PART NINETEEN

The Oxfordshire International Line - 1550 to 2010

and including a branch of the family in Bishopsgate & Shoreditch

Updated February 2011

This family line starts in Suffolk and progresses through Oxfordshire to Australia,

Canada, South Africa and the United States of America

It is the family line of the late Leon Christopher Collett (Ref. 19S15) of Melbourne in Australia,

which is depicted by the names in capitals, and Andrew (Andy) David Collett (Ref. 19T4)

also of Melbourne, whose line is depicted by the names underlined

It seems inconceivable that, with the early Ipswich connection, this line is not in some way linked to the

Part 18 – The Main Suffolk Line since Westerfield is virtually a part of Ipswich.

An earlier generation of this file included two options for its origins.

However, it now seems certain that its origins lie in Part 18 – The Suffolk Line

starting with John Collett (1553-1599)

The alternative, and now abandoned option, was a line of Richard, Richard and William,

and the last of these three was believed to have been a quartermaster in Cromwell’s Army.

19G1	JOHN COLLETT (Ref. 18G5) was born at Grundisburgh in 1554, the eldest son of Thomas Collett (Ref. 18F1) and Joan. He married Joan Dameron in November 1577 at Westerfield near Ipswich, and it there also that all of their children were born and baptised.
	Joan was the daughter of John Dameron and Margaret Phesse and she was baptised on 25.04.1557 at Westerfield. John Collett died on 24.03.1600 and was buried that same day, while Joan died nearly twelve years later and was buried on 18.02.1612 with her husband at Westerfield.
	Their son John Collett was one youngest son and seventh of their eight children.
	The full family details are provided in Part 18 – The Main Suffolk Line (Ref. 18G5).
	19H1		JOHN COLLETT (Ref. 18H14)					Born on 23.04.1588 at Westerfield
19H1	JOHN COLLETT was born at Westerfield on 23.04.1588, where he was baptised on 28.04.1588. He was only twelve years old when his father died in March 1600, and he was only one of three of the eight children to be mentioned in the Will. see Will in Legal Document
	He later married Elizabeth Rivers of Chattisham around 1618 and the marriage produced five children for John and Elizabeth, all of which were born at Westerfield.
	John Collett of Tuddenham was named in the Ship Money Return of 1640, and was also referred to in the 1646 Will of his brother Philologus Collett (Ref. 18H13).
	19I1		John Collett			Born around 1619 at Westerfield
	19I2		WILLIAM COLLETT			Baptised on 10.10.1620 at Westerfield
	19I3		Hazadiah Collett			Baptised on 13.05.1623 at Westerfield
	19I4		Samuel Collett			Baptised on 26.05.1629 at Westerfield
	19I5		Elizabeth Collett			Baptised on 22.05.1632; died 24.06.1632
19I1	WILLIAM COLLETT was born at Westerfield in 1620 and was baptised there on 10.10.1620, the son of John Collett and Elizabeth Rivers. His early schooling was undertaken at Ipswich and later at Gonville College in Cambridge under Messrs How, Steffe and Clarke for five years.
	On 17^th October 1643 he was admitted to Caius College in Cambridge under a sizar, which was a scholarship according to need during which the student worked his passage. The surety was offered by a Mr Moore.
	During the year 1647/1648 William acquired his Bachelor of Arts degree, achieving Master of Arts status in 1652. He later became a Clerk in Holy Orders.
	William was the second son of John Collett gentleman of Westerfield to enter holy order, the first being his older brother John Collett about whom nothing is currently written here. William is believed to have died in 1682.
	It therefore seems very unlikely that this was the same William Collett who fought in Cromwell’s Army at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642.
	19J1		NATHANIEL COLLETT					Born circa 1655 at Ipswich
19J1	NATHANIEL COLLETT is thought to have been born around 1655, and his baptism took place at St Mary Elms in Ipswich on 17.01.1657, when his father was named as William Collett. He married Elizabeth at St Mary Stoke in Ipswich in 1682, and they were the parents of John Collett who was baptised at St Mary Stoke in Ipswich four years later.
	19K1		JOHN COLLETT					Born in 1686 at Ipswich
19K1	JOHN COLLETT was born at Ipswich where he was baptised at St Mary Stoke on 26.09.1686, the son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Collett. He married Hannah Cooper in 1700 at Aston Rowant in Oxfordshire which is between Thame and High Wycombe. Their first child was born at Aston Rowant, but the family must have moved for John’s work, as the next three children were born at Kingston Blount, while the last five children were born at Lewknor.
	19L1		Anna Collett					Born in 1702 at Aston Rowant
	19L2		John Collett					Born in 1704 at Kingston Blount
	19L3		Mary Collett					Born in 1705 at Kingston Blount
	19L4		George Collett					Born in 1707 at Kingston Blount
	19L5		Hannah Collett					Born in 1710 at Lewknor
	19L6		Nathaniel Collett					Born in 1713 at Lewknor
	19L7		Stephen Collett					Born in 1716 at Lewknor
	19L8		RICHARD COLLETT					Born in 1719 at Lewknor
	19L9		Martha Collett					Born in 1721 at Lewknor
19L1	Anna Collett was born at Aston Rowant in Oxfordshire on 12.07.1702, the daughter and eldest child of John and Hannah Collett
19L2	John Collett was born at Kingston Blount in Oxfordshire on 09.07.1704, the eldest son of John and Hannah Collett.
19L3	Mary Collett was born at Kingston Blount on 20.03.1705, the daughter of John and Hannah Collett.
19L4	George Collett was born at Kingston Blount on 14.03.1707, the son of John and Hannah Collett.
19L5	Hannah Collett was born at Lewknor in Oxfordshire on 14.01.1710, the daughter of John and Hannah Collett.
19L6	Nathaniel Collett was born at Lewknor on 04.10.1713, the son of John and Hannah Collett.
19L7	Stephen Collett was born at Lewknor on 03.06.1716, the son of John and Hannah Collett.
19L8	RICHARD COLLETT was born at Lewknor on 21.06.1719, the youngest known son of John and Hannah Collett. He married Mary Burgess on 10.11.1745 at Drayton St Leonards near Dorchester-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, where the family appears to have lived for many years.
	Their second and third sons were both born at Lewknor, perhaps indicating that they made a return to Richard’s place of birth. However, the connection with Drayton St Leonards was also later maintained, as the marriage of their second son took place there in 1781.
	19M1		Ann Collett		Born on 25.12.1749 at Drayton St Leonard
	19M2		Mary Collett		Born circa 1753 at Drayton St Leonard
	19M3		John Collett		Born on 19.01.1756 at Drayton St Leonard
	19M4		RICHARD COLLETT		Born on 10.11.1758 at Lewknor
	19M5		Stephen Collett		Born on 19.07.1761 at Lewknor
19M1	Ann Collett was born on 25.12.1749 at Drayton St Leonards where she married William King on 19.08.1770. It is possible that this marriage produced a son John King who in 1811 was ordered to pay £20 to support the base born child of Mary Collett (Ref. 19N6).
19M2	Mary Collett was very likely born at Drayton St Leonards, the birth taking place around 1753. It is possible that Mary later married Edward Smith at Chinnor on 11.07.1774.
19M3	John Collett was born on 19.01.1756 at Drayton St Leonards where he married Hannah Stacey on 24.06.1782. It would appear that the couple continued to live at Drayton after they were marriage, since that was where their son was born and where he was living into his old age while working as a carpenter.
