PART TWENTY-FOUR

 

The Norwegian Line – 1655 to 1810

 

This is the first of three sections of the twenty-fourth part of the Collett family

Updated September 2009

 

This is the family line of Peter Collett (Ref. 24P47) of Oslo

 

This line starts with James Collett of London and, even though his parentage has still to be determined, it should be noted that his family crest has been traced back to 1396.  The same crest has been used by St Paul’s Cathedral School on their current school uniform which dates from the time of Dean John Colet (1466 to 1519) who was appointed Dean of St Pauls in 1504 and who founded the school around 1509.  There are however two unproved options for the parents of James Collett and these are provided as 24H1/1 and 24H1/2.

 

Norwegian titles are indicated in italics

 

Part 25 - The Danish Line & Part 26 - The Swedish Line both stem from this line

in the second section - see Ref. 24M35 and Ref. 24N16 respectively

 

Some recent discoveries may be related to the earlier Collett members of this family line but, so far, no direct connection has been made.  These are the following three Wills.

 

Mary Collett, widow of St Botolph Bishopsgate in the City of London, whose Will was proved on 14th January 1658

John Collett, a turner of St Botolph without Aldersgate in London, whose Will was proved on 18th September 1696 – a turner being a person working with wood.

Thomas Collett, Captain Steward of His Majesty’s Ship Newcastle, of St Botolph without Aldgate in Middlesex.

 

It therefore seems possible that Mary (above) could have been the mother of James Collett (Ref. 24H/2) below and died around three years after he was married, while John (above) could have been his brother as they died within seven years of each other.

 

 

24H1/1

JAMES COLLETT married Mary Browne on 16.09.1653 at All Hallows Church, London Wall.  Their son James Collett was baptised on 18.08.1655 at St Margaret Pattens at East Cheap in London.  There was another son Thomas Collett who was baptised in 1656 but who died the day after the baptism.  It is this family that has a very similar crest to that of James of Norway.

 

 

 

 

24H1/2

JAMES COLLETT was born in 1629 and was a citizen and cooper of London and he married Elizabeth Grigson on 10.08.1654 at St Botolph’s Church Aldgate.  James was admitted into the Coopers Company on 9th January 1650.  Their son James Collett was baptised on 26.08.1655. 

 

 

 

James Collett of St Botolph Aldgate (the father) died in 1689 and his Will dated 03.03.1686 and proved on 13.12.1689 in the Commissary Court of London referred to sons: James born in 1655; John of St Botolph who married Elizabeth (and who died in 1707); Elias of St Botolph married to Elizabeth; and daughters Anne and Mary.

 

 

 

24I1

James Collett

Born on 18.08.1655

 

24I2

John Collett

Date of birth unknown

 

24I3

Anne Collett

Baptised on 03.08.1657

 

24I4

Elias Collett

Date of birth unknown

 

24I5

Mary Collett

Date of birth unknown

 

 

 

 

24I1

JAMES COLLETT was born at London on 18.08.1655 and was baptised on 26.08.1655 at St Botolph’s Church Aldgate. 

 

He first visited Norway in 1677 when aged 22 and worked as an agent for English timber merchants. 

 

During this time he lived at Bragernes in Drammen and became the best friend of the son of the Leuch family at Bogstad Gard near Oslo.  The Leuch family were large exporters of timber and proprietors of the best known timber company in Christiania.

 

 

 

While staying at Bogstad Gard James met and fell in love with the young daughter of the family, seventeen years old Karen Leuch, to whom he sent a prayer book with a personal poem in 1685.

 

 

 

Their relationship developed and a year later, on 21.07.1686 at Christiania, James and Karen were married.  The marriage produced nine children and the family lived in a large house that James bought in Oslo at Kirkegaten in 1704.  Just over one hundred years later the Collett House was sold to the Cappelen family who later used it as a bookshop.

 

 

 

This house was eventually demolished in 1938 and given to the Norwegian Folk Museum at Bygdoy where it was rebuilt in 1985.

 

In 2004 one of the rooms in the house was established as a permanent exhibition to display aspects of the life of the Collett family living there during the time of their ownership.

