PART TWELVE

The Oxfordshire Chipping Norton Line - 1560 to 1900

Updated February 2009

This is the family line of Iain Collett (Ref. 12R3) of Derbyshire

who kindly provided the new information regarding his family line

which is now depicted by the names in capital letters

This is also the family line of Sheila Collett (Ref. 12Q3) of New South Wales

whose daughter Marion O’Shea kindly provided much of the information relating to her family.

This line, depicted by the underlined names, shares a common ancestor with the

line of Iain Collett (above), this being John Collett (Ref. 12L5) 1780 to 1848

The Colletts listed in this section were mostly born or lived within a triangle of rural Oxfordshire defined by Chipping Norton to the north (the apex) and Burford and Witney (the base line). The actual starting point still requires some research as there are some missing elements, possibly from outside this defined area. For example it must be assumed that Ursely Collett (Ref. 12F1) and Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 12F2) had a younger brother, let us say Ref. 12F3. If he was born around 1570 and married around 1590 his son could be John (Ref. 12G1) below.

Although not yet confirmed as being part of this family line, but only discovered recently, was John Collett who married Elizabeth Souch at Spelsbury on 09.10.1619. This village is about one mile from Chadlington.

This is likely to mean that John was born in the late 1590s so being 10 to 15 years older that the John Collett below who seems likely to be his cousin and perhaps the nephew of Elizabeth Collett below.

Whether by chance or not there was a Susanna Collett from Oddington who married a Thomas Lardner at Bledington in 1816 and in this listing a William Collett married an Anne Lardner around 1860 at Charlbury. These three villages are all within ten miles of each other across the boundary between Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. Details of the Oddington Colletts of Gloucester from 1723 to 1836 are included in the appendix at the end of the section for interest and to help future researchers into this line.

12F1	Ursely Collett, may have been born around 1563 and been the older sister of Elizabeth Collett (below). What is known is that she married Thomas Tidmarsh at Chipping Norton in 1583.
12F2	Elizabeth Collett, whose estimated birth date was around 1565, married John Stapleton or Stapleford on 07.11.1586 at Chadlington a village just south of Chipping Norton.
12G1	John Collett, whose estimated birth date was around 1610, married Elizabeth Robbins on 17.03.1632 at Chadlington. In the absence of any other information at this time, it has been assumed that John was the nephew to Elizabeth Collett (above)
12H1	There is a missing generation here which is likely to be the children of John Collett (above), one or more of whom produced William Collett (Ref. 12I1), Richard Collett (Ref. 12I2) and Robert Collett (Ref. 12I3).
12H2	Thomas Collett, who may have been born around 1660 or earlier, married Audrey Hancock at Chipping Norton on 01.10.1682. This couple could therefore be the parents of the next three Collett men listed below but further work needs to be undertaken to confirm this.
12I1	William Collett, whose estimated birth date was around 1685, may have been the grandson of John Collett (above) and even possibly the son of Thomas Collett (above). He married Ann Bridgman in 1706 at Shipton-under-Wychwood. Their son John Collett was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Ascott-under-Wychwood just a couple of miles south of Chadlington.
	By the time of the birth of their second son William and Ann were living at Enstone and it was there at St Kenelm Church that the child was baptised.
	Also a William Collett ‘of Ascott’ died there and was buried there on 24.05.1743. It seems very likely that this was this William. It therefore seems likely that Ann Collett ‘a widow’ who was buried at Ascott on 20.03.1747 was William’s wife.
	12J1	John Collett	Baptised on 14.11.1710 at Ascott
	12J2	William Collett	Baptised on 20.01.1712 at Enstone
12I2	Richard Collett, whose estimated birth date was around 1685, may have been the grandson of John Collett (above). He is likely to have married Mary at Ascott around 1710 as there is reference to the burial of Mary Collett ‘wife of Richard’ on 19.07.1753. All of their children listed below were baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Ascott. The same parish register includes the burial of Richard Collett on 18.12.1756, although it is possible this may refer to the couple’s eldest son Richard Collett.
	12J3	Richard Collett	Baptised on 18.01.1712
	12J4	Matthew Collett	Baptised on 05.10.1715 at Ascott
	12J5	Thomas Collett	Baptised on 14.03.1717
	12J6	Joseph Collett	Baptised on 15.05.1720
12I3	Robert Collett, whose estimate birth date was around 1700, may have been the grandson of John Collett (above). It is known that he married Elizabeth and that they lived in the village of Fawler five miles to the north of Witney. The baptism of their daughter Nan Collett was recorded in the parish register for St Mary’s Church in the neighbouring village of Charlbury.
	Elizabeth Collett died while living at Fawler and was buried at Charlbury on 18.09.1738. The parish register recorded that she was ‘the wife of Robert Collett’. It looks very much like she may have died giving birth to daughter Nan whose baptism was then delayed until she was a little older.
	The parish register for St Mary’s Church in Charlbury also includes details of the burial of Robert Collett on 06.07.1753 and includes a reference to the fact that he was living at Fawler.
	12J7	Nan Collett	Baptised on 31.03.1745 at Charlbury
12J3	Richard Collett was baptised at Ascott on 18.01.1712. No other details have been discovered at this time.
	12K1	Thomas Collett	Born in 1743
	12K2	John Collett	Born in 1745
12J5	Thomas Collett was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Ascott on 14.03.1717. He married Ann Gilks in 1751 at St Mary’s Church in Charlbury where his children were also baptised. It would be reasonable to assume that their son Thomas was their first born child which may indicate that Thomas married Ann when he was in his early thirties while Ann may have been much younger.
	Although not proved it is possible that further children were born to Thomas and Ann and that one of these born after 1753 may have been the father of John Collett who married Mary at Charlbury around 1797 – see Ref. 12L6.
	Thomas died in 1770 and was buried at Charlbury on 11.03.1770, while Ann lived on as a widow until she died twenty-six years later and was buried with her husband at St Mary’s Church in Charlbury on 09.03.1796.
	12K3	Thomas Collett	Baptised on 06.05.1753
	12K4	unknown Collett - not confirmed	Born circa 1754
	12K5	Ann Collett	Baptised on 04.07.1756 at Charlbury
12J6	Joseph Collett was baptised at Ascott on 15.05.1720 where he married Ann around 1740-1743 and where all of their children were baptised. Ann was buried at Ascott on 16.09.1765 only a few months after the death of their son Matthew Collett and just one month before the death of two months old daughter Sarah Collett. The Ascott parish burial record states she was ‘the wife of Joseph Collett’ who was also buried there on 30.04.1779.
	12K6	Thomas Collett		Baptised on 02.10.1743 at Ascott
	12K7	Richard Collett		Baptised on 27.10.1745 at Ascott
	12K8	Jane Collett		Baptised on 19.04.1747 at Ascott
	12K9	Ann Collett		Baptised on 15.05.1749
	12K10	Matthew Collett		Baptised on 25.12.1750
	12K11	Mary Collett		Baptised on 15.10.1752 at Ascott
	12K12	Joseph Collett		Baptised on 05.05.1755
	12K13	Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 09.04.1756
	12K14	Joseph Collett		Baptised on 14.05.1758 at Ascott
	12K15	William Collett		Baptised on 30.05.1762 at Ascott
	12K16	Sarah Collett		Baptised on 28.07.1765
12K1	Thomas Collett was born in 1743 and was buried at Holy Trinity Church in Ascott on 05.04.1743.
12K2	John Collett was born in 1745. He later married Sarah Berry on 13.11.1767 at St Nicholas Church in Chadlington where all of their children were baptised. The witnesses at the wedding were John Berry, possibly Sarah’s father, and James Holloway. Sarah was born in 1747 according to the burial record below.
	Curiously the parish register recorded John as being ‘buried by the parish’ at Chadlington on 29.10.1783, while Sarah was buried there on 19.03.1835 aged 88.
