceremony with his younger brother Richard Isaac Collett (below). What happened to him over the next few
decades has still to be discovered while in 1891, Henry Collett aged 65 and a
retired printer compositor, was living at 9 Castle Place in Portsea, at the
home of his younger brother John William Collett (below). Just over five years later Henry Collett of
Kent Road in Southsea, a gentleman, died on 12th April 1896, his
death recorded at Portsea Island register office (Ref. 2b 285) when he was 70
years of age. The executor of his
estate was his brother John William Collett, a gold beater, his personal
effects valued at £2,077 – the equivalent of £209, 000 in 2014. |
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55P13
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Richard Isaac Collett
was born at Leeds in
1830 and was baptised with his brother Henry Collett (above) on 26th
December 1830 at St Peter’s Church. He
was twenty years of age when he married Mary Ann Few at Bath, in Somerset,
during the fourth quarter of 1850.
Mary was also born in 1830, but at Potterne near Devizes in
Wiltshire. Mary was very likely with-child
on their wedding day since, several months later, according to the Devizes
census at the end of March in 1851, Richard Collett was 21, his wife Mary was
20 and their son John Collett was just a few weeks old. |
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Ten
years later, the next census in 1861, recorded Richard Collett, aged 31 and
from Leeds, having the occupation of a wool-stapler, and Mary Ann as 30 years
old, living at Bridewell Street in Devizes with their first three
children. They were John Collett who
was 10, Mary Collett who was eight, and Richard J Collett who was three years
old, all born at Devizes. Sadly,
Richard only survived until the summer of 1870 when he died at the age of 12,
so the couple named their next son Richard, as confirmed by the census in
1881. |
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All
of the couple’s first seven children were born while the family was living at
Devizes but, by 1869, they had moved to Winchester in Hampshire. At that time in early April 1871, Mary was
expecting the birth of the couple’s nineth and last child who was born at
Winchester later that year. Pregnant
Mary was 40 and her husband Richard was 41 and employed as a
wool-sorter. Their six children on
that occasion were John Collett who was 20, Mary Collett who was 18, Charles
Collett who was seven, Annie Collett who was five, Alfred Collett who was
four, and Emily Collett who was two years old. |
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In the spring of 1881 Richard and Mary and their family were
living at 13 North Walls in
the St Bartholomew Hyde area of Winchester. Richard was a wool sorter aged 51 from
Leeds, Mary A Collett was 50 and from Devizes, and just the couple’s three
youngest surviving children were still living there with them. They were Alfred who was 14 and an
apprentice to a wool sorter – perhaps working with his father, Emily who was
12 and still at school, and Richard J Collett who was nine years old and born
at Winchester. |
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The youngest of those three children was just twelve years old
when Richard Isaac Collett died in Winchester during the last quarter of 1883
and was survived by his widow Mary for nearly a further twenty years. By
the time of the census in 1891, Mary A Collett was 60 and who was living on
her owns mean, while again residing at North Walls in Winchester. The only member of her family still living
there with her was her unmarried daughter Emily who was 22 years of age and a
dressmaker. Mary Ann Collett was still living in the Bartholomew Hyde area of
Winchester in March 1901 when she was 70 years of age and again described as
living on her own means. On that
census day Mary Ann had a servant/companion Ann Butler for was 72. Nine month later, the death of Mary Ann
Collett nee Frew was recorded at Winchester
register office (Ref. 2c 328) during the first three months of 1902, at the
age of 71. Her Will was proved
at Winchester on 3rd February 1902, which confirmed she passed
away on 6th January 1902, and that the first named beneficiary was
her son Richard James Collett, while her older son Charles Collett was named
within the Will. |
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In 2021 it was discovered that Richard and Mary Ann Collett had
a further child, their daughter Frances Mary Collett who was baptised at
Winchester on 26th March 1871, when she may have been around one
year old. However, she was not listed
with her family in the census of 1871, which was conducted on the 2nd
April that year. Also, no later
recorded of her has been found. |
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55Q12
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John Collett |
Born in 1851
at Devizes |
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55Q13
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Mary
Collett |
Born in 1852
at Devizes |
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55Q14
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Richard James
Collett |
Born in 1857
at Devizes |
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55Q15
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Charles
Collett |
Born in 1863
at Devizes |
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55Q16
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Annie Collett |
Born in 1865
at Devizes |
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55Q17
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Alfred Collett |
Born in 1866
at Devizes |
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55Q18
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Emily Collett |
Born in 1868
at Devizes |
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55Q19
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Frances Mary Collett |
Born in 1870
at Winchester |
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55Q20
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Richard James Collett |
Born in 1871
at Winchester |
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55P14
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John William Collett was born at Leeds on 20th
August 1836 and was the youngest of the three sons of John Shepherd Collett
and Mary Robinson. He was later
baptised on 1st January 1837 at the parish Church of St Peter’s in
Leeds. His mother
died when he was two years old, after which his father, a printer compositor,
took the family to London. By the age
of 14, he was a ‘scholar preparing for sea’ at Woolwich Dockyard. He later married Fanny Fletcher at the Church of St John the
Baptist in Shoreditch, London on 20th February 1860, Fanny having
been born at Eaton Socon near St Neots in Bedfordshire in 1835. The
couple’s first three children were born while they were living in London, the
first and third at St Lukes and the second at St Pancras, although all three
sons were baptised at Eaton Socon.
Around 1865, the family moved to Hampshire and it was at Southsea that
their remaining children were born. |
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However,
four years earlier, and within the census of 1861, John Collett from Leeds
was 24 and a gold beater living at Mary Street off the Hampstead Road in the
St Pancras area of London with his wife Fanny who was 23, their first two
children Henry who was four and John who was two, and his elder brother Henry
Collett from Leeds who was 32 and a compositor. By 1871, gold beater John Collett from Leeds
was 34, and Fanny Collett from Eaton was also 34, who had four of their five
children living with them in Southsea.
They were John W Collett from London who was 10, Newton Collett who
was nine and also born in London, Mary Collett who was five, Harry Collett
who was two and Archie who was only a few months old. Staying with the family that day was John’s
widowed father John S Collett from Leeds who was 63, and Fanny’s brother John
W Fletcher aged 17 from Eaton who was an apprentice gold beater. It is not known where their missing son
Joseph was at that time, even though he would have been around seven years of
age and was recorded with the family in 1881.
Another son Ernest who would have been eight years of age in 1881, was
absent that year, who was again recorded with the family in 1891. It is possible both sons may have been
attending boarding school or in hospital somewhere. In total, John and Fanny had twelve
children and also owned a cottage in the village of Headley in Hampshire,
although in 1891 two grandchildren were living with the family and confused
as two more children of John and Fanny in error. |
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By 1881 both John and his brother Richard (above) were living in
Hampshire, John and his family living at 9 Castle Place in Portsea, from where 45-year-old John W
Collett from Leeds was employed as a gold beater. His wife Fanny from Eaton Socon in Bedford
was also 45 years old. All nine of
their children, apart from the aforementioned Ernest, including Joseph who
was absent ten years earlier, were still living with the couple at that time,
and they were sons John W Collett aged 21 and Joseph Collett aged 17, both of
whom had been born at St Lukes in London, Newton Collett who was 19 and born
at St Pancras, Mary Collett who was 15, Harry Collett who was 12, Archie
Collett who was 10, Daisy Collett who was eight, Willie Collett who was four,
and May Collett who was ten months old, and all of them born at Southsea. |
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According to the next census in 1891, the family was again
living at 9 Castle Place in Portsea.
By that time John William Collett (Jno Wm Collitt) was 56 and a
gold-leaf manufacturer, his wife Fanny Collett was 52 and their six children
were named as Harry Collett who was 22, Archie Collett who was 20, Ernest
Collett who was 18, Daisy Collett who was 17, William Collett who was 14 and
May Collett who was 10. The couple’s married,
and since widowed, daughter Mary Davis Collett, aged 25, and her three
children, Lilian aged four and three-year-old twins Olivia and Mabel were
also living at the address, together with John’s eldest brother Henry Collett
who was 65. |
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In
1901 John W Collett from Leeds was 64, a gold beater and an employer who was
residing at 14 Cottage Grove in Portsmouth his wife Fanny who was 63 and his
unmarried son Ernest who was working for his father. The family employed a housemaid, Lizzie
Fleet who was 15. Just five months
after the March 31st census day, John William Collett of Southsea died at Cherry Tree Cottage in the village of Headley,
north-east of Winchester, on 3rd September 1901. Probate for his considerable estate of £23,386
4 Shillings (today over £2M) was granted in London on 17th January
1902 jointly to his widow Fanny Collett, his sons
John William Collett, a wine and spirit merchant, and Ernest Collett, a gold
beater, and William Stride, a gentleman.
His death was recorded at Alton register office during the third
quarter of 1901, aged 65, after which he was buried in Portsmouth. It was around eighteen months after his
passing that Fanny Collett nee Fletcher died when she was still living in Southsea,
with her death recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 345) during
the first three months of 1903 when she was 64. |
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55Q21
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Henry Edward Collett |
Born in 1857
at London St Luke’s |
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55Q22
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John William Collett |
Born in 1859
at London St Luke’s |
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55Q23
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Newton Collett |
Born in 1861 at
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55Q24
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Joseph Henry Collett |
Born in 1863
at London |
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55Q25
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Mary Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1865
at Southsea |
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55Q26
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Edwin Collett |
Born in 1867
at Southsea |
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55Q27
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Harry Collett |
Born in 1869
at Southsea |
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55Q28
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Archie Collett |
Born in 1870
at Southsea |
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55Q29
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Ernest Collett |
Born in 1872
at Southsea |
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55Q30
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Daisy Collett |
Born in 1874
at Southsea |
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55Q31
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Willie Collett |
Born in 1876
at Southsea |
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55Q32
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May
Collett |
Born in 1880
at Southsea |
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55P15
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William Collett was born at Nile Street in Leeds on 12th April 1829 and was baptised at St Peter’s
Church in the city on 10th May 1829, the first child of
labourer Henry Collett and his wife Elizabeth. By the time of the first national census in
1841 both William and his father were missing from the family home in Leeds,
leaving just William’s mother and his two sisters Mary Ann and Elizabeth
(below). With no record of either of
them in any later census it has been assumed that both had suffered a
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55P16
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Mary Ann Collett was born at Leeds in 1831 and was
baptised there at St Peter’s Church on 10th July 1831, the eldest
of the two daughters of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. It was simply as Mary Collett, aged 10
years, that she was recorded in the Leeds North census of 1841, when she was
living there with just her mother and her sister (below). Sometime during the 1840s the three of them
left Leeds and moved to Hunslet, where they were living in 1851 when Mary was
19. |
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55P17
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Elizabeth Collett was born at Leeds in 1833 where she
was baptised on 27th January 1834 at the parish church of St
Peter, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. She was seven years old in the Leeds census
on 1841, by which time her father may have died because she was living with
just her mother and her older sister (above).
Ten years later, when she was 17, it was once again just the three of
them living together, but by then they were residing within the Hunslet
registration area. |
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55P20
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Joseph Collett was born at Leeds in early 1841
following his parents’ marriage in June the previous year. He was one year old in the Leeds census of
1841 when he was the only child living with his mother Mary Collett nee
Gardam, while it is not yet known where his father John was on that
occasion. At the age of ten in 1851,
he was residing in the family home in Leeds with his parents and his first
three sisters. By the time of the next
Leeds census in 1861, Joseph was married to Elizabeth, although the childless
couple was recorded under the Callett spelling on their surname. Joseph was 20 and Elizabeth was 19, while neither
of them was listed in the next census of 1871, or in any census thereafter. |
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55P21
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Mary Maria Collett was born at Leeds in 1844, the eldest
of the four daughters of John and Mary Collett. It was as Maria that she was recorded with
her family in 1851 when she was six years old, and again in 1861 when she was
16. Eight years later, around the age
of twenty-five, she married Alan Lee who was born at Leeds in 1841. The marriage took place at Leeds during the
second quarter of 1869 and resulted in the birth of one daughter and three
sons. All
four children were born at Leeds, and they were Jane E Lee (1869-); Joseph
R Lee (1872-); William Lee (1876-); and Christopher Lee
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According
to the census in 1881, Allan Lee from Leeds was 38 and his occupation was
that of a glue boiler, while his wife Mary M Lee was 36 and a tailoress. Living with the family of six at 26 Grant
Place in Leeds on the day of the census that year was Mary’s widowed mother
Mary Collett, aged 63, who had been born at Newbold near Chesterfield. By the turn of the century the family was
living at Potternewton in Yorkshire and comprised Alan, aged 59, who was by
then working as a shopkeeper in a greengrocer’s, Mary (Maria) was 56, and
their children were Joseph aged 28, who was a restaurant waiter, William aged
26 who was a general smith and millwright, and Christopher who was 22 and
working as a tailor’s cutter. |
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55P22
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Hannah Gardam Collett was the third child of joiner John
Collett and Mary Gardam and was born at Leeds on 14th February
1847 where her birth was recorded (Ref. 23 435) during the first three months
of that year. It was also as Hannah
Gardam Collett that she was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 26th
December 1847, but in the following two census returns she was simply
recorded as Hannah Collett aged four years and 14 years of age in 1861. She was twenty-one years old when she
married Joseph Darnley in Leeds during the second quarter of 1868 (Ref. 9b
583). Hannah
lived a long life and was 84 when she passed away in Leeds on 28th
July 1931 and her death was recorded at the Leeds North register office (Ref.
9b 261) in the third quarter of that year.