	Hannah died in August 1802 when her youngest known child was only five years old. John Collett had survived her by nearly twenty-four years, when he died during February 1826. The earlier than expected date of death his wife close to her fortieth birthday might indicate that she died during the birth of the couple’s final child who also did not survive.
	19N1		Elizabeth Collett		Born on 16.07.1786 at Drayton St Leonard
	19N2		Ann Collett		Born on 30.12.1787 at Drayton St Leonard
	19N3		Stephen Collett		Born on 15.01.1792 at Drayton St Leonard
	19N4		Hannah Collett		Born on 10.12.1797 at Drayton St Leonard
19M4	RICHARD COLLETT was born on 10.11.1758 at Lewknor. He married Mary Bridges on 25.06.1781 at Drayton St Leonards. Richard died at Dorchester-on-Thames in 1811 aged 53, his death coinciding with that of his eldest grandson Richard Collett (Ref. 19O1).
	The baptism record for son Thomas Collett born in 1790 indicates that his father Richard Collett was a pauper. Furthermore, at the time of Richard’s death in 1811, the Dorchester Poor Law Book stated that his widow Mary Collett was given money.
	19N5		John Collett		Born on 09.09.1781 at Drayton St Leonard
	19N6		MARY COLLETT		Born on 24.11.1782 at Drayton St Leonard
	19N7		Ann Collett		Born in 1784 at Drayton St Leonard
	19N8		James Collett		Born in 1786 at Drayton St Leonard
	19N9		Thomas Collett		Born in 1790 at Drayton St Leonard
	19N10		Samuel Collett		Born in 1795 at Drayton St Leonard
19M5	Stephen Collett was born at Lewknor on 19.07.1761, the youngest known child of Richard Collett and Mary Burgess. There is a record of a Stephen Collett, age 72, who died at 10 Rose Alley in Bishopsgate in London during December 1833, who was buried at the Church of St Botolph in Bishopsgate on 15^th December 1833. This would indicate that he was born in 1761, the same as Stephen Collett of Lewknor.
	No evidence has so far been found that confirms this Stephen was the one born in Lewknor, the details of his life and family have been included in the Appendix A at the end of this family line.
19N3	Stephen Collett was born at Drayton St Leonard on 15.01.1792, the son of John and Hannah Collett. He later married (1) Elizabeth, although it is not known if the marriage produced any children. Upon the death of Elizabeth, possibly in the 1830s, Stephen married (2) Christian Smith at Drayton St Leonard, near Wallingford on 30.10.1844.
	At the time of the census in 1851, Stephen Collett was a carpenter at the age of 59, when he was living with his wife Christian, age 58, at Drayton St Leonard in Oxfordshire where he was born, although this was within the Abingdon registration district of Berkshire.
	Ten years later, in 1861, Stephen and Christian were still living at Drayton St Leonard, then within the Abingdon & Nuneham Courtney registration district, where they were both recorded as being 69 years of age, and Stephen from Drayton St Leonard was still continuing his occupation as a carpenter.
	It was during the 1860s that Christian Collett passed away, so by the time of the next census in 1871, Stephen Collett, age 79, was a widower living within the Wallingford & Cholsey registration district.
19N5	John Collett was born at Drayton St Leonard on 09.09.1781, the son of Richard and Mary Collett. His children’s baptism records provide the name of his wife as Hannah Collett.
	At the time of the first national census in Great Britain, John and his family were living in the Dorchester, Overy area of Oxfordshire. The age of John Collett was rounded down to 55 when he would have been 59. His wife Hannah was also 55, and living with them were sons John Collett 29 and Felix 21, and daughter Susan Collett aged 25, and her base-born daughter Jane Collett who was three years old.
	19O1		Richard Collett					Born in 1809 at Dorchester, Oxon
	19O2		John Collett					Born in 1810 at Dorchester, Oxon
	19O3		Susanna Collett					Born in 1813 at Dorchester, Oxon
	19O4		Richard Collett					Born in 1816 at Dorchester, Oxon
	19O5		Felix Collett					Born on 24.01.1819 at Dorchester, Ox
19N6	MARY COLLETT was born on 24.11.1782 at Drayton St Leonards, the daughter of Richard and Mary Collett. She married Jonathon Vaughan at Warborough on 31.01.1813 by which time she already had a base born son by an unknown father.
	However, the Quarter Sessions record of 1811 stated “Richard Wilsdon labourer £20 and John King farmer £20, both of Chalgrove (near Dorchester in Oxon) to answer for the child of Mary Collett of Dorchester”.
	There may be a link between John King referred to in the Quarter Sessions record and William King who married Ann Collett (Ref. 19M1). It is therefore possible that John was William’s son, making him the cousin of this Mary Collett.
	As Mary Vaughan she then had a further five children all born at Warborough where Jonathon Vaughan died on 25.12.1839 followed by Mary on 04.04.1850.
	19O6		RICHARD COLLETT					Born in 1809 at Dorchester, Oxon
	19O7		Ann Vaughan					Born on 21.08.1814 at Warborough
	19O8		Benjamin Vaughan					Born on 16.07.1815 at Warborough
	19O9		James Vaughan					Born on 12.04.1818 at Warborough
	19O10		John Vaughan					Born on 12.03.1820; died 19.02.1841
	19O11		Henry Vaughan					Born on 18.08.1822; died 05.04.1826
19N10	Samuel Collett was born at Dorchester in 1795, where he was baptised on 31.05.1795, the son of Mary Collett (the wife of Richard Collett of Dorchester). Rather late in his life, it would seem, he married Jane who was sixteen years younger than Samuel. This would appear to have happen during the 1840s.
	By the time of the census in 1851, Samuel Collett from Dorchester was living at Smiths Gardens in the St Mary Lambeth area of London, where he was working as a meal-man. He was 54, and living there with him was his wife Jane Collett who was 38 and from Hertfordshire.
19O1	Richard Collett was born in 1809 at Dorchester-on-Thames. It was also at Dorchester that died in 1811, the same year that his grandfather Richard Collett (Ref. 19M5) died.
19O2	John Collett was born at Dorchester in 1810 and it was there that he was baptised on 21.10.1810, the son of John and Hannah Collett.
	At the time of the June census in 1841 John Collett was 29 and was living at Dorchester, Overy in Oxfordshire with his parents, his brother Felix, and his sister Susan, together with Susan’ base-born daughter Jane Collett who was three years old.
	It would appear that both of his parents died during the 1840s, since by the time of the census in 1851 farm labourer John Collett aged 39 and from Dorchester was living at Scotts Row in Dorchester with his unmarried sister Susan and her daughter Jane.
	The three of them were still living together at Scotts Row ten years later in 1861, when John was 49, Susan was 47, and Jane was 22. What happened to Susan after this time is not known for sure, except that she was not living with her brother by 1871.
	Instead bachelor John Collett was 59 when he was recorded as still living at Scotts Row in Dorchester, and the only person living with him at that time in his life was his niece Jane Collett who was 32 and acting as his housekeeper.
	It was the same situation ten years later in 1881, when unmarried John was listed as being 69 years old and a farm labourer living at Scotts Row. Living with him once again was his niece Jane Collett. She too was born at Dorchester, and was listed as an unmarried tailoress of 42 years.
	John Collett died during the 1880s as he was not listed as living in Dorchester or anywhere else in 1891.