	12L1	Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 14.05.1769
	12L2	Mary Collett		Baptised on 08.03.1772
	12L3	Sarah Collett		Baptised on 19.03.1775
	12L4	Hannah Collett		Baptised on 04.01.1778
	12L5	John Collett		Baptised on 02.07.1780
12K3	Thomas Collett was baptised at St Mary’s Church in Charlbury on 06.05.1753 where he married (1) Hannah Ward on 09.04.1780. It seems likely that Hannah presented him with a son during the following year (see note below from Thomas’ burial record), and that he may have been followed by further children including daughter Sarah who was confirmed as having been born into the family at Charlbury.
	Hannah died after just over seven years of being married to Thomas and was buried at Charlbury on 03.11.1787. Two years later Thomas Collett ‘a widower’ married (2) Hannah Chapman on 17.11.1789 at Charlbury.
	Thomas was died towards the end of 1809 and was buried in the churchyard at St Mary’s in Charlbury on 22.12.1809. The service was conducted by the Vicar John Cobb as detailed in the parish register which described the deceased as ‘Thomas Collett senior’. This would perhaps indicate that he had a son of the same name, although this still has to be confirmed.
	12L6	Thomas Collett –assumed son		Born circa 1782
	12L7	Sarah Collett		Baptised on 05.08.1784
12K4	An unknown Collett may have been born at Charlbury around 1754 and have been the brother of Thomas Collett (above) but none of this has been confirmed. Neither has it been confirmed that he married and had a son John who is likely to have been born at Charlbury around 1776.
	12L8	John Collett –assumed son		Born circa 1776
12K9	Ann Collett was baptised at Ascott on 15.05.1749 where she married Thomas Jackson on 10.08.1771. The witnesses at the wedding were John Harris and John Wayne.
12K10	Matthew Collett was baptised at Ascott on 25.12.1750. Although he lived longer than his brother Joseph and sister Elizabeth below, Matthew died while still a teenager and was buried at Ascott on 14.07.1765. The parish register records he was ‘the son of Joseph Collett’.
12K12	Joseph Collett was baptised at Ascott on 05.05.1755. He only lived for a few days and was buried there on 11.05.1755. The parish register records he was ‘the son of Joseph Collett’.
12K13	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Ascott on 09.04.1756 and like her brother Joseph, only lived for a few days. She was buried at Ascott on 13.04.1756 and the parish register records she was ‘the daughter of Joseph Collett’.
12K14	Joseph Collett was baptised at Ascott on 14.05.1758 where he was buried on 08.10.1806. It is unclear whether he was ever married but this seems unlikely.
12K16	Sarah Collett was baptised on 28.07.1765 at Ascott. Sarah ‘the daughter of Joseph Collett’ was buried at Ascott on 04.10.1765 less than three months after her brother Matthew Collett (above) and less than a month after her mother Ann Collett (Ref. 12J5).
	Could there be a common cause for the three deaths, such as a serious illness or plague, and was this the same reason for the deaths of the two other infants Joseph and Elizabeth Collett (both above) aged ten and nine years earlier respectively.
12L1	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 14.05.1769 where she married John Drinkwater also of Chadlington on 27.12.1792. The witnesses at the wedding were James Burden and Mary Mears.
12L2	Mary Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 08.03.1772 where she married Thomas Dring of Charlbury on 17.08.1793. The witnesses at the wedding were Mary’s brother-in-law John Drinkwater (above) and her sister Sarah Collett below.
12L3	Sarah Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 19.03.1775. She married James Keary (or Kearsy) on 18.09.1798 and the witnesses were Sarah’s brother-in-law Thomas Dring and Martha Berry, a possible relative through John Berry the father of Sarah Berry who married John Collett (Ref. 12K2).
	The parish records relating to Sarah’s son Henry Collett appear to indicate that he was initially base born, that is she was not married at the time of his birth. The Chadlington baptism record of 06.12.1807 states that he was christened Henry Keary and that the name Collett was ‘erased’.
	It may be worth noting here that William Collett (see Oddington Appendix) born in 1801 married Elizabeth Kearsy (or Keary) at Chadlington in 1835, so could this be a case of the same family name being mispelt in one of the parish records. In which case Elizabeth who was born around 1802 may have been the daughter of James Keary and Sarah Collett.
	12M1	Henry Collett (later Kearsy)		Born before September 1798
	12M2	Elizabeth Kearsy		Born circa 1802
12L4	Hannah Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 04.01.1778. She lived to be just four years old before she was buried at Chadlington on 01.03.1782. The parish register records that she was ‘the daughter of John and Sarah Collett’.
12L5	John Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 02.07.1780 where he married Mary Hucking also of Chadlington on 05.11.1803. John’s occupation was recorded as being that of a cooper, both at the time of his own marriage and those of his daughter Mary Ann Collett in 1844 and his son William Collett in 1847 the year before he died.
	Mary Hucking was the daughter of William Hucking and Mary Gardner and was baptised at Chadlington on 26.09.1784. The witnesses at his wedding were John Hucking, Mary’s brother perhaps, and Sarah Holloway - see the marriage of John Collett (Ref. 12K2) and Sarah Berry in 1767 at which James Holloway was a witness.
	All of the couple’s children were baptised at Chadlington.
	Mary was buried at Chadlington on 16.04.1834 aged 50, while John was buried there on 21.11.1848 aged 65, although there is a discrepancy here with the date of his baptism. His aged at death may have been 68 and misinterpreted as 65 since there was no other John Collett living around that time that would fit.
	Seven years earlier for the first national census carried out in June 1841 widower John was listed as being 60 years of age in the Chipping Norton, Witney & Woodstock registration district which included the village of Chadlington. Living with him were Mary Ann and Charles both with a rounded age of 20, and Mark and Jabel who were listed as 15.
	12M3	Mary Collett	Born in 1804
	12M4	Caroline Collett	Baptised on 12.05.1805
	12M5	John Collett	Born in 1806
	12M6	William Collett	Baptised on 05.06.1808
	12M7	John Collett	Baptised on 27.05.1810
	12M8	Frederick Collett	Born circa 1811-1812
	12M9	Mary Ann Collett	Born circa 1815-1816
	12M10	Charles Collett	Baptised on 29.06.1817
	12M11	James Collett	Baptised on 07.08.1820
	12M12	Mark Collett	Baptised on 04.06.1823
	12M13	Jabel Collett	Baptised on 16.02.1825
12L6	Thomas Collett was possibly born at Charlbury around 1782. No actual date of birth or baptism record has so far been found and his existence is based purely on the fact that his father was referred to as ‘Thomas Collett senior’ at the time of his death at Charlbury in 1809.
12L7	Sarah Collett was baptised at Charlbury on 05.08.1784 and was the daughter of Thomas and Hannah Collett. Tragedy hit the family when Sarah was only three years old, when her mother died, possibly in childbirth. Although her father married for a second time just over two years after the death of his wife, there may have been an adverse effect on little Sarah which caused problems for her in subsequent years.
	What it known is that she later gave birth to a base born daughter Hannah Collett, named in honour of her mother, who was buried at Charlbury on 31.08.1809. The parish register recorded that Hannah was ‘the illegitimate daughter of Sarah Collett of Charlbury’. The age of the child at the time of her death, nor the date of her birth, are known.
	Furthermore it has not been established whether Sarah was ever married or what happened to her after 1809, when it must be assumed that she was still a spinster living at Charlury in August 1809.
	12M14	Hannah Collett	Date of birth unknown
12L8	John Collett, who may have been born at Charlbury around 1776, married Mary at Charlbury around 1796 and he may have been the cousin of Sarah Collett (above). This is only an assumption and is not based on any factual information but is needed to provide the parents for the following two children both of whom were baptised at Charlbury.
