PART TWENTY-THREE

 

The Wiltshire to Australia Line – 1550 to 1995

Updated October 2009

 

This is the family line of Dorothy Shepherd (Ref. 23R4) of Mount Tarcoola in Western Australia

and Christopher Lloyd whose great great grandfather was Edmund Lloyd (Ref. 23N3)

 

An earlier update included details of the life of Rose Laura Collett (Ref. 23P23)

who suffered badly at the hands of her Swedish husband Johan Hedlund,

all as provided by her great granddaughter Jenny Stanser

 

 

23F1

WILLIAM COLLETT was yeoman of Badbury near Swindon.  He married Elizabeth and died in 1603.  His Will was proved in 1604.

 

 

 

23G1

HENRY COLLETT

Born in 1570

 

23G2

Samuel Collett

Born in 1573

 

 

 

 

23G1

HENRY COLLETT was born in 1570 the eldest son of William Collett and like his father was yeoman of Badbury.

 

 

 

23H1

Robert Collett

Date of birth unknown

 

23H2

WILLIAM COLLETT

Born in 1602

 

23H3

Agnes Collett

Date of birth unknown

 

23H4

Margaret Collett

Date of birth unknown

 

 

 

 

23G2

Samuel Collett was born in 1573 the youngest son of William Collett and was yet another yeoman of Badbury.  He died in December 1639.

 

 

 

 

23H1

Robert Collett was the eldest son of Henry Collett and was a yeoman of Badbury.  He died after his son was born.

 

 

 

23I1

Henry Collett

Date of birth unknown

 

 

 

 

23H2

WILLIAM COLLETT was born in 1605 and was yeoman of Badbury and the second son of Henry Collett.  He married Mary Komm at Badbury and died intestate in 1660.

 

 

 

23I2

WILLIAM COLLETT

Born in 1651

 

23I3

Henry Collett

Born in 1654; died in 1661

 

23I4

Richard Collett

Born in 1655

 

23I5

Robert Collett

Born in 1657; died in 1661

 

23I6

John Collett

Born in 1659

 

 

 

 

23I1

Henry Collett was the eldest son of Robert Collett and a yeoman of Badbury.

 

 

 

23J1

Robert Collett

Born circa 1660

 

 

 

 

23I2

WILLIAM COLLETT was born in 1651 and was a yeoman of Badbury.  He married Mary at St Ann’s Church in Westminster and was a tallow merchant.  The first two of their five known children were baptised at St Martin-in-the-Field in Westminster, while two were baptised at St Anne Soho in Westminster. 

 

 

 

The chandlery that William Collett owned was suspiciously burned down for a second time in 1700 during property inheritance disputes amongst the male members of the family at that time. 

 

 

 

William died in 1714 and Mary, who was born in 1653, had died a year earlier in 1713.  The family was known to have a connection with the church of St Giles-in-the-Fields in London where their son Richard was baptised.

 

 

 

William Collett was referred to in Peter G Laurie’s memoirs “Our Collett Ancestors” published in 1898.  In this he was described as being ‘William Collett of the Great House born 1651 and died 1714’.  The Great House referred to was in Hog Street in St Giles in the Fields. 

 

 

 

At a later time Hog Street was renamed Crown Street and today is Charing Cross Road.  At one end of Hog Street there was a pond and this area became Tottenham Court Road and Tyburn Road which today is Oxford Street.  Nothing of the house remains today.

 

 

 

23J2

Martha Collett

Born on 19.10.1683

 

23J3

Mary Collett

Born on 23.12.1685

 

23J4

William Collett

Born in 1687

 

23J5

RICHARD COLLETT

Born in 1690

 

23J6

Elizabeth Collett

Born in 1693

 

 

 

 

23I4

Richard Collett was born in 1655 was a citizen and vintner of London.  He married (1) Arrabella with whom he had two daughters who were baptised at St Margaret in Westminster.  It seems likely Arrabella died during or just after the birth of the second child, who also died when under three years old. 

 

 

 

Richard later married (2) Elizabeth Hern in 1687 who presented her husband with six children of which only two of them survived to reach adulthood according to the Quaker records.

 

 

 

Richard died on 27.06.1721 of dropsy.  He left a Will which was proved on 07.09.1721 in which property at Badbury was passed on, although the ownership and entitlement were disputed.  His Will referred to him as ‘Richard Collett, vintner of London’.

 

 

 

23J7

Susanna Collett

Born on 29.10.1682

 

23J8

Mary Collett

Born in 1684

 

23J9

Still born child

Born in 1688

 

23J10

Mordecai Collett

Born in 1689; died in 1689

 

23J11

William Collett

Born in 1691; died in 1714

 

23J12

Elizabeth Collett

Born in 1693

 

23J13

Jeremiah Collett

Born in 1695; died in 1698

 

23J14

Thomas Collett

Born in 1696; died in 1697

 

 

 

 

23J1

Robert Collett was born around 1660 and at the age of 7 years was placed in the care of his uncle Richard Collett in December 1668.  He married Ada Freeman in 1706.

 

 

 

 

23J2

Martha Collett was born in Westminster on 19.10.1683 and was baptised at St Martin-in-the-field on 24.10.1683 as the daughter of William and Mary Collett.  She married (1) John Pinke and later married (2) Richard Pane in 1726 at Lincoln’s Inn Chapel in Holborn, London.

 

 

 

 

23J3

Mary Collett was born at Westminster on 23.12.1685 and was baptised at St Martin-in-the-field on 01.01.1686, the baptism record confirming she was the daughter of William and Mary Collett.

 

 

 

 

23J4

William Collett was born in Westminter in1687 and was baptised at St Anne Soho in Westminster on 09.01.1687, the eldest son of William and Mary Collett.

 

 

 

 

23J5

RICHARD COLLETT was born in London around 1690 and was baptised that year at St Giles-in-the-Fields in London which confirmed he was the son of William and Mary Collett.  He was a tallow chandler and he married Elizabeth Cobb in 1717.  Richard died in July 1748 and was followed by Elizabeth in 1774.

 

 

 

23K1

RICHARD COBB COLLETT

Born in 1718

 

23K2

John Collett

Born in 1719

 

23K3

Elizabeth Collett

Born in 1721

 

23K4

Sarah Collett

Born in 1725

 

23K5

Peter Collett

Born on 27.10.1734

 

 

 

 

23J6

Elizabeth Collett was born in London in 1693 and was baptised at St Anne Soho in Westminster on 10.05.1693 when her parents were recorded as being William and Mary Collett.

 

 

 

 

23J7

Susanna Collett was born in London on 29.10.1682 and was baptised at St Margaret in Westminster on 03.11.1682, the record confirming she was the daughter of Richard and Arrabella Collett.  

 

 

 

In 1703 she married James Norton a citizen and dyer of London.  The couple never had any children and Susanna died after her father had died in 1721 since she was referred to in his Will.

 

 

 

 

23J8

Mary Collett was born in London 1684 and was baptised at St Margaret in Westminster on 03.04.1684.  The baptism the record listed her parents as Richard and Isabella Collett rather than Richard and Arrabella.  Mary was around three years old when she died in 1687.

 

 

 

 

23J12

Elizabeth Collett was born in 1693.  She married in 1721 (1) John Green a wine cooper from London and (2) Thomas Greenhill of Bath in 1735.  Thomas died in 1666 and his Will was proved in 1668. 

 

 

 

Neither of the marriages produced any children and Elizabeth died in 1768.  In her Will she left property to her cousin Elizabeth Collett nee Cobb, the widow of Richard Collett the elder (above).

 

 

 

 

23K1

RICHARD COBB COLLETT was born in London in 1718, and was the eldest son of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Cobb.  He later married Mary Harrison around 1750. 

 

 

 

Richard Cobb Collett died in February 1788 and his Will was proved on 29.03.1788.  In the Will he was referred to as ‘Richard Collett, Gentleman of St Luke’s Chelsea’.

 

 

 

23L1

RICHARD COBB COLLETT

Born on 28.02.1752

 

 

 

 

23K2

John Collett was born in London in 1719 and was the son of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Cobb.  The ship ‘Doddington’ in which he was travelling was wrecked on rocks near Bird Island off Port Elizabeth on the South Africa coast on 17.07.1755. 

 

 

 

The ship and its cargo of gold owned by the merchant adventurer Robert Clive of the East India Company was lost and was subject to salvage recovery in 1977.