At that time in her life, she was a widow residing at 24 Bayswater Grove in Leeds, while her Will
was proved in London on 19th August 1931. Probate of her personal effects valued at
£468 14 Shillings 1 Penny was granted to Margaret Hannah Lee, a spinster. |
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55P23 |
Jane Elizabeth Collett was born at Leeds in 1849, another daughter to John and
Mary Collett, her birth recorded there (Ref. xxiii 13) during the first three
month of the year. As Jane E Collett,
aged two years, she and her family were residing at Benson Street in Leeds in
1851. After a further ten years, the
family home was at Sheepscar on Bristol Street, immediately adjacent to
Benson Street, where Jane E Collett was twelve years old and still at
school. Six years later, when she was
only 18, the death of Jane Elizabeth Collett was recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b
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55P24 |
Margaret Ann Collett was born at Leeds in 1854, the last child of John
Collett and Mary Gardam. Her birth was
recorded there (Ref. 9b 34) during the fourth quarter of the year. It was at Bristol Street in the Sheepscar
area of Leeds where six-year-old Margaret was living with her family in
1861. The family then suffered the
loss of first Margaret’s father in 1863 and then her sister Jane (above) in
1867. That left Margaret A Collett, aged 16 and working as a tailoress,
as the only child still living with her widowed mother in 1871. Four years later, the marriage of Margaret
Ann Collett was recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 167) during the third quarter of
1875, when she was 21 years of age.
For whatever reason, no record of Margaret and her husband has been
identified after their wedding, perhaps they sailed away from England before
1881. The two possible gentlemen are
Joseph Garr Birdwistle who was born in 1854, who died at Leeds in 1921, and
Thomas Edward Blundell who was born at Leeds in 1856. |
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55Q1
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Elizabeth Collett was born at Leeds in 1846, around
eighteen months before her parents Richard Henry Collett and Ann Wood were
married on Christmas Day in 1847. Like
her sister Margaret (below) Elizabeth was not baptised by her parents, nor
was she living with them in 1851, when she was a visitor at the Leeds North
home of her grandparents John and Margaret Wood. How long she lived with her grandparents is
not known, but after a further ten years Elizabeth Collett was recorded in
the West Leeds census of 1861 as being 16 years of age and a woollen weaver,
while her family and her grandparents were still living in the North Leeds
registration district. |
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It was six years later that Elizabeth married Charles William
Nowland at Leeds during the first quarter of 1867. Charles was a stationary engine driver who
had been born at Leeds around 1842, and over the following years he and
Elizabeth had a son and four daughters.
In 1871 Elizabeth Knowland was living in the same area of Leeds as her
parents, when she was 25 and her husband Charles was 28. By that time their marriage had produced
the first of their five children, with Charles Edwin Nowland being one
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The family was almost complete by 1881 when they were living at
24 Haymount Street in Leeds, the same Leeds thoroughfare where all of
Elizabeth’s younger Collett siblings were raised from 1848. Chas Nowland was 38 and an engine driver
from Hunslet, his wife Elizabeth Nowland was 35 and a cloth woollen weaver
from Leeds, and their four children were Chas Edwin Nowland who was ten, Ann
Eliza Nowland who was eight, Hilda Nowland who was four, and Ann
Elizabeth Nowland who was only one year old. It was during the next year that their
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According to the North Leeds census of 1891, the family was
residing at Moorhouse View, where Charles Nowland was 49 and a stationery
engine driver, Elizabeth Nowland was 45, Charles E Nowland was 21, Ann E
Nowland was 18, Hilda Nowland was 14, and Amy Nowland was eight years
old. It is curious that the missing
younger daughter, also named Ann E Nowland, was recorded within the Bradford
West Riding registration district, at the Wyke home of Elizabeth’s younger
brother Charles Edwin Collett (below) and his wife Sarah. It is possible that eleven-year-old Ann
Elizabeth Nowland (niece) from Leeds was being schooled by her uncle Charles
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It may have been Charles Nowland’s work which resulted in the
family leaving Leeds and moving the short distance south to the town of
Morley near Dewsbury, which is where they were living in March 1901. Charles, aged 58, was a stoker on a
stationary engine, his wife Elizabeth was 52 (sic), and it was just their
three youngest daughters who were still living with the couple. It is assumed that their son Charles and
their eldest daughter Ann had left home to be married, as they would have
been 31 and 28 respectively. The three
daughters still living with Charles and Elizabeth were Hilda who was 24 and a
woollen weaver, Anne who was 21 and also a woollen weaver, and Amy who was 19
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It was exactly the same situation in 1909, with the same five
members of the family still living together at Morley within the Dewsbury
registration district. Sadly, during
the third quarter of that year Charles Nowland passed away, so by April 1911
his widow was still recorded as living at Morley with her three unmarried
daughters. Elizabeth Nowland from
Leeds was 65, Hilda Nowland of Leeds was 34, Ann Elizabeth Nowland from Leeds
was 31, and Amy Nowland from Leeds was 29.
It was after a further fourteen years, when Elizabeth Nowland nee
Collett was nearly 80 that she died in 1925, her death being recorded by the
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Her eldest daughter Ann Eliza Nowland had married boot-maker
Fred Jakeman during the first quarter of 1891, which was confirmed by the
census that year, which listed Fred Jakeman as 21 and his wife Annie as
19. The marriage produced five
children for the couple before the end of the century, and all of them born
in Leeds. They were Fred Jakeman, who
was born in 1893, Lawrence Jakeman, who was born in 1894, Richard Henry
Jakeman, who was born in 1895, Charles Jakeman, who was born in 1896, and
Elizabeth Jakeman who was born in 1897.
The reason there were no more child after that was because Ann Eliza’s
husband died not long after the start of the new century. |
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What is interesting is the headstone on the grave of Ann Eliza’s
grandparents Richard Henry Collett and his wife Ann Wood at Beckett Street
Cemetery in Leeds also bears the details of the passing of Ann Eliza Jakeman,
a shopkeeper of Leeds, who died on 17th March 1926 aged 52, and
three of her children. Charles
Jakeman, who was killed in France on 4th October 1917, Richard
Henry Jakeman (no dates provided), and Ann Eliza Jakeman who died on 18th
January 1955 aged 58. |
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55Q2
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Margaret Mary Collett was born at Leeds on 14th
August 1847, the second daughter of Richard Henry Collett and Ann Wood who
were only married when Margaret was four months old. The Leeds North census in 1851 recorded the
only occasion when Margaret, aged three years, was living with her
parents. It is possible that Margaret,
like her older sister Elizabeth (above), was also placed in the care of
another family when further children were added to the family. Certainly, by the time of the census in
1861, Margaret was not living with her parents, nor has she been identified
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However, it
was just over three years later that Margaret, at the age of 17, arranged her
own baptism which took place on
11th May 1864 at St Stephen’s Church in Burmantofts, Leeds. She was twenty-two years old when she
married iron moulder William Dodgson at St. Peter’s Church in Leeds on 11th
July 1869. The marriage produced three
sons and two daughters for William and Margaret, who often used her second
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By the time of the North Leeds census of 1871 the couple had no
children living with them, when they were recorded as William Dodgson, aged
25, and Margaret Dodgson who was 23.
During the 1870 Margaret presented William with their first two
children, as confirmed by the census in 1881 when the family of four was
living at 4 Primrose Row in Leeds. Wm
Dodgson from Leeds was 35 and was still working as an iron moulder, his wife
Mary Dodgson was 33 and a charwoman from Leeds, while their two children were
Hetty who was four and already attending school, and Arthur who was two years
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The next three children were born during the following six years
so, by 1891, the complete family was listed as William Dodgson who was 45,
Margaret M Dodgson who was 43, Hetty Dodgson who was 14, Arthur
Dodgson who was 12, Richard H Dodgson who was nine, John
Dodgson who was six, and Maria Dodgson who was four. It was sometime between 1881 and 1901 that
William ceased to be an iron moulder, when he took up work as a labourer for
a chocolate manufacturer in Leeds, as confirmed in the March census of
1901. All five of his children were
still living in Leeds with him and Margaret on that occasion. William Dodgson was 55, Margaret M Dodgson
was 53, Hettie Dodgson was 24 and a dressmaker, Arthur Dodgson was 22 and a
book knitter, Richard H Dodgson was 19 and an iron turner, John Dodgson was
16 and a French polisher, and Maria Dodgson was 14. |
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Over the following decade, all bar one of their children left
the family home in Leeds, and in April 1911 William was 65, Mary was 63, and
unmarried son Arthur was 32. Their son
Richard Henry Dodgson, aged 29, was also still living in Leeds, and had with
him his wife Jane Ann, who was 27, and their first two children Bernard
Dodgson who was four, and William Dodgson who was one year old. William and Margaret’s youngest son John,
was unmarried at 26 years of age and was also living nearby in Leeds. |
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55Q3
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Richard Henry Collett was born at Leeds in 1849, the first
son born to Richard and Ann Collett.
Tragically he died later that same year, possibly when he was only a
few weeks old. He had not been
baptised and was buried in grave number15756 in Beckett Street Cemetery
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55Q4
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Charles Edwin Collett was born at Haymount Place in Leeds on
1st May 1850, his birth recorded at Leeds (Ref. xxiii 38) during
the second quarter of 1850. It was at
Haymount Place that he was around eleven months old in the Leeds census of
1851, when he and his three-year-old sister Margaret (above) were the only
two children living with their parents.
He was the fourth child and eldest surviving son of Richard Henry
Collett and Ann Wood and was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 17th
July 1853, in a joint ceremony with his sister Ann (below). And it was at Leeds where he lived with his
family during his early years. In 1861
he was ten years old and, by 1871, at the age of 20, Charles E Collett from
Leeds was a schoolmaster in training and a boarder attending a teacher-training
college within the York parish of St Maurice. |
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Ten
years later, at the age of 30, Charles E Collett from Leeds, was an unmarried
school teacher living in Greasbrough, near Rotherham. In the census of 1881, he was a boarder at
the home of blacksmith George P Whittington at Carlton House, 2 Greenside in
Greasbrough, while it was one year after that, when he eventually became a
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He
was around thirty-two years of age when he married twenty-six-year-old Sarah
Bennett on 17th August 1882.
The wedding was recorded at Bramley in Leeds (Ref. 9b 374), where
Sarah had been born in 1856. Once
married the couple appear to have settled at Wyke, within the parish of
Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
It was there also that the couple was recorded in the census of 1891,
when Charles E Collett was 40 and an elementary schoolteacher. His wife Sarah Collett was 34, and living
with them was their niece Ann Elizabeth Nowland, aged 11 and from Leeds, the
daughter of Charles’ older married sister Elizabeth Nowland nee Collett (above). |
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Judging by that census, and the next one in March 1901, Charles
and Sarah never had any children, and by 1901 they were living at Bewerley
Street in Hunslet, where 50-year-old Charles was a grocer and a shopkeeper
from Leeds, while his wife Sarah from Bramley was 44, most likely helping her
husband in the shop. No record of
either of them has been found in the census of 1911, which is understandable
for Sarah, as her death was recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 47)
during the first three months of 1911, when she was 54 years old. The later death of Charles E Collett was
recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 22) during the fourth quarter of
1914, when he was 63 years of age. |
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55Q5
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Ann Eliza Collett was born at Leeds on 12th
October 1852, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 9b 6). She was baptised with her older brother
Charles (above) at St Peter’s Church on 17th July 1853. Sadly, she was one of the four children of
Richard and Ann Collett who did not survive, when she died during the first
quarter of 1854, the premature death of Ann Eliza Collett recorded at Leeds
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55Q6
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Eva Ann Collett was born at Leeds on 2nd
April 1854, the daughter of Richard and Ann Collett, her birth recorded at
Leeds (Ref. 9b 20). She was ten years
old when she was baptised at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Quarry Hill,
Leeds on 26th June 1864, the same day that her sister Eliza (below)
was also baptised there. Eva Ann
Collett was eight years old in the census of 1861, and was 17 in 1871 when
she was still living in Leeds with her family where she was employed as a
woollen weaver. However, no record of
the family has been found in 1881.
Following the death of her father in 1889, Eva A Collett, aged 37, was a worsted weaver when she was again living
with her widowed mother at 3A Nippet Place in North-East Leeds at the time of
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Her
mother then passed away just over five years later, following which, on 2nd
June 1900, Eva Ann Collett married Sam Schofield, an engine fitter who was
born around 1856. Because of their
advanced years, the marriage did not produce any children for Eva and Sam. It was at Roseville Road in Leeds that the
couple was living in 1901, when Samuel and Eva were both 46 years old. Samuel was working as an engine fitter and
Eva A Schofield was employed as a cloth weaver. During that first decade of the new century
Eva was made a widow, as confirmed by the Chapel Allerton Leeds census, in
1911. By that time, she was managing a
lodging house at the age of 56. Three
other people were recorded at the lodging house and they were Samuel’s older
brother, Charles Schofield aged 60, Eva’s niece Eva Gatesman from Leeds who
was nine years old, and lodger Harry Walsh from Bradford who was 27. The death of Eva A Schofield nee Collett,
aged 82, was recorded at the Yorkshire Selby register office (Ref. 9c 98) during
the first quarter of 1937. |
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55Q7
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Richard Henry Collett was the second son of that name of
Richard Henry Collett and Ann Wood.
