PART TWELVE

The Oxfordshire Chipping Norton Line - 1560 to 1900

Updated November 2011

This is the family line of Iain Collett (Ref. 12R4) 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 9^th October 1619, a village approximately one mile from Chadlington. This is likely to mean that John was born in the late 1590s, thus 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.
It may be of interest that this file contains details of [a] Susanna Collett (Ref. 12A/L/4) from Oddington who married Thomas Lardner at Bledington in 1816, [b] John William Collett (Ref. 12N2) who married an Anne Lardner at Charlbury around 1860, and that [c] this Anne Lardner, born at Churchill in 1838, was the daughter of Thomas Lardner of Churchill who was born there around 1802. In addition to these, William George Collett (Ref. 12A/M/6) from Oddington was a servant to Henry Lardner of Little Compton near Oddington in 1851.
These villages are all within ten miles of each other across the county 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 completeness, and to help with future research into this line.
12F1	Ursely Collett may have been born around 1563 and may have 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 7^th November 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^th March 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 the three children listed below; 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 1^st October 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 and Elizabeth Robbins (above) and even possibly the son of Thomas Collett and Audrey Hancock (above). William married Ann Bridgman in 1706 at Shipton-under-Wychwood, and 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 at Enstone, where he was buried on 24^th May 1743. It seems very likely that this was this William, in addition to which it is also very likely that it was his wife ‘Ann Collett, a widow’ who was buried at Ascott on 20^th March 1747.
	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 and Elizabeth Robbins (above). He is likely to have married Mary at Ascott around 1710 as there is reference to the burial of ‘Mary Collett, the wife of Richard’ on 19^th July 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^th December 1756, although it is possible that this could refer to the couple’s eldest son Richard Collett.
	12J3	Richard Collett	Baptised on 18.01.1712 at Ascott
	12J4	Matthew Collett	Baptised on 05.10.1715 at Ascott
	12J5	Thomas Collett	Baptised on 14.03.1717 at Ascott
	12J6	Joseph Collett	Baptised on 15.05.1720 at Ascott
12I3	Robert Collett, whose estimate birth date was around 1700, may have been the grandson of John Collett and Elizabeth Robbins (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 of St Mary’s Church in the neighbouring village of Charlbury.
	Elizabeth Collett died while living at Fawler and was buried at Charlbury on 18^th September 1738, when the parish register confirmed that she was ‘the wife of Robert Collett’. It looks very much like she may have died giving birth to her 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 6^th July 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^th January 1712, the son of Richard and Mary Collett. No other details have been discovered at this time, except the burial at Ascott of a Richard Collett on 18^th December 1756, who may have been his father.
	12K1	Thomas Collett	Born in 1743 at Ascott
	12K2	John Collett	Born in 1745 at Ascott
12J5	Thomas Collett was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Ascott on 14^th March 1717, the son of Richard and Mary Collett. He married Ann Gilks in 1751 at St Mary’s Church in Charlbury, where their 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 she may have been much younger.
	Although not proved, it is possible that further children were born to Thomas and Ann and that one of them, born after 1753, may have been the father of John Collett (Ref. 12L8) who married Mary at Charlbury around 1797.
	Thomas Collett died in 1770 and was buried at Charlbury on 11^th March 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 9^th March 1796.
	12K3	Thomas Collett	Baptised on 06.05.1753 at Charlbury
	12K4	unknown Collett - not confirmed	Born circa 1754 at Charlbury
	12K5	Ann Collett	Baptised on 04.07.1756 at Charlbury
12J6	Joseph Collett was baptised at Ascott on 15^th May 1720, the son of Richard and Mary Collett. It was also at Ascott where he married Ann around 1740-1743, and where all of their children were baptised. Ann Collett was buried at Ascott on 16^th September 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 stated that she was ‘Ann, the wife of Joseph Collett’ who was also buried there on 30^th April 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 at Ascott
	12K10	Matthew Collett		Baptised on 25.12.1750 at Ascott
	12K11	Mary Collett		Baptised on 15.10.1752 at Ascott
	12K12	Joseph Collett		Baptised on 05.05.1755 at Ascott
	12K13	Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 09.04.1756 at Ascott
	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 at Ascott
12K1	Thomas Collett was born at Ascott in 1743, the son of Richard Collett. Sadly he only survived for a few weeks, when he was buried at Holy Trinity Church in Ascott on 5^th April 1743.
12K2	John Collett was born at Ascott in 1745, the son of Richard Collett. He later married Sarah Berry on 13^th November 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 her burial record below.
	Curiously the parish register recorded John Collett as being ‘buried by the parish’ at Chadlington on 29^th October 1783, which might indicate he died as a pauper, while his wife Sarah Collett nee Berry was buried there on 19^th March 1835 when she was 88.
	12L1	Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 14.05.1769 at Chadlington
	12L2	Mary Collett		Baptised on 08.03.1772 at Chadlington
	12L3	Sarah Collett		Baptised on 19.03.1775 at Chadlington
	12L4	Hannah Collett		Baptised on 04.01.1778 at Chadlington
	12L5	John Collett		Baptised on 02.07.1780 at Chadlington
12K3	Thomas Collett was baptised at St Mary’s Church in Charlbury on 6^th May 1753, the son of Thomas Collett and his wife Ann Gilks. He was twenty-seven when he married (1) Hannah Ward at Charlbury on 9^th April 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 Collett nee ward died after just seven years of being married to Thomas and was buried at Charlbury on 3^rd November 1787. Two years later ‘Thomas Collett, a widower’ married (2) Hannah Chapman on 17^th November 1789 at Charlbury.
	Thomas Collett died towards the end of 1809 and was buried in the churchyard at St Mary’s in Charlbury on 22^nd December 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), and the son of Thomas Collett and his wife Ann Gilks, but none of this has been confirmed to date. Neither has it been confirmed that he married and had a son John who was very likely born at Charlbury around 1776.
	12L8	John Collett –assumed son		Born circa 1776
12K9	Ann Collett was baptised at Ascott on 15^th May 1749, the daughter of Joseph and Ann Collett. She was around twenty-two years of age when she married Thomas Jackson at Ascott on 10^th August 1771. The witnesses at the wedding were John Harris and John Wayne.
12K10	Matthew Collett was baptised at Ascott on 25^th December 1750, the son of Joseph and Ann Collett. Although he lived longer than his brother Joseph and sister Elizabeth (below), Matthew died while he was still a teenager and was buried at Ascott on 14^th July 1765. The parish register confirmed that he was ‘the son of Joseph Collett’.
