PART FOURTEEN

The John Kyte Collett Line - 1810 to 1930

This is the second of two sections of the fourteen part of the Collett family

Updated April 2009

It includes a great many references to the Colletts of Bourton-on-the-Water

and should be read in conjunction with Part 33 – The Bourton-on-the-Water Line

This line commences at Anthony Collett (Ref. 1F12) in the very first section of Part One – The Main Line.

It may be of interest to know that the surname Kyte appears at other times connected to the Collett name.

The first in the Will of Thomas Collett in 1538, the next in 1621 when Robert Collett married

Editha Kyte at Mickleton in north Gloucestershire and again in 1714 when Mary Collett

married Richard Kyte at Westcote near Stow-on-the-Wold.

The November 2007 update comes courtesy of Rita Garnett

whose great great grandmother was Ann Mary Collett (Ref. 14N35)

14M7	Thomas Shelburn Collett was born on 24.01.1811 at Upper Slaughter and was baptised at the Baptist Chapel in Bourton. He married Ann Chamberlain at Shepton Mallet. According to the 1851 Census he was Deputy Registrar to his father Robert Collett (Ref. 14L7), was born at Upper Slaughter in 1811 and married and living at Darshill, but with no wife listed.
	His wife Ann is very likely to have been 36 years old Ann Collett who was listed as a servant at the High Street house of Thomas Cook, a gun maker. Thomas Shelburn Collett died in 1861. As following family tradition his second name derived from his grandmother’s maiden name. See Ref. 14K7.
14M8	Elizabeth Kyte Collett was born on 31.08.1812 at Upper Slaughter and was baptised at the Baptist Chapel in Bourton. It was at Bourton where she married her cousin John Dalby and where their son Robert was born. Elizabeth died in 1885, her husband having died before 1881. Her second name derived from the maiden name of her mother Mary Ann Kyte (Ref. 14L7).
	In 1881 Elizabeth Dalby aged 68 and born at Upper Slaughter was living at Cheapside in Hemel Hempstead with the family of her daughter (Frances) Fanny Jane Jones and her husband Edward Jones.
	14N17	Robert Dalby	Born in 1838
	14N18	Frances Jane Dalby	Born in 1842
14M9	Emma Humphries Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 23.11.1814. She died in 1846 by which time her parents Robert and Mary Ann Collett had moved to Shepton Mallet. Her second name derived from earlier connects with the Humphries family and the fact that her mother Mary Ann Kyte was a beneficiary under the terms of the 1802 Will of Robert Humphries the uncle of Mary Humphries who married Thomas Collett (Ref. 14K9).
14M10	John Ryland Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 17.08.1816 and he died in 1834 after his parents Robert and Mary Ann Collett had moved to Shepton Mallet. His second name derived from earlier connects with the Ryland family. See Ref. 14I16.
14M11	Susan Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 02.03.1818. She married (1) Mr W Gait (2) Mr J Garrett and (3) Mr James B Mattick of Radstock in Somerset around 1860 with whom she had two sons Walter B Mattick born in 1862 and Herbert E Mattick born in 1864. It is not known if Susan had any children from her earlier marriages.
	In 1881 James and eldest son Water were listed as being grocers and drapers, while Herbert was a saddler. Susan was listed as being 62 and born in Gloucester. Living with them at Market Place in Radstock was James’ 88 years old mother Therlet Mattick of Wincanton in Somerset.
14M12	Emily Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 21.06.1821. She married (1) Henry Chamberlain and (2) George Robbins. It is very likely that Henry Chamberlain was the brother of Ann Chamberlain who married Emily’s brother Thomas Shelburn Collett (Ref. 14M7).
	Emily produced three children from her first marriage, these being: Henry John Chamberlain; Emily Ann Chamberlain; and Lucy Marianne Chamberlain who died unmarried the year before her mother.
	According to the 1881 Census Emily Robbins nee Collett aged 59 and born at Bourton-on-the-Water was living at Port Mansion in Longfleet near Poole. She was married to George Robbins aged 65 an Inland Revenue Officer born at Poole in Dorset. Emily Robbins died in 1906.
14M13	Lucy Ann Collett was born at The Mill in Bourton-on-the-Water on 27.02.1823. She was a milliner and dressmaker and lived for some years with her widowed father up to 1853 when she sailed to Australia on the ship Euphemus. On arrival at Melbourne she was engaged as a dressmaker, working for a Mr Turner at Geelong. At the start of the following year whilst at Castlemaine she met and married John Henry Foster a carpenter and builder. John was born in London in 1827 and the couple were married on 25.03.1854. Lucy Ann Foster died on 24.12.1902 at Queensland, her husband John having died two years early on 05.07.1900.
	Lucy Ann is the starting point for the family line of Brian Foster of Maryborough in Queensland, the details of which are provided in Part Sixteen – The Lucy Ann Foster Line.
14M14	Ellen Hook Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 04.10.1825 and died that same year.
14M15	Mary Anne Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 28.07.1828 and died in 1897. No record has been found to say she married but it is possible, although not yet proved, that she married Richard Collett (Ref. 3N1) of Chedworth.
	According to the 1881 Census, Richard Collett and Mary Ann were living at Middle Row, Woodman Inn in Bourton-on-the Water with three of their children.
	For the continuation of this family line see Part Three – The Chedworth Line commencing with Richard Collett (Ref. 3N1)
14M16	George Bryan Collett was born on 23.01.1812 at Bourton-on-the-Water. He married Elizabeth of Hazleton near Northleach in Gloucestershire.
	The marriage produce four children for George and Elizabeth, the first two being baptised at Lower Swell and the last two being born at Eyford just immediately south-west of Lower Swell. There may have been other children born to the couple in the years between 1854 and 1863.
	By 1871 the family was living at South Cerney near Cirencester and was recorded as follows: George aged 59 a farm labourer of Upper Slaughter; his wife Elizabeth aged 44 of Hazleton; sons George a labourer aged 16 of Lower Swell and Frederick aged 5 of Eyford; and daughter Mary aged 8 of Eyford.
	According to the 1881 Census George and Elizabeth were living at Cerney Fields in South Cerney. George was aged 69 years and now a farm bailiff, while Elizabeth was aged 54. With them were their two youngest children Mary and Frederick whose occupation was listed as a plough boy.
	14N19	Oliver Collett	Baptised on 15.07.1849
	14N20	George Collett	Baptised on 19.11.1854
	14N21	Mary Collett	Born in 1863
	14N22	Frederick Collett	Born in 1866
14M20	Mary Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in January 1798. Following the death of her father in 1818 Mary inherited a substantial sum of money upon reaching the age of 21. Tragically she died just four years later in 1823 aged 25.
