PART FIFTEEN

The Kenilworth Line - 1740 to 2000

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

Updated October 2009

This is the family line of Neil Collett of Kenilworth.

I first met Neil in June 1996 at the Collett Reunion at Shepton Mallet

This line has its origins in Part 1 – The Main Line starting in 1485 with Thomas Collett (Ref. 1D1) and moving forward through the years using Part 14 – The John Kyte Line to Thomas Collett (Ref. 14I5) who starts this part.

14I5	THOMAS COLLETT was born in the area of Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire. He married Mary Tombe and the union produced four children. Thomas died in 1739 and was buried in the Baptist Chapel at Bourton-on-the-Water.
	15J1	Thomas Collett		Baptised on 24.01.1724
	15J2	WILLIAM COLLETT		Born circa 1729
	15J3	Ann Collett		Born circa 1732
	15J4	Hannah Collett		Born circa 1735
15J1	Thomas Collett was baptised in 1726 at Bourton-on-the-Water. In 1744 he married Elizabeth Rebecca Gibbard who was born in 1720 and who died in 1801. Thomas was a leather dresser (currier) and later in his life he was Mayor of Coventry from 1762 to 1763. He died in 1799.
15J2	WILLIAM COLLETT was born around 1729 at Bourton-on-the-Water and married Ann of Coventry. He died before 1799.
	15K1	Ann Collett		Date of birth unknown
	15K2	William Collett		Date of birth unknown
	15K3	Sarah Collett		Date of birth unknown
	15K4	Hannah Collett		Date of birth unknown
	15K5	Oliver Collett		Date of birth unknown
	15K6	Thomas Collett		Date of birth unknown
	15K7	HENRY COLLETT		Born in 1762
	15K8	John Collett		Date of birth unknown
	15K9	Rachel Collett		Date of birth unknown
15K2	William Collett married Elizabeth Townsend of Coventry. While on holiday in England during the summer of 2009 Kaare Knutson from Norway (Ref. 24P35) discovered the grave of a William Collett and his wife Elizabeth at St Andrews Parish Church in Sandford-on-Thames near Oxford.
	The inscription on the gravestone reads as follows: William Collett died on 22 July 1815 age 54 and his wife Elisabeth Collett died 4 August 1815.
	A search of the Collett database for a William Collett born around 1760 has revealed only one William Collett to whom this might be applicable and this is the William who married Elizabeth Townsend.
15K3	Sarah Collett married Thomas Smith of Coventry.
15K4	Hannah Collett married Joseph Pettifor of Coventry.
15K6	Thomas Collett married Ann of Coventry.
15K7	HENRY COLLETT was born in 1762 at Coventry. He married (1) Esther Mann on 08.08.1785 at Wolston which is situated immediately north of Stretton-on-Dunsmore, herein after referred to as simply Stretton.
	Esther was the daughter of William Mann and Mary Browne and was baptised at Wolston on 17.05.1762. She died in 1788 the same year that their only child Esther Collett was born and died. These two events are likely to be linked.
	Following her death Henry married (2) Sarah Wells on 30.12.1794 at Stretton. Sarah was fourteen years younger than Henry and was the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Wells. She was born in 1776 and died in 1805. The next five children born into the family were the result of Henry’s second marriage to Sarah.
	Just over a year after the death of his second wife Henry married (3) Susannah Currell who was eighteen years younger. This took place at St Michael’s Church in Coventry on 19.01.1807. Susannah was born on 10.06.1780 and was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Currell.
	Over the next sixteen years Susannah presented her husband with a further eight children, the youngest being thirteen when Henry died. Henry Collett of Stretton was described as a cordwainer (a shoe maker) when he died in 1836. Susannah survived him by ten years when she died in 1846.
	15L1	Esther Collett		Born in June 1788
	15L2	Anne Collett		Born in 1795
	15L3	Elizabeth Collett		Born on 04.11.1796
	15L4	Esther Collett		Born on 15.09.1799
	15L5	Sarah Collett		Born on 16.12.1801
	15L6	HENRY COLLETT		Born on 14.12.1804
	15L7	Mary Collett		Born on 16.04.1807
	15L8	Mary Ann Collett		Born on 02.10.1808
	15L9	Thomas Collett		Born on 23.02.1810
	15L10	William Collett		Born in 1813
	15L11	Oliver Collett		Born in 1815
	15L12	Charlotte Collett		Born in 1817
	15L13	Maria Collett		Born in 1819
	15L14	John Collett		Born in 1823
15K8	John Collett married Mary Bostin at the West Orchard Baptist Chapel in Coventry.
15K9	Rachel Collett married Thomas Lea.
15L1	Esther Collett was born at Stretton during the first few days of June 1788 and was baptised there on 10.06.1788. Tragically she died only two months later on 24.08.1788 at Stretton. Her death seems inextricably linked to that of her mother Esther who also died in 1788.
15L2	Anne Collett was born in 1795 and married Joseph Carter of Coventry in 1818.
