PART ONE

The Gloucestershire Main Line - 1800 to 1830

This is the second of four sections of the first part of the Collett family line

Updated January 2012

The January 2012 update of this file is thanks to new information received from

Brian Gregory Collett (Ref. 1R45), Andrew Collett (Ref. 3Q14),

and Marilee Rylett Magder (Ref. 1P69) of Whitby in Ontario

The September 2011 update was the result of new information

received from Brian Gregory Collett (Ref. 1R45) of Cairns in Australia.

The information for an earlier update was kindly provided by

Rod Murray of Hallett Cove in South Australia (Ref. 1O31)

It is also thanks to Martin Davies of Stourton in the West Midlands

that the lines of the three brothers Richard, John and Isaac (Ref. 1N4, N6 & N7)

have been taken forward to form Part 37 – The Oxford City Line

1N1	Sarah Collett was born in the hamlet of Whelford and, with no church at Whelford at that time, she was baptised at the parish church in Kempsford on 9^th August 1818. She was the eldest child of Robert Collett and his wife Mary Trotman.
1N2	William Collett was born at Whelford in 1820 and was baptised at Kempsford on 20^th March 1820, the eldest son of Robert and Mary Collett. While no positive record of William has been located in the census of 1841, it was after he was 21 when her married Maria Clargo of Hinton Parva near Swindon. Maria was four years younger than William, having been born on 15^th February 1824 at Little Hinton, the daughter of Thomas Clargo and Ann Pearce.
	By the time of the census in 1851 Maria had given birth to four children while she and William were living in Whelford, including a set of twin boys who sadly died shortly after. Just after their first daughter was baptised at Kempsford in 1849 the family left Whelford, when they moved to Highworth near Swindon, where they were living in 1851. As a result of their loss, the family on that occasion comprised William, age 30, Maria Collett, who was 27, their son Fredrick Collett who was seven, and their daughter Mary who was two years old.
	Over the next decade a further three children were added to the family living in Highworth. So by the time of the next census in 1861 the family was made up of William, age 39, Maria, age 37, and their five children Frederick Collett, age 17, Mary Jane Collett, age 13, Ann Collett who was seven, Thomas Collett, who was three, and William Collett who had not yet reached his first birthday.
	Maria gave birth to a further two children during the 1860s, but according to the census for Highworth in 1871 four of the older children were not living with William and Maria by that time. The family recorded as living at Cherry Orchard Lane in Highworth on that occasion was William, age 50, an agricultural labourer from Whelford, his wife Maria, age 47, from Hinton, Wilts, Thomas Collett who was 14 and working as a shepherd boy, Arthur Collett, who was eight, and Maria Collett who was three years old. Living nearby in Faringdon Road was the couple’s married son Frederick with his wife Emma.
	Maria Collett died at Highworth during the 1870s, leaving just her husband and youngest daughter still living in Highworth in 1881. William Collett was listed as a widower and labourer who had been born at Whelford, although he gave his age as being 58 rather than 60. At that time in his life he was living at 3 Wrag Cottage in Highworth with his daughter Maria Collett who was 14 and who had been born at Highworth.
	According to the next census in 1891 William Collett was still living at Highworth and he gave the census enumerator a more accurate assessment of his age when he was recorded as being 70 years old. It would appear that he died within the next decade, as there was no record of him in the next census in 1901.
	1O1	Frederick Collett			Born in 1843 at Whelford
	1O2	Joseph Collett twin			Born in 1846 at Whelford
	1O3	Ralph Collett twin			Born in 1846 at Whelford
	1O4	Mary Jane Collett			Born in 1848 at Whelford
	1O5	Ann Collett			Born in 1853 at Highworth
	1O6	Thomas Collett			Born in 1857 at Highworth
	1O7	William Collett			Born in 1860 at Highworth
	1O8	Arthur Collett			Born in 1862 at Highworth
	1O9	Maria Collett			Born in 1867 at Highworth
1N3	Mary Ann Collett was born at Whelford and was baptised at Kempsford on 28^th July 1822, the daughter of Robert and Mary Collett.
1N4	Richard Collett was born at Whelford in 1824, the son of Robert and Mary Collett, although curiously, unlike his siblings, no baptism record for him at Kempsford has been found. However, it is established that he left the family home in Gloucestershire and moved to Oxford with his brothers, and it was there that he met, and later married, Sarah Speake on 12^th June 1848 in the area to the south of Oxford known as South Hinksey.
	The continuation of this family line is provided in Part 37 – The Oxford City Line 1820 to 2006 (Ref. 37N1)
1N5	Anne Collett was born at Whelford and was baptised at Kempsford on 25^th June 1826. She later married William Curtis on 16^th October at Norton, near Gloucester. William was born in 1824 at either Down Hatherley or Sandhurst, both of which are villages adjacent to Norton.
	The marriage produced three children for the couple, and all of them were born while the family was living at Norton. They were William George Curtis, who was born on 18^th May 1855, Jane Curtis, who born on 21^st December 1857, and Alfred Curtis who was born on 6^th September 1859.
	Anne, who may also have been known as Jane, died in 1890 and was buried on 12^th November 1890 at nearby Leigh.
	William George Curtis was the great great grandfather of Sally Walters of Canada.
1N6	John Collett was born at Whelford during the first six months of 1828 and was baptised at Kempsford on 3^rd August 1828, the son of Robert and Mary Collett. It would appear that he accompanied his older brother Richard (above) in a move that took them from Whelford to Oxford, possibly when he was around twenty years of age.
	The continuation of this family line is provided in Part 37 – The Oxford City Line 1820 to 2006 (Ref. 37N3)
1N7	Isaac Collett was born at Whelford and was baptised at Kempsford on 26^th September 1830, the son of Robert and Mary Collett. Just a few months before the census in 1851 Isaac’ mother died, so the census return for Kempsford that year recorded Isaac as being 20 and an agricultural labourer, like his father, with whom he was living together with his brother Joseph (below) and sister Sarah Ann. Isaac later married Emma who was born in 1838 at Cumnor, in what was then Berkshire, to the west of Oxford, which is now part of Oxfordshire following the 1974 boundary changes.
	The continuation of this family line is provided in Part 37 – The Oxford City Line 1820 to 2006 (Ref. 37N4)
1N8	Charles Collett was born at Whelford and was baptised at Kempsford on 28^th April 1833. The baptism record at Kempsford confirmed that Charles was the son of Robert and Mary Collett, and later in his life, he accompanied three of his brothers (above) when they moved to live and work in Oxford.
	The continuation of this family line is provided in Part 37 – The Oxford City Line 1820 to 2006 (Ref. 37N5)
1N9	Joseph Collett was born at Whelford and was baptised at Kempsford on 24^th May 1835, the son of Robert and Mary Collett. At the age of 16 he was living with his widowed father at Kempsford and was an agricultural labourer, like his father and his older brother Isaac (above), who was also still living there in 1851, together with their younger sister Sarah Ann Collett.
