PART TWO

The Secondary Line - 1550 to 1780

This is the first of three sections of Part Two of the Collett family

Updated February 2010

This part deals with a line of the Collett family that runs parallel to the one depicted in Part One. It is unusual in that it is connected to it by the marriage below of John Collett (Ref. 1F9) and Elizabeth Venfield in 1593 at the beginning and by the marriage of Harry James Collett (Ref. 2P5) and Alice Louisa Collett (Ref. 1P33) in 1909 at the end.

In succeeding to establish the starting point of this line, a life long ambition has been achieved. All of the years of perseverance and determination to unearth the link has been rewarded, the results of which are contained within the contents of the three sections of Part Two.

Very special thanks must also go to Gordon John Collett (Ref. 3Q5) who, at that time was of Boston in Lincolnshire, who unwittingly provided the details that enabled the missing link to be found. John contacted me in December 2001 via the Collett website of Don Collett of Australia to whom my earlier work had been given. In seeking my help with his own family line, John kindly sent me all the information he and his son Martin Collett (Ref. 3R3), also of Australia, had amassed. And it was from clues provided therein that I was able to make the final link.

This part of the family history is therefore jointly dedicated to Martin, and John Collett who at the end of 2005 had moved to live at Towcester in Northamptonshire but who returned to Lincolnshire in 2008.

2F1	JOHN COLLETT (Ref. 1F9) was born in 1548 at Over Slaughter. He married Elizabeth Venfield of Naunton in 1583. He was joint Lord of the Manor of Over Slaughter with Gyles Venfield who was possibly Elizabeth’s brother.
	In 1591 John Collett, with his brother Thomas Collett (Ref. 1F8) and Richard Perratt they were listed as Trustees of the Lands of Upper Slaughter which were purchased and conveyed for the repair of the church and the relief of the poor. John’s son Anthony (below) married Margaret Perratt who is likely to be Richard Perratt’s daughter.
	John Collett died in Naunton in 1605 and his Will was proved later that same year.
	2G1		John Collett		Born in 1584
	2G2		Sarah Collett		Born in 1586
	2G3		Henry Collett		Born in 1588
	2G4		Edmund Collett		Born in 1590
	2G5		Alice Collett		Born in 1592
	2G6		ANTHONY COLLETT		Born in 1594
2G1	John Collett born circa 1584 at Naunton and was mentioned in the 1608 Visitation. He married Anne Peart and was Lord of the Manor. As the nephew of Anthony Collett (Ref. 14F1), vis-a-vis the son of Anthony’s older brother John Collett, ‘John Collett of Naunton’ was named as one of three trustees to Anthony’s Will of 1627 for which he was paid five shillings and was also a witness at the signing of the Will. (see Will in Legal Documents)
	John died in 1641 and was buried at Naunton and his Will was proved that same year. The couple had no children and after his death Anne lived in Bourton-on-the-Water, although her body was returned to Over Slaughter for burial on 03.09.1678.
	John’s Will refers to his natural brother Edmund Collett (below) and wife Esther and their four children, his eldest brother Henry Collett (below) and wife Judith Collett both of Upper Slaughter and their sons Henry Collett (Ref. 2H1), Edmund Collett (Ref. 2H5) and Richard Collett (Ref. 2H9) and their five daughters.
	It also refers to Henry Collett of Nethercott and his son Anthony Collett and three other children, John Collett (Ref. 2H14) the eldest son of brother Anthony Collett (below) and the rest of Anthony’s children, his sister Sarah Thorne (below) and her husband Edmund Thorne and their children, and cousin John Collett of Gloucester.
	The sole executor of the Will was John Collett’s youngest brother Anthony Collett (below) of Nether Slaughter.
2G2	Sarah Collett born circa 1586 at Naunton married Edmund (or Edward) Thorne and had a son Edmund plus other children.
2G3	Henry Collett of Upper Slaughter was born circa 1588 at Naunton and married Judith. They had nine children all baptised at Naunton. Later in their lives Henry and Judith were referred to as being ‘of Slaughter’ – see below.
	Henry’s cousin Henry Collett (Ref. 14G2), of Bourton-on-the Water and the husband of Ann Lombard, made his Will in 1645. In this he bequeathed to ‘Henry Collett and Judith Collett of Slaughter’ an annual supply of wood to the value of five shillings per annum.
	The Will stipulated a time limit for the offer of the wood which would cease when the second son reached the age of 21 years, and this would have been around 1648.
	Sadly Judith’s husband Henry also died later in the same year as their benefactor in 1645, so it was she alone that benefited from the Will.
	2H1		Henry Collett		Baptised on 17.12.1608
	2H2		Alice Collett		Baptised on 29.07.1610
	2H3		John Collett		Baptised on 01.12.1611
	2H4		Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 20.02.1613
	2H5		Edmund Collett		Baptised on 01.11.1618
	2H6		Ann Collett		Baptised on 26.11.1620
	2H7		Joan Collett		Baptised on 17.12.1622
	2H8		Brigid Collett		Baptised on 06.10.1625
	2H9		Richard Collett		Born circa 1628
2G4	Edmund Collett was born circa 1590 at Naunton and married Esther Brown and they had four children. The family lived in Gloucester.
