PART TWO

The Secondary Line - 1775 to 1870

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

Updated October 2011

The information for a previous update was 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

2M11		Mary Collett was baptised on 11.01.1775 at Notgrove where she died on 03.02.1778.
2M12		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 9 – The Aldsworth Line.
2M13		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 four children were baptised at Somerford Keynes near Cirencester, with the later children being born after the family moved to the Kineton and Temple Guiting area north of Notgrove. These later children were baptised at Temple Guiting.
		It is likely that Mary Fletcher was the sister of Anne Fletcher who married Thomas’ younger 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.
		In the first national census in June 1841, a Thomas Collett aged sixty was living in the Winchcombe & Guiting registration district with his son John Collett who was twenty-five, who had with him his one year old son John.
		2N15		Anne Collett		Baptised on 12.12.1807
		2N16		Thomas Cooke Collett		Baptised on 22.01.1809; infant death
		2N17		Richard Joseph Collett		Baptised on 17.06.1810
		2N18		John Collett		Baptised on 16.06.1816
		2N19		Mary Fletcher Collett		Baptised on 07.06.1818
		2N20		Thomas Cook Collett		Baptised on 06.01.1822
2M14		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.
2M15		Robert Collett was born at Notgrove and was baptised there on 06.02.1784, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Collett.
2M16		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)
2M17		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.
2M18		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. At the time of the baptism of Henry’s and Ann’s son James Robert Collett in 1817, Henry was described as being a farmer.
		In 1807 the parish Terrier for Somerford Keynes indicated that Croft House, with 290 acres of the former Southby estate, was occupied by Richard Collett. This may have been Henry’s older brother Richard (above) who would have been twenty-six years old.
		In the Census of 1851 Henry was 65 and was 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, the daughter of Joseph and Susannah Fletcher. 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.
		2N21		Henry John Collett		Baptised on 28.05.1809
		2N22		Susannah Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 07.08.1810
		2N23		Mary Jane Collett		Born on 19.04.1812
		2N24		Phoebe Ann Collett		Born on 16.06.1814
		2N25		James Robert Collett		Born on 18.11.1816
		2N26		Nathaniel George Collett		Baptised on 11.03.1820 infant death
		2N27		Nathaniel George Collett		Born on 30.01.1822
		2N28		Richard John Collett		Born on 02.06.1825
2M19		William Collett was born at Notgrove where he was baptised on 14.10.1788, the son of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Cooke.
2M20		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).
2M21		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).
2M22		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).
2M23		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 3 – 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 3 – The Chedworth Line commencing with the reference Ref. 3M1.
2M24		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 that was 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 living with them was their granddaughter Fanny Collett (Ref. 3O19), who was eight years old and the base-born child of Robert’s eldest daughter Elizabeth.
		According to the 1861 Census for Chedworth, Robert Collett, age 65, was a shoemaker from Notgrove, and was living with his younger wife Mary, age 48 and from Stowell, and his son William who was 31 and a shoemaker journeyman.
		Robert enjoyed only thirteen years with his new wife before his death at Chedworth on 27.08.1864, at the age of 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, age 57 and born at Stowell, the housekeeper to William Collett aged 41. Less than two months after the census Mary died at Chedworth on 25.05.1871.
		A single headstone marks the grave of Robert Collett at Chedworth, on which both of his wives are also mentioned, as follows:
		In The Memory Of Robert Collett who died Aug 27th 1864 aged 67 yrs Sarah Collett wife of Robert Collett departed this life 5th Sept 1850 and Mary his second wife who died 25^th May 1871
		2N29		Elizabeth Collett		Born on 16.04.1824
		2N30		John Collett		Baptised on 06.02.1828
		2N31		William Collett		Born on 02.09.1829
		2N32		Sarah Collett		Born on 29.05.1832
2M25		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 3 – 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)
2M26		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).
2M27		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.
2M28		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.
2M29		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.
2M30		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 9 – The Aldsworth Line.
2M37		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.
2M38		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.