12K12	Joseph Collett was baptised at Ascott on 5^th May 1755, the son of Joseph and Ann Collett. He only lived for a few days and was buried there on 11^th May 1755, the burial record referring to him as ‘the son of Joseph Collett’.
12K13	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Ascott on 9^th April 1756, the daughter of Joseph and Ann Collett. Just like her brother Joseph (above), Elizabeth only lived for a short while. She was buried at Ascott on 13^th April 1756 and the parish register verified that she was ‘the daughter of Joseph Collett’.
12K14	Joseph Collett was baptised at Ascott on 14^th May 1758 and was named in honour of his brother who had died three years before he was born. He was the son of Joseph and Ann Collett, and it was also at Ascott where he was buried on 8^th October 1806. It is unclear whether or not he was ever married, but this seems unlikely.
12K16	Sarah Collett was baptised at Ascott on 28^th July 1765, the youngest child of Joseph and Ann Collett. Sarah ‘the daughter of Joseph Collett’ was buried at Ascott on 4^th October 1765, less than three months after her brother Matthew Collett (above) and less than a month after her mother Ann who may have never recovered after the birth.
	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 (above) when they passed away ten and nine years earlier respectively.
12L1	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 14^th May 1769, the eldest child of John Collett and his wife Sarah Berry. It was on 27^th December 1792 at Chadlington that she married John Drinkwater who was also from Chadlington. The witnesses at the wedding were James Burden and Mary Mears.
12L2	Mary Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 8^th March 1772, the daughter of John and Sarah Collett. Mary later married Thomas Dring of Charlbury at Chadlington on 17^th August 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^th March 1775, the daughter of John and Sarah Collett. She married James Keary (or Kearsy) on 18^th September 1798 and the witnesses were Sarah’s brother-in-law Thomas Dring (above) and Martha Berry, a possible relative through her mother Sarah Berry.
	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 6^th December 1807 stated 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 at the end of this family line) was born during 1801 married Elizabeth Kearsy (or Keary) at Chadlington in 1835, so could this be a case of the same family name being misspelt 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 4^th January 1778, another child of John and Sarah Collett. She lived to be just four years old before she was buried at Chadlington on 1^st March 1782. The parish burial register recorded that she was ‘the daughter of John and Sarah Collett’.
12L5	John Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 2^nd July 1780, the son of John and Sarah Collett. Twenty-three years later he married Mary Hucking, also of Chadlington, at Chadlington on 5^th November 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, as well as in the census of 1841.
	Mary Hucking was the daughter of William Hucking and Mary Gardner and was baptised at Chadlington on 26^th September 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, and it was there that John’s wife Mary was buried on 16^th April 1834, aged 50. Just over seven years later, the first census in 1841 recorded widower John Collett as living at Mill End in Chadlington. John, like the four children still living there with him, was recorded as being born within the county (of Oxfordshire) with a rounded age of 60, and the occupation of a cooper. Living with him, and very likely performing the role of housekeeper, was his daughter Mary Ann Collett who had a rounded age of 20. The three other children were his sons Charles Collett, age 20, who was also a cooper, Mark Collett, age 15, who was a carpenter, and Jabel Collett, who was also 15, but employed as a tailor.
	John Collett died seven years later at the age of 65 (sic), and was buried at Chadlington on 21^st November 1848. However, his quoted age at the time of his passing does not correspond to that of his birth or baptism, so this may be a genuine mistake by a member of his family, or a misinterpretation of his actual age of 68.
	12M3	Mary Collett	Born during 1804 at Chadlington
	12M4	Caroline Collett	Baptised on 12.05.1805 at Chadlington
	12M5	John Collett	Born during 1806 at Chadlington
	12M6	William Collett	Baptised on 05.06.1808 at Chadlington
	12M7	John Collett	Baptised on 27.05.1810 at Chadlington
	12M8	Frederick Collett	Born circa 1811-1812 at Chadlington
	12M9	Mary Ann Collett	Born circa 1815-1816 at Chadlington
	12M10	Charles Collett	Baptised on 29.06.1817 at Chadlington
	12M11	James Collett	Baptised on 07.08.1820 at Chadlington
	12M12	Mark Collett	Baptised on 04.06.1823 at Chadlington
	12M13	Jabel Collett	Baptised on 16.02.1825 at Chadlington
12L6	Thomas Collett was possibly born at Charlbury around 1782, the son of Thomas Collett and his wife Hannah Ward. 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 5^th August 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 late mother, who was buried at Charlbury on 31^st August 1809. The parish burial record confirmed that Hannah was ‘the illegitimate daughter of Sarah Collett of Charlbury’. Neither the age of the child at the time of her death, or the date of her birth are known, but it seems likely that it would have been between 1804 and 1809.
	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 in Charlbury at that time in her life.
	12M14	Hannah Collett	Born 1804-1809 at Charlbury
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 at Charlbury
	12M16	Stephen Collett	Baptised on 23.12.1798 at Charlbury
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^th September 1798. It is not known if James was his father or not, but Henry was later baptised Henry Keary (or Kearsy) on 6^th December 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 across the county boundary, whose family line is detailed in the Appendix at the end of this file. The wedding took place at Chadlington on 21^st March 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 7^th April 1801, the son of William and Ann Collett. 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 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. However, with no church there, it is known that all of the children were baptised at the parish church of All Saints Church in Spelsbury, just north of Charlbury.
	Where the couple’s son Edwin was in the census of 1841 has not been discovered. However, the rest of the family was living at Dean where William was 40, Elizabeth was 35, their son John was three, and their son William was two.
	The census of 1851 recorded the Collett family living in the Chipping Norton registration district as William Collett, age 50, Elizabeth Collett, age 48, Edwin Collett, age 16, John Collett, age 13, and William Collett who was 11. At that same time their daughter Mary was eight years old and was staying with William’s parents, Thomas and Ann Collett at their home in Adlestrop, near Oddington, while the couple’s two youngest sons had died by then.
	It was over eight years later that ‘William Collett of Dean’ was buried at All Saints Church in Spelsbury on 25^th October 1859, age 59 years, while his wife Elizabeth was buried there many years later on 25^th March 1886, aged 83. At the time of her death Elizabeth Collett was living at Chadlington.
