PART EIGHTY-ONE

The West Derby (Liverpool) Line

Updated in March 2024

Richard Collett [81N1] was very likely born within the 1820s

81O1 - Joseph Richard Collett was born in 1851 at Derbyshire

Joseph Richard Collett [81O1] was, according to the census in 1851, born in Derbyshire who, at the age of 18, was imprisoned in Lancashire from 1869 to 1872, although no details of his crime have been unearthed, but that does account for the fact that no census record for him has been found in 1871. In subsequent census returns he repeated that he had been born in Derbyshire, with just the census in 1901 stating his place of birth was Gloucestershire. Three years after his release from gaol, Joseph Collett, a bachelor, married much older (1) Mary Dodd, a widow, at Great Harwood in Lancashire on 5^th June 1875, when the groom was confirmed as the son of Richard Collett, and the bride was named as the daughter of James Hutton. As Mary Hutton, she was baptised at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Bury on 7^th September 1856, the child of James and Jane Hutton. The baptism record also confirmed that Mary was an adult aged 23, having been born at Bury on 22^nd June 1833, whose father was watchman. It therefore appears likely that the event presumably took place just prior to her church wedding with her first husband, Mr Dodd.

Despite not locating the death of his first wife before the end of the 1870s, it was on 25^th December 1880, that Joseph Collett married (2) Elizabeth Sweetland, with their wedding conducted at St Mary’s Church in Kirkdale, Lancashire, when Joseph was a widower and the son of Richard Collett, while Elizabeth was a spinster and the daughter of John Sweetland. Elizabeth was born on 24^th February 1860 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Liverpool on 8^th April 1860, the daughter of John and Margaret Sweetland. Three months after their wedding day, Joseph and Elizabeth were boarders at 22 Sidney Place in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool within the West Derby registration district, the home of miller George Marshall and his wife and family. While Elizabeth from Liverpool was 21, her husband Joseph was 28 and a porter, who said he was born at Bedford in Bedfordshire, which was obviously not true. In fact, it may have been his criminal activities that meant he shied away from the truth when it can to admitting where he was actually born, as it varied with every census return

In 1891 the couple and their three sons were living at Adelaide Street in the Everton-Liverpool area, where Joseph was a carter aged 40 who gave his place of birth as Bedford in Derbyshire, when his wife was 29, Joseph junior was six, Thomas was three, and David was two months old. Before the birth of daughter Alice, the family moved to Bootle where they were living when she was born. The census of 1901 identified the enlarged family living at 16 Elm Street within the parish of Bootle St Mary at Bootle-cum-Linacre near Litherland, still under the West Derby registration district of Liverpool. By that time in his life, Joseph was 49 and a railway carters foreman, whose county of birth was said to be Gloucestershire. Elizabeth was 39, Joseph junior was 16, Thomas was 13, David was 10, Margaret was six, and Alice was one year of age. Apart from Joseph and daughter Alice, who was born in Bootle, all the other members of the family was recorded as born in Liverpool.

Three years later Elizabeth gave birth to another daughter, the couple’s last child. According to the next census in 1911, Joseph Collett from Derbyshire was 59 and a railway drayman with the Midland Railway Company, who was residing at 114 Linacre Road, Litherland, not far from where the family was living ten years earlier, being just east of their previous address at Elm Street. His wife Elizabeth was 48, Joseph junior was 26 and a carter, Thomas was 23 and a dock labourer, David was 20 and a carter for a greengrocer, Margaret was 16 and a B W assistant at a lighthouse, Alice was 11 and at school, as was Charlotte who was seven years old. Every member of the household, excluding Joseph senior, had been born in Liverpool

Fifteen years after that census day, the death of Joseph Collett, aged 74, was recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 413) during the second quarter of 1925. Within the Appendix at the end of this family line is another Joseph Collett whose son’s birth was also recorded at West Derby

81P1 - Joseph Richard Collett was born in 1884 at Liverpool

81P2 - Thomas William Collett was born in 1887 at Liverpool

81P3 - David Collett was born in 1890 at Liverpool

81P4 - Margaret Ann Collett was born in 1894 at Kirkdale, Bootle

81P5 - Elizabeth Mary Collett was born in 1898 at Kirkdale, Bootle

81P6 - Alice Evelyn Collett was born in 1899 at Kirkdale, Bootle

81P7 - Elizabeth Charlotte Collett was born in 1903 at Litherland

Joseph Richard Collett [81P1] was born in Liverpool on 2^nd October 1884, with his birth registered at West Derby (Ref. 8b 424) during the fourth quarter of 1884. He was the first-born child of Joseph Richard Collett and his second wife Elizabeth Sweetland and, at the age of six years, he was living with his family at Adelaide Street in Everton area of Liverpool in 1891. Ten years later the family was residing at 16 Elm Street in Linacre, Bootle, where Joseph Collett was 16. After that day the family moved to its long-term home at 114 Linacre Road, Litherland, where unmarried Joseph Collett was 26 in 1911, from where he was working as a carter.

Four years later The Bootle Times on 11^th June 1915, reporting on the death of his brother Thomas (below), also mentioned Joseph as follows:

Pte Joseph Collett, who was draft out to France on 7^th March 1915, has sent home an interesting diary of events in France. This shows that ten days after arrival in France he was trench digging in front of the firing line and, on 20^th March, he went into the trenches for the first time. Good Friday was also spent in the trenches. Under the date of 17^th April, Joseph reported that “we marched straight from Bethune into the trenches; had a very hot time, four wounded, one killed.” On April 23^rd there is an entry which does not occur elsewhere – “had bath”. There is a great deal behind the following laconic entries with which the diary closes. May 15^th – big night attack – A and B Companies take part. May 16^th – C Company and 5^th King’s make bayonet attack. May 17^th – Wounded. Went to Boulogne.

The Bootle Times article continued saying “Many friends of Pte Collett will wish him a quick recovery and the best of luck. In a letter to the Editor of the Bootle Times, Pte Joseph Collett says “I must let you know how we so-called ‘Saturday afternoon soldiers’ went into the charge. Two of our companies, A and B, took three lines of trenches, and C and D Companies had to move forward to support them. Over open ground we charged, only to be mown down by the enemy’s machine guns. We lost heavily, but those who were not killed crawled into safety until stretcher-bearers took them away. We captured prisoners and machine guns, in addition to the trenches. Since our battalion has been at the front, they have been highly praised for their coolness in the firing line and in attack. Some of the wounded, besides myself, are Privates G Gorman, W Litter, O’Donnell, Wetherby, Bryant, and H Smith.”

It was during the war years that Joseph Richard Collett, while on home leave and recovering from his injuries, married Mabel M Bell with their wedding recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 900) during the second quarter of 1917. Mabel Mary Bell was born at Orwell Road, Kirkdale, Walton-on-the-Hill in Liverpool in 1896, the eldest daughter of John Walter Bell and Emily Bell. It was at the Church of St Athanasios in Kirkdale that she was baptised on 20^th December 1896. During the first fifteen years of their married life together Mabel presented Joseph with four daughters and one son, who were born at Bootle with their births all recorded at West Derby registered office, when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bell. Tragically, their first child did not survive, with the birth of Lilian L Collett recorded during the second quarter of 1918 (Ref. 8b 572), followed by her death which was also recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 416) during the last three months of 1919 at the age of one year.

Despite being so much younger than her husband, Mabel Mary Collett died at Bootle on 20^th January 1973 and was buried at Bootle Cemetery, after which her passing was recorded at Lancashire register office (Ref. 10b 2060). Her death certificate confirmed that she had been born on 5^th December 1896. Just over a year later she was joined by her husband, when the death of Joseph Richard Collett was recorded at Liverpool register office (Vol. 36 1324) during the second quarter of 1974 when he was 89 years old.

81Q1 - Lilian L Collett was born in 1918 at Bootle (West Derby)

81Q2 - Edith Mary Collett was born in 1919 at Bootle (West Derby)

81Q3 - Doris Victoria Collett was born in 1921 at Bootle (West Derby)

81Q4 - Douglas Haig Collett was born in 1927 at Bootle (West Derby)

81Q5 - Jean L Collett was born in 1931 at Bootle (West Derby)

Thomas William Collett [81P2] was born at Liverpool in 1887, with his birth registered at West Derby (Ref. 8b 314) during the last three months of that year, the second son of Joseph and Elizabeth Collett. He may have been born at Adelaide Street, where his younger brother David was born and his family was living in 1891 when Thoms Collett was three years old. A couple of years later the family was residing at 16 Elm Street in Linacre, Bootle, where Joseph Collett was 16. After that day the family moved to a more permanent home at 114 Linacre Road, Litherland, where unmarried Joseph Collett was 26 in 1911, from where he was working as a dock labourer.

It was at Bootle that he enlisted for duty in the First World War on 5^th August 1914 and was killed in action on 16^th May 1915. The Evening Express on 6^th June reported that “One of three brothers, Pte T W Collett of the 7^th King’s, is among the fallen. He was 26 years of age, and was one of the three brothers who joined up at the outbreak of war. He was employed by Messrs F Smith, engineers, Chapel Street, Bootle, and resided with his parents at 114 Linacre Road, Litherland. A brother is lying in hospital wounded, and a third is still fighting the countries battles.”

Another article, printed in the Bootle Times on 25^th June 1915 stated that “Pte T W Collett, who fell in action on 16^th May 1915 aged 25, was formerly secretary of the Liverpool Battalion of the Ulster Volunteers. One of his brothers has been wounded, and another is still in the firing line, Great sympathy is felt for his parents who reside at 114 Linacre Road in Litherland.”

Thomas William Collett, service number 2030, of the 7^th Battalion of The King’s Liverpool Regiment was buried at Rue-des-Berceaux Military Cemetery at Richebourg-L’Avoue, Pas de Calais. He is also remembered by the Mersey Roll of Honour, and is commemorated on local memorials at Litherland Civic Memorial, St Andrew’s Church of England Church in Linacre, and at his school, Lander Road School in Litherland.

