PART TWENTY-EIGHT

The Faringdon Line

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

Updated November 2009

This is the family line of Bob Collett (Ref. 28Q41) of Stratton St Margaret in Swindon. To date no direct ancestral link to any other line has been found but it does have two ‘sideways’ connection by marriage with Part One – The Main Line. These can be found at John Willis (Ref. 28Q43) and Robert Martin Collett (Ref. 28R33)

Faringdon has always been part of the County of Berkshire. However, following local government boundary changes, it became part of Oxfordshire in April 1974

In addition to Bob Collett of Stratton who supplied the bulk of the following information, thanks must also go to David Considine of Hillingdon in Middlesex, Pam Kuyt of Cookstown in Canada, June Keating of Carterton in New Zealand, Susan Hoskins (Ref. 28S25) of Lincolnshire in England, Heather Preston (Ref. 28R11) of New South Wales in Australia, Kathy Belcher (Ref. 28P77) of Florida in South Africa, Thomas G Collett (Ref. 28R27) of Cranwell in Lincolnshire and Darren Collett (Ref. 28R50) of Swindon, who were all instrumental in providing some of the details.

Many of the more recent Australian Collett family members in this line are still alive in 2007 and therefore only brief outlines of their personal details are available.

The family line of BOB COLLETT can be traced by the names in block capitals, while the family line of Thomas G Collett can be traced by names that are underlined.

28I1	JOHN COLLETT was born at Faringdon around 1665. He married Elizabeth Petty who was born around 1670 but at Evenlode near Stow-on-the Wold in Gloucestershire.
	The first known son Anthony was born at Longcot near Faringdon, their second son William was possibly born at Buscot between Faringdon and Lechlade, and their third son at Faringdon.
	Please note that the order of the date of birth of their three children does not correspond to the children’s reference numbers. To place them in their correct order would require the complete re-ordering of the whole of the three sections of this family line which would be a mammoth task.
	28J1	John Collett		Born in 1698
	28J2	ANTHONY COLLETT		Born in 1690
	28J3	William Collett		Born in 1695
28J1	John Collett was born at Faringdon in 1698 and he married Margaret. It also seems very likely that they too were residents of Faringdon since that was where their son was born.
	28K1	Richard Collett		Born in 1720
28J2	ANTHONY COLLETT was born in 1690 at Longcot to the south of Faringdon. On 19.05.1717 at Longcot he married Sarah Jacobs who was born in Faringdon in 1690. It may be assumed that they lived all their life at Faringdon as this was where all six of their children were born.
	28K2	Betty Collett		Born in 1722
	28K3	Anthony Collett		Born in 1725
	28K4	JOHN COLLETT		Born in 1728
	28K5	Sarah Collett		Born in 1732
	28K6	Ann Collett		Born in 1734
	28K7	William Collett		Born in 1736
28J3	William Collett was possibly born at Buscot to the west of Faringdon in 1695 where he was certainly baptised on 13.02.1695. The baptised record confirmed that his parents were John and Elizabeth Collett.
28K1	Richard Collett was born at Faringdon in 1720 and was baptised at neighbouring Great Coxwell on 24.04.1720. He married Elizabeth Gough at Faringdon on 05.05.1745. Elizabeth was born in 1728 and all of their children were born at Faringdon.
	28L1	Sarah Collett		Born in 1745
	28L2	Martha Collett		Born in 1747
	28L3	William Collett		Born in 1748
	28L4	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1753
	28L5	Lucy Collett		Born in 1755
	28L6	Alan Collett		Born in 1757
	28L7	Isaac Collett		Born in 1761
	28L8	Letitia Collett		Born in 1762 at Faringdon
	28L9	Deborah Collett		Born in 1769
28K2	Betty Collett was born at Faringdon in 1722 and she was the first of the six known children of Anthony and Sarah Collett. Betty was baptised at Faringdon on 01.07.1722.
28K3	Anthony Collett was born at Faringdon in 1725 where he was baptised on 07.03.1725. He was the eldest son of Anthony Collett and his wife Sarah.
28K4	JOHN COLLETT was born at Faringdon in 1728 and was baptised there on 24.10.1728, the son of Anthony and Sarah Collett.
	It seems very likely, although not proved, that John married (1) Susannah when he was around twenty years old and that the marriage produced one son for John who was born at Faringdon, but tragically his wife did not survive.
	So a few years later John married (2) Lettice Evans on 19.08.1751 at Faringdon. Letitia Evans was the daughter of Thomas Evans and was born on 18.11.1725 at Ramsbury south-east of Swindon.
	It would appear that they lived most of their life at Faringdon since all of the children except the last were born there. Youngest son Robert Collett was born at Little Faringdon about six miles to the north-west, just north of Lechlade.
	28L10	Henry Collett		Born in 1748
	28L11	Mary Collett		Born in 1752
	28L12	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1755
	28L13	Jane Collett		Born in 1757
	28L14	John Collett		Born in 1759
	28L15	ROBERT COLLETT		Born in 1762
28K5	Sarah Collett was born at Faringdon in 1732 where she was baptised on 13.08.1732. The baptism record confirmed that Sarah was the daughter of Anthony and Sarah Collett.
28K6	Ann Collett was born at Faringdon in 1734 and it was there that she was baptised on 07.04.1734, the daughter of Anthony and Sarah Collett.
28K7	William Collett was born at Faringdon in 1736 and was baptised there on 06.02.1737, when his parents were confirmed as Anthony and Sarah Collett.
	Although not verified at this time as being this particular William, but included here for completeness, a William Collett married Elizabeth Mikson (Nixon) at Faringdon on 09.09.1778.
28L1	Sarah Collett was born at Faringdon in 1745 where she was baptised on 10.11.1745, as the eldest daughter of Richard and Betty Collett.
28L2	Martha Collett was born at Faringdon in 1747. She was the daughter of Richard and Betty Collett and was baptised at Faringdon on 30.08.1747. It may be interesting to note that another Martha Collett, the daughter of John Collett and his wife Susannah was baptised at Faringdon on 07.01.1746, although this family has not been identified at this time.
28L3	William Collett was born at Faringdon in 1748 where he was baptised on 23.10.1748, the baptism record stating that he was the son of Richard and Betty Collett. William married Rachel, possibly at Buscot, around the mid 1770s since it was there that they settled and it was there that all of their four known children were born and baptised at the Church of Mary (see right). Buscot lies between to the west of Faringdon is situated just two miles south-east of Lechlade. William’s wife Rachel was born in 1750.