	12M15	Thomas Collett	Baptised on 21.05.1797
	12M16	Stephen Collett	Baptised on 23.12.1798
12M1	Henry Collett was base born at Chadlington in the years prior to the marriage of his mother Sarah Collett to James Keary (or Kearsy) on 18.09.1798. It is not known if James was his father or not, but Henry was later baptised Henry Keary (or Kearsy) on 06.12.1807 at Chadlington and may have been adopted by James Keary (or Kearsy).
12M2	Elizabeth Kearsy was very likely born at Chadlington around 1802 to James Kearsy and Sarah Collett, both of Chadlington.
	She later married William Collett who came from Oddington whose family line is detailed in the Appendix at the end of this file. The wedding took place at Chadlington on 21.03.1835 and the witnesses were Robert Townsend and Elizabeth Trinder.
	William Collett (Ref. 12A/M1 in the Appendix) was born in late 1800 or very early 1801 from the burial record below and was baptised at Oddington in Gloucestershire on 07.04.1801. At the time of his marriage to Elizabeth he was described as a farming bailiff of Chadlington.
	Apart from their first child, their son Edwin Collett who was born and baptised at Chadlington, all of William’s and Elizabeth’s other children were born after the couple had moved to the nearby Oxfordshire hamlet of Dean.
	Although all of the children, excluding Edwin, are understood to have been born at Dean, in the later census records their sons Daniel and Thomas stated that they had been born at Kingham. However, it is known that all of the children were baptised at the parish church of All Saints Church in Spelsbury, just north of Charlbury.
	William Collett ‘of Dean’ was buried at All Saints Church in Spelsbury on 25.10.1859 aged 59 years and his wife Elizabeth was buried there on 25.03.1886 aged 83 years. At the time of her death she was living at Chadlington.
	Five years earlier and listed as 78 years old, Elizabeth K Collett born at Chadlington was a visitor at the Manor House in Charlbury where the only occupants on the day of the 1881 Census were Minnie A Gardner (aged 5 years), John W Gardner (aged 4 years), Louise M Gardner (aged 1 year), plus 14 years old nursery maid Jane Betts of Chadlington and 17 years old Elizabeth Reason who was a domestic servant from Winderton in Warwickshire.
	12N1	Edwin Collett	Baptised on 26.07.1835
	12N2	John William Collett	Baptised on 14.01.1838
	12N3	William Collett	Baptised on 04.08.1839
	12N4	Mary Elizabeth Collett	Baptised on 02.10.1842
	12N5	Daniel Collett	Born in 1843
	12N6	Thomas Collett	Born in 1844
	12N7	Charles Collett	Born in 1845 at Dean
	12N8	James Richard Collett	Baptised on 11.07.1847
12M3	Mary Collett may have been born at Chadlington in 1804 but no birth or baptism record has been found to date. However, her burial record of 17.12.1806 at Chadlington confirms her parents as John and Mary Collett and that she was buried less than two weeks before her brother John below.
12M4	Caroline Collett was born at Chadlington and was baptised there at St Nicholas Church on 12.05.1805, the daughter of John and Mary Collett.
12M5	John Collett may have been born at Chadlington in 1806 but no birth or baptism record has been found to date. However, his burial record of 30.12.1806 at Chadlington confirms his parents as John and Mary Collett and that he was buried less than two weeks after his sister Mary above.
12M6	William Collett was born in 1804 according to his burial record below, but was not baptised until 05.06.1808. This took place at Chadlington where he married Harriet Smith on 20.01.1847. At that time William’s occupation was that of a carpenter as it was seven years later at the birth of his second son, and later still at the time of the marriage of his first born son James in 1878.
	The witnesses at William’s and Harriet’s wedding were Jabel Collett (below), William’s youngest brother, and Ann Smith who was possibly Harriet’s mother. William’s father was listed as John Collett a cooper, while Harriet’s father was Francis Smith, a farmer.
	The couple’s second son Francis William Collett was baptised at Chadlington, although no record has so far been found of the birth or baptism of their first son James Collett even though he was listed with the family in the census records.
	The census recorded the family in 1861 as William 54, Harriet 44, and their two sons as James aged 8 and Francis William aged 7 and both born at Chadlington.
	Ten years later the family was still together and was still living at Chadlington where William was 66, Harriet 56, James 19 and Francis 16.
	William Collett died five years later and was buried at Chadlington on 18.08.1876 aged 72. The note in the parish register stated that William had died as the result of a fall from the top of the house that he was building at that time.
	Four years later, according to the 1881 Census for Charlbury, Harriet Collett was a 66 years old widow, an annuitant, and her place of birth was Chadlington like that of her husband.
	Just three years later in May 1884 Harriet passed away at the age of 70 and was buried with her husband on 10.05.1884 in the graveyard of St Nicholas Church at Chadlington.
	12N9	James Collett	Born in 1852
	12N10	Francis William Collett	Baptised on 10.09.1854
12M7	John Collett was born around 1808 and was the son of John Collett and Mary Hucking. He was baptised at Chadlington on 27.05.1810. He later became a farmer and around 1830 he married Mary Aynsley.
	By the time of the birth of their son Joseph it is very likely that they were living in the village of Glympton which was where Joseph said he was born in the various documents that have been discovered. Furthermore his farmstead in Australia was named Glympton Park.
	Whether John and Mary had any other children has not been determined at this time, but it is known that they left England for Australia, possibly following their son who emigrated there at the end of 1855.
	And it was in Australia that John died in 1858 which was possibly shortly after he arrived there. His death was recorded that year at Windsor just outside Sydney. It is also believed within the present day family that John, Mary and son Joseph were some of the first Colletts to settle in New South Wales.
	John’s brother Frederick (below) also had a connection with Glympton, in addition to which Appendix B at the end of this line refers to Part 39 – The Clanfield Oxfordshire Line which contains another Collett connection with Glympton. There is therefore a strong possibility that they may be a link between Part 12 and Part 39 that is still waiting to be unearthed.
	12N11	Joseph Collett	Born in 1833
12M8	Frederick Collett was born at Chadlington around 1811. Frederick was initially a tailor of Chadlington according to the 1838 baptism record for his daughter Caroline Collett. He is known to have married Ann Price of Glympton around Christmas time in 1835.
	This is established from the wedding banns that were recorded in the register for St Nicholas Church in Chadlington on the three occasions of 29^th November, and the 6^th and 13^th December 1835. It is very likely that the marriage ceremony was conducted at Glympton.
	The Chipping Norton, Witney & Woodstock registration district for 1841 included Frederick with a rounded age of 25, his wife Ann was 31, and their only child at that time as Caroline aged 3.
	By the time of the marriage of the couple’s eldest daughter in 1859 Frederick was recorded as an inn keeper and a few years later for the marriage of his son William in 1867 his occupation was stated as being that of a publican.
	In between these two events the family was recorded in 1861 as living within the Charlbury & Chipping Norton area, at which time it comprised Frederick aged 49, Ann 51, and their two sons Frederick 18 and William 15. Daughter Caroline would have been 22 and was probably married.
	Ten years later in 1871 Frederick was aged 60 and was living within the Chipping Norton & Charlbury registration district but there was no mention of his wife Ann at that time, nor has a listing for either of them been found in the 1881 and 1891 census records.
	However, the parish records for Chadlington confirm that Frederick died in 1897 aged 86 and that he was buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas Church on 09.10.1897.
	12N12	Caroline Collett	Baptised on 14.01.1838
	12N13	Frederick Henry Collett	Born in 1843
	12N14	William Price Collett	Born in 1845
12M9	Mary Ann Collett was born at Chadlington around 1816 according to the 1881 Census record, although in 1841 she was listed as having a rounded age of 20 years and three years later she was married.
	Mary Ann married Thomas Hill at Chadlington on 10.03.1844 and was recorded as being the daughter of John Collett. Thomas Hill was a carpenter while his father was a wheelwright. The witnesses at the wedding were William Collett (above) Mary Ann’s older brother, and Mary Hill who was possibly Thomas’ mother.
