PART SIXTY-TWO

The Wiltshire Line to New Zealand & Australia

(including a line to Canada from Langley Burrell in Wiltshire)

This is the first of two sections of this family line

Updated October 2023

The vast majority of the later generations of this family line were previously included in Part 35 – The Melksham to Wisconsin and Ontario Line and Part 44 – The First Broughton Gifford Line. However, the contents of the late 18^th Century Wills of Henry Collett, [1779], John Redman [1784], and his wife Elizabeth Redman nee Fox [1793] confirm that Joseph Collett (Ref. 62K2), who married Jane Redman, was the brother of William Collett (Ref. 62K3), who married Esther (Hester) Redman. The earlier information relating to the family of Joseph and Jane was contained within Part 35, while the earlier information for William and Hester was contained in Part 44.

The revamped and renamed former Part 62 – The Trowbridge to New Zealand Line therefore brings together these two families, which includes Clive Franklyn Collett (Ref. 62O36) the First World War fighter pilot.

The earliest record of a Collett in Trowbridge was the marriage of Joan Collett and John Chapman at St James’ Church on 10^th October 1543.

Another of the early Collett families in Trowbridge was that of William and his wife Mary. The baptism records for their three children at the Church of St James in the town confirm that their daughter Mary Collett was baptised on 12^th December 1656, that their son William Collett was baptised on 10^th August 1665, and that another daughter Hannah Collett was baptised on 25^th April 1667. Twenty-one years later Mary Collett, aged 30 and a spinster, married William Holloway, a widower and a yeoman from Wilsford, at St James’ Church on 21^st June 1688. It is possible she was the daughter of William and Mary (above). The bondsman for the marriage was Edward Smith, a joiner from Salisbury. Her sister Hannah may have been the Hannah Collett who married John Tree from Staverton at Trowbridge on 12^th March 1711.

The first family in this file was previously thought to be associated with Trowbridge from the fact that, upon the death of Henry Collett (Ref. 62J1) in 1779, he was named as Henry Collett of Trowbridge, when it is now established that all of his children were baptised at Bradford-on-Avon, with Henry and two of his children buried at Broughton Gifford. Upon the discovery of these new details in 2019, it was also revealed that there were earlier families at Bradford-on-Avon, which have now been included in this introduction. As a result, and with Trowbridge and Bradford only being separated by three-miles, the February 2021 version of the file was retitled as Part 62 - The Trowbridge & Bradford-on-Avon Line to New Zealand & Australia.

They are:

Mary Collett baptised on 13^th December 1632, the daughter of Matthew Collett

Elizabeth Collett married Robert Jones on 14^th January 1641

Edward and Sybil Collett’s son Thomas was baptised on 2^nd February 1663

Edward and Sybil Collett’s daughter Elizabeth was baptised in December 1664

William and Jane Collett’s son John was baptised on 3^rd September 1671

William and Jane Collett’s son William was baptised on 5^th March 1676

William and Jane Collett’s son John was baptised on 10^th July 1678

William and Jane Collett’s daughter Mary was baptised on 13^th December 1680

William and Jane Collett’s son Thomas was baptised on 1^st October 1681

William Collett (above) was buried on 29^th October 1696

Robert Collett was buried on 18^th May 1701

Mary Collett married John Fry on 18^th August 1701

Richard Collett married Joan Horlacher on 10^th May 1702

Richard and Joan Collett’s son William was baptised on 27^th January 1704

Richard and Joan Collett’s son Thomas was baptised on 5^th September 1706

Richard and Joan Collett’s daughter Elizabeth was baptised on 31^st March 1710

Richard and Joan Collett’s daughter Elizabeth was buried on 11^th October 1711 – one year

Richard Collett (above) was buried on 10^th July 1715 – aged 40 from dropsy

Jane Collett (former wife of William, above) was buried on 11^th October 1715 – aged 70

Margaret Collett married William Pocock on 8^th May 1726

Thomas Collett was buried on 12^th July 1739

Thomas Collett married Ann Elleck on 4^th August 1760

William Collett married Jane Spender on 13^th September 1764 – both of Wraxall

This is now the family line of brothers Phillip John Collett (Ref. 62R1) and Geoffrey Peter Collett (Ref. 62R3) in New Zealand, and Shirley Ann Anderson nee Collett (Ref 62Q38) in England, who were all previously in Part 44. Also included here are the following individuals from Part 35: Geraldine Leslie Hopkins nee Collett (Ref. 62P5) in Canada; Don Cameron the grandson of Gertrude Annie Collett (Ref. 62O1) in Australia; and Ian Hextall (Ref. 62N24) in Scotland.

Added in November 2014 was Appendix One which lists another Trowbridge family, that of Daniel Collett (Ref. 62l2) and his wife Jane Morgan, which hopefully will later form an integral part of this family line sometime in the future. Thanks to good work in 2016 by David Hankey from Leicestershire, whose Collett ancestors are those in Part 44 – The First Broughton Gifford Line, it is now established that John Collett (Ref. 62L9) was not the husband of Sarah Elmes. That particular John Collett can be found in Part 35 – The Melksham to Wisconsin and Ontario Line (Ref. 35M4). This means that the nine children of John and Sarah (previously 62M27 to 62M35) have been removed from this family line and relocated in their rightful place within Part 35.