 

 

The photograph on the right was taken at the Folk Museum during the 2009 Collett Reunion.

 

 

 

Although he built up a flourishing business in Norway, James never took up Norwegian citizenship and often thought about returning to England.  However, for tax reasons, and to concede to his wife’s wishes, he abandoned the idea.  When he eventually died on 29.05.1727 he was one of the wealthiest people in Christiania.

 

 

 

His wife Karen, who was born at Christiania on 05.08.1666, died there on 26.10.1745 and it was there that all their children were born.

 

 

 

Historical Note:  In 1624 Oslo was badly affected by the Great Fire which destroyed most of the city.  As a result the city was rebuilt by Christian IV King of Denmark and Norway and renamed Christiania, the name it held until 1925 when it reverted back to being Oslo.

 

 

 

24J1

James Collett

Born on 16.05.1687

 

24J2

Peter Collett

Born on 21.05.1688; died on 22.08.1688

 

24J3

Peter Collett

Born on 15.06.1689; died on 24.06.1689

 

24J4

Anna Collett

Born on 11.08.1690

 

24J5

Peter Collett

Born on 06.08.1691; died on 10.12.1691

 

24J6

PETER COLLETT

Born on 29.07.1694

 

24J7

Maria Collett

Born on 27.11.1695

 

24J8

John Collett

Born on 23.01.1698

 

24J9

Sarah Collett

Born on 03.06.1702

 

 

 

 

24I2

John Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was referred to as ‘of St Botolph’s Bishopsgate’ and was mentioned in the 1686 Will of James Collett (Ref. 24H1/2) his father.  John’s own Will, dated 10.08.1707, was proved on 21.10.1721 in the Archdeaconry Court of London.

 

 

 

 

24I3

Anne Collett was baptised at St Botolph’s Church Aldgate on 03.08.1657.  She was mentioned in the 1686 Will of James Collett (Ref. 24H1/2) her father and in the 1707 Will of her brother John Collett (Ref. 24I2).

 

 

 

 

24I4

Elias Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Elizabeth.  He was a citizen and cooper of London and was referred to in the 1686 Will of James Collett (Ref. 24H1/2) his father and in the 1707 Will of his brother John Collett (Ref. 24I2).  Elias’ own Will of 11.10.1725 was proved in December 1725 for which there was an annex of Administration on 14.03.1753.

 

 

 

 

24I5

Mary Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Mr Fisher and was mentioned in the 1707 Will of her brother John Collett (Ref. 24I2).

 

 

 

 

24J1

James Collett was born at Christiania on 16.05.1687.  He married Karen Madsdatter Berg who was baptised on 10.02.1687 and their marriage produced six children.  James, who was a Stadskaptein, died on 04.07.1724.

 

 

 

24K1

Matthias Collett

Born on 10.09.1708

 

24K2

James Collett

Born on 06.09.1710; died 16.01.1711

 

24K3

Karen Collett

Born on 19.10.1711

 

24K4

James Collett

Born on 16.12.1713; died on 27.12.1713

 

24K5

James Collett

Born on 21.10.1715; died on 29.10.1715

 

24K6

James Collett

Baptised on 08.11.1717

 

 

 

 

24J4

Anna Collett was born at Christiania on 11.08.1690 and she married Stadsmajor Anthoni Muller.  The marriage produced nine children, although only five sons and two daughters survived.  Anna died at a relatively young age on 14.11.1729, while Anthoni died nearly twenty years after on 08.06.1748.

 

 

 

 

24J6

PETER COLLETT was born at Christiania on 29.07.1694.  He married Anna Cathrine Rosenberg who was known as Trinchen, and together they had eleven children.  Peter was educated in Copenhagen which, at that time, was the capital of the combined kingdoms of Denmark and Norway.  Peter died on 09.01.1740 and was followed by Anna nearly eight years after on 24.12.1747.

 

 

 

Norway was more or less under Danish administration in the years before 1814 and the connection with Denmark was an important one, particular as the university was in Copenhagen.

