PART THIRTEEN

The South Africa Line - 1750 to 1990

Updated January 2012

This is the family line of Philip Godfrey Collett (Ref. 13R32) of Cape Province,

and Brigid Louise Schalker nee Collett (Ref. 13R83) of Grahamstown, SA.

Philip’s line is denoted by the names in capital letters,

while Brigid’s line is denoted by the underlined names

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^nd July 1798 at Painswick. All of their children were born at Stroud.
	13N1	James Collett		Baptised on 06.03.1803 at Stroud
	13N2	William Collett		Baptised on 10.03.1805 at Stroud
	13N3	Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 12.07.1807 at Stroud
	13N4	George Collett		Baptised on 03.12.1809 at Stroud
	13N5	John Collett		Baptised on 31.01.1813 at Stroud
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 at Stroud
	13N7	Joseph Collett		Born on 15.02.1803 at Stroud
	13N8	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1806 at Stroud
	13N9	Sarah Collett		Date of birth unknown at Stroud
	13N10	Ann Collett		Date of birth unknown at Stroud
	13N11	Rhoda Collett		Date of birth unknown at Stroud
13M3	James Collett was born circa 1780. He married Priscilla Golding on 18^th June 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 at Stroud
	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 at Stroud
	13N19	Robert Collett		Baptised on 10.05.1818 at Stroud
13N1	James Collett was baptised on 6^th March 1803 at Stroud, the son of Joseph Collett and Elizabeth Ricketts, and he married (1) Harriett Simms on 25^th December 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 at Rodborough within the registration district of Cirencester, Stroud and Tetbury. The family at that time comprised James, with a rounded age of 35, and his wife Harriet aged 30, and their children Charles 14, Joseph 12, Eliza 10, William who was eight, John who was six, George who was four, Sarah who was two, and Ann who was under one year old.
	Tragedy may well have hit the family during the following year, since no record has been found for James’ wife after 1841. Therefore it is possible that she died during the months following the birth of the couple’s last child, Ann Collett, who also missing from the family in 1851. Following the death of his wife, James then married (2) Sarah from nearby Bisley, with whom he may have had two further children, unless of course they were born to James and Harriet prior to her passing. No baptism record for either child has been found to date.
	By the time of the census in 1851 James Collett, age 47, with his new wife Sarah, age 43, was once again living in Stroud. The members of his family who were still living there with him were William Collett, age 18, John Collett, age 16, George Collett, age 14, and Sarah Collett who was 12. James’ older son Joseph was 22 and was also living nearby in Stroud on that occasion, although no trace has been found of his eldest son Charles or his daughter Eliza. The three missing oldest children had been replaced by two new arrivals who were Harriet Collett, who was seven, and Samuel Collett who was four years old.
	Ten years later in 1861, James Collett was 58 year old, his wife Sarah was 52, and the only children still living with them at Stroud was his youngest daughter Harriet Collett, who was 17, and his youngest son Samuel Collett who was 14. After a further ten years, all of the children had left the family’s home within the Stroud & Rodborough registration district, leaving just James Collett, who was 68, and Sarah Collett, who was 62.
	During the 1870s James Collett died at Rodborough, so by the time of the next census in 1881, his widow Sarah was 72 and her place of birth was confirmed as Bisley. At that time she was living alone at Butter Row in Rodborough, where she was described as a housekeeper and formerly a woollen cloth worker. Her absence in the next census very likely confirms she passed away during the next few years.
	13O1	Charles Collett		Baptised on 03.06.1827 at Stroud
	13O2	Joseph Collett		Born on 08.03.1829 at Stanley End
	13O3	Eliza Collett		Born on 04.05.1831 at Stanley End
	13O4	William Collett		Baptised on 14.04.1833 at Stroud
	13O5	John Collett		Born in 1834 at Stroud
	13O6	George Collett		Baptised on 12.02.1837 at Stroud
	13O7	Sarah Collett		Baptised on 21.07.1839 at Rodborough
	13O8	Ann Collett		Born in 1841 at Rodborough
	The following are the likely children of James Collett by his second wife Sarah:
	13O9	Harriet Collett		Born in 1844 at Stroud
	13O10	Samuel Collett		Born in 1847 at Stroud
13N2	William Collett was baptised on 10^th March 1805 at Stroud, the son of Joseph Collett and Elizabeth Ricketts. He married Sybil Vines on 31^st July 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.