David Collett [81P3] was born at Adelaide Street in Liverpool in the early months of 1891 and was another son of Joseph and Elizabeth Collett, when his birth was recorded at the West Derby register office in Liverpool (Ref. 8b 316) during the second quarter of 1891. It was also at Adelaide Street that was David was two months old in 1891, while in 1901 he and his family were recorded at 16 Elm Street in Bootle-cum-Linacre near Litherland when David was ten years old and his place of birth was Liverpool. After a further decade David Collett from Liverpool was 20 and carter working for a greengrocer, when he and his completed family were recorded at 114 Linacre Road in Litherland where they were still living during the First World War. Nothing further is known about him or his marital status, other than that David Collett died during 1936 at the age of 45, with his death recorded at Lancashire register office (Ref. 8b 372).

Margaret Ann Collett [81P4] was born at 16 Elm Street within the Kirkdale-Bootle district of north Liverpool on 15^th July 1894, the fourth child and eldest daughter of Joseph Collett and Elizabeth Sweetland, his second wife. The birth was recorded at the Liverpool West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 447) during the third quarter of the year and, almost immediately thereafter, she was baptised at St Mary’s Church at Walton-on-the-Hill, midway between Kirkdale and Bootle, on 30^th July 1894. As simply Margaret Collett, she was six years old on the day of the census in 1901 when she was living with her family at 16 Elm Street in Bootle-cum-Linacre. At the end of that decade Margaret and her family were recorded in the census of 1911 at 114 Linacre Road in Litherland just of few miles north of where they were living in ten years earlier, with Margaret being 16 years old and employed as a B W assistant at a lighthouse. What happened to her after 1911 is not known, except that it was under her maiden-name that the later death of Margaret Ann Collett was recorded at Lancashire register office (Vol. 36 0879) in 1981 when her date of birth was as indicated above.

Elizabeth Mary Collett [81P5] was born at 16 Elm Street in the Kirkdale-Bootle area in 1897 with her birth recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 477) during the second quarter of the year. Using her full name, she was baptised at St Mary’s Church at Walton-on-the-Hill on 16^th August 1897, another daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Collett. Tragically, before reaching her second birthday, she died either at the end of 1898 or just after the start of 1899, when her death was recorded at Liverpool West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 377) during the first quarter of the latter year.

Alice Evelyn Collett [81P6] was born at 16 Elm Street in Kirkdale-Bootle on 9^th October 1899, although her birth was recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 5b 347) during the last three months of 1899 with the name Alice Eveline Collett. Upon being baptised at the Kirkdale Church of St Mary, Walton-on-the-Hill, on 21^st November 1899 she was recorded at Alice Evelyn Collett, the fifth child of Joseph Collett and Elizabeth Sweetland. As just Alice Collett aged one year, she was listed with her family at 16 Elm Street in Bootle-cum-Linacre in the census return for 1901. During the following decade her family moved a short distance north and in 1911 was residing at 114 Linacre Road in Litherland, where Alice was eleven years of age and attending school.

Alice was 21 when she married Robert J Roberts with their wedding day recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 743) during the first three months of 1922, where she was named as Alice E Collett. The marriage produced three children for the couple, with all three births also recorded at the Liverpool West Derby register office, when the mother’s maiden-name in each case was confirmed as Collett. They were Ivy E Robert (Ref. 8b 425) in the second quarter of 1923, George W Roberts (Ref. 8b 622) at the start of 1926, and Stanley J Robert (Ref. 8b 569) during the summer of 1928. The birth of Robert John Roberts was also recorded at West Derby (Ref. 8b 444) in the spring of 1900, the son of Thomas and Sarah Roberts. His First World War military record with the Royal Air Force, dated 16^th October 1918, gave his date of birth as 28^th April 1900, and his place of birth as Liverpool, when he was student wireless operator aged 18. It was simply as Alice Roberts aged 49 that her death was recorded at Lancashire register office (Ref. 10d 313) in 1948. It is possible that the Robert John Roberts who was buried at Allerton Cemetery in Liverpool on 17^th September 1937, was her husband, but not yet confirmed.

Elizabeth Charlotte Collett [81P7] was born on 6^th June 1903, possibly at 16 Elm Street in Bootle-cum-Linacre, the last child born to Joseph Collett and Elizabeth Sweetland, whose birth was recorded at West Derby register office in Liverpool (Ref. 8b 352) during the third quarter of that year. With the family now completed, perhaps large accommodation was required because by 1911, when Charlotte Collett was seven years of age, she and her family were residing at 114 Linacre Road in Litherland, just to the north of where the family was living when Charlotte was born. There is the possibility that she continued to be known as simply Charlotte, as Charlotte Collett married Cecil Davidson with their wedding recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 1243) during the third quarter of 1928 when she was 25. The births of first two of their three children were recorded at West Derby register office; William C Davidson in 1929, and Phyllis M Davidson in 1931, with the birth of Ronald G Davidson in 1937 recorded at Bootle register. In all three cases, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. The later death of Charlotte Davidson was recorded at Lancashire register office (Ref. 10b 1717) during 1972, when her date of birth was birth was confirmed as 6^th June 1903

Edith Mary Collett [81Q2] was born in 1919 at Bootle and was the eldest surviving child of Joseph Richard Collett junior and Mabel Mary Bell. Her birth was recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 622) during the third quarter of that year, her older sister Lilian suffering an infant death when Edith was only a couple of months old herself. It was during the summer of 1941 when the marriage of Edith M Collett and Owen E Hughes was recorded at Bootle register office (Ref. 8b 667). The births of their two daughters, Jean L Hughes and Edith M Hughes, were recorded at Lancashire register office (Ref. 8b 622) in 1945 and (Ref. 10c 77) in 1948, when Collett was confirmed as their mother’s maiden-name. When Edith M Hughes died on 23^rd July 1970, she was buried at Toxteth Park Cemetery. Seven years after being widowed, the death of Owen Eilian Hughes was recorded at Lancashire register office (Vol. 40 2103) during 1977, when his date of birth was reported to be 2^nd January 1916. The birth of Owen Eilian Hughes was recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 628) at the start of 1916.

Doris Victoria Collett [81Q3] was born at Bootle on 10^th September 1921, another daughter of Joseph and Mabel Collett, whose birth was recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 605) during the last three months of that year, with her mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Bell. She was still twenty years of age when the marriage of Doris V Collett and Henry Mount was recorded at Bootle register office (Ref. 8b 538) during the first three months of 1942. Their marriage only produced one child, their daughter Diane F Mount, whose birth was recorded at Liverpool North register office (Ref. 8b 563) during the last three months of 1943. The later death of Doris Victoria Mount was recorded at Lancashire register office (Vol. 40 2466) during 1991 when she was nearly 70 years old. Three years prior to that, the death of Henry Mount was recorded at West Lancashire register office (Vol. 40 2452) at the start of 1988 when he was also 70 years old, having been born on 18^th February 1918.

Douglas Haig Collett [81Q4] was born at Bootle on 29^th July 1927, the fourth child and only son of Joseph and Mabel Collett. His birth, like those of his sister, was recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 793) during the third quarter of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bell. He was 23 years old when the marriage of Douglas H Collett and Jean Black was recorded at the Liverpool Crosby register office (Ref. 10c 248) during the summer of 1950. Over the following fifteen years Jean gave birth to eight children, which included a set of twins. The fact that their births were registered at different locations within the Liverpool area may indicate that Douglas’ work involved moving around. For all eight births, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Black.

The death of Douglas Haig Collett was recorded at Lancashire register office (Vol. 5901 1a) in 1993 when he was 66. It may have been at Bootle that he passed away, since he was laid to rest at Bootle Cemetery,

81R1 - Douglas Haig Collett junior was born in 1952 at Liverpool

81R2 - Margaret J Collett was born in 1953 at Crosby, Liverpool

81R3 - David G Collett was born in 1954 at Crosby, Liverpool

81R4 - William C Collett was born in 1957 at Bootle (Ref. 10d 735) Qrt 1

81R5 - Philip John Collett was born in 1962 at Crosby, Liverpool

81R6 - Stephen R Collett was born in 1963 at Crosby, Liverpool

81R7 - Alan R Collett was born in 1965 at Liverpool North

81R8 - Gillian I Collett was born in 1965 at Liverpool North (Ref. 10d 619) Qrt 2

Jean L Collett [81Q5] was born at Bootle on 16^th October 1931 and was the last child of Joseph Richard Collett and Mabel M Bell, her birth recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 773) during the first three months of that year. It is possible that she never because it would appear that she died while still residing in Bootle, where Jean Collett was buried at Bootle Cemetery during 2006, and the age of 74.

Douglas Haig Collett [81R1] junior was born during the summer of 1952, perhaps in Crosby where his parents were married two years earlier, and where their next two children were born. His birth recorded at the Liverpool North register office (Ref. 10d 183) in the third quarter of that year, the eldest of the eight children of Douglas Haig Collett senior and his wife Jean, whose maiden-name was confirmed as Black. Douglas was around twenty-three years old when he became a married man, when the wedding of Douglas H Collett and Brenda E Seddon was recorded at West Lancashire register office (Vol. 40 2276) during the third quarter of 1975. Four years later their family had been completed following the birth of a son and a daughter, with their births recorded at the West Lancashire register office when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Seddon.

