PART EIGHTEEN

The Main Suffolk Line - 1775 to 1820

This is the second of three sections of the eighteenth part of the Collett family

Updated January 2010

18M35	William Collett was baptised at Wilby on 05.06.1775 where he married Dinah Lockwood on 23.12.1798. Dinah was baptised on 04.08.1776 at Wilby the daughter of Evans Lockwood and Jemima Rumsey and sister to Evans Lockwood who married William’s sister Ann Collett (below). William died before 1852 and Dinah in 1855. All of their children were born and baptised at Wilby.
	18N24			Jemima Collett		Born in 1799
	18N25			Dinah Collett		Born in 1800
	18N26			Mary Ann Collett		Born in 1802
	18N27			Dinah Collett		Born in 1804
	18N28			Jemima Collett		Baptised on 04.01.1807
	18N29			William Collett		Baptised on 14.05.1809
	18N30			John Collett		Baptised on 30.01.1814
	18N31			James Collett		Born on 30.08.1817
18M36	Ann Collett was baptised on 30.03.1777 at Wilby where she married Evans Lockwood on 09.11.1801. He was the brother of Dinah Lockwood who married Ann’s brother William Collett (above) and the son of Evans Lockwood and Jemima Rumsey. He was baptised at Wilby on 16.10.1763. Both Ann and Evans were buried at Wilby, Ann on 26.05.1842 and Evans on 07.05.1844.
	18N32			Hezekiah Lockwood - see Ref. 18N33				Born in 1806
18M38	JOHN COLLETT was baptised at Wilby on 26.01.1783. He was a tailor in Brundish and he married Susan Watling on 15.09.1803 at Tannington near Framlingham. Susan was born in 1769 and was the daughter of George Watling and Susan Jessop.
	Susan was buried at Wilby on 05.08.1838 eighteen years before John who was buried there on 30.04.1856. All of their children were born and baptised at Wilby except eldest daughter Ann Collett who was born at Wetheringsett.
	18N33			Ann Collett		Baptised on 24.06.1804
	18N34			ROBERT COLLETT		Baptised on 23.03.1806
	18N35			Harriet Collett		Baptised on 14.02.1808
	18N36			Frances Collett		Baptised on 24.06.1810
	18N37			Charity Collett		Baptised on 21.06.1813
	18N38			Susan Collett		Baptised on 21.06.1813
	18N39			Hannah Collett		Baptised on 16.07.1815
18N1	Anthony Collett was born in 1770. He attended University College at Oxford where he matriculated on 13^th February 1787 and where he was confirmed as the eldest son of Anthony Collett of Walton in Suffolk. It was there that he gained a BA on 17^th December 1790 and a little later his MA on 28^th June 1793. He was presented by Lord Huntingfield in 1800 and to Heveningham in Suffolk by the Lord Chancellor in 1803, the latter making him the Rector of Heveningham.
	He married Anne Rachel Curtis before the turn of the century and was later the incumbent at Heveningham Hall. In 1813 Anthony paid out £420 for a modest two-up-two-down house in Ubbeston, about one mile from Heveningham, that was built in 1776 by Robert Baldry.
	This house later became The Old Rectory and is still in existence today with a stone sill that records the year built and Baldry’s initials. Baldry died in 1806 but not before he had rebuilt Heveningham Hall which was vacated by Anthony in 1813.
	Anthony Collett was a wealthy man owning 600 acres of land and a year after buying the modest two-up-two-down property he extended the building at the eastern end to accommodate his growing family. The family remained living in the house until 1826 when it was passed to eldest son Anthony (below).
	At this time it would appear that Anthony senior and his wife Anne left Ubbeston and moved the ten miles east to Aldringham near Leiston.
	Their son Anthony did not stay long living in the house, but moved to Bury St Edmunds at which time the house was leased to local farmer Simon Smyth and his wife Phoebe and their two teenage children. By 1841 the house had been further extended at the back to accommodate two live-in servants.
	Three years prior to this date Anthony Collett senior had died in 1838. An article in the Gentleman’s Magazine reported his death as follows: February 27^th at Leamington aged 67, the Reverend Anthony Collett of Kelsale House in Suffolk, an acting magistrate of that county, Rector of Heveningham and perpetual curate of Aldringham-with-Thorpe(ness) and Great Linsted.
	Anthony’s Will was proved on 22.05.1838 and was listed as the Will of ‘Reverend Anthony Collett, Rector, Clerk of Heveningham in Suffolk’.
	Anne his widow lived on for a further eleven years before she died in 1849. Her Will was proved on 02.05.1849 and was recorded as the Will of ‘Anne Rachel Collett widow of Heveningham’.
	18O1			Anthony Collett		Born in 1800
	18O2			Catherine Charlotte Collett		Date of birth unknown
	18O3			Anne Collett		Born circa 1805
	18O4			William Collett		Died in 1821 - child death
18N2	Thomas Collett was born around 1772. He married Margaret Bushell and was known as Thomas of Ringleton (in Kent) and lived at Woodnesborough near Sandwich in Kent where he died in 1845 aged 73. His wife died in 1838.
	18O5			Mary Collett				Date of birth unknown
	18O6			Thomas Collett				Born in 1805
	18O7			George Collett				Born in 1806
	18O8			Margaret Collett				Born in 1808
	18O9			Catherine Collett				Born on 23.09.1810
18N3	Catherine Collett, whose exact date of birth is not known but is likely to have been around 1774, married H Pett Hannam of Northbourne near Deal in Kent. Catherine died in 1854.
	18O10	Harriet Pett Hannam – see Ref. 18O1			Date of birth unknown, possibly circa 1802
18N4	Charles Collett was born around 1776 and he married (1) Mary Lynch with whom he had five children before she died. Charles later married (2) Elizabeth Harmsworth. The first five children listed below came from his first marriage, with just son William being a product of the second marriage.
	It seems likely that all of Charles’ children may have been born at Walton in Felixstowe, although in June 1841 the family was living at Woodbridge near Ipswich. The census at that time recorded Charles as being aged 65 and Elizabeth his wife as 60.
	Living with the couple were three of their unmarried children, sons James aged 30 and William aged 20, and daughter Elizabeth aged 25. All adult ages in this first full national census were stated at 5 and 10 years intervals only.
	Charles’ younger brother Cornelius Collett (below) had died during the months prior to the 1841 and this may have been why his youngest son Trusson Collett was staying with Charles and Elizabeth at Woodbridge.
	Charles died at Woodbridge on 16.08.1842 aged 66 and was referred to as Charles Collett of Walton.
	18O11		Mary Collett				Date of birth unknown
	18O12		Charlotte Collett				Date of birth unknown
	18O13		Catherine Collett				Date of birth unknown
	18O14		James Collett				Born circa 1810
	18O15		Elizabeth Collett				Born circa 1815
	18O16		William Collett				Born in 1818
18N5	Cornelius Collett, whose exact date of birth is not known but is likely to have been after 1778. It would appear from the dates of birth of his sons that he married late in his life and to a woman who was around half his age.
	What is known is that he married Amelia Daniel of York sometime before 1823 at a time when Cornelius would have been in his middle to late forties, while Amelia was in her mid twenties. The couple’s first child was born at Fakenham in Suffolk, before the family moved north to Beverley.
	During his life he was referred to as ‘Cornelius Collett of Beverley’ in Yorkshire, and it was there where three of their four sons were born. It is understood that Cornelius he died around 1840 and certainly before the 1841 Census.
	That year’s census recorded Amelia Collett as a 45 years old widow living at Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire with just three of her four sons. This would indicate that Amelia was born just before 1880. Her three sons were listed as Charles and Samuel both aged 15, and Daniel aged 12.