 

 

 

24K7

James Collett

Born on 19.08.1723; died on 11.12.1724

 

24K8

Karen Collett

Born on 17.02.1725

 

24K9

Christine Sophie Collett

Born on 24.02.1726

 

24K10

Ditlevine Collett

Born on 19.07.1727

 

24K11

James Collett

Born on 28.08.1728

 

24K12

Peder Collett

Born on 11.12.1729

 

24K13

Anna Collett

Born on 28.03.1731

 

24K14

Johan Collett

Born on 12.02.1734

 

24K15

Mathia Collett

Born on 15.02.1735; died on 11.04.1735

 

24K16

Mathia Collett

Born on 28.05.1737

 

24K17

PETER COLLETT

Born on 14.04.1740

 

 

 

 

24J7

Maria Collett was born at Christiania on 27.11.1695.  She was married to (1) Zahlkasserer Poul Weybye (who was born in 1671) and, following his death on 18.11.1739, she married (2) president magistrate Peter Resen a Justitsraad. 

 

 

 

Peter Resen was born on 24.12.1692 and died on 26.03.1743.  Both of the marriages were cut short by the death of Maria’s husbands and this may have been the reason that there were no children.  Maria died on 17.11.1762.

 

 

 

 

24J8

John Collett was born at Christiania on 23.01.1698.  He married Ambrosia Michelsen the daughter of George Michelsen a priest of the Danish Norwegian Church in London where she had been born on 17.02.1702.  Although the couple lived in Oslo, John was trained and worked in London where, at Stepney, he set himself up as a timber broker in 1720.  He became a very rich man and established himself as a leading member of the Scandinavian community in London. 

 

 

 

Ambrosia tragically died on 24.07.1740 whilst still relatively young and before the couple had had any children.  Upon his death on 12.01.1759, John Collett was referred to as being of St Botolph Bishopsgate.  His Will, dated 13.08.1756, was proved on 15.01.1759.

 

 

 

Historical Note:  The church of St Botolph Bishopsgate survived the Fire of London in 1666 but was later demolished in 1725.  A new church was built that same year and it was there in 1795 that the poet John Keats (1795-1821) was baptised.

 

 

 

 

24J9

Sarah Collett was born at Christiania on 03.06.1702.  She married Etatsraad Lorentz Angell who was born on 21.01.1692 and the marriage produced two daughters for the couple.  Lorentz died on 19.03.1751 followed five years later by Sarah who died on 14.08.1756.

 

 

 

 

24K1

Matthias Collett was born on 10.09.1708.  He married Beate Love, but the marriage did not produce any children for the couple.  Matthias who was an Amtmann died on 24.03.1759.  Beate was born in 1703 and she died on 04.10.1777.

 

 

 

 

24K3

Karen Collett was born on 19.10.1711.  She married Raadstuskriver Iver Tyrholm and they had two sons and four daughters.   Iver was born on 26.04.1700 and died on 19.07.1763, while Karen had died two years earlier on 23.02.1761.

 

 

 

 

24K6

James Collett was baptised on 08.11.1717 and he died on 03.06.1738 before his twenty-first birthday.

 

 

 

 

24K8

Karen Collett was born on 17.02.1725.  She married Poul Heltzen (known as Hellesen) and they had seven children, including four sons and three daughters.  Poul was born on 25.03.1711 and he died on 10.05.1772.  Karen lived for a further thirteen years and died on 19.09.1785.

 

 

 

 

24K9

Christine Sophie Collett, who was known as Stinchen, was born on 24.02.1726 and she later married Hieronimus Johann Schultze.  Tragically, Christine died on 06.04.1756 before they had any children, while Hieronimus, who was born in 1716, survived for another forty-seven years before he died on 27.09.1803.

 

 

 

 

24K10

Ditlevine Collett was born on 19.07.1727.  She married president magistrate Nicolai Feddersen who was twenty-eight years her senior and the marriage produced one daughter and four sons, one of whom died as a child.  Ditlevine died on 18.11.1803, while Nicolai, who was born on 18.10.1699, died on 04.03.1769.