		2N33		Richard Collett		Born in 1815
		2N34		George Collett		Born in 1817
		2N35		Francis Collett		Born in 1820
		2N36		Ann Collett		Born in 1822
		2N37		Selena Collett		Born in 1824
		2N38		Robert Collett		Born in 1826
		2N39		Lavinia Collett		Born in 1827
2M40		Esther Collett was baptised at Aston Blank on 31.12.1780, the daughter of Joseph and Betty Collett. It was also at Aston Blank on 28.10.1804 that she married Thomas Braggington by licence, although on that occasion she was recorded as Hester Collett. Thomas was born at Wenlode in Worcestershire.
2M41		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.
		2N40		Jane Collett		Baptised on 18.02.1803; infant death
		2N41		Joseph Collett		Baptised on 24.06.1804 at Sherborne
		2N42		Jane Collett		Baptised on 20.07.1806 at Notgrove
		2N43		Eliza Collett		Baptised on 13.03.1808 at Notgrove
		2N44		Harriett Collett		Baptised on 01.07.1810; infant death
		2N45		John Collett		Born around 1811 at Aston Blank
		2N46		Ann Collett		Born around 1813 at Aston Blank
		2N47		William Collett		Baptised on 22.10.1815 at Aston Blank
		2N48		Henry Collett		Baptised on 26.07.1818; infant death
		2N49		Sarah Collett		Born in 1821 at Aston Blank
2M42		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.
2M43		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.
2M44		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.
2M45		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.
		2N50		Edwin Collett		Baptised on 24.01.1832
2M47		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.
		2N51		Henry Collett		Baptised on 01.10.1820
		2N52		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 that year. 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 since she was missing from the family in 1871.
		Perhaps it was for the reason of being close to his school in Stow-on-the-Wold, that nine years old ‘Thomas Collett of Slaughter’ was living with the family of master tailor and draper William Walton at the Market Place in Stow at the time of the census in 1871. Thomas was described as nephew, the relationship being through Ann Walton nee Collett.
		Also living at the Walton family home at that time was niece Emily Collett from Guiting (Guiting Power) who was 16 and who was employed as an assistant in William Walton’s drapers shop. Emily was the niece of William’s wife Ann Walton nee Collett.
		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. His interest in ironmongery may have come from Walter Walton, the son of William and Ann Walton who, in 1871 was an out of work ironmonger.
		By 1891 Thomas Collett, age 28 and from Slaughter, was living and working in the Ashton-under-Lyne area of Staffordshire where he was unmarried and continuing to work as an ironmonger. It would appear that he was still a bachelor ten years later in March 1901, by which time he was living in Wolverhampton where he was described as Thomas Collett, 38 from Slaughter, an ironmonger’s assistant.
		No record of his has been found in the next census in 1911.
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
2N5	Richard Collett was baptised on 12.04.1812 at the parish church in Bibury, the eldest of ten children of Thomas Collett and Mary Coates. Sadly he suffered an infant death and was buried at Bibury six month later on 13.10.1812.
2N6	Mary Ann Collett was baptised on 12.12.1813 at the parish church in Bibury, the oldest daughter of Thomas and Mary Collett. Previously it was believed that she died in Bibury at the age of 25 where she was buried on 12.07.1839. However, new information suggests that she was only seven months old when she died and that she was buried on 03.07.1814.
2N7	John Collett was baptised on 07.05.1815 at the parish church in Bibury, the son of Thomas and Mary Collett. He married Mary who was born in 1817 at Down Ampney on the Gloucestershire border with Wiltshire.
	In the 1841 Census for Arlington and Bibury, John was 25 and his wife Mary was 24, and at that time they were living at the Arlington Row home of John’s parents, Thomas and Mary Collett. Also listed within the same household was John’s two sisters Mary and Martha, and the family’s maiden great aunt Anne Collett.
	It was the same situation ten years later, except that by then Mary had presented John with the couple’s only known child. John and Mary were both recorded in the 1851 Census as still living with John’s parents at Arlington Row, where they were both 35, while their son William was eight years old. Also still living at the house was John’s younger brother Joseph and his sister Martha.
	2O10		William Collett		Born in 1842
2N8	Ann Collett was baptised at the parish church in Bibury on 24.05.1818, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Collett. She was not recorded as living at the family home in Arlington Row, Bibury in the 1841 Census so had moved away by then.