	At that time in June 1841, the couple’s youngest son Trusson, who was nine years old, was staying with his uncle Charles Collett (above) at Woodbridge.
	Twenty years after the death of the boys’ father Cornelius, an item appeared in The Times newspaper on 7^th September 1860. This reported that “Trusson, youngest son of the late Cornelius Collett Esquire of Beverley had married Elizabeth Charlotte Collett”.
	18O17		Charles Collett				Born on 05.05.1823
	18O18		Samuel Collett				Born in 1824
	18O19		Daniel Collett				Born in 1828
	18O20		Trusson Collett				Born in 1831
18N6	Robert Henry Collett, whose date of birth is thought to be around 1781, married Frances Meyler Smith the daughter of Henry Smith of Peckham House in Surrey. The marriage took place at Westerham in Kent on 27.10.1809.
	Robert and Frances initially lived at Little Ilford in Essex where their first four children were born. The couple may have had other children, but it is known that the fifth child listed below was born after the family had moved back to Westerham, where they spent the rest of their lives.
	It may also be of interest that Robert’s son William Lloyd Collett married Frances Harriett Smith the daughter of one Henry Smith - who might have been the son of this Henry Smith.
	Frances, who was born in 1790, may have been almost ten years younger than her husband and lived on for almost another twenty years after his death, before she passed away on 26.08.1857.
	Robert died on 22.07.1838 and his Will was proved on 04.09.1838. In the Will Robert was referred to as ‘Reverend Robert Collett, Clerk of Westerham’.
	18O21			Frances J Collett		Born on 08.11.1811
	18O22			Robert John Collett		Born on 04.03.1814
	18O23			William Lloyd Collett		Born on 25.11.1818
	18O24			Christopher Theophilus Collett		Born in 1822
	18O25			John Collett		Born on 17.06.1832
18N8	Sarah Collett’s exact date of birth is not known but it would seems likely that it was in or after 1785 as her parents were married in 1784. Sarah is known to have married George Whitmore.
18N9	Mary Collett, like her sister Sarah (above) was born after 1785, possibly around 1790. She later married Thomas Leventhorpe of London.
18N10	Sophia Collett’s date of birth may have been in the early 1790s as she, married John Deacon in November 1816. John was a banker of London and Mapledon in Kent. Sophia died in 1864.
18N11	Frances Collett, whose exact date of birth is not known but was probably in the mid 1790s, married the Reverend Preston Reynolds of Thetford. Preston was very likely to be the brother of Phyllis Preston Reynolds who married Frances’ brother William Collett (below).
18N12	William Collett was born around 1797 judging by his stated age in the 1851 and 1861 Censuses. He married (1) Phyllis Preston Reynolds the daughter of Francis Riddell Reynolds of Great Yarmouth, the wedding very likely taking place in 1821 or 1822.
	The couple’s first three children were born at Bramerton, five miles to the east of Norwich, while their fourth child was born at Norwich and the fifth child after the family had moved to Thetford. Tragically it was after the birth of their fifth child that Phyllis died on 04.06.1831 aged 35.
	William was appointed Rector of Thetford and four years after the death of his wife he married (2) Ellen Clarke Bidwell in 1835. Ellen was the daughter of Leonard Shelford Bidwell and Sarah Clarke. At sometime later in his life William became Chaplain of Morden College at Blackheath.
	William’s second marriage to Ellen, who was thirteen years younger than her husband, added another five children to his family and all of them were born at Thetford.
	The first national census to be held in the United Kingdom on 6^th June 1841 used rounded ages for adults, while children’s ages generally reflected their actual age. On that day in 1841 William and his family were living at Thetford where William’s rounded age was 40.
	His wife Ellen was 30 and the children living with the couple at that time were Anna aged 19, Sophia 13. Lucy 11, Henry 5, Edward 3 and new born baby Mary who was not yet one year old.
	The 1851 Census for Thetford provided a better indication of their ages. In this William was 54 and Ellen was 41. The same children as in 1841, with the exception of Henry, were still living with the couple but with the addition of two extra children. The children were Anna aged 29, Sophia 22, Lucy 21, Edward 13, Mary 10, Ellen 8 and Laura aged 6.
	By 1861 only five of William’s six daughters that were still living with him and Ellen at the Rector in Thetford. The census revealed that William was 64, Ellen 51, Anna 39, Lucy 31, Mary 20, Ellen 18 and Laura 16.
	Sometime during the next ten years it would appear that the family left Thetford, perhaps following the death of William when they would have had to vacate The Rectory. No trace of the family has been found in 1871 although sons William Reynolds Collett, Charles and Edward have been located.
	According to the census of 1881 Ellen C Collett of Thetford was a 71 years old widow living at Trafford House in Ewell Road at Kingston-upon-Thames with two of her children. These were bachelor son Edward aged 43 and spinster daughter Ellen aged 38, both of Thetford.
	The family was still living at Kingston ten years later when Ellen was 81. Still living with her was her son Edward 53, and daughters Mary 50 and Ellen 48. Upon the death of their mother Ellen during the 1890s her three unmarried children left Kingston and moved into London to live in Kensington.
	18O26			Anna Collett				Born in 1822
	18O27			William Reynolds Collett				Born on 20.05.1823
	18O28			Charles Preston Collett				Born in 1826
	18O29			Sophia Collett				Born in 1828
	18O30			Lucy Frances Collett				Born in 1830
	18O31			Henry Collett				Born in 1836
	18O32			Edward Collett				Born in 1838
	18O33			Mary Collett				Born in 1840
	18O34			Ellen Anna Collett				Born in 1842
	18O35			Laura Collett				Born in 1844
18N13	Woodthorpe Collett was born in Suffolk around 1796 and was more than likely the son of Woodthorpe Collett who was born in Suffolk in 1761. He was educated at St Catherine’s College in Cambridge and on 17^th June 1821 he became deacon of Buckden Parish Church just south of Huntingdon.
	A few years later he accepted the position of stipendiary curate offered by George Pelham the Bishop of Lincoln and moved to Hainton fifteen miles north-east of Lincoln where on 20^th April 1824 he took up the post.
	It seems would appear that Woodthorpe was married to Elizabeth (?) around 1825 while he was living at Hainton, where the couple’s first child was born.
	On 18^th October 1827, now working for John Kaye the new Bishop of Lincoln, Woodthorpe had the use of a house at Wickenby where he continued his work as stipendiary curate. Wickenby lies between Lincoln and Hainton.
	From the place of birth of the couple’s second child it can be determined that Woodthorpe and Elizabeth moved to live in Suffolk where their remaining children were born at Little Glemham, Sweffling and Woodbridge, all of which lay within the area of the Plomesgate Hundred.
	By the time of the national census on 6^th June 1841 the family had settled in Woodbridge near Ipswich. Woodthorpe and his wife were both listed as being aged 40 which may not have been their actual age due to the ‘rounding’ used at this time.
	Curiously the couple’s eldest son was simply listed as John Collett whereas in the later censuses he was credited with his correct forenames. All of their eight children were included in the census with their ages recorded as 13, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, 5 and 2 respectively.
	Sometime during the next ten years the family moved into Ipswich where, in 1851, they were living in the St Clements district of the town. A further move to nearby Brightwell took place in the following years.
	In 1860 Woodthorpe was the Reverend Woodthorpe Collett of Brightwell Church, as confirmed at the marriage of his eldest daughter Elizabeth Charlotte Collett on 05.06.1860. In addition to this Woodthorpe’s son, the Reverend H P Collett, assisted the Reverend James Collett Ebden (see Ref. 18M12) during the wedding ceremony at Brightwell Church.
	It was almost exactly nine years later that Woodthorpe died. An article in the East Suffolk Gazette on 9^th June 1869 reported that the Reverend Woodthorpe Collett, the incumbent of Brightwell-cum-Kesgrave, had died in his seventy-fourth year, thus placing his year of birth as the aforementioned 1796.