	2H10		Edmund Collett		Date unknown
	2H11		John Collett		Date unknown
	2H12		Sarah Collett		Date unknown
	2H13		Elizabeth Collett		Date unknown
2G5	Alice Collett was born circa 1592 at Naunton. She died in 1625 never having married and was living at Winchcombe at the time of her death. Her Will was proved in 1625. The Winchcombe connection could be associated with John Thorne and his wife Elizabeth both referred to in the Will of John Collett (above) as ‘of Winchcombe’. See also Sarah Collett (above) who married into the Thorne family.
2G6	ANTHONY COLLETT of Nether Slaughter was born circa 1594 at Naunton. He married Margaret Perratt of Over Slaughter on 09.10.1614. Margaret was the daughter of Nicholas Perratt and was born at Naunton in 1595. Anthony was referred to as a Yeoman of Lower Slaughter. He died at Bourton-on-the-Water before 1648.
	His Will proved at Gloucester in 1648 makes no reference to his eldest son John Collett (below) even though he was named in the 1641 Will of his brother John Collett (above). All of the other children, including Elizabeth the widow of Anthony Collett (below), were mentioned in the Will. Anthony’s son Thomas Collett (below) was sole executor of the Will (see Will in Legal Documents)
	Anthony was sole executor in the Will of his brother John Collett (above) made in 1641.
	2H14		John Collett		Born in 1615
	2H15		Edward Collett		Baptised on 04.06.1617
	2H16		Anthony Collett		Baptised on 12.02.1618
	2H17		Thomas Collett		Born in 1619
	2H18		Nicholas Collett		Born in 1621
	2H19		Anne Collett		Born in 1623
	2H20		William Collett		Baptised on 12.08.1624
	2H21		Margaret Collett		Born in 1625
	2H22		RICHARD COLLETT		Baptised on 03.12.1627
2H12	Sarah Collett whose date of birth is not known married Mr Lovatt.
2H14	John Collett was born in 1615 and may have died between 1641 and 1648 since he was not mentioned in his father’s Will of 1648 (above) but was a beneficiary under the terms of the Will of his uncle John Collett (Ref. 2G1).
2H15	Edward Collett was baptised on 04.06.1617 at Bourton on the Water. He received two cattle and some household items in the Will of Anthony Collett (above) his father.
2H16	Anthony Collett was baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water on 12.02.1618 and he married Elizabeth Guyle in 1643. Anthony died in 1648 as confirmed in the 1648 Will of his father Anthony Collett (above) in which Elizabeth was referred to as ‘my daughter-in-law, late wife to Anthony Collett deceased’.
	Her son John Collett (below) was the only grandchild referred to in her father-in-law’s Will, her first born son Anthony Collett (below) already having passed away while still a baby.
	Elizabeth, who died in 1651, is very likely to have been ‘with child’ at the time of the death of her father-in-law Anthony Collett (above), because a third son Richard Collett (below) was born soon after the Will was made with no mention of that child. This also indicates that this Anthony Collett died in 1648 before the birth of his third child.
	2I1		Anthony Collett		Baptised on 09.01.1644
	2I2		John Collett		Born in 1646
	2I3		Richard Collett		Born in 1648
2H17	Thomas Collett was born around 1619 and he married Elizabeth Mason of Ayfred at Upper Slaughter on 04.03.1644. The marriage produced seven children for the couple and in 1650 Thomas purchased the Old Parsonage at Lower Slaughter where the family lived.
	Thomas was sole executor of the Will of his father Anthony Collett (Ref. 2G6) in 1648. Thomas, who was referred to as ‘yeoman of Lower Slaughter, died at Lower Slaughter in 1684.
	His own Will dated 1683, for which son Anthony Collett (below) was sole executor, was proved at Gloucester in 1684. This included a request to be buried at Bourton-on-the-Water. All of their children were mentioned in Thomas’ Will in which his brother Richard Collett (Ref. 2H22) and landlord William Roberts were named as overseers.
	When Elizabeth died in 1693 she too was buried at Bourton. The property known as ‘The Old Parsonage’ was still owned by this Collett family in 1896.
	2I4		Anthony Collett		Born in 1645
	2I5		Thomas Collett		Born in 1646
	2I6		William Collett		Born in 1648
	2I7		Edmund Collett		Born in 1650
	2I8		Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1651
	2I9		Margaret Collett		Born in 1653
	2I10		John Collett		Born in 1655
2H18	Nicholas Collett was born in 1621 and he died shortly after he was born.
2H19	Anne Collett was born in 1623 and by the time of the death of her father Anthony Collett (Ref. 2G6) in 1648 she had not married.
2H20	William Collett was baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water on 12.08.1624 and was the son of Anthony according to the IGI. Whilst there are no details available at this time relating to William, it is of particular interest that, after him in this line, there are no members of the family with the same christian name for over one hundred year
	He may therefore be the missing link between this family line and that of the Collett family of Bourton-on-the-Water detailed in Part Thirty-Three in which there is a William in successive generations
	For this to be true, this William Collett could be the grandfather of William Collett (Ref. 33J1) who was born around 1685 at Bourton and it would seem logical, knowing family traditions, that within the missing generation there was a William Collett who was probably the father of William (Ref. 33J1). Further work needs to be done to verify this assumption
2H21	Margaret Collett was born in 1625 and by the time of the death of her father Anthony Collett (Ref. 2G6) in 1648 she had not married.
