PART
SEVENTY-TWO
The
Buckingham High Wycombe Line - 1560 to 2000
Updated April 2019
This
family line starts in Part 18 – The Suffolk Line and then continued in an
appendix within Part 19. However, new
details received from Oscar Richard Kelly [see Ref. 72R20] in Aberdeen during
2018 has resulted in the establishment of this brand-new Part 72 and the
removal of the aforementioned appendix in Part 19. This is also the family of Sheila Bates [see
Ref. 72N3] who generously provided a great deal of information in 2016 when it
was an appendix in Part 19.
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72G1 |
JOHN COLLETT (Ref.
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JOHN COLLETT |
Born on
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72H1 |
JOHN COLLETT was born at Westerfield on 23rd
April 1588, where he was baptised on 28th April 1588. He was only twelve years old when his
father died in March 1600 and he was only one of three of the eight children
to be mentioned in the Will - see Will in Legal Documents. He later married Elizabeth Rivers of
Chattisham around 1618 and the marriage produced six children for John and
Elizabeth, with all of them born and baptised at Westerfield. John Collett of Tuddenham, south of
Mildenhall, was named in the Ship Money Return of 1640, while it was four years later
that John Collett passed away in 1644. When his older brother Philologus Collett (Ref. 18H13) died two years later, the
name of his brother John Collett was still named as a beneficiary under the
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72I1
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John Collett |
Born around
1619 at Westerfield |
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WILLIAM COLLETT |
Baptised on
10.10.1620 at Westerfield |
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Hazadiah Collett |
Baptised on
13.05.1623 at Westerfield |
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Obadiah
Collett |
Born during 1627
at Westerfield |
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72I5
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Samuel
Collett |
Baptised on
26.05.1629 at Westerfield |
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Elizabeth Collett |
Baptised on
22.05.1632 |
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72I2 |
WILLIAM COLLETT was born at Westerfield in 1620 and
was baptised there on 10th October 1620, the son of John Collett
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William was
the second son of John Collett, gentleman of Westerfield, to enter holy
order, the first being his older brother John Collett about whom nothing is
currently written here. William is
believed to have died in 1682. It
therefore seems very unlikely that this was the same William Collett who
fought in Cromwell’s Army at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642. |
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NATHANIEL COLLETT |
Born circa
1655 at Ipswich |
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Hazadiah Collett was born at Westerfield where he was
baptised on 13th May 1623, another son of John and Elizabeth
Collett. He later married Joan and
their daughter Elizabeth Collett was baptised at St Marys Church in
Woodbridge on 3rd March 1664. |
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Elizabeth
Collett |
Born in 1664
at Woodbridge |
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72I6 |
Elizabeth Collett was born at Westerfield, where she was
baptised on 22nd May 1632, the youngest known child of John
Collett and his wife Elizabeth Rivers.
Sadly, it was one month later, that she died and was buried at
Westerfield on 24th June 1632, when she was recorded as Elizabeth,
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72J1 |
NATHANIEL COLLETT is thought to have been born around
1655 and his baptism took place at St Mary Elms in Ipswich on 17th
January 1657, when his father was named as William Collett. He married Elizabeth Godden at St Mary
Stoke in Ipswich in 1682 and they were the parents of John Collett who was
baptised at St Mary Stoke four years later.
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72K1
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Nathaniel Collett |
Baptised in
1683 at Ipswich |
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Nathaniel Collett |
Baptised in 1684
at Ipswich |
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JOHN COLLETT |
Baptised in
1686 at Ipswich |
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72K1
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Nathaniel Collett was born at Ipswich and was baptised
at St Mary Stoke on 27th May 1683, the eldest son of Nathaniel
Collett and Elizabeth Godden, who did not survive. |
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72K2
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Nathaniel Collett was born at Ipswich and was baptised
at St Mary Stoke on 28th December 1684, another son of the same
name of Nathaniel Collett and Elizabeth Godden. |
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72K3 |
JOHN COLLETT was born at Ipswich, where he was
baptised at St Mary Stoke on 26th September 1686, the son of
Nathaniel Collett and his wife Elizabeth Godden who were married at St Mary
Stoke during 1682. With his two brothers,
both named Nathaniel, baptised before John, it would seem inconceivable that
John was older than his brothers, unless he had been the son of an earlier
marriage for his father. This
uncertainty, surrounding John Collett from Ipswich, stems from the fact that
his marriage to the widow Hannah (Ann) Cooper, nee Hungerford, took place at
Aston Rowant on 2nd July 1700. Aston Rowant lies between Thame and High
Wycombe, while the marriage register described John Collett as a carpenter
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Prior to the
day of their wedding a special licence was prepared and recorded at nearby
Thame, amongst the details of which, the licence stated that John Collett was
from Tuddenham in Suffolk. It is
therefore very interesting that John’s great grandfather was also referred to
as John Collett of Tuddenham. A
further complication, discovered during 2016, only adds to the confusion, in
that within Boyd’s Register there is the record of a marriage between John
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At the time
of the baptism of all of the children listed below, each of them was simply
described as the son or daughter of John and Hannah Collett. The first of those children was born at
Aston Rowant, with the couple’s next three children born at nearby Kingston
Blount. There is therefore the
possibility that John’s older wife Hannah died at Kingston Blount, after
which John could have married Hannah Moors at Lewknor, where his last five
children were born. All three villages
of Aston Rowant, Kingston Blount and Lewknor lie within two miles of each
other. The family’s youngest child was
around nine years old when the death of John Collett was recorded at Lewknor
on 3rd October 1730. |
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72L1 |
Anna Collett |
Born on 12.07.1702
at Aston Rowant |
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Born on 09.07.1704
at Kingston Blount |
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Mary Collett |
Born on 20.03.1705
at Kingston Blount |
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George
Collett |
Born on 14.03.1707
at Kingston Blount |
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Hannah
Collett |
Born on 14.01.1710
at Lewknor |
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Nathaniel
Collett |
Born on 04.10.1713
at Lewknor |
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Born on 03.06.1716
at Lewknor |
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RICHARD COLLETT |
Born in 1719
at Lewknor |
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Martha
Collett |
Born in 1721
at Lewknor |
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RICHARD COLLETT –
prior to 2016, very little was known about Richard Collett, except that he
was named as the father of William Collett of Haddenham and Dinton in the
Buckinghamshire Quarter Sessions held at Easter in 1822. Now, thanks to Shelia Bates, we know he was
born at Lewknor on 21st June 1719, the son of John Collett and
Hannah Cooper. The details of his
marriage are established from the parish records at Haddenham, just
north-east of Thame. They confirm that
Richard Collett, bachelor of this parish, of Church End in Haddenham, a
shoemaker, was married by banns at Haddenham to Colleberry Abbott, spinster
of said parish, on 10th November 1745. Colleberry was the daughter of Samuel
Abbott and was baptised at Haddenham on 31st December 1720. |
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Furthermore,
it was the Bishops’ Transcripts that provided the baptism details relating to
the first four children of Richard and Colleberry Collett, listed below. They were daughter Eliza Collett who was
baptised on 15th September 1746, son William Collett who was born
on 5th March and baptised on 19th March 1749, daughter
Colleberry Collett who was baptised on 10th March 1751, and
daughter Mary Collett who was born on 10th January and baptised
four days later on 14th January 1753. Previously Sheila Bates speculated that
another Richard Collett was most likely related to Richard of Haddenham,
together with a John Collett who may have been the father or the brother of
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The Colletts of Haddenham Baptist Church - Haddenham is one of the oldest Baptist Churches in
Buckinghamshire, dating at least from 1653.
In 1690 a letter was sent to a Baptist gathering when John Collett and Richard Collett were among the signatories. In 1702 the church burnt down and was
rebuilt with the aid of Joseph Collett,
a Baptist minister of Coate. He
returned to Haddenham in 1711 to bury Edward Hoare and encouraged the church
members to have their own board of trustees (article in Baptist magazine),
but by the mid-1750’s the Baptist Church in Haddenham was in decline and the
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One year
after the birth of their fourth child, Richard and Colleberry left Haddenham,
when they travelled the short distance to settle in nearby Thame. It may have been the death of the couple’s
fourth child that was the reason for that move. However, within the next year, the family
returned to Haddenham where another three children were added to the
family. They were a replacement
daughter Mary Collett who was born on 18th April and baptised on
27th June 1755, Richard Collett who was baptised on 27th
June 1757 (both of them recorded in the
Bishops’ Transcripts); and Susannah Collett who was born and baptised on
18th January 1761 (recorded
in the parish records). Richard
Collett died at Haddenham during 1763 and was survived by his widow for
another twenty years, when Colleberry Collett nee Abbott passed away in 1783 |
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72M1
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Eliza Collett |
Born in 1746
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WILLIAM COLLETT |
Born in 1749
at Haddenham |
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72M3
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Colleberry Collett |
Born in 1751
at Haddenham |
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72M4
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1753
at Haddenham |
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72M5
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1755
at Haddenham |
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72M6
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Richard Collett |
Born in 1757
at Haddenham |
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72M7
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Susannah Collett |
Born in 1760
at Haddenham |
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72M1
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Eliza Collett was baptised at Haddenham on 15th
September 1746, the first-born child of Richard Collett and Colleberry Abbott. She may have been Elizabeth Collett who, at
the age of twenty-four, married Richard Oliver, the son of Richard Oliver, at
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72M2 |
WILLIAM COLLETT – the elder, was born at Haddenham on 5th
March 1749 and was baptised there on 19th March, the eldest son of
Richard Colleberry Collett. During his
early years, he and his family lived in Haddenham up to 1754, when the whole
family went to live in Thame. It was
on 5th May 1771 that shoemaker William Collett married (1) Mary
Simmonds at Wooburn Town in Buckinghamshire, the sister of the Reverend John
Simmonds who later married William’s sister Mary Collett (below). Their daughter Sarah was born four years
later in Haddenham and she was followed three years later by the birth of a
son for William and Mary, who was also born at Haddenham. Perhaps during the birth of a third child,
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The Dinton,
Risborough and Waddesdon Baptists first met at Dinton, south-west of
Aylesbury, in 1785 and then, in 1786 they assembled in the house of William
Collett at Haddenham (source: Strict
Baptist Historical Society).
Waddesdon Hill Particular Baptist Church was opened in 1792 and
William Collett was admitted in 1794, having been dismissed from New Land
Baptist Church in High Wycombe. He was
approved for the ministry in 1802 and was ordained in 1809 as Pastor of
Swanbourne at Winslow Baptist Church.
As the Reverend William Collett of Dinton, he was employed by the
Particular Baptist Church at Waddesdon Hill as a village preacher and, among
other places, he visited Swanbourne and preached there occasionally over a two-year
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The Reverend
William Collett must have been held in high regard, because a stone tablet
was erected inside the Swanbourne Baptist Chapel after his death. Today there is only photographic evidence
of its existence since, sadly, the chapel was later converted into a private
residence and the tablet very likely destroyed. Unfortunately, the wording on the tablet is
not known, although it certainly began ‘In Memory of William Collett’
followed by a further five lines of writing.
However, an article written by Thomas Matthews of Melbourne in 1872
was published in the Buckingham Advertiser on 27th April 1895 as
part of a series of articles about the Swanbourne Baptists. This mentions the tablet and is reproduced
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From Part Two - Reminiscences of the
Old Baptist Meeting House in Winslow, Buckinghamshire “After this a Mr William Collett, who
was first pastor of the Swanbourne Church, gave Winslow friends his help, and
preached about once a month on the Sabbath evening, and more frequently on a
week day evening. He was a dear old
Saint, full of grace and truth. To
show the state of feeling of the inhabitants of Winslow then towards those
who attended this little sanctuary (especially those who called themselves
true church people). I have seen this
good old man, as he was leaving the place to return home, pelted with mud and
stones in the public streets by people who prided themselves upon their
respectability. Indeed, in my childhood, I have myself been assailed by
adults, calling themselves respectable, who have jeeringly called me a
long-eared meetinger, because my parents were dissenters. In fact, at that time the state of Winslow
was such that to prevent outbreaks of disturbance in the service at the
Meeting house, my father has been obliged to read the Act of Parliament which
protects dissenters from molestation in their worship. This generally had the desired effect in
quieting the disturbance. The dear old
Mr Collett continued to preach occasionally at Winslow, until near his
death. When I grew up to manhood, I
had the pleasure to erect, and write, a tablet to his memory in the little
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In addition
to all of this, it is now known that William was married twice in his life,
his son being the offspring from the first of those two marriages, who was
eight years old when his father married (2) Mary Hammon at Haddenham during
1786. Once again, on that occasion,
William was described as a shoemaker and Mary was described as a
spinster. It was seven years later
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According to
the Militia Ballot List of 1796 William Collett of Dinton was named therein
and was described as a cordwainer (a shoemaker), a reference to William
Collett the elder. In addition to
that, and eight years later in 1804, William Collett was still living in
Dinton, the tenant of a property owned by John Goss, for which he paid a rent
of 5 Shillings 1 Penny. It was two
years after that when his son William was married in Dinton, so he was very
likely still living with his father in the family home at Dinton in 1804. From Dinton, William moved the short
distance back to Haddenham during the second decade of the new century and certainly
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Following the
premature death of his son William in 1820, William Collett the elder
appeared at the Easter Buckinghamshire Quarter Sessions at Chesham in 1822 on
behalf of his recently widowed daughter-in-law. William Collett stated that he was 73, that
his father’s name was Richard, and that he had a son William, who was the
late husband of the pauper Mary Collett (nee Cane). It was recorded that he had received poor
relief for a year, or a year and a half, when he had contracted smallpox
while he was living in Haddenham. He
then moved, with his son, to Dinton where he had lived for 15 or 16 years
before moving back to Haddenham after his son had built a house at Haddenham. William Collett – the elder, died four
years later at Swanbourne, on 25th April 1826, where he was also
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72N1
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Sarah Collett |
Born in 1775
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WILLIAM COLLETT |
Born in 1778
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Susannah Collett |
Born in 1793
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72M3
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Colleberry Collett was baptised at
Haddenham on 10th March 1751, the third child of Richard Collett
and Colleberry Abbott. It was also at
Haddenham where she married Robert Cane of Watlington in Oxfordshire during
1781, following which William Cane was baptised at Watlington on 2nd
July 1786 and confirmed as the son of Robert and Colleberry Cane. |
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72M4 |
Mary Collett was born at Haddenham on 10th
January 1753 and was baptised there on 14th January 1753. During the next two years she suffered an
infant death, with the next daughter born to Richard and Colleberry Collett
given the same name in her honour. |
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Mary Collett was born at Haddenham on 18th
April 1755, where she was baptised on 27th June 1755, another
daughter of Richard and Colleberry Collett.
