PART TWENTY-THREE

The Wiltshire to Australia Line – 1550 to 1995

Updated December 2011

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. 23P26)

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 1661
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 Collett died on 27^th June 1721 of dropsy. He left a Will which was proved on 7^th September 1721 in which property at Badbury was passed on, although the ownership and entitlement were disputed. In his Will he was 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 1661 and at the age of seven years he 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^th October 1683 and was baptised at St Martin-in-the-field on 24^th October 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^rd December 1685 and was baptised at St Martin-in-the-field on 1^st January 1686, the baptism record confirming that she was the daughter of William and Mary Collett.
23J4	William Collett was born in Westminster in 1687 and was baptised at St Anne Soho in Westminster on 9^th January 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^th October 1682 and was baptised at St Margaret in Westminster on 3^rd November 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 3^rd April 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^th March 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^th July 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 2^nd July 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^th August 1773.
23K5	Peter Collett was born in London on 27^th October 1734 and was baptised at St Olave Old Jewry in the City of London on 25^th November 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 17^th August 1751 at the age of 16. The university records confirmed that he was the son of Richard Collett of London. Peter obtained his Bachelor of Arts at Oxford on 2^nd 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 6^th May 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^th September 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^th February 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 6^th 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 14^th 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 11^th 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^th February 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^th May 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^th March 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.
	It was on 1^st February 1831 that 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 2^nd April 1902); John Stephen Collett Shoppee (born 27^th March 1904); Walter Henry Collett Shoppee (born 26^th January 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^th February 1991 and who married Max Parker on 12^th June 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 2^nd Bombay Native Infantry and died on 25^th June 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^th December 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 1^st January 1775 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 27^th January 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 7^th December 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^th March 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^th February 1841 at 57 Harley Street and was buried in the family grave at Paddington on 4^th March 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 1^st February 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^th May 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 £5,000. 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 £10,000 on their wedding day and a further £10,000 on his death.
	Martin and Sarah were married on 18^th May 1836 at St Peter’s Abbey in St Albans and was reported in The Times on 20^th 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 8^th November 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 3^rd May 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 1^st 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 £150 per quarter for three years.
	The edition of The Times for 17^th July 1848 reported the death of Mary Ann Lloyd as taking place on 14^th July 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^th September 1848’.
	Ten years later, on 28^th January 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^th September 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^th November 1858 and was proved on 3^rd January 1873. He left his estates at Depden and St. Botolphs in Bishopgate, London to his wife Adelaide. His effects were valued at under £450 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 5^th November 1776 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 2^nd December 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 5^th November 1778 and was baptised at St Dunstan-in-the-West in London on 11^th December 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. A little while later she travelled to West Africa where she married Edward Bage in Sierra Leone, 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 Collett nee Newsome died in 1857, while her husband Richard Collett died during the following year in 1858, both of them being buried at Edmonton in London.
	23N10			Mary Ann Collett			Born in 1809; died in 1821
	23N11			William Wimburn 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^th September 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 6^th October 1804 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 11^th November 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 17^th 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 1^st February 1827. He then became a barrister-at-law at Lincoln’s Inn in 1831 and eventually received his MA on 9^th June 1836. In 1855 he was made Chief Justice in Sierra Leone. It is interesting that within the documentation listing the Alumni of Cambridge; Kenrick William Collett is recorded there achieving a BA during 1834, incorporated from Oxford.
	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^th September 1805 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 24^th October 1805. He was the son of Kenrick and Mary Ann Collett.
	On 1^st November 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 31^st 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 that Henry married (2) Mary Ann Walker in 1845, the 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^th October 1848 and 6^th May 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^th September 1856 at Yateley Hall.
	Henry’s Will was proved on 10^th May 1855 less than two months after his death, whereas his widow’s Will was proved nearly five months after her death on 9^th February 1857.
	In an extract from the diary of E.E. Lloyd dated 16^th 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 24^th 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^th May 1807 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 11^th June 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 1^st June 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 8^th September 1795 and baptised at St Marylebone Church on 2^nd October 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 £160 and the rates were £32 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 5^th December with debts reputed to be upwards of £10,000.
	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 £2,000 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 3^rd 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 12^th February 1855 and left everything to his wife Mary Ann, which amounted to less than £4,000.
	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 £1,700 from his mother but on 11^th July he was declared bankrupt and only two week after Mary Ann Lloyd died on 25.07.1865.
