PART TWO

The Secondary Line - 1775 to 1870

This is the second of three sections of Part Two of the Collett family line

Updated February 2010

The information for this update has been kindly provided by James R Dainty

Some of the earlier details in this file were kindly provided by

Hilary Collett of Basingstoke in Hampshire and Reg and Patricia Harvey of Somerset

With the creation of Part 42 – The Tetbury Line, the branch of the Collett family from

Thomas Collett (baptised at Bibury in 1788) onwards has been removed from this line

2M9	Mary Collett was baptised on 11.01.1775 at Notgrove where she died on 03.02.1778.
2M10	Hannah Collett was baptised on 19.09.1777 at Notgrove. She married William Harris on 05.04.1796 at Aldsworth in Gloucestershire and they had five children. This could be another link to Part Nine – The Aldsworth Line.
2M11	Thomas Collett who was a farmer was baptised on 20.06.1780 at Notgrove. He married Mary Fletcher on 24.02.1807 at Sherborne in Gloucestershire. Sherborne and Aldsworth where Thomas’ sister Hannah (above) was married, straddle the A40 road six miles west of Burford on the Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire county boundary. The first three children were baptised at Somerford Keynes near Cirencester, the latter two at Temple Guiting north of Notgrove.
	It is likely that Mary Fletcher was the sister of Anne Fletcher who married Thomas’ brother Henry Collett (below). There is also a further link, insofar as the children of that marriage were also born and baptised at Somerford Keynes and Temple Guiting.
	It is also likely that the sister of Mary and Anne Fletcher was Susanna Fletcher who married Mr Waine and whose son Joseph Waine married Jane Collett (Ref. 9M22) at Aldsworth in 1840.
	2N5	Ann Collett	Baptised on 12.12.1807
	2N6	Thomas Cooke Collett	Baptised on 22.01.1809; infant death
	2N7	Richard Joseph Collett	Baptised on 17.06.1810
	2N8	Mary Fletcher Collett	Baptised on 07.06.1818
	2N9	Thomas Cook Collett	Baptised on 06.01.1822
2M12	Richard Collett, who was referred to as ‘of Condicote and Naunton’ was baptised on 09.01.1782 at Notgrove. He married Mary Humphries on 30.09.1822 at Guiting Power. Mary was born in 1786 and was thirty-six when she married Richard who was forty, and it was probably their advanced ages that resulted in no children being born to the couple.
	It seems very likely that Mary Humphries was actually Mary Elizabeth or Elizabeth Mary. Either that or Richard had a second wife named Elizabeth but this seems unlikely when considering their ages at the time they both died – see below.
	Richard’s occupation was that of a farmer at Naunton and, although he died on 16.01.1860 at Latter Place in London, a grand marble plaque inside St Andrews Church at Naunton bears his name and that of his wife, as detailed below.
	In Memory of Richard Collett of Dale House in the parish and formerly of Condicote who died January 16^th 1860 aged 78 years also of Elizabeth his wife who died September 4^th 1862 aged 76 years.
2M13	Robert Collett was born at Notgrove and was baptised there on 06.02.1784, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Collett.
2M14	Jane Collett was born at Notgrove and was baptised there on 13.07.1785. In 1820 she married John Wood and in the 1850 Will of Henry Collett (below) – Jane’s cousin - there was a reference to land purchased from John Wood (see Wills in Legal Documents)
2M15	Mary Collett was baptised at Notgrove on 13.02.1786 in a joint ceremony with her brother Henry (below). It is therefore possible that she and Henry were twins, the children of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Cooke. Mary lived most of her life at Lower Swell near Stow on the Wold, where she died in 1825 having never married.
2M16	Henry Collett was baptised at Notgrove on 13.02.1786 in a joint ceremony with his sister Mary (above). It is therefore possible that he and Mary were twins, the children of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Cooke.
	Henry married Anne Fletcher at Somerford Keynes on 14.01.1808. In the Census of 1851 Henry was aged 65 and living at Daglingworth near Cirencester where he was working as a farm bailiff. It would appear that the family moved about a lot during their life, judging by the different places that the children were baptised. The first four were baptised at Somerford Keynes, the next child at Kineton near Temple Guiting, and the last two at Fairford.
	Henry died on 15.12.1852 at Daglingworth aged 66 and was buried at the Sheep Street Independent Cemetery in Cirencester. The cause of death on the death certificate was stated to be Cludin disease of the liver and jaundice.
	Anne was born on 09.05.1784. She died on 19.10.1865 at 7 Palmer’s Terrace, Holloway in London at the home of her son Richard John Collett (below) and was buried at Norwood Cemetery. The cause of death was hydrothorax.
	2N10	Henry John Collett	Baptised on 28.05.1809
	2N11	Susannah Elizabeth Collett	Baptised on 07.08.1810
	2N12	Mary Jane Collett	Born on 19.04.1812
	2N13	Phoebe Ann Collett	Born on 16.06.1814
	2N14	James Robert Collett	Born on 18.11.1816
	2N15	Nathaniel George Collett	Baptised on 11.03.1820 infant death
	2N16	Nathaniel George Collett	Born on 30.01.1822
	2N17	Richard John Collett	Born on 02.06.1825
2M17	William Collett was born at Notgrove where he was baptised on 14.10.1788, the son of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Cooke.
2M18	Hannah Collett was baptised on 18.11.1787 at Notgrove. She married Thomas Hawker at Chedworth on 11.11.1805. In the 1830 Will of her father Henry Collett she was referred to as Hannah Hawker. Hannah was also a beneficiary in the 1818 Will of her grandfather William Rowland (Ref. 10K1).
2M19	Elizabeth Collett was baptised on 24.01.1790 at Notgrove where she married Mr Carroll as confirmed in the 1830 Will of her father Henry Collett. Curiously Elizabeth and her brother Henry (below) were the only children of Henry Collett and Mary Rowland not to be named as beneficiaries in the 1818 Will of their grandfather William Rowland (Ref. 10K1).
2M20	Sophia Collett was baptised on 15.06.1792 at Notgrove where she married George Norton on 05.06.1815, and this was confirmed in the 1818 Will of her grandfather William Rowland (se Ref. 10K1) and the 1830 Will of her father Henry Collett. It would seem very likely that Sophia and George had a son born between 1816 to 1826 and that he married his cousin Mary Ann Collett (Ref. 3N6) born in 1828, the daughter of Henry Collett (below).
2M21	Henry Collett was baptised on 07.07.1794 at Notgrove where he married Mary Ann Margetts on 31.07.1815. The couple had nine children, all born at Chedworth in Gloucestershire. As the parent’s were opposed to the ordinance of infants, the births were simply registered at the Chedworth Independent Church.
	Henry died on 16.03.1850 aged 55 and was buried at Chedworth, as detailed on his gravestone. His death was recorded in the Northleach registration district.
	Henry’s Will was made and signed on 20^th February 1850 at Chedworth, the details of which are provided in Part Three – The Chedworth Line.
	This is the family line of (1) Elizabeth Charlotte Gegg (Ref. 3R12) and (2) Gordon John Collett (Ref. 3Q5) of Lincolnshire and his son Martin John Francis Collett of Queensland in Australia.