	According to the Census of 1881, the couple were both aged 65 and born at Chadlington, and were living at Charlbury with Mary’s youngest brother Jabel Collett (below). Thomas Hill was listed as being a builder and Jabel Collett was a boarder and a tailor born at Chadlington.
12M10	Charles Collett was born around 1816 and was baptised at Chadlington on 29.06.1817. In the census of 1841 Charles had a rounded age of 20 while still living at the family home.
	Just over five years later Charles, then described as a farmer, married Judy Fletcher of Chadlington at St Nicholas Church in Chadlington on 14.11.1846. The witnesses at the wedding were Jabel Collett (below) Charles’ youngest brother, and Ann Hill who was possibly the sister of Thomas Hill who married Charles’ sister Mary Ann Collett (above).
	Charles’ father was recorded as being ‘John Collett a farmer’ while Judy’s father was listed as Samuel Fletcher who was also a farmer. There is a possibility that Judy Fletcher was in fact Judith Hope Fletcher – see later notes (below).
	The census of 1851 confirmed that Charles was aged 32 and that he was living in the Chipping Norton & Charlbury registration district. Living with him were his first two children Elizabeth aged 3 and James aged one year, although there was no wife listed with him at that time.
	Like his father John Collett, Charles Collett was initially a cooper by trade, but from 1852 he was listed as either a farmer or a labourer on the baptism records of his children. All of their children were baptised at St Nicholas Church in Chadlington.
	By 1861 the family living within the Charlbury & Chipping Norton area comprised Charles 45, his wife Judith Hope Collett aged 36, and their seven children. These were Elizabeth Ann 13, James 11, Arthur 9, George 7, John Samuel 5, Amelia Mary 3, and one year old Caroline Winifred.
	Also, just like the reference in the 1861 Census, from 1862 onwards Charles’ wife was listed in their children’s baptism records as being Judith Hope Collett. It has not been determined whether Judith Hope Collett was the same Judy Fletcher that Charles married in 1846.
	The alternative solution could be that Charles may have been married twice, although no records of the death of Judy, nor his marriage to Judith, have been found. So the greater likelihood is that they were one and the same person.
	What is interesting is the second Christian name of daughter Fanny which was Judy’s maiden name. Was this a tribute to a death in Judy/Judith’s family or was it as a result of the passing of Judy. Either way the baptism records confirm the children’s father as being Charles Collett.
	More children were born into the family during the next decade, so by 1871 the family was made up of Charles aged 56 and Judith aged 44, and their eleven children. Only the couple’s eldest sons James and Arthur had already left the family home by then to ease the overcrowding.
	The children listed within the Chipping Norton & Charlbury area census record were Elizabeth 22, George 16, John 14, Amelia 13, Caroline 11, Charles 9, Lewis (Louis) 7, Fanny and Susan both aged 4 years, Francis 2, and one year old Frederick.
	There is further evidence of the family in the Census of 1881. In this Charles Collett was recorded as being married and was aged 63 years and born at Chadlington. His occupation was that of a farmer of 76 acres employing one boy while living at Charlbury. However, Charles’ wife Judith (or Judy) was missing from the census record.
	Living with Charles was his son Arthur Collett aged 29 and a farmer’s son and an assistant on the farm, his son Lewis Edward Collett aged 17 and a scholar, the twins Fanny and Susan both aged 14, and ‘Frank’ Collett aged 12 who was baptised as Francis. All of the children were confirmed as having been born at Chadlington.
	A search for the wife of Charles Collett has been conducted but without success, so it is possible that even though the entry has Charles as married this may be an error and he may have been a widower, the M or W being misinterpreted.
	Although not found in the census of 1891, by the time of the 1901 Census Charles was aged 85 and was ‘living on his own means’ at Charlbury. However, he only survived for another twelve months when he died in April 1902 aged 87 and was buried at St Nicholas Church in Chadlington.
	12N15	Elizabeth Ann Collett	Baptised on 29.11.1847
	12N16	James Collett	Baptised on 05.08.1849
	12N17	Arthur Collett	Baptised on 25.01.1852
	12N18	George Collett	Baptised on 25.06.1854
	12N19	John Samuel Collett	Baptised on 23.11.1856
	12N20	Amelia Mary Collett	Born in 1858
	12N21	Caroline Winifred Collett	Baptised on 12.02.1860
	12N22	Charles Collett	Baptised on 30.03.1862
	12N23	Lewis Edward Collett	Baptised on 24.04.1864
	12N24	Fanny Fletcher Collett twin	Baptised on 08.03.1867
	12N25	Susan Kate Collett twin	Baptised on 08.03.1867
	12N26	Francis Collett	Baptised on 29.11.1868
	12N27	Frederick Collett	Baptised on 27.02.1870
12M11	James Collett was born on 07.08.1820 at Chadlington where he was baptised on 20.08.1820 at St Nicholas Church. The church’s baptism record confirmed his parents as John and Mary Collett.
12M12	Mark Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 04.06.1823 and was aged 15 in the 1841 Census for the Chipping Norton, Witney & Woodstock registration district while still living at the family’s home.
	He later married Rosannah who was born in 1827 and their two children were both baptised at St Nicholas Church in Chadlington. She was recorded as Rosannah for the first child and as Rose Anna for the second.
	At the time of the birth of his two oldest daughters Mark was working as a labourer, but he was listed as a carpenter in 1870 in the parish register for the wedding of daughter Mary Ann. Just four years earlier a third daughter had been added to the family.
	The census of 1861 listed the family at Chipping Norton & Charlbury as Mark aged 38, Rose Anna aged 34, and their two daughters Angelina 11 and nine years old Mary Ann. Daughter Lucy would have been four years old but was not listed at that time.
	However by 1871 Mark was 47 and Rosanna was 44 and living with them was 21 years old Angelina and Lucy aged 14. Their absent nineteen years old daughter Mary Ann was already married by that time.
	By the time of the Census of 1881 both daughters were married and had left the family home. The census entry for Charlbury stated that Mark Collett aged 58 was a carpenter born at Chadlington and that his wife Rosanna aged 54 was born at Salford, a village a mile west of Chipping Norton.
	The couple were still living at Charlbury in 1891 when Mark was 67 and Rosanna was 63. However, less than three years later Rosanna passed away at the start of 1894 and was buried at Chadlington on 20.01.1894 at the age of 67.
	Following the death of his wife Mark left Charlbury and moved to Oxford where in 1901 he was a farm labourer aged 78.
	12N28	Angelina S Collett	Baptised on 02.06.1850
	12N29	Mary Ann Collett	Born in 1852
	12N30	Lucy Collett	Born in 1856
12M13	Jabel Collett was born at Chadlington in 1814 and was baptised there on 16.02.1825. He was listed as being aged 15 in the 1841 Census for the Chipping Norton, Witney & Woodstock registration district while still living at the family’s home.
	Five years later he was one of the witnesses at the marriage of his older brother Charles Collett (above) and Judy Fletcher in 1846.
	In the Charlbury censuses of 1861 and 1871 Jabel was listed as being aged 35 and 45 respectively.
	He never married and in 1881 he was working as a tailor while lodging at the Charlbury home of his sister Mary Ann Hill (above) and her husband. His age was given as 56 and his place of birth was confirmed as having been Chadlington.
	In 1891 he was still living at Charlbury where he continued to be employed as a tailor at the age of 66 as he was in 1901. By then he was 76 years of age and had return to Chadlington where he was then living.
	Jabel remained at Chadlington and it was there that he died and where he was buried on 17.12.1907 at the age of 84.
12M14	Hannah Collett was the base born daughter of Sarah Collett and was named after Sarah’s mother who had died when she was only three years old. Her date of birth is not known but it very likely took place at Charlbury, where sadly she died during August 1809. Hannah was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church at Charlbury on 31.08.1809. The parish register described her as ‘Hannah the illegitimate daughter of Sarah Collett of Charlbury’.