	In her Will she left £3,00 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 14^th 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 3^rd February 1809 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 12^th April 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^th May 1859 and was buried at Kensal Green on 31^st May 1859 close to the graves of Charles Matthews and Madame Vestris.
23N5	George Frederick Collett was born in London on 27^th August 1810 and was baptised at St Andrews in Holborn on 25^th September 1810, the son of Kenrick and Mary Ann Collett.
	Tragically he died of smallpox on his father’s birthday of 1^st January 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^th August 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 3^rd November 1812.
	He married Mary Ann McKenzie on 31^st August 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 9^th July 1818, having been born at Holborn in 1816 or 1817.
	Curiously no record of Charles and his wife Mary Ann has been found within the census of 1841, although initially there were thought to be two possibilities. The first choice would be Charles Collett who, with a rounded age of 30, was living alone within the St Pancras & Regents Park registration district of London. The second, which has now been discounted, was Charles Collett, age 28 and a brush man, who was living at St Helena Place in Finsbury (adjacent to St Pancras) with his wife Ann, age 30, and their five children; Emily 8, Charles 6, Benjamin 6, Henry 4, and Sarah who was also four. Even more curious was the census return for 1851, see below for details.
	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 26^th August 1845.
	Charles’ name also appeared in The Times newspaper on a number of other occasions, but not for any good news. On 29^th 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 at 15 Gladstone Street within the St George Southwark area of London. Charles M Collett, age 38 and born at Holborn, was an attorney and solicitor in actual practice, while his wife Mary A Collett was 34 and from Islington. Listed with the couple was their son Charles W M Collett who was 15 and a solicitor’s writing clerk from St Pancras, who was presumably working with his father. This would indicated that he was born around 1836, which was three years before Charles married Mary Ann, at a time when Mary Ann would have been only 19 years of age, which raises the question, was he their base-born son, or was Charles junior the son by a previous wife who had not survived. If the latter, then why did he carry the name McKenzie?
	Five years later on 15^th July 1856 The Times published 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 £239.19.10.
	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 £100. 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 1^st March, having eluded the Sheriff’s Officer since December 1855.
	The reference to Regent’s Park may well be an indicator that it was Charles Collett, age 30, who was recorded living there in the census of 1841, which raises the question, where was his wife Mary Ann and his son Charles, on that occasion.
	It may have been as a direct result of their court appearance in July 1856 that, shortly after the case was settled, Charles and Mary left London and travelled north to Lancashire. The next census in 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, while it is now established that Charles Collett junior had married Frances Coombs four years earlier in 1857, when he was 21.
	Sometime during the following decade the couple return to London where they were recorded as living in 1871. It was at Gray’s Inn Lane within the St Pancras & Tottenham Court registration district of London that Charles M Collett was 58 and his wife Mary A Collett was 54. Ten years later, according to the census of 1881 Charles and Mary were lodging at 132 Kentish Town Road in St Pancras, the home of bricklayer George Parsons and his wife and family. Charles Mynors Collett, age 69 and born at Holborn, was described as a solicitor out of practice, while Mary Ann Collett was 64 and was also from Holborn, rather than Islington as previously stated.
	It would appear that Mary Ann Collett nee McKenzie died sometime during the 1880s since she was not listed with her husband in the census of 1891. Instead it was just Charles Collett, age 78, who was recorded as living within the Holborn & Goswell Street area of London. Six years later Charles Mynors Collett died on 12^th March 1897 and it seems very likely that he may have been buried close by his brother John Edward Collett (above) who was buried at Kensal Green.
	23O15		Charles William McKenzie Collett						Born in 1836
23N7	ROWLAND WILLIAM DAVIES COLLETT was born on 25^th February 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 5^th April 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^th August 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 7^th May 1853. His Will, which was proved on 4^th June 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 M J Fairweather aged eleven who was born in Monmouth and who was the daughter of Mary Ann’s only daughter Elizabeth Helen Collett.
	23O16		Kenrick Clayton Collett						Born in 1842
	23O17		FRANCIS ALEXANDER EDWARD COLLETT						Born on 12.04.1844
	23O18		Rowland William Collett						Born in 1845
	23O19		Elizabeth Helen Collett						Born in 1847
	23O20		Herbert Evans Collett						Born in 1849
	23O21		Murray Campbell Collett						Born in 1852
23N8	Elizabeth Helen Collett often referred to as Eliza, as born on 23^rd June 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 9^th July 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.