	Details of the continuation of this family line are provided in Part Three – The Chedworth Line commencing with the reference Ref. 3M1.
2M22	Robert Collett was baptised on 23.04.1797 at Notgrove. Robert was a beneficiary in the 1818 Will of his grandfather William Rowland (Ref. 10K1). He married (1) Sarah Wilson on 22.04.1822 at Chedworth. The marriage was witnessed by Moses White and Sarah’s aunt Catherine Wilson, both of whom were married there in October 1823 and the witnesses at their marriage were this Robert Collett and Mary Wilson, another of Sarah’s sisters.
	The name Wilson occurs many times around this period, not least of which was the reference to land purchased by Henry Collett (above) from Simon Wilson, as stated in the Will of the same Henry Collett. See also Ref. 3N3 for another link to the Wilson name.
	All of Robert and Sarah’s children were born at Chedworth, where Robert was a cordwainer and shoemaker during his working life.
	Robert’s wife Sarah died at Chedworth on 05.09.1850 aged 47. Her mother, Elizabeth Wilson ‘a venerable widow’ and owner of Fields Farm in Chedworth, died in October 1867 at the aged of 93. She had been married to Joshua Wilson. The 1842 Tithes Map shows Elizabeth Wilson as owning Fields Farm comprising Quarry Piece, Orchard House, yard and garden, Home Piece, Far Piece, and two enclosures totalling nine acres three rods and 13 perches.
	The Will of Robert’s brother Henry Collett (above) mentions a dwelling house purchased from Joseph Wilson and this could be the father of Joshua Wilson who was married to Elizabeth Wilson referred to above.
	Following Sarah’s death, Robert married (2) Mary Knapp of Chedworth Lower End on 22.03.1852 as witnessed by his son William and his future daughter-in-law Elizabeth Margetts. Mary was born around 1813 at Stowell and was the daughter of gamekeeper Thomas Knapp.
	On 30^th March 1851 and prior to the wedding, Robert was residing at Chedworth Fields where he was listed as a cordwainer aged 53 and a widower of Notgrove living with his son William aged 21 and a cordwainer of Chedworth. Also with them was grand daughter Fanny Collett (Ref. 3O19) aged 8 the base born child of Robert’s eldest daughter Elizabeth.
	According to the 1861 Census for Chedworth Robert Collett aged 65 and a shoemaker of Notgrove was living with his younger wife Mary aged 48 of Stowell and son William aged 31 a shoemaker journeyman.
	Robert enjoyed only thirteen years with his new wife before his death at Chedworth on 27.08.1864 aged 67, where he was buried as detailed on his gravestone.
	Following the death of her husband, Mary moved in with her stepson William as confirmed by the 1871 Census for Chedworth which described her as Mary Collett aged 57 born at Stowell and housekeeper to William Collett aged 41. Less than two months after the census Mary died at Chedworth on 25.05.1871.
	2N18	Elizabeth Collett	Born on 16.04.1824
	2N19	John Collett	Baptised on 06.02.1828
	2N20	William Collett	Born on 02.09.1829
	2N21	Sarah Collett	Born on 29.05.1832
2M23	Richard Collett was born at Notgrove in 1800. Very little is known about him except that he married Jane and was a shoemaker like his father. This was confirmed in the 1851 Census for Notgrove in which Richard was listed as a cordwainer aged 51 of Notgrove and his wife Jane aged 43 was born at Chedworth.
	By 1861 Census the couple had moved to Miller Villa in Bourton on the Water where Richard was a retired grocer. This may mean that he took over the job of grocer from his deceased brother’s wife Mary Ann Collett (above) who was listed as a widow and grocer in the 1851 Census for Chedworth, see Part Three – The Chedworth Line.
	Richard was a beneficiary in the 1818 Will of his grandfather William Rowland (Ref. 10K1). In the 1830 Will of his father Henry Collett, Richard was named as being the executor and in the 1850 Will of his brother Henry Collett (above) he was joint beneficiary (see Will in Legal Documents)
2M24	Mary Collett was born around 1803 at Notgrove and was baptised there in 1806. She married Thomas Mason of London on 14.09.1823 at St Mary’s Church in Cornhill in the City of London.
	Mary’s married name was confirmed in the 1830 Will of her father Henry Collett. Mary died on 03.11.1858 and was buried at Notgrove. Mary was also a beneficiary in the 1818 Will of her grandfather William Rowland (Ref. 10K1).
2M25	Jane Collett was born around 1808 at Notgrove. She married Thomas Harris of Lower Slaughter on 28.05.1831 at Notgrove. Like her siblings, Jane was also a beneficiary in the 1818 Will of her grandfather William Rowland (Ref. 10K1). Thomas was a carpenter and a wheelwright.
2M26	Sophia Sarah Collett was baptised on 08.04.1810 at Notgrove where she married George Williams on 25.12.1834. Within the 1830 Will of her father Henry Collett there was a reference to Sophia’s sister Sophia Norton (above) but none to Sophia Sarah Collett.
	She does however appear as a beneficiary in the 1818 Will of her grandfather William Rowland (Ref. 10K1) although listed as Sarah Collett, presumably to avoid any confusion with her sister Sophia Collett who married George Norton.
2M27	Eliza Collett, whose date of birth is not known, is expected to be after 1810. As Eliza she was not only a beneficiary in the 1818 Will of her grandfather William Rowland (Ref. 10K1) but was also mentioned in the 1830 Will of her father Henry Collett (see Will in Legal Documents)
	However, there is a question over whether Eliza was a family name for Sophia Sarah Collett, as there was already an earlier Sophia in the family.
2M28	Henry Collett was baptised on 17.01.1792 at Notgrove. However, there was also a baptism record at Aldsworth for Henry Collett on 17.01.1790 who was also the son of Samuel and Martha Collett. If this is correct then this too could be another possible link to Part Nine – The Aldsworth Line.
2M35	Howell Collett was baptised at Naunton on 05.12.1784, the eldest son of Robert Collett and Elizabeth Clarke who were married on the April that same year.
	It would appear that Howell left Gloucestershire after the turn of the century when he may his way to London. On 12.12.1808 when he was twenty-four years old he married Mary Guderidge (Gutteridge) at St Mary’s Church on the St Marylebone Road in the Marylebone district of London.
2M36	Richard Collett was born at Naunton where he was baptised on 14.05.1786, the son of Robert Collett and Elizabeth Clarke. Richard was a blacksmith and on 16.04.1812 at Moreton-in-Marsh he married Ann Hall who was born around 1788. At that time Richard was already established as a blacksmith in the hamlet of Buckland, just south of the town Broadway across the county boundary in Worcestershire.
	Their marriage produced many children for Richard and Ann, all of whom were born in the hamlet of Buckland and, for four of them their baptism was carried out at the Church of St Michael and All Angels in Broadway.
	In the first national census held in June 1841 Ann Collett had a rounded age of fifty-five when she was living within the Cheltenham and Winchcombe area of Gloucestershire. Her husband appears to have been away from home, since the only suitable Richard Collett was also fifty-five and was recorded in the Headington area of Oxford. And with him was his son Robert who was fourteen.