81S1 – Stephen Allan Collett was born in 1976 at West Lancashire

81S2 – Lisa Jane Collett was born in 1979 at West Lancashire

Margaret J Collett [81R2] was born at Crosby, Liverpool, in 1953 with his birth recorded there (Ref. 10c 88) during the last quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Black. Margaret was the second child and eldest daughter of Douglas and Jean Collett and was twenty-six when the marriage of Margaret J Collett and Gerald J Foley was recorded at Sefton South register office (Vol. 37 0297) during the spring of 1980. By that time, the couple already had a son Barry James Foley who had been born around six to nine months earlier, with his birth recorded at Liverpool register office (Vol. 36 1641) during the third quarter of 1879 when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed at Collett. Margaret and Gerald had a daughter who was born just over two years after their wedding day, when the birth of Katie Louise Foley was also recorded at Liverpool register office (Vol. 36 1660) during the summer of 1982, with again the mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Collett.

David G Collett [81R3] was born with the Crosby area of Liverpool in 1954, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 10c 133) during the third quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Black. He was another child of Douglas and Jean Collett. The subsequent marriage of David G Collett and Carol Dickinson was also recorded at Crosby (Liverpool) register office (Vol 10c 342) during the summer of 1972, Over the following twelve years, Carol gave birth to four children, with all four births recorded at Liverpool register office, where their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed at Dickinson.

81S3 – Shaun David Collett was born in 1973 at West Lancashire

81S4 – Alan Collett was born in 1975 at West Lancashire (Vol. 36 1725) Qrt 2

81S5 – Michelle Collett was born in 1976 at West Lancashire (Vol. 36 1534) Qrt 4

81S6 – Emma Louise Collett was born in 1984 at West Lancashire (Vol. 36 1845) Qrt 2

Philip John Collett [81R5] was born at Crosby in 1962, with his birth recorded there (Ref. 10c 147) during the first three months of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Black. He was the fifth of the eight children of Douglas an d Jean Collett. He was still living in Liverpool when he became a married man, with the wedding of Philip J Collett and Ann M Shea was recorded at Liverpool register office (Vol 36 375) in April 1986. Their marriage gave the couple two sons, their births also recorded at Liverpool register office, when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Shea.

81S7 – John Philip Collett was born in 1988 at Liverpool (Vol. 36 521) Qrt 2

81S8 – Joshua Joseph Collett was born in 1992 at Liverpool (Vol. 36 1143) Qrt 4

Stephen R Collett [81R6] was born at Crosby in Liverpool during the spring of 1963, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 10c 124) in the second quarter of the year, with his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Black. It was during September 1987 when the marriage of Stephen R Collett and Jean M Howard was recorded at Sefton South register office (Vol. 37 359). By the autumn of 1993 Jean had given birth to three children, with all three births recorded at Liverpool register office, where Howard was confirmed as their mother’s maiden-name.

81S9 – Jennifer Collett was born in 1989 at Liverpool (Vol. 36 1802) Qrt 1

81S10 – Nicola Rose Collett was born in 1991 at Liverpool (Vol. 36 1589) Qrt 2

81S11 – Stephen Thomas Collett was born in 1993 at Liverpool (Vol. 0251d 9d) Qrt 3

Alan R Collett [81R7] was the youngest son of Douglas Haig Collett and Jean Black and was born at Liverpool in 1965. It was at the Liverpool North register office (Ref. 10d 619) where his birth was recorded in the spring of that year when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Black. It would appear that Alan was married twice, on the first occasion in the summer of 1983, when the marriage of Alan R Collett and Susan M Harrison was recorded at Sefton South register office (Vol. 37 0373). The second time, in October 1999, also at Sefton South (Vol. 032 0315), it was for the marriage of Alan R Collett and Marjorie Garlick. It was a result of the first marriage, that Alan’s first wife presented him with a son very shortly after their wedding day. His birth was recorded at Liverpool register office with the mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Harrison.

81S12 – Christopher Alan Collett was born in 1983 at Liverpool (Vol. 36 1013) Qrt 4

Stephen Allan Collett [81S1] was born near the start of 1976, the first-born of the two children of Douglas Haig Collett junior and his wife Brenda E Seddon, whose birth was recorded at the West Lancashire register office during the first three months of the year (Vol. 40 2038), when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Seddon. When Stephen would have only been eighteen-and-a-half years old, a wedding of a Stephen A Collett and Michelle E Worthington was recorded at Bury register office in August 1994 (Vol. 003 0311), which may, or may not, have related to Stephen Allan Collett, son of Douglas Haig Collett junior. Six years after that event, the wedding of Stephen A Collett and Donna Moscrop was also recorded at Bury register office (Vol. 003 0344) during the month of July in 2000, when he would have been 24 years old. The second of these marriages produced a daughter, Annalise, when her birth was recorded at Bury register office (Vol. 0031b b73b) in September 2002, with the mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Moscrop.

81T1 – Annalise Collett was born in September 2002 at Bury

Lisa Jane Collett [81S2] was born during the first weeks and month of 1979 when her birth as the youngest child of Douglas Haig Collett and his wife Brenda was recorded at West Lancashire register office (Vol. 40 2168), with her mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Seddon. Lisa was just over twenty years of age and still living with her parents in West Lancashire area, when the marriage of Lisa J Collett and Christopher A Bond was also recorded there (Vol. 590 1859) during the month of September in 1999.

Shaun David Collett [81S3] was born in 1973 and was the eldest of the four children of David G Collett and Carol Dickinson. His birth was recorded at West Lancashire register office (Vol.10d 1654) during the first three months of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Dickinson. He was thirty-one years of when the marriage of Shaun David Collett and Jennifer L Linder was recorded at Liverpool register office (Vol. 025 0075) during the month of August in 2004. Just over one year after their wedding day, Jennifer presented Shaun with a son, with the birth also recorded at Liverpool register office (Vol. 0251e e49d) when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Linder.

81T2 – Jack Philip Collett was born in October 2005 at Liverpool

APPENDIX

William Collett [81n1] would possibly have been born around the 1820s or earlier. The only facts currently known about him are that his wife was Maria Prout and their son was born in the Liverpool area in 1851. Whether there were other children has still to be determined.

81o1 – Joseph Collett was born in 1851 at Liverpool (West Derby)

Joseph Collett [81o1] was born at Toxteth Park in Liverpool on 6^th February 1851, the son of William Collett and Maria Prout. The later marriage of Joseph Collett and Agnes Stockdale, after the reading of banns, took place at St Michael’s Church in Liverpool on 19^th February 1874, when the witnesses were Mary Jane Stockdale (Agnes’ sister) and Peter McLelland. Joseph as 23 and a boiler maker residing at 173 Upper Frederick Street, whose father was named as William Collett, a cooper. Agnes was 21 with no occupation, living at 253 Upper Frederick Street and the daughter of William Stockdale, a licenced victualler, and his wife Margaret McLelland from Scotland. Their wedding was registered in Liverpool (Ref. 8b 116) during the first three months of 1874. Less than seven months later that same year the couple’s first child was born, followed two years after by the first of two daughters. On the day of the next census in 1881 the five members of the family were recorded at 121 Beaufort Street in the Toxteth Park district of south-east Liverpool. Apart from head of the household Joseph who was 31 and a boiler maker born at Toxteth Park, the four other members of his family had been born in Liverpool. They were his wife Agnes who was 27, son William who was six, and Lilian who was four years of age, with both them attending the local school by then, and one year old Peter.

On that census, Agnes was already expecting the birth of the couple’s third child in six months’ time, with daughter Gladys Jane being born on 27^th September 1881 when the family was again residing at 121 Beaufort Street in Toxteth Park. The birth certificate also confirmed the father’s occupation as a boiler maker and the mother’s maiden-name as Stockdale, who was also the informant of the birth. Nine years later, another daughter was added to their family, with the possibility that other children may have been born to the couple during the years in between. On that occasion, in June 1890, the family’s home address was Cleopas Street in Toxteth Park. One year later, the enlarged family was living at Cleopas Street in Toxteth Park when their surname was recorded in error as Callett. Joseph was 41 and an iron ship builder, Agnes was 36, William was 16 and an office boy, Lilian was 13 and still at school, as were Peter aged 11, Gladys who was nine, Margaret who was seven, Sydney who was five, and Harold who was three years old. The latest addition to the family, nine-month-old Agnes, was absent that day, but was with the family thereafter.

At the start of the new century, the Collett family home was again at Cleopas Street in Toxteth in 1901 when the family comprised Joseph Collett aged 51 who was an iron shipwright, Agnes Collett who was 47, unmarried son William Collett who was 27 and a rice and flour salesman, unmarried daughter Lilian Collett who was 24 and a cloakroom attendant, Peter Collett who was 21 and the manager at a musical instrument store, Gladys Collett who was 19 and a general domestic servant, Margaret Collett who was 17 with no stated job of work, Harold Collett who was 12, Agnes Collett who was 10, and Percy Collett who eight years of age. Every member of the family had been born in Liverpool. Ten year later, as Toxteth Park, Joseph was retired, a former shipwright with the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board at the Port of Liverpool, by which time he was 61, Agnes was 58, Lily was 33 and a waitress in a café, as were Gladys 28 and Margaret 27, Harold was 22 and a ship’s steward with a Steam Ship Company, and Agnes was 20 and a shop assistant at a ladies outfitters. Completing the household that day was another employee at the café, 25-year-old May Dickinson, an assistant at the café, who was boarding with the family.

In the last three census returns above, for 1891, 1901, and 1911, Joseph Collett was recorded as being 47, 57, and 67, making his year of birth around 1844, which it was not, being only three or four years older than his wife. Only in the census was he recorded with his correct aged. Therefore, it must be considered that the 1 was misinterpreted as a 7 in each case. In August 1923 Joseph’s unmarried daughter Agnes travelled to America with her young nephew Sydney G R Collett [81q1] when the passenger list revealed that her father was residing at 102 Coltart Road in the Princes Park district of Liverpool. It was therefore a year later that Joseph Collett died there on 4^th August 1924 and was buried at nearby Toxteth Park Cemetery on 7^th August 1924. After a further twenty-one years as a widow, Agnes Collett passed away on 11^th April 1945 at Hough Green in Widnes, south-east of Liverpool. She had been born Liverpool in 1853, and her death was recorded at Lancashire register office (Ref. 8b 544) when she was 92. Five days later, she was buried on 16^th April 1945 at Allerton Cemetery, just south of where she had lived for much of her life.