	Five years earlier, and listed as 78 years old Elizabeth K Collett born at Chadlington, she was a visitor at the Manor House in Charlbury where the only occupants on the day of the 1881 Census were Minnie A Gardner, who was five, John W Gardner, who was four, Louise M Gardner, who was one year old, 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 at Chadlington
	12N2	John William Collett	Baptised on 14.01.1838 at Dean
	12N3	William Collett	Baptised on 04.08.1839 at Dean
	12N4	Mary Elizabeth Collett	Baptised on 02.10.1842 at Dean
	12N5	Charles Collett	Born during 1845 at Dean
	12N6	James Richard Collett	Baptised on 11.07.1847 at Dean
12M3	Mary Collett may have been born at Chadlington in 1804, but no birth or baptism record has been found for her to date. However, her burial record of 17^th December 1806 at Chadlington confirmed that her parents were 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^th May 1805, the daughter of John and Mary Collett.
12M5	John Collett may have been born at Chadlington in 1806, but again no birth or baptism record has been found to date. However, his burial record on 30^th December 1806 at Chadlington confirmed 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 5^th June 1808. That event took place at Chadlington where he married Harriet Smith on 20^th January 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 wedding of William and Harriet 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, age 54, his wife Harriet, age 44, and their two sons as James, who was eight, and Francis William, who was seven, and both born at Chadlington.
	Ten years later the family was still together and was still living at Chadlington where William was 66, Harriet was 56, James was 19, and Francis was 16. William Collett died five years later and was buried at Chadlington on 18^th August 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 late husband. Just three years later in May 1884 Harriet passed away at the age of 70 and was buried with her husband on 10^th May 1884 in the graveyard of St Nicholas Church at Chadlington.
	12N7	James Collett	Born during 1852 at Chadlington
	12N8	Francis William Collett	Baptised on 10.09.1854 at Chadlington
12M7	John Collett was born around 1808 and was the son of John Collett and Mary Hucking. He was baptised at Chadlington on 27^th May 1810 and 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 awaiting to be unearthed.
	12N9	Joseph Collett	Born in 1833 at Glympton
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 Collett with a rounded age of 25, his wife Ann was 31, and their only child at that time as Caroline who was three years old.
	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 those two events the family was recorded in 1861 as living within the Charlbury & Chipping Norton area, at which time it comprised Frederick, age 49, Ann who was 51, and their two sons Frederick, age 18, and William, age 15. Their daughter Caroline would have been 22 and was probably married by then.
	Ten years later in 1871 Frederick was 60 and when he 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 Collett died in 1897 aged 86, and that he was buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas Church on 9^th October 1897.
	12N10	Caroline Collett	Baptised on 14.01.1838 at Chadlington
	12N11	Frederick Henry Collett	Born in 1843 at Chadlington
	12N12	William Price Collett	Born in 1845 at Chadlington
12M9	Mary Ann Collett was born at Chadlington around 1816 according to her stated age in census of 1881. However, in the earlier census of 1841 she was recorded with a rounded age of 20, when she was living with her widowed father John Collett at Mill End in Chadlington. With no stated occupation it seems more than likely she was the housekeeper for her father and her three younger brothers. Three years later Mary Ann was married, and four and a half years after that her father died.
	Mary Ann married Thomas Hill at Chadlington on 10^th March 1844, when she 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) living there with them. Thomas Hill was listed as being a builder, while 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^th June 1817. In the census of 1841 Charles had a rounded age of 20 while still living at the family home in Mill End in Chadlington. By that time in his life his mother had passed away seven years earlier, and his occupation was that of a cooper, like his widowed father, with whom he was living with his sister Mary Ann (above), and his brothers Mark and Jabel (below).
	Just over five years later Charles Collett, then described as a farmer, married Judy Fletcher of Chadlington at St Nicholas Church in Chadlington on 14^th November 1846. The witnesses at the wedding were his brother Jabel Collett, and Ann Hill, who was possibly the sister of Thomas Hill who married Charles’ sister Mary Ann Collett.
	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 32 and that he was living in the Chipping Norton & Charlbury registration district. Living with him were his first two children, Elizabeth Collett, who was three, and James Collett who was one year, although there was no mention of the children’s mother on that occasion.
	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. They were Elizabeth Ann 13, James 11, Arthur who was nine, George who was seven, John Samuel who was five, Amelia Mary who was three, and Caroline Winifred, who was listed as Caroline Winewood, who was one year old.
	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 had 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 their 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 record confirmed 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 Collett, age 56, and his wife Judith H Collett, age 44, and their eleven children. Only the couple’s eldest sons James and Arthur had already left the family home by then, more likely to ease the overcrowding in their home. The children listed within the Chipping Norton & Charlbury area census record were Elizabeth 22, George 16, John 14, Amelia 13, Caroline 11, Charles who was nine, Lewis (Louis) who was seven, Fanny and Susan both aged four years, Francis who was two, and one year old Frederick who sadly died at the end of the following year.
	There is further evidence of the family in the census of 1881. On that occasion Charles Collett was recorded as being married and was 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, age 29 and a farmer’s son and an assistant on the farm, his son Lewis Edward Collett, age 17 and a scholar, the twins Fanny and Susan both 14, and ‘Frank’ Collett, age 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 in 1881 has been conducted, but without success. However, ten years on from then Charles and his wife were recorded together in the Charlbury census of 1891. Charles Collett was 75, his wife Jude Collett was 62, and just two sons and two daughters were still living with them. Arthur Collett was 36, Charles Collett was 29, while the twins Fanny and Susie Collett was 23, with all four children and their father confirmed as having been born at Chadlington.
	By the time of the 1901 Census Charles Collett was 85 and was living on his own means at Charlbury. However, he only survived for another twelve months, when he died during April 1902 aged 87, following which he was buried at St Nicholas Church in Chadlington.
	12N13	Elizabeth Ann Collett	Baptised on 29.11.1847 at Chadlington
	12N14	James Collett	Baptised on 05.08.1849 at Chadlington
	12N15	Arthur Collett	Baptised on 25.01.1852 at Chadlington
	12N16	George Collett	Baptised on 25.06.1854 at Chadlington
	12N17	John Samuel Collett	Baptised on 23.11.1856 at Chadlington
	12N18	Amelia Mary Collett	Born during 1858 at Chadlington
	12N19	Caroline Winifred Collett	Baptised on 12.02.1860 at Chadlington
	12N20	Charles Collett	Baptised on 30.03.1862 at Chadlington
	12N21	Lewis Edward Collett	Baptised on 24.04.1864 at Chadlington
	12N22	Fanny Fletcher Collett twin	Baptised on 08.03.1867 at Chadlington
	12N23	Susan Kate Collett twin	Baptised on 08.03.1867 at Chadlington
	12N24	Francis Collett	Baptised on 29.11.1868 at Chadlington
	12N25	Frederick Collett	Baptised on 27.02.1870 at Chadlington
12M11	James Collett was born on 7^th August 1820 at Chadlington where he was baptised on 20^th August 1820 at St Nicholas Church. The church’s baptism record confirmed his parents as John and Mary Collett. However, following the death of his mother in 1834, James was not living with his widowed father at Mill End in Chadlington in June 1841, nor has any later record of him been found. So he too may have died while he was still a child.