	18O36			Woodthorpe Schofield Collett				Born in 1827
	18O37			Henry P Collett				Born in 1828
	18O38			Charles Keeling Collett				Born in 1830
	18O39			Elizabeth Charlotte Collett				Born in 1831
	18O40			Catherine Collett				Born in 1832
	18O41			Robert Collett				Born in 1833
	18O42			Bertha Collett				Born in 1835
	18O43			William Michael Collett				Born in 1838
18N14	James Collett was born around 1805. In 1830 he married his cousin Sophia Ebden of Loddon, who was the fifth child of Mr (Doctor) Thomas Ebden and Mary Grimmer (see Ref. 18M12).
	The marriage was believed to have produced two children before James tragically died in 1836.
	18O44			Fanny Collett				Born circa 1832
	18O45			a son Collett				Born circa 1834
18N15	William Collett was born at Fressingfield in 1793 and was baptised there on 20.10.1793. All that is so far known about his early adult life has been gleaned from his 1837 marriage certificate. This indicates that he was a widower when he married Mary Ann Dye who must have been his second wife.
	Therefore what still has to be determined is who was his first wife, when and where did the marriage take place, and were there are children resulting from their union which seems very likely.
	His marriage to (2) Mary Ann Dye took place on 19.12.1837 at Poringland which lies just five miles south of Norwich. It would appear that the couple only stayed a short time in Poringland, but long enough for the first child of their eight children to be born there.
	The couple’s marriage certificate revealed that they were both residents of Poringland Magna, that Mary was a spinster whose occupation was that of a servant and whose father was John Dye a butcher. In addition to William being listed as a widower, he was also a labourer as was his father William Collett.
	However, the young family must have left Norfolk and moved across the county boundary into Suffolk since not long after the birth as it was there at Henstead in March 1838 that the birth was registered. This would indicate that Mary Ann was with child at the time of the wedding just four months earlier, so perhaps the move to Suffolk was a forced one to overcome the embarrassment.
	Over the next two years the couple’s second child was born at Henstead, so by June 1841 the family comprised William 48, Mary 25 and their children William aged 3 and Honor aged 1. At that time the family was living at New Court in Halesworth.
	It would therefore appear that the family had moved to Halesworth shortly after daughter Honor had been born at Henstead. And it was at Halesworth where all of the remaining children of William and Mary Ann were born and where the couple spent the rest of their lives together.
	Four more children were born over the following ten years although the family suffered the tragic loss of their first daughter Honor during the same decade. So by 1851 the family was still living at 189 New Court and was made up of agricultural labourer William and Mary Ann plus their children William, Maria, Eliza, Fanny and John who was not yet one year old.
	Rather curiously William’s whereabouts in 1861 has not yet been established. What is known is that his wife was still a resident of Halesworth although, at that time, she was not living at New Court where the family had been for the previous two censuses.
	Instead Mary Ann at 42 was living at Barrack Yard on Mill Hill Street in Halesworth with daughters Maria 18, Eliza 13 and Fanny 11, and her youngest son Frederick aged 5. Mary Ann was listed as a wife and her occupation was stated as being a charwoman.
	Mary Ann died sometime between April 1861 and April 1871 since, in the record for the latter, William was listed as a widower. Curiously again, he was back living at 112 New Court in Halesworth and was still working as a labourer, even at the age of 77.
	Sharing the accommodation with William were his sons Charles Collett aged seventeen and Frederick Collett who was fifteen. Also living with the three men was spinster and domestic cook Susan Dye aged 53 who was the late Mary Ann’s younger sister.
	William only survived for a further six years before he died in 1877 aged 84.
	18O46			William Collett				Born in 1837
	18O47			Honor Collett				Born in 1839
	18O48			Maria Collett				Born in 1843
	18O49			Eliza Susannah Collett				Born in 1847
	18O50			Fanny Collett				Born in 1849
	18O51			John Collett				Born in 1851
	18O52			Charles Collett				Born in 1853
	18O53			Frederick Collett				Born in 1855
18N16	Henry Collett was born at Fressingfield in early 1795 and it was there that he was baptised on 26.04.1795. Either just before, or around 1820, Henry married Elizabeth who was just one year younger than Henry. It seems very likely that this took place at Mettingham midway between Bungay and Beccles. The later census details revealed that Elizabeth was born in Norfolk at Rushall to the west of Harleston.
	It would appear that the couple initially settled in Great Glemham near Saxmundham but something must have happen during the spring of 1821 that caused the couple to be evicted. An entry in the great Glemham Parish Records dated 16^th May 1821 refers to a Removal Order on Henry Collett labourer and Elizabeth his wife back to Mettingham.
	By the time of the 1841 Census Henry 45 and Elizabeth 44 were still living in Mettingham where all of their six children had been born, although the two eldest sons had already left the family home by that time.
	The remaining four children were Mary Ann aged 12, Susan aged 10, Robert aged 9 and five years old Christopher. Ten years later the only child still living with the couple was Robert aged 19, while Henry was then 55 and Elizabeth 54.
	Just over three and a half years after the census day in 1851 Henry died and was buried at All Saints Church in Mettingham on 24.12.1854 aged 59
	18O54			William Collett				Born in 1822
	18O55			Henry Collett				Born in 1824
	18O56			Samuel John Collett				Born on 25.09.1826
	18O57			Mary Ann Collett				Born in 1828
	18O58			Susan Collett				Born in 1830
	18O59			Robert Collett				Born on 05.12.1831
	18O60			Christopher Collett				Born in 1836
18N17	Charles Collett was born at Fressingfield in 1798 and was baptised there on 06.01.1799. No other information has been discovered regarding Charles, who was not listed in any of the UK national census records. It is therefore possible that he did not survive beyond childhood.
18N18	Samuel Collett was born in late 1800 or early 1801 at Fressingfield where he was baptised on 12.04.1801. He later married Mary Ann who was older than Samuel by ten years. Judging by the date of the birth of their first child it would appear that Samuel had not reached ‘full age’ and may therefore have been the subject of an enforced marriage to save the family embarrassment.
	With Mary Ann being that much older than Samuel it may be expected that the three children listed below were the only issue from their marriage.
	At the time of the 1841 Census the family was living within the Depwade, Guiltcross & Hoxne registration district. Samuel was aged 40, Mary Ann was 50, and their three children were John 21, Thomas 18 and Charles who was 13. Living with the family was Samuel’s widowed father William.
	Within the next ten years all of their children left the family home so by 1851 it was just Samuel aged 50 and Mary Ann aged 60 that were living in the Depwade & Harleston registration area.
	Ten years on and Samuel appears in the 1861 Census at the age of 60 but may have been working away from home as he was located at Mancroft & Norwich, while his wife was still a resident at Depwade & Harleston.
	Over the next few years Mary Ann died leaving widower Samuel still at Depwade & Harlston in 1871 at the age of 70. There was no record of him in 1881 so it must be assumed that he died during the 1870s.
	18O61			John Collett				Born in 1819
	18O62			Thomas Collett				Born in 1822
	18O63			Charles Collett				Born in 1827
18N19	Benjamin Collett was born at Fressingfield in 1802 and was baptised there on 08.05.1803. He lived all his life at Fressingfield and it was there that he was twice married and there that all his children were born.
	He married (1) Bertha Philpot when they were both aged twenty-one and the wedding took place on 26.02.1824 in the parish church of St Peter & St Paul in Fressingfield. And it was later that same year the first of the couple’s four known children was born.
	Upon presenting Benjamin with their fourth child it would appear that Bertha died, either during the birth, or shortly after. Not long after Benjamin married (2) Sarah Vincent with whom he had a further five children. It would also appear that Bertha’s son Charles also died during this time, since Benjamin later had another son whom he named Charles.