62J1	HENRY COLLETT was married to Martha probably around 1750, which may place his year of birth around 1725. The details for Henry and Martha and their six children were unearthed in 2003 by researcher Bernard Welchman on behalf of Martin Collett, whose family line this is. At that time, it was suggested that the children had been born and baptised at Bradford-on-Avon, but it was then proposed that they were baptised at Trowbridge. In 2019 the Wiltshire Records Office published the birth, deaths and marriage, a copy of them generously provided by Stephen Carpenter. As a result, it is now confirmed that the children of Henry and Martha were baptised at Bradford-on-Avon. Previously, in this family line, it was speculated that the baptism of the couple’s fifth child Sarah had been conducted at the Silver Street Presbyterian Church in Trowbridge on 18^th May 1759, but that too now appears to be incorrect. It was the later Will of Henry Collett that described him as Henry Collett, a Yeoman of Trowbridge. Following his death, Henry Collett of Trowbridge was buried at Broughton Gifford on 1^st April 1779, where his son Stephen was buried two weeks later, and his daughter Sarah had been buried nine years earlier. .
	Henry Collett’s Last Will and Testament was made on 26^th March 1779 and was signed by him with the mark of a cross. The Will was proved at Salisbury (Sarum) on 20^th April 1779, when his son Joseph was confirmed as the executor of the Will. Within the Will there are references to all four sons, but no direct mention of his wife. It does however include the name of Martha Collett who received just one guinea but without mention of the relationship being wife, daughter or other. It is therefore possible that he was already a widower at the time if his passing, while daughter Martha had not yet reached full age.
	The order in which the names were stated in the Will was son Henry Collett who received £100, son William Collett with £400, son Stephen Collett with £200, and his grandson Henry Collett with a silver tankard – the son of his son Joseph Collett. Stephen also inherited his father’s home, while Joseph, who received no money, was bequeathed some household furniture that was shared between him and his brother William, in addition to which it was Joseph who was appointed the sole executor. The other named beneficiaries were Elizabeth Bosey, Martha Collett, and the Reverend Mr Cross, each of whom received one guinea.
	62K1	Henry Collett		Baptised on 14.12.1751 at Bradford-on-Avon
	62K2	Joseph Collett		Baptised on 22.03.1753 at Bradford-on-Avon
	62K3	William Collett		Baptised on 22.06.1754 at Bradford-on-Avon
	62K4	Stephen Collett		Baptised on 06.12.1755 at Bradford-on-Avon
	62K5	Sarah Collett		Baptised on 07.03.1759 at Bradford-on-Avon
	62K6	Martha Collett		Baptised on 06.01.1761 at Bradford-on-Avon
62J2	Catherine Collett was very possibly the sister of Henry Collett (above). Like Henry, it was also in 1751, that Catherine Collett married William Westfield, of Bradford-on-Avon, at St James’ Church in Trowbridge on 12^th April 1751. Catherine was said to be ‘of Bathford’, while the first bondsman was William Bush, also from Bradford.
62K2	Joseph Collett was the second son of Henry and Martha Collett, and was very likely born at Bradford-on-Avon, where he was baptised on 22^nd March 1753. He was around full age at the time of his marriage in 1772, although his age at the time of his death in 1809 was recorded in error as 55. On the occasion of his wedding, Joseph was described as a Yeoman of Trowbridge, the same description given to his father in his Will of 1779, who was a bachelor with the permission of his parents to be married. He married Jane Redman (Rudman) at Melksham on 29^th October 1772, the Sarum Marriage Licence Bond having been issued the previous day.
	Jane was a spinster of Melksham, aged 20, who also had her parents’ approval to be married, her father being bondsman John Redman, who was described as a Yeoman of Shaw near Melksham, while her mother was Elizabeth Fox. John and Elizabeth Redman were also the parents of Esther (Hester) Redman who married Joseph’s brother William Collett (below) in 1780. Once they were married Joseph and Jane may have initially lived in Melksham, where their first child was baptised. Not long after that, the family of three moved to the village of Kington St Michael, to the north of Chippenham, where their remaining children were all born.
	Upon the death of his father in 1779, Joseph was appointed sole executor for his Will in which, rather curiously, Joseph was not bequeathed a monetary lump sum like his three brothers, and was only named in the Will in the following way: “Also I give all my household goods and furniture in my now dwelling house (except the dressers and shelves in the hall and kitchen which I give to my son Stephen) to my two sons Joseph and William Collett from and immediately after my decease in equal shares and proportions. Also, all the rest residue and remainder of my goods chattels estate and effects not herein before given or disposed of I give and bequeath the same (after paying my just debts legacies and funeral expenses) unto my son Joseph Collett whom I appoint sole Executor.” All of this therefore raises the question that it was more than likely that Joseph was the eldest son of Henry Collett and not his second son as indicated by a researcher in 2003.
	Another beneficiary under the terms of the Will was Joseph’s son Henry who was to be given his grandfather’s silver tankard.
	Joseph’s father-in-law John Redman died in 1784 and in his Will made on 13^th December 1783 was a reference to his daughter Jane, the wife of Joseph Collett. “I also give devise and bequeath unto my daughter Jane (now the wife of Joseph Collett) the sum of Eighty Pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to be paid her by my said Executrix within twelve months after my decease.” Something changed within the next six months, as the Codicil to the Will dated 5^th July 1784 included the following passage. “I the above named John Redman, being at this time of sound mind, memory and understanding do hereby make this Codicil unto my last Will and Testament, in order to ratify and confirm the gift of all my houses and tenements with the backsides orchards, gardens and appurtenances thereunto belonging situate at certain places called Biddestone and Long Dean in the County of Wilts, unto my said daughter Jane now the wife of Joseph Collett, to hold the same unto my said daughter and to her heirs (or Executors Administrators and Assigns) forever.”
	Upon the death of Joseph’s mother-in-law, the Will of Elizabeth Redman proved at Sarum on 12^th March 1798 again mentioned daughter Jane, wife of Mr Joseph Collett, when she was bequeathed the sum of one hundred pounds. Jane was also included in another paragraph as follows: “Also I give and bequeath unto my three daughters all and singular my household goods and furniture and wearing apparel equally to be divided between them share and share alike at the discretion of my said Executor.”
	On 23^rd February 1801, an under-age Ann Collett of Kington St Michael married bachelor William Batchelor Moger from Woolverton in Somerset. The first bondsman for the wedding was Joseph Collett of Kington St Michael, while Ann was described as a minor under the guardianship of Joseph Collett.
	It was eight years after that happy event, that Joseph Collett died at Kington St Michael on 7^th November 1809. He was buried in the churchyard of St Michael’s Anglican Church on 11^th November 1809 and the burial record confirmed his aged as 55 and that he was the husband of Jane Collett. At the time of the baptism of his two daughters in January 1784, Joseph was the churchwarden at St Michael’s Church. In his Will of 1809, Joseph was referred to as ‘gentleman of Kington St Michael’, in which there was also mention of “my nephew Henry Collett who resides with me” who was bequeath the sum of Two Hundred Pounds. He was one of the four children of Joseph’s brother William Collett (below). After almost twenty-one years as a widow, Jane Collett, nee Redman, was buried with her late husband at Kington St Michael on 23^rd September 1830 when she was 78 years old, confirming her year of birth around 1752, the same as Joseph Collett.
	62L1	William Collett			Born circa 1774 at Melksham
	62L2	Henry Collett			Born circa 1777 at Kington St Michael
	62L3	Daniel Collett			Born circa 1779 at Kington St Michael
	62L4	Ann Collett			Born circa 1781 at Kington St Michael
	62L5	Martha Collett			Born circa 1783 at Kington St Michael
	62L6	Sarah Collett			Born circa 1783 at Kington St Michael
	62L7	John Collett			Born circa 1785 at Kington St Michael
	62L8	Hester Collett			Born circa 1788 at Kington St Michael
	62L9	Joseph Collett			Born circa 1790 at Kington St Michael
	62L10	John Collett			Born circa 1794 at Kington St Michael
	62L11	Stephen Collett			Born circa 1796 at Kington St Michael
62K3	William Collett was another son of Henry and Martha Collett, who was baptised at Bradford-on-Avon on 22^nd June 1754. When he was twenty-six, he married Hester Redman on 28^th March 1780 at Melksham. It was as Esther Redman that she was baptised at Melksham on 10^th March 1762, the daughter of John Redman and Elizabeth Fox. It is possible that she was around two years old when she was baptised in order to be twenty years of age when she married William. Jane Redman, the older sister of Esther Redman, had married William’s brother Joseph Collett (above) at Melksham eight years earlier in 1772. Two days prior to his wedding day, William’s father made his Will and sadly died during the next few days. The Will was proved at Salisbury in April that same year, from which William received four hundred pounds and a share of Henry’s household goods and furniture.
	It was around five months after their wedding day that Esther presented William with the first of the couple’s four known children, who was not baptised until she was approximately five months old. All of their children born at Melksham and baptised there. It is confirmed that their eldest son was William, who was born at Melksham in March 1785, was not baptised there until 9^th January 1786. The third child was Henry who was baptised there just over seven months later in August that same year. The couple’s last child was born during 1787. Their son Henry was named as nephew Henry Collett in the 1809 Will of William’s older brother Joseph (above).
	Esther’s father John Redman of Shaw, Melksham, died in 1785 and his Will was proved at Market Lavington, south of Devizes in Wiltshire. In that document he referred to his daughter as Esther, now the wife of William Collett, who was bequeathed two hundred pounds plus “an equal share of the my several dwelling houses situated near the Market Place in the Borough of Bradford in the said County of Wilts”.
	By the time Esther’s mother Elizabeth Redman nee Fox passed away, around ten years later, during the middle of the 1790s, Esther had already been dead for a number of years. Therefore, her mother’s Will, which was proved at Salisbury in 1798, only included mention of her husband William Collett and her only daughter Elizabeth Collett. In the case of granddaughter Elizabeth Collett, she was to receive the sum of ten pounds, whereas her son-in-law William, together with his brother Joseph (above), bound by a Joint Note of Hand, had to repay a loan of one hundred pounds together with any interest that may have been due at the time of her decease.
	While it is now confirmed that the children of William Collett and Hester Redman were Elizabeth, William and Henry, it does seem highly like that they also had a son John. However, until such time as that can be validated, the details of John Collett can be found in Appendix Two, at the end of this first section of Part 62 – The Trowbridge to New Zealand Line.
	62L12	Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1780 at Melksham
	62L13	William Collett			Born in 1785 at Melksham
	62L14	Henry Collett			Born in 1786 at Melksham
	62L15	John Collett (in Appendix Two)			Born in 1787 at Melksham
62K4	Stephen Collett was the fourth son of Henry and Martha Collett, and was baptised at Bradford-on-Avon on 6^th December 1755. Just like his sister Sarah (below), Stephen also suffered a premature death and was buried at Broughton Gifford on 16^th April 1779, when he was confirmed as the son of Henry Collett of Trowbridge.
62K5	Sarah Collett was originally believed to have been born at Trowbridge and baptised there at the Silver Street Presbyterian Church on 18^th May 1759. All of her siblings were baptised at Bradford-on-Avon, where Sarah Collett, the fifth child and the eldest of the two daughters of Henry and Martha Collett, was also baptised on 7^th March 1759. She was 21 years of age when she died at Broughton Gifford where she was buried on 24^th March 1770, where her father and older brother Stephen were both buried in 1779.
62L1	William Collett was the eldest son of Joseph Collett and Jane Redman and he was baptised at Melksham on 8^th February 1774. Within a couple of years, he and his parents moved to Kington St Michael near Chippenham, and it was there that all of William’s siblings were born. At the age of 32, William Collett married Sarah Kearsey on 18^th February 1806 at Ashley to the east of Corsham. The Sarum Marriage Licence Bond was issued two days before the event and the bondsman was Sarah’s brother John Kearsey, a yeoman of Ashley. The bond also listed the bride and groom as Sarah Kearsey residing at Ashley, spinster, and William Collett, occupation yeoman, residing at Slaughterford. Sarah Kearsey was born at Chedworth in Gloucestershire in 1782 and was baptised at Chedworth on 28^th December 1782. She was one of nine children of Richard Kearsey who was born at Bisley in Gloucestershire in 1745 and who died at Ashley in 1807.
	Richard Kearsey’s wife (and Sarah’s mother) was Judith Dane, who was the daughter of Giles Dane and Mary Clerk who are the five times great grandparents of Judy Brown of Australia who has kindly provided some of the details in this family line. It is also interesting to note that the husband of Judy Brown, Keith Brown, is related to Doris Mason who married Roscoe Collett whose family details are provided in Part 53 – The South Wales Branch Line.
	At the time of their marriage, William Collett was described as a yeoman of Slaughterford, while Sarah was a spinster of Ashley. Slaughterford lies between Ashley and Kington St Michael. In addition to being a yeoman, William was also a churchwarden, but that must have been at neighbouring Biddestone, just to the west of Chippenham, where the couple’s first four children were baptised.
	Whilst all of William’s and Sarah’s children were born at Slaughterford they were not baptised there, since the Church of St Nicholas was destroyed by Cromwell’s New Model Army during the Civil War. However, it was through the efforts of William Collett of Slaughterford that the church was rebuilt around 1823. In the church today there is a plaque bearing his name as an acknowledgement of that event. Until that time, all religious ceremonies had to be conducted in the church at nearby Biddestone.
	Within the “Land Tax Assessments 1780 to 1830 for Slaughterford” there is a reference to William Collett leasing land from 1803 right through to 1826. It included a statement that ‘in 1827 the land that William Collett had been leasing was taken over by John Gibbs at the same tax rate’. It continued by saying ‘After 1826 William Collett ceased to be a land tax payer in Slaughterford’. He would have been 46 years old at that time and perhaps that might suggest that he and Sarah were no longer living there. The full statement, regarding the lands leased by William Collett, has been reproduced below.
	Land Tax Assessments 1780 - 1831 for Slaughterford in Wiltshire as they relate to William Collett, yeoman of Slaughterford
	According to the Records of Land Tax Assessments held in the Wiltshire Records Office, William Collett was leasing substantial land at Slaughterford from the Honorable Charles William Wyndham between the years 1803 to 1826. William's tax assessment on this land for the initial period between 1803 and 1811 was Six Pounds Seven Shillings and Six Pence per year. From 1812 to 1816 the rate was increased to Twelve Pounds Fifteen Shillings then, from 1817 the rate increased to again Twelve Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Six Pence with the exception of 1819 which was assessed at Twelve Pounds Fifteen Shillings. The variation in the tax rate for 1819 may have been connected with him leasing some additional land from the late Charles Gardner which was assessed at Two Shillings and Six Pence. He leased land twice from the late Charles Gardner, once in 1817 and again in 1819 and, on both occasions, he paid Two Shillings and Six Pence in land tax. Up until he ceased leasing land from Charles Wyndham in 1826, William was paying Twelve Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Six Pence in land tax. Of all the people in Slaughterford paying land tax, the Land Tax Assessment showed that William Collett paid the largest amount. For example, in 1817 the nearest tax rate was assessed at Three Pounds Fifteen Shillings compared to William's tax rate of Twelve Pounds Fifteen Shillings. In 1827 the land that William had been leasing was taken over by John Gibbs at the same tax rate.
	After 1826 William Collett ceased to be a land tax payer in Slaughterford which may suggest that, at the age of 52, William retired from farming. Certainly, it is known that he and Sarah eventually left Slaughterford to live at Cornwell House in Walcot in Bath, where Sarah is known to have died many years later. There is a record in the census of 1841 of a William Collett, with a rounded age of 60, living in the Bath registration district, but he did not have a wife Sarah listed with him on that day. It was nearly eight years later that William Collett died at Bath United Hospital in the St James district of the city on 19^th March 1849. He was survived by his wife for a further eighteen years, when Sarah Collett nee Kearsey passed away at Cornwell House in the Walcot district of Bath on 8^th October 1867. Over seven years earlier Sarah Collett from Gloucestershire was 70 years old when she was recorded in the census of 1861 residing within the Bath & Walcot registration district of Somerset.
	It is now understood that William’s son Thomas named his father as his next-of-kin and administrator of his personal effects which was thrown into confusion when William died four years after his son, but before settlement of the estate could be resolved. So, administration of the estates of both father and son in 1849 and 1845 respectively was granted to William Collett, the eldest son of William Collett. And so it was, many many years later, that those two estates were settled at the Principal Registry on 13^th January 1883 and on 30^th January 1883 respectively.
	62M1	Mary Anne Collett			Born in 1807 at Slaughterford
	62M2	William Collett			Born in 1808 at Slaughterford
	62M3	John Collett			Born in 1810 at Slaughterford
	62M4	Thomas Collett			Born in 1811 at Slaughterford
	62M5	George Collett			Born in 1813 at Slaughterford
	62M6	Stephen Collett			Born in 1814 at Slaughterford
	62M7	Sarah Collett			Born in 1816 at Slaughterford
	62M8	Joseph Collett			Born in 1818 at Slaughterford
	62M9	Edwin Collett			Born in 1819 at Slaughterford
62L2	Henry Collett was born at Kington St Michael around 1777, the eldest child of Joseph Collett and Jane Redman, although no record of his birth or baptism has been located. When he was only two years old, his grandfather, Henry Collett a yeoman of Trowbridge died and, upon the proving of his Will in April 1779, Henry Collett, the son of Joseph Collett, was bequeathed his grandfather’s silver tankard. According to later census records, he was born at Kington St Michael and was a farmer of 230 acres of land at Easton Piercy, where he was living in both 1841 and 1850. He never married and, upon his death in 1860, Henry Collett of Easton Piercy was buried at Kington St Michael on 27^th September 1860, at the age of 84. Henry was also the first bondsman at the wedding of his sister Martha (below) in 1811, when he was confirmed as a farmer at Easton Piercy.
	In 1841, with a rounded age of 60, Henry Collett had living with him at Easton Piercy his youngest brother Stephen Collett, who had been widowed by then, while with him were his three surviving children, Clara, John, Constance and Lot. Also, with Stephen, was Louisa Davis (named as Louisa Collett) who gave birth to a son, Daniel Collett, fathered by Stephen, later that same year. Completing the Collett family that day, was Joseph Collett who had a rounded age of 15, who was Henry’s nephew, being the son of Henry’s eldest brother William (above). Among the four domestic servants working for the family, was Ann Stump, a rounded age of 20, who was the daughter of John and Susanna Pitt who were married near the end of 1816. Stump. Ann may have been related to Henry’s younger sister Martha Collett (below) who married John Stump at Kington St Michael 1811.
	Ten years later, the Easton Piercy census of 1851, provided the following details of the Collett family, following the death of Henry’s brother Stephen during the previous year. Head of the household Henry Collett was 75, an unmarried farmer of 230-acres, employing nine labourers. His nephew John Collett was 17 and one of the nine labourers, Constance Collett was 16 and Daniel Collett was nine, both simply described as relatives. They were supported by three domestic servants, Ann Dyer, Julia Woodward and Henry Sergant. It was just over nine years later, on 27^th September 1860, that Henry Collett of Easton Piercy was buried at Kington St Michael at the age of 84.
62L3	Daniel Collett was born at Kington St Michael around 1779, according to the census returns completed by him in 1841, 1851 and 1861. And it is them which place him as most probably the eldest son of Joseph Collett and Jane Redman, although no birth or baptism record to verify this has been found to date. Daniel Collett was in his late forties when he married Mary Buckland of Kington St Michael at Kington on 10^th February 1828. Mary, who was twenty-two years younger than Daniel, was the eldest daughter of Jacob Buckland and Mary Day, and the sister of Eliza Buckland who married Daniel’s younger brother Joseph Collett (below), and the sister of Edwin Buckland (Ref. 62A/D1) who married Louisa Collett. She was born at Kington St Michael in 1805 and was baptised at nearby Hullavington on 13^th March 1806, the daughter of Arthur and Anne Collett, whose family feature in the Appendix to Part 64 – The Gloucestershire Upper Swell Line. Because of the complex inter-relationship between the Collett family and the Buckland family, details of the latter have been included in the Appendix at the end of the second section of this family line, to help clarify the situation.
	Once married, Daniel and Mary settled in the Wiltshire village of Keevil, to the east of Trowbridge, where their four known children were all born. In the first national census in June 1841, Daniel was recorded as being 60 years old, while his wife Mary was 40. Although it is well established that adult ages were rounded in the first census, the two ages do correspond closely with their respective ages in the next two census returns. The couple’s four children were more accurately recorded in 1841 as Henry Collett who was eleven, Mary Collett who was ten, Joseph Collett who was six, and Rosa Collett who was three years old.
	Ten years later, in the more detailed census of 1851, Daniel Collett, aged 72, was a farmer of 164 acres at Keevil, where he employed six men. His wife Mary from Kington St Michael was 50, and the children still living at Keevil with them were Henry who was 21, Marianne as ‘Mari’ who was 19, Joseph who was 16, and Rosa who was 13. Not long after that Daniel’s and Mary’s eldest son Henry left the family home in Keevil to be married and started a family of his own at Lushill near Castle Eaton by the River Thames within the Highworth registration district of Swindon. Then, towards the end of the 1850s, the couple’s other son Joseph became a married man, but continued to live at Keevil.
	Between those two events their two daughters were also married and left Keevil. By the time of the census in 1861, Daniel and Mary had no members of their family living with them, just son Joseph living nearby with his new family. On that occasion Daniel Collett was 83, and his place of birth was curiously named as Melksham where his parents had been married and where his older sibling had been born, while his wife Mary, aged 60, was correctly confirmed as having been born at Kington St Michael. It was later that same year that Daniel Collett died at Keevil on 26^th October 1861. His Will was proved one month later on 26^th November 1861 and listed effects of under £4,000. The oaths were given by Daniel’s two sons, farmer Henry Collett of Pew Hill, and farmer Joseph Collett of the said parish, and by Joseph Maslen of the said parish, his executors. Joseph Maslen was Daniel’s son-in-law through the marriage to his daughter Marianne.
	Nearly ten years after the death of her husband, his widow Mary Collett, aged 70, was living at the home of her daughter Marianne Maslen at Longlease Farm in Westbury, by which time she too was a widow. It was a similar situation ten years after that in 1881, except by that time Marianne Maslen had left Westbury and was living at Wick Farm in the village of Goosey, near Wantage in Berkshire. Still living with her was her mother Mary Collett from Kington St Michael who was 80, who must have passed away shortly after that time.
	62M10	Henry Collett			Born in 1829 at Keevil
	62M11	Marianne Collett			Born in 1830 at Keevil
	62M12	Joseph Collett			Born in 1834 at Keevil
	62M13	Rosa Jane Collett			Born in 1837 at Keevil
62L4	Ann Collett is believed to have been born around 1781 and at Kington St Michael, where all of her younger siblings were born, the children of Joseph Collett and Jane Redman. She had not reached full-age when the marriage of Ann Collett, a minor, and bachelor William Batchelor Moger of Woolverton, in Somerset, took place on 23^rd February 1801 at Kington St Michael. They were married by licence, when the first bondsman was her father Joseph Collett of Kington St Michael, with the witnesses being her sisters Sarah Collett and Hester Collett (below). From the day of their marriage, William and Ann resided at Woolverton, where their first six children were born and baptised, after which, around 1816, the family moved to Hampshire. On every occasion, the surname was recorded as Moger, and the parents as William and Ann. William Batchelor Moger was born around 1778 and, at the age of 49, he died during June 1827 at Nursling, north-west of Southampton, where he was buried on 29^th June 1827.
	Ann Moger nee Collett survived her husband by nearly five years. She died and was buried in Compton Martin, a few miles east of Cheddar in Somerset, on the 15^th May 1832 when she had been living with her son, John Collett Moger, who died there in 1866. Their six Woolverton born children were: William Batchelor Moger born in 1802, who was baptised on 30^th December 1802. John Collett Moger born in 1804, who was baptised on 20^th January 1806. John Moger, aged 62, died at Clutton in Somerset, where his death was recorded (Ref. 5c 12) during the fourth quarter of 1866. Judith Moger born in 1808, who was baptised on 9^th October 1808. Frances Ann Moger born in 1810, who was baptised on 21^st July 1811. Henry Moger born in 1812, who married Frances Palmer at Southampton on 13^th November 1838, where died and was buried on 6^th November 1875, aged 63. Thomas Moger born in 1814, who was baptised on 1^st January 1815.
	The three Southampton born children were: Robert Moger born in 1817, who married Ann Cooper on 17^th February 1839 in Southampton, where he was buried on 15^th December 1869 at the age of 52. Henrietta Moger born 1821, who was baptised on 23^rd November 1823. She was married at Southampton in 1866, where she died in 1886. Elizabeth Moger born 1823, who was baptised on 23^rd November 1823. She married William Gouk at Southampton in 1852, and died at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire during 1903, aged 79.
62L5	Martha Collett was born around 1783 and may have been a twin sister to Sarah (below) with whom she was baptised in a joint ceremony at Kington St Michael on 8^th January 1784. At that time the girls’ father Joseph Collett was the churchwarden at St Michael’s Anglican Church, where they were baptised. Twenty-seven years later Martha married John Stump by licence at Kington St Michael on 23^rd September 1811. The parish register recorded that Martha was living of Easton Piercy, near Chippenham at that time, and the first bondsman was her brother Henry Collett, a farmer of Easton Piercy. Her husband was also a farmer of Leigh Delamere, close by Kington St Michael. The witnesses at the ceremony were Joseph Stump and Ann Stump who may have been John’s parents. It may also be of interest that the second wife of Thomas Collett (Ref. 22M1) was Anne Pheunecia Stump, who were married at Corsham on 14^th June 1831. Anne having been born around 1785, making her around 46 when she married Thomas.
62L6	Sarah Collett was born in 1783 and was baptised on 8^th January 1784 at Kington St Michael in a joint ceremony with her sister Martha (above). Sarah was over 40 years of age and still a spinster, when she was described as being of Yatton Keynell, upon marrying bachelor Joseph Mattick of Overton in Somerset on 22^nd December 1825. The wedding took place at Yatton Keynell courtesy of a Sarum Marriage Licence Bond issued on 16^th December 1825. The witnesses at the ceremony were John Collett who may have been Sarah’s brother, and Mary Ann Collett. In view of Sarah’s advanced years, the marriage only produced one child for the couple, and he was baptised John Collett Mattick. He was born in 1827 and died in 1883.
62L7	John Collett was born at Kington St Michael, where he was baptised on 17^th January 1786. Tragically, he was around five years of age when he died in 1791 and was buried at Kington St Michael on 6^th March 1791, the son of Joseph and Jane Collett.
62L8	Hester Collett was born at Kington St Michael and she was baptised there on 30^th April 1788, the daughter of Joseph Collett and Jane Redman. Hester’s father was the churchwarden at Kington St Michael at the time of her christening. She was 26 years old and a spinster when she was married by licence, with the consent of her parents, to her cousin butcher Henry Collett (Ref. 62L14) at Yatton Keynell on 27^th October 1814, with both of them said to be ‘of this parish’. Henry was described as a bachelor aged 24 from Yatton Keynell, while the first bondsman was William Collett of Slaughterford, Henry’s father – see below. The witnesses at the wedding ceremony were William Redman and Sarah Collett. William Redman was presumably related to Hester’s mother Jane Collett nee Redman, while Sarah Collett was very likely Hester’s older sister (above) who was not married herself until 1825, but who was also married at Yatton Keynell.
	Following the discovery of a letter dated 11^th December 1896, written by W H C Chamberlain, the Rector at Keevil, sent to Laura Lee Gouk, an ancestor of Jenny Hall nee Gouk, he makes the following very reasonable suggestion. That is, that the aforementioned Henry Collett of Giddea Hall, the husband of Hester Collett, daughter of Joseph Collett (Ref. 62K2) and Jane Redman was, in fact, a son of Joseph’s younger brother William Collett (Ref. 62K3) and his wife Hester Redman. That family link was confirmed in the 1809 Will of Joseph Collett, in which he bequeathed Two Hundred Pounds to “my Nephew Henry Collett who now resides with me”, providing confirmation that Hester Collett and Henry Collett were indeed first cousins, as always expected.
	The marriage between Hester and Henry produced six known children, one of which, their son Henry, later gave his place of birth as Giddea Hall. And it was at Giddea Hall in Yatton Keynell that Hester Collett died and was buried at Yatton Keynell on 13^th January 1842, her passing recorded at Chippenham (Ref. viii 203) during the first quarter of 1842. Curiously no record of the couple has been found within the census of 1841. Following the death of his wife, Henry married the much younger (2) Martha Browning who was born at Box in Wiltshire during 1810, a former nurse, with whom he had a daughter when he was about 59 and she was around 37. The Box connection, coupled with a butcher connection, is very interesting because, in 1841, Henry’s son Henry Collett, aged 16, was living and working at the Box home of butcher James Visey who was 30.
	Curiously, on the day of the census in 1851, married Henry Collett from Melksham, aged 64 and a master butcher, was residing at his home at West Yatton in Yatton Keynell with just his daughter Ann Collett for company, who was five years old and born at Yatton Keynell. His absent wife Martha Collett from Box, who was 41, was recorded in the same census as a married nurse at the Castle Combe home of tiler and plasterer John Milsom and his family. According to the next census in 1861, all three of them were together and living at Biddestone Road in Yatton Keynell, when Henry Collett was 74 and a butcher from Melksham, Martha Collett was 52 and from Box, and Ann Collett of Yatton Keynell was 15 years of age