12M12	Mark Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 4^th June 1823 and was recorded with a rounded age of 15 years in the census of 1841, when he was living with his widowed father and four siblings at Mill End in Chadlington. His actual age would have been 18, and by that time in his life was he working as a carpenter.
	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 birth of the first child and was 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 his daughter Mary Ann. Just fourteen years earlier a third daughter had been added to their family.
	The census of 1861 listed the family at Chipping Norton & Charlbury as Mark Collett, age 38, Rose Anna, age 34, and their two daughters Angelina who was 11, and Mary Ann who was nine years old. Daughter Lucy would have been four years old, but was not listed with the family on that occasion. However, by 1871 Mark was 47 and Rosanna was 44, and living with them was Angelina, age 21, and previously absent daughter Lucy who was 14. Their missing daughter that year was Mary Ann, age 29, who was already married by then.
	By the time of the Census of 1881 both daughters were already married and had left the family home. The census return for Charlbury stated that Mark Collett, age 58, was a carpenter born at Chadlington and that his wife Rosanna, age 54, was born at Salford, a village one mile west of Chipping Norton.
	The couple was 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^th January 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. His absence from the census indicated that he died during the first decade of the new century.
	12N26	Angelina S Collett	Baptised on 02.06.1850 at Chadlington
	12N27	Mary Ann Collett	Born during 1852 at Chadlington
	12N28	Lucy Collett	Born during 1856 at Chadlington
12M13	Jabel Collett was born at Chadlington in 1814 and was baptised there on 16^th February 1825. He was also listed with a rounded age of 15 in the census of 1841, when he was living at Mill End in Chadlington with his father and three older siblings. The census also confirmed that he was already employed as a tailor.
	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 Collett was listed as being aged 35 and 45 respectively. It may have been his unusual name that is the reason he has not been identified in the census of 1851.
	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 Collett remained at Chadlington, and it was there that he died, and where he was buried on 17^th December 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 after 1804, where sadly she died during August 1809. Hannah was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church at Charlbury on 31^st August 1809, where 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^th July 1835 in the church of St Nicholas, when 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^th January 1838. He later married Anne Lardner at Charlbury when he was around 21 or 22 years of age. Once married they initially settled in Charlbury for the first few years of their married life together. Anne was the daughter of butcher Thomas Lardner of Churchill and his wife Mary, and was baptised at Churchill on 18.11.1838. It may well have John’s work as a butcher that brought him into contact with Thomas Lardner, and through that working relationship, he formed an attraction to his daughter.
	By the time of the Charlbury census in 1861 Anne was due to give birth to John’s first child, which was born nearly four months later that same year. The census return recorded John as being aged 23 and his occupation was that of a butcher. His wife was listed as Annie Collett and she was 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 and eight miles from Charlbury. The next three children were all born after John and Anne had settled in London.
	In 1871 the family was living in the Holborn & Amwell registration district of the city, where John Collett was 32 and his wife Annie, incorrectly recorded as Minnie, was 31. The two children living there with him were Agnes who was seven, and John who was three years of age. John eldest son was living with Annie parents on that occasion, at their home on Heath Road in Churchill. Retired butcher Thomas Lardner of Churchill was 68, his wife Mary from Lechlade was 66, and staying with them and attending the local school was Allan J L Collett of Charlbury who was nine years old.
	By the time of the next census in 1881 the family was reunited and was 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 Allan Collett, who was 19 and born at Charlbury, Agnes M Collett, age 17 and born at Churchill, John W Collett, age 13 and born at Clerkenwell like the last two children, Annie E Collett who was six years old, and William T Collett who was only one month old.
	Ten years later in 1891 the family was recorded once again living in the Holborn & Amwell registration district of London, but at 15 Granville Square in Clerkenwell. John W Collett was 52, his wife Annie Collett was 51, and still living there with them were their two daughters and only two of their three sons. They were Allan Collett, age 29, Agnes Collett, age 27, Annie Collett, age 15, and William Collett who was 11, when once again the two youngest children were confirmed as having been born at Clerkenwell.
	The family was still living in Clerkenwell area just after the turn of the century. The 1901 Census confirmed that John W Collett of Dean, age 63, was working as a carrier for the Great Northern Railway. His wife Annie Collett of Churchill was 62, and still living with the couple were two of their unmarried children, Agnes M Collett of Churchill who was 37, and William T Collett of Clerkenwell who was 21.
	Following the death of his wife in London during the first few years of the new century, John William Collett returned to the place of his birth and was living in the hamlet of Dean by the time of the census in April 1911. Living with him, and acting as his housekeeper, was his eldest daughter, when the two of them were recorded as John William Collett age 73, and Agnes Mary Collett from Churchill who was 47.
	12O1	Alan John Lardner Collett	Baptised on 28.07.1861 at Charlbury
	12O2	Agnes Mary Collett	Born during 1864 at Churchill
	12O3	John William Collett	Born during 1868 at Clerkenwell
	12O4	Anne Ethelfreda Collett	Born during 1875 at Clerkenwell
	12O5	William Thomas Collett	Born in March 1881 at Clerkenwell
12N3	William Collett was born at Dean and was baptised at Spelsbury on 4^th August 1839. It is unclear whether he ever married, but he died at Nuneham Courtney, south of Oxford, following which he was buried at Spelsbury on 4^th January 1875, aged 35 years.
12N4	Mary Elizabeth Collett was born at Dean but was baptised at the parish church in Spelsbury on 2^nd October 1842, the daughter of William Collett and Elizabeth Kearsy.
12N6	James Richard Collett was born at Dean and was baptised on 11^th July 1847 at Spelsbury, where he was buried on 14^th April 1849 at just two years of age. He was the youngest child of William and Elizabeth Collett.
12N7	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 when he was aged eight years and 19 years respectively.