Mary eventually married her brother-in-law, Baptist minister the
Reverend John Simmonds in 1781, whose sister Mary Simmonds had already married
Mary’s older brother William (above) ten years earlier. |
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72M6 |
Richard
Collett was born at Haddenham and it was there that he was baptised on 27th
June 1757, the youngest son of Richard and Colleberry Collett. |
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Susannah Collett was born at Haddenham, where she was
baptised on 18th January 1761.
Tragically she did not survive, but it was as Sarah Collett that she
was buried at Haddenham that same year. |
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72N1
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Sarah Collett was born at Haddenham on 25th
July 1775 and was baptised there on 6th August 1775, the daughter
of William Collett and his first wife Mary Simmons. Sadly, she was only seven years of aged
when she died at Haddenham in 1782. |
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72N2 |
WILLIAM COLLETT – the younger, was born at Haddenham on 5th
April 1778, the son of William Collett of Haddenham, by his first wife Mary
Simmonds. He was also baptised there
one month later on 3rd May 1778.
Like his father, William also became a shoemaker upon leaving
school. He was married twice, the
first time at Dinton during 1799 to (1) Ann Dolley, although no record of any
offspring has been found. He later married
(2) Mary Cane, also at Dinton, on 23rd July 1806, when she was
already carrying their first child, who was born six months later. Mary Cane was born at Watlington, the
daughter of William Cane and Mary Reed, where she was baptised on 12th
April 1789, already a few years old. Twenty-five
years before William Collett married Mary Cane his aunt, Colleberry Collett,
had married Robert Cane from Watlington, presumably a member of the same
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The first
three children of William were born in the Buckinghamshire village of Dinton,
with their last four children added to the family after they had left Dinton
and had settled in nearby Haddenham. What
is of particular interest is the Posse Comitatus of 1798 for the Dinton &
Haddenham area of Buckinghamshire, which includes both William Collett senior
and William Collett junior, who were recorded as cordwainers. David Collett, the eldest son of William
the younger also took up the occupation of a shoemaker. David and his sister Mary Ann both gave
their place of birth as Dinton in the later census returns, while their
younger brother Ephraim, on one occasion, stated he was born at
Haddenham. Furthermore, William’s
granddaughter, the daughter of his eldest child Ruth Collett, was born at
Haddenham. Curiously though, the
Baptist Church records at Haddenham do not include the names of William
Collett the younger and his wife Mary Collett, as being members of that
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Not long
after the birth of his last child William Collett passed away during 1820,
leaving his widow Mary as a pauper.
The Easter Buckinghamshire Quarter Sessions at Chesham in 1822 recorded
that Mary Collett of Haddenham was a widow and a pauper and that her
father-in-law was William Collett. It
is that document which confirms William’s father was William Collett and NOT
Robert Collett and his wife Ann Penn, as previously thought, whose family can
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Mary Collett
stated that she was a widow and had been married nearly sixteen years earlier
and that her late husband’s name was William, who had died two years
previously. The record also included
that she had five children (a further two having not survived) and that she
had lived in Dinton for about five years after she was married, where her
husband’s father William Collett also lived, both of them having moved there
from Haddenham. Nearly thirty years
later, Mary Collett, aged 68, was still a widow and pauper, according to the
census in 1851, when she was still residing at Haddenham with just her
unmarried son Ephraim Collett living there with her. Less than three years later Mary Collett
nee Cane died at Haddenham on 21st January 1854 at the age of 71 and was
buried in the churchyard of Haddenham Baptist Church. |
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72O1
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Ruth Collett |
Born in 1807
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72O2
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DAVID COLLETT |
Born in 1808
at Dinton, nr Aylesbury |
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72O3
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Mary Ann Collett |
Born in 1810
at Dinton, nr Aylesbury |
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72O4
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Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1813
at Haddenham |
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Ephraim Collett |
Born in 1816
at Haddenham |
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Emma Collett |
Born in 1818
at Haddenham |
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Emma Collett |
Born in 1819
at Haddenham |
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72N3 |
Susannah Collett was born at Dinton in 1793, according
to her stated age in a later census record, and was the daughter of William
Collett and his second wife Mary Hammond.
Her father was a strict Baptist and was a Baptist minister in Dinton by
the time she was one year old. It was
at Waddesdon Hill Particular Baptist Church that Susannah Collett was
proposed and admitted on 21st October 1810, where she was baptised
on 11th November 1810 and received into the church on 2nd
December that same year. Her father
had left Waddesdon by 1809 to become the first Pastor of Swanbourne, and it
was to Swanbourne Particular and Strict Baptist Church that his daughter
Susannah was dismissed two years after she was married. |
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Susannah
Collett married Thomas Phillips at Swanbourne on 27th October
1816, following which, on 22nd March 1818, Swanbourne sent a
request to Waddesdon to dismiss ‘our sister Phillips’ so that she could join
the church at Swanbourne, which she did on Sunday 3rd May
1818. Susannah was already pregnant
with the couple’s first child by then and, three months later, she gave with
to a daughter Rebecca Phillips, who was born on 25th July 1818 but
who was later baptised at Waddesdon on 16th May 1819, when her parents
were recorded as Thomas and Anne Phillips.
Susannah also presented Thomas with a son, Ebenezer Thomas Phillips,
who was born on 22nd November 1821 who lived all his life at
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By the time
of the first national census in June 1841, the family was still living at
Swanbourne and comprised Thomas Phillips, whose rounded age was 50, Susanna
Phillips who was 45 (rounded age), and daughter Rebecca Phillips who was 20
(rounded age). In the Winslow census
of 1851, agricultural labourer Thomas Phillips was 64, his wife Susanna
Phillips from Dinton was 58, and their daughter Rebecca Phillips was 32 and a
lace-maker, when the three of them were residing at Clack Lane in Swanbourne. Susannah Phillips, nee Collett, died four
years later on 4th May 1855 and was the great great great
grandmother of Sheila Bates who has supplied the new details regarding
Susannah Collett and her father the Reverend William Collett of Wycombe,
Waddesdon and Dinton, and other Colletts of Buckinghamshire. |
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Her daughter
Rebecca Phillips, who was married during the 1850s, was admitted to the
church and was baptised again in 1859, her husband being the widower John
Dumbleton, who was a Pastor.
Susannah’s son Ebenezer Thomas Phillips was a member of the Swanbourne
Particular and Strict Baptist Church in 1830 and was admitted to the church
in 1842, while it was during the next year when he married (1) Mary Powell,
with whom he had a son. Five years
later in 1851, Ebenezer became a trustee of the church and on 23rd
May 1852 his wife died, after which he married (2) Jane Morris at Swanbourne
during the following year. It was then
that he was appointed to the post of deacon in 1863. Ebenezer Thomas Phillips died in 1900
while, from his first marriage to Mary Powell, he had a son Thomas Phillips
who was born at Oakley in 1846, who later married Rachel Alderman in
1870. Ebenezer’s second marriage to
Jane Morris produced another three sons, William Phillips (born in 1856),
John Phillips (born in 1858), and Edward G Phillips (born in 1860). |
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FOOTNOTE:
In a letter dated 1794, when Susannah was a mere infant, another Susannah Collett of Haddenham was
described as one of those who had not joined any church, following which she
became a member of Waddesdon Hill and was recorded as being from Monks
Risborough. She was ‘dismissed’ back
to Risborough in 1798, and six years later she married Henry Austin at Monks
Risborough on 22nd March 1804.
Also married there that same day, was Mary Collett of Risborough and Isaac Bowler, who was most likely
the sister of this Susannah Collett, and therefore a double-wedding for the
family |
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72O1 |
Ruth Collett was born at Dinton, near Aylesbury, on
27th January 1807, just six months after her parents William
Collett and Mary Cane were married there.
Ruth was twenty-two when she gave birth to a base-born daughter who
was born at Haddenham on 6th August 1829. She was named as Emma Hebbare, Hebborn
being a local surname for the area. It
was later that same year when Ruth married Louis (Lewis) Wheeler, after which
her daughter Emma took the Wheeler surname.
Over the next thirteen years, Ruth presented Lewis with five children,
all born at Haddenham. They were Mary
Wheeler (born 14th June 1836), Thomas Wheeler (born 1838; buried
28th April 1843), William Wheeler (born 1839; buried 8th
March 1842), Josiah Wheeler (born 1841; died after two days and buried 10th
November 1841), and Susan(nah) Collett Wheeler (1842-1925) who was baptised
in 1861, who married (1) Charles Horton in 1864 and then (2) John Woodbridge
in 1869. |
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72O2 |
DAVID COLLETT was born at Dinton on 30th
November 1808, the son of William Collett and Mary Cane. David was a shoemaker like his father and
he married Mary Ann Whitney of Kensington on 23rd December 1830 at
Adwell in Oxfordshire, midway between Stoke Talmage and Lewknor. The marriage produced six known children
for David and Mary Ann between 1831 and 1847 and all of them were born at
Watlington, apart from the first child who was born at Lewknor and baptised
at nearby Adwell. In 1841 the family was
living at Conchin Street in Watlington and comprised David and Mary, who were
both given the rounded age of 30, and their first four children. William Collett was nine, George Collett
was six, Thomas Collett was four and Ephraim Collett was two years old. Also living at the same address was the
Manners family of John and Maria Manners with their four young children. |
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Ten years
later the family was complete, when it was recorded residing at Church Meadow
in the village of Watlington, within the Henley-on-Thames registration
district. The census of 1851 listed
the family as David Collett, who was 42 and a journeyman shoemaker from
Dinton, his wife Mary A Collett who was 41 and from Kensington in London, and
their six children. The two eldest
sons were both journeymen shoemakers like their father, William from Lewknor
was 19, and George of Watlington was 16.
The other four children were Thomas who was 14, Ephraim who was 11,
Richard who was nine and Alice who was four years old. |
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Only sons
Ephraim and Richard were still living with their parents in 1861 and that was
after the family had left Watlington and had moved to Wooburn Green, between
High Wycombe and Beaconsfield. On that
occasion the couple’s youngest child, Alice, was living with her married
brother George and helping him with his young family, also nearby in the High
Wycombe area. The reduced family was
therefore David Collett who was 52 and a shoemaker, Mary Collett who was 51,
Ephraim Collett who was 23 and Richard Collett who was 18, both of them
working as shoemakers. Also, by then,
the couple’s eldest son William was married with a family of his own and, he
too, was living within the High Wycombe area.
Staying with David and his family at that time was his unmarried
younger brother Ephraim Collett who was 43 and another shoemaker. |
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Mary Ann
Collett nee Whitney was born around 1809, the daughter of Lawrence and Alice
Whitney and she died at Watlington during 1868. That was confirmed by the census in 1871,
when David Collett, aged 62, was a widower and a shoemaker living in the
Wycombe District Union workhouse at Whitley Cross in Saunderton, within the
Princes Risborough registration district of Buckinghamshire. It was just less than four years after that
when David Collett died at Wooburn Town on 22nd January 1875, his
passing recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 419), when he was 67. |
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William Lawrence Collett |
Born on
18.10.1831 at Watlington |
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72P2
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GEORGE COLLETT |
Born on
31.01.1835 at Watlington |
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72P3
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Thomas
Collett |
Born on
20.10.1836 at Watlington |
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72P4
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Ephraim Collett |
Born on
18.05.1839 at Watlington |
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72P5
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Richard Collett |
Born on
12.04.1842 at Watlington |
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72P6
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Alice Collett |
Born in 1847
at Watlington |
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72O3 |
Mary Ann Collett was born at Dinton on 29th
September 1810, the daughter of William and Mary Collett. In 1829 Mary Ann Collett from Dinton
married David Small, both of whom were baptised at Haddenham on 29th
March 1835. The marriage produced six
children, five of which were born at Haddenham and they were Ellen Small
(born 1831), a male child (born 1832; buried on 23rd July 1834),
George Small (born 1st May 1834; died 1926), Eliza Small (born
1840 at Hayes, Middlesex), Ebenezer Henry Small (born 1843), and Caleb Small
(born 1845). |
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72O4 |
Elizabeth Collett was born at Haddenham on 17th
November 1813, the daughter of William and Mary Collett. |
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72O5 |
Ephraim Collett was born at Haddenham on 7th
February 1816, the son of William and Mary Collett. At the time of the census in 1851 Ephraim
was still a bachelor at 34 when he was living with his widowed mother Mary at
Haddenham. Three years later Ephraim’s
mother passed away, at which time he went to live with his older married
brother David (above) in Wooburn Town, where he was recorded at the age of
43, when his occupation was that of a shoemaker like his older brother. It was during the following year at Thame that
Ephraim married Hannah Halley of Watlington in 1862 and, in the census of
1871, the childless couple was aged 55 and 45 respectively, when they were
living at Wooburn Green, to the north-east of Wooburn Town. It was also at Wooburn Green that they were
recorded again in the census of 1881.
Ephraim Collett from Watlington (sic) was 65 and a gardener, Hannah
Collett from Watlington was 52, and living with them was their niece Isabella Collett who was eight years
old and born at Wooburn around 1872. |
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Isabella
Collett was very likely the child of one of Ephraim’s nephew’s, either
William Collett or George Collett (below), since there is a suitable gap for
the child’s birth in 1872 in both of their families. Hannah Collett, nee Halley, died during the
following ten years, so by the time of the Wooburn census in 1891 Ephraim
Collett was a widower, living there alone at the age of 75. During the next decade, Ephraim returned to
the village of his birth and it was at Haddenham that he was residing with a
farming family in March 1901 at the age of 84. He survived for a further six years, when
he died at Haddenham during 1907 and was buried in the new cemetery at the
Haddenham Baptist Church. |
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72O6 |
Emma Collett was born at Haddenham on 16th
May 1818, the daughter of William and Mary Collett. Tragically she died less than two months
later, when she passed away on 10th July 1818. |
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72O7 |
Emma Collett was born at Haddenham on 14th
November 1819, the last child of shoemaker William Collett and his wife Mary
Cane. |
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72P1 |
William Lawrence Collett was born at Lewknor on 18th
October 1831, but was baptised at Adwell on 20th November 1831,
the eldest son of David and Mary Ann Collett.