	However, in the census of 1871 William Collett was 76 and was still living in Stroud, although he was very likely a widower by then, since there was no record of his wife Sybil living with him at that time.
	13O11	Joseph Collett		Baptised on 31.07.1825 at Stroud
	13O12	Henry Collett		Baptised on 04.11.1827 at Stroud
	13O13	Alfred Collett		Baptised on 14.11.1830 at Stroud
	13O14	Mary Ann Collett		Baptised on 02.09.1832 at Stroud
	13O15	Enos Collett		Baptised on 16.04.1837 at Stroud
13N3	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Stroud on 12^th July 1807 and in the census of 1841 she was had a rounded age of 30 when she was living within the Stroud & Stonehouse registration district. No further record of her as Elizabeth Collett has been found after that time, which may indicate that she was married by 1851.
13N5	John Collett was born at Stroud on 31^st January 1813, the youngest child of Joseph Collett and his wife Elizabeth Rickets. By the time of the first national census John Collett was (1) married to Sarah and the marriage had produced at least one child for the couple. However, the census that year only listed John Collett with a rounded age of 25 living within the Stroud & Rodborough area, with no record of his wife and daughter who was baptised at Leonard Stanley.
	It is therefore possible that both mother and daughter died shortly after Emma was baptised. John Collett, age 38 and from Stroud, was still living alone in 1851, and by that time he was living and working in the Frampton-on-Severn area within the Wheatenhurst & Frampton registration district.
	It would appear that he married (2) Jane during the years following the census in 1851, since by 1861 he and Jane had a daughter and the family was still living in the Frampton area. John Collett from Stroud was 48, his wife Jane was 37, and their daughter Amelia Collett was five years old.
	More tragedy seems to have hit the Collett family with the death of their daughter in the early 1860s, since by 1871 it was only John and Jane who were still living in Frampton, with no trace of their daughter. John was 58 and Jane was 47. During the following decade the couple left Frampton and moved south a few miles to Wotton-under-Edge, where they were living in 1881 at a dwelling in Bradley Lane. John Collett, age 68 and from Stroud, was a non-domestic flower gardener, while his wife Jane Collett from Horsley in Gloucestershire was 57.
	13O16	Emma Collett	Baptised on 28.12.1832 at Leonard Stanley
	The child of John Collett by his second wife Jane:
	13O17	Amelia Collett	Born in 1855 at Frampton-on-Severn
13N6	JAMES LYDFORD COLLETT was born at Stroudwater in Gloucester on 14^th February 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 5^th February 1824 at Grahamstown in Eastern Cape, after she too had emigrated to South Africa. Rhoda was born at Horningsham near Frome on 21^st December 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 Lydford Collett died on 10^th August 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.
	13O18	Rhoda Ann Collett		Born on 27.12.1824
	13O19	JOHN COLLETT		Born on 27.11.1826
	13O20	Susanna Collett		Born on 13.07.1829
	13O21	Martha Collett		Born on 29.06.1831
	13O22	James Collett		Born in 1833
	13O23	William Collett		Born on 07.08.1835
	13O24	Joseph Collett		Born on 17.07.1837
	13O25	George Collett		Born on 09.04.1840
	13O26	Elizabeth Collett		Born on 08.02.1844
13N7	Joseph Collett was baptised on 15^th February 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. The only other known fact is that Joseph Collett in California on 26^th December 1875.
	13O27	Ann Collett		Born in America, date unknown
	13O28	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 3^rd July 1808. It would appear that she married William Canter and by June 1841 she and her family were living within the Stroud & Minchinhampton registration district. William Canter and his wife Susanna were both recorded with rounded ages 30 years, while their four children were Charlotte Canter 15, Sampson Canter, who was seven, Anna Canter, who was four, and baby George Canter who was one year old.
13N18	Daniel Collett was baptised at Stroud on 2^nd October 1814. It is likely, although not proved, that he married Eliza Nobbs at nearby Miserden on 26^th December 1837.
13O1	Charles Collett was baptised at Stroud on 3^rd June 1827, the eldest child of James Collett and his first wife Harriet Simms. Although baptised at Stroud, he may have been born within the Stanley End area of Stroud. In the census of 1841, Charles Collett was the oldest child still living with his family at the age of 14. However, no trace of him has been found in any later census.