Another Joseph Collett born in England on 27^th February 1851 was born at Cheltenham, the youngest son of William Collett of Rodborough in Gloucestershire, where he was born around 1810, and his wife Deidamia (Dedemia) Prout from Nympfield in Gloucestershire of Gloucester Road in Alstone, Cheltenham. His eldest sibling was born in Canada in 1836, although most of the other siblings were born in Cheltenham. By the time Joseph was ten years old, he and his family were living in the County of York, at Toronto in Ontario. And it was there that he and his wife Isabella Johnston raised six known children between 1885 and 1896. That Joseph died at the age of 79 when he was a widower living at 5 Doncliffe Drive in Toronto, where he passed away on 9^th November 1929 and is the subject of a separate Collett family tree, that being Part 82 – The Toronto (Ontario) Collett Family From Cheltenham in England. Rather curiously, and an obvious a mistake made in error, the Canadian record of his death described him as the son of William Collett [81n1] and Maria Prout, and that he was born on 6^th February 1851, instead of 27^th February 1851 [in Cheltenham], with his married daughter Catherine, Mrs Carl Vivian Wallace, as the informant of his death, which is true.

81p1 – William Stockdale Collett was born in 1874 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool

81p2 – Lilian Stockdale Collett was born in 1877 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool

81p3 – Peter Herbert Collett was born in 1879 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool

81p4 – Gladys Jane Collett was born in 1881 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool

81p5 – Margaret Ethel Collett was born in 1884 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool

81p6 – Sydney Herbert Collett was born in 1886 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool

81p7 – Harold James Collett was born in 1888 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool

81p8 – Agnes Collett was born in 1890 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool

81p9 – Percy Collett was born in 1893 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool

William Stockdale Collett [81p1] was born at Toxteth Park in Liverpool on 2^nd September 1874 and was the first child born to Joseph Collett and his wife Agnes Stockdale, with his birth registered at Liverpool West Derby (Ref. 8b 218) during the last quarter of that year. On that day the Collett family was living at 11a Northumberland Street in Toxteth Park, when the informant for the birth was M Stockdale, occupier of 11a Northumberland Street, that being William’s mother-in-law Margaret Stockdale. At the age of six years William Collett was living with his family at 121 Beaufort Street in the Toxteth Park. On leaving school, he took a what was a temporary job as an office boy and in 1891 he was 16 and still living with his family at Toxteth Park, but at Cleopas Street, where they were again recorded in 1901. By that time William had established himself in the rice and flour business where he was a salesman at the age of 27. Over the preceding weeks he had been preparing to become a married man.

Just over a week after that census day, the marriage of William Stockdale Collett and Sarah Turner took place in the parish of her birth at the Church of St Mary & St James in Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, on 10^th April 1901. William from Liverpool was 25 and the son of Joseph Collett, while Sarah was 22, the daughter of William and Mary Turner, who had been born a Horncastle in Lincolnshire on 16^th August 1878.

Their wedding day was recorded at Grimsby register office (Ref. 7a 1647) during the second quarter of 1901 and it was virtually one year later that the couple’s first child was born at 114 Alwyn Street in Toxteth Park and was followed by the birth of a further two sons prior to the next census. That situation was confirmed in the census conducted in 1911 when the family was residing at Toxteth Park, where William S Collett was 36 and a rice salesman employed at a local rice mill. With him that day was his wife Sarah aged 32 and from Grimsby in Lincolnshire, sons Sydney who was nine, Herbert who was seven, and Arthur who was six years old.

It was during the last week of August in 1923, when William’s eldest son Sydney travelled to America with his maiden aunt Agnes Collett [81p8], where he created a new branch of the family after settling in New York. The passenger list of the S S Celtic confirmed that he was the son of William Collett of 99 Blythswood Street within the Aigburth district of South Liverpool.

On 37^th November 1948, William and Sarah attended the wedding of their 44-year-old son Arthur Stockdale Collett at Prestatyn, North Wales, when he married 35-year-old Amelia Margaret Hughston (Peggy) Jarrett.

That day William was 74 and Sarah was 70.

Ten years later, William’s home address was 37 Lynmouth Road in Liverpool, although it was at Sefton General Hospital in Sefton Park, where William Stockdale Collett, a retired rice broker, died on 7^th December 1958 at the age of 84, when his death was recorded at Liverpool South register office (Ref. 10d 520). The informant of his passing was his youngest son A S Collett, also of 37 Lynmouth Road, when the causes of death were recorded as pulmonary embolus, perforated diverticulitis, and left ventricular strain. The extended family joined in the celebration of his widow’s 100^th birthday in 1978, after which it was one year, five months, and four days later, that Sarah Collett, nee Turner, died in Liverpool on 20^th January 1980, where her passing was recorded (Vol. 36 0763).

81q1 – Sydney George Reginald Collett was born in 1902 at Liverpool

81q2 – William Herbert Collett was born in 1903 at Liverpool

81q3 – Arthur Stockdale Collett was born in 1904 at Liverpool

81q4 – Alice L Collett was born in 1912 at Liverpool

81q5 – Florence J Collett was born in 1917 at Liverpool

81q6 – Zena Sarah Collett was born in 1922 at Liverpool

Lilian Stockdale Collett [81p2] was born in Liverpool with her birth registered at Liverpool West Derby (Ref. 8b 241) during the first three months of 1877. She was the second child and eldest daughter of Joseph Collett and Agnes Stockdale, who were living at 11a Northumberland Street in Toxteth Park two years earlier, so Lilian may have also been born there. Alternatively, she may have been born at 121 Beaufort Street in the Toxteth Park, where the family was living in 1881 when Lilian was four years old and already attending school. Ten years later the family was still living in Toxteth Park, but at Cleopas Street, where Lilian Collett was 13 years of age and was still continuing her education. She was still a single lady in 1901 when she was 24 and a cloakroom attendant who was once again living with her family at Cleopas Street. By 1911, Lilian was one of five grown-up children living with their parents at Toxteth Park, when she was 33 and working with her two younger sisters as waitresses at a café. She never did marry, and was 84 years old when she died while living in North Wales during August 1961, after which the body of Lilian Stockdale Collett was returned to Toxteth Park to be buried at Allerton Cemetery on 5^th September 1961. Although her burial record stated that her last place of residence was North Wales, the death of Lilian S Collett was recorded at Cheshire register office (Ref. 10a 537) in 1961 when her year of birth was reported to be 1877.

Peter Herbert Collett [81p3] was possibly born at 121 Beaufort Street in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, towards the end of 1879, with his birth registered at Liverpool West Derby (Ref. 8b 204) during the last three months of the year, the third child of Joseph and Agnes Collett. It was also at 121 Beaufort Street that Peter was one years old in 1881, while in 1891 he was 11 and at school when he and the family were residing at Cleopas Street in Toxteth Park. After another decade they were still living at Cleopas Street from where Peter Collett was the manager at a musical instrument store, at the age of 21. Just four years after that census, the marriage of Peter Herbert Collett and Jane Ann Quinnette was recorded at West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 523) during the last quarter of 1905. It was in St Catherine’s Church at Edge Hill, Liverpool, that the wedding ceremony was conducted on 25^th October 1905, when Peter Herbert of 108 Edgware Street was 26 and the son of Joseph Collett, and Jane Ann of 110 Edgware Street was 24 and the daughter of Thomas Benson Quinnette.

According to the next census in 1911, Peter and Jane had given birth to two daughters during the intervening years, by which time the four Liverpool born members of the family were recorded at Kensington, an inner city area of Liverpool immediately to the east of the city centre, bordered by Everton to the north and Edge Hill to the south. That day Peter Herbert Collett was 31 and employed as a superintendent with an insurance company. His wife Jane Ann Collett was 29 and expecting the birth of her third child who was born later that same year. The couple’s current two children were Agnes who was four and Gladys who was two years of age. Many years later, Peter H Collett was 74 when he died on 27^th March 1954 in Blackpool, with his death recorded at Lancashire register office (Ref. 10b 628). After twenty-two years as a widow, Jane was residing in Cheshire when she died at the age of 95 with passing recorded there (Vol 37 0879) in 1976, when her date of birth was reported to be 22^nd June 1881.

81q7 – Agnes Collett was born in 1906 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool

81q8 – Gladys Lilian Collett was born in 1908 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool

81q9 – Herbert Collett was born in 1911 at Kensington, West Derby

Gladys Jane Collett [81p4] was born on 27^th September 1881 at 121 Beaufort Street in Toxteth Park, when her birth was registered at Liverpool Toxteth Park (Ref. 8b 238) during the fourth quarter of the year. She was the fourth child and second daughter of Joseph and Agnes Collett. Gladys was nine years of age in 1891 and one year earlier her sister Agnes was born at Cleopas Street in Toxteth Park, where the family was still living on the day of the census in 1891. It was also at Cleopas Street where Gladys was 19 and working as a general domestic servant in 1901. Ten years later, when Gladys was 28, she was working with two of her sisters as waitresses at a café. She never married and lived a long life which ended up in Northamptonshire where she died on 23^rd May 1976 at the age of 95, when her passing was recorded there (Vol. 9 00655).

Margaret Ethel Collett [81p5] was born in Liverpool on 30^th January 1884, with her birth registered at Liverpool Toxteth Park (Ref. 8b 264) during the first three months of 1884, another daughter of Joseph and Agnes Collett. It is also possible that she was born at 121 Beaufort Street in Toxteth Park, after which the family lived at Cleopas Street in Toxteth Park from around 1890 and until after 1901. In the census of 1891 Margaret was seven years of age and was 17 in 1901 but with no occupation, when she was may have been helping her mother with household chores at Cleopas Street. After another decade, Margaret had joined her two older sisters, when she was a waitress at a café, while still living at home in Toxteth Park aged 27.