Not long after he was baptised his parents left Lewknor when they
moved the two miles to Watlington. By
1851 William Collett was 19 years of age and was working as a journeyman
shoemaker, like his brother George (below), who had both taken on that
profession from their father. At that
time in his life William and his family were living at Church Meadow in
Watlington. Over the next year or so
he took up with the young lady who would become his wife. It was at Wooburn Town, on 8th
August 1853, that unmarried William Collett married spinster Fanny Hollis
from Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. The
groom’s father was confirmed as David Collett, while Fanny’s father was named
as John Hollis. Once married, the
couple settled in Wooburn Green where all of their children were born. |
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According to
the census in 1861, shoemaker William was 29 and Fanny was 28. By that time the marriage had produced four
children for the couple, although only three of them had survived and were
living with them at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn Green. They were Emily Collett who was four,
Thomas Collett who was three and Richard Collett who was one year old. It was their youngest child, son George,
who had died just before the census day that year. Over the next decade four more children
were added. As a result, the family
living at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn Green in 1871 was made up of William, aged
39 and a shoemaker, his wife Fanny who was 38, and their seven children. Emily was 15 and Thomas was 13 (both
working in a paper mill), Richard was 12 and working with his father as a
shoe closer, Alice was seven, Mercy was five, Clara was two, and William who
was under one year old. |
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The next
census in 1881 confirmed that the family was living at Wycombe Lane in
Wooburn Green. Head of the house
William was 49 and a cordwainer, a shoemaker like his father, and his wife
Fanny Collett was 48 and a boot closer from Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. All of the six children still living with
William and Fanny were confirmed as having been born at Wooburn. They were Thomas Collett who was 22,
unmarried, and also a cordwainer like his father, Alice Collett who was 17
and Mercy Collett who was 15, both of whom were working at the nearby
paper-mill, plus Clara Collett who was 12, William Collett who was 10 and
Alfred Collett who was four years old.
The family was still at Wycombe Road in Wooburn Green at the time of
the census in 1891 when, on that occasion, only the couple’s youngest child
was still living with them. Shoemaker
William was 59 and his place of birth was recorded in error as Wooburn, Fanny
was 58, and their son Alfred was 14 who, by then, was employed as a labourer. |
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Six years
after that census day, the death of William Lawrence Collett, aged 61, was
recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 362) during the second quarter
of 1897, following his passing away at Wooburn, where he was buried on 17th
May 1897. At that time in her life,
his widow went to live with her married daughter Mercy Gasson, whose family
was living on Eglington Road in Swanscombe, Kent. It was at that address that she was
recorded in 1901 when she was described as Fanny Collett from Witney who was
68 and living on her own means.
Sometime during the next decade, she moved to Dartford and in 1911 was
living there with her married daughter Alice Woolley and her family. The widow Fanny Collett from Brize Norton
was 77 and was described as a visitor, boarding with her daughter’s family. It is possible she remained living there
for the rest of her life, since the death of Fanny Collett, nee Hollis, was
recorded at Dartford register office (Ref. 2a 998) during the first three
months of 1924, when she was 92 years old. |
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72Q1
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Emily Collett |
Born in 1856
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q2
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Thomas Charles Collett |
Born in 1857
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q3
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George Francis Collett |
Born in 1859
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q4
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Richard Collett |
Born in 1860
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q5
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George Henry Collett |
Born in 1861
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q6
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Alice Mary Collett |
Born in 1863
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q7
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Mercy Eliza Collett |
Born in 1866
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q8
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Clara Minnie Collett |
Born in 1868
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q9
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William Collett |
Born in 1870
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q10
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Alfred Ernest Collett |
Born in 1876
at Wooburn Green |
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72P2 |
GEORGE COLLETT was born at Watlington on 31st
January 1835, the son of David and Mary Ann Collett. He was 16 years old in the Watlington
census of 1851, when he was a journeyman shoemaker with his brother William
(above), while still living with his parents at Church Meadow. George appears to have moved to Wooburn,
possibly with or after his brother William was married there in 1853 since,
it was also there that George Collett married Ann Wood on 25th
July 1857. The event was recorded at
Wycombe (Ref. 3a 545) during the third quarter of that year, when George’s
father was confirmed as David Collett and Ann’s father was named as William
Wood. The witnesses at the wedding
were George Bass and Eleanor Cox. The
couple’s first child was born in 1859 and, on the day of the census in 1861,
George Collett from Watlington was 25 and a shoemaker, his wife Ann Collett
from Haddenham was also 25 and their daughter Ruth Collett was one year old. Living with the family at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn
Green, was George’s younger sister Alice Collett (below) who was 14 and also
from Watlington. George and his
brother William (above) were most likely still working together in the family
shoe business, with them both residing on Wycombe Lane in Wooburn Green by
then. |
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During the
following decade four more children were added to the family while they were
still living at Wooburn Green. By 1871
the family comprised George who was 36 and a cordwainer, Ann who was 36, Ruth
who was 12, Annie who was 10, George who was seven, Mary who was three and
Charles who was only a few weeks old, his birth not even registered until
sometime after that census day. Just
two more children were added to the family after that and, according to the next
census in 1881, the family was residing at Wooburn Moor, just outside High
Wycombe. George was a boot maker at 46
and had been born at Watlington. His
wife Ann was 47 and from Haddenham, who was employed as a woollen cloth
maker. Just four of their children
were still living with them and they were George who was 16, Mary who was 12,
Minnie who was six and Florence who was one year old, all of them born at
Wooburn, although the family later settled in Wooburn Moor. |
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That move was
confirmed in the census of 1891, when both George and Ann were both 57 but
not recorded at the same dwelling.
Shoemaker George had living with him his two youngest daughters,
Minnie who was 16 and a dressmaker and Florence who was 12 years old and
still at school. Staying with the
family that day was George’s granddaughter May Saunders who was three years
old and the child of Ruth Collett, George’s eldest child. Not far away in Wooburn Moor was Ann
Collett from Haddenham who was a visitor at the home of widow Elizabeth Watts
from Kent, who was a beer retailer. In
March 1901 the family was again recorded at Wooburn Moor, when the family was
recorded as follows. George Collett
was 66 and a shoemaker with his own account working at home, Ann was 66,
Minnie was 25 and Florence was 21, both of them dressmakers with their own account
and working at home. Two other people
were staying with the family that day and they were unmarried labourer George
Wood who was 62 and from Haddenham, Ann’s brother, and granddaughter May
Saunders who was 14 and from nearby Loudwater, who was employed at a mill,
carrying out office duties. |
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After a
further ten years, the census in April 1911 listed George and Ann Collett
still living at Wooburn Moor, where they were both recorded as being 76 years
of age. Also still living with the
couple, was Ann’s brother George Wood who was 71 and an army pensioner. The census return gave the birth place of
the Wood siblings as Haddenham, but the birth place of boot repairer George
Collett was stated as being Postcombe, rather than Watlington. It also confirmed that he had been married
to Ann for fifty-four years, during which time they had given birth to ten
children with only five of them still alive in 1911. However, only seven of the ten are listed
below. |
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72Q11
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Ruth Collett |
Born in 1859
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q12
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Anne Eliza Collett |
Born in 1861
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q13
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GEORGE COLLETT |
Born in 1863
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q14
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1867
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q15
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Charles Collett |
Born in 1871
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q16
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Minnie Collett |
Born in 1874
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q17
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Florence
Collett |
Born in 1879
at Wooburn Green |
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72P4 |
Ephraim Collett was born at Watlington on 18th
May 1839, the son of David and Mary Ann Collett and was 11 years old in 1852
when he and his family was living at Church Meadow in Watlington. After living in Watlington, his family
moved to Henley and by 1861, when Ephraim was 23, he and his family had settled
at Wooburn. It was with the next
twelve months that Ephraim Collett married Jane Allen from Wooburn, the
recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 447) during the first three months of 1862. Their wedding at Wooburn took place on 22nd
March 1862 when Ephraim Collett was 22, the son of David Collett, and Jane
Allen was 20, the daughter of William Allen. All of their children were born at Wooburn
Green, again with their births recorded at Wycombe. By the time of the next census in 1871, the
family comprised Ephraim from Watlington who was 32 and a labourer at the
paper-mill, Jane who was 31, and their three daughters, Eliza who was six,
Polly who was three, and Maud who was one year old. All of the female members of the household
had been born at Wooburn. |
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It was at
Wooburn Green where the family was living in 1881. Ephraim from Watlington was 42 and a paper
maker, Jane was 41, and listed with them was Maud who was 11, Ben who was
nine, Daisy who was seven, Lily E Collett who was five, Eva who was three,
Naomi who was one year old and Ella who was two months old. Further children followed and, by the time
of the census in 1891, Ephraim and Jane were still living in Wooburn Green with
their seven youngest children. Ephraim
was 51 and described as a straw boiler, Jane was 50, Ben was 19, Eva was 14,
Naomi was 12, Ella was nine, as was Allen J Collett, Dennis was seven and
Lily A Collett was two years old |
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After a
further decade, the census conducted at Wooburn Green in March 1901, listed
the family as Ephraim Collett from Watlington, who was 61 and a bleacher of
wood pulp, his wife Jane who was 60 and from Wooburn, together with just
three of their children, Dennis who was 16 and a coal carter, Ella Collett
who was 20 was a domestic cook and Lily who was 12 and still at school. Just less than eight years later Jane
Collett, nee Allen, died at Wooburn on 20th February 1909, her
death recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 604) during the first
quarter of that year, aged 68. The
only members of Ephraim’s family still living with him at Wooburn in 1911 were
his married daughter Lily House and his son Dennis Collett. Ephraim Collett was a widower aged 72, who
was still employed at the local paper-mill, but as a size maker. Lily House from Wooburn was a widow at 36,
who was acting as the housekeeper for her father and brother, while Dennis
Collett from Wooburn was 26 and working as a general labourer. |
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Ephraim
Collett from Watlington died in 1921 at the age of 81, when his death was recorded
at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1030) during the last three months of
that year. Probate for Ephraim
Collett, of The Meadows in Wooburn Green, stated that he was a retired
paper-maker who died on 25th December 1921, with probate granted
to Henry George Hersee, a builder’s labourer, for his personal effects
amounting to £281 11 Shilling 9d.
Henry was the husband of Ephraim’s daughter Ella Collett |
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72Q18
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Lizzie Collett |
Born in 1864
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q19
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Polly Collett |
Born in 1867
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q20
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Maud Collett |
Born in 1869
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q21
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Ben Collett |
Born in 1871
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q22
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Daisy Collett |
Born in 1873
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q23
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Lily Eliza Collett |
Born in 1875
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q24
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Eva Collett |
Born in 1877
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q25
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Naomi Collett |
Born in 1879
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q26
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Ella Collett |
Born in 1881
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q27
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Allen John Collett |
Born in 1882
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q28
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Dennis Collett |
Born in 1884
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q29
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Lily A Collett |
Born in 1888
at Wooburn Green |
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72P5 |
Richard Collett was born at Watlington on 12th
April 1842, the youngest son of David Collett and Mary Ann Whitney. Richard was nine years old in the
Watlington census of 1852 and, by the time he was 18 in 1861, he was one of
only two siblings still living with his parents who, by then, were living in
Wooburn. Within the twelve months he
married (1) Mary Hancock with whom he had a son who was born in England,
prior to the family emigrating to America in 1863. The wedding of Richard and Mary was
recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 448) during the first three months of 1862 and
actually took place at Wooburn on 29th March 1862, when Richard
was 19 and confirmed as the son of David Collett, and Mary was 20 and the
daughter of Henry Hancock. Richard was
just one of many from England who became a member of the Mormon Church and
sailed to the new world for a fresh start in life. And it was as a member of that church that
Richard eventually took himself a second wife (2) Sarah, while he was still
married to Mary. That was confirmed by
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By that time
in his life Richard Collett from England was 38 and his occupation was still
that of a shoemaker. His two English
born wives were Mary Collett, age 38, and Sarah Collett, who was 36. Recorded with the three of them were their
eight children. George Collett from
England was 17, while the other seven children had all been born after the
family had settled in Utah. Alice
Collett was 14, Frank Collett was 12, Ralph Collett was 10, William Collett
was six, Mary Collett was five, Rachel N Collett was two, and Fannie Collett
was six months old. Shortly after 1880
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During the
next twenty years Richard’s younger wife Sarah died, perhaps during
childbirth, so by the time of the census in 1900 Richard Collett, age 58, was
living at Precinct 30, Ward 3, in Salt Lake City with his wife Mary who was
also 58. The census return confirmed
that the couple had been married for thirty-nine years and that they had
entered America in 1863. Just five of
their ten children were still living with them and they were, Alice who was
32, William who was 27, Rachel who was 21, Millie who was 19 and Nellie who
was 17. |
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It was four
years later that Richard Collett died at Salt Lake City on 13th July
1904, where he was buried on 16th July 1904. His death certificate confirmed that he was
62 and the son of David Collett and Mary Whitney of England (stated in error
as Hitney) and that his occupation had been that of a merchant. |
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72Q30
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George Collett |
Born in 1863
in England |
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72Q31
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Alice Collett |
Born in 1867
at Salt Lake City, Utah |
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72Q32
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Frank Collett |
Born in 1868
at Salt Lake City, Utah |
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72Q33
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Ralph Collett |
Born in 1870
at Salt Lake City, Utah |
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72Q34
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William
Collett |
Born in 1873
at Salt Lake City, Utah |
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72Q35
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Mary Collett |
Born in 1875
at Salt Lake City, Utah |
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72Q36
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Rachel N
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Born in 1878
at Salt Lake City, Utah |
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72Q37
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Fannie
Collett |
Born in 1879
at Salt Lake City, Utah |
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72Q38
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Millie
Collett |
Born in 1881
at Salt Lake City, Utah |
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72Q39
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Nellie
Collett |
Born in 1883
at Salt Lake City, Utah |
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72Q1 |
Emily Collett was born at Wooburn Green in 1856, the
first child of William Collett and Fanny Hollis, whose birth was recorded at
Wycombe (Ref. 3a 340) during the third quarter of that year. In 1861 Emily and her family were residing
on Wycombe Lane in Wooburn Green, while ten years later she had left school
and was working at a local paper-mill at the age of 15 years. When she was 22 she married Frank Searle at
Wooburn on 4th May 1878, the event recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a
687) where Emily’s father was confirmed as William Collett and Frank was
described as the son of John Searle. For whatever reason, no record of the new
family has been identified within the following census of 1881, by which time
Emily had already presented Frank with their first two children, the first of
them born at Cookham in Berkshire in Q1 1879, the second born at Alderbury,
Salisbury in Wiltshire, in Q2 1880. |
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Four more
children were added to the family during the 1880s, with the full family
listed in the census of 1891 at Fisherton Street in the parish of Fisherton
Anger, Salisbury. Frank Searle was 34
and a fishmonger, Emily Searle was 35, Frank Henry Searle was 13, Daisy E
Searle was 11, Albert E Searle was eight, George W Searle was seven,
Frederick W Searle was four and Wallis W Searle was two years of age. Visiting the family was Richard K Collett
from Buckinghamshire who was recorded in error as 29, when he was nearer 31,
the younger brother of Emily Searle.