1N13	Cornelius Collett was born at Fairford in 1843, the third child and only known son of William Collett and his wife Hannah Dixon. He was seven years old in the census of 1851, and was an apprenticed plumber at the age of 17 in 1861. On both occasions he was living with his family at Fairford. Sometime later, between 1862 and 1866, he moved north to live at Hartlepool in County Durham, where he married Catherine around 1869.
	Their first child was born at Hartlepool in 1870 and was followed by another four children who were also born there over the next ten years.
	According to the 1881 Census the family was living at 31 Corporation Road in Throston, a district of Hartlepool. Cornelius was aged 36 and was working as an insurance agent. His place of birth was confirmed as being Fairford, while his wife Catherine was aged 34 and had been born at Bishops Auckland.
	Their family comprised four sons, William Collett who was ten, Albert Collett who was eight, Arthur Collett who was four, and Walter Collett who was one year old, plus their daughter Thirza E Collett who was six years of age.
	Living with the family up until her death in 1877, had been Cornelius’ mother, the widow Hannah Collett, his father William Collett, having already died prior to that time.
	Two years later Cornelius Collett died in 1883, and his death was recorded at Hartlepool.
	1O10	William Collett			Born in 1870 at Hartlepool
	1O11	Albert Collett			Born in 1872 at Hartlepool
	1O12	Arthur Collett			Born in 1874 at Hartlepool
	1O13	Thirza E Collett			Born in 1876 at Hartlepool
	1O14	Walter Collett			Born in 1880 at Hartlepool
1N14	Elizabeth Collett was born at Fairford in 1845, the youngest known child of William Collett of Whelford and his wife Hannah Dixon. In the Fairford census of 1851 Elizabeth was five years old, when she was living there in the Cirencester registration district with her family. What happened to Elizabeth over the next three decades is not known, but by 1881 she was living and working in South Wales.
	According to the census in 1881 unmarried Elizabeth Collett, age 36 and from Cirencester, was living at 27 New Market Inn in Brecknock St John Evangelist. Living there with her was ‘her sister’ Harriet Collett who was 18 and born at Llanelly, who was working as an inn keeper, as was Elizabeth.
	However, the reference to Harriet as her sister is very confusing. It would not have been possible for this to be the case, since Elizabeth’s mother was born in 1808 and would have been 54 at the time of Harriet’s birth. It is more than likely that she was the youngest daughter of George Collett (Ref. 1O55) from Cirencester, and his wife Rachel from Clydach. And it was at the Railway Inn at Clydach near Llanelly that George and Rachel were living at that same time in 1881, thus making another connection with the two inns.
1N15	Edwin Collett was born at Whelford in 1836 and was baptised at nearby Kempsford church on 25^th September 1836. It would appear that he never married as he appeared in the census records as a bachelor living with his father John Collett on every occasion from 1841 to 1881.
	At the age of 45 in 1881 he was listed as Edward Collett, an agricultural labourer, while at all other times he was referred to as Edwin. It is not known what happen to Edwin after 1881, but neither he nor his father featured in the census returns of 1891 or 1901.
1N16	Alfred Collett was born at Whelford in 1840 and was baptised at Kempsford on 3^rd August 1840. He was just one year old at the time of the 1841 Census and was recorded as still living at the family home in Whelford in both 1861, age 21, and again in 1871 when he was 31. Rather oddly he was missing in 1851 when he would have been 11.
	In 1881 Alfred was 41 and was still living with his widowed father John at Whelford, where he was listed as a bachelor, having the same occupation as his father, it being that of a carrier. It would appear that he married when into his forties, during the middle of the 1880s, but so far it has not been determined who was his wife, as she seemed to be missing from the 1901 Census record.
	The census return confirmed that married Alfred Collett was a cider maker aged 59, when he was living at Horcott, where he also said that it was there that he had been born. Horcott is a hamlet within the parish of Kempsford, not far from Whelford. Ten years later in April 1911 Alfred was listed in the census return as Frederick Alfred Collett of Kempsford, age 71, and at that time he was still living in Whelford.
1N17	Frederick Collett was born at Whelford on 2^nd December 1843 and was the son of John Collett and Maria Ferris, as confirmed by his Kempsford baptism on 2^nd June 1844. In the census of 1851 Frederick was seven years old, when he was living with his family at Whelford. Two years later his mother died, so in 1861 when he was 17, he was living with his father and was working as a wheeler.
	During the following year, on 7^th November, Frederick joined the Royal Horse Artillery at Woolwich and signed on for twelve years. In the end he actually served with them for a total of thirty-two years and one day. The details of his service life have kindly been provided by his great granddaughter Lurleen Soutar of Portsmouth and are as follows: At the time he joined up he was 5 feet 4¾ inches, with grey eyes and light brown hair, with a fair complexion and no distinguishing marks. The first five years two hundred and sixty-six days of his military life were spent in England presumably undergoing training.
	On 1^st August 1868 Frederick was posted to India where she spent a total of ten years two hundred and three days during which time he fought in the Jowaki Campaign in Afghanistan from 1877 to 1878. He was promoted to sergeant on 26^th October 1875, a position he held until 29^th June 1880 when he was made Master Gunner.
	Historical Note: In November 1877 a British force of some 1500 men was sent out under Colonel Mocatta to punish the Jowaki Afridis at the North-West Frontier. The short Afghan Campaign forced the Afghan Amir to accept a British Mission at Kabul.
	It was while Frederick was in India, and before his involvement in the Afghan conflict, that he married Roseanna Rose. Roseanna, referred to as Rosa, was the youngest daughter of machine maker Frederick Rose and his wife Martha Blackwell, having been born at Fairford on 13.11.1844.
	The marriage by banns of Frederick and Roseanne took place at Campbellpore in India on 28.05.1876. The marriage certificate gave Frederick’s age as 31 and Rosa’s as 30, he was a bachelor and a sergeant with the Royal Horse Artillery, and she a spinster.
	The couple’s first two children were born while they were still in India and shortly after the birth of the second child the family returned to England on 20^th February 1879.
	The family then spent a relatively short period of five hundred and fifty-two days back in England during which time the couple were blessed with a set of twins of which one tragically died. At the end of his spell in England Frederick was once again posted overseas, this time to Gibraltar. This posting commenced on 25^th August 1880 and lasted for eleven years and fifty-nine days.
	And it was at Gibraltar where the couple’s next six children, all daughters, were born. Sadly only two of the girls survived beyond childhood.
	Frederick’s time serving on Gibraltar came to an end on 22^nd October 1891. The following day he was transferred to the island of Jersey where he was appointed Keeper of the Castle at Mont Orgueil Castle, a position he held for three years and seventeen days until he was discharged from the army on 8^th November 1894.
	Within in his military service records there was a note that indicated his ‘intended residence’ at the time of his discharge was to be 74 Chapel Street, Gorse Hill in Swindon. However, the sea journey from Jersey to mainland Britain shortly after may have been too much for Frederick’s wife who never fully recovered from the ordeal and within three months of his discharge from the army Rosa had passed away.
	The death certificate confirmed the date as being 1^st February 1895 and that she had died from ‘obstinate vomiting following a sea voyage, exhaustion and a four day coma’. The address at which the couple was staying was stated as being 55 Ferndale Road, Gorse Hill in Swindon. Frederick was the informant and under occupation for him was written ‘of independent means’.