At the start of 1919 Margaret Ethel Collett married Joseph Stockton Hind, a chauffeur, when their wedding day was recorded at Toxteth Park register office (Ref. 8b 286) during the first three months of the year. See below. Just over one year later the birth and death of an unnamed son was recorded at Manhattan Maternity Hospital in New York on 31^st May 1920, and was laid to rest at the City Cemetery. Nine years later in September 1929 aged 42 and again in September 1931 aged 44, the couple sailed to New York out of Southampton on the S S Olympic on both occasions. Also making the journey with them both times was Margaret’s younger sister Agnes Collett (below). With their nephew Sydney G R Collett having taken up American citizenship and residing in New York, it is possible they were visiting him and his family.

The later death of Margaret E Hind, who was born in 1884 and who died on 3^rd September 1963, was recorded at Caernarfonshire, North Wales (Ref. 8a 79) during 1963 when she was 79. Her husband appears to have led an interesting life after he was born at Toxteth Park in Liverpool (Ref. 8b 220) on 23^rd October 1886 and baptised at the Church of St Cleopas in Toxteth Park on 28^th November 1886, the son of Samuel and Mary Ellen Hind. Almost immediately following their wedding day, Joseph and Margaret emigrated to America where they arrived on 15^th June 1919. Having lost their only known child just a year later, Joseph eventually applied for American citizenship, with the declaration form completed on 8^th February 1927 when their address was 430 East 65^th Street in New York, from where Joseph was working as chauffeur. It was six years later, that Joseph received a Letter of Expatriation dated 22^nd May 1933 from the United States District Court in New York which stated “This office is in possession of information showing that the person named below has lost United States citizenship since the date of naturalization.” Although it would appear that the couple was still living in America when a social security claim was made on 17^th September 1951, it was not long thereafter that the couple returned to Britain and finally settled in North Wales. Four years later, Joseph Stockton Hind died on 30^th October 1955, when his death was recorded at the Bangor, Caernarfonshire register office (Ref. 8a 73) at the age of 69.

Sydney Herbert Collett [81p6] was born in 1886 at Toxteth Park, the sixth child and fourth son of Joseph and Agnes Collett. His birth was also registered at Liverpool Toxteth Park (Ref. 8b 209) during the second quarter of the year. By 1890 Sydney and his family was residing at 46 Cleopas Street in Toxteth Park, where Sydney was five years old on the day of the census the following year. Tragically, two years later, seven-year-old school boy Sydney H Collett of 46 Cleopas Street in Toxteth Park died and was buried at Toxteth Park Cemetery on 18^th June 1893, when his passing was recorded at Toxteth Park (Ref. 8b 200) during the second quarter of 1893.

Harold James Collett [81p7] was born in 1888 at Toxteth Park, most likely at 46 Cleopas Street where his two younger siblings were born, when his birth was registered at Liverpool Toxteth Park (Ref. 8b 240) during the spring of that year. He was another son of Joseph and Agnes, and it was simply as Harold Collett that he was three years of age in 1891 at 46 Cleopas Street in Toxteth Park and was 12 years old in 1901, again at Cleopas Street. Living within the Port of Liverpool, it may not have been a surprise when Harold left school, that he became drawn to a life on the sea, since he was 22 and still living with his family at Toxteth Park in 1911, by which time he was already employed as a steward with a steam ship company. According to another source, eight years later Harold James Collett was the father of Harold Collett junior who was born somewhere (?) during 1919. So far, the record of Harold senior being married prior to that event, nor the 1919 birth of junior, has been found.

It seems highly likely that Harold continued his working life in the Merchant Navy, where he was still employed during the Second World War, when he completed his military service. However, prior to that, the second (?) marriage of Harold James Collett and Elsie G Leaker was recorded at the Glamorganshire Swansea register office (Ref. 11a 1184) during the first quarter of 1938 at the age of fifty. Later that same year, their daughter and only child was born, when her birth was recorded at Swansea register office during the autumn of 1938, with her mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Leaker. The couple then made their home in that area of South Wales where Harold James Collett was living when he died on 7^th December 1953 at the age of 65, when his death was recorded at Swansea register office (Ref. 8b 639). Elsie Grace was nine years younger than Harold, having been born on 30^th August 1897 at Western Street in Swansea, the daughter of William and Emily Leaker. The later death of Elsie Grace Collett was also recorded at Swansea register office (Vol. 27 2225) during the spring of 1974 at the age of 76.

81q10 – Patricia Grace Collett was born in 1938 at Swansea, Glamorganshire

Agnes Collett [81p8] was born at 46 Cleopas Street in Toxteth Park on 22^nd June 1890, her birth recorded at Liverpool Toxteth Park register office (Ref. 8b 189) during the third quarter of the year. Agnes would have been nine months old on the day of the Toxteth Park census of 1891 but, curiously, she was not listed with her family on that day. Where she was that day remains a mystery, as she was 10 years old in 1901 and living with her family at Cleopas Street. Agnes was the youngest of the five children still living with her parents at Toxteth Park in 1911, when she was working at a ladies outfitter at the age of 20. That job appears to have been the chosen long-term occupation for Agnes who sailed across the Atlantic out of Liverpool on 23^rd August 1923, bound for Boston, where she disembarked on 3^rd September 1923, when the passenger list described her as being 33, a ladies outfitter and the daughter of Joseph Collett of 102 Coltart Road, Princes Park in Liverpool. Shortly after arriving in New York, Agnes worked at the B & Altman Company Department Store.

Accompanying Agnes on the sea voyage, and the next entry on the passenger list of the S S Celtic, was Agnes’ nephew Sydney George R Collett. He was simply listed as Sidney Collett aged 21 who was a stationery engineer and the son of Mr W Collett of 99 Blythswood Street, Aigburth in Liverpool, who had travelled there to start a new life in New York, where he established a new US line of the Collett family, the only member of this family to do so. Other trips to America and New York followed, the next sailing out of Southampton on 11^th September 1929 onboard the S S Olympic when Agnes Collett was 38 and had been issued with her visa on 27^th April 1929. On hearing that she was visiting family in the States, her older sister Margaret and her husband applied for visa a month later, which were issued on 24^th May. The passenger included all three of them travelling together.

It was a similar situation two years later, when the same three made the same journey from Southampton to New York, embarking on 9^th September 1931 and again onboard the S S Olympic, when Agnes Collett was 40. For that visit Margaret and Joseph’s visas were issue first on 21^st March 1931, with Agnes’ visa issued later, on 2^nd May 1931. It is established that Agnes never married and, at some time during her life, she entered domestic service with Rachel Clopton, with whom she lived at Princeton in New Jersey until her death. When that happened, Agnes went to live with her nephew Sydney George R Collett and his wife Mildred Kruger, at 30-51 37^th Street in Long Island City, Queens County, New York, where she later died. Agnes enjoyed a long life in America, but never took up American citizenship, and was 91 years old when she passed away at Long Island City on 27^th June 1981.

Percy Collett [81p9] was the last child of Joseph Collett and Agnes Stockdale and was born at Cleopas Street, Toxteth Park in Liverpool during the spring of 1893. His birth, like those of most of his siblings, was recorded at Liverpool Toxteth Park register office (Ref. 8b 157), and it was at Cleopas Street that he was eight years old in 1901, the last time he was living with his family. On completing his education, it may be that Percy took up an occupation with the merchant navy, and perhaps he was at sea on the day of the census in 1911, since no record of him has been found for that day. However, three years later, Percy Collett from Liverpool was 21 in 1914 when he joined the Kings (Liverpool) Regiment (Ref. 3055). Although not absolutely confirmed as the son of Joseph and Agnes Collett, bachelor Percy Collett, aged 24 and a member of the crew of the S S Baltic, a saloon steward, sailed out of the Port of Liverpool on 2^nd August 1917, bound for Ellis Island in New York, where they arrived on 14^th August 1917. The crew list provided extra details such that he was 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing 126 pounds, and having a tattoo on his left wrist. Towards the end of the First World War, Percy Collett, who was born at Liverpool in 1893, completed his military enlistment in 1918, according to the Merchant Seamen Records.

It is possible that after the war Percy became a married man, with three marriages of a Percy Collett recorded within the Liverpool area over the following decades. The first of them was in 1919, when the marriage of Percy Collett and (1) May L Balmforth was recorded at Toxteth Park register office (Ref. 8b 269) during the first three months of that year. Percy would have been 25 and May would have been 21, having been born within the Wavertree district of Liverpool, adjacent to Toxteth Park, the eldest daughter of Thomas and Margaret Balmforth. It was as May Louisa Balmforth that she was baptised at Wavertree on 19^th June 1897 and recorded with her family in 1901 and 1911. The marriage of Percy and May, using the Collette spelling of their surname, gave birth to six children, the births of the first two recorded at Toxteth Park register office, the others at Liverpool register office when, for all six of them, their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Balmforth. Tragedy hit the family when their youngest child was only four years old, when 34-year-old May Louisa Collett died in Liverpool in the autumn of 1934, after which she was buried at Allerton Cemetery on 27^th September 1934. It was at Lancashire register office that her early death was recorded (Ref. 8b 172).

Percy therefore needed help to look after his children, while still managing to continue working to provide for his family, particularly during WW2. However, it was not until the summer of 1944 that he married for a second time, when the marriage of widower Percy Collett and (2) Mary T Hinton was recorded at Liverpool South register office (Ref. 8b 399). Percy’s run of bad lucky continued when, one year after they were married, Mary Collett aged 45 died in Liverpool and was also buried at Allerton Cemetery, on 15^th August 1945. Ten years after being widowed for a second time, the marriage of Percy Collett and (3) Lilian Smith was recorded at Liverpool South register office (Ref. 10d 1184) during the first quarter of 1956. After another six years the death of Percy Collett, at the age of 70, was recorded at Lancashire register office (Ref. 10d 543) during 1962.