The Searle family was affluent enough to employ a domestic servant,
sixteen-year-old Martha Hacker. |
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After a
further ten years the family was residing in a dwelling on the High Street in
the Salisbury parish of St Thomas, from where Frank was continuing his work
as a fishmonger. However, during the
first decade of the new century Frank and Emily took over the management and
running of a boarding house within the New Sarum district of Salisbury, where
they were living in 1911. Emily and
Frank were both 54, with Frank described as the boarding house keeper, Emily
from Wooburn and Frank from Salisbury.
The only two children still living with them were George Searle who
was 27 and born at Wingrave in Buckinghamshire and Ronald Victor Searle who
was 13 and born in Salisbury. |
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Just over two
years later, the death of Frank Searle was recorded at Salisbury register
office (Ref. 5a 182) during the third quarter of 1913, when he was 56. |
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Thomas Charles Collett was born at Wooburn Green in 1857, his
birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 356) during the third quarter of the year. He was the eldest son of William and Fanny
Collett and was three years old in the census of 1861. He had left school by the time he was 13 in
1871, when he was working with his sister Emily (above) at the nearby
paper-mill in Wooburn Green when they were still living at the family home in
Wycombe Lane. Over the following years
he joined his father when he became a boot and shoemaker, as he was in 1881
when he was 22 and still living with his family at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn
Green, when he was described as a cordwainer in the census that year. |
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Six months
after the census day in 1881 the marriage of Thomas Collett and Rosetta
Crockett took place at Wooburn on 17th September 1881, when Thomas
was 24 and the son of William Collett, and Rosetta was 23 and the daughter of
William Crockett. The wedding was
recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 769), when the witnesses were Alice Ody and
Thomas George Thomas. Rosetta, or Rose/Rosa as she was known, was born at
Wooburn Moor and her birth was registered at Wycombe on 30th
December 1857. Her mother Lucy
Crockett, nee Smith, signed the birth certificate with the mark of a cross. |
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In 1891 the
family living at Elizabeth Cottages on Wycombe Lane in Wooburn Green was made
up of William aged 33 and a boot maker, Rosa who was also 33 and their first
four children. William was nine,
Walter was seven, Fanny was five and Arthur was one year old. Ten years later in March 1901 Thomas
Collett was 43 and a boot maker with his own account working at home and his
wife Rose Collett was 43, when they were still living in Wycombe Lane. Their son William Collett was 19 and was
employed as a railway packer, while Arthur was 11, Lucy was nine, Jack was
seven years old and Tom was one year old. |
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By April
1911, Thomas Collett was 54, the same age as his wife Rose, when they were
still living at Wooburn Green with William T Collett aged 29 who was a
plate-layer on the railway, Jack Collett who was 16 and Tom Collett who was
12. All five members of the household
were confirmed as having been born at Wooburn. Three years later Thomas Collett was no
longer a boot maker, instead he was a postman, as seen in the photograph here
taken in 1914, after his two eldest sons William and Walter had enlisted to
join in the Great War. The full picture included the two boys in their army
uniform, together with his wife Rose. |
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Thomas
Collett died eight years later when his death was recorded at Wycombe (Ref.
3a 1324) during the first quarter of 1922 at the age of 65. His widow survived him by many years when
Rosetta Collett nee Crockett died in 1949. |
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72R1
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William Thomas Collett |
Born in 1882
at Wooburn Green |
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72R2
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Walter George Collett |
Born in 1885
at Wooburn Green |
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72R3
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Maud Louisa Fanny Collett |
Born in 1887
at Wooburn Green |
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72R4
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Arthur Collett |
Born in 1889
at Wooburn Green |
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72R5
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Lucy Maud Collett |
Born in 1891
at Wooburn Green |
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72R6
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Jack Collett |
Born in 1895
at Wooburn Green |
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72R7
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Tom Collett |
Born in 1899
at Wooburn Green |
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72Q3 |
George Francis Collett was born at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn
Green in 1859, his birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 394) during the first
two months of the year. It was also at
Wooburn that he was baptised on 12th March 1859, a son of William
and Fanny Collett. Tragically, seven
days later George Francis Collett died at Wooburn Green on 19th
March, with the details of his death recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 260). |
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72Q4 |
Richard Collett was born at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn
Green with his birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 391) during the first
quarter of 1860. He was one year old
in the census of 1861 when the family was still living on Wycombe Lane and by
the time he was 12 in 1871 he had already finished his schooling and was working
as a shoe closer alongside his shoemaker father William Collett. No record of him has been found within the
census of 1881 but in 1891 he was a visitor at the Wiltshire home of his
married sister Emily Searle (above) at Fisherton Street in the village of
Fisherton Anger near Alderbury, Salisbury.
On that occasion, the last mention of him anyway in Great British, he
was curiously described as Richard K Collett from Buckinghamshire who was 29
(sic), a bachelor and a student in theology. |
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72Q5 |
George Henry Collett was born at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn
Green, but after the census day in 1861, with his birth recorded at Wycombe
(Ref. 3a 368) during the third quarter of that year. As the son of William and Fanny Collett, he
was baptised at Wooburn on 9th November 1861 but died there just
over four months later, on 22nd February 1862. |
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72Q6 |
Alice Mary Collett was born at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn
Green with her birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 390) during the last three
months of 1863, another daughter of William and Fanny Collett. It was simply as Alice Collett aged seven
years that she was listed with her family at Wycombe Lane in 1871, and was
still living there with them in 1881, by which time, 17-year-old Alice and
her sister Mercy (below), were described as labourers in the glazing room at
the local paper-mill. Two years later,
the marriage of Alice Collett and Albert Woolley was recorded at Wycombe
(Ref. 3a 638) during the first quarter of 1883. Their first child was born when they were
still living in Wooburn Green but, just like other members of her family,
Alice eventually left Wooburn when she and Albert, and their daughter Fanny,
moved to Kent. It seems highly likely
that Alice met Albert through her work at the paper-mill and that it was his
work there that result in the family’s move south. |
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By 1891 the
young family was residing at Unity Street in Milton-next-Sittingbourne, Kent,
from where Albert Woolley was 29 and a papermaker from Snodland in Kent. His wife Alice from Wooburn Green was 27
and their daughter Fanny Woolley was six years of age. Three more children were born at
Sittingbourne, before the family moved to New Colney Road in Dartford, where
they were recorded in the census of 1901.
Albert A Woolley was again working as a papermaker at the age of 39,
his wife Alice M Woolley was 36, daughter Fanny S Woolley was 16 – both of
them born at Wooburn Green, while the three Sittingbourne children were Elsie
Woolley who was 10, Edith A Woolley who was seven and Cornelius W Woolley who
was five. |
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The same six
members of the family were still living in Dartford in 1911 and all of them
listed under their full names.
Papermaker machinist Albert Arthur Woolley was 49, Alice Mary Woolley
was 47, Fanny Sarah Woolley was 29, Elsie Woolley was 19, Edith Alice Woolley
was 17 and Cornelius William Woolley was 15.
Completing the family was Alice’s widowed mother Fanny Collett, aged
77 from Brize Norton, who may have still been living with the family at
Dartford when she passed away there in 1924.
Fifteen years after the death of his mother-in-law, the death of
Alfred A Woolley was recorded at Dartford register office (Ref. 2a 1245)
during the first quarter of 1939.
Alice continued to live in Dartford after losing her husband and it
was there also that the death of Alice M Woolley was recorded (Ref. 5b 335)
during the third quarter of 1953 when she was 89 years of age. |
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72Q7 |
Mercy Eliza Collett was born at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn
Green, her birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 433) during the first three
months of 1866. Mercy was five years
of age in 1871, when she and her family were still residing on Wycombe Lane
and where she they were still living in 1881 when Mercy was 15 and a glazing
room labourer at the paper-mill. The
marriage of Mercy Eliza Collett and William Edward Gasson was recorded at
Wycombe (Ref. 3a 937), the wedding having taken place at Wooburn on 26th
December 1888 when Mercy was 22 and confirmed as the daughter of William
Lawrence Collett and William was 24, the son of William Edward Gasson senior. Shortly after they were married William’s
work at the Wooburn paper-mill result in a move to Kent, the county of his
birth, where he continued to work in the paper-making business. It was at Eglington Road in Swanscombe that
they settled, where their three children were born. |
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That was
their address on the day the next census was conducted in 1891 and where Wm E
Gasson was 26 and working as a paper maker and calendar man. His wife Mercy E Gasson from
Buckinghamshire was also 26, while their daughter Margaret A Gasson was still
under one year old, having been born there.
Their son was born there a couple of years later so, by 1901, the
family of four was again residing at Eglington Road in Swanscombe. William from Rochester in Kent was 37 and still
working at the paper-mill, but as a ruler-man. Mercy from Wooburn was 35 and the two
children were confirmed as Margaret who was 10 and Norman who was seven, both
born at Swanscombe. On that day,
Mercy’s recently widowed mother Fanny Collett, aged 68, was staying with the
family. |
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During the next
few years Fanny Collett left the Gasson household, when she went to live with
Mercy’s older married sister Alice Woolley in Dartford. Also, just after the census in 1901, Mercy
presented William with their fourth and last child, the enlarged family still
living in Swanscombe in 1911. By then
William Edward Gasson was 46 and still working as a paper maker. Mercy Eliza Gasson was 44, Margaret Annie
Gasson was 20, Norman William Gasson was 17 and Harold Aubrey Gasson was
nine. |
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72Q8
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Clara Minnie Collett was born at Wooburn Green during the
summer of 1868, the daughter of William Collett and Fanny Hollis, whose birth
was recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 453) in the third quarter of the year. She was two years old at Wycombe Lane in
Wooburn Green in 1871 and was 12 years of age in 1881. It was at Wooburn on Christmas Eve in 1887 when
Clara Minnie Collett married Charles Frederick Norris from Loudwater,
adjacent to Wooburn Green. Charles was
23 and the son of William Norris and Clara was 19, the daughter of William
Collett, as recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 956). The birth of Charles Frederick Norris was
recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 343) during the first quarter of 1865. Once married the couple initially settled
at Swanscombe in Kent to where Clara’s sister Mercy (above) moved after she
was married in the following year. |
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In 1891 the
young family was recorded at 4 Belle Vue Cottage, Swanscombe Lane in the
village of Swanscombe near Dartford in Kent, as Chas F Norris who was 26 and
a paper maker, Clara Norris was 22, and their daughter Lucy was six months
old. Staying with the family that day
was Clara’s younger brother William (below).
After the birth of their son the family moved to Maidstone and in 1901
they were residing at 83 Milton Street when Chas F Norris was 36 and a paper
maker at the local paper mill. Clara M
Norris was 32 and the two children were Lucy who was 10 and Chas L Norris who
was six. Staying with the family that
day was Clara’s niece Fanny Collett from Wooburn Green who was 14 and the
daughter of Clara’s older brother Thomas Collett (above), aka Maud Louisa
Fanny Collett. |
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62 Church
Road, within the parish of Tovil, to the south-west of Maidstone town centre,
was where the family was residing by the time of the census in 1911. Paper maker Charles F Norris, from Wycombe,
was 45, Clara Norris from Wooburn was 42, Lucy Norris was 20 and a paper
sorter, and Charles L Norris was 16 and a paper layer. Both children were confirmed as having been
born at Swanscombe. The death of
Charles Frederick Norris was recorded at Maidstone on 31st January
1931 and his Will was proved in London on 18th March 1931, when
his personal effects were left to his daughter Lucy Gertrude Larkin, the wife
of Richard Larkin who she had married at Maidstone in the summer of 1926. Sadly, it was only a few months prior to
her daughter’s wedding day, that the death of Clara M Norris was recorded at
Maidstone (Ref. 2a 997) during the second quarter of 1926 when she was 57
years of age. |
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72Q9
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William Lawrence Collett was born at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn
Green at the end of 1870, his birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 490) during
the first quarter of 1871. He was
recorded simply as William Collett in the following census returns whilst, on
the two occasions that he was married, he used his full name. He was around three months old on the day
of the Wooburn census of 1871 and was ten years old in 1881 when he and his
family were still residing at Wycombe Lane.
