Part 55 The Wakefield and Leeds Line from 1710

PART FIFTY-FIVE

The Wakefield & Leeds Line - 1710 to 2010

Updated March 2021

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 underlined

	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 25^th January 1665. She was the daughter of Edward Collitt, but tragically died eighteen months later on 26^th August 1666. Where this family might fit into the Wakefield family has still to be determined.

	It is confirmed that Richard Collett (Ref. 36L10), who starts this family line, was the second son and sixth child of William Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet and his wife Margaret Berry of Featherstone Moor, whose complete family can be found in Part 36 – The Barwick-in-Elmet (Leeds) Line, and whose line of descendents goes back to 1610.


55L2	Richard Collett (Ref. 36L15) was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1710, where he was baptised on 1^st May 1710. He married Mary Healey of Wakefield on 3^rd June 1734 at All Saints Church in Wakefield, where the couple settled and where all of their children were born and baptised. It is worth noting here, that all of the children of Richard and Mary were baptised with the name Collit, whereas for the following generations, the more traditional spelling of the name was used, and which is used throughout this family line. Richard’s father died in 1748 and his Will proved in 1749 included his son Richard Collett as a beneficiary. However, rather curiously having regarding to the fact that all of Richard’s children were baptised at Wakefield, he was described as “my son Richard Collett of Nottingham, a framework knitter” for which he received Five Pounds. Later in the same Will, Richard Collett and his older brother Thomas Collett each received a further Three Pounds, over and above the Five Pounds bequeathed to them earlier in the Will.

	55M1	Mary Collett			Baptised on 26.03.1735 at Wakefield
	55M2	Hannah Collett			Baptised on 04.01.1737 at Wakefield
	55M3	Catherine Collett			Baptised on 08.10.1738 at Wakefield
	55M4	John Collett			Baptised on 06.10.1740 at Wakefield
	55M5	Fanny Collett			Baptised on 01.11.1742 at Wakefield
	55M6	Ann Collett			Baptised on 27.09.1744 at Wakefield
	55M7	Richard Collett			Baptised on 30.01.1748 at Wakefield
	55M8	Robert Collett			Baptised on 11.12.1750 at Wakefield
	55M9	William Collett			Baptised on 09.10.1752 at Wakefield


55M1	Mary Collett was born at Wakefield where she was baptised at All Saints Church on 26^th March 1735, the eldest child of Richard Collett and Mary Healey. It was also at All Saints that Mary married Joseph Smirthwaite on 30^th November 1757


55M2	Hannah Collett was born at Wakefield where she was baptised at All Saints Church on 4^th January 1737. Hannah was around twenty-two years of age when she married John Scholey at All Saints on 27^th February 1759. The marriage resulted in the birth of eight children and they were: Agnes (1763-); John (1764-); Sarah (1767-1768); Fanny (1769-); Henry (1770-); Thomas (1772-); Sarah (1773-); and Ann (1778-).


55M4	John Collett was born at Wakefield where he was baptised at All Saints Church on 6^th 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 13^th 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.

	55N1	Richard Collett	Born in 1766 at Leeds
	55N2	Mary Collett	Born in 1769 at Leeds
	55N3	Fanny Collett	Baptised on 14.03.1772 at St Peter’s Leeds
	55N4	Richard Collett	Born in 1774 at Leeds
	55N5	Mary Collett	Born in 1779 at Leeds
	55N6	John Collett	Born in 1781 at Leeds


55M6	Ann Collett was born at Wakefield where she was baptised at All Saints Church on 27^th September 1744. She later married Andrew Silcock on 17^th November 1768, and that also took place at All Saints in Wakefield.


55M7	Richard Collett was born at Wakefield where he was baptised at All Saints Church on 30^th January 1748, and it was there also that he married Betty Newton on 9^th January 1780. Richard and Betty continued to live in Wakefield after they were married, where their children were born and baptised.

	55N7	John Collett		Born in 1782 at Wakefield
	55N8	Richard Collett		Born in 1784 at Wakefield
	55N9	Mary Collett		Baptised on 25.05.1786 at Wakefield
	55N10	Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 17.08.1789 at Wakefield


55M8	Robert Collett was born at Wakefield where he was baptised at All Saints Church on 11^th December 1750. 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.

	55N11	Robert Collett			Born circa 1785 at Wakefield


55N1	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 12^th January 1767, although it seems highly likely that he died while he was still in his infancy.


55N2	Mary Collett was born at Leeds in 1769 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 24^th June 1769 but, like her brother Richard (above), she too did not survive beyond infancy.


