PART TWO

The Secondary Line - 1870 to 2000

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

Updated February 2010

The information for this update has been kindly provided by Hilary Collett (Ref. 2S44)

Some past information has been kindly provided by

Brian Prescott (Ref. 2R33) of Lowton near Warrington

and Bob Collett (Ref. 2R10) of Australia

Earlier information was also received from Bob Collett in Australia,

Andy Collett (Ref. 2S6) of Solihull and his Australian cousin Karen Rowan (Ref. 2S7),

from Reg and Patricia Harvey (Ref. 2Q75) of Somerset, and

from Hilary Collett (Ref. 2S44) of Basingstoke in Hampshire

2P1	William John Collett was born at 22 Cromwell Street in Swindon on 17.01.1870. By the time of the census on the second of April in 1871 William’s parents were sharing a terraced house at 22 Cromwell Street in Swindon with the Hardiman family. William’s father was employed by the GWR as was William Hardiman.
	The census simply recorded that William J Collett was born in Swindon and that he was one year old. Ten years later his family had moved and was then living at 7 Bath Street in April 1881, where William was eleven and attending the GWR School in the railway village, as that area of Swindon was called.
	He later attended the New Swindon Mechanics Institution Evening Classes and was awarded a prize in December 1884 presented by W. Dean. This was a leather-bound Webster’s Dictionary which was handed down through the generations to Brian Collett born in 1946 and the compiler of this family history website.
	His occupation was that of carpenter with the Great Western Railway prior to his death three months before he reached his twentieth birthday. He died at 7 Bath Street in Swindon on 29.10.1889, the cause of death being recorded as typhoid.
	New information has come to light that may suggest William followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the navy and served on board HMS Endeavour in the years between 1885 and 1889. It may therefore be that on a trip overseas he contracted the illness which eventually killed him.
2P2	Albert Henry Collett was born at 22 Cromwell Street in Swindon on 03.09.1872. At the start of the next decade his family moved into new accommodation at 7 Bath Street in Swindon which was provided by the GWR with whom his father was employed.
	The census in 1881 confirmed that Albert was eight years old and that he was living with his family at 7 Bath Street. No record of Albert has been found anywhere in the census of 1891 and this may coincide with the stories within the family that he was a sailor like his father.
	In 1900 Albert married Rosina A Lewis. This very likely took place in Gloucester where Rosina said she was born in 1877. The couple initially lived in the Kingsholm district of Gloucester St Marks, and it was there at 49 Sherborne Street that they were recorded as visitors in the March census of 1901.
	This was the home of twenty-six years old widow Emily Newman who was a labeller in jam making. Albert was described as 28 and a blacksmith from Swindon. His wife Rosina was 23 from Gloucester and also staying at the house with them was the widow Ann Daniels who was 43 and from Nantiglow in Monmouthshire.
	Over the next ten years Rosina presented her husband with five children, the first three of which were born while the couple was still living in Gloucester. By 1907 the family had moved to Wales and it was at 23 Dolphin Street in Newport in Monmouthshire that William and Rosina were living in April 1911.
	The census return recorded that the couple had been married for eleven years and that Albert Henry Collett from Swindon was 38 and a dock warehouseman. Rosina was 33, and their five children were Violet 10, Ella 8, Mervyn 6, William who was 4, and Arthur who was two years old.
	In August 2000 Donna Collett provided the following information. Her grandfather was Bertie Collett married to Pearl Davies who married Albert Collett (below). Her father was Paul Collett and he had siblings Bertie, Georgie, Anna, Cathy and Christine, all of whom were from Newport. An attempt to make contact with Donna’s father in 2000 failed, as he did not wish to discuss any aspect of his family’s past life.
	However, thanks to new information received in June 2006 from Andrew (Andy) Collett in England and his cousin Karen Rowan (daughter of Patricia Collett) of Australia, a clearer picture of this family has emerged.
	Albert Henry Collett, who was born at 22 Cromwell Street in Swindon on 03.09.1872 was a sailor at sometime in his life, possibly during the Great War, judging by his age in this photograph which is an extract from a larger photograph in which Albert was flanked by his mother Caroline Ruth Collett and his wife Rosina Collett. In 1899 or 1900 he married Rosina A Lewis who was born at Stroud in 1877 and was the daughter of brewer’s labourer John Lewis and his wife Sarah A Lewis, both of Stroud. Apart from the first three children who were born in Gloucester (as revealed by the census of 1911), all of the couple’s other five children were born after the family had moved to Newport.
	Albert is known to have spent sometime in Gloucester Gaol and this most likely happened around 1906. The story within the family suggests that he made his escape from the prison and fled to South Wales.
	The family story also includes the fact that Rosina and her three children at that time walked the entire journey from Gloucester to Newport to be with her fugitive husband.
	It was perhaps this episode in his life that resulted in Albert severing all ties with his Swindon family and it was this that was the reason why it was so difficult to trace him and his family, until this new information about his life has come to light.
	2Q1	Violet Collett	Born in 1901
	2Q2	Ella Collett	Born in 1903
	2Q3	Mervyn Collett	Born in 1905
	2Q4	William Collett	Born in 1907
	2Q5	Arthur Collett	Born on 28.05.1909
	2Q6	Lewis George Collett	Born on 15.07.1911
	2Q7	Nora Collett	Born on 13.06.1913
	2Q8	Albert Collett	Born in 1915
2P3	Elizabeth Annie Collett, who was referred to as Lizzie by the family, was born at 22 Cromwell Street in Swindon between January and March 1874. By 1881 the family was living at 7 Bath Street in New Town Swindon where Elizabeth was seven years old. In between the family had lived for a five years at 16 Exeter Street.
	Ten years later Elizabeth A Collett from Swindon was living and working in the Edmonton district of London, although she gave her age as being eighteen. Towards the end of the century Elizabeth returned to Swindon where she married Frederick Henry Taylor of Swindon where the first of their three known children was born just after the start of the new century.
	The young family initially lived with Elizabeth’s widowed mother Caroline Collett at 7 Bath Street, and it was there that the three of them were listed in the census of 1901. Elizabeth Taylor was 27, as was her husband Frederick who was employed by the GWR as a railway carriage fitter. With the couple was their eleven months old son William F H Taylor.
	Within the next ten years a further two children were added to the family, which by April 1911, had moved from 7 Bath Street to 13 Morse Street in Swindon. The census that year recorded the family as Frederick Henry Taylor 36, Elizabeth Annie Taylor 36, William Frederick Henry Taylor 11, Frederick Maurice Taylor 8, and Arthur George Taylor who was three.