14M21	Ann Collett was baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water on 11.12.1798. Following the death of her father in 1818 Ann inherited a substantial sum of money upon reaching the age of 21.
	After the tragic death of her younger married sister Elizabeth Marshall (below), Anne married her widowed brother-in-law Stephen Marshall at Bourton during August 1822 and took over the rearing of her nephew Thomas Collett Marshall, who was born around the end of 1819.
	A few years after they were married Stephen found himself in financial difficulties and was sentenced to a term in Gloucester debtors prison some time between 1828 and 1830. After his release from gaol the couple, together with Stephen’s son Thomas, moved to London.
14M22	Elizabeth Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1800. Following the death of her father in 1818 Elizabeth inherited a substantial sum of money upon reaching the age of 21.
	On 21.04.1819 she married Stephen Marshall at Bourton with whom she had a son before her premature death. This may have happened during the birth of her son or shortly thereafter.
	What is known is that Stephen Marshall married Elizabeth’s sister Anne Collett (above) at Bourton in August 1822.
	14N23	Thomas Collett Marshall	Born in 1820
14M23	Martha Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1802 and she died on 07.12.1810. She was buried in the family grave at St Lawrence’s Church Cemetery in Bourton, where she was later joined by both her parents. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
14M24	Thomas Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1805. His father died when Thomas was only thirteen years old and under the terms of his Will, and as his oldest son, Thomas inherited all of the lands and property within his father’s estate upon reaching 21 years of age.
	Five years later in 1831 Thomas married Mary Ransford who was born in 1803. By the time of the first national census in June 1841 Thomas and Mary were both aged 35 and were living at Bourton with six of their first seven children all of whom had been born there.
	These were Thomas aged 9, John 5, Ann 4, Arthur 3, Emily 2 and baby Henrietta who was not yet one year old. The missing child was the couple’s first born daughter Mary who had died in 1834.
	Ten years later Thomas and Mary were still living at Bourton. The 1851 Census recorded that 46 years old Thomas was a cattle salesman and his wife Mary was 47, both having been born at Bourton. With them were five of their children, again all born at Bourton.
	These were Arthur aged 13 and daughters Emily 11, Henrietta 9, Susan B aged 8 and Alphea James 4. Completing the household was 19 years old servant Sarah Beckley of Notgrove.
	By 1861 the family living at Bourton had reduced to just mother Mary aged 56 a farmer’s wife and daughters Emily aged 21 and Mary (Henrietta) aged 19. Her husband Thomas was not in Bourton on the day of the census and eight years later on 04.10.1869 he died and was buried at St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton.
	The headstone that marks his grave reads “In Loving Memory of Thomas Collett who died October 4^th 1869 aged 64 years”. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
	As a consequence, in the 1871 Census, Mary was described as a widow of 67 and an annuitant and living with her was her daughter Mary aged 29.
	Following the death of her husband and sometime after April 1871, the widow Mrs Mary Collett married long-term family friend John Beale. John was a widower, his wife having died prior to the census of 1871. It was John’s father who had been a trustee of the Will of Thomas Collett in 1818, the main beneficiary of which was Mary’s first husband Thomas Collett.
	However, this second marriage for Mary was fairly short lived as John Beale had died within a few years, as confirmed by the 1881 Census in which Mary Beale formerly Collett was once again a widow.
	The census recorded that retired Mary aged 77 was living at the Butcher’s Shop in the High Street at Bourton. Living with her was her 38 years old unmarried daughter Susan B Collett, also listed as retired.
	What is of further interest in the 1881 Census was that Mary’s younger brother Alfred Ransford aged 66 and his family were living next door to the Butcher’s Shop in the High Street at Bourton where Mary lived.
	Mary died at Bourton seven years later on 13.07.1888 and was buried with her first husband Thomas Collett. The gravestone that had borne his inscription (see above) then had one added for Mary. This reads “Also of Mary Beale relict of the above who died July 13^th 1888 aged 84”. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
	In early April 1871 Mary’s second husband to be John Beale was also recorded as living at Bourton-on-the-Water where he was described as being aged 66 and a widower. This confirms that he was a similar age to Mary.
	14N24	Thomas Collett	Baptised on 20.03.1832
	14N25	Mary Elizabeth Collett	Born on 28.03.1833
	14N26	John Collett	Born on 17.10.1835
	14N27	Ann Elizabeth Collett	Born on 01.01.1837
	14N28	Arthur Collett	Born in 1838
	14N29	Emily Collett	Born in 1839
	14N30	Mary Henrietta Collett	Born on 14.04.1841
	14N31	Susan Beale Collett	Born on 04.12.1842
	14N32	Esther Ransford Collett	Born in 1844
	14N33	Alphea James Collett	Born in 1846
14M25	John Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1807. Following the death of his father in 1818 John inherited a substantial sum of money upon reaching the age of 21.
	He lived at Berryfields in Bourton and he married (1) Mary Strong, the daughter of Robert Strong and Mary Hookham. The wedding took place at Batheaston in Somerset on 22.02.1837 and Mary’s father was a witness at the ceremony, with whom he had four children.
	Mary was also born at Bourton, six years after John, in 1813. The marriage produced four children for the couple but tragically, four months after the birth of their fourth children, Mary died at Bourton where she was buried on 14.05.1846 aged just 32.
	Following the death of his wife, John (2) married Mary (?) and this marriage produced another son for John in the shape of John junior.
	John’s occupations are believed to have ranged from publican to farm bailiff during his life.
	John Collett senior passed away in 1848 aged 41 perhaps even before his namesake was born, although it seems more likely that the boy was named after his late father. He left no Will, but legal letters regarding his estate and that of his father Thomas Collett (Ref. 14L11) were deposited at the Gloucester Records Office.
	One such letter written by his second wife stated that she did not wish to be burdened with her late husband’s four children from his previous marriage. This resulted in the children being placed in the care of the family and later two of them were admitted into an orphanage in Bristol.
	Sadly the bulk of John’s estate was inherited by his second wife and their son John with a maximum of thirty-five pounds being left to each of his four earlier children.
	14N34	Emma Elizabeth Collett	Baptised on 03.06.1838
	14N35	Ann Mary Collett	Born on 18.09.1841
	14N36	Robert Collett	Baptised on 22.06.1843
	14N37	Thomas Collett	Born on 08.01.1846
	14N38	John Collett	Born in 1848
14M26	Henrietta Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1811. Following the death of her father in 1818 Henrietta inherited a substantial sum of money upon reaching the age of 21.