12N1	Edwin Collett was born at Chadlington where he was baptised on 26.07.1835 in the church of St Nicholas. His parents were confirmed as William and Elizabeth Collett.
12N2	John William Collett was born at Dean in 1837 but was baptised at Spelsbury on 14.01.1838. He later married Anne Lardner at Charlbury when he was around 21 or 22 years of age and they initially settled in Charlbury for the first couple of years of their married life together.
	By the time of the first census in June 1841 Anne was about due to give birth to John’s first child which was born later that month. The census at Charlbury recorded John as being aged 23 and his occupation as that of a butcher. His wife was listed as Annie aged 22.
	The couple’s first two children were baptised at Charlbury having been born respectively at Charlbury and at Churchill, a village two miles south west of Chipping Norton. The next three children were all born after John and Anne moved to live in London.
	According to the 1881 Census the family were living at 13 Guildford Street East in Clerkenwell. Head of the house John Collett was a Police Constable with the Great Western Railway, was aged 42 years and his place of birth was given as Dean in Oxfordshire. His wife was listed as Annie and she was born at Churchill and was 41 years of age.
	Their children were listed as Alan J Collett aged 19 who was a carman born at Charlbury, Agnes M Collett aged 17 who was born at Churchill, John W Collett aged 13 and born at Clerkenwell like the last two children Annie E Collett aged 6 and William T Collett aged one month.
	The family was still living in Clerkenwell just after the turn of the century. The 1901 Census confirmed John W Collett of Dean was aged 63 and was working as a carrier for the Great Northern Railway. Annie of Churchill was 62 and still living with them were two of their unmarried children, Agnes and William.
	12O1	Alan John Lardner Collett	Baptised on 28.07.1861
	12O2	Agnes Mary Collett	Born in 1864
	12O3	John William Collett	Born in 1868
	12O4	Anne Ethelfreda Collett	Born in 1875
	12O5	William T Collett	Born in March 1881
12N3	William Collett was born at Dean and was baptised at Spelsbury on 04.08.1839. It is unclear whether he ever married but he died at Nuneham Courtney south of Oxford and was buried at Spelsbury on 04.01.1875 aged 35 years.
12N4	Mary Elizabeth Collett was born at Dean but was baptised at the parish church in Spelsbury on 02.10.1842.
12N5	Daniel Collett was born at Kingham in 1843 according to the census records of 1881 and 1901. He married Elizabeth around 1864 and his occupation was that of a labourer. The couple were living at Enstone at the time of the baptism of their son Charley and just over a year later they were living in the hamlet of Lidstone for the baptism of their daughter Annie.
	According to the 1881 Census the family were still living at Lidstone in the spring of that year. Daniel was listed as aged 39 born at Kingham just three miles south west of Chipping Norton and a corn miller’s labourer.
	Elizabeth his wife was aged 40 and born at Taston the hamlet next to Spelsbury. And their two children were listed as son Charles Collett aged 16 a gardener’s labourer born at Lidstone and Annie Collett aged 14 also born at Lidstone.
	By 1901 Daniel of Kingham was 59 and was a farmer living at Enstone and with him was his wife Elizabeth aged 60 of Spelsbury.
	12O6	Charles Collett	Baptised on 21.05.1865
	12O7	Annie Collett	Baptised on 23.09.1866
12N6	Thomas Collett was born at Kingham in 1844. By the turn of the century he was 56 and was a carter on a farm at nearby Oddington. Also living in Oddington at that time was Emma Collett of Oaksey in Wiltshire who was aged 50 and was a domestic housekeeper who may have been the wife of Thomas Collett, and 42 years old Julia Collett from the village of Salford near Chipping Norton.
12N8	James Richard Collett was born at Dean and was baptised on 11.07.1847 at Spelsbury, where he was buried on 14.04.1849 aged just 2 years.
12N9	James Collett was born in 1852 at Enstone in Oxfordshire and was very likely baptised at St Kenelm’s Church in Enstone. In the census records for 1861 and 1871 he was living with his family at Chadlington and was aged 8 and 19 respectively.
	James was a 27 years old carpenter when he married Isabella Smith on 26.12.1878 at Chadlington, where they lived and where all of their children were baptised. Isabella was 26 years of age at the time of the marriage and was born at Chadlington in 1852.
	According to other details in the record of their marriage, James’ father was William Collett (Ref. 12M5) who was also a carpenter and a witness at the wedding, and Daniel Smith a labourer was Isabella’s father. The second witness was Sarah Ann Collett who may have been James’ sister-in-law, the wife of his younger brother Francis (below).
	James’ father William Collett had married Harriet Smith, so it seems very likely that Isabella was the niece of her mother-in-law.
	By the time of the 1881 Census James Collett born at Enstone was aged 29 and a carpenter employing two men, while Isabella born at Chadlington was aged 28. Living with them at Charlbury was their daughter Elizabeth Alice aged one year and Richard Southam of Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire, a 19 years old boarder and carpenter’s apprentice.
	In 1901 James aged 50 of Enstone was a carpenter and builder living in Chadlington with his wife Isabella aged 49. With them were daughters Elizabeth Alice aged 21 an assistant school mistress and Olive aged 15, and son James aged 12.
	At the time of the wedding of their daughter Olive Louise Collett in 1909 her father James Collett was listed as being a builder.
	James and Isabella lived long lives and it was in December 1936 that James passed away and was buried at Chadlington on 10.12.1936 aged 85. Isabella lived for almost another three years before she died in September 1939, following which she was buried with her husband at St Nicholas Church on 18.09.1939 aged 86.
	12O8	Elizabeth Alice Collett	Baptised on 03.08.1879
	12O9	Eva Annie Collett	Baptised on 18.10.1881
	12O10	Lillian Edith Collett	Baptised on 27.05.1883
	12O11	Olive Louise Collett	Baptised on 28.06.1885
	12O12	James William Claude Collett	Baptised on 05.08.1888
	12O13	Francis Campbell Collett	Baptised on 11.01.1891
12N10	Francis William Collett was born at Chadlington where he was baptised on 10.09.1854, the son of William and Harriet Collett. He was aged 7 and 16 respectively in the censuses of 1861 and 1871 while living with his family at Chadlington on both occasions.
	It would appear that Francis married (1) Sarah of Combe Martin in Devon before Boxing Day in 1878, as it seems likely that Sarah was the witness at the wedding of Francis’ older brother James (above) on that day.
	Certainly by early April 1881 Francis and Sarah were married and living at 25 New Cross Road in the St Paul district of Deptford in London. (New Cross Road is the A2 trunk road)
	Francis was 27 of Chadlington and his occupation was that of a clerk, while Sarah was aged 28. Living with them was Sarah’s married sister Jane Trelease of Combe Martin who was described as a draper and sister-in-law to head of the house Francis.
	Their financial status was perhaps indicated by the fact that they had a servant and general domestic in the form of 43 years old unmarried Emma Bencon from Shottisham in Suffolk.
	The marriage produced a son for Francis and Sarah and by 1891 the family of three were living in the Greenwich & St Paul Deptford registration district. Francis was 36, Sarah 37, and son William was six years of age.
	Whether it was during the birth of a second child or through illness that Sarah appears to have died sometime after 1891 since during the next decade Francis married (2) Emily. The census of 1901 confirmed Francis as being aged 47 and that he was still a clerk living in Deptford. With him was his wife Emily aged 44 who had been born at Deptford and living with the couple was Francis’ son William aged 16 whose place of birth was stated as New Cross.
	12O14	William T Collett	Born in 1884 at New Cross
12N11	Joseph Collett was born at Glympton in 1833. No trace of him or his parents has been found in the census of 1841, although by 1851 Joseph at the age of 17 was working as a carpenter and living at the home of Elizabeth Smith in the High Street in Witney.
	During the next few years Joseph moved nearer to London and in 1855 he married Eliza Ann Sharpe at Staines. Eliza was the daughter of John and Susan Sharpe. By the time of the 1851 Census for the Windsor & Egham registration district, which included Staines, Eliza Sharpe was aged 17 and was no longer living with her parents.