	28M1	Sarah Collett		Born in 1776
	28M2	Rachel Collett		Born in 1779
	28M3	John Collett		Born in 1781
	28M4	William Collett		Born in 1785
	It was originally thought that William had married Elizabeth Walker at Faringdon on 29.04.1771. However this William, with his wife Elizabeth, lived at Clanfield in Oxfordshire about four miles to the north of Faringdon where all of their children were born and baptised.
	For the continuation of the family line of William and Elizabeth Collett see Part 39 – The Clanfield Oxfordshire Line (Ref. 39L1)
28L4	Elizabeth Collett was born at Faringdon where she was baptised on 04.02.1753, the daughter of Richard and Betty Collett.
28L5	Lucy Collett was born at Faringdon in 1755 and was baptised there on 19.10.1755, the daughter of Richard and Betty Collett.
28L6	Alan Collett was born at Faringdon in 1757 and it was there that he was baptised on 07.08.1757, the son of Richard and Betty Collett, although the baptism entry appears to have spelt his name as Allen.
28L7	Isaac Collett was born at Faringdon in 1761 where he was baptised on 28.06.1761, the son of Richard Collett and his wife Betty.
28L9	Deborah Collett was born at Faringdon in 1769 and it was there also that she was baptised on 02.07.1769, the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Collett.
28L10	Henry Collett was born at Faringdon in 1748 where he was baptised on 07.04.1748, the son of John and Susannah Collett.
28L11	Mary Collett was born at Faringdon in 1752 where she was baptised on 19.04.1752, the daughter of John and Lettice Collett.
28L12	Elizabeth Collett was born at Faringdon and it was there also that she was baptised on 13.07.1755 as the child of John and Lettice Collett.
28L13	Jane Collett was born at Faringdon and baptised there on 03.04.1757, the baptism record confirming that she was the daughter of John and Lettice Collett.
28L14	John Collett was born at Faringdon where he was baptised on 15.04.1759, the son of John Collett and his wife Lettice. It seems likely, although not proved, that John married Elizabeth since in 1781 a son John Collett was baptised at Buscot on 16.06.1781, he being the son of John Collett and his wife Elizabeth. What is known is that John had another son William who was born at Buscot in 1784.
	It also seems highly likely that the John Collett who was 79 and living in the Faringdon at the time of the census of 1841 was this John Collett.
	28M5	John Collett		Born in 1781
	28M6	William Collett		Born in 1784
28L15	ROBERT COLLETT was born at Little Faringdon and baptised in Faringdon on 03.01.1762, the son of John and Lettice Collett. Two months before his nineteenth birthday he married Mary Harris at Faringdon on 11.11.1780.
	Mary was seven months pregnant at the time of the wedding and two months later she gave birth to the first of three children all born virtually born nine months apart.
	All of their children were born at Faringdon except William who was born at Little Faringdon. Robert died on 22.07.1800.
	28M7	Jane Collett		Born on 17.01.1781 at Faringdon
	28M8	Mary Collett		Born on 09.11.1781 at Faringdon
	28M9	Thomas Collett		Born on 24.07.1782
	28M10	Elizabeth Collett		Born on 09.03.1785
	28M11	Robert Collett		Born on 31.12.1786
	28M12	Leonard Collett		Born on 30.08.1789
	28M13	Mary Collett		Born on 30.10.1791 at Faringdon
	28M14	WILLIAM COLLETT		Born on 30.10.1793
	28M15	Sarah Collett		Born on 19.06.1796 at Faringdon
28M1	Sarah Collett was born at Buscot in 1776 and it was there that she was baptised on 14.07.1776 as the daughter of William and Rachel Collett.
28M2	Rachel Collett was born at Buscot in 1779 where she was baptised on 09.04.1780, the baptism record confirming that her parents were William Collett and his wife Rachel.
28M3	John Collett was born at Buscot in 1781 where he was baptised on 09.09.1781. He was the son of William and Rachel Collett, and it is worth highlighting that another John Collett was also baptised at Buscot earlier that same year on 16.06.1781, he being the son of John Collett and his wife Elizabeth.
28M4	William Collett was born at Buscot in 1785 and was baptised there on 04.12.1785. He was the son of William and Rachel Collett. He married Susannah (Susan) Loosey who was born at Little Faringdon in 1785.
	All of their children were born at Buscot. Very little is known about William, but it is known that Susan died on 25.06.1875 at Abingdon-on-Thames in Berkshire.
	28N1	Sarah Collett		Born in 1819
	28N2	Rachel Collett		Born in 1821
	28N3	William Collett		Born in 1823
	28N4	Esther Collett		Born in 1825
	28N5	Martha Collett		Born in 1828
	28N6	Thomas Collett		Born in 1829
	28N7	Jane Collett		Born in 1830
	28N8	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1838
28M5	John Collett was born at Buscot in 1781 and was baptised there on 16.06.1781 as the son of John and Elizabeth Collett.
28M6	William Collett was born at Buscot in 1784 and was the son of John Collett whose wife may have been Elizabeth. He married Susan who was born in Little Faringdon in 1795.
	Nothing is currently known about their immediate offspring of which there may have been many others, but it is known that they had two grandchildren born at Buscot; John W Collett (Ref. 28O26) born in 1843 and his sister Anne Collett (Ref. 28O27) born in 1846.
	By 1861 William Collett was 77 and his wife Susan was 68 and they were still living within the Faringdon registration district, and still living with them was their grandson John W Collett who was 18, and his sister Anne Collett who was 15.
	28N9	a Collett son possible John or William		Born circa 1810-1820
28M9	Thomas Collett was born at Faringdon on 24.07.1782 and he married Mary Pawling. Their son William was born at Langford just north of Little Faringdon.
	Thomas and Mary were still alive and living within the Cirencester, Faringdon & Northleach registration district in June 1841 when both of them were recorded in the census as being fifty-five.
	28N10	William Collett		Born in 1814 at Langford
28M10	Elizabeth Collett was born at Faringdon on 09.03.1785 and she married William Bond. Their daughter Sarah was born at Highworth west of Faringdon.
	28N11	Sarah Bond		Born in 1826 at Highworth
28M11	Robert Collett was born at Faringdon on 31.12.1786. The first national census indicated that he had moved from Faringdon to Abingdon-on-Thames where certainly his children were born.