 

 

 

 

23K3

Elizabeth Collett was born in London in 1721 and was baptised at St James in Clerkenwell 02.07.1721, the baptism record confirming she was the daughter of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Cobb.  Tragically she suffered an infant death.

 

 

 

 

23K4

Sarah Collett was born in London in 1725 the daughter of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Cobb.  It is also known that she married Joseph Lowe a jeweller of Holborn in London, and that she died on 15.08.1773.

 

 

 

 

23K5

Peter Collett was born in London on 27.10.1734 and was baptised at St Olave Old Jewry in the City of London on 25.11.1734.  He was the youngest son of Richard Collett and Elizabeth Cobb.

 

 

 

St Olave’s Church was dedicated to the patron saint of Norway, while Old Jewry was a precinct of medieval London populated by Jew until their expulsion from England in 1290.  The original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 but was rebuilt in 1679 by the office of Sir Christopher Wren.

 

 

 

He attended St John’s College at Oxford where he matriculated on 17th August 1751 aged 16.  The university records confirmed that he was the son of Richard Collett of London.  Peter obtained his Bachelor of Arts at Oxford on 2nd March 1756.

 

 

 

Four years later Peter took up the role of curate of the parish church at Rye in Sussex, a position he held for thirty years.

 

 

 

Shortly after securing this position Peter married (1) Margaret Bourne who was born in 1734 but who died at Rye in Sussex on 06.05.1770 aged 36.  Prior to her death Margaret presented Peter with five children, three of which died as infants.  The name of the third infant is not known.

 

 

 

Following the death of his first wife Peter then married (2) Elizabeth Woodhams who was eleven years younger than Peter having been born in 1746.  This marriage produced another five children for Peter all of whom survived.

 

 

 

During his life, and in addition to being the Reverend Peter Collett, he was also the Rector of Denton.  Peter died at Rye on 14.09.1790 where he was also buried and was survived by his second wife Elizabeth for a further fifty years after his death.  Elizabeth lived to be 95 and died on 11.02.1841 and was also buried at Rye.

 

 

 

A white marble plaque on the wall inside Rye Parish Church reads

 

 

 

“Sacred to the memory of Mrs Margaret Collett wife of the Reverend Peter Collett who died the 6th of May 1770 aged 36 years.  Also of the above named Rev. Peter Collett Rector of Denton in this county and curate of this parish thirty years who died the 14th of September 1790 aged 55 years.  And of three children who died in their infancy.  Also of Elizabeth relict of the above named who died the 11th of February 1841 aged 95 years”

 

 

 

23L2

Margaret Collett

Born in 1763

 

23L3

Elizabeth Collett

Born in 1765

 

23L4

Peter Collett

Born in 1767; infant death

 

23L5

Jacky Collett

Born in 1769; infant death

 

23L6

Sarah Collett

Born in 1775

 

23L7

Richard Collett

Born in 1777

 

23L8

Anne Collett

Born in 1779

 

23L9

Mary Ann Collett

Born in 1781

 

23L10

Thomas Collett

Born in 1784

 

 

 

 

23L1

RICHARD COBB COLLETT was born in London on 28.02.1752 and was baptised at St martin Orgar & St Clement Eastcheap in London.  The baptism record gave his parents as Richard Cobb Collett and his wife Mary.

 

 

 

Richard married Ann Parker on 18.05.1773 at St Bartholomew the Great in London.  He was an attorney and established the firm of, Collett, Wimburn & Collett, at 62 Chancery Lane in London.

 

 

 

In 1807 he was promoted to the office of “One of the Four Sworn Attorneys of the Court of Exchequer of Pleas” a title that was taken up by his son Kenrick (below) between 1824 and 1826 prior to Richard’s death in 1827. 

 

 

 

Richard’s Will was proved on 10.03.1827.  In the Will he was referred to as simply ‘Richard Collett, gentleman of Turnham Green in Middlesex’.  There was a reference to the Christian name Cobb which it was stated, was not generally used by Richard.

 

 

 

In addition to all of the above, Richard Cobb Collett was coroner for the County of Middlesex and was referred to at the time of the death of his son Kenrick Collett in 1841 as “formerly of Chancery Lane and Acton and late of Turnham Green. 

 

 

 

On 01.02.1831 Richard’s wife Ann died at Turnham Green.

 

 

 

23M1

KENRICK COLLETT

Born on 01.01.1775

 

23M2

Clayton Collett

Born on 05.11.1776

 

23M3

Richard Collett

Born on 05.11.1778

 

23M4

Mary Ann Collett

Born in 1780; infant death

 

23M5

Robert Collett

Born in 1782

 

 

 

 

23L2

Margaret Collett was born in 1763, the daughter of Peter Collett and Margaret Bourne.  Around 1780 she married John Shoppee the son of J Shoppee and brother of Charles Shoppee who married Margaret’s sister Elizabeth (below).

 

 

 

 

23L3

Elizabeth Collett was born in 1765 and married Charles Shoppee the son of J Shoppee and brother of John Shoppee who married Elizabeth’s sister Margaret Collett (above).

 

 

 

It may be significant that in Australia there were many people with the Shoppee surname that had Collett as part of their name.  These included:  Clarence Collett Shoppee (born 02.04.1902); John Stephen Collett Shoppee (born 27.03.1904); Walter Henry Collett Shoppee (born 26.01.1914); Charles Tilley Collett Shoppee (a aircrafts man in WWII); all of whom were involved in WWII.

 

 

 

In addition to these there was the celebrated Dame Marjorie Alice Collett Parker OBE, formerly Marjorie Alice Collett Shoppee the daughter of W Shoppee, who was born at Ballarat and died on 18.02.1991 and who married Max Parker on 12.06.1926.

 

 

 

 

23L6

Sarah Collett was born in 1775 and was the daughter of Peter Collett and Elizabeth Woodhams.  She never married, just like her two younger sisters Anne and Mary (below).

 

 

 

 

23L7

Richard Collett was born in 1777 and was the son of Peter Collett and Elizabeth Woodhams.  It is known that he was an assistant surgeon with the 2nd Bombay Native Infantry and died on 25.06.1802 at Cannamore, probably as a direct result of the fighting which came to an end that year.

 

 

 

 

23L8

Anne Collett was born in 1779 and was the daughter of Peter Collett and Elizabeth Woodhams.  She never married and lived at Primley Hill in Paignton in Devon.  She died on 19.11.1854 and was buried at Bromley in Kent.  In her Will, which was proved on 28.12.1854, she was referred to as ‘Anne Collett, spinster of Bromley in Kent’.

 

 

 

 

23L9

Mary Ann Collett was born in 1781, the daughter of Peter Collett and Elizabeth Woodhams.  She attended Bromley College and died at Bromley in Kent in May 1849.

 

 

 

 

23L10

Thomas Collett was born in 1784 and he married Sarah Ireland with whom he had two daughters.  He died in 1858

 

 

 

 

23M1

KENRICK COLLETT was born on 01.01.1775 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 27.01.1775.  He was named after Sir Kenrick Clayton, Baronet of Marden Park in Surrey to whose family his father Richard Cobb Collett had acted for many years as confidential adviser and trustee.

 

 

 

In 1797 he joined his father’s firm of Collett, Wimburn & Collett at 62 Chancery Lane in London.  Five years later on the 07.12.1802 at St Andrews Church in Holborn he married Mary Anne Webb the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Webb of Hanwell, who was born on 12.03.1785.

 

 

 

Kenrick and his wife lived with the Lloyd family in Harley Street (see other references to the Lloyd family at 23N2, 23N3, 23O6 and 23O7) but frequently spent the winter months at Chancery Lane owing to the transportation difficulties during severe weather. 

 

 

 

All of their children received their early education at Burlington House, a well known seminary in Fulham run by the Reverend Robert Roy.

 

 

 

In 1807 Kenrick, who was an attorney like his father, was promoted to the office of “One of the Four Official Clerks”.  From 1824 he took over the office of “One of the Four Sworn Attorneys of the Court of Exchequer of Pleas” previously held by his father.

 

 

 

Almost ten years later in 1833 he became “Master of the Court of the Exchequer” a post he held up to his death.  He died on 25.02.1841 at 57 Harley Street and was buried in the family grave at Paddington on 04.03.1841.

 

 

 

His Will made in 1833 named his two sons Henry Parker and Charles Mynors as trustees, the whole of his estate being left to his wife who within a year was remarried (see below).  Surprisingly perhaps, not one of his children were named in or benefited from his Will.