	23O22			John Wimburn Laurie			Born on 01.10.1835
	23O23			Helen Laurie			Born in 1836
	23O24			Peter George Laurie			Born in 1838; died in 1912
	23O25			Julius Dyson Laurie			Born on 09.12.1839
	23O26			Arthur Henry Laurie			Born on 04.11.1841
	23O27			Alfred Stag McAdam Laurie			Born in 1847; died in 1943
	23O28			Francis Duke Laurie			Born in 1849
23N9	Richard Fowler Collett was born at Cole Hill Cottage in Fulham on 6^th January 1819 and the birth was listed in the Wednesday 13^th 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^th February 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^th April 1885 at Lewisham.
	23O29			Fanny Laura Collett			Born on 26.10.1850
	23O30			Helen Sarah Collett			Born on 27.02.1854
	23O31			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^th December 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 2^nd March 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 2^nd March 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^th February 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 6^th November 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 3^rd March 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^th August 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 7^th 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^th November 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 6^th December 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 at Yateley Hall in Hampshire on 11^th June 1852, the youngest child of Henry Parker Collett and his second wife Mary Ann Walker. At the time of the census 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 younger sister of his father Henry Parker Collett.
	Horace was education at schools in Harrow and Malvern, where he was 17 in April 1871, before entering Trinity Hall College in Cambridge on 14^th December 1871. He matriculated during the following year, and obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1875. The record held by the university at the time of his admission confirmed he was the son and heir of Henry Parker Collett of Yateley Hall in Hampshire. It was the same year that he received his B A that he was admitted into the Middle Temple on 1^st May 1875, at the age of almost 23, when he was described as being 'of Trinity Hall, and residing at 15 Lansdowne Crescent in Leamington.'
	It was just two years later that Horace married Ann Spedding in 1877 and four years later Horace and Annie were living at 2 Oxford Park in Ilfracombe, North Devon, with their first two children, where they were recorded at the time of the census in 1881. Horace C Collett, of no occupation, was listed as being 26 and born at Yateley in Hampshire, while Annie Collett was 22 and from Egremont in Cumberland. Their two children were both born in London before the family moved to the West Country, and they were Louise Collett, who was two years old, and Margaret Collett who was one year old.
	Although not working at that time, Horace was clearly a man of some wealth, since he was employing two servants at that time in his life. They were Mary Keane age 26, a cook from Croyde Bay in Devon, and Eliza Tucker who was 18 and from Portsmouth, who was a general servant.
	By the time the next census was conducted in 1891, Horace and his family were living at Westham, just a mile to the north of Eastbourne in Sussex. However, by that time Horace was no longer married to Annie, instead his wife was recorded as Emma, age 32. Horace Chas J Collett was 37, and the only child still living with him was his youngest son Joseph H J Collett who was seven years old. His eldest son Horace Collett, who was born at Ilfracombe, was nine years old and was residing at an institution in the Fulham area of London. It is rather odd, but no record of any member of his family has been located within the census returns for 1901 and 1911.
	The only other known fact is that Horace Chambers Spencer Collett died on 7^th August 1908.
	23P14			Louise Collett			Born in 1878 in London
	23P15			Margaret Collett			Born in 1879 in London
	23P16			Horace Collett			Born in 1881 at Ilfracombe
	23P17			Joseph H S Collett			Born in 1883 at Ilfracombe
23O15	Charles William McKenzie Collett was born within the St Pancras area of London around 1836, the son of Charles Mynors Collett. Charles Mynors was married to Mary Ann McKenzie in 1839, so it seems logical Charles William McKenzie was the base-born son of Mary Ann McKenzie, rather than the child from a previous marriage of Charles Mynors Collett. No record of Charles junior has been found within the census of 1841, nor that of his stepmother, while Charles Collett senior appears to have been living in the Regent’s Park area of London.
	Ten years later in 1851 all three of them were recorded living at 15 Gladstone Street in Southwark St George, when Charles W M Collett, age 15 and from St Pancras, was already working for his father, age 38, as a solicitor’s writing clerk, while his mother Mary was only 34. This would indicate that Mary was around 19 years old when she gave birth to Charles, which may account for why he was a couple of years old when his parents were married in 1839. Also living at the same address was mother and daughter Catherine Fitzmayer, age 60, a widow and a pensioner from Madeira who was described as lodger, and Mary Eliza Fitzmayer, age 34, an annuitant from Woolwich, who was a visitor. The whole household was supported by a house servant Elizabeth Nugent from Deptford who was 25.