19O3	Susanna Collett was born at Dorchester in December 1813, the daughter of John and Hannah Collett. When she was around twenty-five years of age she gave birth to a daughter out of wedlock, following which both Susanna and her daughter Jane continued to live at the home of Susanna’s parents in Dorchester.
	In June 1841 Susan Collett was recorded with a rounded age of 25 in the first national census, while her daughter Jane was three years old. On that occasion she was living at the Dorchester, Overy home of her parents, together with her two brother John and Felix.
	During the next decade both her parents passed away, and her brother Felix left the family home to be married. So by the time of the next census in 1851 it was just 35 years old Susan and her thirteen years old daughter living at Scotts Row in Dorchester, with her unmarried brother John Collett, a farm labourer, as the only bread-winner.
	Ten years later in 1861 it was the same situation, with the three of them still living at Scotts Row. By that time Susan was listed as being 47, her daughter Jane was 22, and Susan’s brother John was 49. With no further record of Susan or Susanna Collett found in any subsequent census returns it is possible that she eventually married, or that she perhaps died while still in her early fifties.
	What is known for sure is that her daughter Jane continued to live with her uncle John Collett at Scotts Row in Dorchester up until his death sometime during the 1880s.
	19O12		Jane Collett					Born in 1838 at Dorchester, Oxon
19O4	Richard Collett was born at Dorchester in February 1816, the son of John and Hannah Collett. It was also at Dorchester that he married Sally Stanley on 05.02.1837. In the Census of 1881 they were living alone, except for a lodger, at Fulmer near Uxbridge. Richard was listed as a 64 years old gardener born at Dorchester and Sally as 63 and born at Burnham near Slough.
19O5	Felix Collett was born at Dorchester on 24.01.1819, the youngest known son of John and Hannah Collett. In June 1841 Felix was 21 and was still living at the family home in Dorchester with his family.
	Just less than six years after this he married Sarah Carter on 24.03.1847, Sarah having been born in 1826 at Denchworth near Wantage. Over the following few years Sarah presented her husband with four known children while the couple were living in Dorchester.
	This was confirmed by the census in 1861 which recorded the family was Felix Collett 39 (sic), his wife Sarah 35, and their four children as Alice Collett 13, George Collett 12, James Collett 9, and Hannah Collett who was five years old.
	By the time of the next census in 1871 Felix’s wife had died, so he was recorded as a widower at the age of 51. Living with him at that time in the Wallingford & Hendred district of Berkshire were just the two youngest of his four children, these being eighteen years old James and fourteen years old Hannah.
	During the next decade James and Hannah left home, Hannah to marry James Holliday. As a result of this, Felix went to live with Hannah at her new home in Upper Field in Dorchester. The census return described Felix Collett as father-in-law to head of the household James Holliday, and listed him as being aged 61 years, born at Dorchester, and having the occupation of a farm labourer and carter.
	No record of Felix has been found after this time, so it may be safe to assume that he died during the 1880s.
	19P1		Alice Collett					Born in July 1847 at Dorchester, Oxon
	19P2		George Collett					Born on 13.04.1849 at Dorchester, Ox
	19P3		James Collett					Born in 1851 at Dorchester, Oxon
	19P4		Hannah Collett					Born in 1856 at Dorchester, Oxon
19O6	RICHARD COLLETT was born at Dorchester where he was baptised on 29.10.1809, the base-born son of unmarried Mary Collett. It was unclear as to who his father was, and so it was decreed at the 1811 Quarter Sessions that the cost of rearing the child should be borne by two ‘suspects’, John King and Richard Wilsdon, each being charged £20.
	It may have been the ignominy of being a Collett within the Vaughan family that forced a division between Richard and his mother Mary, which eventually lead to his separation from the family.
	On 12^th February 1830 Richard enlisted as a farrier with the First Brigade Artillery of the Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Regiment and on 5^th March that year he travelled on the Castle Huntley to Madras. Seven years later he was a bombardier with the Log Roll Madras Artillery.
	He married Mary Elizabeth Rowland on 05.01.1835 at Nagapore, Madras in India. Mary, born in 1820 was the daughter of James Rowland born in 1800 of Yorkshire and Elizabeth Foulstone (1804-1848). The baptism records for all of their children provide confirmation that Richard was part of C Troop Horse Artillery.
	History relates that C Troop Horse Artillery left Madras in September 1841 to travel to China to take an active part in the storming of Ching Kiang Fu only returning to Madras in January 1843. Participation in this campaign earned Richard the China Medal for the 1842 First Opium War.
	Richard was invalided out of military service to the European Veterans on 31.05.1850 and six years later he died of effusion in the chest on 10.06.1856 aged 46. He was buried on 11.06.1856 at St Thomas’ Mount in Madras.
	His wife Mary died from dysentery on 21.01.1865 aged 44 and was also buried at St Thomas’ Mount. Upon his death Richard’s military record shows he left an estate in money and effects amounting to the princely sum of 14 pounds 12 shillings and 5 pence.
	19P5		Sarah Collett					Born on 22.11.1835 at Nagapore, India
	19P6		Richard Collett					Born on 09.10.1839 at Bangalore, India
	19P7		Elizabeth Collett					Born on 11.08.1841 at Bangalore, India
	19P8		JOHN COLLETT					Born on 08.01.1847 at Jaulnah, India
	19P9		James Collett					Born on 18.11.1849 at Jaulnah, India
	19P10		Jane Collett					Born on 17.08.1852 at Jaulnah, India
19O8	Benjamin Vaughan was born on 16.07.1815 at Warborough. According to the Census of 1881 for Warborough he was aged 67 and married to Martha also 67 but born at Kingston in Berkshire. Benjamin was an agricultural labourer and shepherd. Living with them was son Henry Vaughan aged 25 and an agricultural labourer born at Warborough.
19O9	James Vaughan was born on 12.04.1818 at Warborough. In the 1881 Census for that village, James was listed as aged 64 and a married agricultural labourer living at the home of his son 30 years old Abraham Vaughan and his family.
	Abraham was born at Warborough and was married to Sarah Hester aged 29 of Henley in Oxfordshire. In addition to the couple’s six children, Sarah’s mother Eliza Hester aged 68 and from Chieveley in Berkshire, was living with them.
19O10	John Vaughan was born at Warborough on 12.03.1820 but died shortly before his twenty-first birthday on 19.02.1841.
19O11	Henry Vaughan was born at Warborough on 18.08.1822 and survived for less than four years when he died on 05.04.1826.
19O12	Jane Collett was born at Dorchester in 1838 and was the base-born daughter of unmarried Susanna (Susan) Collett of Dorchester. Jane was three years old in the June census of 1841, when she was living with her mother at the Dorchester, Overy home of her grandparents.
	Following the death of her grandparents during the 1840s, Jane and her mother took over the family home at Scotts Row in Dorchester, which they shared with Jane’s uncle John Collett, her mother’s older brother. This was confirmed in the census of 1851 and 1861 when Jane was listed as being 13 and 22 respectively.