 

 

 

At the time of the married of his youngest daughter Elizabeth Collett in 1834, Kenrick was described as “of Harley Street and Holcrofts in Fulham”, the latter being the home of Samuel Webb – Mary Anne’s father.

 

 

 

In 1838 Kenrick Collett owned the following properties and was therefore entitled to vote at each of these locations:

 

 

 

44 Mansell Street; 12-14 Chamber Street; the Red Lion Public House all in the parish of St. Mary Whitechapel; Red Lion Stable Yard and shop; two houses adjoining in Castle Street Leicester Square; one house in Hemming Row and four houses in Princes Court, Whitcomb Street in the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. 

 

 

 

Other properties in his ownership were:

 

 

 

The Three Tuns Public House* and other houses occupied by Sibley and Jennings in the parish of St. Mary Abbotts Kensington; ten houses from 6 to 28 Rose & Crown Court, numbers 3, 4, 5, 15 and 16 Daggett’s Court, and 1-2 Daggett’s Court Passage at Moorfields in the parish of St. Leonards, Shoreditch.

 

 

 

He also owned property in Church Passage in the parish of St. Lawrence Jewry;  20-21 New Street in the parish of St. Bartholomew the Great; and 2 Ten Court in the parish of St. Gabriel, Fenchurch.

 

 

 

On 01.02.1842, less than twelve months after Kenrick’s death, his wife Mary Ann now aged 57 married the Reverend Martin John Lloyd of Depden in Suffolk at Holy Trinity Church in Sloane Street, Belgravia in London.

 

 

 

The marriage shocked the family as Martin was at least twenty years younger than Mary Ann and was in fact the brother-in-law of Mary Ann’s own daughter Mary Ann Collett (below) who married Edmund Lloyd.

 

 

 

The Rev. Martin John Lloyd was the son of Edmund Lloyd and Bridget Eyre and was born on 20.05.1805 and was baptised at St Marylebone Church in London by the Reverend David Evans.

 

 

 

In 1832 Martin was considering marrying Sarah Loretta Timperon but her father would not agree as Martin at that time had no means by which to support her in the manner to which she was accustomed.

 

 

 

However his personal situation improved over the following years, with first in 1834 when he achieved an MA at Cambridge and became a priest at Worcester.  Around this time he began writing to the Duke of Richmond using his then home address of Cavendish Square in Marylebone. 

 

 

 

Two years later in 1836 the Duke, who was present at Quebec Chapel in London for one of Martin’s services, was impressed enough to offer him the Rectory at Depden and 30 acres of glebe land, together with an annual salary of Ł5,000.  Depden lies midway between Haverhill and Bury St Edmunds.

 

 

 

His new found wealth resulted in consent being given by Joseph Timperon for Martin to marry his daughter, and to be told that he would provide her with a dowry of Ł10,000 on their wedding day and a further Ł10,000 on his death.

 

 

 

Martin and Sarah were married on 18.05.1836 at St Peter’s Abbey in St Albans and was reported in The Times on 20th May as follows:  the Rev. Martin John Lloyd of St. John’s College, Cambridge, Domestic Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Richmond and Rector of Depden, Suffolk to Sarah Loretta, eldest daughter of Joseph Timperon of New Barnes House, Herts.

 

 

 

It will be of particular interest to Collett researchers that on 08.11.1806 at St Marylebone Sarah Timperon’s father Joseph of Harley Street married Anne Kyte the daughter of the late Reverend Doctor Kyte.

 

 

 

Exactly two years after Martin and Sarah were married Sarah died on 03.05.1838 at Horringer near Bury St Edmunds only a few days after giving birth to a still born son who would have been the couple’s first child.  A memorial on the church wall at St Mary’s in Depden where she was buried commemorates her passing in her thirtieth year.

 

 

 

Martin could not bear to live in the same house after Sarah’s death so dismissed all of the staff and moved into another house owned by the Duke of Richmond at Goodwood.

 

 

 

It was therefore less than four years after Sarah’s death that he then married the widow Mary Ann Collett, the event reported as follows:

 

 

 

On the 1st February 1842 at the  Church of the Holy Trinity, Chelsea, Rev. Martin John Lloyd M.A. Domestic Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Richmond & Rector of Depden, Suffolk to Mary Ann relict of the late Kenrick Collett of Holcrofts, Fulham.  And so, in this way, Mary Ann became sister-in-law to her own daughter.

 

 

 

Martin then organised the building of a new rectory at Depden and during its construction he and Mary Ann rented Branches Park Mansion from Mrs. Phoebe Ann Usborne of Queen Anne Street in Marylebone at Ł150 per quarter for three years.

 

 

 

The edition of The Times for 17th July 1848 reported the death of Mary Ann Lloyd as taking place on 14.07.1848 the same day that she was buried at Depden.  She died of cancer of the breast and her tombstone which stands about seven feet high and under the shade of an elm tree was inscribed as follows:

 

 

 

In a vault beneath are deposited the remains of Mary Ann Lloyd beloved wife of Martin John Lloyd Rector of this Parish who under a deep sense of the blessing derived from a union of  several years has caused this monument to be erected

 

 

 

The description on her Will read as follows: ‘Mary Ann Lloyd, formerly Collett and before that Webb, wife of Depden in Suffolk, her Will proved on 25.09.1848’.

 

 

 

Ten years later, on 28.01.1858 at St Mary’s Church in Cheltenham, Martin married for a third time.  She was Adelaide Elizabeth daughter of the late Lt. Colonel Gregory of Bath and grand-daughter of the Honourable John Forsyth of Montreal in Canada.

 

 

 

This marriage for Martin lasted for the longest period of any of his three marriages, before he passed away on 13.09.1872.  He died while at Depden of paralysis and was buried in a shallow grave alongside the monument to Mary Ann his second wife.  Today the churchyard where they were buried is designated as deconsecrated ground.

 

 

 

His Will had been made on 30.11.1858 and was proved on 03.01.1873.  He left his estates at Depden and St. Botolphs in Bishopgate, London to his wife Adelaide.  His effects were valued at under Ł450 and his wife’s address was given as “Belle View Cottage in Cheltenham.

 

 

 

During his life Martin officiated at a number of weddings for his siblings and other relatives and, in addition to his role as rector, he was also a Magistrate for Suffolk County.

 

 

 

It is interesting to note that The Three Tuns Public House* in Kensington High Street and previously owned by Mary Ann’s first husband Kenrick Collett was in December 1844 transferred to the joint ownership of:

 

 

 

(1) Martin J. Lloyd, Rector of Depden and Mary Ann his wife, (2) Henry Crawler of Chancery Lane, (3) John Laurie of Holcrofts, Fulham, and (4) Peter Laurie of Lincoln’s Inn.  John Laurie married Elizabeth Helen Collett (below) and Peter was his brother.

 

 

 

23N1

Kenrick William Collett

Born on 06.10.1804

 

23N2

Henry Parker Collett

Born on 26.09.1805

 

23N3

Mary Ann Collett

Born on 16.05.1807

 

23N4

John Edward Collett

Born on 03.02.1809

 

23N5

George Frederick Collett

Born on 27.08.1810

 

23N6

Charles Mynors Collett

Born on 12.08.1812

 

23N7

ROWLAND WILLIAM DAVIES COLLETT

Born on 25.02.1814

 

23N8

Elizabeth Helen Collett

Born on 23.06.1815

 

23N9

Richard Fowler Collett

Born on 06.01.1819

 

 

 

 

23M2

Clayton Collett was born in London on 05.11.1776 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 02.12.1776.  His parents were Richard Cobb Collett and his wife Ann, but sadly Clayton did not survive beyond infancy.

 

 

 

 

23M3

Richard Collett was born at the Breams Building in London on 05.11.1778 and was baptised at St Dunstan-in-the-West in London on 11.12.1778.  The baptism record confirmed his parents were Richard Cobb Collett and Ann Collett.  Later in his life he was known as Richard Collett, ironmonger of Middle Row in Holborn. 

 

 

 

In 1805 he married Jane Newsome of Blackrock, Cork in Ireland and tragically all three of their children died before their parents.  This was as a result of the smallpox epidemic and the children were buried at St Andrew’s Cemetery.  See also George Frederick Collett (above) another victim of smallpox.

 

 

 

In 1837 Richard was declared bankrupt and that year’s May-August edition of the Metropolitan Magazine contained a list of bankrupts including the following entry on page 26 “R Collett, Middle Row, Holborn, ironmonger”.