	This may not be unreasonable, since Broadway lies on the main road to and from Oxford, which was just thirty miles away. As regards his other children, the two eldest sons Richard and George may have been living within the Cheltenham and Winchcombe areas respectively near to their mother, when both of them were given a rounded age of twenty-five.
	Rather strangely, the three younger members of the family, Francis, Selena, and Lavinia were still living at the family home in Buckland in 1841, where blacksmith Francis, who was twenty-one years old, was looking after his two younger sisters. The couple’s only other known child, Ann Collett, was twenty and was living and working in Buckland not far from the family home.
	Ten years later blacksmith Richard and his wife Ann were listed in the Winchcombe census of 1851 as being sixty-six and sixty-two respectively, Winchcombe being just five miles south of Buckland.
	By the time of the census of 1861 Richard and Ann had returned to the Broadway area where Richard Collett was seventy-four and his wife was seventy-two. Richard died during the following decade and, it was after that when, Ann died while still at Broadway in 1870.
	2N22	Richard Collett	Born in 1815
	2N23	George Collett	Born in 1817
	2N24	Francis Collett	Born in 1820
	2N25	Ann Collett	Born in 1822
	2N26	Selena Collett	Born in 1824
	2N27	Robert Collett	Born in 1826
	2N28	Lavinia Collett	Born in 1827
2M38	Esther (or Hester) Collett was baptised on 31.12.1780 at Aston Blank where she married Thomas Braggington on 28.10.1804. Thomas was born at Wenlode in Worcestershire.
2M39	John Collett was baptised on 27.09.1782 at Aston Blank. He married Hannah Leech on 23.12.1802 at Sherborne. The first two children were born and baptised at Sherborne, the next two at Notgrove, and the remainder at Aston Blank.
	Whilst John appeared in the 1841 Census for Aston Blank, his wife did not as she had died three years before and was buried at Aston Blank on 18.10.1838. Widower John was living with his daughter Sarah, the other members of the family having already left the family home.
	2N29	Jane Collett	Baptised on 18.02.1803; infant death
	2N30	Joseph Collett	Baptised on 24.06.1804
	2N31	Jane Collett	Baptised on 20.07.1806
	2N32	Eliza Collett	Baptised on 13.03.1808
	2N33	Harriett Collett	Baptised on 01.07.1810; infant death
	2N34	John Collett	Born around 1811
	2N35	Ann Collett	Born around 1813
	2N36	William Collett	Baptised on 22.10.1815
	2N37	Henry Collett	Baptised on 26.07.1818; infant death
	2N38	Sarah Collett	Born in 1821
2M40	Richard Collett was born at Aston Blank where he was baptised on 17.07.1785. He only lived seven short years before he died at Aston Blank on 25.10.1792.
2M41	Mary Collett was baptised on 06.06.1788 at Aston Blank. According to the church records, in 1795 Mary was one of twelve children attending the village school at the church, the school being funded by a charity. She later married Abraham Webling from Oxfordshire on 14.10.1807 at Aston Blank.
2M42	Samuel Collett was baptised on 03.01.1790 at Aston Blank. Just like his sister Mary (above), Samuel also attended the village school at the church in Aston Blank as confirmed by the church record of 28^th March 1796.
	At the time of the 1841 Census, Samuel was aged 50 and was an agricultural labourer living at Johnson Cottage in Aston Blank.
2M43	Richard Collett was baptised at Aston Blank on 16.12.1792 and was the son of Joseph and Betty Collett. Although no evidence has been found, it seems very likely that Richard married Ann with whom he had a son Edwin who was born at Aston Blank but was baptised at Cirencester.
	With their son being born late in their lives, it also seems likely from the first census in June 1841 that the couple may have died by then since Edwin was living with another family in the Northleach area at that time which included the village of Aston Blank.
	2N39	Edwin Collett	Baptised on 24.01.1832
2M45	Joseph Collett was baptised on 08.04.1798 at Aston Blank where he married Ann Still on 23.02.1820 and where the children were born and baptised. Ann was born on 05.05.1799 at Aston Blank, the daughter of William and Rebecca Still.
	Joseph died at Aston Blank on 12.12.1836 aged 38.
	Following the death of her husband, widow Ann married (2) Thomas Shaw at Aston Blank.
	2N40	Henry Collett	Baptised on 01.10.1820
	2N41	Harriett Collett	Baptised on 22.06.1822
2N1	Thomas Collett was born at Lower Slaughter in 1861 but after the seventh of April (the census day). He is understood to have been one half of a set of twins born to Joseph and Eliza Collett, his twin sister Mary appearing not to have survived beyond infancy.
	For whatever reason, nine years old Thomas Collett was not living with his family in 1871 but was living in the near vicinity of Stow-on-the-Wold.
	Ten years later, according to the census of 1881, Thomas Collett of Lower Slaughter was nineteen years old and was an apprentice ironmonger working and living with ironmonger John Fisher at his home at 34 Winchcomb Street in Cheltenham.
2N3	Mary Elizabeth Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1864 and was living at Bourton-on-the-Water with her parents Joseph and Eliza Collett in 1871, when she was described as Mary Eliza Collett at six years of age.
	Her father died in 1880 and her widowed mother was living in Stow-on-the-Wold in 1881. By that time Mary was working in domestic service across the county boundary in Oxfordshire. As Mary Elizabeth Collett of Upper Slaughter aged sixteen and a general domestic servant, she was living and working with farmer Thomas Henry Powell and his family at Churchill Grounds Farm House in Churchill.
	Four years later in 1885 Elizabeth married Henry Sanger, who was the brother of Fanny Sanger who was married to John Makin. The marriage of Elizabeth and Henry produced two children, Arthur Sanger who was born in 1886 who died in 1914, and Helena Collett Sanger who was born in 1890 and who died in 1968.
2N4	WILLIAM COLLETT was born out of wedlock on 10.03.1809 at Bibury and was baptised on the following day, 11.03.1809.
	His mother, who was residing at Hawkesbury at the time of the child’s conception, returned to the family home in Bibury to be cared for by her mother before and after the child was to be born.
	However, in order to satisfy the strict requirements of the parish elders, William’s father John Iles had to agree to sign a Bastardy Bond to support his son while living in the village of Bibury. This amounted to the princely sum of £40, which was to cover his education and welfare and any damaged he might cause within the parish.
	The Bond was signed and sealed by John Iles in front of the Thomas Davis Churchwarden and William Powell Overseer of the Poor of the Parish of Bibury. It was dated the ninth day of March in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Nine, the day before William was born.
	It stated - “Whereas Elizabeth Collett of the Parish of Hawkesbury but now residing in the Parish of Bibury, single woman is big and pregnant with a bastard child and declares that the bounder John Iles is the father of such child which if born in the said Parish of Bibury will become chargeable thereto.” (See Bond 1809 in Legal Documents).
	Before he reached eighteen years of age William married Hannah Stockwell on 25.12.1826 at Bibury. Two things were significant about the marriage to Hannah, who was nine years older than William, he being only 17 years old. The first, that it took place just over a month after William’s mother Elizabeth Collett married John Haynes.