	At some time in her young life, Ann had travelled to the Isle of Wight and may have been later joined there by her younger sister Mary Collett (below), it is known that both girls were married there.
	Ann was the first to be married, when she wed Richard Clarke on 09.07.1848 at Northwood, just outside Cowes. After they were married Ann and Richard continued to live on the island, and it was there, at West Cowes, four years later, that Ann’s sister Mary was married.
2N9	Job Collett was baptised on 18.03.1821 at the parish church in Bibury, the son of Thomas and Mary Collett. Curiously in the 1841 Census, Job Collett from Bibury was listed as being aged 15 rather than 19 and was living and working at Highworth near Swindon. However, it is possible that his stated age was 19, but has been misinterpreted as 15.
	The only other record so far found for Job is within the census return for Bilston in Wolverhampton in 1861. In that he was listed as Job Collett, age 42 and from Bibury in Gloucestershire. His was unmarried and living in lodgings in Bilston, from where he was employed as a labourer at a local colliery.
2N10	Joseph Collett was baptised at Taynton near Burford on 24.11.1822, the youngest son of Thomas Collett and Mary Coates. By the time of the next census in 1851, Joseph Collett was staying at the house of his father, Thomas Collett, in Bibury and was listed as a miller of Faringdon at the age of 28.
	Twenty years later, in the census of 1871, Joseph Collett, age 51, gave his place of birth as Bibury, when he was living at Sevenhampton near Swindon. He was an agricultural labourer by then, and had living with him his wife Eliza Collett, age 38 and from Withington, his son Thomas Collett, a plough boy of 13, also from Withington, his son William Collett who was seven and from Withington, and son Henry Collett who was eight months old and born after the family had settled in Sevenhampton. Living with the family was Eliza’s elderly father, William Porter, who was 68 and an agricultural labourer from Quenington.
	The only other detail so far known about Joseph Collett is that he died during the 1870s.
2N11	Susannah Collett was baptised on 11.07.1824 at the parish church in Bibury. She was not recorded as living at the family home in Arlington Row in Bibury in 1841, when she would have been 16 years old. However, it seems very likely that she was already working as a domestic servant at the nearby Quenington home of land surveyor Nicholas Webb. The census that year recorded her as Susana Collett, age 15 and born within the county of Gloucestershire, who was a farm servant to the five members of the Webb family, Quenington being less than two miles from where she was born.
	All that is known about Susannah is that she married Henry Poole on 10.04.1847, after which the couple is known to have later settled in Aberdare.
2N12	Elizabeth Collett was baptised on 06.08.1826 at the parish church in Bibury, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Collett. Like her sister Susannah (above), she too was not recorded as living at the family home in Bibury in 1841.
	During the 1840s Elizabeth married Richard Howard, and by 1851 the couple had been blessed with the arrival of two children. The census that year placed the family living in the Cadoxton-Juxta-Neath area of Wales, to the east of Swansea.
	Elizabeth from Gloucestershire was 24, her husband Richard was 25, and their two children were Neamiah Howard who was two, and Ezra Howard who was one year old. Their marriage was only short-lived, when Elizabeth died during 1856.
2N13	Mary Collett was born at the end of 1828 and was baptised on 04.01.1829 at the parish church in Bibury. She was recorded as being 12 years of age in the census of 1841 for Arlington, when she was living with her parents and younger sister Martha (above) at Arlington Row in Bibury.
	She was not listed with her family in the 1851 Census for Bibury, although it is known that, up to a few years before then, she had still been living at Arlington Row with her parents. It seems highly likely that, possibly around the time she was twenty, Mary had joined her older sister Ann (above) who was married on the Isle of Wight in 1848.
	What is known for sure, is that it was at West Cowes on the Isle of Wight that Elizabeth Collett married Jacob Chambers on 20.10.1852, and it was there, on the Isle of Wight, that the couple settled and spent the early years of their married life together.