	At that same time Elizabeth’s mother Caroline was living with Lizzie’s brother Maurice, but shortly after he and his family moved to Lancashire following which Caroline moved in with the Taylor family where she remained until her death in 1929.
	Lizzie’s and Frederick’s second son Frederick Taylor later became the Headmaster of Gorse Hill Junior School in Swindon sometime during the middle of the twentieth century.
2P4	Caroline Ruth Collett, referred to as Carrie by the family, was born at 16 Exeter Street in Swindon between July and September 1876, although by April 1881 the family was living at 7 Bath Street where Caroline was four years old.
	Ten years later when Caroline was fourteen she was the oldest of the eleven children of William Collett and Caroline Ruth Watts still living in the family home at 7 Bath Street in Swindon. By that time her father had died two years earlier, so Caroline was supporting her widowed mother looking after the younger members of the family.
	According to the Swindon census of 1901, Caroline was twenty-four and was still unmarried and was still living with her mother at 7 Bath Street. Her occupation at that time was recorded as being a tailoress like her younger sister Nellie with whom she probably worked.
	It would appear that she married Frederick Hood about seven years later, sometime around 1908 or 1909. Once married the couple lived at 14 Southbrook Street in Swindon where their only daughter was born.
	In April 1911 the Swindon family comprised Frederick J Hood who was 39, his wife Caroline R Hood who was 34, and their one year old daughter Edith M Hood.
	Their daughter, who was known as Eddy, married Rex Franklyn and they lived in the house next door to her parents in Southbrook Street. Caroline and Frederick later moved to Box near Minchinhampton which, curiously enough, was where her mother Caroline Ruth Collett nee Watts was born.
2P5	HARRY JAMES COLLETT was born at 16 Exeter Street in Swindon on 09.01.1879. Shortly after he was born his father William Collett changed his job and the family moved into a terraced house provided by the Great Western Railway at 7 Bath Street in the Railway Village of Swindon New Town. This was confirmed by the census of 1881 when Harry was incorrectly listed as Henry Collett aged two years. Seven years later when Harry when nine years old his father died, so by 1891 Harry was 12 and was still living at 7 Bath Street with his widowed mother and his some of his brothers and sisters. His two older brothers had left home by then leaving Harry as the eldest male.
	In order to retain the GWR living accommodation Harry’s mother Caroline was working for the GWR in 1891. However, with her advancing years it was incumbent on Harry to secure employment with the company when he left school a few years later in order to retain their home.
	By March 1901 he had completed his apprenticeship and the census that year listed him as Harry J Collett aged 22 who was working for the GWR as a railway engine boiler-smith, while living with his mother and family at 7 Bath Street. Also by that time two of his younger brothers were serving their apprenticeships with the railway company.
	Towards the end of the next decade Harry met his future wife Alice Louisa Collett of Siddington near Cirencester who was working in domestic service in Swindon.
	He married ALICE LOUISA COLLETT (Ref. 1P33) on 13.03.1909 at St Mark's Church in Swindon.
	Almost exactly one year later the April census of 1911 placed Harry and Alice living at 7 Bathampton Street (formerly 7 Bath Street), his mother having moved out to live with Harry’s younger brother Maurice in Swindon.
	The census return confirmed that the couple had been married for two years, and living with them was the first of their eight children. Harry James Collett was 32 and a boiler-maker working in the GWR Locomotive Department of the GWR, Alice Louisa was 30 and from Siddington, and their son William Henry John was one year old.
	The photograph above was taken before he became a married man, but for the occasion of his wedding he took to having a moustache which he retained for the rest of his life.
	For more details about Harry and his family go to Part One – The Main Line 1880 to 1920 starting with his wife Alice Louisa Collett (Ref. 1P33)
2P6	Ella Agnes Collett was one of twins born at 7 Bath Street in Swindon in January 1881. She was recorded as being three months old in the Swindon census of 1881 but tragically died later that same year, sometime between October and December.
2P7	Nellie Winifred Collett, who was referred to as Nell by the family, was one half of a set of twins born at 7 Bath Street in Swindon in January 1881. In the census that year she was recorded as Nelley W Collett aged three months. Her father William Collett died when she was just seven years old, following which she continued to live at 7 Bath Street with the rest of her family for the next eighteen years. However, rather strangely when she would have been ten, she was not recorded with her family in the census return for 1891. Where she was at this time has not been discovered.
	How long she was absent is not known, but Nellie W Collett aged twenty was back living with her family at 7 Bath Street in March 1901. At this time in her life she was unmarried and was working with her older sister Caroline as a tailoress.
	Just five years later Nellie married housepainter Edward Bizley in Swindon and the wedding is believed to have taken place around 1906. Edward was born in Swindon in 1876 and was the son of William Bizley of South Marston and his wife Elizabeth Bizley of Bampton in Oxfordshire.
	In 1881 Edward, who was later more commonly known as Duke Bizley, was five years old and was living at Hyde Cottages in Highworth with his agricultural labourer father and the rest of his family.
	Over the next few years the marriage produced three children for the couple. The photograph above was taken shortly after the birth of their son.
	All three of their children were previously thought to have been born before the census of 1911. However, the census return completed in early April that year disproves this theory, since the only child living with Nellie was their daughter Ella who was named after Nellie’s twin sister who died at 3 months.
	The census confirmed that Nellie Winifred Bizley was 30, her husband Edward Bizley was 34, and their daughter Ella Winifred Bizley was two years old. It therefore seems highly likely that Nellie was with-child on that day and that shortly after she presented her husband with the couple’s second child.
	2Q9	Ella Winifred Bizley	Born in 1908
	2Q10	Edward Bizley	Born in 1911
	2Q11	Nora Bizley	Born in 1913
2P8	Arthur Stephen Alan Collett was born at 7 Bath Street in Swindon on 02.10.1882 where he was still living in 1891 at the age of eight with his widowed mother following the death of his father William Collett when Arthur was five. By 1901, when he was nineteen, Arthur was a sapper with the Royal Engineers and was in barracks in Kent. Shortly after March 1901 it is understood that Arthur sailed to South Africa where he took part in the final phase of the Boer War, during which he obtained the rank of staff sergeant. The Treaty of Vereeniging was signed in 1902 and this put an end to the unpopular ‘scorched earth’ policy employed by Lord Kitchener which was used to destroy Boer farms and move the civilian occupants into concentration camps.