In 1891 William from Wooburn was 20 and a general labourer when he was
lodging with his older married sister Clara Norris nee Collett (above) at 4
Belle Vue Cottage, Swanscombe Lane in the village of Swanscombe near Dartford
in Kent. It was during the following
year that William’s work had possibly taken him to Wiltshire, where met and
married (1) Elizabeth Pike. She was
born at Wilsford in 1869 with her birth recorded at nearby Amesbury in the
second quarter of that year. She and
her parents, Joseph and Ann Pike, were living at Great Durnford, just south
of Wilsford in 1871 and had moved to Bishops Down Farm Cottages in Milford,
Alderbury, near Salisbury by 1881. |
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It was also
at Alderbury where William Lawrence Collett married (1) Elizabeth Pike and
where the event was recorded (Ref. 5a 355) during the second quarter of
1892. Their wedding day had been
arranged as a matter of some urgency since, only days after they were
married, Elizabeth gave birth to the first of her two children at nearby
Odstock. By the time of the birth of
the couple’s second child, the family was living in Henley-on-Thames, after
which they settled a few miles away in Maidenhead. |
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According to
the census in 1901 William Collett from Wooburn was 30 and a fishmonger
living at 19 Risborough Road in Maidenhead with his family. His wife Elizabeth Collett from Wilsford in
Wiltshire was 31, his son William Collett was eight years of age and had been
born at Odstock in Wiltshire and his daughter Winifred Collett was five years
old and had been born in Henley. Just
under five years later, the death of Elizabeth Collett, nee Pike, was
recorded at Maidenhead register office (Ref. 2c 268) during the first three
months of 1906, when she was only 36.
It was around fifteen months after being widowed when William Lawrence
Collett married the much young (2) Eva Jane Bell from Wargrave to the west of
Maidenhead, where the wedding was recorded (Ref. 2c 885) during the second
quarter of 1907. Eva was born at
School Lane in Wargrave, the youngest child of James and Jane Bell, and was
baptised at Wargrave on 7th April 1889. In 1901 Eva J Bell, aged 12 years and from
Wargrave, was the only child still living with her parents at Moffatt Street
in Maidenhead. |
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On the
occasion of the next census in 1911 and, at the age of 40, William Collett
was still a fishmonger living in Maidenhead at 20 College Rise with his new
wife Eva Collett who was only 22.
Living with the couple was William’s daughter Winifred Collett who was
15 and described as assisting at home.
The census return also confirmed that he and Eva had only been married
for four years and had no children. No
record of the death of William Lawrence Collett has been found to date but,
it seems highly likely that his widow, Eva Collett died on 17th
October 1946 when she was staying at The Lamb Inn at Chalgrove in
Oxfordshire. Probate of her Will was
granted at Oxford on 5th March 1947. |
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72R8
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William Lawrence Collett |
Born in 1892
at Odstock, Wiltshire |
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72R9
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Winifred Maud Collett |
Born in 1896
at Henley-on-Thames |
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72Q10
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Alfred Ernest Collett was born at Wooburn Green, the last
child of William Collett and Fanny Hollis. His birth was recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a
495) during the third quarter of 1876.
He was four years of age and 14 years old in consecutive census
returns in 1881 and 1891 when Alfred was living with his family on Wycombe
Road in Wooburn Green. For the latter
of these, he had already left school and was employed as a labourer. Just before the end of the old century
Alfred married Mary Edith Drain, the event taking place at Westminster on 26th
August 1899, with their first child born around fifteen months after. Alfred was 23 and the son of William
Lawrence Collett, a shoemaker, and Mary was 32, the daughter of James Drain,
a farmer. The census in 1901 revealed
the family living at 23 Crab Tree Lane in Fulham, London. At the age of 24 married Alfred E Collett
from Wooburn was a painter and paper hanger.
His wife Mary E Collett was 35 and from Southminster in Essex, while
their son was Alfred L Collett was four months old and born at Fulham. |
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Ten years
later, in April 1911, the family was living at 52 Foord Street in Rochester,
Kent, where Alfred Collett was 34 and still working as a house painter. On that occasion his wife was described as
Edith Collett from Southminster who was 44 and, also by then, the couple had
three children living there with them.
They were Alfred Collett who was 10, Irene Collett who was eight and
Olive Collett who was five and born at Southend, whereas the two older
children had been born in Fulham.
Although no record of the passing of Alfred or Mary has been found, it
was Malden in Essex that the birth of Mary Edith Drain was recorded (Ref. 4a
191) during the last three months of 1865. |
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72R10
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Alfred Lawrence Collett |
Born in 1900
at Fulham |
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72R11
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Edith Irene F Collett |
Born in 1902
at Fulham |
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72R12
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Olive Mercy Collett |
Born in 1905
at Southend |
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72Q11 |
Ruth Collett was born at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn
Green in 1859 and was the eldest child of George Collett and Ann Wood. Her birth was recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a
384) during the second quarter of the year.
In the Wooburn census of 1861 Ruth was one year old, coming up two
years of age, and was still there with her family in 1871, when she was 12
and still attending the village school.
On completing her education, Ruth entered domestic service and secured
a position at the boarding house of Esther Ann Kimber, from Emberton in
Buckinghamshire, at Ocklynge Villas in Eastbourne in 1881, where she was
described as Ruth Collett from Wooburn who was 22. Interestingly, her sister Annie (below) was
also living and working in Eastbourne, Sussex, by 1891. |
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In 1887 Ruth
gave birth to daughter, although no record of a marriage has been discovered
prior to that date. It is therefore
possible that the child was base-born, but given the father’s name. May Saunders was born at Loudwater near
High Wycombe, her birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 642) during the third quarter
of 1887. Her daughter was then raised
by Ruth’s parents at Wooburn where she was three years old in 1891 and 14 in
1901 when she was carrying out office duties at the nearby papermill. However, it was ten years earlier that the
marriage of Ruth Collett and William Humphrey was recorded at Wycombe (Ref.
3a 893) during the second quarter of 1891.
William was born at Wingrave near Aylesbury and was the son of Joseph
and Ann Humphrey. Their son Reginald
Humphrey was born shortly after they were married, confirmed by the census in
1901. |
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By that time
the family of three was residing at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn Green, where
William Humphrey was 37 and a dresser in a tarpaulin factory, Ruth Humphrey
was 39 and their son was nine years of age.
During the following years Ruth first-born child returned to live with
her. According to the Wooburn census
of 1911 the family comprised William Humphrey a tarpaulin maker aged 47, his
wife Ruth who was 49, their son Reginald who was 19, plus May Saunders aged
23 and an assistant dressmaker who was described as the niece of William
Humphrey. The status of niece, if
correct, might indicate that May Saunders was in fact the base-born daughter
of Ruth’s unmarried sister Annie Eliza Collett (below). |
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The death of
William J Humphrey was recorded at Amersham register office (Ref. 3a 2063)
during the second quarter of 1940 when he was 76. His widow survived him by just less than
four years when the death of Ruth Humphrey was recorded at Aylesbury register
office (Ref. 3a 1904) during the first three months of 1944 at the age of 84. |
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72Q12 |
Anne Eliza Collett was born at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn
Green either at the end of 1861 or early in 1862 and was baptised there on 23rd
November 1862, the second child of George and Ann Collett. Her birth as Anne Eliza Collett was
recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 377) during the first quarter of 1862. As Annie Collett, she was 10 ten years old
in the Wooburn census of 1871 and was 19 in 1881, by which time she was one
of two domestic servants at the Wooburn home of elderly William
Williams. After a further ten years
Annie Collett was still employed in domestic service, when she was 28 and a
parlourmaid at Upperton Road in Eastbourne, the home of Frederick and
Elizabeth Fellows, a retired couple living on their own means. During the next six years Annie returned to
Wooburn where, during the first three months of 1897 she died, her death
recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 422) when Annie Eliza Collett was 35. It was at Wooburn that she was buried on 6th
February 1897. |
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Footnote:
It is possible that it was Annie Eliza Collett who gave birth to May
Saunders at Wooburn in 1887, the child passed into the care of Annie’s
parents – as in the 1891 and 1901 census returns, who was then living with
Annie’s married sister Ruth Humphrey nee Collett (above) in 1911, when she
was described as her niece. |
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GEORGE COLLETT was born at Wooburn Green in 1863 and
was seven years old in 1871, a son of George Collett and Ann Wood. On leaving school he took up the occupation
of boot maker, the same as his father, with whom he was still living at
Wooburn Moor at the age of 16 in 1881.
George Collett later married (1) Charlotte Howard, the event recorded
at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 883) during the second quarter of 1889. Two years later George Collett was 27 and
was living at Wooburn Green with his wife Charlotte who was 24. With them was their first child Alice May
Collett who was not yet one year old in the census in 1891. Tragically Charlotte died shortly
thereafter, at the age of 28, probably giving birth to a second child who
also did not survive. The death of
Charlotte Collett was recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 443) during the last three
months of 1893. After over two years
as a widower, George Collett married (2) Alice Ann Elizabeth Francis at Exeter in Devon on 31st
January 1896. The birth of Alice Ann
Elizabeth Francis, the daughter of W Francis, was recorded at Wycombe (Ref.
3a 435) during the first three months of 1864, when her place of birth was
confirmed as the hamlet of Loudwater, immediately north of Wooburn Green. |
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According
to the census in 1901, George and Alice were living at Berghers Hill, a
hamlet in the parish Wooburn, by which time there were four children living
with the couple. George was described
as George Collett junior, who was 36 and a postman of Wooburn and Alice Ann
Collett was 37 and from Loudwater.
George’s daughter Alice May Collett was 10 years old, while the new
children were George W Collett who was three, Annie Eliza F Collett who was
two and Frank Collett who was only five months old. Six years later, the couple’s youngest
daughter on that census day, Annie Eliza Frances Collett, died in 1907. |
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The Wooburn
Green census in 1911 recorded the family residing at Bonnymede in the village
and stated that the couple had been married for fifteen years and had given
birth to seven children, of which only six were still alive. George was still a postman at the age of 47
and Alice A E Collett was also 47. The
seven children with them were Alice May Collett aged 20, George William
Francis Collett aged 13, Frank Collett who was 10, Robin Stanley Collett who
was eight, Ephraim Richard Collett who was five, Benjamin James Francis
Collett who was three and Annie Eliza Frances Collett who was one year old
and named in honour of her sister of the same name who had died just prior to
her birth. The child who had already
died may well have been one of the couple’s first children born before 1901,
unless George was mistakenly referring to a child who had died around the
time of the death of his first wife. |
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Alice Ann
Elizabeth Collett, nee Francis, lived a long and full life and died at the
great age of 101 in 1965. Her passing
was recorded at High Wycombe register office (Ref. 6a 569) during the first
three months of that year. |
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Alice May Collett |
Born in 1890
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72R14
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George William Francis Collett |
Born in 1897
at Wooburn |
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72R15
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Annie Eliza Francis Collett |
Born in 1899
at Wooburn |
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72R16
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Frank Collett |
Born in 1900
at Wooburn |
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72R17
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Robin Stanley Collett |
Born in 1902 at
Wooburn |
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72R18
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Ephraim Richard Collett |
Born in 1905
at Wooburn |
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72R19
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Benjamin James Francis Collett |
Born in 1907
at Wooburn |
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72R20
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ANNIE ELIZA FRANCIS COLLETT |
Born in 1909
at Wooburn |
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72Q15 |
Charles Collett was born at Wooburn Green during the
first three months of 1871, his birth registered at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 466) in
the second quarter of that year. On
the census day in 1871, baby Charles Collett had only just been born and was
already living in Wooburn with his family.
Tragically for the family, Charles Collett died at Wooburn on 21st
February 1872 when he was still under one year old, his death recorded at
Wycombe (Ref. 3a 321). |
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72Q16 |
Minnie Collett was born at Wooburn Green in 1874, her
birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 481) during the second quarter of that
year, a daughter of George and Ann Collett.
She was six years of age in 1881 and was 16 and a dressmaker in 1891,
by which time she was living at the family home in Wooburn Moor with her
father and younger sister Florence, her mother on a visit elsewhere that
year. |
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72Q18 |
Lizzie Collett was born at Wooburn Green in 1864
whose birth, as Lizzie, was recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 399) during the
third quarter of that year, the first child of Ephraim Collett and Jane
Allen. Despite that, her parents gave
her name as Eliza Collett, aged six years of age, on the day of the Wooburn
census in 1871. By 1881, Lizzie
Collett from Wooburn was said to be 17 years old when she was the only
servant working at the Cookham, Berkshire, home of elderly widow Ann Smith,
when she was described as the servant of all works. Where she was in early 1891 has not been
discovered, but it was on 26th December 1891 that Lizzie Collett
married William Wood at Wooburn.
William was 28 and the son of Walter Wood, while Lizzie was 27 and the
daughter of Ephraim Collett. |
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Their
marriage produced at least five children for the couple, even though all five
were never recorded with the family which was residing at Kew in Surrey,
where William Wood had been born and where he was employed as a park keeper
in both 1901 and 1911. He was 38 in
1901, when his wife Lizzie from Wooburn was also 38 and their eldest child
was Jane Williams aged eight years and born at Kew, where all of their
children were born. Ten years later,
it was at Watcombe Cottages in Kew that William was 48 and Lizzie was
47. By then their eldest daughter was
no longer living with them, instead her four siblings were named as Maud Wood
who was 16, William John Wood who was 13, Leonard Maurier Wood who was nine
and Ida Edith Wood who was four. |
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72Q19 |
Polly Collett was born at Wooburn Green in 1867 and
her birth was recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 447) during the third quarter of
that year. She was three years of age
in the census of 1871 and, on leaving school, she secured work as a general
domestic servant at the home of the Smith family at Dalston Road in Hackney,
London, where she was on the day of the census in 1881. In error, she was recorded by her employers
as being 15 years old and from Wooburn.
The marriage of Polly Collett and Joseph Stevens took place at Wooburn
on 20th October 1887, when Polly was 21 and confirmed as the
daughter of Ephraim Collett and Joseph was described as being 27 and the son
of Thomas Stevens. The event was
recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 955). |
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According to
the census in 1901 Joseph Stevens from High Wycombe was 41 and a French
polisher, his wife Mary was 34 and their five children were William who was
12, Harriet who was 10, Annie who was eight, Eva who was four and Daisy
Stevens who was two years of ager, all of them born at High Wycombe where the
family was living at Pennington Row in the town. Although, no record of the family has been
found within the next census of 1911, it was at Wycombe register office (Ref.
6a 427) that the death of Polly Stevens was recorded during the second
quarter 1958 when she was 90. |
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72Q20 |
Maud Collett was born at Wooburn Green during the final
weeks of 1869, with her birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 500) during the
first three months of 1870. She was
one year old in the census of 1871 and 11 years of age in the next Wooburn
Green census of 1881, but was not living with her family in 1891. Two years later Maud Collett married (1)
Charles Cole at Wooburn on 26th December 1893, the event recorded
at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1026).
