PART TWENTY

The Suffolk to Australia Line – 1790 to 1990

This is the only section of the twentieth part of the Collett family

Updated December 2009

This is the family line of Ian Joseph Collett (Ref. 20R39) of Tamworth in New South Wales

and is the continuation of Part 18 – The Suffolk Line

	The first section of Part 18 – The Suffolk Line ends with William Collett (Ref 18N23) the base-born son of Hannah Collett (Ref. 18M34). Hannah never married and died at the age of only 29 leaving nine year old William in the care of her widower father William Collett (Ref. 18L22). William, whose first wife Hannah Mills died in 1798, married Mary Girling in 1803 at Wilby.
18N17	WILLIAM COLLETT was baptised at Wilby on 10.09.1792. Wilby is in Suffolk midway between Diss (in Norfolk) and Framlingham. The Parish Register at Wilby (ref. FC88/D1/2) records on 10^th September 1792 that ‘Garrod William base born son of Hannah Collett privately baptised PP’ the PP referring to her pauper status.
	This entry may point to the fact that the father had the surname Garrod which William dropped in favour of Collett, probably after the death of his mother in 1801. William’s baptism was also recorded in the Archdeacon’s Transcript for 1792-93.
	It was as William Collett that he married Mary Knights or Knight (as stated in the IGI) at Wortham near Diss by banns on 19.05.1817 (Parish Register ref. FB131/D1/9). Both were listed as single and ‘of this parish’ and both signed by making a cross. The witnesses were William Driver and Francis Groom.
	It seems likely that Mary was already with-child at the time of the wedding as their first child was born just seven months later. The baptisms of their first four children were recorded in the Wortham Parish Register where there was also an entry on 20.09.1824 (Parish Register ref. FB131/D1/5) for William Collett of Wortham, labourer and Mary Collett nee Knights who were ‘privately baptised’. And perhaps this was to finally supersede William’s original baptism as William Garrod.
	In the first national census of 1841 (ref. HO107/1024 – folio 25v) William and Mary were living at Long Green in Wortham. Living with them were there three oldest children William, John and Philip, all listed as being twenty years old and all unmarried.
	During the next ten years the children were married and left the family home, and in 1846 William’s wife Mary died was buried in the graveyard of Wortham Church on 10^th September 1846.
	By 1851 William was confirmed as being a widower aged 60, who had been born at Wilby, and who was still working as an agricultural labourer. He was living alone at Long Green in Wortham, and living in the house next door was his son John and his family. Also still living in Wortham was his eldest son William with his family.
	Ten years later in 1861 William’s age was curiously recorded as being seventy-three, when he was still living in Wortham. Just over three and a half years later William died at Wortham and was buried with his wife at Wortham on 14^th December 1864 aged 69.
	20O1	William Collett	Born in 1817
	20O2	John Collett	Born in 1818
	20O3	PHILIP COLLETT	Born in 1819
	20O4	Susanna Collett	Born in 1821
	20O5	George Collett	Born in 1824
20O1	William Collett was baptised at Wortham on 21.12.1817 (Parish Register ref. FC85/D1/4) and this confirmed that he was the son of William Collett and Mary Knight.
	William married Ann Elizabeth Pretty at Wortham in 1843 and it is understood that the couple had at least thirteen children, all of whom were born at Wortham.
	The surname Pretty occurs in Part Thirty – The Third Suffolk Line around this same time, so there may be a connection to this line which needs to be resolved – see Ref. 30N1.
	According to the 1851 Census for Wortham (ref. HO107/1795 – folio 333r/10) William of Wortham was thirty-four and was employed as an agricultural labourer. Living with him was his wife Ann from Horringer, just south of Bury St Edmunds, who was twenty-seven, together with their three children, William who was seven, Eliza who was four, and two years old Laura, all three children having been born at Wortham.
	By that time the couple had produced four children but their second son Philip had died when only two weeks old. However, over the next decade more children were born into the family, and the next son was also named Philip.
	Ten years later in 1861 William was 43 and Ann was 37 and they were still living at Wortham with their extended family. This comprised William 17, Eliza 14, Laura 13, Philip 8, Emma 4
	By 1881 the couple had moved over the county boundary into Norfolk and were living at Mount Road, Mount Pleasant in Diss. William was listed as aged 65 and an agricultural labourer. He was also listed as a ‘lunatic’. His wife Ann was listed as being aged 58 and also born at Wortham. Her occupation was that of brush maker, like many other members of the Collett family around that time.
	Living with William and Ann were unmarried daughters (Emma) Alice Collett aged 24 and Jane Collett aged 20, both brush makers like their mother. Also living with them was son Caleb John Collett who was aged 12 and listed as an errand boy (ref. RG11/1966 – folio 68).
	According the Census of 1881 there was no Collett living in Wortham in that year.
	Sometime between 1881 and 1891 William died. His widow Ann Elizabeth aged 68 together with son Caleb aged 31 appear in the 1891 Census as lodgers at 8 Edith Road in Tottenham the home of her daughter Emma Alice Bugg nee Collett.
	Knowing that the family probably numbered more than the thirteen children listed below, there is a question mark over whether there was a daughter Susanna who was born in 1846. As this has not been positively confirmed to date, see information relating to Laura Collett (Ref. 20P4).
	20P1	William Collett	Born in 1844
	20P2	Philip Collett	Born in 1845
	20P3	Eliza Collett	Born in 1847
	20P4	Laura Collett	Born in 1849
	20P5	Jane Collett	Born in 1851
	20P6	Philip Collett	Born in 1854
	20P7	Emma Alice Collett	Born in 1857
	20P8	Jane Collett	Born in 1861
	20P9	Alice Jane Collett	Born in 1862
	20P10	Amelia Collett	Born in 1866
	20P11	Alfred Collett	Born in 1868
	20P12	Caleb John Collett	Born in 1869
	20P13	Samuel Jesse Collett	Born in 1870
20O2	John Collett was baptised at Wortham on 08.11.1818 (Parish Register ref. FB131/D1/5), the son of William Collett and Mary Knight. The register also notes that he was privately baptised which means it took place at home, but that he was received into the church on 17.01.1819. This would indicate that he was a poorly baby and unable to go to the church when first born.