	Henrietta married Charles J Fox who was a butcher. The couple lived in London where Henrietta died between 1851 and 1861.
14M27	Robert Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1813. Following the death of his father in 1818 Robert would have inherited a substantial sum of money upon reaching the age of 21.
	However, at the age of just 19 he died at Bourton on 09.05.1832. A headstone in the cemetery of St Lawrence’s Church at Bourton marks the grave where he was buried with his sister Emma. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
14M28	Emma Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1816. Following the death of her father in 1818 Emma stood to inherit a substantial sum of money upon reaching the age of 21.
	Tragically however, just like her brother Robert (above), Emma also failed to receive her inheritance when she died at Bourton on 24.02.1834. With her death closely following that of her brother she was buried in the same grave as him, the headstone carrying both of their names. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
14N1	William Collett was born at Abbots Morton in Worcestershire in 1828. It would appear that he married when he was in his late twenties and by 1861 William aged 32 of Abbots Morton was living at Smethwick in the Kings Norton & Harborne area with his wife Mary also aged 32, and their two daughters Ann aged 3 and Alice who was one year old.
	Both girls had been born at Smethwick where their mother had also been born and living not far away at Handsworth at that time was William’s younger sister Mary (below) and his brother John (below).
	Further children were added to the family over the next decade and all of them were born while the family was still living at Smethwick. So by 1871 the family comprised William and Mary both aged 42, and their five children Ann 13, Alice 11, Thomas 7, John 5, and three years old Arthur.
	It seems very likely that Mary and William were expecting the arrival of their next child, since later that same year a further son was born into the family. Sometime after the birth of the child the family left Smethwick and settled in nearby Harborne just south of Smethwick.
	According to the census of 1881 William and his family were living at The Baker’s Shop at 178 Oldbury Road in Harborne where William worked as the baker aged 52. Only his eldest daughter Ann had left the family home and is must be assumed that at the age of 23 that she may have been married by then.
	The remaining family members were Mary aged 52, her daughter Alice aged 21 of no stated occupation and sons Thomas 17, John 15, Arthur 13, and Frank aged 9, both of the younger boys were still attending school, and all of them confirmed as having been born locally at Smethwick.
	No record of William and Mary has so far been found in the following census records.
	14O1	Ann Collett	Born in 1857
	14O2	Alice Collett	Born in 1859
	14O3	Thomas H Collett	Born in 1863
	14O4	John Collett	Born in 1865
	14O5	Arthur Collett	Born in 1867
	14O6	Frank Collett	Born in 1871 after 2^nd April
14N2	John Collett was born at Abbots Morton in 1830 and was listed as being nine years old by June 1841 where he was living with his parents within the Alcester & Evesham registration district.
	Before his twentieth birthday he married the slightly older Sarah who was born at West Bromwich in 1827 and with whom he is known to have had a daughter. This was revealed by the 1861 census for Kings Norton & Harborne in which John was aged 30, his wife Sarah was 33, and their daughter Mary Ann was aged 11.
	No record of the family has been found in 1871 but by 1881 just John and Sarah were living near Lottie Road at Northfield in Worcester. John was aged 50 and from Abbots Morton and was working as a bricklayer’s labourer. Lodging with him and 53 years Sarah was 17 years old Henry Bull of Brierley Hill.
	John and Sarah were both listed in the Northfield censuses of 1891 and 1901 and for the latter at the age of seventy John was still listed as a bricklayer’s labourer. On this occasion Sarah aged 73 gave her place of birth as Smethwick rather than West Bromwich.
	14O7	Mary Ann Collett	Born in 1849
14N3	Thomas Collett was born at Abbots Morton in 1832. When he was in his later twenties he married Sarah Ann who was born at West Bromwich in 1832, and it was there that the couple seem to have spent their whole life together and was where their children were all born.
	During the first ten years of their marriage Sarah Ann presented Thomas with six children, so by 1871 the family was made up of Thomas and Sarah Ann both aged 38, and their children Elizabeth 10, Frederick 7, Sarah 5, Thomas 4, Mary 2, and baby Arthur who was not yet one year old.
	No further children were born to the couple and by 1881 Thomas Collett of Abbots Morton was aged 48 and his occupation was that of a master baker. At that time he was living with his wife Sarah aged 48 and their six children at 213 Spon Lane in West Bromwich.
	Only the three youngest children were still at school, while the older children were not credited with an occupation. In fact Thomas was supported by 22 years servant and baker Henry Sutton from Worcester.
	Most of the family were still together ten years later. Only eldest daughter Elizabeth was missing from the family home in 1891 and at the age of 30 it must be assumed that she was then married.
	In addition to the other children of Thomas and Sarah Ann, they was also living in that area at that time an Emma Collett aged 16, who would have been six years old in 1881.
	The 1891 family was Thomas 58, Sarah 57, Frederick 27, Sarah 25, Thomas 24, Mary 22, and Arthur aged 20 who was listed as Albert.
	The absence of Thomas from the census of 1901 suggests that he had already passed away by then leaving his widow Sarah then aged 65 living at Smethwick with some of her unmarried children.
	14O8	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1860
	14O9	Frederick Thomas Collett	Born in 1863
	14O10	Sarah Ann Collett	Born in 1865
	14O11	Thomas Collett	Born in 1866
	14O12	Mary Collett	Born in 1868
	14O13	Arthur Collett	Born in 1870
14N4	Mary M Collett was born at Abbots Morton in 1838 but by 1861 she was recorded as living and working within the West Bromwich & Handsworth registration district of the West Midlands aged 22 years. No other Collett was listed in that area at that time and no trace of her as Mary Collett has been found thereafter so it can probably be assumed that she was married not long after.
14N5	Anthony Collett was born at Abbots Morton in 1844. So far no records for him have been found in 1841, 1851 and 1861. By 1871 he was aged 26 and was living in West Bromwich. A few years later he married Eliza who was born at nearby Oldbury in 1849 with whom he had four children before 1881.
	According to that year’s census Anthony and Eliza were living at 127 Bilston Road in Wolverhampton and just like his older brothers, Anthony was also a master baker and employed one man to assist him. Eliza was 31 and their four children were Anthony aged 5, Adelaide aged 3, Emily aged 2, and one year old Lizzie. The family was supported by 15 years old Prudence Westwood of Sedgley.
	The first three children had been born while the family was living at West Bromwich, while Lizzie had been born after the move to Wolverhampton.
	A further four more children were born into the family over the next ten years so by 1891 the family living at Wolverhampton was Anthony aged 46, Eliza aged 42, with sons Anthony 15 and Enoch aged 4, and daughters Gertrude 13, Emily 12, Lizzie 11, Annie 9, Mary 8, and Fanny aged six years. Both Anthony Collett senior and junior were listed in error as Aubrey.