	Shortly after they were married Joseph and Eliza boarded the ship Morayshire bound for Australia, where they arrived on 19^th January 1856. Upon arrival in New South Wales Joseph was recorded as being a carpenter.
	The family settled at Ulmarra in the Clarence River region of Northern Rivers in New South Wales which was known as the cedar capital at that time. Once settled in their new life Joseph and Eliza became established as dairy farmers, a trade continued by subsequent generations of their family right up to the present day.
	Joseph Collett died at his farm Glympton Park in Ulmarra in February 1894 and his death certificate confirmed his place of birth as Glympton in Oxfordshire in England.
	All of Joseph’s and Eliza’s children, with the exception of their first child, were born at Ulmarra within the Grafton district of Clarence River.
	12O15	Mary Ann Collett	Born in 1858 at Ryde, Sydney
	12O16	Joseph William Collett	Born in 1860
	12O17	James Collett	Born in 1863
	12O18	Henry Collett	Born in 1865
	12O19	Frederick Collett	Born in 1867 at Grafton
	12O20	George Clarence Collett	Born in 1869 at Grafton
	12O21	Louisa Caroline Eliza Collett	Born in 1871 at Grafton
	12O22	Elizabeth Sarah Victoria Collett	Born in 1874 at Grafton
	12O23	Rose Violet May Collett	Born in 1881 at Grafton
12N12	Caroline Collett was born at Chadlington where she was baptised on 14.01.1838, her parents being confirmed as Frederick and Ann Collett. And it was also at St Nicholas Church in Chadlington that she later married farmer John Hiatt on 30.06.1859.
	Ann’s father was recorded at that time as Frederick Collett, an innkeeper, who was also a witness to the marriage. John’s father was listed as Thomas Hiatt, a farmer, and the second witness was his wife Eliza Hiatt born in 1806 and who was living at Pembroke Street in Chipping Norton in 1881.
	By the time of the 1881 Census Caroline Hiatt was a widow aged 42 living at 45 Sandy Lane at Aston in Birmingham. Her place of birth was confirmed as Chadlington. Living with her were her family comprising three sons born an Enstone: John Hiatt aged 20 and house painter; Thomas Hiatt aged 19 who was a chandelier filer; Frederick Hiatt aged 17 a brass caster. With them were daughter Mary Hiatt aged 13 born at Chadlington and son William Hiatt aged 11 born at Chipping Norton.
12N13	Frederick Henry Collett was born at Chadlington in 1843 and was eight years old in the Chipping Norton & Charlbury Census of 1851. He was still there ten years later aged 18.
	Sometime over the following years he left Oxfordshire and moved to Birmingham where he was living in 1871 aged 26 (sic). And it was at Birmingham that he married Sarah.
	According to the 1881 Census, Frederick and Sarah were living at 18 Whitmore Street. Frederick H Collett was aged 38 and a brewer of Chadlington, while his wife Sarah A Collett aged 41 was a shopkeeper grocer. Listed with them was their daughter Ann E Collett aged one year and of Birmingham.
	Ten years later the family of three was recorded living in the Duddeston & Aston district of Birmingham where Frederick was 47, Sarah was 51 and daughter Ann was 11.
	By 1901 Frederick Henry Collett of Chadlington was a baker aged 58 and was still living in Birmingham with his wife Sarah Ann aged 61 and daughter Ann aged 21.
	12O24	Ann Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1880
12N14	William Price Collett was born in 1845 at Chadlington but not baptised there until 24.02.1861. He was a carpenter by trade and he married 21 years old Elizabeth Mary Gee on 12.12.1867 at Chadlington when 22 years of age. The witnesses at the wedding were William Bond and Sarah Gee. Elizabeth’s father was recorded as labourer James Gee.
	William died of ‘consumption and dropsy’ shortly after the birth of their second son and was buried at Chadlington on 27.08.1870 aged 24 years. Just eight months earlier at the time of the baptism of his son, William was confirmed in the Chadlington church records as being a carpenter.
	So by the time of the Chipping Norton & Charlbury census of 1871 seven months later Elizabeth was a widow at the tender age of 24 caring for her two young sons, William aged 2 and one year old Frederick.
	Just over two years after the death of her husband Mrs Elizabeth Collett, widow, married Thomas Souls on 26.10.1872 at Chadlington. She was aged 26 years and Thomas was a 27 years old labourer. As at her first wedding, Sarah Gee was also one of the witnesses on this occasion but this time she was accompanied by her husband James Gee, these being Elizabeth’s parents.
	According to the 1881 Census Elizabeth Souls was the 34 year old wife of Thomas Souls a carter aged 36 who was born at Sherborne in Gloucestershire. Elizabeth was listed as being born at Chadlington as were two of her three children who had retained their Collett surname.
	The family’s third child Thomas Souls, but the couple’s first issue, was born at Spelsbury. The family at that time was living at 65 Merriscourt Cottages in Lyneham in Oxfordshire, a village a few miles to the south-west of Chipping Norton.
	12O25	William Ernest Collett	Baptised on 30.08.1868
	12O26	Frederick James Collett	Born on 18.10.1869
	12O27	Thomas Souls	Born in 1873 at Spelsbury
12N15	Elizabeth Ann Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 29.11.1847, the daughter of Charles and Judy Collett. At the age of 25 she died and was buried on 16.08.1872 at Charlbury where she was living at the time.
12N16	James Collett was born at Chadlington in 1849 according to the 1881 Census record below, and it was there that he was baptised on 05.08.1849. He later married Fanny around 1872.
	The Census of 1881 has the family living at Kemble Road in Croydon, Surrey. James Collett was listed as aged 31 a carpenter born at Chadlington, while his wife Fanny was the same age born at Horsham in Sussex. Their four children listed below were all born at Birmingham. Visiting the family was James’ sister Minnie Collett (below).
	It would appear that by 1901 James was a widower aged 51 of Chadlington living at Croydon where he was a carpenter.
	12O28	George F C Collett	Born in 1873
	12O29	James P Collett	Born in 1875 at Birmingham
	12O30	Frances E M Collett	Born in 1877 at Birmingham
	12O31	John Collett	Born in 1878 at Birmingham
12N17	Arthur Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 25.01.1852 and was aged 19 at the time of the Chipping Norton census of 1871.
	It may be assumed that he never married as indicated in the 1881 Census which listed him as still living with his father Charles Collett. Arthur was aged 29 and had been born at Chadlington and assisting his father on his 76 acre farm at Charlbury.
12N18	George Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 25.06.1854. He died from gastric fever and was buried at Chadlington aged 17 years on 02.05.1872.
12N19	John Samuel Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 23.11.1856. He was 14 at the time of the 1871 Census while still living with his parents.
	According to the census of 1881 for Bromyard in Herefordshire, John S Collett of Eastend in Oxfordshire was aged 23, Eastend being the very next village to Chadlington. His occupation was that of station master at the recently opened Bromyard Railway Station.
	At that time bachelor John was lodging at the Church Street home of Joseph Turbill a building employing five men and a boy.
	Historical Note: The railway station at Bromyard only opened on 22^nd October 1877 following the laying of the track from Worcester as part of the Worcester to Leominster Line built by the Great Western Railway. Sadly the line closed in 1964, a victim of the notorious Beeching cuts.
12N20	Amelia Mary Collett, who was referred to as Minnie, was born at Chadlington in 1858 and was 13 by April 1871. She was still a spinster in 1881 at the age of 23. On the occasion of the census that year Minnie was a visitor at the home of her older brother James Collett (above) in Kemble Road in Croydon.
	The census record confirmed that Minnie had been born at Chadlington but listed no occupation for her at that time.
12N21	Caroline Winifred Collett was born at Chadlington and was baptised there on 12.02.1860. She was 11 years of age in 1871. By the time Caroline was 22 she had moved to London where she was working in service at the home of Malcolm Cook who worked at the London Stock Exchange.