	This is the family line of sisters Jill Chambers, of Stamford in Lincolnshire, and Barbara Chambers of Dunbar in Scotland. Jill’s website deals with the Swing Riots of 1830 (www.swingriotsriotersblacksheepsearch.com), while Barbara’s contains information about the Napoleonic Wars (www.britisharmyresearchnapoleonicwars.co.uk)
2N14	Martha Collett was baptised on 01.05.1831 at the parish church in Bibury, the last of the ten known children of Thomas Collett and Mary Coates. She was recorded as being aged 10 years and 19 years respectively in the 1841 and 1851 Arlington and Bibury Census returns, when she was still living at the family home with her parents at Arlington Row on both occasions. For the latter, her place of birth was confirmed as Arlington.
	It would appear that upon the deaths of her parents in the late 1850s Martha Collett took over the house at Arlington Row. She was nearly thirty-nine when she married the much younger George Hicks on 19.02.1870. Whilst George was thirteen years younger than Martha, it was very likely her advanced years that was the reason why the marriage did not produce any children for the couple.
	Martha and George, an agricultural labourer from Cricklade, were confirmed as living at Arlington in 1871 when they were 39 and 25, in 1881 when they were 48 and 35, in 1891 when they were 58 and 45, and again in 1901 when Martha was 68 and George was 55.
	There were still living at Arlington Row in 1911, by which time Martha was 79 and George was 65. It was just three years later that Martha died at Arlington Row in 1914.
2N15		Anne Collett was very likely a honeymoon baby born just nine months after her parents Thomas Collett and Mary Fletcher were married at Sherborne on 24^th February 1807. Anne was baptised at Somerford Keynes on 12.12.1807.
		Anne married William Walton from Longborough in Gloucestershire and in 1871 the couple were settled in Stow-on-the-Wold where William had a tailor and draper shop on the Market Place, where he employed nine men. Anne was 63 by then and her place of birth was confirmed as Somerford Keynes.
		In addition to their 22 years old son Walter Walton, who was an out of work ironmonger, two members of the Collett family were living with the family, together with a domestic servant. Assisting William in the shop was his 16 years old niece old Emily Collett from Guiting, the daughter of Anne’s brother John Collett (below).
		Also living there at the age of nine years was Thomas Collett (Ref. 2N1) who was described as a nephew and a scholar from Lower Slaughter, who was the only known son of Joseph Collett (Ref. 2M3) and his wife Eliza. Supporting the household was Ann Burrow 14, a general servant from Little Compton in Gloucestershire.
		During the next decade Anne Walton nee Collett died at Stow-on-the-Wold, leaving her husband William to continue with the running of the tailor’s shop, perhaps with help from Emily Collett at least for a few more years.
		By 1881 widower William Walton was sixty and had taken on the additional duties of postmaster while still living and working from the premises in the Market Place. The only person with him at this time was the widow Eliza Collett who was 58 and from Lower Swell who was the mother of Thomas Collett who had been living with William and his wife ten years earlier.
2N17		Richard Joseph Collett was baptised on 17.06.1810 at Somerford Keynes.
2N18		John Collett was probably born at Somerford Keynes according to the census records, and this must have taken place prior to his family’s move to Kineton. It was at Temple Guiting near Kineton that he was baptised on 16.06.1816, the son of farmer Thomas Collett and his wife Mary.
		By June 1841 John was married with a son of his own who, sadly, appears not to have survived beyond infancy. John Collett senior was twenty-five, while his son John was just one year old, and on that occasion John had living with him at Guiting Power his sixty years old widowed father Thomas Collett.
		Although no wife appears to be listed with the family in 1841, ten years later in the Guiting Power census of 1851 the family comprised John who was 34, his wife Elizabeth 32, and their four children, Samuel who was six, Andrew who was four and who appears to be the second child of the family not to survive, Mary who was two, and Elizabeth who was under one year old
		At that same time in 1851, there was another Collett family living in Guiting Power which has not yet been linked directly with this family, but whose details are provided in the appendix at the end of this section of Part 2.
		Two more children were added to the family during the following decade, so by 1861 the family was made up of John who was 44, Elizabeth 42, Samuel George 16, Mary Ann 12, Otto John 8, Emily who was six. John’s wife was with-child on the day of the census, but where her daughters Elizabeth and Eliza were on this occasion has not been determined.
