PART THIRTEEN

The South Africa Line - 1750 to 1990

This is the only section of the thirteenth part of the Collett family

Updated March 2010

This is the family line of Godfrey Collett of Cape Province

To date no link has been found to connect William Collett (Ref. 13M2)

or any of his siblings to any of the other Collett lines

Much of the new information in the June 2008 update was extracted

from www.1820settlers.com and UK Census records

13L1	Undiscovered Collett parents born circa 1755 and married circa 1777
	13M1	Joseph Collett	Born circa 1778
	13M2	WILLIAM COLLETT	Born circa 1779
	13M3	James Collett	Born circa 1780
13M1	Joseph Collett was born circa 1778. He married Elizabeth Ricketts on 22.07.1798 at Painswick. All of their children were born at Stroud.
	13N1	James Collett	Baptised on 06.03.1803
	13N2	William Collett	Baptised on 10.03.1805
	13N3	Elizabeth Collett	Baptised on 12.07.1807
	13N4	George Collett	Baptised on 03.12.1809
	13N5	John Collett	Baptised on 31.01.1813
13M2	WILLIAM COLLETT was born circa 1779 married Martha around 1799. All of their children were born at Stroud. Martha died in 1837 while William had died at an earlier time, possibly around 1830.
	13N6	JAMES LYDFORD COLLETT	Born on 14.02.1800
	13N7	Joseph Collett	Born on 15.02.1803
	13N8	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1806
	13N9	Sarah Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13N10	Ann Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13N11	Rhoda Collett	Date of birth unknown
13M3	James Collett was born circa 1780. He married Priscilla Golding on 18.06.1801 at Stroud. All of their children were baptised at Stroud and all were listed as the children of James Collett and Priscilla Golding except daughter Susanna, who was oddly recorded in the IGI as the daughter of James Collett and Susanna Golding.
	13N12	Harriett Collett	Baptised on 04.07.1802 at Stroud
	13N13	Charles Collett	Baptised on 04.12.1803 at Stroud
	13N14	Charlotte Collett	Baptised on 03.11.1805 at Stroud
	13N15	Susanna Collett	Baptised on 03.04.1808
	13N16	Sophia Collett	Baptised on 08.04.1810 at Stroud
	13N17	James Collett	Baptised on 19.04.1812 at Stroud
	13N18	Daniel Collett	Baptised on 02.10.1814
	13N19	Robert Collett	Baptised on 10.05.1818 at Stroud
13N1	James Collett was baptised on 06.03.1803 at Stroud, the son of Joseph Collett and Elizabeth Ricketts. He married (1) Harriett Simms on 25.12.1826 at Stroud. It would appear that some of their children were born at Stanley End in Stroud, although all of the baptisms took place at Stroud.
	According to the 1841 Census the family was living in the registration district of Cirencester, Stroud and Tetbury and comprised James 35 and Harriet 30, and their children Charles 14, Joseph 12, Eliza 10, William 8, John 6, George 4, and Sarah who was two years old.
	Tragedy may well have hit the family during the following decade since no record has been found for James’ wife. It therefore is possible that she died during the birth of the couple’s last child, or shortly thereafter.
	In 1851 James was forty-seven and was still living in Stroud but without his wife. The members of his family who were still living with him were Joseph 22, William 18, John 16, George 14, Sarah 12, and new arrival Samuel who was four years old.
	Ten years later James Collett was fifty-eight and the only children still living with him at Stroud was his youngest daughter Harriet who was seventeen, and his youngest son Samuel who was fourteen.
	It would appear from the next census that James married (2) Sarah from Bisley during the 1860s, since the 1871 Stroud & Rodborough registration area listed the couple with James as sixty-eight and Sarah as sixty-two. During the 1870s James Collett died leaving Sarah a widow.
	According to the census in 1881, the widow Sarah Collett from Bisley was seventy-two. She was living alone at Butter Row in Rodborough, where she was described as a housekeeper and formerly a woollen cloth worker.
	13O1	Charles Collett	Baptised on 03.06.1827 at Stroud
	13O2	Joseph Collett	Baptised on 08.03.1829
	13O3	Eliza Collett	Born on 04.05.1831
	13O4	William Collett	Baptised on 14.04.1833
	13O5	John Collett	Born in 1834
	13O6	George Collett	Baptised on 12.02.1837 at Stroud
	13O7	Sarah Collett	Baptised on 21.07.1839 at Rodborough
	13O8	Harriet Collett	Born after June 1841
	13O9	Samuel Collett	Born in 1846
13N2	William Collett was baptised on 10.03.1805 at Stroud, the son of Joseph Collett and Elizabeth Ricketts. He married Sybil Vines on 31.07.1825 at Stroud. All of their children were born at Stroud but so far no record of any member of the family has been located in any of the UK censuses so this may indicate that they emigrated to one of the colonies.
	In 1871 William Collett was sixty-six and was still living in Stroud, although he was very likely a widower by then since there was no record of his wife Sybil at that time.
	13O9	Joseph Collett	Baptised on 31.07.1825
	13O10	Henry Collett	Baptised on 04.11.1827
	13O11	Alfred Collett	Baptised on 14.11.1830
	13O12	Mary Ann Collett	Baptised on 02.09.1832
	13O13	Enos Collett	Baptised on 16.04.1837
13N3	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Stroud on 12.07.1807 and in the 1841 was aged 30 and was living in the Cirencester & Stroud registration district.
13N5	John Collett was born on 31.01.1813 at Stroud and was aged 25 in the 1841 Census. However, his wife Sarah, whom he must have married around 1831, and their daughter Emma who was baptised at Leonard Stanley were not listed with him.
	13O14	Emma Collett	Baptised on 28.12.1832
13N6	JAMES LYDFORD COLLETT was born at Stroudwater in Gloucester on 14.02.1800. At the age of 15 years he was articled to an attorney in London. He asked his father to grant him permission to emigrate to one of the colonies but his father refused. So he stowed away on a sailing vessel bound for Australia but was discovered and put ashore at Cape Town.
	James had travelled on board the ship Salisbury which arrived at Table Bay on 8^th December 1821, having set sail from England on 14^th August. His name on the emigrants’ list was amongst the party headed up by Major General Colin Campbell on which he was described as an indentured labourer. Once in South Africa he secured work as a clerk assisting with the landing of settlers.