	Sometime during the following decade Jane’s mother either died or left Scotts Row to be married. By 1861 it was just Jane Collett, age 32, who was living with her uncle John, and this was repeated ten years later in 1881, when once again the pair of them were living at Scotts Row when Jane was 42.
	Where Jane went after the death of her uncle is not known, as she has not been identified within the census of 1891. However, by March 1901, Jane Collett from ‘Wallingford in Berkshire’ was 62 and was living in Middlesex where she was employed at a hand-wash laundry.
	Ten years later unmarried Jane Collett, aged 71 and from Dorchester in Oxfordshire, was living as an inmate at an institution in Brentford in Middlesex.
19P1	Alice Collett was born at Dorchester in July 1847, the daughter of Felix Collett and Sarah Carter.
19P2	George Collett was born at Dorchester-on-Thames on 13.04.1849, the eldest son of Felix and Sarah Collett. He married Susan Dyer on 14.10.1873 at Dorchester-on-Thames. Susan was born at Winterbourne Stoke in Wiltshire on 12.11.1853.
	In 1881 the couple were living in the village of North Stoke just to the south of Wallingford. George Collett was a County Police Constable aged 32 and his wife Susan was aged 27. With them were four of their first five children, their second son George Fitzroy Collett having already died by that time.
	These were James aged 7 who was born at Wheatley near Oxford, Cecil aged 4 who was born at Rotherfield Greys, George aged 2 who was born at Rotherfield Peppard (both near Henley), and Richard aged two months who was born at North Stoke.
	Sometime after April 1881 the family left North Stoke and moved the short distance north to Bensington, now called Benson. During their time at Bensington a further two children were added to the family, following which a further move, five miles north, took the family to Nuneham Courtney where their last child was born.
	Sometime during the next decade George’s work as a village policeman took him from Nuneham Courtney to the village of Islip near Bicester, to the north of Oxford. The census return for 1891 listed the family as George 42, his wife Susan 37, and their seven children.
	These were confirmed as James F C Collett 17, Cecil Collett 14, George Arthur Collett 12, Richard Collett 10, Albert Ernest Collett 7, Pamela Alice Collett who was five, and Septimus Octavian Collett who was four years old.
	From Islip the family made a final move to Hailey just north of Witney, and it was while they were living there that George eventually retired from the police force, only to enter into the world of farming.
	Just after the turn of the century, and according to the 1901 Census, George aged 52 and born at Dorchester was no longer a policeman but was living with his family at Hailey near Witney where he was working as a farmer.
	Living with George was his wife Susan, who was born at Winterbourne and was aged 47, together with their three youngest children. They were Albert, age 17, who was born at Benson, Pamela who was 15 and also born at Benson, and Septimus who was 14, who was born at Nuneham Courtney.
	During the next decade George and Susan left the village of Hailey and moved into the nearby town of Witney where they were living in early April 1911. George was 62 and Susan was 58, and still living with the couple was their youngest son Septimus Octavius Collett aged 24.
	Two years later while still at Witney, George died on 24.03.1913 aged 64. Susan survived her husband by over twenty-eight years when she died at the age of was 88 at Oxford on 20.12.1941.
	19Q1		James Felix Carlo Collett		Born on 09.01.1874 at Wheatley
	19Q2		George Fitzroy Collett		Born on 29.10.1875 at Rotherfield Greys
	19Q3		Cecil Collett		Born on 15.01.1877 at Rotherfield Peppard
	19Q4		George Arthur Collett		Born on 17.02.1878 at North Stoke
	19Q5		Richard Collett		Born on 04.02.1881 at North Stoke
	19Q6		Albert Ernest Collett		Born on 26.07.1883 at Benson
	19Q7		Pamela Alice Collett		Born on 27.08.1885 at Benson
	19Q8		Septimus Octavius Collett		Born on 07.02.1887 at Nuneham Courtney
19P3	James Collett was born at Dorchester after 30^th March in 1851, the son of Felix Collett and Sarah Carter. Around the latter half of the 1870s he married Susannah Elizabeth, and by the time of the census in 1881 the couple were living at 28 Brook Mews North in the Paddington area of London.
	The marriage only produced two known children for James and Susannah, and both of these were born prior to the census in 1881. On that occasion James Collett from Dorchester was 29 and he was employed as a domestic butler. His wife Susannah E Collett was from Bermondsey and was 28.
	The couple’s eldest child was Alice J Collett who was two years old and had been born while they were living in Paddington. However, their youngest child, James V Collett was under one year old and had been born at Shinfield, near Reading in Berkshire.
	Ten years later the family was still living in Paddington, where James was 38, Susannah was 36, and their two children were Alice 12, and James 10. It was appear that tragedy struck the family during the 1890s when James died, since by 1901 Susannah was a widow living at Kensington in London with just her two children.
	Susannah E Collett was 45, while her two children were recorded as Alice J Collett from Paddington who was 22, and James V Collett from Reading in Berkshire who was twenty years of age.
	During the next decade daughter Alice left the family home, presumably to be married, so by the time of the 1911 Census in April that year it was just Susannah Elizabeth Collett aged 56 who was living in the Kensington district of London with her thirty years old son James Valentine Collett.
	19Q9		Alice J Collett					Born in 1878 at Paddington
	19Q10		James Valentine Collett					Born in 1880 at Shinfield, Berks
19P4	Hannah Collett was born at Dorchester in 1856 the youngest child of Felix and Sarah Collett. She was recorded as Hannah Collett aged 5 and 14 in the 1861 and 1861 census returns, when living with her parents in the first of these, and then living with her widowed father in the second.
	Hannah married James Holliday in 1876 and by 1881 she and James were living at Upper Field in Dorchester with their two young sons. Hannah was referred to as Annie Holliday and was confirmed as being aged 24 and born at Dorchester, while her husband James was 25 and a farm labourer and carter also born at Dorchester.
	Living with them, in addition to their two children James Holliday 5 and George Holliday 4, was Hannah widowed father Felix Collett who was also a farm labourer and a carter on a farm.
19P5	Sarah Collett was born at Nagapore in Madras. The register for the baptism recorded the event on 5^th June 1836 as Sarah daughter of Richard Collett Farrier Horse Artillery and Eliza his European wife, born on 22^nd November 1835, baptised by C Jefferson Chaplain Nagpur.
19P6	Richard Collett was born at Bangalore in Madras on 09.10.1839. The register for the baptism recorded the event on 9^th October 1839 as Richard son of Richard Collett Rough Rider with C Troop H A and his wife Mary Eliza born this day and baptised by S J M Tuvor Chaplain.
19P7	Elizabeth Collett was born at Bangalore in Madras. The register for the baptism recorded the event on 29^th December 1841 as Elizabeth daughter of Richard Collett Gunner with C Troop H A and his wife Eliza, born on 11^th August 1841 baptised by W W Tuyens Joint Chaplain.