	He married Maria Green after 1841 and before 1844 when their only child was born. In 1851 John aged 32 and an agricultural labourer born at Wortham was married to Maria aged 27 who was born at Mellis a village just one mile immediately south of Wortham.
	Living with them at Long Green in Wortham was their son George aged 6 years and born at Wortham, and Maria’s sister Sarah Green aged 25 an unmarried tailoress of Mellis with her based born son Arthur Green aged four months, also of Mellis.
	According to the 1851 Census record for John and Maria (ref. HO107/1795 – folio 334r/17) it would appear that they were living next door to John’s father William Collett as his record carries the reference 334r/16.
	Sometime between 1851 and 1861 John’s wife Maria died, but it is not known if this was whilst they were in Suffolk or after the family had moved north to County Durham. In 1861 widower John was listed as residing at Ormesby Eston near Middlesbrough. By this time George was no longer with his father but was living at Guisborough about 8 miles away.
	John died in late 1862 and the death was registered at Guisborough, presumably by his son George who was living there (ref. Vol. 9d, page 326).
	20P14	George Collett	Born in 1844
20O3	PHILIP COLLETT was baptised at Wortham on 19.12.1819 (Parish Register ref. FB131/D1/5), when his parents were confirmed as William Collett and Mary Knights.
	However, it is understood that he was born at Botesdale, a village just to the west of Wortham. He became a farm labourer and married (1) Maria Hammond in 1841 at Wortham where Maria was a school mistress. It seems very likely that it was at Wortham that the couple’s only child was born.
	The family emigrated to Australia in 1844 on board the ship Neptune but, due to her poor health during the journey, Maria died soon after their arrival in Australia.
	Philip then married (2) Lucy Bean in 1845 at Appin near Sydney in New South Wales. Lucy was born in 1825 and this marriage produced another thirteen children for Philip.
	Although to be confirmed, it is likely that their first seven children were born while Philip and Lucy were still living at Appin. The family must have then moved again to live at Campbelltown from 1855 and up to around the late 1860s or early 1870s where the next five children were born.
	Certainly it is known that the family was living at Campbelltown in 1886 as this was where the death of their daughter Louisa was registered.
	Another family move seems to have taken place early in the 1870s when the birth of their twelfth and last child Ada was registered at Yass where the child also died two years later.
	Philip Collett died during the following year on 24.12.1876 and was followed by Lucy who died twenty-one years later in 1897.
	20P15	Eliza Collett	Born in 1842
	20P16	Mary Collett	Born in 1846
	20P17	Arthur Collett	Born in 1848
	20P18	Philip Collett	Born in 1850
	20P19	Philip Collett	Born in 1850
	20P20	James Thomas Collett	Born in 1852
	20P21	Lucy Amelia Collett	Born in 1854
	20P22	William Collett	Born in 1856
	20P23	Esther A Collett	Born in 1859
	20P24	JOSEPH COLLETT	Born in 1861
	20P25	Louisa E Collett	Born in 1864
	20P26	Emily J Collett	Born in 1865
	20P27	Dulcy E Collett	Born in 1867
	20P28	Ada Rhoda Collett	Born in 1873
20O4	Susanna Collett was born at Wortham in 1821 and due to her poor state of health was privately baptised at home in Wortham on 08.07.1821. The baptised record confirmed that she was the daughter of William Collett and Mary Knight. It would appear that she never recovered from whatever it was that was wrong with her, since she died not long after, and during that same year.
20O5	George Collett was born at Wortham in 1824, where he was baptised on 20.09.1824 the son of William Collett and Mary Knight. It is understood that he suffered an infant death.
20P1	William Collett was born at Wortham, either in the latter days of 1843 or the very first days of 1844. It was at Wortham that he was baptised on 07.01.1844, the son of William and Anne Collett. By the time of the Wortham census of 1851 William was seven years old when he was living there with his parents.
	He was still there ten years later at the age of seventeen, and also ten years after that when he was twenty-seven and still a bachelor. No trace of William Collett has been found after this time.
20P2	Philip Collett was born at Wortham in 1845 and it was there that he was baptised on 23.11.1845, the son of William and Anne Collett. Tragically he only survived for two weeks when he died in early December 1845.
20P3	Eliza Collett was born at Wortham in 1847 and was baptised there on 14.03.1847, the daughter of William and Anne Collett. In 1851 Eliza was four years old; in 1861 she was fourteen years old; and in 1871 she was twenty-six years old. On each occasion she was living with her parents in Wortham.
	It was at Wortham that Eliza married Samuel Bartram (or Bartrum) in 1872. This was possibly a double wedding with her sister Laura (below) who married George Coppin(g) and an entry in the 1881 Census places a Harry Bartrum (possibly Samuel’s brother) aged 25 as a bricklayer’s labourer working for Alfred W Coppin(g) (possibly George Coppin’s brother) aged 27 who was a builder employing three men. Both men had been born in Wortham.
	By 1881 the marriage of Eliza and Samuel had produced three children for the couple and all of them born at Wortham. However, by that census day the family was living at the Cottage-By-Ling in Palgrave, between Diss and Wortham.
	The census record (RG11/1853 – folio 69/23) listed Samuel Bartram as 30 and an agricultural labourer born at Wortham, his wife as Eliza who was 34 and of Wortham, and their three children. These were Jessie Bartram aged 6 (born in 1874), Philip Bartram aged 5 (born in 1875), and Albert Bartram who was three years old (born in 1877).
	Samuel’s father was Samuel Bartram an agricultural labourer of Wortham born in 1819 who, in 1881, was a widower living at Millway Lane in Palgrave with his daughter and housekeeper Eliza Bartram who was 21, and daughter Sarah Bartram 18 who was listed as ‘unwell’ with no occupation. Both daughters had been born at Palgrave and both were unmarried.
20P4	Laura Collett was born at Wortham in 1849 and it was there that she baptised on 15.04.1849, the daughter of William and Anne Collett. In the following three census records for Wortham, Laura was listed living there with her parents at the ages of two years, thirteen years, and twenty-two years respectively.