55N4	Richard Collett was born at Leeds in 1774 and, unlike all of his siblings, he was baptised at All Saints Church in Wakefield on 3^rd December 1774. It was however, at St Peter’s Church in Leeds where he married Mary Bulmer on 26^th May 1800. Mary was more than four years older than Richard, having been born at Leeds on 4^th January 1770, where she was baptised on 11^th 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.

	55O1	Charles Edwin Collett			Born in 1802 at Leeds
	55O2	Newton Collett			Born in 1804 at Leeds
	55O3	Alfred Collett			Born in 1806 at Leeds
	55O4	John Collett			Born in 1808 at Leeds
	55O5	Elizabeth Mary Collett			Born in 1810 at Leeds


55N5	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 6^th April 1779. However, with her marriage to John Williams at St Peter’s Church on 18^th 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.


55N6	John Collett was born at Leeds in 1781 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 8^th December 1781, the youngest child of John Collett and Mary Punton. He married Maria Laycock at St Peter’s Church on 14^th 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.

	55O6	William Collett		Born in 1810 at Leeds


55N7	John Collett was born at Wakefield in 1782, where he was baptised at All Saints Church on 22^nd 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 6^th February 1798, when he was confirmed as the son of Richard and Collett.


55N8	Richard Collett was born at Wakefield in 1784 and was baptised there at All Saints Church on 6^th 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 12^th April 1803. Sarah was baptised at Leeds on 12^th 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. However, their youngest daughter was baptised at Wakefield on 3^rd 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 20^th September and the second on 7^th October. A third burial of another Richard Collett took place at Wakefield on 4^th October 1828, but he was the son of Robert Collett.

	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.

	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:
	“IN MEMORY OF Mary wife of James Tute Esq of Pontefract who died 19^th of April 1858 aged 85 Also of Sarah Collett sister of the above Mary Tute who died December 24^th 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 19^th September 1851 died 7^th February 1876

	55O7	Charles Collett	Born on 08.11.1806 at Leeds
	55O8	John Shepherd Collett	Born on 10.03.1808 at Leeds
	55O9	Henry Collett	Born on 22.03.1810 at Leeds
	55O10	Sarah Collett	Born in 1813 at Leeds
	55O11	Sarah Collett	Born in 1815 at Leeds
	55O12	Maria Collett	Born in 1819 at Thornes in Wakefield
	55O13	William Collett	Born in 1825 at Leeds


55N11	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.

	55O14	John Collett	Born in 1814 at Wakefield
	55O15	Ann Collett	Born in 1816 at Wakefield
	55O16	Charles Collett	Baptised on 16.06.1819 at Wakefield
	55O17	Robert Collett	Baptised on 19.02.1825 at Wakefield
	55O18	Thomas Collett	Baptised on 12.01.1827 at Wakefield


55O1	Charles Edwin Collett was born at Leeds in 1802 but was baptised at All Saints Church in Wakefield on 1^st May 1802, the eldest child of Richard Collett and Mary Bulmer. Around the age of twenty-one, Charles married Elizabeth Wainwright at Kirkheaton on 24^th 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.

	55P1	Richard Henry Collett	Born in 1822 at Leeds
	55P2	Eliza Mary Collett	Born in 1825 at Leeds
	55P3	Juliana Collett	Born in 1828 at Leeds


55O2	Newton Collett was born at Leeds in 1804 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 5^th March 1804, the son of Richard and Mary Collett. Sadly, it is believed, that he died while he was still in his infancy.


55O3	Alfred Collett was born at Leeds on 14^th November 1806, and it was there he was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 19^th April 1807, the son of Richard and Mary Collett. He was twenty-one when he married Elizabeth Liversedge at St Peter’s Church on 10^th 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.

	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).

	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.

	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 & Bramley district of Leeds.

	55P4	Richard Collett	Born in 1829 at Leeds
	55P5	Alfred Collett	Born in 1831 at Leeds
	55P6	Mary Emily Collett	Born in 1833 at Leeds


55O4	John Collett was born at Leeds in 1808, and he was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 24^th June 1809, the youngest son of Richard Collett and Mary Bulmer.


55O5	Elizabeth Mary Collett was born at Leeds on 5^th December 1810 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 28^th April 1811, the youngest child of Richard Collett and Mary Bulmer. New information received from Julie Couchman in 2013 has 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 25^th February 1838, the daughter of William McCarthy.

	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.

	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.

	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 the married 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.

	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 2^nd 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.


55O6	William Collett was born at Leeds in 1810 where he was baptised on 25^th 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 15^th 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.

	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.

	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.