Maud was 24 and confirmed as the daughter of Ephraim Collett, with
Charles being 29 and the son of Daniel Cole.
Charles was a carman working on the railway and fathered a son and a
daughter before his premature death.
However, before being widowed, Maud and Charles were residing at Egham
Hill in Egham, Surrey, in 1901.
Charles from Upper Basildon was 37, Maud was 30 and their two London
born children were George Cole who was six and born at Hornsey and Alice M
Cole who was four and born at Islington. |
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Charles’ work
with the railway ultimately took him and his family to Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire
and it was at the register office in the town that his death was recorded
(Ref. 3a 628) during the first three months of 1909 when he was 44 years
old. His passing meant that Maud had
to seek work to support her family and in 1911 she was described as a
boarding house keeper when she was still living in Aylesbury with just her
daughter Alice who was 14 and from Finsbury Park. Maud Cole from Wooburn Green was 41 and a
widow. Five years later Maud Cole
married (2) Harry J Gills in Aylesbury, where the event was recorded (Ref. 3a
1976) during the second quarter of 1916. |
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72Q21
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Ben Collett was born at Wooburn Green, possibly
during the first few weeks of 1872, the son of Ephraim and Jane Collett,
whose birth was recorded at High Wycombe (Ref. 3a 502) during the first
quarter of 1872. He was aged nine
years and 19 years in the next two census returns for Wooburn in 1881 and
1891, when he was living at Wooburn Green with his family and, in the latter,
he was employed as a general labourer.
No record of him has been found in the census of 1901, although the
military record of Ben Collett born in Buckinghamshire in 1872 only includes
the years of service from 1908 to 1915.
It was during the second quarter of 1910 that his marriage to (1) Jessie
Cowley was recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1474) when the
witnesses were Elizabeth Biggs and William Albert Saunders. By the time of the census in April 1911 the
childless couple was living at Wooburn Lane in Wooburn Green, the home of Ben’s
younger married sister Ella Hersee (below).
The census return confirmed that the couple had only been married for
one year and that Ben Collett of Wooburn was 40 and a domestic gardener and
his wife Jessie was 28 and a housewife who had been born at West Handley in
Derbyshire. |
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On that day,
Ben and Jessie were preparing for the arrival of their son, who was born a
few months later. That child may have
been their only child, while he was fifteen years of age when the death of
Jessie Collett was recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1137) during
the first quarter of 1925 when she was only 45. After a year as a widower, Ben Collett
married (2) Clara Stallwood, the event recorded at Wycombe register office
(Ref. 3a 2222) during the second quarter of that year. The death of Ben Collett was recorded at
Wycombe register office (Ref. 6a 474) during the first quarter of 1952, when
his age was recorded as being 79. |
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72R21
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Alan Ben Collett |
Born in 1911
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72Q22
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Daisy Collett was born at Wooburn Green either late
in 1873 or early in 1874, the daughter of Ephraim and Jane Collett, whose
birth was recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 494) during the first three months of
1874. In 1881 she and her family were
living at Wooburn Green, when Daisy Collett was seven years old. Ten years later, at the time of the census
in 1891 Daisy Collett was still living in Wooburn Town but as a lodger with
the family of carter Charles Lewis from Gloucestershire. She was named as Daisy Collett from Wooburn
who was 17 and working at the local paper mill. It was seven years later, on 12th
October 1898 and at Wooburn, that Daisy Collett married William Marshall
Read, the event recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 1347) when Daisy was 24 and the
daughter of Ephraim Collett and William was 23, the son of Japheth William
Marshall Read. The witnesses were
Albert Edward King and Fanny Louisa Howard.
By March 1901 the couple was living in Taplow with two children. William Read was 24 and a bricklayer’s labourer
from Drinkstone in Suffolk, Daisy Read from Wooburn was 26, Esme M
(Marshall?) Read was one year old and also born at Wooburn and Cecil B Read
had been born after the family had moved to Taplow and he was only a few
months old. |
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72Q23 |
Lily Eliza Collett was born at Wooburn Green in 1875 and
was listed as Lily E Collett aged five years, in the Wooburn Green census of
1881. For some reason, she was absent
from the family home in 1891. Lily
Collett, the daughter of Ephraim Collett, was 26 when she married Thomas
Edward House at Wooburn on 6th March 1901, Thomas being 32 and the
son of Thomas Edward House senior. One
year later the childless couple was residing at Heath Road on Queens Square
in Twickenham, where Thomas E House was a barman working in a nearby
inn. He was 33 and his wife Lily House
was 26, both of them simply confirmed as having been born in
Buckinghamshire. Just over seven years
later, Thomas and Lily were in Wooburn, where Thomas Edward House died on 2nd
May 1908 when he was only 39 years of age. |
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Curiously,
two years prior to the death of her husband, Lily Lizzie Collett, the
daughter of Ephraim and Jane Collett was baptised at Wooburn on 30th
March 1906, her married sister Naomi (below) also having been baptised only
three years earlier. By 1911 Lily had
returned home to look after her elderly widowed father Ephraim at his house
in Wooburn, when she was described in the census return as Lily House, a
widow aged 36 from Wooburn, who was the housekeeper. Ten years later, and just prior to the
death of her father, Lily House married (2) John Fryer, the event recorded at
Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1824) during the first three months of 1921. They were married for nearly twenty years,
when the death of Lily Fryer was recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 2950) during
the first quarter of 1940, when she was said to be 63 years of age. |
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72Q24 |
Eva Collett was born at Wooburn Green during the
last three months of 1877, her birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 524),
following which she was baptised Wooburn on 28th August 1878, a
daughter of Ephraim and Jane Collett.
She was three years old in the Woburn Green census of 1881, and was still
living there with her family in 1891 at the age of 14, from where she was
already working as a general domestic servant. It was around her twentieth birthday that
Eva Collett married Thomas George Feasey, the event recorded at Wycombe
register office (Ref. 3a 1329) during the fourth quarter of 1897. Thomas’ sister Ruth Feasey was one of the
witnesses. Although no record of the
couple has been identified in Great Britain censuses of 1901 and 1911, it was
at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 2527) that Thomas George Feasey married
Emily Goodger during the third quarter of 1921. Likewise, no record of the death of Eva
Feasey has been found, so it is possible Thomas who married Emily may have
been her son rather than her husband. |
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Naomi Collett was born at Wooburn Green in 1879 with
her birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 647) during the second quarter of the
year. She was one year old and 12
years of age in the 1881 and 1891 Censuses, while living at Wooburn Green
with her family. When she was 21 she
was living in the Hammersmith area of London, where she was working as a
general domestic servant in March 1901 at the Goldhawk Road home of the Hinds
family of London. It was during the
third quarter of the following year that she married George Howard on 27th
August 1902, when Naomi was 23 and the daughter of Ephraim Collett and George
was 25 and the son of Richard Howard.
Their wedding was recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1565),
where the witnesses were Fanny Gertrude Wood and Michael Ludgate. Seven years later Naomi’s niece Maud Louisa
Fanny Collett (Ref. 72R3) married Jessie Ludgate in 1909. |
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Unlike other
members of her Collett family, no baptism as a child has been located at
Wooburn for Naomi so, it was not surprising to discover that ten months prior
to the birth of her first child, Naomi Collett Howard was baptised as an
adult at Wooburn on 2nd April 1903, the daughter of Ephraim and
Jane Collett. According to the next
census in 1911 Naomi and her family were living in Wooburn Green, when she
had been married for eight years.
George Howard was 34 and a mill hand at the nearby paper-mill, Naomi
was 32, and their children were Alice Ivy Margaret Howard who was eight and
baptised at Wooburn on 2nd February 1904, Clare Naomi Winifred
Howard who six (born Q4 1905) and Annie May Howard who was five (born Q1
1907). Every member of the Howard
family had been born at Wooburn Green.
Staying with the family on that day were James Howard, age 28, and
Albert Wells who was 25. |
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George Howard was residing at Normans Cottages in Wooburn when he died
on 9th January 1950 when his personal estate of £692 7 Shillings
was passed to his widow Naomi Howard.
Just over eleven years after his passing, eighty-one-year-old Naomi
Howard of 5 Normans Cottages in Wooburn Green died on 8th February
1961 at the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital in Taplow when
administration of her estate valued at £453 19 Shillings was granted to her
married daughter Alice Ivy Margaret Gosling. |
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72Q26
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Ella Collett was born at Wooburn Green on 10th
January 1881, another daughter of Ephraim and Jane Collett, who was living
there with her family on the census day that year, when Ella was just two
months old. Her birth was recorded at
Wycombe (Ref. 3a 606) during the first quarter of that year. She was still living there with her family
in 1891 when she was ten years of age, and again in 1901 when Ella was 20 and
a domestic cook. It was four months
after that census day, on 5th August 1901 when Ella Collett
married Henry George Hersee, the event recorded at Wycombe register office
(Ref. 3a 1510) during the third quarter of 1901. Henry was 28 and the son of Charles Hersee,
while Eva was only 20 and confirmed as the daughter of Ephraim Collett. The witnesses were Thomas John Bass and
Mary Ann Price. |
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The couple’s
first children may have been a honeymoon baby, since the baptism of Elizabeth
Maud Hersee took place at Wooburn on 6th July 1902. Their third daughter Lilian Louisa Alice
was baptised at Wooburn on 21st October 1908. By the time of the next census in 1911
insurance agent Henry George Hersee was 38, Ella Hersee of Wooburn Green was
30, and their three children were Elizabeth Maud Hersee who was eight, Lilian
Louisa Alice Hersee who was two and Dorothy Pearl Hersee who was six months
old. Staying with the family that day,
as lodgers, at Wooburn Lane in Wooburn Green was Ella’s married brother Ben
Collett and his wife Jessie, who were expecting the couple’s first child. |
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Two more
children were added to the Hersee family, one each side of the Great
War. The birth of Winifred V Hersee
was recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1730) during the third
quarter of 1915 and likewise Edward H W Hersee, whose birth was recorded
there (Ref. 3a 2139) during the second quarter of 1920. In each case, the mother’s maiden name was
confirmed as Collett. Henry George
Hersee died during the summer in 1950 when he was 77 and living at Newport
Pagnell, his wife Ella Hersee nee Collett having passed away during the
previous year when administration was granted to Henry George Hersee, a
retired fishmonger. |
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Their eldest
daughter Elizabeth M Hersee married Cyril Fletcher, the event recorded at
Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 2264) during the last quarter of 1927 and it
was also at Wycombe register office that the wedding of Dorothy P Hersee and
Charles E Wing was recorded (Ref. 3a 3071) during the last three months of
1944. |
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Allen John Collett was born at Wooburn Green, his birth
recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 596) during the second quarter of 1882. As Allen J Collett of nine years his was
living with his family at Wooburn Green in 1891 and was listed Allen John
Collett, aged 19 and from Wooburn Green, when he was serving with the army as
a private in the infantry at Reading Barracks on the day of the next census
in March 1901. At the time of the
census in 1911, he was simply listed in the census return as John Collett
from Wooburn who was 29 and a male nurse, while living in the Maidenhead area
of Berkshire with his wife Annie Collett who was 33 and born in
Beaconsfield. No record of their
marriage has been found and later that same year Annie possibly gave birth to
a daughter, whose birth was recorded at Maidenhead register office (Ref.
during the second quarter of 1911.
Whether Frances L M Collett
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72Q28 |
Dennis Collett was born at Wooburn Green in 1884 and
was the youngest son of Ephraim and Jane Collett. His birth was recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a
633) during the third quarter of the year.
He was seven years old in 1891 when he and his family were still
residing in Wooburn Green, as they were in 1901, by which time Dennis was a
coal carter aged 16. At the age of 27,
unmarried Dennis Collett from Wooburn was still living there in 1911 with his
widowed father and married sister Lily House, recently widowed, when he was
described as general labourer. It is
likely Dennis remained a bachelor all his life and continued to live in the Wooburn
area of Buckinghamshire. Since it was
at Wycombe register office (Ref. 6a 547) that the death of Dennis Collett,
aged 83, was recorded during the last three months of 1967. |
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72Q29 |
Lily A Collett was born at Wooburn Green in 1888, the
last child of Ephraim Collett and Jane Allen.
It was as Lily A Collett aged two years that she was recorded with her
family at Wooburn Green in 1891 and again 1901 when Lily Collett was 12. Nine years later, at Wooburn on 21st
February 1910, Lily Collett married Frederick Charles Wheeler, the son of James
and Alice Wheeler of Wooburn Town.
Lily was 21 and confirmed as the daughter of Ephraim Collett and
Frederick was 23 and confirmed as the son of James Henry Wheeler, their
wedding recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1307). The marriage produced a son and a daughter,
both named after two of Lily’s older siblings. On the day of the Wooburn census in 1911,
Frederick Wheeler was 24 and a dryer-man working in the paper trade, Lily
Wheeler was 22 and their son Dennis Wheeler was not yet one year old. Their daughter Naomi A Wheeler was born a
year later, her birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 1912) during the first
three months of 1912, when the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Collett.
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72Q32
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Frank Collett was born at Salt Lake City in the
State of Utah during 1868, where he was living with his parents Richard
Collett and Mary Hancock in 1880 when he was 12. During the 1890s he married Lillian May
Perry by whom he had a daughter who was born in 1896 and a son for was born
in 1899. Lillian was the daughter of
Henry Perry from Canada. In 1880
Lillie Perry was eight years old when he was living with her widowed father
and her family at Henry’s Fork in Sweetwater, Idaho. |
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In 1900 Frank
and Lillian were residing at Precinct 47 in Salt Lake City, where Frank
Collett from Utah was 32, and his mother Lilian M Collett, also from Utah,
was 28, while the couple’s two children were Marion Collett who was four
years old and James P Collett who was one year old. During the next decade a further four
children were added to their family, as confirmed in the next census in
1910. Frank was 42, his wife May was
37, and their six children were Marion Collett, age 13, James Perry Collett,
age 10, Frank F Collett, was eight, Maude Collett, was five, Ruth Collett,
was three, and Bruce Collett was one year and three months old. Their address was simply stated as Ward 5
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Two more
children were born into the family at Salt Lake City during the next ten years,
and in 1919 and 1918 respectively the couple’s two eldest children were
married there. Following the two
weddings their son James and his young wife and their first child were still
living with Frank and Lillian May at Salt Lake City in 1920. Frank was 51, May was 47, Perry was 20 and
his wife Eunice was 19, Frank junior was 18, Maude was 15, Ruth was 13, Bruce
was 10, while the latest arrivals were Edna, who was eight, and Florence who
was four. The couple’s grandchild was
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It is strange
that both the marriage record and the death record for the couple’s eldest
child Marion Collett Platts gave her mother’s name as May Freeze, while her
father was correctly named as Frank Collett.