	He married Rhoda Trollip on 05.02.1824 at Grahamstown in Eastern Cape, after she too had emigrated to South Africa. Rhoda was born at Horningsham near Frome on 21.12.1806 the daughter of Joseph Trollip and Susanna Crouch and had sailed to South Africa the previous year onboard the ship Weymouth in Mr Hyman’s party.
	At the time of their wedding James owned a small farm near Port Alfred. He later bought farms at Olifantsfontein and at Koonap River and imported Merino sheep from New South Wales and Saxony. In 1842 he bought three large farms in the Cradock area and in 1854 he was chosen as a member of parliament to sit on the first Cape Parliament.
	The couple’s homestead was called Grassridge and over the years James became a successful and wealthy farmer. He was one of the first men to breed merino sheep on a large scale and used to enter as many as 500 merino rams for sale at one time.
	However, due to drought and a recession he was made bankrupt in 1862 and was forced to sell all of his many farms. As a result he and Rhoda were offered a cottage on Mulberry Grove by his son-in-law Joseph Trollip, before their own son John offered them accommodation at Dassie Krantz.
	Following a frightening incident with a defiant servant, James and Rhoda were eventually moved by their son John back to Grassridge where the couple lived out the rest of their lives.
	James died on 10.08.1875 at Grassridge Farm, Fish River in the Cradock District of Eastern Cape at the age of seventy-five. He was also buried at Grassridge Farm. Rhoda died at Rietvlei, Middelburg in November 1895.
	13O15	Rhoda Ann Collett	Born on 27.12.1824
	13O16	JOHN COLLETT	Born on 27.11.1826
	13O17	Susanna Collett	Born on 13.07.1829
	13O18	Martha Collett	Born on 29.06.1831
	13O19	James Collett	Born in 1833
	13O20	William Collett	Born on 07.08.1835
	13O21	Joseph Collett	Born on 17.07.1837
	13O22	George Collett	Born on 09.04.1840
	13O23	Elizabeth Collett	Born on 08.02.1844
13N7	Joseph Collett was baptised on 15.02.1803 at The Old Meeting House Independent Church in Stroud, the son of William and Martha Collett. At some time in his life he was given £200 by his brother James (above) and he emigrated to America where he met and married Mary. He died in California on 26.12.1875.
	13O24	Ann Collett	Born in America, date unknown
	13O25	Charlotte Collett	Born in America, date unknown
13N8	Elizabeth Collett was born in 1806 and it is believed that she married twice, the second time to Mr Bradley. There were no children from either marriage and she died in 1892.
13N9	Sarah Collett, whose date of birth is not known, is known to have followed her brother Joseph (above) to America where she had two sons and four daughters. It was also in America that she died.
13N10	Ann Collett, whose date of birth is not known, possibly emigrated to America with her siblings.
13N11	Rhoda Collett, whose date of birth is not known, is known to have married T Arnott of Glamorgan in 1841 from where she went to live in South Africa. By early June in 1841 Rhoda and her husband must have left Britain as she was not listed in the census either as Arnott or Collett.
	Rhoda is known to have presented her husband with a son Thomas Arnott in 1843.
13N15	Susanna Collett was baptised at Stroud on 03.07.1808. It would appear that she married William Canter and by June 1841 her family living in the Cirencester, Stroud & Tetbury area comprised, William and Susanna both with rounded ages 30 years, and their four children Charlotte 15, Sampson 7, Anna 4 and baby George who was one year old.
13N18	Daniel Collett was baptised at Stroud on 02.10.1814. It is likely, although not proved, that he married Eliza Nobbs at nearby Miserden on 26.12.1837.
13O2	Joseph Collett was born at Stanley End and was baptised at Stroud on 08.03.1829. At the time of the 1841 Census he was twelve years old and was living with his family in Stroud. By 1851 he was unmarried at twenty-two when he was still living in Stroud.
	Sometime during the following ten years Joseph married Elizabeth and the couple were listed together in the Stroud census of 1861. Joseph was thirty-two, while his wife was thirty-three. Ten years later it would appear that it was still just Joseph at forty-two and Elizabeth who was forty-three who were living in Stroud, the marriage apparently not producing any children for the couple.
	By the time of the census in 1881 they were again living alone at Chapel Street in Stroud. Joseph was working as a general haulier like his brother William (below). Joseph was fifty-two and confirmed he had been born at Stroud, while his wife Elizabeth was also born at Stroud and fifty-three.
	Ten years later Joseph was sixty-one and a widower and was listed as living within the Rodborough & Stroud registration district, his wife Elizabeth having died in the preceding years.
	By 1901 Joseph was seventy-two, and by that time he was living in the Chalford registration district to the east of Stroud. Ten years later in April 1911 he was eighty-one and was back living in Stroud on his own.
13O3	Eliza Collett was born at Stroud on 04.05.1831 and was baptised there on 29.05.1831, the daughter of James Collett and Harriett Sims.
13O4	William Collett was born at Stanley End and was baptised at Stroud on 14.04.1833, and was eight years old in June 1841. Like the majority of his family William did not feature in further census records until 1871, by which time he was thirty-eight, although there was a William aged 26 in Stroud in 1861.
	By 1871 William was married to Mary and they and their family were living at Randwick. Mary was listed as being forty-two years old and born at Stroud, where all of their children were born, except their last child who was born after the family had moved to Randwick.
	Their children in 1871 were Charles aged 11, Mary aged 9, Rose aged 6, and one year old Sarah. However sometime after 1871 and before the next census of 1881 William’s wife died
	This was confirmed by the 1881 Census in which 50 years old William was a widower living with his family at Fair View in Randwick. His place of birth was given as Stanley (Stanley End) and his occupation was that of a haulier like his older brother Joseph (above).
	All four of his children were still living with him and all were still not married. Only William’s daughter Sarah, who was eleven and born at Randwick, was still at school. All of the three older children were employed as woollen cloth workers, and all having been born at Stroud.
	Just after the start of the new century, carrier William Collett was still living at Randwick when he gave his age as being seventy. Still living with him, and acting as his housekeeper was his daughter Sarah Collett who was thirty years old.