2H22	RICHARD COLLETT elder of Nether Slaughter and Yeoman was baptised on 03.12.1627 at Bourton-on-the-Water. He married Elizabeth Hunt of Lower Slaughter with whom he had seven children. He inherited land at Westcote from his father Anthony Collett (Ref. 2G6) who died in 1648 and this was passed onto son Joshua Collett (below) in 1715. Richard died on 06.08.1715 at Westcote aged 89, and his Will dated 1715 was proved that same year.
	In the Will Richard’s son Thomas Collett (below) was referred to in the Will as ‘Thomas of Sherborne’. Henry Akerman was named and his wife Sarah nee Collett (below) and their children, as was son-in-law John Eldridge (the husband of Margaret below) and his sons, son William Collett (below) and his children, and daughter Elizabeth Smith nee Collett (below) who had no children.
	However, there is no reference to daughter Margaret Collett who married John Eldridge. It is possible that she had died by 1715, and likewise for Elizabeth’s husband John Smith for whom there was also no reference. Richard’s sons John and Joshua were named as joint executors of the Will, which was dated 18^th February 1714.
	Richard’s and Elizabeth’s youngest son William (below) married Elizabeth Hunt (Ref. 2J5) the daughter Elizabeth Collett and John Hunt
	2I11		JOHN COLLETT		Born in 1658
	2I12		Thomas Collett		Baptised on 02.09.1660
	2I13		Joshua Collett		Baptised on 12.10.1661
	2I14		Paris Collett		Baptised on 12.09.1662 at Upper Slau.
	2I15		Sarah Collett		Baptised in 1663
	2I16		Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1665
	2I17		Margaret Collett		Born in 1667
	2I18		William Collett		Born in 1669
2I1	Anthony Collett was baptised at St Nicholas Church in Gloucester on 09.01.1644, the eldest son of Anthony Collett and Elizabeth Guyle. Tragically he died on 26.05.1646 when he was only two years old.
2I4	Anthony Collett was born at Lower Slaughter in 1645, the son of Thomas Collett and Elizabeth Mason. He was named as the eldest son in the 1683 Will of his father Thomas Collett and sole executor of the Will.
	Anthony was married and it known to have had the two sons listed below, although there may also have been other children from the marriage. Anthony died at Lower Slaughter in 1722.
	2J1		Thomas Collett		Born circa 1670
	2J2		Anthony Collett		Date of birth unknown
2I5	Thomas Collett was born at Lower Slaughter in 1646. He was referred to as Thomas of Slaughter in later years. He received an inheritance of £40 under the terms the 1683 Will of his father Thomas Collett. He was also named as overseer of the Will with his father’s landlord William Roberts.
2I6	William Collett was born at Lower Slaughter in 1648, the son of Thomas Collett and Elizabeth Mason. He died in 1693.
2I7	Edmund Collett was born at Lower Slaughter in 1650. He was known to have married as the 1683 Will of his father Thomas Collett referred to his son Edmund Collett and his daughter Elizabeth Collett.
	2J3		Elizabeth Collett		Born circa 1670
	2J4		Edmund Collett		Date of birth unknown
2I8	Elizabeth Collett was born at lower Slaughter in 1651 and she married John Hunt in 1683. Both are mentioned in the 1683 Will of her father Thomas Collett and this indicates that Elizabeth was with child as the inheritance of £10 was to be paid ‘within six months of issue’ and then only if Elizabeth survived.
	Elizabeth’s husband John Hunt was very likely the nephew of Elizabeth Hunt who married Elizabeth Collett’s uncle Richard Collett (Ref. 2H22).
	Their daughter Elizabeth married William Collett (see Ref. 2I18) who was her mother’s cousin.
	2J5	Elizabeth Hunt		Born in 1684
2I9	Margaret Collett was born at Lower Slaughter in 1653 and she married Edward Dassett in 1673. Both Margaret and her son Richard Dassett are referred to in the 1683 Will of her father Thomas Collett.
2I10	John Collett was born at Lower Slaughter in 1655 and he married Edy around 1675-80. The couple and their son John were named in the 1683 Will of John‘s father Thomas Collett.
	2J6		John Collett		Born 1676-1680
2I11	JOHN COLLETT of Naunton was born in 1658. He married (1) Margaret Thomas and later (2) Elizabeth Green of Upper Slaughter at Bourton-on-the-Water on 17.07.1683. John was referred to as ‘a tenant of Lower Slaughter’ and died at Naunton in 1707 and was not mentioned in his father’s Will of 1715.
	All of the children came from the second marriage and were born and baptised at Upper Slaughter as confirmed in Pedigree Six of The Collett Saga by Margaret Chadd. However, in this book John is given as married (1) to Margaret Thomas and (2) to the widow of Mr K Akerman with children Thomas and Mary. Interestingly John’s sister Sarah Collett (Ref. 2I15) married Henry Akerman.