	55P7	Maria Collett			Born in 1832 at Leeds
	55P8	Sara Ann Collett			Born in 1835 at Leeds
	55P9	Emma Collett			Born in 1838 at Leeds
	55P10	Ellen Collett			Born in 1840 at Leeds
	55P11	Mary Collett			Born in 1850 at Leeds


55O7	Charles Collett was born at Leeds on 8^th November 1806 and was baptised there on 3^rd December 1806, the eldest son of Richard Collett and Sarah Shepherd. Charles married (1) Charlotte Machin at St James’ Church in Westminster, London on 5^th 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.

	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 29^th 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.


55O8	John Shepherd Collett was born at Leeds on 10^th March 1808 and it was at St Peter’s Church that he was baptised on 16^th January 1809. Just before his twentieth birthday John married (1) Mary Robinson at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 27^th 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. 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.

	55P12	Henry Collett			Born in 1828 at Leeds
	55P13	Richard Isaac Collett			Born in 1830 at Leeds
	55P14	John William Collett			Born in 1836 at Leeds


55O9	Henry Collett was born at Leeds on 22^nd March 1810 and one month later he was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 18^th 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.

	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 12^th April 1829 and baptised at St Peter’s Church in the city on 10^th May 1829. William Fenton Collett on the other hand was born on 13^th July 1824 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 30^th 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.

	55P15	William Collett			Born in 1829 at Leeds
	55P16	Mary Ann Collett			Born in 1831 at Leeds
	55P17	Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1833 at Leeds


55O10	Sarah Collett was born at Leeds in 1813, where she was baptised on 11^th 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.


55O11	Sarah Collett was born at Leeds where she was baptised on 15^th 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 1^st September 1835.


55O12	Maria Collett was baptised Thornes near Wakefield on 3^rd 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.


55O13	William Collett was born at Leeds, where he was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 16^th 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 17^th 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.

	55P18	Maria Collett			Born in 1851 at Leeds; died in 1876
	55P19	Caroline Collett			Born in 1855 at Leeds


55O14	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 10^th 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 21^st 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.

	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.

	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.

	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.

	55P20	Joseph Collett			Born in 1841 at Leeds
	55P21	Mary Maria Collett			Born in 1844 at Leeds
	55P22	Hannah Gardam Collett			Born in 1847 at Leeds
	55P23	Jane Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1849 at Leeds
	55P24	Margaret Ann Collett			Born in 1854 at Leeds


55O15	Ann Collett was born at Wakefield where she was baptised on 11^th 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 16^th July 1836.


55P1	Richard Henry Collett was born at Leeds on 22^nd November 1822, the eldest son of Charles Edwin Collett and Elizabeth Wainwright. He was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 26^th 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 25^th December 1847 that Richard married Ann Wood who was born on 23^rd 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 18^th July 1824.

	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.

	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.

	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.

	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.

	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 13^th 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 12^th 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 9^th 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.

	The headstone marking the grave bears the inscription “In Memory of ELIZA COLLETT daughter of Richard Henry and Ann Collett who died October 6^th 1878 aged 20 years. Also the above named RICHARD HENRY COLLETT who died July 13^th 1889 aged 65 years. Also ANN wife of the above who died October 9^th 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.

	55Q1	Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1846 at Leeds
	55Q2	Margaret Mary Collett			Born in 1847 at Leeds
	55Q3	Richard Henry Collett			Born in 1849 at Leeds
	55Q4	Charles Edwin Collett			Born in 1850 at Leeds
	55Q5	Ann Eliza Collett			Born in 1852 at Leeds
	55Q6	Eva Ann Collett			Born in 1854 at Leeds
	55Q7	Richard Henry Collett			Born in 1856 at Leeds
	55Q8	Eliza Collett			Born in 1858 at Leeds


55P2	Eliza Mary Collett was born in Leeds where she was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 23^rd 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.


55P3	Juliana Collett was born in Leeds and was baptised there on 7^th 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.


55P4	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 17^th 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).


55P5	Alfred Collett was born at Leeds on 1^st 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 17^th 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.

	Alfred was twenty-four years old when he married (1) Maria Vevers at the parish church in Wakefield on Monday 23^rd 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.

	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.

	Just over seventeen years after the birth of their third and last child, Maria died on 27^th December 1886 at the age of 52, she having been born on 29^th April 1834 and baptised at Leeds on 25^th 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 3^rd August 1897.

	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.

	55Q9	Henry Prince Collett			Born in 1857 at Leeds
	55Q10	Charles Collett			Born in 1859 at Leeds
	55Q11	Arthur Edward Collett			Born in 1869 at Horton, Bradford


55P6	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 27^th 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 13^th 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.