	James was 27 years old and a carpenter when he married Isabella Smith on 26^th December 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, who was also a carpenter and a witness at the wedding, while 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 29 and a carpenter employing two men, while his wife Isabella, born at Chadlington, was 28. Living with them at Charlbury was their daughter Elizabeth Alice, who was one year old, and Richard Southam, of Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire, a 19 years old boarder and carpenter’s apprentice.
	Ten years later in the Charlbury census of 1891, James Collett was 39, his wife Isabella was 38, and living there with them was Elizabeth Alice Collett, age 11, Olive Louisa Collett who was five, James William C Collett who was two, and Francis Campbell Collett who was under one year old.
	By March 1901 James, age 50 and from Enstone, was a carpenter and builder living in Chadlington with Isabella who was 49. With them on that occasion were their two daughters Elizabeth A Collett who was 21 and an assistant school mistress, and Olive L Collett who was 15, together with their two sons James W C Collett who was 12, and Francis C Collett who was ten years old.
	Eight years later, at the time of the wedding of their daughter Olive Louise Collett in 1909, her father James Collett was recorded as being a builder. Two years after that, James and Isabella were still living in Chadlington at the time of the census in 1911, when James Collett from Enstone was 60, and his wife Isabella was 58.
	James and Isabella lived long lives and it was over twenty-five years later, in December 1936 that James Collett passed away and was buried at Chadlington on 10^th December 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^th September 1939, aged 86.
	12O6	Elizabeth Alice Collett	Baptised on 03.08.1879 at Chadlington
	12O7	Eva Annie Collett	Baptised on 18.10.1881 at Chadlington
	12O8	Lillian Edith Collett	Baptised on 27.05.1883 at Chadlington
	12O9	Olive Louise Collett	Baptised on 28.06.1885 at Chadlington
	12O10	James William Claude Collett	Baptised on 05.08.1888 at Chadlington
	12O11	Francis Campbell Collett	Baptised on 11.01.1891 at Chadlington
12N8	Francis William Collett was born at Chadlington where he was baptised on 10^th September 1854, the son of William and Harriet Collett. He was seven in 1861 and was 16 in 1871 while he was 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 and of Chadlington and his occupation was that of a clerk, while Sarah was 28. 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.
	Living with them in 1881 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. It is also highly likely that it was Sarah connection with her married sister’s Trelease family that resulted in her son William being given Trelease as his second forename, as confirmed by the census in 1911.
	The marriage produced a son for Francis and Sarah and by 1891 the family of three was living in the Greenwich & St Paul Deptford registration district. Francis Collett was 36, Sarah Collett was 37, and their son William T Collett was seven years old.
	Whether it was during the birth of a second child, or perhaps through a separate illness, but Sarah appears to have died sometime after 1891 since, during the next decade, Francis married (2) Emily. The census of 1901 confirmed that Francis Collett was 47 and that he was still a clerk living in Deptford. With him was his wife Emily, age 44, who had been born at Deptford, while living with the couple was Francis’ son William T Collett who was 17, and whose place of birth was stated as New Cross.
	From the next census in 1911, it would appear that Francis’s second wife had died during the first ten years of the new century, since by that time Francis William Collett, age 56, and from Chadlington in Oxfordshire, was married to (3) Rose Melina Collett who was only 40, and they were living alone in the Fulham area of London.
	At that same time, Francis’ son William was still a bachelor, living and working in the Greenwich district of London, where he was recorded as William Trelease Collett aged 27.
	12O12	William Trelease Collett	Born in 1884 at New Cross
12N9	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 towards the end of 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 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’s occupation was once again recorded as being that of a carpenter, and over the following years Eliza presented him with nine children, the first born while they were in the Ryde district of Sydney.
	The family finally 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 at Glympton Park, Coldstream in Ulmarra on 20^th January 1894 at the age of 61. His death certificate confirmed that his place of birth was Glympton Park in Oxfordshire, England, and that he was a farmer. It also stated that he had been ill for six months, and that his father was John Collett, a farmer, and that his mother was Mary Aynsley. The informant of the death was named as Joseph’s son Fred Collett of Upper Coldstream in Ulmarra.
	The same certificate revealed that the death was registered on 22^nd January 1894, that Joseph was buried at South Grafton on 21^st January by undertaker H H Sanders, that the Church of England minister who conducted the service was the Rev. W Tait, that Joseph had been a resident of NSW for 39 years, and had married Eliza Ann Sharpe at Staines in England when he was 23.
	And finally, the certificate confirmed that all nine of his children were still alive at the time of his death. They were listed on the document as, Mary Ann 36, Joseph William 33, James 31, Henry 29, Frederick 26, George Clarence 24, Louisa Caroline Eliza 22, Elizabeth Sarah Victoria 20, and Rose Violet May who was 12.
	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.
	12O13	Mary Ann Collett	Born in 1858 at Ryde, Sydney
	12O14	Joseph William Collett	Born in 1860 at Ulmarra, Grafton
	12O15	James Collett	Born in 1863 at Coldstream, Ulmarra
	12O16	Henry Collett	Born in 1865 at Coldstream, Ulmarra
	12O17	Frederick Collett	Born in 1867 at Coldstream, Ulmarra
	12O18	George Clarence Collett	Born in 1869 at Coldstream, Ulmarra
	12O19	Louisa Caroline Eliza Collett	Born in 1871 at Coldstream, Ulmarra
	12O20	Elizabeth Sarah Victoria Collett	Born in 1874 at Coldstream, Ulmarra
	12O21	Rose Violet May Collett	Born in 1881 at Coldstream, Ulmarra
12N10	Caroline Collett was born at Chadlington where she was baptised on 14^th January 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^th June 1859. Fifty-eight years earlier Thomas Collett (Ref. 12A/L/3 married Sarah Ann Hyatt at Oddington in Gloucestershire in 1801.
	Caroline’s father was recorded at that time as Frederick Collett, an inn keeper, 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 who was 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, age 42, living at 45 Sandy Lane at Aston in Birmingham, when her place of birth was confirmed as Chadlington. Living with her was her family comprising her three Enstone born sons, John Hiatt, age 20 and house painter, Thomas Hiatt, age 19, who was a chandelier filer, and Frederick Hiatt, age 17, a brass caster. With them was her daughter Mary Hiatt, age 13 and born at Chadlington, and son William Hiatt, age 11 from Chipping Norton.