15L3	Elizabeth Collett was born at Stretton on 04.11.1796 and was baptised there on 23.01.1797. She was the daughter of Henry Collett and his second wife Sarah. Elizabeth married John Forster of Stretton in 1820. Their son Henry Forster was born in 1821
15L4	Esther Collett was born at Stretton on 15.09.1799 and it was there that she was baptised on 17.11.1799. In 1823 she married William Hayward from the village of Ladbroke south of Southam in Warwickshire. They had six children: Henry (1824); Sarah (1826); Hannah (1829); John (1830); William (1832); and Charles (1835).
15L5	Sarah Collett was born at Stretton on 16.12.1801 and ws baptised there on 07.03.1802.
15L6	HENRY COLLETT was born at Stretton on 13.09.1804 where he was baptised on 14.12.1804. Sadly he was the last child of the second marriage of Henry Collett, since his mother Sarah died when he was not yet one year old.
	He married Phoebe Tubbs at St Michael’s Church in Coventry in 1840. Phoebe was born in 1803 and died in 1876. Henry Collett was Clerk to the Parish of Stretton midway between Coventry and Rugby. He died in 1870 and was buried at Stretton.
	15M1	Emma Collett		Born in 1841
	15M2	HENRY COLLETT		Born on 04.05.1844
15L7	Mary Collett was born at Stretton on 16.04.1807. She was baptised at Stretton on 05.07.1807 when she was confirmed as the first child of the third marriage of Henry Collett and his new wife Susannah Currell of Coventry. Tragically, Mary died just over a year after she was born, when she passed away at Stretton on 03.05.1808.
15L8	Mary Ann Collett was born at Stretton on 02.10.1808, was baptised at Stretton on 04.12.1808, and died there on 09.02.1815.
15L9	Thomas Collett was born at Stretton on 23.02.1810 where he was also baptised on 13.05.1810. He lived a long life and died at the age of seventy on 15.01.1881 at Bubbenhall just west of Stretton.
	The death certificate issued by the Warwickshire sub-district of Kenilworth states he died from bronchitis and was a retired inn keeper. The informant was listed as his brother William Collett (below) who was also of Bubbenhall.
15L10	William Collett was born in 1813 at Stretton and was baptised there on 07.02.1813. He married Sarah who gave birth to his only son John.
	Sarah died in 1881 in the first quarter of that year and according to the census conducted that year, her husband William Collett was listed as born at Stretton, a widower aged 66. He was listed as head of a private house in Bubbenhall in which the only other occupant was a lodger Henry Clarke a retired ribbon manufacturer 55 years and born in Coventry. William’s occupation at that time was given as a retired inn keeper.
	The reference to inn keeper is interesting as that was the occupation of his brother Thomas Collett (above) who had died only a couple of months before the census details were recorded, and upon whose death certificate William Collett of Bubbenhall was named as the informant.
	However, at the time of William’s death on 10.11.1886 his occupation was given as shoemaker. The full death certificate issued by the Warwickshire sub-district of Rugby states that he was 70 and born at Stretton and at the time of his death he was living at the Union Workhouse in Rugby.
	The cause of death was given as senile decay and the informant was Robert Billington who was Master of the Union Workhouse in Rugby.
	15M3	John Collett		Born in 1845
15L11	Oliver Collett was born at Stretton in 1815 was baptised at Stretton on 16.04.1818 when his parents were confirmed as Henry and Susannah Collett.
	Oliver married (1) Rachel Mann in 1838 with whom he had four children. Rachel was born in 1813 and was very likely related to Esther Mann who was the first wife of Oliver’s father Henry Collett. After Rachel died in 1847 Oliver married (2) Mary Hannah with whom he had a further seven children. Oliver’s occupation was that of a butler.
	15M4	Maria Collett		Born in 1840; died in 1849
	15M5	Ann Collett		Born in 1841; died in 1847
	15M6	John Collett		Born in 1843
	15M7	Eleanor Harriet Collett		Born in 1846
	15M8	Ellen Collett		Born in 1848
	15M9	Sarah Ann Collett		Born in 1849; died in 1853
	15M10	Caroline Collett		Born in 1850
	15M11	John Oliver Collett		Born in 1851
	15M12	William Collett		Born in 1852
	15M13	Elizabeth Anne Collett		Born in 1854; died in 1855
	15M14	Sarah Ann Collett		Born in 1855; died in 1855
15L12	Charlotte Collett was born at Stretton in 1817 and was baptised there on 13.07.1817. Charlotte was around two years old when she died at Stretton on 10.05.1819.
15L13	Maria Collett was born at Stretton to Henry and Susannah Collett in 1819 just a few months after their daughter Charlotte (above) died. Maria was baptised at Stretton on 07.11.1819 and was twelve years old when she died at Stretton on 01.01.1832.
15L14	John Collett was born in 1823 at Stretton where he was baptised on 16.11.1823. John married (1) Elizabeth Ford who was born in 1818. Their marriage produced six children for the couple before Elizabeth died in 1876.