	Arthur continued to live in Pretoria for a few years after the end of the hostilities, perhaps in a peace-keeping capacity, and returned to England around 1906. He was still in the army by April 1911 and was once again billeted in the Elham area of Kent.
	It seems very likely that he was de-mobbed just after 1911 when he returned to Swindon, where he took up employment with the Great Western Railway as a boiler-smith, like many of his brothers. He continued to work for the GWR until 1916 when he became a married man at the age of thirty-four.
	Around this time Arthur was offered a new job with the Vickers Aircraft Company in Sheffield, having already met his future wife Mary Maud Bigwood of Devizes. The couple then moved to Sheffield where they were married on 02.02.1916.
	Mary was born at Devizes on 09.10.1889 and the couple’s first child was born at Devizes almost exactly one year after their wedding, even though they had made a permanent move to Sheffield by that time. It can perhaps be assumed that Mary was either just visiting her mother or that she was unwell nearing the end of her pregnancy and was being cared for by her mother.
	All of the remaining children were born at Sheffield, where Arthur died on 05.12.1949, followed by Mary fifteen years later on 06.10.1964.
	2Q12	Ruby Lillian Maud Collett	Born on 09.02.1917
	2Q13	Nellie Louise Collett	Born on 18.11.1919
	2Q14	Arthur William Henry Collett	Born on 16.10.1921
	2Q15	Charles Fredrick Collett	Born on 12.11.1923
	2Q16	Glenna Collett	Born on 11.07.1925
	2Q17	Mervyn Collett	Born on 12.07.1928
	2Q18	Patricia Mary Collett	Born on 24.09.1930
2P9	Maurice Edward Collett was born at 7 Bath Street in Swindon on 08.01.1885 and was only three and a half years old when his father died during the summer of 1888. This photograph of Maurice was taken around 1909. By the time of the census of 1891 Maurice and his family were still living at the house at 7 Bath Street which was rented to them by the Great Western Railway. The census that year recorded him in error as Morris E Collett aged six years. Ten years later in March 1901 he was still living there aged sixteen, but by then he was employed by the GWR as an apprenticed boiler-smith.
	Around eight years later in 1909 Maurice married Florence Beatrice White from Frome in Somerset, with whom he had eight children. For the first five years of their married life together Maurice and Florence lived at 14 Stanier Street in Swindon, where they were recorded in the census of 1911.
	The census that year stated that the couple had been married for two years, so it would appear that the wedding took place only a few months before the birth of their first child who was listed as being two years old.
	The full census return recorded the family as Maurice Edward Collett 26 of Swindon who was by then a fully fledged boiler-smith with the GWR, his wife Florence 27 of Frome, and their first two children Ella who was two and Edward who was just two weeks old.
	It seems very likely that the birth of the couple’s two-week old son had not been registered by the time of the census, since it was subsequently changed to Reginald Maurice Collett.
	Also living with the family at this time on second April 1911 was Maurice’s widowed mother Caroline Collett who had given up her GWR supplied family home at 7 Bathampton Street to Maurice’s older brother Harry James Collett (a GWR employee) and his young family.
	Almost exactly two year later Florence presented Maurice with the couple’s third child while they were still living at 14 Stanier Street. However, sometime after, either in 1914 or early in 1915, Maurice’s work took him from Swindon to Lancashire where the family took up residence at 1 London Row, Vulcan Village, in Newton-le-Willows, where a further five children were born.
	In 1931 Maurice and his family made their final move when they went to live at 426 Wargrave Road in Newton-le-Willows, and it was there twenty-three years later that Maurice died on 24.03.1954.
	Florence had died nineteen months before Maurice, when she passed away at Newton-le-Willows on 29.08.1952.
	Florence was born at Innox Hill in Frome on 19.11.1883 the daughter of Frank and Martha White who were also born in Frome. By 1891 they had left the Somerset town and moved to Swindon where in 1901 Martha White was 49 and Frank, who was 45, was working for the Great Western Railway as an engine painter. At that time 17 years old Florence B White was employed as a cloth machinist.
	2Q19	Ella Florence Collett	Born on 30.03.1909
	2Q20	Reginald Maurice Collett	Born on 15.03.1911
	2Q21	Frederick Arthur Collett	Born on 09.03.1913
	2Q22	Percival Francis Collett	Born on 17.06.1915
	2Q23	Bertram William Collett	Born on 21.09.1918
	2Q24	Ethel May Collett	Born on 15.11.1920
	2Q25	Lily Cecilia Collett	Born on 07.09.1923
	2Q26	Mervyn Albert Collett	Born on 20.02.1926
2P10	Percy Ethelbert Collett was born at 7 Bath Street in Swindon on 02.06.1886. By the time of the census of 1891 his father had been dead for almost three years, although Percy aged four and his family continued to live at 7 Bath Street which was provided by the Great Western Railway for whom his father had worked. Ten years later at the age of 14 Percy had left school and was employed by the GWR with whom he was an apprenticed iron moulder.
	On completion of his apprenticeship Percy left Swindon and joined the army and by April 1911 he was billeted at Plymouth.
	The census that year simply recorded him as Percy Collett aged 24 from Swindon who was unmarried and was serving with the military in Plymouth. The move to Plymouth became a permanent one, as it was there that Percy lived for the rest of his life.
	Just less than eight years later he married Florence May Gabriel of South View, Seymour Road, Mannamead in Plymouth on 18.01.1919 and their only son was also born at Plymouth. In their early years, the couple lived at 4 Penny-cum-Quick in Plymouth before moving to 6 Central Park Drive in Plymouth.
	Percy died at Plymouth on 05.08.1952 and was followed seventeen years after by Florence, who died there on 09.07.1969.
	Florence May Gabriel was born at Child Okeford near Blandford Forum in Dorset on 10.04.1892. She was the daughter of Stephen and Annie Gabriel and in 1901, Florence who was 8, and her family were living at Chard just over the Dorset border in Somerset.
	2Q27	Stephen Peter Marshall Collett	Born on 07.07.1920
2P11	Mervyn Fred Matthew Collett was born at 7 Bath Street in Swindon on 29.09.1887 and he was barely one year old when his father William Collett died. Mervyn was three years old in 1891 while still living with his family at 7 Bath Street, while ten years later he was still attending school in Swindon at the age of thirteen. During the next ten years he met Lily Thrush of 3 Hinton Road in Swindon, and on 16.07.1910 they were married in Swindon. Just over three month after they were married Lily presented her husband with the first of their two children.
	This photograph of Mervyn was taken around 1910, perhaps even on the occasion of his wedding.