After a further twenty years Frank Collett was 72 and his wife May
Collett was 66 when they were living alone at Ward 5 in Salt Lake City
Precinct on the occasion of the census in 1940. The census return that year also confirmed
that the couple had been residing at the same address in 1935. It was just three years later that Frank
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Marion Collett |
Born in 1897
at Utah |
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James Perry Collett |
Born in 1899
at Utah |
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72R24
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Frank Collett |
Born in 1901
at Utah |
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72R25
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Maude Collett |
Born in 1904
at Utah |
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72R26
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Ruth Collett |
Born in 1906
at Utah |
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72R27
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Bruce Collett |
Born in 1908
at Utah |
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72R28
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Edna Collett |
Born in 1912
at Utah |
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72R29
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Florence
Collett |
Born in 1916
at Utah |
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72R1
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William Thomas Collett was born at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn
Green on 17th February 1882, the eldest child of Thomas Collett
and Rosetta Crockett, his birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 696) during the
second quarter of that year. In the
census of 1891 William was nine years old and was still living with his
family at Elizabeth Cottages on Wycombe Lane.
When he was 19 in 1901 he was a packer with the railway, again living
at the family home in Wycombe Lane. He
was still a bachelor living at home in 1911 when he was 29 and a plate-layer
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On 19th
May 1913 he was still employed as a plate-layer by the Great Western Railway
at Wooburn Green Station when he was injured in an accident that damaged his
finger. It may have been that incident
that resulted in him returning to work as a packer, rather than a
plate-layer. At the
outbreak of war during the following year he joined the 1st
Battalion of the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Regiment as a corporal,
service number 202997, with whom he served on
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He first landed in France on 9th December 1916, just after
the end of the first Battle of the Somme.
Later in the war William joined the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
and was appointed as an officer with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant,
an appointment that was rare for someone passing from the rank and file to
the position of officer. Later still,
he was promoted to Lieutenant and after the war, in August 1921, he was
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After the war
in 1919 William bought Garth Cottage on Wycombe Lane in Wooburn Green for
£500 from a Mister Milner who had been letting the property to William's
parents, but then wished to sell the property. William conducted this purchase while still
in France awaiting demobilisation. It
was at Garth Cottage that William Thomas Collett was still living when died
in his own bed at eight o’clock on the evening of 21st April 1961. |
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72R2
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Walter George Collett was born at Wycombe Lane in Wooburn
Green during the third quarter of 1884, the second child of Thomas and
Rosetta Collett, his birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 629). He was one year old when he was baptised at
Wooburn on 23rd September 1885.
He was seven years old in 1891 when he was with his family at
Elizabeth Cottages in Wycombe Lane, but curiously was absence from the home
in 1901 and again in 1911. Where he
was on those occasions has not been discovered, while he was back how at
Wycombe Lane in 1914 when he and his older brother both joined the British
Army at the start of the Great War. A
photograph was taken around that time with the brothers in their uniforms and
with their parents. During the fourth
quarter of 1921 the marriage of Walter G Collett and
Doris (Dolly) Rackstraw was recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a
2187). The marriage produced two
children, both births recorded at Wycombe; Doris
during the third quarter of 1923 (Ref. 3a 1610) and Edward during the third
quarter of 1926 (Ref. 3a 1489). On
both occasions the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Rackstraw. The death of Walter G Collett was recorded
at Wycombe register office (Ref. 6a 453) during the last three months of 1958, when he was 74. |
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Doris J Collett |
Born in 1923
at Wooburn/Wycombe |
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72S2
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Edward George Collett |
Born in 1926
at Wooburn/Wycombe |
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72R3
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Maud Louisa Fanny Collett, who was known within the family as
Fanny, was born at Wooburn Green on 24th April 1887, the eldest
daughter of Thomas and Rose Collett.
Her birth, using her full name, was recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 658)
during the second quarter of 1887. She
was incorrectly entered on the census return in 1891 as being Fanny Collett
who was five years old, unless that was a misinterpretation of three. By the time she was 14 she was absent from
the family home in Wycombe Lane and was staying with her aunt Clara Norris
nee Collett at 83 Willow Street in
Maidstone, Kent, Clara being Fanny’s father’s younger sister. Clara's
husband Charles Norris was a paper-mill worker, while their two children were
Lucy and Charles. |
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Maud Louisa
Fanny Collett later married Jessie Ludgate and in April 1911 the couple had been married for two years and had two children of which
only one was still alive. The couple
was living at Wooburn with their surviving daughter Rosa Maud Ludgate who was
one year. Staying with the family was
Fanny’s brother Arthur Collett who was 21.
Maud Louisa Fanny Ludgate died at Stepney in
1950. It may be of interest that
Maud’s aunt, Naomi Collett (Ref. 19q24), had a Michael Ludgate as a witness
at her wedding in 1902. |
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72R4
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Arthur Collett was born at Elizabeth Cottages in Wycombe
Lane in Wooburn Green on 3rd June 1889 and was the fourth child of
Thomas and Rose Collett. He was one
year old and 11 years old in the two census returns for 1891 and 1901 when,
on both occasions he and his family were living at Wooburn. By the time he was 21, according to the
census in 1911, Arthur Collett from Wooburn was still living there, albeit
with the family of his sister Maud Louisa Fanny Ludgate nee Collett
(above). Arthur was still a bachelor
and was working as a shop assistant. It
was three years later when Arthur Collett married Eva Louisa Phyllis Robinson
at West Ham where the event was recorded (Ref. 4a 47) during the fourth
quarter of 1914. The first of their
two children was born nine months later.
Eva was born at Finningham in Norfolk in1888 and she
died on 6th October 1939 at East Ham
in Essex. Arthur Collett died many
years later at Barking in Essex on 10th November 1971. |
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Rosa F Collett |
Born in 1915
at West Ham |
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Vera M Collett |
Born in 1918
at West Ham |
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72R5
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Lucy Maud Collett was born at Elizabeth Cottages on
Wycombe Lane in Wooburn Green on 7th January 1891, the youngest
daughter of Thomas and Rose Collett.
Curiously she would have been nearly three months old for the census
in 1891 when she was absent from the family.
In March 1901, when Lucy was nine years old she and her family were
still living at Wooburn. On leaving
school she entered into domestic service, and by the time she was 19 in 1911
she was still living and working in Wooburn, but not at the home of her own
family. Six years after that she married Frank Peasley
at Wycombe during 1918 and they had two children. Lucy Maud Peasley nee Collett died during
the last quarter of 1974 when her death was recorded at Wycombe register
office. |
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72R6
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Jack Collett was born at Wooburn Green on 10th
July 1895, the son of Thomas and Rose Collett, his birth recorded at Wycombe
(Ref. 3a 735). He was seven years old
in 1901 when he and his family were living on Wycombe Lane in Wooburn
Green. By the day of the next census
Jack had left school and, at the age of 16, was working as a mill hand at the
local paper-mill, while he still living with his family at Wooburn. Ten years later the marriage of Jack Collett and Florence E
Maskell was recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 2511) during the
third quarter of 1921. Florence (aka
Florrie) was born at Hoxton in London
in 1898, the second child of Frederick B Maskell and his wife Emma L
Maskell. The marriage of Jack and
Florrie is understood to have produced two children for the couple, although
only the birth of Jack’s son and namesake has been unearthed. His birth was recorded at Mile End Old Town
(Ref. 1a 480) during the third quarter of 1922, when the mother’s maiden name
was confirmed as Maskell. |
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72S5
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Jack Collett |
Born in 1922 |
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72S6
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a Collett
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Born circa 1925 |
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72R7
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Tom Collett was born at Wooburn Green on 9th
September 1899, the last child of Thomas Collett and Rosetta Crockett. He was one years old in 1901 and was 12 in
the Wooburn Green census of 1911 when he was still attending the local
school. Two years later Tom started work as a lay boy in the cutting
room at Glory Mill, a Wiggins Teape paper-mill in Wooburn Green. It was much later, during the third quarter
of 1925, that Tom Collett married (1) Elizabeth Gertrude Cam, the event
recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 2558). Elizabeth was the daughter of George and
Mary Cam and was born at Waterstock in Oxfordshire in 1898. At the age of three years, she and her
family were living at Hinton Road in Hurst, midway between Twyford and
Wokingham. Tragically Elizabeth
Gertrude Collett nee Cam died in Windsor Hospital when she was 38, possibly
from stomach cancer, although earlier she had contracted rheumatic fever, as
a result of which she suffered from a heart condition. Her death was recorded at Windsor register
office (Ref. 2c 433) during the third quarter of 1936. Three years after the death of his wife Tom
married (2) married Beatrice Clara White at Wooburn, where Beatrice was working as a secretary in the
Administration Department of Glory Mill. Their wedding was recorded at Wycombe
register office (Ref. 3a 6268) during the third quarter of 1939. |
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During the following year, Tom caught his
hand in the rolls of paper in Glory Mill, crushing the hand and losing some
fingers and by the time he retired he only had one finger on his left hand. The damage to his hand also meant he was
unfit for serve during the Second World War.
In 1960 Tom has appointed to the position of Assistant Mill Manager
for Production at Glory Mill in Wooburn.
It was then four years after that when he retired after over fifty
years at Glory Mill during which time he had been awarded the British Empire
Medal for services to papermaking. In
1975 he suffered the loss of his second wife, when the death of Beatrice
Clara Collett nee White was recorded at Wycombe register office on 12th
December 1975. She had been born on 19th
December 1903 and was buried at the Chilterns Cemetery in Amersham. It was ten years later when Tom Collett
died at Wooburn Green on 4th February 1985, following with he was
buried with Beatrice at Amersham, his death recorded at Wycombe register
office. |
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72R8 |
William Lawrence Collett was born at Odstock, Wiltshire, on 5th
May 1892 and was the eldest of the two known children of William Lawrence
Collett and Elizabeth Collett, the birth recorded at Alderbury (Ref. 5a 180)
where his parents were only married a few days earlier. The family of four was living at Risborough
Road in Maidenhead in 1901 where William Collett from Odstock was eight years
old. Just five years later his mother
suffered a premature death at the age of 35, following which his father
remarried. No record of William
Lawrence Collett junior has been found in 1901. However, it is established that William L
Collett married Louisa, the event recorded at Rochford register office in
Essex (Ref. 4a 1389) during the last quarter of 1914. Earlier that same year, the birth of
William L Collett was also recorded at Rochford, during the first three
months (Ref. 4a 1402) when the mother’s name was confirmed as Louisa
Johnson. Curiously, two years later,
the birth of Dorothy E Collett was also recorded at Rochford register office
but, on that occasion, the mother’s name was stated as being Louisa
Dent. At the end of his life William
was still residing in Essex and it was at the Rochford register office (Ref.
4a 1934) that his death was recorded during the third quarter of 1970 when he
was 78 years of age. |
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72S7
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William
Lawrence Collett |
Born in 1914
at Rochford |
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72S8
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Dorothy E Collett |
Born in 1916
at Rochford |
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72R9
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Winifred Maud Collett was born at Henley-on-Thames in 1896
the second child of fishmonger William Collett and his first wife
Elizabeth. Her birth was recorded at
Henley (Ref. 3a 794) during the first three months of that year. In the census of 1901 Winifred was five
years old when living with her family at 19 Risborough Road in
Maidenhead. Her mother died shortly
after that, so she was still living with her father and his second wife at
Maidenhead in 1911, but at 20 College Rise, when 15-year-old Winifred Collett
was assisting in the home. |
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72R10 |
Alfred Lawrence Collett was born on 17th November
1900 at 23 Crab Tree Lane in Fulham and was the first-born child of Alfred
Ernest Collett and Mary Edith Drain.
It was also at that address where Alfred L Collett was five months old
and living with his parents in 1901.
The birth of Alfred Lawrence Collett was recorded at Fulham register
office (Ref. 1a 312) during the last two months of 1900. From Fulham, the family moved to Southend,
where Alfred’s youngest sister was born, before the completed family settle
in Rochester, Kent. On the day of the
next census in 1911, the five of family was residing at 52 Foord Street in
Rochester, where Alfred Collett was 10 years old. It has not yet been determined whether
Alfred was ever married, while the death of Alfred Lawrence Collett was
recorded at Chatham register office in Kent (Ref. 16 0542) during the spring
on 1980, when he was 79. |
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72R11 |
Edith Irene F Collett was born at 23 Crab Tree Lane, Fulham,
where her birth was recorded (Ref. 1a 218) during the fourth quarter of
1902. Simply named as Irene Collett
from Fulham, she was eight years of age in the census of 1911, by which time
she and her family were living at 52 Foord Street in Rochester, Kent. |
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72R12 |
Olive Mercy Collett was born at Southend on 15th
December 1905, the last of the three children of Alfred Ernest Collett and
Mary Edith Drain. Her birth was
recorded at the Essex Rochford register office (Ref. 4a 714) during the first
three months of 1906. Shortly after
being born, the family moved south of the Thames Estuary and was recorded at
52 Foord Street in Rochester, Kent, in 1911 when Olive was five years
old. She never married remained living
with her father at Chatham in Kent, where the death of Olive Mercy Collett
was recorded (Ref. 16 0579) during the early months of 1976, four years
before her father passed away. |
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72R13 |
Alice May Collett was born at Wooburn in 1890, her birth
recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 657) during the second quarter of 1890. She was just under one year old in the
Wooburn Green census of 1891, while ten years after Alice May Collett was 10
when living with her family at Berghers Hill, a hamlet near Wooburn
Town. After a further decade Alice May
Collett was 20 and her place of birth was said to be Wooburn Moor, when under
occupation she was described as ‘helping in the home’ which, by then was at
Bonnymede in Wooburn Green. She never
married and was only 39 years old when her death was recorded at Wycombe
register office (Ref. 3a 997) during the second quarter of 1930. |
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72R14 |
George William Francis Collett was born at Wooburn in 1897, the
first-born child of George Collett by his second wife Alice Ann Elizabeth
Francis. His birth was recorded at
Wycombe (Ref. 3a 759) during the last three months of that year. It was simply as George W Collett that he
was living with his family at Berghers Hill in 1901, when he was three years
of age. After leaving school, George
William Francis Collett was 13 and a part-time newspaper boy who was living
with his family at Bonnymede in Wooburn Green. The death of William G Collett was recorded
at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 908) during the second quarter of 1924
when he was only 26. |
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72R15 |
Annie Eliza Francis Collett was born at Wooburn Green in 1899, her
birth recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 804) during the first quarter of that
year. She was the eldest daughter and
second child of George Collett and Alice Ann Elizabeth Francis. It was at Berghers Hill, a hamlet midway
between Wooburn and Wooburn Green, that two-year-old Annie Eliza Collett was
living with her family in 1901.