	The 1841 census for Abingdon listed Robert as 55 and his wife Elizabeth as 50. Their sons were both married by this time and had moved to live in Wiltshire. However, still living with the couple were their two daughters Esther 25 and Ann aged 20.
	Also living with them was their grand-daughter Leah Collett, who was not yet one year old, and was the base-born daughter of Esther Collett. It is very likely that Robert and Elizabeth had more than just the four children listed below.
	28N12	Thomas Collett		Born in 1804
	28N13	Lawrence Collett		Born in 1808
	28N14	Esther Collett		Born in 1815 at Abingdon-on-Thames
	28N15	Ann Collett		Born in 1820 at Abingdon-on-Thames
28M12	Leonard Collett was born at Faringdon on 30.08.1789. He married Elizabeth Scott on 15.11.1812 at Faringdon. She was born at Kidlington north of Oxford in 1791. All of their children were born at Faringdon.
	In June 1841 Leonard and his wife Elizabeth were both listed in the census as having a rounded age of fifty. Living with them at that time were eight of the couple’s ten children and these were Jane 25, Sarah 15, Ann 14, William 12, Henry 10, Betsy 8, Esther 6, and four years old Ellen.
	By the time of the census in 1861 only daughter Clara was still living with her parents. Leonard Collett was 72, Elizabeth his wife was 71, and daughter Clara was twenty years old.
	Leonard died on 17.04.1870 whilst living at The Lodge in Faringdon, and Elizabeth his wife died at Faringdon just less than five years later on 15.01.1875. The Faringdon census of 1871 confirmed that Elizabeth Collett was a widow at eighty years old.
	28N16	Charles Collett		Born in 1813
	28N17	Jane Collett		Born in 1815
	28N18	Sarah Collett		Born in 1826 at Faringdon
	28N19	Ann Collett		Born in 1827
	28N20	William Collett		Born in 1828
	28N21	Henry Collett		Born in 1829
	28N22	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1833
	28N23	Esther Collett		Born in 1835 at Faringdon
	28N24	Ellen Collett		Born in 1836 at Faringdon
	28N25	Clara Collett		Born in 1840
28M14	WILLIAM COLLETT was born at Little Faringdon on 30.10.1793. He married Ann Maisey on 29.11.1824 at Fulbrook, Burford in Oxfordshire. She was the daughter of Stephen Maisey and Ann Butler (1776-1831) and was born on 12.01.1806 at Shilton just south of Burford.
	Once married the couple settled in the village of Alvescot just five miles from Burford.
	By 1861 William was 65, Ann was 55, and the only two children still living with them was nineteen years old William and Joseph who was fifteen, both of them confirmed as born at Alvescot where all of their siblings were also born.
	Exactly eight month later Ann died when she was still only fifty-five and was buried on 07.12.1861 at Alvescot.
	Ten years later William Collett appeared in the 1871 Census for Alvescot living there with his son George and his family in which he was described as being a widower aged 75 and a former agricultural labourer.
	Following the death of his wife William remained a widower until his death on 03.11.1880. Like Ann, William was buried at St Peter’s Church in Alvescot although the parish burial record noted that he was living at Witney at the time of his death.
	The surname Maisey appears connected to the Collett on a number of occasions – see Ref. 1O47 for Sarah Maisey who was baptised at Fairford on 30.06.1811 and Ref. 3N8 for Ann Maisey who married James Margetts around 1805.
	William Collett’s father-in-law Stephen Maisey was baptised on 15.11.1773 at Shilton (married on 19.01.1804 and died in 1855) and was the son of John Maisey born at Black Bourton, Oxon on 09.03.1736 who married Ann Betts on 14.08.1763 at Shilton. His father was another Stephen Maisey.
	28N26	Stephen Collett		Born on 27.07.1825
	28N27	Elizabeth Ann Collett		Baptised on 29.07.1827
	28N28	George Collett		Baptised on 29.11.1829
	28N29	Mary Collett		Baptised on 25.03.1832
	28N30	Harriett Collett		Baptised on 20.04.1834 at Alvescot
	28N31	Anne Collett		Baptised on 16.04.1837
	28N32	Lucy Collett		Baptised on 31.03.1839
	28N33	WILLIAM COLLETT		Born on 29.01.1842
	28N34	Joseph Collett		Baptised on 01.02.1846
28N1	Sarah Collett was born at Buscot in 1819. She married George Pettifer who was born at Bampton in Oxfordshire in 1818. There are known to have had one child, John Pettifer who was born at Faringdon in 1840.
28N2	Rachel Collett was born at Buscot in 1821. She had a base-born son with John Wheeler who was born in 1826 when he was only sixteen years old. About eight years or so later, Rachel married Henry Hollick who was born at Shellingford in Berkshire in 1821 and with whom she had a further three children.
	The couple’s first child was born at Shellingford which lies midway between Faringdon and Stanford in the Vale. Their next two children were born at Bromley by Bow following a move to London.
	In 1881 Rachel and Henry were living at the Denton and Gutsum Varnish Works on the Albert Embankment at Lambeth in London. Henry aged 59 was listed as a Chelsea Pensioner from Faringdon while Rachel was aged 60 also of Faringdon. The only member of the family living with them at that time was youngest daughter Ruth aged 16 a machinist born at Bromley in Bow.
	Their son Harry Hollick aged 24 was living at 63 Seaton Street in Chelsea with his wife Ann of Limehouse, and their two daughters, although curiously he gave his place of birth as Bonn in Germany.
	28O1	John Wheeler Collett		Born in 1842
	28O2	Martha Hollick		Born in 1851
	28O3	Harry Hollick		Born in 1858
	28O4	Ruth Hollick		Born in 1865
28N3	William Collett was born at Buscot in 1823 where he married Charlotte Lockley who was born there in 1826. The couple’s first six children were born at Eaton Hastings which lies on the banks of the River Thames downstream from Lechlade, just two miles from Buscot.
	It would appear that the family moved to Staffordshire around 1857, possibly for work reasons, as it was at Great Barr near West Bromwich, that William’s and Charlotte’s last two children were born.
	By 1861 William and his family were living within the Walsall & Aldridge registration district in Staffordshire. William of Buscot was 38 and his wife Charlotte was 35. Listed with the couple were six of their seven children at that time.
	They were William 16, Elizabeth 13, Mary 10, Harriett 7, Ann 5, and three years old Susan. The only child missing from the family was Maria, and with a later child being named Mary is seems probable that Maria died around 1849.