 

 

 

 

24K11

James Collett was born on 28.08.1728.  He married Karen Leuch, possibly a grand-daughter of the timber company family (see Ref 24I1), with whom he had two children.  Karen was born on 19.12.1733 and died on 30.09.1758.  Her untimely death three months before her twenty-fifth birthday occurred only eight days after the birth of their second child. 

 

 

 

James bought the estate at Flateby in Enebakk which was well-known for the society parties his son John Collett (Ref. 24L2) held there in the late 1790s and which are documented in history books.  James died at Christiania during this period and passed away on 15.11.1794.

 

 

 

24L1

Peter Collett

Born on 18.08.1757

 

24L2

John Collett

Born on 22.09.1758

 

 

 

 

24K12

Peder Collett was born on 11.12.1729.  He never married but bought the farm at Ronnebaeksholm in Denmark which was taken over by his brother John Collett (Ref. 24K14) in 1763 following the death of Peder on 08.01.1763.  Fourteen years later the farm was sold but was later reacquired by the Collett family through the efforts of Peter Ferdinand Collett (Ref. 24N13).

 

 

 

 

24K13

Anna Collett was born on 28.03.1731.  She married Peder Elieson of Hafslund and they had two sons and three daughters.  Anna died on 12.09.1772, while Peder, who was born on 30.06.1727, died five months later on 02.02.1773.  Two of their three daughters married their cousins, these being the two sons of James Collett (Ref. 24K11) and Karen Leuch.

 

 

 

Their daughter Karen Elieson who was known as Kaja married Peter Collett (Ref. 24L1), while another daughter Marthine Christine Sophie Elieson who was known as Tina married peter’s brother John Collett (Ref. 24L2).

 

 

 

 

24K14

Johan Collett was born on 12.02.1734.  He married Else Elisabeth Jensen and they had eleven children.  Upon the death of his brother Peder Collett (Ref. 24K12) in 1763, Johan bought the farm at Ronnebaeksholm but sold the property fourteen years later in 1777.

 

 

 

Else Jensen was born on 19.12.1746 and died on 10.03.1788, while Johan died on 22.05.1806.

 

 

 

24L3

Peter Collett

Baptised on 04.07.1767

 

24L4

Mathias Collett

Born in 1768 and died in 1768

 

24L5

James Collett

Born in Oct 1769; died in Jan 1778

 

24L6

Anne Cathrine Magdalene Collett

Born on 16.11.1770; died on 14.12.1777

 

24L7

Jonas Collett

Born on 25.03.1772

 

24L8

Johan Collett

Bapt on 27.12..1773; died on 26.02.1774

 

24L9

Johan Collett

Born on 22.03.1775

 

24L10

Karen Mathia Collett

Born in Aug 1776; died on 31.12.1777

 

24L11

Ulrikke Cathrine Mathia Collett

Baptised on 02.11.1778; baby death

 

24L12

James Collett

Baptised on 06.08.1787; baby death

 

24L13

Ditlevine Dorothea Elisabeth Collett

Baptised on 29.08.1787; baby death

 

 

 

 

24K16

Mathia Collett was born on 28.05.1737.  She married (1) Morten Leuch of Bogstad Gard who was born on 15.04.1732 and who was only thirty-six when he died on 24.01.1768.  And it was at Bogstad Gard that Mathia lived all her married life - see photographs below taken during the 2009 Reunion visit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is of interest to note that Mathia’s grandfather James Collett (Ref. 24I1) had married Karen Leuch of Bogstad Gard in 1686, and that her older brother James Collett (Ref. 24K11) married another Karen Leuch around 1755 who was very likely the sister of Mathia’s husband Morten.

 

 

 

Following the death of her husband Morten, Mathia married (2) Bernt Anker and continued to live at Bogstad Gard, the property then being taken over by the Anker family.  What is of particular note, is that during a dinner party Bernt presented John Collett, the son of Mathia’s brother James and his wife Karen Leuch, with the deeds of Ulleval Gard, a large farmland just outside Oslo.

 

 

 

Bernt Anker was born on 22.11.1746 and he died on 22.04.1805, just less than four years after Mathia died on 21.07.1801.  There were no children arising from either of Mathia’s marriages.