	Shortly after the 1871 Census, Laura married George Coppin(g) at Wortham in 1872, possibly at a double wedding with her sister Eliza (above).
	There is no record of Laura Coppin(g) in 1881. However, by that time George Coppin(g), a blacksmith’s striker aged thirty-seven and born at Bressingham very near to Wortham, had moved to County Durham as did Laura’s brother Philip Collett (below), her cousin George (below) and his father John Collett (Ref. 20O2).
	This George Coppin(g) was married to Susanna aged 35 and born at Wortham which may place her as an older sister to Laura and Eliza. Also there was a Susanna in the previous generation of the Collett family but she died soon after being born, so this Susanna may have been named in her memory.
	There may therefore be some confusion between Laura and Susanna as to which one married George Coppin(g). In the event that this latest assumption is correct, Susanna and George had six children between 1869 and 1878 the first being born at Shildon near Bishop Auckland and the rest being born at Darlington where the family was living at 14 Katherine Street in 1881 (ref. RG11/4886 – folio 51/46).
20P5	Jane Collett was born at Wortham in 1851 where she was baptised on 03.08.1851 the daughter of William and Anne Collett. Sadly it was at Wortham that she died in 1858, aged just seven years.
20P6	Philip Collett was born at Wortham in 1853 where he was living with his family in 1861 at the age of eight years and ten years later in 1871 when he was seventeen.
	During the following year Philip married Ann Elizabeth Dye, also of Wortham, this being the same year that his two sisters (above) were married. Philip and Ann started out their married life at Wortham where their first child was born. However, the promise of work in the Durham area meant that the family moved north not long after.
	By 1881 Philip was a coalminer aged 27 living with wife Ann, also aged 27, at Brick Garth (street name) in the town of Easington Lane just south of Hetton-le-Hole in County Durham. With them were daughter Emily Elizabeth aged 8, and sons George William Collett aged 3 born at Cornforth in County Durham and John James Collett who was one year old and born at Easington Lane (ref. RG11/4976 – folio 109/33).
	Twenty years later in 1901, the family were still living at Brick Garth (ref. RG13/4696 – folio 105v/160). Philip was now listed as a coal hewer aged 47 born at Wortham. He was stated as being married but on the day of the census his wife was not listed.
	It is possible, although not proved, that Philip’s wife Ann may have been very ill at this time and in hospital, or even that she had just died. Either it seems likely that this eventually did happen, after which Philip remarried – according to the census of 1911.
	The main difference between the census records for 1901 and twenty years earlier was that the family had grown to comprise eight children. In addition, the couple’s eldest daughter Emily had married but was living with them with her husband and their two children. All of the children from son John onwards were confirmed as having been born while Philip and Ann were living at Brick Garth in Easington.
	These were listed as George 23, John 21, Philip 17, Thomas 16, twins Robert and Mary Jane 12, and seven years old Ellen. See individual entry for daughter Emily and her family.
	During the next decade four of Philip’s children left the family home in Brick Garth, so by April 1911 the family consisted of Philip Collett of Wortham who was 57, his wife Catherine who was 58, and Philip’s three remaining children Thomas Collett 26, Robert Collett 22, and Ellen Collett who was seventeen.
	20Q1	Emily Eliza Collett	Born in 1873
	20Q2	George William Collett	Born in 1877
	20Q3	John James Collett	Born in 1879
	20Q4	Philip Collett	Born in 1883
	20Q5	Thomas Collett	Born in 1884
	20Q6	Robert Collett twin	Born in 1888
	20Q7	Mary Jane Collett twin	Born in 1888 at Brick Garth
	20Q8	Ellen Collett	Born in 1893
20P7	Emma Alice Collett was born at Wortham in 1857. And it was there as Emma Collett that she was baptised on 06.09.1857, the daughter of William and Anne Collett.
	She was four years old at the time of the Wortham census of 1861 and fourteen in 1871. Ten years later in 1881, listed simply as Alice Collett, she was 24 years old and was employed as a brush maker. By that time she and her family were living at Mount Road in the Mount Pleasant district of Diss.
	Sometime after 1881, perhaps in 1882 she married Charles James Bugg who was born at Norwich in 1857/58. According to the 1891 Census, Charles was aged 33 and was a whitesmith living at 8 Edith Road in Tottenham with his wife Emma Alice aged 34, and two sons who were born at Southgate and Tottenham respectively.
	Also living with them was Charles’ father Charles Samuel Bugg, a widower aged 66 of Norwich, and Emma’s widowed mother Ann Elizabeth Collett aged 68 of Bury St Edmunds, and Emma’s brother Caleb John Collett a brush-maker of thirty-one (ref. RG12/1080 – folio 86r/35)
	Also in the census of 1881 Emma’s future husband Charles J Bugg was living at 6 Alfred Place, St Giles-in-Fields in London where he was listed as ‘nephew’ aged 23 and a whitesmith of Norwich. The head of house was 57 years old James Brown a tailor from Cornwall. The family connection was with Mary A Brown aged 52 of Woodbastwick northeast of Norwich.
	In 1881 Charles James Bugg’s parents were living at 3 Wellington Terrace in Potter Heigham in Norfolk. Charles Samuel Bugg was a carter aged 55 as was his wife Sarah who was born at Woodbastwick. With them was their son William a 21 years old carpenter born at Costessey near Norwich. It therefore seems highly likely that Mary A Brown of Woodbastwick (above) was the sister of Charles James Bugg’s mother as they share a common birthplace.
	20Q9	Charles William Bugg	Born in 1872
	20Q10	Sidney James Bugg	Born in 1874
20P8	Jane Collett was born at Wortham in 1861 and was eight years old in the Wortham census of 1871. Ten years later Jane was 20 years of age and was and a brush-maker living in Diss with her parents, her sister Alice (above) and brother Caleb (below) at Mount Road in the Mount pleasant area of the town.
20P9	Alice Jane Collett was born at Wortham in 1862 but was not baptised there until 05.07.1868. No record of Alice Jane has been found in the census returns for 1871 and 1881.