	13P1	Charles William Collett	Born in 1858
	13P2	Mary F Collett	Born in 1861
	13P3	Rose Collett	Born in 1864
	13P4	Sarah Collett	Born in 1869
13O5	John Collett was born at Stroud in 1835 and was six years of age in 1841.
13O8	Harriet Collett was born at Stroud but after June 1841 as she was not listed as living with her family in that year’s census record. With her mother having died when she was around five years of age, it is not been discovered where she was in 1851, since she was not with her father James at Stroud.
	However, ten years later in 1861 she was once again living in Stroud with her father and her younger brother Samuel, but no trace of her has so far been found in 1871.
	By 1881 Harriet was living at 9 Milsom Street in the St Philip & St Jacob district of the City of Bristol. She was forty years old and her place of birth was confirmed as being Stroud. She was still a spinster and was working as a milliner and hat trimmer.
	The later census in 1911 provided that confirmed that Harriet never married. In this she was listed as being seventy years old and still living in Bristol.
13O15	Rhoda Ann Collett was born on 27.12.1824 at Bathhurst in Eastern Cape. On 31.05.1842 she married her cousin Joshua Trollip at Groenfontein Farm in Cradock. It was also at Groenfontein where Joshua was born on 17.05.1822. He was the son of Stephen Trollip and Mary Weller and the nephew of Rhoda’s mother Rhoda Collett nee Trollip.
	The marriage produced twelve children for Rhoda and Joshua and all were born within the Cradock district of Eastern Cape. Two of the children died very young, one not quite a year old and the other at just three years of age.
	Rhoda died on 17.11.1898 aged 73 at Mulberry Grove in Eastern Cape and was buried at Katkop Farm in Eastern Cape, where her husband was buried following his death at Doornhoek on 16.04.1887.
	One of Rhoda’s daughters, Jessie Harriet Collett Trollip, later married William Jacobus Van Heerden and their daughter Annie Van Heerden married her uncle Albert Henry Collett (Ref. 13P15) the son of John Collett (below).
13O16	JOHN COLLETT was born on 27.11.1826 at Grahamstown in Eastern Cape. On 19.07.1854 he married his cousin Mary Trollip at Doornberg Farm in Cradock. She was the daughter of Joseph Anthony Trollip and Phoebe Whitehead and her father Joseph was the brother of John’s mother Rhoda. All of their fourteen children were born at Grahamstown in Cradock.
	Mary Trollip was nearly ten years younger than her husband, having been born at Cradock on 22.06.1836. In the book “A Time to Plant” by Joan Collett (on page 211), John was described as short and calm, while, by comparison, Mary was tall and more excitable.
	Of their children, John and Gervase were noted as being tall, Norman was quite short, and most of them were slow spoken people, although Letty, Rosa and Norman were lively. And with the exception of Walter, Herbert, Jessie and Dudley who had red/sandy hair, the other members of the family had dark hair.
	In 1850 Grassridge Farm was acquired by John and Mary and, thirty-three years after, further land at Rem. Petzer Kraal, Doornberg and two other locations was added, increasing their total holding to almost 2,000 hectares in the district of Middelburg. The purchase of these extra lands was secured with the help of Mary’s father who was the bondholder for the £2,500 mortgage.
	By the time of his death over twenty years later, John’s total holding amounted to 6,715 hectares valued at £7,915. In the years prior to his death the land was farmed by his son Norman and Dudley. His estate also included two properties bought by John in Cradock Town, these being 33 Beeren Street which later became a boarding house, and business premises in Adderley Street which was later taken over by the Butler Brothers (see notes below).
	John and Mary where founder members of the Fish River Methodist Chapel and upon the death of the couple their children place a memorial tablet in the chapel. John, who was referred to as ‘John Collett of Grassridge’, died at Grassridge Farm in Cradock on 10.08.1908 aged 81, his wife having died there almost exactly two years earlier on 09.08.1906.
	On settlement of John’s estate in 1910 his surviving twelve children each received £950 17shillings and 2pence. In addition, a debt of £675 owed by James Butler of Adderley Street was waived due to ‘the fall in property prices’ and the fact that James’ financial position was ‘not very strong’.
	It should be noted that James Butler was John Collett’s son-in-law, being the husband of John’s oldest daughter Letty. His brother and business partner Charles Butler was also John’s brother-in-law, he having married John’s daughter Mary.
	13P5	Walter James Collett	Born on 25.04.1855
	13P6	Annie Letitia Collett	Born on 29.08.1856
	13P7	Herbert Joseph Collett	Born on 14.02.1858
	13P8	Jessie Marion Collett	Born on 29.05.1860
	13P9	Mary Emma Collett	Born on 04.02.1862
	13P10	Rosie Phoebe Collett	Born on 22.02.1864
	13P11	Rosa Phoebe Collett	Born on 08.03.1865
	13P12	John Owen Collett	Born on 12.04.1867
	13P13	Martha Rhoda Collett	Born on 15.12.1868
	13P14	Agnes Collett	Born in 1870
	13P15	Albert Henry Collett	Born on 03.06.1871
	13P16	Gervase Chancellor Collett	Born on 10.04.1874
	13P17	NORMAN HUGH COLLETT	Born on 27.01.1877
	13P18	Dudley Templeton Collett	Born on 09.07.1878
13O17	Susanna Collett was born at Grahamstown on 13.07.1829. She married Richard John Maskell in January 1849 and the marriage produced seven children for the couple. Richard was born around 1825 and Susanna died at Besterkraal, Hanover in Cape Province on 29.07.1889.
	It is interesting to note that Susanna’s eldest son was Joseph John Maskell and that he marriage Rosa Phoebe Collett (Ref. 13P11) his cousin, the daughter of Susanna’s brother John Collett (above).
	The complete list of their seven children comprised Emily, an unnamed infant, Martha, the aforementioned Joseph, Ellen, Ida and Matilda.
13O18	Martha Collett was born at Grahamstown on 29.06.1831 and she married John Trollip on 26.09.1851. John was the son of William Trollip and Patience Everly and was born on 08.05.1828 at Daggaboer Farm in Salem, Eastern Cape. John was also a nephew to Martha’s mother.