12N11	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 when he was 18. Sometime over the following years he left Oxfordshire and moved to Birmingham, where he was living in 1871 at the age of 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 38 and a brewer from Chadlington, while his wife Sarah A Collett, age 41, was a shopkeeper and a grocer. Listed with them was their daughter Ann E Collett from was one year old and born in 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 their daughter Ann was 11. By March 1901 Frederick Henry Collett of Chadlington was a baker at 58, when he was still living in Birmingham with his wife Sarah Ann who was 61, and his daughter Ann aged 21.
	12O22	Ann Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1880 at Birmingham
12N12	William Price Collett was born in 1845 at Chadlington but not baptised there until 24^th February 1861. He was a carpenter by trade and he married 21 years old Elizabeth Mary Gee on 12^th December 1867 at Chadlington when he was 22 years of age. The witnesses at the wedding were William Bond and Sarah Gee, and 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^th August 1870, aged 24 years. Just eight months earlier at the time of the baptism of his son Frederick, 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 after the death of her husband, Elizabeth was a widow at the tender age of 24, caring for her two young sons, William who was two, and one year old Frederick.
	After just over two years as a widow Mrs Elizabeth Collett married Thomas Souls on 26^th October 1872 at Chadlington. She was 26 and Thomas was 27 and a labourer. As at her first wedding, Sarah Gee was once again one of the witnesses, but on that occasion she was accompanied by her husband James Gee, they being Elizabeth’s parents.
	According to the next census in 1881 Elizabeth Souls was 34 and the wife of Thomas Souls, age 36 and a carter who was born at Sherborne in Gloucestershire. Elizabeth was listed as being born at Chadlington, as were the two eldest children who had retained their Collett surname.
	The family’s third child was Thomas Souls who 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.
	12O23	William Ernest Collett	Baptised on 30.08.1868 at Chadlington
	12O24	Frederick James Collett	Born on 18.10.1869 at Chadlington
	12O25	Thomas Souls	Born during 1873 at Spelsbury
12N13	Elizabeth Ann Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 29^th November 1847, the daughter of Charles and Judy Collett. At the age of 25 she died and was buried on 16^th August 1872 at Charlbury where she was living at the time.
12N14	James Collett was born at Chadlington in 1849, according to the census return completed in 1881, and it was there that he was baptised on 5^th August 1849. He later married (1) Fanny around 1872, following the couple lived in Birmingham where their first four children were born. However, by the time of the census of 1881 James and his family had left Birmingham and were living at Kemble Road in Croydon, Surrey. James Collett was described as being 31 and a carpenter from at Chadlington, while his wife Fanny was the same age, but had been born at Horsham in Sussex.
	The couple’s four children were all born at Birmingham and were George F C Collett who was seven, James P Collett who was five, Frances E M Collett who was three, and John Collett who was two years old. Visiting the family at that time was James’ sister Minnie Collett (below).
	Sometime during the 1880s Fanny Collett died leaving her husband to be recorded as a widower in the Croydon census of 1891. Curiously on that occasion his children were recorded with slightly different names. James Collett was 41, when his four children were listed as George Collett, age 18, Percy J Collett, age 16, Margaret E M Collett, age 14, and John N Collett who was 13.
	During the following months James married (2) Sarah from Fundenhall in Norfolk, and by the time of the next census in 1901, the marriage had produced two children for James and Sarah, although by then all of James’s other children had left the family home in Croydon, to make their own way in the world.
	James Collett from Chadlington was 51 and his occupation was that of a carpenter, while he was living at Croydon with his new wife Sarah who was 43, and their two children. William Collett was eight years old, and his brother Gladstone Collett was three, both sons having been born at South Norwood.
	The family of four was still together and living in the Croydon area ten years later. The census in April 1911 listed the family as James Collett, who was 60, his wife Sarah Collett, who was 53, and their two sons William Collett who was 18, and Louis Collett who was 13.
	12O26	George F C Collett	Born in 1873 at Birmingham
	12O27	James Percy Collett	Born in 1875 at Birmingham
	12O28	Frances E M Collett	Born in 1877 at Birmingham
	12O29	John N Collett	Born in 1878 at Birmingham
	12O30	William Collett	Born in 1892 at South Norwood
	12O31	Gladstone Louis Collett	Born in 1897 at South Norwood
12N15	Arthur Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 25^th January 1852 and was 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 at Charlbury with his father Charles Collett. Arthur was 29 and had been born at Chadlington and was assisting his father on his 76 acre farm at Charlbury. It was a similar situation in 1891 when Arthur Collett, age 36 (sic), was still living at Charlbury with his parents and three of his siblings.
	Following the death of his mother during the 1890s Arthur left the family home and by March 1901 he was working as farm labourer at Nether Langwith in Nottinghamshire when he said he was 41 (sic) and from Chadlington in Oxfordshire. So far no record of him has been found at the end of the next decade in 1911.
12N16	George Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 25^th June 1854. He died from gastric fever and was buried at Chadlington on 2^nd May 1872 when he was only 18.
12N17	John Samuel Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 23^rd November 1856. He was 14 at the time of the 1871 Census while he was still living with his parents.
	According to the census of 1881 for Bromyard in Herefordshire, John S Collett of Eastend in Oxfordshire was 23, Eastend being the very next village to Chadlington. His occupation was that of a 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 builder 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.
12N18	Amelia Mary Collett, who was referred to as Minnie, was born at Chadlington in 1858 and was 13 by April 1871. She was still unmarried 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, Croydon. The census record confirmed that Minnie had been born at Chadlington but listed no occupation for her at that time.
12N19	Caroline Winifred Collett was born at Chadlington and was baptised there on 12^th February 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.
12N20	Charles Collett was born at Chadlington in 1862 where he was baptised on 30^th March 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 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.
	Charles, age 29, was still a bachelor living at the family’s home in Charlbury in 1891, but it was within the next couple of years that he moved into the city of Oxford where he met Rachel Hadlands, whom he married during 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.
	Curiously in the census of 1901 and 1911 Charles Collett from Chadlington was married to Lily who, in 1901 said she was born at Witney, whereas in 1911 her place of birth was given as Chadlington. During the first eight years he was married, Charles had five children, with a further three born after 1901.
	All of the children were born while Charles and Lily (Rachel) were living at Milton-under-Wychwood, and it was also there that the family was recorded as living in both 1901 and 1911. In 1901 Charles Collett was 39 and a farmer, Lily was 34, and the children were Charles Guy Collett who was six, Percy Collett who was five, May Collett who was three, Daisy who was one year old, and Dorothy who was under one year old.
	Ten years later the full family was Charles Collett, age 49, Lily Collett, age 42, Guy Collett, age 16, Percy Collett, age 14, May Collett, age 13, Daisy Collett, age 11, Dorothy Collett, age 10, Ivy Collett who was eight, Desmond Collett who was seven, and Marion Collett who was four years old.