	Following the death of Rosa, Frederick returned to Jersey where for the next twenty years he was employed by the government as the warder of Mont Orgueil Castle.
	Just after the turn of the century Frederick was listed in the 1901 Census as being aged 56 and was living at that time in the St Martins district of Jersey with his daughter Gertrude Collett aged nineteen.
	Frederick’s occupation was confirmed as being warder of Mont Orgueil Castle and his place of birth was simply given as England, while daughter Gertrude’s place of birth was confirmed as being Gibraltar.
	By April 1911 Frederick’s daughter Gertrude had left Jersey and in her place were two of Frederick’s nieces and a nephew. The census record confirmed that Frederick Collett was the 65 years old caretaker of Mont Orgueil Castle and came from Kempsford.
	Working with Frederick as assistant caretaker was his niece Lillian Maud Collett 26 from Meysey Hampton near Kempsford. His other niece Jessie Maria Collett 31 from Kempsford was acting as Frederick’s housekeeper, while the nephew was four years old Frederick Reynold Collett who had been born at St Helier on Jersey.
	Both nieces were unmarried ladies and it is possible that Frederick the nephew was the base-born child of one of them who was sent to Jersey to avoid the embarrassment. The address where the group was living at that time was described as The Lodge, Mont Orgueil, St Martin in Jersey.
	What is even more strange is the fact that the youngest of Frederick’s three brothers, Charles Collett (below), died while still a young child, and his two older brothers did not marry and were both bachelors in 1881. So it is possible that the two ‘nieces’ living with Frederick in 1911 were in fact his daughters.
	His daughter Jessie was reputedly born in India around 1879 which was when his ‘niece Jessie Maria was born, and his daughter Maud was reputedly born in Gibraltar around 1886 which was when his ‘niece’ Lillian Maud was born. A fairly extensive search has revealed no suitable alternative to this.
	Upon his retirement four years later in 1915 Frederick left Jersey and moved to Derby and where he lived for a two years at 94 Uttoxeter New Road before his death on 01.05.1917. He was aged 72 and the cause of death was stated as ‘valvular disease of the heart’ and ‘syncope’.
	The death certificate also confirmed he was an army pensioner and former master gunner. The informant of the death at Derby was his married daughter Edith Harrison of 12 Hillersdon Avenue in Barnes (which is still there today).
	An obituary appeared in the Derby Daily Telegraph on Friday 4^th May 1917 which read as follows:
	DERBY VETERAN’S FUNERAL The funeral of an army veteran took place today (Friday) at the Old Cemetery with full military honours. The deceased was Mr Frederick Collett, formerly a master gunner in the Royal Artillery, who died on Tuesday last at the age of 72. He served 32 years in the army, most of which time he was in India and Gibraltar. He held three medals, including one for meritorious service, which entitled him to an increased pension. After leaving the army he was for another 20 years in the government service being warden of Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey, where he was well known and respected. The cortege left 94 Uttoxeter Road where he passed away, the chief mourners being Mr and Mrs Fred Harris (son-in-law and daughter), Mr and Mrs Baker (sister and brother-in-law) and the misses Jessie and Lily Baker (nieces). The Notts and Derbyshire Regiment provided the bearer and firing party under Sergeant Walker, and the Rev. J E S Hackforth chaplain to the forces conducted the service. The Last Post was sounded by buglers at the graveside. Some beautiful wreaths were sent by relatives and friends. Messrs Wathall & Co. were the undertakers.
	The three medals he received were the Jowaki Campaign Medal, a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal awarded in 1882, and the Meritorious Service Medal which came with an annuity of ten pounds.
	1O15	Edith Collett			Born in 1877 in India
	1O16	Jessie Collett			Born in 1878 in India
	1O17	Frederick Collett twin			Born in 1880 in England
	1O18	Rosy Collett twin			Born in 1880 in England
	1O19	Gertrude Collett			Born in 1881 at Gibraltar
	1O20	Annie Collett			Born in 1883 at Gibraltar
	1O21	Mary Collett			Born in 1884 at Gibraltar
	1O22	Ida Collett			Born in 1885 at Gibraltar
	1O23	Maud Collett			Born in 1886 at Gibraltar
	1O24	Jenny Collett			Born in 1887 at Gibraltar
1N18	Charles Robert Collett was born at Whelford in 1848 and was baptised on 11^th June 1848 at Kempsford where he was also buried on 3^rd August 1851 aged just three years.
1N19	Emma Collett was baptised at Kempsford on 13^th March 1831, although she was born at Whelford where she was living with her family in 1841 at the age of 10 years. By the time of the census of 1861 she was married and was Emma Maskling living as a boarder and housekeeper at the Whelford home of her widowed uncle John Collett (Ref. 1M7). That year’s census recorded that Emma was 29 and that she had with her, her two daughters Jane Maskling who was three, and Elizabeth Clara Maskling who was one year old.
	Ten years later according to the census of 1871 Emma at 40 years of age was a widow and her children living with her were listed as Clara (born 1860), Elizabeth (born 1862), Albert Ernest (1864), Louisa (born 1865) and Angelina (born 1866), and presumably her husband had died sometime between 1866 and 1871.
	On that occasion, as ten years earlier, Emma was still living with her uncle John Collett at his Whelford home, where she was housekeeper to John and his three bachelor sons Edwin, Alfred and Frederick (above).
	It was the same situation in 1881, except she was then recorded as Emma Maslin, age 49. She was still a widow and housekeeper to John Collett and just two of his sons. However, Emma then had two new younger children they being Francis Henry Maslin who was seven and who was listed as deaf and dumb, and Ernest Theodore Maslin who was four, both of whom were listed as having been born at Kempsford. Who the father was of those two children has yet to be determined.
1N20	Eliza Collett was born at Whelford and was baptised at Kempsford on 18^th August 1833, the second child of James Collett and his wife Elizabeth Tyrrell.
1N21	Hannah Collett was born at Whelford and baptised at Kempsford on 21^st June 1835. In 1851 she was 16 and was a servant at the home of her uncle John Collett (Ref. 1M7) in Whelford.
1N22	Job Collett was born on 8^th August 1837 and was baptised at Kempsford on 10^th September 1837. He married Susannah Gibbs at Highworth on 10^th March 1863. Susannah was born at Hampton in Highworth on 7^th January 1843 and was baptised there on 8^th February 1844, the daughter of Joseph and Charlotte Gibbs. Job was described as being 25, while his bride was 20, in the parish register.
	Once married Job and Susannah settled in Hampton Hill, and it was there that six of their seven children were born. By 1871 the marriage had produced the first two children when the family was listed as Job Collett, age 33, Susannah Collett, age 27, Cornelius Collett who was seven, and Mary J Collett who was four. All of the baptism records, so far located for the children of the family, confirmed that their parents were Job and Susannah Collett.
	According to the next census in 1881, Job was a hurdle maker just like his father James Collett. He was recorded as being 43 and born at Kempsford. His wife Susannah was 38, and with them were the four youngest of their seven children. They were Rose Collett, who was nine, Winifred Collett, who was six, Berthelay Collett, who was five, and Ada Collett who was eleven months old, and all confirmed as born at Hampton.