	Martha died at Daggaboer Farm on 05.10.1891 aged 60 and her husband died the following year, just nine days after the anniversary of Martha’s passing, on 14.10.1892 at Kaffirslaagte River in Eastern Cape.
	Rather oddly the death certificate for Martha stated that she had no children. This might indicate that their two children Sophie Usher Pike and Louis Henry Meaker were adopted. See Martha’s brother James (below) for a possible Usher connection.
13O19	James Collett was born at Grove Hill in Bathurst on 15.05.1833. He married Mary Simpson on 19.01.1859 in Grahamstown. Mary, who was born at Bathurst around 1840, was the daughter of the Reverend William Simpson and Ann Usher and the sister of Emily Simpson who married James’ brother Joseph Collett (below). Also see Ref. 13O21 and 13P38 for further Collett/Simpson liaisons.
	James died on 16.12.1910 at Colletton House in Rhyneheath, Karoo in South Africa.
	13P19	Cecil Ernest Collett	Born in 1859
	13P20	Charles Hedley Collett	Born on 21.11.1862
	13P21	Alice Annie Alicia Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13P22	Benjamin Shaw Collett	Born on 09.12.1866
	13P23	Denham Godlonton Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13P24	Florence Emily Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13P25	William James Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13P26	Irene Mary Collett	Date of birth unknown
13O20	William Collett was born at Olifantsfontein in Cape Province on 07.08.1835. William was also known as Ian and farmed land at Rietvlei near Middelburg. He married Anna Maria Cook on 10.09.1862 at Cradock and she was the daughter of Edward Cook and Mary Frances Thornhill. Anna was born at Nisbet Bath in Great Namaqualand on 29.05.1843.
	It is established that the couple’s first five children were born at Middelburg, although it seems very likely that the remainder were also born there, in view of the fact that William was known as the father of the Middelburg branch of the Collett family. He died on 22.03.1916 just over twelve years after his wife Anna had died on 16.10.1903.
	13P27	Dora Frances Collett	Born on 25.10.1863
	13P28	Henry Collett	Born on 20.07.1865
	13P29	Edith Anna Collett	Born on 04.06.1867
	13P30	William Edward Collett	Born on 22.04.1869
	13P31	Ewart James Collett	Born on 02.05.1871
	13P32	Frederick Slater Collett	Born in 1873
	13P33	Myra Collett	Born in 1875
	13P34	John Wesley Cam Collett	Born on 27.11.1877
	13P35	Elizabeth Martha Collett	Born in 1880
	13P36	George Morley Collett	Born in 1882
	13P37	Ethel Daisy Thornhill Collett	Born in 1884
13O21	Joseph Collett was born on 17.07.1837 at Grahamstown where he married Emily Simpson on 04.04.1860. Emily was born in 1842 and was the sister of Mary Simpson who married Joseph’s brother James Collett (above) and the daughter of the Reverend William Simpson and Ann Usher.
	Joseph died in July 1901 at Middelburg leaving Emily a widow for the next twenty-three years before she died at Grapevale in Naauwpoort, Eastern Cape on 25.12.1924.
	13P38	Percy Collett	Born in 1861
	13P39	Alice Emmeline Collett	Born in 1864
	13P40	Amy Josephine Collett	Born in 1865
	13P41	William Arthur Collett	Born in 1866
	13P42	Collett Langford Collett	Born in 1868
	13P43	Elizabeth Anne Collett	Born in 1870
	13P44	Ada Susannah Collett	Born in 1873
	13P45	Joseph Collett	Born in 1875
	13P46	Mabel Winifred Collett	Born in 1877
	13P47	Isobel Mary Collett	Born circa 1880
	13P48	Cecil Reginald Collett	Born in 1883
13O22	George Collett was born on 09.04.1840 at Eastern Cape where he died in August 1879. He married Martha Susanna Adendorf on 28.04.1862 at Eastern Cape. Martha, who was born at Free State in South Africa in 1843, outlived her husband by almost twenty-one years and died at Daggaboersnek in Bedford, Eastern Cape on 28.06.1900.
	In her Will just five of the couple’s nine children were mentioned. These were Annie, Jack, Thomas, Eva and James. Of the others, Martha had died the year after she was born, Horatio had died just three years before his mother, leaving Richard and Norman who must have died sometime before the end of the century.
	13P49	Horatio George Collett	Born on 13.02.1864
	13P50	Annie Rhoda Collett	Born on 21.05.1865
	13P51	John Hedley Collett	Born on 04.08.1866
	13P52	Richard Clifford Collett	Born on 04.02.1868
	13P53	Thomas Henry Collett	Born on 05.09.1869
	13P54	Martha Selena Collett	Born on 17.04.1870
	13P55	Eva Elizabeth Collett	Born on 18.01.1874
	13P56	James Christopher Collett	Born on 02.05.1877
	13P57	Norman Collett	Born in1879
13O23	Elizabeth Collett was born at Groensfontein in Cradock on 08.04.1844. At the very young age of sixteen years and ten months she married Jonathon Crooks on 14.02.1861. The marriage produced five children for the couple, these being Aveline, Albert, Amelia, Percy, James and Edith.
	Elizabeth’s husband was born around 1840 and both he and Elizabeth died at Eastern Cape.
13P1	Charles William Collett was born at Stroud in 1858 and was aged 11 in 1871 and 23 in 1881. In the latter he was living at Fair View in Randwick with his widowed father and his three sisters. His occupation at that time was that of a woollen cloth worker.
13P2	Mary F Collett was born at Stroud in 1861. Just like her brother William (above) and her sister Rose (below) her ages in the 1871 and 1881 censuses were at odds with each other. She was stated as being aged 9 in 1871 and 21 in 1881 and for the latter her name was written as Maria.
	Also in 1881 she was living with her widowed father and her siblings at Fair View in Randwick from where she was employed as a woollen cloth worker.
13P3	Rose Collett was born at Stroud in 1864 and was aged 6 and referred to as Rose C Collett in 1871, whereas in 1881 she was Rose E Collett aged 19. In 1881 she was living at Fair View in Randwick with her family and was working as a woollen cloth maker like her older sister and brother.