	Charles Collett was buried at Chadlington on 23^rd April 1930, aged 68.
	12O32	Charles Guy Collett	Born in 1894 at Milton-under-Wychwood
	12O33	Percy Collett	Born in 1896 at Milton-under-Wychwood
	12O34	May Collett	Born in 1897 at Milton-under-Wychwood
	12O35	Daisy Collett	Born in 1899 at Milton-under-Wychwood
	12O36	Dorothy Collett	Born in 1901 at Milton-under-Wychwood
	12O37	Ivy Collett	Born in 1902 at Milton-under-Wychwood
	12O38	Desmond Collett	Born in 1903 at Milton-under-Wychwood
	12O39	Marion Collett	Born in 1906 at Milton-under-Wychwood
12N21	Lewis Edward Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 24^th April 1864 and was seven and 17 in the census returns in 1871 and 1881 respectively. He married Amelia Annie Kench on 14^th April 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 Charlbury, and later the proprietor of a hotel in Market Street in Charlbury. The 1901 Census confirmed that the family was living at Charlbury where Lewis, age 36, was a butcher, his wife Amelia was 30, and their two children were Daisy who was ten, and Lewis who was six years old.
	It is not know at this time, what exactly happened to Lewis Edward Collett and his wife Amelia Annie Collett, since neither of them was recorded in the census in 1911. Instead, their two children were living together at Shipston-on-Stour, where Daisy Amelia Collet from Charlbury was 20, and her brother Lewis Percival Collett, also from Charlbury, was 16.
	12O40	Daisy Amelia Collett	Baptised on 22.03.1891 at Charlbury
	12O41	Lewis Percival Collett	Baptised on 06.01.1895 at Charlbury
12N22	Fanny Fletcher Collett was one half of a set of twins born at Chadlington and baptised there on 8^th March 1867. Fanny was four years of age in 1871 and was 14 in 1881 when she was living with her family at Charlbury. It was as Fanny Collett, age 23, that she was still living at Charlbury with her family in 1891. She was not married by the end of the century and in the census of 1901, when she was 33, she was then living at Chadlington, where he father was buried in 1902.
12N23	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 8^th March 1867 at Chadlington. She was aged four years in 1871 and 14 in 1881 when she was living at Charlbury with her family. Ten years later she was still living with her parents and her twin sister fanny (above) when she was recorded in the Charlbury census on 1891 as Susie Collett, age 23. It is assumed that she was married within the next decade, since no record of a Susan or Susie Collett has been found in any later census records.
12N24	Francis Collett was born at Chadlington and was baptised there on 29^th November 1868. He was two years old in Chipping Norton & Charlbury census of 1871 and was aged 12 years and was living at Charlbury with his family in 1881 when he was referred to as Frank. On leaving school Francis secured work at nearby Witney where he was living and working in 1891 at the age of 21, using the name Francis Collett.
	As far as can be determined Francis or Frank Collett from Chadlington, who would have been 31 and 41 in the next two census returns, would seem not to be living anything in Britain in either 1901 and 1911.
12N25	Frederick Collett was baptised on 27^th February 1870 at Chadlington, the youngest son of Charles and Judith Collett. Tragically Frederick Collett was just two years old when he died, following which he was buried at Chadlington on 23^rd December 1872.
12N26	Angelina S Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 2^nd June 1850, where she later married Thomas Derby on 12^th November 1883. At that time she was listed as a domestic servant, age 33, while he was a shopkeeper aged 34, who was living at 114 Holloway Road in London. Angelina’s father was confirmed as Mark Collett, a carpenter, with Thomas’ father named as William Derby, who was a publican. The witnesses at the wedding were James and Maria Coleman.
	The earlier census of 1881 placed the age of Annie Collett as 27 instead of 30 or 31. However, the record did confirm that she was born at Chadlington. It also stated that she was a cook in domestic service at the St Marylebone School at Hayes in Middlesex. Interestingly, her future husband Thomas Derby, age 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. By the time of the census in 1891 the childless couple were living in the Islington & Highbury area of London, where Thomas Derby was 41, as was his wife Angelina Derby from Chadlington.
12N27	Mary Ann Collett was born at Chadlington in 1852 and was baptised there on 25^th December 1854, the daughter of Mark and Rose Anna Collett. She married 28 years old Beriah Wells, a builder, at Chadlington on 5^th December 1870 when she was 19. 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, they being her older sister (above) and her father.
12O1	Alan John Lardner Collett was born at Charlbury, where he was baptised on 28^th July 1861, the son of butcher John Collett and his wife Anne Lardner. Shortly after he was born his parents left Charlbury when they moved the eight miles to Churchill where Alan’s maternal grandparents lived. And it was with his grandparents, retired butcher Thomas Lardner and his wife Mary that he was living in 1871. Recorded in the census that year as Allan J L Collett, age nine years, he was described as a scholar of Charlbury, while living at Heath Road in Churchill. By that time the rest of his family was living in London.
	According to the next census in 1881 Alan was once again living with his family at their new home at 13 Guildford Street East in Clerkenwell, London where Allan Collett, then aged 19, was working as a carman. It was as Allan Collett, age 29, that he was recorded in the Holborn & Amwell census of 1891, when he was still living with his family at 15 Granville Square in Clerkenwell.
	Sometime over the next ten years Alan must have suffered a fairly serious accident while at work, since he was listed in the March census in 1901 as being an invalid. That year’s census return confirmed he was born at Charlbury and that he was 39. It has not been determined if he was ever married, nor has any record of him been found in the census of 1911, by which time his father and his sister Agnes had returned to Dean in Oxfordshire, following the death of Alan’s mother.
12O2	Agnes Mary Collett was born in the village of Churchill in 1864 and was baptised at Charlbury. Not long after she was born her parents left Oxfordshire when they moved into London. According to the census in 1871 the family, less Agnes’ older brother Alan (above) was living within the Holborn &Amwell area of Clerkenwell, where Agnes was seven years old. Ten years later in 1881, as Agnes M Collett, she was 17 and was living with her family at 13 Guildford Street East in Clerkenwell. She was still living in Clerkenwell with her parents after a further ten years, when she was 27, but by which time the family home was at 15 Granville Square in Clerkenwell.