	The couple initially settled in Swindon for perhaps just the first year of the marriage, and it was there that their first child was born. This was confirmed by the April census of 1911 when the family of three was recorded as living at 14 Handel Street in Swindon.
	The census return recorded that Mervyn and Lily had been married for less than one year and that both of them, and their five months old son, had been born in Swindon. This would perhaps indicate that their son Frederick was a slightly premature ‘honeymoon baby’.
	Mervyn was listed as being 23 and his occupation was that of a boiler-smith working for the Great Western Railway, while his wife was only twenty years old. Not longer after this, Mervyn and his family left Swindon and followed his older brother Percy (above) to Plymouth, where the couple’s second child was born.
	They lived at 35 Clarence Road in Plymouth until it was bombed in the blitz of 1943, following which the family were re-housed at 32 Clarence Road.
	Mervyn died at Plymouth on 04.04.1951 of double pneumonia, while Lily, who was born at Swindon in 1891, died at Plymouth eleven years later on 17.08.1962.
	2Q28	Fredrick Mervyn Collett	Born on 30.10.1910
	2Q29	Maurice William Arthur Collett	Born on 10.09.1912
2P13	William Henry Collett was born at Paddington on 31.01.1869, the birth being registered at the Grays Inn Lane district of Middlesex. His birth certificate confirmed that his parents were living at 28 Compton Street in St Pancras at the time.
	Shortly after he was born his parents took him to live at Parry Sound in Ontario, Canada. The tough and rugged lifestyle, which included trading with the local Indians to survive, probably was the reason why the family returned to England in 1883.
	At the age of 25 William was living at Kensal Town where he married Ellen Caroline Harris on 14.01.1894 in the parish church of St Martin in Kentish Town. His occupation at that time was described as a pianoforte maker and journeyman. Ellen was aged 21 and was the daughter of Salvation Army captain and porter William Thomas Harris and his wife Ellen Francis, and had been born at St Pancras in 1874.
	The witnesses at the ceremony were William’s brother Edmund Alfred Collett and Annie Harris who was most likely Ellen’s mother. Three years later, at the birth of their third child, the family was living at 3 Hanover Street in Kentish Town, St Pancras, where William was working as a piano maker and journeyman.
	The were still living at 3 Hanover Street for the birth of their first three children, but by the time of the birth of their daughter William and Ellen were living at 70 Carlton Road in Kentish Town. However, later that same year, or early in 1901, the family moved again, this time to 4 Cleveland Villas in Willesdon.
	And it was there that the family was living for the census at the end of March in 1901. The census return listed the family as William H Collett 32 and an auctioneer’s saleroom porter, his wife Ellen 27 (both of them born at St Pancras), and their four children William 6 also born at St Pancras, John 5, Arthur 3, and Grace who was seven months old, all three born at Kentish Town.
	During the next decade another two children were added to the family which, in April 1911 was living at 134 Fleet Road in Hampstead. William Henry Collett was 42 and an auctioneer’s porter, and his wife Ellen C Collett was 38. Their six children at that time were listed as William Alfred Collett 16, John Francis Collett 15, Arthur Thomas Collett 13, Grace Ellen Amelia Collett 10, Ernest Henry 7, and Albert Edward who was five years old.
	Living with the family was William’s younger brother Francis Ernest Collett who was forty-one. Four years later at the end of January 1915, when William’s eldest son was married, the occupation of William Henry Collett was given as being that of an auctioneer’s porter.
	William and Ellen were living at 50 Lawn Road in Hampstead in 1916 where they received the sad news of the death of their son John Francis Collett who died at Duala in Cameroon during the First World War.
	Lawn Road runs northwards off Haverstock Hill (A502) close to Southampton Road and Constantine Road where other members of the Collett family lived.
	It was also around this time that Ellen was looking after William’s nephew Reginald (Reg) Collett, following the death of the boy’s father Francis Ernest Collett during the year previous, and at a time when the boy’s mother had became mentally ill.
	On the occasion of the marriage of his son Arthur Thomas in 1921, William’s occupation was that of house painter. A year after, at the time of his daughter’s wedding in 1922, his occupation was once again stated as being that of an auctioneer’s porter, which is how he was remembered by his grandson.
	It is very likely that William and Ellen had more children that those listed below, and it is possible a son was born in 1914 who was the only member of the family in 1935 that was not married. At that time William and Ellen were still living at 50 Lawn Road in Hampstead.
	2Q30	William Alfred Collett	Born on 11.04.1894
	2Q31	John Francis Collett	Born on 15.10.1895
	2Q32	Arthur Thomas Collett	Born on 11.08.1897
	2Q33	Grace Ellen Amelia Collett	Born on 08.12.1900
	2Q34	Ernest Henry Collett	Born in 1903
	2Q35	Albert Edward Collett	Born in 1905
2P14	Francis Ernest Collett was born at Parry Sound in Ontario in 1870. He returned to England from Canada with his family in 1883 and in 1891 he was twenty years old and living in Kentish Town with his father Arthur James Collett and his thought to be second wife Rosetta.
	No record of Francis has been found in the census of 1901, but by 1911 he was unmarried at the age of forty-one and was living with his brother William Henry Collett (above) at 50 Lawn Road in Hampstead. It would appear that he did marry shortly after this and that the marriage produced a son.
	At the outbreak of the Great War, Francis enlisted with the Royal Marines Light Infantry and was assigned to the battleship HMS Goliath. Tragically, the ship was torpedoed by the Turkish destroyer Muavenet-I-Millet off De Tott’s Battery in the Dardanelles on 13^th May 1915 with the loss of 570 men.
	The name of Private PLY/10685 Frank Collett appears on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. There is no reference to any next-of-kin, so it is possible that he had not married the mother of his son, and also that the son may have been born after he was killed.
	Francis Ernest Collett died on 13.05.1915 and, with the mother of his child having become mentally ill following the birth of their son, coupled with the death of the child’s father, the child was taken into the care of his uncle William Henry Collett (above), the brother of Francis Ernest Collett.
	2Q36	Reginald Collett	Born 1912-1915
2P15	Edmund Alfred Collett was born at Parry Sound in 1872. He returned to England with his family in 1883. Unlike other members of his family, no record of Edmund has been found in the London area in the census of 1891.
	However, ten years later in March 1901, Edmund A Collett of Canada was twenty-nine years of age and was living in the St Andrews district of London, where he was employed as a draper’s assistant.
	Four years later Edmund married Everell Williams in 1905. Everell was an upholsterer and was five years older than Edmund, having been born at St Pancras in 1866. The year after the couple were married Everell presented Edmund with their only child.