	William very likely died during the 1860s, since in the census of 1871 his wife Charlotte had returned to Faringdon where she was living with three of her children. Charlotte was 43 and the children with her were Mary A Collett 20, Susan Collett 13, and George Collett who was seven years old.
	28O5	William Collett		Born in 1845 at Eaton Hastings
	28O6	Maria Collett		Born in 1846 at Eaton Hastings
	28O7	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1848 at Eaton Hastings
	28O8	Mary A Collett		Born in 1850 at Eaton Hastings
	28O9	Harriett Collett		Born in 1853 at Eaton Hastings
	28O10	Ann Collett		Born on 04.09.1855
	28O11	Susan Collett		Born in 1858 at Great Barr, Staffs.
	28O12	George Collett		Born in 1863
28N4	Esther Collett was born at Buscot in 1825. While she was still living at Buscot she gave birth to a base-born child before reaching her twenty-first birthday. She later married William Cooper who was born at Inglesham just south of Lechlade in 1810 and there is no record that the marriage produced any further children for Esther.
	By 1881 Esther Cooper was a 56 years old widow living alone at Thames Street in Lechlade where she was listed as being an agricultural labourer who had been born at Buscot.
	28O13	Ann Collett		Born on 16.01.1846 at Buscot
28N5	Martha Collett was born at Buscot in 1828. She married William Claydon of Great Sampford in Essex where he was born in 1827. Together they had nine children the first being Louisa born at Camberwell in 1858 and the rest being born at Battersea between 1859 and 1870.
	For the 1881 Census Martha and William Claydon were living at 56 Bridge Road West in Battersea, Martha aged 53 of Buscot and William aged 54 a dairy man from Great Sampford. Living with them were their six children, all of whom were born at Battersea.
28N6	Thomas Collett was born at Buscot on 29.09.1829. On 25.12.1854 at Highworth he married (1) Mary Hughes of Gloucestershire who was also born in 1829. The marriage produced two children who were both born at Coleshill near Highworth. In early 1857 Thomas and Mary, with son Henry and daughter Elizabeth, sailed to Australia on board the ship ‘Grand Trianon’.
	The ship’s passenger list included the following details. Thomas and Mary Collett both aged 27 and their children Henry and Elizabeth both as aged one year, although Henry would have been around 15 to 18 months and Elizabeth probably only 3 to 6 months old.
	Also on the same passenger list for the journey was part of the Stranks family from Thomas’ home village of Buscot. These were mother Esther (Hester) Stranks nee Betts, her daughter Elizabeth aged 18 and son Nathaniel aged 6. See earlier reference to Betts family name at Ref. 28M14.
	Her husband Thomas Stranks had made the journey during the previous year with their two other children on board the ship ‘Sultana’ which arrived at Victoria in January 1856. Accompanying them on the voyage were his older brother Nathaniel, his wife and an older sister.
	However, perhaps as a result of ill health following their long journey which would have taken three to four months, Thomas’ wife and baby daughter both died within a year of them arriving in Victoria in May 1857. Mary died on 16.04.1858 at Moorabin and was buried at Great Brighton, Victoria with baby Elizabeth Jane dying on 31.07.1857.
	Following the death of his wife, Thomas married (2) Elizabeth Stranks the eldest daughter of Thomas Stranks and Esther Betts who had coincidentally travelled half way round the world with Thomas and his family from January to May in 1857.
	Elizabeth Stranks was born at Hardwick north of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire and was baptised on 19.08.1838 at the parish church in Hardwick.
	The wedding ceremony, which took place at Broadmeadows in Victoria on 02.01.1860, was conducted by Samuel Bracewell in the presence of Elizabeth’s father Thomas Stranks and Joseph Hughes.
	All eleven of the children of Thomas and Elizabeth were born at Victoria in Australia but at seven different locations – see individual entries for exact details.
	Thomas Collett died at Benambra in Victoria on 04.07.1902 where he was buried aged 73. Being nine years younger than her husband, Elizabeth lived for a further twenty-seven years before she died on 26.04.1929 at East Bairnsdale in Victoria and was buried the following day at Bairnsdale.
	28O14	Henry Thomas Collett		Born on 19.09.1855
	28O15	Elizabeth Jane Collett		Born in 1856
	28O16	Eliza Matilda Collett		Born on 23.09.1860
	28O17	Salome Collett		Born on 11.03.1864
	28O18	William Collett		Born on 20.06.1866
	28O19	Esther Collett		Born in 1869
	28O20	Susannah Collett		Born in 1871
	28O21	Susannah Collett		Born in 1872
	28O22	George Collett		Born in 1874
	28O23	Thomas Collett		Born in 1876
	28O24	Frederick John Collett		Born in 1878
	28O25	Herbert Ebenezer Collett		Born in 1880
28N7	Jane Collett was born at Buscot in 1830 and she married William Monk of Watchfield between Faringdon and Swindon. William was born in 1836 and all of the couple’s three children were born at Shrivenham between 1858 and 1861.
	The only member of the family located in 1881 was Albert Monk aged 20 of Shrivenham, an apprentice to coach and carriage builder Thomas Hill of 26 Marlborough Road in Swindon.
28N8	Elizabeth Collett was born at Buscot in 1838 and she married William Clack of Great Coxwell. William was born in 1834 and died before 1881 but between the years 1858 and 1873 they had six children, all born at Great Coxwell.
	By 1881 Elizabeth Clack was a widow aged 43 living with her six children at Coleshill near Highworth.
28N9	It is likely that the so far unknown Collett son of William and Susan Collett (Ref. 28M6) was born sometime between 1810 and 1820. What is known is that the children of this unnamed son were born in 1843 and 1846 and were closely associated with their grandparents, most likely due to the death of the children’ parents.
	In the census of 1861 the two children were living with their grandparents, the family group being recorded as William Collett 77, Susan Collett 68, John W Collett 18, and his sister Anne Collett 15.
	28O26	John W Collett		Born in 1843
	28O27	Anne Collett		Born in 1846
28N12	Thomas Collett was born at Abingdon around 1811 but his stated age in the various census records differed each time. It was in the late 1830s that Thomas married Esther (Hester) and by the time of the first national census the marriage had produced a son for the couple who were living in the Westport parish of Malmesbury.