	Following a fall from grace in the mid-1850s, Charles’ parents left London and moved to Blackburn in the north of England, where they were recorded in 1861. Charles had remained in London where he married (1) Frances Coombs on 27^th August 1857 at Clerkenwell Register Office. Both he and Frances were 21 years of age, and the same address was given for both of them, it being 13 Middleton Square in Clerkenwell. Frances, a spinster with no occupation, was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester, Dorset on 27^th December 1835, the daughter of gentleman William Coombs by his wife Sarah Ellis. Charles William McKenzie Collett was described as a solicitor’s managing clerk, and his father was named as solicitor Charles Mynors Collett of 13 Middleton Square.
	Six years earlier, in the census of 1851, Fanny Coombs (Coombe) from Dorchester in Dorset had already left her family’s home, when she was working and living in the Clerkenwell St James district of London at the age of 14.
	Four years after they were married no record of Charles Collett or his wife Frances or Fanny has been found in Great Britain at the time of the census in 1861, and Frances’ obvious absence in the subsequent census returns may indicated that she had died during childbirth prior to 1861, when the child also did not survive. There then follows a conundrum set by the census in 1881. Was the Charles Collett, age 44 and from Lambeth, living in Stockton-on-Tees, Charles W M Collett from St Pancras? In the absence of more positive information, it has been assumed that he was. However, by that time in his life he had been married more than once, although curiously no record of him has been found in the census of 1871.
	During those missing years Charles appears to have married (2) Margaret, with the result that this third marriage also produced another son for Charles. However, not long after the child was born at Southwark in London the family headed to the north of England, as Charles’ parents had done so approximately twenty years earlier. According to the census in 1881, Charles Collett, age 44, was living at 39 Maritime Street in Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham, where he was a general dealer with a small shop. His place of birth was given as Lambeth, which may just be simply error on his part, not knowing that he had been born at St Pancras, but that he had lived most of his early life in the Southwark area, adjacent to Lambeth.
	Living at Stockton with him was his wife Margaret Collett, also 44 and from Lambeth, and Charles’ two sons Charles W Collett, who was 11 and born at Whitechapel, and Albert Collett who was six years old and born at Southwark. At that same time Charles’ daughter Charlotte Collett, age 13 and also of Whitechapel, was working as a general servant at the home of chapel keeper Henry Claydon and his wife at 4 Osborne Place in Whitechapel.
	Sometime during the 1880s, Charles and Margaret left Stockton-on-Tees, when they travelled the short distance across Middlesbrough, to settle in Normanby, to the east of the town. And it was there, at 10-12 Nelson Street, that the family was living in 1891. The census that year confirmed that Charles’ daughter had been reunited with the family while they were still living in Stockton, and before the move to Normanby, since it was there that her base-born son was born. However, by that time Charles’ two sons were no longer living at the family home.
	It would appear from Charles’ occupation in 1891 that 10-12 Nelson Street was jointly his home and his place of business, since he was described as being a fishmonger and neither an employee or an employer. For the first time in any record, he was recorded as Charles G Collett, age 54 and from Lambeth in London. His wife Margaret Collett was 52 and from Westminster rather than Lambeth, while Charles’ daughter was Charlotte Collett, age 22, who had been born at Whitechapel and whose status was oddly married. Also living at the premises was Charlotte’s son William Collett, who was three years old and born at Stockton, who was described as grandson. Supporting the family on that occasion was general servant Mary Kinsman who was 14 and from Easton, near Normanby.
	Charles’ youngest son Albert Collett was absent from the family at Nelson Street in Normanby in 1891 because by then he had returned to London.
	With no record found of Charles, Charlotte or William in the following census of 1901, it has been assumed that Charles had died during the 1890s, and that his daughter Charlotte had married, resulting in a change of surname for her and her young son. The only member of the family so far found in the March census of 1901 is Charles’ wife. Margaret C Collett, age 63 and from Lambeth, was once again living in the Stockton-on-Tees area, but on her own.
	Footnote: Was Charles’ daughter Charlotte falsely entered in the 1891 Census as being married to avoid embarrassment, or could she have been the wife of his son Charles William Collett. There are still many unresolved issues with this family.
	23P18			Charlotte Collett			Born in 1868 at Whitechapel
	23P19			Charles William Collett			Born in 1870 at Whitechapel
	23P20			Albert Collett			Born in 1875 at Southwark
23O16	Kenrick Clayton Collett was born at Camden Town in London on 24^th November 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.