13P4	Sarah Collett was born at Stroud in 1869 but shortly after she was born the family moved to Randwick. Sarah was one year old in the Randwick census of 1871 when she was living there with her parents. Not long after this her mother Mary died.
	Sarah was eleven and attending school in 1881 when she was living with her widowed father William and her three siblings at Fair View in Randwick. Twenty years later Sarah was the only member of the family still living with her father at Randwick where she was acting as housekeeper for her father.
13P5	Walter James Collett was born at Grahamstown on 25.04.1855 and it was at Cradock where he married Bremmerina Rose-Innes on 02.06.1880. There is some disputed over the date that he died. One source states that it was during August 1908, while another say it was in 1943. What is known is that Bremmerina was born in 1857 and died in 1930.
	13Q1	a daughter Collett	Born in 1881
	13Q2	John Alexander Collett	Born in 1882
	13Q3	Olive Mary Collett	Born on 17.12.1883
	13Q4	George Chapman Collett	Born in 1885
	13Q5	Cecil Walter Collett	Born in 1887
	13Q6	Mildred Kate Collett	Born in 1889
	13Q7	Hilda Rose Collett	Born circa 1891
13P6	Annie Letitia Collett, who was referred to as Letty, was born at Grahamstown on 29.08.1856. She married James Butler on 28.03.1882 at Cradock. James was the brother and business partner of Charles Butler who married Letty’s sister Emma Collett (below) and who together ran a company Butler Brothers from premises in Adderley Street in Cradock Town sold to them by Letty’s father John Collett.
	James and Charles were the sons of Philip John Butler and Mary Watts. James was born at Cradock on 22.07.1854. Letty was educated at Bedford and was the first of only two of the daughters of John and Mary Collett that did not stay in farming. Letty died in 1951 while her husband had died many years before on 17.06.1923.
	During their life together they had seven children and these were Mary, Ernest Collett Butler, Florence, Alice, Ada, James and Kathleen.
13P7	Herbert Joseph Collett was born at Grahamstown on 14.02.1858. He never married and during his older years he was looked after by his younger sister Jessie (below). Herbert died on 13.06.1937 aged 79 and was buried at the Fish River Cemetery.
13P8	Jessie Marion Collett was born at Grahamstown on 29.05.1860 and like her older brother Herbert with whom she lived in their old age, she never married. She died on 21.12.1946 aged 88 and was buried two days after at the Fish River Cemetery.
13P9	Mary Emma Collett, who was referred to as Emma, was born at Grahamstown on 04.02.1862. It was there at Grassridge Farm that she married Charles Butler on 14.10.1891 in a double ceremony with her sister Rosa Collett (below).
	Charles was the brother and business partner of James Butler who married Emma’s sister Letty Collett (above). He was born on 11.01.1864 at Barnstaple in Devon, England and his marriage to Letty produced five children for the couple.
	These were Harold, Alfred, Marion, Joseph and Dorothy.
	Emma was the second of only two daughters of John and Mary Collett who did not continue in the family business of farming. Instead she started a newspaper in Vryburg and later between 1927 and 1940 she was the Mayor of Cradock.
	Seven years after she ceased her mayoral duties Emma died at Cradock on 25.03.1947 aged 85 and was followed less than two years later by her husband who died at Uitenhage in Eastern Cape on 07.01.1949.
13P10	Rosie Phoebe Collett was born at Grahamstown on 22.02.1864 where she died just two weeks later on 06.03.1864.
13P11	Rosa Phoebe Collett was born at Grahamstown on 08.03.1865, and it was at Cradock where she married her cousin Joseph John Maskell on 14.10.1891. This was a double wedding with her sister Emma Collett (above) and over the following years Rosa presented Joseph with six children.
	Joseph was the eldest son of Richard John Maskell and Susanna Collett (Ref. 13O17) who was nearly ten years older than Rosa, having been born in 1856. Rosa died on 03.03.1956 at Hanover District of Eastern Cape aged 90.
	The couple’s six children were Eric, Wilfred, Eileen, Edwina, John and Kenneth.
13P12	John Owen Collett was born at Grahamstown on 12.04.1867. He married Kate Gedye on 11.01.1894, Kate having been born in 1871.
	Their marriage resulted in the birth of seven children. John lived a long and fruitful life that produced seven children before his death at Uitenhage on 17.09.1958 when he was aged 91. Kate was a widow for the next nine years until her death in 1966.
	13Q8	Kathleen Maud Owen Collett	Born in 1894
	13Q9	Hazel Mary Owen Collett	Born in 1896
	13Q10	Leslie Collett	Born in 1898
	13Q11	Elfreda Owen Collett	Born in 1900
	13Q12	Beryl Owen Collett	Born in 1903
	13Q13	Rowena Joyce Collett	Born circa 1907
	13Q14	Kathryn Owen Collett	Born in 1910
13P13	Martha Rhoda Collett was born at Grahamstown on 15.12.1868. On 08.10.1900 at Cradock she married her cousin John Hedley Collett (Ref. 13P51) the son of George Collett (Ref. 13O22) and Martha Susanna Adendorf. John was referred to as Jack by the families and had previously been married to Martha’s younger sister Agnes who died before the couple had any children of their own.
	Jack was born on 04.08.1866 and died two days after his one hundredth birthday on 06.08.1966 and was buried at Fish River Cemetery with his wife Martha who had died sixteen years earlier on 07.04.1950 aged 81.
	13Q15	Winifred Martha Collett	Born on 17.04.1902
	13Q16	Enid Hedley Collett	Born on 08.10.1903
	13Q17	Gladys Mary Collett	Born on 10.11.1905
	13Q18	Joan Marion Collett	Born on 24.02.1908
	13Q19	John Hilton Collett	Born on 18.08.1911
13P14	Agnes Collett was born at Grahamstown in 1870. Very little is known about Agnes but it is understood she married her cousin Jack Collett aka John Hedley Collett (Ref. 31P51). It is also believed that the marriage lasted only two years and bore no children for the couple before Agnes’ untimely death. Widower Jack then married Agnes’ older sister Martha (above).