20P10	Amelia Collett was born at Wortham in 1866 and was baptised there on 09.05.1866. No record of Amelia has been found in the census returns for 1871 and 1881.
20P11	Alfred Collett was born at Wortham in 1868 and died there that same year.
20P12	Caleb John Collett was born at Wortham in 1869 and it was there that he was baptised on 06.03.1870. By the time of the 1871 Census Caleb was one year old, while ten years later he was listed as being twelve years of age when he was working as an errand boy.
	At that time he and his family were living at Mount Pleasant Road in the Mount Pleasant district of Diss. With him and his parents were his two sisters Emma Alice Collett, who was simply referred to as Alice, and Jane Collett (above).
	According to the next census in 1891, Caleb was a lodger at 8 Edith Road in Tottenham, the home of Charles James Bugg a whitesmith born in Norwich. The census return confirmed he was 21 years of age and from Wortham, and that his occupation was that of a brush-maker.
	Also a lodger at the same address was Caleb’s widowed mother Ann Elizabeth Collett who was sixty-eight and from Bury St Edmunds.
	Caleb was married at Wood Green in Tottenham sometime during the quarter between May and August 1891, and it was at Wood Green that all of his children were born. However, he was absent from the family’s Wood Green home at the time of the census of 1901. Perhaps he was away on military duty.
	As a result, the census return simply listed the family as Clara J Collett who was thirty, her daughters Maggie Collett 9, Nettie J Collett 8, and Ida Beryl Collett who was four, and her son Arthur J Collett who was six years old. All of the children, and their mother were recorded as having been born at Wood Green.
	The family was still living at Wood Green in April 1911 when Caleb John Collett of Wortham was 41, while his wife Clara Jane Collett was 40. Living with them was just three of their six children, these being Nettie Jane Collett 18, John Collett 9, and Dorothy May Collett who was three.
	No record has been found in 1911 of the couple’s son Arthur who was have been sixteen, while their two missing daughters were both working in the London area. Maggie Winifred was 19 and was in service at a house in Kensington, and Ida was fourteen and in the West Ham area.
	20Q11	Maggie Winifred Collett	Born in 1891 at Wood Green
	20Q12	Nettie Jane Collett	Born in 1892 at Wood Green
	20Q13	Arthur John Collett	Born in 1894 at Wood Green
	20Q14	Ida Beryl Collett	Born in 1896 at Wood Green
	20Q15	John Collett	Born in 1901 at Wood Green
	20Q16	Dorothy May Collett	Born in 1907 at Wood Green
20P13	Samuel Jesse Collett was born at Wortham in 1870 with just the name Samuel, although no baptism record has been found. In the census of 1871 Samuel Collett of Wortham was under one year old but the following year he died at two years of age under the name of Jesse Collett.
20P14	George Collett was born at Wortham in 1844 and was baptised there on 09.02.1845, the son of John and Maria Collett. By the time of the census of 1851 George was six years old and was living with his parents John and Maria at Long Green in Wortham.
	George was an only child and following the death of his mother before 1861 he and his father appear in the Middlesbrough area for the 1861 Census, but not living together. George, an apprenticed confectioner was living in Guisborough at the age of sixteen.
	Just over seven years later, between May and August 1868, George married Sarah Jane Peacock (or Ransom). The marriage was registered at Stokesley south west of Guisborough (ref. Vol. 9d, page 780), and Sarah was born at Leeds in 1845.
	In 1871 George, aged 26 and working as a grocer’s assistant, and his wife Sarah aged 25, were living with their first child at Westgate in Guisborough (ref. RG10/4857 – folio 20r/176).
	Ten years later and the family had grown to four daughters and one son, all of the children having been born at Guisborough where the births were registered. The family appear to be ‘well off’ at this time as their address was recorded as 29 and 31 Redcar Road in Guisborough where they had the luxury of a live-in servant Amelia Nincks, a seventeen year old girl from Germany.
	George was now described as aged 36 and a grocer (RG11/4844 – folio 73/12). Sarah was 35, and the children were Ada 11, Maria 9, Sarah 6, Maud 4, and their son George who was two years old. George and Sarah were also still living in Redcar Road in both 1891 and 1901 although at different addresses, as follows:
	In 1891 the family, comprising George 46 and Sarah 45, and children Maria 19, Sarah 16, Maud 14 and George 12, were living at 31 Redcar Road (RG12/4002 – folio 63r/184). Also living with them was nephew Percy R Poole aged 10 and born at Stockton. As George Collett had no siblings it seems reasonable to assume that Percy was the child of a sister-in-law, the sister of Sarah Jane his wife.
	By the time of the 1901 Census the family was living at 33 Redcar Road in Guisborough. George was now a grocer and shop keeper aged 56 still married to Sarah aged 55 and with them were daughters Maria aged 29 and Maud aged 24 both unmarried and son George aged 22 a grocer’s assistant also not married (ref. RG13/4571 – folio 60r/131).
	The two daughters occupations were quoted as being ‘mother’s helper/domestic’ but both had been crossed out. Also living with the family was their five years old grandson Cyril Collett. This child’s name immediately followed the name of Maud E Collett on the census form and both of these came after the entry for son George who was the youngest member of the family. Therefore it can safely be assumed that Cyril was Maud’s base-born son.
	Ten years later in April 1911 the family was still living at Guisborough when the census return listed the family as George Collett of Wortham who was 66, his wife Sarah Jane Collett as 65, and their unmarried daughters Sarah Eleanor Collett 36, and Maud Emily 34, together with her son Cyril who was fifteen.
	20Q17	Ada E Collett	Born in 1869
	20Q18	Maria A Collett	Born in 1871
	20Q19	Sarah Eleanor Collett	Born in 1874
	20Q20	Maud Emily Collett	Born in 1876
	20Q21	George Ernest Collett	Born in 1878
20P15	Eliza Collett was born in Suffolk in 1842 and this very likely took place at Wortham where her parents were married and where her mother Maria Hammond had been born. According to the IGI, Eliza was baptised on 06.09.1842, the daughter of Philip and Maria Collett.