	By April 1911 the family of three were living in Woolwich where Edmund Alfred Collett from Ontario was thirty-nine, his wife Everell was forty-four, and their son Arthur John Collett was five years old.
	During their lives together, the couple lived along the south side of the River Thames at Woolwich, Erith and Dartford from where Edmund worked as a draper with his brother Herbert (below).
	In his later life Edmund was a patient at Bexley Mental Hospital, and it was there that he lived for the last few years of his life.
	2Q37	Arthur Collett	Born in 1906
2P16	Herbert Edward Collett was born at Parry Sound in 1875 but returned to England with his family in 1883. By 1891 Herbert was not living with his family in Kentish Town, instead he was recorded in the census that year in the Chelsea area of London at the age of fifteen, perhaps attending school there.
	Ten years later Herbert E Collett from Canada was twenty-three (sic) and was living and working in the Islington area of London, where his occupation was that of a draper’s assistant.
	During the next decade Herbert worked at a draper’s shop with his brother Edmund Alfred Collett (above). However, because of his views on trade unions, Herbert was dismissed from many jobs in London and eventually moved north to the Lake District where he met his future wife.
	Herbert married (1) Florence Mary Darvell of Millom in Cumberland, at nearby Whicham in 1910. On married the couple returned to live in London and in April 1911 they were living at 40 Raeburn Avenue in Dartford, the house named Parry Sound after the place where Herbert was born near Ontario.
	The census return that year listed the childless couple as Herbert E Collett from Ontario aged thirty-five, and his wife Florence Mary Collett aged thirty-seven from Millom in Cumberland.
	Florence died in 1934, following which Herbert married (2) Norah Elizabeth Stevenson, the daughter of the Dartford Congregational minister, but tragically he died in latter quarter of 1935.
	2Q38	Harold Ernest Collett	Born in 1914
2P17	Eleanor M Collett was born at Parry Sound in 1877 and with the rest of her family returned to England in 1883. In 1891 she was 13 and was living with her family in Kentish Town.
	Ten years later she had entered into domestic service and was living and working in the St Pancras area of London. The census in 1901 listed her as Eleanor M Collett aged twenty-three who had been born in Canada.
	At the end of July in 1900, and following the death of her mother during the previous year, Eleanor’s father Arthur James Collett married for a second time and, eighteen months later they took over the care of Eleanor’s baby, which they eventually formally adopted.
	The child’s birth certificate confirmed that Eleanor was twenty-five and that she was living at the Hampstead Workhouse where she gave birth to her base-born daughter.
	Eleanor was still living in the Hampstead area in April 1911, when she was described simply as Eleanor Collett aged thirty-one (sic) from Ontario. At that time, her place of residence was listed as an institution. Sadly she only survived for another seven years when Eleanor M Collett died at Hampstead in 1918 at the age of forty-one.
	2Q39	Ethel Maud Collett	Born on 08.01.1902
2P18	Grace Collett was born at Parry Sound in 1879 where she died on 07.05.1882. Shortly after her death the rest of the family left Canada and returned to England.
2P19	Rose Collett was born at Kentish Town in London on 17.09.1883. In 1891 she was seven years old and was living with her family in Kentish Town. Ten years later she and her brother Cecil (below) were the only children still living with their father in Hampstead.
	Rose never married and in April 1911 she was still living with her father Arthur James Collett and his second wife Harriet. Rose Collett was 27 and at some time during her life she worked at Dickens & Jones.
2P20	Cecil James Collett was born at Kentish Town in London on 24.04.1885 and he was five years old in 1891 when he was listed as Samuel Collett living with his family in Kentish Town.
	By 1901 he and his sister Rose (above) were the only children still living with Arthur James Collett and his new wife Harriet. On that occasion the family was living in Hampstead where Cecil J Collett was 15 and working as a corn handler’s assistant.
	Cecil James Collett married Elizabeth Huggins in 1910. A few months later the couple were recorded in the April census of 1911 as living in the St Pancras area as Cecil James Collett aged 25 and his wife Elizabeth Emeline Collett who was twenty-eight.
	It was Elizabeth who, on 1^st April 1916, registered the death of her father-in-law Arthur James Collett (Ref. 2O17) who lived at 70 Constantine Road opposite Hampstead Heath railway station. At that time the address for daughter-in-law ‘E E Collett’ was confirmed as 58 Southampton Road in Hampstead.
	It may be of interest to know that Southampton Street was located near to both Constantine Road and Lawn Road where various members of the Collett family lived
	2Q40	Arthur Collett	Born after 2^nd April 1911; died in 1918
2P21	Alfred Edward Hersey Collett was born at Parry Sound on 20.06.1877. He was a fur trader and he married Sybil Ellis on 10.12.1902. In the years after they were married they lived at North Bay but by 1936 the couple were living at Pine Grove in Ontario. The couple both died a few months apart in 1957.
	2Q41	Ruth Alfreda Beatson Collett	Born on 23.06.1906
	2Q42	Lilian Jane Rosalie Collett	Born on 28.09.1909
	2Q43	Thomas Ernest Bertrand Collett	Born on 10.12.1910
2P22	Ernest Henry John Collett was born at Parry Sound on 16.09.1879. He married Annie May Gillespie in 1901 and he died in 1961.
	2Q44	Reta May Collett	Born on 11.08.1902
	2Q45	Gerald Sherman James Collett	Born in 1903
	2Q46	John Aubrey Beresford Collett	Born on 12.11.1906
	2Q47	Ivan Bertrand Collett	Born in 1908
2P23	Bertrand Oswald Mawbey Collett was born at Parry Sound on 16.09.1881. He married Helen Elma Fieldhouse on 05.08.1908 and he died in 1945.
2P24	Lillian Hattie Amelia Collett was born at Parry Sound in 1883. She married Thomas Hemsworth in 1907 and she died in 1961.
2P25	Rosalie Gertrude Helena Collett was born at Parry Sound in 1885. She married Melford Proctor in 1909 and she died in 1946.
2P26	Alice Mawbey Collett was born on 04.12.1876 at 8 Pembroke Street in Islington and she died on 07.03.1878 at 14 Pembroke Street in Islington.
2P27	Ernest Henry Collett was born at 14 Pembroke Street in Islington on 06.05.1878. He became a constable in the Metropolitan Police. He married Rose Elizabeth Rogers on 05.04.1902 at St Pancras with whom he had four children.