13P15	Albert Henry Collett, who was referred to as Bertie, was born at Grahamstown on 03.06.1871. He married his niece Annie Van Heerden on 20.10.1897 at Cradock. She was the daughter of William Jacobus Van Heerden and Jessie Harriet Collett Trollip and the granddaughter of Rhoda Ann Collett and Joshua Trollip (Ref. 13O15), Rhoda being the sister of Albert’s father John Collett.
	Annie was born on 13.07.1878 and during their married life together she and Albert lived at Speelmanskop Farm. Annie died on 03.03.1958 followed three and a half years later by Albert who died on 19.10.1961 aged 90. Both were buried at Fish River Cemetery.
	13Q20	Dulcie Mabel Collett	Born in 1898
	13Q21	Beatrice Mary Collett	Born in 1900
	13Q22	May Harriet Collett	Born in 1903
	13Q23	Iris Miriam Collett	Born circa 1905
	13Q24	Albert Henry Collett	Born in 1907
13P16	Gervase Chancellor Collett was born at Grahamstown on 10.04.1874. He married Rowena Gedye on 09.07.1913. She was the daughter of James Banfield Gedye and Elizabeth Lillie Kirk and was very likely to be the younger sister of Kate Gedye who married Gervase’s older brother John Owen Collett (above).
	Rowena was born on 24.06.1880 and died on 05.02.1971. Gervase had died under three years before on 18.06.1968 aged 94 and both of them were buried at Fish River Cemetery.
	13Q25	Roslin Rowena Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q26	Barbara Kate Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q27	Rona Marion Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q28	Jennifer Hope Collett	Date of birth unknown
13P17	NORMAN HUGH COLLETT was born at Grahamstown on 27.01.1877. He married Gladys Isobel Hart on 28.06.1916, Gladys having been born in 1886. During their life together they owned property at Katkop where they lived with their children.
	Norman died on 04.09.1966 aged 89, while his wife died eight years later in 1974, both of them being buried at Fish River Cemetery.
	13Q29	Neville Norman Collett	Born on 30.05.1917
	13Q30	GODFREY HUGH COLLETT	Born on 11.10.1918
	13Q31	Keith Dudley Collett	Born on 21.09.1922
	13Q32	Richard John Collett	Born on 01.03.1925
	13Q33	Ethlyn Collett	Born on 06.10.1926
13P18	Dudley Templeton Collett was born at Grahamstown on 09.07.1878. He married (1) Kate Marian Jubb on 03.03.1920 at Grahamstown. Kate was born on 22.03.1880 and died on 24.01.1951, following which later that same year Dudley married (2) Alice Jubb his sister-in-law. He died ten years later on 19.10.1961 aged 83. Both Dudley and Kate were buried at Fish River Cemetery.
	13Q34	Joan Collett	Date of birth unknown
13P19	Cecil Ernest Collett was born in 1859 and he was around twelve years of age when he died in December 1871 at Legkraal in Cape Province. He was buried at Grassridge Farm in Fish River on 25.12.1871.
13P20	Charles Hedley Collett was born on 21.11.1862 and he married Amy Minnie Williams.
	13Q35	Doris Collett	Born in 1897
	13Q35	Lionel Hedley Collett	Born in 1898
	13Q37	Douglas Denham Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q38	Ernest Aubrey Collett	Born in 1903
	13Q39	Kathleen Mary Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q40	Lillian Anne Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q41	Margaret Rose Collett	Date of birth unknown
13P21	Alice Annie Alicia Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was referred to in her father’s Will as Annie Alicia but elsewhere throughout her life she was referred to as Alice.
13P22	Benjamin Shaw Collett was born on 09.12.1866 and he married Judith Plessis with whom he had two sons.
	13Q42	James William Collett	Born in 1906
	13Q43	Francis Collett	Born in 1910
13P25	William James Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Alice Maitland Geard with whom he had five children.
	13Q44	Vernon Maitland Collett	Born in 1907
	13Q45	Neville Maitland Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q46	Joan Maitland Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q47	Ernest Maitland Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q48	Ruth Maitland Collett	Date of birth unknown
13P26	Irene Mary Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Joseph Mounsey Grey. Joseph was the son of George Grey and Mary Frances Cook and he died around 1910 after the birth of the couple’s five children. Their children were Godfrey, Doris, Derrick, Phyllis and Hector.
13P27	Dora Frances Collett was born on 25.10.1863 and she married John Forbes on 30.10.1899. Dora died in 1941.
13P28	Henry Collett was born at Middelburg on 20.07.1865. It was later in his life, perhaps sometime after his older sister Irene (above) had married Joseph M Grey, that he was henceforth known as Harry Grey Collett.
	During the Anglo Boer War, while Harry was on active service he met Elizabeth Susannah Shone who was the only daughter of Mary Ann Susan Harebottle and George Clarkson Shone of Clifton in Bedford. Elizabeth was born on 20.01.1869 at Stanley Farm in Bedford and had ten brothers. Herr grandparents, like those of her husband’s, were also 1820 settlers.
	It was on 09.10.1900 that Harry and Elizabeth were married, the wedding ceremony taking place under a big apricot tree on the farm known as Highlands in the Steynsburg district; the farm belonged to two of Elizabeth's brothers.
	Fifty years later on 9th October 1950 Harry and Elizabeth celebrated their Golden Wedding. During their life together they have reared seven children, four sons and three daughters.
	One daughter Alice died at the age of twenty-one while working as a nursing at the Settlers Hospital in Grahamstown. In addition to their own children they also had sixteen grandchildren, all of whom were present at the celebration party.
	A record of their day of celebration was reported in their local newspaper, and this is reproduced as an appendix at the end of this family line. Harry lived for another six years and died at Middelburg in 1956 aged 91 and was followed by his wife who died there on 04.05.1957.
	13Q49	Mary Anna Grey Collett	Born circa 1901
	13Q50	John Grey Collett	Born in 1903
	13Q51	Alan Grey Collett	Born circa 1905
	13Q52	Wilfred Grey Collett	Born in 1907
	13Q53	Alice Grey Collett	Born in 1909
	13Q54	Ethne Grey Collett	Born in 1912
	13Q55	Victoria Grey Collett	Date of birth unknown
13P29	Edith Anna Collett was born on 04.06.1867 and died in 1910.