	When Eliza was only two years old, she and her parents emigrated to Australia. The arduous journey on board the ship Neptune in 1844 caused health problems for Eliza’s mother who died shortly after the family arrived in Australia. The following year Eliza’s father re-married.
20P17	Arthur Collett was born at Appin in New South Wales in Australia in 1848. He married Rebecca Jane Sutherland in 1877 at Campbelltown in New South Wales where all of their children were born. It was also at Campbelltown that the three infant children died.
	20Q22	Mary Lucy Collett	Born in 1879
	20Q23	James Thomas Collett	Born in 1881
	20Q24	Angelina Collett	Born in 1882
	20Q25	Arthur Sutherland Collett	Born in 1886
	20Q26	William H Collett twin	Born in 1887; died in 1887
	20Q27	un-named male child twin	Born in 1887; died in 1887
	20Q28	Alice E Collett	Born in 1888
	20Q29	Ada Rhoda Collett	Born in 1893
	20Q30	Percy Philip Collett	Born in 1895
	20Q31	Jack A Collett	Born in 1897
	20Q32	Frederick Charles Collett	Date of birth unknown
20P18	Philip Collett was born at Appin in New South Wales during the first months of 1850, but died shortly after.
20P19	Philip Collett was born at Appin in New South Wales towards the end of 1850 and was named in the memory of his late brother. According to the New South Wales indexes of births, deaths and marriages, Philip Collett married Mary Ann Edwards at Gundaroo in Queanbeyan in New South Wales in 1882. Mary, who was born in 1864, was sometimes referred to as Minnie.
	The couple had ten children and all of them were born in New South Wales but at differing locations. The first was born at Gundaroo in Queanbeyan, the second and fourth at Goulburn, with the third at Argyle, the next five at Young, while their last child was born at Grenfell.
	Philip died at Goulburn in 1918, while Mary survived for another twenty-five years until her death in 1943. Sadly, the year before she died Mary received the tragic news that her son Arthur William Collett had died while working for the Australian military headquarters of the army.
	20Q33	Ernest Henry Collett	Born in 1883
	20Q34	Oscar Herbert Collett	Born in 1883
	20Q35	Herbert Oliver Collett	Born in 1884
	20Q36	Arthur William Collett	Born in 1886
	20Q37	Lillian Ella Collett	Born in 1888
	20Q38	Laura Beatrice Pearl Collett	Born in 1889
	20Q39	William Leslie Philip Collett	Born in 1891
	20Q40	Harold Edw James Collett	Born in 1894
	20Q41	Ellen Catherine Collett	Born in 1898
	20Q42	Leslie John Leonard Collett	Born in 1902
20P20	James Thomas Collett was born at Appin in 1852 and he married Emma Rebecca Agnes Lodge at Goulburn in 1871. The first six of their children were all born at Yass where James’ parents and the children’s grandparents were living in their latter years.
	Around 1881 the family moved home to live at Gunning for a short time where James’ brother Joseph was living and where their daughter Deborah was born. Within a few more years the family had moved to Queanbeyan where two more child were born, before finally settling in Sydney where their last child was born.
	20Q43	Arthur Henry Collett	Born in 1872
	20Q44	Augustus James Hugh Collett	Born in 1874
	20Q45	May Collett	Born in 1875
	20Q46	Ida M Collett	Born in 1877
	20Q47	Ada Emily Collett	Born in 1879
	20Q48	Fanny Lucy Collett	Born in 1880
	20Q49	Deborah E Collett	Born in 1882
	20Q50	Percy James Lodge Collett	Born in 1883
	20Q51	Edith P Collett	Born in 1884
	20Q52	Ernest James Collett	Born in 1886
	20Q53	Lillian A Collett	Born in 1888
20P21	Lucy Amelia Collett was born at Appin in 1854 and she later married and became Lucy Amelia Davis. It was one of her younger children, daughter Florence Ida Mildred Davis who was born in 1890, that later married her cousin Arthur William Collett (Ref. 20Q30), the son of Lucy’s brother Philip.
20P22	William Collett was born around 1856 and this very likely took place at Appin in New South Wales where his siblings were all born. It also seems likely that he may have married Ellen and that their children were born at Goulburn, Waterloo and Central Cumberland.
	Their daughter Lucy died at Goulburn, while their son Edwin died at Central Cumberland. William and Ellen had another son Robert M Collett who was born at Boorowa in 1898, but who died at Granville in 1915.
	William Collett died in 1943 at Burwood in New South Wales.
	20Q54	Lucy May Collett	Born in 1881
	20Q55	William G R Collett	Born in 1882
	20Q56	Edwin P Collett	Born in 1885
	20Q57	Emily Collett	Born in 1886
	20Q58	Robert M Collett	Born in 1898
20P24	JOSEPH COLLETT was born at Appin in 1861 and he was the ninth of thirteen children from the second marriage of Philip Collett to Lucy Bean.
	Joseph was married to Harriet Hawker in 1885 at Parramatta in New South Wales and died in Australia in 1947 aged 86.
	The couple’s first child was born at Central Cumberland in New South Wales but their subsequent children were all born at Gunning in NSW.
	20Q59	Frances A Collett	Born in 1886
	20Q60	Beatrice D Collett	Born in 1889
	20Q61	Philip Oliver Collett	Born in 1893
	20Q62	Ivy G Collett	Born in 1894
	20Q63	Enos Joseph Collett	Born in 1897
	20Q64	Norman A Collett	Born in 1900
	20Q65	Herbert E N Collett	Born in 1903
	20Q66	STANLEY BEAN COLLETT	Born in 1905
20P25	Louisa E Collett was born at Appin in 1864 and died there in 1866.
20P28	Ada Rhoda Collett was born at Appin in 1873 and was just two years old when she died in 1875.
20Q1	Emily Eliza Collett was born in 1873. Although born at Wortham, her parents moved to County Durham sometime after she was born and before the birth of the family’s second child. Around 1895 she married George Clayton who was born in the town of Easington Lane in 1871/72.
	In the 1901 Census Emily and George were living as boarders with Emily’s parents at Brick Garth in Easington Lane where George was a coal hewer aged 29. Both of their children with them at that time had been born at Easington Lane.