His older brother and namesake suffered an infant death five years
earlier. Richard Henry junior-the-second
was born at Leeds in 1855, his birth recorded there (Ref. 9b 9) during the
last three months of that year. As
Richard H Collett he was five years old in the Leeds census of 1861. Tragically, it was within the next three
months that Richard died, after which he was buried at Beckett Street
Cemetery in Leeds, grave number 7121, where his parents were later
buried. The death of Richard Henry
Collett was recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 33) during the third quarter of
1861. However, unlike his younger
sister Eliza (below) who was also buried in the same grave, there is no
mention of Richard on the family’s headstone. |
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55Q8
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Eliza Collett was born at Leeds on 10th
February 1858, the youngest child of Richard Henry Collett and his wife Ann
Wood, her birth recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 5). She was baptised at the Church of St Mary
the Virgin in the Quarry Hill area of Leeds on 26th June 1864 when
she was six years old. It was also
that same day that her older sister Eva Ann Collett was also baptised
there. Sadly, she died at home in
Leeds, where the death of Eliza Collett was recorded (Ref. 9b 30) during the
last three months of 1878, when she was 20 and unmarried. |
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55Q9
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Henry Prince Collett was born at Leeds during the month of
May in 1857, and was the eldest child of Alfred Collett and Maria
Vevers. It was in 1880 at Leeds that
he married Ellen Boyce who was born at Wookey in Somerset in November 1850. It was also at Wookey Parish Church that
she was baptised on 8th January 1851, and she was recorded as
being four months old at the time of the census in 1851. Shortly after they were married Henry and
Ellen were living at 2 Tramway Street in Leeds where Henry worked as a
plumber and painter, and possibly with his father Alfred who had the same
occupation. It
is known that the second of their three children was born while the family
was living at 2 Tramway Street in Leeds, so it is likely that all three
children were born there. It is also
very likely that it was at that same Leeds address where they all died, with
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It was at 34 Chapeltown Road in Leeds where Henry Prince Collett
was living when he died on 10th April 1890. Administration, with Will, was granted at
Wakefield on 12th May 1890 to Arthur Edward Collett (Henry’s
youngest brother, below), who by then was residing at the same address where
Henry had died, that being 34 Chapeltown Road. The brothers were both described as being
painters, while Henry’s personal estate was valued at £330 13 Shillings 3
Pence. Where his widow was exactly a
year later has not been discovered but, by March 1901, she was running a boarding
house at 59 Well Close Terrace in Leeds, and in the census that year she was
described as Ellen Collett, aged 49 from Wookey in Somerset, who was a
widow. Five separate and unrelated
individuals were staying at the boarding house, and they were spinster Jane
Anne Hislop, aged 39 and a milliner from Scotland, spinster Agnes Maud Grey,
aged 38, a draper’s assistant from Bristol, bachelor George Oliver Castle,
aged 30, a wine and spirit merchant from York, Wallace Gorton from Blackburn
who was 18 and a grocer’s assistant, and Sidney Clarke aged 12 from Leeds. |
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Ten years later in April 1911, Ellen Collett from Wookey in
Somerset was 59, when she was living alone in the Salford area of
Manchester. Ellen Collett nee Boyce
survived her husband by nearly forty-two years, when she died on 20th
December 1932. As regards her three
children, William Henry Collett’s birth was recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 211)
during the first quarter of 1883, with his death also recorded there (Ref. 9b
28) during the last three months of the same year. Florence Emily Collett’s birth was recorded
at Leeds (Ref. 9b 266) during the first quarter of 1883, with her death also
recorded there (Ref. 9b 281) during the last three months of the same
year. For Edith Collett, her birth was
also recorded at Leeds (Ref. 9b 120) during the third quarter of 1885, with
her death recorded within the same quarter of the same year (Ref. 9b 303). |
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55R1
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William Henry
Collett |
Born in 1883
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Florence
Emily Collett |
Born in 1884
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Edith Collett |
Born in 1885
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55Q10
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Charles Collett was born at Leeds in 1859, the son of
Alfred Collett and Maria Vevers. It
was also there that Charles married Annie Armenia Wilson on 30th
July 1884 at Leeds Parish Church.
Annie was born at Durham in 1860 and during the first six years of
their marriage she presented Charles with two children. Three years
earlier, according to the census in 1881, 21 years old Charles was a
paper hanger living at the home of his plumber and painter father Alfred
Collett at 10 Blundell Street in Leeds with whom he probably worked. Charles’ and
Annie’s first child, Sidney Vevers Collett, was named in honour of Charles’
mother who had died during the preceding twelve months. He, together with his brother Walter Eldred
Collett, was born while the couple were living in Leeds. By the time of the census in 1891
Charles was still living in Leeds where he was working as plumber at the age
of 31. Living there with him was his
wife Annie who was 30, and sons Sidney, who was three, and Walter who was not
yet one year old. |
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Ten
years later plumber Charles was 42, Annie was 41, and their two boys were 13
and 10 and were still attending school in Leeds. By April 1911 it was just Walter who was
still living with his parents in Leeds, as Sidney had joined the army and was
recorded as ‘overseas military’ at the age of 24. At that time Charles Collett was 51, his
wife Annie was 50, and their son Walter was 20. Charles Collett
died while at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield on 16th
October 1915, and his wife Annie lived on for a further fourteen years, until
she passed away on 19th February 1929. At that time in her life, Annie Amenia
Collett was residing at 62 Springfield Place in Leeds, but died in St Mary’s
Hospital in Leeds. Her Will was proved
at Wakefield on 7th June that same year, when her son Walter
Eldred Collett, a painter, was named as executor of her personal estate of
£336 14 Shillings 7 Pence. |
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55R4
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Sidney Vevers
Collett |
Born in 4th
Quarter of 1887 at Leeds |
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55R5
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Walter Eldred Collett |
Born in May 1890
at Leeds |
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55Q11
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Arthur
Edward Collett was born at 2 Broadbent Street in the Horton area of
Bradford on 6th February 1869.
He was the youngest child of Alfred Collett and Maria Vevers, and on
11th January 1893 he married (1) Ethel Haigh Wade at Leeds. Three years earlier Arthur was working as a
painter with his brother Henry Prince Collett (above) with whom he was living
at 34 Chapeltown Road in Leeds, when he was named as the Residuary Legatee at
the granting of administration of his brother’s estate following his death in
April 1890. It was also a tragic start
to married life for Arthur when, only a year after they were wed, the couple
had the joy of Ethel giving birth to a daughter. However, the joy was short lived when, just
a fortnight after the birth, Ethel died on 12th February 1894 and
that sad event was followed three weeks later by the death of their daughter,
who died on 3rd March 1894. |
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Following
four years as a widower, Arthur eventually married for a second time when he
married (2) Hannah Eliza ‘Annie’ Ackroyd.
The wedding ceremony took place at the Brunswick Chapel in Leeds on 7th
April 1898. Annie was born at 55
Glover Street in Leeds on 28th July 1870. From that marriage Arthur had four children
who were born at Leeds, and all of them, including Arthur and Annie lived
long lives. The only exception to that
was their daughter Kathleen who died just after the First World War as a
result of the flu pandemic. At the
time of the census in 1901, Arthur E Collett and his family were living at 34
Chapeltown Road in Leeds. At the age
of 32 his occupation was that of a master plumber and painter. His wife Hannah E Collett was 30 years old
and was expecting the imminent birth of the couple’s next child, who was born
twelve days later, while their daughter was Florence E Collett who was two
years old. |
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With
the addition of the three new children over the following years, by April
1911, the family still living in Leeds was recorded as Arthur Edward Collett
from Bradford who was 42, Hannah Eliza Collett from Leeds who was 40,
Florence Emily Collett, who was 12, Kathleen Collett, who was 10, Henry
Reginald Collett, who was seven, Winifred Lily Collett who was five years
old. And it was at 239 Chapeltown Road
in Leeds that Arthur was living when he died on 15th January
1947. Just over six years later his
wife Hannah Eliza ‘Annie’ Collett nee Ackroyd died in St James’ Hospital in
Leeds on 16th July 1953. |
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55R6
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Florence Ethel Collett |
Born in 1894
at Leeds |
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The following are the children of Arthur Edward Collett by his
second wife Hannah Eliza
Ackroyd: |
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55R7
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Florence Emily Collett |
Born in 1899
at Leeds |
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55R8
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Kathleen Collett |
Born in 1901
at Leeds |
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55R9
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Henry Reginald Collett |
Born in 1903
at Leeds |
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55R10
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Winifred Lily
Collett |
Born in 1906
at Leeds |
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55Q12 |
John Collett
was born at Devizes just after his parents were married in late 1850, or very
early in 1851, with his birth recorded there (Ref. viii 33) during the first
three months of 1851. He was living
with his parents at Devizes in 1851, when Richard Collett from Leeds was 21
and Mary Ann Collett nee Few from Potterne, two miles south of Devizes, was
20 and baby John was only a few months old.
Ten years later, when John was ten years of age and attending school,
he and his family were residing on Bridewell Street in Devizes during the
spring of 1861. Around nine years
later, the family travelled to Winchester in Hampshire, and it was also
around that same time that John’s mother was pregnant with the family’s
eighth child. In the Winchester census
of 1871, unmarried John Collett from Devizes was 20 years old and a
bookseller’s assistant, where his brother Richard (below) died shortly
after. It was during that period in
his life when he made the journey north to Yorkshire, the county of his
father’s birth. That move was
confirmed in the census in 1881, when John Collett from Devizes was an
unmarried lodger at the home of widow Betsy Ramsden and her large family at
Arundel Street in Wakefield, whose occupation was that of a bookseller and
the manager at Smiths Bookstall. No
obvious traced on him has been found after that day. |
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55Q13 |
Mary Collett
was born at Devizes in 1852, the eldest daughter of the ten known children of
Richard Isaac Collett from Leeds and Mary Ann Few of Devizes, her birth
recorded at Devizes (Ref. 5a 28) during the third quarter of that year. Mary was eight years of age in 1861 when
she and her family were living at Bridewell Street in Devizes. By 1871 the
family had settled in Hampshire and, in the census that year, was living in
Winchester where Mary Collett from Devizes was 18, with no stated
occupation. It is likely that she was
married during the following decade, since no record of Mary Collett from
Devizes has been found after 1871. |
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55Q14 |
Richard James Collett was born at Devizes in 1857, another son of Richard and
Mary Collett, whose birth was recorded at Devizes (Ref. 5a 28) during the
third quarter of the year. He may have
been born at Bridewell Street, where the family was recorded in the Devizes
census if 1861, when Richard J Collett was three years old. By 1871 the family had travelled from
Wiltshire to a new residence in Winchester, Hampshire where, one year
earlier, Richard died, the death of Richard James Collett recorded at
Winchester (Ref. 2c 79) during the second quarter of 1870, aged just 12
years. |
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55Q15 |
Charles Collett
was born at Devizes in 1863, his birth recorded there (Ref. 5a 157) during
the third quarter of the year. He was
another son of Richard and Mary Ann Collett, who took their family to
Winchester around 1869, where Charles was seven years old in 1871. No further record of Charles has been
found. |
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55Q16
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Annie Collett was born at Devizes in 1865 and was
nearly five years old when her parents left Devizes and moved to Winchester
in 1870. The census in the following
year recorded Annie as being aged five years, when she was living in
Winchester with her parents and the rest of her family. Ten years later in 1881, Annie had left
school and had started work as a general servant. The census return recorded that she was
fifteen years of age, had been born in Devizes, and was employed at the home
of milliner and ladies outfitter Mary E Webb at 121 High Street in
Winchester. Unmarried Mary Webb, aged
36 and from Winchester, had a live-in partner Rosa Chapman who was 28 and
from Alresford in Hampshire, who was also a milliner and ladies
outfitter. Completing the household
was Mary Webb’s elderly mother, the widow Mary Webb from Blackheath in Kent
who was the housekeeper at the age of 68. |
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55Q17
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Alfred Collett was born at Devizes in 1866, the fourth
child of Richard and Mary Collett. He
was four years old in 1871, by which time his family had left Devizes and had
settled in Winchester. The census ten
years later recorded the family living at 13 North Walls in the St
Bartholomew district of the city near Hyde Abbey, when Alfred was 14 and an
apprentice wool sorter working with his father. It was originally thought that Alfred had
died at Highworth near Swindon between July and September 1866, but the details
in the 1881 Census prove this to be incorrect. However, with no record of him in any later
census, it is possible the year of his death was 1886 or 1896. |
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55Q18
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Emily Collett was born at Devizes in 1868, another
daughter of Richard and Mary Collett.
Her birth was recorded at Devizes (Ref. 5a 267) during second quarter
of that year. Not long after she was born, her family moved to Winchester
where, in 1871, they were living when Emily was two years of age and the
youngest of the six children of Richard and Mary Collett. The census of 1881 provided the family’s
address as 13 North Walls in the St Bartholomew Hyde area of Winchester. Following the death of her father during
the next few years, Emily was the only child still living with her mother in
Winchester in April 1891. By that time,
she had just given birth to a base-born daughter, the second forename of
which may indicate the surname of the father.
Perhaps out of embarrassment, Emily had given birth to the child at
Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire where the birth was registered. However, mother and child returned to
Winchester shortly after that when the child was also immediately taken into
the care of another family in Winchester, where she was recorded in 1891. To date, no record of Emily Collett has
been found within the census of 1901, so it is assumed that she was married
sometime during the 1890s, never to be reunited with her daughter. |
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55Q19 |
Frances Mary Collett was born at Winchester, possibly in either 1869 or 1870,
where she was baptised on 26th March 1871, just days before she
died and one week before the census was conducted that year. Frances was the eighth child of Richard and
Mary Ann Collett and was not recorded with her family in the Winchester
census of 1871. |
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55Q20
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Richard James Collett
was born at
Winchester on 4th August 1871, the youngest son and last child of
Richard Isaac Collett and Mary Ann Few.
His birth was recorded at Winchester (Ref. 2c 259) during the third
quarter of the year, following the death of his twelve-year-old brother of
the same name, who had died fifteen months earlier. |
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Curiously
no record of Richard and his family has been found amongst the census records
for 1901. However, around 1908 he was
the owner of a butchers shop in Deal.