	By the time of the first Fressingfield census on June 1841 Benjamin’s rounded age was 35 and Sarah’s was 30. The children living with them were Benjamin 17 and William 15 from the first marriage, and Keziah 8, Elizabeth 7, Isaac 6, Charles 2 and George who was under one year old.
	Over the next twenty years the family members grew up and most had left their parent’s home in Fressingfield before 1861. Only youngest son George aged 20 and youngest daughter Harriet aged 19 were still living with Benjamin listed as 61 and Sarah aged 56 by that time.
	Benjamin survived for only another nine months before he died at the start of 1862 and was buried at St Peter’s & St Paul’s Church on 22.01.1862 aged 59. The cause of death was phthisis, a form of tuberculosis commonly referred to as the cobbler’s illness. Tragically later that same year Benjamin’s eldest son Benjamin died of the same wasting disease at the age of 38.
	18O64			Benjamin Collett				Born in 1824
	18O65			William Collett				Born in 1826
	18O66			Charles Collett				Born in 1829
	18O67			Keziah Collett				Born in 1832
	18O68			Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1833
	18O69			Isaac Collett				Born in 1834
	18O70			Charles Collett				Born in 1838
	18O71			George Collett				Born in 1840
	18O72			Harriet Collett				Born in 1842
18N20	John Collett was born at Fressingfield during 1805 and was baptised there on 29.09.1805. When in his early twenties he married Catherine Baldwin, the marriage producing five known children for the couple.
	The family was living within the Blything & Wangford registration district of Suffolk in 1841 and probably at Ilketshall St Andrew where at least four of their children were born. The family comprised John aged 35, Catherine 37, and their children John 12, Charles 9, Lucy 4, William 2 and latest arrival Robert who was not yet twelve months old.
	One by one the children eventually left the family home and by 1871 John and Catherine were living together at Ilketshall St Andrew near Beccles, John was aged 65 and Catherine was 67.
	Ten years later the census of 1881 recorded that they were living at Great Common in Ilketshall St Andrew where John was employed on the land as a hay cutter. His place of birth was confirmed as Fressingfield and his age was 76.
	His wife’s place of birth was given as St James South Elham which lies less than five miles from Fressingfield and her age at that time was 77.
	Over the next few years it would appear that John and Catherine returned to the Blything area of Suffolk as that was where John died during the third quarter of 1887 aged 82. Catherine survived as his widow for almost another four years and died in the second quarter of 1891.
	18O73			John Collett				Born in 1829
	18O74			Charles Collett				Born in 1831
	18O75			Lucy Collett				Born in 1836
	18O76			William Collett				Born in 1838
	18O77			Robert Collett				Born in 1840
18N21	John Collett was born at Wingfield in 1785.
18N22	Ann Collett was born at Saxmundham in 1790.
18N24	Jemima Collett was probably a honeymoon baby born in 1799 and was baptised on 25.05.1800. It seems likely that some illness had struck both Jemima and her baby sister Dinah as both of them died in June 1800. Jemima was buried on 08.06.1800 two weeks after she had been baptised.
18N25	Dinah Collett was born in 1800 and died in June that same year probably from the same cause as her older sister Jemima (above).
18N26	Mary Ann Collett was born in 1802 and only survived to the age of six years before she died and was buried on 06.05.1808.
18N27	Dinah Collett was born at Wilby in 1804. She married (1) William Allum on 18.10.1824 at Worlingworth, a village in Suffolk next to Tannington. William died on 1.10.1852 following which Dinah then married Jeremiah Allum on 20.02.1860 at Stradbroke. It seems very likely that Jeremiah was William’s brother. Dinah was known to have had one son William Allum from her first marriage who married Mary Ann Harding on 28.12.1853.
18N28	Jemima Collett was baptised at Wilby on 04.01.1807. She married William Scales on 15.05.1826 at Stradbroke.
18N29	William Collett was baptised at Wilby on 14.05.1809. He married Elizabeth (?) around 1830 and the couple settled in Cambridge where most of their children were born.
	For the continuation of this family line see Part 43 – The Cambridge to California Line
18N30	John Collett was baptised on 30.01.1814 at Wilby where he married Margaret and where their three children were born. By 1881 John was a widower living at Cole Street in Wilby and at 66 he was still working as an agricultural labourer, probably with his son James who was 18 and also an agricultural labourer.
	Living with them at that time was John’s eldest daughter Dinah Brunning nee Collett who was thirty, together with her husband Henry Brunning who was 25 and from Horham, and who was another agricultural labourer.
	18O78			Dinah Collett				Born in 1851
	18O79			Jenning Collett				Born circa 1861
	18O80			James Collett				Born in 1863
18N31	James Collett was born at Wilby on 30.08.1817 and baptised there on 18.01.1818. He married Lucy Mutimer on 19.10.1840 at Horham which is north of Tannington and south of Stradbroke. Lucy was the daughter of Charles Mutimer and was born at Wilby in 1821. James’ and Lucy’s first two children were born at Wilby in Suffolk, while the remainder were baptised at Needham in Norfolk.
	In the 1861 Census for Needham the family comprised James and Lucy both aged 44, daughters Martha (called Mary) 18, Emma 17, Eliza 10, and Rachel 5, and their sons William 14, James 8 and George 3. The exclusion from the list of daughter Dinah might indicate a child death.
	Ten years forward found a depleted Collett family still living at Needham, near Harleston. James 53 and Lucy 54 only had their two youngest children still living with them in the form of Rachel 15 and George 13.
	During the 1870s James passed away leaving his widow Lucy living at 21 Opposite Row in Lakenham in 1881 with just her son George for company. Lucy was confirmed as having been born at Wilby and was aged 63. Her occupation was that of an SMS nurse, while bachelor George was a 23 years old platelayer working on the railway. His place of birth was confirmed as Needham.
	By 1891 Lucy was 74 and was then living with her son George who was a widower with three children. It was during the next decade that Lucy died since she was no longer living with George in 1901.
	18O81			Martha Collett				Born on 13.07.1841
	18O82			Emma Collett				Born on 19.03.1844
	18O83			William Collett				Baptised on 03.08.1846
	18O84			Dinah Elizabeth Collett				Baptised on 20.07.1849
	18O85			Eliza Collett				Baptised on 09.02.1851
	18O86			James Collett				Baptised on 23.08.1852
	18O87			Rachel Collett				Baptised on 24.04.1855
	18O88			George Collett				Baptised on 10.02.1858
18N33	Ann Collett was born at Wetheringsett and was baptised on 24.06.1804 at Tannington. She married her cousin Hezekiah Lockwood (Ref. 18N32) at Wilby on 29.11.1829. In 1881 Ann Lockwood was an annuitant widow of 80 years living at Somersham in Suffolk at the home of her daughter Lydia.
	Lydia Lockwood, who was born in 1829 at Coddenham in Suffolk, married Robert Sage who was born in 1826 at Flowton. He was a farmer of nine acres and living and working with him in 1881 was his brother William Sage aged 67 and also of Flowton.
18N34	ROBERT COLLETT was baptised at Wilby on 23.03.1806. He married his cousin Dinah Lockwood at Brundish east of Tannington. Dinah was the daughter of Hammond Lockwood and Elizabeth Everett and was baptised at Sprowston on 04.04.1813. All of Robert’s and Dinah’s children were also born and baptised at Wilby. After the wealth enjoyed by previous generations of the Collett family, Robert and his family by contrast lived on the poverty line.
	In 1850 Robert was sentenced at Ipswich to two weeks imprisonment for leaving his family chargeable to the Parish of Wilby. At that time his wife Dinah and the children were living at the Hoxne Union Workhouse. A year later according to the Census of 1851 Robert and his three sons and one daughter were still at the workhouse, while Dinah and the other two daughters were living elsewhere.