	They were Joseph Clayton who was four years old and Philip Clayton who was three.
20Q2	George William Collett was born at Cornforth in County Durham in 1877 and the birth was registered at Stockton in the July to September quarter 1877. In 1901 at the age of 23 George was unmarried and was still living with his parents at Brick Garth in Easington Lane. His occupation as at that time was described as a coal worker below ground.
	Shortly after the census day George married Harriet Wharton and by the spring of 1911 the marriage had produced five children for the couple. In the census taken in April 1911 for Brick Garth in Easington Lane, George William Collett was 33 and his wife Harriet was 32.
	Their five children on that occasion were Ann Elizabeth Collett 8, George Wharton Collett 7, Harriet Collett 5, Margaret Jane Wharton Collett 3, and baby Ellen Collett who was one year old. All of the children were at Brick Garth.
	20R1	Ann Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1902 at Brick Garth
	20R2	George Wharton Collett	Born in 1903 at Brick Garth
	20R3	Harriet Collett	Born in 1905 at Brick Garth
	20R4	Margaret Jane Wharton Collett	Born in 1907 at Brick Garth
	20R5	Ellen Collett	Born in 1909 at Brick Garth
20Q3	John James Collett was born at Easington Lane in 1879. At the age of 21 he was unmarried and was still living with his parents at Brick Garth in Easington Lane. His occupation as at that time in 1901 was described as coal hewer like that of his father.
	Within the following year John married Esabella Dodds (Isabella) and over the next ten years they were presented with four children. According to the census of 1911 the family was living at Brick Garth and included John James Collett 31, his wife Esabella 31, Mary Jane Dodds Collett 7, Philip Collett 5, Henry Collett 2, and Ann Elizabeth Collett who was just five months old.
	20R6	Mary Jane Dodds Collett	Born in 1903
	20R7	Philip Collett	Born in 1905
	20R8	Henry Collett	Born in 1908
	20R9	Ann Elizabeth Collett	Born in October 1910
20Q4	Philip Collett was born at Easington Lane in 1883. At the age of 17 he was still living with his parents at Brick Garth in Easington Lane. His occupation as at that time in 1901 was described as coal worker below ground.
20Q5	Thomas Collett was born at Easington Lane in 1884 and at the age of 16 he was still living with his parents at Brick Garth in Easington Lane. His occupation as at that time in 1901 was described as a worker below ground.
20Q6	Robert Collett, who was one half of a set of twins, was born at Brick Garth in Easington Lane in 1888 and it was at Brick Garth that he was living with his family in March 1901 at the age of twelve years. It was around this time that his mother Ann died, following which his father Philip re-married.
	By the time of the next census in April 1911, Robert was twenty-two and was one of only three children still living with his father, and his new wife Catherine, at Brick Garth.
20Q8	Ellen Collett was born at Brick Garth in Easington Lane in 1893 and was seven years old in the Brick Garth census of 1901. Ellen was still living with her father ten years later aged seventeen, by which time her mother had died and her father was re-married.
20Q18	Maria A Collett was born at Guisborough in 1871. She appears in the national census details for 1881, 1891 and 1901, always living at home with her parents George and Sarah Collett. For the latter she was listed as aged 29 and unmarried, a mother’s helper/domestic although this occupation was crossed out on the record (ref. RG13/4571 – folio 60r/131).
20Q19	Sarah Eleanor Collett was born at Guisborough in 1874. She appears in the national census details for 1881 and 1891 living at home with her parents George and Sarah Collett. No record of Sarah has been found in the census of 1901.
	It is possible that she never married, since in 1911 she was listed in that year’s census as Sarah Eleanor Collett a spinster of 36 living at Guisborough with her parents.
20Q20	Maud Emily Collett was born at Guisborough in 1876. Like her sister Maria, she too appears in the national census details for 1881, 1891 and 1901, always living at home with her parents George and Sarah Collett. For the latter she was listed as being aged 24 and unmarried, a mother’s helper/domestic, although this occupation was crossed out on the record (ref. RG13/4571 – folio 60r/131).
	Also with her in 1901 was her five years old base-born son listed as grandson to her parents George and Sarah Collett. By 1911 Maud Emily Collett who was 34, was still living with her elderly parents, and with her again was her son Cyril who was fifteen.
	20R10	Cyril Collett	Born in 1895 at Guisborough
20Q21	George Ernest Collett was born at Guisborough in 1878. He married May (Welsh or Wilkinson) at Guisborough in the period between May and August 1908 and by April 1911 May had presented her husband with their first child.
	The Guisborough area census of 1911 recorded the family as George Ernest Collett 32, his wife May Collett as 27, and their daughter Marjorie Collett who was only seven months old.
	20R11	Marjorie Collett	Born in September 1910 at Guisboro’
20Q23	James Thomas Collett was born at Campbelltown in 1881 and he married Florence E Knight at Woonona in 1901. The couple’s first child was born at Campbelltown while the second was born at Woonona and the third at Campbelltown.
	20R12	Arthur James Collett	Born in 1901
	20R13	Reginald J Collett	Born in 1903
	20R14	Rita M Collett	Born in 1905
20Q24	Angelina Collett was born at Campbelltown in 1882. It would appear than she never married and her death as Angelina Collett was recorded at Wollongong in 1943.
20Q25	Arthur Sutherland Collett was born at Campbelltown in 1886. He married Alma Myrtle T Cooper at Newtown in 1912. Arthur died at Bulli in 1953.
	20R15	Eileen Enid Merle Collett	Date of birth unknown
	20R16	Cecil Sutherland Collett	Date of birth unknown
	20R17	Kelvin Laurence Collett	Born on 06.05.1924
	20R18	Murray Arthur Collett	Date of birth unknown
	20R19	Glen Denzil Collett	Date of birth unknown
20Q28	Alice E Collett was born at Campbelltown in 1888, and it was there also that she died two years later in 1890.
20Q30	Percy Philip Collett was born at Campbelltown in 1895. At the outbreak of the Great War Percy enlisted with the Australian Light Horse as trooper 3414. He saw active service in the Middle East and it was at Jerusalem on 11.04.1918 that he died.