	By the turn of the century most members of the family were still living in Wolverhampton. Anthony of Abbots Morton was still working as a master baker aged 56, and with him was his wife Eliza aged 52 and their eight children.
	The full list was Anthony aged 25 then also working as a baker with his father, Adelaide aged 23 of no occupation, Emily aged 22 who was a dress mantle maker, Lizzie aged 21 who was a school teacher, as was Mary aged 18, Fanny who was 16 and a tailoress, and Ernest aged 14 who was a clerk at an iron works. For some reason Annie aged 19 was not listed with an occupation.
	14O14	Anthony Albert Collett	Born in 1875
	14O15	Adelaide Gertrude Collett	Born in 1877
	14O16	Emily Collett	Born in 1878
	14O17	Elizabeth (Lizzie) Collett	Born in 1879
	14O18	Anne (Annie) Collett	Born in 1881
	14O19	Mary Collett	Born in 1882
	14O20	Fanny Collett	Born in 1884
	14O21	Enoch Ernest Collett	Born in 1886
14N7	Elizabeth Collett was born at Upper Slaughter where she was baptised on 26.02.1837. In 1851 she was 14 and ten years later she was listed as being aged 24 and a needlewoman born at Upper Slaughter. At that time she was living with the family of agricultural labourer George Wilcox aged 51 and of Upper Slaughter. With her was her daughter Ann E Collett aged five months.
	14O22	Ann Elizabeth Collett		Born in November 1860
14N8	Thomas Collett was born at Upper Slaughter and was baptised there on 04.11.1838. By 1851 he was aged 12 and was living at home with his parents at Upper Slaughter.
	Ten years later and Thomas was an unmarried carpenter aged 22 and was living with his widowed father and master carpenter Thomas at his Upper Slaughter home.
	By 1881 Thomas was married and in the census record was shown as being a stainer (painter) of wood aged 48 and of Upper Slaughter living at 7 Buckingham Villas in Camberwell in London. Living with him was his wife Elizabeth aged 40 of Stow-on-the-Wold and their six children, the first two having been born at Upper Slaughter, the next at Reading, the next two at Brixton, and the last at Peckham.
	The family’s final move to Camberwell may have been influenced by Thomas’ cousin John Collett (Ref. 14N26) who moved there around the mid 1870s. It is also worth noting that another John Collett (Ref. 33O19) of Bourton-on-the-Water was also living in Camberwell in 1881. All three men were born between 1835 and 1838.
	14O23	Cecilia A E Collett		Born in 1865
	14O24	Samuel A Collett		Born in 1866
	14O25	Alice K Collett		Born in 1870
	14O26	Otto F Collett		Born in 1876
	14O27	Amos Thomas Collett		Born in 1877
	14O28	Rosella N Collett		Born in 1879
14N10	Harriett Collett was born at Upper Slaughter where she was baptised on 26.06.1842 and where in 1851 she was 9 years of age. Ten years later she was working as a housemaid aged 18 at the home of Edward Francis Witts the Rector and Justice of the Peace Rector for Upper Slaughter. Harriett was just one of eight servants serving the Rector, his wife and their only son.
	Rector Edward Francis Witts was the son of the Reverend Francis Edward Witts the author of “The Diary of a Cotswold Parson”.
14N11	Sarah Collett was born at Upper Slaughter around 1846 as confirmed by the 1851 Census in which she was aged 4 and living with her parents at Upper Slaughter. Ten years on at the age of 15, Sarah was noted in the census that year as being a carpenter like her brother Thomas and father Thomas who was a master carpenter.
14N14	Amy Collett was born at Upper Slaughter around 1850 and was aged 1 in the 1851 Census for that village. By 1861 Amy was listed in the census as being 13 and was living were her family at Upper Slaughter.
	However, a further ten years on, and Amy now aged 21 and working as a housemaid was a visitor at the Upper Slaughter home of the Rector and Justice of the Peace Edward Francis Witts. Curiously, ten years earlier Amy’s sister Harriett (above) had been in service there.
	Also living and working there as a housemaid in April 1871 with Amy Collett was 18 years old Sarah Anne Cambray the eldest daughter of Jane Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 33N13) and James Cambray.
14N15	JOHN KYTE COLLETT was born in 1836 at Shepton Mallet and his second name derived from his grandmother’s maiden name – see Ref. 14L7. He married Sarah Ann Orledge Reeves at Pilton Church near Shepton Mallet in 1869, she having been born there in 1841. The marriage certificate describes Sarah as the daughter of Thomas White Reeves, a yeoman, and John’s father as Robert Collett deceased.
	As a youth John attended the Grammar School in Charlton Road and as a teenager he was apprenticed to a linen draper in Bristol before joining his mother and sister in Cardiff where, like his mother, he too opened a grocery shop.
	In the 1881 at the time of the National Census John and Sarah Collett were visiting the home of her father Thomas White Reeves. The details of the day were as follows: Thomas White Reeves (Head of House) a widower aged 74 born at Pilton in Somerset employing two men and one boy on his 100 acre East Town farm at Pilton; unmarried daughter Julia F Orledge Reeves aged 39 also of Pilton; grandson Thomas William Reeves aged 14 of Christchurch in New Zealand; daughter Sarah Ann Orledge Collett aged 40 born at Pilton and her husband John Kyte Collett aged 45 a provisions merchant born at Shepton Mallet; and two domestic servants.
	Back at the home of John and Sarah in Cardiff was their five years old daughter Edith Collett and the details extracted from the 1881 Census record is provided under her own reference.
	John Kyte Collett died on 16.10.1933 aged 97 and had continued working right up until his death.
	Much has been written about John Kyte Collett, but he is most notably known for the establishment of Collett Park in Shepton Mallet in 1906 which was the subject of a Collett reunion in June 2006 to celebrate the centenary of the park. A photographic record of the weekend’s events can be found on this website in the folder entitled Shepton Mallet 2006. An earlier Collett reunion took place in June 1996 and a written record of this event can be found in the folder entitled Shepton Mallet 1996.
	14O29	EDITH COLLETT	Born in 1876
14N16	Ann Mary Collett was born in 1838 at Shepton Mallet. She married Baptist minister the Reverend James Cruickshank in 1868. They had two children John, born in 1869 at Canton in Cardiff and Alice, born in 1870 at Tellcarn in Devon. By the time of the 1871 Census the four of them were living with Ann’s mother Julia Collett at Canton in Cardiff. Also living with them was 25 years old carpenter Fred Speed born at Shepton Mallet, a nephew of Julia.