	Robert Collett died in September 1873 at Hoxne in Norfolk and was buried at Wilby on 28.09.1873 as was Dinah on 27.06.1888. In the 1881 Census Dinah Collett was listed as a widow aged 69 and born at Sprowston she was living at the home of son her son Alfred Collett at Framlingham Road in Wilby. And only two doors away was her other son John and his family.
	18O89			Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1837
	18O90			HAMMOND COLLETT		Baptised on 31.03.1839
	18O91			Susan Collett		Baptised on 28.02.1841
	18O92			John Collett		Baptised on 02.07.1843
	18O93			Robert Collett		Baptised 11.03.1845
	18O94			Ann Collett		Born in 1849
	18O95			Alfred Collett		Born in 1851
18N35	Harriet Collett was born at Wilby and was baptised there on 14.02.1808 but survived barely one year before she was buried on 13.01.1809.
18N36	Frances Collett was born at Wilby and was baptised there on 24.06.1810. She died in 1874 and was buried on 26.03.1874. It is believed that she never married.
18N37	Charity Collett was born at Wilby and was baptised there on 21.06.1813 and died within days and was buried on 25.06.1813.
18N38	Susan Collett was born at Wilby and was baptised there on 21.06.1813. She died two months later and was buried on 25.08.1813, two months after the death of her sister Charity.
18N39	Hannah Collett was born at Wilby and was baptised there on 16.07.1815. She is known to have died after 1819.
18O1	Anthony Collett was born in 1800 and was of Bury St Edmunds having moved to live there around 1830. He was Captain of East Suffolk and he married his cousin Harriet Pett Hannam the daughter of H Pett Hannam of Northbourne in Kent and his wife Catherine Collett (Ref. 18N3).
	At the age of 26 Anthony was given the family home at Ubbeston by his father. He did not live there for very long and leased out the property when he moved to Bury St Edmunds. However, in 1847 he sold the house to a wealthy local philanthropist Edmund Holland for £600, and it was Edmund who presented the property to the Norwich Diocese for use as a rectory which still stands today – see Anthony Collett (Ref. 18N1) the father of Anthony Collett.
	According to the 1881 Census, Harriet P Collett was a widow aged 78 born at Northbourne in Kent living at 6 Camden Crescent, Dover St James in Kent. Her income was stated as coming from ‘dividends and land’.
	Living with her were her two unmarried daughters Maria aged 40 and born at Ubbeston Green (midway between Framlingham and Halesworth) and Frances aged 30 born at Bury St Edmunds. Neither was listed as having an occupation.
	These three ladies were support by three female domestic servants and at the time of the census had staying with them John Perryston (magistrate) and his niece Catherine Perryston.
	18P1			Anthony Collett		Born in 1836
	18P2			Harriet Collett		Born circa 1838
	18P3			Maria Collett		Born in 1841
	18P4			Frances Ellen Collett		Born in 1851
18O2	Catherine Charlotte Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the daughter of the Reverend Anthony Collett, Rector of Heveningham. She married the Reverend Thomas John Blofield MA, the Rector of Hellesdon-with-Drayton near Norwich. The marriage produced three sons.
	In the January to June 1855 edition of the Gentleman’s Magazine the death of Catherine’s husband was reported in which he was referred to as the Reverend Thomas Calthorpe Blofield, Rector of Hellesdon.
18O3	Anne Collett, whose exact date of birth is not known but is estimated to be around 1805, married Fenton J Hort on 25.04.1826. Shortly after they were married the couple moved to Ireland where their son Fenton J A Hort was born in 1828.
	Fenton junior later went on to become a Hulsean Professor of Divinity at Cambridge and by 1881 he was aged 52 and was a Clergyman Without Cure, Doctor of Divinity, Professor of Theology living at 6 St Peters Terrace in St Mary the Lesser in Cambridge with his four children. These were Ellen M Hort 18, Francis F Hort 13, Mary D Hort 10, and Frederick A Hort who was eight years old.
18O5	Mary Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Thomas Wickes Solly of Dent de Lion, Margate in Kent with whom she had three sons and four daughters.
18O6	Thomas Collett was born in 1805 and was later known as ‘Thomas Collett of Ringleton’. He married Jane Tomlin of Ash in Kent and died on 15.08.1873.
	18P5			Thomas Trusson Collett				Born in 1840
	18P6			Ann F Collett				Born in 1842
	18P7			James Tomlin Collett				Born in 1843
	18P8			George Collett				Born in 1844
18O7	George Collett was born at Minster Thanet in Kent in 1806 and he married (1) Sarah Crofts King who produced four children before she died on 10.03.1850 at the age of forty-three. George then married (2) Elizabeth Smith of Monkton with whom he had a further four children.
	By the time of the 1881 Census George was listed as a retired farmer aged 74 and born at Minster Thanet in Kent. The entry indicated he was still married but Elizabeth his second wife was not listed. George was living at Walter’s Hall in Main Road at Monkton in Kent with three of his unmarried children: George Alfred aged 33; Cornelius aged 23; and Isabella aged 20, and all born at Monkton. George Collett died a year later on 21.01.1882.
	18P9			Catherine Collett				Born in 1835
	18P10			Georgiana Collett				Born circa 1836-1837
	18P11			George Collett				Born in 1838
	18P12			George Alfred Collett				Born in 1848
	18P13			Cornelius Collett				Born in 1857
	18P14			Isabella Collett				Born in 1859
	18P15			Emily Collett				Born in 1861
	18P16			Alice Maud Collett				Born in 1863
18O8	Margaret Collett was born in 1808 and she never married and died in 1865.
18O9	Catherine Collett was born on 23.09.1810. She married surgeon Henry Gordon Harboard of Liverpool and she died in 1849.
18O11	Mary Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Reverend Edward Raikes Edgar Rector of Trimley in Suffolk. Mary was the daughter of Charles Collett and her second son was Mileson Edgar who was born around 1855.
	Following the death of his uncle the Reverend Mileson Gery Edgar in 1853 Westerfield Manor, held by the Collett family for many generations, then passed to his (second) wife Elizabeth Arkell until her death on 11^th June 1890.
	And it was at this time that the Manor was passed onto their nephew Captain Mileson Edgar of Red House Park who, on 28.10.1878, had married Elizabeth Schreiber the daughter of the Reverend Thomas Schreiber, Rector of Bradwell in Essex.
18O13	Catherine Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Mr H Wilkin.
18O14	Elizabeth Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Mr P Fletcher.
18O16	William Collett was born at Walton in Felixstowe in 1818. He was educated at Ipswich Grammar School under his cousin James Collett Ebden and later attended St Peters College in Cambridge. He entered Peterhouse in 1839 and four years later during 1843 he achieved a BA while at Peterhouse.
	Prior to 1842 William was curator of Belstead in Ipswich and from 1842 through to 1844 he was the curator at Stanningfield in Suffolk.
	During 1841 he was still living with his parents at Woodbridge near Ipswich and it was a couple years later that he married (1) Mary Cecily Augusta von Linsingen on 29.10.1843 at Walton. Mary was the daughter of Count von Linsingen the Chamberlain to George V, King of Hanover.
	Charles, Count von Linsingen, K.C.B, G.C.H, had been a distinguished officer in the German Legion and from the age of fourteen he had been present in all of the continental wars, including the Seven Years War when on the staff of the Duke of Brunswick.
	When only a Lieutenant Colonel in 1794 he commanded a considerable corps of British and Hanoverian troops during the eight weeks defence of Menin in Flanders, not long after which he was taken prisoner. During the years following this, he came to England to reform his regiment, the 1^st Hussars of the German Legion, and was appointed to the rank of Major General in the British Service.