		Later that same year Elizabeth gave birth to another daughter, and during the following years a further two children were introduced to the family. However, it may have been during the birth of her last child that she lost her life, because by 1871 John Collett was a widower at the age of 54. By that time he was a baker and was living at The Mill in Naunton. Living there with him was six of his children. These were Samuel 26, Mary 22, Otto 18, Henrietta10, Ada 8, and Thomas who was four years old.
		Ten years later in 1881 widower and baker John Collett from Somerford Keynes was still living at The Mill in Naunton, where his unmarried daughter Elizabeth was performing the role of housekeeper. John was 64, and Elizabeth was 30 and her place of birth was simply given as Guiting.
		Still unmarried and living at the family home in Naunton with their father were Samuel who was 36, Otto who was 28, Eliza M Collett who was 22, and Ada who was seventeen. All of the children had been born at Guiting except Ada, who was born after the family had moved to Naunton.
		Living with the family and supporting baker John, was eighteen years old Amos Clapton from Cutsdean who was described as a general servant (baker). Rather curiously John’s daughter Eva was not listed with the family in any of the census returns, although she was married by 1881 and living with her was her younger sister Henrietta.
		With John Collett not listed in the next census of 1891, it may be safe to assume that he died at Naunton sometime during the 1880s.
		2O11		John Collett		Born in 1840
		2O12		Samuel George Collett		Born in 1844
		2O13		Andrew Collett		Born in 1846
		2O14		Mary Ann Collett		Born in 1848
		2O15		Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1850
		2O16		Otto John Collett		Born in 1852
		2O17		Emily Collett		Born in 1854
		2O18		Eva Alberta Collett		Born in 1856
		2O19		Eliza M Collett		Born in 1858
		2O20		Henrietta Collett		Born in 1861
		2O21		Ada Collett		Born in 1863
		2O22		Thomas Collett		Born in 1866 at Naunton
2N20		Thomas Cook Collett was born at Kineton in 1821 very close to Temple Guiting where he was baptised on 06.01.1822, the youngest son of Thomas and Mary Collett. 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.
		2O23		Thomas Samuel Collett		Baptised on 01.09.1853; died by 1861
		2O24		Mary Jemima Collett		Born in 1855 at Aldsworth
		2O25		Minerva Jane Collett		Born in 1857 at Aldsworth
		2O26		Ann Amelia Collett		Born in Jan 1861; buried 23.12.1862
2N21		Henry John Collett was born at Somerford Keynes where he was baptised on 28.05.1809, the eldest son of Henry Collett and Anne Fletcher. It is understood that he moved from Gloucestershire 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. Once married, the couple initially lived at 60 Mortimer Street in London.
		At the time of birth of their son Charles Edward Collett, Henry and his family were 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, when 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, while working at his office at 39 Friday Street in London.
		Amelia was a court dressmaker and milliner and in 1851 she and her family were living at Anwell Street in Clerkenwell. During the following year Henry was working from another London office, this time at 38 Gresham Street from where he had expanded the business to include a shipping agency for London, Manchester, Yorkshire and Scotland.
		By 1853 he was listed principally as a ‘Scotch Agent’ and from 1856 was working from premises at 31 Friday Street. In 1861 Henry moved his office once again, this time to 5 Carey Lane.
		Ten years later Amelia died from bronchitis on 09.12.1871 at 6 Sidmouth Street, Grays Inn Lane in St Pancras at the age of sixty-six. 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 80 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.
		2O27		Amelia Catherine Collett			Born on 17.05.1835
		2O28		Henry John Richard Collett			Born on 17.11.1838
		2O29		Frederick William Collett			Born on 03.09.1840
		2O30		Arthur James Collett			Born on 13.04.1842
		2O31		Charles Edward Collett			Born on 21.10.1843
		2O32		Clara Sophia Collett			Born on 11.10.1846
		2O33		Alfred George Thomas Mawbey Collett			Born on 27.05.1848
		2O34		Mawbey Ernest Collett			Born on 29.07.1850
2N22		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).
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