 

 

 

This event coincided with a change of address since, according to Dawn Peel an historian from Colac in Victoria Australia, Richard and Jane provided a home at 3 The Crescent in Edmonton for Anna Godwin from 1837 when she was orphaned at the age of 15. 

 

 

 

The Crescent stands on the east side of Hertford Road immediately north of Edmonton Green.  It was built in the mid eighteen-twenties, but was never finished as there is a gap at the northern end where further houses were to be built.  Early census records for 1841, 1851 and 1861 reveal that the inhabitants were both middle class and genteel.

 

 

 

Jane Collett nee Newsome, who was the sister of Anna Godwin’s mother from Cork, became the mother figure for Anna for the next twenty years and almost up until her death in 1857.  The couple’s Edmonton home was also the base for one of Anna's brothers and his family.

 

 

 

It is understood that around 1855/56 Richard and Jane were again in financial difficulties so Anna returned to Cork in Ireland where she married Edward Bage before she and Edward emigrated to Australia.

 

 

 

There are in existence letters from Richard Collett sent to Anna Newsome Bage when she was living in Australia in 1857.  At that time Anna’s husband Edward Bage was the District Surveyor in Colac.  

 

 

 

Another letter was received by Anna from a relative in Cork following the death of her auntie Jane who relayed to her that “Uncle Collett (i.e. Richard) visited us in Cork recently and looked well despite his recent bereavement”.

 

 

 

Jane died in 1857 and Richard in 1858, both of them being buried at Edmonton in London. 

 

 

 

23N10

Mary Ann Collett

Born in 1809; died in 1821

 

23N11

William Winburn Collett

Born in 1811; died in 1821

 

23N12

Margaret Newsome Collett

Born in 1814; died in 1817

 

 

 

 

23M5

Robert Collett was born in London in 1782 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 11.09.1782.  He was the youngest son of Richard Cobb Collett and Ann Parker and tragically he died as a minor when he fell from a horse.

 

 

 

 

23N1

Kenrick William Collett was born in London on 06.10.1804 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 11.11.1804, the son of Kenrick and Mary Ann Collett.

 

 

 

He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church College in Oxford where he matriculated on 17th April 1823 and where the records confirm he was the eldest son of Kenrick Collett of St Andrew’s in Holborn, London. 

 

 

 

It was at Christ Church College that he later obtained his BA on 1st February 1827.  He then became a barrister-at-law at Lincoln’s Inn in 1831 and eventually received his MA on 9th June 1836.  In 1855 he was made Chief Justice in Sierra Leone. 

 

 

 

Kenrick married Augusta Ann Richards before 1850 but, since all of their children were born in London and were still living there in 1881, it seems likely that Augusta did not accompany Kenrick to Sierra Leone where he died and was buried in 1856 at a time when Augusta was expecting their fourth child.

 

 

 

Augusta Ann Richards was born at Winchfield near Farnborough in Berkshire in 1813, but shortly after her parents John and Harriet Richards moved to London where Augusta was baptised on 01.06.1814 at Old Church in St Pancras. 

 

 

 

By 1881 Augusta was a widow and was operating a private school at 39 Peak Hill Gardens in Lewisham.  The census return described her as being sixty-seven and born at Winchfield in Berkshire. 

 

 

 

Assisting her as live-in teachers were her two unmarried daughters Emily Collett who was 27 and born at Kennington in Surrey and Charlotte Collett who was 24 and born at Islington in Middlesex.  At that time the school comprised five young ladies from 10 to 16 years of age, all supported by one domestic servant.

 

 

 

23O1

George William Kenrick Collett

Born in 1850

 

23O2

Richard Parker Collett

Born in 1852

 

23O3

Emily Louise Collett

Born in 1854

 

23O4

Charlotte Mary Collett

Born in 1857

 

 

 

 

23N2

Henry Parker Collett (known as H P) was born in London on 26.09.1805 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 24.10.1805.  He was the son of Kenrick and Mary Ann Collett.

 

 

 

On 01.11.1826 Henry Parker Collett of Chancery Lane secretly married (1) Mary Anne Clarke of Hanbury Place at Marylebone Church.  Mary was also referred to as of Blandford Place, Regents Park. 

 

 

 

The reason for keeping it a secret is not known but it was only after four years had passed that they publicly announced that they were married with an item in The Times on 31st August 1830.  This married later produced two children.

 

 

 

Then in 1841 H P took on his father’s business as attorney at Chancery Lane following his death in February that year.  A little while later his first wife passed away perhaps while giving birth to the couple’s second child.  Shortly after this Henry married (2) Mary Ann Walker in 1845, this marriage producing a further three children.

 

 

 

The success of his business allowed him to take early retirement towards the end of 1840s having already amassed a substantial fortune.  While working at Chancery Lane the family lived at 37 Gloucester Place, Portman Square in London but upon his retirement around the early part of 1846 the family moved to Yateley Hall near Farnborough in Hampshire from where the final four children were born. 

 

 

 

Tragically the couple suffered with two stillborn daughters on 13.10.1848 and 06.05.1851.  Henry also had a house at 4 Brunswick Terrace in Brighton where he died on 27.03.1855.  This was followed by the death of his wife on 14.09.1856 at Yateley Hall.

 

 

 

Henry’s Will was proved on 10.05.1855 less than two months after his death, whereas his widow’s Will was proved nearly five months after her death on 09.02.1857.

 

 

 

In an extract from the diary of E.E. Lloyd dated 16th November 1856 there is a suggestion that some unpleasant news was received from the home of a relative of Mrs Henry Parker Collett which ‘appears to be a very nasty business’. 

 

 

 

This would have been the news that she had passed away, and this was followed just two months later by a long article in The Times on 24th January 1857 relating to a Prerogative Court about the death and Will of H.P. Collett.

 

 

 

23O5

Henry Russell Collett

Born on 02.03.1837

 

23O6

Cecil Mary Collett

Born in 1845

 

23O7

Helena Parker Collett

Born on 06.11.1846

 

23O8

Catherine Ann Spencer Collett

Born on 06.12.1849

 

23O9

Horace Chambers Spencer Collett

Born on 11.06.1853

 

 

 

 

23N3

Mary Ann Collett was born in London on 16.05.1807 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 11.06.1807.  Her parents were confirmed at the baptism as Kenrick and Mary Ann Collett.

 

 

 

Mary Ann married Edmund Lloyd of Harley Street at Fulham Church on 01.06.1825.  Edmund was the brother of the Reverend Martin Lloyd who married Mary Ann’s mother, the widow Mary Ann Collett (Ref. 23M1).

 

 

 

Edmund Lloyd, who was the son of Edmund Lloyd and Bridget Eyre, was born on 08.09.1795 and baptised at St Marylebone Church on 02.10.1795.

 

 

 

It is perhaps significant that their children were given second Christian names that reflected other family connections associated with the Collett and Lloyd families businesses.  The same can be said of the children of Elizabeth Helen Collett (below) and John Laurie.

 

 

 

Edmund was a book seller at the shop and reading room of Lloyd & Son on the corner of Harley Street with Great Marylebone Street and to which Lady Caroline Lamb was a frequent customer in the 1820s.

 

 

 

Even before they were married and from the tender age of just twelve years Mary Ann Collett used to write to the Lloyd family from the Preston School for young ladies that she attended in Brighton.

 

 

 

In May 1821 Edmund aged 25 was still living with his mother Bridget aged 44 and his brothers and sisters at 64 Great Marylebone Street.  His siblings at that time were: Mary 22, Rosa 21, Martin 15 - who later married the widow of Kenrick Collett (Ref. 23M1) and the mother of Mary Ann Collett (Ref. 23N3), Bazzett 13, Ellen 12, Fanny 9, and Arthur 6 years old.

 

 

 

Two months later in July 1821 sister Mary Lloyd married Thomas Bent of Hillingdon at St Marylebone.

 

 

 

Following their own wedding in June 1825 which was announced in The Times, Mary Ann and Edmund spent the honeymoon in Worthing.  Just over a year later at the time of the birth of their first child, Mary Ann and Edmund were living at York Terrace on the south side of Regent’s Park.

 

 

 

From 1828 to 1834 the family home was at 57 Harley Street, where in 1831 the annual rent was Ł160 and the rates were Ł32 and13 shillings.  At that time the household was made up of Mary Ann and Edmund and there four sons, Edmunds two unmarried sisters Ellen and Fanny who had lived with them since their mother’s death in 1829, plus two servants.

 

 

 

Towards the end of 1834 Edmund’s book business was in financial difficulties and was summoned to attend the bankruptcy court on 5th December with debts reputed to be upwards of Ł10,000.