	The death of Martha Collett, nee Browning, was recorded at Chippenham (Ref. 5a 39) during the last three months of 1870, at the age of 61. The following census, a few months later, in 1871, placed Henry Collett still living at Yatton Keynell, but at Giddea Hall, when he was described as a widower who was 84 and a journey butcher from Hagloe Farm in Wiltshire. Nine years after losing his wife, Henry Collett was once again living at Giddea Hall in Yatton Keynell when he died in early 1880, following which he was buried at Yatton Keynell on 24^th February 1880. The death of Henry Collett, aged 95, was recorded at Chippenham (Ref. 5a 37) during February that year. There is another later Collett connection with Giddea Hall in 1881, the details of which can be found in Part 31 – The New Wiltshire Somerset Line, where it relates to the South Wraxall family of Thomas Collett (Ref. 31O6) and his wife Sarah Pearce.
	62M14	Jane Collett			Born in 1815 at Yatton Keynell
	62M15	Llewellyn Collett			Born in 1817 at Yatton Keynell
	62M16	Caroline Collett			Born in 1818 at Yatton Keynell
	62M17	Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1821 at Yatton Keynell
	62M18	Henry Collett			Born in 1825 at Yatton Keynell
	62M19	William Collett			Born in 1830 at Yatton Keynell
	The following is the child of Henry Collett by his second wife Martha Browning:
	62M20	Ann Collett			Born in 1845 at Yatton Keynell
62L9	Joseph Collett was baptised at Kington St Michael on 2^nd December 1790, the son of Joseph Collett and Jane Redman. It was also at Kington St Michael on 27^th April 1833 that Joseph married Eliza Buckland (Ref. 62l1 in Appendix), the eldest daughter of Jacob Buckland and Mary Day of Kington St Michael where she was born in 1805. In addition, Eliza’s sister Mary Buckland (Ref. 62l2 in Appendix) married Joseph’s older brother Daniel Collett (above) and her eldest daughter Emma Jane Collett also married into the Buckland family, when she wed Edward Buckland (Ref. 62m4 in Appendix), as did her second daughter Mary Anne Collett, when she married Arthur Henry Buckland (Ref. 62m5 in Appendix), Edward’s brother, the two of them being the sons of Elizabeth’s brother Edwin Buckland and his wife Louisa Collett – see below.
	Even at the age of 43, Joseph Collett was recorded in the parish’s marriage register as being a bachelor of Kington St Michael. The couple was married there by licence and the witnesses were Edwin Buckland and Ann Buckland, who are now known to be two more of Elizabeth’s siblings, as detailed in the Appendix at the end of the second section of this family line. Furthermore, it was the aforementioned Edwin Buckland who married Louisa Collett at Kington St Michael in 1830, and again the details of their family can be found in the Appendix at the end of the second section of this family line.
	By June 1841 Joseph Collett was 40 (rather than 50) and his wife ‘Eliza’ was 30 (rather than 35), by which time Elizabeth had presented Joseph with three children, although their first-born son did not survive. So, the two daughters living with the couple at the time of the census were Emma who was 6 and Mary who was 4.
	According to the census of 1851 for Kington St Michael, Joseph Collett was 58 and was a yeoman farmer of 220-acres, employing seven farmer workers. His wife Eliza was 45, and listed with the couple were their children Emma 15, Mary 13, Henry who was nine, and Eliza who was five years old. Having already lost his eldest son Henry as a baby, Joseph’s youngest son Edward, who would have been seven years old, must have suffered the same fate, since he was not listed with the family in 1851 or in any later census.
	Ten years later the family was still living at Kington St Michael within the Chippenham & Christian Malford registration district in 1861 and comprised Joseph 68 and Eliza 55, and their children Emma Collett who was 25, Mary A Collett who was 23, Henry Collett who was 19 and Eliza Collett who was 15. When Joseph Collett died five years later on 18^th December 1865 at the age of 74, he was recorded as living at Lower Priory Farm in Kington St Michael. He was buried in the churchyard of St Michael’s Anglican Church on 23^rd December 1865. He was 74 years old and the burial record stated the event had been delayed because of an inquest into his death. Sadly, for his family, his youngest daughter Eliza died just over a year later. The Will of Joseph Collett, yeoman of Kington St Michael, was proved at Salisbury on 13^th February 1866 when his widow Eliza Collett was named as the sole executrix. His personal estate was valued at under £3,000.
	On the day that the next census was conducted in 1871 widow Eliza Collett was 65 and head of the household at New Priory Farm in Kington St Michael, a farm of 229 acres on which she employed two men and two boys, plus general servant Margaret Elmes who was 33, and dairymaid Susan Gainey who was 21. Living there with her was her married daughter Emma Jane Buckland and her husband Edward Buckland, together with their daughter Edith Buckland who was seven and Eliza’s other grandchild Amy Louisa Buckland who was five and the daughter of Eliza’s other married daughter Mary Anne Buckland the wife of Arthur Henry Buckland.
	By 1881 Eliza Collett was 75 when she was still living at New Priory Farm in Kington St Michael, which was described as a holding of 268 acres on which she employed two men, three boys and three women, one of which was live-in servant Jane Elmes who was 19. Still living there with her was her daughter Emma Buckland and her husband, farmer Edward Buckland, who was then described as the head of the household, together with their daughter Alice Buckland aged 14 and their son Ernest Buckland who was seven years old. It is quite likely that Margaret Elmes (in 1871) and Jane Elmes (in 1881) were in some way related to Sarah Elmes who married Joseph’s brother John Collett (below) in 1811.
	According to the next census in 1891 Eliza Collett was 85 when she was once again living at New Priory Farm in Kington St Michael, which was continuing to be managed by her eldest daughter Emma Jane Buckland and her husband Edward. The other members of the household were Emma’s son Ernest who was 17 and the four children of Eliza’s late daughter, Mary Anne Buckland who had died in 1889. They were Arthur Collett Buckland, Amy Louisa Buckland, Alice Buckland and Annie Laura Buckland. It was just three years after that, when Elizabeth Collett nee Buckland, the widow of Joseph Collett, passed away at Kington St Michael and was buried there on 23^rd July 1894, at the age of 88.
	62M21	Emma Jane Collett			Born circa 1835 at Kington St Michael
	62M22	Mary Anne Collett			Born circa 1837 at Kington St Michael
	62M23	Henry Collett			Born circa 1838 at Kington St Michael
	62M24	Henry Collett			Born circa 1841 at Kington St Michael
	62M25	Edward Collett			Born circa 1843 at Kington St Michael
	62M26	Eliza Collett			Born circa 1845 at Kington St Michael
62L10	John Collett was baptised at Kington St Michael on 17^th June 1794, another son of Joseph Collett and Jane Redman. On 12^th February 1831, John Collett, of Kington St Michael, married Maria Harris in Lacock, to the south of Chippenham. A year later their daughter was born and was baptised at Lacock on 13^th April 1832, when she was confirmed as the child of John Collett, a yeoman, and Maria Collett. At the end of his life, John Collett was residing at Nettleton although after he passed away, he was buried at Kington St Michael on 10^th May 1842, at the age of 48.
	62M27	Frances Collett			Born in 1832 at Lacock
62L11	Stephen Collett may have been two years old when he was baptised at Kington St Michael on 1^st February 1797, the youngest child of Joseph Collett and Jane Redman. Like his brother Joseph (above), Stephen was also a yeoman farmer and on 24^th February 1832 he was married by licence to Sophia Rawlings. The wedding took place at Writhlington in Somerset, near Radstock, just south of Bath. The parish register stated that the groom was Stephen Collett, a bachelor of Writhlington, and that the bride was Sophia Rawlings, a spinster of Writhlington. The marriage produced four children for the couple, who were born at Easton Piercy, before Sophia died either during the birth of their last child, or shortly thereafter in 1838. It was three year after being widowed, that Stephen Collett entered into an illicit relationship Louisa Davis, with whom he had an illegitimate son who was born three months after the census day on 6^th June 1841.
	The Kington St Michael census that year listed the family living a Easton Piercy as farmer Stephen Collett aged 40, Louisa Collett (Davis) who was 30, and Stephen’s children Clara Collett who was eight, John Collett who was seven, Constance Collett who was five, and Lot Collett who was three years of age. At that time the family was living with farmer Henry Collett, Stephen’s much older brother (above). Ten years later, three of Stephen’s children were still living with uncle Henry Collett at Easton Piercy.
	The death of Louisa Davis was recorded at Chippenham (Ref. viii 221) under the name of Louisa Collett during the first three months of 1848. Sadly, for the young family, Stephen Collett died in the autumn of 1850 at the age of 56, his death being recorded at Chippenham (Ref. viii 191) during the third quarter of that year. He was then buried at Kington St Michael with his late wife and two of their child, Clara and Lot, on 9^th September 1850, where his last child Daniel was buried at the age of 22. As a result of their loss the three children, Stephen’s three surviving child John, Constance, and Daniel, were taken into the house of their uncle, unmarried farmer Henry Collett at Easton Piercy. All of the children of Stephen Collett were born at Easton Piercy, where Stephen was also a farmer, but christened at Kington St Michael and, in his Will, proved in 1852, Stephen was confirmed as a ‘yeoman of Kington St Michael’.
	62M28	Clara Jane Collett			Born in 1832 at Easton Piercy
	62M29	John Collett			Born in 1834 at Easton Piercy
	62M30	Constance Prudence Collett			Born in 1836 at Easton Piercy
	62M31	Lot Collett			Born in 1838 at Easton Piercy
	The following is the illegitimate child of widower Stephen Collett and Louisa Davis:
	62M32	Daniel Collett			Born in 1841 at Easton Piercy
62L12	Elizabeth Collett was born at Melksham during August 1780, five months after her parents were married there, and where she was baptised as Betty Collett on 12^th January 1781, aged 21 weeks, the daughter of William Collett and Hester Redman. It was as Elizabeth Collett that she was named in her grandmother’s Will of 1798, in which she received the sum of ten pounds. By that time in her life, at the age of 18, her mother had been dead for around eleven years and her father had been remarried for seven years.
62L13	William Collett was born at Melksham during March 1785, and it was there also that he was baptised there on 9^th January 1786 when he was 40 weeks old, the second child and eldest son of William Collett and his first wife Hester Redman. He later married Harriet Mence at St James’ Church in Paddington, London on 21^st December 1811. Harriet was born at St Pancras in London around 1790, and was very likely heavily pregnant with their first child. And it was their grandson Horace Edwin Collett (1848-1902), the son of Edwin Collett (1824-1893), who settled in New Zealand around 1880, although over twenty years earlier their married daughter Harriet Rayner was the first to settle in that country in 1859.
	It would appear that he was unmarried when he received the offer of a good job with the General Post Office [GPO] that took William to London from Wiltshire, where he took up the appointment of clerk in the Accountant’s General Office between 1802 and 1811. Once married William and Harriet settled in the London Borough of Hackney where all of their children were born and baptised. The majority of the children were baptised at St Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch, while their daughter Louisa Caroline was baptised at St Mary’s Church in nearby Haggerston. It was also at Haggerston in 1840 that the couple’s eldest child William died of consumption, and was therefore missing from the family in 1841.
	In June 1841 William and Harriet were living at Haggerston within the Shoreditch census registration district. The census that year recorded William and Hannah (sic) as both having a rounded age of 50, while the age of each their children was recorded more accurately. They were Charles Collett who was 20, Edwin Collett who was 17, Helen Collett who was 15, George Collett who was 12, and Louisa who was 10 years of age. The couple’s four eldest children had already left the family home by that time, while also listed with the family was Jane Symonds who was 16. Every member of the household, excluding William himself, was recorded as having been born in Middlesex.
	Ten years later, William was more accurately described as being aged 65 and from Melksham, who was a clerk working in the Post Office, while his wife Harriet from St Pancras was 61. At that time, their place of residence was 8 Great Cambridge Street in Haggerston, within the St Leonards district of Shoreditch. Living there with them, was their widowed son Charles Collett who was 29, their unmarried son George Collett who was 21, their daughter Louisa Collett who was 19, and son Frederick Collett who was 17, all of them born at Shoreditch. William Collett died just over five years later on 27^th October 1856 at Dalston, a district within the Borough of Hackney in London. By the time of the census in 1861 Harriet Collett was 71 and a lodger at 7 Hart Street in Battersea.
	62M33		William Collett		Born in 1812 at Hackney
	62M34		Harriet Collett		Born in 1814 at Hackney
	62M35		Hester Collett		Born in 1815 at Clerkenwell
	62M36		Henry Collett		Born in 1817 at St Pancras
	62M37		Charles Collett		Born in 1821 at Shoreditch
	62M38		EDWIN COLLETT		Born in 1824 at Shoreditch
	62M39		Helen Collett		Born in 1825 at Shoreditch
	62M40		Alfred Collett		Born in 1827 at Shoreditch
	62M41		George Collett		Born in 1829 at Shoreditch
	62M42		Louisa Caroline Collett		Born in 1831 at Shoreditch
	62M43		Frederick William Collett		Born in 1833 at Shoreditch
	62M44		Horace Walter Collett		Born in 1835 at Shoreditch
62L14	Henry Collett was born at Melksham in 1786, another son and the third of the four known children of William Collett and Hester Redman. It was also at Melksham where he was baptised on 21^st August 1786. His late inclusion in this family line in 2021, only fully revealed and validated during 2020, means the continuation of his family, with his wife and cousin Hester Collett (Ref. 62L8), can be found under her name and reference number.
62M1	Mary Anne Collett was the eldest of nine children of William Henry Collett and his wife Sarah Kearsey, and was born at Slaughterford on 2^nd March 1807 and baptised at nearby Biddestone of 7^th July 1807, where the parish record confirmed she was the daughter of William and Sarah of Slaughterford. She later married Richard Pook towards the end of the 1830s, and the marriage produced two daughters and one son for the couple. Richard Pook who was baptised at Culmstock in East Devon on 25^th December 1792, the son of Richard and Sarah Pook. By June 1841 Mary Ann Pook was listed as living at Avon Street in the Clifton area of Bristol within the Clifton & Keynsham census registration district of Gloucestershire. She was described as being 30 to 34, while her husband Richard Pook was recorded as being 40 to 44. Living there with the couple was the first of their three known children, Sarah Pook who was ten months old.
	Their second daughter was born around 1842 and 1843, while their son Richard Pook was born at Clifton in Bristol during 1844. In 1851 the incomplete family was still living at Clifton but at Hotwell Road. The census return that year listed the family as Richard Pook who was 60 (sic), a pork butcher from Culmstock in Devon, his wife Mary A Pook from Slaughterford was 43, and their three children were Sarah Pook who was 10, Jane Pook who was eight, and Richard Pook who was six years old. The birthplace of all three children was confirmed as Clifton.
	Although no record of the family has been revealed within the next census of 1861, it is established that Richard Pook senior died at the age of 77, his death recorded at Clifton (Ref. 6a 52) during the first quarter of 1869. His widow survived him by three years, when Mary Anne Pook nee Collett died in 1872. During the previous year a scandal hit the headlines when Edmund Walter Pook was arrested for the murder of Maria Clousen at Eltham in London. It was around that time in his life when Mary Anne’s son Richard adopted his mother’s surname, which may have arisen from the shame and embarrassment of being a member of the Pook family living and working in London at that time.
	62N1	Richard Pook Collett - formerly Richard Pook							Born in 1844 at Clifton, Bristol
62M2	William Collett was born at Slaughterford on 30^th September 1808, the son of William and Sarah Collett, and was baptised at nearby Biddestone on 3^rd October 1808. Because of the Biddestone connection it was initially thought that William had married Jane Walters at Biddestone on 5^th December 1825, but this has since proved to be incorrect, and it has since been confirmed that it was William Collett (Ref. 31N18) of South Wraxall, who married Jane Walters.
	What is now known is that William Collett did marry Mary Benjamin of Horton in Gloucestershire, and that the marriage was registered at Chipping Sodbury in the final quarter of 1838. By June 1841 William and Mary were living at Leonard Stanley with their first child. William’s rounded age was 30, while Mary’s was 20, and their daughter Emma was one-year old.
	William was an agricultural labourer and it may have been his work that was the reason why he was not with his wife and family in both census records for 1851 and 1861. His mother’s brother was James Kearsey who was a significant figure in Coates near Cirencester, and it seems likely that he employed William to work on his land and had provided him with a tied cottage in which to live.
	In 1851 William was listed as living at Coates at the age of 42, when his place of birth was confirmed as being Slaughterford. The only person listed with him was a lodger and agricultural labourer Alfred Pepworth who was 15 and born at Coates. At that same time, in March 1851, William’s wife Mary was living at Horton with her two daughters. Mary was 33, married, and the head of the house in the absence of her husband, and was described as an agricultural labourer’s wife. Both of her daughters were confirmed as having been born at Horton and they were ten years old Emma and four years old Ellen.
	By 1861 William was 52 and had returned to Horton within the Hawkesbury & Chipping Sodbury registration district of Gloucestershire, although his wife and youngest daughter were not recorded there on that occasion. William was listed as married, the head of the household, and born at Slaughterford. Lodging with him at that time was agricultural labourer Joseph Gardener 35 of Iron Acton and his wife Hannah 35 of Horton. It is possible that Hannah was previously Hannah Benjamin and therefore the younger sister of William’s wife.
	At that same time William’s wife Mary was 42 and the 1861 Census confirmed she had been born at Horton, but that she was living at Tiltups End near Horsley, just south of Nailsworth. Living with her was her daughter Ellen who was 14 and whose place of birth was given at Coates, rather than Horton. On that occasion Mary and Ellen were boarders at the home of forty years old William Cooper, an agricultural labourer of Horsley, and his wife Maria. Mary’s occupation in 1861 was stated as being that of a dressmaker.
	For the first time since June 1841, William and Mary were recorded as living together at Horton Road in Horton in 1871. William was 62 and was still working as an agricultural labourer, while Mary at 52 was still listed as a dressmaker. Curiously living with them was boarder Emily Hodges who was just three years of age, and from Horton. By 1881 labourer William 72 and Mary 63 were living at Horton House in Horton and with them on that occasion was labourer and lodger Elias Watts 35, a married man from nearby Hawkesbury.
	Just less than two years after the census William Collett of Horton Hill, Chipping Sodbury, was named on 30^th January 1883 as the administrator and the recipient of the personal estate of his late brother Thomas Collett (below) of 73 Dale Street in Liverpool, who died there on 17^th September 1845. Seventeen days earlier, on 13^th January 1883, William was also the named administrator of the personal estate of his father William Henry Collett who had died in March 1849.
	It was also sometime between the census days in 1881 and 1891 that William’s wife Mary passed away, following which William moved to the north of England to live with his eldest daughter Emma and her family. According to the census of 1891 widower William was living with Emma Sparrow of Horton at Londonderry Cottage in Long Newton near Stockton-on-Tees. He was 83 and it was Slaughterford where he said he was born, while his relationship to head of the house George Sparrow, was that of father-in-law. William Collett died two years later in 1893.
	62N2	Emma Collett			Born in 1839 at Horton, Chipping Sodbury
	62N3	Ellen Collett			Born in 1846 at Horton, Chipping Sodbury
62M3	John Collett was born at Slaughterford on 15^th March 1810 and was baptised at Biddestone on 2^nd April 1810, another son of William and Sarah Collett. No further record of him has been found at Biddestone or Slaughterford.
62M4	Thomas Collett was born at Slaughterford on 29^th July 1811, the son of William Henry Collett and Sarah Kearsey. He was baptised by the Reverend Rice Powell at Biddestone Parish Church on 6^th January 1812, where Thomas’ father was the churchwarden. Information received from Don Cameron in 2012 confirmed that Thomas reached adulthood and that his occupation was that of a butcher. Thomas may or may not have married Mary in the middle 1830s with whom he had four children, who were all baptised at St Peters Church in Liverpool.
	The Liverpool census in June 1841 placed the young family living at Old Hall Street when Thomas Collett was 29, Mary Collett was 28, George Collett was three years of age, and Thomas Collett was just eight months old. Living with the family was Elizabeth Ashton who was 14, and all five of them were noted as not having been born within the county. It was around the time of the birth of his last child that Thomas Collett of Slaughterford/Biddestone died at Liverpool on 17^th September 1845, the same quarter of the year that his son Thomas also died there.
	At that sad time in their lives Thomas and Mary and their children were residing at 73 Dale Street in Liverpool, where only the youngest child had been born, since the family was living at 53 Old Hall Street in Liverpool in 1843 according to Gore’s Directory in which Thomas was listed a butcher. The couple’s eldest son was born on 22^nd March 1838, although his baptism did not take place for well over two years, and eventually took place at St Peters on 11^th October 1840 when his parents were named as Thomas and Mary Collett. No baptism record for son Thomas has been found to date, but Sarah was baptised at St Peters on 19^th March 1843, while Harriet was baptised there on 27^th April 1845, when again the parents were confirmed as Thomas and Mary.
	By the time of the census in 1851 the occupants of 73 Dale Street were George Pate, aged 30, who was a widower and a butcher from Caldicott in Cheshire and his unmarried uncle Peter Smith, aged 54, who was a former farmer from Wrexham in Denbighshire. What had happened to the survivors of the family of Thomas Collett is not known at this time. It has now been discovered that Thomas Collett named his father William Collett as his next-of-kin, but tragically William died four years later before the estate could be settled. As a result, it was Thomas’ older brother William (above) who was responsible for the administration of the estates of both Thomas and his father, both of which were settled within three weeks of each other during January 1883.
	It was on 30^th January 1883 that the Administration of the Personal Estate of Thomas Collett, late of 73 Dale Street, Liverpool in the County of Lancashire, was granted at the Principal Registry to William Collett of Horton Hill, Chipping Sodbury in the County of Gloucester, a farm labourer. Thomas was described as a butcher and bachelor (?) who died on 17^th September 1845 at 73 Dale Street, his personal effects amounting to £38 17 Shillings and 9 Pence. The earlier Administrator of the Personal Estate of William Collett, Thomas’ father, was granted to his son William on 13^th January 1883.
	62N4	George Collett			Born in 1838 in England
	62N5	Thomas Collett			Born in 1840 in England
	62N6	Sarah Collett			Born in 1843 at Liverpool
	62N7	Harriet Collett			Born in 1845 at Liverpool
62M5	George Collett was born at Slaughterford in 1813 and was baptised on 14^th February 1814, the son of William Collett and Sarah Kearsey, at the church in Biddestone where his father was the church warden. According to the census in 1841 he was 25, indentured, and not born in the county, when he was living at working at Hill Farm in Batheaston in Somerset, the home of farmer Edwin Aust and his wife Ann who were both 30. In addition to George Collett, the couple employed a servant, Henry Grant who was 15. It was shortly after the census day on 6^th June 1841 that George Collett married (1) Mary Aust from Colerne in Wiltshire at the church of St John the Baptist in Batheaston, Mary presumably being Edwin’s younger sister. Whilst no record of the marriage has been located, the detail which more than likely confirms it to be valid, is that George’s youngest daughter Jane M Collett was visiting the widow Sarah Aust, aged 67, a farmer at Colerne on the day of the census in 1861, who was probably her maternal grandmother.
	The marriage of George Collett and Mary Aust produced just two daughters, who were born when the couple was living at Saltford in Somerset, their births being recorded at Keynsham. By 1851 the family of four was residing at Whitley near Melksham, where they were recorded in the census that year. George Collett, aged 38 and from Slaughterford, was a farmer and a maltster of 55 acres employing three men, his wife Mary Collett, aged 35, was born at Colerne, his eldest daughter Mary Kate Collett was eight, and his youngest daughter was Jane Millicent Collett who was six. Living with the family was unmarried John Williams, aged 30, a general servant and labourer from Marshfield in Gloucestershire.
	Not long after the census in 1851 Mary Collett nee Aust died, following which George married the widow (2) Ann Collett formerly Ann Lovell at Bedminster in Somerset (Ref. 5c 1178) on 2^nd August 1853. As it states above, George’s daughter Jane was, in all probability, visiting her grandmother at Bath Lane in Colerne in 1861 when she was 16 and her place of birth was confirmed as Saltford. However, no reliable record of George, and his second wife, or his older daughter Mary has been identified at that same time.
	By the time of the census in 1871 George and Ann had left the west country and had moved nearer to London, settling in the south Oxfordshire village of Checkendon, midway between Wallingford and Henley. Their home on that occasion was Bottom Farm where George Collett from Slaughterford was 58 and a farmer of 400 acres employing five men and four boys, his wife Anne Collett was 50 and born at Fovant, west of Salisbury, and his unmarried daughter Jane Collett was 26. Supporting the family were servants Ann Small aged 21, and Alfred Smith who was 16 and a groom.
	During the next five years George took his family into the neighbouring county of Buckinghamshire and it was at Aylesbury that his death was recorded (Ref. 3a 332) which confirmed that George Collett had died at Haddenham on 6^th August 1876 at the age of 63. The details regarding the publication of his Will were as follows: “The Will of George Collett formerly of Checkendon in the County of Oxford but late of Haddenham in the County of Buckingham, farmer, who died 6 August 1876 at Haddenham was proved at the Principal Registry by Joseph Collett of Keevil in the County of Wilts, farmer, one of the Executors.” Joseph (Ref. 62M12) was his cousin, while George’s personal effects were recorded as being under £2,000.
	After the death of her husband Ann went to live with her widowed sister at Colstons Parade in the St Mary Redcliffe district of Bristol, as confirmed by the census in 1881. Head of the household was Jane Smith, a widow at 49, and Head of a Ladies School & Preparatory, who had been born at Fovant. Living with her was her daughter Jessie B. Smith, aged 14, her niece Edith R. Smith, aged 23, a governess and school mistress, her nephew Edward A. Smith, aged 21 and a clerk, her widowed sister Annie Collett, who was 59 and living off the interest of money Invested. Two other people were listed at the address and they were Edith F. Harris, a boarder of six years, and domestic servant Ellen Long who was 19.
	Ann Collett was still living at Colston Parade in Bristol ten years later when the census of 1891 described the dwelling as a private school managed by widow Jane Smith, aged 61, who had living with her, her widowed sister Annie Collett widow who was 72 and living on her own means. Other living at the house were Alice Smith, widowed sister aged 71, also living on her own means, Edith R. Smith, unmarried niece aged 33, a governess employed by Jane Smith, Jane Coles an unmarried general domestic servant who was 23, and bachelor Herbert E. Robertson, aged 24, a lodger and the Curate of St Mary's Church in Redcliffe, Bristol. It was not long after that when Ann Collett, formerly Ann Collett nee Lovell, passed away in Bristol. Who her first Collett husband was, now needs to be investigated.
	62N8	Mary Kate Collett			Born in 1842 at Saltford, Somerset
	62N9	Jane Millicent Collett			Born in 1844 at Saltford, Somerset
62M6	Stephen Collett was born at Slaughterford in 1814. While still a young man he became the ‘black-sheep’ of the family when he committed highway robbery, for which he was transported to Australia as a convict. It may have been as a result of that which brought about his premature death in 1834 when he was still only twenty years old.
62M7	Sarah Collett was born at Slaughterford in 1816. Later in her life she married stained glass window artist Joseph Bell, of the well-known stained-glass window company of Joseph Bell & Sons of Bristol. Sarah Bell nee Collett died in 1895.
62M8	Joseph Collett was born at Slaughterford in 1818, the son of William and Sarah Collett. It is possible that he was the Joseph Collett with a rounded age of 25 who was living alone at Kington St Michael in 1841. He later married Harriet who was born at Berkeley in Gloucestershire and in the late 1850s the couple was living in Wales, where their son was born. At the time of the Merthyr Tydfil census in 1861 the family was listed as Joseph Collett, aged 42, Harriet Collett, aged 46, and George Collett who was two years old. Ten years after that the three of them were residing at Aberdare where Joseph was 54, Harriet was 58, and George was 11 years of age.
	At some later time, the family left Wales and moved to Herefordshire, where they were living in 1881. That year’s census recorded the family living at 41 Eign Road in Hereford St Owen. Joseph was a general labourer at 62 and his wife Harriet was 67. Their son George was a bookseller’s assistant, aged 22, and his place of birth was stated as having been Troedyrhiw near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Joseph Collett died in 1888.
	62N10	George Collett			Born in 1858 at Troedyrhiw in Wales
62M9	Edwin Collett was born at Slaughterford in 1819, the last child of William Henry Collett and Sarah Ann Kearsey. When old enough to do so, he left his family and moved to London where he took up employment as a driver of a Hansom Cabriolet. The ‘hansom cab’ was a two wheeled horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom and replaced the Hackney Carriage as the vehicle to hire. They were later fitted with a taximeter to measure the high charge and from this came the more common term today of the taxi cab.
	It would appear that he married Martha Young of London around 1841 and by the time of the census of 1851 Edwin and his family were living at 6 Brook Street in the Hammersmith St Paul district of London. The family then comprised Edwin 32, Martha 35, and their three children, Emma who was eight, Harriet who was six, and Henry who was three years old. All three children had been born at Marylebone. Edwin and Martha both gave their place of birth as being Middlesex and Edwin was listed as having the occupation of a conductor, presumably taking the fares from paying customers on some form of transport. Also living at 6 Brook Street in 1851 with the Collett family was another conductor, Robert Collins 29 and his wife Martha from Wiltshire and their son Robert who was two years old.
	Just prior to the census day in 1851 Edwin’s and Martha’s family was extended with the birth of a second son at the end of February, when Edwin was described as a traveller on the birth record. Curiously the child was not listed with the family in 1851, when perhaps he had not been named. However, by 1861 the family was made up of Edwin 42, Martha 45, Emma 18, Henry 13, and Robert who was nine. The family was still living in Hammersmith but had moved to 9 Spring Street. Edwin would appear to have been fairly successful with the hansom cab business since he was then listed as a cab proprietor. On that occasion he gave his place of birth as Bath in Somerset. The couple’s absent daughter Harriet was working away from home at Paddington at that time.
	Another change of address happened during the next ten years, so by 1871, Edwin and Martha were living at 18 Overstone Road in the Brook Green area of Hammersmith. It was the census that year which finally confirmed Edwin was born at Slaughterford in Wiltshire. Edwin was then 51 and an omnibus conductor, his wife Martha was 55, and the only one of their four children still living with them was 19 years old Robert, whose occupation was that of a plumber.