 

 

 

 

24K17

PETER COLLETT was born on 14.04.1740.  He married (1) Maren Kirstine Holmboe who was born on 04.02.1745 and with whom he had two children before she died on 21.03.1769.  Prior to the wedding Peter had already purchased Buskerud Gard in 1762 where he had his family lived.

 

 

 

Following the death of his first wife, Peter then married (2) Johanne Henriche Ancher with whom he had a further nine children. 

 

When Peter died on 16.03.1785 the property at Buskerud Gard passed to his eldest son Peter Collett (Ref. 24L14) and was later passed down to two of his sons.

 

The property was eventually sold by Albert Peter Severin Collett around 1833 and since then it has become a vocational high school.  This photograph was taken during the 2009 Reunion.

 

 

 

The Collett plaque on the family tomb at the Nykirke Church near Buskerud Gard includes the three family inscriptions ‘Maren Christine Collett fodt Holmboe * 4 2 1745 + 21 3 1769’, her daughter Maren Kristine Collett * 1775 + 1775’, and her husband Peter Collett herre til Buschrud Gaard * 14 4 1740 + 16 3 1785’.  Only the year givens given for the birth and death of daughter Maren conflict with the actual dates.

 

 

 

24L14

PETER COLLETT

Born on 08.08.1766

 

24L15

Anne Cathrine Collett

Born on 19.02.1768

 

24L16

Christian Ancher Collett

Born on 30.04.1771

 

24L17

Maren Kirstine Collett

Born on 11.10.1772; died on 09.03.1773

 

24L18

Christopher Collett

Born on 02.10.1773

 

24L19

John Collett

Born on 22.12.1774

 

24L20

Karen Magdalene Collett

Born on 25.04.1776

 

24L21

Maren Christine Collett

Born on 25.05.1777

 

24L22

Mathia Bernhardine Collett

Born on 13.01.1779

 

24L23

James Henrik Collett

Born on 12.07.1781

 

24L24

Otto Collett

Born on 01.09.1784

 

 

 

 

24L1

Peter Collett was born on 18.08.1757.  He married his cousin Kaja Elieson, the daughter of Peder Elieson and Anna Collett (Ref. 24K13) whose sister Tina married his brother John Collett (Ref. 24L2).  After the death of her husband on 25.03.1792, Karen was married for a second time to Poul Peter Lindemann.  Karen, who had been born on 24.03.1760, died on 20.03.1823.

 

 

 

24M1

Karen Christiane Collett

Born on 06.09.1784

 

24M2

James Collett

Born on 06.06.1787

 

24M3

Martine Johnette Collett

Born on 27.08.1789

 

24M4

Anna Mathia Ditlevine Collett

Born on 15.10.1791; died on 19.11.1791

 

 

 

 

24L2

John Collett was born on 22.09.1758 and is known to have worked in London at the company of Collett and Gram.  However in 1794, and following the death of his father James Collett (Ref. 24K11), John returned home to Norway to become head of the family business in Christiania. 

 

 

 

A little while later, when the London company was experiencing financial difficulties, it was taken over by Boulton and Pelly.  This same company also acquired a great deal of the Collett family estate in Norway as part of the transaction.

 

 

 

John Collett married his cousin Marthine Christine Sophie Elieson who was known as Tina, and it was her sister Kaja Elieson who married John’s brother Peter Collett (Ref. 24L1).  However, the marriage never produced any children for the couple, and John died on 03.02.1810 while Tina, who was born on 15.12.1764, died sixteen years later on 21.08.1826.

 

 

 

During his life John Collett was a well-known figure, both in England and Norway, and it is noted in Norwegian history that he was the man that brought new farming methods into the country from England.  He owned a large number of farms including one at Ulleval Gard, plus the estate at Flateby purchased by his father James Collett (Ref. 24K11) at which he often held parties during the 1790s.