 

 

 

It was around this time that the family move to Cole Hill Cottage opposite the Bishop of London’s Walk.  Fortunately for Edmund in early 1835 he inherited Ł2,000 from the Will of Samuel Webb Mary Ann’s grandfather and a year later his wife Elizabeth Webb died leaving various sums of money to Mary Ann, husband Edmund, and their children.

 

 

 

Another move followed, this time to the Collett family home at Holcrofts in Fulham.  Edmund now had deteriorating health and was suffering greatly from asthma.  This prompted talk of selling up and moving abroad.  Edmund’s sister Rosa was now married and was living in Paris as Rosa Skiers.

 

 

 

By 1840 the Collett family had moved abroad and had let Holcrofts to the Laurie family, forcing Edmund and the Lloyd family to move to 27 Lowndes Street in Belgravia. 

 

 

 

On 3rd October 1843 Edmund was a witness at the wedding of his sister Ellen Lloyd to Robert William Cumberpatch at Winkfield in Berkshire, with the ceremony being carried out by their brother the Rev. Martin Lloyd Rector of Depden.  In 1848 Robert and Ellen Cumberpatch were living in Turkey.

 

 

 

Between April 1844 and 1847 Edmund and Mary Ann moved house two more times.  The first to 58 York Terrace and the second to 8 York Place in Portman Square.  Midway between the two moves Edmund sold the book shop at 57 Harley Street to Robert Weir.

 

 

 

Shortly after the family moved to York Place Edmund sent sons Edmund Eyre and William Henry to Altona in Hamburg to study languages.  It was intended that they would stay there for a least a year, but they were suddenly recalled to England after just six months, probably for financial reasons.

 

 

 

Yet another move took place the following year in 1848 when the family moved to 13 Norfolk Street off Park Lane and six years later they finally left London.  Initially Edmund and Mary Ann went to live with their eldest son who was now the Reverend Samuel Webb Lloyd at The Shrubbery in Barham near Canterbury.

 

 

 

By the end of 1854 Edmund and Mary Ann had settled for the time being at 2 Lounden Crescent in Dover.  In January of the next year their son Edmund Eyre Lloyd was appointed Assistant Surgeon with the East India Company and moved to live in India.

 

 

 

During the next four years Edmund’s health worsened such that in early 1860 he and Mary Ann moved back to Barham where he died on 04.06.1860.  He was buried in a vault near the west entrance to Barham Church, the vault being covered by a slab set two feet above ground level.

 

 

 

The Will of Edmund Lloyd was made on 12th February 1855 and left everything to his wife Mary Ann, which amounted to less than Ł4,000. 

 

 

 

The 1861 Census records that Mary Ann Lloyd head of the household was living at The Shrubbery in Barham aged 55.  Living with her was her unmarried son William Henry Lloyd aged 30, and nieces Cecil Mary Collett 15, Helena Parker Collett 14, Catherine Ann Spencer Collett 11, and nephew Horace Chambers Spencer Collett 7 (all listed above).

 

 

 

The whole of this family was supported by five female servants and a butler.

 

 

 

Within five years Cecil Mary Collett had married Henry Dyson Lloyd and Helena Parker Collett had married William Henry Lloyd.

 

 

 

Living nearby in Barham in 1861 at 6 Dussingstone Street was Mary Ann’s son Oliver Wimburn Lloyd and his three children Robert C Lloyd aged 6, Emily M A F Lloyd aged 5, and Oliver J H E Lloyd aged 4.

 

 

 

Four years later Oliver received a loan of Ł1,700 from his mother but on 11th July he was declared bankrupt and only two week after Mary Ann Lloyd died on 25.07.1865.

 

 

 

In her Will she left Ł3,00 to her son Samuel Webb Lloyd and the balance of her estate to son William Henry Lloyd, with four-fifths of the sale of 14 Hemming’s Row in St Martin’s Lane (originally owned by her father Kenrick Collett) to be shared between the four of her sons excluding Samuel.

 

 

 

The Will was disputed and a Bill of Complaint was filed in the High Court of Chancery on 14th November 1865, naming as defendants Edmund Eyre Lloyd, Henry Dyson Lloyd and the three children of Oliver Wimburn Lloyd who were under 21.    The result of the action is unknown but most of the money left in the Will was used to meet court expenses.

 

 

 

The windows in Barham Church either side of the sanctuary are dedicated to Edmund and Mary Ann Lloyd.  In the church yard there is a gravestone that is dedicated to the memory of Edmund and Mary Ann Lloyd, together with the Rev. Samuel Webb Lloyd and his wife Catherine Frances.

 

 

 

23O10

Samuel Webb Lloyd

Born on 09.06.1826; died 12.11.1886

 

23O11

Oliver Wimburn Lloyd

Born on 06.01.1828; died 24.01.1917

 

23O12

Edmund Eyre Lloyd

Born on 06.06.1829; died 08.04.1904

 

23O13

William Henry Lloyd – see 23O7

Born on 30.03.1831; died 17.11.1912

 

23O14

Henry Dyson Lloyd – see 23O6

Born on 11.09.1832; died 29.09.1923

 

 

 

This is the family line of Christopher Lloyd details of which

have been published in “The Lloyds of Harley Street, Associate Family and Friends”

 

 

 

 

23N4

John Edward Collett was born in London on 03.02.1809 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 12.04.1809, the son of Kenrick and Mary Ann Collett.

 

 

 

With his past family connections he was brought up to the Law but never practised and in 1839 was Administrator at the Middle Temple.  In 1854 he went to New Zealand with the Honourable Henry Petre who held an appointment in the colony. 

 

 

 

However, shortly afterwards he returned to England and died at Shepherd’s Bush in London aged 49 on 27.05.1859 and was buried at Kensal Green on 31.05.1859 close to the graves of Charles Matthews and Madame Vestris.

 

 

 

 

23N5

George Frederick Collett was born in London on 27.08.1810 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 25.09.1810, the son of Kenrick and Mary Ann Collett.

 

 

 

Tragically he died of smallpox on his father’s birthday of 01.01.1820 and was buried in St. Andrew’s Burial Ground in Gray’s Inn Road in London. 

 

 

 

There was a smallpox epidemic at that time and his cousins, the children of his uncle Richard Collett (Ref. 23M3) of Middle Row in Holborn, also died and were buried in St. Andrew’s Cemetery.

 

 

 

 

23N6

Charles Mynors Collett was born in London on 12.08.1812 and was the son of Kenrick Collett and Mary Ann Webb.  He was baptised later that same year at St Andrews in Holborn on 03.11.1812.

 

 

 

He later married Mary Ann McKenzie on 31.08.1839 at Old Church in St Pancras.  Mary Ann was the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth McKenzie and was baptised at St Sepulchre’s Church in Holborn on 09.07.1818 having been born at Holborn either in 1816 or 1817.

 

 

 

Charles later became a partner in his father’s business from which he retired in 1847 when the business practically came to an end.  Around that time he was living at Earls Court Road in Old Brompton. 

 

 

 

It was Charles Mynors Collett who was instrumental in the publication of “Our Collett Ancestors” which appeared in The Times on 26th August 1845.

 

 

 

Charles’ name also appeared in The Times newspaper on a number of other occasions but not for any good news.  On 29th April 1848 the paper reported on the Bankruptcy of Charles M. Collett “the bankrupt being a trader and professional man, a solicitor at Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields and a patented bread and biscuit maker in Lambeth and Houndsditch.

 

 

 

By the time of the census of 1851 Charles and Mary were living in the Southwark area of London, where Charles M Collett was 38 and his wife Mary A Collett was 34.  It would appear from this and the later census records that the marriage produced no children for the couple.

 

 

 

Five years later on 15th July 1856 The Times ran an article relating to the Insolvent Debtors Court which started “This insolvent, Charles Mynors Collett an attorney, was opposed for Messrs Shoolbred, linen-drapers, of Tottenham-court-road”.  The complaint was that the insolvent had contracted a debt by fraud with the opposing creditors to the sum of Ł239.19.10.  

 

 

 

The goods were obtained through orders given by the insolvent’s wife Mary Ann Collett.   The insolvent lived with his family in Osnaburgh Street at the south-east corner of Regent’s Park and, according to his evidence she was only to obtain credit for Ł100.

 

 

 

It was reported in the same article that the authorities had spent many months trying to track down Charles Collett but the insolvent was not arrested until 1st March having eluded the Sheriff’s Officer since December 1855.