That was confirmed three years later in the April census of 1911. The family living in Deal was listed as
Richard James Collett 39, Esther Shrewsbury Collett 38, Mary Estella Collett
14, Elsie Florence Collett 13, Doris Grace Collett 11, and Richard James
Collett who was eight years old. At
some other time during his life, he was the manager of the Adelphi Theatre in
Birmingham, although Richard was still living in Deal when he died on 31st
July 1939. His wife Esther also died
there, but seventeen years later on 22nd August 1956. |
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55R11
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Mary Estella Collett |
Born in 1896
at Deal in Kent |
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55R12
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Elsie Florence Collett |
Born in 1897
at Deal in Kent |
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55R13 |
Doris Grace Collett |
Born in 1899
at Deal in Kent |
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55R14 |
Richard James Collett |
Born in 1902
at Deal in Kent |
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55R15 |
Charles Collett |
Born in 1912
at Deal in Kent |
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55Q21 |
Henry Edward Collett was born at London St Luke’s in 1857,
with his birth recorded at St Pancras (Ref. 1b 3) during the second quarter
of the year, the first-born child of John William Collett and Fanny
Fletcher. As simply Henry Collett he
was four years old in the St Pancras census of 1861, but tragically, did not
survive. Less than a year later, the
death of Henry Edward Collett was recorded at St Pancras (Ref. 1b 14) during
the first three months of 1862. |
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36Q22
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John William Collett was born at St Lukes in London on 21st
June 1859. Three years later on 29th
June 1863 he was baptised at Eaton Socon, the Bedfordshire village where of
his mother Fanny Fletcher was born and where she married John’s father John
William Collett senior. When he was at
the age of six years, his parents left London and travelled to Hampshire and
settled in the town of Portsea where they were living in 1871 when he was 11
years old. By 1881, and at the age of
21, his occupation was that of a gold beater like his father, with whom he
was very likely working, and at that time he was living at 9 Castle Place in
Portsea with his family. Six years
later, John William Collett married Jessie Ellen Wassell in 1887, although
their wedding took place in the West Ham area of London (Ref. 4a 223) during
the second quarter of 1887. By the
time of the next census in 1891, gold beater John W Collett was 31 and was
married to Jessie E Collett who was 27, when they were living at Cottage
Grove in Portsea, Portsmouth, with their first child Hugh G Collett, who was
two years old. Jessie may well have
been pregnant on the day of the census since she had given birth to the
couple’s second child by the end of that year. The family was affluent to be able to employ
a domestic servant, 19-year-old Annie Spencer. |
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As
far as can be determined, it would appear that John and Jessie had four
children in total and, according to the next census in 1901, the family was
residing at Commercial Road in Portsmouth and comprised John W Collett from
St Luke in London, who was 41 and a wine and spirits merchant, his wife
Jessie E Collett who was 34 and born in Portsmouth, as were their three
children. Gordon Collett was 12, Percy
Collett was nine and Vera Collett was four years of age. Once again Jessie may have been with-child
on the day of the census, since she gave birth to the couple’s last child
towards the end of that year. |
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During
the following decade, the family moved a few miles north to the Cosham area
of Portsmouth, where they were recorded in 1911. Curiously, apart from the two youngest
children, each member of the family was listed in the census return with just
the initial letter of the first name.
They were therefore wine merchant W Collett from London who was 51, J
Collett from Portsmouth who was 46, P Collett who was 17 (rather than 19)
with no stated occupation, Vera Collett who was 13 and Audrey Collett who was
nine years of age. It was also at
Dorney Court in Cosham, to the north of Portsmouth, that John William Collett
died on 31st August 1926, his death recorded at the Portsmouth
register office (Ref. 2b 110), at the age of 67. His Will was first proved in London on 23rd
April 1927, when his estate was valued at £19,748 7 Shillings 11 Pence, and
when the executors were named as his widow Jessie Ellen Collett and his
eldest son Hugh Gordon Collett, an estate agent. |
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However,
it would appear that the Will must have been contested, since it was nearly
thirteen years later that his Will was finally proved in London on 24th
January 1940, by which time his estate was re-valued at £10,693 1 Shilling 4
Pence, and by which time his widow had also passed away. On that occasion the executor of his Will
was named as his younger son Percival Lester Stanley Collett, who was also an
estate agent like his older brother.
Jessie Ellen Collett of Dorney
Court in Cosham died on 11th December 1938 at 51 Magdela
Road in Cosham, when administration was granted to her son Percy Lester
Stanley Collett, an estate agent and auctioneer. Her personal effects were estimated to be
worth just £50, which would appear to suggest that she did not gain any
benefit from her husband’s considerable estate, which was still to be
resolved when she passed away. Even up
to 26th September 1961 the case of Jessie Ellen Collett was still
being considered by the Probate Court in London. |
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55R16
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Hugh
Gordon Collett |
Born in 1888
at Portsmouth |
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55R17
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Percival Lester Stanley Collett |
Born in 1891
at Portsmouth |
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55R18 |
Vera
Cicely Collett |
Born in 1897
at Portsmouth |
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55R19 |
Audrey
Nina P Collett |
Born in 1901
at Portsmouth |
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55Q23
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Newton Collett was born at St Pancras in London on 6th
September 1861, with his birth recorded at St Pancras (Ref. 1b 153) during
the first month of 1862. However, he
was later baptised in his mother’s home village of Eaton Socon in
Bedfordshire (now in Cambridgeshire).
That event took place when he was two years old, in a joint ceremony
with his brother Joseph (below) on 27th December 1863, when he was
confirmed as the son of John William Collett and Fanny Fletcher. When he was around four years old, he and
his parents left London when they moved to Hampshire. In the census for Portsea & Landport in
1871 he was nine years old and by 1881 he was 19 when he was working as a
gilder while living with his family at 9 Castle Place in Portsea. |
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Just
after his twenty-first birthday, Newton Collett married Elizabeth Mary Doran
on 27th October 1883 at Portsea, as recorded at Portsea Island
(Ref. 2b 285). Elizabeth was born at
Portsmouth in 1866, and was the daughter of marine engine driver Charles
William Doran and Elizabeth Mary Tong.
It was also during the last quarter of 1883 that the couple’s first
child was born at Portsmouth. Over the
next ten years the marriage produced a further four children for the couple
and all of them were born at Portsmouth.
The first of them was named after his father Newton, the second after
his grandfather John William Collett, and the third named after her
grandmother Fanny Fletcher. |
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By
March 1901 the census for Portsmouth recorded the family as follows. Head of the household Newton was 39 and had
been born in London, and was working again as a gilder, having previously
been a picture-framer. His wife
Elizabeth was 34 and their five children were Daisy, who was 19 and a
schoolteacher, Newton who was 15, John who was 14, Harry who was 13 and Fanny
who was 11 years of age. Tragically,
Newton Collett died when he was only 49 years old, his death recorded at
Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 33).
That happened at Southsea on 19th September 1910, following
which his Will was proved in London on 18th October 1910, which
named his widow and son John William as the executors of his estate. His passing was also confirmed in the
census of 1911, when Elizabeth Mary Collett was a widow at 44, while she was
still living in the Portsmouth area.
With her that day were her three children Newton Henry Collett who was
25, John William Collett who was 24, and Fanny (Franny) Collett who was
21. All four members of the family
were born at Portsmouth, as was boarder William Albert Ripener who was 23. |
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55R20
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Elizabeth
Daisy Collett |
Born in 1883
at Portsmouth |
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55R21
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Newton Henry Collett |
Born in 1885
at Portsmouth |
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55R22 |
John William Collett |
Born in 1886
at Portsmouth |
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55R23 |
Harry
Collett |
Born in 1887
at Portsmouth |
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55R24 |
Fanny
Collett |
Born in 1889
at Portsmouth |
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55Q24
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Joseph Henry Collett was born at St Lukes in London on 6th
August 1863 and was baptised at the Bedfordshire village of Eaton Socon with
his older brother John (above) on 27th December 1863, the third
child of John William Collett and Fanny Fletcher. He was about one year old when his family
left London and moved to Hampshire.
Just like his father and older brother (both John William Collett),
his occupation was that of a gold beater.
He was 26 years old when the marriage of Joseph Henry Collett and
Lizzie Wooldridge was recorded at Portsea Island (Ref. 2b 232) during the
third quarter of 1889. Eighteen months
later, the childless couple was living at Cottage Grove in Portsea (where
Joseph’s parents were living in 1901), when Joseph H Collett was 27 and a
gold beater from London and Lizzie Collett was 25 and from Portsmouth. |
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Ten
years after that, the couple was recorded at Portsmouth, where Joseph H
Collett was 37 and Lizzie Collett was 35.
At the same property was domestic servant Alice B Mear who was 20. By that time, Joseph was a shopkeeper and a
wine merchant. They were again living
there in 1911, when wine merchant Joseph Henry Collett was 48, Lizzie Collett
was 45, and staying with them was their nine-year-old niece Freda Collett
from Gosport. Once again, the couple
had a paid servant Mary Ann Watson from Gosport who was 35. Twenty years later, the death of Joseph H
Collett was recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 54) during the
first three months of 1931, when he was 67 years of age. |
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55Q25
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Mary Elizabeth Collett was born at Southsea in 1865, her
birth recorded at Portsea Island (Ref. 2b 148) during the last quarter of
1865. She was 15 years old in the
census of 1881 when she was living with her family at 9 Castle Place in Portsea. It was four years later, while she was only
nineteen years of age, that the marriage of Mary Elizabeth and John Henry
Davis was recorded at Portsea Island (Ref. 2b 85) during the third quarter of
1885. Over the following years she
presented John with three daughters, the latter two being twins. Tragically though, by the time of the
census in 1891 Mary Davis, aged 25, was a widow and, at that time in her
life, she was once again living at the home of her parents, at 9 Castle Place
in Portsea. Staying there with her
were her three girls, Lillian Davis who was four and the twins Olivia
Davis and Mabel Davis who were three years of age. Mary never remarried and later on was
living in the Gosport area, where her death was recorded (Ref. 2b 99) during
the first quarter of 1940, when she was 75 years old. |
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55Q26
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Harry Collett was born at Southsea in Hampshire in
1869 and was 22 years old in the census of 1891, when Harry Collett was a
carver and a gilder working with his father, while living with his family at
9 Castle Place in Portsea. Three years
later in 1894 Harry married Annie Caroline Challis at Portsea. Annie was born at Portsmouth in 1871 and
all of the couple’s sons were born at Southsea, although in 1901 the family
was living in Portsmouth. The census
that year confirmed that Harry was 32, his wife Annie was 29, and their
children were Harry R Collett who was six, John W Collett who was four, and
Joseph F Collett who was under one year old.
Harry’s occupation at that time was a picture-framer and gilder. |
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By
April 1911, the family was still living in Portsmouth when Harry Collett was
42 and described as a picture frame maker and gilder, being an apartment
keeper, which may have been a reference to his workshop. His wife Annie was 40, and with them their
five children. Harry Collett was 16
and a decorator and house assistant, John William Collett was 14 and still
attending school, Joseph Frederick Collett was 11 and a scholar, as was Frank
Edward Collett who was nine, while George Stanley Collett had only just been
born. Around the time of the death of
their son John William Collett during World War One, Harry and Annie were
living at 23 Kent Road in Southsea. |
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55R25
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Harry
Reginald Collett |
Born in 1895
at Southsea |
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55R26
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John William Collett |
Born in 1897
at Southsea |
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55R27
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Joseph
Frederick Collett |
Born in 1900
at Southsea |
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55R28
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Frank
Edward Collett |
Born in 1902
at Southsea |
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55R29
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George
Stanley Collett |
Born in 1910
at Southsea |
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55Q27
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Archie Collett was known as Archie rather than
Archibald, while his birth at Southsea was recorded at Portsea Island (Ref.
2b 41) as Archie Collett during the third quarter of 1870. He was therefore around six-months-old in
the Southsea census of 1871. By 1881,
ten-year-old Archie was living with his family at 9 Castle Place in Portsea,
where he was also living in 1891 when he was 20 years of age and an
architect. Three years later, the
marriage of Archie Collett and Amy Nellthorp Tait was recorded at Portsea
Island register office (Ref. 2b 6) during the second quarter of 1894. Amy was the daughter of sailmaker James and
Ellen Tait of Hyde Park Road in Portsea, and was born in 1876. Unfortunately, the entry in the census of
1901 only gave the initials of his family members. Archie Collett was 30 and an architect’s
assistant living at 11 High Street in the Alverstoke district of
Gosport. His place of birth on that
occasion was given as Portsmouth.
Listed with him was his wife A N Collett who was 24 and from Portsmouth,
their sons A B T Collett who was six, and C E L Collett who was five, both
born at Southsea, and their daughter I H R Collett who was two years old and
born at Gosport. |
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During
the next few years two more children were added to the family, but tragically
around the time of the birth of the last child Archie’s wife died. Tragically though, when the youngest child
was one year old, the premature death of Amy Nellthorp Collett, aged 29, was
recorded at Alverstoke register office (Ref. 2b 67) during the last three
months of 1905. Just after losing his
wife, Archie and the family returned to Portsmouth, where they were living in
1911. Archie Collett from Southsea was
39 and an architect, and the five children were simply recorded as Archie
Collett who was 16, Cyril Collett who was 15 – both born at Southsea, Iris
Collett who was 12, Harold Collett who was eight and Audrey Collett who was
six years old – the three of them born at Gosport. Also living with Archie at that time, and
presumably helping him look after his family, was his sister-in-law Louisa
Palmer who was 47 and his housekeeper, and with her, were her two children
Sydney Palmer who was 15 and Eileen Palmer who was two years age. The husband of Louisa E Palmer was the much
older Thomas G Palmer a cellarman who was 59. |
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Archibald
Collett was still residing in the Portsmouth area when he died at the age of
55, his death recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 628) during the
last three months of 1925. Curiously,
it was during the same quarter of that same year, that the death of Archie’s
eldest son and namesake was recorded at Portsmouth at the age of 31. |
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55R30
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Archie Bertram T Collett |
Born in 1894
at Southsea |
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55R31
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Cyril
Ernest L Collett |
Born in 1895
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55R32
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Iris Hilda
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Born in 1899
at Gosport |
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55R33
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Harold
John W Collett |
Born in 1903
at Gosport |
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55R34
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Audrey
Edna M Collett |
Born in 1904
at Gosport |
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55Q28
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Ernest Collett was born at Southsea in 1872, his
birth recorded at Portsea Island (Ref. 2b 224) during the second quarter of
1872. He was eight years old, when he
was absent from the family home at 9 Castle Place in the town. However, it was as Ernest Collett aged 18,
that he was again living at the family home at 9 Castle Place in Portsea,
where he was working alongside his brother Harry (above) as a carver and a
gilder. Ernest later became a gold
beater like his father John William Collett, and it seems likely that it was
Ernest who took over his father’s business upon his death in September
1901. The earlier census that year,
placed gold beater Ernest Collett, aged 28, living with his parents at 14
Cottage Grove in Portsmouth, when Ernest was working for his father who was
described as a gold beater and an employer.