	In April 1911, the family was living in Walthamstow where the couple’s daughter Edith had been born eight months earlier. Ernest was 32, his wife Rose was 31, and their three sons were Ernest who was eight, Reginald who was six, and Sidney who was three. No second names were given in the census.
	Rose was born in 1880 and she died in 1955 ten years after Ernest who died on 28.05.1945.
	2Q48	Ernest Joseph Collett	Born on 23.01.1903
	2Q49	Reginald George Collett	Born in 1905
	2Q50	Sidney John Percy Collett	Born on 09.03.1908
	2Q51	Edith Rose Elizabeth Collett	Born on 08.07.1910
2P28	Herbert Victor Collett was born at 10 Kentish Town Road on 18.07.1879 and was baptised on 04.12.1879 when he was living with his family at 76 Beaverbrook Road in Tufnell Park.
	Herbert Victor Collett was a cheesemonger’s assistant on leaving school but tragically he died on 05.11.1896 when he was only seventeen years old and was buried at Finchley.
2P29	William Melville Collett was born at Hawley Villa, 1 Hawley Road in Kentish Town on 04.12.1881. Before his seventeenth birthday he died on 13.03.1908 at 68 St John Road in Upper Holloway and was buried at Finchley. In his short life he worked as a designer and a painter on silk.
2P30	Harold John Collett was born at 88 St Johns Road in Upper Holloway on 10.03.1883. He later emigrated to Canada where he was a driver on the Canadian Pacific Railway. He is known to have married and lived in Toronto with his wife and three children. He eventually had nine grandchildren.
2P31	Percy Alexander Collett was born at 5 Estelle Road in Hampstead on 06.10.1884. He was married to Margaret Acheson with whom he had a son. Percy Alexander Collett died in America.
	2Q52	Ernest John Collett	Born on 23.01.1903
2P32	Thomas Alfred Fletcher Collett was born 5 Estelle Road in Hampstead on 30.01.1886. He emigrated to America with his parents in 1910 and was educated at Columbia University where he took his Master Degree. He became a minister in the Episcopalian Church of America and died in New York on 16.08.1964. He was married with two daughters.
	2Q53	Joan Collett	Date of birth unknown
	2Q54	Grace Collett	Date of birth unknown
2P33	Sidney Clarence Stuart Collett was born at 5 Estelle Road in Hampstead on 08.01.1887. He was the son of coach builder and founder of Collett & Company of Kentish Town Road, Mawbey Ernest Collett and his wife Ann Pinfold nee Casely who sailed to America in 1910.
	By around this time in his life he was ordained and was henceforth referred to as the Reverend Sidney Collett. He was now ready to follow his parents to the United States and two years later he purchased a second class ticket to New York on the maiden voyage of the unsinkable RMS Titanic.
	Thankfully he was one of the survivors rescued from the freezing cold waters by the ship Carpathia when the Titanic sank in mid-Atlantic in the early hours of the fifteenth of April. Three days later the Carpathia docked at New York’s Pier 54 with 706 survivors from a total of 2,223 passengers and crew.
	A newspaper account reported that “The Rev. Sidney Collett arrived at the home of his parents after having been rescued from the Titanic of the White Star Line which was lost at sea. His parents, Rev. & Mrs Mawbey E Collett of North Main Street, had gone to Syracuse to meet him and he had showed signs of tiredness and careworn, not being fully recovered from his terrible experience”.
	Sidney Clarence Stuart Collett died on 20.03.1941.
2P34	Violet Amelia Collett was born at 5 Estelle Road in Hampstead on 15.12.1888. She later emigrated to America where she married John Van der Kolk. The marriage produced twin sons for the couple, neither of whom survived, and two daughters; Jean who married Mister McCall, and Lily who married Richard Cowles.
2P35	Daisy Ann Collett was born at 5 Estelle Road in Hampstead on 17.02.1891. She emigrated to America with her parents where she died in 1953.
2P36	Lily Elizabeth Collett was born at 5 Estelle Road in Hampstead on 24.04.1892. She later married (1) Mister Collins, and later (2) Mister Williams.
2P37	Elizabeth Collett, who was referred to as Bess, was born in Hammersmith in London on 29.10.1879. Two years later she was listed as living with her parents at 32 Oxford Gardens in Kensington. No record of her or her large family has been found anywhere in the UK at the time of the 1891 census.
	In the mid-1890s her mother died, so just after the turn of the century she was living with her widowed father at 86 Leathwaite Road in Clapham from where she was working as a GPO Clerk at a local branch of general post office.
	Sometime after the first quarter of 1901 when she was just twenty-one, her father Percy Collett died leaving Elizabeth as his eldest daughter, supported by her brother Algernon (below), to look after the younger children of the family.
	Around 1909 Elizabeth married William Frederick Ford Arnold at St Paul’s Church in Hammersmith. William was born at Southwark in 1870 and at the turn of the century he was a book binder living in Battersea. He later became a dealer in fine art and at the time of their wedding he was living at 42 St Dunstan’s Road, opposite Charing Cross Hospital.
	Shortly after they were married Elizabeth and William left London and moved north to live at Newcastle-upon-Tyne where their two children were born and where William opened a picture gallery. By April 1911 the marriage had produced the first of the couple’s two children.
	The census return that year confirmed that Elizabeth Arnold of London was 31 and that her husband William Frederick Ford Arnold of London was 41. Living with the couple was their one year old son Cecil William Arnold who had been born after they had arrived in Newcastle.
	During the following year Elizabeth presented William with their second son, Stanley Ford Arnold who was born in 1912 and who later married (1) Minnie Hepple-White Alderson and (2) Gladys Louvain Aldridge. Sadly Elizabeth’s first son Cecil William Arnold died while still very young.
	Further bad luck hit the family when Elizabeth’s husband’s art gallery failed and he was declared bankrupt. William Frederick Ford Arnold died in 1927 and the age of fifty-seven. Elizabeth lived a widow’s life for a further thirty-eight years before she died in 1965 at the grand age of eighty-six.
2P38	Algernon Percy Collett was born in London in 1881 but after the third of April. It is very likely that he was born at living at 32 Oxford Gardens in Kensington where his parents were living according to the census for that year.
	On leaving school he took up work in a solicitor’s office and by 1901 was nineteen years of age and was employed as a solicitor’s clerk while living with his widowed father and the rest of his family at 86 Leathwaite Road in Clapham. He later became an articled clerk and eventually qualified as a solicitor.
	Following the death of his father Percy Collett during the latter part of 1901, Algernon and his older sister Elizabeth (above) took over responsibility for the care of their five younger siblings. Around 1909 Algernon and Elizabeth were both married, by which time their youngest sibling was still only sixteen years of age.