	The second was that their first child was born within seven months of the date of the marriage. This perhaps indicates that the families, or more likely the parish elders, who had overall control of the child, deemed that the marriage should take place for the sake of respectability.
	Hannah Stockwell was the daughter of John and Alison Stockwell, who was baptised at Bibury on 26.02.1800. All of William and Hannah’s children were baptised at Arlington Baptist Church in Bibury and it seems likely that their first child died before reaching its first birthday as their second child was given the same name, although referred to as Fran in 1841.
	In the 1841 Census for Bibury William was aged 35 and his occupation was stated as that of an agricultural labourer. His wife Hannah was aged 40 and four of their children were listed as living with the couple. These were Fran aged 14, Elizabeth aged 11, William aged 6 and Hannah aged 3.
	This means that there was no record of son Joseph who would have been aged 10 or daughter Harriet aged 8 or the second William aged 2 years. To register two children with the same name seems slightly curious, but the names of both sons named William born to William and Hannah were listed in the Bibury Parish Records on page 61 entry no. 488 and page 76 entry no. 603 respectively.
	Sometime after the 1841 birth of their last child Ruth, William and Hannah left Bibury and set up home at Chelworth midway between Cirencester and Malmesbury.
	This was confirmed by the 1851 Census for Chelworth, District 3b of Crudwell in the Malmesbury area of Wiltshire. What may be of interest was that ten years earlier Chelworth was the home of James Collett born in 1791 and his wife Anne born 1801 and their four children Joseph and Mary both born in 1826, Elizabeth born in 1829, and Henry born in June 1840.
	The 1851 Census recorded William Collett head of household, married and aged 42, an agricultural labourer who was born at Bibury. With him was his wife Hannah aged 50 and also born Bibury, whose occupation was given as domestic duties.
	Living with them was their son William Collett aged 17, a farm labourer born at Bibury and their daughters Hannah aged 13, an agricultural labourer and Ruth aged 9, both of Bibury.
	Also living with the family at that time was Mary Burnall aged 44 an agricultural labourer born at Dursley in Gloucestershire, who was described as “married sister” which could mean that she was Hannah’s sister so being the former Mary Stockwell.
	A further ten years on and the family were still living within the Crudwell area but rather than District 3b for Chelworth, it was District 4 which was listed simply as ‘cottage’.
	William Collett as head of the household was aged 50 and an agricultural carter born Bibury. His wife Hannah was aged 60 of Bibury, and with them were daughter Ruth Collett aged 19 and a house servant born at Bibury and unmarried visitor Ann Collett aged 19 another house servant born at Bibury. Their son William who was absent in 1861, and who would have been aged 27, was a sailor fighting in the China Wars with HMS Chesapeake.
	However, during the next ten years William and Hannah moved home and by the time of the 1871 Census William aged 61 an agricultural labourer born at Bibury with his wife Hannah aged 70 also of Bibury were living at Coates just two miles west of Cirencester.
	It seems very likely that this move was prompted by the return of their son William from the far-east and his marriage to Caroline Ruth Watts at St Matthews Church in Coates in April 1866.
	Sometime after April 1871 William and Hannah appear to have moved to a new home one mile south of Coates in the hamlet of Tarlton. Alternatively, it may have been there that they were living there anyway since Tarlton lies within the parish of Coates and its residents attended St Matthews Church. William’s death on 16.11.1873 was recorded in the St Matthews Church Parish Register in which he was listed as ‘William Collett aged 63 of Tarlton’.
	By April 1881 widow Hannah Collett aged 80 was living at the High Street in Kemble midway between Coates and Chelworth. Curiously on that occasion she gave her place of birth as Wootton-under-Edge which is not far from Dursley where her sister Mary was born – see 1851 Census details above.
	With Hannah that day in April 1881 was visitor and married daughter Ruth Parslow aged 39 of Bibury with her son William Charles Parslow aged 3 who was born at Sherston Magna near Malmesbury.
	2O1	Sarah Ann Collett	Baptised on 24.06.1827
	2O2	Sarah Ann Collett	Baptised on 27.07.1828
	2O3	Elizabeth Collett	Baptised on 07.03.1830
	2O4	Joseph Collett	Baptised on 28.07.1831
	2O5	Harriett Collett	Baptised on 24.03.1833
	2O6	WILLIAM COLLETT	Baptised on 13.07.1834
	2O7	Hannah Collett	Baptised on 28.01.1838
	2O8	William Collett	Baptised on 07.04.1839
	2O9	Ruth Collett	Baptised on 26.09.1841
2N7	Richard Joseph Collett was baptised on 17.06.1810 at Somerford Keynes.
2N9	Thomas Cook Collett was born at Kineton in 1821 very close to Temple Guiting where he was baptised on 06.01.1822. It must be assumed that the Cook part of his name stemmed from his grandmother Elizabeth Cooke (Ref. 2L12).
	At some time in his life he left Kineton and moved to Aldsworth where he was living in 1851. The census that year recorded Thomas Collett as a tailor and that he was unmarried and living alone next door to Henry Collett (Ref. 9M20) and his family. Henry Collett was the enumerator for the Aldsworth census in both 1861 and 1871.
	On 13.01.1853 Thomas married Minerva Stone at Aldsworth where she had been born in 1819. She was the daughter of Edmund Stone who was born at Eastington in 1788. This Edmund Stone was very likely the son of Edmund Stone who was born in 1750 who married Sarah Collett the widow of Henry Collett (Ref. 1L12) on 05.11.1800. Minerva Stone also had a brother with the same name as their father who was born at Aldsworth in 1821.
	The 1851 Census for Aldsworth recorded Edmund Stone as a carpenter of 63 years living with wife Jemima, 72 years and of Sherborne, and their daughter Minerva aged 32 and their son Edmund a bootmaker of 30 years. By 1861 Edmund Stone junior was a master cordwainer and was married to Amelia with whom he had two sons and a daughter.
	The marriage of Thomas and Minerva produced four children for the couple, the first being born less than nine months after they were married. Tragically the child did not survived, although the date of passing is not known, except that he was not listed with the family in the census of 1861.
	On that occasion Thomas and his family were still living in Aldsworth where he was 40 and was described as a tailor and a grocer. Living there with him was his wife Minerva 42 and their three daughters Mary 6, Minerva 3, and Ann who was three months old.
	All three of the couple’s children were recorded as having been born at Aldsworth, and also living with the family at that time was Minerva’s widowed father Edmund Stone who was seventy-three. Sadly at the end of the following year Thomas suffered the loss of his second child when his youngest daughter Ann died as she was approaching her second birthday.
	By April 1871 the family had left Aldsworth and was living at Stow-on-the-Wold where Thomas’ occupation had changed slightly, since he was then described as a grocer and a letter carrier. The family at this time comprised Thomas 50 and Minerva 53, daughters Mary 16, and Minerva 13.
	Ten years later, according to the 1881 Census, Thomas C Collett of Kyneton was living at Church Icomb near Stow-on-the-Wold with his wife Minerva and their two surviving daughters Mary 26 and Minerva 23. Thomas’ occupation was then a baker and a grocer, employing one boy.