 

 

 

The property at Ulleval Gard was a gift to John Collett from Bernt Anker, the second husband of Mathia Collett (Ref. 24K16) of Bogstad Gard.  The family story states that as John was sitting down to dinner he found a document on his plate which were the deeds to the property.  Featured below on the left is the main Collett House at Ulleval Gard, now a school, while on the right is a smaller house on the Ulleval estate.  Both photographs were taken during the 2009 Collett Reunion visit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

24L3

Peter Collett was baptised on 04.07.1767.  He married (1) Margrethe Caroline Holm who was baptised on 25.07.1766, but she died shortly after the death of their only daughter.  Peter then married (2) Christine Sophie Constance von Wickede but they had no issue. 

 

 

 

Christine was born on 22.12.1777 and died on 02.07.1830, Peter already having passed away seven years earlier on 21.04.1823.

 

 

 

24M5

Christine Elise Caroline Collett

Baptised on 22.11.1799; died in 1800

 

 

 

 

24L7

Jonas Collett was born on 25.03.1772 and died on 03.01.1851.  He married his cousin Maren Christine Collett who was known as Tina (Ref. 24L21), and they had twelve children.  Tina, who was born on 25.05.1777 and died on 06.11.1860, was the daughter of Peter Collett (Ref. 24K17) and Johanne Ancher.

 

 

 

24M6

Henriette Collett

Born on 14.08.1799

 

24M7

Johan Collett

Born on 28.12.1800

 

24M8

Caroline Petrea Collett

Born on 11.03.1802; and died in 1804

 

24M9

Caroline Petrea Collett

Born on 23.01.1804

 

24M10

Martine Christine Sophie Collett

Born on 12.10.1805

 

24M11

Elisabeth Collett

Born on 28.11.1806

 

24M12

Peter Jonathan Collett

Born in 1808; and died in 1809

 

24M13

Karen Mathia Octava Collett

Born in 1810; and died in 1811

 

24M14

Cathrine Karen Mathia Collett

Born on 16.04.1812

 

24M15

Jonas Tinus Collett

Born on 14.02.1814

 

24M16

Peter Collett

Born on 28.11.1818

 

24M17

Eugene Thora Octava Collett

Born on 16.04.1825

 

 

 

 

24L9

Johan Collett was born on 22.03.1775.  He married Christiane Birgithe de Stockfleth and they had eleven children.  Christiane was born on 03.07.1782 and died on 27.04.1829, while Amtmann Johan died two years earlier on 19.06.1827.

 

 

 

24M18

Tom John Collett

Born on 09.09.1804

 

24M19

Hanna Elisa Collett

Born on 07.03.1806

 

24M20

Holger Gustav Collett

Born on 17.10.1807

 

24M21

Sophie Augusta Collett

Born on 20.10.1809; died on 12.04.1810

 

24M22

Sophie Augusta Collett

Born on 09.02.1811

 

24M23

Peter Jonas Collett

Born on 12.09.1813

 

24M24

Marthine Jeanette Collett

Born on 29.09.1815

 

24M25

Johan Christian Collett

Born on 23.07.1817

 

24M26

Caroline Collett

Born on 11.09.1819; died 17.09.1819

 

24M27

Carl Emil Collett

Born on 19.07.1821

 

24M28

Elise Caroline Collett

Born on 08.08.1823; died on 31.03.1824

 

 

 

 

24L14

PETER COLLETT was born on 08.08.1766.  He married Eilerine Severine Bendeke and they had eleven children.  Eilerine was born on 07.10.1777 and died on 07.12.1857.  He was still very young when he inherited the family estate at Buskerud Gard, following the death of his father Peter Collett (Ref. 24K17) in 1785.

 

 

 

When Peter died on 27.07.1836 the property may have passed to his eldest son Peter Collett (Ref. 24M32), but what is known for sure is that Peter’s son John Collett (Ref. 24M36) was the owner at some stage, most likely after the death of his older brother Peter (Ref. 24M32).

 

 

 

The Collett plaque on the family tomb at the Nykirke Church near Buskerud Gard includes the two family inscriptions ‘Hoiesterets Assessor Peter Collett * 8 8 1766 + 27 7 1836’ and ‘Enkefru Eilerine Severine Collett fodt Bendeke * 7 10 1777 + 7 12 1857’.