	By April 1881 Edwin (of Somerset) was 62 and a licenced victualler living a 5 Little Ormond Street in the St George the Martyr district of London, the premises being known as The Swan Public House. Living with him was his wife Martha, who was 65 and of London, and the couple’s two unmarried children. They were Harriet who was 36 and Henry who was 33, neither of whom was listed with an occupation. Supporting Edwin at The Swan was pot-man William Lucas, and domestic servant Ann Bradley.
	It is believed that Edwin Collett died around two years later in 1883. Certainly, according to the census of 1891, his wife Martha, aged 76, was recorded as a widow of Hammersmith by that time. Following the death of her husband, Martha had left London and was living at 31 Mount Sion in Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Martha was recorded as being a caretaker of a furnished home, the same job title being given to her daughter Harriet Martha, aged 43, who was also living there with her. It would appear that the head of the household was Orlando Stimpson and his wife Jane Merriman Stimpson.
	62N11	Emma Collett			Born in 1842 at Marylebone
	62N12	Harriet Martha Collett			Born in 1844 at Marylebone
	62N13	Henry Edwin Collett			Born in 1847 at Marylebone
	62N14	Robert William Collett			Born in 1851 at Marylebone
62M10	Henry Collett was born at Keevil in 1829, the eldest of four children of Daniel Collett and Mary Buckland. In the Keevil census returns for 1841 and 1851, Henry was recorded as being eleven years old, and twenty-one years old, respectively. Four years later Henry Collett aged 25, a farmer from Castle Eaton and the son of Daniel Collett, married (1) Elizabeth Buckland (Ref. 62m3) who was 21 years of age on 1^st November 1855. Elizabeth was the daughter of Edwin Buckland and Louisa Collett, and had been born at Kington St Michael in 1834. See Appendix at the end of the second section of this family line for more Buckland family details. Photograph courtesy of Gerri Hopkins
	The wedding of Henry and Elizabeth took place at Chippenham during the fourth quarter of 1855, but once married the couple settled in Lushill, near Castle Eaton by the River Thames, within the registration district of Highworth, to the east of Swindon, where the first three of their six children were born.
	It was at Hillsworth Farm in Lushill that the family was living in 1861, when Henry Collett from Keevil was 31 and a farmer of 530 acres employing 15 men and four boys. His wife Elizabeth from Kington St Michael was 26, and the couple’s first two children were Frank W Collett who was four, and Louisa Collett who was two years old, both of them born at Lushill. Also visiting family on that day was Henry’s cousin Rosa Wright, aged 18 and a superintendent domestic from Chippenham who, in just over ten years, would become Henry’s second wife. The household employed a servant Caroline King who was 14 and from Castle Eaton whose occupation was that of a domestic labourer. Elizabeth may well have been pregnant with Henry’s third child on the day of the census, since later that same year their third child was born when the family was still living at Hillsworth Farm in Lushill. Not long after the birth of that child Henry and his young family left Lushill when they temporarily made their home at Pew Hill in Chippenham, where the couple’s fourth child was born.
	That move was also confirmed at the time of the death of his father in October 1861, when Henry Collett was one of the three executors of his Will which was proved on 26^th November 1861. In that document he was described as a farmer of Pew Hill. Following the birth of his son Charles at Pew Hill in 1866, the family moved again, on that occasion to the village of Langley Burrell, on the northern outskirts of Chippenham. And it was there that the remainder of Henry’s children were born, and where the family was living at the time of the census in 1871. By then Henry’s occupation was that of a brewer and a maltster.
	At that time, Henry was 41 and his wife Elizabeth was 36. Living there with them was their first five children, they being Frank Walter 14, Louisa 12, Mary Kate 9, Charles Henry 4, and Daniel Warren who was three years of age. Also listed with the family in 1871, again as a visitor, was the aforementioned Rosa Wright who was 28, and who had been living within the same Highworth area ten years earlier.
	Tragically, during the following year, Elizabeth Collett nee Buckland died at Langley Burrell, aged 37, while giving birth to the couple’s sixth child, both events taking place in 1872, following which she was buried on 5^th April 1872 at Kington St Michael, where she was born and where a headstone marks the grave. It was therefore cousin Rosa that Henry turned to in his grief, at the loss of his wife, and the following year Henry Collett married (2) Rosa Wright (Ref. 62m9). Rosa was born in Chippenham in 1842, the daughter of James Wright and Ann Buckland, who was the sister of Henry’s late wife Elizabeth Collett nee Buckland.
	The appendix at the end of the second section of this family line has more details of the Buckland family and the many connections it has to the Collett family
	The wedding took place by licence at St James’ Parish Church in Bath on 5^th June 1873 in the presence of Joseph Collett, Henry’s younger brother, and Kate Wright, Rosa’s younger sister. Henry was described as a widower and a brewer of Langley Burrell, while Rosa was a spinster from St James Bath, the daughter of James Wright a police superintendent. It was during the following year that the first of Henry and Rosa’s six children was born at Langley Burrell, where the subsequent five children were also born. By the time of the census in 1881, Henry’s family was almost complete, by which time he had established himself as a brewer and maltster. The address for him and his large family in Langley Burrell was simply ‘The Brewery’. Of the eleven children listed with him, only his eldest son Frank was credited with an occupation, that of a brewer, working with his father.
	According to the census return, the full family was made up of Henry Collett, aged 50 and from Keevil, and his wife Rosa Collett, aged 38 and from Chippenham, who was expecting their last child any time during the next month. Henry’s six children from his first marriage were Frank 24, Louisa 22, Mary 19, Charles 14, Daniel 13, and Edwin who was eight, while the five children from his second marriage were Roland who was seven, Mabel who was five, Laura who was four, Herbert who was three, and Godfrey who was one-year old.
	Supporting Rosa when she was heavily pregnant on 3^rd April 1881 were two domestic servants, they being seventeen years old Ellen Chequer from Wootton Bassett, and sixteen years old Ellen Freegard from Langley Burrell. It was exactly three weeks to the day after the census day that Henry and Rosa’s last child was born at Langley Burrell.
	Ten years later only six of Henry’s twelve children were still living at the family home in Langley Burrell in 1891. It would be logical that the six eldest children had gone their own way in the world by then. However, absent from the family was Herbert James Collett, aged 13, who was recorded in the Bath & Batheaston registration district, where he was attending Weston Boarding School. The five unmarried children listed with Henry who was 61 and Rosa who was 48, were Charles H Collett 24, Mabel Collett 15, Laura N Collett 14, Godfrey Collett 11 and new arrival Stanley B Collett who was nine years old. Henry’s married daughter Mary K Banks, together with her daughter Hilda Banks were also visiting the family on the day of the census. One other person was recorded at the same address and that was Emily J Halliday who was 26. Of the other children, sons Frank and Roland and married daughter Louisa Bryant have been positively identified in 1891 and their details are included under their individual entries. However, son Edwin Graham Collett had died five years earlier, while no record has been found for son Daniel in either 1881 or 1891.
	Henry Collett survived for only another five years when he died at Langley Brewery in Langley Burrell Without on 12^th April 1896, following which he was buried on 16^th April 1896 at Kington St Michael, with his first wife. His death was recorded at Chippenham register office on 13^th April and his death certificate stated he was 66 and a maltster and a brewer. The cause of death was cirrhosis of the liver, ascites, as certified by surgeon M S Wilson who was present at the death as was Herbert Collett his son who registered the passing of his father.
	During his life he and his family are known to have lived at Frogwell House, and at Ferndale, The Folly, the latter being mentioned in the Will of Rosa Collett, his widow, and later in the Will of their daughter Laura Rose, with the former being mentioned in the Will of his daughter Mabel Burden nee Collett. The Will of Henry Collett was proved in London on 9^th June 1896 and included the following words “Collett, Henry of Langley brewery, Langley Burrell Wiltshire brewer died 12 April 1896. Probate at London given to Frank Walter Collett and Charles Henry Collett, brewers, and Alfred Wright, relieving officer”. The value of his estate amounted to £3,195 11 Shillings and 2 Pence, while Alfred Wright was Rosa Wright’s brother. Henry’s Will made no provision for any of his children from his second marriage to Rosa, and it is believed that this was the main reason why all of his sons from that marriage eventually emigrated to Canada.
	Rosa Collett from Chippenham was 58 and a widow in the March census of 1901. She was recorded as having no occupation while still living at Langley Burrell, and still living there with her were her two daughters Mabel aged 25 and Laura Rose who was 24, together with her youngest son Stanley B Collett who was 19 and a solicitor’s clerk. The place of birth of all three children was confirmed as Langley Burrell. By the time of the next census in 1911 Rosa Collett, who had given birth to six children, signed the census form as head of the household when she was living at Frogwell on Sheldon Road in Chippenham which consisted of ten rooms. With her on that occasion were her unmarried daughters Mabel who was 35 and Laura Rose who was 34. Also boarding with the family was Frederick John Burden, aged 35 and an accountant – the future husband of Mabel to whom she was married during the following year, and Sydney Augustus Putnam aged 32 and a surveyor of taxes with the Ireland Revenue Department.
	Rosa Collett nee Wright died at Langley Burrell on 8^th November 1923 at the age of 81. Her Will was proved at Salisbury on 26^th January 1924 and included the following words “Collett, Rosa of Ferndale the Folly, widow died 8 November 1923. Probate given to Frederick John Burden, accountant, effects £419 1 Shilling and 6 Pence”. Frederick John Burden was her son-in-law through his marriage to her daughter Mabel who had died six years earlier in 1917. At the time of the census in April 1911 the only members of her family still living in the Chippenham area were her two unmarried daughters Mabel Collett and Laura Collett.
	During the period in his life from 1866 until his death in 1896, Henry Collett held the freehold to: a brewery, barn, outhouses, house and public house known as the Langley Brewery, adjoining the Chippenham to Tytherton Road (Kellaways Road) in Langley Burrell; a freehold public house called the ‘Rose and Crown’ in the Market Place at Chippenham, and a copyhold public house called the ‘Station Hotel’, formerly the ‘Great Western Station Hotel’, adjoining the railway station in Corsham. He was also the owner of Priory Farm at Tytherton. Thirteen years after Henry had died and been reunited with his first wife, the same grave at Kington St Michael was used by their daughter Mary Kate Banks nee Collett who was buried there in 1909.
	62N15	Frank Walter Collett			Born in 1856 at Lushill, Castle Eaton
	62N16	Louisa Naomi Collett			Born in 1858 at Lushill, Castle Eaton
	62N17	Mary Kate Collett			Born in 1861 at Lushill, Castle Eaton
	62N18	Charles Henry Collett			Born in 1866 at Pew Hill, Chippenham
	62N19	Daniel Maurice Collett			Born in 1867 at Langley Burrell
	62N20	Edwin Graham Collett			Born in 1872 at Langley Burrell
	The following are the children of Henry Collett by his second wife Rosa Wright:
	62N21	Roland Collett			Born in 1874 at Langley Burrell
	62N22	Mabel Collett			Born in 1875 at Langley Burrell
	62N23	Laura Rose Collett			Born in 1876 at Langley Burrell
	62N24	Herbert James Collett			Born in 1877 at Langley Burrell
	62N25	Godfrey Collett			Born in 1879 at Langley Burrell
	62N26	Stanley Beaconsfield Collett			Born in 1881 at Langley Burrell
62M11	Marianne Collett was born at Keevil in 1830 and was the eldest daughter of Daniel Collett and Mary Buckland. In the Edington area census of 1841, she was recorded as Mary Collett, aged 10, and ten years later in the Westbury census of 1851 she was listed as Mary Collett, aged 19. On both occasions she was living with her parents at Keevil. A couple of years later, during the first quarter of 1853, Marianne Collett married Joseph Maslen of Keevil, the marriage being registered at Westbury. By the time of the census in 1861 Marianne had presented Joseph with five children, although their eldest son Thomas Maslen, born in 1854, was absent. At that time, Marianne was recorded as Mary Ann Maslen, aged 29, the wife of Joseph Maslen who was 40 and a farmer of 210 acres employing 7 men and 3 boys. Living with the couple at Longlease Farm in Keevil were their four children, Louisa Anne Maslen who was five, Ernest Maslen who was three, Arthur Maslen who was one-year old, and Clara Maslen who was only two months old, with the whole family being supported by one housemaid.
	It was just two years later that Joseph Maslen died at Longlease Farm in Keevil on 5^th April 1863. Within his Will proved later that same year at Salisbury, Marianne’s younger brother Joseph Collett (below) of Keevil Farm was named as an executor. The other executor was Henry Hunt of Ashton Mill Farm in Steeple Ashton who was the husband of Marianne’s sister Rosa Jane Hunt nee Collett.
	Following the death of her husband, Marianne continued to manage Longlease Farm, and it was there that she was still living in 1871. The census that year recorded her as Marianne Maslen 39, a widow farming 209 acres and employing 6 men and 3 boys. Still living with her was one of her two sons Thomas H Maslen 17, and one of her three daughters Louisa Maslen who was 15. Also living with the family on that occasion was Marianne’s widowed mother Mary Collett, plus one servant.
	At some time during the next decade Marianne left Keevil when she moved to the village of Goosey, near Wantage in Berkshire – today it is in Oxfordshire following the 1974 county boundary changes. This was confirmed by the Wantage area census in 1881. Marianne was 49 and was at Wick Farm in Goosey, which comprised 355 acres for which she needed to employ 10 men, 6 boys and 2 women. The only members of her family still living with her by then, was son Ernest Maslen, aged 23, and her widowed mother, Mary Collett who was 80. Jane Cook, aged 15, was the family’s general servant.
	It was possibly following the death of her mother during the 1880s that prompted Marianne to retire from farming, since by 1891, she was living at 29 Disraeli Road in the Ealing area of London. Living with her at that time was her son Arthur Maslen, aged 31, who was a civil servant working in a science department.
	She was also looking after two of her grandchildren, who were Marie (Marion) Wilshire who was eight years old and Thomas W Wilshire who was four years old, both of them born at Steeple Ashton. They were the two youngest of the three children of her daughter Louisa Anne Maslen who had married Charles Fisher Wilshire, but who was a widow by 1891.
	It is also interesting that in the Melksham census of 1891 a certain widow Ann Wilshire, aged 63 and a laundress from Atworth, had living with her at Lowbourne her grandson Sidney Collett who was eight years old and from Melksham. That family can be found in Part 35 – The Melksham to Wisconsin Line, where Ann Wiltshire was the former widow of Henry Collett (Ref. 35N55) and her grandson was Sidney Collett (Ref. 35P112).
	In the London census of 1901 Marianne Maslen was 69 and by then she was living with her daughter, the widow Louisa Wilshire, at 22 Coverdale Road in St Stephen’s in Shepherds Bush. Also living there were Marianne’s grandchildren, Marion Wilshire 18, Charles J Wilshire 19 and a civil servant, and Thomas W Wilshire who was 14. Louisa’s occupation was that of a hospital nurse and living at the same address were patients, widow Mary Beggs 65, widow Jane Templeton 50, and unmarried Hannah M Ward who was 48.
	Marianne Maslen was still living at 22 Coverdale Road when she died on 25^th September 1912. The Will of Marianne Maslen nee Collett was proved at London on 8^th February 1913, which named the beneficiaries as her daughter Louisa Annie Wilshire, widow, and her son Arthur Maslen, a clerk. Her estate amounted to £1,032 6 Shillings and 10 Pence, which was re-sworn as £1,365 13 Shillings and 6 Pence.
	Some of the records for the address where she lived from 1901 until her death in 1912 gave the name of the road as Cloverdale in Shepherd’s Bush, whereas today this is Coverdale Road, on the south side of the Uxbridge Road (A4020). And it was at St Stephen’s Vicarage in Coverdale Road that the Reverend William Lloyd Collett (Ref. 18O28) lived up until his death in 1896.
62M12	Joseph Collett was born at Keevil in 1834, the son of Daniel Collett and Mary Buckland. And it was at Keevil that he was living with his family in 1841 and 1851 when he was six and sixteen years of age respectively. It was on 31^st May 1859 at Melksham, that Joseph married Susan Harris Collett the daughter of John Collett (Ref. 62L15) and Maria Harris who had been born at Nettleton in Wiltshire in 1836. By the time of the census in 1861 Joseph Collett, aged 26 and from Keevil was a farmer of 30 acres, employing 9 labourers and 4 boys, still living at Keevil with his wife Susan Collett from Nettleton, who was 24, together with their first child Fanny Harris Collett who was not yet one-year old. Two domestic servants were employed at the farmhouse, Emma Helps who was 19 and Jane March who was 12.
	It was later that same year when Joseph’s father died at Keevil in October 1861, following which his Will was proved one month later. Joseph Collett, the son of Daniel Collett, was named as one of the three executors, when he was described as Joseph Collett, farmer of this parish, that being Keevil. Two years later, Joseph Collett of Keevil Farm was once again named as an executor of a Will, on that occasion it was the Will of Joseph Maslen, the late husband of Joseph’s sister Marianne Maslen nee Collett (above).
	Sadly, it would appear that Joseph’s daughter Fanny did not survive, but over the next ten years a further four children were born to Joseph and Susan while they continued to live at Keevil. The Keevil census of 1871 listed the family as Joseph Collett, aged 36 and a farmer who was born at Keevil, his wife Susan who was 34 and from Nettleton, and their four new children as Edith M Collett who was eight, Frances L Collett who was seven, Charles E Collett who was three, and Alice E Collett who was one-year old. Susan was very likely pregnant with the couple’s sixth child on the day of the census, since their daughter was born later that same year. Supporting the family that day were two servants Sarah J Price from Lacock who was 15 and Mary E Strugnall who was 12 and from Tinhay in Wiltshire.
	Just over two years after the census day in 1871, Joseph was one of the witnesses at the second marriage of his older brother Henry Collett when he married Rosa Wright in Bath on 5^th June 1873. That same year Susan presented Joseph with their last child, which was also born at Keevil. Joseph and his family were still living in Keevil during the summer of 1876, when Joseph Collett of Keevil was named as the executor of the Will of his cousin George Collett (Ref. 62M5). However, sometime after that Joseph took his family to live in the village of Bowerhill, immediately south of Melksham, where Susan’s brother Edward Collett (Ref. 62A/M4) was living with his wife and where both families were living at the time of the census in 1881.
	The census return on that occasion described Joseph Collett of Keevil as 46 and an auctioneer and a farmer of 98 acres employing two men. His wife Susan was 43 and from Nettleton in Wiltshire, while just four of their children were still living with them. They were Frances L Collett 17, Charles E Collett 13, Alice E Collett 11, and Percy H Collett who was seven years old. Their older missing daughter Edith was 18 and was living in the Fulham & Hammersmith district of London on that day. However, why the couple’s youngest daughter Mary F Collett, aged eight years and born at Keevil, was living with her maternal grandmother, the widow Maria Collett nee Harris aged 82, at Lowbourne Road in Melksham, is not known.
	It may be of interest, that Joseph and Susan employed a general servant in 1881 and she was Elizabeth Curnick who was 15 and from Beanacre, a village to the north of Melksham. Thirty years earlier Andrew William Collett (Ref. 31N35) of South Wraxall near Bradford-on-Avon, married Sarah Curnick from Beanacre, the daughter of Robert and Hester Curnick, who were living at 5 Mount Pleasant, Shoreditch, in 1871.
	Ten years later, according to the census in 1891 only Frances Louisa Collett, aged 26, was still living at Bowerhill with her father, farmer Joseph who was 56 and an auctioneer farmer, and her mother Susan who was 54. The couple’s eldest daughter Edith Collett was 28 and was working as a nurse while living in Hastings. The couple’s youngest son Percy was 17 and was recorded living and working in the Devizes area of Wiltshire, while their youngest daughter Mary Florence, who was 18, was also living in Bowerhill at the farm of Susan’s sister Louisa Maria Collett (Ref. 62A/M1). No traced has been found of absent daughter Alice, who may have been married by then, or their son Charles. However, living with the family was nephew Charles Henry Collett from Chippenham, who was the son of Joseph’s brother Henry Collett (above) and his wife Elizabeth Buckland.
	By April 1901, Joseph Collett was 65 and a farmer living at Bowerhill with his wife Susan who was 64. However, eight years later the death of Joseph Collett was recorded at Melksham register office (Ref. 5a 59), at the age of 75. He died on 17^th October 1909 and his Will was proved at Salisbury on 3^rd January 1910 when Joseph Collett of Melksham was an auctioneer. His widow Susan Collett and son Charles Edwin Collett, a farmer, were made as the joint executors of his estate of £2,268 6 Shillings and 10 Pence. In his lifetime Joseph Collett was named in the Wills of his father Daniel in 1861, his brother Henry in 1896, his brothers-in-law Joseph Maslen in 1863 who was the husband of his sister Marianne Collett, and Edward Collett in 1900 the brother of his wife Susan Harris Collett, and his mother-in-law Maria Collett nee Harris in 1889.
	By the time of the next census in April 1911, Susan Collett from Nettleton was 74 and a widow and a farmer, who was still living at Bowerhill. Living there with her, was her unmarried daughter Edith Collett who was 48, and her unmarried son Percy Collett who was 37. Living with the three of them was spinster Louisa Collett, aged 76 and from Nettleton, who was Susan’s older sister Louisa Maria Collett. It was ten years after that when Susan Harris Collett, whose maiden-name was also Collett, died at Bowerhill, Melksham on 23^rd November 1921, her death recorded at Melksham register office (Ref. 5a 99), at the age of 82. Her Will was proved at Salisbury on 31^st January 1922 when her son Charles Edwin Collett, a farmer, was the sole executor of her personal effects valued at £969 16 Shillings and 5 Pence.
	In addition, a Thomas George Harris Collett aged 28, was the only person with the Collett name living in the village of Langley Burrell near Chippenham in 1911. He was born at Stoke Damerel in Devonport in 1882 and he and his family feature in Part 1 – The Main Gloucestershire Line (Ref. 1P131). His mother was another Susan Harris who came from Ireland.
	62N28	Fanny Harris Collett			Born in 1860 at Keevil
	62N29	Edith Matilda Collett			Born in 1862 at Keevil
	62N30	Frances Louisa Collett			Born in 1864 at Keevil
	62N31	Charles Edwin Collett			Born in 1867 at Keevil
	62N32	Alice Eliza Collett			Born in 1869 at Keevil
	62N33	Mary Florence Collett			Born in 1871 at Keevil
	62N34	Percy Harris Collett			Born in 1873 at Keevil
62M13	Rosa Jane Collett was born at Keevil in 1837, the youngest of the four children of Daniel Collett and Mary Buckland. In 1841 she was three years old, and was 13 years of age in 1851. She was only nineteen years of age when she married farmer Henry Hunt during the first three months of 1857, the marriage being recorded at Westbury in Wiltshire. Henry had been born at Keevil during 1830. In the 1861 Census Rosa Hunt was 24 when she was living at Mill Farm in Steeple Ashton with her husband Henry Hunt a farmer of 32, together with their son William Henry Hunt who was one-year old. Employed by the young family was dairymaid Mary Jane Gum who was 22 and her sister Victoria Gum who was a nursemaid at the age of 14. Also staying with the family that day was John Kingman who was 56.
	Two years later in 1863 the husband of Rosa’s older sister Marianne Maslen nee Collett (above) passed away at Longlease Farm in Keevil and when the Will was proved at Salisbury the two executors were Rosa’s brother Joseph Collett (above) of Keevil Farm and her husband Henry Hunt of Ashton Mill Farm in Steeple Ashton. By 1881 the same family of three was still living in Steeple Ashton where Rosa was 43, Henry was 52 and unmarried William was 20. Henry Hunt was a farmer of 238 acres employing eight men and four boys. Living with them that day was Rosa’s unmarried niece Louisa Maslen who was 25 and the daughter of Rosa’s older sister Marianne Maslen nee Collett. Working for the family that year was domestic servant Kate Holloway aged 19.
	It was at a dwelling in the High Street in Steeple Ashton that the couple was living in 1891 and again in 1901. Tragically, one week after the census in 1901 farmer Henry Hunt died at Steeple Ashton on 7^th April 1901. His Will was proved in London on 25^th May 1901 which named Rosa Jane Hunt, his widow, and William Henry Hunt, a farmer (his son) as executors of his personal effects amounting to £5,688 1 Shilling. Ten years later the census in 1911 placed Rosa Jane Hunt as a widow of 73, the head of the household still residing at the High Street in Steeple Ashton. Living there with her as her companion was her unmarried niece Frances Louisa Collett, aged 46, the daughter of Rosa’s brother Joseph Collett and his wife Susan Harris Collett. The domestic servant servicing the two ladies was Alice Mead who was 19. Almost exactly like her husband ten years earlier, it was just four days later that Rosa Jane Hunt nee Collett died at Steeple Ashton on 6^th April 1911. Her Will was proved on 26^th May 1911 when her son William Henry Hunt, a farmer, was executor of her estate of £655 13 Shillings and 8 Pence.
62M14	Jane Collett was born at West Yatton in Yatton Keynell during 1815, the year after her parents Henry and Hester Collett were married there in October 1814, following which Jane was baptised at Yatton Keynell on 7^th January 1816.
62M15	Llewellyn Collett was born at West Yatton in Yatton Keynell during 1817 and it was there also that he was baptised on 27^th July 1817, although another source states that Lewin Collett was born on the 27^th July 1817. In the census of 1851 unmarried Lewen Collett, aged 30 and from Yatton Keynell was living within the Chippenham registration district, not far from where his younger brother Henry (below) was living and working. No further record of Llewellyn has been found in the census returns for 1861, although it is established that Llewellyn Collett died in Wiltshire, his death being recorded at the Chippenham register office (Ref. 5a 32) during the last three months of 1865.
62M16	Caroline Collett was born at West Yatton in Yatton Keynell on 18^th October 1818, and was baptised there on 14^th March 1819. She was twenty-five when she married plumber and glazier Henry Young of Biddestone, the event recorded at Chippenham (Ref. viii 73) during the second quarter of 1844. Three years previously, Henry Young had a rounded age of twenty, when he was living and working in Corsham. Their marriage produced six children who were born at Yatton Keynell, and they were Edwin Young who was baptised on 23^rd April 1848, Elizabeth Young who was baptised on 19^th May 1850, Hester Young who was baptised on 23^rd May 1852, William Young who was baptised on 24^th June 1855, Harriet Young who was baptised on 12^th February 1860, and Jane Young who was baptised at Corsham on 14^th September 1862. By the time of the census in 1851 Henry Young and his family were living at the inn and beer-house in ‘Giddy Hall’ at Yatton Keynell, where he was described as a master plumber and glazier from Biddestone at the age of 30. His wife Caroline from Yatton Keynell was 28, and their two children were Edwin who was three, and Elizabeth who was one-year-old.
	Staying with the family was Caroline’s younger unmarried brother Henry (below), the brother-in-law of head of the household Henry Young. Henry Collett was a butcher from Yatton Keynell who was 25. Ten years later, the Yatton Keynell census in 1861 recorded the family as painter and glazier Henry who was 40, Caroline who was 38, Edwin who was 13, Elizabeth who was 11, William who was six, and Harriet who was one-year-old. Every member of the family was said to have been born at Yatton Keynell. According to the next census in 1871, Henry and Caroline Young were both 52, when head of the household was simply described as a painter. Living with them at Yatton Keynell was their unmarried son Edwin Young who was 23 and also a painter, presumably working with his father, and their daughter Jane Young who was 10 years old. It was at Corsham on 19^th September 1871 when Edwin married Lydia Ann Purnell from Sunderland and in 1881 the couple was residing in Corsham, where Edwin was 32 and a plumber and gas fitter, and Lydia was 30. It was also at Corsham that Edwin died in 1913, aged 65. Caroline Young nee Collett was the great great grandmother of Ron Maslen.
62M17	Elizabeth Collett was born at ‘Giddy Hall’ in Yatton Keynell on 1^st April 1821, where she was baptised on 22^nd July 1821, the daughter of butcher Henry Collett and his wife Hester Collett, also her maiden-name before she married Henry.
62M18	Henry Collett was the son of Hester Collett and Henry Collett and was born at ‘Giddy Hall’ in Yatton Keynell around 1825, although he was not baptised there until 31^st August 1828. By the time of the census in 1841 Henry had left school and was an M S (manservant) at the Box home of butcher James Visey and his large family, when he was 16. It may have been his own father, who was a master butcher, who arranged for Henry to be there. Ten years later, when Henry Collett from Yatton Keynell was 25, he was a butcher staying with the family of Henry and Caroline Young at Yatton Keynell, Caroline being his older sister (above) and Henry being described as the brother-in-law of Henry Young.
	Where Henry was in 1861, when he would have been around 35 is not known but, about two years later, sometime during 1863, he married Mary Bird who was born at Corsham in 1836. Prior to the next census in 1871 Mary presented Henry with their first four children at Biddestone although by then, the family living there was recorded as Henry, aged 46, who was a journey butcher, his wife Mary who was 36, William who was seven, Emily J Collett who was three, and Edwin who was one-year old. The family had already suffered the loss of their eldest daughter Emily, and rather tragically, it would also appear that her namesake Emily Jane did not survive, since she was not listed with the family in 1881.
	The census that year recorded the family as Henry who was 53, instead of 55, while his wife Mary was curiously 44. Living with them at a cottage on Church Street at Lacock, midway between Chippenham and Melksham, were four of their five children. Eldest son William, aged 17, was following a similar profession to that of his father, in that he was a journeyman baker, while the other children were Edwin who was 11, Harry who was eight, and Herbert who was six years old. The first three of those children were born at Biddestone, and the fourth at Melksham, while head of the house Henry gave his place of birth as Giddea Hall, which is in Yatton Keynell, where his mother died in 1842.
	By 1891 Henry and Mary were still living at Lacock, and living with them were their two sons Harry and Herbert. It has been established that eldest son William had married by then, although no record of the other missing son Edwin has been found, either in 1891 or at any time thereafter – separate entry for details.
	In the census of 1901 Henry and Mary were both recorded as having been born at Corsham, which was an error. Both of them were still living at Lacock, where two of their married sons were also living at that time. Just over four years later Henry Collett died at Lacock, his death recorded at Chippenham register office (Ref. 5a 32) during the third quarter of 1905 when he was 79. After a further six years the census in 1911 recorded Mary Collett of Corsham as a widow of 74, when she was still living at Lacock where her two sons William and Harry were also still living with their families. She survived for another eight years when the death of Mary Collett nee Bird was also recorded at Chippenham.