	In 1891 Thomas and his family were still at Icomb but had an additional person living with them in the form of Minerva’s brother Edmund Stone aged seventy and a shoemaker of Aldsworth. Thomas Cook Collett was 70 and a baker and a grocer of Kineton, while his wife Minerva was 72 and daughters Mary and Minerva was 36 and 33 respectively.
	During the next decade Thomas Cook Collett died so by the time of the census of 1901 his family had moved to Bourton-on-the-Water, where his widow Minerva was 82. Still living with her were her two unmarried daughters Mary 46 and Minerva 43.
	Not long after the census that year it would appear that Minerva passed away, so by April 1911 her two daughters Mary Jemima and Minerva Jane who were born at Aldsworth were still living together in Bourton-on-the-Water at the ages of 56 and 53.
	2O10	Thomas Samuel Collett	Baptised on 01.09.1853; died by 1861
	2O11	Mary Jemima Collett	Born in 1855 at Aldsworth
	2O12	Minerva Jane Collett	Born in 1857 at Aldsworth
	2O13	Ann Amelia Collett	Born in Jan 1861; buried 23.12.1862
2N10	Henry John Collett was born at Somerford Keynes where he was baptised on 28.05.1809. It is understood that he moved to London around 1830 and that he probably lodged with his uncle Samuel Fletcher at Great Marlborough Street. He married (1) Amelia Sophia Mawbey of Chicksands Lodge in Bedfordshire on 12.08.1834 at All Souls Church in Langham Place. Amelia was baptised on 17.10.1810 and was the daughter of William Mawbey of Astwick Manor in Hertfordshire and Caroline Dennis of Blunkham in Bedfordshire. At the time of birth of their son Charles Edward Collett the family was living at 4 Warren Street West near Regents Park.
	On the birth certificate Henry’s occupation was given as commercial agent. However, two and a half years later, the family had moved again and they were living at 30 Penton Place in Newington.
	In 1844 Henry was an agent and silk merchant working out of 31 Gutter Lane after which he moved to 4 Crown Court in Cheapside and by 1846 he was a warehouseman in Camden when living there at 5 Seymour Place. Two years later he formed his own company Henry John Collett & Co.
	Amelia was a court dressmaker and milliner and in 1851 she and her family were living at Anwell Street in Clerkenwell. Twenty years later Amelia died from bronchitis on 09.12.1871 at 6 Sidmouth Street, Grays Inn Lane in St Pancras aged 61. Living at 10 Sidmouth Street at that time was her son Arthur James Collett (below).
	Nearly four year later Henry married (2) Louisa Foster on 31.07.1875 at St Mary's Church in Islington and for a while after they were married the couple lived at 67 Chesterton Road in North Kensington.
	By 1881 Henry John Collett was living at 171 Golborne Road in Kensington. His aged was given as 71 and his occupation was warehouseman trimming, and the entry confirms he was born in Somerford Keynes. Living with him was his wife Louisa aged 52 and born in Manchester, who was a Principal of a Day School. The only other resident in the house was 20 year old servant Mary Baldwin.
	From 1887 until his death Henry’s company operated out of premises at 11 Wood Street. He died on 28.03.1889 aged 79 after falling down stairs at their home and was buried at Norwood Cemetery where his mother Anne Collett was buried in 1865.
	Henry’s Will was made on 31^st July 1875 the same day that he married Louise Foster. At that time Henry’s address was stated in the Will as being 91 Church Road in St Mary’s Islington. (see Will in Legal Documents)
	Henry’s first marriage produced eight children, four of whom died while still very young. His eldest son Henry John Richard Collett (below) married Jane Johnson Thomas and their family is the subject of Pedigree Eleven in The Collett Saga written by his direct descendent Margaret Chadd.
	2O14	Amelia Catherine Collett		Born on 17.05.1835
	2O15	Henry John Richard Collett		Born on 17.11.1838
	2O16	Frederick William Collett		Born on 03.09.1840
	2O17	Arthur James Collett		Born on 13.04.1842
	2O18	Charles Edward Collett		Born on 21.10.1843
	2O19	Clara Sophia Collett		Born on 11.10.1846
	2O20	Alfred George Thomas Mawbey Collett		Born on 27.05.1848
	2O21	Mawbey Ernest Collett		Born on 29.07.1850
2N11	Susannah Elizabeth Collett was baptised on 07.08.1810 at Somerford Keynes. She never married and died in 1895 although there was no apparent record of her in the 1881 Census. She was however referred to in the 1891 Will of her sister Mary Jane Cowle (below).
2N12	Mary Jane Collett was born on 19.04.1812 at Somerford Keynes and baptised there on 27.04.1812. She married George Cowle on 16.12.1851 the younger brother of Francis Cowle who had married her sister Phoebe (below). George Cowle was nine years younger than Mary having been born in 1821 at Inwardleigh in Devon.
	It was in 1855, and at the age of 44, that Mary gave birth to a stillborn child. During her life she established herself as an exclusive milliner which made her a wealthy woman according to her Will.
	Mary Jane died on 02.03.1892 while living at 40 Chesterton Road in Kensington and her Will made on 27^th October 1891 referred to her siblings and her nieces and nephews. The Will was made following the death of her husband in September 1891.
2N13	Phoebe Ann Collett was born on 16.06.1814 at Somerford Keynes and baptised there on 17.07.1814. She married London shopkeeper Francis Youlden Cowle on 03.03.1844 at Meysey Hampton which lies midway between Cirencester and Lechlade.
	Francis Cowle was the brother of George Cowle who married Phoebe’s sister Mary Jane (above). He was born at Inwardleigh in Devon on 07.12.1819, the eldest son of George Cowle and Joanna Gould Youlden.
	Prior to the marriage she lived and kept a shop in Meysey Hampton with her sister Mary Jane Collett (above). By 1851 Phoebe and her husband had emigrated to Canada as indicated by that year’s census for Bowmanville in Ontario, in which Francis was listed as a teacher.
	Francis died at Bowmanville on 16.11.1877 followed by Phoebe who died on 18.02.1882.
	Their marriage produced two daughters and a son, these being Phoebe Ann Youlden Cowle born at London in 1847, Susannah Elizabeth Cowle born at Bowmanville on 24.04.1853, and Francis George Cowle born in 1855.
	Phoebe Ann Cowle was named as sister in the 1891 Will of her sister Mary Jane Cowle, together with her son Francis George Cowle.
2N14	James Robert Collett was born on 18.11.1816 at Kineton in Gloucestershire and was baptised on 23.02.1817 at Temple Guiting. He married (1) Ellen and is believed to have had two daughters Flora and Mary and three sons, two which died leaving just Walter.
	James later married (2) Mary of Willersey and in 1881 the couple were living alone at Village Street in Willersey and were listed as 65 and 64 respectively, James being a market gardener and Mary an agricultural labourer.
2N15	Nathaniel George Collett was born at Northleach where he was baptised on 11.03.1820. Sadly he only survived for less than a month, when he died on 01.04.1820 and was buried at Northleach.