 

 

 

It may have been as a result of this episode in his life that, shortly after the case was settled, Charles and Mary left London and travelled north to Lancashire.  The next census of 1861 placed the couple living within the Blackburn area where Charles Collett was 48 and Mary Ann Collett was 44.  At that time they were the only two Colletts living in the Blackburn registration district. 

 

 

 

Sometime during the following decade the couple return to London, where in 1871 they were recorded as living within the St Pancras & Tottenham Court registration district of London where Charles was 58 and Mary was 54.

 

 

 

Ten years later, according to the census of 1881 Charles was living with his wife at 132 Kentish Town Road in St Pancras in London.  He was listed as being aged 69 and of Holborn, an out of practice solicitor, while Mary was aged 64 and was also of Holborn. 

 

 

 

It would appear that Mary Ann died sometime during the 1880s since she was not listed with her husband in the census of 1891.  Instead it was just Charles aged 78 that was recorded as living within the Holborn & Goswell Street area of London.

 

 

 

Six years later Charles died on 12.03.1897 and is very likely to have been buried near his brother John Edward Collett (above) at Kensal Green.

 

 

 

 

23N7

ROWLAND WILLIAM DAVIES COLLETT was born on 25.02.1814 and was named after his father’s partner Rowland Wimburn.  Just over a month later he was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 05.04.1814.  He was originally brought up within the medical profession but was subsequently called to the Bar in 1841. 

 

 

 

It was later that same year on 17.08.1841 that Rowland married Mary Ann Edwards at Old Church in St Pancras.  The marriage produced six children for the couple, although three of the sons died while still in their teenage years.

 

 

 

Ten years later the couple were living at 4 County Terrace just off the New Kent Road in the Newington area of London to the south of the River Thames.  Rowland was 37 and his wife was eight years younger at 29.  Their children at that time were Kenrick 8, Francis 6, Rowland 5, Elizabeth 3, and one year old Herbert.

 

 

 

Just over two years after the census day Rowland died at the comparatively early age of thirty-nine on 07.05.1853.  His Will, which was proved on 04.06.1853, confirmed his address at the time of his death as 4 Webbs County Terrace on the New Kent Road in Surrey.

 

 

 

By April 1861 Mary Ann Collett was living in the Grays Inn Lane area of St Pancras with just three of her children.  The census confirmed she was a widow at the age of 39 and the children still living with her were Kenrick C Collett who was 18, Elizabeth who was referred to as Fanny H Collett 13, and Herbert E Collett who was 11.

 

 

 

Three of Mary Ann’s sons eventually emigrated to Australia.  These were the oldest three boys, Kenrick, Francis, and Rowland who was found dead and buried there in very mysterious circumstances when he was only eighteen years old.

 

 

 

During her life, in addition to losing her husband when her youngest child was yet one year old, Mary Ann also suffered the loss of her three youngest sons who all died during the 1860s.  By 1881 Mary A Collett was sixty and was living at 75 Belsize Road in the South Hampstead area of London.  Living with her was her granddaughter Maud MJ Fairweather aged eleven who was born in Monmouth and who was the daughter of Mary Ann’s only daughter Elizabeth Helen Collett.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

23O15

Kenrick Clayton Collett

Born in 1842

 

23O16

FRANCIS ALEXANDER EDWARD COLLETT

Born on 12.04.1844

 

23O17

Rowland William Collett

Born in 1845

 

23O18

Elizabeth Helen Collett

Born in 1847

 

23O19

Herbert Evans Collett

Born in 1849

 

23O20

Murray Campbell Collett

Born in 1852

 

 

 

 

23N8

Elizabeth Helen Collett often referred to as Eliza, as born on 23.06.1815 five days after the Battle of Waterloo.  She was baptised at St Andrew in Holborn on 26.10.1815, the daughter of Kenrick and Mary Ann Collett.  Nearly twenty years later she married widower John Laurie of Harley Street on 09.07.1834 at Trinity Church, the being ceremony conducted by the Rev. Doctor Saxby Penfold. 

 

 

 

John Laurie died early in 1881 and in the census that year Elizabeth of Fulham was listed as a widow and head of house aged 65, living at 47 Porchester Terrace in Paddington to where she had moved following the death of her husband.

 

 

 

Under occupation Elizabeth was listed as ‘share holder’.  The only relative living with her was three months old Kenrick Laurie her grandson born in London.

 

 

 

The remainder of the household comprised: Annie Tinkurn aged 49 a widow and cook of Salisbury; Maria Goodeer aged 30 a lady’s maid from Leiston in Suffolk; Jane Weston aged 36 a housemaid; Matilda Ball aged 20 a kitchen maid of Surbiton in Surrey; John Nightingale aged 25 a footman of Walmer in Kent; and Mary Nails aged 57 a nurse from Canada.

 

 

 

Elizabeth died in 1891 and it is well known that she was much loved by Edmund Eyre Lloyd, her nephew.  As early as 1832 there has been talk within the Lloyd household that Edmund wanted to take Eliza Collett to India with him.

 

 

 

John Laurie was previously married in 1831 to Mary Sparkes and she and her sister Elizabeth Sparkes, who married Robert Peter Laurie (John’s brother) in 1833, had previously lived with their father Charles Sparkes at 21 Harley Street. 

 

 

 

It was Peter G Laurie that wrote “Our Collett Ancestors” a copy of which is held at the Guildhall Library.

 

 

 

23O21

John Wimburn Laurie

Born on 01.10.1835

 

23O22

Helen Laurie

Born in 1836

 

23O23

Peter George Laurie

Born in 1838; died in 1912

 

23O24

Julius Dyson Laurie

Born on 09.12.1839

 

23O25

Arthur Henry Laurie

Born on 04.11.1841

 

23O26

Alfred Stag McAdam Laurie

Born in 1847; died in 1943

 

23O27

Francis Duke Laurie

Born in 1849

 

 

 

 

23N9

Richard Fowler Collett was born at Cole Hill Cottage in Fulham on 06.01.1819 and the birth was listed in the Wednesday 13th January edition of The Times.  He was a seafarer during his early life and went to sea in the service of Honourable East India Company. 

 

 

 

However, he subsequently quit the nautical profession and filled various appointments in London.  On 20.02.1849 he married Fanny Edwards at St Andrew’s Church in Enfield the daughter of A J Edwards of Westmoor House on Enfield Highway.

 

 

 

According to the 1881 Census the family was living at 57 Kent House Road in Lewisham.  Richard was aged 62 and born at Fulham and his occupation was simply given as ‘dividends’ which is likely to refer to his income rather than employment. 

 

 

 

Fanny his wife was aged 57 and of an unknown London parish, while daughters Helen S Collett aged 27 and Rose M Collett aged 24 were both born at Enfield in Middlesex.

 

 

 

The family was supported by a 17 years old servant Ruth Norton of Paddock Wood in Kent and had living with them boarder John Lyz aged 22 from Brooklyn in New York who was a finance clerk with a soap manufacturer.

 

 

 

Richard Fowler Collett died four years later on 13.04.1885 at Lewisham.

 

 

 

23O28

Fanny Laura Collett

Born on 26.10.1850

 

23O29

Helen Sarah Collett

Born on 27.02.1854

 

23O30

Rose Marion Collett

Born in 1857

 

 

 

 

23O1

George William Kenrick Collett was born in London 1850.  He married Louise Sandys in 1878 and in 1881 they were living at 4 Waterloo Terrace in Islington, London with their daughter Violet.  George who was thirty-one and born at Marylebone was a retired mariner.  Louise was 28 and from Essex (sic), and their daughter Violet was one year old and born at Camberwell.

 

 

 

No trace of the family has been found in 1891 but by March 1901 the family of four was living at Beckenham in Kent.  George W K Collett was 51 and was a factor’s cashier from Marylebone and his wife Louise was 48 and from Henley-on-Thames.

 

 

 

Still living with them was their two daughters Violet M Collett who was 21 and born in Camberwell, and Helen A Collett who was 14 and born in Islington.  Sometime after this the family left Beckenham and moved back into London and in April 1911 they were living in Lewisham.

 

 

 

By that time the couple’s eldest daughter Violet had already left the family home to be married, so the family then only comprised George William Kenrick Collett of Marylebone was 61, Louise from Henley was 58, and Helen Augusta was 24.