Following the death of both of his parents, within the next two years,
Ernest was joined by his youngest sister May Collett, who was still living
with him in 1911. Ernest Collett from
Southsea was 38 and a gold beater, a single man living in Portsmouth with just
his youngest sister May Collett who was 30.
Ernest lived a long life and was 94 years old when his death was
recorded at Gosport register office (Ref. 6b 44) during the last three months
of 1966. |
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55Q29
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Daisy Collett was born at Southsea in 1873 and was
baptised there on 9th April 1874, the second youngest daughter of
John William Collett and Fanny Fletcher.
In 1881 she was eight years old and was living with her family at 9
Castle Place in Portsea, where she was still living with her family in 1891,
when she was 17 and still being educated.
Nine years later the marriage of Daisy Collett and Walter Edwin
Hayward was recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 280) during the
third quarter of 1900. |
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55Q30
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William Collett was born at Southsea in 1877, his
birth recorded at Portsea Island (Ref. 2b 62) as Willie Collett during the
first three months of that year. He
was four years old at the time of the census in 1881 when Willie Collett was
living with his family at 9 Castle Place in Portsea. It was at that same address where William
Collett, aged 14, and his family were still living in 1891, when he was still
described as a scholar. It was during
the mid-1890s that he married Bessie, although no record of the wedding has been
found. The census in March 1901 described
William Collett as being 23 and born at Portsmouth, where he was living at 52
Central Street in the town, and where he was a grocer and a shopkeeper ‘with
his own account at home’. Living there
with him was his wife Bessie who was 22 and from Portsmouth, and their
daughter May Bessie Collett who was four years old and also born at
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It
is unclear where Willie or William was in 1911, when married Bessie Collett
from Portsmouth was 33 and the housekeeper at the home of the Parfitt family
in Portsmouth who, had with her, her daughter May Bessie Collett who was 14
and assisting her mother. Bessie’s
married status may mean that William was either working away from home, or
had joined the military and was posted overseas. The later death of William Collett, born in
1877, was recorded at Southampton register office (Ref. 2c 127) during the
fourth quarter of 1938. |
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May Bessie
Collett |
Born in 1896
at Portsmouth |
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55Q31 |
May Collett
was born on 3rd June 1880 at Southsea, the last child of John
William Collett and Fanny Fletcher, whose birth was recorded at Portsea
Island (Ref. 2b 4) during the third quarter of 1880. She was ten-months-old in the Portsea census
of 1881 when she was living with her large family at 9 Castle Place, where
she was very likely born. She never
married, with the death of May Collett, aged 93, recorded at Droxford
register office in Hampshire (Vol. 20) during the spring of 1974. |
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55R5
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Walter Eldred Collett was born in May 1890 at Leeds and was
one of the two sons of Charles Collett and Armenia Wilson. Sometime during the period from April to
June in 1913, Walter married Evelyn L Cox at Leeds, Evelyn having been born at
Rugby in Warwickshire around 1889.
Walter’s occupation was that of a painter and decorator and he was
described simply as a painter in 1929 when he was the sole executor of his
widowed mother’s Will. |
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55R6
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Florence Ethel Collett was born at Leeds on 28th
January 1894, the only child of Arthur Edward Collett by his first wife Ethel
Haigh Wade, with her birth recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 469)
during the first quarter of 1894.
Tragically Florence was only two weeks old when her mother died, and
it was just three weeks after that loss that her widowed father Arthur
suffered the trauma of the death of his daughter Florence Ethel Collett who
died on 3rd March 1894. |
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55R7
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Florence Emily Collett was born at Leeds on 28th
March 1899, the eldest child of Arthur Edward Collett and his second wife
Hannah Eliza Ackroyd who was known as Annie.
Her birth was recorded at Leeds register office (Ref. 9b 470) during
the second quarter of 1899. According
to the census in March 1901 Florence Emily Collett was two years old when she
was living with her parents at 34 Chapeltown Road in Leeds. Her three siblings were born during the
first decade of the new century, and by April 1911, at the age of 12, she was
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Just
over three years after the end of The First World War Florence married
Reginald George Burn at the Newton Park Union Church in Leeds on 4th
January 1922, Reginald having been born at Bradford on 14th June
1893. After nearly forty years
together, Reginald died at Bolton-le-Sands, Carnforth in Lancashire on 29th
May 1961. It was just over thirty
years later that Florence Emily Burn nee Collett died at St Wilfrid’s Nursing
Home in Halton, Lancashire on 6th March 1992. |
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55R8
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Kathleen Collett was born at Leeds on
11th April 1901, the second of the four children of Arthur and
Annie Collett. In the Leeds census of
1911 Kathleen Collett was 10 years of age, while living at Chapeltown Road
with her family. Having survived
through the Great War, Kathleen was just two days passed her eighteenth
birthday when she died on 13th April 1919, a victim of flu
pandemic, after suffering with the symptoms for less than one week. |
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The pandemic lasted from
June 1918 to December 1920,
spreading even to the Arctic
and remote Pacific islands. Between 50
and 100 million people died, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. Even using the lower estimate of 50 million
people means that three percentage of the world's population of 1.86 billion,
at the time, died of the disease, while some 500 million were infected. |
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55R9
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Henry Reginald Collett was born at Leeds on 27th
June 1903, the only son of Arthur Edward Collett and his second wife Annie
Ackroyd. He was seven years old at the
time of the census in 1911 when he was living with his family at Chapeltown
Road in Leeds. He was just a few
months short of his sixtieth birthday when he died at the Royal Earleswood
Hospital at Redhill in Surrey on 12th January 1963. |
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55R10
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Winifred
Lily Collett was born at Leeds on 29th March 1906, the
youngest child of Arthur Edward Collett and his second wife Hannah Eliza
Ackroyd. It was also during that same
year when Winifred was baptised at the Brunswick Chapel in Leeds. She was five years old in the census of
1911 when she and her family were residing at Chapeltown Road in Leeds. In 1930 Winifred married Donald Hagyard
Turnbull who was born at Bowling in Bradford on 13th September
1903. The ceremony took place at the
Newton Park Union Church in Leeds on 30th July 1930, and during
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At
some time during their life, the family moved to Warwickshire, and it was on
5th June 1991 at the General Hospital in Stratford-upon-Avon that
Winifred Lily Turnbull nee Collett died at the age of 85. Her husband remained in Warwickshire for
the next few years, and it was at Kineton Manor Nursing Home in the county
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This
family history has been developed by her son, using the details previously
put together by Winifred Lily Collett.
Our thanks therefore go to Peter for his generosity and kindness in
providing all of the information that has enabled the story of his family to
be told. Peter’s involvement has also
helped to clarify and correct the earlier errors that existed in Part 36 –
The Barwick-in-Elmet Line, and for this we are eternally grateful. Peter has also managed to trace his Yorkshire
family roots back to Featherstone in 1565, going back in time from the
current starting point in the aforementioned Part 36. |
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Peter Collett Turnbull |
Born in 1931
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55R11
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Mary Estella Collett was born at Deal around 1896. She married (1) Charles Thomas Collins on
26th February 1918 and the marriage produced two daughters Joyce
Marie Collins born on 17th January 1919 and Phyllis Cecily Collins
who was born on 29th February 1924. Upon the death of her husband Charles, Mary
married (2) Mr Harding before she died in 1978. |
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55R12
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Elsie Florence Collett was born at Deal around 1897. On 7th April 1920 she married
George Hugh Woodhams who was born on 25th May 1892. For the most part of their married life
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Doris Grace Collett was born at Deal around 1899. She married Andrew Rudolf Fraser on 6th
September 1916 and they had two children, Yvonne Betty Fraser born on 23rd
December 1917 and Ronald Andrew Fraser who was born on 5th April
1921. Tragically Andrew died in his
twenties on 23rd January 1922.
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Richard James Collett
was born at Deal in
Kent in 1902, the youngest child of Richard James Collett and Esther
Shrewsbury Wratten. It was on 5th
November 1927 at Brentford in Middlesex that he married Laura G Turner. At some time during his life, he lived in
France and Ireland and that may have been before he At
the outbreak of war and following the death of his father and the birth of
their son, Richard and Laura moved out of London in 1939 because of the
threat to their safety from air-raids and the bombing of the city. On leaving London the family initially
settled in Swindon where engineer Richard worked as a foreman for Vickers
Armstrong. At
that time in 1939, and following their arrival in Swindon, the family was
taken in by a family with whom they lodge for a few months while they sought
a home of their own, which they did, resulting in a further move to
Highworth. Twenty-four years
later, and two years prior to the wedding of their
son in 1963, Richard and Laura returned to live in Deal. |
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At
the outbreak of war and following the death of his father and the birth of
their son, Richard and Laura moved out of London in 1939 because of the
threat to their safety from air-raids and the bombing of the city. On leaving London the family initially
settled in Swindon where engineer Richard worked as a foreman for Vickers
Armstrong. At
that time in 1939, and following their arrival in Swindon, the family was
taken in by a family with whom they lodge for a few months while they sought
a home of their own, which they did, resulting in a further move to
Highworth. Twenty-four years
later, and two years prior to the wedding of their
son in 1963, Richard and Laura returned to live in Deal. |
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Once back in Deal, Richard and Laura became the landlord and
landlady of the Ship Inn in Middle Street where they lived and worked until
Richard’s death in 1971. Richard James Collett died on 23rd
June 1971, while his wife Laura G Collett nee Turner died nineteen years
later on 3rd October 1990. |
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Michael Richard Collett |
Born in 1939
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Charles Collett was born at Deal around 1912 and he
married Doreen Daphne Butler on 15th March 1930. It is understood that the marriage produced
no children and that Charles died in 1980. |
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55R16 |
Hugh Gordon Collett was born at Portsmouth in 1888, the eldest of the for
children of John William Collett and Jessie Ellen Wassell. His birth was recorded at Portsea Island
(Ref. 2b 208) during the fourth quarter of that year. As Hugh G Collett aged two years, he was
the only child living with his parents at Cottage Grove in Portsea in 1891
and, by the time of the next census in 1901, he was included as Gordon
Collett, 12 years old, who was attending school when he and his family were
living in Portsmouth. Upon leaving school,
Hugh travelled to London where he was lodging with the Deakin family at Low
Leyton in Essex within the West Ham registration district in 1911. Hugh Gordon Collett from Portsmouth was
unmarried, was 22 years old, and was working as a clerk for a wine
merchant. Although no record of a
marriage has been found, it is known that he had a daughter Pamela Collett,
who had no children of her own. Hugh
was 76 when he died, the death of Hugh G Collett was recorded at Gosport
register office (Ref. 6b 40) during the third quarter of 1964. |
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Pamela Collett |
Date of birth
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55R17
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Percival Lester Stanley
Collett was born at
Portsmouth on 5th July 1891, his birth recorded at Portsea Island
(Ref. 2b 149), and was nine years of age in the Portsmouth census of 1901
when he was simply recorded with his family as Percy Collett. Not long after that, his family made the
short distance move to Cosham in the north district of Portsmouth, where they
were recorded in 1911. On that
occasion, he |
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Percival
L S Collett enlisted with the British Army and served in the Yorkshire
Regiment, where he was eventually promoted to the rank of lieutenant. After the war and on leaving the army,
Percy set up an auctioneer business with his brother Hugh, which was later
expanded into surveying and estate agency.
At some point he and Hugh had a difference of opinion, which ended
their partnership, leaving Percy to continue with a successful business with
his sons, until his death. He and
Victoria and their three children lived in Southsea, eventually building a
new house at 1 Queen’s Place after the Second World War. Percival Lester Stanley Collett was 89 when
he died in 1980, his death recorded at Portsmouth register office (Vol. 20)
towards the end of that year. The
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55S4
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John
Dennis Percival Collett |
Born in 1916
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Roger
Gordon Pascoe Collett |
Born in 1922
at Fareham |
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55S6
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Shirley
Jane Collett |
Born in 1930
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55R18 |
Vera Cicely Collett was born at Portsmouth in 1897 and, like her two older
brothers (above), her birth was also recorded at Portsea Island (Ref. 2b 101)
during the third quarter of that year.
She was four years old and 13 years of age in the following census
returns in 1901 and 1911 when, by the time for the latter, Vera and her
family were living in the north Portsmouth district of Cosham. Vera never married and was still living in
Hampshire when she passed away at the age of 62, her death recorded at
Portsmouth register office (Ref. 6b 111) during the second quarter of 1959. |
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55R19 |
Audrey Nina P Collett was born at Portsmouth at the end of 1901, with her
birth recorded at register office there (Ref. 2b 215) during the first
quarter of 1902, the fourth and last child of John William Collett and Jessie
Ellen Wassell. Sometime after she was
born, her family moved a couple of miles to Cosham, an area just north
Portsmouth, where Audrey was nine years old in 1911. She was nearly twenty-nine
when the marriage of Audrey N P Collett and Beverley C H Marsh was recorded
at Fareham register office (Ref. 2b 122) during the last three months of
1930. The marriage produced two
children for Beverley and Audrey, and they were Valerie Nina Marsh,
whose birth was recorded at Staines register office (Ref. 3a 120) during the
fourth quarter of 1936, and Bernard R Marsh, whose birth was recorded
at Eton register office (Ref. 3a 49) during the second quarter of 1944. In both cases, the mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Collett. |
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55R20 |
Elizabeth Daisy Collett was born at Portsmouth on 6th December 1883,
her birth recorded during the first quarter of 1884 at Portsea Island (Ref.