19P8	JOHN COLLETT was born at Jaulnah in Madras on 08.01.1947. The register for his baptism recorded that the event took place on 6^th June 1847 and that John was the son of Richard Collett Bombardier with C Troop H A and his wife Eliza. The baptised was conducted by William Nagle with sponsors Edward Kelly, Thomas Cribb and Jane Kelly.
	John married Rachael Moreino on 03.12.1866.
	19Q11		CHRISTOPHER HENRY COLLETT					Born in 1870 in India
19P9	James Collett was born at Jaulnah in Madras. The register for the baptism recorded the event on 5^th March 1850 as James son of Richard Collett C Troop H A and his wife Elizabeth, born on 18^th November 1849.
19Q1	James Felix Carlo Collett was born on 09.01.1874 at Wheatley near Oxford. In 1881 he was listed as being aged 7 years and born at Wheatley. At that time he was living with his family at North Stoke near Wallingford.
	Around 1898 he married Annie Florence Ostertag who was born at Barnsbury near Islington in London in 1881 but after 3^rd April. Florence was the daughter of Ulrich Ostertag, who was born in Alsace, and Elizabeth Robinson of Stafford. In 1881 just prior to her birth, Ulrich was a cook aged 22 who was living at 48 Wardour Street in Soho with his wife who was 25 and employed as a kitchen maid.
	Once married, the couple remained living near Florence’s parents at Barnsbury for a while and it was there that the first of their four daughters was born. Sometime over the next year or so the family of three moved south of the River Thames and settled for a short while in Southwark.
	Another moved followed not long after the birth of their second child which saw the family return to Oxfordshire and the village of Ramsden just north of the village of Hailey near Witney where James’ parents were living at that time.
	According to the 1901 Census the James aged 27 of Wheatley was living with his wife and two daughters at Ramsden Entire in Oxfordshire. His occupation at that time was that of a licenced victualler.
	His wife Florence of Barnsbury in London was aged 20 and their two children were aged two years and under twelve months respectively. By April 1911 the family was once again living in north London, the census that year confirming they were at Edmonton in Middlesex.
	Rather curiously the census recorded the family as only being James Felix Carlo aged 37, his wife as Annie Florence 30, and just two of their children, these being Dorothy aged 12 and Gladys Florence who was 10. No trace has been found of the couple’s other two daughters.
	James Collett died on 07.06.1944.
	19R1		Dorothy Collett					Born in 1898 at Barnsbury, London
	19R2		Gladys Florence Collett					Born in 1900 at Southwark
	19R3		Muriel Collett					Date and place of birth not known
	19R4		Mary Collett					Date and place of birth not known
19Q2	George Fitzroy Collett was born on 29.10.1875 at Rotherfield Greys near Henley where he died almost a year later on 27.09.1876.
19Q3	Cecil Collett was born on 15.01.1877 at Rotherfield Peppard near Henley and in 1881 he was listed as being aged 4 years. His place of birth was confirmed as Rotherfield Peppard and at that time he was living with his family in the village of North Stoke near Wallingford.
	Before the end of the century Cecil had joined the Life Guards and was recorded in the 1901 Census as Trooper Cecil Collett aged 23. His place of birth was given as simply Henley and he was based somewhere in Berkshire at that time.
	It would appear that within the next couple of years Cecil may have been invalided out of the army and that he most likely returned to the family home in Witney. It was while he was there that he met and married Agnes who was five years old than Cecil, she having been born at Witney in 1872.
	Shortly after they were married the couple were living at Windsor in Berkshire where their first son was born. Within a short while though, the family moved to Devon where they initially settled in Newton Abbot, and it was there that their second son was born.
	By the time of the 1911 Census the family of four had moved to Dorset and was living in the Dorchester. Cecil was employed at Warmwell House the home of Lady Eva Lillian Cecilia Wynford of Belgravia in London. Cecil was 34, married, and born at Henley-on-Thames, and was described as an army pensioner. His job at Warmwell House was that of a domestic servant and butcher.
	Living nearby in the Puddletown parish of Broadmayne was Cecil’s wife, Agnes Maria Collett aged 39 of Witney, and their two sons Wilfred aged 6 and Ronald aged 4.
	It is understood that a further son was born into the family and this may have taken place after April 1911, or if it happen between 1906 and 1911 then the child did not survive.
	During his life Cecil ran a holiday hotel at West Bay in Dorset. And it is possible, but not known for sure, that he was the owner of the George Hotel, the running of which was later taken over by his eldest son Wilfred
	19R5		Wilfred Cecil Collett					Born in 1904 at Windsor
	19R6		Ronald Eric Collett					Born in 1906 at Newton Abbot
	19R7		Kenneth Collett					Born after April 1911
19Q4	George Arthur Collett was born on 17.02.1878 at North Stoke and was given the same Christian name as his deceased older brother. In 1881 he was listed as being aged 2 years and born at North Stoke where he was living with his family.
	Twenty years later he had left the family home which was then at Hailey near Witney and had moved to Bicester Market End where there was already an established Collett family. Further work needs to be done to determine whether or not there was a family link that attracted George to go there.
	At that time he was aged 21 and his place of birth was confirmed as North Stoke. His occupation was recorded as that of a policeman as was his father George before his retirement from the police force.
	Over the next decade George left Oxfordshire and moved south to London where, in April 1911, he was aged 32 and living in Croydon and his place of birth was confirmed as having been North Stoke. Also living in Croydon at that time was his future wife Elizabeth Rose Winifred Powell who was also 32.
	From this information it seems very likely that they were married during the following twelve months, with their first child being born in the year after that. The couple spent nearly fifty years together before George died on 13.02.1960.
	19R8		Cyril Collett					Born in 1913 at Croydon
	19R9		Connie Collett					Date of birth not known
	19R10		Major Collett					Date of birth not known
	19R11		Gladys Collett					Date of birth not known
	19R12		Doris Collett					Date of birth not known
19Q5	Richard Collett was born on 04.02.1881 at North Stoke which was confirmed by the 1881 Census in which he was listed as being 2 months.
	Before his twentieth birthday Richard had followed the example of his older brother Cecil who had become a soldier. Richard enlisted with the First Life Guards and saw military action in the Boer War (1899-1901) and later in the First World War.
	According to the census of 1901 Richard aged 23 (sic) and born at North Stoke was serving as a trooper with the First Life Guards and was based in Kent.
	Almost exactly six years later Richard married Margaret Gibbons on 10.04.1907. Margaret was born on 02.12.1883 at Lancaster Gate in Paddington where the couple were married.