	Following the death of his wife, John married (2) Ann who was born in 1823. According to the census of 1881, John and Ann Collett were living at 35 Parliament Street in Aston, Birmingham. John was working as a cordwainer (a shoemaker) at 58, while Ann from Foleshill in Coventry was also 58.
	The 1881 Census also revealed that two of their sons, William and Thomas, were born at Coventry, while sons Oliver and Arthur were born in the village of Marton, just two miles south of Stretton. The baptism record for their deceased son Henry also gave Marton as his place of birth.
	15M15	William Henry Collett		Born in 1842
	15M16	Thomas Charles Collett		Born in 1843
	15M17	Henry Ford Collett		Born in 1849
	15M18	Oliver John Collett		Born in 1850
	15M19	Arthur Thomas Collett		Born in 1852
	15M20	Sarah Jane Collett		Born on 04.04.1855
15M1	Emma Collett was born at Stretton in 1841 and she died in 1906 at Nuneaton. On 01.01.1885 she married William Buckingham at St Martins Church in Birmingham. The marriage certificate records that she was Emma Collett spinster aged 43 of Smithfield. William Buckingham was listed as a widower and gentleman aged 60, also of Smithfield which was the wholesale market area within the city of Birmingham.
	On the certificate Emma’s father was described as Henry Collett, a parish clerk and this ties in exactly with Henry Collett (Ref 15L6). William’s father was given as Joseph Buckingham, a stocking maker, and the witnesses were Samuel Buckingham possibly William’s son or brother, and Charlotte Constable
	In 1881 William Buckingham was living at 8 Bond Gate in Nuneaton aged 60 born at Plymouth and was a chimney sweep. Living with him was his 35 years old sister Louisa Gibson a dressmaker also born at Plymouth. So from chimney sweep in 1881 he became ‘gentleman’ by January 1885 as listed on the marriage certificate.
	By the time of the Census of 1901 Emma Buckingham was listed as being aged 59 born at Stretton-on-Dunsmore, a widow living at Nuneaton with her son William Buckingham aged 16. He was an office worker at an iron mongers and was born at Nuneaton.
	There is a mystery surrounding Emma Collett in 1881 as there was no record of her any where in the UK at that time.
15M2	HENRY COLLETT was born on 04.05.1844 at Stretton. In 1870 he married Harriet Field at Rugby Registry Office. Harriet was born in 1850 at the village of Marton near Stretton and died in 1929. Henry died in 1913. The couple had fourteen children, seven of whom are listed below.
	According to the 1881 Census, Henry and Harriet were living at 2 St Johns Street in Kenilworth. With them were five of their fourteen children, all of whom were born at Kenilworth.
	Henry was listed as a labourer aged 34 and born at Stretton-on-Dunsmore. At the time of the death of their son Reginald Jack Collett at the end of 1917 Henry and Harriet Collett were living at 65 Henry Street in Kenilworth.
	By April 1911 only three of the couple’s children were still living with Henry and Harriet in Kenilworth. The census that year listed that family as Henry aged 65, His wife Harriet as 60, and sons Frank 23, Jack 17, and Ernest 16.
	15N1	William Henry Collett		Born in 1871
	15N2	Walter Joseph Collett		Born in 1872
	15N3	Emma Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1874
	15N4	George Henry Collett		Born in 1876
	15N5	Harry Collett		Born in 1878
	15N6	Charles John Collett		Born in December 1880
	15N7	Jane Anne Collett		Born in 1882
	15N8	Ada Collett		Born in 1884
	15N9	Ellen Collett		Born in 1885; died in 1886
	15N10	Frank Collett		Born in 1887
	15N11	HAROLD JAMES COLLETT		Born in 1889
	15N12	Ellen Collett		Born on 06.04.1891
	15N13	Reginald Jack Collett		Born in 1892
	15N14	Ernest Collett		Born in 1894
15M3	John Collett was born in 1845 at Ladbroke just 1 mile south of Southam. There is no record for John in the 1881 Census and it is believed within the family that he emigrated like several of his generation did. However, it has never been discovered as to which country it was that he emigrated.
15M11	John Oliver Collett was born at Coventry in 1851 and he married Emma who was also born in Coventry which was where their children were born. John was a watch maker like many members of the Collett family in Coventry in 1881 while his wife Emma was listed as a silk winder.
	Their address was stated as being 5 Cot (Cottage) at No. 16 Hertford Place in Hertford Close, Coventry St Michael.
	15N15	John Collett		Born in 1873
	15N16	Emma Collett		Born in 1876
15M15	William Henry Collett was born at Coventry in 1842. There is a baptism entry for a William Henry Collett who was baptised at St Michael’s Church in Coventry on 18.04.1842, although his parents were listed as Thomas and Jemima Collett, rather than John and Elizabeth.