	It seems unlikely that she ever married since, in the census of 1901, Agnes M Collett from Churchill in Oxfordshire was 37, and was a spinster who was still living with her parents in Clerkenwell. Ten years later she was still unmarried, but by then she and her widowed father had left London and were once again living in Oxfordshire. The 1911 Census listed Agnes Mary Collett, age 47, living in the hamlet of Dean with her father John William Collett who was 73.
12O3	John William Collett was born in 1867 at Clerkenwell in London, the third child of John and Anne Collett who had only just arrived there from Oxfordshire. In 1871, at the age of three, John Collett was living with his family in the Holborn & Amwell district of London, which included Clerkenwell. Ten years later he was living with his parents at 13 Guildford Street East from where John W Collett, age 13, had already left school and was working as a carrier and a parcel boy.
	It was just four years later that John William Collett died, mostly like in London and perhaps as the result of an accident at work. His body was then taken back to Oxfordshire where he was buried at Spelsbury on 10^th September 1885 aged 18 years. However, five and a half years later his family was still living in Clerkenwell, at 15 Granville Square in Clerkenwell.
12O4	Anne Ethelfreda Collett, referred to as Mary, was born in 1875 at Clerkenwell. According to the Census of 1881 she was Annie E Collett aged six, when she was living with her family at 13 Guildford Street East in Clerkenwell. Ten years after that she was again listed as Annie Collett in the Holborn & Amwell census of 1891 when she was 15 and still living with her family.
	Sadly, it was only ten months later, at the tender age of just 16 years, that she died at 15 Granville Square in the Clerkenwell area of London. She passed away on 18^th January 1892, the cause of death being influenza and pneumonia. Five days later she was buried with her brother John William Collett (above) at Spelsbury in Oxfordshire on 23^rd January 1892.
12O5	William Thomas 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. It was simply as William Collett of Clerkenwell age 11, that he was recorded in the Holborn & Amwell census of 1891 when he was living at 15 Granville Square in Clerkenwell with his family.
	Just after the turn of the century William was still living at Clerkenwell with his parents. According to the census return for March 1901, William T Collett was 21 and his place of birth was confirmed as Clerkenwell. His occupation at that time was that of a carman, like his older brother Alan (above) prior to his accident.
	During the next decade, William Collett of Clerkenwell married May of Clerkenwell and by April 1911 the childless couple had moved to Churchill in Oxfordshire, where William’s mother Annie Lardner had been born. The census that year recorded the couple as William Thomas Collett of Clerkenwell, who was 31, and his wife May Collett, also from Clerkenwell, who was 29.
12O6	Elizabeth Alice Collett was born at Chadlington where she was baptised at St Nicholas Church on 3^rd August 1879. The baptism record confirmed that her parents were James and Isabella Collett. She was one year old in the Charlbury census of 1881 and 11 years old at the time of the Charlbury census in 1891. Ten years after that she was an assistant school mistress in Chadlington at the age of 21, and it was over three and a half years later, at the age of 25, she married Gerald Hastings Watts on 28^th December 1904 at Chadlington.
	Her father, who was a witness at the wedding, was confirmed as James Collett, a builder. Gerald H Watts, 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.
	In April 1911 Elizabeth Alice Watts from Chadlington was 31 and her husband Gerald Hastings Watts was 35, and they were living in Charlbury. By that time in the marriage life the couple already had two children, John Francis James Watts, who was three years old, and Gerald Wallace Watts who was seven months old.
12O7	Eva Annie Collett was born at Chadlington where she was baptised on 18^th October 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 younger sister Lillian (below) with whom she was buried at Chadlington on 18^th June 1887.
12O8	Lillian Edith Collett was born at Chadlington and was baptised there on 27^th May 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^th May 1887 and was joined there by her sister Eva (above) one month later.
12O9	Olive Louise Collett was born at Chadlington and was baptised there on 28^th June 1885. By 1891 Olive Louise Collett was five years old in the Chadlington census, and ten years later was 15, when she was still living there with her family.
	And it was at St Nicholas Church in Chadlington that she later married Arthur Alfred Edgington, a 23 years old farmer of Chadlington, on 5^th August 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.
12O10	James William Claude Collett was born at Chadlington where he was baptised on 5^th August 1888. By the time of the Chadlington census of 1891 he was two years old when he was recorded with his family at Chadlington as James William C Collett. He was still attending school in Chadlington by the time of the census in 1901 when, as James W C Collett he was 12 and still living with his parents in Chadlington.
	Upon leaving school James left Oxfordshire and moved south to Berkshire, where, in April 1911, he was living and working in Reading, where he was described as unmarried James W Claude Collett, age 22, from Chadlington, although his name was misleadingly included in the census that year as ‘James Waclude Collett’.
12O11	Francis Campbell Collett was born at Chadlington and it was there he was baptised on 11^th January 1891. He was just a few months old in the Chadlington census of 1891, and ten years later in 1901 he was still living there with his family when he was 10 years old and attending the village school.
	During the first decade of the new century, James appears to have sought work in London, since by the time of the census in 1911 James Collett from Oxfordshire was 20 years old and was living and working in the Fulham area of the city.
	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^th February 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.
12O14	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, which was later used on the family headstone (below) but without the Joseph.
	The photo on the right was sent in by Marion O’Shea (Ref. 12R2). This clearly shows the New South Wales headstone for Joseph and his wife Lucinda, together with a memorial to their son Joseph Wilton Collett who perished in the First World War and was buried in France. The inscriptions read: “In Loving Memory of Joseph William Collett who died 23^rd May 1931 aged 71 years, a loving husband and kind father” “Also a tribute to the memory of Pte Wilton Collett, AIF, who died in the Great War aged 20 years” “Also Lucinda Collett died 22^nd Jan. 1957 aged 87 years, peace perfect peace”.
	12P1	Victoria A Collett	Born in 1895 at Ulmarra
	12P2	Joseph Wilton Collett	Born in 1897
	12P3	Edna Collett	Born in 1902 at Ulmarra
	12P4	William J Collett	Born in 1904 at Ulmarra
12O15	James Collett was born at Coldstream, Ulmarra in the Grafton district of New South Wales in 1863. Bachelor James Collett, age 23 and a farmer from Grafton, later married Mary Robertson of Shoalhaven in Newcastle, New South Wales, who was the daughter of farmer Angus Robertson and his wife Georgina McPherson. The couple were married at the Presbyterian Church in Upper Coldstream, New South Wales on 2^nd March 1886. The witnesses at the wedding were Joseph William Collett, and Louisa Caroline Eliza Collett, they being James’ older brother Joseph (above), and his sister Louisa (below).