	So far no record has been found in 1881 for Cornelius and Mary Jane who would have been 17 and 14 respectively. Sometime during the next few years the family left Highworth, when they moved to Whelford where their last child was born.
	So in 1891 the family living in the Kempsford area comprised Job Collett 53 and Susannah Collett 49, and their three youngest daughters Bertha Collett 14, Ada Collett 10, and Olive who was two years old. It is interesting to note, that at that time Job’s son Cornelius was still living in Highworth at the age of 27.
	Job Collett died during the next ten year leaving Susannah as a widow aged 58 in 1901, when she was living at Kempsford where she had been forced to take work as an agricultural labourer to support herself and her daughter Olive Collett, who was 12 and confirmed as born at Whelford.
	By the time of the Whelford census in April 1911, Susannah Collett was 68 and was living there with her son Cornelius Collett who was unmarried at 46, and her daughter Olive Collett who was 22.
	1O25	Cornelius Collett	Born on 02.07.1864 at Hampton Hill
	1O26	Mary Jane Collett	Born on 18.09.1867 at Hampton Hill
	1O27	Rose Collett	Born on 21.09.1871 at Hampton Hill
	1O28	Winifred Collett	Born on 31.05 1874 at Hampton Hill
	1O29	Bertha Annie Collett	Born on 29.06.1876 at Hampton Hill
	1O30	Ada Collett	Born on 19.04.1880 at Hampton Hill
	1O31	Olive Collett	Born on 08.08.1888 at Whelford
1N23	Timothy Collett was born in 1840 and was baptised at Kempsford on 19^th April 1840. He married Elizabeth Smith at Highworth on 21^st January 1866 at a time when Elizabeth was with-child, since the couple’s first son was born five months later. Both of them were described as being 25, and Timothy’s father was confirmed as James Collett. Elizabeth was born at Hinton Parva near Swindon in 1841 and all of their known children were born at Highworth, there being a nine year gap between the first and second child listed below.
	Tragically it would appear from the Highworth census of 1871 that Timothy’s and Elizabeth’s first child did not survive, as it was just the two of them that were listed in the census return, when both of them were 30. During the next ten years the couple were blessed with another three children who were born at Highworth.
	According to the census in 1881, Timothy, at 40, was an agricultural labourer living at Westrop in Highworth with his wife Elizabeth and their two oldest children, Albert Collett who was six, and Annie Collett who was four years old. Perhaps rather strangely, the couple’s latest edition, Harriet Collett was eleven months old and was listed as living with Timothy’s married sister Ruth Addis nee Collett (below).
	Ten years later the family was still living at Highworth in 1891 where Timothy and Elizabeth were both 50 and living with them were their three children Albert Collett, age 16, Annie Collett, age 13, and Alice Collett who was nine years old. Their daughter Harriet was eleven and was still living in Highworth with Timothy’s sister Ruth Addis.
	During the next decade Timothy would appear to have died since, by March 1901, Elizabeth was a widow and had left Highworth and was then living alone at Kempsford at the age of 59, and by April 1911 she too had passed away.
	1O32	James Collett			Baptised on 17.06.1866 at Highworth
	1O33	Albert Collett			Born in 1875 at Highworth
	1O34	Annie Collett			Born in 1877 at Highworth
	1O35	Harriet Collett			Born in May 1880 at Highworth
	1O36	Alice Collett			Born in 1882 at Highworth
1N24	Ruth Collett was born at Whelford in 1842 and was baptised later that year at Kempsford on 2^nd October 1842. She was the youngest child of James Collett and Elizabeth Tyrrell and shortly after she was born her mother died. Her father later married Susannah of Wanborough, near Swindon.
	By the time Ruth was 26 she had given birth to a base-born daughter and it may have been just prior to this that she and her father, together with James’ second wife Susannah, left Whelford and moved to Highworth in Wiltshire where her baby was born.
	Three years later Ruth and her daughter were confirmed as living at Highworth in April 1871 at the home of James Collett and his wife Susannah. Ruth Collett was 29 and her daughter Elizabeth was three years old. Sometime during the next decade, while still at Highworth, Ruth met and married William Addis an agricultural labourer who was born at Highworth in 1839.
	In the census of 1881 Ruth Addis gave her age as 35 (sic), while William Addis was 41. The couple was living at Westrop in Highworth with Ruth’s daughter Elizabeth Collett, age 13, who was working an agricultural labourer. Living with the family of three was Ruth’s niece Harriet Collett aged just eleven months, the daughter of Ruth’s brother Timothy (above).
	1O37	Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1868 at Highworth
1N28	George Sessions was baptised at Bibury on 2^nd February 1812. He married twice, the second time on 4^th May 1847 to Caroline Stratton of Holborn Saint Andrew. He died in 1878.
	This is the family line of Elizabeth Jack of Longlevens in Gloucestershire.
1N29	Lydia Collett was born at Cricklade during 1799, the eldest child of John and Betty Collett who was baptised at St Sampson's Church in Cricklade on 16^th February 1800. She was only 18 when she married (1) Edmund Wall on 3^rd February 1818 with whom she had ten children, and all of them born and baptised at Siddington. Edmund Wall was baptised on 4^th May 1799 at South Cerney, but died on 5^th August 1845 and was buried at Siddington on 9^th August 1845.
	For another reference to the Wall family name, see also Betty Collett (below). She was Lydia’s younger sister and she married John Chesterman Wall at Siddington, whose death was recorded at Cricklade. It therefore seems very likely that Edmund Wall and John Chesterman Wall were brothers.
	Following the death of Edmund Wall in 1845, Lydia married (2) Harry Packer on 28^th May 1849 at Siddington. According to the Census of 1851 for Siddington, Harry Packer was born at Ashton Keynes and was a labourer at 66. Living with him at that time was his wife Lydia Packer, age 52, who gave her place of birth as Siddington rather than Cricklade, and her daughter Emma Wall who was 11.
	1O38	Elizabeth Wall			Baptised on 03.12.1818 at Siddington
	1O39	Mary Wall			Baptised on 20.12.1821 at Siddington
	1O40	Thomas Wall			Baptised on 06.03.1823 at Siddington
	1O41	Edmund Wall			Baptised on 07.05.1825 at Siddington
	1O42	William Wall			Baptised on 04.12.1826 at Siddington
	1O43	Eliza Wall			Baptised on 14.07.1828 at Siddington
	1O44	Maria Wall			Baptised on 08.05.1831 at Siddington
	1O45	John Wall			Baptised on 07.09.1833 at Siddington
	1O46	Jane Wall			Baptised on 14.04.1837 at Siddington
	1O47	Emma Wall			Baptised on 10.11.1838 at Siddington
1N30	James Collett was born at Siddington where he was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 28^th November 1801, the eldest son of John and Elizabeth Collett. Tragically he suffered an infant death and died shortly after.
1N31	James Collett was born at Siddington and was baptised there on 28^th November 1802 at St Peter’s Church, when his parents were named as John and Betty Collett. It was also there that he later married Sarah Maysey on 3^rd March 1828. Sarah Maizey was baptised at Fairford on 30^th June 1811, the daughter of James and Mary Maizey. The couple initially settled in Siddington, where the twins were born before the family moved to Bristol, where daughter Jane was born.