	It was during the early 1800s that he is likely to have built a friendship with the Duke of Cambridge (see below). In 1811 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and received the Orders of the Bath and of the Guelphs from his late Majesty the King with whom he was a great favourite.
	After their wedding, William and Mary settled in Chelsworth to the north-east of Sudbury where their first two children were born. There must have then followed a move to live in Bury St Edmunds where their next five children were born.
	In 1852 William was made Rector of Hawstead near Bury St Edmunds to where the family then moved. Eight years later it was at Hawstead that William’s wife Mary tragically died shortly after the birth of their son Frederick.
	Nearly ten years later William married (2) Charlotte Stowiczek around 1870, with whom he had a further two children. Tragedy was to strike the family again when, within a few years, Charlotte also died leaving William a widower for a second time.
	The exact date of her death has not been determined, but in 1876 William became Chaplain to The Duke of Cambridge, possibly through a recommendation from his father-in-law, the Count von Linsingen. Judging by the details in the census of 1881 (below) this position was in addition to him being the Rector of Hawstead.
	According to the 1881 Census, William was born at Walton, he was a widower of 62 and he was still the Rector of Hawstead, while living at The Rectory in Hawstead. Living with him were his four unmarried daughters Ellen 35 and Augusta 33, both born at Chelsworth, and Mary 31 and Agnes 26, who were both born at Bury St Edmunds.
	In addition to the four older daughters from William’s first marriage, there was also Leonora aged 9 and John aged 7, both born at Hawstead and from his second marriage. The household was supported by three domestic servants, cook Priscilla Storey 23 from Norwich, housemaid Sally Coe 21 from Ixworth, and child’s nurse Clara Pettit 19 from Hawstead.
	It was just over eight years later that the Reverend William Collett died on 21.11.1889.
	18P17			Ellen Mary Collett				Born in 1846
	18P18			Augusta Celia Collett				Born in 1848
	18P19			Sophia Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1849
	18P20			Mary Louisa Collett				Born in 1850
	18P21			William Charles Collett				Born in 1852
	18P22			Agnes Maria Collett				Born in 1855
	18P23			Frederick William Collett				Born in 1860
	18P24			Leonora Julia Collett				Born in 1872
	18P25			John Anthony Collett				Born in 1874
18O17	Charles Collett was born at Fakenham on 05.05.1823 where he was baptised six days later on 11.05.1823, the first born son of Cornelius Collett and Amelia Daniel.
18O18	Samuel Collett was born at Beverley in Yorkshire during 1824 and was baptised at the church of St Mary & St Nicholas on 21.11.1824. In the 1841 Census for Beverley both he and his brother Charles (above were listed as being aged 15 years. It would appear that he never married and twenty years later he was still single and was still living at Beverley. By 1871 Samuel had moved to London and was living at Isleworth.
18O19	Daniel Collett was born at Beverley in 1828 and it was there that he was baptised at the church of St Mary & St Nicholas on 10.08.1828. He was a civil engineer who appears to have married (1) Elizabeth Master prior to 1860 by which time in his life he was living at Melcombe Regis in Weymouth.
	Daniel was aged 32 at the time of the 1861 Census while his wife, who was referred to as ‘Lizzie’, was 30. Also with them was their 2 years old son.
	A search of the 1871 Census has not revealed the whereabouts of the family, but it is known that their son attended Keble College in Oxford where he matriculated on 15^th October 1877 at the age of 18. The record of his attendance confirmed that he was the only son of Daniel Collett of Melcombe Regis in Dorset.
	It is possible that sometime after 1861 Daniel’s wife died as this would account for their son being an only child, and the non-discovery of their whereabouts in the 1871 Census. It therefore seems likely that sometime after 1871 and before 1881 Daniel married (2) Mary S (?) who was six years younger than his first wife and eight years younger than himself.
	The 1881 Census revealed that the family was still living in Weymouth, but had moved the short distance from Melcombe Regis to Radipole where Mary S Collett was the married head of the household aged 44 and born at Cirencester. Living with her at 7 Grosvenor Road was her son aged 22 a BA student at Oxford and born at Weymouth, supported by two general servants Eliza Tompkins 20 and Fanny Bascombe 17.
	Mary’s missing husband Daniel was staying at 178 Goldhawk Road in Hammersmith, the home of his younger brother Trusson Collett (below). Daniel was listed as being a married and a civil engineer of 52 years, born at Beverley. It seems very likely that his visit to London may have been associated with his work.
	18P26			Alfred Master Collett				Born in 1859
18O20	Trusson Collett was born at Beverley in 1832. He married Elizabeth Charlotte Collett (below) who was baptised at Sweffling near Saxmundham in Suffolk on 05.07.1833. Elizabeth was the eldest daughter of the Reverend Woodthorpe Collett of Brightwell in Suffolk.
	The wedding ceremony took place at Brightwell Church to the south-east of Ipswich on 05.09.1860. As her father was the incumbent clergyman at Brightwell he had called upon two family members to officiate on this special occasion.
	The first was the Reverend James Collett Ebden (Ref. 18M12), the Rector of Great Stukeley in Huntingdon who was assisted by Elizabeth’s brother the Reverend H P Collett.
	The event was special enough to be reported on page one of the 7^th September 1860 edition of The Times newspaper. This stated “On the fifth inst. at Brightwell Church by the Rev. J Collett Ebden Rector of Great Stukeley, Huntingdon, assisted by the Rev. H P Collett brother of the bride, Trusson youngest son of the late Cornelius Collett Esq. of Beverley, Yorkshire to Elizabeth Charlotte eldest daughter of the Rev. Woodthorpe Collett incumbent of Brightwell, Suffolk”
	After they were married Trusson and Elizabeth moved back to live in Beverley where their one and only child was born.
	However, sometime within the next few years the family moved again, this time to London where, in 1881 they were living at 178 Goldhawk Road in Hammersmith (the A402 road in 2007). Trusson’s occupation was that of a clerk. The census also confirmed he was aged 48 and born at Beverley and that Elizabeth C Collett was also 48 and of Sweffling in Suffolk.
	The family would appear to be fairly affluent as the household also supported two female servants, Ellen M Pod aged 23 of Holbrook in Suffolk and Emma K Wort aged 18 of Lyndhurst in Hampshire.
	The couple’s only child Emily was listed as being nineteen years of age and born at Beverley and was a scholar, presumably in higher education. Living with the family was Trusson Collett’s older married brother and civil engineer Daniel Collett aged 52 (above).
	Ten years later in 1891 Trusson was fifty-eight and was living at Willesden in North London with his wife and daughter Emily. Only one other person with the Collett name was living there at that time and this was Richard Collett who was forty-five.
	By the time of the census in 1901 Trusson and Elizabeth were both aged 68 and were still living at Willesden where Trusson was described as ‘living on his own means’, and it was there that they were still living ten years later in April 1911 when they were both seventy-eight years old.
	18P27			Emily Collett				Born in 1861
18O21	Frances J Collett was born at Little Ilford in Essex on 08.11.1811 where she was also baptised, the eldest child of Robert Collett and Frances Meyler.
	She never married and at the age of seventy she was living with her younger brother William Lloyd Collett (below) at his vicarage home in Coverdale Road in Hammersmith.
18O22	Robert John Collett was born in Little Ilford on 04.03.1814 where he was baptised a monthly later on 12.04.1814, the son of Robert Collett and Frances Meyler.
18O23	William Lloyd Collett was born at Little Ilford on 25.11.1818 and it was there also that he was baptised on 22.12.1818.
	He was educated at Queen’s College in Oxford where he was listed as William Lloyd Collett son of Henry Collett of Little Ilford in Essex. He matriculated on 6^th December 1838 aged 20 and obtained a BA on 18^th May 1842 and his MA on 14^th May 1845.