	Algernon married Winifred Mary (who was known as Winnie) and, with his sister Elizabeth and her husband moving to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, it was left to Algernon and his wife Winnie to continue to look after the youngest members of his family.
	By April 1911 the marriage had produced the first child for Algernon and Winnie. At that time they were living in the Edmonton registration district of London where Algernon was 29, his much younger wife was 21, and their son Frank Percy Collett was just one year old.
	Living with the Collett family at that time was May Blossom Dunhill, with her husband Arthur, this being Algernon’s younger sister (below).
	The couple later left London and went to live in Weston Super Mare where they are understood to have had five children of their own, of which very little is known. Their known children are listed below.
	2Q55	Frank Percy Collett	Born in 1910 in London
	2Q56	Stanley Collett	Born after 2^nd April 1911
	2Q57	Beryl Collett	Born after 2^nd April 1911
	2Q58	Muriel Collett	Born after 2^nd April 1911
2P39	May Blossom Collett was born in London in 1883 and was seventeen years old by the end of March 1901. She was not in employment at that time but was probably helping her widowed father Percy Collett to look after her younger siblings in the family home 86 Leathwaite Road in Clapham.
	A little while later but before 1911 she married Arthur Dunhill and they initially settled in the Edmonton area of London near to where May’s brother Algernon (above) was also living at that time.
	According to the Edmonton district census of 1911 May Blossom Dunhill was 27, while her husband Arthur was 25. They had no children at that time and were living with May’s brother Algernon Collett and his family. Later in their life together it is known that they lived at Finsbury Park where the marriage produced three or four sons for the couple.
2P40	Stanley Collett was born in London in 1887 and was still at school at the turn of the century at the age of thirteen. His mother had died a few years earlier and by March 1901 he was living with his widowed father and the rest of his family at 86 Leathwaite Road in Clapham.
	He was a very clever young man and had great successes in his Civil Service Examinations and became a civilian quartermaster with the Royal Navy and sometime between 1901 and 1911 he left London and moved to Portsmouth.
	According to the census of 1911 Stanley, who was 23 by then, was not alone when he moved to Portsmouth, since living with him in April that year was his sister Adelaide (below) and his brother Bryan.
	A little while later Stanley married Ethel and the couple are known to have lived at Hendon. The marriage produced two daughters for Stanley who served with the Royal Navy in Singapore during the 1930s. During the Second World War he was posted to Rosyth in Scotland.
	2Q59	Sheila Collett	Born after 2^nd April 1911
	2Q60	Ursula Collett	Born after 2^nd April 1911
2P41	Adelaide Rose Collett was born in London in 1889 as confirmed by the census of 1901 when she eleven and was living with her widowed father and the rest of her family at 86 Leathwaite Road in Clapham. Later that same year Adelaide’s father died, at which time she had reached her twelfth birthday.
	The death of her father resulted in her having to leave school to seek employment, which she did, at a local draper’s shop. At this time in her life she and her other young brothers and sisters were looked after by the two oldest members of the Collett family, these being Adelaide’s sister Elizabeth and brother Algernon.
	However, when both of these were married around 1909 Adelaide and her brother Bryan (below) went to live at Portsmouth with their brother Stanley. This was confirmed by the April census of 1911 when all three on them were living there, and Adelaide Rose Collett was twenty-one.
	Sometime later, perhaps when Stanley became a married man and her brother Bryan passed away, Adelaide left Portsmouth and headed for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where she stayed with her older married sister Elizabeth ‘Bess’ Arnold. It was while she was living with her sister that she met her future husband Sverre Hjersing.
	Sverre was born at Moss in Norway in 1890 and worked in Oslo and the United States of America as a naval architect. He came to England in 1916 and was employed at Anesen Christensen & Smith Ltd where he later became one of the directors at their Cardiff office.
	Adelaide married Sverre at St Johannes Church in Maple Street in Newcastle on 24.11.1917. The couple later had three children, Betty who was born at Cardiff in 1919 and who went on to marry George Welford, Harold who was born in 1920, and Else who was born in 1925 and who later married Laurence Reed.
	Sverre received a royal commendation from the King of Norway for his efforts and support in the ‘Free Norway Movement’ and he died on a business trip in 1956 aged 66. Following his death Adelaide lived at Bolham House in the village of Bolham just north of Tiverton in Devon, where she later died in 1974.
2P42	Bryan Collett was born in London 1891 and was nine years old by March 1901 when he was living with his widowed father and his brothers and sisters at 86 Leathwaite Road in Clapham.
	About four or five years after the death of his mother, Bryan’s father died in the second half of 1901. At this time in his life he and his siblings were looked after by the two oldest siblings, these being Elizabeth and Algernon.
	The young family continued to live together like this in London until both Elizabeth and Algernon met their respective husband and wife, at which time Bryan and his sister Adelaide (above) moved to Portsmouth to live with their brother Stanley, as verified by the Portsmouth census of 1911 when Bryan was nineteen.
	Tragically it was later that same year that Bryan died, presumably while still at Portsmouth, although the cause of death is not known.
2P44	Frances Collett was born in London in 1893 just prior to the death of her mother and just after the death of her brother John who died while he was still a baby. In fact, the death of her mother may have even happened during or immediately after the birth of Frances.
	In the census of 1901 Frances was seven years old and was living at 86 Leathwaite Road in Clapham with her father Percy Collett and her seven older siblings. During the next few months another major tragedy struck the family with the third death in the family in the space of just a few years, when her father died.
	For almost the remainder of the decade Frances was cared for by the older members of her family, primarily eldest sister Elizabeth, and eldest brother Algernon, and later by Algernon and his wife Winnie.
	By April 1911 Frances’ sister Elizabeth was married and was living in Newcastle, while her brother Algernon and his wife were living in Edmonton, as was married sister May Blossom who was actually living at the same address as Algernon. And it was also in Edmonton, but at a different address that Frances was living and working at the age of sixteen.
	After the Great War Frances married Harold Penman with whom she had a daughter Evelyn was born in 1925 and who later married Francis Beck in 1952. Frances Penman nee Collett died in 1979 at the age of 86 and was followed three years after by her husband Francis Penman who died in 1982.
2P46	Frank Charles Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1865 and in 1871 was living with his parents at The Bank in Bourton-on-the-Water. He was aged 15 and was working with his father as a shoemaker.