	According to the Census of 1881, Ann and James Cruickshank were living at Back Lane in Crewkerne on the boundary between Somerset and Dorset. James was listed as a Baptist minister aged 45 and born in Scotland, while Ann Mary was aged 43 and born at Shepton Mallet. Their children were given as: Alice Mary born in 1870; Elsie born in 1872; and James Ryland born in March 1881. See other Ryland references 14I16 and 14M8.
	Also living with them at the time of the census was Ann Mary’s mother Julia Collett aged 69 and born at Shepton Mallet, whose occupation was formerly a glover. Ann Mary died nine years later in 1900.
14N17	Robert Dalby was born at Bourton-on-the Water in 1838. He married Mary Barker of Leamington and in 1881 they were living at 87 Edward Street in Kings Norton south of Birmingham. Robert was a painter aged 43 as was his wife Mary, and living with them were their children: Robert E Dalby born in 1863; Rosina F Dalby born in 1866; Frank M Dalby born in 1868; and Alfred E Dalby born in 1873.
14N18	Frances (Fanny) Jane Dalby was born at Shepton Mallet in 1842. She married Edward John Jones of Hemel Hempstead around 1867. He was a coal merchant employing five men and a boy and was born in 1841. Fanny was confirmed in the 1881 Census as being aged 39 of Shepton Mallet. Their children were: Herbert Edward Jones born in 1868; Lillian Mary Jones born in 1870; Charles Collett Jones born in 1871; Edith F Jones born in 1873; John Edward Jones born in 1879, and all were born at Hemel Hempstead. Also living with the family was Fanny’s 68 years old mother Elizabeth Kyte Dalby.
14N19	Oliver Collett was born and baptised at Lower Swell on 15.07.1849. At sometime in his life it would seem that he worked on the railways which resulted in him moving north to live in Lancashire. While there he met and married Martha who was born at Newton Le Willows in 1852/53.
	If would further appear that their first child was born in 1880 at Liverpool. This is confirmed by the 1881 Census which lists Oliver as aged 32, and a railway engine driver of Lower Swell, his wife Martha aged 28, and daughter Gertrude aged just one year. At that time the family was living at 5 William Street in Widnes in Lancashire.
	14O30	Gertrude Collett	Born in 1880
14N20	George Collett was born and baptised at Lower Swell on 19.11.1854. Like his older brother Oliver, he too worked for the Great Western Railway and moved to Swindon where he met and married Kezia, with whom he had three children prior to 1881.
	By the time of the 1881 Census George, a railway goods guard aged 26 of Lower Swell, was living at a house in the High Street at Stratton St Margaret in Swindon. Living with him was his wife Kezia aged 24 of Wroughton near Swindon and their three children, all born at Stratton St Margaret.
	Also living with the family was a boarder Joseph Green aged 31 of Oldbury near Birmingham who was a carpenter.
	14O31	Arthur Collett	Born in 1874
	14O32	Lilley Collett	Born in 1875
	14O33	Edith Collett	Born in 1878
14N22	Frederick Collett was born at Eyford just north of Upper Slaughter in 1866. This is confirmed in the 1871 and 1881 Censuses when he was aged 5 and 15 respectively, living at Cerney Fields in South Cerney with his parents George and Elizabeth Collett. His early occupation was that of a plough boy, but he later became a carter working a farm.
	He married Minnie Midwinter at St Matthews Church in the village of Coates near Cirencester on 25.12.1897. The Parish Register recorded the event in which Frederick was described as aged 31 and a carter of South Cerney, and the son of George Collett farm bailiff.
	Minnie was born at Aldsworth in 1874 and was the daughter of agricultural labourer John Midwinter of Aldsworth and his wife Sarah of Sherborne. In 1881 Minnie was aged 6 and was living with her parents and siblings George and Rosetta at Aldsworth.
	The couple’s first child, possibly a honeymoon baby, was born during the year following their marriage while Frederick and Minnie were living at South Cerney. Shortly after the birth the family moved to Ampney Crucis where their second child was born.
	The 1901 Census for Ampney Crucis lists the family as Frederick aged 35 of Eyford a carter working on a farm, Minnie aged 26 of Aldsworth, and children Mabel aged 3 of South Cerney and Frederick aged just three months of Ampney Crucis.
	14O34	Mabel Collett	Born in 1897
	14O35	Frederick Collett	Born in December 1900
14N23	Thomas Collett Marshall was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in either late 1819 or early 1820. Shortly after he was born his mother Elizabeth Marshall nee Collett died and his father married Anne Collett his sister-in-law.
	It would appear that Thomas later married and had a son Charles Marshall born at Bourton in 1854. By 1881 Thomas was a widower aged 61 and was a hawker with his 26 years old married son Charles who was also a hawker. At that time (April 1881) the pair were staying at the Dove Inn in St James Street in Norwich, the establishment of licenced victualler John Ford of Norwich.
14N24	Thomas Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water and was baptised there on 20.03.1832. He married Ann E Walker of London in 1864 and the marriage produced twelve children, all of which were born after the family had moved to Dudley near Birmingham.
	At the time of the next census in April 1871 the family was living at Dudley where Thomas was 39, his wife Ann was 31, and their child by then were Thomas aged 5, Harriet aged 4, and Howson who was under one year old. Their missing daughter Amelia had died during the previous year.
	Seven more children were added to the family over the next ten years. So by 1881 the family living at St James Road in Dudley were described as follows. Thomas 49 was a gas manager from Bourton and his wife Ann Eliza was 41 of London, and their children were Thomas 15, Harriet 14, the twins Mary and Lillian aged 8, Eleanor 7, Edgar 5, Raymond 3 and two years old Harold Collett.
	Supporting the family were local girl Esther Rollason 23, a cook/domestic and Rachel Margaret Brookes aged 20 a nurse/domestic from Bushbury in Staffordshire.
	The family was extended by two further children after April 1881 before Thomas Collett died in 1888. Following her husband’s death Ann moved to Hastings on the south coast and it was there that she was living with some of her daughters in 1891.
	The census that year recorded that she was living in the St Mary in the Castle district of the town and that Ann was 51. The daughters who were all listed as having been born at Dudley were Harriet 24, Lillian 18, Eleanor 17, and Annie who was eight years old.
	It seems likely that Ann later moved along the coast to Worthing where she was living with just her daughter Annie in 1901.
	It may be interest that there are details of many more Colletts who were born at Dudley contained within Part 48 – The Dudley West Midlands Line, although there would appear to be no connection with this family line.