	Just over a year after they were married Margaret presented Richard with the first of their three children, the child being born at Reading where the family was living in 1911. The census that year recorded the family as Richard 30, Margaret 28, and two years old Margaret Alice.
	Richard died at Brighton in Sussex on 24.08.1961. Following the death of her husband it would appear that Margaret emigrated to Canada where she was reunited with her son Major and his family. And it was at Burlington in Ontario that Margaret died on 30.07.1982.
	19R13		Margaret Alice Collett					Born on 06.05.1908 at Reading
	19R14		Pamela Joan Collett					Born on 02.02.1916
	19R15		Major Stewart Collett					Born on 08.02.1925 at Wokingham
19Q6	Albert Ernest Collett was born on 26.07.1883 at Bensington near Wallingford. The name of his birthplace was later shortened to Benson as confirmed by the 1901 Census in which Albert was aged 17. At that time he was still living with his parents at their home in Hailey near Witney from where he was working as a brewer’s clerk.
	Seven years later he married Millicent Kate Harris on 04.05.1908 with whom he had four children. So far no trace of the family has been found in the census of 1911 when the couple’s first child would have been just over one year old. This might indicate that they were out of the country at that time.
	Albert died on 19.01.1940 at Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. His widow Kate suffered another tragedy in the family three years later when she received the sad news that her son Cecil had been killed in action while in the service of the Royal Marines.
	19R16		Guy Sidney Collett					Born on 15.10.1909
	19R17		Mary Millicent Collett					Born on 20.11.1912
	19R18		Cecil Ernest Collett					Born on 08.02.1915
	19R19		Dennis Albert Collett					Born on 04.05.1920
19Q7	Pamela Alice Collett was born on 27.08.1885 at Bensington (Benson). By 1901 she was aged 15 and was living with her parents at Hailey near Witney. On leaving school she later became a school teacher but during her first period of employment she was a ‘teacher monitoress’ at the National School in Hailey.
	She later married James (Jim) Lutener when she was in her early twenties. James B Lutener was born at Middlesbrough in Yorkshire around 1880 and was the son of James Lutener of Durham and his wife Emily. According to the census of 1901 James was an engine fitter aged 20 and was living with his family in York at that time.
	James Lutener senior was 52 and his occupation was that of a railway machinist, his wife Emily from Lincolnshire was 50, and the only other member of the family at that time was James’ younger brother Arthur who was 14 and an errand boy who had been born at Aycliffe in County Durham.
	The marriage produced three children for the couple and these were Florence and Jim who were born prior to the Great War, and Cecil who was born two years after. This might indicate that Jim Lutener senior was away on active service during the war years.
	By the time of the April census of 1911, Pamela Alice Lutener was recorded as being 25, her husband James Biott Lutener was 30, and with the couple at Witney was their first child Florence Emily who was listed as being just one year old since she was nearly three months short of her second birthday.
	While their daughter was born at Witney, it seems likely that their two sons may have also been born there.
	It is understood that the name Lutener was derived from a corruption of the name of the village of Lewknor in Oxfordshire.
	19R20		Florence Emily Lutener					Born on 26.06.1909
	19R21		James Lutener					Born on 17.05.1913
	19R22		Cecil Lutener					Born on 12.02.1920
19Q8	Septimus Octavius Collett was born on 07.02.1887 at Nuneham Courtney north of Dorchester-on-Thames. By the time of the 1901 Census he was aged 14 and was living with his parents at Hailey near Witney where he was working with his father George who was a farmer.
	He later married Lily Fanimore before April 1911 and the marriage produced three children for the couple. At the time of the census of 1911 Septimus and Lily were both 24 and were living at Witney.
	19R23		Kathleen Collett					Born in 1915
	19R24		Stanley Collett					Born circa 1920
	19R25		Gordon Collett					Born on 24.07.1924
19Q9	Alice J Collett was born at Paddington in 1878, the only daughter of James and Susannah Elizabeth Collett. When she was two years old she was living with her family at 28 Brook Mews North in Paddington.
	By the time of the census in March 1901, her father had died and at the age of 22 she was working as a forewoman for a draper in the Kensington area of London where she was still living with her mother and brother James (below). With no record of her in the next census in 1911, it must be assumed that she was married by that time.
19Q10	James Valentine Collett was born at Shinfield, near Reading in Berkshire in 1880 and he was under one year old at the time of the census in 1881, when he was living at 28 Brook Mews North in Paddington with his family.
	Upon leaving school he became a commercial clerk, as confirmed by the census in 1901 when he was twenty years of age and was living in the Kensington area of London with his widowed mother, and older sister Alice.
	James Valentine Collett was still a bachelor ten years later, when he was thirty years old and still living with his mother in the Kensington district of London. What became of him after this time is not currently known, nor has it been established whether he was ever married.
19Q11	CHRISTOPHER HENRY COLLETT was born in 1870. He was a lawyer and married Annie Maude Hart on 26.03.1894 in India. Christopher died around 1898, following which Annie married Mr Sterling.
	19R26	JOHN CHRISTOPHER HART COLLETT								Born on 18.10.1894 in India
19R5	Wilfred Cecil Collett was born at Windsor in 1904. Shortly after he was born his parents moved to Newton Abbot in Devon where Wilfred’s brother was born. Sometime prior to 1911 the family of four moved again, this time to Dorchester in Dorset.
	According to the census of 1911, the family was living in the Puddletown parish of Broadmayne in Dorchester where was Wilfred was six years old. At some later date Wilfred’s parents moved to coastal resort of West Bay, not far from Dorchester where they took over the running of the George Hotel.
	Whether the premises had been purchased by the Collett family has not been determined, but it is known that Wilfred eventually took over the management of the hotel.
19R12	Doris Collett, whose date of birth is not known at this time, is known to have married H P Bishop in China. She later died in the United States of America.
19R13	Margaret Alice Collett was born on 06.05.1908. She married Percival Barney and they had three children Brian Barney, Pamela Barney, and Gordon Watson Collett Barney, all of whom lived in Toronto.
19R14	Pamela Joan Collett was born on 02.02.1916. She married Harold Cheeseman on 03.04.1936 and they had three sons. Ian Howard Cheeseman who was born on 04.11.1937 at Crawley in West Sussex who later married in Canada but who was living in Rhodesia in the 1960s. And Peter Cheeseman and Stewart Cheeseman, the latter being married at Oshawa in Ontario.
19R15	Major Stewart Collett was born on 08.02.1925 at Wokingham in Sussex. He married (1) Joan Dorothy Brown at Horsham in West Sussex. Joan was born at Cheam in Surrey on 12.10.1925 and died at Scarborough in Ontario on 13.04.1976. Their first two children were born while they were still living in England. The others were born after the family had emigrated to live in Canada.