13O2	Joseph Collett was born at Stanley End, Stroud on 8^th March 1829, the son of James and Harriet Collett. 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 the age of 22 when he was still living in Stroud, but not with his family.
	Sometime during the following ten years Joseph married Elizabeth and the couple were listed together in the Stroud census of 1861. Joseph was 32, while his wife Elizabeth was 33. Ten years later it would appear that it was still just Joseph, age 42, and Elizabeth who was 43, 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 4^th May 1831 and was baptised there on 29^th May 1831, the daughter of James Collett and Harriett Sims. While she was living with her parents in 1841, when she was 10 years old, she had left the family home in Stroud by 1851 and no trace of her anywhere else has been located.
13O4	William Collett was born at Stanley End and was baptised at Stroud on 14^th April 1833, and was eight years old in the June census of 1841. It was towards the end of the 1850s that William married Mary Ann, and by 1861 she had presented him with their first child. William was 26, Mary A Collett was 29, and Charles Collett was one year old. Over the next decade three more children were added to their family.
	According to the census in 1871 William Collett, age 38, and his wife Mary, who was 42, and their family were living at Randwick within the Stroud & Stonehouse registration district. Mary was listed as having been born at Stroud, where three of her children were born, with the last child being born after the family had moved to Randwick.
	On that occasion their children were recorded as Charles W Collett, aged 11, Mary J Collett, who was nine years old, Rose E Collett, who was six years old, and Sarah Collett who was just one year old. However, sometime after 1871 and before the next census of 1881 William’s wife died.
	This was confirmed by the census in 1881 in which William Collett, age 50, was a widower living with his family at Fair View in Randwick. His place of birth was given as Stanley, rather than 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. Charles Collett was 23, Maria Collett was 21, and Rose E Collett was 19.
	Just after the start of the new century, carrier William Collett was still living at Randwick when, in March 1901, he gave his age as being 70. Still living with him, and acting as his housekeeper was his youngest daughter Sarah Collett who was 30 years old.
	13P1	Charles William Collett		Born in 1858 at Stroud
	13P2	Mary F Collett		Born in 1861 at Stroud
	13P3	Rose E Collett		Born in 1864 at Stroud
	13P4	Sarah Collett		Born in 1869 at Randwick
13O5	John Collett was born at Stroud in 1834 and was six years of age in 1841 when he was living at Rodborough with his parents James and Harriet Collett. Ten years later he was still living at his parents’ home in Stroud when he was 16.
	During the middle of the next decade he married Harriet and by the time of the next census in 1861 the marriage had produced three daughters, all of them born at Stroud. The census that year listed the family as John Collett, age 26, his wife Harriet Collett, age 25, and their three children as Sarah Collett, who was four, Eliza Collett, who was two, and Martha Collett who was under one year old, who sadly died not long after the day of the census. The loss to the family was offset by the birth of a further three daughters during the 1860s.
	According to the census in 1871 John Collett was 38 rather than 36, while his wife Harriet was 35. The five children living at Stroud with then on that occasion were Sarah, age 14, Eliza age 12, Harriet, who was six, Elizabeth who was three, and Alice M Collett who was not yet one year old. Three more daughters were added to the family during the 1870s, as confirmed in the census of 1881.
	By that time the couple’s two eldest daughter had left the family home, presumably to be married as they would have been 24 and 22 respectively. The other members of family were living at Clark Court off Acre Street in Stroud, where all of them were confirmed as having been born at Stroud. John Collett, age 48, was working as a labourer, and his wife Harriet, who was 45, was employed as a chairwoman. Their daughter Hannah, age 16, was a cloth mill hand, while daughter Elizabeth, age 13, was a seamstress. The next three girls were all attending school, and they were Alice, who was ten, Mary, who was seven, and Ellen who was five. The youngest child, Lucy, was two years old.
	John Collett died sometime during the 1880s, since by 1891 the census that year recorded Harriet Collett, age 55 from Stroud, living there with her youngest daughter Lucy Collett who was 12. Living in nearby in Stroud was Harriet’s daughter Mary Collett who was 18, while daughter Alice M Collett was 20 and was living in the Rodborough area.