55P7	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 12^th 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.


55P8	Sara Ann Collett was born at Leeds in 1835 and it was there at St Peter’s Church that she was baptised on 28^th 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.


55P12	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 26^th 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 12^th 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.


55P13	Richard Isaac Collett was born at Leeds in 1830 and was baptised with his brother Henry Collett (above) on 26^th 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.

	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.

	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.

	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.

	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 3^rd February 1902, which confirmed she passed away on 6^th 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.

	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 26^th 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 2^nd April that year. Also, no later recorded of her has been found.

	55Q12	John Collett			Born in 1851 at Devizes
	55Q13	Mary Collett			Born in 1852 at Devizes
	55Q14	Richard J Collett			Born in 1857 at Devizes
	55Q15	Charles Collett			Born in 1863 at Devizes
	55Q16	Annie Collett			Born in 1865 at Devizes
	55Q17	Alfred Collett			Born in 1866 at Devizes
	55Q18	Emily Collett			Born in 1868 at Devizes
	55Q19	Frances Mary Collett			Born in 1870 at Winchester
	55Q20	Richard James Collett			Born in 1871 at Winchester


55P14	John William Collett was born at Leeds on 20^th August 1836 and was the youngest of the three sons of John Shepherd Collett and Mary Robinson. He was later baptised on 1^st 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 20^th 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.

	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.

	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.

	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.

	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 31^st census day, John William Collett of Southsea died at Cherry Tree Cottage in the village of Headley, north-east of Winchester, on 3^rd September 1901. Probate for his considerable estate of £23,386 4 Shillings (today over £2M) was granted in London on 17^th 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.

	55Q21	Henry Edward Collett			Born in 1857 at London St Luke’s
	55Q22	John William Collett			Born in 1859 at London St Luke’s
	55Q23	Newton Collett			Born in 1861 at London St Pancras
	55Q24	Joseph Henry Collett			Born in 1863 at London
	55Q25	Mary Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1865 at Southsea
	55Q26	Edwin Collett			Born in 1867 at Southsea
	55Q27	Harry Collett			Born in 1869 at Southsea
	55Q28	Archie Collett			Born in 1870 at Southsea
	55Q29	Ernest Collett			Born in 1872 at Southsea
	55Q30	Daisy Collett			Born in 1874 at Southsea
	55Q31	Willie Collett			Born in 1876 at Southsea
	55Q32	May Collett			Born in 1880 at Southsea


55P15	William Collett was born at Nile Street in Leeds on 12^th April 1829 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church in the city on 10^th 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 premature death.


55P16	Mary Ann Collett was born at Leeds in 1831 and was baptised there at St Peter’s Church on 10^th 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.


55P17	Elizabeth Collett was born at Leeds in 1833 where she was baptised on 27^th 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.


55P20	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.


55P21	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 (1878-).

	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.


55P22	Hannah Gardam Collett was the third child of joiner John Collett and Mary Gardam and was born at Leeds on 14^th 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 26^th 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 28^th 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 19^th August 1931. Probate of her personal effects valued at £468 14 Shillings 1 Penny was granted to Margaret Hannah Lee, a spinster.


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 224) during the last three months of 1867.


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.


55Q1	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.

	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 E Knowland being one year old.

	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 final child was added to the family.

	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 who was a school teacher.

	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 and with no stated occupation.

	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 Dewsbury district registrar.

	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.

	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 17^th March 1926 aged 52, and three of her children. Charles Jakeman, who was killed in France on 4^th October 1917, Richard Henry Jakeman (no dates provided), and Ann Eliza Jakeman who died on 18^th January 1955 aged 58.


55Q2	Margaret Mary Collett was born at Leeds on 14^th 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 living elsewhere.

	However, it was just over three years later that Margaret, at the age of 17, arranged her own baptism which took place on 11^th 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 11^th July 1869. The marriage produced three sons and two daughters for William and Margaret, who often used her second christian in the subsequent census returns.

	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 char woman from Leeds, while their two children were Hetty who was four and already attending school, and Arthur who was two years old.

	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.

	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.


55Q3	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 which, almost certainly, was a common grave populated by unrelated persons.


55Q4	Charles Edwin Collett was born at Haymount Place in Leeds on 1^st 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 17^th 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.

	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 married man.

	He was around thirty-two years of age when he married twenty-six-year-old Sarah Bennett on 17^th 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).

	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.


55Q5	Ann Eliza Collett was born at Leeds on 12^th 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 17^th 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 (Ref. 9b 35).