	After the death of Joan, Major married (2) Heather Summerfield in Toronto.
	19S1		Carol Jacqueline Collett					Born on 17.07.1942 at Crawley
	19S2		Roger Stewart Collett					Born on 18.06.1944 at Crawley
	19S3		Carl Collett					Born on 07.07.1966 at Ontario, Canada
	19S4		Stefanie Victoria Collett					Born on 24.05.1968 at Ontario, Canada
19R16	Guy Sidney Collett was born on 15.10.1909 and he married Thelma Doris Cole.
	19S5		Rebecca Collett					Born in 1970
	19S6		Rodney Collett					Date of birth unknown
19R17	Mary Millicent Collett was born on 20.11.1912 and she married Charles Oliver Wise. The marriage produced two daughters for the couple, and these were Jane Mary Wise who was born on 28.04.1940 and Susan Lindsey Wise whose date of birth is not known. Mary Millicent died in 1999.
19R18	Cecil Ernest Collett was born on 08.02.1915 and he was killed during the Second World War on 13.03.1943 at Dieppe in France. The record of his death is included in the Collett website folder entitled WW2 Collett Fatalities and is reproduced below.
	Cecil Ernest Collett was a Sergeant PLY/X101104 with the Royal Marines and was born on 8^th February 1915 and was the son of Albert Ernest and Kate Millicent Collett. His name is included amongst those listed on the Plymouth Naval Memorial – Panel 83, Column 3.
19R19	Dennis Albert Collett was born on 14.05.1920 and he married Olive Leah Buckingham with whom he had two children. The only other information so far known about the couple at this time, is that they jointly ran a bookshop at Farnham in Surrey during the 1950s and 1960s.
	During the summer of 2010, ninety years old Dennis was staying at a nursing home in the Petersfield area of Hampshire.
	19S7		Jennifer Christine Collett					Died in 29.11.1999
	19S8		David Geoffrey Collett					Born on 24.04.1954
19R20	Florence Emily Lutener, who was known as Flossie, was born at Witney on 20.06.1909 and was one year old at the time of the 1911 Census when she was living at Witney with her parents. She lived a long life and passed away on 28.08.2004.
19R21	James Lutener was born on 17.05.1913 and this may have taken place at Witney where his parents were living in April 1911. He was known as Jim and he later married, the marriage producing two sons for him and his wife. James died on 28.10.1998 and it was his son Hugh who kindly provided the brief details of his father’s and his grandfather’s families.
	19S9		Hugh Lutener					Born on 08.06.1946
	19S10		Paul Brian Lutener					Born on 12.01.1950
19R22	Cecil Lutener, who was born on 12.02.1920, is known to have died in September 1998 just a few weeks before his brother Jim (above).
19R23	Kathleen Collett was born in 1915 and married Francis Alfred Davis on 24.06.1939. Francis was born in 1914 and died in 1981. During the war years between 1940 and 1946 Kathleen presented her husband with three children.
	It is understood that Kathleen was living at Pershore in Worcestershire during 2007.
	19S11		Andrea Jane Davis					Born in September 1940
	19S12		Warren Davis					Born in June 1944
	19S13		Kevin Davis					Born in May 1946
19R24	Stanley Collett may have been born around 1920. Very little is known about him except that he must have been married as he had a daughter Anne Collett who later married a Mr Jones.
	19S14		Anne Collett					Date of birth unknown
19R26	JOHN CHRISTOPHER HART COLLETT was born on 18.10.1894 in India where he married Florence May Ritchie in 1929. John died at Rockhampton in Australia in 1958 and Florence died later at Sydney in 1998.
	19S15		LEON CHRISTOPHER COLLETT					Born on 03.07.1936 in India
19S2	Roger Stewart Collett was born on 18.06.1944 at Manor House in Crawley, West Sussex. He married Linda Blowing at Highland Creek near Toronto in 1965.
	19T1		Scott Douglas Collett	Born on 11.02.1967 at Scarborough, Canada
	19T2		Leah Collett	Born on 11.01.1972 at Scarborough, Canada
	19T3		Karen Lisa Collett	Born on 16.02.1976 at West Hill, Canada
19S4	Stefanie Victoria Collett was born on 24.05.1968 at Burlington, Ontario. She married (1) Roger Allard in May 1986 at North York in Ontario. She later married (2) John William Bryan on 11.04.1992 at Dahlonega in Georgia, USA.
	This second marriage for Stefanie produced two children these being Collette Virginia Bryan who was born on 01.10.1993 and Heather Bryan who was born on 30.05.1996.
	Stefanie then married for a third time, David Eugene Brotheridge on 11.11.2000 at Marietta in Georgia.
19S8	David Geoffrey Collett was born on 24.04.1954 and he married Christine Barbara Mortimer. In the summer of 2010 David and Christine were living at Southsea in Hampshire, and living there with them are their daughter Maria and her fiancé.
	19T4		Andrew David Collett					Born on 13.03.1979
	19T5		Leah Christine Collett					Born on 13.02.1981
	19T6		Steven Denis Collett					Born on 09.08.1983
	19T7		Maria Michelle Collett					Born on 06.06.1989
19S14	Anne Collett was the daughter of Stanley Collett and she married Mr Jones.
19S15	LEON CHRISTOPHER COLLETT was born on 03.07.1936 in India, the only son of John Christopher Hart Collett and Florence May Ritchie. At the age of sixteen (in 1952) he received the Rotary Prize as the High School’s ‘Best All-Rounder’, and this was followed by He later studied at Pacific Union College in Angwin in California where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in 1960. Leon married Catheryne Davis Kaltenbach (USA/Aus) in Sydney on 10.05.1962.
	Leon continued with his studies and in 1966 he secured a Commonwealth University Scholarship with which he attended the University of New South Wales in Kensington where in 1968, he became a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours. This was followed by further success when he was awarded a CSIRO Postgraduate Scholarship that same year.
	Eight years after this Leon was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy at the same university in 1976 for his thesis entitled ‘Respiratory physiology of two turbinid gastropod molluscs in relation to their ecology’.
	During his working life as a scientist in the field of hydraulics and the environment Leon wrote many books and articles on the subject, some of which were co-written with various colleagues. From 1971 to 1977 Leon was employed by the New South Wales Fisheries as a senior biologist, during which time, and together with a colleague David Pollard, he co-wrote ‘Guidelines for the establishment of underwater parks and reserves in Australian waters’ which became recognised as a seeding initiative on this topic in Australia. It also led to a National Conference on this subject in 1978, and the subsequent establishment of marine parks and reserves in several States.
	Another joint publication released during this period in his life was entitled ‘Guidelines for the protection and management of estuaries and estuarine wetlands’ and this paved the way for a number of subsequent worthwhile outcomes and careers. It was also adopted by the Metropolitan Waste Disposal Authority in Sydney to limit the use of wetlands around the city for the disposal of waste.
	On leaving the NSW Fisheries, Leon worked as a project leader for the Marine Pollution Studies Group in Melbourne where he was the co-author of a book relating to the pollution of sea grasses in eastern Australia which was published in 1978. In addition to this, and during the years between 1974 and 1978, Leon served as a member of the council on the Marine Science Association of Australia.