	Thomas’s rounded aged was 30, his wife’s 25, and living with them was their son Aaron aged 2. The family did not increase in size over the following years leaving son Aaron as the couple’s only child. In 1851 Thomas gave his age as 41 placing his year of birth as 1810.
	By 1861 the census recorded Thomas’s age as 46 although the difference between his age and that of his wife remained constant at five years with Esther being 41. Aaron was aged 21.
	Just under ten years later Aaron had left home to be married, leaving Thomas aged 58 and Hester aged 52 at the time of the 1871 Census for Malmesbury.
	In April 1881 Thomas and was still listed as a labourer, even at the age of 76 (sic). Living with him at Clyatts in Westport St Mary in Malmesbury was his wife Hester aged 66. Thomas’s place of birth was confirmed as Abingdon, while Hester’s was the village of Foxley just to the west of Malmesbury.
	Thomas appears to have died during the 1880s while his wife Esther was aged 75 in the 1891 Census, although she too must have passed away shortly after.
	28O28	Aaron Collett		Born in 1838
28N13	Lawrence Collett was born at Abingdon in 1808. He married Mary Salter on 23.05.1836 at Norton near Malmesbury in Wiltshire where Mary was born in 1814. Mary was referred to as Sarah in the census records so she may have been Mary Sarah or Sarah Mary Salter.
	When Lawrence moved to Norton is not known, except that he was certainly there seven months before the couple were married since both he and Sarah were the witnesses at the marriage of Henry Collett (Ref. 44N1) and Hannah Tanner at Norton.
	Six years later in 1842 the marriage of Lucy Collett of Norton and Caleb Salter of Norton took place in the village. It seems very likely that Caleb was Mary’s younger brother, while Lucy was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett as detailed in Part 44 – The Norton Wiltshire line.
	Shortly after they were married Lawrence and Sarah moved two miles south of Norton to live in the village of Hullavington where all of their children were born. By the time of the census of 1841 Lawrence’s rounded aged was 30, while his wife Sarah was 27.
	The couple were still living at Hullavington at that time with their two daughters Elizabeth aged 3 and Ann aged one year. Ten years later the family had increased in size with the addition of two more daughters. The family living at Hullavington in 1861 comprised Lawrence 41, Sarah 37, and daughters Elizabeth 12, Ann 10, Jane 7 and Mary aged 2.
	Sometime during the following years it would appear that Sarah passed away leaving Lawrence a widower with his younger daughters.
	The census of 1881 confirmed Lawrence as a widower aged 72 and born at Abingdon. He was listed as a pauper living at Newtown in Hullavington with his unmarried daughter Mary aged 31 and who was also referred to as a pauper and who was confirmed as having been born at Hullavington.
	For other references to the Collett families of Hullavington see Part 44 – The Norton Wiltshire line.
	28O29	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1838
	28O30	Ann Collett		Born in 1840
	28O31	Jane Collett		Born in 1843
	28O32	Mary Collett		Born in 1849
28N16	Charles Collett was born at Faringdon in 1813. By June 1841 Charles was married with two children. The census that year listed the young family living at Faringdon as Charles 25, his wife Elizabeth 25, and their two children were Henry who was four and Elizabeth who was not yet one year old.
	During the next ten years a further three children were added to the family. It was also during this time that the family moved to London and in 1851 they were settled in Marylebone. Charles and Elizabeth were both 35, their son Henry was 14 and their daughter Elizabeth, referred to as Ann was ten.
	The new additions to the family were Thomas who was 8, Clara who was 6, and Emma who was 2, all of whom had been born after the family move to London.
	Charles was still living in Marylebone in 1871 when he was fifty-six, but by then all of his family had left home and his wife had passed away. However, no record of him has been found in the census of 1881 or in any later census.
	28O33	Henry Collett		Born in 1836 at Faringdon
	28O34	Elizabeth Ann Collett		Born in 1840 at Faringdon
	28O35	Thomas Collett		Born in 1842 at Marylebone, London
	28O36	Clara Collett		Born in 1845 at Marylebone, London
	28O37	Emma Collett		Born in 1848 at Marylebone, London
	28O38	Alice L Collett		Born in 1854 at Marylebone, London
28N17	Jane Collett was born at Faringdon in 1815 and where in 1841 she married Thomas Harris.
28N19	Ann Collett was born at Faringdon in 1827. She married a Mr Smallwood probably around the early 1850s and in 1881 she and her family were living at 6 Goldstone Street in Hove, Sussex. The Census details that year confirm she was aged 53 and born at Faringdon. Although stated as married, she was also listed as head of the household, so her husband may have been away at the time.
	Her family, who were all born at Epsom in Surrey, comprised Sarah E aged 27 and unmarried schoolteacher, Charles H aged 18 a draper/shop man, Joseph E aged 17 a boot maker, Thomas R aged 15 a painter, and scholars Ernest A aged 13 and Benim H Smallwood aged 10.
	What is very interesting is that there was a visitor at the house and this was Frederick Beams aged 7 also born at Epsom. See another member of the Beams family at Ref. 28O65.
	An older member of the Smallwood family had already married and left home. This was shoe maker son William Leonard Smallwood aged 26. He was living at Ellen Street in Hove with his wife Louisa and two sons, both of whom were born in Brighton. Like all his brothers and sisters William was also born at Epsom in Surrey.
	By the time of 1901 Census William Leonard Smallwood’s family had increased to four sons and four daughters with the family living at Hastings.
	It seems very likely that William Leonard Smallwood had a brother Leonard Smallwood who was also born at Epsom in the mid 1850s and this Leonard married Ann Collett’s youngest sister Clara Collett (below).
28N20	William Collett was born at Faringdon in 1828. Having moved to Nantwich in Cheshire, it was there that he married Hannah Pick on 8.11.1855 at The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Hannah was born in 1827 at nearby Willaston which lies midway between Nantwich and Crewe.
	At the time of their marriage, William was recorded as being an Attorney's Clerk and Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths. He was also recorded as being a Relieving Officer for Nantwich Poor Law Union Workhouse.
	It was at Nantwich that the couple’s six children were born, and all at number 16 Hospital Street. And it was at this address that the family was living in 1871. William of Faringdon was aged 42 as was his wife Hannah, and their children were Eliza J aged 14, William John 12, Leonard 10, Emma 6, Thomas aged 2 and baby Walter who was two months old.
	However, it would appear that the family was split up after William died, possibly around 1876 but certainly before April 1881.