2N16	Nathaniel George Collett, was named after his late brother, and was born at Fairford on 30.01.1822 where he was baptised on 17.02.1822. He married Eliza in 1851 and at the time of the marriage of their son Percy in 1878 the family was living at 70 Ladbroke Grove in London and Nathaniel’s occupation was stated as being an auctioneer.
	This was confirmed in the 1881 Census when Nathaniel, listed as aged 59 and of Fairford, was a retired estate agent living at 70 Ladbroke Road in Kensington with his family. His wife was given as Eliza S Collett aged 53 of Cheltenham.
	All of their children still living at home were born at Norwood in Surrey and all were unmarried in 1881. They were Florence aged 26, Sidney aged 23, Walwyn aged 21 and Rose aged 17. Although reputed to have had a total of eight children, another daughter of N G Collett was named as Frances Alice in the 1891 Will of Nathaniel’s sister Mary Jane Cowle. There is a chance that this may be a reference to his daughter Florence Agnes.
	According to stories told within the family, Nathaniel was a poet and a wastrel who was reputedly thought to have left England to go to live in China. This seems unlikely as at the age of 59 he was still living in London in 1881.
	However, it is more likely that this story relates to son Walwyn who, by the turn of the century, was a travelling poet. Furthermore Walwyn was not a beneficiary in the Will of Mary Jane Cowle nee Collett, whereas some of the other children of this family were, perhaps indicating his fall from grace.
	Nathaniel George Collett was named as brother in the 1891 Will of his sister Mary Jane Cowle.
	2O22	Edward Charles Collett			Born in 1852
	2O23	Florence Agnes Collett			Born in 1854
	2O24	Percy Collett			Born in 1855
	2O25	Eliza S Collett			Born in 1856
	2O26	Sidney Collett			Born in 1857
	2O27	Walwyn Collett			Born in 1859
	2O28	Walter Collett			Born in 1861
	2O29	Rose Collett			Born in 1863
	2O30	Frances Alice Collett (?)			Date of birth unknown
2N17	Richard John Collett was born on 02.06.1825 at Fairford where he was baptised on 03.07.1825. He was married to Mary Ada (?) the sister of a US ambassador and they lived at Palmer's Terrace in Holloway. Richard’s mother Anne Collett died while she was staying with the family in 1865.
	Richard was knighted by the King of Portugal in 1865, and was an electrical engineer involved with the laying of the Atlantic Cable by the Great Eastern in 1866.
	According to the 1881 Census Richard was aged 55 years and Secretary to the Telegraph Company. Living with him at 23 St Mary’s Road in Willesden in Middlesex was his wife Mary A Collett aged 62 of St Giles in Middlesex, their unmarried daughter Ada L Collett aged 27, and 29 years old servant Elizabeth Morgan.
	Richard was named as one of the two trustees of the 1891 Will of his sister Mary Jane Cowle.
	2O31	Ada Lily Collett			Born in 1853
2N18	Elizabeth Collett was born on 16.04.1824 at Chedworth and baptised there on 21.06.1824. On 31.12.1842 she gave birth to a base born child Fanny Collett (Ref. 3O19).
	Six months later on 19^th June 1843, while working as a servant at the home of David Holland in Cirencester, she was arrested for stealing a gown, a neckerchief, a collar and a cornelian stone from her employer. The charges were brought by Harriett Holland, the wife of David, and related to the offence which had taken place on 17^th June.
	Elizabeth’s details at the time of her arrest were as follows: servant, age 18, brown hair, brown eyes, oval visage, fair complexion, 4 feet 10 inches tall. She was tried and found guilty at the Trinity Session on 27^th June 1843 and was sentenced to two calendar months at Northleach (Committal Ref. Q/Gc5/7 Summer Assizes).
	In the event, she only served one week and was released on 4^th July 1843. The release papers recorded that her behaviour was orderly, so her early release with good behaviour may have been influenced by the fact that she had a six month old baby.
	It seems likely that she was released into the care of her cousin Henry Collett (Ref. 3N3) whom she eventually married on 05.11.1844 at St Andrews Church in Chedworth. Nine months later in July of the following year Elizabeth gave birth to the first of their twelve children.
	Details of the continuation of this family line are provided in Part Three – The Chedworth Line commencing with the reference Ref. 3N3
2N20	William Collett was born on 02.09.1829 at Chedworth and was not married by 1861 but was still living with his father Henry Collett. At that time he was aged 31 and a shoemaker journeyman.
	It was therefore after 1861 that he married Elizabeth (Betsy) Margetts who was born in 1831 at Stowell in Wiltshire.
	By the time of the 1871 Census William 41 was listed as a shoemaker. His wife was not with him on the census day but he did had living with them his widowed stepmother Mary Collett nee Knapp, his father’s second wife. She was listed as aged 57 a housekeeper for William born at Stowell. Less than two months after the census day Mary died at Chedworth on 25.05.1871.
	The Morris Trade Directory of 1876 lists William as a bootmaker while the 1881 Census gave his occupation as that of a shoemaker, like his father.
	The Census of 1881 for Chedworth shows William and Betsy as being aged 51 and 48 respectively and living with them on this occasion was Elizabeth’s mother Ann Margetts at 78 of Quinhampton in Wiltshire.
	Elizabeth, who was formerly a dressmaker, died at Chedworth on 28.08.1899.
	According to the 1901 Census for Chedworth, William aged 71 was a widow living on his own means and it was there that he died on 10.03.1906 aged 76.
	Both William and Elizabeth were buried in separate but adjacent tombs in Chedworth Independent Chapel graveyard although William’s has been eroded over the years and cannot be clearly deciphered. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
2N22	Richard Collett was born in the hamlet of Buckland in 1815 and was baptised at the Church of St Michael and All Angels in Broadway on 06.08.1815, the eldest son of Richard Collett and Ann Hall.
	Richard was twenty-five in 1841, there being only two individuals named Richard Collett in the census that year. One was living in the Cheltenham area, where Richard’s mother was believed to be living at that time, while the other was living in the area of Stow-on-the-Wold.
	No positive identification of Richard has been found in any subsequent census return.
2N23	George Collett was born at Buckland in 1817 and was baptised at the Church of St Michael and All Angels in Broadway on 13.07.1817. He was the second child of Richard Collett and Ann Hall and in Broadway census of 1841 he had a rounded age of twenty when living separate from him family.
	Sometime during the following years George married Mary who was also from Buckland, and by the time of the census in 1851 the childless couple were still living there, when George was thirty-four and Mary was slightly older at thirty-eight.
	Ten years later, by the time of the census in 1861, the couple were still living at Buckland where George Collett of Buckland was forty-four and was the publican and grocer for the hamlet, while his wife Mary was forty-eight.
	It was the same story after a further ten years, when George and Mary were continuing to live in Buckland where George was fifty-four and his wife was fifty-six (rather than fifty-eight). However, during the next decade Mary died leaving George Collett listed as a widower in the census of 1881
	Following the death of his wife it would appear that George left Buckland and moved the short few miles to live in Broadway. At that time in 1881, George was sixty-four and was living alone at a house on the Main Street in Broadway when he was described as having been ‘formerly a grocer’.