	62N35	William Collett			Born in 1863 at Biddestone
	62N36	Emily Collett			Born in 1865 at Biddestone
	62N37	Emily Jane Collett			Born in 1868 at Biddestone
	62N38	Edwin Collett			Born in 1870 at Biddestone
	62N39	Harry Collett			Born in 1872 at Biddestone
	62N40	Herbert Lewin Collett			Born in 1874 at Melksham
62M19	William Collett was born at ‘Giddy Hall’ in Yatton Keynell during 1830, the last child of Hester Collett of Kington St Michael and her husband Henry Collett, a master butcher from Melksham. No record of William or his parents has been found within the census returns for 1841, in addition to which it is known that his mother died in early 1842 and his father re-married a couple of years later. By 1851 William Collett from Yatton Keynell was 21 and a servant at a house in Chippenham. It was while he was in Chippenham that he met his future wife, and around four or five years later he married Harriet Austin of Chippenham, the eldest child of James Austin of Chippenham and his wife Elizabeth, who was also born in 1830. Once married the couple settled in Melksham where all of their seven known children were born.
	According to the census in 1861 William Collett was 31 and a butcher living in Melksham with his daughter P V E Collett who was four years old and his son Albert Henry Collett who was three and recorded in error as Robert H Collett. Also staying with the family on that day was Elizabeth Austin who was 17, a visitor and a farmer’s daughter, perhaps Harriet’s younger sister. At that same time William’s wife Harriet Collett from Chippenham, who was also 31, was a visitor at the farm of her Austin family in Kington St Michael and had with her William Collett her one-year old son from Melksham. Ten years later the family was still living at Melksham in 1871 and comprised the following members. William Collett from Gildea Hall was 42 and a farmer and a master butcher employing one man and one boy, his wife Harriett Collett from Chippenham was 41, and their six children were Paulina Collett who was 14, Albert Collett who was 13, William Collett who was 11, Ada Collett who was eight, Charles Collett who was six and Florence Collett who was one-year old.
	Very little else is known about William at this time, except that he died at Melksham on 3^rd September 1880 at the age of 50, the same year that his father died at Yatton Keynell. From the headstone at Melksham it is now known that William’s wife Harriet Collett nee Austin died on 26^th January 1919 aged 89, and their youngest son Gilbert Alfred Collett died at the age of three years on 28^th February 1875.
	By the time of the census in 1881 widow Harriett Collett, aged 51, had taken over the running of the family’s 58-acre Holbrook Farm in Melksham, where she employed one labourer. Living there with her was her sons Albert H Collett, aged 23, Charles S Collett, aged 16, and Florence Collett who was 11. Supporting the family was servant Sarah Sheat from Baltons Brough in Somerset. Already having left the family home three years earlier to be married was Harriet’s eldest daughter Paulina, while her son William J Collett, aged 21, and her daughter Ada J Collett, aged 18, were both living nearby at Bath Buildings in Melksham.
	During the next decade Harriet’s son Albert left the farm to become a married man, leaving just her two youngest surviving children still living at Melksham with her in 1891. Harriet was 61, Charles L Collett was 27 and Florence E Collett was 21. It was the same situation ten years later, when Harriet Collett from Chippenham was a retired farmer at the age of 66 (sic), her son Charles L Collett was 29 (sic), and also described as a retired farmer, and her daughter Florence E Collett was 31. The 29 years recorded for Charles is likely to be an error in translation, since he would have been around 36, while Harriet would have been 71 and not 66. Staying with the family on the day of the census was Herbert S (Stanley) Blake who was 17 and the grandson of Harriet Collett, being the son of her eldest married daughter Pauline Victoria Elizabeth Blake.
	After a further ten years the family of three at Melksham had a visitor staying with them on the day of the census in April 1911, in the form of another member of their extended family. Harriet Collett was 81, her son Charles Collett was 46, and her daughter Florence Collett was 40. Recorded with them that day was Harriet’s granddaughter Lilian Collett who was 28 and from Melksham, the eldest of the two known children of her eldest son Albert Henry Collett. It was eight years later that Harriet Collett nee Austin passed away during 1919, following which she was buried at Melksham in the same grave as her husband and their youngest son Gilbert.
	62N41	Paulina Victoria Elizabeth Collett						Born in 1856 at Melksham
	62N42	Albert Henry Collett						Born in 1858 at Melksham
	62N43	William James Collett						Born in 1860 at Melksham
	62N44	Ada Jane Collett						Born in 1862 at Melksham
	62N45	Charles Lewin Collett						Born in 1865 at Melksham
	62N46	Florence Emily Collett						Born in 1870 at Melksham
	62N47	Gilbert Alfred Collett						Born in 1872 at Melksham; died 1875
62M20	Ann Collett was born at Yatton Keynell during 1845, the only child of Henry Collett from Melksham and his second wife Martha from Box in Wiltshire, possibly Martha Visey (Vezey). Martha was a nurse working away from the family home in West Yatton in 1851 when it was just Ann, who was five, living there with her father, master butcher Henry. Ten years later in 1861 all three of them were together and living at Yatton Keynell, albeit under the Collitt spelling of their surname, when Henry Collitt was 74 and a butcher from Melksham, Martha Collitt was 52 and from Box, and Ann Collitt of Yatton Keynell was 15 years of age.
62M21	Emma Jane Collett was born at Kington St Michael in 1835. She was baptised there on 10^th June 1835, and was living there with her parents Joseph Collett, a farmer, and his wife Eliza Collett nee Buckland and her younger sister Mary (below) at the time of the census in 1841 when, as Emma Collett, she was six years old. Ten years later she was still living on the farm at Kington St Michael with her parents at the age of 15, and was also still there in 1861 when she was 25. It has now been established that just over one year later Emma Jane married into her mother’s Buckland family when she married Edward Buckland (Ref. 62m4 in Appendix), the event recorded at Chippenham during the third quarter of 1862.
	Their marriage took place at Kington St Michael on 9^th December 1862, when Edward Buckland was working as a brewer, and apparently produced three children, all of whom were born at Kington St Michael. The first of the three children was Edith Frances Buckland, who was born during the third quarter of 1863 but who died during the last three months of 1871. The other two surviving children were Alice Buckland who was born in 1866, and Ernest Edward Buckland who was born on 21^st June 1873 who eventually passed away on 7^th March 1929. Curiously, on the day of the census in 1871 the couple’s youngest daughter, Alice who would have been three or four years of age, was absent from the family home. Instead Emma Buckland, aged 35, and her husband Edward, aged 34, and their daughter Edith aged seven years, were recorded at New Priory Farm in Kington St Michael, the home of Emma’s mother Eliza Collett nee Buckland. Also living there was Emma’s niece, Amy Louisa Buckland, who was five years old and the daughter of Emma’s sister Mary Anne Buckland (below). The two young girls were described as the granddaughters of Eliza Collett.
	In the Kington St Michael census of 1881, the head of the household at New Priory Farm was again Eliza Collett, the farmer of 268 acres, employing 2 men, 3 boys and 3 women. By then Emma J Buckland was 45, while her husband Edward, aged 44, was described as a farmer, presumably one of the two men employed by his mother-in-law. Still living with the couple were their two surviving children, their daughter Alice Buckland who was 14 and their son Ernest Buckland who was seven. Completing the household was general servant Jane Elms aged 19. Every member of the household had been born at Kington St Michael.
	By 1891 Emma Jane Buckland was 55 and her husband Edward Buckland was 54 when they were still managing New Priory Farm in Kington St Michael, helped by their son Ernest E Buckland who was 17. Still living with the family at that time was Emma’s widowed mother Eliza Collett nee Buckland who was 85. Also staying with them on that day were four of the children of Emma’s sister Mary Anne Buckland (below) who had died two years earlier. They were nephew Arthur Collett Buckland who was 27 and three nieces Amy Louisa Buckland who was 25, Alice Buckland who was 24 and Annie Laura Buckland who was 23. It was three years later when Emma’s elderly mother Eliza passed away.
	Curiously by 1901 former Collett farm previously New Priory Farm, was described as Lower Priory Farm at Kington St Michael in the census that year. Edward Buckland was 64, Emma Buckland was 65 and their still unmarried son Ernest Buckland was 27. Two of Emma’s dead sister’s daughters were still living there with them, and they were unmarried nieces Amy L Buckland who was 35 and Alice Buckland who was 34. It was later that same year when Edward Buckland died and two years after that his son Ernest Edwin Buckland married Rosa Mary Hiscock. So, by the time of the 1911 Census Ernest was 37, head of the household, had been married for seven years, and was a farmer living in an eight-roomed property in Kington St Michael. His widowed mother Emma was living with him, although his wife Rosa Mary Buckland was a visitor in the home of widow Margaret Horton in Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire. Helping Ernest with the domestic chores was servant Caroline Jane Ponting who was 15.
	Emma Jane Buckland was still living at New Priory Farm in Kington St Michael, the former home of her parents, when she died on 23^rd April 1919. Her Will was proved in London on 12^th June 1919 when her son Ernest Edward Buckland, a farmer, was named as the sole executor of her estate of £490 19 Shillings and 10 Pence.
62M22	Mary Anne Collett was born at Kington St Michael in 1837, where she was also baptised on 13^th May 1837, although the parish baptism record gave her name as Marianne Collett, the daughter of Joseph and Eliza Collett. In June 1841 and March 1851, as Mary Collett, she was still living at Kington St Michael on her parent’s farm when she was aged four years old and thirteen years old respectively. By 1861 she was 23 and was listed in that year’s census as Mary A Collett of Kington St Michael, where she was still living with her family. Like her sister Emma (above), Mary Anne also married into her mother’s Buckland family when she married her brother-in-law Arthur Henry Buckland (Ref. 62m5 in Appendix) the brother of Edward Buckland, Emma’s husband, the Buckland brothers being the sons of Edwin Buckland, the brother of Emma’s and Mary’s mother.
	The marriage of Mary Anne Collett and Arthur Henry Buckland took place at Kington St Michael on 29^th January 1863 and was recorded at Chippenham. Arthur was born in 1838, the son of Edwin Buckland and Louisa Collett and, over the following two decades, Mary Anne presented Arthur with seven children, all of them born at Kington St Michael. They were Arthur Collett Buckland (born on 19^th November 1863), Amy Louisa Buckland (born on 30^th November 1865), Alice Buckland (born on 21^st February 1867), Annie Laura Buckland (born on 30^th January 1868), Henry Buckland (born circa 1870, died on 7^th January 1875), Charles Buckland (born on 15^th September 1872), and Henry Buckland (born in February 1875, died on 18^th March 1876).
	The family was still living in Kington St Michael in 1871 when Mary Anne was 34 and Arthur was described as a maltster out-of-business. Living with them were their children Arthur Collett Buckland who was seven, Alice Buckland who was four, Annie Laura who was three and Henry Buckland who was four months old, while the couple’s absent daughter Amy Louisa Buckland aged five years was staying with her grandmother Eliza Collett at New Priory Farm in Kington St Michael. Supporting Mary Anne and Arthur was domestic servant Caroline Wilcox aged 18, and lodging with the family was unmarried police officer Thomas Perrett.
	Over the following half decade their family was completed, but tragically Arthur Henry Buckland passed away after the birth of their last child, so by 1881 Mary Anne Buckland aged 44 had been a widow for four years. The census that year recorded the family residing at the Malt House on the High Street in Kington St Michael which comprised Amy Louisa Buckland who was 15 – recorded as Mary L Buckland, Annie Laura Buckland who was 13 and Charles Buckland who was eight years old, all still attending school. Mary Anne’s missing son Arthur Buckland, aged 17, was a servant at the Faringdon home of butcher Edward Heavens where his occupation was that of a butcher’s boy. Mary Anne Buckland nee Collett survived as a widow for fourteen years when she died on 22^nd October 1889, her death recorded at Chippenham.
	Following the deaths of both of their parents, a number of the children of Mary Ann and Arthur Buckland remained living with the family of Emma Jane Buckland and her husband Edward at New Priory Farm in Kington St Michael where they were recorded in both 1891 and 1901.
62M23	Henry Collett was born at Kington St Michael in 1838, where he was baptised on 22^nd December 1838, the son of carpenter Joseph Collett and his wife Eliza. Sadly, just a month before his second birthday, he died and was buried at Kington St Michael on 18^th November 1840. Ten months after losing their son, Joseph and Eliza’s next son was also given the name Henry.
62M24	Henry Collett was born at Kington St Michael on 17^th August 1841 and was baptised there on 27^th October 1841. The baptism record confirmed that his parents were Joseph Collett and Elizabeth Buckland. The birth of Henry Collett was recorded at Chippenham (Ref. viii 280) during the third quarter of 1841. Just as with the baptism of his first child, by 1851 Joseph was again credited with the occupation of a farmer of over 200-acres at Priory Farm in Kington St Michael, where Henry was living with his family in 1851 at the age of nine years. Ten years later he was still there with his parents, at the age of 19, when he was an assistant, most likely on his father’s farm. Tragically, it was just less nine years after that, when Henry Collett died at the start of 1870, his death recorded at Chippenham (Ref. 5a 49) during the first quarter of that year. The parish register for Kington St Michael, recorded that Henry Collett of Kington St Michael, aged 28 years, was buried there on 2^nd February 1870.
62M25	Edward Collett was born at Easton Piercy on 16^th November 1843 and was baptised at Kington St Michael on 4^th January 1844, the son of labourer Joseph and Eliza Collett. Tragically it was later that year on 3^rd September 1844 that Edward Collett of Easton Piercy was buried at Kington St Michael, the event recorded at Chippenham during the third quarter of 1844.
62M26	Eliza Collett was born at Easton Piercy on 25^th January 1845, and was baptised at Kington St Michael on 21^st July 1845, the last child born to Joseph Collett, a labourer, and Eliza Buckland. She was five years old by 1851 and was 15 years of age in 1861. Sadly, six years later, Eliza Collett died at the age of 22, following which she was buried at Kington St Michael on 5^th June 1867.
62M28	Clara Jane Collett was born at Easton Piercy, within the parish of Kington St Michael, near the end of 1832, the first-born child of farmer Stephen Collett and his wife Sophia Rawlings. As Clara Jane she was baptised in Kington St Michael on 27^th February 1833. She was only eleven years old when she died at Easton Piercy, after which Clara Jane Collett was buried at Kington St Michael on 3^rd August 1844. The parish register confirmed that she was ‘of Easton Piercy’ and was (nearly) 12 years of age.
62M29	John Collett was born at Easton Piercy and was baptised in the parish church at Kington St Michael on 7^th June 1834, the second child and only surviving son of Stephen and Sophia Collett. The parish record stated that his father was Stephen Collett, a farmer at Easton Piercy, and his mother was Sophia. His mother died when he was four years old while, in the census of 1841, John was seven years old when he was living at Easton Piercy in Kington St Michael with his father and his two sisters, at the home of his uncle Henry Collett, another. On the day of the census that year, his potential stepmother Louisa Davis was expecting the birth of her first and only known child by his father, who was born illegitimately four months later.
	Further tragedy hit the young family over the following years when first Louisa Davis (Collett) died in 1848, and was followed by his father, who passed away in 1850. At that time in their lives the three youngest children of Stephen Collett were taken into the Easton Piercy home of their elderly unmarried uncle Henry Collett. By 1851 nephew John Collett was 17 and was employed by his 75-year old uncle as an assistant farmer on his 230-acre holding, which also employed eight other labourers. Living at the farmhouse with John and his uncle, was his sister Constance, who was 16, and his half-brother Daniel (below), who was nine. All of them were described as having been born at Kington St Michael. Supporting the family was Ann Dyer aged 28, who was the housekeeper, Julia Woodward aged 18, who was a servant, and agricultural labourer Henry Sergant, who was 16.
	During the next decade farmer Henry Collett must have died and appears to have passed his fortune onto his nephews, because by 1861 John Collett, aged 27, was residing at a dwelling named as the Manor House in Easton Piercy, from where he was a fund-holder. In other words, he was living on an income gained from owning land and the dividends arising there from. Still living with him was his younger half-brother Daniel, who was also a bachelor and a fund-holder. The place of birth for both of them was given as Easton Piercy, while supporting them was housekeeper Charlotte Tanner, who was 38, and servant girl Eliza Sheptown aged 21.
	Rather mysteriously both John and Daniel died within five months of each other less than two years later. Daniel died in November 1863, while the death of John Collett was recorded at Chippenham on 13^th March 1864, his Will proved at Salisbury one month later on 13^th April. The Will of John Collett of Chippenham was proved by the oath of Constance Prudence Fry, John’s married sister (below).
62M30	Constance Prudence Collett was born at Easton Piercy in 1836 and was baptised at Kington St Michael on 28^th June 1836, the daughter of ‘Yeoman of Easton Piercy’ Stephen Collett and Sophia Rawlings. Her mother died in 1838, most probably during the birth of Constance’s younger brother Lot Collett. Widowed, and with three young children, her father took up with Louisa Davis who was living with the family in 1841. On the census day that year, Constance Collett was five years old, while Louisa Davis was halfway through the pregnancy of her son Daniel Collett. The family was then hit by a quadruple tragedy over the following nine months. In 1842 she lost her younger brother Lot, two years her older sister Clara passed away, four years after that the children’s surrogate mother Louisa died and in 1850 Constance and older brother John were orphaned when their father died.
	As a result of their loss Constance and her brother John, together with their orphaned half-brother Daniel Collett (below), the three of them were taken into the care of Constance’s uncle Henry Collett at his home in Easton Piercy, with whom they were living in 1851. Six years later, Constance Prudence Collett married Richard Henry Fry, at Kington St Michael, on 1^st October 1857, their wedding recorded at Chippenham (Ref. 5a 125) during the last three months of that year. Richard was 25 years old and a yeoman of Chippenham, while Constance was recorded as being ‘of Easton Piercy’ who was 21 years of age.
	Over the following years Constance gave birth to eight children, but by the time of the census in 1911 Constance Prudence Fry, aged 75, was a widow residing in Corsham in Wiltshire and only four of her children were still alive. She was then living on her own means, while living with her was her unmarried daughter Amy Ethel Fry who was 41 and a music teacher and an organist. It was just less than six years later that Constance passed away on 29^th January 1917 when she was living at the High Street in Corsham. Sadly, her personal effects amounted to only £21 11 Shillings and 4 Pence, administration of which was granted to another of her daughters, spinster Maud Fry, in London on 30^th May 1917.
62M31	Lot Collett was born at Easton Piercy but was baptised at Kington St Michael on 8^th June 1838. He was another son of Stephen, a labourer, and Sophia Collett, his mother dying at the birth or just after. He was living with his family at Easton Piercy in 1841, but tragically suffered a premature death during the following year. It was at Kington St Michael where he was buried on 27^th August 1842.
62M32	Daniel Collett was born at Easton Piercy in Kington St Michael on 11^th September 1841, and was baptised at Kington St Michael on 27^th October 1841. He was the only known child of Stephen Collett, widower and labourer, by Louisa Davis, to whom he was not married, with the parish register describing Daniel as illegitimate. His mother died when he was seven years old and two years later his much older father also passed away in 1850. By the time of the next census in 1851, nine-year-old Daniel Collett was living with his older half-brother John and his half-sister Constance at the Easton Piercy home of their uncle Henry Collett. Henry was a bachelor of 75 who had been born at Kington St Michael. He was a farmer of 230 acres and employed nine labourers, one of which was Daniel’s half-brother John (above).
	It might appear that Daniel and his half-brother both benefited from the death of their uncle, since by 1861 they were still living together at Easton Piercy, but at the Manor House, where both of them were described as fund-holders. Daniel Collett from Easton Piercy was 19 by that time although, tragically, he only survived for just over two years, when he died at Chippenham on 2^nd November 1863, just five months before the death of his half-brother John. Whether Daniel died in suspicious circumstances is not known, except that it was one week later when he was buried with his parents at Kington St Michael on 9^th November 1863. It was on 13^th January 1864 that administration of his effects of under £450 was granted to Constance Prudence Fry his married half-sister (above), the wife of Richard Henry Fry, a maltster.
62M33	William Collett was born at Hackney in London during January 1812, the eldest child of William Collett and Harriet Mence who had only been married for around one month when he was born. It was over two years later, perhaps out of embarrassment, that he was baptised at Old Church in St Pancras in a joint ceremony with his younger sister Harriet (below) on 1^st June 1814. Tragically, he died of consumption while at Haggerston within the London Borough of Hackney on 18^th June 1840 at 8 Great Cambridge Street in Haggerston, aged 28 years and 5 months. His death entry records his occupation as Gentleman. His married sister Hester Paddon nee Collett, of 48 Lower Marsh, Lambeth in Surrey was present at the time of death. He was buried one week later at St. Mary’s Church in Haggerston on June 25^th 1840. It may be of interest that it was not only William who suffered with poor health, since five other members of the Collett family succumbed to tuberculosis or lung-related conditions, and they were Hester Collett and Charles Collett, Charles’ first wife Elviner, and two of his children from his second marriage.
62M34	Harriet Collett was born within the London Borough of Hackney in 1814 and was baptised in a joint ceremony with her brother William (above) at Old Church in St Pancras on 1^st June 1814, when her parents were confirmed as William and Harriet Collett.
	At the time of her marriage she was referred to as Harriet Collett of Haggerston when she was married by licence to Doctor Thomas Ottrey Rayner, of Hackney, surgeon, at St. John’s Church in Hackney on 11^th August 1838. The ceremony was conducted by Ashby Blair Haslewood, curate, in the presence of Charles Thomas Purchase and Caleb Turner. All parties appear to have signed the register, when the father of the bride was named as William Collett, in the Post Office, and the father of the groom was named as Thomas Rayner, in the Excise Office.
	It is likely that the couple was married by licence because Harriet was already pregnant with their first child, Harriet Florence Angelina Rayner, who was born on 12^th October 1838, but who sadly died five weeks later and was buried at St. Mary’s Church in Haggerston on 21^st December 1838, where Harriet’s brother William (below) was buried less than two years later.
	Harriet and Thomas Rayner had at least nine more children over the following years, the family eventually emigrating to Canterbury in New Zealand. The first to leave was Thomas, when he sailed from England on the ship ‘Sir Edward Paget’ in 1856, with Harriet and their nine children following on board the ‘Clontarf’, which arrived at Lyttelton on 5^th January 1859. Harriet Rayner nee Collett died from breast cancer on 26^th November 1887 while at Pleasant Point, South Canterbury in New Zealand, and was buried at the local cemetery two days later on the 28^th November. We must only wonder now, whether Harriet discovered that one of her travelling companions was Sarah Collett, the wife of Francis Collett (Ref. 1N28) of Bibury, who had with her, her married daughter Anne Bryan and youngest son William Collett.
62M35	Hester Collett was born on 7^th October 1815 at St James, Clerkenwell, Middlesex and was later baptised at Pentonville Chapel in St James on 25^th October 1815, when she was confirmed as the daughter of William Collett and Harriet Mence. Hester later married Charles Paddon by banns in St. Luke’s Church at Old Street in Middlesex on 24^th February 1835. The ceremony was performed by John Howard Rice in the presence of William Collett, senior, and William Collett, junior, Hester’s father and older brother. Hester and Charles both signed the register.
	Charles Paddon, of 48 Lower Marsh, Lambeth, in Surrey, was one of the witnesses to the Will of William Collett, his father-in-law, on 9^th December 1842. Interestingly, a Charles Paddon, of Lambeth, was declared a bankrupt in 1846, “Charles Paddon, slop seller, Charlotte Street, New-cut, Lambeth”. This appears to have been annulled about one month later, and this individual was almost certainly Hester’s husband, as New-cut was but one of several verified addresses of the Paddon family.
	Hester and Charles had four children. Charles William Paddon, who was born in Middlesex on 2^nd March 1836, William Edwin Paddon, who was baptised on 24^th May 1837 at Lambeth, Hester [Esther] Paddon, who was born on 3^rd January 1840 at Lambeth, and Walter Collett Paddon, who was born on 12^th June 1841, also at Lambeth in Surrey. Tragically, Hester Paddon nee Collett died from phthisis on 31^st August 1847 at 48 Lower Marsh in Lambeth at the age of only 31. Her husband Charles, also of the same address, was present at the time of her death, following which she was buried a week later on 7^th September at St. Mary’s Church in Lambeth. Following her death Hester’s daughter and namesake Hester Paddon went to living with Hester’s married sister Helen Herman nee Collett (below), while it would appear that her three sons remained with her husband Charles Paddon.
62M36	Henry Collett was born on 5^th September 1817 at Euston Road in St Pancras, Middlesex, and was later baptised at Christchurch St Leonard in Middlesex on 29^th October 1817. It was at Shoreditch that Henry was living and working in 1841 when the census that year described him as Henry Collett from Middlesex who was 24 and a bone mincher.
62M37	Charles Collett was born on 15^th April 1821 prior to his family settling in Shoreditch. He was baptised there at St Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch on 14^th October 1921, another son of William Collett and Harriet Mence. At the time of the census in 1841 Charles Collett, aged 20, was living at Shoreditch with his parents. Six year later he married (1) Elviner Mayhew Merry on 26^th May 1847 at Hackney in London, where the event was recorded (Ref. iii 147). Elviner was born on 4^th September 1824 at Shoreditch, where she was later baptised on 9^th April 1826, the daughter of George and Charlotte Mayhew. However, within a year of their wedding day, Elviner (as Elvira) Collett died on 15^th February 1848, while the couple was living in Hackney, where her death was recorded (Ref. iii 180). Four days later, she was buried at Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington on 19^th February 1848. The cause of her death was phthisis pulmonalis, a condition with which she had suffered for only the previous six months.
	The next census in 1851 recorded Charles Collett, aged 29 and from Shoreditch, as a widower living with his parents at 8 Great Cambridge Street in Haggerston (Shoreditch St Leonards). His occupation on that day was recorded as being a member of ‘the travelling post office’, his father also working for the post office as a clerk, as did his younger brother Edwin (below) later in his life. During the period after the death of his wife, Charles met the widow (2) Martha Yates, whom he eventually married by licence at St John’s Church in Hackney on 24^th July 1852, where the event was recorded (Ref. 1b 378). Martha was the daughter of Henry Bellamy, a mariner, and his wife Sarah, of Duncan Street in Liverpool, when she was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Liverpool on 7^th September 1824. The London wedding ceremony was conducted by Alexander Gordon in the presence of Charles’ younger brother Edwin Collett (below) and his younger sister Louisa Collett (below). All parties appear to have signed the register, when the entry also confirmed the that father of the groom was William Collett, a Gentleman, and the father of the bride was Henry Bellamy, a Captain with the Royal Navy.
	The marriage of Charles and Martha produced three children, the first two born at Dalston, within the London Borough of Hackney, where the third child may also have been born. Charles’ work with the travelling post office involved a lot of journeys by train. It was during one such journey that he was badly injured in a train-shunting accident and, it may have been from the injuries he sustained, that he died in 1860, while he and Martha were still living in Hackney area of London. The death of Charles Collett was recorded at Hackney (Ref. 1b 266) during the first quarter of 1860, following which he was buried on 15^th March 1860 at Abney Park Cemetery, with his first wife. Four months later, that same year, Charles’ youngest daughter, who was only a few months old, died in July and was buried with him. No record of widow Martha, daughter Adine or son Herrman has been discovered in 1861.
	After three years as a widow, Martha Collett married George Smith, the event recorded at Poplar (Ref. 1c 1003) during the first quarter of 1863, with whom she had a son. By 1871, Martha Smith from Liverpool was 40, and George W Smith from Bethnal Green was 33 and a commercial traveller in Stationery, when they were residing at 3 Stoke Place, West Green in Tottenham. With them was their son Henry W Smith who was three years old and born at Peckham, and completing the household, was Martha’s daughter by Charles Collett, Adine Collett from Dalston who was 17 years old with no occupation. Tragically, Adine died at that address very early in 1873.
	62N48	Adine Collett			Born in 1853 at Dalston, Hackney
	62N49	Herrman Collett			Born in 1855 at Dalston, Hackney
	62N50	Edith Collett			Born in 1859 at Hackney
62M38	EDWIN COLLETT was born at Shoreditch on 9^th January 1824 and was baptised at St Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch on 30^th January 1824. He was listed as being 17 years of age in the census of 1841, when he was living at Shoreditch with his family. He married Mary Cook on 15^th April 1847 at Lambeth in Surrey. Mary was born at Southwark in London in 1824 and was the daughter of William Cook. The couple’s first two children were born at Lambeth but they then moved to live at Leytonstone where the next four children were born.
	By 1851 Edwin Collett was 27 and his wife Mary was 28, and by then their marriage had produced three children. The family of five was living at Leytonstone in the West Ham registration district of East London, where Horace Collett was three, Mary Collett was two, and William Collett not yet one-year old. Five more children were added to the family during the next decade, although sadly by the time of the next census in 1861 the couple’s eldest daughter Mary had died, as had baby Clara. The family living in Hackney in 1861 comprised Edwin aged 37, Mary aged 38, Horace who was 13, William who was 10, Julia, Eugene who was seven, Flora Emily who was two and Lily who was under one-year old.