	Ten years later Harriet Collett, age 65, and her daughter Lucy Collett, age 22, were both working as charwomen when living in Rodborough, although they was no record of Alice who had been living ten years earlier, who was most likely married by then. The only member of the family found in 1911 was Harriet Collett, age 75, who was then living at Epsom in Surrey. By that time Harriet’s daughter Lucy, age 32, was married to Hubert Charles Berkeley, age 28, and they and their two children, Hubert George, who was two, and Frederick John, age seven months, were still living in Stroud.
	13P5	Sarah Collett		Born in 1856 at Stroud
	13P6	Eliza Collett		Born in 1858 at Stroud
	13P7	Martha Collett		Born in 1860 at Stroud
	13P8	Harriet Collett		Born in 1864 at Stroud
	13P9	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1867 at Stroud
	13P10	Alice M Collett		Born in 1870 at Stroud
	13P11	Mary Collett		Born in 1873 at Stroud
	13P12	Ellen Collett		Born in 1875 at Stroud
	13P13	Lucy Collett		Born in 1878 at Stroud
13O6	George Collett was baptised at Stroud on 12^th February 1837, the son of James and Harriet Collett. By 1841 George was four years old when he was living in Rodborough with his family, but then following the death of his mother, his father remarried and the family moved back to Stroud where George was 14 in 1851.
13O7	Sarah Collett was baptised at Rodborough on 21^st July 1839, where her parents James and Harriet were living in 1841 when Sarah was two years old. During the next couple of years her mother died and her father remarried, so by 1851 Sarah, at the age of 12, was living in Stroud with her father and her stepmother.
13O18	Rhoda Ann Collett was born on 27^th December 1824 at Bathhurst in Eastern Cape, South Africa. 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^th May 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 Ann Trollip nee Collett died on 17^th November 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^th April 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. 13P24) the son of John Collett (below).
13O19	JOHN COLLETT was born on 27^th November 1826 at Grahamstown in Eastern Cape. On 19^th July 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^nd June 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^th August 1908 aged 81, his wife having died there almost exactly two years earlier on 9^th August 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.
	13P14	Walter James Collett		Born on 25.04.1855
	13P15	Annie Letitia Collett		Born on 29.08.1856
	13P16	Herbert Joseph Collett		Born on 14.02.1858
	13P17	Jessie Marion Collett		Born on 29.05.1860
	13P18	Mary Emma Collett		Born on 04.02.1862
	13P19	Rosie Phoebe Collett		Born on 22.02.1864
	13P20	Rosa Phoebe Collett		Born on 08.03.1865
	13P21	John Owen Collett		Born on 12.04.1867
	13P22	Martha Rhoda Collett		Born on 15.12.1868
	13P23	Agnes Collett		Born in 1870
	13P24	Albert Henry Collett		Born on 03.06.1871
	13P25	Gervase Chancellor Collett		Born on 10.04.1874
	13P26	NORMAN HUGH COLLETT		Born on 27.01.1877
	13P27	Dudley Templeton Collett		Born on 09.07.1878
13O20	Susanna Collett was born at Grahamstown on 13^th July 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^th July 1889.
	It is interesting to note that Susanna’s eldest son was Joseph John Maskell and that he marriage Rosa Phoebe Collett (Ref. 13P20) 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.
13O21	Martha Collett was born at Grahamstown on 29^th June 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 5^th October 1891 aged 60 and her husband died the following year, just nine days after the anniversary of Martha’s passing, on 14^th October 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.
13O22	James Collett was born at Grove Hill in Bathurst on 15^th May 1833. He married Mary Simpson on 19^th January 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. 13O24 and 13P38 for further Collett/Simpson liaisons.
	James Collett died on 16^th December 1910 at Colletton House in Rhyneheath, Karoo in South Africa.
	13P28	Cecil Ernest Collett		Born in 1859
	13P29	Charles Hedley Collett		Born on 21.11.1862
	13P30	Alice Annie Alicia Collett		Date of birth unknown
	13P31	Benjamin Shaw Collett		Born on 09.12.1866
	13P32	Denham Godlonton Collett		Date of birth unknown
	13P33	Florence Emily Collett		Date of birth unknown
	13P34	William James Collett		Date of birth unknown
	13P35	Irene Mary Collett		Date of birth unknown
13O23	William Collett was born at Olifantsfontein in Cape Province on 7^th August 1835. William was also known as Ian and farmed land at Rietvlei near Middelburg. He married Anna Maria Cook on 10^th September 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^th May 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. William Collett died on 22^nd March 1916 just over twelve years after his wife Anna had died on 16^th October 1903.