	In the 1881 Census Hannah was living at 16 Hospital Street with her sons William James aged 21, who was working as a chemist’s assistant, and Leonard aged 19, who was a joiner’s apprentice. Of their four other children, daughter Emma was 18 and was working as an apprentice confectioner with spinster and confectioner Ann Fitton in her shop at 4 High Street in Nantwich.
	Hannah’s eldest daughter Eliza Jane was 24 and her youngest son Thomas was 12, and they were living with Hannah’s older brother James Pick at his London Road home in nearby Willaston.
	Although William’s and Hannah’s youngest son Walter features in the 1871 census, there was no record of him thereafter so it must be assumed that he suffered an infant death. The couple’s oldest daughter Eliza Jane aged 24, and son Thomas aged 12, were both living with Hannah’s older brother James Pick at his London Road home in nearby Willaston.
	James Pick aged 64 was the superintendent registrar of births, marriages and deaths. Living with him in April 1881 were his two sisters Eliza A Pick aged 61 and Jane Pick aged 47, all three having been born at Wistaston which is about half a mile north of Willaston.
	The record stated that Hannah’s daughter Eliza Jane Collett was an assistant school mistress, while son Thomas was still attending school. Their relationship to head of the house James Pick was stated as being niece and nephew.
	28O39	Eliza Jane Collett		Born on 18.03.1857
	28O40	William James Collett		Born on 12.04.1859
	28O41	Leonard Collett		Born on 17.04.1861
	28O42	Emma Collett		Born on 16.01.1863
	28O43	Thomas Collett		Born on 28.11.1869
	28O44	Walter Collett		Born on 25.01.1871 at Nantwich
28N21	Henry Collett was born at Faringdon in 1829. He married Frances Ann Hawkins on 30.03.1851 at St Marylebone in London where she was born in 1827, the daughter of George Hawkins.
	All of their children were born in London except Alice who was born at Epsom in Surrey. In 1871 the family was living within the Holborn & St George The Martyr registration district of London where Henry was 42 and Frances A was aged 43.
	Their children at that time were Henry aged 19, Helen 15, Alice 11, Mary 9, Victoria 6 and George aged just one year.
	In 1881 the family was living at 30 Jupps Road in Mile End Old Town in London. The family comprised: Henry a tailor aged 52 of Faringdon, his wife Frances a 54 years old tailoress of London, and children Alice aged 20, Mary aged 18, Victoria aged 16, and George aged 11, with each of the three girls being listed as a tailoress just like their mother.
	28O45	Henry Collett		Born in 1852
	28O46	Helen Collett		Born in 1856 at London
	28O47	Alice Collett		Born in 1861
	28O48	Mary Collett		Born in 1863 at London
	28O49	Victoria Collett		Born in 1865 at London
	28O50	George Collett		Born in 1869
28N22	Elizabeth Collett, sometimes referred to as Betsy, was born at Faringdon in 1833. It is believed that she married William Henry Taylor who was also born at Faringdon in 1831. And it was while living at Faringdon that their two known children were born, although it is likely that their may have been earlier children from their marriage.
	Sometime after 1870 Elizabeth and William moved to Earley near Reading when William secured work at the Huntley & Palmers Biscuit Factory. According to the 1881 Census, William aged 49 was a labourer at the biscuit factory, his wife was aged 48 and living with them at 22 Amity Street in Earley was daughter Jane Taylor aged 12 and son Thomas Henry aged 9.
28N25	Clara Collett was born at Faringdon in 1840. It seems very likely that her son Leonard, who was also born at Faringdon and named after Clara’s father, was base-born. According to the 1871 Census Clara was thirty and her seven years old son Leonard Collett were still living in Faringdon.
	However, it is known that Clara later married (1) Leonard Smallwood possibly around the early 1870s. Leonard was born at Epsom around 1852/53 so could not have been the father of her base-born son.
	Leonard Smallwood was very likely the older brother of William Leonard Smallwood who was born at Epsom in 1854. Both boys are likely to be the sons of Clara’s older sister Ann Collett (above) who married a Mr Smallwood around 1850. This would mean that Clara married her nephew.
	Neither Clara, her husband Leonard nor son Leonard, feature in the 1881 UK National Census under the name of Collett or Smallwood and the reason is that by that her husband must have died as it has since been discovered that she had married (2) Isaac Whittle.
	According to the 1881 Census Clara Whittle aged 40 and born at Faringdon was living with her son Leonard Whittle aged 17 in the home of her new husband Isaac Whittle at 133 Spoke Road in Battersea, London.
	Isaac aged 44 and a railway signalman was born at Upton in Dorset. Clara’s son Leonard was listed as the stepson of Isaac. In addition, Isaac had three children from his previous marriage. These were Fred aged 13 an errand boy, Amy aged 12 and Edward aged 8.
	By 1891 the family was living in the Wandsworth registration district of London where Clara was aged 50, Isaac 54 and his stepson Leonard 27 and both mother and son were confirmed as born at Faringdon.
	A further ten years later Clara aged 60 and her husband Isaac aged 64 had moved and were living alone at Walton-on-Thames where Isaac was still working as a railway signalman. On leaving home sometime during the 1890s Clara’s son Leonard reverted back to the Collett surname and by 1901 was living in Birmingham.
	28O51	Leonard Collett		Born in 1863
28N26	Stephen Collett was born at Alvescot on 27.07.1825 and was buried at St Peter’s Church in Alvescot following his death one day after he was born.
28N27	Elizabeth Ann Collett was born at Alvescot and was baptised there on 29.07.1827. It was also at Alvescot that she married David Johnson on 25.11.1849.
28N28	George Collett was born at Alvescot and baptised there on 29.11.1829. He married Jane Stanton at Brackley in Northamptonshire in 1850. Jane was born in 1828 at Marston St Lawrence which is midway between Banbury and Brackley.
	Their eldest daughter Mary Collett (below) gave birth to a base-born child, Emma Collett (Ref. 28P49), and she was listed as living at the cottage of her grandparents in the 1871 Census for Alvescot, the details of which were as follows:
	Head of the house George Collett was forty-one and an agricultural labourer. His wife Jane was forty-three, and their children were George 18 who was a farmer’s groom, Anne who was 17, Elizabeth 9, and son William who was 7, all of whom were born at Alvescot.
	In addition to their granddaughter Emma Collett aged four years, there was one other person living with the family and this was George Collett’s father William Collett (Ref. 28M14) who was 75 and a former agricultural labourer born at Little Faringdon.