	William married Harriet Hands who was born at Coventry in 1839. The couple’s three known children were also born at Coventry. Just as three of his younger brothers were, William was a watch finisher and in 1881 he was living apart from his family at 4 Theatre Yard off Smithford Street in Coventry St Michael.
	His wife and family were listed as living with Harriet’s mother 73 years old Susan Hands at 7 Charles Street in the Holy Trinity parish of Coventry. Harriet’s status was recorded as daughter and lodger and her occupation was given as ‘weaver of silk’. Her three children were listed as grandchildren to head of the household Susan Hands.
	15N17	Harriet Collett		Born in 1867
	15N18	Ada Collett		Born in 1871
	15N19	Herbert Collett		Born in 1875
15M16	Thomas Charles Collett was born at Coventry in 1843 and was baptised at St John’s Church in Coventry on 17.04.1843. Only his mother’s name, Elizabeth Collett appeared in the parish register.
	He married Rosanna who was born in 1841, also at Coventry where all of their five children were born. According to the 1881 Census Thomas was a watch maker and finisher, while his wife was a silk winder.
	Their address at that time was 5 Bond Street in the Holy Trinity district of Coventry. The couple’s eldest daughter was listed as being a ‘worsted weaver’ while their eldest son was not employed.
	15N20	Rosanna Collett		Born in 1864
	15N21	Joseph Henry Collett		Born in 1865
	15N22	Mary Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1867
	15N23	Herbert Charles Collett		Born in 1871
	15N24	Walter Collett		Born in 1875
15M17	Henry Ford Collett was born at Marton in 1849 where he was baptised on 22.10.1849. Five months later he died on 23.03.1850. He was the son of Henry Collett and Elizabeth Ford. The village of Marton lies approximately two miles south of Stretton
15M18	Oliver John Collett was born in 1850 at Marton where he was baptised on 01.12.1850. It would appear that he married Margaret sometime during the 1870s but by the time of the 1881 Census the marriage had not produced any children.
	For that year the couple were listed as living at Bishopgate Green in the parish of Holy Trinity in Coventry, where Oliver John Collett aged 30 was a watch finisher and Margaret E Collett aged 33 and of Foleshill in Coventry was a silk filler.
15M19	Arthur Thomas Collett was born in 1852 and was baptised at Marton on 02.01.1853. He married Eleanor in the mid 1870s and the marriage had produced a daughter for the couple by 1881.
	According to that year’s census, Arthur T Collett was 28 years old and was a watch finisher like his three older brothers, while his wife Eleanor was a dressmaker aged 29 who had been born at Coventry where their daughter was also born.
	15N25	Gertrude Collett		Born in 1876
15M20	Sarah Jane Collett was born at Marton on 04.04.1855 and was baptised there on 17.2.1856, and it was there also that she died on 25.02.1856 at eleven months. The parish records at Marton confirmed that she was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Collett.
15N1	William Henry Collett was born at Stretton in 1871 and died at Kenilworth in 1876.
15N2	Walter Joseph Collett was born in 1872 at Kenilworth. In 1881 he was listed as being 8 years of age. He emigrated to Manitoba in Canada in 1886 where he married Sadie Riley. Sadie was born in 1870 and died in 1944. Walter died at Vancouver in 1956.
	15O1	Arthur Edgar Collett		Born in 1903
	15O2	Constance Sarah Collett		Born in 1905
	15O3	Harriet Maime Collett		Born in 1907
15N3	Emma Elizabeth Collett was born in 1874 at Kenilworth. In 1881 she was listed as being 6 years of age and in 1899 she married Thomas Jones of Bethesda in North Wales. Emma died at Blackpool in 1965. Her husband was born in 1871 at Trefdraeth in Anglesey and died in 1938 at Kenilworth.
	15O4	Eluned Collette Jones		Born in 1900
	15O5	Eleanor Emma Collett-Jones		Born in 1902
	15O6	Ceridwen Harriet Collett-Jones		Born in 1904
	15O7	Thomas Collett-Jones		Born in 1907
15N4	George Henry Collett was born in 1876 at Kenilworth. In 1881 he was listed as being 4 years of age. George was a butler to the Heber-Percy family at Hodnet Hall in Shropshire.
	No obvious record for George has so far been found in the 1911 Census. However, it is known that in 1922 he married Mary Ellen Fox of Hodnet. Mary was born in 1899 and died in 1944, while George Henry Collett died at Hodnet twenty-five years later in 1969.
	15O8	George Henry Collett		Born in 1922
15N5	Harry Collett was born in 1878 at Kenilworth. In 1881 he was listed as being 2 years of age. He married Annie Elizabeth Barnwell at Kenilworth in 1905 and was killed in an accident at the Courtaulds Factory in Coventry in 1935. Annie was born in 1876 and died in 1960 and in her later years she lived at Earlsdon in Coventry.
	In 1911 Harry and Annie were still living in Kenilworth where their children were born. The census return for that year listed the family as Harry 33, Annie Elizabeth 34, and their two children at that time as Albert Harry Collett who was three, and one year old Elsie Doris Collett. All members of the family were confirmed as having been born at Kenilworth.