Only on one occasion during his life was Percy Collett referred to as Percival Collett, and that was at the wedding of his eldest daughter Margaret a few days before St Valentine’s Day in 1943.

81q11 – Harold Collett was born in 1919 at Toxteth Park

81q12 – Margaret Collett was born in 1920 at Toxteth Park

81q13 – Eric Collett was born in 1922 at Liverpool

81q14 – Lillian Collett was born in 1923 at Liverpool

81q15 – William G Collett was born in 1926 at Liverpool

81q16 – Patricia Collett was born in 1928 at Liverpool

Sydney George Reginald Collett [81q1] was born at 114 Alwyn Street in Toxteth Park, South Liverpool on 13^th April 1902 and was the eldest of six children of William Stockdale Collett and Sarah Turner. Under his full name, but with an e added to the end of the surname, his birth was recorded at Liverpool Toxteth Park register office (Ref. 8b 194) during the second quarter of 1902. Apart from his birth record, the only other time he was described as Sydney Collett was when he was nine years old in the Liverpool census of 1911 when he and his family were residing at Toxteth Park from where he was attending a nearby school. At the age of 21, unmarried Sidney Collett, a stationery engineer, emigrated to the United States of America, arriving at the Port of Boston from the Port of Liverpool on 2^nd September 1923, the only one of the six siblings to do so. He was escorted on the trip by his unmarried aunt Agnes Collett [81p8]. It was almost three months after settling in America that Sidney signed a nationalisation declaration in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court in New York City on 22^nd November 1923. This read as follows:

“I, Sidney Collett, aged 21 years, occupation Engineer, do declare on oath that my personal description is: color white, complexion dark, height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 140 pounds, hair brown, eyes brown. I was born in Liverpool England on 13^th day of April 1902. I now reside at 429 East 64^th Street, New York City. I emigrated to the USA on the vessel Celtic. I am not married. It is my bona fide intention to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and particularly to George V King of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom I am now a subject. I am not an anarchist; I am not a polygamist; and it is my intention in good faith to become a citizen of the United States of America and to permanently reside therein, so help me God.”

His application to become a US citizen was finally approved on 28^th November 1928, by which time his address was 445 East 65^th Street, New York, and his occupation was that of a machinist, when his Works Supervisor Patrick McGuire and his foreman was Thomas Gilroy, both confirming that they had known him from 1^st October 1923 when he began employment with them. By the time he made a visit to England in 1934, Sidney Collett was a married man. The return passenger list into New York on 28^th July 1934 provided that information and that he was 32 years old and still employed as a machinist. In fact, he had only been married for six weeks, so it is likely that the reason for the visit to his home town was to introduce his bride to his parents and the wider family. It was on 14^th June 1934 that the marriage licence for Sidney Collett, aged 32, and Mildred Kruger, aged 31, was approved, following which the wedding ceremony was conducted at Queens in New York on 5^th July 1934. Sidney was confirmed as the son of William Collett and Sarah Turner, and the bride’s parents named as John Kruger and Elizabeth Ritzheimer. Mildred was born as Mildred Elizabeth Pauline Kruger on 16^th March 1903 at Lindenhurst in New York

The New York census in 1940 included the family living in Long Island City, Queens County, where they had also been residing in 1935. Sidney Collett from England was 37 and a machinist, his wife Mildred Collett born in New York was 36, and their son Ronald Collett was one year old. Ten years later the 1950 census again recorded the family at Long Island City when Sidney and Mildred were both 47, with Sidney employed in the maintenance department of the New York Board of Transportation, and Mildred a census taker (enumerator) for the Department of Commerce. On that day their son Ronald Collett was 11 years of age.

Another trip to England took place in 1959 only months after the death of his father with, once again, the return journey to New York on 12^th September that year providing his date of birth as 13^th April 1902 and his age as 57, when he was still married and his occupation was in the maintenance business. At the end of his life Sidney Collett was 82 years old and living at Morganville, Marlboro Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey when he died on 5^th July 1984 at Holmdel, Monmouth County, New Jersey. As regards his other siblings, his present-day American family was aware that his sister Florence was living at Southwell in Nottinghamshire, England, when she celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday in May 2016. His widow Mildred died at Perrineville in Monmouth County on 16^th June 1996.

81r1 – Ronald Arthur Collett was born in 1939 at Long Island City, Queens County (New York)

William Herbert Collett [81q2] was born at Toxteth Park in Liverpool on 1^st August 1903, where his birth was registered (Ref. 8b 222) during the third quarter of that year. Shortly after he was born, he was baptised on 6^th September 1903, another son of William and Sarah Collett. It was at Toxteth Park in Liverpool where the family was living in 1911 when Herbert Collett was seven years old and attending the local school. Over the following decades it may have been William’s occupation that took him south to the Kent area of South London where, at the age of 36, the marriage of William H Collett and Marjorie A Moody took place at St Michael’s Church in Welling on 7^th October 1939, as recorded at Dartford register office (Ref. 2a 3408). Marjorie Ada Moody was born at Bromley in Kent on 3^rd November 1912, with her birth recorded at Bromley register office (Ref. 2a 1004), meaning she was nearly 27 years old on her wedding day.

Two months earlier, the Second World War had started, with newly married William Herbert Collett from Liverpool serving the Merchant Navy, with the record at that confirming his year of birth as 1903. The fact that they only had one child, born just over three years later, many indicate that William was away from home during the war. Marjorie Ada Collett died at Welling in Kent on 9^th June 1974, with her passing recorded at London register office (Vol. 12 1268), when her date of birth was confirmed as 3^rd November 1912. Nearly twenty-four years after being widowed, the death of William Herbert Collett, who was born on 1^st August 1903, was recorded at Bexley register office (Vol. 2201c a27c) following his passing at Welling in Kent on 19^th May 1998.

81r2 – Pauline Stockdale Collett was born in 1943 at Barnehurst, Bexley, London

Arthur Stockdale Collett [81q3] was born at Toxteth Park, Liverpool on 19^th November 1904, with his birth registered there (Ref. 8b 230) near the end of the year, but excluding Stockdale, which was add shortly thereafter. It was early in the following year that as Arthur Stockdale Collett he was baptised on 15^th January 1905, the third child of William Stockdale Collett and Sarah Turner. On the day of the census in 1911 he and his family were residing within the Toxteth area of south Liverpool, where Arthur Collett was six years of age and at school.

It is possible that he was married twice in his life, on the first occasion he was approaching his twenty-first birthday when the marriage of Arthur Collett and (1) May Price was recorded at Liverpool register office (Ref. 8b 155) during the third quarter of 1925. May Price was born on 2^nd May 1903 and was baptised at Everton on 17^th May that year, the daughter of George and Catherine Price, and she presented Arthur with two daughters. Both their births were recorded at Liverpool register office when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Price.

81r3 – Thelma May Collett was born in 1926 at Liverpool

81r4 – Cecily A Collett was born in 1933 at Liverpool

Confirmation of the later marriage of Arthur Stockdale Collett has now been received from the present-day family by way of the wedding invitation sent to Zena Sarah Collett [81q6] and her husband Stanley Radford, which reads as follows: “Mr & Mrs John Davies request the pleasure of the company of Mr & Mrs S Radford on the occasion of the marriage of their sister Amelia Margaret Hughston Jarrett with Mr Arthur Stockdale Collett at the Parish Church, Prestatyn, on Saturday, November 27^th 1948 at 12.30 o’clock. Reception afterwards at the Palladium Café, High Street, Prestatyn”

Saturday 27^th November 1948

Sarah Collett (Turner) – Zena Radford (Collett) – Arthur & Peggy – Stanley Radford – William Stockdale Collett

Eight days prior to the wedding Arthur had celebrated his 44^th birthday, while his bride would have been 35 years of age, with Amelia Margaret Hughston Jarratt having been born on 29^th June 1913 at Prestatyn in Denbighshire, where the couple’s wedding day was also recorded (Ref. 8a 1126). Amelia’s birth, using her full name, was recorded at Chester register office (Ref. 8a 759) during the summer of 1913. His elderly parents attended their wedding and ten years later Arthur’s father died in Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool, when the informant of his passing was Arthur Stockdale Collett of 37 Lynmouth Road, which was also the address of his parents.

Her date of birth (above) was confirmed when the death of Amelia Margaret Hughston Collett, who was known as Peggy, was recorded at Lancashire register office (Vol. 36 1293) in 1985. Arthur Stockdale Collett was 89 years old when he died on in Liverpool on 11^th March 1994, with his death recorded at Lancashire register office (Vol. 0251g g11d).

Alice Lilian Collett [81q4] was born on 2^nd August 1912 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool, the fourth child and eldest daughter of William and Sarah Collett whose birth was recorded at Toxteth Park register office (Ref. 8b 419) during the third quarter of the year, where her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Turner. It was in 1938 that the marriage of Alice L Collett and Cyril Yates was recorded at the Liverpool South register office (Ref. 8b 8) during the third quarter of that year. Cyril was born in Liverpool on 7^th October 1914, with his birth also recorded at Toxteth Park register office (Ref. 8b 276). They had two children, the first being Michael John Yates who was born at Basford in Nottinghamshire on 29^th September 1939, with Collett confirmed as his mother’s maiden-name. Five years after that, Alice presented Cyril with a daughter, Margaret Susan Yates, who was born in Liverpool on 7^th April 1945, her birth recorded at Lancashire register office (Ref. 8b 284), when the mother’s maiden-name was again confirmed as Collett. Cyril was 85 years old when he died on 4^th March 1999 in Widnes, south-east of Liverpool, with his passing recorded at Cheshire register office (Vol. 3431b 3b). Alice survived him by only seventeen months when she died on 6^th August 2000 at the age of 87, expect that the death of Alice Lilian Yates was recorded at Lancashire register office (Vol. 0231a a39), maybe indicating that she was no longer residing in Widnes

Daughter Margaret married Peter William Bert King in Liverpool on 1^st May 1970, Peter having been born in Staffordshire on 30^th March 1941, who died at Liverpool on 10^th May 2008. Their three children are: Helen Victoria King, born 22^nd September 1976 at Whiston on Merseyside; Rachel Katherine King born on 6^th January 1979 at Widnes; and Michael William King born on 28^th January 1981 at Whiston.