	2J7		first child – exact details unknown		Born in 1684
	2J8		John Collett		Baptised on 28.05.1686
	2J9		RICHARD COLLETT		Baptised on 10.02.1687
	2J10		Mary Collett		Baptised on 26.07.1690
2I12	Thomas Collett was baptised on 02.09.1660 at Upper Slaughter. He was later referred to in the 1715 Will of his father Richard Collett as Thomas of Sherborne and through which he inherited £31.
	He married Joan and they had four children. All four are likely to have been born at Sherborne since it was there that Thomas was buried on 03.02.1732 aged 68 followed by Joan who was buried there on 09.06.1740.
	It seems very likely that there were other children born to the couple since in the Will of their son Thomas there was a reference to two kinswomen. One of these was his sister Elizabeth Hitchman nee Collett and the other was Sarah Jones who was very likely another sister.
	2J11		Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 05.08.1692
	2J12		Sarah Collett		Date unknown
	2J13		Richard Collett		Baptised on 14.05.1698
	2J14		Thomas Collett		Date unknown
2I13	Joshua Collett Yeoman of Westcote was baptised on 12.10.1661 at Bourton-on-the-Water. Under the 1715 Will of his father Richard Collett he inherited land at Westcote.
	He married Elizabeth Hawkes around 1687 and he died at Westcote in 1723. Joshua’s own Will of 1723 was proved in 1729.
2I15	Sarah Collett was baptised in 1663 and she married Henry Akerman in 1692 at Bourton-on-the-Water. Henry was referred to as ‘son-in-law’ in the 1715 Will of Sarah’s father Richard Collett.
2I16	Elizabeth Collett was baptised in 1665 at Bourton-on-the-Water and she married John Smith.
2I17	Margaret Collett was born in 1667 and she married John Eldridge.
2I18	William Collett was born in 1669 and he married Elizabeth Hunt (below) around 1704. Elizabeth was the daughter of John Hunt and Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 2I8) who was born in 1684. William died around 1751.
	Elizabeth Hunt’s mother Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 2I8) was a cousin to William Collett (Ref. 2I18). This therefore means that Elizabeth Hunt was a niece to ‘uncle’ William Collett when they were married.
	2J15		John Collett		Born in 1706
	2J16		Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1708
	2J17		Richard Collett		Born in 1710
	2J18		Mary Collett		Born in 1712
	2J19		Ann Collett		Born in 1716
	2J20		Thomas Collett		Born in 1718
	2J21		William Collett		Born in 1721
	2J22		Joseph Collett		Born in 1727
2J1	Thomas Collett, whose date is believed to be around 1670, was the son of Anthony Collett. Thomas Collett was married to Jane and he died in 1755.
2J2	Anthony Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was a younger son of Anthony Collett. It would seem that he married late in his life, probably to a wife who was many years younger than him.
	2K1		John Collett		Date of birth unknown
2J3	Elizabeth Collett was born around 1670 and was the daughter of Edmund Collett and his wife Mrs Edmund Collett.
2J5	Elizabeth Hunt was born in 1684 and she married her ‘uncle’ William Collett (above).
2J9	RICHARD COLLETT of Upper Slaughter and Notgrove was baptised on 10.02.1687 at Upper Slaughter. He married Anne Male on 22.10.1716 at Charlton Abbotts in Gloucestershire. All of the children were born and baptised at Notgrove in Gloucestershire. Richard died at Notgrove in 1752.
	2K2		Sarah Collett		Baptised on 01.09.1717
	2K3		RICHARD COLLETT		Baptised on 25.09.1719
	2K4		Henry Collett		Baptised on 09.03.1721
	2K5		John Collett		Baptised on 07.09.1724
	2K6		Joseph Collett		Baptised on 04.03.1726
	2K7		Anne Collett		Baptised on 17.10.1730
	2K8		Samuel Collett		Baptised on 22.04.1733
	2K9		Mary Collett		Baptised on 26.11.1738
2J11	Elizabeth Collett was born at Sherborne where she was baptised on 05.08.1692. It was also at Sherborne that she married John Hitchman who was a blacksmith. Upon the death of her brother Richard Collett (below) Elizabeth’s husband John inherited much of his estate.
	A couple of years later Elizabeth and John both benefited from the Will of Elizabeth’s other brother Thomas Collett (below) when they were bequeathed a cottage with an orchard.
	Elizabeth and John are known to have had a son Thomas Hitchman who, upon their passing, inherited the cottage and the orchard left to them by his uncle Thomas Collett (below).
	It may be interesting to note that, in addition to the reference to him in Thomas Collett’s 1777 Will, Thomas Hitchman was also named in the Marriage Indenture of Thomas Collett (Ref. 14L11) and Ann Tilling in 1796.
2J12	Sarah Collett was born at Sherborne although the date is not known and so far no baptism record has been found. She later married Mr Jones and was referred to as kinswoman Sarah Jones of Northleach in the 1777 Will of her brother Thomas Collett (below).
	As there was no mention by name of Sarah’s husband, it might be assumed that he had already passed away by 1777.
2J13	Richard Collett was baptised on 14.09.1698 at Sherborne. He remained a bachelor all his life and left a Will proved in 1777. In the Will Richard made reference to his brother Thomas Collett (below) but with no children of his own he left much of his estate to kinsman John Hitchman, the husband of sister Elizabeth Collett (above). The Hitchman name also appears four times in the Will of Thomas Collett (below).