	Missing from the census was the couple’s eldest daughter Winifred, who had died when she was only two years old.
	15O9	Winifred Anne Collett		Born in 1905
	15O10	Albert Henry Collett		Born in 1907
	15O11	Elsie Doris Collett		Born in 1909
	15O12	Marjorie Gladys Collett		Born in 1913
15N6	Charles John Collett was born in December 1880 at Kenilworth. In 1881 he was listed as being just 4 months old. He was a member of the Coldstream Guards and married Florence Cross at West Bromwich in 1909.
	By the time of the April census in 1911 Charles John Collett of Kenilworth was thirty and was living at Walsall with his wife Florence who was thirty-six, and their one year old daughter Eileen Florence.
	Florence Cross was born in 1874 at Walsall and she already had a daughter when she married Charles, and this was confirmed in the census return in 1911, when Olga Alberta Hindley who was ten years old was recorded as living with the Collett family at Walsall.
	The family emigrated to Canada where he died at Port Moody in 1947. Like Charles she too died at Port Moody but ten years later in 1957.
		Olga Alberta Louise Cross-Hindley		Born in 1900
	15O13	Eileen Florence Collett		Born in 1909
15N7	Jane Anne Collett was born in 1882 at Kenilworth. In 1908 at Bradon in Canada she married Patrick Joseph Kelly of Seattle in the USA. Patrick was born in 1889 and died in 1968. They had three daughters: Alma Marguerite (1913-1977) who married Julian Ray Storey (1908-1993); Ada (1913-1999) who married Daniel Price (1911-1979); and Norah Irene (1918- ) who married Raymond Suttell (1911-1999).
15N8	Ada Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1884 and was recorded in the census of 1911 as being unmarried at the age of twenty-six.
	Four years later Ada married Ernest Letts in 1915. Ernest was born in 1886 and was killed on 09.10.1917 at Ypres. He was Private 36676 with the First Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment and was buried at Poelcapelle British Cemetery in Belgium. At the time of his death Ada was living at 35 Henry Street in Kenilworth.
	Ada Letts nee Collett died at Kenilworth in 1941.
15N10	Frank Collett was born in 1887 at Kenilworth and was still living there in April 1911 with his parents when his place of birth was confirmed in the census as having been Kenilworth and his age was recorded as being 23.
	Two years later he married Sarah Huff Simpson in 1913. Sarah was born in 1889 and was tragically killed on 07.11.1940 during a German bombing raid over Kenilworth. Sarah was 51 and was a member of the Women’s Voluntary Service and was the family home at 7 Arthur Street when the house was bombed. She was buried at the Kenilworth Urban District Council Cemetery.
	And it was at Kenilworth in 1965 that Frank Collett died.
	15O14	Frederick Charles Collett		Born in 1915
	15O15	Ivan Ernest Collett		Born in 1921
	15O16	Gwenda Marian Collett		Born in 1922
	15O17	Joyce Estelle Collett		Born in 1925
	15O18	Reginald Frank Collett		Born in 1928
15N11	HAROLD JAMES COLLETT was born on 24.02.1889 at Henry Street in Kenilworth. He was a Rover Car Company engineer and married Eveline Fanny Smith at St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth on 31.12.1917. Eveline was born on 25.05.1890 and died on 30.07.1982. Harold James Collett died ten years earlier in 1972.
	15O19	Eveline Beatrice Collett		Born on 19.05.1918
	15O20	HAROLD THOMAS COLLETT		Born on 27.04.1920
	15O21	John Henry Collett		Born on 19.09.1923
	15O22	Alan James Collett		Born on 24.08.1925
15N12	Ellen Collett was born on 06.04.1891 at Kenilworth where she died in December that same year.
15N13	Reginald Jack Collett was born in 1892 and this is confirmed by the 1901 Census in which he is referred to as simple Jack aged eight and born at Kenilworth where he was still living with his parents at the time of the census. Ten years later in April 1911 he was recorded as Jack Collett aged 17 while still living at Kenilworth with his parents.
	However, in error it seems, his military record stated that he was born around 1886.
	Reginald Collett was Private 52926 with the Eighth Battalion Royal Fusiliers and saw active service in the First World War and was killed on 24.11.1917. Below is the record of his death. As there is no mention of a widow, it must be assumed that he never married.
	Reginald Jack Collett aged 31 died on 24^th November 1917. He was the seventh son of the late Henry and Harriet Collett of 65 Henry Street in Kenilworth. He was killed during the early days of the Battle of Cambrai and his name appears on Panel 3/4 of the Cambrai Memorial at Louverval Nord in France.
	The Cambrai Memorial is situated near the village of Louverval. It commemorates the lives of 7,000 British and South African servicemen who died in the Battle of Cambrai from 20th November through to December 1917 under the command of Sir Douglas Haig.
15N14	Ernest Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1894 and was sixteen years old at the time of the census of 1911 when he was still living at the family home in Kenilworth with his parents Henry and Harriet Collett, and his two older brothers Frank and Jack.