Florence Jean Collett [81q5] was born on 20^th May 1917 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool, another daughter of William and Sarah Collett, when her birth was also recorded at Toxteth Park register office (Ref. 8b 347) during the second quarter of the year. Once again, her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Turner. Florence was twenty-four years old when the wedding of Rudolf Francois Lorisovitch Rougeault-Ceniavine and Florence Jean Collett was conducted on 31^st May 1941, and recorded at Liverpool South register office (Ref. 8b 8). Rudolf was on Jersey in the Channel Isles on 28^th October 1914. Nine months after their wedding day, Wendy Suzanne Rougeault was born on 12^th February 1942 at Moreton in Cheshire, and she married Kenneth Turk who was born on 12^th February 1940 in Reading. Three years later, the birth of the couple’s second child Jill Bernice Rougeault-Ceniavine was born at Wallasey on 14^th May 1945, when her birth was recorded at Cheshire register office (Ref. 8a 1003) when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. Although not proved, one source suggests that Florence was living at Southwell in Nottinghamshire when she died, and that her husband Rudolf died on 9^th July 1993, but with location given. Daughter Jill married Michael Ball on 30^th March 1968, who had been born at Doncaster on 12^th May 1942. It was at Newark in Nottinghamshire that Jill Bernice Ball died on 16^th June 2021.

Zena Sarah Collett [81q6] was born on 19^th July 1922 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool and was the sixth and last known child of William Stockdale Collett and Sarah Turner. Her birth was recorded at Toxteth Park register office (Ref. 8b 429) during the third quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Turner. Her name was mistakenly written or mis-interpreted as Lena S Collett when she married Stanley J Radford at Liverpool on 20^th September 1947, with their wedding recorded at the Liverpool South register office (Ref. 10d 1016). There followed three children who were: John Stephan Radford who was born in Liverpool on 17^th June 1949 when his birth was recorded at Lancashire register office (Ref. 10d 546) who later married Tricia Gooding on 14^th February 1981; Pamela Zena Radford born on 3^rd June 1953 at Woolton, whose birth was recorded at Liverpool South register office (Ref. 10d 1076), and she married Brian Bellis on 16^th June 1973; with David Neil Radford also born at Woolton on 4^th May 1960 (Ref. 10d 1109) who married Paula Hayes.

Stanley John Radford was born at Toxteth Park in Liverpool on 10^th February 1915, and he died in Liverpool on 7^th November 2007. His funeral service was conducted at St Peter’s Church in Woolton on Friday 16^th November, after which he was buried at Allerton Cemetery. The notice of his passing was printed in the local newspaper on 13^th November, and read as follows: “RADFORD, Stanley John, aged 92 years, loving husband of Zena, beloved dad of John, Pam, and Dave, dearest papa to Drew, Angela, and Lydia, father-in-law to Tricia and Brian. Died peacefully and will be greatly missed by all who knew him.”

Zena appears to have lived all her life on Merseyside, and she was 89 years and three days old when she died there on 23^rd July 2011, within the Woolton area, south-east of Liverpool City Centre. Her obituary published on 29^th July 2011 read as follows. “RADFORD, Zena Sarah, died peacefully in her sleep, aged 89 years. Reunited with her beloved husband Stan. Much loved mum of John, Pam, and Dave, mother-in-law of Tricia, dearly loved grandma of Drew, Angela, and Lydia.” Her funeral took place on Friday 5^th August at St Peter’s Church in Woolton as was followed by cremation at Springwood Crematorium in Allerton.

Foot Note: The photographs that have been added in March 2024 were generously provided by Pam Bellis, former Pamela Zena Radford and daughter of Zena Sarah Collett (above)

Agnes Collett [81q7] was born on 22^nd August 1906 at Toxteth Park in Liverpool, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 8b 131) during the last three months of the year. She was the eldest of the three children of Peter Herbert Collett and Jane Ann Quinnette. She was four years of age in the census of 1911 when Agnes and her family were living in the Kensington area of central Liverpool, with the family awaiting the arrival of the last child to complete the family group. Agnes was thirty-four years old when the marriage of Arthur Todd and Agnes Collett was recorded at Liverpool South register office (Ref. 8b 11) during the second quarter of 1941. By marrying late in her life, Agnes only gave birth to one child, their son Michael A Todd whose birth was recorded at Cheshire register office (Ref. 10a 1137) during 1947, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. It was also at Cheshire that the later death of Agnes Todd was recorded (Vol. 37 1039) at the age 68, when she died at Wallasey during the month of June in 1975.

Gladys Lilian Collett [81q8] was born on 11^th October 1908 at Toxteth Park in Liverpool, with her birth recorded at Toxteth Park register office (Ref. 8b 199) during the final quarter of the year. It was simply as Gladys Collett that she was two years old in 1911, by which time the family home was in Kensington, Liverpool. She was thirty years old when the wedding of Gladys Lilian Collett and Robert Cecil Conroy Jarrett was conducted on 9^th July 1939 at St Mary’s Kirkdale at Walton-on-the-Hill, with the event recorded at Liverpool North register office (Ref. 8b 1089) Robert was from Hartlepool in County Durham, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 10a 166) as Robert Cecil C Jarrett in the spring of 1910. With no later record of either of them, it is possible that they may have emigrated to one of the colonies.

Herbert Collett [81q9] was born on 5^th July 1911 at Kensington not far from the centre of Liverpool, when his birth was recorded at the West Derby register office (Ref. 8b 1095) during the third quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Quinnette, the youngest child of Peter Herbert Collett and Jane Ann Quinnette. He was 22 years old when two marriages of Herbert Collett and Lillie Harris recorded at the Birkenhead, Cheshire register office (Ref. 8a 1223) towards the end of 1933, and again at the same register office (Ref. 8a 1333) during the second quarter of 1934. That confused situation may have arisen because it was earlier, during the first three months of 1930, that the birth of son Albert R Collett was recorded at Liverpool register office (Ref. 8b 487) when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Harris.

Another son was born around nine months after the couple’s second wedding day, when the birth of Anthony P Collett was recorded at Birkenhead register office at the start of 1935, when Harris was again the mother’s maiden-name. When Herbert Collett died, he was residing in Cheshire, where his death was recorded (Ref. 0381 53a) in 1996. For the last decade of his life, he was a widower, following the earlier death of Lillie Collett, nee Harris, which was also recorded at Cheshire register office (Vol. 37 1069), in 1986 when her date of birth was recorded as 13^th February 1913.

81r5 - Albert R Collett was born in 1930 at Liverpool; died at Hampshire (Ref. 2c 10)

81r6 – Anthony P Collett was born in 1935 at Birkenhead, Cheshire

Patricia Grace Collett [81q10] was born at Swansea in Glamorganshire in 1938 and within only a few months after her parents, Harold James Collett and Elsie Grace Leaker, were married in the spring of that same year. She was their only child, whose birth was recorded at Swansea register office (Ref. 11a 1195) during the third quarter of 1938, with her mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Leaker. Patricia was nineteen years old when the marriage of Derek B Ayres and Patricia G Collett was recorded at Swansea register office (Ref. 8b 1793) during the third quarter of 1957. Their marriage produced two children, with the first of them being Stephen M Ayres, whose birth was recorded at Swansea (Ref. 8b 935) during the third quarter of 1958, the second being Caroline J Ayres who was born after the family settled in Merthyr Tydfil, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 8b 644) during the second quarter of 1962. On both occasions, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.

Harold Collett [81q11] was born at Toxteth Park on 15^th July 1919, the first of the six children of Percy Collett by his first wife May Louisa Balmforth. His birth was recorded at Toxteth Park register office (Ref. 8b 368) during the third quarter of 1919 with Balmforth confirmed as his mother’s maiden-name. Harold was one year old when he was baptised at St Michael’s Church in Garston, Liverpool on 26^th October 1920 when his parents were confirmed as Percy and May Collett. Sadly, he did not survive for long after that day, with the infant death of Harold Collett recorded at Lancashire register office (Ref. 8b 731) early in 1921 and who was buried at Allerton Cemetery.

However, thanks to new information received from Ron Collett [81r1] in 2024 we now know that the above Harold who died in 1921 was not the son of Percy and May. Their son Harold emigrated to Australia where he married Denise Ellen Dyer, with whom he had six children before he died in 2008. It was at Palmyra, Fremantle, in Western Australia, that Harold Collett (Collette) died and was buried at Fremantle Cemetery on 5^th September 2008, whose date of birth was confirmed as 15^th July 1919. The six children of Harold and Denise Collette are: Ian Harold Collette, Stephen D Collette, Peter J Collette, Neil Collette, Denise Collette, and Phillip Collette, about whom nothing is currently known.