2J14	Thomas Collett was born at Sherborne where he married Elizabeth. It is thought that he may have been married twice, the second time also to an Elizabeth. Elizabeth (1) died on 30.05.1762 while Elizabeth (2) died on 25.01.1798, and both at Sherborne. In his Will made on 11.10.1777 and proved in 1779 – which he signed with a cross - he referred to two kinswomen.
	The first was Sarah Jones of Northleach, while the second was Elizabeth Hitchman wife of John Hitchman who was Thomas’ sister (above). In addition to being given one house and orchard which, upon her death, was to pass to her son Thomas Hitchman, Elizabeth was also named as sole executor. (see Will in Legal Documents)
	Others mentioned in the Will were Thomas’ wife Elizabeth Collett, Thomas Hitchman of Sherborne who inherited the freehold estate at Coopers Hill, and John Hitchman of Sherborne the husband of sister Elizabeth Hitchman nee Collett (above).
2J15	John Collett was born in 1706 and he died in 1783.
2J16	Elizabeth Collett was born in 1708 and she died in 1773.
2J17	Richard Collett was born in 1710 and he died in 1779.
2J18	Mary Collett was born in 1712 and she died in 1786.
2J19	Ann Collett was born in 1717 and she died in 1786.
2J20	Thomas Collett was baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water on 25.01.1718. He married Sarah Ball who was born in 1726. Thomas died in 1790 and was buried at Bromsgrove indicating that at some time in their life they moved from Gloucestershire to Worcestershire. Sarah lived on for another 14 years and died in 1804.
	Thomas’ eldest son John was named after his maternal grandfather John Hunt who married Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 2I8) and whose daughter Elizabeth Hunt married William Collett (Ref. 2I18).
	2K10		Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1749
	2K11		John Hunt Collett		Born in 1750
	2K12		Richard Collett		Born in 1754
	2K13		Thomas Collett		Born in 1760
2J21	William Collett was born in 1721 and he died in 1745.
2J22	Joseph Collett was born in 1727 and he died in 1795.
2K1	John Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was born at Lower Slaughter, the son of Anthony Collett. He was married and his son was born at Lower Slaughter where John died in 1795.
	2L1		Thomas Collett		Born in 1779
2K2	Sarah Collett was baptised on 01.09.1717 at Notgrove and was the daughter of Richard Collett of Upper Slaughter and Notgrove. And it was at Upper Slaughter that she married Henry Collett on 12.09.1746. Henry may have been her cousin, the son of John Collett (Ref. 2J8).
	It was also at Upper Slaughter that the children of Sarah and Henry were baptised.
	2L2		Rachel Collett		Baptised on 12.10.1747
	2L3		Henry Collett		Baptised on 26.12.1751
	2L4		Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 17.03.1754
	2L5		Hannah Collett		Baptised on 14.03.1756
2K3	RICHARD COLLETT was baptised on 25.09.1719 at Notgrove where he married Anne Didcote on 26.03.1744. The first child was born and baptised at Notgrove, the remainder at the neighbouring village of Salperton. Whilst there may be children missing during the years between 1745 and 1757, it is confirmed that Anne died on 23.07.1772.
	2L6		Mary Collett		Baptised on 30.09.1745
	2L7		John Collett (twin)		Baptised on 10.07.1757
	2L8		JOB COLLETT (twin)		Baptised on 10.07.1757
	2L9		Anne Collett		Baptised on 17.08.1760
	2L10		Betty Collett		Baptised on 18.04.1762
2K4	Henry Collett was baptised on 09.03.1721 at Notgrove. He married Mary Fluck of Cold Aston (only one mile from Notgrove) on 06.05.1746 at Aston Blank (also known as Cold Aston). Henry died on 02.06.1796 and Mary who was born in 1722 died on 03.11.1793 aged 71, both of them at Notgrove. All of their children were born and baptised at Notgrove. This family is the subject of Pedigree Seven in The Collett Saga.
	2L11		Sarah Collett		Baptised on 05.05.1747
	2L12		Richard Collett		Baptised on 14.04.1749
	2L13		Ann Collett		Baptised on 17.08.1751
	2L14		Hannah Collett		Baptised on 05.03.1754
	2L15		Henry Collett		Baptised on 03.12.1756 infant death
	2L16		Henry Collett		Baptised on 05.12.1758
	2L17		Samuel Collett		Baptised on 12.06.1762
	2L18		Jane Collett		Baptised in 1763
	2L19		Robert Collett		Baptised on 28.04.1765
	2L20		Mary Collett		Baptised on 26.01.1768
2K5	John Collett was baptised on 07.09.1724 at Notgrove where he married Ann Harman on 09.10.1750. John died on 16.09.1796 and Ann died on 16.09.1775 both of them at Notgrove. Both children were born and baptised at Notgrove. The garden of the property in which John lived was subject to a Notgrove Enclosure Award of one and one-half penny in 1770.
	2L21		Joseph Collett		Baptised on 19.11.1752
	2L22		Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 14.10.1759
2K7	Anne Collett was baptised on 17.10.1730 at Notgrove. She married Richard David Larner of Ampney St Mary on 09.04.1757 at Notgrove. Anne died on 27.07.1769.