	One last child was born into the family in March 1863 when Edwin and Mary Collett living at 22 Mare Street in Hackney, from where Edwin was employed as a clerk in the local branch of the General Post Office. The birth and the baptism of that child, over three years later, were both recorded using the name Elvena Mary Collett who, in later census returns, was recorded as Elvina, as confirmed in the census of 1871 when the family was still living in Hackney. By that time Edwin was 47 and Mary 48, the children still living there with them were Horace Collett, aged 23, William Collett, aged 20, Julia Collett, aged 17, Eugenie Collett, aged 14, Flora Collett, who was 12, Lily Collett, who was 10, and Elvena (Elvina) Collett who was eight years old.
	No trace of any member of the family has been found within the Great Britain census of 1881, and their absence may have been associated with the fact that the couple’s eldest son Horace emigrated to New Zealand, and was followed by his brother William who emigrated to South Africa. So, there is a chance that the whole family were out of the country at that time.
	However, perhaps life in a new world did not suit Edwin and his wife because, by 1891, they were once again living in London. The census that year place Edwin Collett, aged 67, and his wife Mary, also 67, living within the Wandsworth & Streatham registration district with two of their daughters. Eugenie Collett was 35, and Flora E Collett was 32. It was just over two years later that Edwin Collett died at 21 Salters Road in Brixton on 15^th July 1893, following which his Will was proved in London on 13^th August in favour of his widow Mary Collett. His personal effects had a value of £600. Sometime after her husband had passed away Mary moved to Croydon where she was living in 1901 at the age of 78.
	Ten years after that, according to the next census in April 1911, Mary was residing at 46 Central Hill in Upper Norwood, described as a comfy 6-roomed home. At that time in her life, widow Mary Collett from London was 88 when she was described as surviving on private means. Living there with her on that day were two of her unmarried daughters, and they were Eugenie Collett who was 54 and Elvena (Elvina) Mary Collett who was 48. Neither of them was recorded as having an occupation but they were listed as having been born in Leytonstone Green and Hackney respectively. Of further interest is the fact that Harriet Martha Collett was living at 117 Central Hill in Upper Norwood during the Great War, which was also the temporary address for Captain Clive Franklyn Collett from New Zealand. He was the grandchild of Edwin and Mary Collett, the son of their eldest child Horace Edwin Collett. Sometime during the next few years, perhaps after the start of the war, Mary return to Croydon where the death of Mary Collett nee Cook was recorded as having taken place on 27^th March 1919.
	62N51		HORACE EDWIN COLLETT		Born in 1848 at Lambeth
	62N52		Mary Louise Collett		Born in 1849 at Lambeth
	62N53		William Edwin Collett		Born in 1850 at Leytonstone
	62N54		Clara Collett		Born in 1852 at Leytonstone
	62N55		Julia Collett		Born in 1853 at Leytonstone
	62N56		Eugenie Collett		Born in 1856 at Leytonstone
	62N57		Flora Emily Collett		Born in 1858 at Hackney
	62N58		Lily Collett		Born in 1860 at Hackney
	62N59		Elvena Mary Collett		Born in 1863 at Hackney
62M39	Helen Collett was born at Shoreditch on 31^st December 1825 and was baptised there a month later on 27^th January 1826 at St Leonard’s Church, another daughter of William Collett and Harriet Mence. She was 15 in 1841 and was living with her family at Shoreditch. It was nine years later when Helen Collett married Charles Herman on 30^th October 1840 in the parish Church of St. Mildred Poultry and St. Mary Colechurch at Cheapside in the City of London. Charles was described as a bachelor and a merchant residing at 8 Great Cambridge Street, off Hackney Road whose father was Charles Herman, also a merchant. Helen’s father was confirmed as William Collett, an officer in the Post Office. Over the following twenty-three years Helen presented Charles with six children. They were Charles Sidney Herman (1850-1934), Sarah Herman (1853-1938), Louisa Herman (1855-1936), Eugenie Helena Herman (1858-1909), Constance Laura Herman (1860-1914), and Alfred Edward Herman (1863-1906).
	On the day of the census in 1851 Charles Herman was 30 and a leather merchant who had been born in Germany, while his wife Helen Herman was 25 and born in Shoreditch. They were living at 10 Washington Place off Commerce Road in Lambeth with their son Charles Sidney Herman who was just four months old. Staying with the family on that occasion was Helen’s niece Hester Paddon who was 11 and born in Lambeth, the daughter of Helen’s later married sister Hester Paddon nee Collett who had died four years earlier.
	During the next decade the family moved to Greenwich and in the 1861 they were recorded at 2 Acton Place at Deptford where Helen Herman was 35 and Charles Herman was 40 and a wine merchant whose place of birth was named as Alsfeld Hease Bumstadt in Germany. Their children on the day of the census were listed as Charles Sidney who was 10 and born at Camberwell as was Sarah who was eight, Louisa who was six and born at Deptford and Eugenie who was three and also born there. Still living with the family was Helen’s niece Hester Paddon who was 21 by then, but sometime thereafter the family moved again, that time to settle in Croydon.
	After a further ten years Charles Herman was 50 and Helen was 45 when they were living at 260 Victoria Villa in Croydon where Charles was still working as a wine merchant. By that time their son Charles Sidney Herman was 20 and a clerk, Sarah Herman was 18, Louise Herman was 16, Eugenie H Herman was 13, Constance L Herman was 11 and Alfred Edward was eight years of age. The family appear to be quite affluent as they were able to employ two domestic servants Marian Drew aged 27 and Ellen Drew who was 21.
	It was at a property called Homewood on Princess Road in Croydon where the family was recorded in the census of 1881. By then Charles Herrman was 60 and a general merchant, Helen from Shoreditch was 55, Sarah Herrman was 28 and born at Fulham, Louisa Herrman was 26, Eugenie H Herrman was 23, Constance L Herrman was 21, all three sisters having been born at New Cross in Kent, and Alfred E Herrman was 18 and had been born at Peckham. Supporting the family was cook Maria Simpson and housemaid Jane Howe.
	Charles Herman died at Croydon eight years later on 4^th January 1889, so by the next census in 1891 confirmed that Helen Herman was a widow at 65 years of age when she was living on her own means at 3 Princess Road in the Southbrook district of Croydon. When Charles’ estate was settled it was valued at over four thousand pounds. Still living with Helen in 1891 were her three unmarried daughters who were also described as living on their own means, and they were Sarah Herman aged 38, Eugenie H Herman aged 33 and Constance L Herman who was 31. The family’s two servants that year week were sisters Eliza Tichbury who was 28 and a cook and Maria Tichbury who was 26 and a housemaid.
	Just less than two years later Helen Herman nee Collett died at Croydon on 20^th February 1893, following which her Will was proved in London on 18^th March 1893. The probate confirmed that Helen Herman of Homewood, Princess Road, South Norwood in Surrey, a widow, left personal effects valued at £975 4 Shillings and 3 Pence to her spinster daughters Sarah Herman and Louisa Herman. Of all of Helen’s children it is the eldest, Charles Sidney Herman, who is very interesting. Firstly, he changed his name to Frank Charles Richardson and then emigrated to New Zealand. This information was only discovered when his Will was proved in London seventeen years after his death. The probate process revealed that Richardson, Frank Charles or Herman, Charles Sidney, of Sandy Bay in Nelson, New Zealand died on 3^rd July 1934. Probate was granted at Nelson to Eliza Selina Richardson, his widow, his personal effects valued at £1,092 in England sealed in London on 8^th May 1951. Since then it has been established that Charles and Eliza were married at Nelson on 27^th July 1898.
62M40	Alfred Collett was born at Shoreditch on 3^rd July 1827 where he was baptised the following year at St Leonard’s Church on 16^th March 1828. Sadly, he died in early October 1829 at Hackney in Middlesex when he was only 2 years and 3 months old. He was buried at St. Mary’s Church in Haggerston on 7^th October and his address, at the time of his death, was recorded as Brunswick Street in Hackney, the verified place of residence of the Collett family from 1826 to 1833.
62M41	George Collett was born at Shoreditch on 7^th July 1829 and was baptised there on 20^th September 1829 at St Leonard’s Church, the ninth child of William Collett and Harriet Mence. By 1841 he was 12 years old when he was living at the family home in Shoreditch. Ten years later, when he was 21, he was still living with his parents at 8 Great Cambridge Street in Haggerston (Shoreditch) in 1851, where he was described as a clerk working in the Italian trade. Within the following four years, George sailed to Australia, where he was employed as a clerk at the Melbourne Post Office. It was at St Mark's Church in Collingwood, Victoria, on 5^th July 1855, that the marriage of George and Anne Maria Hemming, a school assistant, took place. On Friday 6^th July 1855, the Melbourne Argus reported on the wedding of George Collett and Annie Maria the second daughter of Samuel Hemming Esq, of Hackney in London. That newspaper item has enabled the search for her birth at Shoreditch to be discovered near the end of 1828, with the baptism of Anne Maria Hemming, daughter of Samuel Hemming and Harriet Plato of 15 Great Cambridge Street, confirmed at St Botolph’s Church in Bishopsgate on 11^th January 1829.
	The marriage of George and Annie produced at total of eight children, the first born at Johnson Street in Collingwood, where she died aged just seven months on 6^th December 1856. Thirty years later, George Collett died at 11 Murray Street in Prahran, Victoria, on 7^th March 1887 at the age of 57, prior to which he was working in the Money Order Office of the General Post Office in Melbourne. Just over four years after being widowed Annie Maria Collett passed away at her son’s home in Campbell’s Creek, Castlemaine in Victoria on 3^rd November 1891, aged 63. Her death record was printed in the Melbourne Argus on Wednesday 4^th November. Their first and last two children were born at Collingwood, while the other six children were born at Maryborough. Not long after the birth of the couple’s last child, it was at Fitzroy in Victoria that the family was living when she died later that same year. Eleven years later, the family was living again in Maryborough, where the death of Agnes Mence Collett was recorded in 1880.
	62N60		Annie Adelaide Collett				Born in 1856 at Collingwood, Vic; died 1856
	62N61		Aimee Eugenie Collett				Born in 1858 at Maryborough; died 1943
	62N62		Horace Wellesley Hemming Collett				Born in 1860 at Maryborough; died 1930
	62N63		Agnes Mence Collett				Born in 1862 at Maryborough; died 1880
	62N64		George Nelson Collett				Born in 1863 at Maryborough; died 1863
	62N65		Ernest Augustus Plato Collett				Born in 1864 at Maryborough; died 1920
	62N66		Edwin Reginald Collett				Born in 1867 at Collingwood, Vic; died 1945
	62N67		Mary Constance Collett				Born in 1869 at Collingwood, Vic; died 1869
62M42	Louisa Caroline Collett was born at Shoreditch on 31^st July 1831. She was baptised seven weeks later on 18^th September 1831 at St Mary’s Church in nearby Haggerston within the London Borough of Hackney. In 1841 she was 10 years old and in 1851 she was 19 and, on the latter occasion, she had no occupation, when she was living with her parents at 8 Great Cambridge Street in Haggerston (Shoreditch). Four years later she married John Cairns on 10^th September 1855 at St John’s Church in Hackney. John was the son of Charles Cairns and his wife Frances Rockcliffe.
62M43	Frederick William Collett was born at Shoreditch on 29^th May 1833 and was baptised there at St Leonard’s Church on 10^th July 1833, a further son of William Collett and Harriet Mence. He was 17 in the Shoreditch census of 1851, when he was employed as a clerk for a wine merchant and was still living with his family at 8 Great Cambridge Street in Haggerston (Shoreditch). It was six years later when he married Sindia Frances Turner on 18^th May 1857 at Old Church in St Pancras. Sindia was born at Bethnal Green in 1836 and was the daughter of Joseph Turner. She is not easy to identify in the various census records because of the many interpretations of her christian name. At the time of the birth of their only child, Frederick was working as a book-keeper with a carrier company, when he and his wife Sindia Collett were living at 18 Weymouth Terrace in Shoreditch.
	It may have been that same carrier company that Frederick was working for on the day of the census in 1861, when his occupation was that of a cabman. The census return that year, recorded the family as residing at 28 Allerton Street in Shoreditch St Leonard as Frederick Collett from London who was 27, his wife Lidia F Collett who was 26 and a milliner from London, and their son Charles F Collett who was three years old and born at Shoreditch.
	Just to complicate matters, Frederick William Collett was confusingly listed as William Collett from Shoreditch, who was 37 and a cabman in the Shoreditch census of 1871. Care therefore had to be taken, not to assume that he was William Collett from Shoreditch, who was born there in 1834, the son of William and Ann Collett (Ref. 50N8). His wife Lydia F Collett was 34 and still working as a milliner, while her place of birth was then stated as being Bethnal Green. By that time, and at the age of 13, their son Charles F Collett from Shoreditch had already finished his schooling and was already working as an errand boy.
	Towards the end of the next decade Frederick’s son left home to be married so, by 1881, Frederick and his wife were living alone at 11 Pleasant Row in Islington. It may be of interest that Andrew William Collett (Ref. 31N35) from South Wraxall in Wiltshire, was living at 5 Pleasant Row in 1871. Once again Frederick Collett from Shoreditch was still working as a cabman at the age of 47, while his wife Lindia Frances Collett from Bethnal Green was continuing to work as a milliner, when she was 44 years old. And it was also at Islington, five years later, that the death of Frederick William Collett was recorded (Ref. 1b 273) during the fourth quarter of 1886. No record of his widow has been found in 1891 but, in March 1901, Lydia Collett, aged 65 and a widow was living at Albert Street in Clerkenwell, the home of her son Charles Frederick Collett and his second wife Mary. The death of Sindia F Collett was recorded at Shoreditch register office (Ref. 1c 80) during the second quarter of 1914, when her age was said to be 74, rather than 78.
	62N68	Charles Frederick Collett			Born in 1857 at Shoreditch
62M44	Horace Walter Collett was born at Shoreditch on 22^nd August 1835, where he was baptised on 11^th September 1835 at St Leonard’s Church, the last child of William Collett and Harriet Mence. Sadly, he only lived to be four years of age, before he died at Bethnal Green on 21^st November 1839, following which he was buried there at St Matthews Church.
62N1	Richard Pook Collett was originally born as Richard Pook at Clifton in Bristol during the last quarter of 1844. He was the only son of Mary Anne Collett and Richard Pook and was baptised at St Andrew’s Church in Clifton on 3^rd November 1844. One the day of the Clifton census in 1851 Richard was six years of age and he retained his Pook surname for a further twenty years. It was around the time of the death of his mother when Richard changed to his name by adopting her maiden-name. She died in 1872 but in 1871 a potential relative of a similar age, by the name of Edmund Walter Pook, was arrested for the Eltham murder of Jane Clouson. That happened when Richard was also in London, so it is believed that it was that incident which was the real reason for his change of name in order to avoid being associated with the murderer.
	Edmund Walter Pook was born at Walworth in Surrey in 1851, the son of Ebenezer Whitcher Pook and Mary Burch. He was employed in his father's printing works at Greenwich in London and in May 1871 he was accused of murdering Jane Maria Clouson, a former maid in his parents' home. Jane, who was just seventeen years old, was attacked with a hammer in Kidbrooke Lane, Eltham, South-East London - a killing that came to be known as the Eltham Murder. It was claimed that Edmund Pook and Jane Clouson had been having an affair lasting several months, with the result that she had become pregnant with his child. Edmund would not marry Jane because his brother had already angered his father by marrying beneath his station and Edmund had no intention of doing the same. So Jane was fired from the household. However, this claim was refuted by his parents, who stated that Jane was dismissed following several warnings about her unkempt appearance and slovenly work habits. It was also claimed that Edmund and Jane had continued their relationship following her dismissal and it was said that they met secretly and corresponded romantically with one another.
	Before she died, Jane Clouson allegedly named Edmund Pook as her assailant. The bloodstained murder weapon was found nearby and it was alleged that the hammer used in the crime had been sold to Edmund by a local shopkeeper some days earlier. Reports also stated that that there was blood on Edmund's clothes (when asked about the clothing he wore on the night, it matched the description, and the blood on the clothes was claimed to be a result of biting his tongue during a seizure). A man matching Edmund's description had been seen running from the lane that night, with seven witnesses swearing they had seen Jane and Edmund together that evening. The case went to coroner’s trial first, when Edmund was found guilty of the wilful murder of Jane. This was then rushed through to the Central Criminal Court at The Old Bailey and in the criminal trial in July 1871 the judge ordered that Jane’s last words were inadmissible as they were hearsay. Secondly, the judge chastised the police, saying that they were after a quick arrest and hounded Pook with no real evidence. As a result, Pook was found not guilty.
	Newspaper accounts of the time had intimated Edmund's guilt, even before his trial. During the final day of his trial a large crowd had gathered in the street outside the court, the courtroom being packed with spectators. As his acquittal by jury was announced to the crowd the mood was one of anger and disappointment. It has been suggested that Edmund had escaped justice because of his social class, and family connections. His father had previously worked for The Times as a tradesman printer. Edmund was represented at the Coroner's Inquest by Henry Pook, a solicitor, not related to Edmund's family. Henry Pook had also represented Edmund Pook at two subsequent criminal libel suits, where Edmund was openly accused in pamphlets of being a murderer, despite his acquittal. Edmund and his family subsequently fled London, changing their identity as they continued to be hounded mercilessly by the press.
	It was just a few years after changing his name that Richard Pook Collett married Sarah Ann Hulin who was born at Fishponds in Clifton at the beginning of 1845. Their wedding took place at Exeter in Devon where it was recorded during the final quarter of 1874 (Ref. 5b 153). In 1851 Sarah Ann Hulin was six years of age when she was living with her parents George Hulin, a painter and glazier, and Rebecca Hulin at Stapleton within the Clifton registration district. Shortly after they were married the couple were living at Small Heath in Birmingham when their first child was born. Curiously the parents of the child were recorded at Richard and Sarah Ann Pook. Not long after that the family moved to Evington, on the eastern outskirts of Leicester, where their next two children were born using the Collett surname. By the time of the census of 1881 Richard P Collett, aged 36, was working as an assistant embosser in glass and was employing one man.
	His place of birth was confirmed as Clifton in Bristol and his wife was recorded as Sarah Ann Collett, aged 36 and of Fishponds in Bristol. Living with them at 61 Myrtle Road in the city of Leicester was their daughter Gertrude who was five, their son Herbert who was three, and baby Edith who was just six months old. Also living with the family was Sarah Ann’s brother Oliver Hulin, aged 26 and of Fishponds, who was an unemployed engine fitter. The family were affluent enough to employ a domestic servant in the shape of 18 years old Harriet A Hilter.
	Ten years later the family was complete, following the arrival of daughters Beatrice and Mabel and son Richard. Therefore, the family was listed in the Leicester census of 1891 as Richard Collett who was 46, Sarah Collett who was 46, Gertrude Collett who was 15, Herbert Collett who was 13, Edith Collett who was 10, Beatrice Collett who was seven, Mabel Collett who was five and Richard who was three years old. It was nine years after that when Richard Pook Collett died at Leicester on 15^th May 1900, his death recorded at Leicester register office (Ref. 7a 153) during the second quarter of that year. Probate for the Will of Richard Pook Collett of Mayview, Mayfield Road in Leicester, a leaded glass worker, was granted to his son Herbert Frank Collett, also a leaded glass worker, on 28^th June 1900. His personal effects were originally established as £753 16 Shillings, but during February 1901 they were re-sworn as £978 16 Shillings.
	So just after the start of the century the family, excluding Richard, was still living at Mayfield Road in Leicester. His widow Sarah, at the age of 56, had taken over the family business by 1901 and was described as a leaded glass maker, while working with her was her son Herbert. In addition to her son Herbert, all of Sarah’s other children were still living with her. Gertrude Annie was 25, Herbert Frank 23, Edith Mary 20, Beatrice Emily 17, Mabel Eveline 15 and Richard Ernest who was 13. Sarah Ann Collett from Fishponds in Bristol was still living in Leicester ten years later in April 1911 at the age of 66. Still living there with her at the extensive 10-roomed dwelling that was 26 Mayfield Road was her son Herbert Frank Collett who was 33, and her two daughters Edith Mary Collett who was 29, and Mabel Eveline Collett who was 25. Supporting the family was domestic servant Clara Attwood who was 15, while boarding with the family was merchant cashier Sidney James Andrew aged 38 from Naseby in Northamptonshire. The census return also confirmed that Sarah had been married to Richard for twenty-five years when he died in 1900 and that their marriage had provided them with eight children of which six were still alive. This means there are two names missing from the list below.
	Sarah Ann Collett nee Hulin was still living at 26 Mayfield Road in Leicester eight years later, where she died on 9^th March 1919. Her Will was proved at Leicester on 12^th July 1919, when probate was granted to Arthur Stanton Todd, an accountant, and Herbert Frank Collett, an engineer, in respect of her personal estate valued at £1,243 5 Shillings and 4 Pence.
	62O1	Gertrude Annie Collett			Born in 1875 at Small Heath, Birmingham
	62O2	Herbert Frank Collett			Born in 1877 at Evington, Leics.
	62O3	Edith Mary Collett			Born in 1880 at Evington, Leics.
	62O4	Beatrice Emily Collett			Born in 1883 at Leicester
	62O5	Mabel Eveline Collett			Born in 1885 at Leicester
	62O6	Richard Ernest Collett			Born in 1888 at Leicester
62N2	Emma Collett was born in 1839 at Horton in Gloucestershire, just north of Chipping Sodbury. In June 1841 Emma was one-year old and was living with her parents at Leonard Stanley. Her age in the subsequent census records would indicate that she was born in 1842, but this may have simply been to reduce the age difference between herself and her younger husband. She married George Sparrow during the last quarter of 1867, the event recorded at Chipping Sodbury and by 1871 Emma and George were living at Cherington with their two children. George was 25 and Emma was 28, and listed with them was their son William Sparrow who was two, and their daughter Annie G Sparrow who was under one-year old.
	By 1891 Emma and George had moved north, and were living in County Durham. The census that year listed the family as gamekeeper George Sparrow of Cherington, aged 45, his wife Emma, aged 48 and of Horton, and their daughter Annie Sparrow who was 20 and also of Cherington. Living with the family at Londonderry Cottage in Long Newton, near Stockton-on-Tees at that time, was Emma’s widowed father William Collett who was 83 and from Slaughterford in Wiltshire.
	The death of Emma Sparrow nee Collett was recorded at Stockton-on-Tees during the last three months of 1894. So, within the census of 1901, George Sparrow of Cherington was a widower of 54 years who was still working as a gamekeeper at Long Newton. The only person then living with him at that time was his daughter Annie Grace Sparrow who was 30 and whose occupation was that of a dressmaker. It was seventeen years later when George Sparrow died on 7^th June 1928, his death recorded at Stockton-on-Tees register office, when his personal effects were left to his married daughter Annie Grace Allen, the wife of Joseph Allen.
62N6	Sarah Collett was born early in 1843 at 53 Old Hall Street in Liverpool where her father managed a butcher’s shop. She was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 19^th March 1843, the third of the four children of Thomas Collett from Slaughterford and his wife Mary. Shortly after she was born the family moved to 73 Dale Street in Liverpool, where they were living in 1845 when both her father and her brother Thomas died there. Sarah was just twenty years old when she married (1) Alfred Leatham at Edge Hill on Merseyside on 2^nd March 1863, the marriage being recorded at the West Derby register office during the first quarter of that year.
	Over the next fourteen years Sarah presented Alfred with seven children before his untimely death around 1878. The children were Frances Mary Leatham, who was born at Wolverhampton in 1863 and who was seven in the Toxteth census of 1871, Richard Leatham, who was born at Preston in 1865, who died in 1938, and who was five in 1871, Sarah Leatham, who was born in 1868, who was three in 1871, and Alfred Leatham who was born in 1870, who died in 1941, and who was one-year old in 1871. In the census of 1871 Alfred Leatham was 27 and his wife Sarah was 28. The next three children were Harriet Leatham, who was born in 1873, George Leatham, who was born in 1876, and Louisa Leatham who was born in 1877.
	Following the death of her husband Sarah married (2) James Keef at St Thomas’ Church at Walton-on-the-Hill in Liverpool on 20^th September 1880, the wedding being recorded at the West Derby register office. The first of their two children was born just prior to the next census in 1881, but on the day of the census James Keef was absence from the family home at 10 Denton Street in Toxteth. Sarah Keefe from Liverpool was 36 and a labourer’s wife, while all of her children carried the Keefe named by then. They were Richard Leatham Keefe aged 15, Alfred Leatham Keefe aged 11, Harriet Leatham Keefe who was seven, and John Keefe who was just four months old. Not long after the census day the family left Liverpool when they moved to Colebrook Street in Cambuslang, Strathclyde, Scotland where Sarah’s last child, Mary M Keef was born on 19^th December 1882.
	And it was at 10 Colebrooke Street in Cambuslang the family was living in 1891 when Sarah Keef was again a widow at the age 46. Still living with her were five of her children; Richard Leatham, Alfred Leatham, Harriet Leatham, and John Keef, and Mary Maud Keef. Ten years later Sarah Keefe was recorded at Victoria Place in Cambuslang with just her two youngest children John and Maud Keefe. Ten years later she was residing at 87 Main Street in Cambuslang where she died from a carcinoma caecum (bowl cancer) on 28^th March 1912 at the age of 69. Her death was reported by her son John Keef of 7 Silverbanks Street in Cambuslang. The death certificate No 68 Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland read as follows: ”Sarah Keef widow of (1) Alfred Leatham, House Painter Journeyman, and (2) James Keef, Steelworker, died 7.30 am 28 March 1912 of 87 Main Street, Cambuslang, aged 69 years, daughter of Thomas Collett, Butcher, deceased and Marie previously Collett, maiden surname unknown, deceased”.
62N7	Harriet Collett was born at 73 Dale Street in Liverpool during 1845, the youngest of the four children of Thomas and Mary Collett, and was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Liverpool on 26^th April 1845. Tragically both her father and her brother Thomas died during the third quarter of 1845, after which it is not known what happened to the remaining members of the family. Harriet married (1) George Smith Spencer at the Church of St Michael-in-the-Hamlet in Toxteth Park, Liverpool on 8^th August 1864, as confirmed by the marriage certificate which read as follows: “George Smith Spencer, aged 24, upholder (upholsterer), bachelor of William Street, son of Job Spencer, tailor; and Harriet Collett (who made her mark with a cross) aged 19, spinster of William Street, daughter of Thomas Collett, butcher, marriage by banns”. Their marriage produced five children before Harriet was made a widow, and they were Sarah J Spencer, who was born in 1865, Margaret Spencer, who was born in 1870, Harriet Smith Spencer, who was born in 1872, Mary Spencer, who was born in 1874, and Ann Spencer who was born in 1875. In 1871 Harriet and George were living at 38 Dundas Mews in Middlesbrough with their daughters Sarah and Margaret, while in 1881 the complete family was residing at 34 Brook Street in Hyde, Cheshire.
	When her husband George died is not known at this time, except that on 13^th April 1885 at Ashton-under-Lyne in Lancashire Harriet Spencer nee Collett, aged 40, married (2) William Isherwood, aged 45, the son of William Isherwood, Harriet named as the daughter of Thomas Collett. It was that same year that their daughter Grace Isherwood was born, although by 1891 Harriet was once again a widow when she was living at Sough Bridge in Barnoldswick with three of her children. Twenty years later the census in 1911 recorded the widow Harriet Isherwood living in the four-roomed dwelling that was 23 Pollard Street in Burnley. She was incorrectly aged as being 60 rather than 65, had been born in Liverpool, and had no stated occupation. Living with her was her unmarried daughter Grace Isherwood who was a cotton winder who had been born at Hyde in Cheshire. However, her age like her mother’s was also incorrect when it was stated she was 32 and not 25.
	Harriet Isherwood, formerly Spencer, nee Collett, died on 17^th February 1923 at her home at 77 Brockenhurst Street in Burnley at the age of 78, following which she was buried on 23^rd February 1923. Probate for her personal effects was granted in London on 17^th April 1923 to her daughter Grace Crossley, the wife of Reginald Crossley, in the sum of £57 11 Shillings and 3 Pence.
62N8	Mary Kate Collett was born at Saltford in Somerset in 1842, where her birth was recorded at the Keynsham register office (Ref. 11 114) during the final three months of that year. She was baptised at Rodney Stoke in Somerset and was the eldest of the two daughters of farmer George Collett from Slaughterford and his first wife Mary Aust from Colerne. By the time she was eight years old Mary Kate and her family were living on a 55-acre farm at Whitley near Melksham. Her mother died shortly after that and her father married for a second time in 1853.
	In the next census of 1861 Kate Collett, aged 18 from Bath (?) was recorded attending a private girls’ school at 12 Norland Square in Kensington Town, District 13, Kensington St Mary Abbott in London run by Margaret A. Newman a widow of 35 who was born in Clapham in Surrey. The full census record also listed four female members of staff and just seven pupils, of which Mary Kate Collett was the eldest. Upon completing her education Mary also became a school teacher. After a further twenty years, Mary Kate and her sister Jane (below) were reunited and were recorded living and working together at the School House in Stoke Charity, a village in Hampshire, just north of Winchester. Unmarried Mary K Collett, aged 38 and from Saltford was the head of household and her occupation was that of a school mistress. Her unmarried sister Jane M Collett, aged 36 and also from Saltford, was described as an annuitant. Completing the household was general servant Annie M. Hunt who was aged 19 and from Southampton.
	By the time of the next census in 1891 Mary had retired from teaching, when she was living at Kingston Blount within the Aston Rowant registration district of Oxfordshire. Mary K Collett was described as head of the household, an unmarried female aged 48, living on own means, who had been born at Saltford in Somerset. The only person living there with her was her sister Jane M Collett, also unmarried at the age of 46, who was also living on her own means. The two sisters were still together in March 1901, but sadly later that same year the younger of the two sisters passed away.
	According to the census that year they were residing at Ivy Cottage in Middleton Cheney in Northamptonshire. Mary Kate Collett was 58, while her sister Jane M. Collett was 56, while both of them were living on their own means, although their place of birth was incorrectly recorded by the enumerator as Salford in Somersetshire. Following the death of her sister at the start of June that same year, Mary remained living at Middleton Cheney where, in April 1911, she was the occupant of The Cottage, a six roomed dwelling, at the age of 68. Three years later, during a concert at the primary school in 1914 in aid of scout funds, a banner was presented to the 1^st Middleton Cheney Scout Group by Miss Collett who lived at Ivy Cottage, later renamed Brasenose Cottage, on the corner of Glovers Lane. Footnote: On 22^nd May 1985 Brasenose Cottage in Glovers Lane was deemed to be a valuable Grade II listed building.