	Ernest was in his early thirties when he married Maggie Wilson “Daisy” Philp in 1926. Maggie was born in 1898 and she died in 1973. Ernest survived for a further fourteen years before he died at Kenilworth on 25.12.1987.
	15O23	Kathleen Marguerite Collett		Born in 1926
	15O24	Peter Ernest Collett		Born in 1929
	15O25	Alison Christine Collett		Born in 1931
15N23	Herbert Charles Collett was born at Coventry in 1872 and in the mid 1890s he married Rose with whom he had three children before 1911. The census for Coventry that year listed the family as Herbert Charles Collett 38, his wife Rose 32, and their three children as Edith Rose Collett 14, Thomas Charles Collett 12, and seven years old Joseph Collett.
	15O26	Edith Rose Collett		Born in 1896
	15O27	Thomas Charles Collett		Born in 1898
	15O28	Joseph Collett		Born in 1903
15O1	Arthur Edgar Collett was born in Canada in 1903. He married Eoined Manning of Vancouver and Palm Springs in the USA. Eoined was born in 1906 and died in 1994, Arthur having died in 1982.
	15P1	Bruce Riley Collett		Born in 1933
	15P2	Daphne Catherine Collett		Born in 1940
15O2	Constance Sarah Collett was born in 1905 in Canada. She married James Baden-Powell Robertson of Montreal in 1928. James was born in 1900 and died in 1990, while Constance died in 1988.
	15P3	Andrew Michael Walter Robertson	Born in 1934
	15P4	James Collett Robertson	Born in 1940
15O3	Harriet Maime Collett was born in 1907 in Canada. In 1933 she married (1) Robert Philpott from whom she was later divorced before marrying (2) Curtis Zell of Los Angeles in the USA in 1959. Harriet died in 1993.
	15P5	Robert Philpott		Born in 1934
	15P6	Faye Philpott		Born in 1939
	15P7	John Philpott Zell		Born in 1944
15O4	Eluned Collette Jones was born in 1900. She married Henry Griffiths of Poulton-le-Fylde near Blackpool. Henry was born in 1900 and died in 1986 followed by Eluned who died in 1997. The couple had one son Peter Henry Griffiths born in 1938 who married Susan Brinkman of Letchworth in Hertfordshire in 1967.
15O5	Eleanor Emma Collett-Jones was born in 1902 and died in 1905.
15O6	Ceridwen Harriet Collett-Jones was born in 1904 and died in 1999. During her life she lived at Montevideo in Uruguay and later at Rottingdean near Brighton in Sussex.
15O7	Thomas Collett-Jones was born in 1907. He married (1) Elaine Essery Kemp in 1937 from whom he was later divorced. In 1954 he married (2) Roberta Gillies-Malins of Burnham in Buckinghamshire and Ryde on the Isle of Wight. They had one son Simon C Collett-Jones born in 1955 of Windsor in Berkshire.
15O8	George Henry Collett was born in 1922 and in 1945 he married Irene A Rudd.
	15P8	Marilyn Collett		Born in 1949
	15P9	Robert Collett		Born in 1953
	15P10	John Collett		Born in 1955
	15P11	Alan P Collett		Born in 1962
15O9	Winifred Anne Collett was born in 1906 and died in 1908.
15O10	Albert Henry Collett was born in 1908. He married Vera Frances Hensman of Birmingham in 1938. Vera was born in 1915 and died in 1978, while Albert died earlier in 1968.
15O11	Elsie Doris Collett was born in 1909. It would appear she never married and died in 1982.
15O12	Marjorie Gladys Collett was born in 1913 and in 1937 at Kenilworth she married Albert Sidney Clarke of Earlsdon in Coventry. Albert was born in 1912 and died in 2003 while Marjorie died in 1982. The couple had one son Michael John Clarke born in 1947.
15O13	Eileen Frances Collett was born in 1909. He married Arthur Eric Walker in 1935. Arthur was born in 1915 and died in 1954. Eileen died in 1997. They had one son Denis Anthony Walker born 1938 who in 1966 married Darlene De Leeuw of Cowichan Lake (formerly an Indian reserve) on Vancouver Island in Canada.
	The couple had two daughters: Deborah Jean Walker born 1967 who married Darren Mogg in 1988; and Daphne Elaine Simone Walker born 1969 who married (1) Ronald Dewar in 1991 and following a divorce (2) Harold Peter St Mary of Port Moody in 1996.
15O14	Frederick Charles Collett was born in 1915. He married Marjorie Louisa Banbrook in 1940 and they had one son born in following year. Marjorie was born in 1917 and died in 1974 and Frederick died in 1991.
	15P13	Michael Anthony Collett		Born in 1941
15O15	Ivan Ernest Collett was born in 1921 and was killed on active duty on 06.01.1944 at Syracuse in Sicily. He was Corporal PO/X489 of the Royal Marines and was buried at Syracuse War Cemetery.