	Shortly after he married Frances Harriet Smith the daughter of Henry Smith of Morden College in Blackheath. What is interesting is that William’s father Robert Henry Collett (Ref. 18N6) married a daughter of Henry Smith who might have been the father of this Henry Smith.
	Around the time of the birth of their third child, William was made Vicar of St Stephen’s Church in Hammersmith.
	According to the Census of 1881 William Lloyd Collett aged 62 and born at Little Ifford in Essex was Vicar of Stephen’s Church in Shepherds Bush. Living with him at the Vicarage in Coverdale Road in Hammersmith was his wife Frances Harriet aged 58 of Blackheath in Kent and their four unmarried children.
	The children were Helen C Collett aged 32 born at Dover, Alfred Collett aged 26 a civil engineer, Isabel A Collett aged 24 and Jessie S Collett aged 20, all of whom were born at Shepherds Bush.
	Also listed with the family was William’s unmarried sister Frances J Collett (above) and his unmarried brother John Collett (below). The household was supported by five domestic servants.
	It is known that William died in 1896 but it has not been determined whether he spent anytime between 1881 and 1896 in Argentina where it is known that his son Alfred and his daughter Jessie were both married.
	18P28			Helen Clara Collett				Born in 1849
	18P29			Alfred Collett				Born in 1854
	18P30			Isabel A Collett				Born in 1856
	18P31			Jessie Susette Collett				Born in 1860
18O24	Christopher Theophilus Collett was born at Little Ilford in 1822. He attended Magdalen College in Oxford where he matriculated on 21^st October 1841 and where he was recorded as the fourth son of Robert Collett of Ilford in Essex.
18O25	John Collett was born at Westerham near Sevenoaks in Kent on 17.06.1832, the youngest son of Robert Collett and Frances Meyler. He never married and at the age of 48 was living with his older brother William Lloyd Collett (above) at The Vicarage in Coverdale Road in Hammersmith.
	He was educated at Wadham College in Oxford where he was listed as the son of Robert Henry Collett of Westerham in Kent. It was at Wadham that he matriculated on 18^th June 1851 aged 19.
18O26	Anna Collett was born in 1822 at Bramerton just east of Norwich. Following the death of her mother in 1831 her father William Collett remarried in 1835 at which time the family was living at Thetford where Anna was aged 19 in 1841.
	The subsequent census records revealed that she was not married during the following twenty years. In 1851 and 1861 she was aged 29 and 39 respectively and was still living with her father and her stepmother at Thetford, where her father was the rector.
	No listing for Anna Collett has been found in the later census records so it might be assumed that she was married late in her life.
18O27	William Reynolds Collett was born at Bramerton on 20.05.1823, where he was baptised one week later on 28.05.1823, the eldest son of William Collett and Phyllis Preston Reynolds.
	He graduated from Caius College in Cambridge with a Master of Arts degree in 1845. He was elected Fellow of Caius College and was ordained in 1846. It was from around this time and into the 1850s that he was the librarian for both Gonville and Caius Colleges, and this is acknowledged in the records at the British Library.
	He married Mary Hoste who was three years older and from 1856 he was Rector of Hethersett and lived at The Hethersett Rectory in Wymondham and was later the Honourable Canon of Norwich.
	The two census records for 1861 and 1871 placed William R Collett of Bramerton as living with his wife Mary within the registration district of Humbleyard & Henstead. Their ages were 37 and 40, and 47 and 50 respectively.
	According to the 1881 Census William was fifty-seven and was a clergyman rector living at The Rectory in Hethersett with his wife Mary who was sixty and born at Gravesend. The couple never had any children but listed with them were two visitors and three servants.
	The visitors were Edmund Frederick Plume aged 28 of nearby Framingham who was a student at Cambridge University, and Catherine Philippa Jodrell aged 21 of Wood Dalling in Norfolk who was oddly described as ‘ornamental’.
	The servants were spinster Sarah Mildred Goose aged 38 of Coltishall, Rosina Elizabeth Bacon 21 of Brandeston, and Louisa Emms 17 of Ketteringham. Louisa Emms’ older sister Mary Emms of Ketteringham was the cook at the Hethersett home of William R Collett’s sister Sophia (below).
	Ten years later in 1891 the census for Humbleyard included William Reynolds Collett of Bramerton aged 67 who was and living with his wife Mary aged 70. Also living with the couple at that time was William’s unmarried sister Lucy Frances Collett aged 61 (below).
	During his life William had two books that were published. These were ‘A List of Early Printed Books’ in 1850 and ‘Women’s Work in the Church’ in 1863. William died in 1903 aged 79.
18O28	Charles Preston Collett was born at Bramerton in 1826. He was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1861 and from 1869 to 1871 was a judge at Madras in India.
	On 2^nd April 1871 Charles was listed in the census record as being aged 44 and living at St James Square in Westminster. He was not married at that time.
	Following his return to England he married Lucy Ellen (Carthew or Morden) around 1872 while still living in London. Lucy was born at Islington in 1843 and was seventeen years younger than Charles. So at the time of the wedding Charles would have been 46 compared to Lucy who would have been 29. Within the next three years they had two children who were born in London before the family moved to Devon.
	The 1881 Census confirmed that Charles had lived and worked in India, since the census record described him as a ‘barrister at law (not in practice) – Madras Civil Service, retired’.
	At that time, in early April 1881, Charles and Lucy were living at Highclere House on the Warberry Road in Tor-Moham (a parish of Torquay) in Devon. Charles was aged 54 of Bramerton, while Lucy was aged 37 of Islington in Middlesex.
	The first two of their five children listed below were born while Charles and Lucy were living at St Mary Abbot in Kensington, while the remainder of their children were born after the family had settled in Torquay.
	In addition to their five children, in 1881 the family had staying with them a visitor by the name of Lucy Frances Collett (below). She was a spinster lady aged 50 and had been born at Thetford and was one of Charles’ younger sisters.
	Charles must have been fairly affluent, as his home was served by six servants. These were the cook Selina Heard, nurse Elizabeth Inkill, Elizabeth Martin the upper housemaid, Clara Meinbery the parlour maid, Elizabeth Dunstan the under housemaid, and Louisa Spencer the under nurse.
	During his life Charles was the author of three books, these being ‘The Treaties on the Law of Injunctions and the Appointment of Receivers under the Code of Civil Procedures’ which was published in 1859, ‘The Manual of the Law Torts and the Measure of Damages’ published in 1866, and ‘The Law of Specific Relief in India’ published in 1882.
	It is thought that Charles Preston Collett died towards the end of the 1880 when he was into his sixties. Certainly in the Torquay census of 1891 Lucy E Collett was 47 and only had living with her, her two youngest children, Laura L Collett 12, and Arthur P Collett who was ten.
	Also listed were Anthony Collett (Rector of Hastingleigh near Ashford in Kent - Ref. 18P1) and his wife Mary Sherwood Collett who may have been visiting Lucy in her time of spiritual need, having recently been made a widow.
	No record of Lucy or her two children has been found in the 1901 Census and this maybe because she remarried. Ten years later in 1911 her daughter Laura had moved to London and was still a spinster living in the Lewisham area of the city.
	18P32			Phyllis Carthew Collett				Born in 1873 at Kensington, London
	18P33			Margaret Morden Collett				Born in 1874 at Kensington, London
	18P34			Charles M Collett				Born in 1876 at Torquay
	18P35			Laura Lesley Collett				Born in 1878
	18P36			Arthur Preston Collett				Born in September 1880
18O29	Sophia Collett was born at Norwich in 1828 and was aged 13 in the 1841 Census and 22 in 1851. On both of these occasions she was living with her father and her stepmother at Thetford.