	It was just over six years later that Mary Kate Collett died at Middleton Cheney on 14^th August 1920 at the age of 79, her death being recorded at the Banbury register office (Ref. 3a 930). The details of the announcement of her Will were published as follows: “Mary Kate Collett of Middleton Cheney Northamptonshire, spinster, died 14 August 1920. Probate granted at Northampton on 11 October 1920 to Sarah Ann Shield, spinster, and Edward Lamley Fisher, solicitor. Personal Effects £1,047 9 Shillings”.
62N9	Jane Millicent Collett was born at Saltford in 1844, the youngest of the two daughters of George and Mary Collett, whose birth was registered at Keynsham (Ref. xi 120) during the second quarter of that year and whose baptism took place at Rodney Stoke in Somerset on 16^th June 1844. In 1851 Jane Millicent Collett, who was six years old was living with her family at Whitley near Melksham. Following the death of her mother within the next year, her father married the widow Ann Collett, although no record of her father, her sister or her stepmother has been found within the census of 1861. However, at that time in her life Jane M Collett, aged 16, was a visitor at the Bath Lane home in Colerne of her maternal grandmother Sarah Aust.
	By the time of the census in 1871 Jane Collett from Saltford was 26 when she was living with her father and her stepmother at Bottom Farm in the village of Checkendon in Oxfordshire. Where she was in 1881 has not been determined, but ten years after that she was living with her older sister Mary (above) at Kingston Blount in Oxfordshire in 1891 when she was described as being 46 and living on her own means. During the final decade of the century the two sisters moved to the Northamptonshire village of Middleton Cheney and were living at Ivy Cottage on Glovers Lane in March 1901 when the census that year recorded Jane M Collett, aged 56, once again living on her own means.
	Sadly, it was at Ivy Cottage not long after the census day that Jane Millicent Collett died on 4^th June 1901 at the age of 57, her death being recorded at the Banbury register office (Ref. 3a 533). Upon her death her sister Mary inherited her person effects, with the following notice of probate being published “Jane Millicent Collett of Middleton Cheney Northamptonshire, spinster, died 4 June 1901. Probate granted in London on 28 June 1901 to Mary Kate Collett, spinster. Personal Effects £227 12 Shillings and 7 Pence”.
62N12	Harriet Martha Collett was born at Marylebone in London in 1844. In the census of 1851, she was six years old and was living with her parents at 6 Brook Street in Hammersmith. Ten years later, at the age of 16, she was a nurse in domestic service at the home of cloth merchant and shipper John P Bull at 15 Hyde Park Street in Paddington. By 1881 when she was 36, Harriet was living with her parents at The Swan Inn in the Southwark area of London. Ten years later in 1891, she was living with her mother at 31 Mount Sion in Tunbridge Wells, where they were both described as caretakers of a furnished house.
	It was Harriet who was described as ‘aunt Harriet M Collett’ within the military service records, as the English next-of-kin, of Captain Clive Franklyn Collett (Ref. 62O36) of New Zealand who died in 1917, when her address was given as 117 Central Hill in Upper Norwood in London. It may be of interest that in 1911 Mary Collett, the 88-year-old widow of Edwin Collett (Ref. 62M38), was living at 46 Central Hill in Upper Norwood, and it was her grandson Clive Franklyn Collett who was staying with Harriet during the First World War.
62N13	Henry Edwin Collett was born at Marylebone in London in 1847, where his birth was registered (Ref. i 163) during the third quarter of the year, the eldest son of Edwin Collett and Martha Young. He was listed as being three years old in the Hammersmith census of 1851, when she was living at the family home at 6 Brook Street. Sometime during the next decade, the family moved house, but stayed living within the Hammersmith area of London. The 1861 Census recorded Henry Collett, aged 13, as living with his family at 9 Spring Street. During the following ten years Henry completed his education and entered the world of domestic service, as confirmed in the census of 1871. On that day Henry E Collett from St Marylebone was 23 and was a servant at a residence in St Andrew Holborn in Middlesex when, in addition to being a servant, his occupation was said to be a pawnbroker’s assistant. The other two male servants at the property were also pawnbroker’s assistants. Shortly after that, Henry returned to live with his elderly parents and, at the age of 33, he was still a bachelor living at Little Ormond Street in The Swan Inn in the St George the Martyr district of Southwark, south London. With no stated occupation, it seems likely that he was helping his father Edwin in the running of the public house.
	From the information within the later census records it is apparent that five years later, at the age of 38, he married Emily Hurst Marsh from Ramsgate, with the event recorded at Pancras (London) during the third quarter of 1886 (Ref. 1b 176). Emily Hurst March, also 38, was the base-born daughter of Sarah Marsh, and was baptised at St George’s Church in Ramsgate on 7^th January 1849. In 1851 Emily H Marsh was two years old when she and her unmarried mother Sarah Marsh from Woodnesborough in Kent was 23 and a dressmaker living at the home of her elderly widowed mother Alice March. Within four years of their wedding day, Emily presented Henry with two daughters. By the time of the census in 1891 the family of four was residing within the St Olave district of Southwark, where Henry E Collett was 43 and the publican of an inn on Melior Street. His wife Emily Collett was 42 and born in Kent, and their two daughters were Patience Collett who was three, and Dorothy M Collett who was still under one-year-old.
	Ten years later in March 1901 Henry Collett of Marylebone, aged 53, was an off-licence holder living at Avenue Road in the Acton area of London with his wife Emily who was 52 and from Ramsgate, Kent. With them were their daughters Patience E Collett who was 13 and born at Marylebone, and Dorothy M Collett who was 10 and born at Southwark. The census of 1911 recorded the family again living and working at Acton in Middlesex, where the head of the household was Henry Edwin Collett of London who was 63 and a shop keeper and off-licence holder. On that occasion his wife of 26 years, Emily Collett, was 62 and her place of birth said to be London (sic). Still living with the couple were their two daughters, Patience Emily Collett who was 23 and assisting her father in the family business, as was Dorothy Martha Collett who was 20.
	It was during the last three months of 1919 that the death of Emily Collett born in 1848 was recorded at Brentford register office (Ref. 3a 166) when she was 71. The later death of Henry Edwin Collett was recorded at Middlesex register office (Ref. 3a 347) in 1929 when he was 82 years old.
	62O7	Patience Emily Collett			Born in 1887 at Marylebone
	62O8	Dorothy Martha Collett			Born in 1890 at Southwark
62N14	Robert William Collett was born at 6 Brook Street in Hammersmith on 28^th February 1851, the son of traveller Edwin Collett and Martha Young, and was baptised on 31^st August 1851 at the Chapel of St. Peter’s Church in Hammersmith. Curiously one month after he was born there was no child who was four weeks old in the census of 1851, when his father employed as a conductor. Robert was nine years old in the Hammersmith census of 1861 when he was living with his family at 9 Spring Street. Ten years later, at the age of 19, he was working as a plumber, while he was still living with his parents who, by then, were residing at 18 Overstone Road in Hammersmith. Just over five years later Robert William Collett married Christine Louisa Grove at Fulham in London where the event was recorded (Ref. 1a 366) during the last quarter of 1876 when Robert, a plumber, was confirmed as the son of publican Edwin Collett. It was as Christine Louisa Grove that she was born in London on 29^th January 1859 and baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Clapham, Surrey on 8^th May 1859, the daughter of James and Laura Mary Grove.
	Although the couple had two children prior to 1881, the first born at Acton and the second at Clapham, curiously no record of any member of the family has been found in the census that year. However, ten years later in 1891 the family of four was recorded as living at 67 Manor Street in Battersea & Clapham, London. At that time in his life Robert Collett was a plumber aged 35, which may have been a misinterpretation of 39, when he was living there with his wife Christina Collett who was 34, also an error since she was 31, together with their two children. They were Ernest Collett who was 13 and Florence Collett who was 12 years old.
	Ten years after that the family was still together, according to the census in March 1901, by which time Robert was no longer a plumber, but had followed in his father’s footsteps and was a publican’s manager at the age of 49. The hostelry in question was ‘The Two Brewers Inn’ at 76 Perry Hill in Lewisham. Robert was also described as having been born in Middlesex, and that he was a worker at home. His wife was listed as Christine Collett, aged 41 and from Clapham, while their two children were Ernest Collett, aged 23 and from Acton, who was an ironmonger’s assistant, and Florence Collett who was 22 and from Clapham who had no occupation, presumably helping her parents at the public house.
	After a further ten years Robert William Collett, aged 59 and from Middlesex, was the landlord at The Victoria Inn on the High Street in Oxshott, Surrey, when he was described as a beer retailer and an inn keeper – an employer. Living there with him was his wife of 35 years Christine Louise Collett who was 52 and assisting with the family business. The census return also confirmed that she had given birth to three children, of which two were still alive, although, who, where and when the child missing from the list below was born, is not known at this time. As an employer, Robert William Collett had working for him at The Victoria Inn, married couple Ernest & Emily Mousley.
	It was ten years later that Robert William Collett died on 6^th February 1921, at which time in his life he and Christine were managing the Spencer Arms Inn at Ardleigh Green in Hornchurch, Essex. His passing was recorded at Romford register office (Ref. 4a 568) at the age of 69, while his Will was proved in London on 4^th May 1921 when administration of his personal effects estimated at £187 14 Shillings and 3 Pence was granted to his widow Christine Louisa Collett. Following the death of Robert, Christine appears to have gone to live with her son who was running The Fox and Hounds public house on South Street in Romford since it was there, twenty months after losing her husband, that Christine Louisa Collett died on 8^th October 1922. Her death was also recorded at Romford register office (Ref. 4a 399) when she was 63. Less than three week later her Will was proved in London on 27^th October 1922 when her son Ernest Edwin Collett, a licenced victualler, was charged with administering her personal effects valued at £83 15 Shillings.
	62O9	Ernest Edwin Collett			Born in 1877 at Acton
	62O10	Florence Collett			Born in 1878 at Clapham
62N15	Frank Walter Collett was born in 1856 at Lushill near Castle Eaton by the River Thames, within the Highworth registration area to the east of Swindon. He was four years old in the Highworth census of 1861 when he was living with his parents and his Louisa (below) at Hillsworth Farm in Lushill. Shortly before he reached the age of ten years, Frank and his family left Lushill, when they moved to Chippenham and to Pew Hill, where they were living in 1866. Their time at Pew Hill was short-lived, and by 1867 the family had moved out of the town of Chippenham, and was living just to the north, in the village of Langley Burrell, which became the family’s more permanent home.
	At the time of the census in 1871 Frank Walter Collett was 14, and he was living at Langley Burrell with his family. Tragedy hit the family later that same year, when Frank’s mother Elizabeth died during childbirth, leaving his father with a large family to care for. However, living with the family as a visitor, was Frank’s aunt Rosa Wright, whom his father married in 1872. So, in 1881 Frank was living with his father and his stepmother at The Brewery in Burrell, along with his four siblings and six half-siblings. Frank W Collett was unmarried at 24, and was working as a brewer with his father Henry Collett.
	It was a few years later that Frank married Lucie Elizabeth Rich who was born at Chippenham in 1866, the daughter of Richard and Maria Rich. By 1891 the couple had settled in the village of Banwell to the east of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, when they were living at The Farms. Lucie was nearly ten years younger than Frank as recorded in the census, when Frank W Collett was 34 and his wife Lucie E Collett was 25. Also living at The Farms with the couple, was Lucie’s cousin Ethel L Rich who was six years old. Nine months later Lucie gave birth to the first of their two sons, both of whom were born at Banwell in Somerset. Sometime after the birth of their second child, the family gave up Somerset for Berkshire, and in March 1901 the family of four was living at 44 Peasecod Street in New Windsor.
	The census that year recorded the family as Frank Walter Collett, aged 44 and from Lushill in Highworth, whose occupation was that of a brewer’s manager, his wife Lucy Elizabeth Collett, aged 35 and from Chippenham, and their two sons Cecil Henry Collett who was nine, and Francis Austin Collett who was seven years old. It was during the following decade that the family returned to Wiltshire and settled at Broadfields in Chippenham, where three of them were living in April 1911. According to that year’s census return Frank W Collett was 53, his wife Lucie E Collett was 43, and their son Francis A Collett was 17. It was during the previous year that the couple’s eldest son sailed off to a new life in Canada.
	Frank Walter Collett died at Chippenham on 8^th April 1935 when he was approaching 80 years of age. The Will of Frank Walter Collett was proved at Winchester on 10^th July 1935 which left his personal effects valued at £7,917 9 Shillings and 11 Pence to his wife Lucie and to Frederick John Burden, accountant. Frederick was his brother-in-law who by then was a widower. He was also named in the 1917 Will of his wife Mabel Burden nee Collett (below), and again in the 1923 Will of Rosa Collett, his mother-in-law.
	Lucie Elizabeth Collett nee Rich survived her husband by nearly ten years when she passed away during the first few weeks of 1945. Her Will was proved at Winchester on 16^th February 1945 when her address was given as 229 London Road in Chippenham and her personal effects were valued at £3,162 17 Shillings and 8 Pence. Executor of her estate was her son Francis Austin Collett who was a corn merchant. Apart from son Cecil, the other three members of the family were all buried at the London road Cemetery in Chippenham.
	62O11	Cecil Henry Collett				Born in 1892 at Banwell
	62O12	Francis Austin Collett				Born in 1893 at Banwell
62N16	Louisa Naomi Collett was born at Lushill near Castle Eaton in 1858, the second child and eldest daughter of Henry Collett and his first wife Elizabeth Buckland. Louisa and her sister Mary Kate (below) were living at Langley Burrell during the early years of the 1880s, where they were both married within fourteen months of each other. The marriage of Louisa Collett aged 24 and George Allen Wayte Bryant aged 26 and a farmer was conducted at Langley Burrell on 29^th March 1883. George was the son of George Bryant and Mary Catherine, and was born at Langley Burrell in 1856.
	During the first seven years of their life together, Louisa presented her husband with four children while they were living at Langley Burrell. Catherine Elizabeth Bryant, known as Kate, was born in 1884 and died at Salisbury in 1965, Francis George Herbert Bryant, known as Frank, was born in 1886 and died at Weymouth in 1964, Florence L Bryant was born in 1888, and Graham Henry Charles Bryant was born in 1890 and died at Chippenham in 1960. New information received in 2013 suggests that spinster Catherine died while she was staying with her brother Frank in Weymouth when she died, although her address was stated as being Sheldon Road in Chippenham. Interestingly probate of the Wills of Catherine, Francis and Graham has all their effects being left to Lloyds Bank and their solicitors.
	The Bryant family was documented in the 1891 Census as living at Commons Farm in Langley Burrell, Chippenham, but by the time of the next census in 1901, and again in 1911, they were living at Manor Farm in Chippenham Without. On the occasion of the 1891 Census, Louisa’s mother-in-law, Mary Catherine Bryant, aged 72, was also living with the family. Twenty years later for the census in 1911 all of the Bryant children were not married and were living and working with their parents on the family farm in Chippenham.
	Louisa’s husband George Bryant died on 2^nd February 1940. Probate of the Will of George Allen Wayte Bryant on 11^th March 1940 left an estate of £7,690 4 Shillings and 6 Pence to Graham Henry Charles Bryant, milk-buyer, and Edmund Portman Awdry, solicitor. At the time of his death, George Bryant was residing at 2 Greenway Park in Chippenham. It was during the following year that his widow Louisa Naomi Bryant nee Collett passed away.
62N17	Mary Kate Collett was born at Lushill near Castle Eaton during the last quarter of 1861, the third child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. It was at Langley Burrell on 14^th May 1884 that Mary Kate Collett, aged 22, married Charles Banks, aged 24 and an upholsterer from Chippenham. Their marriage produced a daughter, Hilda Blanche Banks, who was born 1886. At the time of the census in 1891, Mary K Banks, aged 29, was living with her daughter Hilda Blanche, aged five, at The Brewery in Langley Burrell, the home of her father, Henry Collett and her step-mother Rosa Collett. Also living there was her brother, brewer Charles H Collett, and her half-siblings, Mabel, Laura Rose, Godfrey, and Stanley B Collett. Photograph courtesy of Gerri Hopkins
	Ten years later, in the 1901, Mary Kate Banks, aged 39 and a book-keeper, was living at 105 Frogwell House, the home of her stepmother Rosa Collett. Also living there was her daughter, Hilda Blanche Banks who was 15 and a millinery apprentice, together with Mary Kate’s half-siblings, Mabel Collett, Laura Rose Collett, Stanley B Collett, a solicitor’s clerk, and her cousin Percy Harris Collett (below) who was 27 and a farmer’s son. Where Mary’s husband was in 1891 and 1901 is not known although on both occasions the census return did not state that she was a widow.
	Mary Kate Banks nee Collett died at Frogwell House in Chippenham on 9^th January 1909. Her Will was administered and proved in London on 6^th February 1909 and stated that her daughter, the spinster Hilda Blanche Banks, was the sole beneficiary of her estate of £143 11 Shillings and 9 Pence. Following her death, Mary Kate Banks nee Collett was buried with her parents at Kington St Michael where a single headstone marks their grave.
	Five months after the death of her mother Hilda Blanche Banks married Frederick George Scutt at St Andrew’s Church, Montpelier in Bristol on 30^th June 1909, so by the time of the census in 1911 Hilda and her husband George, a grocery manager, were living in Bristol with their son George Neville Scutt who was one-year old. Hilda Blanche Scutt nee Banks died in Chippenham during 1968.
62N18	Charles Henry Collett was born at Pew Hill in Chippenham in 1866. Just after he was born his family settled in the village of Langley Burrell on the northern outskirts of Chippenham, where his father took over The Brewery. And it was at The Brewery, as Charles Henry Collett aged four years, that he was living with his family in 1871. Later that same year Charles’ mother died, and the following year his father married Charles’ aunt Rosa Wright. The family continued to live at The Brewery in Langley Burrell, where Charles was 14 in 1881, and again in 1891 when he was 24.
	After his father died in 1896, Charles chose not to stay with his stepmother. Instead he went to live with his uncle Joseph Collett (his father’s older brother) at Bowerhill, near Melksham. According to the census in 1901, Charles Collett of Chippenham was 34 and a visitor at the house of his uncle, farmer Joseph Collett of Keevil. It was stated in the census that Charles Collett was ‘living on own means’. Ten years later in 1911, no record of a Charles Collett born in Chippenham around 1866 has been found. It is established that it was while he was at Devizes in Wiltshire around June 1935 that Charles Henry Collett died, although it is not known if he ever married after 1901.
62N19	Daniel Maurice Collett, previously listed as Daniel Warren Collett, was born at Langley Burrell in 1867, where he was baptised on 1^st December 1867, the son of Henry Collett and Elizabeth Buckland. At the age of three years, he was living with his family at Langley Burrell in April 1871 when his name was recorded as Daniel Warren Collett. A few months after that his mother died and during the following year his father married his cousin Rosa Wright. In 1881 Daniel and his family were living at The Brewery in Langley Burrell. On that occasion he was listed as Daniel M Collett aged 13 years. The reason for his absence from any future census is due to the fact that he emigrated to Australia and at the time of his death on 8^th January 1903 Daniel Maurice Collett was living at Ayr Burdekin in Queensland. However, his Will was proved in London on 2^nd June 1903 when the sole executor of his personal effects of £416 5 Shillings and 2 Pence was his eldest brother Frank Walter Collett, a brewer.
62N20	Edwin Graham Collett was born at Langley Burrell in 1872, the last child of Henry Collett and his wife Elizabeth Buckland who tragically did not survive the birth. His birth and the death of his mother were both registered on the same day. Following her death his father remarried in 1873, so by the time of the census in 1881, Edwin G Collett was eight years old when he was living with his father and stepmother and his five younger half-siblings, plus his five older brothers and sisters at The Brewery in Langley Burrell. Sadly, Edwin Graham Collett died at Langley Burrell when he was around 13 years of age, the death being recorded in Chippenham during the first quarter of 1886. By then he may have already left school, and therefore his death might have been the result of an accident while he was at work.
62N21	Roland Collett was born at Langley Burrell in 1874, the first son of Henry Collett and his second wife Rosa Wright. He was seven years old in 1881, when he was living with his family at The Brewery in Langley Burrell. Ten years later he had completed his education and had left the family home in Langley Burrell. He was working as a printer compositor in 1891, while staying at 31 Springfield Road in the Barton Regis & Ashley area of Bristol, a boarding house run by Louisa Harris. It would appear that he took a temporary break from his career in printing when, by the end of the century he had followed in his father’s footsteps and was working in the brewery trade. Photograph courtesy of Gerri Hopkins
	According to the census in March 1901, bachelor Roland Collett, aged 27 and from Chippenham, had returned to the town, where he was the inn keeper at the Rose & Crown Inn at 14 Market Street. Also living at the Rose & Crown Inn, was Florence M Collett who said she was from Trowbridge and aged 27, who was a domestic servant and described as the cousin of head of the household Roland Collett. It was six months later that Rowland Collett married Florence Mary Collett at Melksham on 4^th September 1901 when it was recorded that she was the daughter of Joseph Collett. It is now established that they were indeed first cousins, with Florence actually being Mary Florence Collett (Ref. 62N33) from Keevil near Trowbridge, the daughter of Joseph Collett and his wife Susan Harris Collett, Joseph being the brother of Roland’s father Henry Collett. The marriage of Roland and Florence produced no children for the couple, who later emigrated to Canada.
	It would appear that Roland sailed to Canada ahead of his wife, perhaps to secure a life there before she joined him. He may even have made the crossing in 1903 when his younger brother Stanley is known to have attended the wedding of their brother Herbert in Winnipeg. What is known for sure is that his wife Florence M Collett sailed from Liverpool on the SS Ionian and arrived at Quebec on 1^st May 1905. Accompanying her on the voyage were her brothers-in-law, Godfrey Collett and Stanley B Collett (both below). The ship’s passenger list recorded that she was a farmer bound for Grenfell in Saskatchewan, and that Godfrey, a brewer, was going to Winnipeg with his brother Stanley who was a farmer.
	Once reunited in Canada, it was Roland and Florence who initially settled in Winnipeg, while Godfrey and Stanley ended up in Grenfell. Roland then reverted back to his experience in the printing world, and with his knowledge of English, he pursued a new career as a publisher and an editor, which he carried on for over twenty-seven years. During those years, he worked on the Sintaluta Times newspaper in Sintaluta, Saskatchewan, which he himself had established.
	No record of the couple has so far been found within the Canadian census records for 1906 but, by 1911, the census that year placed Roland and Florence as living in Qu’Appelle District 21 in the town of Sintaluta when they were both 37 years old. However, five years later the census in 1916 gave their age as being 46 when they were still living in Sintaluta, Saskatchewan within the Western Provinces of Canada. It was on that occasion that Roland’s occupation was a printer. The same census also confirmed that Roland came to Canada in 1905, even though there is no known record of his arrival, while Florence arrived in 1906. Despite providing that information for the census enumerator, it is well documented that Florence did arrive in the country with her two brothers-in-law in 1905.
	Roland Collett died at Sintaluta, Saskatchewan in Canada on 4^th June 1934. His funeral was attended by a large number of people which was a “testimony to the love and esteem in which he was held”. Roland and Florence were both buried at Sintaluta, although it is not known exactly when Florence Mary Collett died. On his death, the newspaper described him as “One of our most popular and respected citizens”. According to his biography, published in the Sintaluta Times, Roland came to Canada in 1905 and lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba before moving to Sintaluta in 1907 to found the Sintaluta Times newspaper of which he was publisher and editor. He was very active in his community. His brother Herbert J Collett and his family lived in Grenfell, Saskatchewan about twenty-five miles east of Sintaluta.
62N22	Mabel Collett was born at Langley Burrell in 1875 and at the time of the Langley Burrell census of 1881 she was five years old and was living at The Brewery with her parents Henry Collett and his wife Rosa, formerly Rosa Wright. In 1891 she was 15 years of age, and was 20 years old when her father died in 1896. By March 1901 Mabel was one of three children still living at Langley Burrell with their mother Rosa Collett. Neither Mabel, nor her sister Laura (below) were credited with an occupation, it was just their brother Stanley (below) who was working at that time. Photograph courtesy of Gerri Hopkins
	Ten years later, in April 1911, Mabel and her sister Laura were still unmarried and living at Frogwell in Chippenham with their mother Rosa, when Mabel was 35. Also boarding at the house with the three ladies was bachelor Frederick John Burden who was 35 and an accountant. Where he was already romantically attached to Mabel by that time is not known, but it was during the second quarter of the following year that Mabel Collett married Frederick J Burden at Chippenham. The couple had only been married for five years when Mabel Burden nee Collett died on 20^th May 1917, following which she was buried in the churchyard of the Church of St Nicholas Hardenhuish in Chippenham, where her sister Laura was also buried, nearly thirty years later.
	The Will of Mabel Burden was proved on 23^rd August 1917 at Salisbury, and included the following words: “Mabel of the Folly, Chippenham Wiltshire, wife of Frederick John Burden, died 20 May 1917. Administration at Salisbury to the said Frederick John Burden, accountant, effects £251 13 Shillings and 10 Pence.” Frederick Burden was also named during the administration of the personal effects of his mother-in-law, Rosa Collett when she died in 1923, amounting to £419 1 Shilling and 6 Pence, together with his half-brother-in-law, Frank Walter Collett who died in 1935.
	Four years after the death of his wife Frederick married Freda Kathleen Louise Cheyney in 1921, Freda having been born at Christchurch near Bournemouth. When he died on 15^th December 1944, he left his effects of £18,210 7 Shillings and 9 Pence to his second wife. During his life the name of Frederick Burden was mentioned in several Wills relating to his mother-in-law’s Buckland family, Rosa Wright being the daughter of Ann Buckland and James Wright.
62N23	Laura Rose Collett was born at Langley Burrell during the third quarter of 1876 and was four years old and living with her family at The Brewery in Langley Burrell in 1881, and again in 1981 when she was 14. Five years after that her father died, and by 1901 she and her sister Mabel (above) and brother Stanley (below) were the only members of the family still living at Langley Burrell with their widowed mother. Photograph courtesy of Gerri Hopkins
	Laura Rose Collett was still unmarried by the time of the census in April 1911, when she was 34 and was still living in Chippenham with her sister Mabel. However, that arrangement ceased in 1912 when Mabel was married. Laura never married and died at Langley Burrell on 14^th July 1945, following which she was buried with her sister Mabel Burden nee Collett at the Church of St Nicholas Hardenhuish in Chippenham. Coincidentally the wife of her cousin Frank Walter Collett, Lucy Elizabeth Collett (above), died earlier that same year and her Will was also processed at Winchester on the same page as that of Laura Rose Collett – see below.
	Probate of her Will at Winchester on 10^th September 1945 stated that Laura Rose Collett of Ferndale the Folly in Chippenham, a spinster, died 14 July 1945 at Chippenham, while it was William Goold Slade, a retired brewer, who was the executor of her personal effects valued at £1,699 13 Shillings and 6 Pence. How William Goold Slade was related to the Collett family, if at all, is not known, but in the 1911 Census there were several Slade families living in Langley Burrell where Laura’s father and step brothers had been listed as brewers and maltsters.
62N24	Herbert James Collett was born at The Brewery in Langley Burrell on 25^th July 1877, which corresponded with him being three years old in the census of 1881 and 13 years old in 1891. An alternative source states that the year he was born was 1876. However, his actual birth certificate No 29741 registered at Chippenham (Ref. 387) confirms that he was born on 25^th July 1877 at the Brewery in Langley Burrell, the son of brewer Henry Collett and Rosa Wright. When he was three years old, he was living at The Brewery in Langley Burrell with his parents, but ten years later, the census in 1891 placed him living within the Bath & Batheaston registration district, when he was 13 and attending the Weston Boarding School. Photograph courtesy of Gerri Hopkins
	Five years later his father, the brewer Henry Collett died in 1896, following which Herbert emigrated to Canada. He arrived at Halifax in Nova Scotia on 29^th March 1897, having sailed on the SS Parisian from Liverpool. His ultimate destination was Indian Head in the North West Territory, today known as Saskatchewan. In the 1901 Census of Canada, Herbert was living in the Assiniboia East District of the North West Territory (Indian Head) and was listed as a domestic in the home of Stephen Campkin.
	After seven years living in Canada, Herbert married Florence Mary Hextall on 29^th October 1903 at Winnipeg, Manitoba, the wedding being attended by his brother Stanley Beaconsfield Collett (below) who appeared in the photograph with the happy couple. Florence was born at Knaptoft in Leicestershire on 1^st February 1881 and, in the census that year, Florence was just two months old. At that time, she was living at Manor Farm in Knaptoft with her parents, tenant farmer Thomas Bentley Hextall of Medbourne in Leicestershire and Mary Ann Hextall nee Bryan from (Great) Oxenden in Northamptonshire.