 

 

 

23P1

Violet Maude Collett

Born in 1880

 

23P2

George Augustus Collett

Born in 1881; died in 1888

 

23P3

Helen Augusta Collett

Born in 1886

 

 

 

 

23O2

Richard Parker Collett was born in London on 17.12.1852 and was the son of Kenrick William and Augusta Ann Collett.

 

 

 

 

23O3

Emily Louise Collett was born at Kennington in Surrey in 1854.  By the age of 27 she was still unmarried and was a teacher at a private school operated by her mother Augusta Collett (Ref. 23N1) at 39 Peak Hill Gardens in Lewisham.

 

 

 

 

23O4

Charlotte Mary Collett was born at Islington in Middlesex in 1857.  Curiously she was baptised at Solihull in Warwickshire on 02.03.1859 where her parents were confirmed as Kenrick William and Augusta Ann Collett.

 

 

 

Just like her sister Emily Louise she was a teacher at the private school operated by her mother Augusta Collett.  And also like her sister she was unmarried at the age of 24 years.

 

 

 

 

23O5

Henry Russell Collett was born on 02.03.1837.  He was baptised at St Mary’s Church in St Marylebone Road in London, the son of Henry Parker and Mary Ann Collett.  Sadly he died on 10.02.1852 aged 14 years.  At that time he was the only son of Henry Parker Collett.

 

 

 

 

23O6

Cecil Mary Collett was born at Yateley Hall in Hampshire in 1845.  In 1861 Cecil Mary aged 15 was living at The Shrubbery in Barham with her aunt, the widow Mary Ann Lloyd nee Collett the daughter of Kenrick Collett.

 

 

 

In 1866 she married Mary Ann Lloyd’s son Henry Dyson Lloyd, a clergyman of Marylebone who was born in 1833.  Henry was the brother of William Henry Lloyd who married Cecil’s sister Helena Parker Collett (below). 

 

 

 

According to the 1881 Census the family was living at Strickstemming in Much Birch south of Hereford where Henry aged 48 and of Marylebone was a clergyman without care of souls, while his wife Cecil was aged 35 of Yateley and a clergyman’s wife.

 

 

 

Their three children at that time comprised two sons Cecil Henry Lloyd and Evelin W C Lloyd and a daughter Jane A C Lloyd all born in Shropshire.  The household was supported by a cook/domestic servant and a young male page/domestic servant.

 

 

 

Cecil Mary Lloyd nee Collett died in 1921.

 

 

 

23P4

Cecil Henry Lloyd

Born in 1868 at Cardeston

 

23P5

Evelin W C Lloyd

Born in 1873 at Eaton-Under-Haywood

 

23P6

Jane A C Lloyd

Born in 1877 at Wistanstow

 

 

 

 

23O7

Helena Parker Collett was born on 06.11.1846 at Yateley Hall.  In 1861 Helena aged 14 was living at The Shrubbery in Barham with her aunt, the widow Mary Ann Lloyd nee Collett the daughter of Kenrick Collett.  Also living there was her future husband to be, 30 years old William Henry Lloyd the son of Mary Ann Lloyd.

 

 

 

William Henry Lloyd was born at 57 Harley Street, Cavendish Square in London on 03.03.1831 and was the son of Edmund Lloyd and Mary Ann Collett.  He was baptised at St Marylebone Church when his sponsors were his grandfather Kenrick Collett, his uncle Henry Parker Collett and his wife.

 

 

 

Four years later on 30.08.1865 Helena married her cousin solicitor William Henry Lloyd at St George’s Church in Hanover Square.  William was the brother of Henry Dyson Lloyd who married Helena’s sister Cecil Mary Collett (above). 

 

 

 

After the wedding the couple took up residence at 6 Burwood place near Hyde Park where their first two children were born.  Following the upset of two failed births the family moved to Barham in Kent where the next three children were born.

 

 

 

Although their next child was born in Brighton the family home was still at Barham.  One year later the family moved to Pembury near Tunbridge Wells close by to where Helena’s unmarried sister Catherine Collett was living.

 

 

 

The family’s final move happened in May 1884 when they moved to 34 Linden Road in Bedford to be close to William’s brother Edmund Lloyd.

 

 

 

The 1881 Census confirmed William H Lloyd as aged 50 and a solicitor of St Marylebone.  His wife was listed as Helena P Lloyd aged 34 of Yateley in Hampshire.

 

 

 

At that time the family was living at Station Road in Pembury near Tunbridge Wells in Kent.  The household comprised the three of the four daughters and two of the three sons listed below.  The household was supported by a governess and four domestic servants.

 

 

 

The family’s next change of address took place in May 1884 when they moved to 34 Linden Road in Bedford to be close to William’s brother Edmund Lloyd.  Further moves took the family to Headcorn and Worthing, Bay Lodge in Danbury, Allington House near Devizes, and Frogmore House at Milton-Under-Wychwood from 1905 to 1908.

 

 

 

It was in January 1908 that William underwent a major operation and just a month later on 07.02.1908 his wife died while staying with a relative at Droitwich where she had been visiting the brine baths to ease her ailments. 

 

 

 

Her death was reported as ‘on the 7th instant at Droitwich Helena Parker the beloved wife of William Henry Lloyd of Otley House and late of Barham in Kent

 

 

 

Following her death and in poor health himself, her husband moved to Droitwich so that he could be buried next to her when he died.  William Henry Lloyd died on 17.11.1912 and was buried alongside his wife at St Andrew’s Church Cemetery in Droitwich.

 

 

 

23P7

Mary Ann Lloyd

Born on 29.07.1866 at Hyde Park

 

23P8

William Edmund Eyre Lloyd

Born on 10.11.1867 at Hyde Park

 

 

a still born son

Born on 29.11.1868

 

 

a miscarried child

Born on 27.10.1869

 

23P9

Helena Graham Lloyd

Born on 14.09.1872 at Barham in Kent

 

23P10

Kenrick Horace Lloyd

Born on 01.01.1874 at Barham

 

23P11

Camilla Parker Lloyd

Born on 17.09.1875 at Barham

 

23P12

Martin Archibald Lloyd

Born on 31.08.1878 at 12 Wilbury Rd, Brighton

 

23P13

Bridget Eyre Lloyd

Born on 12.05.1886 at 34 Linden Rd, Bedford

 

 

 

 

23O8

Catherine Ann Spencer Collett was born on 06.12.1849 at Yateley Hall.  In 1861 Catherine aged 11 was living at The Shrubbery in Barham with her aunt, the widow Mary Ann Lloyd nee Collett the daughter of Kenrick Collett. 

 

 

 

By the time of the 1881 Census she was aged 31 and was unmarried.  She was living at St Albans Lodge in Bridge Road in Speldhurst near Tunbridge Well, Kent not far from her sister Helena Lloyd (above). 

 

 

 

In the census she was listed as having an ‘interest in property’ which presumably was where her income came from.  Also living at the lodge was a lady’s maid and cook/domestic servant.

 

 

 

 

23O9

Horace Chambers Spencer Collett was born on 11.06.1852 at Yateley Hall.  In 1861 he was seven years old and was living at The Shrubbery in Barham with his aunt, the widow Mary Ann Lloyd nee Collett, the daughter of Kenrick Collett.

 

 

 

He married Ann Spedding in 1877 and four years later in 1881 Horace and Annie were living at 2 Oxford Park in Ilfracombe, North Devon. 

 

 

 

Horace was listed as being twenty-six and born at Yateley in Hampshire, while Annie was twenty-two and from Egremont in Cumberland.  Both of their eldest daughters were born in London before the family moved to the West Country.

 

 

 

Horace was not identified as having an occupation, but was clearly a man of some wealth as he employed two servants.  These were Mary Keane 26 of Croyde Bay in Devon who was their cook, and Eliza Tucker aged 18 from Portsmouth.

 

 

 

Horace Chambers Spencer Collett died on 07.08.1908. 

 

 

 

23P14

Louise Collett

Born in 1879

 

23P15

Margaret Collett

Born in 1880

 

23P16

Horace Collett

Born after 1881

 

23P17

Joseph Collett

Born after 1881

 

 

 

 

23O15

Kenrick Clayton Collett was born at Camden Town in London on 24.11.1842.  By 1861 he was 18 and living with his widowed mother Mary Ann Collett at Grays Inn Lane in St Pancras.

 

 

 

Eight years later he married Mary Crumpton at Hackney in February 1869 with whom he had three children in London before the family emigrated to Australia.  This was in some way confirmed by the census of 1871 when the couple were still living in the West Ham area of London with the first of their three English born children.