	No positive record of the family has been found in 1841 or 1851, although it is confirmed that the couple’s two youngest daughter were baptised at Swainswick near Bath either side of 1850. However, by 1861 the family was identified residing at Swainswick within the Bath & Batheaston registration district of Somerset, where James Collett from Siddington was 59, his wife Sarah was 52, and living there with them were three children. They were daughters Jane Collett, age 25, Eliza Collett who was 12, and Sarah Collett who was nine.
	During the next few years James’ wife died at Swainswick, so by 1871 the family still living there comprised widower James Collett, age 69, Jane Collett, who was 36, and Sarah Collett who was 19.
	According to the 1881 Census James was living at Swainswick in Somerset. He was a former labourer aged 79 who had been born in Siddington, when he had living with him his unmarried daughter Jane Collett, age 46 and from Marshfield near Bristol, who was a laundress aged 46.
	1O48	Martha Collett twin			Baptised on 12.06.1829 at Siddington
	1O49	Mary Collett twin			Baptised on 12.06.1829 at Siddington
	1O50	Jane Collett			Born in 1835 at Marshfield
	1O51	Eliza Collett			Born in 1848 at Swainswick
	1O52	Sarah Collett			Born in 1851 at Swainswick
1N32	Henry Collett was born at Siddington and baptised St Peter’s Church on 28^th August 1805, the son of John and Elizabeth Collett. Henry was an agricultural labourer and he was married by banns to Elizabeth Mills of Painswick in Gloucestershire on 16^th October 1827 at nearby Haresfield, all as confirmed by the bishop’s transcript.
	Elizabeth was born at Haresfield in 1808, and was baptised there as Betsy Mills on 26^th March 1809, the daughter of Edward Mills and Sarah Steel. However, another source says she was the daughter of William and Martha Mills, and that she was born at Painswick on 1^st May 1803.
	Following their wedding the couple settled in the town of Painswick where their first five children were baptised. The birth certificate for their fifth children Henry, states that his father was labourer Henry Collett and that his mother was Elizabeth Collett, formerly Mills. The birth was registered in the Stroud sub-district of Painswick, and Henry Collett signed the register by making the mark of a cross.
	Unfortunately the residence of the informant is not clear to read on the certificate, but it may be that it was ‘Haresfield, Painswick’. This might indicate that the family was living in Haresfield, but that the children were baptised in Painswick, as perhaps there was no parish church in Haresfield.
	Sometime after 1838 the family moved for a short while to Stroud, where their sixth child was baptised, before finally settling down to live at Cirencester where their last child was born. The 1841 Census recorded the family living at Cirencester with both Henry’s and Elizabeth’s rounded age being stated as 35. The children at that time were William Collett, age 12, Sarah, age 10, George Collett who was eight, Edwin Collett was six, Henry Collett was three, and Harriett Collett who was one year old.
	Henry’s wife Elizabeth died on 26^th March 1850 while the family was at Cirencester. From the 1851 Census Henry was a widower aged 45 and all of his children were still living at Cirencester with him. They were William Collett, who was 22, Sarah Collett 20, George Collett 18, Edwin Collett 15, Henry Collett 12, Harriett Collett 10, and latest arrival, James Collett who was eight years old. The census return also confirmed Painswick as the place of birth of the first five children and Stroud and Cirencester for the last two.
	However, during the next ten years the nearly all of the children left the family home, leaving just unmarried Sarah to look after her father. The 1861 Census for Cirencester gave Henry’s age as 59, which may have been an error in transcription as he would have been 55, while Sarah as 30.
	With no further record of Henry after that, it seems likely that he died between 1861 and 1871, and his daughter Sarah may have married during that same decade as there was no suitable Sarah Collett in the census of 1871 who was born at Painswick.
	1O53	William Collett				Born in 1829 at Painswick
	1O54	Sarah Collett				Born in 1831 at Painswick
	1O55	George Collett				Born in 1833 at Painswick
	1O56	Edwin Collett				Born in 1835 at Painswick
	1O57	Henry Collett				Born in 1838 at Painswick
	1O58	Harriett Collett				Born in 1840 at Stroud
	1O59	James Collett				Born in 1843 at Cirencester
1N33	Betty Collett was born at Siddington in 1808 and was baptised there on 5^th June 1808, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Collett, as confirmed in the parish register for St Peter’s Church. Although baptised as Betty she was often later referred to in various documents throughout her life as Elizabeth.
	On 16^th June 1827 at Siddington she was married by banns to (1) John Chesterman Wall who was also of Siddington, where he was baptised on 14^th August 1803. John was probably the brother of Edmund Wall who married Betty’s older sister Lydia Collett (above).
	John Wall died on 9^th July 1855 and his death was recorded at the Cricklade District office. Betty spent the next eleven years as a widow before she married (2) John Tombs on 6^th October 1866 at Siddington.
	Eight years later on 12^th July 1874 Betty Collett died at Siddington as a result of chronic heart disease and asthma. The death certificate recorded at Cirencester District office gave her age as 67. That office also recorded the death of Mary Wall on 20^th October 1846 who was possibly Betty’s daughter who would have been just been approaching her fourteenth birthday.
	From Betty’s daughter Ruth Wall is the family line of Sue and Gareth Kinsey of Hartfield in East Sussex.
	1O60	Jacob Wall		Born on 25.07.1828; baptised 10.08.1828
	1O61	George Wall		Born on 04.11.1830
	1O62	Mary Ann Wall		Born on 03.12.1832; baptised 14.12.1832
	1O63	Emmanuel Wall		Born on 18.03.1835; baptised 06.04.1835
	1O64	Charlotte Wall		Born on 02.09.1837; baptised 18.09.1837
	1O65	Ruth Wall		Baptised on 18.08.1838
	1O66	Stephen Wall		Born circa 1842
	1O67	Caroline Wall		Baptised on 30.06.1844
	1O68	Alfred William Wall		Baptised on 10.12.1848
1N34	JOHN COLLETT was born at Siddington and baptised there on 12^th April 1811, the son of John and Elizabeth Collett. He later married Mary Ann Dent of Stoke Gifford in Gloucestershire in 1836. Mary was born in 1815 and was the daughter of John Dent (1778-1841) and Sarah Iles (1779-1841) of Siddington. Both of her parents died in July 1841, first her mother on the sixth day of the month, followed by her father exactly three weeks later.
	About six years after they were married, on 27^th March 1842 a John Collett, who was a labourer from Siddington, was sentenced to a term of imprisonment in Gloucester Gaol. The interval between the dates of birth of John’s third and fourth child suggests that the gaoled man was indeed this John Collett.
	By 1851 John Collett was 40 and his wife Mary was 36. Listed in that year’s census for Siddington with the couple were four of their first five children. Sarah Collett was 11, Alice Collett was eight, Charles Collett was four, and Isabella Collett was two years old, and all of them born at Siddington. It is curious that no record of the family has been found within the next census in 1861.