55Q6	Eva Ann Collett was born at Leeds on 2^nd 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 26^th 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 the census in 1891.

	Her mother then passed away just over five years later, following which, on 2^nd 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.


55Q7	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.


55Q8	Eliza Collett was born at Leeds on 10^th 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 26^th 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.


55Q9	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 8^th 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 none of them surviving beyond a few months.

	It was at 34 Chapeltown Road in Leeds where Henry Prince Collett was living when he died on 10^th April 1890. Administration, with Will, was granted at Wakefield on 12^th 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.

	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 20^th 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).

	55R1	William Henry Collett			Born in 1883 at Leeds; died in 1883
	55R2	Florence Emily Collett			Born in 1884 at Leeds; died in 1884
	55R3	Edith Collett			Born in 1885 at Leeds; died in 1885


55Q10	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 30^th 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.

	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 16^th October 1915, and his wife Annie lived on for a further fourteen years, until she passed away on 19^th 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 7^th 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.

	55R4	Sidney Vevers Collett			Born in 4^th Quarter of 1887 at Leeds
	55R5	Walter Eldred Collett			Born in May 1890 at Leeds


55Q11	Arthur Edward Collett was born at 2 Broadbent Street in the Horton area of Bradford on 6^th February 1869. He was the youngest child of Alfred Collett and Maria Vevers, and on 11^th 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 12^th February 1894 and that sad event was followed three weeks later by the death of their daughter, who died on 3^rd March 1894.

	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 7^th April 1898. Annie was born at 55 Glover Street in Leeds on 28^th 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.

	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 15^th January 1947. Just over six years later his wife Hannah Eliza ‘Annie’ Collett nee Ackroyd died in St James’ Hospital in Leeds on 16^th July 1953.

	55R6	Florence Ethel Collett			Born in 1894 at Leeds
	The following are the children of Arthur Edward Collett by his second wife Hannah Eliza Ackroyd:
	55R7	Florence Emily Collett			Born in 1899 at Leeds
	55R8	Kathleen Collett			Born in 1901 at Leeds
	55R9	Henry Reginald Collett			Born in 1903 at Leeds
	55R10	Winifred Lily Collett			Born in 1906 at Leeds


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.


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.


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.


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.


55Q16	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.


55Q17	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.


55Q18	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.


55Q19	Frances Mary Collett was born at Winchester, possibly in either 1869 or 1870, where she was baptised on 26^th 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.


55Q20	Richard James Collett was born at Winchester on 4^th 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. It was very likely his work that took him to the south-east of England, and it was at Eastry in Kent that he met and married Esther Shrewsbury Wratten during the last three months of 1894. Esther had been born at Deal in Kent on 30^th August 1872 and was the daughter of bricklayer John Henry Wratten and his wife Ann Thompson, the family living at 7 West Street in Deal, Kent in 1881. It was also while the couple wase living at Deal that all of the children of Richard and Esther were born.

	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 31^st July 1939. His wife Esther also died there, but seventeen years later on 22^nd August 1956.

	55R11	Mary Estella Collett			Born in 1896 at Deal in Kent
	55R12	Elsie Florence Collett			Born in 1897 at Deal in Kent
	55R13	Doris Grace Collett			Born in 1899 at Deal in Kent
	55R14	Richard James Collett			Born in 1902 at Deal in Kent
	55R15	Charles Collett			Born in 1912 at Deal in Kent


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.


36Q22	John William Collett was born at St Lukes in London on 21^st June 1859. Three years later on 29^th 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.

	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.

	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 31^st 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 23^rd 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.

	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 24^th 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 11^th 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 26^th September 1961 the case of Jessie Ellen Collett was still being considered by the Probate Court in London.

	55R16	Hugh Gordon Collett			Born in 1888 at Portsmouth
	55R17	Percival Lester Stanley Collett			Born in 1891 at Portsmouth
	55R18	Vera Cicely Collett			Born in 1897 at Portsmouth
	55R19	Audrey Nina P Collett			Born in 1901 at Portsmouth


55Q23	Newton Collett was born at St Pancras in London on 6^th 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 27^th 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.

	Just after his twenty-first birthday, Newton Collett married Elizabeth Mary Doran on 27^th 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.

	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 19^th September 1910, following which his Will was proved in London on 18^th 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.