	The War Graves Commission entry reads “Percy Philip Collett aged 22 died on 11^th April 1918 and was buried at the War Cemetery in Jerusalem. He was a native of Appin in New South Wales and the son of Arthur and Rebecca Jane Collett”.
20Q32	Frederick Charles Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the son of Arthur and Rebecca Collett and he died in 1975. It is believed that he married Laura Thurkettle late in his life in 1943 at Kingsford.
20Q33	Ernest Henry Collett was born at Gundaroo in 1882. He married (1) Lucy Margaret Jones who died in 1927. Ernest then married (2) Myrtle Elsie Huggett who was born in 1887 and who died in 1981. Ernest had died nine years earlier in 1972.
20Q34	Oscar Herbert Collett was born at Goulburn in 1883. He married Bertha Isabel Buttenshaw at Grenfell in 1908. It seems very likely that all their children were also born at Grenfell as confirmed by the birth of son Trevor. It is known that two other sons died in 1912 and 1929 respectively while Oscar and Bertha were living still at Grenfell. Oscar died in 1979.
	20R20	Reginald Oscar Collett	Date of birth unknown
	20R21	Trevor Donald Hamilton Collett	Born on 18.03.1914
	20R22	Laurence A Collett	Date of birth unknown
20Q35	Herbert Oliver Collett was born at Argyle in 1884.
20Q36	Arthur William Collett was born at Goulburn in New South Wales in 1886. He married Florence Ida Mildred Davis who was born in 1890 and who was known within the family as Ida. She was the daughter of Lucy Amelia Collett (Ref. 20P21), the sister of Arthur William Collett’s father Philip Collett. Arthur and Ida were therefore directly related, being first cousins. It seems very likely that Arthur took an active part in the First World War judging by the photograph of him in his army uniform, but being in his fifties at the time of the start of the Second World War he was probably considered too old for active duty.
	However, he did manage to secure the role of Private Collett N-100659 with the Australian Army Headquarters. Although the cause is not known, Arthur William Collett died while in the service of the army on 11.12.1943 at the age of 53. His actual age at that time was in 57 or nearly 58.
	Arthur was buried at the Sydney War Cemetery and the military records confirmed that his next-of-kin was his wife Florence Ida Collett of Guildford, and that his parents were Philip and Minnie Collett. The Guildford mentioned here refers to Guildford in New South Wales, rather than the one in Surrey, England.
20Q37	Lillian Ella Collett was born at Young in 1888. She married Henry Spencer Miles who was born in 1886 and was known as Harry. Lillian died in 1945.
20Q38	Laura Beatrice Pearl Collett was born at Young in 1889 and she married Thomas Stein who was born in 1887.
20Q39	William Leslie Philip Collett was born at Young in 1891. In 1920 at Goulburn he married Pearl Weeks who was born in 1893. Pearl died in 1984 twenty-eight years after William had passed away in 1956 while they were living at Moss Vale. On 02.09.1922 records show that a Herbert John Collett was born to a Philip Collett at Goulburn. It therefore seems likely that William had used the name Philip after his father Philip who had died in 1918 and his grandfather before him. William also had two brothers with the name Herbert and a younger brother John.
	On that basis it therefore seems worthwhile including Herbert John Collett as his and Pearl’s child.
	20R23	Herbert John Collett	Born on 02.09.1922
20Q40	Harold Edwin (or Edward) James Collett was born at Young in 1894. He was known as Harry and he married Elizabeth Mary Fyffe.
20Q41	Ellen Catherine Collett was born at Young in 1898. She was known as Nellie and she married (1) Alfred Payne who was born in 1896 and was known as Alf. She later married (2) Frank Cusack who died in 1984, Nellie having died two years earlier in 1982.
20Q42	Leslie John Leonard Collett was born at Grenfell in 1902 and to date no record has been found to indicate that he ever married. What is known is that he died 1978.
20Q43	Arthur Henry Collett was born at Yass in 1872. He married Frances Maud Bailey at Parramatta in 1895 where all of their children were born. Arthur died at Manly in 1956.
	20R24	Arthur Henry Collett	Born in 1896
	20R25	Ruth M Collett	Born in 1897
	20R26	George Henry Collett	Born in 1900
	20R27	Fanny Collett	Born in 1902
	20R28	May Collett	Born in 1903
	20R29	Maud Collett	Born in 1905
20Q44	Augustus James Hugh Collett was born at in 1874. He married Annie Edith Pickering at Milton in 1900 where the couple’s first child was born. Augustus died in 1923 at Mosman.
	In the record of his sons death in 1975 Augustus was listed as being Augustus John Collett.
	20R30	Kenneth Claude James Samuel Collett	Born in 1901
20Q50	Percy James Lodge Collett was born at Sydney around 1883. He married Sarah Jane Swan at Queanbeyan in 1900 where their two children were born. Percy died at Newtown 1927.
	20R31	Nita P Lodge Collett	Born in 1901
	20R32	James John Lodge Collett	Born in 1903
20Q52	Ernest James Collett was born at Queanbeyan in 1886 where he died in 1913.
20Q54	Lucy May Collett was born at Goulburn in 1881, where she died that same year.
20Q55	William G R Collett was born at Waterloo in 1882 and he married Agnes W Fisher at Granville in 1909.
20Q56	Edwin P Collett was born at Central Cumberland in 1885, where he also died in 1886.
20Q58	Robert M Collett was born at Boorowa in 1898 and was just seventeen years old when he died at Granville in 1915.
20Q61	Philip Oliver Collett was born at Gunning in 1893. He married Ethel J Galvin at Cootamundra in 1915. Their daughter Mary died at Goulburn in 1921, as did Philip many years later in 1966.
	20R33	Mary Collett	Born circa 1920; died in 1921
20Q63	Enos Joseph Collett was born at Gunning in 1897. He married Florence M Thompson at Goulburn in 1925. The couple’s first child may have been born at Goulburn or Gunning, but it was at the latter where he died while still an infant in 1928.