15O16	Gwenda Marian Collett was born in 1922. She married Norman Leslie Barrow in 1952. Norman was born in 1927 and died in 1997, while Gwenda died five years later in 1982. The couple had two children: Sarah E Barrow born 1956 who married Nigel Adams in 1987; and Ashley D Barrow born in 1962 who, in 1991 married Jane L Heron.
15O17	Joyce Estelle Collett was born in 1925 and in 1953 she married Leslie Ernest Tebby. Leslie was born in 1926 and died in 1993. They had two children: Patricia Irene Tebby born 1956 who married (1) Martin John Jephcote in 1977 from whom she was later divorced to marry (2) John Morton of Kenilworth in 1994; and Andrew John Tebby born 1962 who married (1) Wanda Magdalene Makryzeki in 1987 whom he divorced to marry (2) Emma Holt of Kenilworth from whom he was also later divorced.
15O18	Reginald Frank Collett was born in 1928. He married Betty Hudson in 1957 and died in 1999. Betty was born in 1932.
	15P13	Martin Collett		Born in 1958
15O19	Eveline Beatrice Collett was born at Kenilworth on 19.05.1918. She married Cecil Percy Bates of Kenilworth in 1942 at St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth. Cecil was born in 1916 and died in 2006.
	They had two daughters: Linda Bates born 1945 who became a head-teacher and was married to Barry Geoffrey Truscott of Biddenham near Bedford; and Celia Bates born 1948 who was Secretary to the Bishop of Coventry who, in 1975 married William Norris Foster a solicitor of Kenilworth.
15O20	HAROLD THOMAS COLLETT was born at Kenilworth on 27.04.1920. He was a GEC Telecommunications Manager and married Vera Wills Brimfield on 27.06.1953 at St John’s Church Old Coulsdon in Surrey. Vera was born in London on 21.05.1924. Harold died on 23.09.1996 at Malborough in southern Devon.
	15P14	Deborah Collett		Born on 10.06.1954
	15P15	Graham Collett		Born on 07.01.1956
	15P16	NEIL COLLETT		Born on 03.10.1957
15O21	John Henry Collett was born on 19.09.1923 at Kenilworth. He was a hotelier and in 1950 at St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth he married Jeanne Clarissa Williams of Easton-on-the Hill which lies on the boundary between Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire just south of Stamford. She was born in 1927 and lived at some time in Estepona in Spain.
	15P17	Beverly Jane Collett		Born in 1952
	15P18	Myles John McLean Collett		Born in 1955
15O22	Alan James Collett was born in 1925 at Kenilworth. He married Pamela Cryer of Kenilworth in 1964 but they were divorced in 1972.
15O23	Kathleen Marguerite Collett was born in 1926 at Kenilworth. She married George Theo Henry Hurst in 1949 at Kenilworth. George was born in 1926 and died in 1982 and was of Kenilworth.
	They had two children: Kathryn Ann Hurst born 1950 at Kenilworth who married Colin W Edwards a local government office from Stoke Golding near Hinckley in Leicestershire; and Mark Andrew Hurst a farmer born in 1953 who in 1975 married Helen May Wealthdale a head-teacher of Kenilworth and born in 1957.
15O24	Peter Ernest Collett was born in 1929 at Kenilworth where he married Maureen Ann Firth a school teacher of Kenilworth in 1961.
15O25	Alison Christine Collett was born in 1931 at Kenilworth where she has remained and was a medical secretary.
15P1	Bruce Riley Collett was born in Canada in 1933. He married Gayle Wakeley of Victoria in British Columbia in Canada. Bruce died in 1992.
	15Q1	Lynne Collett (adopted)		Born in 1962
	15Q2	Dina Collett (adopted)		Born in 1963
	15Q3	Shannon Collett		Born in 1967
15P2	Daphne Catherine Collett was born in Canada in 1940. She married Robert Gerald Wilson of West Vancouver.
	15Q4	Laura Collett Wilson		Born in 1968
	15Q5	Andrea Catherine Wilson		Born in 1972
15P3	Andrew Michael Walter Robertson was born in Canada in 1934. He married Patricia June McDuff of Vancouver. Andrew died in 1983. They had two daughters Julie Elizabeth born in 1973 and Lesley Sarah born in 1976.
15P4	James Collett Robertson was born in 1940 in Canada. In 1970 he married Carole Bruce of Calgary who was born in 1946. They had two sons Michael Jeffrey born in 1972, who married Cathy in 1998, and Steven Matthew born in 1976.
15P5	Robert Philpott was born in 1934 in Canada. He was married twice first to Jean and then to Carole of Port Angeles in Washington in the USA. Two children came from the first marriage: Steven born 1956 who married Beth and Laurie who married Michael Reader.
15P6	Faye Philpott was born in 1939 in Canada and was married three times: (1) Richard Merrill; (2) Barry Johns; and (3) William Johns of California, USA.