 

 

 

The plaque also includes the name of their son John Collett (Ref. 24M36) and his wife Johanne.

 

 

 

24M29

Petronelle Elisabeth Cathrine Collett

Baptised on 24.02.1796; died in 1797

 

24M30

Mathia Collett

Baptised on 08.02.1797; died in 1797

 

24M31

Elisabeth Christine Collett

Born on 31.03.1798

 

24M32

Peter Collett

Born on 14.02.1799

 

24M33

Anne Cathrine Hedvig Collett

Born on 13.01.1801

 

24M34

Ulrikke Charlotte Wilhelmine Collett

Born on 19.12.1802

 

24M35

Bernt Anker Collett

Born on 08.08.1803

 

24M36

JOHN COLLETT

Born on 02.09.1807

 

24M37

Theodora Christiane Collett

Born on 16.11.1809

 

24M38

Peter Nicolai Collett

Born on 04.11.1811

 

24M39

Otto Collett

Born on 05.04.1813

 

 

 

 

24L15

Anne Cathrine Collett, who was known as Thrine, was born on 19.02.1768. 

She married Peter Nicolai Arbo and they lived at the Arbo family home at Gulskogen Gard where their marriage produced no children for the couple.

 

Peter Arbo was born on 06.11.1768 and died on 16.09.1827, while Thrine survived her husband by over eighteen years when she died on 27.01.1846.

 

The house and surrounding parklands at Gulskogen Gard are today part of the Drammen Museum, and the photograph below was taken during the Collett Reunion visit of 2009.  This portrait of Thrine was painted by the Danish painter Jens Juel and can be seen in the house alongside a portrait of her husband which was also painted by Jens Juel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

24L16

Christian Ancher Collett was born on 30.04.1771.  He married Anna Karine Bie and they had five children.  Bergraad Christian was the director of a silver mine at Kongsberg.  His wife Anna was born on 07.05.1775 and died on 03.02.1856, while Christian died twenty-three years earlier on 10.01.1833.

 

 

 

24M40

Mariane Collett

Born on 10.11.1800; died on 11.01.1822

 

24M41

Johanne Benedicte Collett

Born on 14.01.1802

 

24M42

Tharald Einar Anker Collett

Born on 23.11.1805

 

24M43

Karen Marthelene Collett

Born circa 1807-09; buried 05.08.1809

 

24M44

Karen Martine Christine Collett

Born on 04.02.1812

 

 

 

 

24L18

Christopher Collett was born on 02.10.1773 and he became a lieutenant first class.  He married Anne Cathrine Elisabeth Arbo and they had five children.  Anne was born on 17.09.1775 and was the brother of Peter Nicolai Arbo who married Christopher’s sister Anne Cathrine Collett (Ref. 24L15).  Christopher died on 17.12.1815 and Anne died on 01.11.1833.

 

 

 

24M45

Peter Nicolai Arbo Collett

Born in 1803 and died on 02.01.1806

 

24M46

Peter Nicolai Arbo Collett

Born on 21.05.1806; died on 04.10.1811

 

24M47

Herman Christian Collett

Born on 14.03.1807

 

24M48

Johan Henrik Collett

Born on 24.09.1808; died on 07.02.1809

 

24M49

Otto Martinus Collett

Born on 09.01.1811; died on 04.05.1812

 

 

 

 

24L19

John Collett was born on 22.12.1774.  He married Marie Christiane Rosen who was born on 30.04.1796 and the couple had three children.  Marie was twenty-two younger than John so when he died on 29.09.1824 she lived a widow’s life for the next sixty-two years, dying just thirteen days before her ninetieth birthday.

 

 

 

24M50

Nicoline Cathrine Collett

Born on 02.12.1818

 

24M51

Peter Collett

Born on 30.05.1820

 

24M52

Johanne Christine Collett

Born on 19.02.1822

 

 

 

 

24L20

Karen Magdalene Collett, who was known as Kaja, was born on 25.04.1776.  She married Caesar Laesar Boeck and they had three sons and one daughter.  Tragically both Caesar, who was born on 13.05.1766, and Kaja died on the same day, this being 16.06.1832.  The circumstances of their deaths are not known at this time. 