	She married Colonel Norgate in the 1850s but by 1881 she was a widow aged 52 living in a private house at Turnpike Road in Hethersett where she later died.
	The 1881 Census revealed that Sophia was an annuitant supported by two domestic servants. These were Mary A Emms aged 29 a cook from nearby Ketteringham and housemaid Maria Lightning aged 25 from Hempnall. Mary Emms’ younger sister Louisa Emms of Ketteringham was one of three servants at The Hethersett Rectory, the home of Sophia’s brother William.
18O30	Lucy Frances Collett was born at Thetford in 1830 and was aged 11 in June 1841, was aged 21 in March 1851, and 31 in April 1861. On all three occasions she was living with her father and her stepmother at Thetford. So far her whereabouts in 1871 has not been determined.
	However, she never married and in 1881 was listed as a visitor at the Torquay home of her brother Charles Preston Collett (above). The census recorded that she was aged 50 and was supported by ‘interest from private property’.
	During the next decade she left Devon, possibly following the death of her brother Charles, and went to live with her older brother William Reynolds Collett (above) at Humbleyard near Norwich. And it was there that she was living aged 61 with William and his wife Mary in April 1891.
18O31	Henry Collett was born at Thetford on 06.03.1836 and was aged 5 in the 1841 Census for Thetford. By the time he was fifteen the census of 1851 revealed that he was being educated at Tonbridge School in Tunbridge Wells in Kent. The census return also confirmed he was born at Thetford. He later attended the Addiscombe Military Academy College in Croydon. The property there was acquired by the British East India Company in 1809 when it was converted into a military academy. The company imported tea, coffee, silk, cotton and spices, and maintained its own private army. This photograph shows an elderly Henry Collett studying campaign maps
	The officers of this army were trained at Addiscombe before setting off for India. In 1858, after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, also referred to as the First War of Indian Independence, the British East India Company went out of existence
	The college closed in 1861 and was sold to developers in 1863 for £33,600. It was then razed to the ground with dynamite, and all that is left today are the two buildings 'Ashleigh' and 'India' on the corner of Clyde Road and Addiscombe Road, together with the former gymnasium on Havelock Road, now converted into private apartments.
	Following his graduation from the academy, Henry left England and sailed to India where he joined the Bengal Indian Army in 1855, rising through the ranks to become Lieutenant-Colonel in 1879. In the Second Anglo-Afghan War from 1878 to 1880 he acted as quartermaster-general on the staff of Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts.
	He eventually reached the rank of Colonel in 1884 and was made KCB in 1891, and from 1892 to 1893 he commanded the Peshawar district with the rank of major-general. He retired from the army in 1893 and was honoured by Queen Victoria when he became General Sir Henry Collett Knight of the British Empire.
	He returned to England before the end of the century and was recorded as being sixty-five years old and living at Kensington at the time of the census of 1901. His occupation was stated as being Colonel retired from the Indian Army.
	Living with bachelor Henry in 1901 was his brother Edward Collett and sisters Mary and Ellen Collett (all below) and sadly it was not long after the March census day that Henry passed away, his death being recorded on 21.12.1901 at Kew in London.
	During his life Henry Collett was keen botanist, collecting plants in Afghanistan, Algeria, Burma, the Canaries, Corsica, India, Java, and Spain. He was made a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1879. At his death he was working on a book on the flora of Simla, which was published posthumously as ‘Flora Simlensis’ in 1902.
	Just over one hundred years later, as a tribute to his work in the field of botany, he was honoured by husband and wife rose breeders Viru and Girija Viraraghavan of Tamil Nadu in India by the naming of a white climber rose ‘Sir Henry Collett’ which has been registered with the International Rose Registration Authority based in the U.S.A. The story behind this is that Henry Collett found this species of rose in the 1880s when he was in the Shan Hills of Burma. It is believed that he saw it through a pair of binoculars, as something bright white in the distance, when he was trekking in these hills.
	He then collected material of this plant and sent it to a Monsieur Crepin, who was at that time the leading taxonomist based in Brussels. It was Sir Henry Collett who suggested the name ‘rosa gigantea’.
	His personal account of ‘the find’ was recorded in the Journal of the Linnean Society and was reproduced many years later in Gardener’s Chronicle on 11^th May 1912 and this read as follows “It was found on a plateau at 4-5,000 feet where the traveller was at once struck with the temperate character of the flora. The trees were mostly Oaks and Pines, whilst the herbaceous plants were represented by species of Ranunculus, Viola, Hyperium, Clematis, etc. Only two species of Rosa were seen, and both were new. The beautiful R. Gigantean is particularly conspicuous, climbing over the tall forest trees, from the tops of which the long, pendulous branches, covered with very large white flowers, hang down in rich profusion. The Rose, which has larger flowers probably than any other wild species, is seen from a considerable distance in the jungle, reminding one more of a large Clematis than of a rose. It is only locally abundant, chiefly in dark shady valleys.” The other rose referred to by Sir Henry Collett, in his statement above, was believed to be Rosa Collettiana, which had yet to be cultivated at that time.
18O32	Edward Collett was born at Thetford in 1838 and he was three years of age at the time of the 1841 Census for Thetford. He was still living with his family in Thetford in 1851 when aged 13.
	He may have been out of the country in April 1861 but had returned by 1871 and, at the age of 33, Edward was living at Winchester. His place of birth was confirmed as Thetford as it was in 1881 when he was aged 43 and was living with his widowed mother Ellen at Trafford House in Ewell Road in Kingston-upon-Thames.
	His occupation at that time was that of a duty office clerk with the Inland Revenue Legacy (C S C). He was still living with his mother at Kingston ten years later but, following her death in the 1890s, he left Kingston and moved to Kensington where he was living with three of his sibling by March 1901.
	By then Edward was a retired civil servant at the age of sixty-three, and his place of birth was confirmed as Thetford. The house in which he was living was also home to his brother Henry Collett (above) and his sisters Mary and Ellen Collett (below).
	Just nine months later Edward’s brother Henry passed away, and this appears to have resulted in Edward and his two sisters leaving London. While his two sisters moved to Hampshire, Edward became a married man and moved to Surrey.
	It was in 1902 that Edward married Ada Rebecca Moore who was born at Thetford in 1857, Ada being twenty years younger than Edward. By April 1911 the couple had been married for eight years and were living at ‘Moorside’ in Tilford Road in the village of Churt in the parish of Frensham.
	Edward was seventy-three and from Thetford, and Ada Rebecca Collett was fifty-three and also from Thetford. The elderly couple were supported by two domestic servants, housemaid Mabel Sexton 28 and Charlotte Ayling 24 who was the cook.
	Once again Edward Collett was described as a retired civil servant.
18O33	Mary Collett was born at Thetford in 1840 and was under twelve months old for the Thetford census of 1841. By 1851 she was aged 10 and was 20 in 1861 while still living at Thetford with her parents.
	Twenty years later at the time of the 1881 Census Mary, aged 40 and of Thetford, was still a spinster and was living with her mother’s sister and her husband at Upper Beulah Hill Haddon in Croydon. This was Lydia Grohawk nee Bidwell aged 55 and from St Lukes in Middlesex.
	Lydia’s husband was retired farmer Francis W Grohawk aged 62 of Letheringsett in Norfolk and living with the couple were their four children, plus five servants. In addition to Mary Collett, also living with the family was Lydia’s two older maiden sisters (and Mary’s aunts) Laura Bidwell 60 and Octavia Bidwell 59 both of Thetford and both of independent means.
	Forty years old Mary Collett was also listed as being of independent means, indicating a degree of wealth and affluence. How long Mary was living with her aunt has not been established, but on the death of her father in the 1870s her mother Ellen Collett had moved Kingston-upon-Thames.