	55R20	Elizabeth Daisy Collett			Born in 1883 at Portsmouth
	55R21	Newton Henry Collett			Born in 1885 at Portsmouth
	55R22	John William Collett			Born in 1886 at Portsmouth
	55R23	Harry Collett			Born in 1887 at Portsmouth
	55R24	Fanny Collett			Born in 1889 at Portsmouth


55Q24	Joseph Henry Collett was born at St Lukes in London on 6^th August 1863 and was baptised at the Bedfordshire village of Eaton Socon with his older brother John (above) on 27^th 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.

	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.


55Q25	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.


55Q26	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.

	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.

	55R25	Harry Reginald Collett			Born in 1895 at Southsea
	55R26	John William Collett			Born in 1897 at Southsea
	55R27	Joseph Frederick Collett			Born in 1900 at Southsea
	55R28	Frank Edward Collett			Born in 1902 at Southsea
	55R29	George Stanley Collett			Born in 1910 at Southsea


55Q27	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.

	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.

	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.

	55R30	Archie Bertram T Collett			Born in 1894 at Southsea
	55R31	Cyril Ernest L Collett			Born in 1895 at Southsea
	55R32	Iris Hilda R Collett			Born in 1899 at Gosport
	55R33	Harold John W Collett			Born in 1903 at Gosport
	55R34	Audrey Edna M Collett			Born in 1904 at Gosport


55Q28	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.


55Q29	Daisy Collett was born at Southsea in 1873 and was baptised there on 9^th 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.


55Q30	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 Portsmouth.

	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.

	55R35	May Bessie Collett			Born in 1896 at Portsmouth


55Q31	May Collett was born on 3^rd 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.


55R5	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.


55R6	Florence Ethel Collett was born at Leeds on 28^th 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 3^rd March 1894.


55R7	Florence Emily Collett was born at Leeds on 28^th 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 named as the eldest of the family still living in Chapeltown Road.

	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 4^th January 1922, Reginald having been born at Bradford on 14^th June 1893. After nearly forty years together, Reginald died at Bolton-le-Sands, Carnforth in Lancashire on 29^th 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 6^th March 1992.


55R8	Kathleen Collett was born at Leeds on 11^th 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 13^th April 1919, a victim of flu pandemic, after suffering with the symptoms for less than one week.

	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.


55R9	Henry Reginald Collett was born at Leeds on 27^th 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 12^th January 1963.


55R10	Winifred Lily Collett was born at Leeds on 29^th 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 13^th September 1903. The ceremony took place at the Newton Park Union Church in Leeds on 30^th July 1930, and during the following year their son was born at Leeds.

	At some time during their life, the family moved to Warwickshire, and it was on 5^th 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 that Donald died on 3^rd January 1995

	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.

	55S1	Peter Collett Turnbull			Born in 1931 at Leeds


55R11	Mary Estella Collett was born at Deal around 1896. She married (1) Charles Thomas Collins on 26^th February 1918 and the marriage produced two daughters Joyce Marie Collins born on 17^th January 1919 and Phyllis Cecily Collins who was born on 29^th February 1924. Upon the death of her husband Charles, Mary married (2) Mr Harding before she died in 1978.


55R12	Elsie Florence Collett was born at Deal around 1897. On 7^th April 1920 she married George Hugh Woodhams who was born on 25^th May 1892. For the most part of their married life together it is believed that the couple lived in London. However, when Elsie died in 1991, she was living at Dover.


55R13	Doris Grace Collett was born at Deal around 1899. She married Andrew Rudolf Fraser on 6^th September 1916 and they had two children, Yvonne Betty Fraser born on 23^rd December 1917 and Ronald Andrew Fraser who was born on 5^th April 1921. Tragically Andrew died in his twenties on 23^rd January 1922. It seems likely that Doris never re-married, but it is known that she died in 1976.


55R14	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 5^th 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 was married. He was an engineer by trade and while living in London he was involved in aircraft assembly with Handley Page. 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.

	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.

	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 23^rd June 1971, while his wife Laura G Collett nee Turner died nineteen years later on 3^rd October 1990.

	55S2	Michael Richard Collett			Born in 1939 in London


55R15	Charles Collett was born at Deal around 1912 and he married Doreen Daphne Butler on 15^th March 1930. It is understood that the marriage produced no children and that Charles died in 1980.


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.

	55S3	Pamela Collett			Date of birth unknown


55R17	Percival Lester Stanley Collett was born at Portsmouth on 5^th 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 was recorded in error as P Collett aged 17, rather than 19, and with no occupation. Four years later, the marriage of Percival L S Collett and Victoria E J Pascoe was recorded at Fareham register office (Ref. 2b 31) during the second quarter of 1915. The wedding ceremony took place in the village of North Boarhunt, just north-east of Fareham. Victoria Elizabeth Jane Pascoe was born at the end of 1895 and was a close neighbour of the Collett family, and she and Percival gave birth to three children, one during the Great War, and two afterwards.