	14O36	Thomas Collett	Born in 1865
	14O37	Harriet Rose Collett	Born in 1867
	14O38	Amelia Frances Collett	Born in 1868
	14O39	Howson Collett	Born in 1870
	14O40	Mary Augusta Collett twin	Born in 1872
	14O41	Lillian Louise Collett twin	Born in 1872
	14O42	Eleanor Frances Collett	Born in 1874
	14O43	Edgar Howson Collett	Born in 1875
	14O44	Raymond Collett	Born in 1877
	14O45	Harold Collett	Born in 1879
	14O46	Annie Adelaide Collett	Born in 1881
	14O47	Annie Kathleen Collett	Born in 1882
14N25	Mary Elizabeth Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 28.03.1833 where she died the following year in 1834. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
14N26	John Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 17.10.1835. He married (1) Sarah Ann Charles in 1864 with whom he had four children, the third and fourth of which were born at Aston in Birmingham as might have been the first two.
	It seems very likely that John and his older brother Thomas both moved north to the Birmingham area as Thomas’s children where all born at Dudley.
	John’s wife Sarah was born in 1837 but tragically died seven years after they were married in 1871. Four years later John married (2) Cecilia Helen Carr in 1875 and this marriage produced a further four children for John. Cecilia was born on 02.05.1842 at Stow Market in Suffolk.
	By 1881 John and the family had moved to London. In the census that year he was listed as John Collett aged 45 of Bourton and was married to Cecilia H Collett aged 38 and born at Stow Market. Their place of resident at that time was Alleyn Park at Kingwood Lawn in Camberwell, and John’s occupation was given as that of a hop merchant.
	Listed living with their parents were William Henry Collett 11, John S Collett 10, and Cecilia D Collett 4, Bernard Collett 2, Aubrey R Collett ten months all three having been born at Camberwell.
	The house would have been a busy place as, in addition to the seven members of the family, there was also a visitor 26 years old Alice Bromley from Stoke Poges, and two servants, housemaid Elizabeth Harwood 24 of Southwark and nurse Helen Pepper 20 of Abingdon in Berkshire.
	The two oldest members of John and Sarah’s original family were missing from the family home in 1881. Emily was a boarder at The Ferns School for Girls in Islington, while Oliver was attending a grammar school in Essex. This perhaps indicates that the family was fairly well set up financially.
	It may be interesting to note that another John Collett (Ref. 33O15) who was born at Bourton in 1837 was also living nearby in Camberwell at that same time in 1881 as was a cousin Thomas Collett (Ref. 14N8). All three men were of a very similar age being born between 1835 and 1838.
	Just after the turn of the century John was aged 65 and was living with his wife Cecilia and their four youngest children at Lambeth where he was recorded as being a shop merchant. Cecilia was confirmed as being aged 58 and born at Stow Market.
	John died in 1919 and was buried at Bourton where he was joined four years later by his wife and forty-five years later by his daughter Cecilia. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
	Today a single tombstone marks the graves and carries the following inscription “In Loving Memory of John Collett son of Thomas and Mary born October 17^th 1835 died at Dorking October 12^th 1919. Also of his wife Cecilia Helen Collett born May 2^nd 1848 died April 9^th 1923. Also of their daughter Cecilia Dora Ransford Collett born November 27^th 1876 died January 28^th 1964”
	14O48	Emily Ann Collett	Born in 1866
	14O49	Oliver Charles Collett	Born in 1867
	14O50	William Henry Collett	Born in 1869
	14O51	John Sydney Collett	Born in 1870
	14O52	Cecilia Dora Ransford Collett	Born on 27.11.1876
	14O53	Bernard Collett	Born in 1878
	14O54	Aubrey Ransford Collett	Born on 21.05.1880
	14O55	Arthur Stanley Collett	Born in 1881
14N27	Ann Elizabeth Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 01.01.1837 and she died there on 26.04.1867. She was buried at St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton in the family grave alongside her three sisters, Emily Collett, Mary Henrietta Collett, and Esther Ransford Collett. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
14N28	Arthur Collett, who may have also been William Arthur Collett, was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1838. He married Miss Hobbs with whom he had three children before he died shortly after his fiftieth birthday in 1879.
	14O56	Mary Henrietta Susan Collett	Born in 1871
	14O57	Sally Ransford Collett	Born in 1874
	14O58	William Arthur Collett	Born in 1876
14N29	Emily Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1839/40 and she died there on 06.02.1866. She was buried in the cemetery of St Lawrence’s Church in the family grave with her sisters Ann Elizabeth Collett, Emily Collett and Esther Ransford Collett and a gravestone carries the names of all four girls. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
14N30	Mary Henrietta Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 14.04.1841 and she died there on 08.05.1884. She was buried in the family grave at St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton together with her three sisters, Ann Elizabeth Collett, Emily Collett, and Esther Ransford Collett. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
14N31	Susan Beale Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 04.12.1842. She never married and sometime during the 1870s she assumed the name of Susan Beale Collett following the second marriage of her mother to John Beale.
	The 1881 Census confirmed that Susan was aged 38 and that she was living with her mother at the Butcher’s Shop in Bourton where they were both listed as retired.
	Twenty years later Susan B Collett of Bourton was aged 58 and was living in the Lambeth area of London where, interestingly her nephew Aubrey R Collett was living at that time – see below.
	Susan died in 1928 and shares a tombstone with her nephew Aubrey Ransford Collett (Ref. 14O54) who died in 1936. Her inscription simply reads “Susan Beale Collett 4^th December 1842 – 31^st January 1928” (see Headstone Epitaphs)
14N32	Esther Ransford Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1844 where she died two years later in 1846. She was buried at St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton in the family grave with her three sisters, Ann Elizabeth Collett, Emily Collett, and Mary Henrietta Collett. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
14N33	Alphea James Collett, listed as a daughter in 1881, was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1846 and she died in 1903.
14N34	Emma Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water on 13.06.1838. Her mother died when Emma was eight years old followed two years later by her father, at which time Emma and her brother Robert (below) went to live with their grandfather Robert Strong at Stow-on-the-Wold.
	Unfortunately when Emma’s father died his second wife and her son inherited the majority of the estate with a legacy of just thirty-five pounds being left to Emma and her three siblings.
14N35	Ann Mary Collett was born at Aston Blank (known as Cold Aston today) on 18.09.1841. Upon the death of Ann’s mother and then her father when she was just five years and seven years of age respectively Ann Mary and her brother Thomas (below) were taken into the care of their grandmother Ann Collett nee Tilling (Ref. 14L11).
	Sadly when the children’s grandmother died only a year later in 1849, Ann and Thomas were placed in the care of the Muller School for orphans in Bristol. This happened on 1^st November 1849 and Ann stayed there until she left on 22^nd June 1861, at which time she entered into domestic service with Mrs Welch of Lewisham in London.