	All of couple’s next three children were also born at Siddington where, in 1855, John signed the birth register for his son Robert with a cross, at which time his occupation was stated as being that of agricultural labourer. John and Mary were still living in Siddington at the time of the 1871 census, when John was 60 and a labourer, while Mary was 56. The only child still living with them on that occasion was their youngest son Henry who was six years old.
	According to the census of 1881 John Collett, age 70, was still working as an agricultural labourer and he and wife Mary, who was 66, were living at Upper Siddington with their youngest Henry Collett who was 15, and another agricultural labour.
	1O69	Susanna Collett			Born on 01.04.1837 at Siddington
	1O79	Sarah Ann Collett			Born on 06.10.1839 at Siddington
	1O71	Alice Collett			Born on 23.07.1842 at Siddington
	1O72	Charles Iles Collett			Born on 02.08.1846 at Siddington
	1O73	Isabella Collett			Born on 25.05.1849 at Siddington
	1O74	ROBERT COLLETT			Born on 15.07.1855 at Siddington
	1O75	William Edward Collett			Born on 24.07.1859 at Siddington
	1O76	Henry John Collett			Born in 1865 at Siddington
1N35	Thomas Collett was born at Siddington on 1^st October 1813 and was baptised there 24^th October 1813, the son of John and Elizabeth Collett. He married Elizabeth Gardiner at Fairford on 8^th October 1837, where she was baptised on 26^th May 1814.
1N36	Dinah (Diana) Collett was born at Siddington on 20^th April 1816 and was baptised there on 9^th June 1816, the youngest child of John and Elizabeth (Betty) Collett. She was 21 years old when she married John Robertson at Siddington on 31^st December 1837.
1N37	Nancy Collett was baptised at Stonehouse on 19^th May 1799, and she later married James Stockham on 23^rd August 1835 at Bisley in Gloucestershire.
1N38	Sarah Collett was possibly born during 1803 and was baptised on 15^th April 1804 at Stonehouse in a double ceremony with her brother John Collett (below). It would appear she never married and died at Stonehouse on 29^th February 1840, aged 38 years, which would indicate she was born in 1802 or 1803. She was buried in the Stonehouse Churchyard with her father and mother, Aaron and Sarah Collett, her brother John Collett, and her baby sister Hester Collett (below).
1N39	John Collett was baptised at Stonehouse on 15^th April 1804 in a double ceremony with his older sister Sarah Collett (above). No record has been found to suggest that he ever married, and he died on 20^th January 1835 aged 30, just two weeks before his father Aaron Collett passed away, following which John was buried in Stonehouse Churchyard.
1N40	Martha Collett was baptised on 28^th September 1806 at Stonehouse and later married Samuel James. Their daughter, Sarah James was born at Berkeley in 1839 and was listed in the census of 1851 as living at the home of her uncle Martin Collett (below). Martha was referred to as daughter Martha James, wife of Samuel James, in the Will of her father Aaron Collett.
1N41	Hester Collett was baptised at Stonehouse on 24^th December 1809, but she failed to see her first birthday when she died on 13^th December 1810 and was buried in Stonehouse Churchyard.
1N42	Martin Collett was baptised at Stonehouse on 7^th November 1813, where he later married Elizabeth Taylor on 21^st April 1840. She was born in 1811 and her entry in the marriage register stated she was ‘of Quedgeley’. In 1835 Martin inherited the family business as a carpenter and wheelwright upon the death of his father Aaron Collett. He was joint executor of his father’s Will with his mother Sarah Collett.
	Six years later in 1841 Martin and Elizabeth were living at Wheatenhurst when their ages were given as 25 and 30 respectively. Living with them was Martin’s widowed mother Sarah Collett, who was70.
	According to the next census in 1851, Martin Collett, age 37, was an estate builder’s foreman living at Ham, to the south of Berkeley. Living with him was his wife Elizabeth, who was 41, his son John Martin Collett, who was five years old, his mother Sarah Collett, age 80, and his niece Sarah James, age 12, who was born in neighbouring Berkeley, the daughter of Martin’s older sister Martha James nee Collett (above).
	Martin’s and Elizabeth’s daughter Martha, who would have been six years of age at the time of the census, was not listed with the family, nor has she been recorded anywhere at any time thereafter, so it is assumed that she very likely suffered an infant death.
	After a further ten years, Martin, age 47, and Elizabeth, age 50, were living in the St John the Baptist area of Gloucester in 1861, together with their son John M Collett who was 15. During the next decade it would appear that both Martin and Elizabeth passed away, since there was no record of them within the census of 1871.
	1O77	Martha Collett			Born in 1844 at Stonehouse
	1O78	John Martin Collett			Born in 1845 at Stonehouse
1N43	Harriett Collett was born at Minchinhampton during 1803, where she was baptised on 1^st January 1804, the eldest child of William Collett and Sarah Watts. Her parents are known to have lived at Bownham Cottage in Minchinhampton, where Harriett may have been born.
1N44	Ann Collett was born at Minchinhampton and was baptised there on 7^th April 1805, the second child of William and Sarah Collett. She later married John Gardner at nearby Bisley on 10^th July 1825.
1N45	John Collett was born at Minchinhampton and it was there also that he was baptised on 12^th July 1807, the eldest son of William and Sarah Collett. It was also at Minchinhampton that he later married Sarah, although nothing further is known as to what happened to them after that. However, he was a widower by 1861 when the census that year placed John Collett, age 51 (sic) and from Minchinhampton, living at Stroud with his aunt maiden Susan Collett (Ref. 1M40), the younger sister of John’s father.
1N46	William Collett was baptised on 7^th May 1809 at Minchinhampton and was buried at nearby Woodchester on 1^st September 1839 aged 30 years.
1N47	Sarah Collett was baptised on 21^st June 1811 at Minchinhampton. She was around 21 when she married James Midwinter on 24^th March 1832 at Kempsford, where their daughter Ann was born and baptised.
	1O79	Ann Collette Midwinter			Baptised on 26.03.1833 at Kempsford
1N48	George Collett was baptised at Minchinhampton on 18^th July 1813, the son of William Collett and Sarah Watts. Upon leaving school he followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming a carpenter. He later married (1) Jane Packer on 23^rd December 1834 at the parish church in nearby Leonard Stanley. Jane was born at Aston Blank, where she was baptised on 13^th February 1814.
	Both George and Jane signed the marriage register in their own hand, indicating a certain level of education. The witness to the marriage was Daniel Watts who may have been attached to the church as he also signed the previous entry in the church register. It is also possible that this same Daniel was the father of George’s mother who was a witness at his parents’ wedding over thirty years earlier.
	See also Part 10 – Other Branch Lines for more details of the Watts family.
	It was very likely George’s occupation as a carpenter that was the reason for him and his family moving so many times during their life. Initially the couple settled down for the first five years of their married life in Jane’s home town of Leonard Stanley. While they were living there their first three children were born, but sadly it was also there that their first born son also died three days after his birth. Not long after that tragedy George and Jane, together with their two daughters, left Leonard Stanley and moved the twelve miles north to Leckhampton, just south of Cheltenham, where their next child was born.