2b 261). She was the first-born child
of Newton Collett and Elizabeth Mary Doran who, it would appear, was always
known as Daisy. On completing her
education, Daisy took up the occupation as a school teacher, which how she
was described in the Portsmouth census of 1901, when she was 17 and still
living at the family home. Only for
the second time since she was born, it was as Elizabeth Daisy Collett that
she married Ernest Walter Rowsell, their wedding recorded at Portsmouth
register office (Ref. 2b 206) during the third quarter of 1909. Once married, the childless couple moved to
Dunstable in Bedfordshire, where they were living in 1911 and where both
Ernest and Daisy were 27 years old.
Later on in their life, the couple returned to Hampshire, and it was
at Christchurch register office (Ref. 6b 127) during the second quarter of
1969, that the death of Elizabeth Daisy Rowsell was recorded. |
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Newton Henry Collett was born at Portsmouth in 1885 and
followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming a gilder. In 1901 Newton was a general gilder aged 15
and was living and working with his father Newton Collett at Portsmouth. Following the
death of his father in September 1910, Newton Henry Collett was still living
with his widowed mother Elizabeth Mary Collett at the time of the Portsmouth
census of 1911 when he was unmarried at the age of 25, when his occupation
was that of a gilder and picture framer with his brother John (below). The only other detail known about him is
that his death, as Newton H Collett, was recorded at Portsmouth register
office (Ref. 2b 949) during the first three months of 1933 at the age of 47. |
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John William Collett was born at Portsmouth during 1886,
the second child son of Newton Collett and Elizabeth Mary Doran. In the Portsmouth census returns for 1901
and 1911, John Collett was 14, and John William Collett was unmarried at 24,
when was a gilder and picture framer like his brother Newton (above), who was
still living at the family home with his parents. That is all we know for sure at this time,
although there is a much later record at Exeter concerning the administration
of the estate of John William Collett in 1948, when John William from
Portsmouth would have been 62. The
information contained therein refers to John William Collett of 25 Courtenay
Park in Newton Abbot who died there on 24th October 1948. His personal effects valued at £421 11
Shillings 9 Pence were left in the hands of Jessie Elizabeth McFee, a married
woman. |
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Harry Collett
was born at the end of 1887 at Portsmouth and his birth was recorded at
Portsea Island early in 1888 (Ref. 2b 162).
He was 13 years old in the Portsmouth census of 1901, when he was
still living there at the family home.
Just prior to the next census, the marriage of Harry Collett and
Rosina M Rocket took place in Portsmouth and was subsequently recorded at
Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 112) after the census day. According to the Portsmouth census return
completed in 1911, Harry Collett and Rosina M Collett were living at the home
of Mr and Mrs R Ruff and their two young daughters. Also staying with the family was Rosina’s
younger sister Alice F Rocket aged 17, who was described as the stepdaughter
of the head of the household.
Therefore, Rosina and Alice were the daughters of Alice F Ruff from
her previous marriage. On that day
Harry Collett was 23 and a plumber working in the building industry, while
his wife was 22. The couple’s only
child was born just over nine months later, the birth of Rosina M D Collett
was recorded at Portsmouth (Ref. 2b 77) at the start of 1912, when her
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Rocket.
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A terrible double tragedy then
happened to the family, the first only nine months after the birth of his
daughter, when the premature death of Harry Collett was recorded at
Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 51) during the last quarter of 1912, when
he was 24 years of age. Then, just
after being widowed, Rosina’s one-year-old daughter passed away, the death of
Rosina M D Collett also recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 48)
during the first quarter of 1913. It
was around fifteen or sixteen months later that Rosina M Collett married (2)
Joseph H Wallis, their wedding recorded at Portsmouth (Ref. 2b 108) during
the second quarter of 1914
and he was killed in action in 1916.
After the war, Rosina married for a third time, but he died after
seven years. She died at Portsmouth in
1965, age 77. |
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Rosina M D
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Born in 1912
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55R24 |
Fanny Collett
was born at Portsmouth in 1889 and was the last child of Newton Collett and
Elizabeth Mary Doran. Her birth was
recorded at Portsea register office (Ref. 2b 333) during the third quarter of
that year. She was 11 years old in the
Portsmouth census of 1901, and was 21 and a domestic servant in 1911 when she
was the youngest of the three children still living with her widowed mother
at Portsmouth. Lodging with the family
that day was Fanny’s future husband Albert William Ripiner, also of
Portsmouth, who was 23 and a metal worker with the Portsmouth Gas
Company. Nearly eighteen months later,
the wedding of Fanny Collett and Albert W Ripiner was recorded at Portsmouth
register office (Ref. 2b 30) during the third quarter of 1912. The couple’s only child was born at
Portsmouth during the first three months of 1916 (Ref. 2b 7), when the maiden-name
of the mother of Harold William Ripiner was confirmed as Collett. The family continued to live in the
Portsmouth area of Hampshire where, during the first quarter of 1960, the
death of Fanny Ripiner was recorded (Ref. 6b 29), when she was 70 years of
age. |
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55R25 |
Harry Reginald Collett was born in 1895 at Southsea and his birth was recorded
at Portsea Island (Ref. 2b 160) during the second quarter of the year. He was six years old in 1901 and was 16
years of age in 1911, by which time he was a decorator and house assistant,
working alongside his father, when he was still living at the family home in
Portsmouth. Not much more is known
about him, with the death of Harry R Collett recorded at Portsmouth register
office (Ref. 6b 18) during the third quarter of 1956, at the age of 61. |
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55R26
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John William Collett was born at Southsea in 1897, the
second child of Harry Collett and Annie Caroline Challis, his birth recorded
at Portsea Island (Ref. 2b 311) during the second quarter of the year. He was four years old in the 1901 Census
when he was living with his parents and two brothers in Portsmouth. He and his family were still living in
Portsmouth ten years later as confirmed by the 1911 Census in which John
William Collett was fourteen years old.
His close association with the sea resulted in him enlisting in the
Royal Navy at the outbreak of the First World War. He was Ordinary Seaman SS16825 attached to
the cruiser HMS Hampshire. Tragically he died aged 19 years on 5th June
1916 when the Hampshire hit a German mine off the Orkney Islands and sank
with only twelve survivors. The total
ship’s compliment at that time comprised 655 officers and crew, plus seven
civilians one of which was Lord Kitchener.
The name of John William Collett appears on the Portsmouth Naval
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55R27 |
Joseph Frederick Collett was born at Southsea in 1900, with
his birth recorded at Portsea Island (Ref. 2b 5) during the second quarter of
the year. In the Southsea census in
1911, Joseph Frederick Collett was 11 and a scholar, and five years later the
family home was at 23 Kent Road in Southsea, when the family received the sad
news of the death of Joseph’s brother John (above). Joseph F Collett was 30 years old when his
marriage to Irene C Wood was recorded at the Hampshire register office in
Alverstoke (Ref. 2b 137) during the third quarter of 1930. Three daughters were born into their
family, the first of them at Alverstoke, the next one at Southampton, and the
last of them in Gosport. For all three
girls, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Wood. Joseph and Irene were together for thirty
years, when the death of Joseph Collett was recorded at Portsmouth register
office (Ref. 6b 90) during the third quarter of 1960, at the age of 60. |
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55S8
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Doreen M
Collett |
Born in 1932
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55S9
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Anne Collett |
Born in 1936
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55S10
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Brenda M
Collett |
Born in 1937
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55R28 |
Frank Edward Collett was born at Southsea in 1902, his birth recorded at
Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 231) during the first quarter of the
year. He was nine years of age in 1911
and by 1916, his family was living at 23 Kent Road in Southsea. Frank was thirty years old when his
marriage to his cousin Iris Hilda R Collett (below) was recorded at
Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 115) during the first three months of
1932. The first of their two daughters
was a honeymoon baby who was born near the end of the year in which they were
married. He was 57 years of age when
he died, the death of Frank E Collett recorded at Gosport register office
(Ref. 6b 39) during the quarter of 1959.
Iris was a widow for the next twenty-six years, when eventually the
death of Iris Hilda R Collett was recorded at Portsmouth register office
towards the end of 1985, when she was 85, having been born on 6th
January 1899. |
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Grace A
Collett |
Born in 1932
at Portsmouth |
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Shirley A
Collett |
Born in 1936
at Southampton |
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55R29 |
George Stanley Collett was born at Southsea on 8th October 1910 and
was the last child born to Harry Collett and Annie Caroline Challis, his
birth recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 48) during the last
three months of the year, and was six months old in the census of 1911. In 1916, he and his family were residing at
23 Kent Road in Southsea. He was
twenty-five when the marriage of George S Collett and Edna M Cornhill was
recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 146) during the second quarter
of 1936. It would appear that George
lived most of his life in the county of Hampshire, since it was at the
South-East Hampshire register office that his death was recorded in the
spring 1994 when he was 93 years old.
Edna Maud Cornhill was born on 6th October 1906, the
daughter of Robert and Laura Cornhill, and passed away at the end of 1992,
her death also recorded at South-East Hampshire register office. No record of any children for the couple
has been found. |
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55R30
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Archie Bertram T Collett
was born at Southsea
in 1894, his birth recorded at Portsea Island register office (Ref. 2b 228)
during the last quarter of that year.
He was the eldest child of Archie Collett and his wife Amy Nellthorp
Tait who died when Archie was only eleven years old. In the census of 1901, the family was
living at 11 High Street in the Alverstoke district of Gosport, when Archie
was listed in the census as A B T Collett, aged six years, while his mother
was simply recorded as A N Collett. Ten
years later he was still living with his widowed father in the Portsmouth
census of 1911, when he was named as Archie Collett aged 16. The death of
Archie B T Collett was recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 41)
during the fourth quarter of 1925 when he was 31 years old, coincidently that
was the same time and place the death of his father Archie Collett was also
recorded |
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55R31 |
Cyril Ernest L Collett was born at Southsea in 1895 and, like his older brother
Archie (above), his birth was also recorded at Portsea Island register office
(Ref. 2b 296) during the last quarter of that year. Not long after he was born the family moved
to 11 High Street in the Alverstoke district of Gosport, where Cyril was five
years old. After a further four years,
Cyril’s mother died at Gosport, following which the family returned to live
in Portsmouth, was Cyril was 15 in 1911, with no stated occupation. Ten years after that census day, and during
the third quarter of 1921, the marriage of Cyril E L Collett and Eileen V
Collins was recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 145). Eileen Victoria Collins was one of the
younger children from the large family of billiard table fitter George Alfred
Collins and Sarah Grace Collins, and was born at Wimbledon in 1896. Over the next twelve years, Eileen
presented Cyril with four children, the births of all four children were
recorded at Portsmouth with the mother’s maiden-name confirmed as
Collins. Although no positive record
for the death of Cyril has been found, the death of Eileen Victoria Collett
was recorded at the Surrey register office in Sutton (Ref. 15 68) in the
spring of 1979 at the age of 82. |
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It is not clear whether Cyril’s two daughters ever married,
while the birth of Jean V Collett was recorded during the third quarter of
1922 (Ref. 2b 51) and the birth of Audrey A Collett was recorded during the
fourth quarter of 1925 (Ref. 2b 33). |
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Jean Victoria
Collett |
Born in 1922
at Portsmouth |
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Peter J
Collett |
Born in 1924
at Portsmouth |
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55S15
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Audrey A
Collett |
Born in 1925
at Portsmouth |
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55S16
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David L
Collett |
Born in 1933
at Portsmouth |
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55R32 |
Iris Hilda R Collett was born at Gosport in 1899, while her birth was
recorded at Alverstoke register office (Ref. 2b 186) during the first quarter
of the year. She was the eldest
daughter of architect Archie Collett, with whom she was living in 1911, when
she was 12 years and her father was a widower. She later married her cousin Frank Edward
Collett (above), with whom she gave birth to two daughters. For the continuation of her life, go to
Ref. 55R29. |
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55R33 |
Harold John W Collett was born at Gosport in 1903 and his birth was recorded
at Alverstoke register office (Ref. 2b 319) during the second quarter of the
year. He was only nine years old when
his death was recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 4) during the
second quarter of 1912. In between
being born in Gosport and passing away in 1912, Harold Collett was eight
years of age when he was living at Portsmouth with his widowed father Archie
Collett, an architect. |
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55R34 |
Audrey Edna M Collett was born at Gosport in 1904 but shortly after, her
mother died and the family returned to Portsmouth, where the birth of Audrey
Edna M Collett was recorded (Ref. 2b 39) during the third quarter of the
year. She was the youngest child
Archie Collett and Amy Nellthorp Tait, and it was with her widowed father
that she was living in 1911, at the age of 12 years. |
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55S2 |
Michael Richard
Collett was born in London on 25th March 1939 and when he was a few months old his parents decided to leave
London because of the bombing, and they all headed for Swindon. Mike’s father was an engineer and was able
to secure work at the Vickers Armstrong factory in Swindon. On arrival in Swindon Mike and his parents
were taken in by a family where they lived for a few months before moving to
Highworth. Mike followed in his
father’s footstep and took an apprenticeship in engineering at Vickers
Armstrong and afterwards worked for Pressed Steel Fisher. A little while later he decided to join the
Merchant Navy as a junior engineer, and sailed from Glasgow on the Clan Line
to South Africa. |
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Unfortunately, he became ill with dysentery and after spending
time in a hospital at Dar-es-Salaam he returned home. On his return to Highworth he went back to
Vickers Armstrong, working on the TSR2 Fighter Plane Project, later scrapped
by the British Government, where he worked for a number of years. It was after that when Mike went back to
work at Pressed Steel Fisher which eventually became renamed Rover and later
bought out by BMW. On the 27th
March 1965 Michael Richard Collett married Joan Mumford who was born in 1945
and who was also living in Highworth at that time, from where she was working
as a bank cashier. Nine years later,
on 25th May 1974, their only child Mark Richard Collett. Having enjoyed just over fifty years
together Mike passed away on Sunday 12th July 2015, following a
twelve-month battle with cancer. |
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Mark Richard Collett |
Born in 1974
at Swindon |
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55S4 |
John Dennis Percival Collett was born at Fareham on 12th
November 1916, and was known as Dennis.