2K9	Mary Collett was baptised on 26.11.1738 at Notgrove where she married William Trew on 22.03.1761. Mary died on 06.11.1793.
2K10	Elizabeth Collett was born in 1745 and she married the Reverend L Edwards. Elizabeth died at Bromsgrove in 1775 and was followed by her husband who died in 1809.
2K11	John Hunt Collett, named after his maternal grandfather John Hunt (Ref. 2I8), was born in 1750 and died aged 24 in 1774.
2K12	Richard Collett was born in 1754 and he married Mary Wilson who was born in 1756 and was the daughter of J Wilson. At sometime during his life Richard’s parents moved from Gloucestershire to Worcestershire and in 1778 Richard was the churchwarden at St John the Baptist Church in Bromsgrove. It was also at Bromsgrove that the couple’s children were born and where in 1808 Richard died and was buried.
	2L23		John Collett		Baptised on 10.07.1775
	2L24		Mary Collett		Born in 1777
2K13	Thomas Collett was born in 1760 and he married Mary Moore. He died at the relatively young age of 32 in 1792.
2L1	Thomas Collett was born in 1779 at Lower Slaughter where he married Elizabeth Turner just after the turn of the century. Therefore there may have been children born to the couple prior to the three children listed below.
	2M1		Thomas Turner Collett		Born in 1812
	2M2		John Collett		Born in 1813
	2M3		Joseph Collett		Born in 1815
2L6	Mary Collett was baptised 30.09.1745 at Notgrove where she married William Parker on 12.08.1768. Mary died in 1778.
2L7	John Collett was baptised at Salperton in Gloucestershire on 10.07.1757 in a joint ceremony with his brother Job (below), so they may have been twins, the children of Richard and Ann Collett. The only other known fact about John, is that he died six months later on 05.01.1758.
2L8	JOB COLLETT was baptised on 10.07.1757 at Salperton, the son of Richard and Ann Collett. The baptism was a joint ceremony with his brother John (above), the pair possibly being twins.
	In 1780 Job married Susannah and all their children were born and baptised at Bibury. Job Collett died in 1839 and was buried on 22.05.1839 at Arlington in Bibury aged 85 years.
	According to parish records, Susannah would have been born around 1755 since she was 82 years of age when she died on 04.03.1837. At the time of their wedding Susannah was referred to as being ‘of Arlington Row in Bibury’.
	It is thought that Job moved to Bibury at the time of his marriage, around 1780, after which they lived all their married life at Arlington Row in Bibury.
	2M4		John Collett		Born in 1782
	2M5		ELIZABETH COLLETT		Baptised on 17.05.1785
	2M6		Thomas Collett		Born in 1788
	2M7		Richard Collett		Born in 1790
2L9	Anne Collett was baptised on 17.08.1760 at Salperton. She married William Perry on 05.08.1780 at Notgrove. Their son was born at Notgrove.
	2M8		William Perry		Born in 1781
2L12	Richard Collett, who was referred to as ‘of Lower Slaughter’ was baptised at Notgrove on 14.04.1749, the son of Henry Collett and Mary Fluck. He married Elizabeth Cooke of Notgrove by licence on 29.05.1773 at Notgrove. Richard was buried at Notgrove on 30.03.1832 aged 83 and at that time was described as 'of Minchinhampton'.
	According to the parish register the family moved from Notgrove to Lower Slaughter in 1786 and therefore Richard must have had his association with Minchinhampton much later in his life. Elizabeth, who was born in 1748, died at Lower Slaughter and was buried at Notgrove in 1841 aged 93.
	All of the children of Richard and Elizabeth were born and baptised at Notgrove. In 1770 the garden of the property in which Richard was living at that time was subject to a Notgrove Enclosure Award of two pennies.
	2M9		Mary Collett		Baptised on 11.01.1775; infant death
	2M10		Hannah Collett		Baptised on 19.09.1777
	2M11		Thomas Collett		Baptised on 20.06.1780
	2M12		Richard Collett		Baptised on 09.01.1782
	2M13		Robert Collett		Baptised on 06.02.1784
	2M14		Jane Collett		Baptised on 13.07.1785
	2M15		Mary Collett (twin)		Baptised on 13.02.1786
	2M16		Henry Collett (twin)		Baptised on 13.02.1786
	2M17		William Collett		Baptised on 14.10.1788
2L13	Ann Collett was baptised on 17.08.1751 at Notgrove where she married Joseph Wood on 04.04.1783. Ann died on 21.07.1789.
2L14	Hannah Collett was baptised on 05.03.1754 at Notgrove where she died on 18.02.1776 aged 23.
2L15	Henry Collett was baptised on 03.12.1756 at Notgrove where he died on 03.02.1757.
2L16	Henry Collett was baptised on 05.12.1758 at Notgrove where he married Mary Rowland (Ref. 10L2) on 01.01.1787. His occupation was that of cordwainer/shoemaker at which he was still known to be working in 1836. Mary was baptised on 15.04.1765 at Naunton the daughter of William Rowland (Ref. 10K1) born circa 1740 who married Mary Stiles on 24.10.1762 at Naunton.