 

 

 

One of their sons, Christian Peter Bianco Boeck, married his second cousin Elisabeth Collett (Ref. 24M11).

 

 

 

 

24L21

Maren Christine Collett, who was known as Tina, was born on 25.05.1777.  She married her cousin Jonas Collett – see Ref. 24L7 for family details.

 

 

 

 

24L22

Mathia Bernhardine Collett, who was known as Thea, was born on 13.01.1779.  She married Poul Steenstrup who was born on 10.12.1772.  They had eight children, one of which, Peter Severin Steenstrup married Sophie Augusta Collett (Ref. 24M22).  Mathia died on 09.10.1847, while her husband Poul passed away exactly seven years earlier on 09.10.1864.

 

 

 

 

24L23

James Henrik Collett was born on 12.07.1781.  He never married and died in 1811.

 

 

 

 

24L24

Otto Collett was born on 01.09.1784.  He married his cousin Martine Johnette Collett (Ref. 24M3) but their marriage produced no children for the couple.  Otto died on 14.04.1833 and thirty-two years after his wife passed away on 25.03.1865.

 

 

 

 

24M1

Karen Christiane Collett, who was known as Kaja, was born at Ellingsrud on 06.09.1784.  She married Iver Steen of Christiania with whom she had one daughter.  Iver was born on 18.09.1784 and died on 28.09.1828.  Kaja died twenty-eight years later on 26.02.1856.

 

 

 

 

24M2

James Collett was born on 06.06.1787. 

 

Tragically on 21.07.1795 aged just eight he died from drowning when visiting family in the country. 

 

His portrait (on the right) was painted by Heinrich Christian Friedrich Hosenfelder and today hangs in the National Gallery. 

 

A Norwegian commemorative postage stamp was issued in 1979 featuring the picture.

 

 

 

 

24M3

Martine Johnette Collett, who was known as Tina, was born on 27.08.1789 and she married her cousin Otto Collett (Ref. 24L24).

 

 

 

 

24M6

Henriette Collett was born on 14.08.1799.  She married Frederik Riss of Stiftsamtman and they had one daughter.  Frederik was born on 29.01.1789 and died on 22.10.1845.  Henriette died on 19.02.1857.

 

 

 

 

24M7

Johan Collett was born on 28.12.1800 and he married (1) Marie Frederikke Thomason with whom he had one son.  Marie, who was born on 04.10.1810, died on 28.03.1839 following which Johan married (2) Margrethe Louise Dirikis from Copenhagen.  This second marriage also produced just one more son for Johan who died on 10.10.1877.  Margrethe was born on 01.09.1801 and died on 07.09.1859.

 

 

 

24N1

Frederik Jonas Lucien Bothfield Collett

Born on 25.03.1839

 

24N2

Arthur Collett

Born 08.11.1845; died 20.05.1847

 

 

 

 

24M9

Caroline Petrea Collett, who was known as Nanna, was born on 23.01.1804 at Kongsberg.  Unlike her sister of the same name who was born two years earlier at Kongsberg and who only survived for two years, Nanna lived into her eighties and died on 01.03.1885.  She never married.

 

 

 

 

24M10

Martine Christine Sophie Collett was born on 12.10.1805 at Kongsberg.  She married her cousin Tom John Collett (Ref. 24M18) who was born on 09.09.1804 with whom she had two children.  Tragically Tom died at only thirty-one years of age on 01.03.1835, while Martine lived as a widow for a further 54 years before her death on 20.03.1889.

 

 

 

24N3

Johanne Collett

Born on 04.05.1833

 

24N4

Thomas Collett

Born on 06.01.1835

 

 

 

 

24M11

Elisabeth Collett was born on 28.11.1806.  She married her second cousin Christian Peter Bianco Boeck who was a professor and a doctor.  Christian was the son of Caesar Laesar Boeck and Kaja Collett (Ref. 24L20) and was born on 05.09.1798.  He died on 11.07.1877 and was followed six years after by Elisabeth who died on 21.08.1883.