	Her father was at least the third generation of his family to work Manor Farm at Medbourne as a tenant farmer, but that ceased in 1882 when the Hextall family was made homeless. It was that year when the farm’s owner sold Manor Farm to the Cunard Steamship Company which was going to build a railway line through it, with the farmhouse being converted into a guesthouse. Being made homeless prompted Thomas Bentley Hextall and his brother-in-law Ashby James Bryan to leave England to start of new life at Indian Head where he established a new Manor Farm at Grenfell. It was the following year that his wife and their children, including Florence, joined him there, making the crossing of the Atlantic on board the SS Circassian, sailing out of Liverpool, via Moville in Ireland, and arriving at Quebec on 7^th May 1883.
	Over the following years Florence and her mother returned to England on a number of occasions and, on one of those visits, they were recorded in the Market Harborough registration district census of 1891. On that occasion they were staying at the home of Florence’s grandmother, when Florence Mary Hextall was 10 years old. The place of her mother’s birth was Great Oxenden, which lies just a few miles south of Market Harborough, and was very likely where her grandmother was still living.
	The marriage of Herbert James Collett and Florence Mary Hextall produced five children for the couple, and all of them born at Grenfell, where the family lived for the majority of the remainder of their life together. In the 1906 Census of Canada Western Provinces Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta, Herbert Collett and his wife Florence were living in the Qu’Appelle District of Saskatchewan, just south of Grenfell. Herbert, aged 27, was a farmer, Florence was 25, and with them were their first two children, Herbert N Collett who was one-year old and Phyllis M Collett who had only been born earlier that same year.
	The family referred to their place of resident in 1906 as the Ott Place, and living there with them at that time were two hired hands, Reginald Newman who was 36, and Harold Smallcombe who was 27. In the same census, and living nearby were two of Herbert’s brothers. They were Godfrey Collett who was a domestic servant at the home of Florence’s brother, William Bryan Hextall, and Stanley Beaconsfield Collett who was a lodger in a rooming house in Grenfell.
	Five years later in 1911, Herbert was not listed in the census with Florence, who was recorded as the married head of the household at the age of 29, while living at Grenfell in Qu’Appelle Sub District with her four children. They were Neville who was six, Phyllis who was five, Doris who was three, and Leslie who was one-year old. The family was not living on a farm at that time, but instead they were living in the town of Grenfell.
	In that census in 1916, Herbert was back living with his family which, by that time, was once again living just south of Grenfell in the Qu’Appelle District, but not on the same farm as in 1906. On the census return, the Collett family was listed as family #64, and just above them on the same page was family #59, that of Florence’s brother, William Bryan Hextall. At that time Herbert and his family were living at Crowe Farm, where Florence was 35, and their children were Neville 12, Phyllis 10, Doris who was nine, and Leslie who was seven.
	In 1929 Herbert and Florence moved to the Ceylon Farm, to the south of Grenfell and remained there until 1945. The couple then moved to Regina, Saskatchewan where they owned a rooming house at 2265 Halifax Street close to the Regina General Hospital, confirmed on the Canadian Voters lists for the federal elections of 1945 and 1949. It was during the following year that Herbert James Collett died at Regina on 17^th August 1950, after which Florence sold the house on Halifax Street and moved to Dewdney Avenue in Regina, known as Queen City, the capital of the Province of Saskatchewan. She survived there for a further twenty-one years and died at Pioneer Village in Regina on 30^th November 1971 and was buried with Herbert in the Regina City Cemetery on 3^rd December 1971.
	62O13	Herbert Neville Collett			Born in 1904 at Grenfell
	62O14	Phyllis Mary Collett			Born in 1906 at Grenfell
	62O15	Doris Mabel Collett			Born in 1907 at Grenfell
	62O16	Eric Leslie Collett			Born in 1909 at Grenfell
	62O17	Florence Evelyne Collett			Born in 1919 at Grenfell
62N25	Godfrey Collett was born at Langley Burrell on 11^th August 1879, the son of Henry and Rosa Collett. In 1881 he was two years old and twelve years of age in 1891 when, on both occasions, he was living with his family at Langley Burrell. Ten years later, in the census of 1901, when he would have been 22, Godfrey Collett from Chippenham, was recorded as a draper’s traveller and a boarder at the Foresters Arms in Andover St Mary’s in Hampshire, when his age was recorded in error as 26. One unconfirmed source states that he initially travelled to Canada in 1903 when he was 24, perhaps to see what the opportunities there might be. Photograph courtesy of Gerri Hopkins
	Two years later, Godfrey and his brother Stanley (below), accompanied their sister-in-law and cousin, Florence Mary Collett, the wife of their brother Roland, finally emigrated to Canada. The party sailed out of Liverpool on the SS Ionian, arriving in Quebec on 1^st May 1905. The ship’s passenger list described them as Godfrey Collett, a brewer going to Winnipeg, Mary F (Florence Mary) Collett, a farmer going to Grenfell, and Stanley B Collett, a farmer going to Winnipeg.
	Upon their arrival in Canada it would appear that their plans were reversed, with Godfrey and Stanley going to Grenfell, and with Florence Mary travelling to Winnipeg, where she was reunited with her husband Roland. During the following year, Godfrey was recorded in the census of 1906 as residing at Qu’Appelle within the Saskatchewan district of the Western Provinces of Canada, where he was working as a domestic servant at the home of William Bryan Hextall, the brother of Florence Mary Hextall who had married Godfrey’s brother Herbert James Collett (above).
	When he left Saskatchewan is not known but, according to his niece, Phyllis Collett, “Uncle Godfrey settled in Vancouver, British Columbia and married a widow who already had a boy and a girl, he having no children of his own at that time”. From their subsequent death records, it is evident that the widow he married was Mabel May Chatten who was born at Longham in Norfolk, England on 1^st January 1889.
	The 1911 Census for the Western Provinces of Canada included Mabel May Chatten, aged 22, as single and living in Strathcona, Manitoba with her brother, George Chatten, who was head of the household and married. Also living there were her parents, John and Mary Jane Chatten. The record showed that George Chatten had arrived in Canada in 1903, with Mabel joining him in 1910, and her parents arriving in 1911. Although George was married, there was no wife with him at that time.
	By the time of the census in 1916, the Chatten family was living at Battle River in Alberta, when widower George Chatten and his seven years old daughter Mabel May Chatten were living there with his parents. Godfrey Collett died at New Westminster in British Columbia on 14^th November 1954, and was survived by his wife for almost twenty-eight years, when Mabel May Collett nee Chatten died on 27^th February 1982, while at White Rock in British Columbia.
	In September 2013 the step-granddaughter of Godfrey Collett was in Victoria, British Columbia, where she met Gerri Hopkins who has been the main source of the new information inserted in this family line in November 2013. The following are therefore the known details relating to Godfrey Collett, as kindly provided by Joann Thompson, whilst all of the original notes written about him above have also been retained.
	The reason Godfrey has been so difficult to trace prior to this, is because from 1906 onwards he referred to himself as Joe Collett. In the 1911 Census he was living in Qu’Appelle District 6, Township 12 west of the 2^nd Meridian when he was listed as head of the household, single, month and year of birth as August 1879 in England, who had arrived in Canada in 1905. His occupation in 1911 would appear to be associated with a station of some sort. Living with him was a lodger Harold Jones who was a labourer. It is understood that he left Grenfell when he ceased his employment of William Bryan Hextall to take up work with the railway in Biggar, Saskatchewan. And it was also while living in Biggar that he met Mabel May (Chatten) Eidem, a married woman with two children. Mabel was a waitress in the Railway Station Restaurant called The Beanery.
	When Mabel was absent from the restaurant for a number of days in 1919, when she was suffering with 1919 Flu Pandemic, Joe decided he would care for her. When she recovered, she discovered she was pregnant with their child. That may have been the reason for the couple’s move to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where Mabel had a baby girl in a private residence in the Nutana area, which she gave up for adoption. Joe was employed at the King George Hotel running the elevator and later managing the bowling alley, while Mabel worked for Woolworths Department Store in the Cafeteria (five & dime) and later at Arthur Rose Cleaners (Dry Cleaners) where she learned to sew. Their first house in Saskatoon was on Avenue D just off 20^th Street West where she passed by several stores on her way to work.
	One day, while walking to work, Mabel noticed a sign in a window advertising looms for sale. Not only did they buy the looms, they also purchased the rug making company which they renamed as the Saskatoon Textile and Weaving Company. The couple then moved into the back of the store and sent for Mabel’s two children from her marriage to Gunar Olsen Eidem; they were Lilliam Grace Eidem (born on 19.10.1914 in Edmonton, Alberta who died on 24.06.2004 in Langley, British Columbia) and Harold Norman Eidem (born on 13.02.1916 in Fleet, Alberta who died 23.02.1976 in Barbados, West Indies). The latter of the two children was the father of Joann Thompson.
	In 1921 at Saskatoon, Mabel and Joe’s son, Stanley Beaconsfield Collett was born. He was named after Godfrey’s brother, Stanley Beaconsfield Collett, who died in 1918 during WW1. By 1934 the couple had sold the textile business and had moved to Vancouver when Godfrey was 55. There they opened a used furniture store at 2242 Commercial Drive in the Vancouver Burrard district where, once again, the family lived in the back of the store. That situation was confirmed by the Canadian Voters list for 1940 and 1945, in addition to which their home address in 1935 was 8231 Sterling Street near the foot of Victoria Drive, and in 1946 was 622 Victoria Drive in Vancouver.
	Godfrey (Joe) Collett died on 14^th November 1954 in New Westminster, BC, a suburb of Vancouver. Three days later a service of remembrance was conducted at Cloverdale Chapel, following which he was buried in the Surrey Center Cemetery in Surrey, British Columbia. His widow Mabel May Collett, formerly Eidem nee Chatten, survived for another twenty-seven years when she died at White Rock in British Columbia on 27^th February 1982.
	62O18	Stanley Beaconsfield Collett				Born in 1921 at Saskatoon
62N26	Stanley Beaconsfield Collett was born at Langley Burrell on 24^th April 1881, exactly three weeks after the census day, and was the sixth and youngest child of Henry Collett and his second wife Rosa Wright. His birth was recorded at Chippenham (Ref. 5a 77). By the time of the next census in 1891 Stanley was nine years old when he was still living at Langley Burrell with his family. Following the death of his father in 1896, and upon leaving school, Stanley worked in a solicitor’s office. That was confirmed by the Langley Burrell census in March 1901, when he was named as one of three children still living at Langley Burrell with his widowed mother, when he was 19 and employed as a solicitor’s clerk. Photograph courtesy of Gerri Hopkins
	Within two years Stanley had sailed to Canada and on 29^th October 1903 he attended the wedding of his brother Herbert James Collett (above) and Florence Mary Hextall at Winnipeg in Manitoba. Just over one year later Stanley sailed out of Boston bound for England on the Cunard liner the SS Saxonia which docked at Liverpool on 4^th December 1904. Also on board the ship, was Thomas Bentley Hextall, the father of the bride. However, it was only a few months after that when he returned to Canada with his brother Godfrey Collett and their cousin and sister-in-law Florence Mary Collett, the wife of their brother Roland Collett (above). The three of them sailed from Liverpool on the SS Ionan bound for Quebec where they arrived on 1^st May 1905. The passenger list gave the occupation of Stanley Collett as a farmer who was heading for Winnipeg. However there seems to have been a change of plan since the Western Provinces census in 1906 confirmed that Stanley was actually a resident at Grenfell, when he was a lodger at the home of John Wray. The same record also confirmed that he had first arrived in Canada during 1903. It was also in Grenfell at that same time that his two brothers Godfrey and Herbert were recorded.
	It is also very interesting that the Canadian Land Grants records contain documentation that Stanley Beaconsfield Collett was granted land in the Grenfell area NW Section 34, Township 13, Range 8, Meridian W2. In addition to that the 1911 Census of Canada included details of him as a farmer living alone, without any livestock, on his homestead near Grenfell, Saskatchewan. By that time his brothers Godfrey and Herbert were not recorded in the 1911 Census, but Herbert’s wife, Florence, and their children were still living at Grenfell, while it was during the following year that Stanley returned to England, sailed out of St. John in New Brunswick on the Empress of Ireland, a Canadian Pacific Ship, arriving in Liverpool on 27^th April 1912.
	After a couple of years back in England he eventually emigrated to New Zealand and, when the war started, he enlisted with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. He was living and working in Palmerston North when he enlisted at Trentham Camp on 22^nd December 1915. At that time, he was working as a clerk for Captain Preece and was staying with a possible relative, Mrs Collett, at 44 Main Street in Palmerston North, whom he referred to as a friend. His entry form confirmed that he was the son of Mrs R Collett of Ferndale, The Folly in Chippenham, Wiltshire, but very curiously he stated that he was 24 and not 34, and that he had been born on 24^th April 1891 and not 1881. Perhaps he was concerned he would be rejected if he was considered to be too old.
	When asked if he had served in any military service prior to that time, he stated he had been with the Wiltshire Yeomanry. At his medical on 20^th December 1915 it was revealed he had a scar on his upper lip, and a deformity of the right thumb, that he was 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 147 lbs, with brown hair and blue eyes. Although no date of birth was required, the medical examination form did say that he was 34 years old.
	After four months training in New Zealand, Stanley eventually sailed from Wellington on 1^st April 1916 and arrived at Suez on 2^nd May. Eighteen days later he was on French soil and it was on 28^th May that he marched into camp at Etaples. On 2^nd June 1916 he was promoted from private to temporary corporal, and twenty-four days after that he was appointed temporary sergeant, a rank he relinquished at his own request on 11^th November 1917. One year earlier, on 22^nd November 1916 he was based at Rouen, where he remained until his death. On 12^th January 1918 he was attached to the New Zealand 4^th Army, but rejoined his own unit two months later. The only item listed on his conduct sheet referred to an incident on 23^rd October 1917 when he was charged with being drunk on duty.
	Tragically, Rifleman Stanley Beaconsfield Collett, service number 25/1689, of the First & Third Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade died from the wounds he received during the Battle of the Somme. He was shot in the back and abdomen on 5^th April 1918 and was removed from the battlefield to the relative safety of No.3 Canadian Stationary Hospital, where he later died from his injuries that same day, when he was just short of his thirty-seventh birthday. His passing was reported by the Reverend S Wilkinson attached to the 3^rd Canadian Stationary Hospital. His military record confirmed that he was the son of Henry and Rosa Collett
	In addition to his name being listed at the Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No.1 in the town of Doullens, in Northern France, where he was buried, his name can also be found of the War Memorial in Chippenham, and on a memorial plaque at the Church of St Nicholas Hardenhuish in Chippenham. In 1921 his older brother Godfrey Collett (above) named his only child Stanley Beaconsfield Collett in memory of his brother who made the ultimate sacrifice.
	APPENDIX ONE
	Another Collett family of Trowbridge
62l2	Daniel Collett may have been born in the early to mid-1790s since it was at St James’ Church in Trowbridge that he married (1) Jane Morgan on 5^th October 1814. All of their five known children were also baptised at St James’ Church. Sometime after the birth of their last child, Daniel was widow with the passing of Jane Collett. As a result of his loss, Daniel Collett (a widower) married (2) Anna Pike on 3^rd April 1836 at St James’ Church in Trowbridge. Four years later, in the Trowbridge census of 1841, Daniel Collett had a rounded age of 50 and his wife Hannah (Anna) was 35. The only others of the name living within the same registration district were John Collett (Ref. 62l1) aged 60, and Elizabeth Collett who was 51. Therefore, John may have been Daniel’s older brother.
	62m1	James Timothy Collett			Baptised on 09.02.1817 at Trowbridge
	62m2	Ephraim Collett			Baptised on 30.05.1819 at Trowbridge
	62m3	William Collett			Baptised on 02.12.1821 at Trowbridge
	62m4	Semerinus Collett			Baptised on 06.06.1824 at Trowbridge
	62m5	Mary Ann Collett			Baptised on 11.03.1827 at Trowbridge
62m1	James Timothy Collett was born at Trowbridge and was baptised at St James’ Church on 9^th February 1817, the son of Daniel Collett and Jane Morgan. James was a tailor like his brother William (below) and was never married during his life. He left Wiltshire and travelled to London and settled in the Greenwich area where he was living and working in 1851 and 1861. By 1881, and at the age of 60, bachelor James Collett from Trowbridge was staying with the family of Richard Silverthorne, another tailor from Trowbridge, at 37 New Road in Woolwich. James was still in Woolwich in 1891 when he was 70 and in March 1901 James Collett from Trowbridge was a journeyman tailor living and working in London. That year, for the first time, the census return reflected his real age, when he said he was 86, placing his year of birth around 1815.
62m3	William Collett was born at Trowbridge where he was baptised on 2^nd December 1821 at the Church of St James. It was during the middle of the 1840s that William married Ann with whom he had two children prior to the census in 1851. The family of four, all born at Trowbridge, was still living there when William was 27, Ann was 26, Jane – named after her paternal grandmother – was four and Sarah was two years of age. At least two more children were added to the family during the next decade, although only two extra daughters were recorded in the next census of 1861.
	By that time William Collett was said to be 34 rather than a few years old and Ann’s age was also lower at 33. Their four children were Jane who was 15, Sarah who was 13, Mary who was 10 and Elizabeth who was just one-year old. On the day of the census in 1861 Ann was carrying the couple’s last child, with their only son William born at Trowbridge later that same year. However, according to the census in 1871 only the couple’s two youngest children were still living with them. William was 45, Ann was 44, Elizabeth was 12 and William was 10 years of age.
	One of his daughters, possibly Jane or Sarah, was married before the end of the 1860s and had a son William Dunn who was born at Trowbridge in 1869. Although no record of the Collett family or the Dunn family has been located within the census of 1871, by 1881 William Dunn, the grandson of William Collett was living with his grandparents, but without his mother or father. The census return that year placed the family at 6 Hill Street in Trowbridge where tailor William Collett was 50, wool sorter Ann Collett was also 50, cloth worker Elizabeth Collett was 22, and William Collett was 20 and a tailor, presumably working with his father. Two grandchildren were staying with the family that day and they were the aforementioned William Dunn who was 11 and Albert Willie Collett (Ref. 62o1) who was one-year old who may have been the base-born child of their unmarried daughter Elizabeth.
	All the children left the family home during the 1880 and so by 1891 it was just William, aged 64, and Ann, aged 61, who were still residing in Trowbridge. After a further ten years the Trowbridge couple was described as William Collett, a tailor at 78, and his wife Ann Collett who was 76.
	62n1	Jane Collett			Born in 1846 at Trowbridge
	62n2	Sarah Collett			Born in 1848 at Trowbridge
	62n3	Mary Collett			Born in 1851 at Trowbridge
	62n4	Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1859 at Trowbridge
	62n5	William Collett			Born in 1861 at Trowbridge
	APPENDIX TWO
	Connection to Joseph Collett (Ref. 62M12) and son William James Collett (Ref. 62N43)
	The following details relate to John Collett who was very likely the youngest of the four children of William Collett and Hester Redman, his older siblings being Elizabeth, William and Henry who was baptised at Melksham on 21^st August 1786. Why might they be brothers? Well, John’s daughter Susan Harris Collett married Joseph Collett, the nephew of Henry through his marriage to Hester Collett (Ref. 62L8) at Yatton Keynell on 27^th October 1814. On that occasion Henry was described as a bachelor aged 24 from Yatton Keynell, while the first bondsman was his father William Collett of Slaughterford. Furthermore, Edward Collett, the only son of John, named butcher William Collett as one of the executors of his Will of 1900, he being the grandson of Henry. Unfortunately, these are the only confirmed details that provide any link to this family line for John Collett, whose life is described below.
62L15	John Collett was born at Melksham around 1787 and he married Louisa Maria Harris who had been born at Bowerhill in Wiltshire during 1798. She was baptised at Melksham on 27^th December 1798, the daughter of James Harris and his wife Elizabeth. The couple are known to have had two other children, Charles Harris who was baptised at Melksham on 22^nd October 1801, who died on 13^th February 1875 at Ilchester in Somerset, and Henry J Harris who was baptised at Melksham on 30^th December 1795, who died between 1871 and 1881.
	It was at Lacock in Wiltshire that John Collett of Kington St Michael and Maria Harris of Lacock were married by licence on 9^th March 1831, following which they settled in the village of Nettleton, near Chippenham, where their four children were born. Curiously, no record of the young family has been located within the census of 1841. However, shortly after the birth of their last known child, the family left Nettleton, when they moved back to the Melksham area of county. It was there also, when the couple’s youngest child was five years old, that the death of John Collett was recorded (Ref. viii 44) during the third quarter of 1847. Following her loss, his widow and her children moved in with her brother Henry Harris at his home at Bowerhill, immediately south of Melksham.
	Maria Collett, the former Louisa Maria Harris, was confirmed as a widow in 1851 when she gave her age as 48 rather than her actual age of 52, as verified by her baptism and the subsequent census returns. On that occasion she was living at Bowerhill where she and her family were mostly being supported by her unmarried brother Henry Harris who said he was 50 when he was 55. He was a farmer of 126 acres employing two labourers, while living with them were two of Maria’s four children. They were Eliza Collett who was 11, and Edward Collett who was eight, both of them born at Nettleton. Maria’s eldest child had already left the family to make her own way in life and daughter Susan was attending a boarding school in Devizes.
	Ten years later, in the census of 1861, Maria Collett was head of the household by then, even though her older brother Henry Harris was still residing in the same dwelling with her. The census return described her as a widow of 63 who was farming 131 acres employing two men and one boy, while living in the farmhouse at Bowerhill. Also living there with her was Edward Collett her son who was 18. Her brother Henry Harris was described as a retired farmer at 65. Just two years earlier Maria had suffered the death of her youngest daughter Eliza and had celebrated the marriage of her daughter Susan. In 1861 her eldest daughter Louisa Maria Collett was living in Melksham and was still a spinster at 24.
	After a further decade it was a similar situation in 1871 when Maria Collett was 72, a farmer’s widow, living at Bowerhill with her brother Henry Harris, aged 74 and a retired farmer. Living with the siblings were Maria’s two unmarried Nettleton born children, Louisa Collett who was 34 and Edward Collett who was 28. Supporting the family were two servants Julia Rawlings who was 20 and William J Ellis who was 15.
	Maria’s brother Henry passed away during 1872 when, according to the census return for 1881 listed only Maria and her daughter Louisa residing at Lowbourne Road in Melksham. Maria Collett was 82 and Louisa M Collett was 46, while staying with them was Maria’s granddaughter Mary F Collett who was eight years old and born at Keevil. She was Mary Florence Collett the daughter of Maria’s only married daughter Susan Harris Collett. Supporting the small family was domestic servant Louisa Adams who was 16.
	Just over eight years later Maria Collett nee Harris died at Melksham on 22^nd November 1889. Probate was completed at Salisbury on 10^th January 1890 when the Will of Maria Collett of Melksham was proved by Edward Collett, a farmer and her son, and Joseph Collett, an auctioneer, both of Melksham the executors of her personal estate valued at £1,693 5 Shillings and 10 Pence. Joseph Collett was Maria’s son-in-law, the husband of her daughter Susan Harris Collett.
	62m1	Maria Louisa Collett			Born in 1834 at Nettleton
	62m2	Susan Harris Collett			Born in 1836 at Nettleton
	62m3	Eliza Matilda Collett			Born in 1839 at Nettleton
	62m4	Edward Collett			Born in 1842 at Nettleton
62m1	Maria Louisa Collett was born at Nettleton in 1834 where she was baptised on 17^th April 1835, the eldest of the four children of John Collett and Louisa Maria Harris. No record of Maria or any member of her family has been found in June 1841 but by the time of the census in 1851 Louisa Maria Collett was 16 when she was living with her uncle Charles Harris, aged 57 and a civil engineer, at Ivy Cottage on the Market Square in Ilchester, Somerset, and his wife Susannah who was 45 and their children Mary S J Harris who was 10 and Elizabeth Harris who was nine.
	By 1861 Louisa Maria Collett was 26 and a visitor at the home of Benjamin Bodman, aged 56 and a farmer of 210 acres employing six labourers and two boys at Halfway House Farm in Beaumare, Melksham. Benjamin’s wife was Harriet Bodman, also 56, while the other two occupants were Lucy Knight, a 19-year-old servant and housekeeper, and Maria Hayward who was 16 and a dairymaid.
	During the 1860s Louisa returned to live with her elderly mother and her brother Edward (below) on their farm at Bowerhill, where she was staying in 1871 when she was 34 and was named simply as Louisa Collett from Nettleton. She was still living with her mother in 1881, by which time the pair of them were residing at Lowbourne Road in Melksham where Louisa M Collett was 46. The household was completed by Louisa’ s niece Mary F Collett who was eight and Louisa Adams a 16-year old domestic servant. By that time her brother Edward was married when he and his wife were still running the farm at Bowerhill.
	Following the death of her mother in 1889 and that of her brother’s wife in 1884 Louisa returned to Bowerhill presumably to help him manage the farm. According to the next census in 1891 Louisa Collett was 56 when it confirmed she was living at Bowerhill with her farmer brother Edward. Also living with them was her niece Florence Mary Collett who was 18 and the housekeeper and Annie Elizabeth Farmer who was 13 and a domestic servant. The same census page also contained her married sister Susan Collett who was recorded with her family.
	Louisa’s brother died nine years later so in March 1901 Louisa Collett was 66 and was living on her own means while boarding at the Bowerhill home of carpenter George Deveral and his wife Lydia, and their widowed daughter Ellen L. H. Maggs, a dressmaker. Ten years after that in April 1911 Louisa Collett, aged 76, was living at Bowerhill with her sister Susan Collett who had been made a widow in 1909. Also living there was Susan’s two unmarried children Edith and Percy Collett. It was just under two years later that Louisa Maria Collett of Bowerhill, Melksham, died on 30^th January 1913, following which her Will, valued at £788 1 Shilling and 7 Pence, was proved at Salisbury on 11^th April 1913 in favour of her widowed sister Susan Harris Collett (below).
62m2	Susan Harris Collett was born at Nettleton in 1837 and was baptised there simply as Susan Collett on 22^nd May 1837 the daughter of John Collett and Louisa Maria Harris. No record of her or her family has been found within the census of 1841, when they would have still been living in Nettleton where he two younger siblings were born in 1839 and 1842. Ten years after later, and following the death of her father, Susan Collett from Nettleton was 14 years of age, when she was a pupil attending the Bishops Canning Boarding School for Girls on Long Street in the St John’s Parish of Devizes. She was one of ten pupils under the tutelage of Mary Grantham and her elderly mother of the same name. Just over eight years later Susan Harris Collett married Joseph Collett (Ref. 62M12) at Melksham on 31^st May 1859 and, by 1861, Susan had presented Joseph with the first of the couple’s six known Keevil born children. The details recorded at the time of the marriage confirm that John Collett was the father of the bride and that Daniel Collett was the father of the groom.
	Further details of the continuation of this family line can be found under Joseph Collett (Ref. 62M12)
62m3	Eliza Matilda Collett was born at Nettleton in 1839, with her birth recorded at Chippenham (Ref. viii 286) during the second quarter of the year. Her baptism was delayed until for two years, when she was baptised at Nettleton on 9^th April 1841, another daughter of John and Louisa Maria Collett. By 1851 her father had died when the census that year placed Eliza Collett, aged 11, with her widowed mother and brother Edward (below) living at the Bowerhill farm of her uncle Henry Harris. What actually happened to Eliza when she was nineteen has not been discovered, but it was at Westbury in Wiltshire that the death of Eliza Matilda Collett was recorded (Ref. 5a 88) during the second quarter of 1859.
62m4	Edward Collett was born at Nettleton in 1842 and his birth, like those of his three older sisters, was recorded at Chippenham (Ref. viii 275) during the last quarter of that year. It was also at Nettleton where he was baptised on 16^th March 1843, the last child born to John Collett and his wife Louisa Maria Harris. Not long after he was born his father died, at which time his mother took the young family to Bowerhill to live on the farm of her brother Henry Harris, where Edward was eight years old in the census of 1851. He was still there ten years later when he was 18 and described as a farmer’s son, and again in 1871 when he was 28. By that time Edward Collett, aged 28 from Nettleton, was farmer of 140 acres at Bowerhill where he employed three men, presumably on the same farm that was previous managed by retired farmer Henry Harris who was still living with Edward and his mother Maria and his sister Louisa (above).
	Just less than one year later, the marriage of Edward Collett and Lucy Crook was recorded at Malmesbury (Ref. 5a 63) during the first three months of 1872. Lucy was born at Melksham and was the daughter of Thomas R Crook and his wife Ann. After eight years of being married the childless couple was living and working at Loves Farm in Bowerhill in 1881 where Edward Collett of Nettleton was described as being 38 and a farmer of 140 acres, employing two men and two boys. His wife Lucy was 37 and she was assisted by general servant Mary J Beavon who was 20 and from Bulkington.
	Sadly, it was just over three years later that Lucy Collett nee Crook died during July in 1884, her death being recorded at nearby Melksham. By the time of the census in 1891 Edward Collett was 47 when once again his unmarried sister Louisa Collett was living with him on the farm at Bowerhill. Less than nine years after that, Edward Collett died at Bowerhill on 27^th February 1900, his death recorded at Melksham (Ref. 5a 80), at the age of 58. Probate of his Will, valued at £505 19 Shillings and 7 Pence, was processed at Salisbury on 19^th May 1900 when the executors were named as Joseph Collett, an auctioneer, and William Collett, a butcher. Joseph was most likely his brother-in-law, the husband of his sister Susan Harris Collett (above) who was described as an auctioneer at the time of his Will in 1909. However, William the butcher would appear to have been William James Collett (Ref. 62N43), Edward’s second cousin and the son of Edward’s cousin William Collett (Ref. 62M19) who was also a butcher who had died in 1880.