	In the 1881 Census for Alvescot George was fifty-one and was an agricultural labourer living with his wife Jane who was fifty-two. Living with them were their two youngest children, Elizabeth aged 19 and William aged 17, both agricultural labourers and both listed as born at Alvescot.
	Also living with them was their grandson Albert Collett (Ref. 28P59) aged 2 of Alvescot, the base-born son of their daughter Elizabeth who was to be married later that same year.
	Even after their daughter Elizabeth was married, George and Jane continued to look after her son. By 1891 Albert was still living with the couple at Alvescot, when George and Jane were both 61, and the grandson was twelve.
	Just after the turn of the century George was still living at Alvescot, but was a widower by then, following his wife’s death at Alvescot on 07.02.1895. He was aged 71 and was listed as an ordinary farm labourer.
	George Collett died on 12.07.1906 and both he and Jane were buried at Peter’s Church in Alvescot where a single gravestone has the following epitaph.
	“In Loving Memory of George Collett who died on July 12^th 1906 aged 76 years. Also of Jane Collett wife of the above who died February 7^th 1895 aged 66 years – They rest from their labours”
	28O52	Mary Ann Collett		Born on 13.10.1850
	28O53	John Collett		Born on 28.12.1851
	28O54	George Collett		Born on 06.02.1853
	28O55	Annie Collett		Born on 26.11.1854
	28O56	Lucy Collett		Born on 12.09.1858 at Alvescot
	28O57	Caroline Collett		Born on 16.10.1859
	28O58	Elizabeth Collett		Born on 26.05.1861
	28O59	William Collett		Born on 21.06.1863
28N29	Mary Collett was born at Alvescot where she was also baptised on 25.03.1832. She married (1) Thomas Smith in 1858 at Bicester but tragically the marriage did not last long before Thomas Smith died at Bicester during the following year. This short marriage produced no children for Mary.
	Two years later the 1861 Census for Bicester confirmed that Mary Smith aged 28 and born at Alvescot, was a widow and a servant at the home of Thomas Henry Shillingford in Bicester.
	It was during the following year that Mary married (2) Joseph Wise at Witney. Joseph was born at Weston-on-the-Green near Bicester in 1833 and was the oldest son of Joseph Wise and Ann Porter.
	The Wise family comprised Mary born 1829, Emma born 1832, Joseph, Thomas born 1836, Sarah born 1838, Elizabeth born 1840, John born in 1844 and William who was baptised on 22.05.1853.
	In 1871 Joseph Wise was 38 and an agricultural labourer living at Step Farm in Faringdon. With him was his wife Mary 39, and their children Mary 6 born at Shellingford just south of Faringdon, Joseph 4 born at Faringdon, Sarah 2 and one year old William both born at Eaton Hastings just north-west of Faringdon.
	Also living with then at that time was Joseph’s youngest brother William Wise aged 16 whose occupation was that of a shepherd. And it was this William Wise who married Mary Ann Collett (Ref. 28O52) who was the niece of Mary Wise nee Collett (Joseph’s wife), Mary Ann being the daughter of Mary’s brother George Collett (above)
	By 1881 Mary Wise aged 49 of Alvescot and Joseph Wise aged 48 of Weston on the Green, a gas fitter, were living at 4 Henry Street, Rodbourne Cheney in Swindon. According to Census details Mary and Joseph’s family had increased to six children born with the addition of John 7 and Thomas 5, both born at Swindon.
28N31	Ann Collett was born at Alvescot and baptised there on 16.04.1837. She married (1) Charles Richards on 25.10.1856 at Buckland Parish Church. Charles was born at Buckland in Berkshire on 17.01.1830, the son of William Richards.
	Both William and Charles were listed as labourers on the marriage certificate, although later Charles became a baker. A witness at the wedding was Charles’ brother Thomas Richards.
	The couple’s five children were born at three different locations perhaps indicating that they moved around to suit Charles’ work as a labourer/baker. The first child was born at Alvescot, the second at Great Coxwell near Faringdon, the third at Woolstone between Uffington and the White Horse Hill, and the fourth at again at Great Coxwell.
	Ann and Charles emigrated to New Zealand with their first four children in 1875, and it was there, at Arrowtown in Otago that same year, that their fifth child was born.
	The family sailed out of Greenock on 30^th October 1874 on the Wild Deer and arrived at Port Chalmers on 20^th January 1875. This was one of ten successful trips the former China tea clipper made to New Zealand. Making the journey with them was Charles’ sister Fanny Richards who had married William Woodley, their son William and Fanny’s two daughters from a previous marriage.
	Once established, Ann and Charles set up home at Queenstown where Charles continued his occupation as a baker. However, just over a year later he tragically died in suspicion circumstances on 12.05.1876. An item in The Arrow Observer for Wednesday 17^th May included the following report.
	“Mr Richards, some time resident of this town and engaged at Gilmour’s Mill, was drowned at Wakatipu Lake on Friday morning. On leaving the family home he had stated he would not be very long, but it was the next morning that his body was found in two feet of water. No one seems able to account for what happened as he was always seen as a steady, sober and industrious man.”
	Following his death Ann, as the sole provider, then established a successful boarding house called ‘Pleasant View’ on Eastern Terrace in Queenstown. She later married (2) Thomas Mantle and as Ann Mantle she died on 02.11.1919 and was buried at Queenstown Cemetery. At the time of her death she was still living at Eastern Terrace and had been a keen supporter of the Wakatipu Horticultural Society.
	Ann’s obituary stated that she was born at Coleshill which is situated midway between Faringdon and Highworth some ten miles from Alvescot. It is also referred to her three sons and two daughters, three of whom had already died prior to her death.
	28O60	Mary Ann Richards			Born in 1858
	28O61	William Charles Richards			Born in 1860
	28O62	Fred Richards			Born in 1865
	28O63	Susan Richards			Born in 1866
	28O64	Bertram Edwin Richards			Born in 1875
28N32	Lucy Collett was born at Alvescot and it was there that she was baptised on 31.03.1839. She married John Pill and the couple had eight children between 1858 and 1877, the first six of which were born at Wantage in Berkshire and the last two at Buscot and Coleshill respectively.
28N33	WILLIAM COLLETT was born at Alvescot on 29.01.1842 and was baptised there on 27.02.1842. At the time of the census of 1861 William was nineteen and was still living with his parents and younger brother Joseph (below) at Alvescot.