	Caroline was simply described as of Oxford and was employed as one of just two a domestic servants in the house at 9 Land Terrace on the Lower Teddington Road in Hampton Wick.
	Lower Teddington Road runs parallel with the River Thames and is still there today.
12N22	Charles Collett was born at Chadlington in 1862 where he was baptised on 30.03.1862. In the census of 1871 Charles was living with his parents and was nine years of age. Ten years later in 1881 he was recorded as being a visitor at the home of Robert Watts in Chipping Norton.
	At that time Charles was aged 19 and was not credited with an occupation. Robert Watts of Icomb in Gloucestershire was a butcher and he and his wife and family were living at premises referred to as ‘Lower Side’ in the High Street at Chipping Norton which may have been the name of the butcher’s shop.
	Sometime over the next ten to twelve years Charles may have moved into the city of Oxford where he met Rachel Hadlands whom he married in the autumn of 1893. This fact has been determined from the wedding banns that were recorded in the register of St Nicholas Church in Chadlington.
	This listed 10^th, 17^th and 24^th of September as the three Sundays that the banns were posted at Chadlington. Rachel was noted as a spinster from St Ebbes in Oxford and it seems likely that that was where the couple were married.
	It has not been established whether Charles and Rachel ever had any children but it is known that Charles was buried at Chadlington on 23.04.1930 aged 68.
12N23	Lewis Edward Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 24.04.1864 and was 7 and 17 in the censuses of 1871 and 1881 respectively.
	He married Amelia Annie Kench on 14.04.1890 at Charlbury when he was a 26 years old butcher at Church Street in Charlbury. The witnesses at the wedding were Amelia’s brother and sister Henry Stephen Kench and Ada Louisa Kench.
	Amelia was born at Charlbury in 1871 and her father Percival Kench was the Hotel Keeper of the White Hart Hotel in Dyers Hill at Charbury and later the proprietor of a hotel in Market Street in Charlbury.
	The 1901 Census confirmed the family living at Charlbury where Lewis aged 36 was a butcher, Amelia was 30, and their children were aged 10 and 6.
	12O32	Daisy Amelia Collett	Baptised on 22.03.1891 at Charlbury
	12O33	Lewis Percival Collett	Baptised on 06.01.1895 at Charlbury
12N24	Fanny Fletcher Collett was one half of a set of twins born at Chadlington and baptised there on 08.03.1867. Fanny was aged 4 in 1871 and 14 in 1881 when she was living with her family at Charlbury. She was not married by the end of the century and in the census of 1901 she was aged 33 and was then living at Chadlington.
12N25	Susan Kate Collett was the other half of a set of twins born in 1867 and was baptised in a joint ceremony with her twin sister Fanny (above) on 08.03.1867 at Chadlington. She was aged 4 and 14 respectively while living with her family in 1871 and 1881. It is assumed that she was married with the next decade as no record of as Susan Collett has been found in the later census records.
12N26	Francis Collett was born at Chadlington and was baptised there on 29.11.1868. He was two years old in Chipping Norton & Charlbury census of 1871 and was aged 12 and living at Charlbury with his widowed father in 1881 when he was referred to as Frank.
	Like other members of this family no further census records of them have been located in 1891 and 1901 which may indicate that they emigrated to one of the colonies.
12N27	Frederick Collett was baptised on 27.02.1870 at Chadlington where he was buried on 23.12.1872 at just two years of age.
12N28	Angelina S Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 02.06.1850 where she later married Thomas Derby on 12.11.1883. At that time she was listed as a domestic servant aged 33 and he was a shopkeeper aged 34 of 114 Holloway Road in London. Her father was confirmed as Mark Collett, a carpenter, while Thomas’ father was William Derby a publican. The witnesses at the wedding were James and Maria Coleman.
	The Census of 1881 places the age of Annie Collett as 27 which was incorrect. However, the record did confirm she was born at Chadlington. It also stated that she was a cook/domestic in service at the St Marylebone School at Hayes in Middlesex. Interestingly, her future husband Thomas Derby aged 31 was a porter at the same establishment.
	The one year age difference between them at their wedding if applied to Thomas’ aged in 1881 would place Annie’s age as 30 giving her actual year of birth around 1850, the same year in which she was baptised.
12N29	Mary Ann Collett was born at Chadlington in 1852 and was baptised there on 25.12.1854, the daughter of Mark and Rose Anna Collett. She married 28 years old Beriah Wells, a builder, at Chadlington on 05.12.1870 when she was aged 19 years. He was the son of builder Benjamin Wells and his address was listed as 99 Great George Street in Bermondsey, London.
	The witnesses at the wedding were Angelina S Collett and carpenter Mark Collett, these being her older sister (above) and her father.
12O1	Alan John Lardner Collett was born at Charlbury where he was baptised on 28.07.1861. By 1881 the family had moved to 13 Guildford Street East at Clerkenwell in London where Alan, then aged 19, was a carman.
	Sometime over the next twenty years Alan must have suffered a fairly serious accident while at work, since he was listed in the 1901 Census as an invalid. That year’s record confirmed he was born at Charlbury and that he was aged 39. It has not been determined if he was ever married.
12O2	Agnes Mary Collett was born in the village of Churchill in 1864 and was baptised at Charlbury. In 1881 she was aged 17 and living with the family at 13 Guildford Street East in Clerkenwell.
	It seems unlikely that she ever married as in the census of 1901 Agnes of Churchill in Oxfordshire was aged 37, was a spinster and was still living with her parents in Clerkenwell.
12O3	John William Collett was born in 1867 at Clerkenwell in London but may have been baptised at Spelsbury as that was where he was buried on 10.09.1885 aged 18 years. In 1881 he was living with his parents at 13 Guildford Street East aged 13.
12O4	Anne Ethelfreda Collett, referred to as Mary, was born in 1875 at Clerkenwell. At the tender age of just 16 years she died at 15 Granville Square in London of influenza and pneumonia on 18.01.1892. She was buried at Spelsbury on 23.01.1892. According to the Census of 1881 she was Annie E Collett aged 6 and was living with her family at 13 Guildford Street East in Clerkenwell.
12O5	William T Collett was born at 13 Guildford Street East in Clerkenwell in either February or March 1881 since in the Census for that year he was listed as being aged one month.
	Just after the turn of the century William was still living at Clerkenwell with his parents. In the 1901 Census for Clerkenwell he was confirmed as having been born there, was 21 years of age, and was a bachelor employed as a carman like his older brother Alan (above).
12O6	Charles Collett was born at Lidstone but baptised at Spelsbury on 21.05.1865. According to the 1881 Census Charles Collett was aged 16 a gardener’s labourer born at Lidstone and was living at the home of his parents in the hamlet of Lidstone.
	By 1901 he was referred to as Charles Collett aged 36 of Enstone where he was living and working as a baker. Enstone and Lidstone are neighbouring villages that lie midway between Chipping Norton and Woodstock.
	Living with Charles was his wife Susan G Collett aged 37 of Lancaster and their daughter Dorothy who was not yet one year old and had been born at Enstone.
	12P1	Dorothy MG Collett	Born in 1900 at Enstone
12O7	Annie Collett was born at Lidstone but was baptised at Spelsbury on 23.09.1866 as confirmed by the 1881 Census in which Annie Collett was aged 14 and born at Lidstone where she was still living with her parents.
12O8	Elizabeth Alice Collett was born at Chadlington where she was baptised at St Nicholas Church on 03.08.1879. The baptism record confirmed that her parents were James and Isabella Collett.
	At the turn of the century she was assistant school mistress in Chadlington and a few years later at the age of 25 she married Gerald Hastings Watts on 28.12.1904 at Chadlington.
	Her father, who was a witness at the wedding, was confirmed as James Collett, a builder. Gerald, who was 28 and a bailiff from Hookburgh in Lancashire, was the son of John Watts an agent. The second witness was Alfred Grimwood who was probably Gerald’s best man.