	Mary Rowland’s older brother William Rowland (Ref. 10L1) married Sarah Jane Collett (Ref. 33M5) in 1813, Jane being the daughter of William Collett (Ref. 33L1)
	Details of the Rowland family are provided in Part Ten – Other Branch Lines commencing with Robert Wake Rowland (Ref. 10J1)
	Later in 1846 there was another marriage between the two families, this time John Collett (Ref. 3N4) and Sarah Rowland (Ref. 10M5).
	Details of this family connection are provided in Part Three – The Chedworth Line commencing with the reference Ref. 3N4
	And there was yet another connection between the family of Mary Rowland and a later generation of the Collett family and this was Walter Collett (Ref. 3O3) and his wife Sarah Ann Dowler (Ref. 10O1). Both of these were the great great grandchild of this Henry Collett who married Mary Rowland in 1787.
	Details of this family connection are provided in Part Ten – Other Branch Lines ending with the reference 10O1
	Mary’s father William Rowland (Ref. 10K1) died in 1818 and his Will made on 31^st March and proved on 30^th October 1818 does not refer to daughter Mary Collett (the wife of Henry) nor to his own wife Mary Rowland who had passed away in 1813 aged 69 and for whom there is a gravestone in the Naunton graveyard confirming this.
	All of the children of Henry Collett and Mary Rowland listed below, with the exception of Elizabeth Collett, were beneficiaries under the 1818 Will of their grandfather William Rowland. The four daughters Hannah, Jane, Sarah and Eliza, and son Robert each received £1, while the other members of the family each inherited a house (see Will in Legal Documents)
	What is of interest is an earlier Will of William Rowland (Ref. 10K1) made on 1^st July 1808 in which both his wife Mary Rowland and daughter Mary Collett nee Rowland are mentioned. This may therefore point to the latter having died during the birth of her youngest daughter Eliza Collett (see Will in Legal Documents).
	It was obviously the earlier than expected deaths of William’s wife and his daughter that resulted in the need for him to rewrite his Will in the months leading up to his own death.
	All of the children of Henry and Mary Collett were born and baptised at Notgrove where Henry died on 10.07.1840, Mary having died before 1818 as described above.
	In his Will, made and signed at Notgrove on 17^th November 1830, Henry left his cottage and land at Naunton rented by William Chandler to Henry Collett his eldest son. The aforementioned Will of William Rowland also makes reference to William Chandler as a tenant.
	All of the nine other children were also named in Henry’s Will with the youngest daughter referred to as Eliza Collett. Henry’s son Richard Collett was named as sole executor and Robert Rowland (Ref. 10L4) of Naunton, Mary Rowland’s brother, was named as trustee (see Will in Legal Documents)
	It was at the house of Robert Rowland (Ref. 10L4) that a group of protestant dissenters, including this Henry Collett and his family, met to worship following receipt of a certificate of approval signed by the Bishop of Gloucester in 1797. In the following months a chapel was built and completed in 1800 and this was replaced in 1850 by the chapel that is still there today (see Bishop’s Certificate in Legal Documents)
	Also of interest is an entry in the Naunton Chapel Good Works Fund. This records that on 10^th May 1806 the daughters of Henry Collett were each given four shillings to “encourage the girls singing”. The girls were referred to as “Hannah” who would have been 18 years of age, “Betty” 16, “Sophia” 14, and “Mary” aged 3.
	2M18		Hannah Collett		Baptised on 18.11.1787
	2M19		Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 24.01.1790
	2M20		Sophia Collett		Baptised on 15.06.1792
	2M21		Henry Collett		Baptised on 07.07.1794
	2M22		Robert Collett		Baptised on 23.04.1797
	2M23		Richard Collett		Born in 1800
	2M24		Mary Collett		Born in 1803
	2M25		Jane Collett		Born in 1808
	2M26		Sophia Sarah Collett		Baptised on 08.04.1810
	2M27		Eliza Collett		May be a reference to Sophia Sarah
2L17	Samuel Collett was baptised on 12.06.1762 at Notgrove. He married Martha Harris at Cheltenham on 07.10.1788. Their first child was born at Notgrove and the remainder at Cheltenham where the family must have lived most of their life.
	2M28		Henry Collett		Baptised on 17.01.1792
	2M29		Mary Collett		Baptised on 22.01.1794
	2M30		William Collett		Baptised on 22.03.1797
	2M31		Hannah Collett twin		Baptised on 11.04.1798
	2M32		Sarah Collett twin		Baptised on 11.04.1798
	2M33		Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 05.02.1800
	2M34		Samuel Collett		Baptised on 05.07.1805
2L18	Jane Collett was born in 1763 at Notgrove where she married Thomas Cooke on 28.12.1785. Thomas is likely to be the brother of Elizabeth Cooke who married Jane’s brother Richard Collett (Ref. 2L12).
2L19	Robert Collett was baptised at Notgrove on 28.04.1765, the son of Henry Collett and Mary Fluck. He married Elizabeth Clarke by licence on 01.04.1784 in the neighbouring village of Naunton, where their two sons were born and baptised. Elizabeth was born at Naunton in 1763 and it is understood that Robert was slightly older, perhaps even born as early as 1759 making him anything up to five years old when he was baptised.