	Less than four years later she later married John Russell at Southwark on 27.02.1865. He was generally referred to as Philip and together they had six children born between 1865 and 1880.
	All her life Ann had doubts about when and where she was born. In 1909 she decided to try to seek confirmation by writing to the Muller School for a copy of her birth certificate. At the time of writing she was living a 13 Amberley Grove off Morland Road in East Croydon. The letter is transcribed below.
	Sir, the liberty I take in writing is to ask you if you have the certificate of my birth, if so can you send me it. I entered MT house in 1849 and left in 1861 for service. I have tried to get it from Bourton Parish but the Rector has only two of the family, he has neither mine or my brother’ Thomas who was also at the school. Yours expectantly Ann Mary Russell – maiden name Collett.
	Ann Mary died on 06.12.1921 at the age of 80 years while she was still a resident of Croydon.
	Ann Mary Collett was the great great grandmother of Rita Garnett who kindly provided the new information that has enabled this family line to be updated.
14N36	Robert Collett was baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water on 22.06.1843. Following the death of his mother when aged just 3 and his father two years after, Robert and his sister Emma Elizabeth (above) went to live with their grandfather Robert Strong at Stow-on-the-Wold. No trace of Robert has been found in the national census of 1881.
14N37	Thomas Collett was born at Burford in Oxfordshire on 08.01.1846. Thomas’s mother died when he was only four months old and she was followed two years later by his father. At that time in 1848 Thomas, together with his sister Ann (above), went to live with their grandmother Ann Collett nee Tilling, but tragically she died in 1849.
	Following the death Thomas and Ann were placed in an orphanage in Bristol that was the Muller School. The entered together on 1^st November 1849 and Thomas was the first to leave in 1860 when he went to live with his grandfather Robert Strong at Stow-on-the-Wold.
14N38	John Collett was born at Stanway in 1848 from where he was looked after by his widowed mother Mary, John’s father having died around the time of his birth. It therefore seems very likely that he was named after his late father.
14O3	Thomas H Collett was born at Smethwick in 1863 where he was living with his parents in 1871 aged 7. Around 1880 he and his family moved to Harborne where they were living at 178 Oldbury Road in April 1881. As the eldest son of baker William Collett he did not follow in his father’s footsteps like his younger brothers, but instead Thomas became a teacher.
	The 1881 Census listed his occupation as a pupil teacher at the relatively young age of just seventeen. Within the next four years he married Sophia and by 1891 Thomas was aged 27, while his wife was 28. The marriage by that time had produced two daughters for the couple.
	It is not clear what happened during the next decade but by 1901 thirty-seven years old Thomas H Collett of Smethwick was married to Beatrice M Collett also aged 37 and from Woolwich in London. It was at Deptford that the couple were then living with their four children and where Thomas was an Assistant Elementary Teacher at the London School of Business.
	Whatever happened to Sophia and her two children has not been discovered but the four children living with Thomas and Beatrice at Deptford were Thomas aged 10 and Frank aged 8 both of whom had been born at Reading, and Dorothy aged 2 and Robert aged one who were born at Lewisham.
	14P1	Elsie Mary Collett	Born in 1885
	14P2	Catherine Collett	Born in 1889
	14P3	Thomas A Collett	Born in 1891
	14P4	Frank A Collett	Born in 1893
	14P5	Dorothy M Collett	Born in 1898
	14P6	Robert C Collett	Born in 1899
14O4	John Collett was born at Smethwick in 1865 and was aged 5 in 1871 and was 15 in 1881 by which time the family had moved from Smethwick to Harborne where they were living at the Baker’s Shop at 178 Oldbury Road. John’s occupation at that time was a glass cutter.
	Twenty years later John was working as a general labourer and the 1901 Census confirmed he had been born at Smethwick where he was still living at 35 years of age.
14O5	Arthur Collett was born at Smethwick in 1867 and was listed as being aged 3 and 13 in the two census records of 1871 and 1881. For the latter he was living with his family at Harborne. He was 23 in 1891 and it would appear from the 1901 Census that he probably took over the family baker shop, since his occupation was a baker and corn flour dealer.
14O6	Frank Collett was born at Smethwick in 1871 and between him being born and 1881 the family left Smethwick and moved the short distance to 178 Oldbury Road in Harborne. Frank was then nine years old and twenty years later he was working as a baker for his older brother Arthur (above) following the death of their father, the baker William Collett.
14O9	Frederick Thomas Collett was born at West Bromwich in 1863 and followed his father into the family baker business. He was aged 7 in 1871 and 17 in 1881 while living at 213 Spon Lane in West Bromwich with his family. Ten years later he was 27 and by 1901 he was 37 by which time he was referred to as a master baker just as his father had been twenty years earlier and was still living in West Bromwich.
	It has not been determined if he was ever married.
14O10	Sarah Ann Collett was born at West Bromwich in 1865 and it would appear that she not have been married during he life. Certainly by April 1901 she was still living with her widowed mother Sarah Ann Collett and other of her unmarried siblings at Smethwick at the age of 35.
14O11	Thomas Collett was born at West Bromwich in 1866 and was aged 14 in 1881 when living at the family home in 213 Spon Lane in West Bromwich. Ten years later he was 24 and in 1901 he was 34, unmarried and still living with his widowed mother Sarah Ann Collett in Smethwick. His occupation at that time was that of a baker, like his older brother Frederick (above).
14O12	Mary Collett was born at West Bromwich in 1868and was two years of age in 1871 and 12 years old in 1881 when living at 213 Spon Lane in West Bromwich with her family. By 1891 she was 22 and by 1901 she was 32 and was living with her widowed mother and other unmarried siblings.
14O13	Arthur Collett was born at West Bromwich in 1870 and was ten years of age in 1881. At that time he was living with his master baker father and his family and later took up the same occupation. According to the census of 1901 Arthur was aged 30 and of West Bromwich and was living in Smethwick where he was described as a journeyman baker. It is not known he if ever married.
14O23	Cecilia A E Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1865 and by 1881 she was a paper gummer and envelope maker aged 15 living with her parents at 7 Buckingham Villas in Camberwell in London
14O24	Samuel A Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1866 and by 1881 he was a farrier aged 14 living with his parents at 7 Buckingham Villas in Camberwell in London
14O29	EDITH COLLETT was born at Penarth in Glamorganshire in 1876, the only children of John Kyte Collett. At the time of the 1881 Census she was aged five years and was living at 20 Romilly Crescent at Llandaff the home of her parents. However, on the actual day of the census her parents were away visiting her grandfather Thomas White Reeves at Pilton in Somerset and Edith had been left in the care of the family’s domestic housekeeper Kate Wynn.