	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 cause of death was cancer of the lungs.

	55S4	John Dennis Percival Collett			Born in 1916 at Fareham
	55S5	Roger Gordon Pascoe Collett			Born in 1922 at Fareham
	55S6	Shirley Jane Collett			Born in 1930 at Portsmouth


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.


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 t he 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.


55R20	Elizabeth Daisy Collett was born at Portsmouth on 6^th 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.


55R21	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.


55R22	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 24^th October 1948. His personal effects valued at £421 11 Shillings 9 Pence were left in the hands of Jessie Elizabeth McFee, a married woman.


55R23	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.

	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.

	55S7	Rosina M D Collett			Born in 1912 at Portsmouth; died 1913


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.


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.


55R26	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 5^th 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 Memorial reference 14.


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.

	55S8	Doreen M Collett			Born in 1932 at Alverstoke
	55S9	Anne Collett			Born in 1936 at Southampton
	55S10	Brenda M Collett			Born in 1937 at Gosport


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 6^th January 1899.

	55S11	Grace A Collett			Born in 1932 at Portsmouth
	55S12	Shirley A Collett			Born in 1936 at Southampton


55R29	George Stanley Collett was born at Southsea on 8^th 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 6^th 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.


55R30	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


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.

	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).

	55S13	Jean Victoria Collett			Born in 1922 at Portsmouth
	55S14	Peter J Collett			Born in 1924 at Portsmouth
	55S15	Audrey A Collett			Born in 1925 at Portsmouth
	55S16	David L Collett			Born in 1933 at Portsmouth


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.


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.


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.


55S2	Michael Richard Collett was born in London on 25^th 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.

	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 27^th 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 25^th May 1974, their only child Mark Richard Collett. Having enjoyed just over fifty years together Mike passed away on Sunday 12^th July 2015, following a twelve-month battle with cancer.

	55T1	Mark Richard Collett			Born in 1974 at Swindon


55S4	John Dennis Percival Collett was born at Fareham on 12^th November 1916, and was known as Dennis. He was the eldest of the three children of Peter Lester Stanley Collett and Victoria Elizabeth Jane Pascoe. Dennis married Eileen in 1939, with the event recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 81) during the first quarter of the year, under the names John D P Collett and Eileen M Thompson. and they had one son Derek. The death of John Dennis P Collett was recorded at Portsmouth register office (Vol. 20) during the spring of 1989, at the age of 72.

	55T2	Derek L Collett			Born in 1947 at Portsmouth


55S5	Roger Gordon Pascoe Collett was born on 13^th 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 Nautical College in Pangbourne, following his keen interest to have a career on the sea. He eventually joined the Royal Navy and served during the Second World War, when two of the vessels he was assigned to were sank. It was also during the war years that the marriage of Roger G P Collett and Ruth W W Robinson (a friend since childhood) was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 131) during the third quarter of 1944. 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 24^th January 2009, having been born on 13^th January 1922.

	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.

	55T3	Philip John Collett			Born in 1944 at Bath
	55T4	Lesley Jane Collett			Born in 1948 at Bath
	55T5	Alan Pascoe Collett			Born in 1952 at Southsea
	55T6	Andrew Thomas Collett			Born in 1959 at Malta


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.


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 13^th July 2010 at Chessington in Surrey.


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.

	55T7	Andrew Michael Collett			Born in 1966 at Surrey


55T1	Mark Richard Collett was born on 25^th 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 16^th July 1994, while their son Liam Richard Collett was born on 18^th May 1993 and their daughter Amy Claire Collett was born on 21^st July 1999.

	55U1	Liam Richard Collett			Born in 1993 at Swindon
	55U2	Amy Claire Collett			Born in 1999 at Swindon


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.

	55U3	Lucie Collett			Date of birth unknown
	55U4	Alice Collett			Date of birth unknown
	55U5	Nicholas Collett			Date of birth unknown


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.

	55U6	a Collett daughter			Date of birth unknown
	55U7	a Collett daughter			Date of birth unknown


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.

	55U8	a Collett daughter			Date of birth unknown
	55U9	a Collett daughter			Date of birth unknown
	55U10	a Collett daughter			Date of birth unknown


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.

	55U11	a Collett daughter			Date of birth unknown
	55U12	Samantha Collett			Date of birth unknown





	APPENDIX ONE – OTHER WAKEFIELD COLLETTS

	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.