13P30	William Edward Collett was born on 22.04.1869. He married (1) Catherine Bremner on 17.02.1897 with whom he had four children. Whether Catherine died after the birth of their fourth child is not known, but it is known that Edward, as he was called, later married (2) Kate Perkins.
	There seemed to be a family tradition in this family to use the second Christian name in each case. Edward lived a long life and was 91 years of age when he died in 1960.
	13Q56	Robert William Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q57	Janet Mary Collett	Born in 1904
	13Q58	Donald Edward Bremner Collett	Born in 1906
	13Q59	Catherine Innes Collett	Born in 1907
13P31	Ewart James Collett was born at Wonderheuwel in Middelburg on 02.05.1871. He was a military man saw active service during the Anglo-Boer War in the years from 1899 to 1902.
	The following year he married Helen Liesching Greaves on 03.06.1903 at Tafelberg in Cape Town. Helen was the daughter of William Henry Gilfillan Greaves and Wilhelmina Johanna Southey and was born on 02.05.1880.
	He resumed his military career at the outbreak of the Great War which saw him rise to the rank of Colonel. He was later awarded the Distinguished Service Order medal for his contribution to the war effort.
	However, he was severely affected by the mustard gas used during the campaign from which he never fully recovered and which contributed towards his death at Dunblane in Eastern Cape on 07.12.1927. Helen lived the next fifty years of her life as a widow until she died at Middelburg in 1968.
	His youngest son followed in his father’s footsteps and saw military active in World War Two during which he gave his life for King and Country.
	13Q60	Evelyn Grace Ewart Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q61	Rosalie Collett	Born circa 1907
	13Q62	Georgina Pauline Ewart Collett	Born in 1910
	13Q63	Noel David Ewart Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q64	Anthony Ewart Collett	Born in 1924
13P32	Frederick Slater Collett was born in 1873 and his story is a particularly tragic one. On leaving school he became a journalist and worked for the Daily Mail reporting on events in South Africa and in particular the Boer War.
	He married Miss J Kannemeyer just around the turn of the century and shortly after they were married he left his wife to join the Corp of Scouts and served under Captain Raymond de Montmorency in the Anglo-Boer War.
	The captain had been awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery on 2^nd September 1898 during the Battle of Khartoum and his Corp of Scouts in 1900 also bore his name.
	However, it would appear that as a result of their brief time together, Frederick’s wife was with-child around the time when he was killed in action on 23.02.1900 at Schoeman’s Kop, Weltevreden Farm in Molteno, Eastern Cape. That was also the same day that Captain Montmorency was killed.
	Further tragedy was to strike the family when both mother and child died, possibly just shortly after or during the birth of the unnamed child.
	The reference to Frederick Slater Collett in the record of journalists, noted that he died at Schoeman’s Farm.
13P33	Myra Collett was born in 1875 and died in 1960.
13P34	John Wesley Cam Collett was born on 27.11.1877 and died in 1938.
13P35	Elizabeth Martha Collett, who was referred to as Bessie, was born in 1880 and married Arthur Richmond.
13P36	George Morley Collett was born in 1882 and died during that same year.
13P37	Ethel Daisy Thornhill Collett was born in 1884. She married Morien Mason and died in 1945.
13P38	Percy Collett was born in 1861. He married Mary Every who was the sister of Frederick Every who married Percy’s sister Alice Collett (below) and, from that time onwards, Percy was known as Percy Every Collett. The marriage produced three children for the couple. Percy died in 1925, following which Mary married Percy’s best friend Cyril Simpson.
	13Q65	Cyril Simpson Collett	Born in 1891
	13Q66	Edgar Every Collett	Born in 1892
	13Q67	Muriel Baden Collett	Born in 1900
13P39	Alice Emmeline Collett was born in 1864 and she married Frederick Every with whom she had seven children. It seems very likely that Frederick was the brother of Mary Every who married Alice’s brother Percy Collett (above).
	The couple’s seven children were Clarence, Nora, Ina, Harold, Eric, Mildred and Ada.
13P40	Amy Josephine Collett was born in 1865. She married William Atkinson with whom she had five children. These were Clement, Harold, Jessie, Phyllis and Leo.
13P42	Collett Langford Collett was born in 1868. He married Clara Lomax in 1903 who was the daughter of the Reverend Lomax. C L Collett died at Rockvale, in Louisvale in Northern Cape in 1960.
	13Q68	Frances Langford Collett	Born circa 1904
	13Q69	Grace Collett	Born in 1905
	13Q70	Joseph Arthur Collett	Born circa 1907
	13Q71	Francis Lomax Collett	Born in 1910
	13Q72	Wilfred Collett	Born in 1913
	13Q73	Dorothy Collett	Born in 1914
	13Q74	Cecil Collett	Born circa 1917
	13Q75	Clara Irene Collett	Born circa 1920
13P44	Ada Susannah Collett was born in 1873 at Middelburg and she married Robert Duthie with whom she had a daughter Emily Robert Duthie.
13P45	Joseph Collett was born in 1875 and died during the following year.
13P46	Mabel Winifred Collett, who was referred to as Winnie, was born in 1877. She married Clement Percival Biggs with whom she farmed land at Grapevale in Naauwpoort. Winnie died four years short of her one hundredth birthday in 1973.
	The couple’s six children were Lewellyn, Shirley, Norman, Elma, May and Rhona.
13P47	Isobel Mary Collett was born around 1880 and she married Fred Leonard with whom she had four children. These were Brian, Ellen, Cora and Neil.
13P48	Cecil Reginald Collett was born in 1883 and died in Zimbabwe.
13P49	Horatio George Collett was born at Knapsackfontein in Bedford, Eastern Cape on 13.02.1864. He married Catherine (Kate) Metcalfe Rayner with whom he had just one child before his premature death on 31.08.1897 at Daggaboersnek in Bedford.
	13Q76	Horace Rayner Collett	Born on 25.09.1895
13P50	Annie Rhoda Collett was born on 21.05.1865 and she died in 1931.
13P51	John Hedley Collett, who was referred to as Jack, was born on 04.08.1866 at Cradock. He married (1) Agnes Collett (Ref. 13P14) his cousin, but tragically it would appear that she only survived for two years after the wedding before she died, possible in childbirth.