	The details for Elizabeth were confirmed in the 1881 Census when she was listed as being just one year old and again in 1901 when she was 21.
12O9	Eva Annie Collett was born at Chadlington where she was baptised on 18.10.1881. She was four months short of her sixth birthday when she died in June 1887. This tragic event for the family happened just one month after the death of her youngesr sister Lillian (below) with whom she was buried at Chadlington on 18.06.1887.
12O10	Lillian Edith Collett was born at Chadlington and was baptised there on 27.05.1883. Just prior to her fourth birthday she was suffering with diphtheria from which she later died. She was buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas Church in Chadlington on 15.05.1887 and was joined there by her sister Eva (above) one month later.
12O11	Olive Louise Collett was born at Chadlington and was baptised there on 28.06.1885. And it was at St Nicholas Church in Chadlington that she later married Arthur Alfred Edgington a 23 years old farmer of Chadlington on 05.08.1909. He was the son of farmer Henry Bryan. Olive was 24 years old and the daughter of builder James Collett who was a witness at the wedding. The only other witness was Elizabeth Funnell.
12O12	James William Claude Collett was born at Chadlington where he was baptised on 05.08.1888. By the time of the Chadlington census of 1901 James was aged 12 and was still attending the village school.
12O13	Francis Campbell Collett was born at Chadlington and it was there he was baptised on 11.01.1891. In 1901 he was aged 10 and living with his parents at Chadlington.
	At the time of his wedding he was listed as being a Private with the Honourable Artillery Company and his father was James Collett a builder. Francis married Eveline Vinnie Roberts on 11.02.1918 at Chadlington. Both were 27 years of age and Eveline father was listed as James Roberts a schoolmaster.
	The witnesses were John Henry Harvey and Gerald Hastings Watts, the couple’s brother-in-law through his marriage to Francis’ sister Elizabeth Alice Watts nee Collett.
12O16	Joseph William Collett was born at Ulmarra in the Grafton district of New South Wales in 1860. He is known to have married Lucinda and their known children were born at Ulmarra. It is possible that Lucinda’s surname was Wilton having regard to the second name of their eldest son.
	It would appear that he was original christened as Joseph William Collett after his father. However, it was in his military records from the Great War that he had the name Joseph Wilton Collett.
	12P2	Victoria A Collett	Born in 1895 at Ulmarra
	12P3	Joseph Wilton Collett	Born in 1897
	12P4	Edna Collett	Born in 1902 at Ulmarra
	12P5	William J Collett	Born in 1904 at Ulmarra
12O17	James Collett was born at Ulmarra in the Grafton district of New South Wales in 1863. He later married Mary Robertson of Shoalhaven in Newcastle, New South Wales, who was the daughter of farmer Angus Robertson and his wife Georgina.
	The couple were married at the Presbyterian Church in Coldstream, New South Wales on 02.03.1886.
	The marriage for James and Mary is known to have produced seven children for the couple and all of them having been born at Ulmarra in the Grafton district of New South Wales.
	Collett family traditions at that time dictated that the children were addressed and referred to by their second Christian name. James’ death certificate confirmed that he was the son of Joseph Collett and Eliza Ann Sharpe.
	12P6	Eliza Mary Collett	Born in 1887 at Ulmarra
	12P7	William George Collett	Born in 1889 at Ulmarra
	12P8	Elsie Collett	Born in 1890 at Ulmarra
	12P9	Georgina May Collett	Born in 1892
	12P10	James Raymond Collett	Born in 1894 at Ulmarra
	12P11	Mary Collett	Born in 1897 at Ulmarra
	12P12	Olive Edith Collett	Born in 1898 at Ulmarra
12O18	Henry Collett was born at Grafton in New South Wales in 1865. It would seem he lived most of his life at Grafton and that he was married fairly later in his life to Edith since he was forty years old when his known son was born.
	12P13	Joseph Clarence Collett	Born in 1905 at Grafton
12O24	Ann Elizabeth Collett was born in Birmingham in 1880 and was one year old in April 1881 when living with her parents at 18 Whitmore Street in Birmingham. Ten years later Ann then aged 11 and her parents were listed as living in the Duddeston & Aston area of the city.
	Her father was a baker and her mother was a grocer and shopkeeper. Upon leaving school it would appear that Ann took up employment as a bottler of mineral waters as confirmed by the 1901 Census in which she was still living with her parents in Birmingham at the age of 21.
12O25	William Ernest Collett was born in 1868 at Chadlington where he was baptised on 30.08.1868. The baptism record at St Nicholas Church in Chadlington confirmed his parents as William Price Collett and Elizabeth Mary Collett.
	In 1881 William at the age of 12 was working as a ploughboy with his brother Frederick (below) while living with his widowed mother Elizabeth and her second husband Thomas Soles and their first child Thomas Soles aged 8 years of Spelsbury. The family at that time was living at 65 Merriscourt Cottages in Lyneham near Chipping Norton.
	It is not confirmed whether he ever married or not but at the turn of the century he was aged 32 and was living in Worcester where he was working as a railway goods guard.
12O26	Frederick James Collett was born at Chadlington on 18.10.1869 and was baptised there at St Nicholas Church on 26.12.1869. Just eight months later his father William Price Collett died and was buried at Chadlington leaving Frederick and his older brother William (above) to be looked after by their widowed mother, as confirmed in the census of 1871.
	In 1881, just like his brother William (above), he was a ploughboy and was aged 11 years while living with his widowed mother Elizabeth and her second husband Thomas Soles and their first child Thomas Soles. The family at that time were living at 65 Merriscourt Cottages in Lyneham.
	Frederick married 27 years old Agnes Emma Burden on 17.04.1900 at Chadlington. At that time he was a 30 years old coalman living at Derby and was confirmed as the son of William Price Collett deceased. Agnes’ father was Daniel Burden a labourer and a witness at the wedding, as were her mother Ada Mary Burden, Polly Souls who was probably Frederick’s younger his half-sister and possibly a bridesmaid, plus H Burden and A Kilby.
	Within a year Frederick and Agnes had moved to Derby and their daughter was born there around 31^st March 1901. In the Census the family was listed as Frederick aged 31 of Chadlington and a general labourer, Agnes as 28 and also of Chadlington, and baby Ada.
	Frederick James Collett died in January 1953.
	12P14	Ada Collett	Born on 09.02.1901
	12P15	William Lewis Collett	Born on 28.04.1906
12O28	George F C Collett was born at Birmingham in 1873 but left there sometime after 1878 since by 1881 he and his family were living at Kemble Road in Croydon, Surrey. Twenty years later the 1901 Census revealed that he was aged 28 and was still living in Croydon where he was employed as a tram conductor.
12P3	Joseph Wilton Collett was born at Ulmarra in 1897 and may originally have been christened Joseph William Collett after his father.
	However, by the time he joined the Australian Infantry (AIF) at the time of the Great War he was Private 4161 Joseph Wilton Collett. Tragically he was killed in action in France and died on 06.03.1917 at the age of 20. He was buried at the St Sever Cemetery at Rouen.
	The War Graves Commission recorded that the parents of Joseph Wilton Collett were Joseph William and Lucinda Collett of Ulmarra, Clarence River in New South Wales.
12P9	Georgina May Collett, who was known as May Collett, was born at Ulmarra on 05.12.1892. In 1909 at the age of 17 she fell in love with Clarence Herbert Shannon who was aged 30 and was an employee of her father James Collett on his farm. James was not happy with the arrangement and sent May away to relatives in New Zealand where she lived for the next five years.
	It was not known by the relatives that handed down the story whether her father’s objection to the relationship was the age gap between the couple or the fact that Clarence was the grandson of a convict. Clarence Herbert Shannon was born at Brushwood in Grafton, New South Wales in 1879 and was the son of Martha Prentice.