	The only other occupant at that time was Edward Derring from America who was a clerk in a provision store. It seems very likely that Edward was visiting John Kyte Collett to set up trade links between the two businesses. This is more or less confirmed in the Kelly’s Directory of 1882, in which John’s company was given as “Collett & Co American and Canadian Importer” of 235 Bute Street in Cardiff. And by 1891 the company was trading under the name of “Collett and Isaacs” of New Street in Cardiff.
14O36	Thomas Collett was born at Dudley in 1865 and was aged 15 in 1881 living with his family at St James Road in Dudley in 1881.
14O37	Harriet Rose Collett was born at Dudley in 1867 and was 4 and 14 in 1871 and 1881 while living with her family at St James Road in Dudley. By 1891 and following the death of her family she and her mother had moved to Hastings with three of her younger sisters (below) where Harriet was 24 in 1891.
	Sometime during the 1890s Harriet made a return to the Midlands and was recorded as living in Edgbaston in Birmingham in 1901. By then she was listed as 34, born at Dudley, and working as a domestic housekeeper.
	Just after that Harriet married Mister H Herbert in 1902 although there was no record of the couple in the census of 1911.
14O38	Amelia Frances Collett was born at Dudley in 1868 and she died there two years after in 1870.
14O39	Howson Collett was born at Dudley in 1870 and he died there the following year in 1871.
14O41	Lillian Louise Collett was born at Dudley in 1872 and was one half of a set of twins. She was aged 8 in the census of 1881 when she was living at the family home in St James Road in Dudley. Following the death of her father, her mother and some of her sisters left Dudley and moved to Hastings.
	And it was there in the St Mary in the Castle district that she was living in 1891 aged 18 with her widowed mother Ann and sister Harriet (above), Eleanor and Annie (below).
	She later became a hospital nurse and moved north to Yorkshire where she was living in 1901. She was recorded in the census at Cawthorne to the west of Barnsley. She was 28 and from Dudley and her occupation was that of a domestic hospital nurse.
	Lillian Louise Collett was still a spinster in 1911 when she was 38. By then she had left Yorkshire and was living at East Preston near Little Hampton in Sussex.
14O42	Eleanor Frances Collett was born at Dudley in 1874 and was 7 in April 1881 when living at St James Road in Dudley with her family. Sometime during the 1880s her father died and her mother then took the family to Hastings.
	The 1891 Census listed Eleanor aged 17 as living within the St Mary in the Castle area of the town with her mother and three sisters. Ten years later at the age of 27, and still unmarried, Eleanor was living at Wolverton in Southampton where she was employed as a lady’s help and domestic.
14O43	Edgar Howson Collett was born at Dudley in 1875. He married (1) H L Brown in 1899 who was born in 1874 but died relatively young in 1917. This union produced two children for Edgar before in 1919 he married he wife’s sister (2) L D Brown who was born in 1880 and with whom he had a further child.
	14P7	Lillian May Collett	Born in 1900
	14P8	Lorna Eleanor Collett	Born in 1908
	14P9	Raymond Howson Collett	Born in 1920
14O44	Raymond Collett was born at Dudley in 1877 and he married Margaret Faith and the marriage produce a single daughter for the couple.
	14P10	Lillian Joan Collett	Born in 1920
14O45	Harold Collett was born at Dudley in 1879 and was two years old in April 1881. Although no trace of him has been found ten years later, it is established that his father had died when he was around ten years of age, following which his mother took his sisters to Hastings to live with her there.
	However, by 1901 Harold was 22 and was living at Eccleshall in Staffordshire where he was working as a clerk. At that same time there was another Collett family living at Eccleshall and this was the family of Mark Collett (Ref. 11O27) whose family are featured in Part 11 – The Welford-on-Avon Line.
	It is not known whether or not Harold was ever married, but it is confirmed that he died during the Great War while serving as Private 6849 with the Royal Fusiliers. Tragically he died in action on 29.04.1917 and his name appears on Bay 3 of the Arras Memorial.
	On 28^th April 1917 British and Canadian troops stormed the town of Arleux as one of the phases of the Battle of Arras which covered the period from 9^th April to 15^th May that year. It was a major assault on the German line and, whilst the Canadian troops were successful with their attack, the British troops were not so lucky and met with stiff resistance from the enemy forces.
	The Arras Memorial designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens is situated in the town of Arras and commemorates 35,000 British, South African and New Zealand servicemen who were killed between the spring of 1916 and August 1918.
14O46	Annie Adelaide Collett was born at Dudley in 1880 and she died that same year.
14O47	Annie Kathleen Collett was born at St James Road in Dudley in 1882. She was still very young when her father died in the 1880s and when her mother took her and her sisters to Hastings to live.
	And it was at St Mary in the Castle at Hasting that the family was listed in 1891 when Annie was aged eight years. Over the following years her older sisters left the family home at which point in her life her mother took her to live at Worthing.
	So by the time of the census of 1901 Annie K Collett was aged 18 and was holding the position of domestic governess, while living and working with her mother who was a domestic housekeeper.
14O48	Emily Ann Collett was born in 1866 and possibly at Stratford-on-Avon like her brother. In 1881 she was a boarder at The Ferns School for Girls in Islington which was run by school mistress Miss C Birchall aged 53.
	In 1894 she married H W Buckland with whom she had two children. The following year her brother William Henry Collett married Annie B Buckland who it must be assumed was the sister of H W Buckland.
14O49	Oliver Charles Collett was born at Stratford-on-Avon in 1867. In 1881 he was aged 13 and was living away from home being privately educated by Assistant Grammar School Master Johann H Klinke from Germany in his home at 2 Church House, Dedham in Essex.
	He later married Jessie Northway in 1894 and they had a daughter born in 1896 but who sadly died that same year.
	Oliver was a Justice of the Peace and spent time in Ceylon where he died at the relatively young age of 35 on 13.06.1902. A commemorative brass plaque in St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton-on-the-Water marks the event as follows:
	“Sacred to the Memory of Oliver Collett JP FRMS son of John Collett late of Bourton who died in Ceylon on 13^th June 1902 aged 35 years. This tablet was erected by some of his friends in Ceylon as a token of their esteem”
	14P11	Maud Margorie Collett	Born in 1896; infant death
14O50	William Henry Collett was born at Aston in Birmingham in 1869. In 1895 he married Annie B Buckland with whom he had three children only two of which survived. William died in 1927, Annie having already died in 1925.