Margaret Collett [81q12] was born at Toxteth Park in 1920 with her birth recorded there (Ref. 8b 351) during the final quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Balmforth. Margaret was 22 years old when her marriage to Cecil Myers Tenneson took place on 9^th February 1943, with her father confirmed as Percival (Percy) Collett. Cecil was 23 and the son of Ernest Tenneson, while the couple’s big day was recorded at Prescot register office (Ref. 8b 1021), eight miles east of Liverpool. It was also at Prescot in Lancashire where Cecil Myers Tenneson was born on 8^th July 1919. That marriage gave Cecil and Margaret two children, and they were Graham Myers Tenneson born in 1945, and Jennifer Myers Tenneson born in 1948 with both births recorded at Lancashire register office when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. Nine years later during the spring of 1957, another child was born to Tenneson/Collett parents, but that was at Welton in Lincolnshire, the child being Paul Myers Tenneson, there a similar trend with all three offspring. It is interesting, that all the records for Margaret spelt her surname as Collette, whilst it was at Peterborough that the couple were residing, when first Margaret Tenneson died on 20^th November 2009, followed two months later, by Cecil Myers Tenneson who also died there on 1^st February 2010, when his date of birth was confirmed as stated above.

Eric Collett [81q13] was born at Liverpool in 1922 where his birth was recorded (Ref. 8b 176) during the second quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Balmforth. Eric was only eight years old when he died near the end of May in 1930, when the family home was living at Wavertree in Liverpool, following which he was buried with his brother Harold (above) at Allerton Cemetery on 29^th May 1930. His passing was recorded at Lancashire register office (Ref. 8b 291).

Lillian Collett [81q14] was born at Liverpool on 23^rd November 1923, another child of Percy and May Collett. It was during the last three months of the year when her birth was recorded at Liverpool register office (Ref. 8b 360) where her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Balmforth. Twenty-years later, the marriage of Lillian Collett and Joseph W Bradley was recorded at the Cheshire Wallasey register office (Ref. 10a 1825) during the third quarter of 1948. Not long after their wedding day, Joseph’s work took the couple south, where they settled in Essex where their two children were born and where Lillian Bradley died on 1^st October 2001 at Southend-on-Sea. The birth of their son Derek J Bradley was recorded at Rochford register office (Ref. 4a 896) during the second quarter of 1951. Less than four years after the birth of their daughter Jane S Bradley was recorded at Southend-on-Sea register office (Ref. 4a 928) during the first three months of 1955. In both cases, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.

William G Collett [81q15] was born at Liverpool in 1926 another son of Percy and May Collett. His birth was recorded at Liverpool register office (Ref. 8b 222) during the summer months of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Balmforth. Very little is known about him, with the record of the much later marriage of William G Collett and Yvonne Darch at Crosby north of Liverpool early in 1973 being the only other detail that might apply to him.

Patricia Collett [81q16] was born at Toxteth Park in Liverpool on 17^th June 1928, when her birth as the last child of Percy Collett and May Louisa Balmforth was recorded at Liverpool register office (Ref. 8b 351). The record of her birth also confirmed that her mother’s maiden-name was Balmforth. It was at Wavertree that the family was residing in 1930 when Patricia’s older brother Eric died. Patricia was 20 years of age when she married David Shirra in 1948, who was born in 1926, with their wedding recorded at Liverpool North register office (Ref. 10d 657) during the summer of that year. During the following years Patricia gave birth to three children, with the first two being Jacqueline Shirra born in Liverpool during 1949 (Ref. 10f 347) who married Ronald A Faunlteroy, and Michael David Shirra born in 1950 (Ref. 10d 601). By that time, David may have been considering emigrating to New Zealand, and it was around 1952 that the couple’s third child Duncan Craig Shirra was born. However, no record of his birth has been located in England, so there is every possibility that he was born in New Zealand. If that was the case, then he and his mother must have been visitors to England in 1967, when 15-year-old student Duncan Craig Shirra accompanied his mother, Patricia Shirra aged 39, when they sailed to New Zealand and disembarked at Wellington on 24^th July 1967. However, it is confirmed that Patricia died in Australia during 2014 when her surname was not Shirra.

Another source suggests that Patricia was married three times in her life, but the order given cannot be correct, bearing in mind she was twenty when she married David Shirra who, of the three, was the third named. The other two, to whom she must have been married after 1967, were (1) Mr Bevan and (2) Guiseppe Sciacca.

Ronald Arthur Collett [81r1] known as Ron, was born at Long Island City in the Queensborough district of New York on 19^th February 1939, the only child of Sidney Collett from Liverpool in England and his wife Mildred Kruger. He was 31 when he married (1) Marillea Adams Boyte at Medford Lakes in Burlington, New Jersey on 6^th June 1970. Marillea was born on 25^th July 1943 at Camden in Camden County, New Jersey, and she gave birth to two sons, and later died on 14^th May 2001 at Freehold in Monmouth County. Seven years later it was at Wallkill in Orange County, New York that Ron married (2) Jean Katherine Smith, nee McEvilly, on 27^th September 2008, who was born on 17^th May 1942.

In 2016 Ron was living at Wayne Township in Passaic County in New Jersey when, during a Rocky Mountains excursion while on a holiday in Canada, he met John Collett and his wife Patricia, from Mount Waverley, a suburb of Melbourne in Australia. During that excursion, Ron and John got talking about their families, when John suggested that Ron might like to check-out the Collett Family History website, which he did. When he could not find any mention of his grandfather William Stockdale Collett, he contacted website manager Brian Collett which resulted to the compilation of this appendix to Part 81 – The West Derby (Liverpool) Line.

81s1 – Adam Stockdale Collett was born in 1973 at Suffolk County, New York

81s2 – Christopher Edward Collett was born in 1977 at Monmouth County, New Jersey

Pauline Stockdale Collett [81r2] was born at Barnehurst within the London Borough of Bexley on 21^st February 1943, when her birth as simply Pauline Collett was recorded at Dartford register office (Ref. 2a 1710) where her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Moody. Upon being married to Danny Maurice Eris Lawless on 26^th August 1967 at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Welling, Kent, she was recorded as Pauline Stockdale Collett. The event was recorded at Bexley register office (Ref. 5a 552). Danny was born at Sidlesham near Chichester in West Sussex on 19^th February 1941. The births of their two children were recorded at Bexley register office when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. They were Kimberley Sarah Lawless (Ref. 5a 1317) born on 16^th August 1969, who married John Wyndham Barton at Sidcup in Kent on 27^th November 1992, who was born at Maidstone on 23^rd November 1963. Colette Lawless (Ref. 5a 1237) was born on 11^th March 1973 and she married Graham David Parsons at Sidcup on 30^th June 1995 who was born at Farnborough in the south-east area of London in Kent on 10^th February 1965.

Thelma May Collett [81r3] was born in Liverpool on 13^th March 1926, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 8b 361) during the second quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed at Price. She was the first of two daughters born to Arthur Stockdale Collett and his first wife May Price. Thelma was thirty-one years of age when the marriage of Thelma M Collett and Albert Deane was recorded at the Liverpool South register office (Ref. 10d 701) during the spring of 1957. It was one year later that their only child, daughter Colette E Deane, was born with her birth recorded at Liverpool South register office (Ref. 10d 870) during the second quarter of 1958. Much later in their life, Albert and Thelma appear to be residing in Hampshire when, during 1995 and at the age of 69, the death of Thelma May Deane was recorded at Hampshire register office (Vol. 5013 h41).

Cecily A Collett [81r4] was born in 1933 at Liverpool, with her birth recorded there (Ref. 8b 303) during the third quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Price. She was the second and last child from the marriage of Arthur and May Collett. Four years prior to the wedding of her older sister Thelma (above), Cecily was only twenty-one when the marriage of Cecily A Collett and Phillip Croxton was recorded at the Liverpool South register office (Ref. 10d 1106) during the summer of 1954. Over the following years, Cecily gave birth to two children, the births of whom were also recorded at Liverpool South, when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed at Collett. They were Steven P Croxton (Ref. 10d 869) at the end of 1956, and Jane A Croxton (Ref. 10d 1165) at the start of 1962.

Anthony P Collett [81r6] was born in 1935 at Birkenhead in Cheshire, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 8a 778) during the first quarter of 1935, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Harris. He was the younger of the two sons of Herbert Collett and Lillie Harris. Anthony was 24 when he married Shirley MacKinnon in 1959, their webbing recorded at Wallasey, Cheshire, register office (Ref. 10a 1075) during the last three months of the year. They had one son whose birth was also recorded at Wallasey register office (Ref. 10a 844 during the last quarter of 1960, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as MacKinnon.

81s3 - Neil A Collett was born in 1960 at Wallasey, Cheshire

Adam Stockdale Collett [81s1] was born on 17^th January 1973 at East Patchogue in Suffolk County, New York, the older of the two sons of Ronald Arthur Collett and Marillea Adams Boyte. Just before the end of the century, Adam married Jennifer Ann Bennett on 15^th May 1999 at East Brunswick in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Jennifer was born at Endicott, Broome County, New York on 14^th July 1971.

81t1 – Nicole Rose Collett was born in 2000 at Reading, USA

81t2 – Andrew Vincent Collett was born in 2003 at Atlanta, USA

81t3 – Zachary Stockdale Collett was born in 2006 at Atlanta, USA

Christopher Edward Collett [81s2] was born at Freehold, Monmouth County, in New Jersey on 5^th February 1977, the younger son of Ronald and Marillea Collett. He later married Jennifer Susan Caga at Holmdel, Monmouth County on 6^th November 2009. Jennifer had been born on 9^th June 1982 at Perth Amboy in Middlesex County.

81t4 – Sophia Marillea Collett was born in 2012 at Red Bank, Monmouth County, New Jersey

81t5 – Mason Christopher Collett was born in 2014 at Red Bank, Monmouth County, New Jersey

Nicole Rose Collett [81t1] was born on 15^th September 2000 at Reading in Berkshire County, Pennsylvania, the eldest of the three children of Adam Stockdale Collett and Jennifer Ann Bennett. Her daughter was born at Atlanta, in Fulton County, Georgia.

81u1 – Haleigh Ann Collett was born on 5^th February 2022 at Atlanta