	It seems likely that Enos was married for a second time to Frances Negus since these are the two names on the death certificate for daughter Harriet who died at Goulburn in 1943. Enos also died at Goulburn in 1972.
	20R34	James A Collett	Born circa 1926
	20R35	Harriet Collett	Date of birth unknown
20Q64	Norman A Collett was born at Gunning in 1900. He married Ivy M Campbell at Crookwell in 1925.
20Q65	Herbert E N Collett was born at Gunning in 1903. He married Lynda M Helmers at Goulburn in 1926.
20Q66	STANLEY BEAN COLLETT was born in 1905 at Appin in New South Wales. He married Salome Elizabeth Lieschke in 1929 at Goulburn.
	20R36	Stanley James Collett	Born in 1931
	20R37	Anne Beatrice Collett	Date of birth unknown
	20R38	Philip Sidney Collett	Date of birth unknown
	20R39	IAN JOSEPH COLLETT	Born in 1944
	20R40	Peter Norman Collett	Born in 1948
20R12	Arthur James Collett was born at Campbelltown in 1901. He married (1) Ivy Morton at Wickham in 1927 and later (2) Elsie M Stamp at Lismore in 1932.
20R16	Cecil Sutherland Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Beulah F Nixon at Bankston in 1934. Cecil died at St Leonards in 1971.
20R17	Kelvin Laurence Collett was born at Campbelltown on 06.05.1924 and he married Dorothy Emily Ellis at Burwood in 1946 after he had returned from active service in the Second World War – see below.
	His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirms that: he was born at Campbelltown on 6^th May 1924; he enlisted at Bulli in New South Wales; his service number was N339651; and his next-of-kin was his father Arthur Collett.
	Kelvin died at Lismore in 1971.
20R18	Murray Arthur Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Eileen Estelle Gallagher at Bulli in 1946. Seven years later Murray’s father Arthur Sutherland Collett died at Bulli.
20R19	Glen Denzil Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Shirley Patricia Fitzgerald at Bulli in 1951 where his father died two years after.
20R20	Reginald Oscar Collett, whose date of birth is not known, died at Grenfell in 1912.
20R21	Trevor Donald Hamilton Collett was born at Grenfell on 18.03.1914 and he saw active service during the Second World War.
	His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirms that: he was born at Grenfell on 18^th March 1914; he enlisted at Sydney; his service number was 132383; and his next-of-kin was his father Oscar Collett.
20R22	Laurence A Collett, whose date of birth is not known, died at Grenfell in 1929.
20R23	Herbert John Collett was born at Goulburn on 02.09.1922 and he saw active service during the Second World War.
	His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirms that: he was born at Goulburn on 2^nd September 1922; he enlisted at Paddington in New South Wales; his service number was NX92715; and his next-of-kin was his father Philip Collett.
20R24	Arthur Henry Collett was born at Parramatta in 1896. He married Georgina E S MacDonald at Sydney in 1918.
20R26	George Henry Collett was born at Parramatta in 1900 where he married Lillian R Gilmore. It seems likely he was involved in a supporting role during the Second World War – see below. It was at Parramatta that he died in 1970.
	His entry in the Service Records of the National Archives of Australia (www.naa.gov.au) confirms that: he was born at Parramatta, but no date given; he enlisted at Sydney and under service number it simply stated ‘depot’; and his next-of-kin was his father Arthur Henry Collett.
20R30	Kenneth Claude James Samuel Collett was born at Milton in 1901 and he married Gwendoline J Lyell at Chatswood in 1930. Kenneth died in 1975.
20R32	James John Lodge Collett was born at Queanbeyan in 1903 where he married Ada F Mayo in 1925. James died in 1974.
20R34	James A Collett was born around 1926 and died at Gunning in 1928.
20R35	Harriet Collett, whose date of birth is not known, died very young at Goulburn in 1943.
20R36	Stanley James Collett, who was referred to as Jim, was born at Goulburn on 31.12.1930. He married Daphne Merle Higham at Bellevue Hill Anglican Church in Sydney on 15.05.1955. Daphne was born on 21.03.1934. Jim confirmed that both he and Daphne were alive and well in 2007.
	20S1	Geoffrey Martin Collett	Born in 1959
	20S2	Susan Yvette Collett	Born in 1961
	20S3	Adele Catherine Anne Collett	Born in 1968
20R37	Anne Beatrice Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was married and had four children Robert James, Ian Joseph, Elizabeth and Johanna.
20R38	Philip Sidney Collett was the son of Stanley Bean Collett and Salome Elizabeth Collett. His date of birth is not known but the records give the date he died as 1972 and at Cooma in New South Wales.
20R39	IAN JOSEPH COLLETT was born in 1944. He married Judith Dawn in New South Wales where all of their children were born.
	20S4	James McKenzie Collett	Born in 1972
	20S5	Leanne Kathleen Collett	Born in 1974
	20S6	Lucy Victoria Collett	Born in 1982
20R40	Peter Norman Collett was born at Nowra in 1948. He was married and had two children.
	20S7	Matthew Collett	Date of birth unknown
	20S8	Elizabeth Collett	Date of birth unknown
20S1	Geoffrey Martin Collett was born in 1959. He later married Cheryl Kim Stanley and the marriage produce two children for the couple, both of them being born at Goulburn. In 2008 the family was living in Canberra and it was Geoff that kindly provided the information for this update.
	20T1	Bradley John Collett	Born in 1986
	20T2	Erin Natasha Collett	Born in 1989
20S2	Susan Yvette Collett was born at Goulburn in 1961. She was married Ronald Adrian Hope (born 23.06.1951) on 27.08.1988. The marriage produced two children for the couple Phoebe born at Nowra and Adrian born at Darwin before they were divorced in 1997.
	Susan and the children reverted to her maiden name following the divorce, and in 2007 Susan confirmed that they were living at Maryborough in Queensland.
	20T3	Phoebe Yvette Collett	Born on 25.08.1990
	20T4	Adrian Phillip Collett	Born on 24.09.1992
20S3	Adele Catherine Anne Collett was born in 1968. She married and had three children Carleigh Adele, Isobel Catherine and Georgia Margaret.