	By the time of the first national census in early June 1841 George and Jane were confirmed as residing at Leckhampton with their three daughters. The census record listed the family as George Collett, age 28, who was a carpenter, his wife Jane Collett, who was 27, and their daughters Sarah Collett who was five, Mary Collett who was four, and Harriet Collett who was just one year old.
	Sometime during the next decade George and Jane moved two more times, the first time to Morden, near Kingston-on-Thames, where their second son was born, and then to Colnbrook to the east of Slough, where the next three sons were born.
	The census of 1851 recorded the family living at Colnbrook in the Eton & Iver district of Buckinghamshire. George gave his age as 36, the same as wife Jane, and their children with them at that time were Mary Collett, age 14, Harriet Collett, age 10, Charles Collett who was six, and Oliver Collett who was only one year old. It seems likely that other children were born into the family during the five years between Charles and Oliver, who sadly did not survive.
	Also no trace has been found of the family’s eldest daughter Sarah Collett who would have been 15, so it may be assumed that she too had died between 1841 and 1851. Jane presented George with four more children during the following decade, the last of which was born at nearby Langley in Slough.
	According to the next census in 1861 the family was living at Langley and comprised George Collett, age 47, Jane Collett, age 46, their three sons Charles Collett, age 16, Walter Collett, who was eight, George Collett, who was six, and their daughter Caroline Collett who was one year old. It may be safe to assume that eldest surviving daughter Mary, like her sister Harriet, had already left the family home to be married. However, no trace has been found of their son Oliver, who would have been 10 years old.
	Another move of home seems to have taken place during the 1860s since, by the time of the 1871 Census the family was living at Colnbrook within the Stanwell registration district. George and Jane were both listed as being aged 57 and living there with them were their two sons Walter Collett, age 18, and George Collett, age 16, and their daughter Caroline Collett who was 11. Sometime during the next few years Jane died leaving George a widower to care for his young daughter.
	It seems highly likely that George Collett may have met the widow Mrs Emma McCann through his son Charles George Collett who, during the latter half of the 1860, moved to Ham in Surrey where he was married and where he raised his family. Living within the Kingston-on-Thames registration district in 1871, which also included Ham just to the north of Kingston, was Emma McCann with her three children, one of which Ann was born at Ham in 1861.
	Emma’s husband was Herbert McCann who was a mariner, and it is assumed that his absence from the Kingston census in 1871 was due to a fatal accident while at sea. Emma was born on the 10^th March 1835, the eldest daughter of William and Ann Vincent of Chertsey, where Emma Vincent was baptised on 15^th April 1835. The Chertsey census in 1841 recorded her family as William Vincent, who was 34, Ann Vincent, age 35, Joseph Vincent, who was eight, Emma who was six, Ann Vincent who was four, and Edmond Vincent who was two years old.
	Emma Vincent married Herbert McCann towards the end of the 1850s, although no record of the couple and their children has been found in the next census of 1861. However, by 1871, Emma McCann was living at Kingston-on-Thames with just her three children living there with her. Emma was 35, her eldest daughter, named as Laura McCann rather than Louisa McCann, was 12, Annie McCann was nine, and Herbert McCann was four years old. It is also understood that Emma had another son, Edward McCann, who died while still very young.
	How widower George Collett met widow Emma McCann is not known precisely, but it is possible that it was through George’s son Charles George Collett, as previously mentioned above and discussed further below. What is known is that George married (2) Emma McCann around 1876, when Emma brought with her into the Collett family her young son Herbert McCann, who had adopted the Collett surname by the day of the census in 1881. Also by that time Emma has presented George with the first of their two children.
	So the family recorded as residing at King John’s Palace in Colnbrook in April 1881 was made up of George Collett, age 66, a carpenter from Minchinhampton, his wife Emma Collett, age 46, who was born at nearby Chertsey, and their two sons Herbert Collett, who was 14 and born at Kingston-on-Thames, who was described as a carpenter’s son, and Arthur Collett who was three years old, who had been born at Colnbrook. It should be made clear that Herbert was not described as George’s stepson.
	King John’s Palace was a large country cottage which dates from the 13^th Century, which today is a Grade II listed building situated on the Bath Road in Colnbrook. It was never a palace and it is believed that it was first addressed as King John’s Place. Containing many wooden parts to the structure of the house, it seems very likely that George Collett, as a carpenter, was employed there by the owner of the property at that time, and that he and his family occupied a room or rooms in the extremely large property. The census in 1881 showed that the owner was very likely Captain Robert Hetherington, late of the Third Somerset Regiment, who was born at Colnbrook. Also living at the same address as him and the Collett family were six other families whose members included a gardener, a charwoman, two labourers from separate family groups, and two men from two other families who were described as general dealers.
	By 1881 Emma’s two daughters, Louisa and Anne, were both living and working in Kingston-on-Thames. Louisa McCann, age 22 and from London, was a dressmaker, who was lodging at the home of Samuel Lee in East Road, while Anne McCann, age 19 and from Ham in Surrey, was a housemaid living at 1 Surbiton Hill Park, the home of property owner Jessy Ann Walter. What is also curious about the census in 1881, is that living with George’s married son Charles George Collett at Ham was Julie Vincent who was 17 and from Ham. She very possibly related to Emma McCann nee Vincent, providing yet another likely link between her and George Collett, as discussed above.
	Within a year of the census day in 1881 Emma gave birth to the couple’s last child and, indeed, she may well have been already pregnant with the child on the actual day of the census, her son Frank being born at King John’s Palace in Colnbrook during 1881/1882. Sometime after 1882 and before 1891 George Collett died leaving Emma with her young family, although it is slightly odd that neither she nor her children have been positively identified within the Great Britain census of 1891.
	Where there were in 1891 has still to be discovered, but by March 1901 the widow Emma Collett, age 66 and born at Chertsey, was living at Bromley in Kent with her two sons by her second husband George Collett. Arthur Collett, age 23, and Frank Collett, age 18, were both confirmed as having been born at Colnbrook in Middlesex. Emma died during the first decade of the new century, and her two sons both became married men.
	1O80	Sarah Ann Collett					Born in 1835 at Leonard Stanley
	1O81	Mary Collett					Born in 1837 at Leonard Stanley
	1O82	John William Collett					Born in 1839 at Leonard Stanley
	1O83	Harriet Collett					Born in 1840 at Leckhampton, Glos
	1O84	Charles George Collett					Born in 1845 at Wick, Wiltshire
	1O85	Oliver Collett					Born in 1850 at Colnbrook, Bucks
	1O86	Walter William Collett					Born in 1853 at Colnbrook, Bucks
	1O87	George Collett					Born in 1857 at Colnbrook, Bucks
	1O88	Caroline Jane Collett					Born in 1859 at Langley, Bucks.
	1O89	Herbert McCann - adopted					Born in 1867 at Kingston-on-Thames
	The next two children certainly came from George’s second marriage to Emma McCann, and they were:
	1O90	Arthur Charles Collett					Born in 1878 at Colnbrook
	1O91	Frank Collett					Born in 1882 at Colnbrook
1N49	Joseph Collett was baptised on 15^th October 1815 at Minchinhampton and was buried at Woodchester on 29^th April 1817, only a few months after his father William Collett (Ref. 1M37) and his mother Sarah both passed away.