Tragically, she did not survive and died at Wooburn on 27th
June 1907 aged eight years, where her full name was recorded in the parish
records. In addition to that, the
death of Annie Eliza F Collett was recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref.
3a 450) during the second quarter of 1907.
The next daughter born to George and Alice was given exactly the same
name. |
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72R16 |
Frank Collett was born at Wooburn in 1900 with his
birth was recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 757) during the final three months of
the year. He was five months old in
the Berghers Hill census of 1901 when living there with his family, while ten
years later, when Frank was 10 years old, he and his family were residing at
Bonnymede in Wooburn Green. Sadly, he
was yet another member of his to suffer a premature death, when his passing,
at the age of 21, was recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1029)
during the fourth quarter of 1921. |
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72R17
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Robin Stanley Collett was born at Wooburn Green in 1902, one
of the sons of George and Alice Collett, whose birth was recorded at Wycombe
register office (Ref. 3a 909) during the third quarter of that year. In 1911 he was eight years old when he was
living with his family at a property named Bonnymede in Wooburn Green. It was during the first quarter of 1929 that
the marriage of Robin S Collett and Ada E Ives was recorded at Wycombe register
office (Ref. 3a 1624). Their short
marriage produced just one child before, tragically, Robin S Collett suffered
another premature death in early 1935, when his passing was recorded at
Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1331) during the first three months of the
year, when he was only 32 years of age.
The earlier birth of his daughter was recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a
1679) during the second quarter of 1930. |
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72S9
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Daphne R
Collett |
Born in 1930
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72R18 |
Ephraim Richard Collett was born at Wooburn Green on 16th
July 1905 with his birth recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 950)
during the third quarter of that year, and was five years old in the Wooburn
Green census of 1911 when he and his family were living at Bonnymede. Just as with his younger brother Benjamin
(below), no record of Ephraim having been married has been found, while his
death, as Richard Ephraim Collett, was recorded at Eton register office (Ref.
6a 967) during the summer of 1971, when he was 66 and around six months
before his brother Benjamin passed away. |
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72R19 |
Benjamin James Francis Collett was born at Wooburn on 10th
August 1907 and his birth, like all of those of his siblings, was recorded at
Wycombe (Ref. 3a 979) during the third quarter of the year. He was three years old in 1911 when he was
recorded under his full name in the census for Wooburn Green at Bonnymede. No record has been found to suggest that he
was ever married but, unlike many of his siblings, he did enjoy a long life
in the Wooburn area, when the death of Benjamin James F Collett was recorded
at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1268) during the spring of 1972 when he
was 64. |
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72R20 |
ANNIE ELIZA FRANCIS COLLETT was born at Wooburn Green, with her
birth recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 965) during the third
quarter of 1909. The male spelling of
her third forename comes from her mother’s maiden name, also used in three of
her older siblings, one of which was also Annie Eliza Francis Collett, who
sadly died two years before Annie was born, after whom she was named. Annie was two years old in the Wooburn
Green census of 1911 and it was nineteen years later when the marriage of
Annie E F Collett and William H Halson was recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 3329)
during the third quarter of 1930.
Sadly, they had only been married for twelve years, when the death of
Annie E F Halson, nee Collett, was recorded at
Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1216) during the third quarter of 1942, when
she was only 32 years old. As a
result, her daughters were raised by Annie’s parents, George and Alice
Collett. Annie Eliza Francis Collett
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72R21 |
Alan Ben Collett was born at Wooburn Lane in Wooburn
Green on 31st May 1911, the son of Ben Collett and Jessie
Cowley. His birth was recorded at
Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1931), where his mother’s maiden name was
confirmed as Cowley. His future wife
was ten years younger than Alan, having been born at Amersham (Ref. 3a 1742)
during the second quarter of 1921.
Alan was 38 when he married Joan L White, aged 28, at Amersham (Ref.
6a 692) during the third quarter of 1949.
It was also at Amersham that their two known children were born. Their daughter’s birth was recorded at
Amersham (Ref. 6a 388) during the first quarter of 1955, while no record of a
marriage for her has been found so far. |
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72S10
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David Collett |
Born in 1952
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72S11
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Valerie
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Born in 1955
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72R22
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Marion Collett was born at Salt Lake City in Utah on
4th June 1897, the eldest child of Frank Collett and Lilian May
Perry. She was four years old in 1900
when she and her family were living at Precinct 47 in Salt Lake City, and by
1910 the family was living at Ward 5 in Salt Lake City, where Marion was
13. She later married David John
Platts in Salt Lake City on 27th September 1919. David was the son of Charles Platts and
Sarah Hilton, and had been born at Salt Lake City on 23rd June
1891. At the time of their wedding
Marion’s father was named as Frank Collett, while it is curious that her
mother was listed as May Freeze. It
was the same situation at the time of the death of Marion Collett Platts,
when her husband was recorded as David John Platts, her father as Frank
Collett, and her mother as May Freeze.
Marion Platts nee Collett died at Salt Lake City on 26th
July 1954 at the age of 57, when her date of birth was again recorded as 4th
June 1897. |
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72R23
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James Perry Collett was born at Salt Lake City during
September 1899, the son of Frank Collett and Lilian M Perry. As James P Collett he was one year old in
1900 when he and his parents were residing at Precinct 47 in Salt Lake City. Ten years later in 1910 he was listed under
his full name of James Perry Collett, when he was 10 and was again living
with his family at Ward 5 in Salt Lake City.
By that time, in addition to his older sister Marion, the family had
increased with the birth of four more children, Frank F Collett, Maude
Collett, Ruth Collett, and Bruce Collett. |
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He was only
19 when he married Eunice Adeline Tollitt at Salt Lake City on 23rd
November 1918. Eunice was 18, having
been born in Utah on 18th June 1901, the daughter of Matthew Harrison
Tollitt and his wife who was formerly Carver.
Matthew was the base-born son of Mary Harrison by an unknown father
and when he was in his teenage years his mother married Mr Tollitt who
subsequently adopted her son.
According to the census in 1920 James Perry Collett and his wife had
been blessed with their first child, and all three of them were still living
with James’ parents at Salt Lake City.
On that occasion James was recorded as Perry J Collett, age 20, Eunice
Collett was 19, and their daughter Beth Collett was three months old, having
been born at Salt Lake City during October 1919. |
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Two children
are known to have been born into the family at Salt Lake City after 1920,
both of whom did not survive. The
first of them was Marjorie Collett, the couple’s second child, who was born
during January 1922, who sadly died prematurely at Salt Lake City on 26th
April 1937 at the age of 15 years 3 months and 2 days. The couple’s sixth child was Beverley
Collett who was born at Salt Lake City during April 1928 who tragically died
when she was only one month and nineteen days, her death recorded as 19th
June 1928. The death certificates for
both girls gave their parents as James Perry Collett and his wife Eunice
Tollitt. |
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A total of
ten children were both to James and Eunice, as listed below, and in 1940 the
expanded family was residing within Ward 1 of Salt Lake City Precinct. James P Collett was 40, Eunice was 39, and
their seven children were Virginia Collett, who was 16, June Collett, who was
14, James Collett, who was 13, Donna Collett, who was 10, Douglas Collett,
who was nine, Gerald Collett, who was six, and George Collett who was two
years old. By that time it is possible
the eldest child Beth was married. No
record of the death of James Perry Collett has so far been found, but his
wife Eunice Adeline Collett ne Tollitt died at Alameda in California on 6th
February 1983. |
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James Perry
Collett was the grandfather of Kathy Ringwood of Washington, USA, her mother
being Virginia Collett (1923-1999). |
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72S12
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Beth Collett |
Born in 1919
at Salt Lake City |
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72S13
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Marjorie
Collett |
Born in 1921
at Salt Lake City |
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72S14
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Virginia
Collett |
Born in 1923
at Salt Lake City; died 1999 |
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72S15
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June Collett |
Born in 1925
at Salt Lake City |
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72S16
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James Collett |
Born in 1927
at Salt Lake City |
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72S17
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Beverley
Collett |
Born in 1928
at Salt Lake City |
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72S18
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Donna Collett |
Born in 1930
at Salt Lake City |
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72S19
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Douglas
Collett |
Born in 1931
at Salt Lake City |
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72Q20
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Gerald
Collett |
Born in 1934
at Salt Lake City |
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72Q21
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George
Collett |
Born in 1938
at Salt Lake City |
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72S1 |
Doris J Collett was born in 1923, her birth recorded
at Wycombe register office (Ref. 3a 1610) during the
third quarter of that year, the elder of the two children of Walter George
Collett and Doris Rackstraw. The birth
record also confirmed that the mother’s maiden was Rackstraw. It was also at Wycombe that her marriage to
Henry J Pilgrim was recorded (Ref. 6a 963) during the last three months of
1960. |
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72S2 |
Edward George Collett was born in 1926, the son of Walter
George Collett and Doris Rackstraw.
His birth was recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 3a 1489)
during the third quarter of 1that year, when his mother’s maiden name was
confirmed as Rackstraw. He was twenty-six
when he married Wendy P Harris in 1952, the event recorded at Wycombe
register office (Ref. 6a 1211) during the third quarter of the year. |
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72T1
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Michael George Collett |
Born in 1953
at Wooburn/Wycombe |
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72T2
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Pamela J Collett |
Born in 1955
at Wooburn/Wycombe |
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72T3
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Jayne S Collett |
Born in 1959
at Wooburn/Wycombe |
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72S3 |
Rosa F Collett was born at West Ham where her birth
was recorded (Ref. 4a 464) during the second quarter of 1915, the eldest of
the two daughters of Arthur Collett and Eva Louisa Phyllis Robinson. The record of her birth confirmed her
mother’s maiden was Robinson. Rosa and
her sister Vera (below) were married on the same day in a joint wedding, as
confirmed by the consecutive records at East Ham register office. Rosa F Collett married Arthur Henry J W
Warner (Ref. 4a 690) during the third quarter of 1939. Arthur was born at Green on 5th
May 1914 and he died at Havering in Essex during the month of November 1995. |
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72S4 |
Vera M Collett was born in 1918 and her birth like
that of her sister Rosa (above) was recorded West Ham register office (Ref.
4a 354) during the second quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden name
was confirmed as Robinson. It was at
East Ham in Essex that the marriage of Vera M Collett and Arthur G W Brown
was recorded (Ref. 4a 700) during the third quarter of 1939. Arthur was born at West Ham in the third
quarter of 1912 (Ref. 4a 266) and his passing was recorded at Redbridge in
Essex (Ref. 5d 584) during the second quarter of 1966. |
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72S8 |
Dorothy E Collett was born in Essex and her birth was
recorded at Rochford register office (Ref. 4a 1327) during the first quarter
of 1916, the daughter of William Lawrence Collett and Louisa Dent. The marriage of Dorothy E Collett and
William C Stalley was recorded at Southend-on-Sea in Essex (Ref. 4a 1869)
during the second quarter of 1949. It
was during the following year that Dorothy presented William with their only
known child, with the birth of Julie E Stalley recorded at Rochford register
office (Ref. 4a 774) during the last three months of 1950. |
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72S10 |
David Collett was born in 1952, his birth recorded
at Amersham register office (Ref. 6a 381) during the second quarter of 1952,
when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as White. He was the eldest of the two children of
Alan Ben Collett and Joan L White. He
was 21 years old when his marriage to Jean Patterson was recorded as Amersham
(Ref. 6a 906) during the second quarter of 1973. So far, the research has not identified any
children. |
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72T1 |
Michael George Collett was born in 1953, his birth recorded
at Wycombe register office (Ref. 6a 609) during the second quarter of that
year, when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Harris, the wife of
Edward George Collett. In 1982 Michael
G Collett married Toni Fenton, the wedding recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 19 1685)
during the second quarter of the year.
Nine months later Toni presented Michael with the first of their two
children. Both births were recorded at
Wycombe register office, the first during the fourth quarter of 1982 (Ref. 19
1957), the second during the third quarter of 1984 (Ref. 19 2250. On both occasions the mother’s maiden name
was confirmed as Fenton. |
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72U1
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Daniel George
Collett |
Born in 1982
at Wooburn/Wycombe |
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72U2
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Jason Frank
Collett |
Born in 1984
at Wooburn/Wycombe |
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72T2 |
Pamela J Collett was born in 1955, the second child and
eldest daughter of Edward and Wendy Collett.
Her birth, like those of her two siblings, was recorded at Wycombe
(Ref. 6a 559) during the final three months of the year. Pamela was twenty-two when she married John
M Waite, the event recorded at Wycombe register office (Ref. 19 1852) during
the third quarter of 1978. |
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72T3 |
Jayne S Collett was born in 1959, the third and last child
of Edward George Collett and Wendy Pamela Harris. It was at Wycombe that her birth was
recorded (Ref. 6a 837) during the second quarter of 1959. Jayne was nearly twenty-two when she was
married to Eoin Donnelly, as recorded at Wycombe (Ref. 19 1088) during the
first three months of 1981. |
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