2N24	Francis Collett was born at Buckland in 1820 and was baptised at Broadway on 06.08.1820, the son of Richard Collett and Ann Hall. He followed in his father’s profession and, by the time of the census of 1841, he was a blacksmith living in a house in the High Street in Broadway. Francis was twenty-one, and living with him were two of his sisters, these being Selena who was 17 and Lavinia who was 13.
	Although it is known that their parents were still alive at that time, no exact trace of them has been found so far in the 1841 Census. However, living in the house next door to Francis and his sisters was another Collett family whose details can be found in the appendix at the end of this family line.
	In addition to this family, there was another Collett family living in Broadway in 1841, and the details of this family are also provided in the same appendix.
	It is established that Francis Collett married Mary Ann who was born at Pershore and it would appear that the couple lived all of their life together at Broadway. It was certainly at Broadway that they were living in 1861 when blacksmith Francis Collett of Buckland was forty-one and his wife Mary Ann Collett of Pershore, who was blind, was forty-two.
	Living with the couple at High Street in Broadway, just adjacent to Colletts Lane in the town, were two of their children. These were Amelia Ann Collett 15 and George Collett who was ten, both of them having been born at Broadway. It is not known if there were other, older children, born into this family.
	Ten years later in the census of 1871 the couple was recorded as still living in Broadway, but by that time their children had left home. Francis Collett was fifty and his wife Mary Ann Collett was fifty-four.
	The census in 1881 confirmed that blacksmith Francis Collett of Broadway was sixty-one and that he was living with his wife Ann Collett from Pershore at a house on Main Street in Broadway.
	Ann was sixty-seven and was recorded as being blind. Living with the couple was their granddaughter Ann Collett who was two years old and who had been born at Broadway.
	George’s daughter Amelia was thirty-three and a spinster at this time, and was employed by the Vicar of Childswickham, just two miles west of Broadway. So it seems unlikely that this was her child, unless base-born. The more likely option is that two years old Ann Collett was the daughter of their son George. However, in 1881 George was not married and was living in Oxfordshire
	2O32	Amelia Ann Collett	Born in 1846
	2O33	George Collett	Born in 1851
2N25	Ann Collett was born at Buckland in 1822, the eldest daughter of Richard Collett and Ann Hall. In 1841 she was listed in the June census as being twenty years old and of Buckland, while living in the Broadway area, but not with her three siblings who were living there at that time. With no further record of her as Ann Collett it is possible that she was married during the 1840s.
2N26	Selena Collett was born at Buckland in 1824, the daughter of Richard Collett and Ann Hall. By the summer of 1841 she was seventeen and was living at a house in the High Street in Broadway. Her parents were not listed at the family home at this time, instead Selena and her sister Lavinia (below) were being looked after by their brother Francis Collett (above), the blacksmith.
	No further record of Selena Collett has been found in any later census records, so it must be assumed that she became a married lady.
2N27	Robert Collett was born at Buckland in 1826, the youngest known son of Richard Collett and Ann Hall. In 1841 according to the census that year, Robert was fourteen and was accompanying his father Richard on a visit to Headington in Oxford
2N28	Lavinia Collett was born at Buckland on 08.08.1827 and was baptised at Broadway on 08.08.1827, the youngest daughter of Richard Collett and Ann Hall. In the Broadway census of June 1841 Lavinia was thirteen and was living in the High Street in Broadway with her brother Francis and her sister Selena.
	Where her parents were at this time has not been determined, even though it is known that they were still alive in the 1840s, the 1850s, and the 1860s.
	By 1851 the only Lavinia Collett living anywhere in the United Kingdom who was born in 1827 was twenty-three years old Lavinia Collett who was living at working within the St George’s district of London in Hanover Square.
	It was just a few years after this that Lavinia married George Walford Humphries of Evesham, the wedding taking place during the first half of the 1850s. Once married the couple settled in Tipton in Staffordshire where they were living in April 1861.
	By that time Lavinia had presented her husband with the first two of their five known childdren. The census that year recorded the family as George W Humphries who was thirty and his wife Lavina who was thirty-two, and their two children at that time were five years old Brightley Humphries and Eva Humphries who was two. Three further children were added to the family during the next decade.
	The later census of 1881 revealed the family living at 214 Horseley Heath in Tipton from where fifty years old George’s occupation was that of an auctioneer. His birth place was confirmed as Evesham, while his wife ‘Levina’ was forty-nine (when she was actually 52) and from Buckland in Gloucestershire.
	Living with the couple at that time were their three youngest children. Eighteen years old Henry Humphries was a cab driver, ‘Levina’ Humphries was sixteen with no occupation, and Charles Humphries was twelve and was still attending school. All three children were confirmed as having been born at Tipton.
	Also living with the family was George’s nephew William Hemming from Evesham who was eighteen and a cab driver. Ten years later in the Tipton Census of 1891 Lavinia Humphries was sixty-two
	By March 1901 George Humphries was still living in Tipton where he was seventy years old and a general dealer from Evesham, while his wife Lavinia from Buckland was seventy-three. After a further ten years the elderly couple had left Tipton and were recorded in the West Bromwich registration district where George was eighty and Lavinia was eighty-four, although her name was given as ‘Louisa’.
	Of their five children, their daughter Lavinia Mary Humphries who was born in 1865, went on to marry William Wigston Jowett who was born in 1863. The married produced a number of children, one of which, Margaret (Maggie) May Jowett of Bradford (born in 1886), later married Thomas Ethelstone (born in 1885). Their daughter Hazel Daisy Ethelstone (1908-1988) living in Walsall in 1911 married John Alfred Dainty (1903-1983), the son of John and Elizabeth Louisa Dainty of Walsall.
	This latter pairing were the parents of James R Dainty who kindly provided the initial information that has allowed this line of the family to be developed.
2N30	Joseph Collett was born at Sherborne and baptised there on 24.06.1804, the son of John and Hannah Collett. He was a shoemaker and married Elizabeth of Aston Blank around 1830 after which they set up home in Little Rissington.
	This was confirmed by the 1841 Census in which Joseph’s ‘rounded age’ was 35 and his wife was 30. At that time they had two surviving children, Edward aged 7 and Albert aged 1. It would appear that son Harvey had died shortly after he was baptised.
	By 1851 head of household Joseph was aged 46 and was a shoemaker of Sherborne. His wife Elizabeth was 43 of Aston Blank and their children were Edward 17, Albert 10, Reuben 9, James 5 and Henry aged two months, and all of them had been born at Little Rissington. Their son Reuben appeared in later records as Herbert Reuben and Hubert.
	Also listed as lodging with the family were two shoemakers George Guy 47 of Little Rissington and John Timms 36 of Chipping Norton.
	There would appear to be other connections between the Collett and Timms families when John Collett (Ref. 33O19) married Caroline Timms in 1862 at Great Rissington. And in 1890 at Broadwell there was born a Walter Collett Timms for whom further research is needed.
	By 1861 Joseph was 56 and Elizabeth 52 but now her birth place was stated as Cold Aston the alternative name for Aston Blank. Living with them were shoemaker sons Albert 20 and James 15, and 10 years old Henry. Towards the end of the 1860s Joseph died at Little Rissington.