	13P36	Dora Frances Collett		Born on 25.10.1863
	13P37	Henry Collett		Born on 20.07.1865
	13P38	Edith Anna Collett		Born on 04.06.1867
	13P39	William Edward Collett		Born on 22.04.1869
	13P40	Ewart James Collett		Born on 02.05.1871
	13P41	Frederick Slater Collett		Born in 1873
	13P42	Myra Collett		Born in 1875
	13P43	John Wesley Cam Collett		Born on 27.11.1877
	13P44	Elizabeth Martha Collett		Born in 1880
	13P45	George Morley Collett		Born in 1882
	13P46	Ethel Daisy Thornhill Collett		Born in 1884
13O24	Joseph Collett was born on 17^th July 1837 at Grahamstown where he married Emily Simpson on 4^th April 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 Collett 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^th December 1924.
	13P47	Percy Collett		Born in 1861
	13P48	Alice Emmeline Collett		Born in 1864
	13P49	Amy Josephine Collett		Born in 1865
	13P50	William Arthur Collett		Born in 1866
	13P51	Collett Langford Collett		Born in 1868
	13P52	Elizabeth Anne Collett		Born in 1870
	13P53	Ada Susannah Collett		Born in 1873
	13P54	Joseph Collett		Born in 1875
	13P55	Mabel Winifred Collett		Born in 1877
	13P56	Isobel Mary Collett		Born circa 1880
	13P57	Cecil Reginald Collett		Born in 1883
13O25	George Collett was born on 9^th April 1840 at Eastern Cape, where he died during August 1879. It was also at Eastern Cape that he married Martha Susanna Adendorf on 28^th April 1862. 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^th June 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.
	13P58	Horatio George Collett		Born on 13.02.1864
	13P59	Annie Rhoda Collett		Born on 21.05.1865
	13P60	John Hedley Collett		Born on 04.08.1866
	13P61	Richard Clifford Collett		Born on 04.02.1868
	13P62	Thomas Henry Collett		Born on 05.09.1869
	13P63	Martha Selena Collett		Born on 17.04.1870
	13P64	Eva Elizabeth Collett		Born on 18.01.1874
	13P65	James Christopher Collett		Born on 02.05.1877
	13P66	Norman Collett		Born in1879
13O26	Elizabeth Collett was born at Groensfontein in Cradock on 8^th April 1844. At the very young age of sixteen years and ten months she married Jonathon Crooks on 14^th February 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, the eldest child of William and Mary Ann Collett. He was one year old in the Stroud census of 1861, was 11 years old in the census of 1871, and was 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 but after the census day that year. 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 nine years in 1871 and 21 in 1881 and for the latter her name was written as Maria Collett.
	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 six years old and referred to as Rose C Collett in the census of 1871, whereas in 1881 she was Rose E Collett, age 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 Randwick in 1869, the youngest of the four children of William and Mary Ann Collett. Sarah was one year old in the Randwick census of 1871 when she was living there with her parents and her three siblings, but not long after that, her mother 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.
13P14	Walter James Collett was born at Grahamstown on 25^th April 1855 and it was at Cradock where he married Bremmerina Rose-Innes on 2^nd June 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
13P15	Annie Letitia Collett, who was referred to as Letty, was born at Grahamstown on 29^th August 1856. She married James Butler on 28^th March 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^nd July 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^th June 1923.
	During their life together they had seven children and these were Mary, Ernest Collett Butler, Florence, Alice, Ada, James and Kathleen.
13P16	Herbert Joseph Collett was born at Grahamstown on 14^th February 1858. He never married and during his older years he was looked after by his younger sister Jessie (below). Herbert Joseph Collett died on 13^th June 1937 aged 79 and was buried at the Fish River Cemetery.
13P17	Jessie Marion Collett was born at Grahamstown on 29^th May 1860 and like her older brother Herbert with whom she lived in their old age, she never married. So it was as Jessie Marion Collett that she died on 21^st December 1946, aged 88, following which she was buried two days after at the Fish River Cemetery.