1N50	William Collett was born at Leonard Stanley where he was baptised on 4^th December 1808, the eldest child of James Collett and his wife Hannah Land.
1N51	Thomas Collett was born at Leonard Stanley and was baptised there on 14^th July 1811. When he was around five years old his parents took the family the short distance to live in Woodchester, and it was there that Thomas later married Elizabeth Rogers on 1^st March 1835. Elizabeth had been born at Stroud in 1816, and was around 18 or 19 years of age on her wedding day. Once they were married the couple settled in Woodchester.
	After six years of marriage Elizabeth had presented Thomas with two children, as listed living with the couple at Woodchester in 1841. According to the census that year, Thomas Collett had a rounded age of 25, when he was nearer 30, his wife Elizabeth was 20, which was obviously incorrect, and their children were James Collett who was four, and Adelaide Collett who was three.
	By the time of the census in 1851, Thomas Collett, age 39, and his wife Elizabeth Collett, age 35, were living at Selsey Road in Woodchester, the same street in which Thomas’ widowed mother and his youngest sister Susannah Collett (below) were also living at that time. Elizabeth was a laundress and she and Thomas had their three children living with them. James N Collett was 13 and a wool sorter, Adelaide Collett who 12, and Henry Collett was nine years old. All three children were confirmed as having been born at Woodchester.
	Thomas Collett was a plumber and died in 1854 as a victim of the cholera epidemic that affected the area in the early 1850s. With no records of the family so far found after 1861 it is not known what happened to them after Thomas passed away, but in 1871 Elizabeth Collett, age 55, was living at Woodchester within the Stroud & Rodborough registration district, when living there with her was her granddaughter Elizabeth H Collett, the eldest child of her youngest son Henry. Furthermore, apart from his baptism and his appearance in the 1851 census, it is possible that her other son James Nathaniel Collett had died around the same time as his father, or shortly thereafter.
	Having lost her husband, and with no other means of financial support, Elizabeth was forced to let rooms at her home, as confirmed in the census of 1881. On that occasion widow Elizabeth Collett was living at The Lodge in Selsey Road, Woodchester, while in the adjacent dwelling was her married daughter Adelaide with her own family. The Lodge appears to be a very large dwelling, since there were another twenty-three people residing there. Elizabeth Collett, age 65 and from Stroud, was described as a retired landlady.
	1O92	James Nathaniel Collett				Born in 1837 at Woodchester
	1O93	Adelaide Collett				Born in 1838 at Woodchester
	1O94	Henry Albert Collett				Born in 1842 at Woodchester
1N52	John Collett was baptised on 29^th May 1814 at Leonard Stanley. He married (1) Sarah Harrison on 16^th April 1844 at Frampton-on-Severn, where their son was born. The three of them were recorded together in the census of 1851, when John was 36, Sarah was 37, and son Charles was five. It was a similar situation ten years later when once again they were still living within the Wheatenhurst & Frampton registration district. John was 48, Sarah was 47 and Charles was 15.
	With their son joining the navy, the couple were on their own at the same location in 1871 when John was 58 and Sarah was 57. Shortly after the census that year Sarah died, following which John later married (2) Jane with whom he was living in 1881. The census on that occasion listed the couple living at Bradley Lane in Wootton Under Edge where John Collett from Stroud was 68 and a flower gardener, while his wife was Jane Collett, who was 57 and from Horsley.
	1O95	Charles Collett			Born in 1846 at Frampton-on-Severn
1N53	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Leonard Stanley on 20^th March 1817. She later married her cousin Henry Collett (Ref. 1N61) on 13^th July 1840 at St Mary de Lode Church in Gloucester.
	Details of the family and the continuation of this line are provided in Part 6 - The New Zealand Line from 1800 to 2000 commencing with the Ref. 6N1.
	This is the family line of Maxwell Amner Collett of New Zealand.
1N54	Edwin Collett was born at Woodchester where he was baptised on 22^nd August 1819 at Woodchester, the son of James and Elizabeth Collett. Before the family moved to Woodchester in 1818, the previous four children of James Collett were recorded with their mother being Hannah, who was Hannah Land. It was also at Woodchester that Edwin later married Martha Ann from nearby Rodborough.
	Edwin was a coachman and both of his sons were baptised at Woodchester. However, by the time of the census in 1851 the couple’s child had died just three months earlier. At that time in their lives Edwin Collett, age 31, was living at Selsey Road in Woodchester with his much younger wife Martha who was only 22. Living in the same street was his mother Hannah Collett with his youngest sister Susannah (below), while in another dwelling on the road was the family of his older brother Thomas (above).
	Six months later Martha gave birth to a second son while the couple was still living in Woodchester and, even though it is known that he later married in Tetbury and had a son there, no other records of any of the family living in England after 1851 has been discovered.
	1O96	William Henry Collett			Born in 1849 at Woodchester
	1O97	William Edward Collett			Born in 1851 at Woodchester
1N55	Joseph Collett was born at Woodchester and was baptised there on 9^th September 1823, another son of James and Elizabeth Collett.
1N56	Caroline Collett was born at Woodchester where she was also baptised on 1^st October 1826, the daughter of James and Elizabeth Collett.
1N57	Susannah Collett was born at Woodchester where she was baptised on 15^th February 1829, when she was named as the child of James and Elizabeth Collett, rather than James and Hannah Collett. It was also at Selsey Road in Woodchester, within the Stroud & Rodborough registration district, that she was living with her widowed mother Hannah Collett in 1851. Their surname was incorrectly recorded as Callett, when Susanna Callett, age 22, was a servant, presumably looking after her elderly mother who actually died less than two years later.
	It was around three years later and just sixteen months after her mother had passed away, that Susannah Collett married James Smart at Woodchester on 26^th March 1854.
1N58	Ann Collett was born at Leonard Stanley, the first child of Thomas Collett and his wife Ann Antill, who was baptised there on 30^th May 1813.
1N59	Mary Collett was baptised on 2^nd April 1815 at Leonard Stanley. She married Augustus Wilkins on 7^th April 1842 at St Matthew's Church at Stonehouse. Ten months prior to her wedding day, Mary Collett, age 25, when she was still living within the Stroud & Stonehouse district of Gloucestershire.
1N60	Charles Collett was baptised on 30^th March 1817 at Leonard Stanley. It was around 1840 that he married Eliza who was born at Haresfield in 1816. According to the census of 1851, he was a carpenter employing two men, when he was living at Coln St Aldwyns where all of his children were born.
	By the time of the next census in 1861 Charles Collett was listed as being 44 and Eliza was 45. Charles was a builder and wheelwright and he and Eliza were still residing at Coln St Aldwyns, where living with them were their children Charles Collett, age 17, who was described as ‘afflicted from birth’, Francis Collett, age 15, who was a carpenter, Eleanor Collett, age 13, Aaron Thomas Collett, age 11, Raymond Collett, who was seven, and Victoria Collett who was three years old. Eleanor, Aaron and Raymond were listed as being scholars, as they were still attending school.