	Mary Collitt, the daughter of Ralph Collitt, was baptised at All Saints Church in Wakefield on 14^th February 1698. She later married Oswald Hanson at the same church on 5^th April 1722. Oswald was a ‘gentleman of means’ from Sandall and he died in Wakefield after 1742, but not before he had fathered eight children with Mary who were all baptised at All Saints, Wakefield. They were Martha Hanson (bap 30.09.1723), Hannah Hanson (bap 13.03.1727), Betty Hanson (bap 06.01.1729, died 06.01.1730), Ann Hanson (bap 07.12.1730), Catherine Hanson (bap 15.01.1733, died 15.03.1817), William Hanson (bap 10.07.1736), Mary Hanson (bap 14.07.1739) and Ralph Hanson (bap 23.01.1742).

	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 25^th April 1812. Sarah Collit was born on 20^th August 1805, and her sister Mary Collit was born on 26^th September 1807.

	And finally, Mary Collett died at Wakefield on 30^th March 1718.





	APPENDIX TWO – WILLIAM FENTON COLLETT FROM LEEDS

	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, and not Henry and Elizabeth Collett.

55o1	George Collett may have been born around 1800 and on 12^th 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 10^th January 1803, and was the daughter of George Fenton.

	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.

	55p1	William Fenton Collett			Born in 1824 at Leeds
	55p2	Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1830 at Leeds
	55p3	Anne Collett			Born in 1832 at Little Coxwell

55p1	William Fenton Collett was born at York Street in Leeds on 13^th July 1824 and was baptised as William Collett at St Peter’s Church on 30^th 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.

	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.

	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.

	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 must be assumed that she died during the first decade of the new century.

	55q1	Frank Collett		Born in 1860 at Little Coxwell, Faringdon


55p2	Elizabeth Collett was born in Leeds on 6^th January 1830 although the records show she was not baptised there until 30^th 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).


55p3	Anne Collett was born at Little Coxwell in 1832 and was baptised there on 6^th 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.


55q1	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 where Frank was listed at the age of 11. Frank followed the same profession as his mother and in 1881, at the age of 20, he was working as a schoolmaster in Oxford, where he was a boarder at the home of John Irons, aged 65, at 52 James Street in the St Clements district of the city. It was during the second quarter of 1882 that Frank Collett married Emily Matilda Herbert, the event recorded at Headington (Ref. 3a 359).

	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.

	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 master at Sherington School.

	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.

	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.

	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.

	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".

	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.

	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.

	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 23^rd 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.

	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 17^th 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 7^th June 1948 to his widow. Elizabeth Harriett Collett nee Stanton died on 24^th 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.

	55r1	William Frank Herbert Collett	Born in 1882 at South Kirkby, York.
	55r2	Percival Charles W Collett	Born in 1884 at South Kirkby, York.
	55r3	Mary Gertrude Collett	Born in 1885 at South Kirkby, York.
	55r4	Frances Emily Collett	Born in 1888 at Clipston, Northants.
	The following is the son of Emily Matilda Collett by an unknown father:
	55r5	Cecil Thomas Collett	Born in 1900 at Brighton
	The following is the only known child of Frank Collett by his second wife Elizabeth:
	55r6	Eustace Collett	Born in 1911 at Ipswich


55r1	William Frank Herbert Collett was born at South Kirkby near Barnsley in Yorkshire, where he was baptised on 28^th 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.

	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.


55r2	Percival Charles W Collett was born at South Kirkby where he was baptised on 17^th 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.

	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.

	55r2/1	Hilda F Collett	Born in 1913 at Edmonton (Qrt 2 – 3a 142)
	55r2/2	Muriel E Collett	Born in 1915 at Edmonton (Qrt 2 – 3a 129)
	55r2/3	Percival D Collett	Born in 1917 at Edmonton (Qrt1 – 3a 142)
	55r2/4	Leslie C Collett	Born in 1923 at Edmonton (Qrt1 – 3a 81)


55r3	Mary Gertrude Collett was born at South Kirkby during 1885, the daughter of Frank and Emily Collett, and was baptised there on 18^th 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).

	55s1	Cyril Royston Collett	Born during 1907 in London


55r4	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.


55r5	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.


55r6	Eustace Collett was born at Ipswich on 8^th 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 12^th 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 17^th 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.

	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

	55s2	Jean Hildegard Collett	Born in 1939 at the Isle of Wight
	55s3	Judy I Collett	Born in 1943 at the Isle of Wight
	55s4	Eric Collett	Born in 1944 at the Isle of Wight
	55s5	Reginald O Collett	Born in 1945 at the Isle of Wight

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