13P18	Mary Emma Collett, who was referred to as Emma, was born at Grahamstown on 4^th February 1862. It was there at Grassridge Farm that she married Charles Butler on 14^th October 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^th January 1864 at Barnstaple in Devon, England and his marriage to Letty produced five children for the couple. They 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 Mary Emma Butler nee Collett died at Cradock on 25^th March 1947 aged 85 and was followed less than two years later by her husband who died at Uitenhage in Eastern Cape on 7^th January 1949.
13P19	Rosie Phoebe Collett was born at Grahamstown on 22^nd February 1864, the daughter of John Collett and his wife Mary Trollip. Tragically it was there also that she died just two weeks later on 6^th March 1864.
13P20	Rosa Phoebe Collett was born at Grahamstown on 8^th March 1865, and it was at Cradock where she married her cousin Joseph John Maskell on 14^th October 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. 13O20) who was nearly ten years older than Rosa, having been born in 1856. Rosa Phoebe Maskell nee Collett died on 3^rd March 1956 at Hanover District of Eastern Cape, aged 90.
	The couple’s six children were Eric Maskell, Wilfred Maskell, Eileen Maskell, Edwina Maskell, John Maskell, and Kenneth Maskell.
13P21	John Owen Collett was born at Grahamstown on 12^th April 1867, the son of John and Mary Collett. He married Kate Gedye on 11^th January 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^th September 1958 when he was 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
13P22	Martha Rhoda Collett was born at Grahamstown on 15^th September 1868. On 8^th October 1900 at Cradock she married her cousin John Hedley Collett (Ref. 13P60), the son of George Collett (Ref. 13O25) 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.
	John Hedley Collett was born on 4^th August 1866 and died two days after his one hundredth birthday on 6^th August 1966 and was buried at Fish River Cemetery with his wife Martha who had died sixteen years earlier on 7^th April 1950, at the age of 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
13P23	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).
13P24	Albert Henry Collett, who was referred to as Bertie, was born at Grahamstown on 3^rd June 1871. He married his niece Annie Van Heerden on 20^th October 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. 13O18), Rhoda being the sister of Albert’s father John Collett.
	Annie was born on 13^th July 1878 and during their married life together she and Albert lived at Speelmanskop Farm. Annie Collett nee Van Heerden died on 3^rd March 1958, and was followed three and a half years later by Albert Henry Collett who died on 19^th October 1961, aged 90. Both of them 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
13P25	Gervase Chancellor Collett was born at Grahamstown on 10^th April 1874, and he later married Rowena Gedye on 9^th July 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^th June 1880 and died on 5^th February 1971. Gervase had died under three years earlier on 18^th June 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
13P26	NORMAN HUGH COLLETT was born at Grahamstown on 27^th January 1877. He married Gladys Isobel Hart on 28^th June 1916, Gladys having been born in 1886. During their life together they owned property at Katkop where they lived with their children.
	Norman Hugh Collett died on 4^th September 1966, at the age of 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
13P27	Dudley Templeton Collett was born at Grahamstown on 9^th July 1878. He married (1) Kate Marian Jubb on 3^rd March 1920 at Grahamstown. Kate was born on 22^nd March 1880 and died on 24^th January 1951, following which, later that same year, Dudley married (2) Alice Jubb his sister-in-law. He died ten years later on 19^th October 1961 aged 83. Both Dudley and Kate were buried at Fish River Cemetery.
	13Q34	Joan Collett		Date of birth unknown
13P28	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^th December 1871.
13P29	Charles Hedley Collett was born on 21^st November 1862, the son of James Collett and his wife Mary Simpson. He later married Amy Minnie Williams with whom he had seven children.
	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
13P30	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.
13P31	Benjamin Shaw Collett was born on 9^th December 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
13P34	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
13P35	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.
13P36	Dora Frances Collett was born on 25^th October 1863 and she married John Forbes on 30^th October 1899. Dora Frances Forbes nee Collett died during 1941.
13P37	Henry Collett, who was known as Harry, was born at Middelburg on 20^th July 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^th January 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 9^th October 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. Henry Collett lived for another six years and died at Middelburg in 1956 aged 91 and was followed by his wife who died there on 4^th May 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
13P38	Edith Anna Collett was born on 04.06.1867, the daughter of William Collett and his wife Anna Marie Cook. It is not known if she ever married, but she died in 1910.