	In the census of 1871 Joseph’s wife Elizabeth was listed as a widow aged sixty-three and described as ‘occupying 20 acres’. Living with her were her two sons, Henry who was twenty years old and a blacksmith, and William aged eleven who was born at Northleach.
	By this time in her life, Elizabeth’s son James Collett was married and was living in Kent. Sometime during the 1870s it would appear that she travelled to Kent to live with James and his family, where she lived out the rest of her life.
	According to the census of 1881, Elizabeth Collett, a widow of seventy-three years from Aston Blank in Gloucestershire, was living at 2 Cedar Terrace in Sevenoaks with her evangelist son James Collett and his family. It seems highly likely that Elizabeth died at Sevenoaks shortly after this.
	2O34	Edward Collett	Born in 1834
	2O35	Harvey Collett	Born in 1838
	2O36	Albert Collett	Born in 1840
	2O37	Herbert Reuben Collett	Born in 1841
	2O38	James Collett	Born in 1845
	2O39	Henry Collett	Born in 1851
	2O40	William Reuben Collett	Born in 1858
2N33	Harriett Collett was born at Aston Blank where she was baptised on 01.07.1810. She died shortly after aged just three months in September that same year.
2N34	John Collett was born around 1811 at Aston Blank where he married Mary around 1840 and where their daughter was born and baptised. John was aged 30 in the Census of 1841 and was living with Mary his wife aged 25 at Johnson Cottage in Aston Blank and was listed as a publican. John’s uncle Samuel Collett (Ref. 2M42) was also living at Johnson Cottage at the time of the census.
	2O41	Mary Ann Collett	Baptised on 13.08.1842
2N35	Ann Collett was born around 1813 at Aston Blank where she married Thomas Shaw on 31.03.1838.
2N38	Sarah Collett was born at Aston Blank in 1821. According to the 1841 Census she was living with her widower father, her mother having died three years earlier.
2N39	Edwin Collett was born at Aston Blank but was baptised at Cirencester on 24.01.1832, the son of Richard and Ann Collett. By June in 1841 Edwin was not with his parents but would appear to be visiting a family at Aston Blank in the Northleach registration district.
	According to the census ten years later Edwin was 18 and was living in Cirencester with his parents Richard and Ann. Sometime during the 1850s he married Maria who was born at Little Rissington just a few miles from Aston Blank.
	Once married the couple settled in Farmington just south of Aston Blank and Little Rissington, and it was there that their first two children were born. By 1861 the family was living in New Barn Pike which was a toll gate where Maria Collett was the toll collector at the age of twenty-six.
	Her husband Edwin was a carpenter aged twenty-eight and his place of birth was confirmed as Aston Blank. Living with the couple at Farmington at that time was their first son William H Collett who was one year old. Within a year Maria presented Edwin with their second son who was also born at Farmington. However, it would appear that their eldest son did not survived beyond childhood.
	Around 1862 the family left Farmington and moved the short distance to Great Rissington where Edwin’s and Maria’s next six children were born, and where they were living in 1871. Edwin was still employed as a carpenter and was 38, and gave his place of birth as Cold Aston which was the more recent name for Aston Blank.
	The family on this occasion were living right next door to the village inn. Maria from Little Rissington was 36, and her children were Charles H Collett was 9, Emily Collett 7, Alfred J Collett 5, Elizabeth Annie Collett 3, and Agnes Eliza Collett who was eleven months old.
	Over the next five or six years the family continued to live at Great Rissington where a further two children were added to the family. Then in 1876 they left Gloucestershire and moved north to County Durham and the town of Sedgefield, where Edwin’s last child was born shortly after their arrival.
	So by 1881 the family living at North End in Sedgefield comprised Edwin Collett 48 who was a joiner, Maria 46, and their family which was missing daughter Emily who was 17 had already left home. The couple’s listed children were Charles 19, Alfred 15, Elizabeth 13, Agnes 10, Alwyn 7, Marion 5, and Ellen who was three years old.
	It would appear that the family then settled in Sedgefield, probably for the rest of their life. In 1891 the Sedgefield family was made up of Edwin 58, Maria 55, Charles 29, Elizabeth 23, Albert (Alwyn) 17, Maria (Marion) 15, and Esther (Ellen) who was 13, some with variations on their names.
	By March 1901 Maria had died so the family living at Sedgefield was reduced to widower Edwin who was still working as a joiner at 68, his son Charles 39, eldest daughter Emily who had returned to look after her father following the death of her mother, son Alfred 35, and unmarried daughter Marion who was twenty-five.
	According to the census in April 1911 Edwin Collett was 78 and was still living at Sedgefield. The only members of his family still living with him were his son Charles and daughter Marion.
	2O42	William R Collett	Born in 1859 at Farmington
	2O43	Charles H Collett	Born in 1861 at Farmington
	2O44	Emily Collett	Born in 1863 at Great Rissington
	2O45	Alfred J Collett	Born in 1865 at Great Rissington
	2O46	Elizabeth Annie Collett	Born in 1867 at Great Rissington
	2O47	Agnes Eliza Collett	Born in May 1870 at Great Rissington
	2O48	Alwyn Collett	Born in 1873 at Great Rissington
	2O49	Marion E Collett	Born in 1875 at Great Rissington
	2O50	Ellen (Esther) M Collett	Born in 1877 at Sedgefield, Co Durham
2N40	Henry Collett was baptised on 01.10.1820 at Aston Blank where he married Rhoda Acock in December 1839 within the Cheltenham registration district. Rhoda was born at Bibury in 1818 and at the time of the marriage Henry was a stonemason’s labourer.
	Henry was aged 20 in the Census of 1841 and was living with wife Rhoda aged 20 at Ridit Farm in Aston Blank and was listed as an agricultural labourer. All of their children were born and baptised at Aston Blank.
	By 1851 Henry was aged 30 and was still an agricultural labourer living at Aston Blank with wife Rhoda aged 32 and three of their children, Caroline aged 7, Joseph 4 and two month old George.
	Ten years later the family had reduced to just Henry and Rhoda and son George aged 11. The absence of their youngest child Harriett might suggest an infant death.
	Sometime before 1871 son George had left the family home leaving Henry and Rhoda. Staying with them was their grandson Jesse Beckley aged 4, the son of their eldest surviving daughter Caroline Beckley nee Collett.
	According to the 1881 Census Henry now aged 60 of Aston Blank and Rhoda aged 62 of Bibury were living at Gilberts Grove in Aston Blank with their grandson Jesse Beckley now aged 14 years and an agricultural labourer.
	The couple were still living at Gilberts Grove ten years later, at which time Henry was listed as ‘living on his own means’. Today the road Gilberts Grove has been renamed Gilberts Grave.
	Henry died in June 1893 aged 73 as recorded in the Northleach district where he was followed by Rhoda who died in March 1898 aged 82.
	2O51	Joseph Collett	Baptised on 25.12.1842; infant death
	2O52	Caroline Collett	Baptised on 14.04.1844
	2O53	Joseph Collett	Baptise