He was the eldest of the three children of Peter Lester Stanley
Collett and Victoria Elizabeth Jane |
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55T2
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Derek L Collett |
Born in 1947
at Portsmouth |
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55S5 |
Roger Gordon Pascoe Collett was born on 13th August
1922, with his birth recorded at Fareham register office (Ref. 2b 65) during
the third quarter of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed
as Pascoe. It is likely that he was
born in the maternity hospital at Fareham.
Being such a small child, he was known as Shrimp within the
family. He attended St Helen’s College
and after The After
the war, he continued his naval career, training as a Gunnery Officer. On leaving the navy, aged 40, he retrained
as a surveyor and worked in his father’s estate agency business until his
retirement. The marriage of Roger and
Ruth produced four children, as listed below.
His love of the sea continued, when he owned a series of yachts,
allowing him to enjoy sailing well into his seventies. The death of Roger Gordon P Collett, aged
81, was recorded at Droxford register office, Hampshire, during the month of
August in 2003, the cause of death being bowel cancer. Just less than six years after being
widowed, Ruth Winifred Wood Collett died at Hayling Island 24th
January 2009, having been born on 13th January 1922. |
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Upon the birth of all four children, the mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Robinson, and in one case, as Wood Robinson. It was the couple’s daughter who kindly
provided lots of new details regarding her line of the Collett. Lesley Jane Collett was born in the Bath
area of Somerset in 1948 and she married Iain Brown with whom he has a son
and a daughter. Lesley was later
divorced and remarried Stewart Carr in 1998.
The birth of Lesley Jane Collett was recorded at Bath register office
(Ref. 7c 23) during the second quarter of 1948, when her mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Wood Robinson. |
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Philip John Collett |
Born in 1944
at Bath |
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Lesley Jane Collett |
Born in 1948
at Bath |
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55T5
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Alan Pascoe Collett |
Born in 1952
at Southsea |
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55T6
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Andrew Thomas Collett |
Born in 1959
at Malta |
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55S6 |
Shirley Jane Collett was born at Portsmouth in 1930, where her birth was
recorded (Ref. 2b 103) during the last three months of the year, when her
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Pascoe.
As Shirley J Collett, she married John A Hills at Portsmouth towards
the end of 1954, with whom she has three daughters. |
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55S14 |
Peter J Collett
was born in 1924 and his birth, like those of his three siblings, was
recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 99) during the first quarter
of the year, the eldest son and second child of Cyril Ernest L Collett and
Eileen Victoria Collins. He later
married Monica Mary Ashton who was born at Croydon in 1926. Their wedding day was recorded at the
Surrey North-Eastern register office (Ref. 5g 143) during the second quarter
of 1947. It is possible that the
marriage did not produce any issue, with it being many years later that
Monica Mary Collett die on 13th July 2010 at Chessington in
Surrey. |
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55S16 |
David L Collett
was born in 1933 and was the last child of Cyril and Eileen Collett. His birth was recorded at Portsmouth
register office (Ref. 2b 35) during the second quarter of the year, when his
mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collins. He and his family seem to have left
Hampshire over the following years, when members of the family reappeared in
the County of Surrey, where David’s mother was born. It was there, at the Surrey North-Eastern
register office, where his brother’s wedding was recorded twelve years
earlier, that the marriage of David L Collett and Jean B Voller was recorded
(Ref. 5g 63) during the third quarter of 1959. After being married for seven years, the
birth of the couple’s only known child was recorded at Surrey North-Western
register office (Ref. 5g 107) during the third quarter of 1966, the year
England won the Football World Cup, when the mother’s maiden-name was
confirmed as Voller. |
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55T7
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Andrew Michael Collett |
Born in 1966
at Surrey |
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55T1
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Mark Richard Collett was born on 25th May 1974,
possibly at Highworth, the only child of Michael
Richard Collett married Joan Mumford, whose birth was recorded at Swindon
register office (Ref. xxiii 108). Mark
married Alison Claire Smith on the 16th July 1994, while their son
Liam Richard Collett was born on 18th May 1993 and their daughter
Amy Claire Collett was born on 21st July 1999. |
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55U1
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Liam Richard Collett |
Born in 1993
at Swindon |
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Amy Claire Collett |
Born in 1999
at Swindon |
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55T2 |
Derek L Collett was born at Portsmouth in 1947, his
birth recorded there during the first three months of the year (Ref. 6b 117),
when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Thompson. On being married, he had three children
Lucie, Alice and Nicholas. The two daughters are both married and have
children of their own. Their son Nick
has no children in 2020. |
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Lucie Collett |
Date of birth
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55U4
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Alice Collett |
Date of birth
unknown |
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55U5
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Nicholas Collett |
Date of birth
unknown |
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55T3 |
Philip John Collett was born in 1944, the first-born
child of Roger Gordon Pascoe Collett and Jessica Winifred Wood Robinson. His birth was recorded at Bath register
office (Reg. 5c 138) during the last quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name
was confirmed as Robinson. It is known
that he was married and had two daughters, therefore there is a chance that
he married Geraldine P Smith, the wedding recorded at Portsmouth in the
spring of 1974. |
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55U6
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a Collett daughter |
Date of birth
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55U7
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a Collett daughter |
Date of birth
unknown |
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55T5 |
Alan Pascoe Collett was born at Southsea in 1951, his
birth recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 6b 121) during the second
quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Robinson. He was nearly 21 years of
age, when the marriage of Alan P Collett and Jessica M F Partridge was also
recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 6b 76) during the first three
months of 1972. Their marriage
produced three daughters, all of whom are married, two of them with two children
of their own. |
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a Collett daughter |
Date of birth
unknown |
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55U9
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a Collett daughter |
Date of birth
unknown |
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55U10
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a Collett daughter |
Date of birth
unknown |
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55T6 |
Andrew Thomas Collett was born on the island of Malta
during 1959, the fourth and last child of Roger Gordon Pascoe Collett and
Ruth Winifred Wood Robinson. He is
married with two daughters, both of whom are married. The younger of the two has retained her maiden-name
and attached it to that of her husband, becoming Samantha Collett Williams. |
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a Collett daughter |
Date of birth
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55U12
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Samantha Collett |
Date of birth
unknown |
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APPENDIX ONE – OTHER WAKEFIELD COLLETTS |
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During the compilation of this family line, other Collett
children born at Wakefield have been found, although it is not clear where
they might fit in. Therefore, they
have been included here in this appendix in the hope that one day their place
within the Wakefield Collett families will be established. In February 2019, Wendy Howard contacted
the Collett website to confirm that Oswald Hanson (below) is her ancestor,
but that he was a gentleman of means and not a blacksmith, as previously
stated. Apparently, there were two
Oswald Hansons in Wakefield at that time, who were often ‘mixed-up’. Sadly, Wendy also confirmed that Ralph
Collitt has no connection to the Collett family in the main section of Part
55. However, it is now known that Ralph Collett (Collitt)
was the eldest son of Robert Collett (Ref. 36J4) and Jennet Taylor, whose
family included Mary Collett who may have married Oswald Hanson. Their Hanson family, previously detailed here,
has now been moved to its rightful place within Part 36 – The Barwick-in-Elmet
(Leeds) Line at Ref. 36L24. |
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Another was Thomas Collit
who was married to Ann, whose two children were baptised at All Saints Church
in Wakefield in a joint ceremony on 25th April 1812. Sarah
Collit was born on 20th August 1805, and her sister Mary Collit was born on 26th
September 1807. |
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APPENDIX TWO – WILLIAM FENTON COLLETT FROM LEEDS |
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In a previous version of this family line, it had been assumed
in error that William Collett (Ref. 55P15) born at Leeds in 1829 was William
Fenton Collett. Thanks to new
information gratefully received from Jennie Cordner we now know that the
parents of William Fenton Collett were in fact George and Elizabeth Collett,
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55o1 |
George
Collett
may have been born around 1800 and on 12th October 1823 at
Rothwell, just south-east of Leeds, he married Elizabeth Fenton by
banns. George Collett of Rothwell
signed the register, while Elizabeth Fenton, also of Rothwell, made the mark
of a cross. Exactly nine months later,
when the couple was residing at York Street in Leeds, Elizabeth presented
George with their first child. At that
time in his life George was employed as a matting weaver. Although their son was baptised at St
Peter’s Church simple as William Collett, it was many years later when he
referred to himself as William Fenton Collett, most likely as a tribute to
his late mother. It also seems likely
that Elizabeth Fenton was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 10th
January 1803, and was the daughter of George Fenton. |
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Not long after their daughter Elizabeth was born George and his
young family left Yorkshire, most likely for work reasons, since the couple’s
next child was born in the village of Little Coxwell near Faringdon in Berkshire,
now Oxfordshire. By the time of the
first national census in 1841 George Collett may have died since he was not
living with his family in the Faringdon area.
Elizabeth Collett had a rounded age of 35 and was named in the census
return as Elizth Collett, while her two daughters were listed as Elizabeth
Collett aged nine years and Anne Collett who was six. Her son William was 15 and had already
started work and was living nearby. |
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William Fenton Collett |
Born in 1824
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Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1830
at Leeds |
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Anne Collett |
Born in 1832
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William Fenton Collett was born at
York Street in Leeds on 13th July 1824 and was baptised as William
Collett at St Peter’s Church on 30th August 1824, the son of
George Collett and his wife Elizabeth Fenton.
Around 1831 William’s parents took the family to Berkshire and in 1832
were settled in Little Coxwell near Faringdon, where his sister Anne (below)
was born. It would appear that his
father died during the latter half of the 1830s because his mother and two
sisters were living alone in 1841, William having already left home by then
and was recorded in the Faringdon census as being aged 15. Toward the end of
the 1840s William Collett married Ann Stanton who was born at Clanfield, to
the north of Faringdon in Berkshire, during 1830 and was the daughter of
Matthew Stanton and his wife Ann Dodd.
By the time of the census in 1851 agricultural labourer William
Collett from Leeds was 26, his wife Ann Collett from Clanfield was 21, when
they were living at Little Coxwell less than a mile from Faringdon. Visiting the couple on the day of the
census was Eliza Mills, who was 17 and a dressmaker from Clanfield, and
shopman James Godwin from Oxford who was 18 and a grocer’s assistant. |
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It is possible that Ann presented William with children during
the 1850s who did not survive. It was
also at Little Coxwell that their only known child Frank was born ten years
after they were married. And it was at
Little Coxwell that the family of three was still living in 1861 when William
Collett from Leeds was 36 and an agricultural labourer, Ann was 31, and their
son Frank was only seven months old. On that occasion Anne Collett from
Clanfield was working in a grocer’s shop.
Sometime after the birth of their son the family moved north of the
River Thames to the nearby village of Kelmscott in Oxfordshire, which lies to
the east of Lechlade. That move was
confirmed by the 1871 Census in which the couple were recorded as William
Collett from Yorkshire who was 46 and again employed as an agricultural
labourer, and his wife Ann from Oxfordshire who was 41 and a school
mistress. Living at Kelmscott with
them was their son Frank who was 11. |
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During
the next decade William and Ann moved again, so by 1881 they were living in
Stanton St Quinton in Wiltshire where William, aged 53 and from Leeds, was a
farm bailiff. The only person living
at the same address was his wife Ann who was 51 and from Clanfield in
Berkshire. Stanton
St Quinton lies midway between Malmesbury and.
Chippenham. At that same time
their son was working as a schoolmaster in Oxford and was a boarder at the
home of John Irons, aged 65, at 52 James Street in the St Clements district
of the city. |
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It
would appear that it was William’s work that then took the couple to Devon
during the 1880s since, in 1891, William Fenton
Collett from Leeds was 62 and a poultry manager living in a cottage in the
village of Huish south of Great Torrington with his wife Ann who was 60 and
also described as a poultry manager.
Sometime after that William Fenton Collett died and by March 1901 his
widow Ann was living with her unmarried son Frank at Sherington near Olney
within the Newport Pagnell registration district of Buckinghamshire. Ann Collett from Clanfield in Oxfordshire
was 71 and a retired school mistress, while her son Frank Collett was
40. With no record of Ann in 1911 it
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Frank Collett |
Born in 1860
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Elizabeth Collett was born in Leeds on 6th
January 1830 although the records show she was not baptised there until 30th
January 1831, when she was confirmed as the daughter of George and Elizabeth
Collett. Shortly after she was born
her parents left Leeds and travelled south to Berkshire where they settled in
the village of Little Coxwell near Faringdon.
However, it would seem from the census in 1841 that Elizabeth’s father
had passed away by then. According to
the census that year Elizabeth and her sister Anne (below) were the only ones
living with her mother in the Faringdon area.
Elizabeth Collett was nine years old at that time. Either her mother died during the 1840s or
she re-married, since by 1851 Elizabeth Collett from Leeds was 18 and a
pauper who was a servant working in the Faringdon Union Workhouse. Also working there as a servant was her
sister Anne Collett (below). |
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Anne Collett was born at Little Coxwell in 1832 and
was baptised there on 6th January 1833, the daughter of George and
Elizabeth Collett from Leeds. It is
likely her father died not long after she was born as it was just her mother
and her older sister who were living in the Faringdon area in 1841, when Anne
Collett was six years old. Living
nearby in the same registration district was her brother William (above) who,
in 1851 and named as William Collett from Leeds, was living in Little Coxwell
with his wife Ann. That same year both
Anne and her sister Elizabeth, also from Leeds, were paupers working as
servants in the Faringdon Union Workhouse where Anne was recorded as Ann
Collett from Little Coxwell who was 17. |
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Frank
Collett
was born in 1860 at Little Coxwell close to Faringdon in Berkshire (today in
Oxfordshire), the only son of William Fenton Collett and his wife Ann
Dodd. It was there that he and his
parents were living in April 1861, but ten years later they had moved the few
miles north to Kelmscott |
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Once married the couple left Oxford and moved to South Kirkby in
Yorkshire, where their first three children were born. [see
also Part 56 for other Colletts born there at that same time]. By 1887 the family was residing in the
Northamptonshire village of Clipston, just south of Market Harborough, where
the couple’s fourth child was born.