	Two years later William married Elizabeth Lander at Faringdon on 30.10.1863. Elizabeth was the daughter of John Lander and Hannah Davis and was born on 07.07.1844 at Faringdon. William’s work meant that the family was widely travelled around the Swindon area, judging from the many places that the couple’s children were born.
	The first four children were born while William and Elizabeth were living in Faringdon. There then followed a quick succession of four location where the next four children were born, these being, Rodbourne, Swindon, Dauntsey, Wroughton. The next three children were born after the family moved to Stratton St Margaret and the last child was born at Crudwell.
	Rodbourne and Dauntsey lie close to Malmesbury to the west of Swindon, while Crudwell is situated to the north between Malmesbury and Cirencester. However, in the census of 1911 William’s son George who was born at Rodbourne said he was born in Swindon which may mean he was born at Rodbourne Cheney.
	At the time of the census in 1871 the family was confirmed as living at Cheltenham Street in Swindon and comprised father William, his wife Elizabeth, son William, and daughters Mary Ann and Caroline. The couple’s second son James, who would have been three, had already passed away by then.
	Ten years later according to the 1881 Census, William 39 and born at Alvescot was a brewer’s labourer living with his wife Elizabeth aged 37 and of Faringdon and his family at Stratton Green in Stratton St Margaret. The family at that time comprised William 16, Caroline 12, George 10, Fanny aged 5, and two years old Fred.
	Missing from the family was their daughter Mary Ann Collett who would have been 15, son Tom Alfred Collett who would have been eight years old.
	A wider search of the 1881 Census located Mary Ann Collett as living with her aunt Caroline Malyenback at Hove in Sussex. Caroline may have been a sister to Mary Ann’s mothers Elizabeth Lander as there is no Caroline of a suitable age on the Collett side of Mary Ann’s family.
	A further search for Tom revealed that he was a visitor at the home of Charles and Sophie Lander at Gloucester Street in Faringdon where he was listed as being seven years of age. Charles, who was 52, was a builder’s labourer from London, was very likely to be the older brother of Elizabeth Lander, Tom’s mother.
	Following the birth of their last child at Crudwell, the family lived for a while within the Wootton Bassett & Cricklade registration district. This was confirmed by the census of 1891 which placed William as 48, Elizabeth 47, and their children George 20, Fanny 14, Frederick 12, Elizabeth 10, John 8, Albert 5, and one year old James who had been born at nearby Crudwell.
	During the next decade the family returned to Stratton St Margaret where they were recorded as living in March 1901. On that occasion William and Elizabeth still had eight of their children still living with them, although two of their sons were married by then with families of their own.
	William was 59 and a general labourer born at Alvescot, and his wife Elizabeth was 57 and of Faringdon. Living with them were their sons William 36 born at Faringdon and George 29 born at Swindon, John 17 and Albert 15, both born at Stratton, and all four of them employed as general labourers.
	In addition to the older boys, there was also daughter Elizabeth aged 20 of Stratton and the family’s youngest son James who was eleven and born at Crudwell. The ‘missing’ married sons were Tom and Frederick and their census record details are provided under their own names.
	By 1911 the only member of the family still living with William and Elizabeth was their youngest son James. The family was still living at Stratton St Margaret where William Collett was 69, his wife Elizabeth was 65, and their son James was twenty-one. A short while later Left the family home to be married.
	William Collett died on 16.12.1923 and was followed by his wife Elizabeth who died on 26.12.1929, and both deaths were registered in Swindon.
	28O65	WILLIAM JOHN COLLETT		Born on 22.07.1864
	28O66	Mary Ann Collett		Born in 1865
	28O67	James Collett		Born in 1867
	28O68	Caroline Collett		Born in 1869
	28O69	George Royal Collett		Born in 1871
	28O70	Tom Alfred Collett		Born on 23.12.1873
	28O71	Fanny Collett		Born in 1876
	28O72	Frederick Collett		Born in 1878
	28O73	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1881
	28O74	Cecil Albert John Collett		Born in 1883
	28O75	Albert Collett		Born on 03.02.1886
	28O76	James Collett		Born in 1890
28N34	Joseph Collett was born at Alvescot and was baptised there on 01.02.1846. According to the census of 1861, Joseph was fifteen and was one of only two children still living with his parents at Alvescot, the other being his brother William (above).
	Around ten years later Joseph married Caroline Robinson at Abingdon-on-Thames in 1871, Caroline having been born at Wroughton near Swindon in 1845.
	The census of 1881 listed the family as living at Fyfield in Berkshire just east of Kingston Bagpuize. Joseph aged 34 and from Alvescot was a shepherd, his eldest son Francis aged 8 was born at Eynsham, as was Amelia aged 6 and Ada aged 4, while Louisa aged 2 was born at Fyfield.
	All of the next three children born into the family were also born at Fyfield, and it was there that the family was living in 1891. Joseph and Caroline were 45, Francis was 18, Ada 14, Louisa 12, Edward 9, and Ellen was five years old. The eldest daughter Amelia was already living and working in the Wallingford area.
	By 1901 farm foreman Joseph and his wife Caroline, who were both fifty-five, had moved to Burcot on the Oxfordshire side of the River Thames just east of Abingdon and just north of Wallingford. Living with them were three of the couple’s five daughters. These were Ada 24 who was born at Eynsham, and Ellen 11 and Gertrude 8 both of whom were confirmed as having been born at Fyfield.
	It is not clear what happened to Joseph’s son Richard, who was Edward Collett aged nine in 1891, since no trace of him has been found in either of the census returns for 1901 and 1911.
	Caroline Collett died during the next ten years leaving Joseph as a widower who, by April 1911, only had his unmarried daughter Ada Collett still living with him. All of his other children had left home and were married by that time.
	Joseph was sixty-five and from Alvescot according to the census return that year, and was living at Clifton Hampden within the Abingdon registration district and just a mile from Burcot. His daughter Ada, who was acting as his housekeeper, was thirty-four and her birthplace was confirmed as Eynsham.
	28O77	Francis William Collett		Born in 1872
	28O78	Amelia Collett		Born in 1874
	28O79	Ada Collett		Born in 1876
	28O80	Louisa Caroline Collett		Born in 1878
	28O81	Richard Edward Collett		Born in 1881 at Fyfield
	28O82	Ellen M Collett		Born in 1889
	28O83	Gertrude Jane Collett		Born in 1892