13P39	William Edward Collett was born on 22^nd April 1869. He married (1) Catherine Bremner on 17^th February 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
13P40	Ewart James Collett was born at Wonderheuwel in Middelburg on 2^nd May 1871, the son of William (Ian) Collett and his wife Anna Maria Cook. Ewart was a military man and saw active service during the Anglo-Boer War, in the years from 1899 to 1902.
	The following year he married Helen Liesching Greaves on 3^rd June 1903 at Tafelberg in Cape Town. Helen was the daughter of William Henry Gilfillan Greaves and Wilhelmina Johanna Southey and was born on 2^nd May 1880. The marriage produced five children for the couple, and all of them born at Middelburg in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa.
	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 7^th December 1927. Helen lived the next fifty years of her as a widow, up 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		Born on 20.01.1905 at Middelburg
	13Q61	Rosalie Collett		Born on 28.09.1908 at Middelburg
	13Q62	Georgina Pauline Ewart Collett		Born on 24.11.1910 at Middelburg
	13Q63	Noel David Ewart Collett		Born on 25.12.1914 at Middelburg
	13Q64	Anthony Ewart Collett		Born on 16.03.1924 at Dunblane, Midd.
13P41	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^rd February 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.
13P42	Myra Collett was born in 1875, the daughter of William Collett and his wife Anna Marie Cook, and she died in 1960.
13P43	John Wesley Cam Collett was born on 27^th November 1877, the son William and Anna Marie Collett, and he died in 1938.
13P44	Elizabeth Martha Collett, who was referred to as Bessie, was born in 1880 and married Arthur Richmond.
13P45	George Morley Collett was born in 1882 and died during that same year.
13P46	Ethel Daisy Thornhill Collett was born in 1884. She married Morien Mason and died in 1945.
13P47	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 Collett 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
13P48	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 Every, Nora Every, Ina Every, Harold Every, Eric Every, Mildred Every, and Ada Every.
13P49	Amy Josephine Collett was born in 1865. She married William Atkinson with whom she had five children. They were Clement Atkinson, Harold Atkinson, Jessie Atkinson, Phyllis Atkinson, and Leo Atkinson.
13P51	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
13P53	Ada Susannah Collett was born in 1873 at Middelburg and she married Robert Duthie with whom she had a daughter Emily Robert Duthie.
13P54	Joseph Collett was born in 1875 and died during the following year.
13P55	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 Biggs, Shirley Biggs, Norman Biggs, Elma Biggs, May Biggs, and Rhona Biggs.
13P56	Isobel Mary Collett was born around 1880 and she married Fred Leonard with whom she had four children. They were Brian Leonard, Ellen Leonard, Cora Leonard, and Neil Leonard.
13P57	Cecil Reginald Collett was born in 1883 and died in Zimbabwe.
13P58	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^st August 1897 at Daggaboersnek in Bedford.
	13Q76	Horace Rayner Collett		Born on 25.09.1895
13P59	Annie Rhoda Collett was born on 21^st May 1865, the eldest daughter of George Collett and his wife Martha Susanna Adendorf. Annie died in 1931.
13P60	John Hedley Collett, who was referred to as Jack, was born on 4^th August 1866 at Cradock. He married (1) Agnes Collett (Ref. 13P23) 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. 13P22) on 08.10.1900 at Cradock. Agnes and Martha were the daughters of John Collett (Ref. 13O19) whose brother George Collett (Ref. 13O25) 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. 13P22).
13P61	Richard Clifford Collett was born at Cradock on 4^th February 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.
13P62	Thomas Henry Collett was born at Eastern Cape on 5^th September 1869. And it was also at Eastern Cape that he married Lena Henrietta Michel on 4^th November 1904. 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 Henry Collett died on 13^th February 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 Michel Collett		Born on 27.03.1908
	13Q79	Thomas Kenneth Collett		Born in 1912
	13Q80	Horatio Theo Collett		Born in 1917
13P63	Martha Selena Collett was born at Cradock on 17^th April 1870 and died in 1871.
13P64	Eva Elizabeth Collett, who was also referred to as Edith, was born at Cradock on 18^th January 1874. She died on 31^st December 1943 aged 69.
13P65	James Christopher Collett was born at Middelburg on 2^nd May 1977. He married Mary Isabella Annear on 12^th November 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^th February 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 Christopher Collett died on 28^th September 1959 at Ermelo in Transvaal. It was also there that Mary Isabella Collett nee Annear died almost five years later on 1^st September 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
13P66	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.
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