However, not long after the birth, the family moved again and in 1891
Frank Collett, aged 30 and from Faringdon, and his family were living at
Southlake Road in Waltham St Lawrence, which lies between Reading and Windsor. Frank was a certified schoolmaster, very
likely at Waltham St Lawrence Primary School, where his wife Emily, aged 28,
was a school mistress. Living there
with them, and possibly attending the same school, were their two eldest
children William F H Collett who was seven, and Percival Chas Collett who was
six, both sons listed as having been born at Kirkby in Yorkshire. The couple’s two youngest children were
Mary G Collett who was five and also from Kirkby, and Frances E Collett from
Clipston in Northamptonshire, who was three. |
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At that same time in 1891 Frank’s cousin on his mother’s side of
the family, Elizabeth Harriet Stanton, was 19 and was living at Waltham St
Lawrence with her father who was a coachman at the Manor House in the village. It was sometime shortly after the census in
1891 that Frank and his cousin Elizabeth ‘ran away’ together, and in 1892
Frank Collett was appointed as the first headmaster at Saint Lauds School in
Sherington near Olney in Buckinghamshire.
In 1895 the first meeting of the newly formed parish council took
place in the school house, and it was during the following year that Frank,
as head teacher, was elected to the post of Chairman of the Sherington Parish
Council. Three years later the 1899
Edition of Kelly’s Directory confirmed once again that Frank Collett was the
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By the time of the next census in 1901 Frank, who was also the
census enumerator for Sherington, had chosen to say that he was no longer a married
man, when he was named as the head of the household at St Lauds School in
Sherington. Frank Collett, aged 40 and
from Faringdon, had living with him his widowed mother Ann Collett nee
Stanton who was 71. She was described
as a retired schoolmistress, while Frank was listed as being a certified
schoolmaster. Also staying with Frank
and his mother was his cousin Elizabeth H Stanton, aged 28, who was born at
Waltham St Lawrence, the daughter of George and Mary A Stanton. That was the positive confirmation that
Frank and his wife had separated and that Frank had entered into a loving
relationship with his cousin. |
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As a result of the breakdown of their marriage, no more children
were added to the family of Frank and Emily Collett although, following their
separation, Emily did give birth to at least one more child, for which Frank
was very obviously not the father.
After Frank left Emily at Waltham St Lawrence, Emily took her children
to live on the south coast of England at Brighton, where they were recorded
in 1901. |
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According to the Brighton census that year married Emily Matilda
Collett from Oxford was 38 and had living there with her three of her four
children. They were Yorkshire born
William F H Collett who was 18, and Mary G Collett who was 15, while Frances
E Collett was 13 and had been born at Clipston. Her missing son Percy C Collett, aged 17
and from Yorkshire, had already left the family home by then and was living
and working in the St Peter-le-Bailey district of Oxford City, where he was a
tailor’s apprentice. However, he had
been replaced by a much younger base-born son for Emily, since living with
her at Brighton was one year old Cecil T Collett, the son of an unknown
father. |
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After his term of office as Chairman of the Parish Council,
Frank continued to be a councillor from May 1900 until her retired from the
council in January 1902. Perhaps it
was the discovery of his affair with Elizabeth Harriet Stanton that resulted
in Frank having to give up his occupation as a schoolmaster at St Lauds
School, since it was in September 1902 that he resigned from the post. However, during his nine years as head of
the school, he proved to
be a most diligent hard-working character, and
changed the school from an inefficient country school, to a highly regarded
leader in local education. The Council was fulsome in their
praise of him, recording at the time of his departure that "He had
given valuable services in the nine years.
The school was in a deplorable state when he first came to the village
but got to earn the highest possible grants through his able teaching, one of
his scholars in 1898 gaining the County Scholarship". |
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On leaving Sherington, Frank and Elizabeth moved east to
Ipswich. According to the Ipswich
census in April 1911 Frank Collett lied when he stated that had been married
to ‘his wife’ Elizabeth Collett for one year, when in fact he was still
married to Emily. By that time in his
life, Frank was an antique dealer and was the father of another son who was
born after the couple had arrived in Ipswich.
The Ipswich census of 1911 listed the three of them residing at 112 Clarence Villa on
Lacey Street, where Frank Collett from Faringdon
was 50, his ‘so called’ wife Elizabeth Collett was 39 and from Waltham St Lawrence,
and their son Eustace who was just one month old. |
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At that same time, the mother of Frank’s first four children was
living at 16 Norman Avenue West in Wood Green within the Edmonton area of
London. Emily Matilda Collett from
Oxford was 48 and recorded as being married for twenty-nine years, while her
two daughters were Mary Gertrude Collett from South Kirkby was 25, and
Frances Emily Collett from Clipston was 23.
Also living with the three of them was Cyril Royston Collett who was
three years old and born in London, who was described as the son of Emily
Matilda Collett. However, it is
possible that he was the base-born son of her eldest daughter Mary. Where Emily’s son Cecil was still remains a
mystery. It is possible he had already
suffered an infant death. The only
other detail known about her, is that Emily Matilda Collett died four years
later at Christchurch in Dorset during the second quarter of 1915. |
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Meanwhile, her husband Frank and his cousin Elizabeth continued
to live together as man and wife, and it was eight months after the wedding
of their son Eustace that they became a legally married couple. It was on the Isle of Wight on 23rd
September 1939 that widower Frank Collett, aged 79, married spinster
Elizabeth Harriet Stanton who was 68, while one of the witnesses at the
ceremony was their son Eustace. The
couple’s address at that time was given at 148 High Street in Ventor which
was the boarding house that was owned by Frank. Also on their marriage certificate, Frank’s
occupation was stated as being that of a retired estate agent. |
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Having already spent over forty years of their life together,
Frank and Elizabeth were married for eight and a half years when Frank
Collett died on 17th
April 1948 at 1 Mall Field Terrace in Brading on the Isle of Wight at the age
of 87. It was Elizabeth who reported
his death. Frank’s estate amounted to
£239 15s 11d, probate for which was granted in London on 7th June
1948 to his widow. Elizabeth Harriett
Collett nee Stanton died on 24th November 1952 at 3 Hornsey Rise
in Brading, when her son Eustace reported her passing. Following her death, Elizabeth was buried
with Frank at St Mary’s Church in Brading, plot G13.3. |
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William Frank Herbert Collett |
Born in 1882
at South Kirkby, York. |
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Percival Charles W Collett |
Born in 1884
at South Kirkby, York. |
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Mary Gertrude Collett |
Born in 1885
at South Kirkby, York. |
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Frances Emily Collett |
Born in 1888
at Clipston, Northants. |
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The following is the son of Emily Matilda Collett by an unknown
father: |
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Cecil Thomas Collett |
Born in 1900
at Brighton |
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The following is the only known child of Frank Collett by his
second wife Elizabeth: |
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Eustace Collett |
Born in 1911
at Ipswich |
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William Frank Herbert
Collett was born at
South Kirkby near Barnsley in Yorkshire, where he was baptised on 28th
December 1882. He was the eldest child
of schoolmaster Frank Collett and his first wife Emily Matilda Herbert who
were married at Oxford earlier in that same year. Around 1887 the family left Yorkshire and
spent a short while at Clipston, near Market Harborough, before arriving at
Waltham St Lawrence, midway between Reading and Windsor, where William F H
Collett, aged seven years, attended the primary school where both of his
parents worked as teachers in 1891. |
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Not long after 1891 the family was broken up when William’s
father ran off with his much younger cousin and in 1895 was the schoolmaster
at Sherington in Buckinghamshire. In
1901 his father was residing at Sherington where he was looking after his elderly
and recently widowed mother, while living there with them was his father’s
cousin Elizabeth H Stanton. At that
same time in his life William and two of his three younger siblings were
living at Brighton with their mother, when William F H Collett was 17. Also living with the family at Brighton was
William’s half-brother Cecil T Collett, the base-born son of his separated
mother. What happened to William after
that time is not known, as he is the only member of his family not to be
located anywhere in Great Britain within the next census of 1911. |
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Percival Charles W
Collett was born at
South Kirkby where he was baptised on 17th July 1884, the second
child of Frank and Emily Collett, his birth having been recorded at Hemsworth
(Ref. 9c 285) during the third quarter of the year. By 1887 the family was at Clipston in
Northamptonshire, where Percival’s youngest sister was born, before another
move to Waltham St Lawrence in Berkshire, where schoolboy Percival Ch Collett
was six years old and living with his parents and his three siblings in
1891. After his father walked out on
the family, and upon leaving school, Percy also left his mother and his three
siblings, who were living in Brighton, to take up work as a tailor’s
apprentice. By March 1901, he had
moved to Oxford where he was residing within the St Peter-le-Bailey area of
the city, where he was recorded in the census that years as Percy C Collett
aged 17 and from Yorkshire, who was an apprentice tailor. |
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The
marriage of Percival C Collett and Edith Hale was recorded as Edmonton
register office (Ref. 3a 40) in Middlesex (London) during the third quarter
of 1910. That was confirmed nine
months later in the census of 1911, when he and his wife were living in the
St Pancras and St Judes district of London, at Gray’s Inn Road. Percival Collett was 26 and from South
Kirkby, Pontefract, his wife Edith Collett being the same age, but from
Swansea in South Wales. Over the
following years, Edith gave birth to four children, the birth of whom were
all recorded at Edmonton register office, with their mother’s maiden-name
confirmed as Hale. Their son Percival
married Joan E Davis also recorded at Edmonton (Ref. 3a 138) during the first
quarter of 1940. However, in the 1940s
many children were born Collett with a mother’s maiden-name of Davis, so we
cannot be sure which were the children of Percival and Joan, if any at all. |
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Hilda F Collett |
Born in 1913
at Edmonton (Qrt 2 – 3a 142) |
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Muriel E Collett |
Born in 1915
at Edmonton (Qrt 2 – 3a 129) |
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Percival D Collett |
Born in 1917
at Edmonton (Qrt1 – 3a 142) |
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Leslie C Collett |
Born in 1923
at Edmonton (Qrt1 – 3a 81) |
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Mary Gertrude Collett was born at South Kirkby during 1885,
the daughter of Frank and Emily Collett, and was baptised there on 18th
December 1885. After a temporary stop
at Clipston in Northamptonshire and 1887-1889, Mary and her family were
recorded in the census of 1891 as living at Waltham St Lawrence in Berkshire,
where Mary G Collett was five years old.
Her father had deserted the family shortly after 1891, and by 1901
Mary and her two of her three siblings, together with their mother, were
living in Brighton, where Mary was recorded as Mary G Collett from Yorkshire
who was 15. Since the departure of her
father some years earlier, her mother had been in a relationship with another
man, which had resulted in the birth of a half-brother for Mary and he was
Cecil T Collett and was one-year-old in 1901.
A little while later, possibly following the death of Cecil, Mary and
her sister and her mother travelled to Wood Green, Middlesex, London, where
they were living together in 1911 when Mary Gertrude Collett from South
Kirkby was 25 and a dressmaker. The
child Cyril Royston Collett, who was living there with them, at the age of
three years, may have been the base-born child of Mary or her sister Frances
(below). |
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Cyril Royston
Collett |
Born during
1907 in London |
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Frances Emily Collett was born at Clipston in North
Northamptonshire in 1888, the last child born to Frank Collett by his first
wife Emily Matilda Herbert. By 1891,
when Frances E Collett was three years old, she and her family were living at
Waltham St Lawrence in Berkshire. By
the time she was 13 in March 1901 she was living in the Brighton area with just
her mother, two of three siblings, and her half-brother Cecil. On that occasion her place of birth was
named as Clipston, as it was again in 1891 and 1911. In April 1911 Frances Emily Collett was 23
and the manager of a shop offering dying and cleaning of clothes, where she
was residing at an address in the Wood Green area of London with her mother
and her older sister Mary Gertrude (above).
Also living there with them was three-year-old Cyril Royston Collett of
London who may have been the base-born son of either Frances or her sister
Mary. |
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Cecil Thomas Collett was born at Brighton in 1900, the son
of Emily Matilda Collett, the estranged wife of
Frank Collett, and an unknown man. He
was one year old on the day of the Brighton census in 1901 when he was living
there with his mother and three of her four children by Frank Collett. Tragically within a few weeks he had died, his
death recorded at Steyning register office Ref. 2b 175) during the second
quarter of 1901. |
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Eustace Collett was born at Ipswich on 8th
February 1911, the only son of Frank Collett and Elizabeth Harriet Stanton,
although they were not actually married for another twenty-eight years. He was one year old in the Ipswich census
of 1911 and twenty-eight years later Eustace was living at 7 Bridge Avenue in
Maidenhead when he married Hildegard Grettler on 12th January
1939. His occupation at that time in
his life was that of a radio engineer.
The marriage produced four children for Eustace and Hildegard, all of
them born on the Isle of Wight, the family resided there at three different
addresses prior to his death on 17th February 1981, at the age of
70. Eustace was one of the witnesses
at the delayed wedding of his father and mother in September 1939 at Ventnor
on the Isle of Wight, where his parents owned and managed a boarding house. |
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The only known details for the couple’s four children are as
follows. All of the births were
recorded on the Isle of Wight when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as
Grettler. Jean H Collett’s birth was
recorded during the fourth quarter of 1939 (Ref. 2b 12) and her marriage to
James T Adams was recorded at the Middlesex Willesdon register office (Ref.
5f 165) during the last three months of 1963.
Judy I Collett’s birth was recorded during the first quarter of 1943
(Ref. 2b 114), Eric Collett’s during the second quarter on 1944 (Ref. 2b
127), and Reginald O Collett’s during the last quarter of 1945 (Ref. 2b 74 |
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Jean
Hildegard Collett |
Born in 1939
at the Isle of Wight |
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Judy I
Collett |
Born in 1943
at the Isle of Wight |
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Eric Collett |
Born in 1944
at the Isle of Wight |
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55s5
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Reginald O
Collett |
Born in 1945
at the Isle of Wight |
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