 

 

 

The census that year recorded the family as being Kenrick C Collett aged 27, his wife Mary 25, and their daughter Mary E E Collett who was one year old.  The next two children were born in London, and it seems very likely that the fourth child was born somewhere between England and Australia.

 

 

 

It was nearly five years after the 1871 Census that the Kenrick and his young family sailed from Gravesend on 15th February 1876 to Western Australia on the ship ‘Robert Morrison’, arriving at Freemantle on 19th December 1876 with four of their children.  There were a total of 154 passengers on board the ship for the ten month voyage. 

 

 

 

Kenrick was noted as a gardener at The Canning (see also below) and was buried at the Old East Perth Cemetery.  The Canning is on the east side of Perth and may have been a reference to the Canning Vale district of the city or Canning Mills on the eastern outskirts of Perth.

 

 

 

Kenrick Clayton Collett died in Australia on 25.05.1912.

 

 

 

23P18

Mary Ellen Edwards Collett

Born in 1869

 

23P19

Kenrick Rowland Collett

Born in 1871 at London

 

23P20

Constance Machin Collett

Born in 1874 at London

 

23P21

Sydney Collett

Born in 1876 en route to Australia

 

23P22

Francis Albert Collett

Born in 1883 at Freemantle

 

23P23

Rose Laura Collett

Born in 1884

 

 

 

 

23O16

FRANCIS ALEXANDER EDWARD COLLETT was born in London on 12.04.1844 and was the son of Rowland William Davies Collett.  Six weeks after he was born Francis was baptised at old Church in St Pancras on 29.05.1844.

 

 

 

In 1851 the family was living at 4 County Terrace on the New Kent Road in Newington when Francis was six years old.  Tragically just two years later his father died at the age of thirty-nine leaving Francis to be brought up by his mother Mary Ann Collett.

 

 

 

Francis later married Laura Augusta Wedlake on 05.03.1870 at Plaistow in Sussex.  By the end of that same year the couple were living in the South Hackney area of London where the first of their seven children was born.

 

 

 

Francis and Laura were still living there just over a year later when their second child was born, both children then being baptised together in a joint ceremony on 2nd June 1872 at Weld Chapel in Southgate, London.

 

 

 

By the time of the birth of their next child the family was living at Marshside Close in Edmonton.  However shortly after, and around the middle of the 1870s, Francis’ work as an auctioneer took the family from London to the Isle of Guernsey where the next three children were born.

 

 

 

According to the census of 1881, the family was living a 3 St James Street in St Peter Port where Francis, who was referred to as Frank aged 37, continued his occupation as an auctioneer.  His wife Laura was 36, and their five children at that time were Mabel 10, Rowland 9, Grace 6, Herbert 3, and Murray who was one year old, the last two confirmed as having been born at St Peter Port.

 

 

 

On that occasion the Collett family was being supported by Elizabeth le Lacheur, an eighteen years old servant from St Peter Port.  One further child was born to Frank and Laura while they were still living on Guernsey and this happened almost one year later.

 

 

 

During the latter half of 1884 Frank and Laura and their six children left the Channel Islands and emigrated to Australia.  The family sailed out of London on the ship ‘Glengoil’ with forty-two passengers on board, bound for Freemantle in Western Australia where they arrived on 11.10.1884. 

 

 

 

The journey would have been difficult for the young family, but must have been particularly difficult for Laura as she was pregnant with the couple’s seventh and last child Daisy who was born at The Canning (see reference above) two weeks after they had arrived in Freemantle.

 

 

 

Once the family was established in Australia, Frank continued with his work as an auctioneer.

 

 

 

Francis Alexander Edward Collett died on 05.10.1891, his wife Laura having died earlier that same year in June of ‘the colonial fever’ typhoid.  The story within the family is that youngest son Hugh aged only nine was sharing his father’s bed at that time and awoke to find him dead. 

 

 

 

It was then that his son Herbert Brayley Collett took over as head of the household.

 

 

 

23P24

Mabel Laura Collett

Born on 20.12.1870

 

23P25

Rowland Francis Collett

Born on 20.01.1872

 

23P26

Grace Marion Collett

Born on 15.09.1874

 

23P27

HERBERT BRAYLEY COLLETT

Born on 12.11.1877

 

23P28

Murray William Collett

Born on 24.02.1880

 

23P29

Hugh Collett

Born on 11.04.1882

 

23P30

Daisy Belle Collett

Born on 25.10.1884

 

 

 

 

23O17

Rowland William Collett was born in London on 17.12.1845 and was the son of Rowland William Davies Collett and Mary Ann Edwards.

 

 

 

When he was aged five years, at the time of the 1851, Rowland and his family were living at 4 County Terrace in the Newington area of London.  Just like his two older brothers Kenrick and Francis (above), Rowland also emigrated to Australia.

 

 

 

Tragically it was there in 1863 at the age of only eighteen years that Rowland died in what has been described as “suspicious circumstances”.  Following his death, he was buried at Denial Bay in South Australia on 11.03.1863.

 

 

 

 

23O18

Elizabeth Helen Collett was born in 1847 and very likely at 4 County Terrace in Newington where she and her family were lining in 1851 when she was three years old.  With her father dying in 1853 Elizabeth and two of her brothers remained living with their widowed mother.  So by 1861 Elizabeth, who was recorded as Fanny H Collett, was 13 and living at Grays Inn Lane in St Pancras.

 

 

 

As the only daughter of Mary Ann Edwards and Rowland William Davies Collett, is seems likely that during the late 1860s she married Mr Fairweather and that the couple initially settled in Monmounth.

 

 

 

Although no records for Elizabeth (or Fanny) Fairweather have been found it is the census of 1881 that includes the eleven years old granddaughter Maud M J Fairweather as living with Elizabeth’s widowed mother Mary A Collett at 75 Belsize Road in London.

 

 

 

The census return indicates that Maud was born at Monmouth and was one year old in 1871, 11 in 1881 (as above), and 21 in 1891 when, as Maud M J Fairweather she was living within the Barton Regis district of Gloucestershire.  In 1901 Maud is listed as being married to Edwin J Nancekievill 34 from Newport Monmouth, by which time she had two children Edwin 4, and Arthur one.

 

 

 

 

23O19

Herbert Evans Collett was born in 1849 when his family was living at 4 County Terrace just off the New Kent Road in the Newington.  And it was there also the family was living in March 1851 when Herbert was one year old.

 

 

 

It would seem as though Herbert was in the process of emigrating to Australia, like other members of his family, when he died at sea off Ascension Island in 1864.

 

 

 

 

23O20

Murray Campbell Collett was born at 4 County Terrace off New Kent Road in Newington, London on 05.08.1852.  Not long after he was born there was a succession of deaths within the family.  The first of these was his father Rowland Collett who died in 1853 aged 39 when Murrary was only one year old. 

 

 

 

Next to die was Murray’s two older brothers Rowland Collett junior in 1863 aged 18, followed by Herbert Collett in 1864 aged 15.  And five years later in 1869, Murray Campbell died at the age of seventeen.

 

 

 

 

23O21

John Wimburn Laurie was born at the family home in Harley Street on 01.10.1835 and died in 1912.

 

 

 

 

23O22

Helen Laurie was born in 1836 and married B Brown.

 

 

 

 

23O24

Julius Dyson Laurie was born at the family home at Munster House in Fulham on 09.12.1839 and died in 1909.

 

 

 

 

23O25

Arthur Henry Laurie was born at the family home at Munster House in Fulham on 04.11.1841 and died in 1872.

 

 

 

 

23O28

Fanny Laura Collett was born on 26.10.1850.  She married John Dag on 14.11.1879 and left England to live in Ireland.  Sadly the marriage was less than eighteen months old when Fanny died in Limerick on 06.05.1881.

 

 

 

 

23O29

Helen Sarah Collett was born in Enfield in London on 27.02.1854 and was the daughter of Richard Fowler Collett and Fanny Edwards.  In 1881 she was twenty-seven and was still living with her parents at 57 Kent House Road in Lewisham. 

 

 

 

Three years later in 1884 Helen married Edmund J Clark who was born in Portsmouth in 1854, the son of miller Edward Clark and his wife Fanny.  Their wedding also took place in Hampshire. 

 

 

 

The marriage produced a son for Helen and Edmund who was born at Southsea in 1886 and, who in 1901 at fourteen was living with his grandparents at Curdridge in Southampton.  At that time Helen S Clark of Enfield and her husband Edmund were both 46 and living on their owns means in Portsmouth.