	By 1981 Leon was working for the Port Phillip Bay as their Technical Director. Five years later in 1986 Leon was awarded a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Policy while at the University of Melbourne in Parkville in Victoria. It was also around this time that he was appointed Executive Officer to the Director-General of the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands.
	Also during the 1980s he was involved in a number of environmental projects, including the establishment of the Point Cook Marine Park, the St Kilda Tourism Development Plan, and the beautification of Geelong and Lakes Entrance waterfronts.
	In 1991 Leon was appointed to the post of Senior Executive with the Melbourne Water Corporation and the Melbourne Parks & Waterways Authority. During this period in his life he wrote ‘A Solution to Urban Run-off’ which was published in 1992, and the following year he co-wrote ‘The Urban Waterway Challenge’ with two fellow scientists.
	A further book followed in 1995 which was entitled ‘Ecology impacts of groundwater discharges to catchment streams and Port Phillip Bay’ which formed part of a major project managed by Leon under the name of the Port Phillip Bay Environmental Study.
	During the previous year (1994) Leon was appointed Manager of Corporate Risk Management with the County Fire Authority.
	The photograph of Leon (above) was taken during June 2006 while he and Catheryne were in England for the second Collett Reunion at Shepton Mallet. All of the photographs included in the reunion file were taken by Leon and kindly donated for displaying in this way. (see Shepton Mallet June 2006)
	Five years earlier in March 2001 Leon had joined the staff at the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) as National Program Coordinator. The AFAC is responsible for the provision of fire and emergency services throughout Australia and New Zealand.
	He was a well respected member of the team and represented the AFAC at many national forums, committees, and events, and was always keen to share his experiences and knowledge to benefit the industry and the communities it served.
	After many years within the fire and emergency services sector, particularly through his long association with the fire services in Victoria, Leon was able to use his amazing intellect and particular analytical ability to raise awareness of problems and, more importantly, pose solutions on how to address them.
	Leon was responsible for managing the AFAC Strategic Information Management Strategy Group, Data Management Group and, Business Management Group. In addition to this, Leon played a key role in supporting the Chief Executive Officer on many strategic issues, including analysis of the Council of Australian Government (COAG) Reform Agenda; the impacts for the industry of the COAG Bushfire Inquiry and the formulation of the partnership arrangements between AFAC member agencies and the Pacific Islands Fire Service Association.
	After working there for almost six years Leon retired at the end of 2006. However, even in his retirement Leon remained an active member of the community. An occasional panel member of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Leon enjoyed the opportunity to use his expertise to guide public policy and community benefit decisions.
	Through his work Leon had also been involved with the Australasian Assembly of Volunteer Fire Brigade Associations Inc which, upon his retirement, stated that ‘he was an excellent scientist’. During his time with the Fire Authority, Leon had also worked closely over many years with the Fire Service in the United Kingdom.
	In addition to all of this, Leon was an active member of the Planning Panels Victoria in a juridical role, the organisation which manages the conduct of individual panels appointed by the Minister for Planning.
	Outside his business interests, Leon’s passions included attending the gym, building his consultancy business (Collett Consulting), reading, cooking, listening to classical music, and writing a book on Gosses Bluff – a meteor crater in the McDonald Ranges.
	Collett Consulting was involved in many area of working including: Coastal Zone Management (Federal and State Governments); Land Use Planning; Catchment Management; Water Conservation; Risk Management (Federal and State Governments); and Emergency Management (Federal and State Governments).
	Tragically, only one year into his retirement, Leon died rather unexpectedly on 30.11.2007. A tribute to him by the AFAC read as follows: ‘Leon made a wonderful contribution to AFAC and the fire industry, but more importantly he made a fantastic contribution to the lives of those around him, and he will be dearly missed’. Included in Appendix C at the end of this line are other tributes to Dr Leon C Collett.
	Such was Leon’s standing in the community, that in 2007 he was nominated for the prestigious award of Australian of Year for 2008 which, sadly in this case, and in accordance with the rules and regulations, could not be presented posthumously.
	19T8	JACQUELENE MARCELLE COLLETT							Born on 17.07.1963 at Sydney, Aus
19T1	Scott Douglas Collett was born at Scarborough in Ontario on 11.02.1967, and he later married Paula in 1998.
19T2	Leah Collett was born at Scarborough in Ontario on 11.01.1972, and she later married Russ Blunsdon.
19T3	Karen Lisa Collett was born on 16.02.1976 at West Hill in Ontario.
19T4	Andrew David Collett, who is known as Andy, was born on 13.03.1979. He is married to Catherine Elizabeth Radford and in the summer of 2010 they celebrated the birth of their first child.
	Andy and Catherine currently live in Melbourne, and it is thanks Andy that the new details about himself, his siblings, his father, and his grandfather have now been included in this family line.
	19U1	Chloe Elizabeth Collett							Born on 06.07.2010 at Melbourne, Aus
19T5	Leah Christine Collett, who is known as Christine, was born on 13.02.1981. In 2010 Leah is undertaking a degree course at Cambridge University
19T6	Steven Denis Collett was born on 09.08.1983 and in 2010 he was living at Farnham in Surrey with his partner, where their son was born.
	19U2	Jason Collett					Born on 16.07.2010 at Farnham, Surrey
19T7	Maria Michelle Collett was born on 06.06.1989 and in 2010 she is engaged to be married and is living with her fiancée at the Southsea home of her parents David and Christine.
19T8	JACQUELENE MARCELLE COLLETT was born on 17.07.1963 at Sydney. She married Michael Barron at Melbourne on 20.11.1983 and they had two children both born in Melbourne: Sophie Alice Barron born 13.02.1996 and Alexandra Olivia Barron born 04.04.2000.
	Jacquelene worked in the field of Pathology and Cytology, while Michael was a Barrister/Senior Council & Company Secretary with a large Australian mining company.
	APPENDIX A
	All of the following information relating to Stephen Collett who died at Bishopsgate in London in 1833 at the age of 72, has been received from Valerie (surname not supplied), and it was originally thought it might relate to Stephen Collett (Ref. 19M5) who was born at Lewknor in 1761. But this has not yet been proved.
	The alternative might be that Stephen may have been the son of Peter Collett and his wife Deborah Collett of Bishopsgate. It is also understood that Peter may have been a Huguenot Collett or Colet and very possibly a nonconformist, hence the reason for not being able to locate his baptism record, or a record of his marriage.