15P7	John Philpott Zell was born in 1944 in Canada. He married (1) Barbara and (2) Laura Semeniute of Carmarillo in California, USA. John had two children from each marriage: John Philpott Zell and Lisa Philpott Zell from the first; and Colette Diane Zell born in 1983 and Nicholas Lee Zell born in 1986 both at Los Angeles.
15P8	Marilyn Collett was born in 1949 and in 1969 she married Clifford F Felton and was later divorced but only after producing two daughters; Patricia Marilyn born 1970 who in 1990 gave birth to Simon Phillip Felton, and Amanda Jayne born 1973 who married (1) Andrew McCann in 1995 later divorced, and (2) Scott J Shepley in 2000 which union produced a son Thomas Joshua Shepley in 2002. Marilyn died in 1998.
15P9	Robert Collett was born in 1953. In 1975 he married Carol ward of Ellington near Huntingdon.
	15Q6	Samantha Collett		Born in 1985
	15Q7	Frances Collett		Born in 1987
15P10	John Collett was born in 1955 and in 1983 he married Stella Caldecott of Market Drayton. Stella was born in 1965.
	15Q8	Laura Jane Collett		Born in 1988
	15Q9	Emma Joanne Collett		Born in 1990
15P11	Alan P Collett was born in 1962. In 1998 he married Glenis Baker Roberts of Blurton in Stoke-on-Trent.
	15Q10	Hannah Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1999
15P12	Michael Anthony Collett was born in 1941. He married (1) Dinah Hatton in 1969 from whom he was divorced and later in 1997 he married Frances A Morris of Whittlesford south of Cambridge.
	15Q11	Emma Louise Collett		Born in 1973
	15Q12	Richard Michael Collett		Born in 1976
15P13	Martin Collett was born in 1958. He married (1) Janet Scott in 1981 who he later divorced to marry in 1996 (2) Karen Kniveton of Marsden near Huddersfield.
	15Q13	Lucy Collett		Born in 1982 at Leeds
	15Q14	Samuel Collett		Born in 1984
	15Q15	Sophie Collett		Born in 1990
15P14	Deborah Collett was born on 10.06.1954 at Leamington Spa. She is a solicitor and in 1976 at St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth she married Michael Alan Todd QC of Latimer near Chesham in Buckinghamshire, he having been born in 1953.
15P15	Graham Collett was born on 07.01.1956 at Leamington Spa. He is an engineer and married (1) Mary Gravenor in 1984 but they were divorced in 1992. Mary was born in 1962. After the divorce Graham married (2) Catherine Helen Voyce of Hatton Park near Warwick in 1999. Catherine was born in 1972 and was a veterinary surgeon, but like the first marriage, this also ended in divorce in 2006.
15P16	NEIL COLLETT was born on 03.10.1957 at Kenilworth. From the 1990’s he was living at Avon Cottage in Ashow midway between Kenilworth and Leamington Spa where he works as a landscape architect.
15P17	Beverly Jane Collett was born in 1952 at Kenilworth. She became a doctor and in 1977 (1) married Doctor David Joseph Ward but was later divorced. Then in 1991 she married (2) Paul Roebuck an accountant of Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake just north of Leicester.
15P18	Myles John McLean Collett was born in 1955. In 1984 he married (1) Penny Hurd from whom he divorced to marry Doctor Rosemary Ann Hamlin-Shanks of Bessacarr near Doncaster.
	15Q16	Spencer Thomas Collett		Born in 1985
	15Q17	Benjamin John Collett		Born in 1987
15Q3	Shannon Collett was born in 1967 in Canada where she married Philip Geisbrecht of Calgary.
15Q4	Laura Collett Wilson was born in Canada in 1968, where in 1989 she married Andrew David North. The married produced a daughter Amy North born in 2000.
15Q5	Andrea Catherine Wilson was born in Canada in 1972, where in 1998 she married Alan Keith Linsley.
15Q11	Emma Louise Collett was born in 1973 and in 1998 she married Christopher James Stening. Christopher was born in 1972. They had one daughter Freyah Louise Stening born in 2002 at Huntingdon.
15Q12	Richard Michael Collett was born in 1976 and in 2003 he married Samantha A Perry.
15Q16	Spencer Thomas Collett was born in 1985 and in 2006 he was in the Light Infantry.
	Another possible Kenilworth connection is the family of the widow Jemima Collett as one of her sons was a ‘watch finisher of Coventry’. The details from the 1881 Census are as follows:
	Head of the household and an annuitant, Jemima Collett was born at Kenilworth around 1816. Living with her on the third of April in 1881 at 7 Cow Lane in Coventry St Michael were her unmarried daughters, Rebecca Collett aged 35 and dressmaker, and Ruth Collett aged 25 who was a ribbon paper box maker.
	Also living with her was her unmarried son Philip Collett aged 22 who was a watch finisher. All three children had been born at Coventry.
	For other ‘watch finishers of Coventry’ see Thomas Collett (Ref. 15M16), Oliver Collett (15M18) and Arthur Collett (15M19)