	Jack then married Agnes’ older sister (2) Martha Rhoda Collett (Ref. 13P13) on 08.10.1900 at Cradock. Agnes and Martha were the daughters of John Collett (Ref. 13O16) whose brother George Collett (Ref. 13O22) was Jack’s father.
	Sadly there were no children arising from his first marriage and the five children from his second marriage can be found listed under Martha Rhoda Collett (Ref. 13P13).
13P52	Richard Clifford Collett was born at Cradock on 04.02.1868. It is not known whether he was ever married but there was no reference to him in his mother’s Will following her death in 1900. It must therefore be assumed that he had already passed away prior to the start of the twentieth century.
13P53	Thomas Henry Collett was born on 05.09.1869 at Eastern Cape. He married Lena Henrietta Michel on 04.11.1904 at Eastern Cape. Lena was the daughter of Johan Michel and had been born at Eastern Cape where she later died. All four their children were born at Eastern Cape.
	Thomas had followed family traditions and was a farmer with holdings at Avondale, Readsdale and Stockenstrom. At the time of his death he left this land, plus four other areas, to his four children.
	Sadly, prior to his death, his wife Lena had been suffering with mental health problems and the record of her death curiously read as follows: Lena Henrietta Michel of Stockenstrom, also known as Seymour or Mpofu, was admitted to the Mental Hospital in Queenstown on 27^th November 1930.
	This rather odd obituary may point to the fact that Lena was not the wife of Thomas Collett, particularly as an earlier family history record gave the name of his wife as Ethel Michel.
	Thomas died on 13.02.1946 aged 76 at Elvanwater in the house of his son-in-law Robert Marshall at Stutterheimaged. Ten years prior to his death Thomas made his Will at Avondale on 10^th August 1936 as witnessed by D F Kemp and E G Wilson.
	The sole executor of the Will was Thomas’ oldest son Henry Magnus Collett who finally settled the estate on 2^nd December 1947. Only one of Thomas’ three sons wanted to continue in farming and this was Thomas Kenneth who took over the holding at Avondale.
	It may be of further interest that Thomas had a life assurance policy which was left to Julius Magnus Michel, who was very likely his brother-in-law.
	13Q77	Thora Michel Collett	Born on 04.09.1905
	13Q78	Henry Magnus Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q79	Thomas Kenneth Collett	Born in 1912
	13Q80	Horatio Theo Collett	Born in 1917
13P54	Martha Selena Collett was born at Cradock on 17.04.1870 and died in 1871.
13P55	Eva Elizabeth Collett, who was also referred to as Edith, was born at Cradock on 18.01.1874. She died on 31.12.1943 aged 69.
13P56	James Christopher Collett was born at Middelburg on 02.05.1977. He married Mary Isabella Annear on 12.11.1903 at Somerset End in Eastern Cape Colony. Mary was the daughter of Samuel John Annear and Eliza Jane Webber and was born at Somerset End on 18.02.1877.
	James and his older brother Thomas Henry Collett (above) had jointly entered into a mortgage bond to purchase land called The Meadows situated at Vlakfontein in Middelburg. The bond drawn up at Cardock and Daggaboer was dated 5^th January 1901.
	James died on 28.09.1959 at Ermelo in Transvaal. It was also there that Mary died almost five years later on 01.09.1964.
	13Q81	George Clifford Annear Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q82	John Rex Annear Collett	Born on 19.07.1906
	13Q83	James Max Annear Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13Q84	Jack Annear Collett	Born on 10.12.1912
	13Q85	Mabel Edith Collett	Date of birth unknown
13P57	Norman Collett was born at Middelburg in 1879. It seems likely that he never married and that he died before the turn of the century as there was no mention of him in his mother’s Will when she died in 1900.
13Q1	An unnamed Collett daughter was born to Walter James Collett and Bremmerina Rose-Innes in 1881 but she died shortly after the birth.
13Q2	John Alexander Collett was born in 1882 and in 1909 he married Gladys Mitford Pringle Bowker who was the daughter of Duncan Campbell Bowker and Beatrice Scott Pringle. She was born in 1882. John Alexander Collett died in 1962.
	13R1	Herbert Duncan Collett	Born in 1910
	13R2	Ronald Innes Collett	Born in 1912
	13R3	Alexander Conroy Collett	Born in 1918
	13R4	Beatrice Pringle Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13R5	Sheila Gladys Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13R6	Walter John Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13R7	Peter Mitford Collett	Date of birth unknown
13Q3	Olive Mary Collett was born on 17.12.1883. She lived for almost ninety years and died on 25.08.1973 and was buried at the Fish River Cemetery.
13Q4	George Chapman Collett was born in 1885. He married Hilda Brown and died in 1967.
	13R8	Derrick George Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13R9	Amy Rayner Collett	Born in 1920
	13R10	Roger Holden Collett	Date of birth unknown
13Q5	Cecil Walter Collett was born in 1887 and was just nine years old when he died in 1896.
13Q6	Mildred Kate Collett was born in 1889. She married her ‘distant cousin’ Cyril Simpson Collett (Ref. 13Q65) who was the son of Percy Collett and Mary Every.
	The marriage produced two children for the couple, Thelma Collett and Walter Ralph Cyril Collett who are listed under Cyril Simpson Collett.
	At sometime after the birth of their two children Mildred and Cyril where divorced and Mildred later died in 1974 and was buried at the Fish River Cemetery.
13Q7	Hilda Rose Collett was born around 1891 and she married Henry Daniel with whom she had a daughter Maureen Ethne Daniel.
13Q8	Kathleen Maud Owen Collett was born in 1894. She married Michael Meyer and died in 1964.
13Q9	Hazel Mary Owen Collett was born in 1896 and she died in 1916 at the age of twenty.
13Q10	Leslie Collett was born in 1898. He married Catherine Lategan with whom he had four children. Leslie died in 1952.
	13R11	Joy Owen Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13R12	Natalie Ray Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13R13	Noel John Collett	Date of birth unknown
	13R14	Michael Owen Collett	Date of birth unknown
13Q11	Elfreda Owen Collett was born in 1900. She lived to be 86 and during her life she was married to Eric Butler Fear with whom she had four children. These were John, Cherry, Fay and Peter.
13Q12	Beryl Owen Collett was born in 1903 and died in 1974.