	He later worked as an engine driver on the railway which took him all over the country and, it was while in Birmingham, that he met his wife (1) Florence who was born there. This happened in the late 1880s and in 1890 the couple were living at Southall in Middlesex when their son was born.
	Southall lies immediately north of the rail line out of Paddington so it is very likely that Frank was employed by the Great Western Railway. And this might be further confirmed by the fact that ten years later in 1901 he was living in the St Marys area of Truro which also lies on the GWR line.
	The 1901 Census confirmed that Frank C Collett aged 35 was born at Upper Slaughter and that he was employed as a railway engine driver. Living with him at Truro was his wife Florence A Collett aged 36 of Birmingham, and their son Rowland A Collett aged ten who was born at Southall.
	During the next ten years later it would appear that Florence died and that Frank married (2) Ellen. By April 1911 Frank’s work on the railways had taken him from Cornwall to Banbury in Oxfordshire. The census that year confirmed that Frank Charles Collett from Upper Slaughter was 46, and that living with him in the Banbury area was his wife Ellen Collett who was 42.
	2Q61	Rowland A Collett	Born in 1890 at Southall, London
2P47	Archibald Collett was born at Upper Slaughter around 1869 but had moved to live in Bourton-on-the-Water by 1874 and in 1881 at the age of eleven he and his family were living at The Bank in Bourton. Ten years later when he was 21, Archibald was still living with his family at Bourton and by then was working as a shoemaker, probably with his father.
	Over the next few years Archibald married Selina who was from Horton in Buckinghamshire and by March 1901 the shoemaker and his wife were living in Bourton. It would seem likely that they never had any child, since by 1911 the couple were living alone in the Stow-on-the-Wold area of Gloucestershire when Archibald was 41 and Selina Collett was 50.
2P48	James Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1874 and was living there at The Bank with his family in 1881 at the age of six years. No record of him has been found in the census of 1891.
	Sometime just before the turn of the century, James married Lavinia Gertrude from Moreton-in-Marsh and by March 1901 the couple were living in Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, from where James was working as a grocer’s assistant.
	Two years later their marriage was blessed with the birth of a son. The child had a christian name of Norton, and this may have been an acknowledgement of his mother’s maiden, or a reference to his place of birth. A little while later the family left Oxfordshire and moved to Coventry in Warwickshire.
	It was within the Coventry registration district that the family was living in April 1911. James Collett from Bourton-on-the-Water was 36, as was his wife Lavinia Gertrude Collett, while their only son was seven years of age.
	2Q62	Kenneth Norton Collett	Born in 1903 at Chipping Norton
2P49	Annie Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water around 1877 where she was living with her widowed mother Caroline Collett aged 66 in 1901. Annie was unmarried and aged 23 and the occupation of both ladies was stated as that of a dressmaker. Annie may have married shortly after this since she is missing from the census of 1911.
2P50	Frederick Collett was born at Little Rissington in 1864 and he was six years old and living with his family in the census for that village in 1871. Upon leaving school Fred, as he was known, entered into domestic service and by 1881 he was sixteen and was working and living in a hotel in Cirencester.
	The Fleece Hotel at 117 Dyer Street in the town was managed by James Trinder and his wife who had three children of their own. In addition to Fred Collett, who was employed as a servant with a duty to clean boots, there were five other servants including cook, barmaid, waitress, and chambermaid.
	Through his association with the hotel Fred eventually secured a job as a coachman which allowed him to travel the country. In 1891 he was 26 and at Barton upon Irwell in Lancashire and ten years later he was at Farnham in Surrey, to where his brother Algernon (below) and his family were living in 1911.
	However, no record of Fred or Frederick of Little Rissington has been found in the census of 1911.
2P51	Lewis (Louis) Collett was born at Little Rissington in 1866. When he was twenty-four in 1891 Louis was an ostler (stableman at an inn) at a hotel at Weston Subedge just east of Evesham in Herefordshire. Around four or five years later he married Blanche from Minister Lovell.
	By the time of the census in 1901 the marriage had produced the first two of the couple’s four known children. At that time the family was living in Bourton-on-the-Water where ‘Lewis Collett’ was 35 and an ostler at a livery stable, his wife Blanche K Collett was 32, and their two children were Blanche M Collett who was 3 and born at Lower Slaughter, and William S Collett who was one year old and born at Bourton. It is very likely that Lewis’ wife was pregnant with their third child on the day of the census.
	According to the next census in 1911, the family was living in the Stow-on-the-Wold registration district. The family was then made up of Lewis Collett 45 from Little Rissington, Blanche Kate Collett 42, Blanche May Collett 13, William Seymons Collett 11, Charles Henry Collett 7, and Horace Lewis Collett who was eight months old and a later addition to the family.
	2Q63	Blanche May Collett	Born in 1897 at Lower Slaughter
	2Q64	William Seymons Collett	Born in 1899 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	2Q65	Charles Henry Collett	Born in 1901 at Bourton-on-the-Water
	2Q66	Horace Lewis Collett	Born in August 1910 at Stow
2P52	Alfred Collett was born at Little Rissington in 1868 and was twelve years old at the time of the Little Rissington census of 1881. He was still living in that area of Gloucestershire in 1891 when he was twenty-three, but during the next decade he left Gloucestershire and moved to Kent.
	According to the census in March 1901 Alfred Collett from Little Rissington was unmarried at thirty-two years of age and was a Metropolitan Police Constable living and working in Sheerness in Kent.
	He was nearing his fortieth birthday when he married the much younger Annie with whom he had a daughter prior to the census in 1911. By this time Alfred and his wife and daughter were living within the Strood registration area of Kent. Alfred from Little Rissington was 42, his wife Annie was 29, and their daughter was just one year old, both females having been born in Kent.
	2Q67	Norah Collett	Born in 1909
2P53	Harold Collett was born at Little Rissington in 1870 and was listed as being under one year old in the census for that village in 1871. Ten years later according to the village census in 1881 he was living with his family and, at the age of eleven was described as an idiot.
	In 1891 he was twenty-one years old and ten years after that he was still living at the family home in Little Rissington. By that time he was thirty and it was very likely that it was his mental condition that was the reason for the fact that in no census record was he ever credited with an occupation.
	By April 1911 unmarried Harold Collett of Little Rissington was forty and was living there with his widowed mother Eliza who was 75 who was keeping house for him and his unmarried brother Edwin (below). Also living there was ten years old Dorothy Collett who was described as Eliza’ granddaughter.
2P54	Edith (Florence) Collett was born at Little Rissington in 1872. It was as Edith that she was recorded in the census of 1881 when she was eight years old and living at Little Rissington with her family.