	In 2002 Martin Collett (Ref. 3R3) from Australia raised the question that perhaps Robert Collett had married Hannah Hall rather than Elizabeth Clarke but to date no proof has been provided to support this theory, although it has since been established that Richard, the son of Robert and Elizabeth, married Anne Hall.
	2M35		Howell Collett		Baptised on 05.12.1784
	2M36		Richard Collett		Baptised on 14.05.1786
2L20	Mary Collett was baptised on 26.01.1768 at Notgrove where she married John Wood on 21.03.1789. There are other links between the Collett and Wood families as detailed in Part Three – The Chedworth Line (Ref. 3M1)
2L21	Joseph Collett was born at Notgrove in 1752 where he was baptised on 19.11.1752. He married Elizabeth (Betty) Beauchamp on 21.01.1776 at Cold Aston (also known as Aston Blank), where all of the children were born and baptised. Elizabeth was born on 09.06.1754 the daughter of Benjamin and Esther Beecham at either Aston Blank or possibly Temple Guiting.
	Joseph died at Aston Blank on 04.03.1824 aged 72.
	2M37		Ann Collett		Baptised on 30.11.1776
	2M38		Esther (Hester) Collett		Baptised on 31.12.1780
	2M39		John Collett		Baptised on 27.09.1782
	2M40		Richard Collett		Baptised on 17.07.1785 infant death
	2M41		Mary Collett		Baptised on 06.06.1788
	2M42		Samuel Collett		Baptised on 03.01.1790
	2M43		Richard Collett		Baptised on 16.12.1792
	2M44		Betty Collett		Baptised on 05.07.1795
	2M45		Joseph Collett		Baptised on 08.04.1798
2L22	Elizabeth Collett was baptised on 14.10.1759 at Notgrove where she married David Thornhill on 21.03.1778.
2L23	John Collett was born at Bromsgrove and was baptised there on 10.07.1775, and it was there on 17.11.1796 that he married (1) Mary Harman. Mary was the daughter of James Harman and Sarah Patchett and was born on 21.07.1774.
	The marriage produced six children, all of whom were born at Bromsgrove. Tragically Mary died on 04.03.1813 and it would appear that her last born child, son James, was given his mother’s maiden name by way of a tribute.
	Shortly after her death, Richard married (2) Mary Freer and this may have been at the time that he was a Major in the North Worcestershire Volunteers and was posted to Newfoundland where he went in 1815 accompanied by the whole family.
	It was in Newfoundland that the last four children were born.
	This is the family line of Bonnie Brown and Max Collett of Newfoundland, the continuation of which is provided in Part Thirty-Two – The Newfoundland Line.
2M2	John Collett was born in 1813 and possibly at Lower Slaughter. He was however, baptised at Bourton-on-the-Water on 13.07.1813, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett.
2M3	Joseph Collett as born at Lower Slaughter in 1815. In the late 1850s he married Eliza from Lower Swell and by 1861 the childless couple were living at Upper Slaughter within the Bourton-on-the-Water & Stow-on-the-Wold registration district, where Joseph of Lower Slaughter was 46 and his wife was 38.
	It is believed that the couple had three children, although in the census of 1871 only daughter Mary Eliza was living with her parents at Bourton-on-the-Water. Joseph was 56, Eliza was 48, and their daughter ‘Mary Eliza Collett’ was six years old. Nine years later Joseph Collett died in 1880.
	Following the death of her husband, Eliza moved to Stow-on-the-Wold where, in 1881 she was visiting widower William Walton of Longborough in Gloucestershire. William was sixty and was the postmaster and a tailor living at Market Place in Stow, while Eliza was fifty-eight and from Lower Swell.
	2N1		Thomas Collett (twin)		Born in 1861
	2N2		Mary Collett (twin)		Born in 1861; possible infant death
	2N3		Mary Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1864
2M4	John Collett was born in 1782 at Arlington in the parish of Bibury. He enlisted for military service at Winchester on 25^th September 1803 and was medically discharged on 12^th April 1823 as a result of diseased lungs. During his time in the Guards, he fought in Spain and more importantly at the Battle of Waterloo on 18^th June 1815 for which he received a medal.
	Further details of his military service have been documented by Barbara Chambers (Ref. 42N9) in 'The Adventures of Private John Collett 1st Regiment of Foot Guards (Grenadier Guards) 1803-1823'.
2M5	ELIZABETH COLLETT was baptised on 17.05.1785 at Bibury. She married John Haynes at Bibury on 11.11.1826 when only six months from her forty-second birthday. The marriage produced no children and Elizabeth died ten years later on 01.12.1836 at Arlington. John Haynes, who was born in 1786, died on 10.03.1864 in the Northleach Union Workhouse.
	Elizabeth’s only child, William (Ref. 2N1) was born out of wedlock, the father being John Iles a farmer of Saddlewood in the parish of Hawkesbury in Gloucestershire. Details included in the Bastardy Bond state that Elizabeth was living and working in Hawkesbury. (see Bond 1809)
	It is therefore more than likely that she worked on John Iles’ farm where she may have been in service with the Iles family and had living quarters in the house. The suggestion of a link between the Iles family and that of Collett, even if here it is only as an employer/benefactor, occurs in Part One when Charles Collett (Ref. 1O30) born in 1846 has Iles as a second christian name.